Before leaving the capital, Taiping deliberately talked to Gao Zixin. Taiping is concerned about two issues, one is when will the mutual market in the northeast open, and the other is to tell Gao Zixin to be careful of those neighboring countries.

Those neighboring countries were not honest before, and when Taiping was still controlled by the Dujun system, those neighboring countries took advantage of the big beams.

Now that they are sticking to each other again, they obviously want to take advantage of the girder again.

Taiping already knew about the post house, so he was a little worried, afraid that after those envoys returned, they would make a fuss, and then the beam would not be peaceful.

In this regard, Gao Zixin actually had a plan for a long time.

The mutual market must be opened, and if we don't take some benefits, won't those neighboring countries that have long had pink eye have to work hard to deal with the big beams?

Finally, seeing that the beam is constantly developing in a better direction, Gao Zixin doesn't want to be ruined by those white-eyed wolves.

However, if you want him to take advantage of it for nothing, it is a fantasy.

Just like the hint given by Honglu Temple to the envoys of various countries, the mutual market must be opened, but where it is opened, it depends on their own sincerity.

This is actually a cliché, Gao Zixin has actually thought about where to open a mutual market for a long time, and he has also thought of who comes first and who comes later. But if the other party refuses to express good sincerity, then open it in another place.

Anyway, the initiative is in his hands, he wants to open a mutual market, and he wants benefits? Yes, be honest with him!

Inevitably those merchants dropped their chains, Gao Zixin deliberately set up a general bureau of commerce, which was specifically responsible for dealing with business problems across the country.

The General Administration of Commerce did not directly hang on to the head of the household department, but directly obeyed him, and Qian Bi served as the director. In addition to Qian Bi, there are two deputy directors, including Sun Youwei and Zhao Qingyuan, who once assisted Qian Bi.

The rest are business consultants recruited from the private sector, as well as talents elected by Gao Zixin's special business department.

Those business consultants are all big businessmen in the private sector, not only do their business very successfully, but also have a good character, and they pay attention to honesty in business, not the kind of unscrupulous people who do anything to make money.

However, the interests behind these people are too big after all, so although Gao Zixin gave them the position of consultant, they have no real power.

Even so, it is enough to make many people's hearts flutter.

Even if you don't have real power, it sounds good to have a reputation! Besides, as long as you enter the State Administration of Commerce as a consultant, not to mention that you will have more contacts in the future, won't you be more well-informed?

Now who doesn't know, when the son of heaven is a person with clear rewards and punishments, as long as he does things well, the benefits are absolutely indispensable!

As long as they honestly do their own things well, as long as they are given a good word and a chance, then the whole family will soar just around the corner?

What's more, today's Son of Heaven attaches great importance to businessmen, and even has a special business recruitment department for this purpose, such as the General Bureau of Commerce where they are located, there are many young people who have been admitted. Most of these young people's families are engaged in business, and now they are admitted, although they only have a small position, but they are also an official, as long as they do a good job, the future future is limitless, and it is much better than simply doing business!

Anyway, they have a lot of backs at home, one of them is admitted, and the rest can still do business! Everyone supports each other, so that the family can flourish and prosper.

Several old advisors had a lot of calculations in their hearts, and although they thought a lot, no one was stupid and disobedient, and they were all consciously thinking about working well in the future.

Gao Zixin's establishment of this General Administration of Commerce was actually a last resort.

Since he started his own business and clearly expressed his importance to businessmen, Daliang's business can be said to be thriving.

In particular, the development of Lingnan has been seen by everyone, and the slogan of "if you want to get rich first build roads" has spread throughout the whole country.

As a result, businessmen in many places gathered almost spontaneously and took the initiative to donate money to build roads, just to do better business in the future.

They are willing to pay this money to build roads, and both Gao Zixin and the local government are welcome. However, for the sake of prudence, Gao Zixin also paid out of his own pocket, and specially arranged for manpower to do technical guidance, and also let Jinyiwei be responsible for supervising the work to ensure the quality of the project.

Gao Zixin has expressed his position, and naturally more people responded. The local squires, wealthy parents, officials, and even some wealthy ordinary people also donated money.

Everyone is not stupid, there are brocade guards staring, who would dare to deduct charity money and cut corners? It's good for everyone that this road is repaired, and it used to be too much to do, but now that I have the opportunity, of course I have to do my part.

Who knows, Gao Zixin actually has a backhand!

He asked Jinyiwei to keep an eye on the progress of the project, one was to ensure the quality, and the other was worried that someone would deliberately deduct the workers and tire people to death.

With Jinyi Wei staring, naturally no one dared to do this.

What's more, the merchants pooled money to build roads in the first place in order to make a fortune, and no one wanted to kill people. If you don't explain it, you will ruin your reputation. What's more, it sounds unlucky to get a human life, how can you get rich in the future?

It's just that no one thought that Gao Zixin still had a backhand.

This is nothing else, that is, when the road is repaired in the future, you will have to pay for the toll. This toll money is not given to everyone, but like the kind of people who drive horse-drawn carts and ox-carts to pull goods, they have to pay the toll money according to the weight of the goods.

The money is not used for anything else, it is used for repairing or rebuilding the road surface after it is damaged, and the money is not too much.

Gao Zixin directly asked people to list the rules and announce them in advance, and everyone immediately accepted them when they saw it.

And Gao Zixin also specifically mentioned that those who donate money can deduct the toll from the donation.

Well, no one cares about that, though.

Businessmen donate money to build roads, and they also have a good reputation for themselves, and with a good reputation, are you still afraid that business will not be good? Although the money donated is not a decimal, it is not too much for them, how can they really deduct it?

What kind of money do you want to make by picking and searching?

So after the rules were listed, not only did the number of people donate money not decrease, but increased. So soon, all parts of the girder fell into a boom in road construction.

When Taiping left the capital with the He family and went to the northeast, only part of the road from the capital to the northeast was repaired, and the rest was still being repaired.

If all cement is used, the amount of work and the cost are too expensive, and the current situation of the girder is still unaffordable. After all, businessmen still have to make money, and it is impossible to donate all their family funds to build roads.

So except for a few sections, many more sections are just widening the road, paving gravel or broken porcelain tiles or something, and then leveling the road with huge stones.

It's a little rougher, but it's much better than the dirt road it used to be.

Gao Zixin was not disappointed in this, now the Liang has just begun to develop, and when the warships are built, the naval army is trained, and then the ocean trade is developed, the commercial handicraft industry of the Liang will inevitably develop rapidly, and there is no need to worry about the lack of silver to spend.

As soon as Taiping left, Gao Zixin was also busy again.

As a result, only a month later, Lingnan suddenly sent an 800-mile expedited, saying that there were water pirates on the beach! These pirates are none other than those who have come from the island nation to the east in a small wrecked boat!

Gao Zixin couldn't help but take a deep breath as soon as he saw the secret report, and he was terrified.

Fortunately, he had already begun to secretly train the navy in Lingnan, and after Tu Feiyuan and his party were sent away last time, he wrote a letter urging the navy to step up training and regularly patrol the sea.

Otherwise, I don't know how many innocent fishermen will be lost this time!

Those islanders, what a damn thing!

It's really impatient for a small country to dare to run to Daliang to loot!

Gao Zixin was ruthless, so he crumpled the secret report in his hand.

Feng Xuan was next to him, and when he saw that he was angry, he frowned slightly, and said disapprovingly: "It's just a small country, why bother?" If you don't like them, I'll kill them all. ”

"Not necessarily!" Gao Zixin hurriedly said.

If it was before, he naturally wouldn't care about the life or death of those island people, and he would have killed them.

But since Taiping was reborn, Gao Zixin suddenly felt that the gods and ghosts in this world might be true. The so-called reincarnation of cause and effect, retribution is unpleasant.

Feng Xuan had already done too much for him, and Gao Zixin didn't want him to get more bloody.

He didn't care about the lives of those people, but he was worried that if Feng Xuan really killed them, there would be karmic retribution. Anyway, he doesn't pay attention to that small projectile country, all he wants is the gold, silver and copper ore on it.

So Gao Zixin waved his hand, and then said meaningfully: "You don't have to kill them, I want to put a long line to catch a big fish." ”

"Do you want to ......" Feng Xuan had also seen the things that Zheng Yuan had explained, so he quickly understood what Gao Zixin meant, and smiled slightly, "Speaking of which, although the small country is not big, the mineral deposits on it are not bad." ”

As soon as Gao Zixin heard it, he knew that Feng Xuan had understood.

So the two looked at each other and smiled, and soon had a calculation.

So not long after, Fei Jun, the commander of the naval army in Lingnan, received Gao Zixin's secret order, and ran to teach the captured water thieves how to behave.

These water thieves are able to run and loot without their lives, and they are obviously not people of good origin. If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't get along at home, they wouldn't have taken a huge risk to cross the sea and run to plunder.

Now that Fei Jun has used various means and coercion and temptation, these people immediately defected.

At this point, the show has just begun.