Chapter 130 The Beginning of the Great Railway Era

After sending off Master Liu's book, Sun Yuanda's spirit relaxed, and he sweated like pulp in an instant!

Slowly pacing back to the hall, which was filled with people again.

Sun Yuanda sat on the chair tiredly, took a sip of herbal tea and said to the people present: "Did you hear it clearly?" ”

Yang Wenhu took the lead in standing up and bowed deeply to Sun Yuanda: "If Sun Gong is sent, Yang Wenhu will obey it." ”

Feng Tong also stood up tremblingly and said to Sun Yuanda: "To protect the salt merchant industry in Yangzhou, Sun Gong is the first!" ”

Immediately, more people stood up and saluted Sun Yuanda, not only did they not have any dissatisfaction with Sun Yuanda's lavish spending of their money, but they were grateful to the Qin merchant in front of him, who was not inconspicuous on weekdays.

Sun Yuanda untied his Gebu light coat and twisted it casually, and everyone saw that sweat was actually wrung out and splashed on the ground.

"The officials sent by Lantian to Yangzhou are all elite, and the officials who stayed in Yushan in Lantian are also old and sophisticated, just as Master Liu said, none of the main hall officials who came out of Yushan Academy are easy to deal with.

What they do seems to be fanciful, but it is very effective, and they have their own rules.

In a new dynasty, there are new rules, which is almost certain, and the general disdain of money by Lantian officials is something we have never encountered.

It is said that thousands of miles of officials are only for money, but these Lantian officials are not like this.

It's not that they don't value money, it's just that money is a tool to deploy the yin and yang of the world in their eyes!

And this, for us merchants, is precisely the most terrible thing.

When money becomes a tool...... Then, a lot of the meaning given by money is gone, it can be used for risk, it can be consumed, and even sacrificed if necessary.

In Yuanzhou, there has been a matter of Lantian officials not hesitating to spend a lot of money to renew the lives of sixteen craftsmen.

Three thousand men were dispatched to dig day and night, just to rescue the sixteen craftsmen buried in the underground mines.

For the sake of these sixteen craftsmen, they did not hesitate to dig through the good mine next to the mine, so that the water in the accident mine would flow into the good mine and flood the good mine alive.

The value of this mine is 300,000 taels of silver.

In the end, they only rescued four people, and the remaining twelve were all killed.

They seemed to have spent more than 400,000 taels of silver, but with these 400,000 taels of silver, they bought the hearts of all the craftsmen in Yangzhou Mansion and the common people.

Those craftsmen who died received a lot of compensation, and looking at the whole thing, the government and the people were all the beneficiaries, and the only ones who suffered were us...... Money was lost, warnings were given, and money was confiscated.

It can be seen from this incident that the Lantian official is really better to the people than to us.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is an extremely dangerous warning sign, if we people can't prove that we are still useful to the Lantian Imperial Court, then, it won't be long before our good days will come to an end.

This is why the old man spent 100,000 taels of silver, spent most of the year, did nothing, didn't go anywhere, just stayed in Lantian, hoping that these crops could help the old man to reach the heavens.

This is our only chance, and Master Liu is also the only intermediary among the Lantian officials who can allow us to communicate with the imperial court, and he happens to be a relatively mediocre intermediary.

Just like Master Liu himself said - if we change to a main hall official from Yushan Academy, we will not be able to achieve the current effect.

God forbid me, I shouldn't die!

Spend some money, it's perfectly deserved. ”

Yang Wenhu laughed and said: "I can't pay it, I can't pay it, if Your Majesty can allow us to operate these railways, I dare to guarantee that within three years, we will be able to recover the money we have invested."

Even if Your Majesty does not give us the right to operate, the construction of a two-hundred-mile railway will definitely collect a large amount of land, and we can use this to find some industry for all of you in the most central area of Guanguan.

And Sun Gong told Master Liu that the proposal to build a few railway stations was simply a stroke of genius, which would allow us to easily obtain several important railway commercial ports.

Great, the cost of building the railway, Yang recognized 800,000 taels, if any shopkeeper is tight and the money is insufficient, Yang is willing to admit 1 million. ”

Feng Tong pressed Yang Wenhu's hand and said: "Shopkeeper Yang, Qin Shang and Hui Shang have been fighting for many years, at this time, everyone is sitting in the same boat, and the old man thinks that the interests should be equalized."

There are hundreds of salt merchants here, and your family occupies one million, how can you embarrass the rest of the people?

Everyone wants to take advantage of this opportunity to move to Lantian , this is related to the life of the family, you don't want to be too ......"

Yang Wenhu laughed and said, "Everyone, don't we have no livelihood? Since His Majesty has allowed us to build a railway from Yushan City to Phoenix Mountain City and Chang'an, why can't we simply make a new living by building the railway?

Shopkeeper Feng, we don't have to fight for a little interest on the 200-mile railway.

Think about it, if we build the railway from Chang'an to Luoyang, what do you think? ”

As soon as Yang Wenhu's words fell, someone shouted: "Luoyang to Kaifeng Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion to Yingtian Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion to Shuntian Mansion...... Oh my God, as long as we start working, at least three or five generations of livelihood will be settled......"

Sun Yuanda unbuttoned his undershirt and shook a huge black lacquer folding fan to fan hard, at this moment, he was hot all over, and he only felt that the heart that was already on fire was about to burst out of his throat.

"The right to operate the railway, it is impossible to give it to them."

Zhang Guozhu's brows furrowed deeply.

"I'd rather have a stake in the land than allow the railway to be controlled by a group of businessmen."

"Since they are willing to build railways, they can give them some benefits, but after they get these benefits, they can't just build some railways that can make money just by looking at them, and they must also participate in some railways that are related to military affairs."

"If this can't be done, do you want to make this group of businessmen live with the country? My opinion is that with their money they can afford to look at them, as long as they do not lose money, a little profit will be, and the main force in building the railway must be the state! ”

"What nonsense are you talking about, now Da Ming has just had a little bit of anger, and it is very inappropriate to empty the treasury, and you can only use the money in the hands of these people to do big things.

The construction of the railway is a very large project, it will consume a lot of wood, steel, ballast and other materials, and at the same time, the manpower required is also a very large number.

I am now in the Ming Dynasty, and I just need such a big project to turn the money of the Ming Dynasty into living money, as long as the money flows into the hands of ordinary people, it is a great news for the local officials.

The people in the poor land could earn food rations and money by going to work on the railway construction site, and as long as the railway was built, a large group of people would always have work.

In turn, the consumption of such a large group of people on the construction site can provide great benefits to the people along the railway, Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that while the demand of the people of Daming is not high, we should vigorously build the railway......"

Weichen also believes that the construction of railways at this time is a great thing, and Yushan Academy has set up a discipline dedicated to solving railway problems, so that these people can gradually mature in the process of building railways and accumulate a lot of experience.

In the future, our railway, as His Majesty once said, will open roads in the mountains and build bridges in the water, and Weichen dares to guarantee that in less than 20 years, we will be able to cultivate a capable railway team......"

Yun Zhao discussed with Zhang Guozhu and officials of various ministries for a whole day in the big study about the construction of the railway.

In the end, a result was obtained: the construction of the railway could be done with the help of the salt merchants, but the salt merchants could only invest in the form of money, and at the same time receive 20% of the profits of the railway.

At the same time, the stations along the railway line can be wholly invested, and the right to operate the shops in the station can be obtained, and the right to maintain the railway can be obtained, and these rights will be written into the official document, after the Lantian Congress Committee deliberates and votes, it is written into the official text.

In Yun Zhao's view, this text is too generous to businessmen, but Zhang Guozhu and others believe that in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of businessmen to invest in railways, it is something that the Prime Minister's Office can tolerate in the early stage.

In Zhang Guozhu's eyes, nothing is more important than quickly making the lives of the people of Daming better.

The population of the Central Plains is so devastated that it is necessary to guide those people who have taken refuge in the deep mountains and old forests back to live in the Central Plains, and it is necessary to let those people who have completely lost and destroyed the means of production leave their original hometowns and go to the fertile land of the Central Plains to continue to live.

Lantian officials are very suitable for doing this kind of large-scale poverty alleviation and poverty relief, which is very easy to quickly improve the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, as for those piecemeal poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation matters, they need to be slowly cultivated in the future.

After the rest of the officials left, Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu were left in the room.

Zhang Guozhu saw that Yun Zhao was looking at him with one eye open and one eye closed, so he said dissatisfiedly: "Why do you look at me like this?" ”

Yun Zhao smiled: "I usually look at it like this when I look at a stupid pen, I'm afraid that if I look at it with two eyes, I will be infected with a stupid pen!" ”

Zhang Guozhu said angrily: "What is a stupid pen? ”

Yun Zhao said: "The stupid pen is the second fool to show the **** of the brush to others." ”

Zhang Guozhu sighed and said: "It's a mistake, it should be inserted into the pen holder." ”

Yun Zhao smiled: "If you don't want to be such a fool, it's better to allow me to continue to get the telegram!" ”

Zhang Guozhu sneered: "Now, our army is invincible, our officials are governing the locality, and the whole Ming Dynasty is gradually freed from the disaster because of us."

The moment of prosperity of Daming is coming, and we are already on the right path.

At this time, you, as the emperor, are stupid to get any telegram in person! ”

Chapter 1, Chapter 2 is coming soon,

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