The old Dezhou City has been burned clean by Li Ze that year, but the new Dezhou City is relocated by the Weixin River, from the time when Li Ze was still in Chang'an, the new city of Dezhou began the most basic construction, mainly the reconstruction of the Weixin River embankment and the wharf, and so on in June, after a large number of craftsmen moved over, the construction of the new city was rapidly accelerated.

Now half a year has passed, the city wall of the new city is still on the plan, but the workshop area, residential area, and commercial area are beginning to take shape, and the construction of the new city is still in accordance with the most common construction of the Li Fang in this era, each square is an independent existence, but it is connected by a number of avenues built together.

Under the unified deployment of the Wuwei Festival Zhendu Branch, the construction of Dezhou New City really responded to the needs of one party, and the support of all parties, Wuyi, Xindu, which are now extremely developed places, even Cangzhou, Dizhou and other places have also been mobilized, and a large number of personnel have been mobilized into Dezhou to support the construction of Dezhou.

It was the middle of winter, and a large number of young people had nothing to do, and it was just the time when all the recruits came to speed up the construction of Texas. Of course, Wuwei Festival Town did not recruit these personnel in vain, and paid salaries to these young men every day.

Fifty wen a day's wages are definitely not much, but eating in the collective canteen here, it doesn't cost ten wen a day, big black flour steamed buns, two are full, but only one penny, if you are willing to spend money, meat is also available, but a bowl of braised pork, it costs ten yuan, and most people are definitely reluctant. After eating a meal in ten days and half a month, I felt delicious. Most people, when they set off, prepared a lot of pickle gnocchi, steamed buns with pickles, which is a perfect match. Spend another penny and buy a bowl of bone broth, and it will be even more beautiful. If you have a good relationship with the guys, this bowl of soup may be filled with a big bone for you, and Kabakaba chews it up and sucks up the bone marrow inside, and the nutrition is still good.

When I am free, I go in groups to dig out rat holes, go to the river to dig a hole in the ice, put a fishing line down, and it does not take much effort to get a few fish, build a fire, and roast and eat, which is also a very happy thing.

Of course, it is very hard to work at this time, but for them, what is hard work? Ordinary people, in order to eat a mouthful, when is it not hard? I can't imagine a day like this!

In the past, they also had to serve as conscription, but it was compulsory labor, not only did they have to bring their own food, but they did not have a penny of remuneration.

The first batch, the slightly more agile ones, are now out of the mix. Thinking about the scene when everyone was bidding farewell to their families at that time, it is funny to think about it now.

When I arrived, I realized that it was not the same thing at all.

The first batch of people who came were basically the poorest and most unruly people in the local area, and now these people are all shaking, because they came early, and there is a shortage of people everywhere in Texas, and most of them have directly become the apprentices of those craftsmen, even if they can't become apprentices, but because they are close, they have learned a lot of things more or less, and when they recruit people on a large scale, some of these people have learned skills and become craftsmen.

Don't underestimate this change in identity, for them, it's completely different. At the very least, the daily salary has risen dramatically.

The craftsman is paid a monthly salary, no less than five times a month, and the small foreman also has a hundred wen a day, which is twice as much as that of ordinary coolie workers.

When it is time to eat, a glance at the cafeteria can roughly tell who came early and who came later. Because I came early, I ate much better than the later ones. At least ten cents a bowl of braised pork, those who came early can still afford to eat.

Wuwei's supply and marketing cooperatives have also opened a lot of shops here, selling a wide range of things, and the prices are cheaper than the local prices in Cangzhou and Dizhou, which makes the people from these two places excited, and they saved some money, so they came here to buy things and store them, and they could have paid some money to have a fleet of materials to transport materials here to bring back, but these people are absolutely reluctant to pay these money. Anyway, when I came, I made the return date clear, and when I came to the New Year, I carried back the big bags and small bags, which could give my family some surprises.

Thinking of putting these things on the kang in the house, and then taking out a few strings of tinkling yellow and clear copper coins from his arms, the admiring eyes of his wife and children, these men were full of energy.

The construction of Dezhou New City is in full swing, naturally thanks to the large amount of capital injection from Jin Mantang, a big salt merchant in Yangzhou, otherwise, Li Ze would never have such abundant funds invested here, even if he didn't fight, he wouldn't be able to come up with so much money for a while, let alone be in full swing with Lu Long now!

Li Ze directly rejected the previous proposal of free conscription, and instead adopted the practice of paying labor wages, which was opposed by the vast majority of people in the shogunate of Wuwei Festival, even people like Zhang Hui. In their eyes, it was a matter of course for the people to serve in labor.

But Li Ze doesn't think so, forced labor seems to save money, but the work enthusiasm and work attitude of the laborers are destined to be not high, if the force is used to deal with the people, then the things he did before to please the people, won't it be in vain?

It seems that it is a lot of money to pay, but in exchange for the enthusiasm and efficiency of the people and the support of themselves, it is an absolutely cost-effective thing.

What's more, he's not short of money now!

Later facts proved Li Ze's correctness, and Zhang Hui was also convinced this time, and the construction speed of Dezhou New City far exceeded the planning of the Wuwei shogunate. More importantly, the first batch of people who were originally conscripted in March were unwilling to go back. This was almost unimaginable in the past they had experienced.

The construction of Texas New City has more people, and more importantly, these people have become proficient.

Wuwei Festival Town seems to have paid a lot of money to go out, but in fact, the money paid has flowed back to Wuwei's treasury in another form. One-third of the wages earned by each worker every day were originally returned because of food and shelter, and when the supply and marketing cooperatives openly sold all kinds of materials here at prices higher than the wholesale price, but slightly lower than the retail price in the market, these ordinary people who had earned wages burst out with a strong desire to buy.

About two-thirds of the money earned by these people has flowed back in various forms, and only about one-third can be brought home.

However, Zhang Hui found from the reports of the monthly branch that the flow of these silver coins actually made Wuwei Festival Town make money. This made Zhang Hui a little unmoved, and if he didn't understand, he would study, which was the principle of this great Confucian, so when he had free time, the secretary of Wuwei began to run to the branch again, and Xia He was naturally the best candidate to answer these doubts for him.

When Li Ze defeated Zhang Zhongwu on the banks of the Yishui River and returned to Wuyi, Zhang Hui excitedly reported his major discovery to Li Ze. It turns out that large-scale infrastructure construction can actually boost the prosperity and prosperity of the local economy.

Li Ze laughed.

This is something that ordinary people also know in later generations, whenever the economy is in a downturn, the country will start the construction of infrastructure on a large scale, in order to stimulate domestic demand and stimulate consumption, but at this time, it is indeed a new knowledge.

Only when the money is in circulation can it play its greatest role, and the money stored in the cellar will always be just a pile of heavy broken copper and iron.

Zhang Hui is Li Ze's most favorite Wenchen first person, his person has the world's admired knowledge, and this person is not a person who is stupid to read, but the kind of person who really has a deep study of Confucianism, if such a person, then understand economics, it will naturally be of great help to his future development.

Doing something by yourself may be regarded as a chaotic life, but if you have the endorsement of Zhang Hui, I am afraid that the number of people who resist will be greatly reduced, and in this regard, a hardcore like Cao Xin will never be able to do it.

Cao Xin is a well-known figure in the Northland, but the influence of Zhang Hui is the whole world.

Walking on some of the completed streets of Texas New Town, Li Ze looked at his new work with satisfaction. There was no mud in the ground, and the ground did not have the luxury of using stone slabs and other things, but all the discarded bricks, which were filled with burned soot, and then rolled over and over again by livestock on heavy stone rollers, flattened and paved with a layer, and so on, the ground was as hard as iron, and the mud was no longer painful. And in doing so, it is considered waste utilization, these things, Texas New City will produce a lot every day, and in Texas Old City, these things are countless, how many or how many.

On both sides of the road, the trees that had been transplanted earlier had been cut down to the main branches, and the lower part had been coated with lime, so that the new shoots could be seen by the next spring.

Leaning on the workshop area of Weixinhe, most of the workshops have already started, and the scene that Li Ze wants to see is slowly opening in front of him, and when Dezhou New City is completed, it will definitely provide a steady stream of power for Wuwei's progress.