Moon Bay, a subordinate of Wuyi County, was originally an extremely remote place, where the land was barren and full of rocks, most of which were saline-alkali land, and when the largest number of households were only a few dozen households. However, with the development of Wuyi and the expansion of the city, Moon Bay has now become one of the most prosperous places in Wuyi. The most important thing is the completion and commissioning of the Moon Bay cargo terminal.

After more than two years of vigorous investment, a canal connecting the Sushui River and the Dezhou Canal was officially completed, and this canal was directly named Wuwei Canal. The Moon Bay Wharf is the only wharf on this new canal, where all goods from Texas are disembarked and transported to other places in Wuyi.

After the political reform, Wuyi was upgraded to a mansion, which is also one of the two prefectures under Li Ze's rule, one is Hezhong Mansion, and the other is Li Ze's ruling center, Wuyi Mansion.

Wuyi governs the original Wuyi County, Nangong County, which is cut from Yizhou, and the other is Shiyi County of Dezhou, Wuyi County is the body, Nangong and Shiyi are like its spreading wings, although there is a barrier to Shiyi Qingshan, but now a galloping road several zhang wide is being constructed day and night between Daqingshan.

Whether it is digging the Wuwei Canal or building the Chi Road in Daqing Mountain, the main force of the construction is the prisoners captured by Wuwei after the victory in the war.

These captives usually serve one to two years of hard labor, and within these two years, they will basically take care of the heavy labor of such a large project.

The autumn harvest has basically ended, and as a net grain importer, the importance of Moon Bay Wharf is self-evident. At present, Wuyi Mansion has only three counties under its jurisdiction, but there are more than 200,000 people under its jurisdiction in Dingkou, and these 200,000 are basically concentrated in Wuyi County and Nangong County, and Shiyi is being listed as the next vigorous development target by Wuyi Prefecture.

The scale of Wuyi and Nangong's cities is expanding day by day, and the cultivated land area is getting smaller and smaller, which also makes food and daily necessities basically rely on external supply, and the cost of taking land routes is obviously much larger, and the construction of Wuwei Canal has made this problem a perfect solution.

Two years ago, when the construction of Wuwei Canal began, Li Ze's subordinates, including Zhang Huigongsun Changming and others, were all opposed, thinking that it was completely unnecessary and wasting money in vain, but today, they have to admire Li Ze's foresight.

Looking back now, the completion of the Wuwei Canal turned out to be the most economical method, and it didn't take a few years for those investments to be earned. You must know that when this canal was built, because a large number of prisoners of war were put into use, the construction cost was actually greatly reduced. These people don't need to pay their wages, as long as they have enough to eat.

Finally, there was an idle Li Ze, and because of his happiness, he took Liu Ruyan to Moon Bay, wanting to take a look at his proud work. Originally, I wanted to make an appointment with Xia He, but after going to the current household department of the past to take a look, Li Ze gave up. Therefore, Xia He was in her public hall at that time, dressed in a man's attire, holding a pen in one hand and an account book in the other, reciting words to herself, and her red lips were already stained with black ink.

The autumn harvest is over, the autumn tax begins, the taxes in various places are reported one after another, according to the budget at the beginning of the year, the expenses are removed, the surplus must be escorted to Wuyi, and the deficit must find out the reason, which is the local payment, which is the central payment, and which is the transfer payment, which is enough for her to drink a pot. What's more, this year, there are more than a dozen prefectures in Zhaoyi, Weibo, Hezhong, Hedong and other places that are newly attached, and these places are carrying out reforms similar to Wuyi in terms of financial endowment.

Liu Ruyan is also a lively person, and hit it off with Li Ze, Li Ze only brought Li Kang, Xia He only brought Xiao Cicada, and went straight to Moon Bay.

Li Ze really didn't expect to meet Wang Mingyi here.

He didn't expect that the best teahouse in Moon Bay, Tianming Pavilion, was actually hard to find, not to mention the private room, even the hall below was also overcrowded.

He originally wanted to take Liu Ruyan to sit in the private room on the third floor of the Tianming Pavilion and enjoy the panoramic view of the entire Moon Bay Pier. The location of the Tianming Pavilion is excellent, and because of this, it has also become a place where businessmen or officials gather here, even though the charges of the Tianming Pavilion are extremely expensive, a pot of the most ordinary tea also costs hundreds of Wen, and the private room on the third floor does not have ten taels of silver, and it is impossible to go out at all, but it is still overcrowded.

Standing outside the Tianming Pavilion, Li Ze was a little melancholy.

It was at this time that Wang Mingyi on the third floor inadvertently glanced down, and first saw Li Kang, who was extremely burly and conspicuous, and then turned his gaze and saw Li Ze in front of Li Kang.

Seeing Li Ze's appearance, Wang Mingyi immediately understood what Li Ze meant, but it was not good to go down to greet him in person, there are really a lot of people who know him here, if he goes to greet him in person, Li Ze wants to serve the idea of micro-service, but he is afraid that he will have to go bankrupt immediately, either go back quickly, or a large team of soldiers and horses will rush over to protect this place.

Retracted his head, thought about it, summoned his personal entourage, whispered a few words, the entourage showed surprise on his face, and immediately went out, and when the entourage left, Wang Mingyi sent away the two businessmen who were talking to him happily in a few words. When they first arrived in Wuyi, Wang Mingyi was only the head of the supply and marketing cooperative, but within two days, Wang Mingyi changed and became the left waiter of the Tang Dynasty.

At this moment, Wang Mingyi's weight in their eyes has greatly increased. Prepared a generous gift to the door, the two sides talked very happily, today was originally Wang Mingyi here to send them on the boat back.

For Li Ze, when he was really exhausted and had no way out, and when he stepped into the door, he was extremely happy.

"Mingyi, why are you here?"

"Li Xiang, why did you come here?"

The two of them asked the same question, but they both laughed.

"Sit down!" Li Ze very gentlemanly pulled out a chair for Liu Ruyan and let her sit in the best position, and then walked to the opposite side of Liu Ruyan and sat down, Liu Ruyan's eyes were full of happiness, these Li Ze's unintentional actions, in Liu Ruyan's opinion, were naturally the meaning of her special love.

At a table, Li Ze and Liu Ruyan sat in two positions by the window, and Wang Mingyi naturally sat on which side of the window he faced, and said with a smile: "Li Xiang, I sent two businessmen from Jiangnan today, these two people are quite powerful in Jiangnan, and they came to me to talk about cooperation through the line of Tu Erye, and the two sides hit it off." They want to make a bigger fortune, we want to open the market in Jiangnan, drive the nails, and just take what they need. ”

"Doing business in Jiangnan is no better than ours here, no matter what you do, I'm afraid that it will be inseparable from the local wealthy families and the government." Li Ze said with a smile.

"These two people are not wealthy families, nor are they high-ranking officials, but they are quite capable." Wang Mingyi said.

Li Ze's eyes rolled, and he already understood: "It's similar to Bai Mingli's situation?" ”

Wang Mingyi said with a smile: "Li Xiang really knows how to see thousands of miles. ”

Li Ze laughed: "You don't pat yourself on the back, you don't know what to say, don't you just want to test me?" However, the background of these two people meets our requirements. ”

"yes!" Wang Mingyi was a little regretful, "After the promulgation of the new policy of the imperial court, it had a great influence in the south, and the two businessmen were also very sorry, saying that if it weren't for this, they would have done better, and they also took this opportunity to suppress our price fiercely." When it comes to the extra part, they have to take it out to open up the joints. ”

Li Ze smiled slightly, but did not answer, the implementation of the new policy will definitely encounter all kinds of obstacles, even Wang Mingyi is already feeling the pressure now.

But as he said to Jing Xiang, if he doesn't fundamentally solve the problem, then what is he working so hard for?

Jing Xiang is right, whether it is a family or a wealthy family, the old one goes, the new one will still rise, one stubble will be extinguished, one stubble will be born, but as long as the system keeps up and minimizes their influence on the country's government and government, then at a certain time, it will just be cleaned up again.

These are the words, of course he will not say now. Even if you want to make a revolution, you have to come step by step, and now that you have just learned to climb, it is too early to say that you can run.

The steaming tea was poured into the cup, and the whole private room was full of aroma when it was neutral, and he picked up the cup, sniffed deeply, nodded slightly, took a sip, and cast his eyes on the dock not far away, the boats on which you leaned on me, and I leaned on your boats, and looked into the distance, more ships were head after tail, tail by tail, and they couldn't see the edge at a glance.

On the dock, the ships that had already come in, countless men were bowing down, carrying bags of grain and boxes of goods off the boats, loading them into the carriages that had been waiting here for a long time, and then sailing into the distance.

"The dock earns a lot in a day, right?" Li Ze asked.

"It's nature." Wang Mingyi is naturally familiar with this, "The ship has to pay a fee when it comes in, and the goods on the ship have to pay taxes, and these warehouses and shops on the wharf were all built together when they were built. Like this day, Minglou will pay us a rent of 10,000 yuan this year, and next year, the price will definitely rise, I don't know how many people are staring at this position?

Li Ze was very proud, because Xia He's idea was originally from him. This kind of thing is naturally made of docks, and these things within its radiation range are all old hens that lay golden eggs. And to make this dock only need a suitable policy, isn't the policy a thing that he formulated?

His gaze fell on the shirtless men who were sweating and carrying the goods.