Since two years ago, Cao Ji never thought that he would come to the big pit in the northwest one day.

This is really a big pit, the bandits of the three mountains and seven villages, the threat of the military power of the Western Xia, the complex interests of the Ye family are entrenched in it, and it also involves the ambiguous attitude of Cao Shouyi, a relative with heavy troops, and it is in a politically sensitive period, and theoretically the Cao family faces some political risks. This is Cao Ji's consistent way of thinking that he does not want to get involved in the Northwest Pit.

But now the situation is very strange, the visible Song-Xia War has not come for a long time, Cao Shouyi and Wang Yan have a bitter hatred, but it is increasingly impossible to see that Lao Cao has any signs of rebound, and the cake in the northwest continues to expand.

The emperor in the capital has already appeared, and he has not denied the Cao family, and the political turmoil has passed. There has always been news that Ye Wushuang's various black technologies are budding, and an industrial chain is slowly forming around the steam engine. Ye Qinghua has won the steam engine exclusively in the early stage, and is developing various application soils.

Cao Ji, who likes to make money and has a sense of worry, suddenly felt that he had fallen behind for almost two years, and if he didn't move, the benefits brought by this vigorous innovation would probably be divided up by others.

There are still many people in the capital who scoff at the innovation and black technology that have come around Wang Yan, and they are complacent about the inherent interests of bridges, river transportation, traditional handicrafts, and fields, and they sit and wait to see Wang Yan's jokes, and even wait for Wang Yan to go home and farm because of diplomatic gossip.

However, not to mention political issues, Cao Ji suddenly found that those traditional local tyrants were wrong, Ye Qinghua had the foresight to invest heavily in this gamble of the century, and deliberately speculated the value of Fan Lou, and was gradually selling equity to let those people take over, and the withdrawn funds were used by Ye Qinghua to follow the trend.

The so-called trend, this time is obviously the steam engine, and now Cao Ji has seen it: Wang Yan, the banner of the frenzied industrial party, has been erected, and the core is mechanical power, and the Ye family has made a big bet on Wang Yan's chariot. Now, of course, it is in a state of burning money and losing money for the time being, but this is called trend following.

At the right time, cousin Cao Shouyi sent a letter to Cao Ji telling that Ye Wushuang had developed something called a railway, and it had been matured, and Funing County had obtained the right of way for the Funing section of Suide, and now it had entered a state of survey to prepare for the start of construction.

Sima Guang, who received the news, swore to the queen's sister that "Funing County and Suide County are in chaos and don't take the court seriously", but Cao Ji knew that he was really listening to their rap and thought that the railway would lose if it couldn't move.

Cao Ji does not deny that there is some truth in what the queen's sister and Sima Guang said, but considering the execution of Dayan, the emperor is still there, what my sister said doesn't count, Dayan's iron buddy Han Qi went to Beijing to pay homage to the prime minister, these comprehensive factors are weighted, Cao Ji feels that no matter what these mouths say, if you don't follow this trend in the car, you will really fall behind.

Cao Ji didn't care whose right of way it was, he even looked farther than Ye Qinghua on this issue, because Cao Ji knew about the big bird, and with the urine nature of the big bird, it was impossible for the right of way to give it to the Chamber of Commerce.

So Cao Ji didn't plan to compete with the Ye family for the Funing Suide section of the railway project. Cao Ji is very clear, this section of the railway is just a drop in the bucket in the entire Song Dynasty, now as long as you get on the train to follow this trend, with the current engineering qualifications and strength of the coal yard, many dare not say, the southeast to Bianjing railway network, these most dependent on the transportation of the area of the construction cake, Cao Ji has eaten me a lot.

This process will not even be affected by the future emperor, no matter who is the emperor, Cao Ji feels that the result will be the same. Those people have been discussing the transportation reform of the Ministry of Industry for too long, and they don't have any crude plans, so they will pull the calf.

It is foreseeable that they will not be able to kill Wang Yan, nor can they make new laws, after the success of the first railway of Ramo Wang Yan, the prescient bureaucrats and local tyrants from all over the country will follow one after another, and the opportunity will come at that time. But to seize that visible opportunity, now is the time to practice, to be able to come up with a railway plan that can compete with the Northwest Investment Bank, there is no secret, to develop now, to try now, this is practice.

The urine of the big goose can tolerate profiteers making money, but it will not make profiteers too comfortable, which Cao Ji knows very well. For example, the Wang family and his son may be able to accept a relatively high price for the project, but they will definitely not accept bribing officials to win the project with the quality of tofu dregs.

Cao Ji, who had foresight, believed that a number of profiteers and bureaucrats with such thinking would die in the future, and that only a few who would be left with a solid foundation would be able to eat the cake of the nation's large-scale construction with relatively high profits. This is Cao Ji's plan at the moment, which needs to be put on the bus as soon as possible, and can be seized when the opportunity comes.

Who is the emperor and who is the prime minister Cao Ji doesn't care, it really doesn't matter, there are ways to make money under Pang under Pang, and there is another set under Wen Yanbo and Chen Zhizhong, but now it is under Fubi Han Qi, as a top profiteer, it is the most basic to follow the trend and have a variety of coping plans.

Thinking about this, the little uncle who had never been to the northwest looked at the scenery in the distance through the carriage window. Everyone is talking about chaos in the northwest, but it is just a cloud of people, and Cao Ji doesn't think it's too serious in fact, those rumors should be the propaganda caliber of bureaucrats taking preventive shots and warlords cheating military spending.

The closer it was to Funing County, the more surprising it became, as Cao Ji witnessed the busyness of small and medium-sized traders hurrying on the road, and it was rare to see people of this size moving between the two counties in the Great Song Dynasty, except for a few of the most developed areas.

Some new industries have been formed, and many prescient people have set up some sheds and stalls on the way, selling boiled water and dry food to passers-by, and business seems to be good.

Occasionally, a very large convoy pulled heavy supplies, hoisting the flag of the Northwest Investment Bank to escort the goods, and when they stopped on the side of the road, a few idle little children came over with buckets and brushes, washed the cattle and horses of the convoy, and fed some forage collected by the little boys, so that they could get a few money in reward.

This scene seems familiar, although Cao Ji is generally heartless, but he clearly remembers that the Bianjing coal yard started in this original form, and when I go to see it in a few years, the coal yard is now more cattle than a medium-sized county.

At this point, Cao Ji also ordered the convoy to stop, looked at these grassroots pictures, took a deep breath, and thought of the Bianjing Coal Yard back then. If nothing else, the Ye family really got bigger, and when everyone was the least optimistic about the Northwest and Wang Yan, Ye Qinghua seized the opportunity to temporarily buy the Northwest.

It is not surprising that within three to five years, Suide District will withdraw its troops and establish a state, and Suide County will belong to Funing County and become a metropolitan area, and even rely on the convenience of foreign trade to become a large industrial base comparable to the Tokyo area.

And all this, the treacherous and cunning Ye Qinghua has a first-mover advantage, no matter how hard Wang Yan picks the door, it is enough for the Ye family to enjoy excess benefits.

Because in fact, after getting along, Cao Ji also has to evaluate, in fact, Da Yan is not a picker, he is mainly ruthless, and likes to cut people if he disagrees, but follow his train of thought, he is not difficult to speak, and the benefits that should be given will be released......

A day later, they arrived in Funing County, and the little uncle saw Lu Huiqing and Wang Yan to greet them.

I first visited the new city wall of the outer ring, the progress is very slow, it has been more than a year and a half since the start of construction, but the completion is not even one-third, and there is no trend in full swing, but a small number of workers are slowly starting work.

This is because there is no one in Funing County, and Wang Yan does not need to rush to work on the city wall.

Although the number of people is small, it is surprisingly effective compared to other regions, because the county government of Funing County has always been purchasing steam engines to use, in addition, Cao Ji found that the large cranes manufactured by the three Beijing coal yards have also been initially modified by Funing County, becoming more reasonable, and they are also equipped with transmission systems and use steam engine power.

What required hundreds of manpower to move in traditional construction can now be completed smoothly and quickly with less than 20 operators of large cranes and units.

These are just a microcosm of Funing County. Many of the other factories, vibrant but messy grassroots markets, Cao Ji was fortunate to be visited under the leadership of Wang Yan and Lu Huiqing.

There was nothing back then, but now there is a fairly good restaurant in Funing County, so after the visit, the dinner was arranged according to the procedure, and Ye Wushuang also came to participate in this dinner. Anyway, no one invited her to come, but she mixed in by herself.

In view of the fact that Cao Ji paid for the banquet, Erya and Little Bell, who heard the news, also mixed in to eat.

Erya is about this virtue, whether it is in Shuzhou or Beijing, or here, when he hears that someone is feasting on Da Yan, Erya will bring his own lunch box to report. The lunch box that Lori brought with her was empty and was used to pack it after she was full.

After eating the main meal in the restaurant, but there is less content than the tradition, there is no young lady who sings and dances in and throws the square scarf, this is because Funing County has a small population and there are not many local tyrants, so there is not much market in Qinglou.

There are not enough people engaged in production, how can you still go to the Qinglou, right, there was once a local tyrant who organized a group of girls to invest in the Qinglou in Funing County, but it was seized by Da Yan for a reason, and the girls were all caught in the factory to work, and finally they all stayed in Funing County to marry and have a baby.

Later, no one came to invest in the Qinglou, and some of the liberated Qinglou women were grateful to the big bird, and some were poking the backbone of the big bird, they thought: The old ladies were originally a proper high-income group, and the ass was cool and money, but they were redeemed by this faint official with administrative means, and after fifteen days of training, they were assigned to work in the factory?

However, there are no girls this time, but there is Miss Ye Wushuang present, which is indeed a beautiful scenery, Cao Ji always squints at Miss Ye's figure, and feels that she has not seen her for more than a year, and this young lady is a lot more beautiful? Visually, if she "goes to the sea", she will have a strong competitive strength even in the capital.