In addition to Jinyang, Hebei, Henan, Guanzhong, Xingyuan, and Shudi, except for the border town garrison area, began to dismantle the city walls in a planned way, and the former city began to undergo large-scale transformation and became an open city.

This was conducive to strengthening the authority and dominance of the imperial court, and was also conducive to promoting the development of industry and commerce.

"If you want to get rich, you must first build roads", in what era, if you want to develop industry and commerce, transportation construction is an indispensable link. In addition to the renovation of the old loess official roads, concrete roads first appeared in the city, and then began to gradually extend outward.

According to the plan, the iron and steel industry will carry out large-scale transformation of several iron supervisors such as Cizhou Iron Fort, Hancheng Longmen Prison, Xingzhou Jizhong Prison, Yanzhou Laiwu Prison, etc., and the way adopted is the state-owned joint-stock system, with forty percent of the government investing and sixty percent of the investment raised from the society in the form of shares. In addition, the steel bases to be built are Ezhou, Wuyang, Qian'an, and Yuzhou, which are also in the form of state-owned shares.

The Ministry of Industry's water conservancy construction management function was transferred to the Metropolitan Water Supervision Department, which was changed to specifically manage the domestic industrial and commercial industries and promote and guide the development of industry and commerce in various localities.

In addition, a Ministry of Agriculture has been added to the six ministries to be in charge of the development of agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry in the country.

The supervision of the Taiyi Department was upgraded from the fifth product to the fourth product, and it was ranked alongside the nine temples Zhengqing, and began to manage the domestic pharmaceutical industry in a unified manner.

This series of adjustments and changes began to promote the transformation of China from an agricultural society to an industrial and commercial society, and perhaps as long as this reform was carried out for 20 or 30 years, the transition from a society as a whole to a primary capitalist society could be completed.

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After some exploration teams stationed from Jinyang to Longyou discovered several salt lakes west of the West Sea, both Li Jitong and Kang Jiu became interested in the huge lake in Xihai County, and at the same time accelerated their advance in the direction of Qinghai Lake.

According to the regulations of the imperial court, the Haohan River (Datong River) basin was under the jurisdiction of the Hexi Jiedu Envoy, while the Huangshui River Basin was under the jurisdiction of the Longyou Jiedu Envoy.

The teams sent by Hexi and Longyou to explore the salt lake west of Qinghai Lake returned, and they also reported the good news they had found to their superiors. The price of salt in Guanlong and Hexi is 30 wen a catty, but to the west of Qinghai Lake, several large salt lakes with salt layers thick of more than 10 meters have been found.

For this reason, Kang Jiu went to Qinzhou and studied with Li Jitong about the development of salt mines in the west of Qinghai Lake.

"This is more than 500 miles from Haixi to Qingtang City, if the cost of livestock transportation alone is too high, and the roads are not good, many places cannot be passed by cars and horses." Kang Jiu said, "I heard that a new kind of steamship has been built in Jinyang, if it is feasible, I also ask the prince to ask Your Majesty if you want to build us a few such steamships, so that you can add Huangshui and the Yellow River to the Xihai Lake, and this way by water, it will save a lot of transportation costs." ”

Li Jitong pondered for a long time, and then said: "Okay, I will come forward to solve this matter, but the Tibetan tribes around the West Sea want you to come forward to settle it." After the salt from this lake is transported to Lanzhou, half of our family, you are responsible for the north, and I am responsible for selling to Longyou and Xingyuan. ”

The largest of the several Tibetan tribes entrenched in the vicinity of the West Sea is the Achaibu, and if they do not have a good relationship with them, the safety of the lake salt transportation along the way is a big problem. Anyway, there were many cavalry in the Hexi Army under Kang Jiu, and he came forward to subdue the Tubo tribes, and he came forward to solve the matter of steamships.

The population of Longyou, Xingyuan, northern Sichuan and even Guanzhong is several times more than that in the north, the only thing he did not calculate is that in fact, feeding livestock under conditions also needs to be fed with salt, and the salt consumption on the northern grassland is not a lot at all.

The two of them have their own plans, and the width of Xihai Lake from east to west is nearly 300 miles, plus the small boats can be passed when they reach Haixi County in the upper reaches of Huangshui, and the distance for salt transportation in this lake is not much. If the transportation problem is solved, the profit in the middle is huge.

Relying on the deterrence of the imperial court's army, and in addition, the power of the imperial court has infiltrated the surrounding areas of Qingtang by awarding officials and attracting the leaders of the Qiang tribe to buy shares in the business and share part of the commercial interests. However, due to the insufficient number of the Tun army, in the Qingtang and Hehuang areas, the Fanqiang tribes still occupy the advantage.

However, the balance of power between the two sides is quietly changing.

Li Qi's instruction to the generals in the border areas of Tuntian was: "If you can solve a problem with money, try not to solve it by military means." ”

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After the successful development of the steamer, Li Qi began to try to build "sailing ships" equipped with steam engines as auxiliary power in the three naval shipyards of Dengzhou, Gukou and Yuguan on the coast of the Bohai Sea, and began to rebuild and build inland shipyards in Yuzhou, Luoyang, Yunnei, Yueyang and Hanyang.

At present, the development of trains and railways has just begun, and land transportation is not feasible for the time being, so it is also possible to develop water transportation first.

After the empire took control of Jingxiang, it began to set up and train the Jingzhou naval army, and successively established two naval battalions in Yuezhou Prefecture and Hanyang.

At present, only the iron workshop in Jinyang can make a steam engine, and this kind of "steamer" that can easily travel against the current first appeared on the Fenshui, and then in the upper reaches of the Hutuo River in the area of the Xin Dynasty.

In consideration of the problem of steel supply, the renovation and expansion of the three shipyards was first set at the Yuguan Shipyard.

Shipbuilding during the Five Dynasties period was to ram a sloping mud platform on the river embankment or the coast to become a slipway, and some slightly better slipways were reinforced with wooden piles, most of which were pure rammed earth mud slipways. Shipbuilding is mainly carpenter's work, which requires a large number of craftsmen, and the number of blacksmiths is much smaller.

Liu Jiang was assigned to preside over the construction and renovation of the Yuguan Shipyard.

In fact, this project was planned and implemented in conjunction with the construction plan of Luanzhou Iron Works, and the first shipyard of "sail and sea ship" was selected in Yuguan, which was also for the convenience of raw material transportation.

Liu Jiang was in charge of shipping in Yuguan, and according to the plan, the shipyard would build a workshop of wrought iron, cast iron, turbines, boilers, wood processing and other machines needed for shipbuilding. Among them, the shipyard plans to build two concrete slipways, two concrete bluestone permanent docks and concrete bluestone permanent docks and other infrastructure.

It is expected that after the completion of the shipyard, it will be able to build a sailing ship with a keel length of 50 meters and 800 materials (about 500 tons).

However, the construction of the steel mill and the shipyard will take about three years to complete, and the naval battalion will have to wait four or five years to equip such steam-assisted warships, and now it only has a long-term blueprint.

Due to the economy and convenience of "steamers", it was still quickly popular in inland rivers first, and the production capacity of Jinyang Machinery Workshop was limited, and there was a shortage of supply......

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