Sun Xiangfu did not come to Jingzhou with a large amount of cash to engage in investment and development, because Li Shimin, who was not soft at all when it came to shares, could not come up with millions of yuan to build the entire waterway transfer company.

Therefore, he came to open a leather bag company, and using other people's money to make money was a common way to do business in later generations.

"Several of them are very fast, almost all the official fields in various states and counties have been swallowed by them, including more than 800,000 mu of fields replaced by five surnames and seven families, there is not a single acre left, and the average price has always been a little more, and all of them have been sold."

The Shangtian in the Central Plains is the most expensive in Guanguan, and the market price has reached the level of ten yuan per mu, Luoyang is about six or seven runs, Yangzhou is second, four or five runs per mu, Yizhou and Jingzhou, almost three or four runs, the imperial court only sells these Shangtian in the Jingxiang area at a price of one more mu consistently, it is like giving the benefits to these local tycoons in vain, and it is no wonder that they will choose to make concessions in the policy system.

Shannan Province has 32 states, except for some tenants who want to come out and allocate to the tenants who originally cultivated the official land to make Yongye fields, the total number of other official fields adds up to more than 3 million mu, so after the current round of land sales is fully implemented, the samurai Tong can get more than 4 million yuan in cash.

The more than 4 million yuan in cash, at least in the hands of more than a dozen local clans led by Cai, Huang, Kuai, Deng, and Liu, nearly half of the wealth, is enough as Sun Xiangfu's start-up capital to promote the Jingzhou project.

"Ying Gong, or the old saying, for a period of time in the future, you must maintain the fairness of the policy, send more people to the local inspection, and ensure the basic rights and interests of the people who have obtained the new household registration.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Sun Xiangfu had to go to the local area to guide the actual work, because in the land of Jingxiang, the spring flood came relatively early, and Wu Shitong, as the head of Shannan Road, still needed to sit in Jingzhou and control the overall situation.

In Sun Xiangfu's planning, all things have more detailed arrangements, and the money belongs to the local finance, so it should be invested in local construction, and the wharf belongs to the local construction, and is not within the scope of investment that the waterway transfer company needs, because after these wharves are built, they will be managed by the local government to collect the docking and storage costs of the merchant ships in the past.

The manpower used to build the wharf is the water bandits in the lake area who accept Zhao'an, the total number of people is tens of thousands, men, women and children, Sun Xiangfu proposed to the samurai Tong The plan is that the imperial court specifies the specifications, building requirements, sends people to do the corresponding technical guidance, builds one, and after reaching the standard acceptance, they will be given a certain salary, and before that, only provide them with food and drink.

In view of the fact that the wharf of this period was not as demanding and complex as that of later generations, in fact, as long as the place is selected, it is not difficult to get it, clean the bank slope, dig deep docking places, make some cement pouring unloading platforms, and wide wooden gangplanks for getting on and off the ship, it is enough, in general, it is simpler than building a house, tens of thousands of people can be scattered in many places, and start building at the same time.

After the wharf is built, there will be a lighthouse for direction guidance, and some storage warehouses that are not easy to be flooded, which can be used for the distribution of goods, and it is believed that within a year, some major state towns will be built first.

The construction of the embankment is to use those who have sold the fields as the main force, temporarily take a fixed salary, build embankments in designated locations, and when these fields are built, their value will definitely exceed the existing so-called upper fields, because it can ensure the water source and fertility of the fields, and basically will not be affected by floods.

After all, the ecological environment in this period is relatively good, and there will be no rise in sea level and seawater inflow like in later generations, and the scale of floods is generally not too large, and with a levee higher than the city wall, it is enough to resist the floods in this period.

In addition to the initial investment, the follow-up, the output of the field can almost cover most of the expenses of the construction team, but it is a project that can be done for a long time, with a higher output and a stable water source for irrigation, for the imperial court, it is more and better.

As for the promotion of some crop industries and breeding industries that Sun Xiangfu said, at present, Wu Shitong can only look at the existing conditions and do some encouraging support, to what extent it can be done, to what extent, the real great development has to rely on the improvement of the system of the Ministry of Agriculture, and the children of the farmers will come out of the mountain to promote, this year should be empty, next year will gradually start, in this regard, Sun Xiangfu has multiple arrangements.

Sun Xiangfu braved the cold wind in spring to come out, which was to select a site for the people to build a field, and to guide those water bandits who accepted the surrender to repair the wharf and do a model project.

Even after more than a month of intelligence collection by the intelligence team, Sun Xiangfu ran around the wetlands for several days before finally selecting the location of the first field, which is more than 200 miles south of Jingzhou, close to Yuezhou, and in later generations, it should be in the area of Jianlihong Lake.

Sun Xiangfu did not give it any tall name, it is called Dayuan, because it is indeed very large, after the entire embankment is built, the circumference may reach more than 300 kilometers, according to the size of the acres of the later generations, the irregular shape of the circumference of one kilometer, about a little more than 100 acres, according to the size of the acres of the field in this period, it is almost nearly 150 acres, that is to say, just this one wall, including the level of watering the land, at least reached more than 40,000 acres.

If a family cultivates such high-yield watered land intensively, it can plant up to twenty or thirty acres, that is to say, more than 1,000 households are needed to plant this kind of land alone, and it can almost form a dozen new villages or a large market town.

When Sun Xiangfu set the perimeter route, the warrior Tong finally sent him the tens of thousands of people he had recruited, and some of the tools prepared before the year were also distributed to them, and after simply building some sheds for rest, the work of tens of thousands of people began.

Sun Xiangfu grew up rolling on the embankment when he was a child, he couldn't understand the composition of the embankment, with the water conditions of this period, building a figure-of-eight slope eight to ten meters high, it is enough, along the water surface is to set aside enough area, planting berm forest, even, along the river, but also to build a dike to prevent the river from impacting the embankment too violently, on the inner side of the embankment, but also to build a small embankment, so that the entire embankment covers the surface of the widening, waist middle, stress, there is no danger of collapse.

In addition to the berm forests on both sides of the embankment, the embankment itself should also be planted with slope protection grass that is difficult to wash away by the flood.

Saplings, is to open a nursery to cultivate, poplar and water and sand are the best, these two kinds of trees grow very fast, not afraid of water, after growing, the branches and leaves are very luxuriant, the local people can cut branches for firewood, trunks, is also a good material for construction, five to eight years, you can rotate cutting and planting a round.

The most important thing is that the saplings of these two kinds of trees are very simple, and they can almost live by cuttings, and Sun Xiangfu only needs to arrange a group of people to do this kind of work.

The day before the Shangyuan Festival, Sun Xiangfu returned to Jingzhou from the construction site, after two or three days of adaptation, the workers already know how to work, but don't look at the scene of tens of thousands of people, in fact, every day is built a few hundred meters long, even if the back because the tools are more sufficient, after everyone is proficient, the speed will be improved a lot, but the improvement is very limited, I am afraid that this year's time, can build this one well, complete the water conservancy facilities in the wall, it is already good.

After actually doing it, we can understand why the more than 500 mounds in later generations need several dynasties and nearly a thousand years of accumulation to build them all, because there is no dynasty that dares to be like Sun Xiangfu, get tens of thousands of people to build the mounds full-time, this expense, the imperial court is difficult to bear, just this one mound, placed in other dynasties, the same manpower, at least two or three years to build, what national turmoil, or economic tension period, but also have to stop work indefinitely, and what you get is only more than 40,000 acres of land.

In the case of other land that can be cultivated, the cost of building the embankment is more than worth the loss, and the reason why Sun Xiangfu did this project was because he wanted to completely solve the flood in Jingxiang area through these embankments that were destined to be connected in the future.

"Ying Gong, Your Majesty has summoned me back to preside over the spring ploughing in Guanzhong, and tomorrow, I will set off. After a while, there will be ships in Guanzhong to Jingzhou, and by then, the wharves of several major cities here should have been built, and it is time for you to promote the development of local commerce. ”

"Zhengming can't go before the Yuan Festival?"

"No, the spring ploughing in Guanzhong can't be delayed, and in addition, the envoy team sent by the imperial court to the Western Regions will set off in a few days, so I will try to catch up and see them off."

"Well, for business, the old man still has some confidence, after you go back, and according to the arrangement we agreed."

The business of this period was actually very simple, nothing more than buying and selling, when some local things, someone clearly marked the price to buy, naturally, someone got it out to sell, the government, only need to do a good job of publicity, good management of taxes, can profit from it.

For example, the yellow eel loach in the lake area is particularly large, these things are not valuable in the local area, however, they can be sold at a good price in Guanzhong, and the warrior Tong only needs to organize some traders in advance to buy them at the wharf, and the local people will find various ways to catch and sell them for money.

When the merchant ships in Guanzhong came, they only needed to pay money, and they could get a large amount of fish from these traders, and the goods they brought from Guanzhong would also be bought by these merchants and sold to the people who got money from selling fish.

Of course, fish goods are only one of them, Sun Xiangfu previously gave the samurai Tong a booklet, there are many types of local specialties, gradually, these things will be explored and produced by the people, if the imperial court can also provide the people with a set of high-yield methods, then, soon, the production capacity here will be expanded, at the same time, with income, they will have a large demand, and consume some of the output from other places.

Such a situation is completed, which means that the entire market is activated, it will continue to stimulate the market to produce and develop various new products, or product raw materials, when people are exposed to more and more abundant and comprehensive goods, their productivity, will continue to improve, it is considered to have entered a virtuous circle.

In the whole process, the waterway transfer company just got some boats and recruited some sailors to communicate with various places, which can make a lot of profits at the same time, so that everyone's lives can be improved, which is why Sun Xiangfu would rather sell the land at a low price and give profits to these local clans, and also promote the reason for this project, because, without the start-up capital they provided, Sun Xiangfu may need to delay it for several years if he wants to revitalize the towns in the entire Yangtze River basin.