The matter of the waterway transfer company is that when Sun Xiangfu was still in Chang'an, there was a concept of things, and if you want Datang's economy to fully blossom, then, the transportation network all over the country must be the first to be activated, and the matter of building cement roads is too long-term, with the current national strength, it is difficult to achieve at all, and water transportation can be the first to be used.

Let Wu Shitong master the economic lifeline of the Yangtze River water transportation, and then help him solve the worries from Zhang Liang, I believe that he should be able to do better than in history in the fight against local heroes, and what Sun Xiangfu has to do is actually to help him formulate some specific and efficient methods, so that he can avoid some detours.

"Little Mei Niang, help Uncle Sun Sun unfold this map."

Sun Xiangfu called a map of the Yangtze River waterway from the Ministry of Industry early in the morning, on which there were more detailed annotations of the coastal states and counties during this period, and according to the above standards, Sun Xiangfu began to write the plan.

"Does Uncle Sun want to build docks in all the states and counties along the coast?"

"Why, you guessed that?"

"Of course, didn't you just say that you want to collect all the goods in the hands of the people and sell them to the people in need in other places, you can't do it without a wharf, but Mei'er thinks that you shouldn't build a wharf for those states and counties that are in the hands of the powerful."

"Why?"

"Because they can build it themselves! Why bother? ”

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu smiled and looked at her with some approval, combined with the distribution of the heroes in Shannan Province that Wu Shitong had explained to Sun Xiangfu before, Sun Xiangfu would take advantage of the situation to remove some places from the project, and instead, pay more attention to those poor areas on the map.

Because he knew that Wu Meiniang was right, those wealthy families saw the benefits of water transportation, and it was strange not to follow the trend, when the time came, they didn't need to do it themselves at all, they would build a wharf in front of their house for big ships to transport.

In fact, in the Jingxiang area, since the end of the Han Dynasty, water transportation has been very developed, however, in the past, those civilian ships are not large, and the specifications of the wharf are also small, which must not be used in the future.

As for agriculture, Sun Xiangfu also has some ideas, the people here like to live near the water, the so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to draft, in the lake area, lotus roots, lotus seeds are very much, even the origin of the European water chestnut, also as early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties period, in this wide spread and growth, but basically are almost wild, small range of planting, the local people eat, and no one is professional into the scale of planting, for the whole country to sell.

Sun Xiangfu, who was originally from Hubei, was very familiar with these two crops, he knew that the price of lotus vegetables in Chang'an in winter was very expensive, and lotus seeds have always been regarded by everyone as a nourishing Chinese medicine, and the price can be described as high, of course, the reason why they are high is mainly because the transportation cost of transporting these things from the south to the north is very high.

If some of the selected seeds and scientific planting methods are taught to the local people in later generations, they will definitely be able to greatly increase the yield of these crops.

Like lotus seeds, in fact, there is no need for variants at all, through reasonable selection, you can make the whole pond grow more lotus pods, more lotus seeds, as long as you master the thinness of planting, it is not difficult to yield more than 100 catties per mu, because the ecological environment of this period is good, the light is more sufficient, and the fruit situation will be better.

Now the price of lotus seeds on the market in Chang'an is at least ten times that of grain, that is to say, the economic value of lotus seeds produced by one acre of lotus seed field is equivalent to more than 1,000 catties of grain, which is more than ten stones!

Don't those heroes want land to grow food? Let them plant, Sun Xiangfu only needs to let the warrior Tong organize the ordinary people, in the wetlands near the water, plant lotus root, water chestnut and other crops, with convenient water transportation, they can quickly transport these outputs to the north into cash, wait for a year or two, and then see who is poor and who is rich.

When those heroes reacted, the warriors should have divided these wetlands like fields to the people in charge of planting, and they wanted to use the original trick to seize the wetlands in the hands of the people, but it would be difficult, because, even in a disaster year, the people could rely on the money they had saved in their hands to buy food transported from other places to survive.

Moreover, they also know that finding the government can solve the problem of eating, you Caizhou, Huangzhou government doesn't care, I take a hitchhike at the wharf, you can go to Jingzhou, and directly find the governor's mansion Yamen to solve the problem.

Not to conflict head-on with these local tyrants, isolate them from the ordinary people, and use the way of economic development to make the low-level clansmen within them not satisfied with their own living conditions, to create rebellion against those clan controllers, and to solve this situation of the family holding on to one place in a more moderate and gradual way, is the most beneficial way to deal with Datang under the current situation.

After all, the reason why the local heroes can become local heroes is because a small number of clan elders have reached a deep-rooted level of control over a large number of descendants of the same clan, and as long as the control of these small number of people in power over most of the children is broken, then they will not be able to become strong.

If a child of the Cai family goes to work in a factory in Weinan, he is no different from an ordinary commoner, and he is also contributing to the country's tax creation.

And how to make them willingly break away from the control of the family?

That is, let them not live well in the family sphere of influence, but go out and follow the crowd, but they can easily live a good life.

When breaking away from the control of the clan became a trend among the people at the bottom of these clans, the foundation of the strong people in these places collapsed.

And this kind of method is effective for all deep-rooted families, but it is not a strategy that can be achieved overnight, Li Shimin is still young, Sun Xiangfu is even younger, they have solved this trouble in more than ten or twenty years, and they can be regarded as successful.

In the construction of the wharf and grasp the agricultural production, after writing a few plans, dinner time came, Zhang Ke carried a few dozen catties of large grass carp on the boat, he knew that Sun Xiangfu has always loved to play hot pot, especially the bottom of the pot boiled by this wild big fish, absolutely refreshing.

"Dudu, the fish in this Dongting Lake are almost fine, let's just hit a few nets nearby, and we caught a lot of these big fish."

On the deck, watching Zhang Ke kill fish, Sun Xiangfu heard the words, thoughtful.

Fish is the food that the bandits rely on for survival, however, without salt and some seasonings, it is difficult to swallow, so for the people in the lake area, fish is not a good thing, it is not as good as rice and flour grain, no way, more is cheap!

There are many fishing grounds in Guanzhong now, that is, in the north, under the scientific planning of Sun Xiangfu, many low-lying places have also been opened into impoundment lakes, raising fish, with the existing fish production of Datang, it will soon be able to let everyone eat fish, which will make the economic value of fish appear very low, low prices can only rely on the volume to make money, on the contrary, there are conditions for the amount of Dongting Lake area, it is industrialized, made into canned fish, dried preserved fish and other easy-to-preserve food, sold to areas with relatively scarce aquatic resources, or profitable.

Just like the salted fish and bean paste workshop in Huainan, now, in fact, a large number of freshwater fish produced in the Hongze Lake area are used to make salted fish, because Shen Tuyong and they found that fishing at sea is risky, and these people use their hands to catch fish, which is not as much money as they are used to make refined salt.

Now, the imperial court has liberalized the control of salt, and there is no need for the workshop to make salted fish bean paste, directly make some salted bean paste with dogwood spices, and sell it to ordinary people to make seasonings.

Salted fish and bean paste can only be used as a buffer commodity before the price of refined salt has not dropped, and it has also been responsible for the seasoning task of people's meals in addition to supplementing salt, and after that, it may be developed specifically in seasoning.

The food industry, no matter how much is not too much, enriching the people's food, is a huge benefit, Sun Xiangfu has been promoting this thing, it is winter, the water is relatively cold, if it is summer, the output of yellow eel loach here, is many times that of Guanzhong, it will be caught, or farmed, sold to Guanzhong, but can make a lot of money.

After all, Guanzhong is densely populated, and the consumption of various types of food will be very large in the future, and Happy Village has long disdained to focus on making such a small amount of money.

A meal of fish and hot pot, Wu Meiniang's delicate nose was slightly sweating, and the seasoning brought by Sun Xiangfu's guards was better than that produced in Yangzhou.

The people of Shuizhai who got the salt and seasonings given by Sun Xiangfu also ate this meal very well, and after nightfall, Zhang Mu and Zhang Chong brothers came to Sun Xiangfu's boat to meet them.

"My lord, today our brothers contacted more than fifty brothers in the surrounding water villages, and they all agreed to send people to discuss, and if they are further away, they will be notified the day after tomorrow, and at the latest, they will all be able to rush to us to discuss the big things you said."

"Five days later? That's the New Year, and it's just right that we'll set up a decent banquet for the leaders of each village to entertain them for the festival. ”

Hearing that Sun Xiangfu was going to set up a banquet, the Zhang brothers looked ashamed, there was not much food in their village, and all kinds of water bandits, don't look at it, they were all hidden in this hundreds of miles of lake area, but there were more than 100 people, even if a group of people only came, it was hundreds of people, and a few meals and drinks were enough to eat almost all their stored grain.

"Don't worry, although you need a lot of ingredients to eat and drink for them, you only need to contribute. There are new fishing nets on our official boats, and you can summon some men and follow my escort to catch a few more nets, which will be enough for the feast. ”

Talking about things at the banquet, especially something like this, the atmosphere will be much better, and Sun Xiangfu can just use food to tell them about the changes outside, so that they have the idea of going out and making a fortune and living a good life.