At dawn the next day, Zu Dale led all the Liaodong reinforcements and returned north to Shanhaiguan to succeed You Shiwei as the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Li Xiao led a group of generals to see him off in person.

Before leaving, Zu Wan'er hugged her father and cried loudly for a while, refusing to let go for a long time. In the end, it was under Li Xiao's persuasion that he separated from his father Zu Dale with tears.

The Liaodong Army then led its troops out of the fort and went eastward. After traveling a long distance, Zu Dale reined in the horse's hooves, and with his thick right hand, he gently patted Li Xiao's shoulder as he saw him off, and said softly: "Send off a thousand miles, there will be a farewell, Li Xiao, go back." The old man only hopes that you can take good care of Wan'er for me, love her well, and love her. ”

"Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely care for Wan'er like taking care of my eyes, don't worry about it, I hope you will cherish it all the way." Li Xiao arched his hand and said.

Zu Dale nodded, his face was full of relief, he lowered his voice and said: "Li Xiao, if there is something in the future, if the old man can help, he can send someone to Shanhaiguan to deliver the message." ”

"Li Xiao understands, thank you for your kindness."

Zu Dale looked at Li Xiao, who was calmly responding, his eyes were very complicated, and he sighed lightly: "My son Zeyan, if you Li Xiao is half capable, I, as a father, will be at peace even if I die." ”

"My lord's praise, why should Li Xiao be restrained."

Zu Dale showed a faint wry smile on his face, said no more, and after saying goodbye to Li Xiao and the others, he led the army to leave.

said goodbye to Zu Dale, and next, Yao Wenchang and Du Shaoru also left one after another.

Before leaving, Yao Wenchang repeatedly thanked Li Xiao for his generosity and life-saving grace, and at the same time said again that after Li Xiao returned to Shandong, he would have a place for himself, even if he opened his mouth. Seeing Yao Wenchang repeatedly showing favor to himself like this, Li Xiao smiled and agreed not to mention it.

However, Du Shaoru, the general manager of Qian, led a group of soldiers to leave the fort with an iron face. Looking at this person's back, Li Xiao sneered, and didn't bother with this villain.

Only Xu Mao, the captain of the family, and others said goodbye to Li Xiao, and Li Xiao comforted them a few words, and then waved goodbye to them.

After bidding farewell to this large number of soldiers and leaving, the Jinjiazhuang Fort was much empty. The autumn breeze is bleak and the four fields are vast, which makes people feel a little nostalgic.

It's just that Li Xiao doesn't have so much leisure to watch the autumn colors at this time, and a more ambitious goal is waiting for him to create.

This goal is Jintang City.

Li Xiao summoned a group of generals and came to the Qianhu official hall to discuss the establishment of Jintang City.

The participants were Tian Wei, Duan Shidi, Guan Yi, An Qian, Chen Monkey, An Monk, Wu Zhuang and others. These people are all the most core members of Li Xiao's current Jinjiazhuang Fort.

Wei Zhen appeased An Qian, and he had been promoted to Li Xiao's subordinates, he was very happy, and he was glad that he had followed the Ming Lord. Now that he has the opportunity to enter Li Xiaojun's inner circle, An Qian is even more excited.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this official has summoned you to come, there is really an important matter, I want to discuss with you, please give more suggestions to help Li do this." Li Xiaocheng said sincerely.

"I don't know what the adults want?" Tian Wei asked.

"I intend to expand a city called Jintang City within the nearly 30 square miles of land that is now divided into the management of our army, with this Jinjiazhuang Fort as the center, as an important stronghold and commercial base of our army on this Xuanzhen North Road."

Li Xiao told his inner plan bluntly to these generals and officials who he felt were the most reliable.

As soon as Li Xiao's words came out, there was an uproar below, and everyone suddenly discussed.

"Oh, but I don't know how big a city my lord wants to build this golden soup city?" An Qian asked.

"The intention of this official is to take Jinjiazhuang Fort as the inner city, and take it as the center, and build the outer city wall into a square city with a circumference of 16 miles, so as to plan the city in one step and save the trouble of future expansion." Li Xiao said in a deep voice.

"The adult's plan is big enough, but it has opened my eyes again. Thinking about our army's Tielong City in Shanxian County, Shandong, the circumference is 12 miles, which is already huge. Now to build this golden soup city, the length of the city wall is 16 miles, and each wall is 4 miles long, but I don't know if it is necessary to build such a big city? ”

Duan Shidi's words resonated with everyone, and Guan Yi, Tian Wei and others all thought that this plan was really a bit big and inappropriate.

Li Xiao laughed, and he explained to everyone: "Everyone, the positioning of Iron Dragon City is different from this Golden Soup City. Iron Dragon City only has a single steel production and processing, and there is no other industry, so 12 miles around the city is enough. However, the industries that the official intends to build in the city include coal, sulfur, wool processing, and many other industries, so the more capacity the city can have, the better. ”

As soon as Li Xiao's words came out, Guan Yi took the lead in changing his opinion, he nodded and said: "Lord Li's plan is also quite reasonable, the situation of Xuanfu North Road is also different from that in the south of Shandong, where the land is barren and useless, and it is difficult to cultivate, so there is no defense. It's not like Shanxian is all land that can be cultivated, but you have to plan carefully. ”

An Qian asked with some doubts: "If you want to build such a big city, I'm afraid it will cost a lot. ”

"Of course it's a lot." Li Xiao replied: "However, our army now has all kinds of seizures last time, as well as the silver exchanged for the current head, all the gold, silver, and silk add up, a total of nearly 130,000 taels of silver, and it is enough to build the city without bricks for the time being." ”

"My lord, how do you plan the city you want to build?" Wu Zhuang, who had been silent, asked softly.

"I think that this Jintang City will open two gates, the east gate and the north gate, so that the defense force of the city gate can be reduced, which is conducive to concentrating troops to defend. Second, it can be convenient for transportation, because the east gate is adjacent to the official road, and the north gate is convenient for transporting sulfur, coal and other minerals from the junction of the border mountain and the Tangquan River, and it is also convenient to communicate with the Mongolian tribes. Li Xiao said eloquently.

"Things such as urn city, moat, corner tower, fort tower, pheasant moat, female wall, horse road, etc., have also been built in this golden soup city." Tian Wei also asked.

"That's natural, the two city gates, both have to build another urn city, and then, from the Tangquan River, water is diverted, poured into the dug moat, the width of the moat needs to be more than ten steps, the depth of more than five steps, in order to greatly increase the defense of the city."

"Lord Li is willing to spend money, if he recruits all kinds of craftsmen from the neighboring states forts, the construction of this city will be fast. Including all kinds of city wall defense buildings, this is enough for more than 60,000 taels of silver without bricks. An Qian's mind turned quickly, and he immediately estimated the approximate cost.

Li Xiao nodded and said: "An Zhenfu has calculated so quickly, if the city wall is completed, and then quickly start building factories and residences in the city to ensure that Jintang City is put into use as soon as possible, you can discuss with this official how to plan in Jintang City." ”

Everyone was interested in Li Xiao's words, and they made suggestions, and in the end, Li Xiao agreed with everyone that the final plan for Jintang City was as follows.

In the inner city, which is now the scope of Jinjiazhuang Fort, Li Xiao divided it into three places, of which two-thirds of the area is military camps and various military facilities, and the other one-third of the area is divided into two parts, half is used to build various offices and offices, and the other half is to build all kinds of silver and silk warehouses.

In the outer city, it is also the same as the Iron Dragon City, the inner city is the central point, divided into four districts, but this huge city with a circumference of 16 miles, the area of each district is much larger than that of the Iron Dragon City.

Among them, in the southwest, many huge special warehouses have been established as storage places for coal mines, coke, sulfur, wool, woolen products, and various goods transported from the south. In the southeast area, large-scale coking plants, sulfur extraction plants, wool degreasing plants and other factories have been established.

Because this kind of factory is seriously polluted and the smell is also unpleasant, because the west wind and north wind often blow here in Jinjiazhuang Fort, it is the most suitable choice to build in the south, which can reduce the irritation of air pollution to the human respiratory tract as much as possible.

In the northeast region, the whole area was built into a huge wool textile production base, such as spinning mills, weaving mills and other textile factories.

In the northwest, half of the area was used as a textile base to expand the scope for the construction of more spinning mills and gauze factories. The other half of the area was built as a residential area, and the people who moved out of Jinjiazhuang Fort, as well as the workers recruited from outside, as well as the families of the soldiers in the fort, all lived here to facilitate unified management.

As for the shops and the like, Li Xiao also planned to build them on both sides of the official roads outside the city, just like Chifeng Fort and Iron Dragon City, and they were not allowed to be built inside the city, so as not to leak secrets.

Li Xiao was quite satisfied with this preliminary plan.

After everyone had no objection to the size of the city plan, Chen Monkey asked again: "My lord, I have heard Song Da Neng talk about the mining of coal and sulfur. It's just that this wool processing, but what's going on, where do the raw materials come from, do we still have to raise sheep? ”

Li Xiao laughed, he said loudly: "Do you have to raise your own sheep to have wool, the west of this Jinjiazhuang Fort is the Mongolian tribes, if the trade route is opened, the wool is as inexhaustible as the sea, so why worry about raw materials can not be supplied." ”

When Wei Zhen Fu Anqian heard this, he asked in a hesitant voice: "Lord Li, now that the imperial court has decreed that it is not allowed to exchange markets with the Mongolian tribes, is it inappropriate for our army to act like this?" ”

As soon as he said this, Monk An immediately objected: "Enter his mother!" The court is talking like this, why should we obey it! Now everywhere at the border gates, generals and merchants, where are they not secretly doing business with the Tartars, how can others do it, our army can't do it, and they still have to talk nonsense like this? ”

An Qian looked embarrassed, he lowered his head and stopped making a sound.

"An Qian, you're too worried. This official has also carefully read the imperial decree, and the meaning of the imperial court is that it does not want strategic goods to be released from the customs, so as to fund the growth of the Mongol Tatars. There is a principle that can be grasped in the trade between the officials and the Mongol Tatars, that is, they will never sell strategic materials such as wrought iron, cloth, grain, and medicinal materials to the Mongol Tatars, and the goods they will sell in the future will only be some household utensils made of pig iron, as well as some luxury goods such as silk and tobacco, so as to make money from the Mongol Tatars, but not give them the opportunity to develop and grow rapidly. ”

Li Xiao's patient explanation made An Qian's doubts disappear, and he hurriedly said: "Master Li has such thoughts, but the little old man is too worried. ”

Li Xiao saw An Qian's cautious appearance, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, although the current Mongolian tribes, although there were generals and merchants of the Ming Dynasty who wantonly resold materials, but in fact, on the whole, it is still a huge market that has not been thoroughly developed at all.

After all, according to the real history, it is only ten years before the complete demise of the Ming Dynasty, and if you don't seize the time to develop and grow, which leads to the land of China falling into boundless darkness and barbarism, it is the real crime that cannot be punished.

History only appreciates the smiles of the victors, and does not sympathize with the tears of the losers. As a time-traveler from later generations, Li Xiao understands the truth better.

Li Xiao thought of the wool processing and production industry, which was actually well thought out.

In the 16th century, the wool textile industry in England, the Netherlands (Netherlands) and other countries was very prosperous and had become a pillar industry of the country. According to statistics, in the year 1565 of the 16th century, the export value of woolen wool accounted for 81.6% of the total value of British exports, reaching nearly one million horses, which can be called a terrifying figure.

The huge profits brought by the wool industry have caused a surge in the demand for wool, and raising sheep and wool has become a very profitable business. The English landlords switched ways, fencing their land and public land for grazing their flocks and forcibly enclosing the peasants' land. Deprived of the land on which they could support their families, the peasants left their families to wander to unfamiliar places, and most of them ended up as urban poor and cheap laborers. This is the famous "sheep eating man" movement in the bloody history of British capitalism.

Due to the prosperity of wool weaving, Britain at that time was jokingly called an empire made of wool.

However, unlike the British who began to make a fortune by wool weaving, the Ming Dynasty China at that time had not been prosperous in the industry of spinning wool into all kinds of wool, and the vast majority of the people were wearing clothes woven from cotton and ramie, while the rich people had high-end fabrics such as silk and satin to choose from in addition to ordinary fabrics.

In fact, China had already invented a relatively primitive wool spinning machine at that time, and the prototype of this textile machine was even recorded in "Tiangong Kaiwu". The most fundamental reason why wool products have not been popularized in China is that the Han people in the Central Plains at that time did not master the simple and easy-to-use wool degreasing technology, so that the woven wool textiles, because the degreasing is not clean, fishy and greasy, can not be used as clothes, can only be used as carpet raw materials. Therefore, wool textile has not been promoted on a large scale.

As the main production areas of wool, the Mongolian tribes, because of the increasingly backward textile technology, can only weave the primary wool that is not degreased and greasy into coarse and perishable wool felt. As a result, except for the poor who wore to protect themselves from the cold, the nobles were disdainful of such crude fabrics.

The fact that the Chinese did not wear woolen clothes was recorded by Dai Gren, a missionary who came to China during the Wanli period. In his travels, he recorded in a surprising tone the custom of the Chinese of the Ming Dynasty not to defatt wool and not to wear wool clothes.

The missionary lamented that it was fortunate that the Chinese had not discovered the gift of wool from God, otherwise with their huge population, the wool produced in the whole of Europe would not be enough to wear.

The missionary's personal views have since been criticized by economists. Friedrich wrote in A Brief History of Economics that only a short-sighted and stupid person would feel happy after losing a huge and rare business opportunity.

The industrial production of wool textile in China actually began at the end of the 70s of the 19th century. At that time, in order to supply military supplies, Zuo Zongtang opened the Lanzhou Weaving General Bureau to produce military uniform wool from wool. This is the first industrial textile factory in the true sense of the word.

It was not until the founding of the People's Republic of China that wool textile became popular in China, from the production of only 130,000 wool spindles in the country during the Republic of China to 700,000 spindles in the 80s.

Now, for this industry that is still asleep, Li Xiao is very fortunate that he can become the first person to eat crabs.

Li Xiao can be sure that if the extremely low-priced wool collected from the Mongolian tribes is successfully made into woolen fabric, then the whole of China will become its own woolen dumping ground. Due to the good warmth effect of woolen wool and the comfortable wearing experience, it is in a monopoly sales position, and its pricing can definitely be above most fabrics, and it is estimated that it can become an expensive fabric second only to silk!

The sales price of silk cloth in Shandong and other places, depending on the quality, is about 10 taels to 12 taels per horse, if their own woolen fabric, can reach more than 8 taels per horse sales price, even if it is now in the initial stage, can only produce 20,000 horses per year, excluding the cost of labor and raw materials, it is a net profit of nearly 150,000 taels per year!

It can be seen that the wool textile alone is enough for Li Xiao to support a considerable number of troops in this golden soup city.

Li Xiao is still thinking that if the trade routes are expanded in the future and can be exported to Nanyang, Japan, North Korea and other places, it is estimated that the price will double and rise, and the profits will make people's jaws drop.

Such a golden business opportunity, if you don't grasp it well, is simply a tyrannical thing!

After Li Xiao talked about the prospect of wool production to everyone, everyone was happy.

Monk An clasped his fists and sleeves and shouted, "Fuck! Lord Li's plan really opened my eyes! But I didn't expect that this little wool would have such a profit in it, damn, if you don't want to get it up, you will be the first fool in the world! ”

Seeing that everyone agreed, Li Xiao was very happy.

Li Xiao knows that in modern China, the main domestic wool producing areas are in Inner Mongolia, and the northeast has the best wool softness due to the good climate, which is suitable for the textile industry.

In his previous life, he also became famous because of the place and achieved a famous wool brand called Ordos.

To the west of Jinjiazhuang Fort is Xitumut, which borders the Ordos Department, which is famous in later generations, and is also a famous wool producing area.

Perhaps, in the near future, I, Li Xiao, will also create an equally famous wool brand。。。。。。

"When Jintangcheng is built, it will immediately start to open up relations with Mongolian Tatars, establish business routes, ensure that the supply of wool raw materials is sufficient and in place, and make Jintangcheng the first wool textile production base in Daming." Li Xiao finally ordered.

(Thank you for coming to give me a smile and a reward, thank you for the liulaohan monthly pass, thank you for your support). (To be continued.) )