"When we returned to Xuzhou, we went to see the boss as soon as possible, and the boss estimated that the new guests in Xuzhou at this time were almost nearly 20,000 people......

Yang Qin introduced the latest situation in Xuzhou.

Since July and August last year, rumors of the discovery of gold mines in Syria, the lifting of the ban on land to attract tourists to move in, and the deliberate guidance of the boat gang in various places, in nearly a year, nearly 20,000 new guests have poured into Xuzhou, almost reaching the total number of people who have fled to Syria due to wars and natural disasters in the past 40 or 50 years.

Of course, this also includes a group of people who were deliberately arranged in Tanzhou.

With such a big move, Han Qian didn't expect to hide it from anyone, especially the fact that he instigated his father to let go of the land ban, and it might even become a handle for the four clans to complain to the imperial court, but Han Qian was not worried about anything.

At present, Xuzhou does not have much weight on the territory of Dachu, not to mention being isolated from Tanzhou.

Even with the addition of this new influx of population, the total population of Xuzhou is just over 100,000, which may not be comparable to a county in Runzhou and Yangzhou.

What's more, the contradiction between the Turks and Hakkas in Xuzhou is serious, and Han Qian introduced a new population, and the Hakka people are still slightly inferior to the Turks in terms of numbers.

Even if Emperor Tianyou no longer wants his father and son to hold power, he will not be unable to tolerate the slightest ambition of his father and son.

Just like the current situation, Han Qian couldn't show too much resentment, but he didn't have any resentment at all, in the eyes of Emperor Tianyou, it was probably abnormal, right?

Thinking of this, Han Qian also sighed bitterly in his heart, it is difficult to be a man, and it is even more difficult to be a courtier.

Han Qian didn't think much about weighing Jinling's reaction to this matter at this time, but more considering that Xuzhou would attract so many people through rumors at once, and many contradictions would soon intensify one after another.

Without large-scale industrial and mining and handicraft workshops, more than 100,000 acres of land would be needed to resettle the 20,000 new population.

On the shores of Yuanshui to the north of Qianyang City, it is even possible to reclaim several times as many new fields, but the problem is that if the new people do these things spontaneously, it may take a long time, and the conflict between people and land will intensify in a short period of time, which will be unavoidable.

"Yangtan Water Village in Wufeng Mountain to the north of the river embankment, also rushed before the river water rose, but the newly enclosed silt land, almost like thin rice, is not conducive to planting, before further digging the canal, building a polder, raising the terrain of the polder...... Yang Qin also introduced the Yangtan Water Village in the past half a year directly handled the situation of reclamation of new fields in Xuzhou.

The silt land on both sides of the Yuanshui River is lower than that of the Yuanshui, even if the river embankment is used to block the river water outside, it is easy to cause waterlogging, which is not conducive to planting, the traditional method is to build polders, and there needs to be a continuous improvement process in the follow-up to finally become fertile land.

Yang Qin said: "There are almost more than 20,000 acres of polders in the new embankment, but the boss means that there are not many official fields in Xuzhou to reward military merits, and the state government wants to take away 10,000 acres of new fields for official ......use."

Han Qian nodded, he had already guessed that his father would have such an arrangement, and said: "These are no problem, I will write to my father to tell me about this, but I will try my best to gather together the Xi clan and the military merits that Yangtan Water Village deserves." I don't plan to divide these new fields into each household, but directly integrate them into the unified management of the plantation, or the grange, and everyone is more familiar with the grange. On the one hand, the dependents have spare energy, they can work in the plantation, calculate a salary, and the boat gang Wuwei does not have to worry about them going out and not being able to take care of the farm, and the military merits of each family will receive a part of the dividends according to the proportion at the end of the year, which is ......"

Although the vast majority of slave soldiers and boat gang guards can obtain hundreds of acres of polders, if the fields are directly divided, there will not be enough ploughing cattle, and the scattered farmers will not be able to further improve the soil quality of the polders and build water conservancy facilities that directly lead to the Yuanshui.

And more importantly, the vast majority of the Xi slave soldiers and the boat gang guards will be tied up in the fields, and the practical difficulties will no longer allow them to get away and continue to follow the boat gang to walk the rivers and lakes.

Han Qian rewarded the four clans through military exploits, but he didn't want the armed guards of the boat gang that had been gathered with great difficulty, and was satisfied with the existing military merits to be rewarded, and went home to become a yeoman farmer.

Han Qian considered setting up a plantation in Xuzhou and concentrating all the fields under the name of the plantation, so that he could hire people from the new guest population in Xuzhou to carry out more refined cultivation of the new fields, which could alleviate the contradictions in many aspects at the same time.

In addition to the military cantonment, only plantations have the ability to reclaim new fields on a large scale.

More importantly, only in this way can Han Qian keep the armed escort forces of the Boat Gang that have been gathered together not dispersed; In the name of the plantation, it is more convenient to come forward to redeem the Xi clan, and it is more convenient to change the name.

Sitting on the bow of the ship, chatting about things, the fleet quickly bypassed Chizhou City, and did not anchor in the middle of the river at night, but continued to sail, and at dusk the next day, you could see a corner of the towering city wall of Jinling City from the telescope.

Han Qian didn't tell anyone about his trip back to Jinling, so naturally no one came out of the city to pick him up.

When the fleet arrived at Beicheng Shuiguan, it was already dark, and Han Qian also stayed on the ship for the night, and only entered the city with the ship early the next morning, and returned directly to the Han family's mansion in Lanting Lane.

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In Jinling in mid-June, it was already very hot, and when she got up in the morning, Zhao Ting'er wore a half-sleeved skirt, revealing her arms like snow lotus, and sent several servants in the courtyard to be busy.

The Dragon Bird Army made great achievements, and the three princes were crowned the kings of Linjiang County, but Han Qian was not summoned twice, which made the status of Han Qian and Zuo Si in the new county palace blurred, and all kinds of gossip increased.

The county king's mansion was newly established, and the guard battalion, the dragon bird army, and the five cantonment camp military offices were all included in the system of the left and right guard military offices, the family affairs offices, and the tent palaces, and everyone had to change their seals.

Zheng Hui and the military attache Xu officials selected with him from Huangzhou and Junzhou cottages dragged their families to Jinling to take up their posts, and it was also a busy time to settle down in Jinling.

Even if the third prince Yang Yuanpu had returned to Jinling nearly a month in advance, before Han Qian came back, he didn't have the energy to take care of Zuo Si's side for the time being.

All kinds of rumors and rumors, although after Shen He intervened, the previous depositors did not have the courage to run again, but for the time being, no new depositors dared to invest money in.

However, in the past half a year or so, the Linjiang money shop has actually collected the 30 million yuan loan agreed between Han Qian and the third prince, and even slightly exceeded it.

At present, Linjiang money shops and warehouses are mainly used for briquettes, lime, polished rice, tea, preserved duck, burnt knife wine and other products to maintain the supply of profit to the original depositors.

Moreover, the property taken out every month has to be deducted from 1.23 million yuan, and the pressure is also extremely great.

The loan of more than 30 million yuan was either misappropriated by Han Qian to advance military funds, or used by Han Qian to redeem the Xi clan, or the increasingly huge expenses of maintaining Zuo Si could not be used to expand the production of the workshop.

Even the profits generated by a few shipping trades have not been swallowed up by this huge bottomless pit.

However, fortunately, the briquettes, lime and even the burnt knife wine produced by the craftsman have a high selling price and huge profit margins, and at least the profits of the money shop can be maintained at the moment, and the reputation will not be completely bankrupt.

In particular, the cost of briquettes is 400 yuan per cart of briquettes, but in fact, the cost of each cart of briquettes from the Qiuhushan Coal Yard is not 200 yuan, and in the later period, the profits are mainly paid by briquettes, which is actually to reduce the high interest promised at the beginning to half the previous level.

However, even so, boiling water with briquettes for cooking is much cheaper and more convenient than charcoal, and savers not only accept to convert briquettes into profits, but also buy an additional part from the warehouse to make up for the lack of firewood, which also provides an additional part of the profit for the workshop.

These matters are in the hands of the engineers and shopkeepers below, and no matter how vague the status of Han Qian and Zuo Si is, the engineers and shopkeepers, as soldiers under the strict management of the military government, are all working diligently at this time, and there is no fear that there will be any leaks.

At this time, Zhao Ting'er only needs to be responsible for checking the accounts, and does not need to stare at the money store and the warehouse all day long, so he seems to have nothing to do.

Following Han Qian's side, Zhao Ting'er has long been accustomed to a busy rhythm, once she has nothing to do, she will be idle, and she will not enrich herself with embroidery women, so she sent the servants to plant flowers, plants, bamboos and trees, and tidy up the yard to the extreme.

These days, Zhao Ting'er thought about a kind of goat's horn lamp that Han Qian had roughly talked about, but after trying many methods, there was no way to successfully soften the goat's horn.

However, thinking of the kind of translucent sheep's horn lampshade that Han Qian said was like jade-white thin glass, Zhao Ting'er thought to herself how beautiful it would be to hang a few such lanterns in the courtyard.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ting'er followed the new recipe again, and took his servants to prepare vinegar and sour radish water, and today he was going to try to boil the sheep's horns with these two things to see if it was possible to boil the sheep's horns.

"You are a female baby, you don't learn to embroider women, you specialize in tossing these haves and don'ts, the yard is full of sour and strange smells, and you don't know how much money you have trampled in vain, the young master is back, how do you pay it?" Although Han Qian made it clear that Zhao Ting'er was in charge of the affairs of the inner house, the money shop, and the warehouse, and Gao Shao and the others also obeyed Zhao Ting'er's assignment when they came back, Zhao Laoqi always couldn't help but mutter, and always felt that Zhao Ting'er was so messy that he would cause trouble, and he didn't look like a serious daughter's family.

"Why don't you wait for Childe to come back, Dad, you run over and say that you are in charge of the affairs of the back house?" Zhao Ting'er angrily scolded her father.

"You girl, when the father says a word about you, it's also for your good, you are like this, can the young master like it?" Zhao Laoqi was so angry that his beard trembled, "You look like a very smart person, why are you confused this time, you don't stay with the young master, stay in Jinling to be in charge, in the end, you can master this matter?" Did your mother talk to you two days ago, in a few days, the young master should be back to Jinling, you have to put more thought into the young master. ”

"Dad, what are you talking about?"

Zhao Ting'er said with dissatisfaction, and was about to drive her father out of the yard, but she heard a voice behind her that made her miss for a long time and stirred her feelings:

"I think your dad is right......