Han Qian accompanied Zhao Ting'er back to his parents' house the next day, and in the afternoon, he took a cadre to go upriver by boat and rushed to Linjiang County when it was dark.

Han Qian stepped down as the state commander, and naturally no longer led the Linjiang County Order, and he finally recommended Xi Xunqiao to replace him as the Linjiang County Commander.

On the one hand, the washing of the wood is much more enlightened than the other chieftains of the four surnames, and it has also made great contributions in the process of saying that it has been reduced to wash the Ying and appease the brave, and on the other hand, it is also beneficial to alleviate the local contradictions and antagonisms, so that the Tuke nationality and other things can be further advanced.

The most important point of the Tu and Hakka nationality is to change customs, regardless of the guest nationality and Tuhu, they are required to follow the etiquette formulated by the Da Chu Law Firm.

Therefore, Xiang Jianlong and Yang Zaili did not participate in the banquet of Han Qian's marriage to Zhao Ting'er, but when Han Qian settled in Linjiang County at night and washed the woods to set up a banquet to wash the dust, they rushed over to meet each other with another generous gift.

Who should be the first to cut the feudal domain, maybe there is still a debate in the court, but for Xiang Jianlong and Yang Zaili, the last trace of restlessness in their hearts has already disappeared and disappeared, and now they are even more worried about what Han Qian promised to the three of them will change.

If this is the case, they really don't dare to complain, who would have thought that such a powerful Ma family would disappear so easily?

Compared to the Ma family, what are they worth?

And the so-called invincible supernatural power of the soldiers has been shattered as early as the battles of Lao Yao Pass and Yuanling City.

Now it seems that even if he can't be the emperor of the soil who rules one side of the landscape, it is a good choice to become a rich eunuch.

More than 700 steps deep Linjiang county has been built, although not to say how magnificent, and the big city in the Jianghuai region can not be compared, but is located on the north bank of the Yuan River, the east bank of the Sha River, for this old desolate place, with a section of the prosperity of the world.

Who would have imagined that two years ago, this was a barren beach inhabited by waterfowl?

The nearly 40-mile-long embankment on the north bank of the Yuan River had also been completed at this time, and it was deliberately withdrawn from the remote embankment built three to four miles away, leaving such an open river beach outside the embankment, also in the hope that it could accommodate more upstream water and reduce the impact on the river embankment in the spring and summer when the water was rising.

In order to prevent the wind from shaking the trees and shaking the embankment, tall trees are forbidden to be planted on the embankment, and only low shrubs are planted.

Together with the Wuliuxi Water Conservancy Project, it can almost ensure that the Wankou area, which is 30 or 40 miles deep at the southern foot of Longya Mountain, will no longer be harmed by flooding.

In addition to the 12,300 slaves and maidservants of the Feng clan and the displaced people, there are also more than 2,000 households and 13,400 people from the four surnamed Zhai slaves, village soldiers and their families who have moved into this area in the past two years.

After the restructuring of the Tuke family and the division of family and property, Linjiang County finally had more than 6,000 households and more than 27,000 people, which barely met the standards of Zhongxian County; In comparison, the newly established Chinese counties are still much worse.

At present, the main problems in Linjiang County are not enough arable land per capita, not enough irrigation canals have been built, and the proportion of irrigated fields has not reached the standard expected by Han Qian.

In addition to exploring ore veins and mining iron and coal, the mountains also widely promote the cultivation of tea medicine mulberry hemp.

In addition to agreeing that they would lead the trade with the prefectures and counties in the upper reaches of the Yuan River, Han Qian also agreed that they would take out money and grain and participate in the construction of wharves and warehouses with other large households, and participate in the development of weaving and dyeing, tanning, garment making, winemaking, oil extraction, papermaking, shipbuilding, ship repair, lacquer making, tea making, pharmaceutical, bag making, flour processing and other industries.

In addition to the trade and trade of agricultural products and special products in various places, Han Qian also hopes that Linjiang County will eventually come up with large-scale primary industrial products to participate in the trade and trade transactions in the upper and lower reaches of the Yuanjiang River.

Only in this way can Linjiang County accommodate more foreign population, and can it create and retain more wealth on limited land.

Compared with Qianyang for hundreds of years as a state governance, has a relatively good handicraft industry base, after a few years of catalysis, the hundred workers have become more large-scale, the reason why Linjiang County can develop hundreds of workers, mainly is that the Feng family moved westward in the four or five thousand slaves, there are a large number of farms, warehouses and other kinds of shop managers and a large number of handicraft craftsmen.

After the huge wealth accumulated by the Feng family in the past hundred years was confiscated, these people are really another form of wealth accumulated by the Feng family in the past hundred years.

It's a pity that except for Feng Yi who has realized this, the rest of the Feng family, including Feng Yi, is still a little confused.

These people can't endure too much hardship, they can't be considered a qualified source of recruitment, and it is difficult for them to adapt to the hard and boring agricultural production, but Han Qian will not force them to be attached to the fields, nor will he forcibly require them to be incorporated into the artisan camps of Dragon's Tooth City or Wufeng Mountain.

After all, in addition to mining coal and iron, large-scale refining of refined iron and large-scale iron castings, Dragon's Tooth City is mainly based on fine armor casting; On the other side of Wufeng Mountain, shipyards, weaving yards and plantations are the main ones.

At the end of last year, seeing that there was no shortage of grain production in Xuzhou, Han Qian set up a money shop to lend them money and grain, and encouraged and supported the slaves and maids of the Feng family to set up various handicraft workshops and even open warehouses and shops in Linjiang City and several villages located in the key traffic points, so that they could have the opportunity to resume their old business for themselves.

The Wuling army was downsized, only 3,000 soldiers and horses were retained in the state battalion, less than 1,500 workers were retained in the workshops in Longya City and Wufeng Mountain, and some of the generals who were downsized and dismissed returned to their hometowns to farmland, and a considerable number of people stayed in Qianyang, Linjiang and other places to work.

Han Qian saw Xixunqiao, Xiang Jianlong, and Yang Zaili, and hoped that the fleets of each family could continue to import more foreign populations to Qianyang, Linjiang, Zhongfang and other cities, and also hoped that Xiang and Yang Zhujia would participate in the operation of the Longya Money Shop and expand the principal of the money shop.

Although the interest rate of the money loaned by the dragon tooth money shop is very low, and it is even difficult to make any profit, in addition to Han Qian's personal request, Yang Zaili and Xiang Jianlong also saw that the industries supported by the dragon tooth money shop in the three counties of Qianyang, Zhongfang, and Linjiang provided more and more abundant products, more and more high-quality and cheap, which will also directly promote their trade with the upper and lower reaches of the Yuanjiang River The scale of trade is getting bigger and bigger, so they are happy to participate.

This time, Han Qian also wanted to raise money to formally set up junior schools in Linjiang, Zhongfang, and Qianyang to teach literacy and arithmetic, and in addition to teaching children in the three counties to learn from Mengxue, other male and female workers working in the workshops, and even the generals of the state camp, could be enrolled in school and get rid of illiteracy.

Considering that there may be more than 1,000 people enrolled in the three places, in addition to the 6,000 yuan required to set up a school, and the subsequent hiring of teachers and night schools, the annual expenses of 3,000 or 4,000 yuan will be required.

In addition, Han Qian is looking for a washing and looking for Qiao this time, and also hopes that Linjiang County can continue to expand the planting area of cotton after the spring next year.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, cotton was planted in the Western Regions and Lingnan regions, but the processes of cotton ginning and spinning have not been developed, and the processing of cotton is extremely labor-intensive and material-intensive, making the woven cotton cloth extremely expensive.

In the world, cotton cloth is even more precious and rare than silk, and there are very few people who wear it, which also makes the cotton planting area in the Central Plains extremely limited in the past thousand years, and the world's clothes are mainly silk and linen.

After winter, in addition to fur fur coats, the jackets worn by rich and noble families are also filled with silk wool.

In the early days, for weaving tarpaulins and canvases for shipbuilding, Han Qian ordered the weaving institute to collect existing fiber materials for comparison.

In addition to its high price and scarce planting area, medium- and long-staple cotton is far superior to hemp fiber in any aspect.

However, at that time, the treatment of cottonseeds in Xuzhou was still in the backward stage of peeling seeds and taking cotton, and a person peeling cottonseeds for a day could not get a pound of cotton, not to mention the follow-up loosening, spinning, weaving and dyeing and a series of processes were extremely backward.

It is no wonder that cotton cultivation has not been promoted, and it is no wonder that cotton cloth is more expensive and rare than silk.

When Han Qian first entered Xuzhou with his father, the cotton planting area near Qianyang City was only about 1,000 acres.

It is also after the establishment of the weaving institute, after more than two years of continuous testing and improvement, manual cotton stripping is changed to roller ginning cotton deseeding, the loosening process will be small bamboo bow hand plucking shock to large sandalwood bow, wooden bandage shock cotton, spinning will also be the traditional processing of hemp money single bloom hand spinning wheel to five bloom pedal spinning wheel, step by step the cotton spinning cost has been greatly reduced to the point similar to twine.

However, compared to the texture and comfort of cotton and linen, it can be said that there is a great difference between the soil.

In the past, cotton cloth was not slightly stronger than yarn silk for rich and noble people, but the price was twice that of yarn silk, not to mention ordinary people, and the powerful did not accept it.

However, the Qianyang cloth produced by the Xuzhou Boat Gang is delicate, and the price has dropped by nearly sixty percent step by step in the past two years, and it is naturally in short supply to sell to various places.

On the one hand, the supply of cotton cloth exceeds demand, on the other hand, the efficiency of cotton ginning has been greatly improved, and the more than 1,000 acres of cotton planted in Qianyang at the beginning of the year only need 10 or 20 female workers a year, and 70,000 or 80,000 catties of cotton seeds can be turned into 30,000 or 40,000 catties of cotton thread and 3,400,000 cotton cloths.

The local raw materials were insufficient, and Han Qian mainly harvested cottonseed directly from other places at a high price in the early days and processed it centrally. The problem lies in the prefectures and counties on both sides of the Yuan River, and the total cotton planting area can only be 20,000 or 30,000 mu.

Although after Han Qian completely controlled the situation in Xuzhou, the current cotton fields of Wufeng Mountain Plantation alone have tens of thousands of acres, and Linjiang County and Zhongfang County last year expanded the total cotton planting area of Xuzhou by hundreds of times compared with three years ago, but it may not be able to meet the needs of the weaving institute, not to mention that the Chinese side and Linjiang County will build a special weaving institute?

The follow-up weaving, spinning, dyeing and printing technology will inevitably spread to the people step by step, and the demand for cottonseed and cotton raw materials will become higher.

In an agrarian society, only three commodities are most suitable for the development of a large-scale system of primary industry, and cloth is the cloth other than salt and iron.

At present, Wufeng Mountain Weaving Institute is expected to produce 50,000 pieces of cotton cloth this year, the value of the goods is 90,000 yuan, deducting cottonseed procurement and labor costs, etc., the net profit will be as high as 40,000 yuan, which is still the price of cotton cloth plummeted on the basis of 60%.

In comparison, the Longya City Iron Smelting Yard has produced one million catties of crude iron and 100,000 catties of refined iron in the past year, and the value of the goods is less than 40,000 yuan.

More importantly, with the further decline in the price of cotton cloth, the market that has not yet entered by other competitors is much broader than imagined.

It is estimated that Xuzhou will be able to produce 50,000 pieces of cotton cloth this year, and with the large increase in the amount of cottonseed harvest after this autumn, it is estimated that the output of cotton cloth will increase to 150,000 or 60,000 horses next year, and even if it produces 450,000 pieces of cotton cloth annually, it may not be able to cover the market in the eight states of Hunan.

Han Qian now mainly continues to expand the cotton planting area in Xuzhou, successively changing the mulberry and hemp fields in various counties to cotton planting, and constantly guiding nearby prefectures and counties to expand the cotton planting area.

In addition to talking about the development of Linjiang County with Xixunqiao, led by Zhao Qi, Zhou Chu, and Kong Xirong, 300 family soldiers have also been assembled in Linjiang County these days to complete the initial training.

However, more than 200 people were selected from Huaxi Village, and only more than 140 were retained in the end, after all, not all of them can be strong enough to withstand the arduous training to become elite.

Almost more than 70 people have been eliminated and will be ruthlessly sent back to Huaxi Village.

For these people, the current is the only way for them to lose the ascent that can get rid of their fate, and they may be branded as slaves for the rest of their lives, lost, depressed and even crying bitterly, which also makes those who can stay secretly motivate themselves to endure the next hard training.

However, the next day, when Han Qian was about to rush to Dragon's Tooth City with three hundred new compilations, a letter sent from Tanzhou via Shaozhou Kuaima disrupted his plan:

The Marquis of Changxiang wrote a letter to the lord of Shu, Wang Jian, requesting that the county lord of Qingyang be married to the third prince Yang Yuanpu, in order to maintain the good relationship between the two Qin and Jin dynasties.