Tai Chi Palace, inside the Thousand Autumn Palace.

His Majesty Li Er was leaning over in front of a large sand table on the wooden shelf to watch, looking very carefully, with a smiling expression on his face.

Ma Dami, who was next to him, also looked at the map, and was deeply surprised by the speed of construction in Ganzhou.

"King Bin looks at this Ganzhou city, isn't it a little weird?" His Majesty Li Er stretched out his hand and nodded at the polygon city, and said, "According to Qi Lin, this is the idea of the Changshi Wang Fangyi. Whether it's true or not, it's really practical. ”

Seeing His Majesty's question, Ma Da Secretary said: "Wei Chen thinks it's very strange, but he can't think of why he wants to cultivate like this? I only heard that it is for the sake of good looks, and it is called 'Qushui Surround the City'. ”

His Majesty Li Er smiled and said, "This is to strengthen the city's defenses. 'Winding water around the city' is just to hide people's eyes. ”

As he spoke, he explained with a small stick: "If there is a war and the enemy attacks the city, no matter which side it attacks, it must be flanked on both sides of the concave wall. ”

Ma Dami suddenly nodded again and again, and said, "I see, it's really a wonderful idea." ”

His Majesty Li Er nodded and said, "Although there are still deficiencies to be improved, it will not lose the imitation of building a city in the future." ”

Ma Da's secretary agreed, and said: "This Wang Fangyi, after Qi Lin returns to Beijing, it seems that he can stay in Hexi, or go to the Western Regions as an official." ”

"I think it's possible." His Majesty Li Er looked at the sand table again, pointed to the mark above, and said: "There is still a lot of land to be cultivated in Ganzhou, and after the autumn harvest this year, there is no problem with grain self-sufficiency. Next year, Qi Lin will expand cotton planting, and he will also need immigrants and laborers. ”

Ma Da Mi praised: "Xu Chengguo is a master of management. In a barren land, tens of thousands of immigrants can be self-sufficient in a year; Next year, I am afraid that we will reach prosperity and become the land of Shangzhou. ”

His Majesty Li Er stroked his beard and smiled, and said, "I didn't expect that in less than a year, there would be such changes in Ganzhou. Soon he was about to send troops to conquer Gaochang, and Qi Lin wanted to accompany the army, and I had already promised him. ”

"Xu Cheng is going to Gaochang, probably to better trade with the Western Regions." Ma Daji said: "Under the influence of Gaochang, the current business will definitely not satisfy him. ”

His Majesty Li Er pondered for a moment and said, "Just like Ganzhou's special production capacity sells at a good price, Gaochang estimates that there are also good things that he likes. ”

After speaking, His Majesty Li Er couldn't help laughing and said, "If you talk about making money from business, this kid has too many tricks, which are always unexpected. When he first went to Ganzhou, this kid did his homework, but he didn't say anything. If I want to go to Gaochang this time, I will definitely not return empty-handed. ”

Secretary Ma was also impressed by Xu Qilin, in other words, he ran Ganzhou, but he never had the ability to make such a big change in such a short period of time.

"Although the initial cost is more, the effect is very great." His Majesty Li Er sighed, "Originally, the plan was to have the money to rebuild the Daming Palace next year, but I didn't expect Ganzhou to have income so quickly, and the Daming Palace will be built this year." ”

Ma Da Mi is not like Wei Da Troll, since he has already repaired it, don't sing against it and add to the blockage.

Moreover, His Majesty Li Er also explained to the outside world that the Taiji Palace was cold and damp, which was not good for his wind disease. Emperor, it's not too much to build a comfortable palace and ensure good health!

Fortunately, the money from the treasury was not used, which was prepared for the conquest of Gaochang. Therefore, His Majesty Li Er still has the confidence, and Wei Da Troll symbolically admonished him, and it was gone.

Actually, this is also something that His Majesty Li Er did not expect.

How long has Dayingku been established, and there is still the investment in the early stage, and it has spread out such a big stall. Basically, in the early winter of last year, it was barely recouped with investment.

But as soon as the mirror came out, huge profits rolled in. By the end of the summer, other projects had shown good returns. What wool, sugar, steel, coal, transportation, logistics...... All of a sudden, it reached the investment in Ganzhou.

As a result, the profits from the mirror could be transferred to the reconstruction of Daming Palace in advance, which surprised His Majesty Li Er.

Moreover, the profitable projects of the big profit bank have not yet fully realized their potential, and the prospects are still considerable.

If you count the cotton spinning that will be put into production soon, as well as the promotion of trade by conquering Gaochang and controlling the Western Regions, His Majesty Li Er estimates that it will not take two or three years for the construction of Luoyang Palace to begin.

If you don't spend the money of the treasury, you can say that it will not hurt your money; Recruiting workers for construction is not a matter of hard labor for the people, and the opposition of those ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee is groundless.

In fact, His Majesty Li Er allowed the migration from Narrow Township to Kuanxiang, and acquiesced in Xu Qilin's use of policies to attract the people of Guanzhong to Ganzhou, and did not gradually change the state that Guanzhong is the fundamental state of the world.

To move the capital to Luoyang, His Majesty Li Er will inevitably weaken the population advantage of Guanzhong and also attack the power of the Guanlong clique. Otherwise, if the capital is moved here, there may be a repeat of the mistakes of Emperor Yang of Sui.

How did the Li family's father and son get the world, don't you know? Guanlong Group can support the Li family, for the sake of interests, it is difficult to guarantee what Wang family and Zhao family will support in the future.

Of course, the suppression and weakening of the Guanlong Group has already begun. Supporting the royal family, treating the upstarts well, and promoting the poor, these means are tepid, but they have made the Guanlong Group constantly weak.

But this is not enough, for His Majesty Li Er, he is completely able to suppress the Guanlong nobles, but what about the descendants, whether they have the ability and courage or not, it is difficult to say.

Therefore, moving the capital to Luoyang and taking away the Guanlong nobles can be said to have cut off their roots, so that the descendants of the Li family will have no future troubles, which is naturally his long-term plan.

The emergence of Xu Qilin has undoubtedly greatly accelerated this process.

His Majesty Li Er found that money was really a good thing. Not only can he build the palace, but he can also realize his more ambitious vision.

In fact, this idea was once proposed by Xu Qilin. However, His Majesty Li Er knew that the time was not ripe, so he categorically vetoed it, and kept the proposal a secret without letting the outside world know.

Xu Qilin's proposal was to help the long-term implementation of the uniform field system, that is, to take back the Yongye Tian and the post field granted to the princes, nobles, and officials at all levels.

Then, according to the average income of the land, it was converted into money and silk, and distributed to the princes, nobles and officials according to their rank.

It seems that the result is the same, anyway, the princes, nobles, and officials don't farm, they are all tenants planting for them, but the court gives them an extra income.

But in essence, this trick is very vicious, which is equivalent to directly depriving the landlords of their control over the tenants. The object of the tenant's service became the imperial court, not some land-owning prince, nobleman or official.

The impact surface is a bit big, but it may have little effect on the royal family and the upstarts. Only for the Guanlong nobles who have been entrenched in Guanzhong for hundreds of years, it can be described as a blow like a salary draw from the bottom of the kettle.

Having lost their land and dependent people, even if they have money, what storms can they turn over?

Of course, His Majesty Li Er agreed with Xu Qilin's proposal, but this was a plan that needed to be carefully planned and implemented gradually, not just a matter of money.

At least Xu Qilin is politically correct, and His Majesty Li Er can have the capital to implement this plan - money.

Therefore, His Majesty Li Er's favor for Xu Qilin is not just as simple and one-sided as being able to make money. The two had the same idea, although the starting point and purpose were somewhat different.

Although Secretary Ma is a close confidant of His Majesty Li Er, he doesn't know the secret. It's just that seeing that His Majesty Li Er is happy and is going to live in a new house, he naturally won't say anything to ruin the fun.

"Suzhou and Liangzhou are adjacent to Ganzhou, and the environment is similar, so I intend to let Qi Lin also manage it, but this official position is not easy to deal with." His Majesty Li Er remembered something again, and frowned slightly.

It doesn't matter how you do business in Ganzhou, that's Xu Qilin's territory. But if you want to cross the line, do you use the thorn history of those two states as an ornament?

Although it is not as good as Ganzhou, it can also feed the people there, and it is also qualified in terms of political achievements. Let Xu Qilin point fingers, everyone has to be disgusted.

Regarding this idea of His Majesty Li Er, Ma Daji pondered for a moment and said: "Weichen thinks that he can consult Xu Cheng first, and if there is a good development suggestion, the imperial court will issue an order to the two states and ask them to follow it. ”

His Majesty Li Er bowed his head slightly and said, "That's very good." ”

The plan has been decided, the monarch and the minister said something else, and when Secretary Ma retired, His Majesty Li Er ordered the palace people to take some yellow ginseng sent by Ganzhou to give Secretary Ma a reward.

After Ma Dami's thanksgiving, he withdrew with ginseng, but His Majesty Li Er didn't know that Xu Qilin also sent Ma Dami's native products, mainly some Chinese medicinal materials that are good for the body.

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His Majesty Li Er's guess is very correct, Xu Qilin wants to go to Gaochang with the army, and he is not only eyeing cotton, but also good treasures that others don't know.

At this time, Chang'an's Ganzhou commodity exhibition and snack street were in full swing, attracting the people of Beijing who like novelties.

In Ganzhou, Xu Qilin was lying leisurely in a rocking chair, enjoying the comfort of a landlord's old wealth.

Scarlett's skillful hands peeled off the skins of the grapes and threw them into Aaron's mouth with a smile.

Xu Qilin ate comfortably, half-closed eyes and didn't know what good things to think about, with a silly smile on his face.

Adjani, a foodie, has regained her true nature, holding half a watermelon, digging and eating it with a spoon.

"The slave family went out to play a few days ago, and I saw the patches of cotton fields, spitting white wadding, which was still full of good looks." Scarlett said casually, "I went to the ground to pick it out of curiosity, but I didn't expect there to be thorns on it!" ”

Oh, Xu Qilin's eyes widened a little, he reached out and grabbed Scarlett's little hand, and came to his eyes to take a closer look, there were really two small eyes on them, but they had been sealed, and there was nothing wrong.

"It's fine." Scarlett didn't pull her hand back, and said with a smile: "I'll have to pay more attention when I pick it." ”

Xu Qilin nodded, kissed the girl's hand, and said, "The gloves are ready, and after picking cotton, you can wear them in winter." ”

Scarlett is used to this kind of intimate behavior, and even most of the time she takes the initiative. Ten years old, the little girl is a little precocious. At that time, it was common to get married at the age of eleven or twelve.

But what puzzled the little girl was that Xu Qilin had repeatedly told her that she could not marry at least sixteen years old.

And this proposal is also Xu Qilin will play to His Majesty Li Er, hoping to be approved. He didn't dare to say eighteen yet, for fear of being scolded to death.

For wealthy families, of course, there is no problem in raising a daughter for a few more years. For ordinary people, I am afraid it is a big burden. Therefore, the resistance mainly comes from the people, not from the top.

Xu Qilin also knows that even if the policy is introduced, whether it can be fully complied with is not so optimistic. Unless, the common people are rich, or they feel that raising a daughter does not lose money, and the burden is not big.

In this way, the promotion and planting of cotton has a disguised promotion effect. Girls can weave to supplement the household and may improve their status in the family.

Well, after the autumn harvest of cotton, it is time to dedicate some of the seeds and planting knowledge to the imperial court, and they will be planted in Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other places.

Xu Qilin still knows about several cotton planting bases in China. Southern Xinjiang, to which Gaochang belongs, is also a good place to grow cotton.

Cotton will be a big entry for Ganzhou this year. When the market quantity is less than silk silk, the price will not be low.

The cost of growing cotton is much lower than that of growing mulberry and silkworms. It is not an exaggeration to call it a windfall profit.

In winter, the rich and high-ranking officials of Chang'an will enjoy the comfort and warmth brought by the quilt, and they are reluctant to get up from the quilt every morning.

Hehe, Xu Qilin laughed proudly, and threw a grape into his mouth accurately.

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Squeak, squeak...... The windmill made its own rhythmic sound, and its huge blades slowly turned, like giants waving their arms.

In the midst of people's cheers, Wang Fangyi also showed a happy smile. Another windmill was built, and the people could use it for free.

In the Hexi region, wind resources are abundant, and later generations are known as the "wind power corridor". Although he can't generate electricity now, Xu Qilin has not wasted this gift of nature.

There are windmills and mills in every village, and there are roads in every village, which is the work plan and goal he set in the first year of his tenure.

Wang Fangyi not only has talents in military command and local governance, but also is extremely interested in machinery.

Historically, he invented a new type of farming tool. This kind of agricultural tool "applies the key, so that people push it", "save the force and see more results", which is called "coupling tillage method".

Judging from the description, it should be a labor-saving agricultural tool pushed and pulled by manpower, with the help of levers or axles, which shows its ingenuity.

After building the city in the fastest time, Wang Fangyi took people to build windmills in various villages and towns in Ganzhou. For work, he is down-to-earth and hardworking, much better than Xu Qilin.

But Wang Fangyi did not complain, and thought that this was a rare opportunity to learn and practice. Many of Xu Qilin's business ideas have been taught to him without reservation.

Adapting measures to local conditions, giving full play to the advantages of regional characteristics, promoting trade with business, and supplementing agriculture with trade have opened a bright window for Wang Fangyi.

It turns out that governing the local area is not just as simple as persuading farmers to mulberry. Eating and eating a full meal can only be regarded as barely passing. Let the people become rich and the market prosperous, that is called good management.

And by Xu Qilin's standards, this is only the plan for the first year. In the second year, he asked the village to build a school, and every year the school hired a teacher, so that every Datang child could study for at least six years.

For Wang Fangyi, this idea is even grander, which makes him admire Xu Qilin's courage and love for the people even more.

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