Chapter 231: The Scale of New Luoyang

Li Shaoxian spared no effort to develop to the east of the Dillera Mountains, so that the area of New Luoyang continued to expand, and gradually occupied the vast grassland area east of the Dillera Mountains, which is one of the best pastures in the world in later generations, with the world's granary and meat base title, but now it is still in the most primitive state, Li Shaoxian began to transform and develop here, so that the people here began to quickly contact the outside world.

The efficiency of primitive tribal production must be very low, and the new tools and agricultural tools brought by New Luoyang are very popular here, but there is no fixed currency here, mainly in the trade situation of barter, but this has not hindered people's enthusiasm for using new tools and agricultural tools, nor has it dampened the enthusiasm of merchants for trading. A large number of cattle, sheep and livestock were not used up, and people had to give up, but these merchants from afar were willing to use their pots and pans, iron ploughs, shovels, and exquisite clothes in exchange, which made them very happy, and at first, they did not even know the value of each other, a beautiful iron pot could be exchanged for a fat and strong ox, and a retractable machete could be exchanged for a group of strong mounts, which made those merchants flock to the vulture.

With the high development of commodity exchange, the currency of the Ming Dynasty was gradually popularized here, such as copper coins and silver dollars, and they thought that both merchants and natives found that barter transactions were sometimes very inconvenient, so they chose copper coins and silver dollars as a guarantee for goods. In order to ensure that these copper coins and silver dollars will not be opportunistic by some treacherous merchants, Li Shaoxian used a hydraulic press to mint exquisite currency with the local copper coins and silver dollars of the Ming Dynasty as a template, but another situation appeared, many of these exquisite currencies were collected by those aborigines as decorations. When Li Shaoxian found out about this situation, he couldn't laugh or cry, so the currency foundry launched another business, that is, to cast some exquisite jewelry for sale, and actually obtained a lot of profits, which was another unexpected joy.

With the continuous development of the territory, Li Shaoxian continued to train a large number of grassroots managers, the first of these grassroots managers to accept is the Ming script, must know more than 500 Chinese characters, can be proficient in the use of these Chinese characters in order to become a small town level of local officials, if you want to get a larger local official, you must know more than 1,000 Chinese characters, which again let the learning of Chinese characters * rise here. People gradually realized that only by mastering these Chinese characters can they better integrate into the developed areas of New Luoyang and live more comfortably, so as to achieve the rapid popularization of Chinese characters here, and the Chinese character schools in New Luoyang are constantly established in the vast area.

For the land area that began to expand, Li Shaoxian established more than a dozen provinces, and each province set up governors, which were naturally appointed by local officials of the Ming Dynasty, and the rest were selected from the earliest New Luoyang area. In order to ensure effective control over these areas, Li Shaoxian formulated a series of strict systems in terms of money and weapons, and warned those officials from the Ming Dynasty that they must strictly abide by these rules and regulations, otherwise they would face severe punishments, and told them that if they could not work together to effectively govern the area, they might have no place to die in the future. The local officials of the Ming Dynasty, who only occupy one-tenth of the population here, naturally knew such dangers, and they would certainly do their best to conscientiously implement Li Shaoxian's policy.

Now Li Shaoxian has occupied half of the area of Argentina in later generations, including most of Bolivia, with an area of nearly two million square kilometers, equivalent to one-fifteenth of the local area of the Ming Dynasty, this is because under the vigorous development of Zhu Youxiao, it occupies the vast Siberian region and the Western Regions Province. This fully reflects Li Shaoxian's own ability, and also reflects the fact that the teaching level of the Daming Officials College is very high, and it is necessary to establish this college. You must know that in the current world, no country has ever established such a university to train talents who specialize in managing the country and society, which was set up by Zhu Youxiao according to the experience of later generations, and walked more than 300 years ahead of schedule and walked to the road of professional management.

Looking at the achievements of the territory managed by Li Shaoxian, Yu Hualong was sincerely happy, Niu Jinxing rewarded Li Shaoxian, and later returned to the Ming Dynasty, on Li Shaoxian's experience, Zhu Youxiao made a special report, making Li Shaoxian the youngest governor of the overseas territory in the Ming Dynasty, and the largest territory outside the royal lineage.

Looking at the copper ore piled up like a mountain, or the refined copper ore after processing, and the same amount of saltpeter, Yu Hualong and Niu Jinxing couldn't close their mouths with laughter, this is the foundation of a strong country! What the Ming Dynasty lacks is these copper ore and saltpeter, with these things, the Ming army can all be replaced with copper-shelled bullet rifles, and the firing guns can all be sold to Europe or sold to those blacks in Africa, let them deal with those greedy Europeans, and the same can also be exchanged for countless gold for the Ming Dynasty, contributing to the rich life of the Ming Dynasty. Besides, these saltpeters, not only can *, according to His Majesty the Emperor, can also make fertilizer, poor farmers in the Loess Plateau, are looking at their barren land worried, if there is that fertilizer, presumably you can get a better harvest, but unfortunately Niu Jinxing does not know, Zhu Youxiao is preparing where to plant soybeans to cultivate soil strength, and there is to completely return farmland to forest, return farmland to grassland, and change the climate of Chinese mainland.

The local goods brought by the Ming Dynasty have long been unloaded, except for iron knives. In addition to farm tools and daily necessities, the most important thing is lighters, which are very popular commodities in Zhao Ducheng, Fu Guancheng and Lima, and it is not surprising that they are also the best-selling commodities here, and the price is still very high. This is a miracle, in fact, it is inevitable, even if the Ming Dynasty, since there is a lighter, this small thing has become a family must-have, no longer have to worry about the painstaking preservation of the fire and ignition, these primitive residents of this very simple pick-up utensils, it is more cherished.

Niu Jinxing looked at the mountains of ore, he couldn't go to New Chang'an anymore, and the time he stayed here was relatively short, but these ores had to be transported back to Daming soil, and Niu Jinxing planned to set off and return as soon as possible. By the way, I asked Li Shaoxian what else he needed, and planned to bring it back next time, Li Shaoxian said that it was best to transport some pot camel machines, the land east of the Dillera Mountains is fertile, very suitable for farming, and the road through the mountains here is more difficult to walk, it is best to bring some digging tools, open a few roads from the mountains, and facilitate the travel on both sides of the mountain, Niu Jinxing agreed to Li Shaoxian's request one by one, and then transported the ore here back to the Ming Dynasty, which takes a certain amount of time.