On the sixth day of the sixth month of June, Yuan Jixian, the head of the Yuan family in Zunhua, took his two sons and walked to Fanjiazhuang with Zhang Yu, the commander of the reception staff company sent by Li Zhi. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This time, Li Zhi built a steelmaking converter in Fanjiazhuang, which required a large amount of pig iron raw materials. The shipping cost of buying from other places is too high and it is not economically cost-effective. In order to reduce the cost of the steel produced, Li Zhi directly contacted Yuan Jixian, the owner of the largest iron factory in Beizhili, and asked him to bring hundreds of people to open an iron factory in the east of Fanjiazhuang.

The new iron mill will be run by the Yuan family, and Li Zhi will transport high-quality iron ore from Qiongzhou Prefecture, or Hainan, to sell it to the ironworks every month, and the iron mill will sell pig iron cheaply to Li Zhi's steelmaking converter after smelting raw iron.

Li Zhi's steel-making blast furnace was opened next to the Yuanjia Iron Works, and a steel town was built between Fanjiazhuang and Tianjin, where hundreds of people worked. This steel town is now in full swing under construction, and was named Xingang Town by Li Zhi. Li Zhi also plans to build a direct railway from the port of Dagu to the new steel town to minimize transportation costs.

There is no doubt that Xingang Town will become the steel center of Tianjin, Shandong and Liaodong in the future. With the increase in steel production, Xingang Town will even become a steel center for the entire north in the future.

Therefore, Yuan Jixian brought his son and family to Fanjiazhuang. As a "friend businessman" specially recruited by Li Zhi, Yuan Jixian and his workers were entertained all the way and lived very comfortably in Tianjin. Today, the iron factory in Xingang Town has begun to build an iron-making blast furnace, and Yuan Jixian was supposed to supervise it on the spot, but Zhang Yu, the company commander who received him, said that he would lead a team to visit Fanjiazhuang today, and Yuan Jixian took his son to visit this world's first city.

Today, Yuan Jixian is not only the group visiting Fanjiazhuang, but he is also followed by more than a dozen big businessmen from the south. These businessmen Yuan Jixian did not know, and it is said that they were all businessmen who were preparing to come to Tianjin to start an industry.

The gentry who relied on government relations to do business would not come to Tianjin, but these dozen or so southern businessmen were different, they were all businessmen who did clean business, which was a rare outlier in the Ming Dynasty. Most of them were productive merchants, that is, they were not traders but factory owners.

For these aliens, the gentry regarded Li Zhi's territory, which was regarded as the hell of Abi, as the ideal paradise for them to do business - doing business elsewhere was subject to extortion and harassment by the government and the powerful, while Li Zhi's four provinces and one town had strict laws, and there was no better place to do so, as long as they were honest and run workshops and factories.

For this kind of businessman with a clean net worth, Li Zhi is twelve points welcome. Not only welcome, but also arrange a special reception.

Before everyone entered Fanjiazhuang, they noticed the cement road on the ground. The concrete road was very strong, and the road was two feet wide, high in the middle and low on the sides. Walking on the cement road is very labor-saving, and it is better than the bluestone pavement in the Tianjin Acropolis.

The workshop owners were amazed and jumped and stepped on the concrete floor, as if they had discovered a new continent.

Zhang Yu looked back and said with a smile: "This is a cement road, whether it is driving or walking horses, it is very convenient." ”

Only then did the merchants understand that this was the legendary cement.

Entering Fanjiazhuang from the east gate, the neat white-walled and black-tiled villas stand on both sides of the road like a group of privates standing guard. The wide and straight roads, with the drainage ditches covered with cement covers on both sides of the road, are very neat, and the whole city is as clean as if it has just been cleaned, so that the merchants are stunned to see.

The residents of Fanjiazhuang are very wealthy, and although many of them wear simple short browns, the short browns are all without patches. There are even citizens who are used to wearing short brown and use satin clothes to make short brown, which makes the eyes of businessmen who come to Fanjiazhuang for the first time widen their eyes.

There are a lot of pedestrians on the road, but they go their own way from each other and are not crowded.

Yuan Jixian looked left and right, and asked curiously: "Company Commander Zhang, why is there no cow and horse dung on the road in this Fanjiazhuang." ”

Zhang Yu smiled, pointed to a carriage next to him and said, "Fanjiazhuang is a place where public morality is emphasized, how can you let cattle and horses pollute the streets?" Look at what's hanging on the horse's buttocks, it's called a horse manure bag. This bag has a wire inside, which is fastened there as soon as it is hung on the horse's butt. When a horse defecates, the dung ball will be put into the horse manure bag and will not fall on the road. ”

Yuan Jixian was stunned and said, "The people of Fanjiazhuang are so particular..."

"Why are there queues everywhere?"

"Grandpa Guo praised the concept of public morality in Fanjiazhuang, and people despised liars, so the word of mouth passed on among the people was very credible. As long as the tofu in a small shop is good, or the spicy chicken in a restaurant is delicious, it will immediately spread throughout the city of Fanjiazhuang, where there are more than 100,000 people, and the business will immediately be so good that it can't be received. So there are queues everywhere. ”

Zhang Yu paused and said, "But because of this, Fanjiazhuang's business level is very high. Take this chili pepper as an example, people in other places have not tasted it, but they can eat dishes with chili peppers in every restaurant in Fanjiazhuang. What chili fried razor clams, chili fried sea bass, and the chili fish fillet invented by Grandpa Guo are all small dishes often eaten by the people of Fanjiazhuang. ”

Hearing Zhang Yu's words, Yuan Jixian swallowed his saliva and asked, "Can ordinary people eat such dishes?" ”

Zhang Yu said with a smile: "The concept of public morality is strong, and the result of the people telling the truth to each other is that the market is fully competitive, and in the end, the restaurants that survive in the market are of good quality and low price." A big meal in Fanjiazhuang only costs two or three dollars of silver. If you eat the same wine and food in the capital, you can't get it out without five coins of silver. ”

"If everyone doesn't pay attention to public morality, for the sake of face, they talk about the quality of the hotel, so that the medium of word-of-mouth loses its effect, and the final result is that good hotels can't make small profits and sell quickly, and they have closed down, and hotels that use inferior ingredients to deceive customers can be popular, and they can be slaughtered one by one."

Yuan Jixian took a breath and said, "There are such benefits in talking about public morality? ”

After walking for a while, Yuan Jixian asked, "Why do many people in Fanjiazhuang have things in their hands?" ”

Zhang Yu smiled: "That's the garbage of the people." Usually eat a candy to buy a cake and peel off the wrapping paper, the people never throw it away, they have to take it to the special garbage bin before throwing it away. There is one garbage bin for every 100 zhang, so many people have all kinds of garbage in their hands. ”

Yuan Jixian asked, "No one littered?" ”

Zhang Yu said with a smile: "Everyone in Fanjiazhuang abides by public morality and maintains public morality. Littering in Fanjiazhuang will be scolded by women, children and children, if you are interested, you can try, but wait for me to go farther. ”

Yuan Jixian took a breath and said, "How do I think this is not in Daming!" ”

The businessmen behind Yuan Jixian all shook their heads, and they all sighed. Fanjiazhuang's little things are shocking.

The merchants were shaking their heads, when suddenly a middle-aged man on the road shouted at the merchants: "Keep right! Don't you know to walk on the right side of the road? Go to the left and block the road, everyone can't walk! ”

Only then did the businessman know that Fanjiazhuang had to walk on the right, so he quickly gave way to the left road.

Yuan Jixian didn't wait for Zhang Yu to explain, so he said: "Everyone walks on the right, so the flow of people in the two directions will not collide together, and everyone can go faster." If you go faster on the road, you will have more time to work and earn more money to support your family! ”

The businessmen saw that Yuan Jixian realized the reason for going to the right so quickly, as if Yuan Jixian had proved that these businessmen could quickly adapt to the life of Fanjiazhuang, and praised him one after another.

Zhang Yu smiled and said, "Let's finally go to Fanjiazhuang City Hall to visit the efficient administration under the rectification of the concept of public morality. ”

The merchants had heard that the court of the Duke of Jin was selfless and that the society in the territory was orderly. At this time, when I saw the details of Fanjiazhuang, because I knew a lot, I had already admired the business environment and living environment under Li Zhi's rule. Without going to Fanjiazhuang City Hall, everyone has decided to move to Li Zhi's territory.

Who doesn't want to live in a place where the law is prosperous and everyone is ethical?

One by one, they approached Zhang Yu and asked, "Company Commander Zhang, if we move our family to a place under the rule of Grandpa Guo, what business can we do to make a living?" ”

Zhang Yu looked at the businessmen with an eager face and said with a smile: "If you bring money to invest in Grandpa Guo's territory, it can stimulate the local economy, and Grandpa Guo welcomes it." More businessmen come to the four provinces and one town to develop, and the life of the people under the rule of the state can be more prosperous. ”

In the expectant eyes of the businessmen, Zhang Yu finally said: "There is a business opportunity, Grandpa Guo is going to privatize cement production in the near future, and he will sell cement as a patent." The development of Liaodong requires the construction of a large number of cement roads, if you are interested, you can go to Liaodong to open a cement plant. ”