"Your Majesty, this is the largest open-pit coal mine in Taiyuan Mansion!" The next day, the governor of Jinzhong took Zhang Lingyang to Yuci County in the south of Taiyuan Prefecture, and gave Zhang Lingyang a detailed description of the number of miners and the production equipment here.

After a detailed investigation, Zhang Lingyang didn't say much, but just instructed the governor of Jinzhong to think about production safety matters.

Because even in open-pit coal mines, many people still die every year due to various accidents.

In this regard, the governor of Jinzhong did not have any good way, but ordered a heavy compensation for the families of the dead miners.

After listening to the introduction of the governor of Jinzhong, Zhang Lingyang said: "Jinzhong is mountainous and has a large population, so we must pay attention to the fact that it is best to ensure the amount of cultivated land in the plain area, and we cannot ignore the food ration problem of the people because of the immediate economic benefits." ”

"Your Majesty, please rest assured of this!" The governor of Jinzhong said, "Most of the coal mines that have been mined in Jinzhong are in the mountainous areas, and there are not many coal mines in the plains. ”

In fact, many large coal mines in Jinzhong have convenient transportation and are very suitable for farming. However, the governor of Jinzhong did not order the mining of coal mines in the plains, considering that once these coal mines were mined, the local people would have no land to cultivate, and it was not cost-effective to import grain from other provinces.

Zhang Lingyang doesn't care about this, he just hopes to find a balance between people's livelihood and economic development, which will not harm the interests of the people and ensure the energy supply of Dazhou.

Zhang Lingyang does not want to affect Dazhou's energy strategy because of people's livelihood issues, and of course, he does not want to seriously damage the interests of the people because of economic development.

It's just that this balance is difficult to find, especially in the era of the Great Zhou, and there are very few local officials who are proficient in economics.

However, fortunately, most of the officials of this era paid more attention to their official reputation, so even if he understood that if the development of coal mines in the plains could bring him significant political achievements, the governor of Jinzhong still suppressed these things.

However, the governor of Jinzhong did not give up food because of choking, but ordered the mining of several large coal mines in the hinterland of Taihang Mountain, which was nothing more than an increase in production costs.

Most of the money is wasted on road construction.

Roads in the mountains are rugged, so it costs a lot of money to build them.

However, fortunately, the state treasury allocated a sum of money to Beijing, and with the donations of the Jin merchants who had already been set aside by the financial reserves of the various yamen in Jinzhong, the funds for road repair were very abundant.

Among them, the donations of Jin merchants accounted for the lion's share.

Jin merchants are rich, this is something that the people of the whole country know.

Even if Zhang Lingyang first ascended the throne in the first few years, he confiscated the ticket numbers of several Jin merchants, which greatly damaged the vitality of the Jin merchant group, but compared with other merchant groups, the Jin merchant was still the richest one.

Therefore, when the imperial court promulgated the first five-year plan, and Jinzhong became the top priority of the first five-year plan of the imperial court, it took less than a month for Jin merchants to donate more than 10 million taels of funds to the Yamen, the governor of Jinzhong.

Of course, this is not to say how much the Jin merchants supported the imperial court, but because many large coal mines in Jinzhong have been acquired by the Jin merchant group.

If the imperial court opened a mountain road to the mining area, it was the Jin merchant groups that benefited in the end, how could they be stingy with that little money?

Moreover, as long as you know a little about the Jin merchant group, you will know that the Jin merchant group has always been very generous, as long as you see a business opportunity, when you give money, you don't have the slightest hesitation.

That's why the Yamen of Jinzhong was able to raise so much money for road construction in such a short period of time.

Although Jinzhong is located in the hinterland of the Taihang Mountains, it has been developed thousands of years ago, so the capitals and counties of Jinzhong have long been connected by roads.

Now what the Jinzhong Governor Yamen has to do is nothing more than to widen the roads between the state capitals and counties, so whether it is the funds consumed or the difficulty of the project, it is actually not very large.

After taking a turn around the Taiyuan Mansion and carefully inspecting the production situation in each mining area, Zhang Lingyang's Luan drove south.

After passing through Qinzhou, Pingyang, and Zezhou, after half a month's journey, Zhang Lingyang's Luan drove to Huaiqing Mansion in southern Henan Province.

After arriving at Huaiqing Mansion, as long as you cross the Yellow River, you can reach the foot of Pishan Mountain in the north of Luoyang.

So after arriving at Huaiqing Mansion, Zhang Lingyang saw that there was still more than half a month before the Mid-Autumn Festival, so the itinerary was no longer in such a hurry.

Although Huaiqing Mansion is under the jurisdiction of the province of southern Henan, whether it is the customs or anything else, it is incompatible with other state capitals in southern Henan, and it is also very strange from the Jinzhong province in the north.

Zhang Lingyang understands that this is because of historical reasons.

Huaiqing Mansion belongs to the ancient Hanoi County, and thousands of years ago, it belonged to the jurisdiction of the headquarters of the Sili School Captain like Luoyang, but because of the separation of a river, Huaiqing Mansion has never been able to integrate into the Guanlong cultural circle like Luoyang.

Because of the different jurisdictions, although Hanoi is very close to the Central Plains cultural circles such as Yuzhou and Yanzhou, it cannot fully integrate into the Central Plains cultural circles, and it is also somewhat different from the Jin Chinese circle in the north.

Over time, Huaiqing Mansion has formed its own unique customs and culture.

Zhang Lingyang looked at the customs of Huaiqing Mansion is very unique, and the cultural characteristics of the three places of Huaiguanzhong, Jinzhong, and southern Henan, but there are obvious surprises with these three places.

Under the freshness, Zhang Lingyang stayed in Huaiqing Mansion for five days, just to investigate the customs and culture here. Seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival was getting closer and closer day by day, I had to cross the Yellow River and return to Luoyang.

Unknowingly, Zhang Lingyang has been away from Luoyang for more than three months.

Compared with three months ago, Luoyang City has not changed much.

Because of the halt of the expansion project in Luoyang City, many of the projects to be developed in the suburbs of Luoyang look like some demolition areas in later generations.

In fact, the suburbs of Luoyang are indeed a demolition area, where all the residents have been evicted and their houses have been demolished.

It was because of Zhang Lingyang's sudden call that this place looked like a ruin.

Looking at these ruins, Zhang Lingyang didn't know what to think, but the crown prince Zhao Hao felt that these ruins were very eyesore, and wanted to persuade Zhang Lingyang to restart the expansion plan of Luoyang City, but he didn't dare to mention it when the words came to his lips, and he was very aggrieved.

However, Zhao Hao didn't dare to mention it, but some people dared to mention it.

Zhang Lingyang's Luan Jia had just returned to the palace, and before he had rested for the last hour, Zheng Yongji, the first assistant of the cabinet, came to Chen'an Hall and talked about restarting the expansion of Luoyang City.

"Your Majesty, Luoyang is the national capital, and now the suburbs are barren and in ruins, which has seriously damaged the national prestige of my Great Zhou. Therefore, Weichen implored His Majesty to restart the expansion plan of Luoyang City. ”

"The suburbs are barren, and the ruins everywhere really hinder the appearance of the capital, but Zheng Aiqing, do you say that there is still money left in the treasury now?" Zhang Lingyang asked......