Chapter 495: Giving Bonuses to the Indians (1)
After Gongsun Hao listened to Tai Shiliang's words, of course, he gave priority to supporting the cultivation of cattle.
That night, Gongsun Hao left Mo Qiufeng in Chang'an, and at dawn the next day, he sent him back to the army.
Sending Mo Qiufeng away, Gongsun Hao returned to Chang'an City Hall, at this time, Ma Jin no longer served as the mayor of Chang'an, Chang'an Management Office was directly promoted to the city yamen, director Hu Xinghua was promoted to mayor, deputy director Liu Changgeng and Cai Sijie were deputy mayors.
Gongsun Hao came to the mayor's office to report to Hu Xinghua about the problems at Chang'an Wharf, Hu Xinghua complained, and then asked Gongsun Hao to go to Dewang Farm.
"To Dewang Farm?" Gongsun Hao was very surprised.
Hu Xinghua said: "There is an Indian named Monday in Dewang Farm, who performed well in the Battle of Quebec, and the headquarters asked our city hall to award a certificate of merit to this one called Monday, and then give some incentives, in view of the fact that he is an Indian, this commendation meeting does not need to be held, you can bring two people to face the reward." ”
"How much bonus?" Gongsun Hao asked.
Hu Xinghua said: "You don't have to worry about this, I have already told Secretary Xing to prepare, if you want to be there, go to Secretary Xing, he is waiting for you." ”
"Well, I'll go first."
Gongsun Hao saluted Hu Xinghua and walked out of the mayor's office, and as soon as he walked into the hall, he saw Secretary Xing looking at the south gate of the hall.
He came to Secretary Xing in three steps and two steps, and Secretary Xing also saw him: "Assistant Gongsun, I'm looking for you everywhere." ”
Gongsun Hao said: "I know, is it about going to Dewang Farm?" ”
"Yes."
Secretary Xing was holding a cowhide document bag in his hand, and he opened the file bag and was about to take something out of it, when Gongsun Hao stopped him: "What are we talking about on the road, are the carriages ready?" ”
"It's already arranged." After Secretary Xing finished speaking, he pointed to the courtyard of the city hall, "Look, that's the old coachman, we can set off at any time." ”
The two didn't speak again, they came to the courtyard one after the other, and got directly into the carriage of the handlebar-type old Duan, who was the full-time handlebar of the city hall, which was equivalent to the full-time driver of later generations and belonged to the people in the yamen.
After Gongsun Hao and Secretary Xing got into the carriage, Lao Duan shouted like two horses pulling the carriage and drove the carriage out of the city hall compound.
The carriage left the city center and headed north along a wide concrete road.
The development of Chang'an is completely different from Xinxiang on the west coast of the Americas, which has been operated by the Dutch for many years, and is the territory that Ma Jin snatched from the Dutch, and the urban infrastructure has begun to take shape, unlike Xinxiang, which is a barren land and has to be started from scratch.
Although Chang'an is far away from China, because there is a transit station in the UK, the materials needed here can be continuously transported from the UK, and the large ocean-going fleet alone has been here twice, and there are also merchant ships from various countries that come and go, bringing a large number of needed items to Chang'an.
The ocean-going fleet not only brought goods to Chang'an, but also brought a lot of immigrants, most of whom were third-class people, who were the main labor force in Chang'an.
There are also a lot of Dutch merchant ships that trade in black slaves often come to Chang'an, to make up for the shortage of black slaves in Chang'an, because these Dutch merchants only care about interests, do not take into account the personal safety of black slaves, often a boatload of black slaves, after being transported to Chang'an, only 10 percent is left, that's it, those Dutch merchants still make a lot of money, these merchants sell to black slaves, and buy fur, sugar, cotton, tobacco and other products produced in the Americas from Chang'an will be sold in Europe.
Of course, now the black slaves from Africa, not only by Westerners trafficked, after Li Dingguo occupied South Africa, he also began to transport black slaves to Chang'an, due to proper management, few black slaves died or escaped in the process of transportation, 90% of the black slaves came from Li Dingguo's African Korps.
In this way, the population of China in Chang'an is not yet developed enough to meet the needs of development, because the part of the Americas is too big, and it is difficult to fully control this place at once with the current speed of population development in China.
Gao Junshan gave Ma Jin the task of occupying a place and building a place, not trying to do it quickly.
Gongsun Hao sat in the carriage and walked all the way north, and there was an endless stream of carriages coming and going, and the surrounding fields presented a vibrant scene.
Gongsun Hao sighed: "This road is really lively! ”
The handlebar old Duan said: "These are all horse-drawn carriages from farms around the country that pull and deliver goods." ”
Gongsun Hao asked, "Are there so many carriages every day?" ”
Lao Duan replied: "It's so lively every day. ”
Secretary Xing said: "Everyone is desperately building Chang'an City, in a few years, the Chang'an area will be more lively than the capital!" ”
Gongsun Hao said: "This is the emperor's will, if we occupy a place, we will build a place." ”
Lao Duan also sighed: "Seeing the scenery along the way, I feel even more that our emperor is really great!" ”
Gongsun Hao elbowed Secretary Xing, who was sitting beside him, and asked, "Secretary Xing, what did you want to give me just now?" ”
"Oh, it's this." Secretary Xing hurriedly took out a cowhide document bag, took out a medal from the file bag, and showed it to Gongsun Hao.
Gongsun Hao said: "I don't need to look at this, I already know it, what is it called?" ”
"Monday."
"Oh, Monday," Gongsun Hao stared curiously at Secretary Xing's cowhide briefcase, "How much bonus?" ”
"Five taels of silver."
Secretary Xing patted his leather briefcase, at this time, the Americas have not yet used Huaxia coins, so what is issued to Monday is silver, if you want to issue Monday Huaxia coins, then you will have to give him about 6 yuan Huaxia coins.
"I just got it out of the hands of the treasurer, and Mayor Tiger asked you to hand it over to the Indians on Monday."
After Secretary Xing finished speaking, he was about to give the cowhide document bag to Gongsun Hao, Gongsun Hao pushed it and said, "You take it first, and then give it to me when you get to the place." ”
As the road was smooth, the horses ran happily, and soon they saw the farmstead on the side of the road.
Lao Duan turned back to the people in the car: "There is a farm in front, is it the place you want to go?" ”
Gongsun Hao said: "You ask, is this farm surnamed Sun's farm." ”
When Lao Duan got the order, he drove the carriage to the side of the road.
"Wow——,Wow, wow, wow, wow."
Lao Duan saw a group of people on the side of the road, so he stopped the carriage, poked his head out and asked, "Fellow, enter from this road, is it a farm surnamed Sun?" ”
The pedestrian replied, "Yes, go three miles and you will see the farm." ”
"Thank you, fellow!"
The pedestrian said enthusiastically: "Look at your carriage and know that you are from the yamen on an errand. ”
Lao Duan smiled: "Fellow, you are right, we are here to give a bonus to an Indian." ”
The pedestrian also said more, "It's the Indian named Monday, right?" ”
Lao Duan said: "I don't know what his name is, maybe it's Monday." ”
"If you're looking for Monday, you're going the wrong way!"
Gongsun Hao hurriedly poked his head out and asked, "We are looking for the Monday of Dewang Farm." ”
The pedestrian said: "I'll just say, how can you go to Sun Caizhu's house, go forward, you have to go forward, Sun Dewang's farm is still ahead." ”