The planning of any city is based on field investigations, and only when you get to the local area, you will know how many difficulties lie ahead, Kou Jiuhui now looks much more resolute, but it is also a little less elegant. Yang Chong said impatiently: "Guo Lao and Qin Tao are here, let's make a bet, as long as it is Hangzhou, what you can't plan, I will be responsible for solving it, I only need you to sit in Hangzhou for six years, and watch Hangzhou become a city like Wu County." ”

Like Wu County, everyone was shocked when they heard this conclusion, although Danyang County is the political center of Jiangnan, but the richest city in Jiangnan is still Wu County, which is the accumulation of thousands of years, Yang Chong actually said that Hangzhou can be the same as Wu County in just six years. However, Yang Chong's achievements in this area are impressive, and Gaochang and Zhangye are precedents, which can revitalize one party with the power of one city. If Hangzhou can be like Gaochang, Yang Chong will be able to create a road of wealth in the south of the Yangtze River.

Yang Chong has the bottom in his heart, that is, the advantage of crossing, not to mention the modern metropolis more than a thousand years later, even Hangzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty is also a great place. In the late Tang Dynasty, Hangzhou was 20 miles away, with 30,000 rooms and an annual commercial tax of up to 500,000 yuan, accounting for almost 4% of the national fiscal revenue; Later, Qian Biao, the king of Wuyue, built the capital in Hangzhou, and Hangzhou became a resort for more than 100,000 households and Fujian merchants.

In the Song Dynasty, Hangzhou's economy was prosperous, the textile, printing, winemaking, and paper industries were relatively developed, and foreign trade was further developed. During the Xianchun period of the Southern Song Dynasty, the population of Qiantang and Renhe counties, where Hangzhou Fucheng is located, reached more than 430,000, and the total number of people in nine counties in one state exceeded 1.2 million. When Marco Polo arrived in Hangzhou in the Yuan Dynasty, he was amazed that Hangzhou was "the most beautiful and luxurious city in the world".

After Zhang Bojian went ashore, he learned that Yang Chong would not only bring someone to appoint him as the general of Zhengdong and the chief of the seventy-two islands, but also equip himself with ten sets of Greek fire, fifty sets of bed crossbows, and two thousand sets of equipment equipped with weapons, bows and arrows, and armor; Zhang Bojian was immediately overjoyed, thanked Yang Chonghou and said: "Brother Xian, you have done me a great favor, I promise you that I will never betray the Great Sui; In the future, if you send troops to the sea, I will help you with all my might. ”

Yang Chong introduced Cui Hongdan to Zhang Bojian and said: "Mr. Cui will install all the equipment for you, but big brother, you have to remember that the grease and water used for Greek fire are all configured, and we will install twenty ships of fuel tanks for you, and you can use them instead; But you have nowhere to resupply at sea, so you must save it. When the dock in Huating is built, I will set up a supply point in Huating, from where your ship can replenish its fat. ”

Zhang Bojian handed over the three shipyards of the Zhang family in Yangzhou to Yang Chong the next day, even if he became the king overseas, it was still impossible for the big family to move over, and Yang Chong needed to take care of it, and Yang Chong also needed to provide a steady stream of weapons, consumer goods and other materials on the mainland. Yang Chong asked Zhou Shaoji to type the receipt, and the money for buying the shipyard and craftsmen was deducted from the list of future exchanges between the household department and Zhang Bojian.

Zhou Shaoji could only admire Yang Chong's means of doing business, the Hexi Army is now fighting successively, and the captured armor and ordnance are too much in the warehouse, and Yang Chong uses it to trade with Zhang Bojian, which is also a way to make money. These weapons, including Greek fire and bed crossbows, were all trophies from defeating the Tang army, and after being renovated by the armory, they were given to Zhang Bojian; So when he heard that Yang Chong promised to provide Zhang Bojian with a thousand knives and guns for free in the transaction for half a year, Zhou Shaoji couldn't help laughing.

However, Yang Chong still explained his vision of the Seventy-two Islands to Zhang Bojian, Zhou Shaoji and others, Zhang Bojian should grow sugarcane, rice, pineapples and other agricultural products by himself, and Yang Chong could provide them with pottery, military industry and other workshops to maintain long-term trade between the two sides, after all, it is not too far away from the mainland by sea of more than 1,000 miles, and it is closer to Liuqiu; Yang Chong also promised that after Zhang Bojian founded the country, Yang Chong would send officials and scholars to exchange ideas and help Zhang Bojian move 36 households from the Central Plains to 72 islands to establish Sui Village.

Zhang Bojian nodded while listening, although it has always been his ambition to establish a country, but Zhang Bojian is not as meticulous as Yang Chong's consideration, as a generation of heroes, he understands the intention of Yang Chong's measures, which is to ensure that the subject country established by Zhang Bojian follows the footsteps of the Great Sui from culture to politics. Thirty-six households seem to be a small number, but they can help Zhang Bojian establish the idea of attaching himself to the Central Plains.

In the end, Yang Chong asked a key question: "Big brother, how long will it take you to pacify the seventy-two islands?" ”

Zhang Bojian's expression became serious, and he thought seriously for a while and said, "Three years, with my current strength, if I want to occupy the seventy-two islands, it will be enough in less than a year." But the nation needs a population, and I want to keep the pirates on the island and make them available to me, so I'd rather spend a little more time. ”

Yang Chong nodded with satisfaction and said, "Big brother, I can rest assured if you have this idea, don't worry about the materials, no matter how difficult it is, I will satisfy you." ”

Zhang Bojian knew that Yang Chong was not perfunctory, and according to Yang Chong's rapidly developing strength, it was indeed not too much pressure to support his own gang of less than 10,000 people. Zhou Shaoji learned a lesson today, Zhang Bojian's hesitation was the reason why Yang Chong was unwilling to attack Chang'an, and he considered the post-war construction before the war, which was completely different from the concept of Li Tang and the Turks at the time.

The matter in Jiangdu ended successfully, and the political affairs hall breathed a sigh of relief, what the bigwigs were most worried about was by no means Qu Tutong, even if Zuo Xiaowei succeeded in raising troops, it would be just the light of fire, which could be extinguished with a slap. The bigwigs are most worried about the foundation of Du Fuwei, the king of Chu, in Jiangnan, this time Wang Yaohan and Fu Gongyou's change of guard, so that Chang'an's hand officially stretched into Jiangnan, plus the layout of Wu County and Yuhang, it can be equal to the power of the original Jianghuai army.

Jiangdu Liushou is one of the three major left-behind, alongside Yujuluo and Zhang Jin, and Fu Gongyou is happily appointed; The prosperity of Jiangdu is far from being comparable to Danyang, and the soldiers of Zuo Wuwei are also elated. When Du Fuwei heard some rumors, he was inevitably a little depressed, Yang Chong really turned his hands into clouds and covered his hands for rain, and he was too good at taking advantage of opportunities; According to his understanding of his old friend Fu Gongyou, he got such a position, and he must be obedient to Yang Chong from now on.

When he got off work, Du Yan specially called Du Fuwei and invited Du Fuwei to come over to drink, Du Fuwei understood that Du Yan must have something to say, so he happily went; Du Mansion is not Yue Wangfu, there are not so many old-fashioned rules, wine is a song, and songs and dances are performed one after another. Du Fuwei drank slightly, put down the wine glass, and said with a bold smile: "Lord Du, such a warm hospitality, there must be something to say." ”

(End of chapter)