Chapter 125 Land Policy

Ye Tao did not dwell on the price problem with Shan Zeying, he raised the land purchase price by 10%, and it happened that it was a relatively grassroots member of the Kyushu Trading Company who lent Shan Zeying, so he took the debt in Shan Zeying's hand plus interest as part of the payment. At the same time, he understood Shan Zeying's mood that he wanted the Shan family to start some business other than grain and grain products, and converted part of the money into orders for some member trading companies of Kyushu Trading Company and Seven Seas Trading Company. For Ye Tao, this was actually a deferred payment to Shan Zeying, after all, the funds at the disposal of the Canal Governor's Mansion were really not enough to allow almost all sections of the canal to start construction at the same time. However, for Shan Zeying, this is a huge opportunity. He never thought that through Ye Tao, he would be able to connect with those big businessmen in Kyushu Trading Company and Seven Seas Trading Company. For him, a rookie in the business field, such an opportunity is more rare than making money on the field.

Such a large land transaction and Shan Zeying's sudden change of attitude cannot but attract the attention of local wealthy households and large landowners. But the knock-on effects of the disarming and surrender of a super-landlord like Shan Zeying are enormous. On the one hand, some small and medium-sized landlords came to test the Governor's Office's policy on land and property.

Although he was still a little dissatisfied with the previous things in which the landlords were connected with each other, Ye Tao still presided over a meeting to explain the canal project. At the congress, he began by stating the method of purchasing the land involved in the appropriation of the imperial court, as well as the principles to be followed in the purchase price. When it is heard that the land will be purchased at a reasonable price, even if it is on the edge of the river, the land that will be affected in the project will be compensated to a certain extent, and the people who are attached to the land and the tenants of each family will be given priority in recruiting in the project. In order to supplement the shortage of conscription and conscription of civil servants. This part of the employment cost will be much higher than the income of these people and tenants from farming, and after the completion of the project, these people who have learned the skills of masonry and carpentry will be properly resettled, while the rest of them will coordinate with the families to settle the method.

In addition to these basic information, Ye Tao also found several big businessmen and officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry in Dongping to introduce to everyone what kind of role the canal will play once the construction is completed, and how much logistics and people will be gathered. How many business opportunities will be brought.

In terms of form, this kind of explanation is very close to the explanation of many large-scale projects in Ye Tao's impression, but due to the limited conditions, there is no way to use a projector to show a large number of charts in Sufeng Town like in the explanation hall of the Danyang Diyi Battle Building.

As soon as the land question was solved, a great deal of work in the Governor's Palace could be carried out, and a large number of land properties involved needed to be evaluated, priced, contractually transferred, paid, and received, and the common people who had worked on the land were quickly organized. The young and vigorous ones first began to build sheds on the edge of the predetermined river and level out the stockpile. Middle-aged women can do some auxiliary work such as cooking and washing. You can also have a salary. As for the old and infirm, they were placed in nearby villages. A large number of children were concentrated in Sufeng Town, where they learned literacy and basic arithmetic.

Ye Tao just laid out a reasonable process for all the paperwork. Guidelines for the coordination of various departments have been developed, and they have begun to be idle. The entire canal project was divided into a total of 22 sections, and the construction began in sections. Since the main section of the canal is located on the Qingluo Plain, there is little need for projects such as locks, and a large number of manpower is organized to carry out the earthwork work on the foundation. Shi Xiuke, who has decades of experience in river management, is much older than him. Ye Tao did not have a sense of authority to give orders at all, and almost delegated all his power to Vice Governor Shi Xiu, who everyone originally regarded as an idle position. Although Shi Xiu was tired and half dead, he understood that in this way, from the initiative of the canal to the chiseling of the canal, he had all the credit for this peculiar canal system. Although he has no ambition to enter the decision-making center of Dongping in the future, and never thinks that he has the talent to kill and assist, he can leave a name in history. For an official like him. This is the best compliment.

Ye Tao, on the other hand, smiled evilly and drew a rough plan for the expansion of Sufeng Town into a city. Now Ye Tao naturally does not have to take over all the design work as he did when he first started to build a garden with Ye's Workshop and Dai Yue Pavilion a few years ago. In the past few years, the construction team under Dai Yuege has increased from one to a total of ten, and although each construction team has a different direction of specialization, it can be independent. Among them, the two construction teams that are the best at building the city have played a huge role in the construction of the Blood Qi Army Barracks and the Iron City, although the major construction of the Iron City is still in full swing, but the other construction team can be transferred to use. And in that construction team in the Iron City. For those who have experience in construction design. They can also be called in to assist in the detailed design of Wind Tracing City.

The plan to copy Stormwind that was originally conceived now seems to be quite suitable. The original scale of Sufeng Town was not very large. However, the city defense system is relatively complete, and there is no need to start anew. Under Ye Tao's design, the city will be divided into five parts: the old city, the canal area, the trade area, the residential area and the administrative area. In order to be able to better control the river, the location of Wind Tracing City must allow future rivers to pass through it. As a result, these five sections will be located on both sides of the canal, and the different areas will be connected by huge stone arch bridges. In order to meet the needs of city defense, each area has relatively high city walls and watchtowers. Ye Tao focuses on how to make the different functional parts of different cities relatively good, but also maintain a unified style and close connection with each other, so as not to make people in different parts of the Wind City feel that they live in different cities. And when the draft that took into account the needs of all aspects was decided, which surprised Shi Xiu and passed it in a very short period of time in the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Officials, and even the Minister of the Country, Ye Tao almost burst into laughter, the plan for the construction of this city is very different from that of Dongping, and even from the construction of the entire eastern urban system, it is indeed more like Ye Tao's memory, the Stormwind City that ran around countless times in the game was just countless times bigger. After all, it will be hundreds of thousands of permanent and floating populations that will fill the city in the future.

As soon as the plan for Wind Tracing City was approved, Ye Tao began to arrange the construction work in full swing. Since it was still an expansion project, Ye Tao did not overmodernize the city. A large number of large-diameter hollow pottery pipes are buried underground, mainly for drainage, and have not formed a sewage pipe system that is densely distributed to every street and every household. But the gradual development of infrastructure still makes the residents of Sufeng Town excited. In this day and age, the movement of people and the development of various places have always proceeded at a rather slow pace. Although on the entire continent, there are hundreds of years. There are still many cities with a history of hundreds or even thousands of years, but for ordinary people, unless they encounter huge historical changes, the possibility of seeing a village upgraded to a town and a town upgraded to a city is very low in their lifetime. Not to mention the fact that a town that was not very important suddenly became an extremely important economic and military location on the map of Dongping.

And while solving the land problem, it seems that the magistrates and the local gentry also saw the skill and courage of the governor of the canal for the construction of the city. The local officials and the people were very enthusiastic and helped in every way.

If there was anyone who was dissatisfied and depressed when Ye Tao successfully performed the functions of the governor and gradually implemented all kinds of work, it was probably Lu Dan.

As the head of the military side of the River Governor's Office, he actually had 10,000 troops in his hands. Among them, there are even the forbidden army and the Blood Qi Army, which is more powerful than the forbidden army in everyone's mind. But. Ye Tao did not mobilize the Forbidden Army and the Blood Qi Army at all, except for letting the 5,000 city defense troops transferred from all over the country take on some simple labor work such as digging soil and building sheds before the work of employing migrant workers was on the right track before the conscription was organized. Lu Dan pondered Ye Tao's temperament and status, and he was by no means afraid that he would not be able to move the forbidden army and the blood qi army. Quite the opposite. As the actual person in charge of the Blood Qi Army for a long time, he played an extremely key role in the Blood Qi Army being recognized as the strongest army in Dongping. Some veterans, senior non-commissioned officers, and officers in the Blood Qi Army have instilled in the recruits, which makes the new recruits who just joined the Blood Qi Army at the end of last year extremely eager for the Governor's direct command and training. And Tan Xiaopei stuffed the forbidden army and the blood qi army under Ye Tao's hands together, obviously also had the intention of strengthening the training of the forbidden army, and not letting the forbidden army be too wasteful.

"My lord......" Seeing that Ye Tao didn't pay much attention to him, Lu Dan was a little anxious, and he increased his voice and reported: "My lord! ”

Ye Tao, who was drawing drawings, looked up at Lu Dan with some impatience, he didn't mind that Lu Dan was a little angry about what he was called now. This guy, according to more modern terms. That is, he has a strong sense of form, and on the first day he took office as the head of the Ye Mansion, he turned the title of "Brother Xiaoye" into "Gongzi". However, Lu Dan should be a habitual person who knows Ye Tao very well, and it is really unpleasant to disturb him when he is drawing drawings carefully.

"Something? If you have something, just say it. We're all so acquainted. Ye Tao said helplessly.

"My lord, there are a total of 5,000 people in the Blood Qi Army and the Forbidden Army, how are you going to settle them? It's been so many days, but you've given me a letter. Lu Dan asked anxiously.

Ye Tao frowned and asked, "How did you arrange it now?" ”

Lu Dan reported: "Sufeng Town is a little smaller. Now the Blood Qi Army is stationed in Linjia Town, which is close to the Iron City. The headquarters of the forbidden army is stationed in the town of Xiye to the north of Sufeng Town. At present, the training is being carried out in accordance with the original training plans of the two armies...... Stable ......"

Ye Tao smiled and said, "Since you are stable, why did you come to me?" Isn't that something you can decide in the first place? ”

Lu Dan was stunned for a moment. said: "However, whether it is the Blood Qi Army or the Forbidden Army, isn't it just to be able to quickly improve your strength when you get under your command?" ”

Ye Tao shook his head and said, "Do you really think I know much about military affairs?" ”

Lu Dan was stunned. Ye Tao continued: "When I was in charge of the Blood Qi Army, what I was really doing was to discover all the content that could be compared and competed. Marching, camping, archery, and riding can certainly be compared, and all kinds of small things can also be compared. There is a saying among the Blood Qi Army: A perfect victory is made by the condensation of countless perfect details. But so many messy things, it's not for me to teach you. Everyone is constantly competing, thinking about how to do better, how to overwhelm the opponent, how to learn from the opponent to make up for the shortcomings, and then everyone exchanges their own experience, which has formed the unique temperament of the current Blood Qi Army. The reason why the Blood Qi Army is so strong is because from the very beginning, the Blood Qi Army was an army that regarded competition and the pursuit of victory as its only pursuit. In the continuous competition, everyone strives to do the best in every detail. In the past, even queuing up to eat had to test each other's discipline, but now this kind of low-level competition is gone, right? The vision is different, and it is natural to think of a higher victory. For example, real military drills, such as thinking about breaking the record of the fastest march in Dongping. I really don't know much about military affairs, and playing marching chess is only on paper after all. ”

Lu Dan asked with some understanding: "You mean, put down the competitive subjects, and then let them practice on both sides?" ”

Ye Tao smiled slyly and said, "No." Not a few subjects, but all subjects. Then give a total score. Everyone has their own strengths, and not all problems can be generalized. But the final total score is very revealing. ”

Lu Dan was very familiar with the method of comparing abstract standard quantification, which was already very popular in the Blood Qi Army, and he thought about the situation that might be caused by this kind of competition, and the question of score weights that needed to be considered as a arbitration, and he smiled and said: "This can really make both sides jump." ”

Ye Tao smiled and said, "Then you go and arrange it, and when I finish drawing the detailed drawings of these locks, I will take the time to go to both sides to take a look." Go light a fire. ”

Rudan laughed. Whether it is the Blood Qi Army or the Forbidden Army, they are eagerly looking forward to the Governor's visit, and the Governor will indeed come, but the result may be different from what everyone expected.