Chapter 402: Four Years
Time is like water, time is like a shuttle, and it has been ten years of Zhenguan in the blink of an eye. In Qin Hao's fourth year in Pyongyang, Qin Xiaohao was already five years old.
In four years, a lot has happened.
The first is that the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate finally has money, Qin Hao promised Xue Wanche four years ago that after the situation on the peninsula stabilizes, he will be responsible for generating income for the Metropolitan Protectorate, and ensure that every soldier has a drum in his pocket.
This is a tricky problem for him, but it is not a difficult problem, especially after Qin Xiaohao also crossed over.
Qin Hao used to be a bureaucrat in the unit, or in the radio and television department, so he had a very clear understanding of some systems, cultures, and so on, while Qin Xiaohao was engaged in science and engineering, and he followed the technical stream.
So in the past four years, Qin Hao has been in the foreground and Qin Xiaohao has been in the background, and in addition to the things in Pyongyang, he has focused on one thing: developing Ansan.
Anyone who has studied in junior high school knows that iron is produced in this place, the quality of iron ore is quite high, and the shipping is convenient, so Qin Hao spent a full year to build a small local steelmaking furnace, this technology is not difficult to industrialize, and the steel output is still okay, even in the 21st century, it can be barely used in many African countries.
This time, Anton's capital is big, the technology of steelmaking in the Tang Dynasty is mainly the steel filling method, Qin Xiaohao came up with this thing in the Tang Dynasty is definitely the black technology of the black technology, this kid has no awareness of environmental protection, in order to supply coke to Anshan, the trees on the mountain are about to be cut down, and he is already making the decision to let Yuangai Suwen mobilize the rest of the people to cut down Changbai Mountain, so Qin Hao hurriedly stopped it.
Are you kidding, if the area around Changbai Mountain is in danger and Yuangai Suwen takes the opportunity to garrison troops, then what kind of puppet court is it called.
To the west of the Yalu River, there are more Han people in these places than in Buyeo, so they belong to the direct management of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and have nothing to do with the new Goryeo court of Yuangai Suwen, so this income is mainly the affairs of the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate.
Iron ore is distributed to the Han soldiers, they are very energetic in mining, selling ore can make a lot of money, and the court can also take a large tax from it, now they have no heart to bully the rest of the people, the loyalty to the Tang Dynasty is quite high, if there is really a war, these people may fight more fiercely than the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, protect the family and defend the country.
The small steel-making furnace and iron-smelting factory are directly under the Andong Dadu Protectorate, and half of the income is allocated to the genuine Tang Dynasty soldiers brought by Xue Wanche from Guanzhong, although the number is small, but the income is more than those Han soldiers who work hard, and the court has no opinion on this.
In addition to steelmaking, the output of iron is not small, these iron naturally can not be smelted with precious coke, can only use coal, originally Qin Hao was going to transport it by water from Guanzhong, coal is something Datang has, but the court told him that now Datang's ships are busy, no one is willing to use precious ships to transport this thing, after transporting two ships by administrative order, Qin Hao found that the idea of transporting coal by ship is really stupid.
It just so happens that there are also Khitan people as part of the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate, and these ethnic minorities are crazy because of the lack of iron, and it just so happens that they have open-pit coal mines, so the work of transporting coal is handed over to the Khitan, and the coal is exchanged for iron, and these Khitan soldiers are almost not happy to die.
Steel is naturally used to forge blades, and the output is also good, no matter what year in this world, there is never a shortage of buyers for weapons, whether it is the imperial court or the government soldiers in Guanzhong, and even selling to foreign races is not impossible.
The blades of the Tang Dynasty are not strictly controlled by the imperial court, on the contrary, they are the private property of the government soldiers, so the imperial court can't control the weapons trade in Anshan at all.
The Buyeong people were responsible for cutting down trees, the ancient Han people were responsible for mining, the Tang people were responsible for steelmaking and post-production, and finally Sun Er and them were transported to Chang'an by sea, which was also a good way to make a fortune.
Qin Hao knew that there were tens of millions of ways to make a fortune, Qin Xiaohao chose such a one, the purpose was not simple, in order to stabilize the precarious Baekje exiled court, they would always transport some weapons to Heizhi uninterruptedly, and after Qin Hao's calculations, about half of these weapons would eventually disappear and disappear.
Qin Hao was horrified to find that Qin Xiaohao, who was only five years old, and Qin Xiaohao, who wanted to be hugged by his beautiful sister every day at home, actually had someone available in Anton's Metropolitan Protectorate!
Qin Hao checked it carefully, there is not much problem on the books, and the probability of being discovered by the imperial court is not high, after all, few people in the feudal society can see through the fake accounts made by modern people, and besides, the current capital protection mansion is already monolithic, and he doesn't believe that anyone will come to check.
What's even more incredible is that this kid seems to be already learning from him and has begun to accept his younger brother, Heizhi's son Heizhi Changzhi, who was originally sent to Pyongyang to go to school to be a hostage, but I don't know when he has been a loyal little brother of this kid, although all the two of them seem to be able to do at present is pee and mud.
In this regard, Qin Xiaohao actually has a hearty word, why can you accept Pei Xingjian, and I can't accept Hei Tooth Changzhi?
As for the whereabouts of those blades, Qin Xiaohao had a stalk in his neck, and it had nothing to do with him biting him to death, Qin Hao actually acquiesced when he really couldn't find it.
People, the hardest thing to see is himself, Qin Hao doesn't know what he thinks now, he seems to be a bit of an ostrich mentality, I haven't found what Qin Xiaohao did, if I can't find it, it has nothing to do with me, I am still loyal to Datang and I don't have the slightest thought.
In the past four years, although the entire Tang Dynasty is still thriving, there have been small fluctuations in the politics of the imperial court, and Hou Junji has risen.
Li Chengqian has hardly been out of the door of the East Palace in four years, but this does not mean that he really doesn't care about the government and politics, before Qin Hao came to Pyongyang, Li Chengqian planned to let Qin Hao be the spokesman of his forces.
At that time, Qin Hao didn't want to agree, although he didn't refuse, but he threw the pot off the head under the excuse of retreat, and later he was assigned to the Anton Dadu Protectorate, which naturally had nothing to do with him, and after Qin Hao threw the pot, this role naturally came to the head of his father-in-law Hou Junji.
And Hou Junji has mentioned the most things in the court in the past two years, not to fight, not to train soldiers, but to transfer Qin Hao back to Beijing, which is very interesting, what is Li Chengqian anxious about?
Everyone knows that Qin Hao's current position must be one of the prime ministers when he returns to Beijing, not to mention that the current prime minister's team is relatively stable and there is no position for him, who do you want to retire, even if there is, is his qualifications really enough?
It's not enough for you Li Chengqian to have a Hou Junji as the secretary of the military department, and you also want to insert a person of your own in the prime minister, a few meanings!
Qin Hao himself doesn't know what he thinks, of course Pyongyang's shabby place is not as good as Chang'an, the children's paradise he worked so hard to build for his son has not been used, it is said that it has been occupied by Li Xiaogong's grandson now, well, although Qin Xiaohao has no interest in that thing nine times out of ten.
But seriously, he doesn't really want to go back to be the prime minister, Li Chengqian's approach makes him feel a little dangerous, and recently the letters he wrote with Li Chengqian have become more and more formulaic, and there is very little content to communicate with each other, which makes him a little unsure of Li Chengqian's pulse.
It may be precisely because of these reasons that Qin Hao turned a blind eye to Qin Xiaohao's approach.