Chapter 373: Rapid Development (Page 1/1)

Summer went to winter, in the midst of intense busyness, three or four months passed in a blink of an eye, and at this moment, a year has passed since Su Ziheng and his party traveled from Xining to Donghai Mansion.

In the past year, the Tokai Prefecture has undergone tremendous changes, and it can be said that it is simply changing with each passing day, and it is developing at a rapid pace every day.

The residential area in Tokai Castle has been officially built, and all the residents of Tokai Province have moved into two-story brick and concrete buildings, and there is no longer the dilapidated shanty town of the past.

However, the construction of houses in residential areas has not stopped, and the second and third phases of the project are being carried out in an intense and orderly manner, because the population of Donghai County will not stop at the more than 80,000 people, and will continue to increase.

In addition, the Zhu family business house transported nearly 10,000 slave laborers from Nanyang, and the total population of Donghai Prefecture has exceeded 130,000 and is about to approach 150,000.

As the population increases, it is natural to build more houses. But this newly built house is not for newcomers, but for those who have worked hard.

Every month, a large number of people are selected as excellent model workers, and their houses are relocated from slightly narrower old houses to newly built high-rise villas. The old house, which had been vacant, naturally became a place for new people to live.

In addition to the residential area, the commercial area and the industrial area have been preliminarily planned and are ready to be put into construction. In addition to the original Tokai Prefecture, the administrative district is also expanding to the surrounding areas.

The main roads in the city have been completely built, and walking on the roads is full of horse-drawn carriages and two-horse rail carriages. Originally, these rail cars were intended to be pulled by steam engines, but at present, there are not many steam engines imitated by craftsmen's workshops, and most of them are used in construction sites and mining, which is a bit of a luxury to transport people.

It just so happened that when he migrated from Xining before, he brought a lot of war horses, and Su Ziheng also cultivated a lot in the space of the base, so he secretly transferred a lot of horses, under the pretext that the Zhao family firm purchased horses from other prefectures and counties.

In Donghai City, the Zhao family firm came forward to set up a car dealership, and these horses were the most suitable for pulling people. Now the daily business of the car dealership is very hot, the main reason is that the area of Donghai Mansion City is too large, and each place is very neatly planned. It is a long way to go from a residential area to a commercial or industrial area where you work, and it is too tiring to walk on your feet every day.

Anyway, the price of the rail carriage for many people pulled by this kind of carriage is not very expensive, and it can reach anywhere you want to go for only two big copper coins. Of course, you can also choose to take a separate carriage, the price is much higher, the starting price is six big copper coins, a trip down, it is estimated that it will cost twenty or thirty big copper coins, not particularly rich people can't afford to sit down.

These two modes of transportation are actually the difference between buses and taxis on the earth in Su Ziheng's previous life. Buses are convenient service measures, and the price should not be too expensive. Su Ziheng plans to wait for the number of steam engines to increase in the future, and directly replace the carriage rail transit with the steam engine rail transit, and then add a few more carriages, so that the price of residents' travel can be lower.

Speaking of copper coins, the bank in Tokai Province was officially established three months ago under the name Tokai Bank. And last month issued its own currency, including large and small copper coins, large and small silver coins and paper money.

The coins were issued smoothly, and the coins minted by the new coin machines abandoned the original Bactrian copper coins, which were round on the outside and square on the inside, and used the same solid coins as on the earth in the previous life, with exquisite patterns engraved on both sides of the coins, and the amount was indicated, whether it was a large coin or a small coin.

A set of banknotes was also issued, with six denominations: one, five, ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred.

One dollar banknote is worth the same as a large copper coin, and one hundred yuan is naturally a large silver coin. The value of the small silver coin is the same as the fifty yuan banknote, and Su Ziheng planned to wait for the residents of Donghai Province to get used to using paper money, and then cancel the silver money in the coin, leaving only the copper coin.

The silver and gold became the deposits of the Tokai Bank, which were not circulated to the outside world and were only used as collateral for paper money.

The issuance of banknotes was not as smooth as Su Ziheng imagined, but was quite popular. Because the banknotes were beautifully printed, easy to carry, and had a variety of suitable denominations, they quickly circulated in the market.

Su Ziheng was still a little puzzled by this, and after Zhao Wan'er's explanation, he suddenly realized. This actually has something to do with the coins issued by the Tokai Bank, mainly because they are not hollowed out in the middle like the Great Xia copper coins, which is convenient for strings to be strung together and placed in the baggage.

If there are a large number of solid coins, it is very inconvenient to put the baggage, and they will often be scattered. And the current burden is not like Su Ziheng's backpack in his previous life, which can be tight and seamless. It's just wrapped in a piece of cloth, and if the coins can't be strung together, it's easy to throw them away.

Another reason is that these banknotes are circulated in Tokai Province, and there is a guarantee from Tokai Bank, so people don't have to worry about not being able to use them. What's more, everyone has deposited their excess money in the bank, and the amount of banknotes in their hands is not much, even if the banknotes will be lost, they will not lose much.

In order to encourage people to use paper money, major trading houses and shops in Tokai Province have preferential measures for using paper money to pay bills, either discounts or gifts.

For all these reasons, banknotes are circulating smoothly in Tokai Province. Even if foreign trading houses entered the Tokai Province to trade, they would receive paper money, and at most, when they left the Tokai Province, they would exchange the paper money in their hands for silver tickets.

However, many foreign trading houses come to Tokai Province to trade, and most of them come for the various goods produced in the Tokai Industrial Zone, and every time they leave, they purchase a variety of Tokai Province specialties.

For example, sea salt, cotton and linen textiles, soaps, perfumes and high-grade liquor, etc.

Since the cotton planting continued, Su Ziheng set up a textile workshop in the Donghai Fu Industrial Zone, responsible for the processing and production of textiles of various raw materials, mainly processing cotton, linen and silk fabrics.

The main reason for the establishment of the textile workshop was that as the number of people in Tokai Province increased, men were assigned to work on the construction site, and the lack of physical strength of the women, coupled with the fact that the presence of women on the construction site was not suitable, would attract criticism.

Workshops such as soap and perfume do not need so many people, and a large number of women have no place to place them, which leads to the phenomenon of labor waste.

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