In October of the sixteenth year of Jian'an, Shi Tao, the governor of Wuling County, Shi Guangyuan, Xu Shu's fellow countryman, this comrade who had been in the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce for more than ten years, began to break out.

He had no reputation in his life, and he was cautious, and finally did a big thing.

Under the instructions of Yang Xi, president of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, in Wuling County, which originally had a population of only 650,000, 150,000 laborers were recruited to carry out transportation construction in various places, and slogans that had never been played in the whole country were played.

"Half a year to build the Hanling cement road, two years to build all the inter-county roads in Wuling County, three years to the canal to every township!"

Yang Xi gave him an idea, asking him to put long red cloth on the buildings, township schools, and even other conspicuous road sections in the county, and publicize them throughout the county.

The Wuling County People's Daily also hyped up this matter, and recruited laborers, and those who performed well will have the opportunity to become regular employees of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce in the future. Even, those who perform prominently in the middle will accumulate political resources, and in the future elections of officials at all levels, their political reputation can attract votes.

In winter, in November, the highway from Hanshou (Changde) to Lingyang County (Cili) was suspended for a year, and the minimum road width was four meters, and the pedal three-wheeled traffic was unimpeded, and the four-wheeled carriage did not need to give way.

The Hanling Highway is not calculated according to the straight-line distance, and the zigzag reaches 196 kilometers, and the two-day march from the Dongting Lake can reach the hinterland of the Wuling Mountains, which is simply magical at this time.

This is just the beginning.

The construction of Wuling County was carried out vigorously, and there was not much movement in other counties.

Due to the flat terrain of other counties, the county has already been connected to the road, and now it is working on a project to get the road to the township.

Yang Xi calculated that in the entire Chenhe District, including Southeast Asia, Myanmar and other remote places, the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce now uses 2 million laborers at the same time every year, plus the army, management, education, etc., the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce has 3 million personnel.

A monthly salary of three million taels, what is the concept?

Yang Xi knows that even if Myanmar pans for gold now, it can only solve the problem of 80 to 1 million taels a month, and other items will receive 2 million taels a month, and there are still some problems.

But there are some things that must be done.

Sure enough, a few days after the start of the Hanling Highway, Yang Shao came to find Yang Xi.

Yang Shao was in charge of logistics more than 20 years ago, and he has always been in charge of finance, and he took the initiative to see Yang Xi, which must be no good.

"Brother! I'm afraid it's a little difficult for you to make such a big fuss. This year, he went to Nanjun, 200,000 troops, 50,000 logistics, 250,000 people did not do production, and later used 300,000 troops to build the Yijie Highway, and now almost 200,000 people are building the Hanling Highway, and now the finances are already stretched. ”

"How much do you have to make ends meet?" Yang Shao looked at Yang Xi's expression and knew that he had already known about it, but it was just a matter of specific data.

"Originally, if there was only one major construction in Yiling, Nanjun, and the planned expenditures in various places before the year, it should be flat, but in the next big deal in Wuling County, we estimate that there will be a deficit of 300,000 taels a month!"

Yang Shao deliberately put the word 300,000 taels more seriously, because he couldn't bear this kind of pressure, but he couldn't think of a way.

As early as a few years ago, Yang Xi had already used inflation as a trick.

At that time, Daxianbei City, Pang Tong expedition and other major events needed money, Yang Xi ordered Yang Shao to mint copper coins, according to the estimated total output value of the whole region that year, minted an extra five percent of the coins, and then minted three percent more every year, more money and less things, natural purchasing power decreased, and prices increased.

This is a way for the ruling class to loot from the people with inflation.

Your wages haven't gone up, but prices have gone up. You find that you make more money, but you spend more.

Now Chenhe District, the annual price of goods rises by about three percent, which is already the highest that can be accepted by the normal social and economic situation, and now the monthly salary of ordinary employees of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce has risen from 0.9 taels of silver more than 20 years ago to almost two taels, which has doubled, but the actual price has doubled.

It used to be 100 yuan and 1 stone of rice, but now it is 300 yuan.

Yang Shao thought that Yang Xi had no choice, but Yang Xi said unhurriedly: "Don't worry, I have a way, this thing will happen sooner or later." With the current credibility of our Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, we can now issue a kind of ticket, this ticket, I call him a bond! In this way, in the name of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, through the Chenhe Bank, you will issue a kind of coupon, which must be printed by the bank, stamped by the head office of the bank, signed and sealed by the president of the branch, and issued to all districts. The purchase of this kind of membership bond is equivalent to depositing the money of merchants and county residents in the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce on a regular basis, and it will receive a higher interest rate than the bank, and we will only issue three-year membership bonds for the time being. ”

"Debt? Is it just to raise money from the people, stipulate that it will be repaid after three years, and give interest? ”

"That's right! It's as simple as that, but our debt will outperform inflation, that is, if he buys a hundred silver dollars, a year later, he will get one hundred and five silver dollars, but the price will only rise to one hundred and three dollars. The advantage of this kind of bond is that it is highly profitable, but it cannot be deposited and withdrawn at any time, so it can be used with confidence. If the Chamber of Commerce is afraid that the deficit will run out, it can be issued again next year! ”

Yang Shao understood, but Yang Xi's next words surprised him again.

"Yang Shao, your finance department will go back in the next few days and draw up a bond of 8 million silver dollars for me to issue a bond of 8 million silver dollars next year, and I will do two major things next year, the first is to widen the Xijing Ancient Road and the Meiling Ancient Road, and build these two ancient roads into highways. Second, the year after that, the excavation of a grand canal from Qiantang to the Yellow River will begin. At that time, my Dachenhe District, the north and south smooth road, the east and west smooth, the ancient and the present, what Qin Zhidao, Dujiangyan, all have to bow down under our vast industry! ”

When Yang Shao heard this, his legs were weak, and he said weakly: "Brother! Did you suddenly arise, or did you think about it? These two projects are too big, aren't they? ”

"Rest assured, our Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, this year's population exceeds 43 million, now the population base is getting bigger and bigger year by year, this year's new population, up to 5 million, do you know what this concept is, about seven or eight years, we can reach hundreds of millions of people, do you know what hundreds of millions mean? One of us can drown Liu Bei in Chengdu with a mouthful of spit. But how are we going to meet these people, we have to build the infrastructure, and only by building these can we feed these hundreds of millions of people, and then it's up to them. ”

Yang Shao has followed Yang Xi for so many years, knowing that he has never made decisions on his own, and he is so dictatorial that no one can change his strategy, but every time it is surprisingly accurate.

It's not that no one has mentioned it, please ask Yang Xifa to send elite troops to take Shuzhong and conquer Chengdu by force.

But Yang Xi didn't agree, and now Yang Shao understands.

The population of the entire Yizhou is less than the population of Chenhe District that grows in a year, as long as Yang Xi develops steadily, even if it doubles after a few years, it will only be millions, but the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce has more than 100 million civilized people, dealing with millions of uncivilized people, it is simply an elephant raising its nose and slapping a frog, and there is no suspense.

Yang Xi is in a hurry, but the world has to change, there is no protagonist in the network, open your mind and point it, and say that I have unified the world.

The most difficult thing to change and influence in this world is not the death or life of people's bodies, but cognitive thoughts. It is much more difficult to change a person's view of things than to kill a person, Yang Xi spent more than 20 years, and only those millions of people have changed, and now those who accept him are the children and grandchildren of those millions of people. Of course, the millions of people in Chenhe District who have not been completely changed by Yang Xi, their children and grandchildren, will also be changed.

Speaking of time, although Yang Xi has seized the time, the speed of others will not be slow, Yang Xi knows that the competition in this world has never stopped.

(End of chapter)