Chapter 164 Banks

The recruitment of talents by the institute was only posted in Zhongcheng, Puzhou County, and Chang'an, but it soon spread all over the country, and there was an endless stream of talented people who came to Zhongcheng to apply for jobs, and Wang Haoran, who personally served as the chief examiner, really felt the wisdom of the Tang Dynasty, and even made Wang Haoran feel that the imagination of the Tang Dynasty was not inferior to the following dynasties. It is not surprising that the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info think about it carefully, and later generations said that the Tang Dynasty people were open-minded, and the imagination of the Tang Dynasty people was naturally not bad.

There are many kinds of talents who come to apply, Wang Haoran has opened a number of research projects for this purpose, astronomy and geography, planting and breeding, and the most surprising thing for Wang Haoran is that there are still people who apply to study food nutrition! Although this research is still too early for the current Tang Dynasty, Wang Haoran does not want to dampen the enthusiasm of many Tang Dynasty people because of this.

As soon as the number of research projects increases, the pressure on the research of machinery and equipment is much greater, and if the equipment cannot keep up, it is basically difficult for other research to make great progress. Fortunately, more than half of the applicants wanted to join the research in mechanical engineering, which could greatly promote the progress of research in this area, so that researchers in other projects would not sit on the cold bench.

For more than a month, in addition to interviewing the applicants who came to apply, Wang Haoran also prepared plans for opening a commercial bank and building a railway in his spare time. He went to Puzhou County and Chang'an in turn to attract investment, these two places he has a wide network, and some people with strong financial resources around him are also among his invitations, but this time the investment is huge, and those investors need to think carefully before making a decision. Wang Haoran stayed in these two places for a few days, and after many investors agreed to invest, Wang Haoran went to Luozhou and Hangzhou, which were more troublesome, in addition to getting acquainted with local officials first, and relying on those officials to get acquainted with local wealthy businessmen and rich people, another channel was through the introduction of Han Lei, the shopkeeper of Luozhou, and Tan Mengde, a wealthy businessman in Hangzhou.

In Hangzhou, while waiting for the answers of those investors, Wang Haoran took the time to visit Xu Xuan'an. There are nearly 100 acres of mixed rice experimental sites here, and with Xu Xuan'an's efforts, a stable rice seed with a yield of nearly three stones per mu has been cultivated, but it can only be planted once. This miscellaneous technique, Xu Xuan'an, instructed by Wang Haoran, has been taught to other traders who have studied miscellaneous rice. After a large number of rice seeds have been produced this season, the next season will be fully promoted, and if everything goes well, Wang Haoran will solve a big problem that has plagued him for a long time.

A few days later, the rich people in Hangzhou and the surrounding areas who were invited by Wang Haoran basically agreed to invest after careful consideration. In order to deal with the relevant matters, Wang Haoran asked these rich people to elect a few representatives to go to Zhongcheng together, and he will also let the representatives elected from Chang'an, Puzhou, and Luozhou also go to Zhongcheng, and the representatives of these four places will form a council, and all major matters must be voted on by the representatives of these four places.

After a few days of discussions by representatives of the four places, the specific implementation measures were released. The name of the business is Pioneer UnionPay, and all investors hang the UnionPay logo in their shops all over Datang, but all the silver tickets issued by Pioneer UnionPay can be exchanged for cash in these stores, of course, the handling fee is a must. In addition, some large counties were also selected to open bank vaults, which could deposit money and lend money, and their functions and businesses were similar to those of banks in later generations. Although the peasants and ordinary people at this time basically had no money to save, in the big county towns, there were still many rich businessmen and rich people. Another aspect of the treasury is to raise funds for the construction of railways.

While everything was in full swing, problems soon arose. In recent years, because the rice yield has increased a lot, Li Shimin has introduced a policy to encourage farmers to open up land and build water conservancy, which has set off a boom in land reclamation throughout Datang. Datang is vast and sparsely populated, and some places allow the common people to open up wasteland, and the common people, because of the high yield of rice, are more willing to farm their own fields than to work for others.

Nowadays, not to mention idle manpower, even some shop workers have quit their jobs and returned to farm. Although this phenomenon is not common at present, Wang Haoran can predict that when the rice seeds with a yield of three stones per mu spread, there will inevitably be a boom in returning to the fields. There are pros and cons to the boom of returning to the fields, and it is definitely a huge blow to Wang Haoran's dream of industrialization. But this has become an irreversible trend, and all Wang Haoran can do is to explain to Li Shimin the pros and cons of the return to the field boom, and suggest the introduction of relevant policies to encourage childbirth. This is a long-term plan and will not have an impact on the coming boom in returning to the fields.

For the problem of difficulty in recruitment, Pioneer UnionPay can only improve the salary and expand the scope of recruitment. Fortunately, the current technology of railway construction is not high, and it can only be laid from beginning to end in one direction, so there are not many workers needed.

When the production of rails began, Wang Haoran asked Chen Jun to teach Wang Jingxiu and other four people who surveyed the route how to lay the rails, and these four people were responsible for laying the rails in the future. And those who are newly recruited need to teach them first, so there are no new projects in this time.

Wang Qihong developed rapidly in Gaochang, and many Datang traders saw the benefits, and they also carried rice to the surrounding areas to buy cotton, and then sold the cotton to the largest textile factory in Datang to earn the difference, all of which benefited from the continuous decline in the price of Datang rice. As Wang Haoran guessed, in an era of food shortages, customs and habits were less important. In today's Gaochang, rice appears more and more frequently on the table, and there is a tendency to replace their staple food. Since the doubling of Datang's rice production, there has been a boom in cotton cultivation in Gaochang and the surrounding areas, because the rice they get from planting cotton will fill their stomachs.

A large amount of cotton poured into the Tang Dynasty, Wang Haoran and Chang'an wealthy businessmen joint venture textile factory set up a cotton clothing design team, Wang Haoran set up three principles for this group, that is, the design and production of clothing must be beautiful, comfortable, convenient, but nothing else. Because Wang Haoran felt that the Tang Dynasty people still wore robes to have charm, and he didn't want to bring in the clothes of later generations. However, it was this clothing design team that followed Wang Haoran's teachings, and as a result, some designers boldly designed clothes that separated clothes and trousers, which were inspired by Wang Haoran's sportswear......

As the saying goes, the newborn calf is not afraid of the tiger, and those who are infected by Wang Haoran and Chen Jun and others are the newborn calves in terms of imagination, and they dare to think about anything, which is a good sign, and it is exactly what Wang Haoran has been looking forward to.