Chapter 119 The Great River
Zhuang Yi thought about it, and then returned to the back hall of the mansion, which is a separate courtyard after the front end of the Zhengyuan Hall, where he works daily and meets important guests, with a spacious main room with three columns and east and west wings.
The public house is still very simple, and there are not too many luxurious furnishings, Zhuang Yi went around to the desk table, took out the small red lacquer wooden box that Ailan gave him when he was leaving, took out a volume of Liaodong complete map from it, and slowly opened it on the desk. The map is very rough, there are no latitude and longitude lines, and it is very non-standard, but the general outline of Liaodong is unobstructed.
His gaze involuntarily fell on Liucheng, which happened to be at the top of the Liaoxi Corridor, but the location was northerly, which reminded him of Jinzhou in later generations, probably a little north of the small fishing village he went to last time, controlling the sea and land routes, and the Liaohe River estuary in the east, along the river can go directly to Liucheng, crossing the river and passing through the Yiwulu Mountain, which is the jurisdiction of the former Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, where there are rich coal and iron resources.
His fingers swept vertically across Anshi Prefecture to Duli Town at the top of the Liaodong Peninsula, a little heavier, only one sailor, population, cloth, porcelain, grain, any resources can be available! It's a pity that it is now in the hands of the Bohai people. When Zhuang Yi thought of this, his heart was on fire, and he muttered in his mouth: Shui Shi...... Tsui's ...... A must have for the Mariner! Choi's? It can only be business!
Speaking of commerce, in fact, it is also simple, the circulation of goods in the north and the south, but the profit is absolutely unimaginable profits, the Central Plains, Jiangnan, what a huge market, as long as the establishment of a business network, then from then on the gold rolling ah!
But trafficking is a trail after all, only to achieve a one-stop production and marketing, is the biggest secret of profit, raw materials in the world is not lacking, Xi people, Khitan, Bohai, Silla, they can all supply; The production technology is in your head, but it takes time to plan and build it up thoroughly.
Well...... How is this done? Zhuang Yi thought silently, took the paper with a pen in his hand, spread it out, and wrote down the nine big characters of "Pingliao Army's Five-Year Development Outline". Then he wrote the preface with great difficulty.
If you want to defend the land, you must first govern the army, if you want to govern the army, you must first manage the people, and if you want to govern the people, you must first get rich. If the people are rich, the army will be strong, and then they can eliminate stubborn diseases, calm the troubled times, and help the world......
So on this day, Zhuang Yi ignored what was going on outside the window, closed his eyes and wrote, and a copy of the first five-year plan of the Pingliao Army was freshly released.
Is it feasible to plan just a plan? Zhuang Yi took advantage of the daily meeting of the government the next morning, when all the subordinate officials were there, and took out the outline of the plan for everyone to see one by one.
"What do you think of my five-year development plan to coordinate the military and political affairs of Yingzhou?" Zhuang Yi asked hopefully.
"It's a rare ...... The military envoy is young, this broad horizon, careful layout of the mind, a certain time to live a handful of years, but also embarrassed! But what...... It's not that simple, we're just a military town, nameless and unshared! There are only 3,000 soldiers, and the armor is not complete, if you really do what you say, Lu Long will transfer troops over as soon as he is ready, and then he will marry someone else! Duan Zhongzhong said with a smile, obviously disapproving in his heart.
"Huh...... Not really! I Ching has clouds: there are Fu, Guangheng, Zhenji, and Lishi! It's not impossible to do things, but in this order! We have to adjust it, let's build a county first, and then try to get the assassin history from Youzhou, or the governor of Xiazhou, everything is logical, there are 3,000 elite soldiers enough to defend the land! Zhu Yongji said with a smile.
"It's not right...... This first one is not good, Youzhou also has a salt farm, if we cook salt on a large scale, it is undoubtedly robbing Youzhou's business, and it will cause trouble! And ......"
After two days of morning deliberations, quarrels and discussions, article by sentence, they were finally approved by the two, and finally realized a problem, if they want to make money! You have to have talent!
How do you get talent? Train yourself, the daylily is cold! Zhuang Yi personally went to Youzhou to recruit? He is a hairless young man, he is a soldier and a horse when he reaches the sky, and the eyes of scholars are often higher than the top, who can trust him? This burden still fell on Zhu Yongji's shoulders.
Two days later, Zhuang Yi sent An Huaixin to lead five people, escorted Zhu Yongji on horseback to Hebei, excavated talents to serve in Liaodong, and brought his family members by the way, and settled in Liaodong from then on.
Everything agreed, according to the plan, and the reclamation movement continued, but it was no longer aimless. The city of Liucheng is located on the north bank of the Liao River, and the villages and villages are basically distributed in the south of the Liao River, and the fields are naturally near the villages in the south of the Liao River, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, the cultivated area is not large, and a large area of wasteland has become a pasture for cattle and sheep, but this is temporarily reclaimed by the townships themselves, and how much is opened.
However, one hundred and fifty miles north of Liucheng on the north bank of the Liao River, it is the boundary with the Khitan pasture, where there are low and undulating mountains and hills and valleys that lie east and west, but there are many valleys that can go straight down to Liucheng, in order to avoid the looting of the Khitans, there are no villages north of Liucheng, only occasionally some bold herdsmen go to the northern pasture to graze.
Zhuang Yi's eyes were locked on this place first, and thousands of Xi soldiers under his command reclaimed the barren fields in the north of the city, and after their families moved here, they would live with the group of Muwei prisoners of war and settle in the north of the city. At the same time, before the winter snow comes, two military forts with a capacity of 500 troops will be established to warn the safety of Liucheng.
In this way, there will be almost eighty or ninety thousand people in the coming year, that is, it is necessary to restore the state and county system, Zhuang Yi has already planned, the north of Liucheng will be centered on the Xi people and the Murowei people's settlements, and build a small county town south of the two military forts as the corner, set it as Anhua County, and take the meaning of naturalization Anbian, of course, it is not the final border place.
The surrounding area south of Liucheng will be restored to Liucheng County, and the county governance is still Liucheng; The second is to relocate some of the population to the south of Yuluo, near the mouth of the Liaohe River, to build a new county town in Juluo, and gradually establish a state, which will be used as a sea and land economic and trade gathering center in western Liaoning, and strengthen the construction of a transit station for entering the customs, and more importantly, there can be large-scale development of marine fisheries and salt industry.
When he receives the two military towns of Huaiyuan and Wulu from the Bohai people, then he will cross the Liao River and have all Yingzhou. Even if it is a state, it is only a state, and it is still a vast and sparsely populated area, but with the territory, the economic and trade development, and the formation of the industrial chain, will the population still be a problem?
Of course, most of these are things on paper, so that everyone has a clear administrative idea, the main thing is to drive the construction of Yingzhou with business, as a big customer like Cui's, naturally can't wait slowly.
After all the affairs were agreed, Zhuang Yi invited Cui Zan to come, and asked Duan Zhongzhong to accompany him, and signed a series of mutually beneficial terms.