In fact, for Zhu Jian, although there is an inseparable connection between road construction and getting rich, as far as Zhu Jian's original intention is concerned, there is a sentence that he can't say. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

That is the entire Chinese empire is vast, and as far as the empire is concerned, the only ones that can really be thoroughly managed are the vast area centered on the Jingwu region, and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River centered on Nanjing.

As for Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, and the Northwest Regions, there were times when the empire was beyond the reach of the whip, and it was the inconvenience of transportation that really stood in the way.

Zhu Jian advocated road construction, and his purpose was precisely to strengthen the management of the entire empire.

For the Yujin region, to open a road, Zhu Jian also has his own plan, Shanxi is the coal capital, although the Ming Dynasty has begun small-scale mining of coal mines, mainly used for steelmaking needs and daily use of citizens in the city.

Moreover, there is such a small coal mine near Jingshi - Mentougou Coal Mine.

But for Zhu Jian, these are far from enough, the end of the Ming Dynasty is getting closer and closer to the world's first industrial revolution, and Zhu Jian, who was reborn in later generations, believes that the first dawn of the capitalist industrial revolution will bloom in this ancient land because of his arrival!

At that time, coal mines will inevitably become the resources for the development of production, and Shanxi, as the capital of China's coal mines, will have an unparalleled important position!

In addition, the construction of the Henan-Jin Highway is due to the fact that Henan, as a large province in the Central Plains, can be said to be very important, and only by firmly controlling it can we avoid the turmoil of the country, and Henan was the largest agricultural province in the empire at that time!

In other words, mastering Henan means controlling the labor output and food lifeblood of the entire empire.

And the best way to control it is to build roads!

Soon, under the impetus of Huang Daozhou and Qu Shiyun, a Yujin cement factory with an investment of about 100,000 taels of silver was born!

Because of the continuous improvement of technology, the entire Yujin cement plant has been able to form a scale in a short period of time, which can not only meet the construction needs of the Yujin Highway, but also be exported to the neighboring Shaanxi, Hubei, Anhui and other places.

For the construction of the Yujin Highway, Qu Shiyun is the use of the people's method of building roads, that is to say, to the most basic construction units of the Ming Dynasty as the object, to encourage the villagers to build roads, cement is provided by the Yujin Cement Factory, in addition to those who participate in the construction of the road, within one year exempted from any harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and by the Yujin Governor's Office to form a patrol team.

Spot checks are carried out on the roads built in various places, and if those who cut corners are found, they will be severely punished!

And because of the exemption from excesses and miscellaneous taxes within one year, and the fact that those who build roads can also receive a certain ration from the government every day, the enthusiasm of the villagers to build roads is extremely high for a time.

Not long after, a Henan highway connecting Luoyang, Kaifeng, Anyang, Zhengzhou, Shangqiu, Nanyang, Puyang, and Xuchang, as well as Shanxi highway connecting Datong, Shuozhou, Taiyuan, Linfen, and Yuncheng are about to be fully completed!

At the same time, because the propaganda work was in place, for a time, many displaced people scattered to various places flocked back to Henan and Jin, especially in Henan Province.

And most of the returning homeless people were originally after receiving the land, becoming self-cultivated farmers, but very few were willing to enter the Yujin farm, but with the Yujin farm in full swing, more food and housing do not have to pay for their own money, but can also receive a monthly lulu, although not much, but for generations of farmers who have cultivated, it is simply a willingness not to ask for luxury!

Therefore, in less than a few months after the establishment of Yujin Farm, there were a large number of homesteaders who abandoned their own land and came to work on the farm.

Because of the response to Zhu Jian's slogan of vigorously developing agriculture, Yujin Farm followed the example of Jingshi Agricultural University to establish Yujin Agricultural School.

The textbooks used are agricultural books of all dynasties and the latest agricultural books compiled by Xu Guangqi, Minister of Science and Technology, the Complete Book of Agricultural Administration.

In addition, Yujin Farm has introduced a new crop with high yield and drought tolerance from Fujian and other places - sweet potato!

With the gradual development of the construction of highways and farms, a new patrol battalion formed by Huang Daozhou and Qu Shiyun was initially formed.

To say that this new-style patrol battalion, the daily training and ethics are from the Dragon and Tiger Battalion of the Beijing Division, and its instructors are the Dragon and Tiger officers and soldiers who entered the Yu and Jin Dynasties with the Zodiac Zhou and the Huwei officers and soldiers who stayed.

In addition to the daily conduct and the Dragon and Tiger Army, the clothing it wears is also similar to the Dragon and Tiger Army, which is Huang Daozhou's special application to Zhu Jian, and thousands of sets of military uniforms specially approved by the Beijing Division Clothing Factory, but compared to the Dragon and Tiger Army, the patrol battalion is after all a team that maintains local stability, so the steel helmet used by the patrol battalion is similar to the 'Tony' pot cover steel helmet of the British army in later generations, and the clothing is sky blue, and the left shoulder is embroidered with several seals of the Yujin patrol battalion.

And the sky blue costume is also the uniform color that you have prescribed for all patrol battalions.

As for the armament, in addition to setting up a small arsenal for daily equipment refurbishment, all of its armament came from the Jingshi Royal Arsenal.

It can be said that although the Yujin patrol battalion at this moment has only 4,000 soldiers and horses (Shanxi 15,000, stationed in Taiyuan; Henan two thousand five, stationed in Luoyang), but its combat effectiveness is quite amazing!

It was these 4,000 soldiers and horses that would be defeated by the Yulin army and scattered thousands of rogues, and they were forced to stop at the border between Yujin and Shaanxi.

And at this moment, for the inspection team sent by the Imperial Supervision Department to inspect Yujin, after a few months of hard work, it was to go to one place and check one place, and it can be said that dozens of counties in Yujin and Jin were inspected by Fu Guan.

And it is precisely because Fu Guan has cleared up some places that the work of Huang Daozhou and Qu Shiyun has reduced a lot of resistance.

Until one day, the Governor's Mansion of Luoyang.

"Lord Huang, now that Lord Fu has basically completely eradicated the peripheral forces, according to what you can see, I don't know if this tree should be dug up?"

Regarding what Qu Shiyun said, Huang Daozhou nodded after pondering for a moment.

"Master Qu, you and I should be under martial law immediately, and we must take it down in one fell swoop!"

And just when the reform of the Yujin Dynasty was in full swing, for Zhu Jian, who was in the middle of Beijing, he was facing this major event.

Spring is coming!

Although this year's spring festival has not been advanced, it has made great changes in terms of inspection.

Bagu, a program that has been implemented by the empire for more than 100 years, although it has not been abolished, it is only used as a literary style, and it can be used freely for stylistic candidates.

Moreover, in this year's Spring Festival, Zhu Jian's major subjects are current politics, scriptures, historical evidence, and finance.

And encourage those who fail to make the list, you can enter the translation, medicine, agriculture, business, road, mining, tea, sericulture and other accelerated schools, but those who have completed the examination, after passing the examination, can enter various departments as officials, or become professionals in various fields!