"Yan Shilang, are you thinking about Tianjin and Shandong?" Xie Hong didn't answer the rhetorical question, and broke Yan Song's mind with one word. [No pop-up novel network]

"Hou Ye is wise." Yan Song didn't explain much.

The gentry are also known as the squires, and their composition is more complex, with meritorious scholars, clan elders with prestige in the local area, or retired officials, these people can be called squires, and their biggest common surname is the support of Confucian culture, or the support of bureaucratic culture.

They are the basis of the Ming Dynasty's rule, the officials appointed by the imperial court, the lowest is to the county level, and then the lower level of the village, generally by the local gentry self-government, it can be said that the squire is the bridge between the central political axe and the lower peasants, not so much the Son of Heaven and the scholars rule the world, it is better to say that the Son of Heaven and the squire rule the world together.

Zhengde can forcefully suppress the courtiers in the capital, and he is not afraid of the latter picking on him, but if this style is extended to the whole world, it will not work.

Even if you don't consider the threat posed by the potential power of the other party, but once you don't have these squires, Da Ming will have no ruling foundation, and you must be very, very cautious when you take action against them, Yan Song and Zhang Cai want to express this meaning.

"Yan Shilang, you have two positions, I guess you also think that Benhou will take action in Shandong next year, right?" Xie Hong asked again.

“…… The lower official is foolish, please make it clear. ”

Xie Hong has never answered the question positively, but Yan Song would not think that the other party did not understand what he meant, and the other party asked twice in a row, he knew that there must be some explanation in this, but he really couldn't figure out what kind of routine it was to make the gentry cooperate honestly? Could it be that Hou Ye really knows how to spell?

"You expected it to be good, there will be big moves in Tianjin and Lushun next year, not only involving Shandong, but also affecting Hebei, but this action should not be the kind you imagined." Xie Hong smiled slightly, which relieved Yan Song and the others, and at the same time, they had more questions. Fortunately, Xie Hong didn't plan to sell Guanzi, and then the mystery was revealed.

"Brother Bo'an's latest textbook for the School of Political Science and Law, you should have read it, right?" Xie Hong didn't wait for the two to answer, and continued to take care of himself: "In the government affairs part, there is such a sentence as 'no agriculture, no stability, no work, no wealth, no business, no life', which is exactly what Benhou and Brother Bo'an discussed, Tianjin's construction, and Shandong's solution are in this sentence. ”

"What Master Hou means, could it be ......" Zhang and Yan glanced at each other, and they were a little unsure of the direction.

The doorway in the words agriculture and commerce may not be understood by everyone, but the basic concepts are also understood by most readers, even if they are nerds who can't distinguish wheat, they always know the important surname of agriculture. However, industry is a rather foreign word to most people.

Before Xie Hong appeared, even in Jiangnan, where the handicraft industry was the most prosperous, the workshops of each family were scattered, not to mention the scale, of course, very small.

Therefore, although Xie Hong's meaning was quite clear, after seeing the scene in Lushun Industrial Zone, Zhang Cai and Yan Song also vaguely guessed something, but they still couldn't believe it for a while, this kind of thing was too exaggerated.

"That's right, absorbing people from Shandong and Hebei and turning them into workers is the most important job next year." Xie Hong's words were loud and sound, and they also confirmed the guesses of the two.

"The goal of the future is to attract the landless peasants with the jobs brought by industry, and then to attract the squires with the wealth brought by industry, so that they can pay attention to industry, and finally come out and participate."

The Taizu of later generations carried out land reform, and the target was the squire, but Xie Hong didn't plan to do that.

To some extent, the squires may indeed hinder the development of society, but it must be said that among these people, there are also countless Chinese elites. The land reform in later generations was too direct, and the effect was not necessarily good, it completely destroyed the gentry class, and a fault line appeared in China.

For these people, Xie Hong plans to use some workarounds to make some of them a help, and only target the most stubborn people.

"But Master Hou, how many people can be accommodated in Tianjin and Lushun alone?" Zhang Cai asked.

"Maybe there will be a lot, Master Hou, is it for this purpose to build the Beijing-Tianjin Railway?" Yan Song realized that the railway that was still in the planning made a deep impression on him, and after listening to Xie Hong's words, he immediately thought about it.

"That's right." Xie Hong smiled and stretched out his hand to uncover the curtain hanging on the wall, and everyone looked at it, it turned out to be a map, with Bohai Bay as the center, Tianjin and Lushun are clearly marked.

"Starting next year, the smelter in Maoshan will officially begin to be built and put into operation, the local iron ore reserves are huge, the miners needed are mainly solved in North Korea, the smelting craftsmen can be transferred from Lushun, and the workers I plan to recruit from the Central Plains." Xie Hong pointed to the top of the Korean Peninsula and said.

In later generations, it will take at least a few years to build a large-scale smelter, but the smelting technology in this era is not high, and the blast furnace made by Xie Hong can only be regarded as a simple version, as long as there is half a year, it will be about the same.

As for the direct location of the smelter locally, his main concern is pollution. If you want to improve efficiency, the pollution of open-pit mining is quite serious, and instead of thinking about treating wastewater, it is better to mine it directly on someone else's site, in addition to eliminating the problem of transportation.

"Then there is Lushun, which Benhou defines as a heavy industrial zone, specializing in the production of large equipment, including shipbuilding and armaments, and as the scale increases, the industrial zone will extend to the northern part of the Liaodong Peninsula and gradually expand in scale."

Lushun basically maintained the original model, except that part of the mining and smelting part was transferred to Maoshan, leaving behind all the manufacturing projects.

"Finally, Tianjin, the direction here is light industry and transportation, as well as maritime trade ......," Xie Hong said, pointing his finger south, pointing to Tianjin.

"Light industry?" Yan Song expressed doubts about this new term.

"It's textile, sewing, assembly and the like, now Lushun already has a textile workshop, and when the time comes, it will be directly relocated as a whole, with these backbones in the original, it must not be difficult to build a factory again. In addition, the Ordnance Division of the capital will also be moved to Tianjin, and then it will become a place integrating industry and commerce and logistics. ”

Xie Hong said confidently: "Use the products produced here for trade, and then use the harvest of trade to hire workers, carry out various construction work including railways, and then the workers will consume, and then let the factory expand reproduction, so as to form a good surname cycle, and use one to two years to completely build Tianjin into a commercial city, and play an exemplary role for the whole world." ”

There was silence in the hall, only Xie Hong's passionate voice echoed.

In fact, Xie Hong did not study economics, and he was not very proficient in specific economic principles. However, what he said was quite advanced, even if there were celebrities like Yan Song and Zhang Cai here, it was difficult to understand them all for a while, but seeing Xie Hong's radiant appearance, everyone still felt so powerful.

Of course, no one knows what the textile workshop is like, because so far, the only product produced by that workshop is the underwear that is popular in the capital, but the wealth of the Ordnance Department and Zhenbao Zhai is obvious to all. Since Hou Ye put these two items side by side, everyone has no doubts.

As long as the construction is successful according to Hou Ye's vision, the follow-up effect should be undoubted.

"Master Hou, according to what you said, the world is profitable, when Tianjin begins to build, it will attract ordinary people and landless peasants, and after the industrial prosperity, it will also affect most of the gentry, so ...... What to do with farmland? Without farming, there is no stability, and someone has to farm the land. ”

Yan Song took refuge in Xie Hong relatively early, and then he has been following Tang Bohu, and he knows Xie Hong's mind very well to accept opinions, so after having doubts, he does not shy away from saying it, even if he mentions it.

"Yes, Master Hou, Liaodong's reclamation next year also needs manpower." Zhao Sheng also chimed in and mentioned the problem that had not been solved before.

No matter how powerful the new farm tools are, they are not tractors after all, and even if they are, they still need people to do it, and this year's reclamation has more than doubled the cultivated land in Liaodong, but because of the professionalization of the army, the manpower has been reduced, and there are not enough immigrants recruited from the interior, and the intensity of reclamation will definitely decline next year.

"This is easy to do," Xie Hong smiled leisurely: "Don't forget, there are also North Koreans, hehe, you don't think that Ben Hou let people lead a group of Tartars to North Korea, just to borrow the way, right?" ”

"I see, Master Hou intends to follow the example of the North Korean sailors?" There are no vain soldiers under the fame, and the fastest reaction is Yan Song, the North Korean sailors are called as coolies, but these coolies themselves are happy, and they are also proud when they meet their compatriots, they work more, eat less, and are obedient, and they are really good laborers who drive farming.

"That's right, North Korea is already poor, and the people are divided into three, six, nine, etc., and the lowest pariahs and ordinary civilians are very sad, so taking the opportunity of the Tartars to cross the border, Ben Hou helped them break through the pass by the way, and then spread some news about Liaodong, well, the Tartars have also harmed many places, and there are more people who can't eat."

Xie Hong said with a few treasures: "Before, Benhou had already sent people to accept it on the south bank of the Yalu River, and by now, there should be a hundred and eighty thousand, and there may be a few hundred thousand, just for mining there are not so many people, just to use them as serfs, so it doesn't matter if there are not enough immigrants, there are diligent and honest Korean people, there are always people who will farm." ”

"Brother Xie, you are really far-sighted, you can have such a deep thinking by borrowing a way." Stars appeared in Ma Ang's eyes, he was ashamed, he was still unqualified as a governor, and he was not completely oppressed by the subject countries under his jurisdiction at all, looking at Brother Xie's methods, killing many birds with one stone, it was amazing!

"Can the Wa country do the same?" Knowing his mistakes, he corrected them, and Governor Ma also drew inferences from one another, and immediately thought of another part under his jurisdiction.

"It's different from the Wa Kingdom, it's too troublesome to transport people from there, and let them attack each other first." Xie Hong waved his hand and vetoed Ma Ang's proposal.

"That ......" Ma Ang's face was stupid, obviously his self-confidence had been hit hard.

"Actually, it's not that the Japanese people can't be used, the men are not useful, we can use women, you go back and talk to Lichun Yuan about this, compared to our Ming women, in fact, the Japanese women are more suitable for that line, they are not only congenitally good, but also very dedicated."

is both a subordinate and an uncle, no matter from which point of view, it is not beneficial for Xie Hong to fight Ma Ang, so he also hurriedly remedied.

"In this way, Brother Xie, what you said is that those sons and brothers in Jiangnan like this one very much." Thinking of the allusion that Wang Hai had told him, Ma Ang's eyes lit up.

"Oh, you know that?" Xie Hong was surprised, this idea came up with him temporarily, but Ma Ang seemed to have done market research in advance, could it be that Brother Cheng had a heart for men again? Well, why do I say again?

"That's what I'm coming back for......" Thinking of the matter, Ma Ang's mood also became heavy, he put away his smile, and said with a straight face: "Brother Xie, your prediction is good, Jiangnan is indeed planning big things, our eyeliner reported that they not only recruited pirates and gathered sailors, but also probably transferred a sailor from Guangdong." ”

"Huh?" As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of exclamations in the main hall, and Ma Ang remembered that although the people present were all trustworthy, they were all civilian personnel, and they were not related to the military, so they knew nothing about this matter.

"Master Hou, if that's the case, you should prepare early." Zhang Cai is a jinshi in the second year of Hongzhi, and it has been a long time since he entered the dynasty, and he is a well-read and strong memory, although the Guangdong sailor is unknown, he still understands something.

"Although the Guangdong Navy Division is short of ships, but in the Hongzhi years, it has fought many times with pirates, but there are many victories, and the broken ships are still like this, if you get the help of Jiangnan, I am afraid it will be difficult to take lightly, and the enemy is very strong, please Hou Ye must not underestimate the enemy."

"What Zhang Shilang said is that Ben Hou will be careful."

After discussing with Dai Ziyu, Xie Hong already had a high assessment of the enemy's strength, and now after listening to Zhang Cai's advice and Ma Ang's intelligence, he was even more energetic, but there was no need to be too nervous, especially as a leader, he couldn't show nervousness at will.

"Actually, there is no need to worry, according to the letter newspaper, they will not arrive until next spring at the earliest, if Benhou's arrangement takes effect, I am afraid it will be delayed until summer, or even later, it is not known, hmph, Benhou will give them a good surprise at that time." Xie Hong snorted coldly: "Actually, Ben Hou is also very anxious, because Jiangnan is the most ideal light industry base." ”

"By the way, Zhang Shilang, Benhou has some things to send to the capital, and when you go back, take them with you." Without waiting for everyone to ponder the taste, Xie Hong turned to Zhang Cai again.

"Are you going to be sent to the palace?" Zhang Cai was stunned.

"Yes, the relevant instructions are all in it, you tell the emperor, Xungui or something, and hand it over to him." Xie Hong smiled mysteriously.

"This ...... Not quite right? Zhang Cai was stunned, everyone was stunned, the emperor's power is beyond doubt, but he often does not distinguish between the enemy and me, if he lets him shoot, but he must be fully conscious, just noble, don't need to be so exaggerated, right?

"I have to find something for him to do, otherwise it ......" Xie Hong sighed: "Otherwise, it will be troublesome, Brother Bohu is not a headache for this matter now, alas, poor wow." He shook his head indifferently, looking very happy.

(To be continued)