Chapter 146: A Huge Business Opportunity in Linhuang Mansion
"This is the land of Longxing in the Khitan! Is Linhuang Mansion the birthplace of Liao Taizu? How does it seem that a big city known as one of the five capitals is so ordinary, it is not as good as a county seat of the Great Song Empire. Chen Hui said to Xiang Chao.
"You look at the map, we are in the geometric center of the entire Liao country, rich in resources in the east, large population in the south, vast land in the west, and no opponent in the north, which can be described as a good place with huge potential. Although Zhao Long is the fourth, he has built a new Mongolian city, and the progress is much faster than ours. The second brother works hard in the east, and we must also see clearly that our advantages are stronger than the old four, he has no money and no one, and the worst foundation has established a stable sphere of influence, and both of them are still in the stage of wholesalers, and they are still far from the goal of landlords, landlords, and big capitalists.
The unique geographical combination of Linhuang Mansion constitutes a three-dimensional treasure trove of resources. Linhuang Province is rich in mineral resources. At present, more than 130 mineral fields of various types have been discovered in the province, and more than 30 kinds of minerals have been discovered. The proven non-ferrous metal reserves are 46.88 million tons of lead and zinc ore, 26.56 million tons of lead-zinc ore and more than 1.65 million tons of lead-zinc metal. The amount of copper ore is 449,830 tons, 1,400 tons of silver, 16,190,000 tons of ferrous iron, 73 million tons of pyrite, more than 100 million tons of limestone, more than 803,000 tons of wollastonite, and non-metallic resources such as clay, zeolite, and crystal. In recent years, the mining economy of Linhuang Province has developed by leaps and bounds. At present, there are 65 registered mines in the province. Linhuang Mansion has 150,000 acres of cultivated land, suitable for planting more than 110 kinds of crops such as corn, wheat, soybeans, millet, sorghum, and tobacco; It can grow more than 80 kinds of vegetables such as cabbage, celery, and leeks. Among them: the cultivation of broom seedlings is the characteristic planting industry of Linhuang Mansion (Li Ji, who opened a small golden finger to Xiang Chao, engaged in agent layout in advance, and let a group of local Khitan nobles as agents to plant crops suitable for local water and soil, and engaged in unified purchase and sales to attract a group of people). The province has a forest area of 3.6 million mu, with a forest cover rate of 32.4%, and more than 40 kinds of main tree species include Pinus tabuliformis, Larch, Mongolian wild fruit, mountain apricot and fast-growing and high-yield timber forests. The artificially planted 20,000 acres of larch is the largest artificial larch forest in Linhuang Province. The area of apricot forest in Quanfu is 1.32 million mu, of which the fruiting area is 800,000 mu, with an annual output of more than 5 million kilograms of apricot kernels, which is one of the apricot kernel production areas. The existing grass pasture area of the province is 4.84 million mu, which provides sufficient forage resources for the development of animal husbandry. With an annual output of 230 tons of high-quality sheep wool and more than 100 tons of cashmere, the province is the largest fluff and fur distribution center in Shangjing Province. The province processes more than 500,000 skins and 7,256 tons of commercial meat every year. Linhuang Province is rich in red deer resources, with the largest deer farm in the northeast - Wulanba Forest Farm Deer Farm and Shipenggou Forest Farm Deer Farm, the existing red deer herd in the whole province up to more than 4,600, deer products deep processing and red deer breeding technology in the world in a leading position.
Like his elder brother, Chen Hui, who took over the basic platform built by the Good Group, quickly made achievements in the logistics industry connecting Kamikyo Province and Nakakyo Province. Zhao Long got the Western Mongolia (the central and western part of the Shangjing Road) and the Xijing Road, and he got the Eastern Mongolia (near Linhuang Mansion and the Hulunbuir grassland) and the Zhongjing Road, and the fourth junior brother Xiang Chao got the Tokyo Road again, and the economic lifeline of the Liao State was in the hands of the teacher, and the Great Song Dynasty could sit back and relax.
There is no industry or commerce in this almost steppe land, livestock production accounts for more than 80% of GDP, and the very little agricultural output is difficult to meet local food needs.
When the advance team of technicians of the Chenji Group arrived here, in just two years, the average output value of residents in various tribes and cities quadrupled. Cattle and horses, which could only be sold cheaply, have become gold, the prices of all animal products have risen more than threefold, and the prices of the means of production have plummeted, and the garbage-like wool that no one cared about was almost equal to half the weight of cloth, and cashmere was even more expensive, almost the same price as copper coins of equal weight. Camel hair and deer antler velvet are almost as expensive as silver of equal weight. Originally, a small bag of black and bitter coarse salt could be exchanged for a good ten pieces of raw cowhide, but now one piece of raw cowhide can be exchanged for a pound of snow-white refined salt.
Although the opportunity to buy goods at cheap prices and sell goods at sky-high prices has been lost, the increase in commodity trade volume brought about by the narrowing of the price gap and the improvement of logistics has increased almost a thousand times compared with the previous scattered trade, and the output of each tribe can also be converted into means of production and consumer goods at a very fast speed. The open supply of ironware, farm implements, building materials, and coins made all regions prosperous.
The leapfrog revolution in wheel saws, cranes, cement, clay bricks and other production tools and building materials has increased the efficiency of carpenters and masons on the steppe dozens of times more every day, but every craftsman is still tired and vomits blood. Because the speed of the increase in orders is extremely alarming, many craftsmen have scheduled the construction period to be half a year later.
Chen Hui is very jealous of the predecessors who went to Nanjing Road earlier, those local tyrants from Jingxi Road, Dingzhou Road, and Gaoyangguan Road are very wide in the border army and Nanjing Road in Liao, and their forces are intertwined, with the support of the group, their financial resources are abundant, and they have begun to show signs of disobeying commands. Strengthen a part of the conservative military Khitan aristocracy that is not comparable to the emerging Han land aristocracy in Nanjing Province, and attack the anti-backbone of the Liao State who collude with the border army.
These disobedient guys who take the group's money must be educated, otherwise the foundation of the group will be shaken, and if each agent does not listen to the command and do his own thing, the group will fall apart, so these anti-bones are the least tolerated by the teachers.
At first, I was very worried about the speed of development in this poor marginal area, but after getting the reports submitted by the downline, I realized once again that the teachers had a far-reaching layout.
As long as the power of Shangjing Province is well developed, the anti-bones of Nanjing Province and Zhongjing Province will be easily killed by the conservatives with strong military strength.
The only weakness of the conservatives was to rely on the revenues provided by the wealthy Nanking Province to keep the court running, and the discourse of the two sides in the court for a hundred years was reversed as the proportion of Nanjing Dao in the treasury increased.
This situation had long dissatisfied most of the military feudal lords and nobles living in the fiefdoms outside the grasslands and Nanjing Dao, and after the trade with the Song Dynasty, people were even more jealous and frenzied with large trade revenues poured into Nanjing Dao. The Khitan magnates everywhere have long been angry. If it weren't for the constant compromise and appeasement of the rational high-level, Nanjing Province would have been divided and dismembered by Xijing Province, Nakakyo Province, and Tokyo Province.
Li Ji's 'assignment' of the three disciples to the northern edge of the Liao State was to solve the problem of Nanjing Road, to engage in the strategy of long-distance friendship and close attack, and also to pave the way for the future development of the north.
If Zhao Long went to Western Mongolia to control the Khalkha Mongol nation that threatened world peace in the future, and Xiang Chao went to the Northeast to control the Jurchen nation that threatened peace in East Asia, Chen Hui was the real culprit behind the civil war that disintegrated the Liao Empire.
In order to provoke the struggle between the hawks and the doves in various fields and intensify the most important ethnic contradictions in the Liao Empire, Li Ji authorized Chen Hui to mobilize the resources and manpower of the five countries of Han, Liao, and Xia. In order to achieve the goal of the task entrusted by the teacher, Chen Hui also abandoned the festival and vowed to kill all the anti-bones in the shortest possible time by any means, and completely indulge the Liao State in his hands. In the near future, even if Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi became the lord of Liao, he ordered not to travel in the palace (the mobile palace of the bowl at four o'clock). As long as the Liao royal family is elevated, the many aristocrats and bureaucrats who are completely dependent on the Great Song Dynasty are like a plate of scattered sand, and they can eat whatever they want.