It didn't take long for the hall to open, and the scene was so hot, Liu Hong really wanted to join in the fun. But he's so busy that he can't spare the time.

It was okay a while ago, although there were quite a few things. However, the occupied land has not been measured. So those things are just selling loot or something, and Liu Qi and they can call the shots.

But now, no, the occupied land has been preliminarily measured. The specific arrangement of these lands needs Liu Hong to decide.

With such a large territory, there are really a lot of things involved. You said that this is to immigrate, to divide states and counties, to set up official offices, and to arrange officials, which one does not need Liu Hong, the emperor, to make a decision. Don't talk about this, even determining the main industries in various places also needs Liu Hong to worry about, who let him have experience as a "person who has come over". Anyway, Liu Hong was so busy during this time, not to mention going to the hall, even the time to sleep was very little.

However, although there are many of these things, the most important thing is the disposal of the occupied land. Although the imperial court has already disposed of a lot of land through land sales. However, the results of Liu Hong's personal expedition this time are too big, from Liaodong to Dunhuang, such a large territory, even if the appetite of those families is great, how much can they digest. Therefore, most of the land still needs to be processed by immigrants.

But now, there really aren't many people to use to immigrate. Most of those who are willing to emigrate have already emigrated to Jiaozhou, Taiwan Island, and Ryukyu Island. The rest of the people are really not enough to fill such a large territory.

This question can make Liu Hong and others worried. In the end, I can only use interests to attract people. Liu Qian also made a ruthless move, "The money from the sale of land this time has made a lot of money, so we don't need it to do anything else." It's all used to support immigrants and reward those who are willing to emigrate, and I don't believe they don't care. ”

Liu Hong pondered for a while, and he could only do this. After all, the population base of the Han is so much now, and without this method, they really can't get many people.

"No, there are too few people now, if there are 500 million people, why should I be worried like this!"

But it's useless to talk about that now, population growth is a long-term project. Even if he encourages childbearing now, it won't solve this problem. After all, far water can't quench the thirst of the near.

"No, I think that the famous 'enclosure movement' of 'sheep eating people' during the British Industrial Revolution was that merchants and ranchers planted grass and raised sheep. And now that I have such a big grassland, why do I always want to farm! Liu Hong suddenly felt that his thinking had fallen into a misunderstanding. That's right. I can now drive the 'Industrial Revolution.'" ”

The first industrial revolution in history should be the steam revolution. Although now the steam engine has been invented. But this thing is too polluted. Liu Hong didn't want to do it. But if you want to go straight to the electrical revolution, he doesn't have the technology. Although he had already told his researchers about the principle of triboelectric induction, the generator had not yet been invented.

"Forget it, now there is a small population in total, and the hydraulic machinery is enough. If you really use a machine with too much power. It will definitely not be able to run the situation of surplus products. ”

After making up his mind, Liu Hong began to get busy. First, researchers were brought in and asked to develop wool spinning machinery. Then there is the arrangement of people to find a group of workers from Persia who can make blankets. The most important. It is to let Liu Zhong arrange for the merchants of the Chamber of Commerce to go to the grassland to build a pasture.

However, there are no products yet, and they are not very convincing, and the merchants of the Chamber of Commerce ignore them for now. Let Liu Zhong help them with the royal family first, and go to circle enough pastures.

Liu Zhong, as the head of the Imperial Household Office, his every move has attracted people's attention. Now that people see Liu Zhong and suddenly occupy a large number of grasslands, people must be extremely curious.

At this time, after Ma Jun's day and night work, the wool spinning machinery was finally made. Liu Zhong came to the Chamber of Commerce with samples of woolen spinning machines, fabrics, blankets and other wool spun into wool.

Facts speak louder than words, and when these businessmen see the beautiful blankets and high-quality fabrics, they know what a promising industry it is. Besides, if you can be a businessman in this chamber of commerce, then no one is a fool. Even if you take 10,000 steps back, even if this thing can't make money, how can you lose money if you follow the emperor. Sooner or later, the emperor will find him back elsewhere. So this guy is quite relieved, and he will take action after he goes back.

At this moment, the second round of grassland enclosure activities began. This round is obviously more ferocious than the first round. Because animal husbandry is an industry that requires a huge amount of land, and if there is less land, it will not develop at all. And those businessmen, all of them are rich, and the land price is too cheap. So this time, the land is being sold out.

Just when everyone was busy enclosing land and raising sheep to build a textile farm, Liu Hong was thinking about the Gobi Desert in the northwest again. Don't look at the Gobi Desert, but there is no shortage of water there, and it can be used effectively. In later generations, it was the main base for cotton production. And now, Liu Hong is also planning to use it to grow cotton.

It stands to reason that now that there is a surplus of land in the Han Dynasty, Liu Hong should not go there to fight the idea. But this time, the newly conquered territory, whether it is the northeast or the northwest, where the winter is cold to death. And now, he has a large number of immigrants there, and the demand for cotton has become enormous. With the little cotton that is being grown now, it is absolutely impossible to meet the needs. However, Liu Hong didn't want cotton to occupy too much arable land, so Liu Hong learned from later generations and used the Gobi Desert in the northwest to grow cotton.

To grow cotton, you still have to rely mainly on businessmen. Now the good land is uncultivated. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for immigrants to think of going to that place. Here, the only exception is the merchants, who don't care where they go as long as there is a huge profit to be made.

Cotton cloth and cotton textile machinery, that has been around for a long time. However, the current cotton production is small, and almost all the main cotton products are used in the army. So in the market, the price of cotton products, that's quite high.

As soon as those merchants heard that the emperor was going to plant cotton on a large scale on the Gobi Desert, they were eager to try it. Moreover, I heard that the imperial court ordered that as long as they were willing to go to the Gobi Desert to plant cotton, the imperial court not only did not charge land money, but also provided seeds for free, which completely detonated their enthusiasm. (To be continued......)