Wang Zili took the students away, but Gu Ming came over, and he aimed at the large reeds between the Nanhe River and the Yunlong River.

The origin of the matter is the construction of the wharf in Nanzhang Village.

The wharf in Nanzhang Village now has a lot of buildings and is getting bigger and bigger. The latest to be built is a granary, which is located next to the distillery in Nanzhang Village, which is used for temporary grain storage and trading with mountain people. The old granary has been rebuilt, mainly to store staple grains.

A trading market and a tannery were built at the Nanzhangcun Wharf to buy and handle the goods of the mountain people. The Self-Defense Forces of this squad are stationed here. Yuan Dingguo established the Xinmin Commercial Bank and bought two large ships, which were opposite the Wu family's boats.

In addition to the Wu family's grocery store and Xinmin Commercial Bank, the villagers of Nanzhang Village have also opened some small shops, and the mountain people can also set up stalls in the trading market to sell the mountain goods they brought. In addition to the villagers of several villages in Zhangjiabao, there were also small traders who came with the boats of the Zhang family and the Wu family.

Yuan Dingguo and Wu Ying took five students and more than a dozen buddies to manage the affairs there.

Gu Ming has the meaning of matching his brother-in-law and the eldest lady of the Wu family. However, the two people do have some personality incompatibility, one has too many thoughts, and the other is serious, but they are both masters who refuse to bow their heads. Wu Ying thinks that Yuan Dingguo cannot be entrusted with important tasks, this person is unreliable.

But Zhang Chun still believes in Yuan Dingguo, Yuan Dingguo is a revolutionary, with his own tasks, it is inevitable to do something other than his own job, and he likes to go off the rails. But he has a broad vision, and Yuan Dingguo understands some of Zhang Chun's ideas about Nanzhang Village, and he always completes the task beyond Zhang Chun's expectations, which makes Zhang Chun appreciate him a lot.

Of course, it is also because Gu Ming and him cooperate well, one is positive and one is strange, and they complement each other.

Wu Ying is too steady, and she is a good hand at managing housekeeping, but she is definitely not good at the outside.

With the cooperation of several people, the business of Nanzhang Village has developed rapidly, and in addition to being able to feed the villagers, the annual income is not less than the land rent. The income of kiln factories, oil factories and textile factories is three-legged.

Because Nanzhang Village has a lot of commercial profits, the villagers of Nanzhang Village plan to return the land that has been divided to Zhang Chun in two years to cultivate rice seeds. There are as many as seven or eight varieties of rice in the Agricultural Research Institute, and there is a trend of increasing them, and it is necessary to set aside large fields for planting rice in various villages, and it is already somewhat difficult to maintain some rice varieties with special characteristics. Nanzhang Village had this idea, and Zhang Chun naturally agreed. In two years, Nanzhang Village will be transformed into a purely commercial village.

However, the area around Nanzhangcun Wharf is small and not enough. Recently, the tannery and Xinmin Commercial Bank in Nanzhang Village have hired hundreds of workers. Because the Zhang family pays a lot of wages and can support their families, these hired workers hope to bring their families to settle in Nanzhang Village, which is a bit unarrangeable.

Gu Ming's eyes were aimed at the sandbar between the Nanhe River and the Yunlong River.

In fact, although the sandbar is covered with reeds, some of them are still on the surface of the water during flood periods. A branch of Shinu Mountain lurks underground, disappearing from time to time, separating the South River from Yunlong, and the middle is all swamps and reeds. However, that is because the south bank of the South River is unstable and often overflows.

Gu Ming's intention was to open a quarry in Shinu Mountain, and use the quarried stone to build artificial riverbanks in several low-lying areas to fix the course of the Nanhe River. The time is chosen in the dry season, and by the way, dredge the shallows at the corner of the Nanhe River and the Yunlong River. In this way, the channel is cleared, and the sandbar in the middle will remain. The water of the Yunlong River is much gentler, and the sediment on that side will slowly silt up, and the sandbar will stabilize.

It was a big plan, requiring labor, gunpowder, and a ship to carry the stones. Gu Ming calculated that it would be about four thousand taels of silver, and Zhangjiabao's income, if he didn't expand other businesses and went all out, it would be enough.

I didn't dare to do it before, because Shinu Peak was controlled by people in the mountains. Now that generation is already under the control of the Zhang family. What we need to do now is to buy another boat and open a quarry in Shinv Peak, which will not only quarry, but also strengthen its influence on the entire Shinv Mountain area. Gu Ming planned to arrange five hundred people in the quarry, including a hundred escorts. Let the members of the old guard be the squad leader. These veteran guards have been training and studying for seven or eight years, and if they were in the new army, they would already be good officers.

"Aren't you afraid that people will say that you are going to rebel? I've got 70 Hanyang here. ”

Seventy poles were made in Hanyang, forty were used by the escorts, and fifteen were used in Shinu Village, ten of which were old-fashioned. Only five guns were fired. There were ten guns in the former Li village, because there were more people there.

These people who fired the guns were called members of the village protection team, and they were under the control of the village chief, and they were usually trained. So it can already be called a quasi-army.

Now Gu Ming wants to expand the number of people by a hundred at once, and he is in Shinu Mountain, and there is no gun, so he obviously can't guarantee safety. If these people are equipped, it will be enough to take the county seat. Gu Ming smiled and didn't speak. But the meaning in the eyes is: then it depends on whether you want it or not.

Can Zhang Chun disagree? If the river beach is really successfully renovated, the area is equivalent to that of Zhangjialing, Jinjiling, and Zhupishan combined. There are about 10,000 acres. It won't be all fertile land, because at least half or so will be swamps, but it's a good thing.

However, whether this area now belongs to Tianmen County or Jingshan County is a matter of two words.

Tianmen County said that it should be bounded by the Nanhe River, and Jingshan County said that it should be bounded by the Yunlong River, but the Nanhe River is the shortest tributary of the Yunlong River. You can say whatever you want. In the past, because this was a reed swing, when there were no bandits, the people of the two counties used to fight to harvest the reeds, but then the bandits were rampant, and no one cared about it here.

Zhang Chun wants to govern this river beach, and without the support of the government, it will not work. So Gu Ming went to Xin Baojiu early in the morning.

Since the county lieutenant died in the bandits, Xin Baojiu, as the main man, has been guarding Yunlong Town and has never moved. Xin Baojiu is an ambitious person, so he got into Gu Ming's relationship.

The land route from Yunlong Town to Jingshan County is blocked by mountain people and is impassable. The back and forth is transported to Tianmen by river, and then crossed the white horse into the county seat. Xin Baojiu can also be regarded as capable, and has received the support of several major families in Yunlong Town, and slowly restored the prosperity of Yunlong Town. However, Li Wengui and Da Li Jiawan have a bent relationship, and Da Li Jiawan spent a lot of money to make Li Wengui, a native of Hunan, recognize this family. Xin Baojiu can only make peace with the mud between several major families. Tepid for seven or eight years.

The dispute between the Yunlong Wu family and the Li family ended in the victory of the Li family. However, the strength of the Yunlong Wu family was damaged, but the Qinghe Wu family did not fall, and it was the inconspicuous Zhang family that supported the Qinghe Wu family. After Zhang Chun, the little doll, ate Xiao Lijiawan, it became a well-known family in Yunlong Town, and it was faintly ranked as the third largest family.

Zhang's family produces exquisite porcelain, refined cotton oil, and soap, and although the number of ready-to-wear clothes produced is not large, it is very exquisite. These things were bought directly in Hankow. Because of the huge profits, the Qinghe Wu family was able to support Yunlong Town because of this.

It's just that Zhang's family is very closed, and the Mengxue Hall is very large, but it does not accept students, there are cotton mills, oil mills, tanneries, and alcohol factories. But the workers either went to Hankou to sell some poor children to raise, and hardly had any dealings with other families in Yunlong Town. If it weren't for the fact that he would send some silver every year, Xin Baojiu would have thought that the Zhang family would be isolated from the world. Of course, this silver Xin Baojiu can't be used, because most of these things have gone to the county master.

Therefore, if the Zhang family wants to start a new school, it means that the Zhang family may open an opening. Xin Baojiu was able to get a lot of benefits from it, because what benefits Li Jiawan had, it was all the county master's.

So Xin Baojiu decided to make a trip himself.

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