Chapter 160: Construction of the Great Construction
After Gongsun continued to lay down the Longshou Mountain Cottage, he was very happy in his heart, and the soldiers and generals under the banquet were given double their salaries for a week, and all the soldiers who participated in the encirclement and suppression activities of Longshou Mountain.
As for the generals with great merit, Gongsun Xu directly gave a lot of money and positions in important departments, and all the generals who had been following him were transferred to regular positions.
After this battle, all the large-scale bandit forces around Xiangping City were wiped out, and those small-scale bandit leaders saw this situation and directly led their bandits to the Central Plains to ask for a living.
Xiangping City ushered in a new era without bandits and bandits, and also ushered in a new development.
From Xiangping to Longshou Mountain, there is a lot of traffic every day, forming the largest construction wave since the founding of Xiangping.
There are many woods from Xiangping City to Longshou Mountain, and Gongsun Xu directly issued an order that all those who can cut wood can participate in this large-scale construction activity, and each mature tree will be rewarded twice the official price in the market.
Gongsun Xu began to stock up on timber, knowing that he would have to use countless timber as soon as spring next year.
Gongsun Xu knew in his heart that at this time, the water transportation industry in the Central Plains was relatively developed, but what about it! In terms of sea freight, it is a lot worse.
Xiangping is not far from Jinzhou Port, next year's spring, he will build a dock in Jinzhou Port, and strive to build a sea ship, once it can form a sea transportation, then, Xiangping City will usher in more development opportunities.
In the distance from Xiangping to Longshou Mountain, there are many big trees that can be used for shipbuilding, and now the wood reserve work is carried out, and he will be able to use these timbers at the beginning of spring next year.
The branches and bark on the trees are the best materials for heating in winter, and people who have the strength or have a carriage or horse can go to the field where the wood is stacked and pull it home to make a fire, but that's it! The firewood is not completely taken away for nothing, and these people need to work on the site for two hours, or bring some gravel to pave the road when they go to the timber yard.
There are many people who cut trees and build roads, and as long as they go to work every day and can work according to the instructions every day to complete each day's work, then the people who build the roads will be given three full meals.
In short, as long as you have the strength and want to earn some money to live a good life, you have a job to do.
The wages that Gongsun Xu gave to these good laborers can be said to be the most paid in this era, and Gongsun Xu let these people work and provide food.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, the poor generally had two meals a day a day, and there were not many people who could eat two meals, and now Gongsun continued to provide three full meals, and also gave a lot of wages, and almost all the young and strong people in Xiangping City participated in the construction activities of Gongsun Xu.
Craftsmen with a bit of craftsmanship are even more favored in this construction tide, changing the embarrassment of the low status of craftsmen in the past, as long as they have craftsmanship, they can command other people to assist him in his work.
Most of the work that these people helped them do would be attributed to the craftsmen, which meant that as long as they went out to assist Gongsun in this construction work, they would be able to earn enough money.
It is precisely because of this that Xiangping City has blossomed everywhere, and a wave of construction has been set off everywhere, and countless young and middle-aged people have begun to work in the early morning and return to the ground every day.
Xiangping's army Gongsun Xu did not let them be idle, at this time Gongsun Xu did not let them continue to practice, but divided these soldiers into two parts, and one of the soldiers began to clean up the camp site, level the land, and began to dig the foundation at the place where Gongsun Xu chose the site of the new military camp.
Gongsun Xu has his idea of building a military camp, and now the bricks of the brick factory are about to come out, and the first batch of bricks will be brought here to build the military camp.
The old barracks in Xiangping City are no longer suitable for these soldiers to live in, and the most important thing is that the barracks in Xiangping City are all in the more prosperous areas of Xiangping City, and Gongsun Xu plans to turn these barracks into markets and some shops to sell after the beginning of spring next year, and start his first commercial real estate operation in Xiangping.
After the brick factory comes out of the brick, the bricks are used in the barracks, and the barracks can also make certain publicity for the bricks, so that more people know that the bricks can be used in this way.
Although Gongsun Xu knew in his heart that winter was about to fall now, before winter, he could command these people to do something, and what he had to do now.
The road between Xiangping and Longshou Mountain must be opened, and an official road that can run a few carriages must be built, even if it cannot be completed before the arrival of winter, he must build it, and build it as long as it can be built.
The brick factory has now been built on the side of Longshou Mountain, and other steelmaking blast furnaces and the science and technology research institute in Xiangping will also be built there in the future.
Time waits for no one, and in the next two years, which is the most turbulent period of the Han Dynasty, he will be able to accumulate more wealth one day earlier.
Whether it is fighting a war or developing the economy, it is inseparable from money, Gongsun Xu above the court of the Han Dynasty has been unable to get any money and food, after the Yellow Turban Uprising, the treasury of the Han Dynasty is basically in a state of emptiness, and even the money in the treasury is not as much as the money of Zhang Rang and He Jin above the court.
The other part of the soldiers followed the map pointed out by Gongsun Xu to explore some of the locations in Gongsun Xu's mental memory.
As long as it is the address of a large-scale city established in later generations, as long as it is the location of mineral deposits that he vaguely remembers in later generations, someone needs to find and find it.
Although this time of the year is a little late, he must let his soldiers explore, and after the beginning of spring next year, he will carry out the construction.
In Gongsun Xu's heart, Xiangping at this time is just a small city, he not only wants to build Xiangping into the largest and most populous city in Youzhou, but he also has to slowly develop around Xiangping, and build an urban agglomeration, so that the Northeast region can develop rapidly and walk in front of the Central Plains.
Once the Central Plains region begins to be chaotic, his side will become a treasure land, and it will become a good place for countless homeless people to settle down.
As for competing for the Central Plains at this time, Gongsun Xu didn't have that kind of idea. After all, he only has one city under his command, and there are only more than 10,000 soldiers, and these people go to the Central Plains region, which is similar to throwing a stone in a big river.
Now the most important thing for him is to recuperate and develop, and only when the Northeast region is developed, will he consider the idea of unifying the Central Plains.