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These policemen can only be called trainee policemen, because the Mawei Army in the Jiangnan area has been stationed for a short time, and there are not so many troops stationed in various cities, so it is necessary to recruit locals to enrich the police force. These locals are familiar with their hometowns, and things will be handled with a lot less trouble. If the foreign soldiers from Fujian and Guangdong had a conflict with the locals on the Jiangnan side because of customs and other miscellaneous reasons, it would be quite tricky.

The reason why they are probationary police officers is because these people are still in the process of being trained. Police training takes a long time, up to six months. These police officers patrol the streets for half a day every day, and spend the other half a day training at the police training office outside the city. Train basic military skills, and at the same time learn the various rules and decrees issued by the Ministry of Political Affairs, force them to memorize, and deal with violations of law and discipline in a timely manner.

Now Geng Jingzhong saw these in front of him, and he had a small rectangular bronze medal pinned to his chest, with the two big characters "police" written on it. There is also a line of small characters below the bronze medal, which is engraved with the names of each person, as well as their brand number, similar to the storage zài of the waist card. According to the government's new order, if a police officer is found to be collecting money casually, or making things difficult for no reason, or enforcing the law unfairly, he can report it to the government and complain to the police according to this nameplate. However, the common people are generally afraid that the officials are used to being served, and so far no one has complained. Maybe it's really the police who are very respectful, maybe the people don't dare at all.

The night is getting darker and darker. The streets and alleys are even more lit up, and the dense lanterns are hung non-stop, which also shows the wealth of the people in Yangzhou City. The smell of hot food is even more tangy, and people are waiting in and out of various teahouses and restaurants, all of them are full of thriving business, and all kinds of accents are noisy. It is a small food shop on the street, which is full of people, and people of different levels rely on their own financial resources. Satisfy your own needs.

This place is full of life and smiles, and people don't have to worry about the fire, they don't have to worry about the chaos. Don't worry about the Qing court calling again, one by one they still seem to feel that the world is peaceful and live their lives leisurely. Geng Jingzhong was also happy when he looked at this peaceful scenery, and many people were polite when they came and went. Just hear the greetings. The greetings are endless. For this, the changes in the past few months, Sheng Biran is also clear, and he feels that what he has always wanted to do has been realized in this Yangzhou City. Isn't this the scene of the sages who are filial to their parents, friends to their brothers, husbands and wives to be harmonious, friends to believe, frugality and self-control, and fraternity to others?

Yangzhou is also close to the canal. It can also be said that it developed because of the canal. For example, this kind of land and water is often a place where merchants come and go. Where goods gather, the prosperity of Yangzhou City is not inferior to any city in the world. Along the way, there are many kinds of shops on both sides of the street, garment shops, blacksmith shops, grocery stores, tea shops, restaurants, restaurants, salt shops, rice grain points, etc. What surprised Geng Jingzhong the most was that he also saw two machine shops, specializing in selling looms, spinning wheels, silk twisting machines and other textile equipment, and even bicycles, which are rare in Fujian, are also sold here. Although the bicycle is a little bigger, it does look like a bicycle, and many of the parts in it, such as the chain, must be responsible for the water over there. Although this thing is novel, the quality is not good, and it needs to be constantly oiled, so it wears out quickly.

"Master Shan, you have just come back from Fuzhou, what do you think of the comparison between Fuzhou and Yangzhou, and what are the main differences?" Geng Jingzhong asked Sheng Biran again while strolling around and watching. Some time ago, Sheng Biran and other Jiangnan officials organized a delegation to go to Fuzhou to learn from the development path of Fuzhou, but fortunately, some reforms were also carried out in Yangzhou.

"Okay, the subordinates don't think that the difference between Yangzhou and Fuzhou is, in general, these two places are very similar, in the words of Lord Li, Yangzhou is a commercial city, and the subordinates are the same as Fuzhou, which is inseparable from the vigorous development of commerce in Fujian by the metropolitan governor in recent years. But speaking of which, the business atmosphere in Fuzhou is stronger. ”

"My subordinates have visited Houyu Port, where the variety of goods is several times more than that of Yangzhou, and there are all kinds of industrial products produced in Mawei Industrial Zone, Biquge www.biquge.info Town Industrial Zone. Fujian Province seems to be vigorously developing animal husbandry everywhere in the province, Fujian is mountainous, arable land is very beneficial, and it is very beneficial for raising poultry and small goats. Therefore, the production of all kinds of meat and meat porcelain jars has also flourished, and outside the city, all kinds of factories are mainly processing.

In the town of Biquge www.biquge.info, there are several iron and copper mines, as well as a number of iron and steel mills, or iron-related factories all over Longyan. Therefore, around these large factories and mines, there are many merchants coming and going, not only in the www.biquge.info town of Biquge, but also in the surrounding towns. The subordinates inquired that in Fujian, the price of iron was less than half of that of Yangzhou, and if it were not for the order of the Governor of the Metropolis, copper and iron materials could not be sold to other provinces, but I am afraid that this copper and iron would have become a commodity that merchants rushed to buy. ”

Geng Jingzhong nodded: "That's right, but this decree can also be canceled soon." A few days ago, I heard a report that there are several large coal and iron mines in Xuzhou, and there has always been not much iron shortage in Jiangnan, and it is estimated that it will not be long before Xuzhou will prosper because of this. ”

In Longyan, Fujian, because the Mawei Army mined several large iron mines, several towns developed there, and the scale was comparable to the county seat. The town of Biquge www.biquge.info is of course different from several other developed later, and the industrial areas in the people are dominated by new products, such as Western clocks and watches, coupled with the fine handicraft factories opened by many domestic businessmen, the profits are unimaginable. There seem to be only two or three of the surrounding towns, ironware factories, grain and oil factories, and textile factories.

Let's not talk about the ironwork factory. There are so many that it seems that the blacksmiths of the entire Fujian Province have gathered here, and the most made utensils are still unthinkable to ordinary people. It is a variety of types of iron nails, which can be used in a wide range of ways, such as building houses, building ships, etc. Therefore, it is also the most popular ironware item. At present, the Fujian government is the largest procurement object, and the annual demand for iron nails is astronomical. After all, the biggest use of iron nails is in the shipbuilding industry, and there are simply too many places where this thing is used.

Seeing that it was profitable, many businessmen rushed to engage in this industry. Even blacksmith shops in other prefectures and counties have also gone to the iron factory, and they bought iron materials to start work. Others operate in a decentralized family, where iron bars from the ironworks are distributed to nail makers who process them at home. Then take it back and ship it out for sale, Sheng Biran felt that in the textile industry in Jiangnan, many people use this way of business.

Of course, more people are the shrewd businessmen. Set up a factory. Concentrated labor, they hired casually, that is, more than 100 people, learning the assembly line operation method from the Mawei Military Workshop, the efficiency was greatly improved, and of course, the profit was greatly improved.

However, some Jiangnan officials who went to Fujian feel that . As far as they could see, it was coppery. When you hear and hear, it's all about business. Someone, someone, and someone made it again, and someone and someone invested 1,000 yuan in silver, what kind of factory to open, how much money did they make, and so on. Many people read newspapers that specialize in commercial editions, and they feel a smell of impetuousness in the air. As the children of Confucianism, they have advocated a simple life, working at sunrise, resting at sunset, smelling chickens and dogs, beautiful mountains and rivers, and idyllic scenery.

However, in that place in Fujian, everything smelled of the smell, although there were government decrees and regulations, but all kinds of business behaviors still made them very dissatisfied. But there are also people who see the good side, Fujian has more industries, more classes, it is indeed a good way to feed the people of Fujian Province, I have to say that the living standards of the people in Fujian are better than the people in the Jiangnan area, which is also a fact in front of us. There were a total of 40 Jiangnan officials who went to Fujian to investigate, but after they returned, only 20 were willing to continue to work for Geng Jingzhong, a total of half, and this was not enough to accept the new capital theory, and there was no way to do it, and it was not an overnight thing to change people's views.

"Let's get to the new city! Wow, I feel that the house here is much more magnificent than the old city! "You can tell from the outline of this house that the houses here are much taller than the old city.

"Governor, this is mostly the residence of salt merchants, but their life is not easy these days, you have just ordered to take over the two Huai salt farms, and they can no longer be called salt merchants without salt. My subordinates are really worried about their chaos these days! Sheng Biran glanced at Geng Jingzhong, and saw that Geng Jingzhong had no expression, so he simply finished speaking in one breath.

"You don't have to worry about this, they can't go to the sky! I've already shown them the way, and for the time being, they won't be able to make any money for a year, and by next year, they'll be ten times more profitable than selling their promises! If there are still people who are short-sighted, then I can't help it, and when it comes, I will say a word, and I will never be soft! Geng Jingzhong's words are also murderous.

Yes, now Jiangnan Longjiang Shipyard and other large and small shipyards are stepping up to build sea ships, at the same time, the major families in Jiangnan also took the initiative to send people with heavy money to find Westerners to buy ships, it is expected that in a year, Jiangnan families will have an average of one big sea ship per family. At that time, it was time for them to jointly go to sea to develop the South Seas and Australia, otherwise Geng Jingzhong would give them the charts for what!

These salt merchants are rich and rival the country, the wealth accumulated over the years has reached an unimaginable level, they have the financial resources and ability to explore overseas, Geng Jingzhong proposed this plan, is to stimulate them to take the initiative to go out, how big this world is, there are still more than half of the land has not been set foot by humans, it is a pity not to explore. If you want to wait for the Ponytail Army to explore in the future? Just kidding, even if there are many people in the Ponytail Army, how can they go all over the world!

"By the way, these salt merchants are all natives of Yangzhou, but why do I feel that the accents of those big salt merchants I saw last time are obedient, not like Jiangnan accents?" Geng Jingzhong suddenly asked suspiciously.

"Most of the governors don't know that Yangzhou salt merchants are famous, but they are not native to Yangzhou. Now it can be said that a few are from Jin merchants, most of them are still Hui merchants, and there are very few local ones in Yangzhou! ”

"Oh, there's more! Let's talk about it! "Geng Jingzhong is interested, this Jin merchant and Hui businessman are very famous, and they really know how to do business, especially this Shanxi old man, who actually ran thousands of miles here to become a salt merchant!

It turned out that in the pre-Ming period, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, there were still Yuan troops stationed outside the northwest, threatening the security of the Central Plains, and the Ming Dynasty government stationed troops in that area. If there is a garrison, it is necessary to supply grain and grass for many years, which becomes a major burden on the government's finances. As a result, the Kaizhong system came into being, and later the government changed the Kaizhong system to the folding color system - as long as a certain amount of silver taels were paid, merchants in any region could receive salt and trade with it. In this way, Hui merchants are qualified to intervene.

Jin merchant Geng Jingzhong knows something, he has watched the TV series "Qiao's Courtyard". Qiao's compound is imposing and sturdy, but Geng Jingzhong doesn't think it's good-looking, gray, and has a sense of depression. They don't know how to make artificial mountains and rivers and plant flowers and trees. Geng Jingzhong came to Yangzhou in his previous life, and the ancient buildings left here are the residences of Huizhou salt merchants, which are relaxed, open and pleasant. Now Geng Jingzhong knows that those ancient buildings were all left by Hui merchants.

It seems that there is a big difference between the two, and the way of life is completely different. In other words, Jin merchants don't spend money, "picking". It is said that no matter how rich the Jin merchants were, they lived the life of ascetics: wearing old sheepskin robes, eating steamed buns, sandwiching green onions and garlic, and leaving large boxes of ingots in the cellar after they died, but they were only willing to spend two taels of silver to buy a coffin for themselves. No matter how rich the Jin merchants are, they are talking about the career economy, and they lack something called "purpose". Huizhou people are different. There are many books about Yangzhou, and all the things they talk about are not necessities of life, they are all things to play.

However, now Geng Jingzhong saw that the appearance of this building was still quite different from what he saw in his previous life, and thought about the reason, probably because of the changes that took place in the middle of the Qing Dynasty and later in history. Geng Jingzhong really guessed that in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River several times, and he was received by local salt merchants instead of local officials. At that time, a large number of palaces were built, which rewrote the urban pattern of Yangzhou, forming an urban space centered on these palaces, with large salt merchant residences, salt merchant academies, commercial districts, and private houses gradually spreading. (To be continued......)