Chapter 508: Salt Administration in the North, Governance of Rivers

The whole city of Beijing is a big treasure mountain for Liu Xian.

Liu Xian used to be overjoyed by the harvest of Guangzhou, but after looking at the harvest of Beijing City, even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty had collected more gold and silver treasures, and did not look at the seizures of the Beijing Station Operations Department in these days, he looked at the manors of many imperial estates and princes and ministers left by the Manchus around Beijing City, as well as the countless fields, shops, and real estate in Beijing City and Shuntianfu Zhuzhou County, if all of them were sold, it would be an astronomical wealth for Liu Xian now.

Yuan Shikai just didn't raid his home, and the Beiyang government has always been so poor. If he can kill the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a lot of floating wealth will not talk about him, just a Shuntian field and shop, just look at how many years of Beiyang to eat and drink?

Liu Xian's situation is not the same as the Republic of China at that time. Great Qin is absolutely the unification of the world, the capital is Beijing, and Beijing is the center of the country's politics. The status is even more lofty than the original Beijing city. Because the status of foreigners in China has weakened, Shanghai and other open port cities are not as good as before.

And once this status is high, the prices of land, shops and real estate in Beijing will not fall too much, and even in a year or two from now, the real estate will be more expensive than in the Manchu Dynasty.

As long as the Great Qin River is stable, whether it is the land or real estate of the imperial capital, not to mention the shop, the family will command to keep going up the steps, and will not go downhill with a rolling belt.

"Your Majesty, I don't have to worry about the finances of the court."

Ding Zhenduo looked at the list of real estate handed over by the Military Intelligence Department and the newly established Shuntian Mansion, and his eyes were shining with gold. That's a lot of money.

Moreover, this kind of public sale of immovable property confiscated in various places. It is possible to capture the wealth of the Chinese people on a considerable scale. The success of the Qin army's foreign affairs could not illuminate the whole of China at all, and the gentry and wealthy people in those inland provinces still had more fields and shops in their eyes.

Rather than letting this silver change color in a cellar. Or to become the capital of usury, it is better to get it into the hands of Liu Xian and build industrialized China.

The grand cross plan of the railway, and the establishment of mining companies in various places, the foreigners were like cats that smelled fishy last year, and they couldn't get rid of them.

Even foreign investors such as Standard Chartered Bank have contacted Hu Xueyan and want to invest in the development of China Construction Bank. Moreover, with the opening up of Daqin and the encouragement of modern factory construction. All of them have already invested in Chinese factories or set up their own factories in China.

In terms of adventurous and money-chasing, the current Westerners really outperform the Chinese.

The Qin army took Beijing. However, many institutions of the Great Qin court are still in Nanjing, and even some are still in Guangzhou. If you want to move all of them, it will take a lot of time to prepare and raise.

Therefore, Liu Xian's main task of the deadline is still military.

The war in the southwest, northeast, and north China did not need him to worry about it. It won't take long. The whole of Sichuan. The entire Shengjing and Zhili will be Liu Xian's territory, and it can even be said that all of Liu Xian's territory has been officially connected.

It was Zhang Zhongkui on the Hanzhong side who launched an attack on Ganshan, and there was no decisive victory, but there were also small victories.

So militarily, Liu Xian only needs to pay attention to the enemy in front of him. And using the power in his hands to open the Qing army, in the eyes of everyone, it seems that it is not difficult for Liu Xian.

Liu Xian spent five days in Beijing. In five days, the Forbidden City was cleaned up and down. More than 200 heads were cut off for the greedy eunuchs, and more than 100 palace maids were imprisoned. His mother's Liu Xian found out on the day he became the owner. Many places in the Forbidden City are really like being robbed by bandits. Although Duolonga has been sending people to guard the palace gate, although many treasures and small items in the palace have been taken away by the Manchus, it can be concluded that a batch of things must have flowed out.

Liu Xian naturally would not follow the eunuchs and palace maids of the first palace to be polite. Why can't you ask for it under Miki! I really found a lot of good things.

The Manchu court is still a Buddha. Among the stolen goods recovered, there are five pagodas alone, the gold-inlaid pearl and gem tower, the gold and silk inlaid jewel tower, the gold-inlaid gem tower, the gold-inlaid gem octagonal tower, and the golden hair pagoda that Liu Xian knows and the Qianlong Emperor built for his old lady.

More than 200 heads were cut off without loss. The more than 100 palace maids who committed the same crime were really cut down, and Liu Xian would give them to the grassroots soldiers and non-commissioned officers who were rewarded for their meritorious service. And if they can control their hands, Liu Xian will send them away, and they will be lost to the officer class.

From the beginning of the army to the present, the Qin army has captured the bannermen, the whole family has not 500,000, and 300,000 has passed, and the women and children of the bannermen in Fuzhou and Hangzhou, as well as the families of the bannermen in Nanjing, have not been captured in Anhui.

Together with Guangzhou, Jingzhou, Chengdu and other places, 300,000 people are definitely too much. Among them, the men, women, children, old and weak, of course, all of them were thrown into the construction corps. I can't do hard work, and I can't do laundry and cook. But some women of the right age were all divided up and down by Qin Jun.

Liu Xian felt that he had given preferential treatment to the flag people. I didn't stop it.

The palace maids of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were about 2,000 people, because they were all 'slaves'. After the age of twenty-five, you can leave the palace to get married. Therefore, among the dynasties, the number is smaller.

Some of the 2,000 men went west with the main army. Some of them were put back at home, and the number of people who remained in the palace was no more than 500. More than a hundred people were punished, that is a quarter or more counted. Compared with the ratio of more than 200 eunuch heads and the huge total number of eunuchs, the two sides cannot be compared.

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Juyongguan. It is located in Changping, which is 100 miles away from Beijing, and it is Yanping across the customs.

Juyong Guanxing shì is dangerous, and it has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times. It has two passes in the north and south, the south is called 'Nankou' and the north is called 'Juyong Pass'. The current Guancheng was built by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and the general Xu Da supervised the construction. It is the gateway to the northwest of Beijing.

On both sides of Juyong Pass, the mountain is majestic, and there is a valley of 36 miles in the middle, commonly known as 'Guangou'.

Clear streams linger, green peaks overlap, flowers and trees are lush, and mountain birds contend. The beautiful scenery is known as 'Juyong Stacked Cui', and is listed as one of the 'Eight Views of Yanjing'. Besides, the north entrance of Juyong Pass is the well-known Badaling Great Wall.

Strictly speaking, Juyong Pass is the core of the Guancheng, and the army guards the core of the border pass, and the Badaling Great Wall is the northern border defense guarding its Guancheng.

The city wall of Juyongguan reaches the Cuiping mountain ridge in the east, drives to the top of the Golden Cabinet Mountain in the west, the circumference is more than 4,000 meters, the supporting facilities such as the north and south moon city and the city tower, the enemy tower are complete. There are also various related buildings and facilities such as government offices, temples, and Confucianism inside and outside the castle.

The stone gate built by the pass is like a platform, and it is worn under the trapezoidal garden coupon road. The carvings are complicated. Two strokes of the doorway, relief carving, four heavenly kings, and various ethnic scripts, scriptures, spells, etc. In later generations, it was known as a must, and it was a fine product in China's architecture.

But now that the war is going on, no one on either side of Qing and Qin can take care of these things. Liu Xian didn't want to smash Beijing, but he didn't have much pity for Juyongguan.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty had already built the first line of Juyong Pass, and many cement fortifications and pillboxes outside the city were all proof.

According to the remains of the old Guan Town at the south entrance, the Qing army built a small city with a height of two and a half zhang, a thickness of two zhang at the head of the city, a circumference of two miles, and a square square. The scale is small, but the defense strength of the city alone cannot be underestimated.

Here Duolonga arranged the elite of the 2,000 new army of the Eight Banners, equipped with more than a dozen large and small cannons and a large number of matching ammunition. His position here is that of a grinding disc, a grinding disc of flesh and blood. Use them to grind away the flesh and blood of the Qin army little by little, and grind away the morale and temper of the Qin army little by little, and when the Qin army, which suffered heavy casualties and low morale, was driven back to Changping, this battle will be completed.

Liu Xian is already planning to go to Changping. But before going to Changping, he needed to clarify the salt policy in North China.

China is not only a salt producer, but the Changlu Salt Farm in Beijing and Tianjin is also the most important salt producing area in China in later generations.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty also did not relax its jurisdiction over Changlu, and the salt and stove households in it were not 300,000 people, but 120,000 people.

For the industrial salt production of the new dynasty, the Changlu Salt Farm definitely does not need so many people. If more than 100,000 people are unemployed, have no livelihood, and come to Beijing and Tianjin, or those whose interests have been damaged by the reform of the salt industry, and then make trouble from it, Xinqin will be in trouble.

Even if Liu Xian can suppress it, what about the impact? It's definitely not good.

Liu Xian's method of dealing with the salt workers of Lianghuai is to absorb them into the salt company on one side and send them to Hainan on the other side, which is now building the Yinggehai salt farm. This Yingge sea salt field is one of the three major salt producing areas in China in later generations, located on the seashore in the southeast of Lexi, is the largest sea salt field on Hainan Island, and is also second to none in South China.

The Yingge Sea Salt Farm is built between the sea and seamounts, and the continuous mountains of Jianfeng Ridge block the typhoon clouds and rain from the north, so that the scorching sun here is in the sky all year round, and there is sufficient light and heat for salt production. In addition, the high salinity of the sea water here has created unique production conditions.

The development of the salt industry here in the original time and space did not begin until 1958, and Liu Xian was already working on the idea here when he built a salt farm in Guangxi. However, at that time, there was Taiwan's Budai Salt Farm as a support, and the Budai Salt Farm had abundant coarse salt and brine production, so Liu Xian did not take action.

But in order to divert the salt workers in Huainan, Yinggehai Salt Farm had to mention the agenda. Now that the problem of Changlu Salt Farm has appeared, how should Liu Xian divert it? There are not so many excellent salt-producing areas in the world waiting for him to develop.

Liu Xian directly instructed the Ministry of Water Resources to put the Yellow River, Yangtze River, and Huai River on the agenda one year earlier and start implementing them now.

There are more refugees in North China than the hundreds of thousands of unemployed salt workers in the salt works. But not to mention the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, which are the renovation projects of the Huai River, how much manpower can be swallowed?

Anyway, Liu Xian is not short of silver in his hand at the moment. The only thing I am afraid of is that the stalls are too big, the supervision is unfavorable, and some corrupt officials take advantage of the loopholes. Even if it can be found out at that time, the tofu dregs have already been formed, and the loss and time have already been illuminated, which is not cost-effective.

"Spread my will, check those salt merchants in the north, kill those who should be killed, and raid those who should be raided." The fault is not that the matter of Changlu salt workers has been put in front of Liu Xian, and he has to ignore the salt merchants in the north.

It can't be helped. The salt farms of Lianghuai are rich and 'famous'!

When it comes to salt merchants, they all think they mean Lianghuai. (To be continued......)