Just as Li Su came to Australia on a treasure ship, Li Su also went back on a treasure ship, Li Ran has not yet put his energy into the shipyard, so Li Su will not be able to see the emergence of more advanced warships.

Leaving Australia, Li Su followed the previous route to the Ryukyus, at this time it was the season of spring ploughing, Jin Daqian was organizing the slaves and maids to plant various crops, Li Su went to see it, a qiē was carried out in an orderly manner, in the early morning of the next day he set off again to Yizhou, on the way, thinking of the Australian base, Li Su suddenly remembered one thing, that is, he has been using the excuse of Luo Anguo, now with the Australian base, this lie can finally be successfully ended, It was true that there was no Luo'an country before, but now there is, and the Australian base is Luo'an country.

Thinking of this, Li Su stood on the bow of the boat that day and laughed heartily, he didn't expect that a qiē was really funny, invisibly, he himself actually completed everything for himself, and from then on he could finally say with confidence that these things were from Luo Anguo, even if Li Shimin wanted to see it with his own eyes, he could take Li Shimin over.

Another five or six days of boring sailing, Li Su finally returned to the familiar Yizhou, three or four months did not return to Yizhou, Li Su suddenly found that the Nanhe port was more lively and noisy than before, the steam merchant ships coming and going made the whole port look congested, these as small as fifteen or sixteen meters, up to fifty or sixty meters of steam merchant ships were sold by the shipyards of Yizhou to the merchants of the Tang Dynasty in order to achieve profits, when the news came out, it naturally made the merchants crazy.

In particular, those coal bosses in Hedong Province came to Yizhou to discuss the purchase of transport ships with ship manufacturers, because since Yizhou entered the steam age, the amount of coal used is increasing day by day, and the disintegration of the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce interrupted the monopoly position of the Shengtang Chamber of Commerce, and no longer monopolized the transportation on the route, so. These coal bosses are responsible for selling and transporting coal, which forces them to increase their own transportation capacity.

Li Su went ashore, and before he had taken a few steps, a figure greeted him, and said, "Your Highness, you are finally back." ”

"Guan Sixing, why are you at the dock?" The person who came was dressed in a red official mansion with a hat, but it was Guan Sixing.

Guan Sixing said with a smile: "It's also a coincidence, many businessmen today made trouble with the Assassin History Office, saying that the Nanhe Wharf is too small." If I want to renovate, I will come to take a look, and at this time I saw His Highness arriving by boat, so I came over and waited for His Highness, and asked His Highness to have an idea. ”

Li Su looked at the merchants in a circle, some of them recognized Li Su and bowed, and those who didn't know knew that this was the famous His Royal Highness the King of Shu, so they also saluted respectfully, and their eyes were full of fear.

Four months is not a short time. Of course, it wasn't long, but since the industrialization of Yizhou began, these merchants quickly produced the first goods with various machinery, when the merchants suddenly discovered what they had previously used for a year to produce. Now it can be produced in just one month, and sometimes even shorter, so a large number of goods began to pour into the market, accompanied by collective price reductions of various goods. Especially in the cloth market, the price of cloth that could be used as currency has dropped sharply, and there are many more cheap goods in the market in Yizhou. These businessmen began to set their sights on other parts of the Tang Dynasty.

The profits earned in Yizhou are low, but for other places, these things still maintain high profits, so the opportunistic nature of the merchants made them start to sell the remaining goods to Yangzhou, Suzhou and other places, and these also led to the prosperity of inland river transportation, this coal boss is coming, this Yizhou businessmen are going to come out, back and forth, the Nanhe wharf that was enough to use before was suddenly blocked, which is why the merchants jointly found the assassin history office.

Understanding the cause and effect, Li Su pushed aside the crowd and took a turn at the Nanhe wharf, indeed as the merchant said, waiting for the unloading, the ships on the cargo were lined up in a long line, crowded and crowded, and the steam merchant ships with black smoke everywhere on the wharf, so he said: "You don't have to worry, this wharf is not enough, the king will arrange people to re-expand, and the transportation channel on the road will also be ordered to speed up construction." ”

When the merchants heard this, they all looked happy and said, "Thank you, His Royal Highness the King of Shu!" "His Royal Highness the King of Shu is really wise! "Just waiting for this day. ”

With Li Su's promise, the businessmen left one after another, Guan Sixing also breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Your Highness, now that these businessmen are becoming more and more active, I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing." ”

"It's a good thing to be controlled, and it's a bad thing to be controlled." Li Su said, "You don't have to hold the old thinking of the former Shinong industry and commerce to look at them, now Yizhou's tax revenue can be maintained by them in the future, but their reasonable opinions should be adopted, unreasonable ideas don't care about them, in short, they can't get used to it, when they should show the color, they will show the color, otherwise in the long run, they will kick their noses and face, and they will come with you." ”

Guan Sixing chewed Li Su's words, nodded, and said, "Yes, Your Highness, I was indeed a little weak just now, and I will correct it in the future." ”

Nodding, Li Su said: "Business is a tiger, you must pay attention to proportion, you are still young after all, and you will understand it after more experience."

While speaking, Li Su entered the city from the south gate of Yizhou City, and Guan Sixing said at this time, "By the way, Your Highness, now that the commercial street has begun to operate, do you want to go over and have a look." ”

"Already in operation?" Li Su felt that he might have missed something, the project of this commercial street has been under construction, and Li Su estimated that the time was almost up, "Let's go, let's take a look." ”

Guan Sixing replied yes, and then continued: "There are also the South City and the North Market, according to His Highness's instructions, the current two cities have been transformed into agricultural product markets, where vegetables, grain, and meat are sold, and the shops on the commercial street sell some industrial and handicraft products. ”

Li Su listened to the frequent nodding, since you want to build Yizhou into a world metropolis, then a high-end commercial street is indispensable, the two talked all the way, and soon arrived at the Yizhou commercial street that has been built, although the architectural style here is still the style of the Tang Dynasty, but the layout of the building is very different, all are designed according to the structure of modern shops, which is very suitable for selling goods.

Walking along the smooth pavement of the commercial street from east to west, Li Su's eyes swept over all kinds of cloth shops, medicinal herb shops, perfume shops, food stores, and clothing stores, which had different names, but it was rare to see the industries under the Shu Wangfu, because they focused mainly on the industries that were monopolized by the countries such as steel and salt industry, and Li Su did not intend to hand over the lifeblood industries of these countries to the merchants.

"Whether these shops are rented or sold to them." Li Su asked, although this plan was proposed by him, but the specific implementation and operation are the affairs of the Yizhou Government Office, and the final profits also go to the government treasury.

Guan Sixing said: "Back to His Royal Highness, they are all rented to them, because after calculation, we will earn more if we rent for a long time." ”

Li Su nodded, looked at the Yizhou Bank on the side of the road, and said with a smile: "Let's go in and have a look." Guan Sixing immediately followed.

Entering the Bank of Yizhou, Li Su suddenly became quite familiar, if it weren't for the facilities here or the ancient style, he couldn't say that he would treat this place as a modern bank, because there is a waiting area here, and there is also a place to take a number in front of the door, and only by queuing up in order can you get money, and although the window of the bank is not made of glass, the mode is basically the same as that of the bank.

When Li Su entered, there were many people waiting to withdraw money, Li Su came to one of the windows, a common person was holding money tickets at this time to exchange money, already holding a few new banknotes with the same denomination in his hand, and there were a lot of copper coins next to them, the denominations were different.

Li Su's arrival quickly alarmed the bank's shopkeeper, and a lean, scholar-like man trotted out of it, and hurriedly saluted when he saw Li Su. (To be continued......)