Everything was just as Yan Shao expected, and after getting Enming's excerpt, the Qing government quickly agreed to the preferential policy of tax exemption for iron factories for five years. However, his proposal to provide tax exemption for other industries for three to five years was rejected.

Of course, afterwards, the Qing court also explained its reasons, two words, no money...

In 1911, after the Qing court's fiscal revenue reached more than 300 million taels, the agricultural tax accounted for only more than 40 million taels, in other words, the commercial tax was already an extremely important part of the Qing court's tax revenue. Under such circumstances, it would have been impossible for them to introduce such a policy, even if it would have been extremely beneficial to the Qing court in the long run...

"It's a pity..."After learning of the decision of the imperial court, Enming shook his head regretfully, in his opinion, the decision of the imperial court was too short-sighted. Obviously, the implementation of such policies will help promote the development of the industry..."

"Actually...... The imperial court's concerns are not unreasonable, if such a policy is implemented, a large number of industries can be harvested in a few years, but I am afraid that it will not be of much help to the finances of the imperial court, and there are many places to use money at present.

"Alas..."A long sigh, after taking a sip of tea, Enming said lightly. Forget it, since the court is unwilling to do this, we have no other way. And that Yan Shao's duty-free concession can be approved, and there is finally some gain. Yan Shao can be regarded as living up to the trust, so let's go to someone to send a telegram to Wuhu in a while. Let's just say that the matter has been done..."

Enming is also looking forward to Yan Shao's iron plant with an annual output of 100,000 tons of crude steel, so he doesn't mind providing more convenience for Yan Shao, and by the way, he gives the green light.

"Understood..."Hearing Enming's words, the official also nodded.

In fact, it's not just Enming, since learning about Yan Shao's iron factory plan, many people in the governor's yamen in Anhui are looking forward to this matter. What's more, before Enming took office, the officials in the Anhui Governor's Yamen had been almost fed by Yan Shao. Now that Yan Shao has a place to ask for help, they naturally won't be stingy with some help or something.

So after leaving Enming, the official immediately rushed to the office of Yushi Group in Anqing as fast as possible and relayed the news to the person in charge of the office.

To facilitate communication with the entire group. Yan Shao once purchased more than a dozen wireless telegraphs from the Germans, and Anqing, the capital of Anhui, naturally had one. Other important cities such as Chengdu, Chongqing, or Wuchang in Hubei Province have become much closer and the level of secrecy in communication has also increased.

It's just that wireless telegraphy is useful. But there are also inconveniences. For example, he can only use wireless telegraphy, but the current mainstream is cable telegraphy, so when communicating with some places where wireless telegraphy is not available, Yan Shao and they still need to go to the telegraph office...

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Outside the county town of Wuhu, not far from the Yushi Textile Factory, every pedestrian passing by had to glance to the side, where a building of at least twenty floors stood on the ground, as long as they passed by. Even people who are in a hurry can't help but look at this building, and this building has naturally become the whole of Wuhu and Anhui. It is even the tallest building in China—————— and this is the newest office building of Wuhu Group, and almost all the branches of Yushi Group are doing business in this building.

At that time, there were no skyscrapers in China, not a single one, not even a ten-story one. China's earliest skyscraper, the Nanfang Building in Guangzhou, was only completed in 1922, and the whole building was only 12 storeys high, in 1928 Tianjin Quanye Field was only 7 floors, in 1929 Shanghai Sassoon Building was only 13 floors, but in fact only 10 floors, the other three floors are only partial...

In fact, there is a similar building at the top of this building, but it is only two floors, like a small two-storey western-style building—————— if you can ignore the main body of the 20 floors below.

There is such a small building because on the roof of the building, in addition to an open-air conference room, there is also an outdoor swimming pool and a tennis court, that small building is used for resting, changing clothes and taking the elevator, Yan Shao did not include it in the floor of the building, otherwise the whole building is 22 floors...

It was also because it was taller than all the buildings in China at this time, so although it was not the tallest building in the world (in 1899 there were 30-story skyscrapers in the United States), its appearance caused a great sensation in China.

However, there were many troubles when it was built, and since no one in China had ever built such a tall building at that time, Yan Shao hired designers and engineers from the United States.

After the completion of the building, not only the locals in Wuhu, but even Shanghai also had many people come to visit—————— in fact, it is to take a look at it from a distance and then sigh how high, so big or something, after all, this building is not a lot of people can come in.

In fact, since the building was built, the management has become much more rigorous.

However, many people were allowed to visit, such as Zhang Jian of the Dasheng Yarn Factory.

If Zhang Jian still regarded Yan Shao as a competitor at the beginning, then after experiencing the Japanese incident, Zhang Jian had let go of the little competitiveness in his heart, and this time he came purely for a visit.

In addition to Zhang Jian, other people were also allowed, such as Lu Yuanding, the governor of Jiangsu, and Enming, the governor of Anhui who had just taken office at the time.

And the biggest impression these people have about this 'rain stone building' is its shocking height, unique layout and several elevators. It is his unique air conditioning system, referred to as air conditioning...

After the entire building is equipped with an air conditioning system, even in the hot summer months. The people working in the building will not feel a little stuffy, which left a deep impression on the people who came to visit, and when Enming left, Yan Shao also gave him an air conditioner, which is now installed in the governor's yamen, which is also one of the reasons why Enming has a good sense of Yan Shao.

At this time, in the air-conditioned conference room, Yan Shao was holding a blueprint to introduce to those attending the meeting, at least for Yan Shao. The contents of this blueprint were definitely the largest plan in the few years he had been in this world, and even the four textile factories together were not as big as this one.

No, to be exact, the four textile mills and the other factories combined. Nor is this opportunity huge.

And on this blueprint, there are 4 words...

'Wuhu New Area'

"Since the number of employees of Yushi Group has evolved from more than 8,000 people to more than 40,000 today, I believe everyone knows very well. It is clear that the existing staff quarters are no longer sufficient for these people. "After laying out the blueprint on the table. Yan Shao said a fact with a serious face.

Hearing him say this, the others also nodded, because Yan Shao was right, today's staff dormitory is indeed no longer enough to provide for these more than 40,000 employees.

To this end, the group recruited a lot of workers, and built a house near the original staff dormitory, barely allowing these workers to have a place to live—————— this is because many employees have homes nearby, otherwise the problem may be more troublesome.

It's just that it was too hasty when it was first built, so management problems arose soon after the construction of the staff dormitory. There was also chaos in the dormitory, and there were even a lot of crimes. After the eventually, Yan Shao had to transfer a considerable part of the security guards to the staff dormitory, and the problem was barely alleviated.

It's just that it's not the same thing to do it all the time, so Yan Shao put forward this plan.

"I plan to build a living area for workers on the land by the river..."After signaling the people at the meeting to look at the blueprint, Yan Shao explained slowly. The entire living area will consist of 300 6-storey western-style buildings, which will be carefully planned to ensure that the company's more than 40,000 employees and their families can have a good living environment..."

Hearing Yan Shao's words, Li Liang and the others were nothing, because Yan Shao had already told them about this before, but Ding Mao and Ke Fu were taken aback.

"300 western-style buildings..."After a deep groan, Ding Mao said with some hesitation. It's going to cost a lot of money..."

"Yes," Ke Fu agreed, sitting on the side. It's a mess in the dormitory, but there's no need to do that..."

"That's right, and 300 western-style buildings, although it is not a small amount, it is enough to provide more than 40,000 employees, but if you count their families, I'm afraid it will still be a little beyond their strength..."

300 6-storey western-style buildings, even if they just think about Kefu, they can imagine that they need less money, just to solve the problem of chaos in the living quarters of employees, in their opinion, there is no need for this at all.

Hearing them say this, Yan Shao smiled slightly.

Originally, there were more than 100,000 people, and 300 buildings could not be lived in anyway, but when assigning rooms, Yan Shao used another method, a method that was very common in his time, although this ordinary refers to more than 30 years ago, cough, it was more than 30 years before Yan Shao crossed over...

Even now, Yan Shao still remembers that when he was a child, the buildings he lived in usually had three households on each floor of each unit, well, this is very common, because there are many residential buildings like this until now.

The key is that at that time, each household was divided into several households again...

For example, if there is a two-bedroom apartment, it means that two families share a kitchen and toilet, and of course, there is a living room, and if there is a three-bedroom apartment, it becomes a three-family family...

With the kitchen and toilet shared, almost every household can accommodate nearly ten or even more than ten people, and the difference is only in the number of people in each household.

The kind of six-story western-style building that Yan Shao asked people to build is the kind of three-bedroom and one-living room on each floor. At the time of distribution, each employee is allocated a room in a household, that is to say, at least 9 households can live on the first floor, 54 households on the 6th floor, and if you count 4 units in each building, one building is more than 200 households, and 300 buildings are more than 60,000 households...

Although it is true that there are 3 or even 5 or 6 people squeezed into a space of more than ten square meters, after all, after connecting to running water and electricity, it is much better than the environment they once lived in, so Yan Shao is not afraid that the employees will complain.

At present, there are more than 100,000 people in Wuhu, and there are more than 40,000 employees in the company, if you count their families, even if it is just a family of three, there can be more than 100,000 people, such a huge population is not only more than the county, even compared with the whole Wuhu, there are many more people, especially after the company's employees themselves are Wuhu locals, which is a trend of eliminating the other.

As long as you imagine it, you can know that there are only more than 100,000 people in Wuhu today, and after deducting more than 40,000 people, there are only 70,000 or 80,000 people left. That is to say, there are only 70,000 or 80,000 people that Wuhu Governor can govern now, and if these 70,000 or 80,000 people, those who are related to those 40,000 people also live in the staff living area that Yan Shao plans to build, then the number of people that Wuhu Magistrate County can govern is probably not even 30,000 or 40,000...

At that time, Yan Shao will become the loudest speaker in Wuhu...

In addition, Yan Shao is not just planning to build 300 western-style buildings in this new area.

In the buildings on both sides of the main road, Yan Shao will also rent out the first and second floors of the western-style buildings, as later generations did, and turn them into rows of shops...

There are also schools for children, hospitals for the sick, entertainment venues such as cinemas, zoos, independent department stores and wet markets, and trams for transportation...

That's right, in Yan Shao's plan, it is not so much a living area as a city, a city with a population of more than 100,000, and an independent kingdom that completely belongs to Yan Shao.

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Build a city completely, a city that is completely under the orders of the protagonist~~~ (To be continued......)