Arriving in Shouzhou, Liu Ji, Yu Chi Yanshan and Bai Mulan had to take a good look at this commercial port city that had risen suddenly in the past few years.

In terms of reputation, Shouzhou was inferior to Luzhou before, let alone Yangzhou, and in terms of port location, it was not as good as Chuzhou, which is located at the intersection of Surabaya and Huaishui, and Sizhou, where the canal and Huaishui meet, but it was able to rise rapidly in such a short period of time, which was largely because Jiang Feng controlled Shouzhou and used it as his base.

Of course, there are some other reasons for the development of Shouzhou.

For example, Shouzhou has Shaobei, which has always been the granary of Huainan, and Jiang Feng controlled Shouzhou and successfully resurrected the Shouzhou kiln, making Shouzhou yellow porcelain well-known at home and abroad, exported to the Central Plains and the Western Regions, coupled with the tea industry in the south of Guanghun Erzhou is also developed under Jiang Feng's encouragement, Guanghun Shou, a piece of production and marketing system with Shouzhou as a commercial port, has been perfected, and rapidly prospered.

The three daughters first visited the river port wharf outside Shouchun City, which is the confluence of Feishui and Huaishui, and with the development, several franchised wharf areas have been increasingly formed.

For example, the wharf adjacent to the wide water depth of Huaishui Port is the most important distribution material in Shouzhou - the special wharf for grain, and there are more than ten ships loading in this area one after another, and it can be seen that they are still old grain from previous years.

There is a special gallop road on the wharf for horse-drawn carriages and ox carts to come and go, and the pulley hoisting is flexibly putting dozens of bags of grain from the wharf to the ship at one time, and the Lifu on the ship only needs to adjust the orientation to pile up the bags of grain, and there is no longer the situation of carrying or carrying bags of grain along the board of the ship in the past.

Of course, this kind of loading and unloading is only suitable for large grain ships, and small and medium-sized grain ships still need to be loaded and unloaded in traditional manpower methods.

Many small boats from the grain-producing areas around Shaobi will transport scattered grain to Shouchun along the fertilizer water for reloading, and transport it to the north along the Huaishui-canal through large grain ships, which has become the most important throughput function of Shouchun at present.

In the same situation, there is a smaller porcelain loading and unloading dock, which is much smaller than the grain dock, but it still maintains a very steady loading and unloading progress from ship to ship, but the loading and unloading here is much slower and more delicate, and it is the rule here to be careless and fragile.

Even so, the three women have roughly estimated that the production capacity of the Shouzhou kiln has reached a considerable level, otherwise it would not be able to support such a shipload of porcelain shipped out one after another, which is not counted as being transported by land.

In addition, there is an iron wharf, where a large number of iron from Xuzhou are unloaded, and the busyness here is no less than that of the grain wharf, where the wrought iron, stainless steel and all kinds of forged ploughshares, sickles, iron pots, kitchen knives, wood knives, horseshoes, stirrups and weapons are unloaded from the ship and transported away according to the registration.

One morning, the impression on the three daughters was extremely deep, especially Liu Ji and Bai Mulan.

Bai Mulan has been calculating the amount of goods that a city like Shouzhou can handle every day, and she thinks that maybe the goods in and out of Shouzhou in one day are enough to meet the needs of the clansmen for a month or even three months, especially when she sees the continuous output of grain and porcelain, her eyes are almost red with envy, and she knows very well what the price of these porcelain will be sold to Tuyuhun.

Liu Ji is concerned about the operation system of the entire Shouchun City.

There is no doubt that there is already a fairly regulated but well-functioning business system in Shouchun.

The shipbuilders built ships and sold them to the transport merchants, who took on the goods from the grain traders or iron traders who doubted the salt merchants, and transported the goods from Xuzhou, Yangzhou, or the shores of Shaobi and Feishui.

In places where they could not see, the grain grown by the gentry, landlords or yeoman farmers was bought by the grain merchants, and the money obtained was obtained through the hawkers who traveled between the towns and villages to obtain the daily necessities they needed, and occasionally they would also go to the market towns or even the county towns to buy rare things that belonged to high consumer goods in their minds to improve their lives.

The commercial system connects everyone inside and outside the entire Shouzhou City, so that everything is in order, of course, there will definitely be invisible darkness behind this, which will be adjusted by some other rules.

The problem is that there seems to be no end in sight to this booming development, and it is still in its infancy.

The grain and tea production of Guanghushou is still growing, and the tea mountains in the hilly areas of Yincheng, Shengtang, Huoshan and other counties have been continuously reclaimed, and even attracted many northerners to go to the mountains to burn wasteland and cultivate, and the Shouzhou kiln is also still expanding, training more qualified workers, and can afford more kilns to fire more porcelain.

All this is because Shouzhou is now basically in the very center of the entire Xuzhou Governor's Office, with buffer areas all around, and at the same time, Xuzhou's strong military force ensures the absolute safety here, and the gentry and merchants from Daliang choose this place as their habitat, which will naturally bring a lot of capital and consumption, all of which promote the development of the Huainan region centered on Shouzhou.

And Jiang Feng's consciously promoted system and order construction, coupled with the emergence of new things in the official academy of magic materials, also made Shouzhou soon become a gathering place for new commodities.

For example, a horse-drawn carriage.

There are four carriage shops that produce and manufacture four-wheeled carriages in Shouzhou, and all four of them have signed confidentiality agreements with the General Governor's Office to keep some key parts of the vehicle manufacturing confidential and ensure that the manufacturing technology is not leaked.

The same situation is also happening in the shipbuilding industry of Shouzhou, where larger shipyards are emerging, and ships with larger cargo capacity and easier maneuvering are also emerging, all thanks to some technological updates and promotions of the Magic Material Academy.

Bai Mulan was completely shocked by what she saw along the way, the prosperity of the Central Plains was far beyond her imagination, and the impact of commercial civilization made her, a girl who grew up on the grassland, full of longing, when would such a prosperous scene appear in her hometown?

Wei Chi Yanshan and Liu Ji's feelings are also complicated, this feeling of mixing multiple moods makes them have to remain silent many times, because they don't know how to face all this, especially all this is closely related to their future lives.

Jiang Feng didn't stay in Shouzhou for too long, and the situation didn't allow him to stay in Shouzhou for long, he also went to Huzhou and took time to inspect the official academy of magic materials in Huzhou, which was a gesture to show the importance of the magic lineage.

Then he quickly went straight to Chuzhou.

In Chuzhou, he attended a banquet jointly organized by the local government and the gentry, which calmed the gentry of Chuzhou and relieved them.

"It's Gaoyou in front. ”

The big ship moved steadily on the canal.

As the situation in Chuyang and Yangzhou stabilized, the canal was quickly restored to unobstructed traffic, especially after the water bandits of Fanliang Lake and Baima Lake were recruited anyway, and the smooth flow of the entire canal was better.

Without the threat of bandits, ordinary ships and small fleets can safely travel between Chuzhou and Yangzhou, and can even directly pass through Chuzhou from Yangzhou to Sizhou, Suzhou, and Songzhou.

In fact, although the Shatuo people controlled Bianzhou, the entire canal waterway was still unblocked, and even more relaxed than when the Daliang was controlled, and the materials from the Huaishui line could be easily transported to Bianliang, and the tax rate along the road basically followed the rules of the Daliang back then.

In Jiang Feng's view, the momentum of the Shatuo people has begun to move in the direction of Daliang, and Li Cunhou is consciously trying to transform a nomadic regime into an agrarian regime.

In a sense, this is actually a process of de-Hu and sinicization, gradually accepting the Han civilization, and the Shatuo people are really in the summer.

Jiang Feng appreciated this very much, and Li Cunhou was already aware of this.

If you want to gain a foothold in the Central Plains, the original set on the grassland will not work, in fact, the set on the grassland has long been abolished on the east side of the river, but when you enter the land of Heluo in the Central Plains, this kind of evolution needs to be greater.

However, appreciation is appreciation, Jiang Feng will not give the Shatuo people so much time, if Li Cunhou is given ten or eight years to slowly sinicize, maybe he will really have to gain a foothold in the Central Plains, Jiang Feng will not be able to give him so much time.

Even if the Hu people want to be sinicized, it should be done in their own hands, whether it is the party people, the Shatuo people, or the Khitan people, it should be the same.

He is duty-bound and duty-bound to take this important responsibility.

The further south the canal scenery, the more it can show its soft side.

It can be seen from the continuous servages and irrigation canals on both sides of the canal that the further south you go, the denser the waterway becomes, and all kinds of boats pass through like shuttles, and the people who live on the water make the most of this waterway.

"King Jun, after Gaoyou, it's not far from Jiang?"

Yu Chi Yanshan is a northerner, and she was a little uncomfortable at first, seasick, but as time went on, she slowly got used to it, and she also set foot in Chuyang for the first time, especially Yangzhou, which is famous, and no one can not be attracted by the fireworks in Yangzhou in March.

"Well, it's half a day. Jiang Feng smiled, "You can stay in Yangzhou overnight tonight and enjoy the customs of Yangzhou." Although Yangzhou still belongs to Jiangbei, it is actually basically the same as Jiangnan, but Chuyang and Erzhou are in my hands, and the gentry of Yangzhou may still be full of resentment, and they may not welcome me as a villain. ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Feng couldn't help laughing, he was still happy to be such a villain.

He didn't come here to please anyone, but to let these Yangzhou gentry recognize the situation and curry favor with themselves.