Xu Qian smiled slightly, and asked again: "Then the official asks again, those businessmen and ordinary people, are they willing to destroy the new deal?" ”

Everyone didn't even have to think about it, and shook their heads one after another.

The New Deal has benefits and makes money, so it is impossible to get everyone to go back to the past.

This is like Pandora's box, once opened, people taste the sweetness, and want to close it again, that is to say, people who want to go back are often nerds, only nerds will be obscene and whitewashed, and then all kinds of fantasies about how the three emperors and five emperors do not close their doors at night, how to not leave the road behind, they can't wait to yell at the sky, the slave society is good, and the men and women of the slave society climb the tree and that.

Since everyone can't go back, then they can only follow someone Xu to cross the river by touching the stones, everyone is now a grasshopper tied to a rope, the three emperors and five emperors are not, and it is a joke that the road is not forgotten, most of the people at that time were still picking up stones with bare buttocks, do you dare to hand over the stones to the police uncle, the police uncle must have eliminated you on behalf of the Suiren, Fuxi, and Shennong.

Xu Qian laughed: "In this case, what are you still worried about, the holy decree said, let's do our new policy well, as for the other people, if they are willing to be friends with us, we are not local tyrants, and naturally it is okay to join hands with them, but if someone is an enemy, where the stone comes from, kick it back, whether he is Zhao Qiansun Li Wang, or what governor or governor." ”

It's a pity that Xu Qian doesn't go to be a political commissar, his political work is still very effective, in simple terms, after a reason, everyone is full of morale and fighting spirit, and everyone has said that they must take Xu Futai as the first step and strive to unite around Xu Futai.

Xu Qian was a little unsure about this governor, not knowing what tricks this guy wanted to play. However, since it is the governor recommended by Yang Tinghe, most of this old guy is here to find fault, so he naturally has to keep some thoughts, and it would be good if he was safe. Restless, I can only prepare for battle.

Xu Qian's advantage comes from the support of the palace and the ground, while the advantage of this governor is the imperial court, and the official position is also greater than Xu Qian. The two sides were almost half a catty, but Xu Qian was not overly worried, his real mind was on Ningbo. If the new deal is done well, he is not afraid of Yang Ting and making trouble, but if it is not done well. Even if no one comes looking for trouble. I'm afraid that his future is limited. It's just that Xu Qian doesn't regret it, from the day he was tied to the new deal to the present, Xu Qian has always believed that he is on the right path.

It's just that whether it's right or wrong still needs to be realistically tested, and tomorrow is the time for the real test.

There was no word for one night, and the next morning was early. The inspection and sightseeing group set off for a while, and the governor Xu Qian took the head, followed by the officials of the Yamen such as the Political Envoy Department, the Criminal Division, and the Xuezheng Department, and then there were gentry, etc., and some big businessmen who came together, and some of the compilations of the Ming Pao, which were mighty, and boarded the ship at the dock in Hangzhou City under the arch guard of more than 1,000 royal captains.

Due to the cleaning and widening of the river, in the past, because of the silt blocking the river and the draft is not deep or the river is narrow, from the ships that go to the Hangzhou wharf, most of them are some small boats in Wupeng, and now, the river is wide, the draft is deep, and there will be more and more waterways connected in the future, which means that the whole Zhejiang will be connected into a network, whether it is to Qingtian from Hangzhou, or to Jiaxing and Ningbo, all the way can be unimpeded, not only the general passenger ships can enter and exit at will, that is, those cargo ships with a deeper draft, can also be unimpeded.

Of course, if you want to get through it all, but it will take a lot of effort, there are not many places to penetrate at the moment, but everyone at the beginning, although they all know the convenience brought by the waterway, but after all, in addition to the Cao River, the imperial court and the government do not have the energy and financial resources to do this kind of thing, and now there are really many places connected, everyone suddenly realized that this waterway is really convenient to the extreme, and the past over the mountains and mountains, it is simply a heaven and an underground.

Now there are a lot of merchants began to use cargo ships to transport goods, the government has formulated a unified cargo ship specifications, the demand for a large number of flat-bottomed ships has also begun to increase, and some people even expect that once the waterway network is fully connected, I am afraid that the future demand for ships is at least tens of thousands, if coupled with the purchase of old ships in the future, the annual demand for ships is also more than tens of thousands, so that many shipbuilding workshops are in full swing, Hangzhou here, there have been many big businessmen began to invest in this business, shipbuilding craftsmen, salaries are rising, Even as high as a hundred taels of silver a year, so that some craftsmen of the Franco-Rang machine and the Great Food came to visit, and these people wandered around the streets, but it also made people stop and watch for a while.

What Xu Qian is sitting on is a large-scale flower boat, yes, it is a flower boat, because there is no official ship, so for this trip, the Hangzhou government naturally has no time to rush to make it, and this official ship has no standard, what should I do? Wang Zhifu has a way, Wang Zhifu went to requisition a flower boat, of course, the flower lantern must be removed, and then hang a few signs on the side of the ship, such as quiet, avoidance, and then there is a sign on the book: the right deputy capital Yushi, the governor of Zhejiang, and another sign on the opposite side of the ship reads: Jiajing two years of Gui Wei champion.

Xu Qian boarded the ship, and there were six red-headed servants on the deck who raised the gong and shouted: "Idlers avoid, Futai drives." ”

I'm going to go! Seeing such a style, and then looking at these errand officers with a bit of red-headed Ah San's demeanor, Xu Qian was really speechless, crying and laughing.

hurriedly ordered people to withdraw these errand soldiers, but the sign was nailed to the side of the ship, and it couldn't be removed for a while, and Xu Qian could only give up.

The accompanying officials boarded the ship one after another, but after all, this ship was not as good as a sea ship, and the space was limited.

At the same time, there is also the Tongren County Order, because the ship has to go all the way east, and many waters have to pass through the Tongren County border, and the Tongren County Commander Wang Chuan is naturally responsible for guiding.

Along the way, it is natural to introduce various waterways, and the waterways in Tongren County were the first to be completed, so this Wang County Order and Youyan could not help but introduce how to construct in detail, and said that the riverbed was adopted according to the rules of the Money and Grain Bureau The same width standard, eyebrows danced, and the mouth was like a river.

"My lord, the standard of the Money and Grain Bureau is that the left and right riverbeds must not be less than 20 zhang, adults and look, the front is Hutou Beach, there is a stone bridge there, the lower officials thought about it, and had to order someone to demolish it, because the bridge base is too low, hindering the passage of ships, the water flow here is more rapid, in order to widen the nearby river, the county master personally took people to measure, tied with hemp rope into the water......"

Xu Qian was a little interested in this kind of chattering introduction, standing on the side of the boat and looking at the river embankment, I have to say that the project exceeded his expectations, not only solved the problem of flooding at one time, but also solved the problem of transportation.

Xu Qian couldn't help but say: "Tongren County built the river embankment, how much did the Money and Grain Bureau allocate to spend it?" ”

Wang Chuan replied: "190,000 taels of silver." ”

This amount is enough to make people staggering, but if you think about it, thousands of people were requisitioned to start construction at the same time, a large number of production tools were purchased, and a large amount of rock was needed to collect and transport a large number of rocks to stabilize the riverbed, and these expenses seemed to account for nearly 10% of the revenue of the national treasury, but when you calculated it carefully, it was too much.

The project of 210,000 lines of silver went on, I don't know how many laborers have surplus money in their hands, and also made many businessmen earn silver, such as many iron workshops in Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau, in this Zhejiang project, a piece of the pie, countless silver flew into Tianjin, in exchange for many tools.

In the final analysis, silver is like water, if you want Xu Qian's new deal to liven up, you must let this water flow first, the Money and Grain Bureau came forward, collected millions of taels of silver and smashed it, and finally these silvers flowed into the pockets of merchants and laborers, and the laborers consumed, and eventually flowed to the pockets of more merchants, merchants are not squires, and will never hide the silver in the cellar, so they must expand the scale, and even more silver, and flow back to Zhejiang, or invest in the Money and Grain Bureau, or invest in the Ningbo workshop to expand the scale, which is equivalent to, Silver will always flow in this circle, and as a result, a project of millions or even tens of millions of taels of silver is expected to rise out of thin air, after a large number of infrastructure is perfected, the speed of silver money flow will not only not stop, but will be faster, such as the emergence of water networks, which will lead to the rise of countless shipbuilding workshops, as a new industry, as long as the ship is still hot, then a single shipbuilding, will accommodate millions of silver, tens of thousands of craftsmen, apprentices to participate in it.

In this case, prosperity will inevitably lead to an increase in the requirements for infrastructure, if after ten or twenty years, I am afraid that the water network alone will be full and become congested, and if the money and grain bureau is still there at that time, I am afraid that it will have to make a larger investment.

Going down the river, there are mostly farmland along the way, occasionally passing through one or two county seats, the excitement is just a flash in the pan, the boats in the river, there are not many now, but Xu Qian has gradually felt that the prosperity that the river road is about to bring, he squinted, silently, looking at the mountains in the distance, and suddenly a thought came to him, ten or twenty years later, will those mountains still be there? This is a very strange idea, it stands to reason that no one in this era will think about such a naïve question, how can the mountain disappear out of thin air.

However, Xu Qian had a hunch that one day in the future, the mountains might have disappeared and become a bustling market town or a dense workshop.

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Chapter 2 Delivered, Woo Woo Woo...... It's been four or five days, and the monthly pass is still not satisfactory.