Chapter Twenty-Four: Open Luoyang Trade and Let the Economy Flow!
After sending Emperor Wu of Han and others out of the city early in the morning, Fang Yi began to supervise the construction of the city again.
Emperor Wu left, Fang Yi was very sad, after all, without him, it might not be so smooth to do anything by himself.
After all, discerning people know that in the current Luoyang County, the military power is in the hands of Guan Yu and Lu Bu, and the right to speak is also in the hands of the two of them.
As soon as Emperor Wu left, Fang Yi, heh, it was just a sweetness for the aborigines in the name of appeasing the people!
Didn't you see Guan Yu's brother crying to death, and he had to go back to Shudu with Liu Bei, Zhang Fei and others, and didn't even face Fang Yi?
However, Fang Yi didn't care about this.
Guan Yu's words, as long as he doesn't stop himself from doing things, he is naturally willing to do well water without violating the river water.
As for Lu Bu, as a general, he is still quite honest now, running around with some guards all day long, solving a lot of troubles for Fang Yi.
Fang Yi was happy with the current situation, but in just a few days, Luoyang City was revitalized.
The people whose houses were burned down had simple dwellings, and Fang Yi even ordered to expand the industries and scenes that a large city should have around the well-preserved Dongcheng.
Of course, Dong Thief and Emperor Wu didn't have much money left for Fang Yi.
So he issued an announcement to allow caravans from all over Kyushu to come to Luoyang for investment and development.
As a rare trade circulation city in Kyushu, Luoyang's strategic location has always been at the forefront of major cities.
This is also one of the capitals that Dong Thief was able to stalemate with the Han who occupied the two states for a while with Luoyang County alone.
It's a pity that Luoyang County became Dong Zhuo's camp at the beginning, and the security in the county can be said to be chaotic to an outrageous level.
Caravans from several other camps came here to transit, not only to pay enough taxes and bribes to the non-commissioned officers defending the city, but also to beware of robbers and scattered troops.
Now that Fang Yi has directly liberalized the policy, caravans and others who come to Luoyang to do business and invest, etc., only need to pay the prescribed taxes to the county lord's mansion, and there is no need to worry about strict miscellaneous taxes at all.
He also specially sent Qin Liangyu and Lu Bu to sweep away the bandit guerrilla army to give them safer investment trust.
What's even more rare is that whenever a well-known caravan comes to Luoyang, Fang Yi often goes to visit and greet him in person.
What a privilege it is for the lord of a county to take care of himself as a merchant!
You must know that the distinction between the classes of Shinong and industry has always existed in the hearts of every people.
The merchant class has always been considered to be opportunistic and the lowest-ranking group of people.
And who can guarantee that their business will always go smoothly?
If you want to give some assurance to future generations, you often choose to invest in the family of officials, as subordinates or staff, etc., so as to get the opportunity for future generations to enter the career.
Therefore, the care of a county lord is enough for them to invest in Luoyang!
Shops and restaurants have sprung up in Luoyang, and those Luoyang locals who have no jobs will no longer worry about finding jobs, and mutual benefit has become the new spokesperson of Luoyang City.
They are not only the builders of Luoyang, but also the future consumers of these industries.
Fang Yi's county lord's mansion also had someone to provide funds to rebuild, and that person's condition was only to be able to mix with the last official and a half-position in the Luoyang official mansion.
To put it in layman's terms, it is just a wealthy businessman who spends a lot of family property to make connections, and mixes it with a county-level errand.
This is equivalent to buying and selling official titles, and it is almost strictly forbidden in the whole of Kyushu.
But in Luoyang County, a city that is being rebuilt, this kind of thing is insignificant.
After all, this county lord was personally appointed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty!
What's wrong with him, it can only be said by Emperor Wu, isn't it?
Before Emperor Wu left, although Fang Yi let go of his hands and feet to do things, maybe he thought that such a young man would not be able to make any big waves if he was caught between Guan Yu and Lu Bu.
It's a pity that Emperor Wu overestimated Guan Yu and Lu Bu's strategy as officials, and one watched the Spring and Autumn Period at home all day long, playing with a big sword; The other accompanies his wife at home all day long, and does a lot of things to help Fang Yi.
He also underestimated Fang Yi's guts, opening up a city's trade was also accompanied by great risks.
For example, spies from major camps, etc., are enough to disturb him.
But Fang Yi didn't care about these either.
What do you like to investigate, anyway, Luoyang is like this, can spies find out what flowers?
Random!
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After more than ten days, the entire Luoyang County has recovered a lot of vitality.
The palace has also been demolished, and most of the treasures and belongings left in the palace, except for some taken away by Emperor Wu, all the rest have gone into Fang Yi's pocket.
Originally, Guan Yu, Lu Bu and their subordinate officials had a lot of complaints about this, but Fang Yi reacted quickly, first collecting a lot of beautiful women in Luoyang City who wanted to climb high branches and sending them to Guan Yu's mansion to appease him.
and then uphold the attitude of 'official business' and send a lot of property to subordinate officials.
What? Do you dare to take it? It's weird, you have a lot of potential for corruption, you have to be strictly investigated!
Don't charge? That's right, give commendations, and then send two pennants to the sky, you are a good seedling to be a clean official!
Anyway, the entire Luoyang is being reshuffled, and the appointment and dismissal of official positions are all up to Fang Yi!
There are more people who want to mix up a half-time job here, and they all want to send me money, and you still want to share my benefits?
As long as Guan Yu and Lu Bu are appeased, in this Luoyang, he can be said to cover the sky with one hand!
With sufficient start-up funds, Fang Yi's County Lord's Mansion and Lu Bu Guan Yu's General's Mansion were soon built on the foundations of the original Imperial Palace.
The county lord's mansion was built around the city lord's order, and the mansions of the other two were also built around the county lord's mansion.
"It's an honor to be a neighbor with the two famous generals of the Destiny!"
Fang Yi raised his wine glass and toasted to Guan Yu Lu Bu in front of him,
"I was busy with the reconstruction of Luoyang a few days ago, and I didn't have time to reward the two generals more, I hope you don't mind."
He invited the two of them to his home for a banquet at dinner, in fact, he didn't have many additional ideas, just to simply take a good look at the famous demeanor of these two famous people.
Guan Yu was still dressed in a simple green dragon suit, and his thick long hair added a strange manly temperament to him.
Lu Bu is wearing a full-body robe, and he has a casual and elderly temperament.
"The county lord laughed, Luoyang's revival is so fast, almost all of it is the credit of adults, Yun Chang and I naturally see it."
Lu Bu got up to give a glass in return, and Guan Yu also drank a pot of wine and nodded with satisfaction.
"I still rely on the deterrent power of the two generals, otherwise, I don't know how much chaos will go out of my open trade policy alone."
Fang Yi's words are not a boast, in the past ten days of Luoyang's resurgence, there have been many frictions or trivial things, and most of the caravans that traveled south and north took care of Guan Yu and Lu Bu to garrison in this city, and their actions were much more restrained.