Wang Hongyu looked at the surging Han River not far away, and then looked at the emerald green mountains shrouded in mist, and patiently explained:

"Although officials from all over Yunyang can work hard, they want to be promoted after all. Since we want to be promoted, we will show our political achievements as much as possible, and once we leave late and make high-profile inspections, what we will see after all is not the truth. ”

"The general is absolutely right."

Zhou Yijie admired his ability to fight, train, court, and industry, and this time he was also very amazed and admired for his stance of not forgetting his roots.

"Hahaha, cousin, this is called chasing the source of Shuoyuan, right?" Li Tiezhu's idiom this time is more reliable than last time.

Wang Hongyu saw Li Tiezhu and Qiao Jibai, the two tall and thin combinations are here again, and this time they want to be with him.

Qiao Jibai smiled, "This inspection starts from a difficult and distant place, and finally returns to Yunxian, just like eating that sugar cane, starting from the bitter end, and eating it will be sweeter and sweeter later~"

Wang Hongyu held his forehead and smiled.

Li Tiezhu followed Qiao Jibai to learn, and the idiom did improve a little. This Qiao Jibai followed Li Tiezhu, and his perception of food has improved too quickly~

The group set off immediately.

This time, I went to Fang County first, and then from east to west, the second stop was Zhushan, the hometown of the eldest brother, and the third was Zhuxi in the distant mountain.

At the end of June, when it was the hottest, I thought the mountains were a little better, but the reality was that the temperature was indeed a little lower, but the humidity and fog were much more difficult than the plains.

Fortunately, there were people who were familiar with the local area such as Zhou Yijie, as well as Qin Ling who provided medicines for refreshing, insect repellent, and dampness, so everyone survived after a few days of adaptation.

Walking the mountain road twists and turns, I finally arrived in Fang County two days later.

After arriving, I inquired as a business traveler and learned an interesting thing.

Fang County, just south of Wudang Mountain, is convenient to Wudang by land, because of the main river water, the waterway to Gucheng is extremely convenient.

For example, taking the land route from Fang County to Yun County and Zhushan is all around the mountains, but it takes 5 days to walk more than 100 miles. But it only takes one day to go to Wudang Mountain, and it takes 3 days to walk to Junzhou County in Xiangyang Prefecture. The waterway to the distant valley city can be reached in 2 days.

It is obviously a county in Yunyang, but it is more closely connected with the neighboring Xiangyang Prefecture. The rest of the counties also have closer economic ties with Nanyang and Hanzhong.

This is the magic of the Yunyang Mountains.

After that, when making industrial planning, I just considered the linkage of several surrounding areas, rather than sitting in the government office and planning against the map.

This is one of the tricks of logistics economics.

Fang County has more than 3,000 residents and a tax-collecting population, which is considered a medium level among Yunyang counties, but much less than that in the plains. The actual population is much larger, but many of them are hidden in the mountains, so you don't see too many people in the county.

Roughly inquiring, there are only more than 1,000 people in the county, if you don't see the brick wall about two people high, and there are two stone and wood structure gate towers, it is simply a small town.

A two-car wide dirt road in the county is quite smooth, and the county government is in the middle of the county.

The main road extends into several three-person wide paths that connect to warehouses, workshops, bazaars and residential homes.

There are some small two-story bamboo and wood buildings along the street, and the inside are all ordinary bungalows.

The market is lively, in addition to the people in the county seat, there are many people from various towns and villages in the county to enter the county seat to do business.

Except for a grain store, a tea shop, and a local specialty turquoise, there are no shops in the strict sense of the word.

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Most of the people who come to sell things are a person who lays out a cloth or a bamboo basket and puts on it what he wants to sell, such as some vegetables and fruits, a few chickens and ducks, a basket of mushrooms, a basket of eggs, and a pot of river mussels.

Sell things directly shout, the price is directly discussed, things are sold out and pack up and leave, if it is a good position by the road, there are still people staring at the position, quickly grab the vacant good position.

The county government also has tax collectors who collect taxes on stalls along the road, and the tax collection is to pay a booth fee of 1 to 3 wen first, and then collect a few cents of tax depending on the transaction.

There is no contradiction between the vendor and the tax collector.

The cost is still very low, and if the vendors feel that it is too high, they will not enter the stalls in the county seat, and directly find a place outside the city to set up their own stalls.

Tax collectors and catchers are not inactive, they will help deter thieves, deal with disputes, and stop buying things without paying.

Most of the vendors are ordinary farmers, who save up some goods and sell them at a suitable time. Some people who specialize in business also ride donkeys to pull carts by themselves, and a cart of vegetables and fruits is very fresh.

None of them are locals, because they are all from a foreign land. Everyone is not a foreigner, because when they live in Yunyang, they can be regarded as locals.

No one bullies and excludes anyone.

When they entered the city to pay their taxes, the officials provided security and order, and with security and order, business began to be done.

It's just in a good state.

Because Wang Hongyu and his entourage came suddenly in civilian clothes, the county did not make special preparations, and the scene they saw was more real.

Wang Hongyu bought a few pears and chatted with the pear seller.

It's a mountainous area, so it's perfect for growing fruits. Pears are sweeter than outside, papayas are rare outside, and grapes can make a lot of money when sold to Junzhou, Gucheng and Xiangyang.

But after all, there is not much to grow, in addition to the cost of transportation and sales, the most important thing is that there is not enough food to eat.

There is little land in the mountains, and the better places are reluctant to plant fruit trees, so they have to use them to plant the land, so that the fruits will be produced less after all.

"Can you sell fruit and buy food?" Wang Hongyu asked tentatively.

"Young man, you're joking~ Eat a lot of food, it's not cheap, and the fruit is slow, which will starve people to death......"

Wang Hongyu chuckled in his heart, it was very difficult to operate large-scale fruit trees in later generations.

At the heart of it is productivity.

The price of grain is not cheap, even Huguang costs 10 wen a catty.

These pears just now cost 8 yuan a catty.

Wang Hongyu has a friend who has grown pears at home, although it is not Huguang, but it is also very meaningful.

The pear tree does not bear fruit in the first 5 years, and then bears fruit every year, and on the basis of breeding, insect control and fertilization in later generations, it produces three or four thousand catties of pears per mu every year.

Pears are sold in bulk for 2 yuan a catty, and this output is here, of course, making money from grain that is cheaper than the price.

Can the Ming Dynasty do it?

The price of grain is higher than that of fruits, and fruits have to be input but not output in the past few years, and there is no scientific achievements such as breeding, fertilization, and insecticide to support it, so it is difficult to exceed the income from growing grain.

Then logistics and sales are pain points, the output is high and the local cannot be sold, and the transportation to Junzhou and Gucheng also costs money, in case it exceeds the daily ship transportation volume, it will cost more money......

This matter will be very slow to develop on its own, but Wang Hongyu is here, and good days are coming.

Among the counties of Yunyang, the rest of the counties have to rely on Yunxian and Hanshui to connect with Xiangyang counties, and only this Fang County has a large river connection with Gucheng, which is its advantage.