After appeasing the excited subordinates, Liu Bei got a report from Guan Yu and learned that the Burning Dangqiang side had accepted his opinion and agreed to take water from Qinghai Lake to make salt.

He was delighted and immediately began to plan for other more detailed things.

For example, when it comes to fuel, a big part of the price of salt is the price of fuel, because it needs to be cooked.

The price of fuel was not cheap in ancient times, especially in places where the vegetation was not very abundant, the price of fuel was relatively high, so for the families of the people in some places, it was not easy to cook the food, so there were many places where it was customary to eat raw food.

Whether you live or die is a matter of luck.

In a place like Liangzhou, if you simply use firewood to make a fire to cook salt, or that kind of large-scale boiling salt, it is somewhat a problem, and Liu Bei still needs firewood to do a lot of things, so the demand for this aspect is even more.

This prompted Liu Bei to look for cheaper and more convenient fuel.

Fortunately, Liu Bei heard that there was a place in Liangzhou that produced coal, and there were local people who used coal as fuel to smelt iron, so he was very happy and immediately sent people to investigate, preparing to establish a coal workshop at the same time and collect coal as fuel on a large scale.

In addition to coal, Liu Bei also heard two things.

One thing is about something called Weishui.

A governor from Beidi County told Liu Bei that this kind of thing often floated on a river in his hometown, and someone in his hometown found that this kind of thing could burn up quite violently, so someone in the local area collected this kind of water and used it as fuel.

There is also a kind of existence called a fire well.

It is said that in the south of Shu, the local people found the existence of a fire well, I don't know what the reason, the well will breathe fire, and once ignited for a long time, the local people use the fire in the fire well to cook salt, so the local salt price is quite cheap, and the local people can almost afford to eat salt.

Liu Bei thought about it and began to suspect that one of these two things was oil and the other was natural gas.

The history of the use of oil and natural gas by Chinese is quite early, but there is no special means of understanding and exploitation of these two things, and they are generally used when they appear on the surface, and the exploitation of the Eight Classics will have to wait a long time.

Liu Bei couldn't go to Shuzhong, and he couldn't use the natural gas over there, so he sent the official back to his hometown in Beidi County to collect some water and bring it to him to see, if it was sure to be oil, Liu Bei wanted to exploit it a little as a reserve.

In ancient times, oil had the name of stone paint, and there was also a name, called fierce fire oil.

Fire oil that can be used in war.

The kind that can't be extinguished with water.

If this is used on the battlefield, it is still quite meaningful.

There were several unexpected discoveries at once, and Liu Bei was very happy to see that the salt industry in Liangzhou was about to develop, but the industry he wanted to develop was not limited to this.

Liangzhou's animal husbandry industry is developing very well.

At present, Liangzhou's animal husbandry industry is divided into several systems.

The imperial court system, the Liangzhou government system, as well as the local powerful system, and the foreign system.

Among them, the foreign system is naturally the largest, and the range of animal husbandry is not only in Liangzhou, but also in the vast areas outside Liangzhou, which are their grazing grounds, and a large-scale tribe can often have millions of cattle, sheep and horses, and the grazing scale is very large.

The Han people also have learned from foreigners to engage in animal husbandry, and they can often occupy some relatively high-quality pastures to engage in animal husbandry, which is relatively small in scale, but can be used enough for a local county or county.

The imperial court system used to be the largest, and the former servant was responsible for raising horses in the six counties in the northwest, but since entering the Eastern Han Dynasty, the scale of the imperial court horse breeding has been greatly reduced, and after the war in Liangzhou, it is even more dilapidated.

The rest is the Liangzhou government system, including the state and county governments set up their own animal husbandry departments, which do not belong to the system, and some even depend on the preferences of the local governors, so the scale is smaller.

The scale of animal husbandry in the hands of the Liangzhou Prefecture is very small, mainly concentrated in Hanyang County and Longxi County.

It was almost ruined because of the war before, and it was almost equivalent to nothing, and if Liu Bei wanted to operate, he had to start from scratch.

But fortunately, in the previous war, the five generals obtained a total of more than 200,000 cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock for Liu Bei.

Originally, these loot things were either given to the soldiers, and the rest were divided and sold, and a good meal was also regarded as a reward for everyone.

But Liu Bei didn't.

He wants to find a place to store these cattle, sheep and horses, rebuild the animal husbandry system of the Liangzhou Prefecture, find high-quality pastures in Liangzhou, store these livestock and breed them, and then they can also do business and sell them for money, and they can also provide high-quality war horses for the Liangzhou army.

Admittedly, this requires a lot of investment, but as long as the salt industry is operational, the income that the Liangzhou government can get can definitely support the initial investment in the livestock industry.

So far, Liu Bei has planned four one-stop industries for the whole Liangzhou: a one-stop industry of salt making and selling, a one-stop industry of coal mining and coal making, a one-stop industry of peach planting and peach wine brewing, and a one-stop industry of livestock storage and sales.

However, Liu Bei was not satisfied with this and continued to plan.

He continued to plan for Liangzhou the one-stop industry of mining, iron smelting, iron manufacturing, iron products, and the one-stop industry of connecting the Western Regions to attract investment and joint catering and accommodation, etc., and he planned more distant plans for Liangzhou.

Some seem far away and difficult to implement.

But there are some industries that are just starting construction now, and you can see the level of results very quickly.

This kind of development and construction blueprint at the level of ten or twenty years made the subordinates of the state pastoral government speechless.

Liu Bei kept planning, kept holding meetings to discuss the development plan, and flew straight away in the speech meeting, and stunned the big guys with a professional term.

But after being dumbfounded, all the local officials in Liangzhou had to admit that this Han clan and Confucian disciple from Youzhou was sincerely thinking about the future of Liangzhou, and he really wanted to make Liangzhou better.

With such a long-term planning blueprint as the foundation, when Liu Bei followed suit and proposed to implement political reforms, the resistance was really not so great.

"If you want to govern Liangzhou, you must have great determination and perseverance, and in addition to great determination and perseverance, you must also have a long-term plan, a long-term vision, and be willing to invest, willing to build, and be sure to establish a series of industries in the locality, only industry can drive development.

And as officials, you should not turn a blind eye to this, and you should not feel that you only need to give orders, and if you should make an on-the-spot inspection, you must conduct an on-the-spot inspection, and if you don't understand, you must ask, and you must not be ashamed to ask.

Zi said that there must be my teacher in the threesome, don't think that if you read a lot, you will understand everything, on the Confucian classics, who dare to say that you know more than me? I am not humble in what I say, but I am also telling the truth, and none of you here know better than me.

Despite this, I also feel that I have a lot of deficiencies in many matters, and when it comes to industrial construction and production and labor, I, like you, still have many deficiencies, so I still have to ask what I should ask.

Ask the peasants, ask the craftsmen, ask those who we didn't pay attention to in the past, Zi said, don't be ashamed to ask, this is the right way! Keep ye mindful and always be alert.

Don't ask me when I have a question, you don't know everything, you don't know everything you should know, then you will be eliminated because of poor political performance, but it is all of you here! ”

(End of chapter)