Cheng Weigao, the governor of Yongping County, is now proud. With his introduction and persistence, he finally let the court contact with the Qin royal family and Xiao Qiang, and agreed to open a second business road to directly connect to Qin. This is of great significance to Yongping County. It means that Yongping County will become the distribution center for the goods of this business road, greatly driving the development of Yongping County.

The rapid development of Shayang County, Taiping City, including Changyang County, shocked Cheng Weigao, and he was unwilling to fall behind. Agricultural agriculture is the foundation of the world and commerce is the source of living water. He deeply understood this truth. As long as this business road is unobstructed, Yongping County can become the one that benefits the most.

This time, in order to seek this business road, Qin even agreed to allocate the territory of the two counties to the Ming Dynasty, which was even more surprising. Although the two counties were mountainous areas with sparsely populated areas, no matter what, it was a territory of hundreds of miles. In Cheng Weigao's opinion, it could be considered as expanding territory for the Ming Dynasty.

These two counties that were extremely poor were burdens in the eyes of the Qin people, but in the eyes of the Ming people, they might become treasures. If you have to go along with the way, you can discover unexpected wealth that you can't imagine.

The Qin people gave these two counties to the Ming Dynasty, so they naturally had their intentions. Cheng Weigao also understood this very well. He simply did not want to undertake the construction of business roads passing through these two counties. If the business roads were to be smooth, he had to build a good road, but there was no way to talk about these two places.

After the two countries signed an agreement and the two counties were officially assigned to the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Weigao went there. Xuan'en County, Yongping County, which was adjacent to these two counties, seemed very poor in Cheng Weigao, but after going to the opposite side, Cheng Weigao understood what real poverty was.

Although there are no good roads in Xuan'en County, there is finally an official road where people can walk. In these two counties, the best roads can be used for people to push a wheelbarrow to walk.

After a trip to the two places, Cheng Weigao, the road construction experts specially invited from the Ministry of Works, came back and complained. This was not the official road connecting the three counties as the county magistrate Cheng had mentioned earlier. It was clearly necessary to build a road from nothing to something.

Cheng Weigao said all the good things, and the threats finally made these road construction experts wry their faces in two places called Youfeng County and Youlaiyi County. They climbed mountains and ditches for several months and finally came up with a design plan. However, the cost was three times that of the original plan.

The cost of road construction made Cheng Weigao silent for a long time. In the end, the merchants in Yongping County were very interested and had a lot of people and great power. Everyone gathered together and finally collected the cost of the first phase of construction.

Xuan En, Youfeng, and came to Yi County to start construction at the same time. However, after the project began, Cheng Weigao was greatly relieved. The cost of road construction was much less than what the Ministry of Works expected, and a large part of the savings were manpower costs. The officials of the Ministry of Works calculated according to the Ming Dynasty's manpower standards, but forgot that they could not spend so much in Youfeng's two places. As long as you give them enough food and whether they have wages is not the same. Once the construction starts, not only young and middle-aged people rushed over, but even the elderly, weak, women and children went to work together, not for anything else, just to work on the construction site and have enough food to eat.

Cheng Weigao never thought that the Liao Wuren Youfeng County, which seemed to be uninhabited, could have gathered so many people in Laiyi County, and it was also possible that the whole county's population gathered here. When these two counties were assigned to Yongping County, the Qin people did not even have a household registration, which made Cheng Weigao not sure how many people and households there were in these two places.

Now, while building roads, the number of people and households has been counted, and new household registrations have been made. There are indeed less than 5,000 households in these two places, and the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, with a total of only more than 20,000 people. The construction of this road is indeed a whole lot.

The spirit of working hard to make a full meal touched Cheng Weigao. It was said that the Qin people were poor, and he truly witnessed this time. These Qin people were really lucky. With a big stroke of their pen, they became Ming people. They would also have many benefits that Ming people enjoyed next. Of course, Cheng Weigao is not planning to declare to them that the Emperor of Ming has great kindness to the people, so he has to finish the road.

For half a year, although it was still far from the completion of the official road, it was already in its infancy and had a big stand. The merchants who had been eager to wait immediately began to take action. All kinds of goods and commodities began to pour into Qin along this road that they could only barely walk.

Yongping County began to taste the benefits brought by this trade route.

Merchants from all over the country with a keen sense of smell rushed over, making Yongping County city full of people for a while. While the big merchants were still raising goods, countless small merchants had already embarked on this road. They drove a wheelbarrow or carried a cargo load and embarked on a journey. Just because the goods transported to Qin had more than five times the huge profits, one trip would be enough to match their annual income in previous years.

Correspondingly, the tax revenue of Yongping County is rising steadily, and countless merchants flock to Yongping County, which has caused Yongping's land and housing prices to rise. The income of local residents is much richer than in previous years.

This is just the beginning!

Cheng Weigao sat in the office of the government office, looking at the half-year tax report in his hand, he felt so happy.

"Mr. County Magistrate." The young chief Wen Peng pushed the door and entered. This was the first batch of officials promoted through the imperial examination after the Ming Dynasty implemented the administrative reform. At only thirty years, he was already the second-in-command of a county. From the perspective of the administrative reform of the Ming Dynasty, the most eye-catching thing was that the age of officials was greatly reduced, and the county governor who had been implemented thoroughly in Yongping County was even more so. Wen Peng was sent by the court. In order to show respect for Cheng Weigao, Qin Feng had asked him about his opinions and asked him what kind of chief minister he needed. Cheng Weigao's requirement was to be proficient in merchant arithmetic. Before Wen Peng took the imperial examination, he worked under the Commerce Bureau, which just met Cheng Weigao's requirements, so he came to Yongping County.

After half a year of cooperation, Cheng Weigao was quite satisfied with Wen Peng. The young man was not only capable, but also cautious. Perhaps because of his previous experience in the Commercial Bureau, even though he is now the second-in-command of Yongping County, he has no airs at all. He handles his connections in all aspects just right. He does not fight for power, is not competitive, and he respects him as the county magistrate. There is no better deputy than this.

"Wen Changshi, what good news has you brought to me?" Cheng Weigao looked at the young Changshi with a smile.

"Monday, the lower official found that something was abnormal during this period." Wen Peng sat opposite Cheng Weigao.

"What's the abnormality?"

"Monday, the price of grain has risen a bit abnormal during this period." Wen Peng was puzzled: "In previous years, it was the time when grain merchants shipped large quantities of old grain and emptied the warehouse to collect new grain. At this time, it was the time when grain prices fell the most, but this year it was the opposite. The grain prices rose sharply. The merchants who went to Qin did not go elsewhere, but only went to grain."

"Is there anything wrong with this? Isn't Qin State always short of food?" Cheng Weigao did not react for the first time.

Wen Peng shook his head and said, "Monday, when the officials followed Director Wang to do things like this, they have seen this situation, but at that time it was because of war, the army and the court had to store a large amount of grain before it appeared. Now, why did Xiao Qiang, the Hulaoguan opposite suddenly want to store grain on a large scale?"

Cheng Wei's eyebrows jumped, "Do you know this is Xiao Qiang custodying grain?"

"There is only this explanation." Wen Peng nodded: "At this time, what does Xiao Qiang want to do? There is a war in Qin State? Are they ready to go to war against Qi State? Are they ready to go to war against us?"

"This is unlikely, right?" Cheng Weigao said in shock.

"Monday, I was confused, so I went to do some detailed investigations and found that the merchants from the Qin State Huzhu suddenly borrowed a large amount of money from Taiping Bank, and all of these money were purchased by them and transported them to Huzhu continuously. I was really nervous." Wen Peng said.

Cheng Weigao Huo stood up and paced around the room, "Wen Peng, this matter is very important, it is related to the safety of the country, but Qin has no reason to start a war with us?"

Cheng Weigao thought hard, he knew that the court was preparing for two wars at the same time, but Wen Peng didn't know that, but Wen Peng suddenly brought him a shocking guess today.

The Qin State may also go to war against the Ming Dynasty!

"Wen Peng, please arrange it. Starting today, the food transported to Hulao must also be stopped, but you cannot tear your face. It makes people feel that we have noticed something!" Cheng Weigao said.

"This is easy to deal with. The road has not been completely repaired yet. In some places, just by moving a little, the road can be paralyzed. All the food is piled up on the road and cannot enter Hulao Pass."

"Go and do it right away. Also, if there are another Qin merchants going to the two major banks to make loans, they will not borrow money on the grounds that funds are tight."

"OK."

Wen Peng left immediately. Cheng Weigao thought for a moment and called an official, "Let Han Hua come to me immediately."

Han Hua is the head of the Eagle Nest stationed in Yongping County. He rushed over and was amazed when he heard Cheng Weigao's guess.

"It's better to believe that it's there than to believe that it's not. Han Hua, you will immediately spread your elite troops and go deep into Hulao to inquire about Hulao's military information and other information to see if they are preparing for war!"
Chapter completed!