After witnessing the arithmetic literacy accepted by the people in Li Su's fief, as well as the basic efficiency and business thinking cultivated by the people, Liu Bei really sighed for a long time.

He was also afraid that this was an accidental phenomenon, a "model project", so he asked his subordinates to go to understand the people's conditions separately and give them some small money to drink tea and bath. The result was that the rewards were all the same, which meant that it was a common phenomenon.

Liu Bei could imagine how much wealth potential would burst out when the productivity of these people was stimulated and perfectly matched with the emerging production technology. It would be easy for Shu to collect hundreds of millions of commercial taxes a year.

If there is a transaction like Sun Jian that uses Changsha County to exchange money and grain next time, he can support the Han Dynasty by relying on money - unfortunately, there is only one chance.

With this emotion, Liu Bei and his party rushed to Li Su's mansion leisurely.

They originally planned to have lunch, but they wandered outside for a whole afternoon, and when they arrived, they almost ordered dinner.

Because he had a close relationship with Li Su, Liu Bei never informed him in advance, just like Zhao Kuangyin liked to raid Zhao Pu's house and had a free meal.

When they arrived at the gate of the Marquis' Mansion, the servants and maids were panicked and quickly welcomed Liu Bei first. Cai Yan also dressed in well and came out to welcome him, saying that Li Su would come back soon and asked the maids to make tea.

Liu Bei took a sip with a tea bowl and said, "It's better for Boya's tea here. Where will he go today? The Lantern Festival has only been two days after, and all officials are rogue. They shouldn't be busy with official duties."

Cai Yan: "I'm not very clear. In the afternoon, the county magistrate Zhuge came and asked him for some small matters. He rode out on his horse and said he could just take a look. The dinner will come back, and there is no big deal. The king turned out to be hard, so I let the maid go to the meal."

Liu Bei waved his hand quickly: "No, no hurry, the way we came was bored, I ate a lot of cold rabbit and braised chicken, and I was not hungry at all, so I waited for Boya to go with him."

Not long after chatting, Li Su came back. Seeing Liu Bei coming, he hurried over to greet him. Liu Bei smiled and asked him where he had done business. Li Su then smiled and pointed at Zhuge Jin:

"This matter is also related to Chief Yun. Chief Yun, after the first month of the year, he will ask the idle soldiers and horses to help build construction and build water conservancy in Nan'an, Jianwei. Today, Ziyu came to tell me that he would send some of the carpenters and blacksmiths and other craftsmen he had recruited before to dismiss some of them. I would pay private money to continue paying wages to buy materials first, so as not to stop work. If the water conservancy in Nan'an County is no longer built, I will pay back the money I have earned in the past two years."

Liu Bei and his party were bored and wanted to hear some fresh and interesting things. Seeing Li Su saying solemnly, they quickly asked for details: "What are the craftsmen they hired before? Why are they dismissed? Could it be that they built the loom?

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Today, I see that everyone is very enthusiastic and the people are striving for progress. The promotion of looms should be smooth, so how can there be an oversupply?"

While instructing the maid to serve the food, Li Su explained: "No, this group of craftsmen have been expanded one after another two years ago, mainly carpenters. They built the waterwheel workshops in Du'an County and Pi County. However, after the winter of last year, they had no work to do.

On the way, the king must have seen it. The water trucks were already densely packed and completely built on the lower reaches of Dujiangyan, the tributaries of the Minjiang River, and the irrigation canals. Originally, these water trucks were enough, enough to supply 100,000 looms on the line, as well as the rice and wrought iron needed by most people in Shu County, and it would be a waste to build them more.

However, since last year's twelfth lunar month, I think it is possible to gather 400,000 or 500,000 women from Shu to join the industry and commerce in the future and operate 200,000 looms.

So, I asked Ziyu to continue to pay for the craftsmen who made water trucks and buy materials, so as not to be idle. The planned water conservancy projected in Nan'an County has not yet started construction. Let's cut the water wheels and turn over the axle rudders to make all the parts and parts of these water trucks. At that time, the "Leshan Yan" in Nan'an is repaired and the semi-finished water trucks are transported to the local assembly.

This is no longer more efficient than the on-site construction in Dujiangyan two years ago, starting from the trees. It is necessary to occupy more capital in advance, so I have exhausted the profits of the mills I used up with the Zhen family in the past two years, which is only enough to make the wood and wages for half a year of credit.

Just now, Ziyu said that there were too many woods purchased, and there were too many semi-finished water wheel shaft rudders, so there was no place to pile them up. So in the afternoon, he went out with him and asked the local big-name buy a piece of abandoned land not far from the Minjiang River, and simply gather a warehouse to pile things up."

Hundreds and thousands of large water trucks were dismantled and stored in parts. They really needed a very large warehouse and even temporarily occupied farmland for a period of time. So Li Su found some local big farmers and borrowed wasteland for temporary use. After spring plowing, he had to vacate some of them.

Or ship to the vicinity of Nan'an County, Jianwei County. The development efforts in Nan'an are much lower than those around Chengdu, and the land is definitely cheaper and easier to find.

Liu Guanzhang was also amazed when he heard this. Liu Bei pretended to be stern: "Boya, you can see far enough. Is this considered using the imperial labor service for personal gain? Even if the troops that Yun Chang trained were idle this year and wanted to build water conservancy for the people, it would not be profitable for you, right?

You are so good. You are thinking about using a water truck to fill the two sides of the 'Leshan Yan'. You may not have taken all the benefits of water conservancy industry and commerce."

Liu Bei's words were half joking and half pounding. He had no intention of punishment, but he didn't want Li Su to be too ugly and would be criticized by Shu people.

After all, the nature of Li Su's affairs is equivalent to "the state has paid money to organize manpower to build a dam, which is conducive to navigation and irrigation and power generation." Then Li Su gave the benefits of navigation and irrigation to the people, but the benefits of electricity generated by the hydropower station have been put into his own pocket.

In principle, it is the same for hydropower stations to generate electricity and use water energy to drive water trucks after repairing the weir.

Don’t say, Li Su didn’t really consider this issue at the beginning, because the ancients thought that “of course, whoever has the ability to use the water can use it”. How could he give the court money because of the water repair truck?

But if you think about it carefully, if there is no water conservancy project, the water energy you get is definitely not stable. The water truck will be damaged during the flood season and the construction cannot be started during the dry season.

However, Dujiangyan was something that existed since the Qin Dynasty. It has been four or five hundred years. Everyone enjoys its benefits without considering the support of those who are working on the construction projects. The current plan of "Leshanyan" was just built by this dynasty.

If Li Su saves this money, it will also lead to national fiscal and economic chaos in the future. Everyone takes advantage of it. It is better to set rules. Anyway, as long as Li Su has profit margins, what's wrong with making money legally?

He thought about it and quickly admitted his mistake: "The king said, this matter has never been done before, and I don't know how to compare it. In the future, whenever the government repairs water conservancy, the people's construction of hydraulic workshops should share their expenses.

Let me see that there are three benefits for the development of water conservancy, and irrigation and elimination of floods and droughts are the first. Before the Dujiangyan in the Qin Dynasty, Chengdu was alternating droughts and floods, and it was not worthy of being called the country of Tianfu, so disaster prevention is the first, which should account for half. The profit of shipping is the second, which is calculated as 30%; the hydraulic power is calculated as 20%.

Rather, in the future, the workshop merchants that benefit from hydraulic power will bear 20% of the river repair money and grain, and will also account for 20% of the repaired water conservancy facilities. In the future, if the workshop is sold or migrated and no longer operates, the workshop license and water conservancy shares can also be transferred to other merchants. If the water conservancy facilities need to be maintained and renovated in decades, the renovation funds will be borne according to the share capital.

Just like this Dujiangyan, although it was built in the pre-Qin period, every year, the newly accumulated silt in the Feishayan was required to be dredged every year, and it would take several years to build and strengthen the dam. In the future, all the workshops and merchants along the river would bear 20% of the burden on this part of the river, and the Shu County government would bear 80% of the burden."

After all, Li Su had experienced so many history jointly organized by officials and the people. In the Westernization Movement recorded in the historical books, there were countless such projects, so he could read them casually.

When Liu Bei heard this, he was indeed very fair. The merchants took 20% of the river repair money, and the government was under a lot of pressure.

"This method is good, but Boya's mind is good. If you don't force you, sometimes you really don't know how many good things you can force out in your mind. Okay, for your initiative, we don't care about the division. Just a gentleman's words will be 20% 20%. From then on, all our territory in Yizhou will be handled according to this proportion."

With Liu Bei's approval, Li Su made a decision and made a big plan. From then on, the government and the people on the land of the Han Dynasty jointly organized water conservancy projects, and as long as they could find private equity investment, they would share the costs in this way.

Li Su smiled bitterly, not excited, and said self-deprecatingly: "I thought I had saved up two years ago, so I asked the Zhen family and Zhuge family to borrow some money. This time I could eat more than a thousand water truck workshops in the 'Leshanyan' by myself. I had to bear the annual salary of 20,000 people. It seemed that I had to join the Zhen family again."

He doesn't have enough capital!

Of course, it is not impossible to take it alone. So I have to pray that the Zhen family has not had a long-term vision and chooses to borrow money to invest instead of investing in person. But now it seems that the Zhen family has gained so many benefits with him, so they should not misunderstand it.

In fact, he didn't miss it later. After getting the news, Zhen Yao asked Zhang Liang to bring 200 million yuan to join the shares with Li Su without saying a word.

Fortunately, Li Su always knew the boundaries of his ability. His family had no relatives, only a wife and a father-in-law, and a bunch of maids. He really had no business talents. At present, this business was entrusted to Zhang Liang of the Zhen family to help manage it. Therefore, those "labor-intensive" industries are really not suitable for him, and he can't control them.

Because of this, Li Su has never personally invested in a brocade workshop like a business that requires managing many female workers in the past two years.

He would rather only earn money from silk reels than raise silkworms, boil cocoons or weave brocades, and focus on the most "high-tech, asset-intensive" links in the industrial chain, and give them to friendly merchants in other links.

Just dealing with money and technology can help you less people, that's too tiring.

After listening to Li Su's heart-warming words at the dinner table, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei agreed. They also found that their family members could learn this idea of ​​buying industries, so they expressed their willingness to contribute to the country's water conservancy development.

Of course, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's thoughts were definitely not as open as Li Su, so they could do whatever they could in the loom workshop. However, the ancients' desire for fields was still inevitable, so they would rather divide some of their property and buy more hilly mulberry gardens and get thousands of tenant farmers to plant mulberry trees for themselves.

Of course, Li Su would not persuade him. It is difficult to change the Han people's fanaticism of "hoarding agricultural land" and even if the village Houting Hou had hundreds or thousands of households, it still seemed to be insufficient.

As soon as he saw Guan Yu, he was very serious about the construction of the "Leshan Yan", and said that he would lead troops to start construction immediately after the first lunar month, and Li Su was very satisfied.

Isn’t it beautiful to make money for everyone?

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PS: I am guilty, I am sorry to everyone. I will keep a note here and I still owe you three thousand words for four days. I really can’t pay it back this week, so I will try to pay it back next week.
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