Author: Use your soul to aim

The construction of waterwheels has not stopped and is still under construction. Walking up the Yellow River and reaching Jiazhou, you can see that on the Shaanxi side of the Yellow River, continuous waterwheels continue to extract water from the Yellow River.

water channel.

The original scattered canals are now all connected. The Yellow River water flows along the canals to the people's fields. In some places, keels have even been used to pump water. People in other prefectures and counties are envious. They say that Jiazhou people are in trouble.

A rare good official.

Some counties and villages close to Jiazhou have connected their canals to the Jiazhou canal, and then spent money to buy water to irrigate the fields.

After learning about the situation, Zhang Zongxian decided to establish a private water conservancy association for the sake of long-term drought relief in the future, which was responsible for maintaining canals, water trucks, and various water pumping tools. People in other counties also had to buy water through the association, which would collect it uniformly.

All canals and various equipment on the canals are outsourced to each village in sections. They are responsible for maintenance and the association is responsible for supervision. As for the waterwheels on the Yellow River, the Water Conservancy Association raises funds from each village for maintenance. The Water Conservancy Association will be managed by the Yamen

Workshop supervisor.

For such non-governmental associations, Zhang Zongxian requires them to make monthly financial disclosures, and the members of the association should be composed of the chiefs of each county, and the person in charge should be selected from the chiefs of each county. They should be elected once a year and cannot be re-elected.

When the disciples come back, they will also be arranged to join the operations of these associations. Then their expenditures will be audited. If something goes wrong with such a non-governmental organization, it will be easy to deal with it.

On the tenth day of the lunar month, the disciples completed their tasks and returned to the institution.

After verification, Zhang Zongxian asked all his disciples to return to the counties they were responsible for to help supervise the completion of land title replacement in each county.

The wool workshop has also begun preparatory work. Zhang Zongxian plans to raise 80,000 taels from all the yamen in the four counties after the land title replacement is completed to build a workshop. The workshop will be fully used and can spin hundreds of wool threads a day.

A big spinning wheel.

It is planned that the annual output of this workshop will reach one million kilograms of wool. This is also what was previously promised to these soap officials.

The order for the large spinning wheel was also there. After completing the field measurement and population census, it was given to XCMG.

Zhang Zongxian asked Qian Tongzhi to quietly tell the news to various county governments. Seeing that Zhang Zongxian was true to his word, the officials worked harder and tried to complete the land title replacement in the shortest possible time.

In the end, with the blessing of the magic of money, it took only eight days to complete the land deed replacement.

Although there are still problems in some counties, the land population has been clarified and the burden on the people has been clearly reduced after the land deeds have been replaced. Nowadays, the county offices cannot allocate land at will.

The common people can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Many common people have created new words for Zhang Zongxian in their homes. They hope that Zhang Zongxian can stay in Jiazhou forever.

The people of Jiazhou were happy, but at the same time, new problems arose.

Not only Qingjian County, but also every county in Jiazhou has an influx of refugees from neighboring counties. Although the land surveyed this time has revealed that there are grasslands and woodlands in both Shenmufu Valley that can be reclaimed as fertile farmland.

However, water and soil erosion in the Yellow Plateau is already serious. Destroying these forestlands will only cause greater ecological disaster. It is best not to cultivate them as a last resort.

In the end, Zhang Zongxian decided to vigorously develop the mining industry. After all, there are salt mines in Wubao and coal mines in Shenmu. Both of these mineral deposits can bring a lot of profits.

In order to encourage people to mine, Zhang Zongxian combined the locations of various mineral deposits known to him in his previous life and auctioned these areas separately to businessmen who were willing to mine. He also provided loans to teams without capital.

On the one hand, mining is encouraged, and on the other hand, road construction is stepped up so that four-wheeled carriages can travel smoothly on the roads in Jiazhou.

Loans for cattle and farm tools for the common people have also been launched in various counties in Jiazhou. Such loans are basically interest-free loans. The cattle are quickly loaned out by the people in various counties. And all kinds of iron farm tools are in short supply.

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Zhang Zongxian also required that all workshops must use iron materials produced locally in Jiazhou for processing. Coupled with the loss of the road, many Shanxi iron-making families sent people to open iron-making furnaces in Jiazhou. There are new ones every day

Construction of the iron-making furnace began.

Zhang Zongxian also provided many preferential policies in a timely manner. Coupled with the continuous development of grassland trade routes, a large number of workshops were started not only in Qingjian County, but also in the seat of the government.

Zhang Zongxian also always pays attention to the business environment in each county. Once Yu Nong's men detect officials who are extorting money, they will deal with it first without waiting for the victim to file a complaint.

After killing a few chickens without eyes, no one dared to damage the business environment. Zhang Zongxian also encouraged major workshops to jointly establish a chamber of commerce and use the name of the chamber of commerce to communicate with the yamen.

Zhang Zongxian also asked Hu Biao to obtain the monopoly rights for briquettes in various counties in Shaanxi, including Xi'an City, so as to consume more and more coal production.

In order to maintain the market, Hu Biao used Ding Bo, their identities as Jin Yiwei and Eunuch Li's, to discuss cooperation with local snakes in various places. The Taiping would transport the coal to make briquettes, and the profit would be 30-70, with the Taiping taking 70%.

If you encounter difficulties with people in the officialdom, let Mr. Ma step in to negotiate cooperation.

If cooperation fails, then Eunuch Li will take action. If Eunuch Li doesn't give him any face, he will send out ruffians to attack the opponent. If that doesn't work, arrange for Yunong to send out dead soldiers to serve as a warning to others.

Anyway, Zhang Zongxian's reputation among the gentry was so bad that it didn't matter no matter how many people he offended.

Yunong also expanded his team and arranged spies to various counties.

After winning the exclusive rights, we not only have to deal with local snakes in various places, but also deal with roadblocks and local tycoons on the transportation road.

At first, Hu Biao used Jianghu's tactics to solve the problem. When Zhang Zongxian found out, he severely criticized Hu Biao. Then he asked Hu Biao to set up the Taiping Escort Agency, and then transferred cavalry from Qingshui Camp and changed into the uniform of an escort.

.Armed transport of goods.

The Escort Bureau not only attacks all kinds of robbers and bandits who block the road, but also targets those who are indifferent to powerful people from all over the country. Even people from the government can be beaten without fail.

Soon the escort agency opened up the situation, and the whole Shaanxi Province knew that the people in the Taiping escort agency were not easy to deal with.

At first, the bodyguards transported coal and ironware. Later, when the salt was mined, they could transport salt. Later, people from the Chamber of Commerce found Hu Biao and wanted the bodyguards to escort the goods for them. Having the bodyguards escort them could save a lot of trouble, and it was more expensive than them.

Shipping costs yourself is lower.

In view of this, Zhang Zongxian decided to expand the scale of the escort agency. He established a transportation fleet together with the horse carriage company, and then reached cooperation with various post stations to receive transportation orders.

Zhang Zongxian also raised another cavalry brigade in the name of the Escort Bureau. Each caravan was escorted by at least one company of cavalry along the road. The escorting cavalry was constantly exchanged between Changsheng Fort and Qingshui Camp.

The escort team relied on the five-pound flintlock guns they carried to open the trade route from Qingjian County to Yan'an Prefecture, Yulin, and Xi'an.

The next plan is to open a trade route from Qingjian County to Lanzhou to Hanzhong to Luoyang to Taiyuan to Kaifeng.

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