Chapter 41 Wenying Lake Project

A lecture made Zhou Mengchen feel excited. He wished he could start now and list the various theories of Qi Science one by one, and then Zhou Mengchen looked at whether he could prove or falsify it? But when he was in his position, he had to take the position.

Zhou Mengchen knew very well that the development of Qi in Datong was based on the fact that the people of Datong believed Zhou Mengchen, not the belief in Qi.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen could not put all his thoughts on Qixue. He must take into account his duties.

Moreover, Zhou Mengchen must also consider the employment issues of the students of the big classmates.

Can't you care about killing or burying?

Students from Datong Academy who are too different from modern college students may not be as good as those of modern middle school students. But the problem is that their knowledge structure is very similar to those of later students under Zhou Mengchen's intentional adjustment.

There are 300 people today, and Zhou Mengchen can arrange them to be on the Qingzhang. But there are about so many people every year. There will be only more, not less in the future? If Zhou Mengchen did not prepare in advance, these people may have to graduate and be unemployed in the future.

Because the traditional Ming society had no place for them unless they were willing to go home to be a private school teacher.

Zhou Mengchen did not object to such people, but he knew that most students did not want to. After all, although Datong City could not be ranked in the Ming Dynasty, it was already a very prosperous place compared to the local villages of Datong. People who have seen the prosperous here may not be willing to return to their hometowns.

This is also human nature.

Perhaps in the future, these students of Datong Academy will be firm supporters of many Zhou Mengchen's policies, but now, they need Zhou Mengchen to protect them.

Zhou Mengchen soon had a showdown with Yang Jisheng.

The content of the showdown is the Wenyinghu Project.

The entire project requires strengthening the river embankment for dozens of miles, digging a new river for nearly ten miles, and planning several trunks of hundreds of miles long. It immediately transformed the surrounding tens of hectares of land from dryland to water irrigated fields, but the budget is not low. When Yang Jisheng saw it, he was surprised and said, "Four hundred thousand taels? This is impossible, I have calculated it."

Zhou Mengchen said, "How much do you calculate?"

Yang Jisheng said: "If you only need to supply food, you need to pay rations, which requires about 300,000 shi of food. It is enough for a variety of miscellaneous items to have about 100,000 taels of silver."

Zhou Mengchen smiled slightly and said, "I understand. You probably want to build a canal, but you have never thought about using cement."

Yang Jisheng said: "That's natural, otherwise it would be so expensive. If you can, you can save it. And I don't have so many trunks I designed."

Zhou Mengchen said, "Look carefully."

When Yang Jisheng saw it, he was stunned and said, "So much cement is used? Didn't you do this because the cement workshop is yours?"

Zhou Mengchen heard this and said, "Are I doing this? What I need is cement production and steel production. The more than 100,000 yuan more this time is used to purchase steel and cement, all at the lowest price. And I can guarantee that I will sell the cement method to Shuozhou Supervisor at a discount and let Shuozhou Supervisor rebuild a cement workshop north of Datong."

Zhou Mengchen and Yang Jisheng have completely different approaches.

When Yang Jisheng was short of money, he thought that he wanted to reduce costs as much as possible, so the Wenyinghu project he met only used steel and cement. But Zhou Mengchen is different today. He knew that the higher the output of industrial products, the lower the unit price. He had originally thought about expanding military equipment supervisors and cement workshops. Now, increasing the order volume may not be the same.

Especially iron.

Once the scale is formed, the price will fall to a very low level. Instead, you can find a way to sell it to other prefectures and counties. Originally, with the traffic conditions of Datong, this kind of sales was not very favorable. However, now the Xishan Canal is about to be repaired soon. Moreover, Shanxi merchants who went out to conduct business have also formed a scale.

Overall, the Ming Dynasty sold more things to the Tartars, and the Tartars sold less things to the Ming Dynasty, so many people came and left empty. At this time, if you ask him to buy some iron, this kind of hard currency may not be necessary to suppress the position. Anyway, the iron thing is only at a low price and can be sold anywhere in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Zhou Mengchen also gave up. At least the funds originally invested in the wool textile industry should be slowed down.

First of all, it was a technical problem. He had arranged many Datong Academy to conduct research and research. Through Xu Wei's relationship, he found many experts from Jiangnan, all of whom were experts in the textile industry, and many people even played with wool.

Secondly, it is the problem of wool raw materials.

Zhou Mengchen had to admit that many changes in things were not overnight. The Tartars had not had a large amount of wool exported to the Ming Dynasty before. It was not difficult to deal with Zhou Mengchen's attempt to make the Tartars form this habit at once. Fortunately, there were actually some breeding industries in Datong.

Even because of the black technology created by Zhou Mengchen, it is nothing else, but artificial insemination of horses. It has already shown some results, especially this spring, many war horses have successfully bred, making many mares pregnant. Without Zhou Mengchen's reminder, many people spontaneously transformed this technology from horses to cows, sheep, and even people.

Therefore, the development of Datong's animal husbandry industry is also very good. The large-scale planting of corn and the implementation of silage are also one of the reasons. In short, Zhou Mengchen can only solve the problem of raw materials from within Datong first. Once it is successful, it will not be too late to purchase a large amount of money from outside the customs.

Zhou Mengchen took a lot of verbal talk before he could explain it clearly to Yang Jisheng.

Yang Jisheng actually didn't quite understand Zhou Mengchen's ideas. But he believed in Zhou Mengchen, and finally nodded and said, "Okay. This time, Wenying Lake will be built into a century-old project. Let the surrounding area of ​​Datong be exempted from floods and droughts within a hundred years."

Zhou Mengchen said, "I hope so. However, there is one thing I hope you do. That is Qingzhang, six counties and four prefectures."

Yang Jisheng said: "Okay, I agree."

Zhou Mengchen said: "Brother Yang, the purpose of purging the archery is to increase taxes, but it is not something I, Zhou Mengchen, would do. You need to do three things to clear the archery. The first thing is to find out the foundation of these prefectures and counties. I cannot allow the lower taxes to be paid, but I will never allow it. I will hide it from me."

"The second thing is that there are local tyrants and evil gentry everywhere, greedy and abused people. Please ask Brother Yang to go there for me."

"The third thing is that I am going to write to the court to change the matter of hereditary officials. This time, all the vacancy that has been cleared will be filled by students of Datong Academy, and will not be listed as low-ranking people. You can take the imperial examination."

Yang Jisheng was not surprised by the previous two things.

After all, Zhou Mengchen fought with the Tartars for the past two years, he actually relied on the surrounding areas of Datong and the garrisons in the north of Datong. Almost all the people were soldiers in these places, especially when they fought with the Tartars during spring plowing, almost young and strong, while old and weak were transferred to farm. Even though they were five feet tall, they had something to do.

The use of civil power has reached its limit. This is another reason why Zhou Mengchen had not yet filled the cavalry before. Datong's manpower was exhausted. However, in addition to some taxes, there were some people who took the initiative to go north to join the army, and they did not bear any additional burdens at all.

Perhaps some organized some people and strong people, but they only protected the countryside and had no effect on the war.

Now that Zhou Mengchen has time to integrate the internal situation of Datong, he naturally will not let go of such a large piece of fat. After all, he can't rely solely on Datong people to fight.

However, Yang Jisheng was a little confused about the matter of attacking the officials. He said: "How many years have the imperial court established the law? How can the court change in one go? The imperial court will agree, and you do this? I'm afraid someone will say you are favored?"

Zhou Mengchen said, "Just say it. Maybe your Majesty is hoping to catch me some tricks. Moreover, Brother Yang is also a hard-working family. How could he not know that the clerk is as fierce as a tiger, and some things are always to be done. I couldn't control it before, but I can't ignore it today. In fact, if it weren't for many things in the Wenyinghu project, I was worried that Brother Yang would not be able to do this, and I would have done this thing myself."

Zhou Mengchen was not a provocation, but it sounded like a provocation to Yang Jisheng. He sneered and said, "Brother Zhou, don't be provoked, I agree."
Chapter completed!