Ma Yilong had been completely teased by Zhao Hao. That night, he asked someone to pack his luggage and prepare to go to Kunshan to show his grand plans.

It’s not okay to be in a hurry. If you delay seedling cultivation a few days later, it will delay hundreds of thousands of acres at once. If you lose one season, the sin will be a big deal.

When they heard that Mr. Meng He was leaving, all the elders of Liyang were shocked and they all came to stay. There were two or three thousand villagers gathered outside the academy, and some people were constantly coming from all directions.

Ma Yilong had no choice but to come forward to appease the villagers and tell them that he was going to Kunshan and learning advanced agricultural science from Mr. Zhao, which could better benefit his hometown.

The people were stunned when they heard this. In their eyes, Mr. Meng He was a Shennong-like figure. What other agricultural technology does he need to learn?

In order to escape, Ma Yilong took Zhao Hao out and praised him, saying that he could grow grain with a yield of thousands of kilograms per mu!

Zhao Hao had no choice but to show off his corn cob. And those cucumbers, eggplant, bitter gourd, and loofah finally calmed the common people who had never seen the world.

He also promised to send agricultural technicians to promote technology regularly so that everyone can enjoy the latest agricultural technology, and the people are reluctant to let them go.

The side effect of this move is that Zhao Hao’s whereabouts were exposed.

When he returned to the county pier on a boat and was about to leave on the Science, he saw a familiar scene happening again.

Shi Qingshan, the magistrate of Liyang, led several gentry in the county, and had been waiting for a long time. In any case, he would invite Mr. Zhao to enjoy all his meal.

Mr. Zhao was willing to integrate Jiangnan, so he naturally could not keep people from thousands of miles away. He had to go with him to Gaojingyuan with him.

During the meal, Shi Magistrate Shi was indeed the case and asked tentatively whether Jiangnan Group still has the strength to protect the raw silk and silk in Liyang?

Shi Qingshan expressed that as a thank you, he will definitely open the door to convenience for Jiangnan Group in Liyang and provide all the conveniences.

Unfortunately, Magistrate Shi himself has no confidence. Liyang is too small, neither along the river nor facing the lake, and it is too far from Jinling and Suzhou, so it is really useless.

That's what he thought.

At the junction of Wushen Canal and Danjin Licao River, these two canals and several other vertical and horizontal water systems jointly build a transportation network connecting the Jiangnan in Mr. Zhao's heart. This destined that Liyang will occupy a very important place in the future Jiangnan pattern.

After Zhao Hao made some moves, he still reluctantly responded.

Of course, Zhubaku... Oh no, the details still have to be discussed by Sister Jiang. Mr. Zhao is not good at this.

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After another day of delay in Liyang, Zhao Hao had to live in Gaojing Garden that night. However, the garden was quite beautiful and it was a small adjustment during the trip.

The next day, the Science Number set sail out of the city and rushed to Wuhu, the fourth stop of this trip.

The Science News drove away from Liyang along the Zhongjiang River and entered Gaochun County. It is not too far from Nanjing, and later Gaochun has become a district in Nanjing. Its territory is covered with mountains, lakes, beautiful waters and beautiful mountains, and evergreen seasons. It is another hometown of fish and rice.

When the canal crossed Gaochun County, Zhao Hao had no intention of getting off the boat. Unexpectedly, the magistrate of Gaochun had received news from where he actually blocked the road on the river by boat.

Mr. Zhao had to have a patience to socialize again and reached the same agreement with Gaochun County.

He refused the other party's kind invitation to go ashore for a trip, and he hurriedly continued on his way.

Fortunately, after leaving Gaochun County, he entered Wuhu County.

As Zhao Hao's Jiangnan plan, the top three important western frontier towns are important... Of course, this western frontier refers to the western frontier of Jiangnan.

Wuhu is known as Wu's head and Chu's tail, and is geographically and culturally the border of the Jiangnan region.

After careful consideration and repeated discussion, Zhao Hao has announced internally that Jiangnan Group will not expand its boundaries to an infinite extent.

Zhao Hao's business area designated by Jiangnan Group starts from Hangzhou in the south, ends in Yangzhou in the north, Shanghai in the east, and Wuhu in the west.

This area includes the most important Ming Dynasty, Susongchang Town, Hangzhou, Jiahu, and Yingtian, Taiping and Yangzhou.

The area of ​​these ten palaces is only 50,000 square kilometers, which is only half of that of Zhejiang Province. However, the population exceeds 20 million, and the taxes account for more than half of the country!

There is no doubt that this is the most important area of ​​the Ming Dynasty and even the whole world.

Moreover, there will be no war here for decades; it will be far away from the Beijing political center, and there will be no fiefs of the vassal kings, and the environment will be very relaxed; most scholars and officials are not ashamed of making profits, and the business atmosphere is very strong; most ordinary people raise silkworms and weave cloth, and the handicraft industry is also very developed.

If there was a place in the Ming Dynasty that could achieve a leap from the natural economy to the commodity economy and complete the commercial revolution, it would be here without a doubt!

Compared to leading the entire Ming Dynasty to carry out a commercial revolution, it is obviously a more realistic, operational, and naturally easier goal to lead only these 50,000 square meters of fair and small land to achieve breakthroughs.

Well, this is also very difficult. In this era, the empires except the Ming Dynasty had basically a population of about 20 million. There were only a few million people in Flangji and England.

It is impossible to lead 20 million people into a new era.

But it's always right to be relatively easy...

He felt that if he could accomplish this in his life, Niu Boyi had already come to heaven.

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Why does Zhao Hao value Wuhu so seriously?

First of all, its innate conditions are too good.

Wuhu is located in the Golden Waterway of the Yangtze River, with Qingyi River and Shuiyang River in the south, Qingshui River gathering into the Yangtze River, and Yuxi River in the north connects Chaohu Lake. It is the intersection of Huguang and Jiangnan, southern Anhui and Jianghuai River. It is naturally a water transportation hub connecting the north and south, and transporting east and west.

This made it the first of the four major rice markets in the world. The Qingyi River has masts and masts, and merchants are densely packed with merchants. Most of the rice sold to the south of the Yangtze River, southern Anhui and Jianghuai River are shipped from here.

In addition to the grain trade center, Wuhu is also the steelmaking center of the Ming Dynasty. It is said that "iron comes to Wuhu to make steel."

The famous "Sugang" in the Ming Dynasty was actually not produced in Suzhou, but in Wuhu.

To be more precise, the Wugang process originally started in Suzhou. However, decades ago, due to the lack of raw materials such as iron, coal, and the rising labor costs of steelmaking, a large number of iron smelting owners and craftsmen moved from Suzhou to Wuhu.

Because Wuhu is close to Fanchang, Dangtu's iron ore, Tongling and Guichi's coal mines, and these minerals are all along the Yangtze River, lined up and transport costs are extremely low. With its unparalleled advantages, Wuhu has become the actual production place of Sugang.

Moreover, this is also the center of the Ming Dynasty's pulp dyeing, and it is said that "weaving Susong in weaving, and pulp dyeing in Wuhu".

Wuhu's pulp dyeing industry is unique across the country, and its pulp dyeing technology and dye production technology are very advanced. The dyed fabrics and silks are of high quality, bright colors, and many types, and are not easy to fade. Especially some of the more special dyes, such as "paper green" and "silver vermilion", which are the only ones that can dye them.

Even many of the silk produced in Suzhou and cotton fabrics produced in Songjiang are sent to Wuhu through the Wushen Canal. They are colored by dyeing workshops here and sold all over the country and sold overseas.

These two pillar industries jointly build the status of one of the five major handicraft centers of Wuhu and Ming Dynasty.

How could Mr. Zhao not love Wuhu like this?
Chapter completed!