In this way, the grain produced in Liaodong will be easily transported.

When the Eighth Princess approached the West Port of Jinzhou, there was a sea of ​​people on the pier, ranging from generals and officials to craftsmen and farmers. Everyone who could come came. Seeing the majestic fleet entering the port, deafening cheers suddenly sounded on the pier.

"Cheng Shuai, Cheng Shuai!"

No matter what official position Cheng Shijie was promoted to, ordinary people actually didn't care. In their eyes, Cheng Shijie was still their commander-in-chief.

"Greetings, Commander-in-Chief, and Madam!"

Song Xiance finally managed to squeeze in. At this time, members of the Liaodong Management Committee also crowded in one after another.

"Song Xiance, what the hell are you doing!"

Cheng Shijie pointed at the huge crowds of people and said, "How much manpower and material resources will you waste by doing this?"

"My lord, you have wrongfully accused me of being a subordinate!"

Regarding the marriage between Cheng Shijie and Zhu Weiti, the happiest person was actually not Cheng Shijie, nor Emperor Chongzhen, but Song Xiance. Just like the development strategy proposed by Zhu Sheng to Zhu Yuanzhang that year, "Build walls high, accumulate grain widely, and slowly become king."

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Under the leadership of Cheng Shijie, Liaonan developed very rapidly. In fact, Liaonan's development has been very rapid. Even when Ning Haijun fought with Jiannu in Bali Bay, Liaonan still developed at a high speed.

"What the Duke doesn't know is that these common people are not organized by subordinates, they came here spontaneously to greet the Duke!"

Cheng Shijie didn't quite believe Song Xiance's words: "You really didn't organize it?"

Song Xiance said: "That's not true!"

It wasn't until Chen Guodong glanced at Cheng Shijie in the crowd that Cheng Shijie realized that it was indeed the people who came to greet Cheng Shijie spontaneously.

There is a reason why these people are very fanatical about Cheng Shijie. Most of these people are from Liaodong. They have an unforgettable blood feud with Jiannu. Cheng Shijie not only led Ning Haijun to defeat Jiannu, but also caused serious harm to Jiannu.

of casualties.

More importantly, they migrated to southern Liaoning, and Cheng Shijie gave them food, land to plant, and work. Through their own efforts, these people have survived the most difficult period, and now they basically have no way to eat.

Problem. Of course, there is still a long way to go before we are truly wealthy, but these people are all simple and kind.

The most important thing is that Cheng Shijie was granted the title of Duke. This was a grand event that had not happened for more than two hundred years since the Ming Dynasty created six Dukes of Jingnan during the Jingnan Campaign.

They, the people under Cheng Shijie's rule, are naturally overjoyed. The people, of course, hope that those officials who are capable and treat the people well can be promoted step by step, become stronger and stronger, provide themselves with better protection, and seek more benefits.

Thousands of ecstatic people came to Cheng Shijie's return. Wherever Cheng Shijie passed, the people cheered and applauded warmly. At this moment, everyone's hearts were filled with pride.

It made Zhu Weiti feel that there were more people in Jinzhou than in the capital city. Of course, this was Zhu Weiti's illusion. Not to mention Jinzhou, even in the entire Liaodong, there were not as many people as Shuntian Prefecture.

The entire Shuntian Prefecture governs five states and 22 counties, with a population of more than 47 million people. Of course, one thing is that Jinzhou can be compared with the capital. The entire capital has a total of more than 57,000 large and small merchants.

, which is equivalent to one out of every five people in Beijing being a businessman among 1.24 million people.

However, the proportion in Jinzhou is as high as one-third, and the number of people engaged in business exceeds 70,000.

Liaonan is very busy now. Of course, they have always been busy. With spring plowing approaching, a large number of young and strong men push chicken carts or drive carts to Jinzhou every day, and then load potatoes, sweet potatoes and the like.

The seeds are transported to surrounding towns in the four states of southern Liaoning.

With the large amount of sweet potatoes and potatoes being produced last year, the people in southern Liaoning became accustomed to eating potatoes and sweet potatoes. They are very popular due to their rich nutrition and low price. In particular, a large number of businessmen saw business opportunities and invented the invention of sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes.

There are countless ways to eat and use it.

The families of Ning Haijun soldiers and martyrs in southern Liaoning were the first batch of people to become wealthy in southern Liaoning. They all sold some potatoes and made a fortune.

If people have money, after filling their stomachs, they will start to have new pursuits, that is, for food, clothing, housing and transportation. Of course, in this case, almost every household of soldiers and martyrs in southern Liaoning has horses or cattle. When Zhu Wei

When Ti set foot on the land of southern Liaoning, the first thing she felt was that there were too many cars.

Large carts, chicken carts, deer carts, two-wheeled carriages, four-wheeled carriages, the roads are densely packed with rolling wheels. If these carriages were replaced by cars, the current scene would be almost equivalent to a county town in later generations, and there would actually be a traffic jam.

The development of Liaonan is inseparable from Cheng Shijie's plan. From the beginning, he wanted to build Liaonan into an industrial base, which can also be said to be an industrial empire. In order to let the people experience the convenience of the industrial empire.

One of the great things about an industrial empire is that industrial products are very cheap.

For example, when Poussin was first produced in China, it sold for a sky-high price of 180,000 yuan. How much was the per capita salary at that time? The author did not work at the time, but I remember that the monthly income was more than 200 yuan at that time, which means that the salary was

If a class wants to buy a Santana, it will take 900 months without food or drink.

For example, someone in the author's village bought a Santana. In the same year, a relative spent 34,500 yuan in the city to buy a house with three bedrooms and two living rooms, more than 130 square meters. Of course,

It was not a small high-rise building because there was not a single high-rise building in the city at that time.

If the current housing price is used, the city where the author is located is between 9,000 and 13,000. Even if the lowest average price is 9,000, five houses are worth more than 5 million. But the question is, what about now? Even if the income

It’s not high, and if you don’t eat or drink for a year, it’s not a problem to buy a Poussin. This is the advantage of industrialization.

Cheng Shijie also adopted this method. After the great victory in Liaoyang, the risk of slave creation had been greatly reduced, so the factories under the Ninghai Navy Guns Bureau, Ordnance Bureau, and Equipment Bureau all switched from military items to civilian items.

Then the problem arises. The quality of military products is very good, especially the civilian quilts and other products produced by the military uniform factory. Although the dyeing is not black, ordinary people are not interested in such good-quality and durable shoes, socks, and clothes.

, I like the bedding and sheets very much.

Since then, military factories have been converted to civilian use. For similar civilian factories in southern Liaoning, it is simply a blow. Fortunately, southern Liaoning is not easy to sell. These factories can be sold to the Central Plains, and there is still a huge market gap.

Of course, it also dealt a negative blow to the small-scale peasant economy in the Central Plains.

In addition to the traditional textile industry, the biggest blow to military products is actually the steel industry. A kitchen knife made of a pound of fine steel used to cost six or seven coins for each ordinary iron kitchen knife. But now, it only costs

Two cents of silver. The days when ordinary people could not afford a kitchen knife have become history.

Especially the refugees who arrived in southern Liaoning before winter and spring plowing found that life was not difficult and there were job opportunities everywhere.

For example, they can bake bricks and tiles in kilns, work on factory construction sites, build houses for ordinary people, do odd jobs in factories that have not yet been put into operation, or carry coal.

With the large-scale application of coal, Liaonan has spawned many emerging industries along the coal lines, such as briquettes, briquette factories, briquette mold factories, and especially coal transportation.

Coal is not only used to make fires for heating, but also to make coke. In fact, coal cannot be used to make steel directly. The sulfur content of coal is quite high, so it must be burned into coke first, which requires a lot of manpower.

The hottest business in southern Liaoning is actually not the steel or coal industry. In fact, the hottest business is the wood industry. Building houses requires a lot of wood, building carriages also requires a lot of wood, and of course there are drought-resistant waterwheels and furniture.

Refugees can cut down wood to sell, but this matter was soon stopped. If the wood is cut down without restrictions, it will cause too much damage to the forest, but once the forest is destroyed, the impact will be huge.

For this reason, Cheng Shijie forbids refugees from cutting down forests privately, but instead cuts trees in a planned manner. A cutting license is required before cutting, thus avoiding waste.

Another booming industry is the deep processing of potatoes and sweet potatoes. The storage time of sweet potatoes and potatoes is not long. In the climate environment of southern Liaoning, there is no big problem in the cellar for more than half a year. However, after half a year, it is inevitable

Destruction occurs.

Under this situation, in addition to leaving the potatoes and sweet potatoes ready for breeding, they can only be processed into sweet potatoes or potato flour and vermicelli. Millions of potato or sweet potato processing plants of varying sizes have sprung up in southern Liaoning.

The factory processes sweet potatoes or potato flour day and night.

In comparison, the output of potato flour and sweet potato flour is high, and the price is low. This relatively cheaper flour is appearing in more and more grain stores in Beizhili, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang and other places.

, people rushed to buy, and the sales scene was very hot.

There’s no way it won’t be popular. Food prices are rising steadily. Wheat costs more than one tael of silver per stone and potato noodles cost more than five cents per stone. How to choose?

If you have money, you can choose, but if you don’t have money, you can naturally fill your stomach first.

The potato residue is not wasted. It is processed into feed and transported to breeding farms to feed pigs, horses, cows and sheep until they are chubby.

Cheng Shijie returned to Ning Haijun General Military Mansion, also known as Cheng Mansion.

Before he had time to rest, Song Xiance reported a serious problem to him.

There were no government offices in southern Liaoning before, and although there are still none now, the imperial court sent fifteen guard posts and eight independent thousand-household posts here at once. This means that these fifteen guard posts and eight thousand-household posts have become

The most unstable factor in southern Liaoning.

Cheng Shijie thought for a moment and said, "Are they all here?"

"Already arrived!"

"This matter is easy to handle. Let them know that I will meet them tomorrow and let them get ready!"

Song Xiance conveyed Cheng Shijie's intention to these fifteen guards.

The guards commanders of these fifteen guard posts gathered together and began to discuss countermeasures.

Although these guards' commanders and commanders are under the jurisdiction of the provincial governor's office in the official script, the problem is that the commanders do not have much authority over them because they are hereditary commanders or commanders. As long as they do not make big mistakes, they will

They can stay in this position until their death. After death, the court will let their sons continue to serve in their official positions.

There are also marriages and other relationships between the commanders of the guards and the commanders of the guards. They have long been deeply rooted and formed a huge alliance of interests.

The problem now is that they are now under the control of Cheng Shijie.

Although Cheng Shijie couldn't get rid of their officials, he could make them ecstasy at a thought and send them to hell at a thought. The military fields at each guard station were allocated by Cheng Shijie. Cheng Shijie could make them live a prosperous life, or make them scream.

The heaven and earth are not responding to each other, which makes the earth and the earth inoperable.

The 8,000 households in the 15th Guards in southern Liaoning are now uneasy. How should they face their new boss, Cheng Shijie?

Just like when Cheng Shijie got married, they agreed to give Cheng Shijie 5,000 taels of silver as a congratulatory gift, 5,000 taels of silver for the commander, 3,000 taels for the commander, 2,000 taels for the generals, and 1,000 for each person in the thousand households.

two.

These 8,000 households of the 15th Guards gave Cheng Shijie more than 300,000 taels of silver.
Chapter completed!