Ma Yilong has been completely provoked by Zhao Hao, and he asked people to pack their luggage that night and prepare to go to Kunshan to show their ambitions.

If you're not in a hurry, you'll be delayed a few days later. That's a delay of hundreds of thousands of acres, and if you lose a season because of this, the sin will be great.

Hearing that Mr. Meng He was leaving, Liyang's fathers and elders were all shaken and came to the door to stay. There were two or three thousand villagers gathered outside the academy, and some people kept coming from all directions.

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

The common people are stupid, in their eyes, Mr. Meng He is a Shennong-like figure, what agricultural technology does he need to learn?

In order to get out, Ma Yilong took Zhao Hao out and made a fool of himself, saying that he could grow thousands of catties of grain per mu!

Zhao Hao was helpless, and quickly showed his corn cob. There are also those cucumbers, eggplants, bitter gourds, and loofahs, which finally suppressed the common people who have never seen the world.

He also promised that agricultural technicians would be sent regularly to promote technology, so that everyone could enjoy the latest agricultural technology, and the people were reluctant to release them.

The side effect of this move is that Zhao Hao's whereabouts are exposed.

When he returned to the county dock by boat and was about to board the Science to leave, he saw a familiar scene play out again.

Shi Qingshan, the county governor of Liyang, led several gentry in the county, and he had been waiting for a long time. In any case, I have to invite Zhao Gongzi to enjoy a meal.

Zhao Gongzi had the heart to integrate Jiangnan, so naturally he couldn't refuse people thousands of miles away, so he had to be a guest and went to Gao Jingyuan with them.

During the banquet, Shi Zhixian didn't know what to do, and tentatively asked, does Jiangnan Group still have the spare power to cover the raw silk and silk in Liyang?

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

It's a pity that Shi Zhixian himself has no confidence. Liyang is too small, neither along the river nor near the lake, and too far from Jinling and Suzhou to be of much use.

That's what he thought.

Liyang is at the junction of the Wushen Canal and the Danjin Licao River, and these two canals and several other vertical and horizontal water systems jointly build a transportation network connecting the south of the Yangtze River in Zhao Gongzi's heart. This is destined to occupy a very important place in the future pattern of the south of the Yangtze River.

After all Zhao Hao's actions, he reluctantly agreed.

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

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After another day of delay in Liyang, Zhao Hao had to stay in Gao Jingyuan that night. However, this garden is still quite beautiful, and it can be regarded as a small adjustment during the journey.

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

The Science left Liyang along the Zhongjiang River and entered Gaochun County. It is not too far from Nanjing, and Gaochun has also become a district of Nanjing in later generations. Its territory is full of mountains, lakes and lakes, beautiful mountains and mountains, evergreen all year round, and it is a land of fish and rice.

When the canal crossed the border of Gaochun County, Zhao Hao didn't plan to get off the boat at all, who knew that Gaochun County didn't know where to get the news, and actually took a boat to block the way on the river.

Zhao Gongzi had no choice but to be patient again, and reached the same agreement with Gaochun County.

Declined the other party's kind invitation to go ashore, he hurried on.

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

As Zhao Hao's Jiangnan plan, the important town in the west ranks among the top three...... Of course, this west refers to the west of the Yangtze River. Daxia Chinese Network

Wuhu is known as the head of Wu and the tail of Chu, and it is geographically and culturally the boundary of the Jiangnan region.

After careful consideration and repeated discussions, Zhao Hao has already announced internally that Jiangnan Group will not expand its boundaries indefinitely.

Zhao Hao demarcated the business area for Jiangnan Group, which is about Hangzhou in the south, Yangzhou in the north, Shanghai in the east, and Wuhu in the west.

This area includes the essence of the Ming Dynasty, Susong Changzhen Hangjiahu, as well as Yingtian, Taiping, Yangzhou a total of ten prefectures.

The combined area of these ten prefectures is only 50,000 square kilometers, which is half of Zhejiang Province. But with a population of more than 20 million, taxes account for more than half of the country's!

There is no doubt that this is where the best area of Daming and the world is located.

And there will be no war here for decades; Far from the political center of Beijing, there is no feudal fiefdom, and the environment is very relaxed; Most of the scholars are not ashamed of their words, and the business atmosphere is very strong; Most of the common people raise silkworms and weave cloth, and the handicraft industry is also very developed.

If there is a place in Daming that can realize the transition from the natural economy to the commodity economy and complete the commercial revolution, it must be here!

Compared with leading the entire Ming Dynasty to carry out a commercial revolution together, it is obviously a more realistic, more operable, and naturally easier goal to lead only this 50,000 square meters of fair projectile land to achieve a breakthrough.

Well, it's hard too. In this era, the major empires except the Ming Dynasty basically had a population of about 20 million. There are only a few million people in England.

It cannot be said that it is easy to lead 20 million people into a new era.

But it's always easier than that......

He felt that if he could accomplish this thing in his life, he would already be in the sky.

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Why does Zhao Hao take Wuhu so seriously.

First of all, its congenital conditions are too good.

Wuhu is located in the golden waterway of the Yangtze River, where the Qingyi River, Shuiyang River and Qingshui River converge into the Yangtze River in the south, and the Yuxi River connects Chaohu Lake in the north. It is the intersection of Huguang and Jiangnan, southern Anhui and Jianghuai, and it is naturally a water transportation hub connecting the north and the south and the east and west.

This makes it the first of the four major rice markets in the world. The masts along the Qingyi River are like forests, and the merchants are densely packed, and most of the rice sold from all over the world to Jiangnan, southern Anhui, and Jianghuai is shipped from here.

In addition to the grain trade center, Wuhu is also the steelmaking center of Daming. It is known as the saying that 'iron to Wuhu becomes steel'.

The famous 'Suzhou Iron and Steel' of Daming Dynasty is not actually produced in Suzhou, but in Wuhu.

To be more precise, the Wugang process began in Suzhou. However, a few decades ago, due to the lack of iron, coal and other raw materials needed for steelmaking in Suzhou, as well as the rising cost of hired labor, a large number of iron-smelting owners and craftsmen moved from Suzhou to Wuhu.

Because Wuhu is close to the iron mines of Fanchang and Dangtu, and the coal mines of Tongling and Guichi, and these minerals are lined up along the Yangtze River, the transportation cost is very low. With incomparable advantages, Wuhu has become the actual production area of Suzhou Iron and Steel.

In addition, it is also the pulp dyeing center of Daming, known as 'weaving Shang Su pine, pulp dyeing Shang Wuhu'.

The pulp dyeing industry in Wuhu is unique in the country, the pulp dyeing technology and dye production technology are very advanced, the dyed cloth and silk, high quality, fresh color, many types, not easy to fade. In particular, some of the more special dyeings, such as 'patina' and 'silver vermilion', can only be dyed by them.

Even the silk produced in Suzhou and the cotton cloth produced in Songjiang will be sent to Wuhu through the Wushen Canal, colored by the dyeing workshop here, and then sold throughout the country and exported overseas.

These two pillar industries together build the status of one of the five major handicraft centers of Wuhu Daming.

is so Wuhu, how can Zhao Gongzi not love it?

ps. Second Update.