Su Jin sent hundreds of soldiers to follow Liang Shi to look for ore on the Northwest Fourth Road, although he had great hopes for this, but even if he could find a mine, not to mention whether he could mine or not, even if he could mine, it would take at least a year from mining to generating benefits, and this year, the millions of people on the Fourth Road would have to eat and dress, where would the money come from?

So Su Jin can't bet on the mine, he needs more ways to relieve the financial pressure, and there is a saying in later generations called 'don't put all your eggs in the same basket', which means to warn people not to bet on one thing.

The current output of the coal mine in Baoshan is gradually decreasing, not because of the depletion of minerals, but because as the excavation deepens, the mine is getting deeper and deeper, and the difficulty of mining is also increasing, and at the same time the danger is also increasing.

Su Jin sent a special independent safety inspector, the frame of the mine and the excavation must be accepted by them, once they fail to supervise effectively, resulting in an accident, Su Jin will directly investigate their responsibility; In addition, the further down the mine, the more inconvenient the coal in and out of the mine, the excavation of complete manpower, coupled with the pressure of safety, led to the production of Baoshan Coal Mine is becoming less and less; At its peak, nearly 3,000 baskets of raw coal were produced per day, but now the output has been reduced to 2,000 baskets, and the demand in various places is increasing, and the pressure on production is great.

However, the coal mine is a cash cow, settled at the end of last year, Yan Biyun's account book clearly wrote an astronomical figure, Baoshan Coal Mine last year produced nearly 3 million catties of coal, processed into briquettes and fragrant cakes, more than 8 million yuan; But even so, the balance of the Su family did not exceed one million, and the cost of wages plus the construction funds of the two roads of Qin Fengjing Yuan cost five million guan, and some of it was consumed on unprofitable paving and refining of oil.

However, what makes Su Jin happy is that the refining of fire oil is becoming more and more mature and fast, although this thing is currently only costing money, but Su Jin believes that sooner or later these fire oil will come in handy, in addition to a part of the free charge into the armory of the state capitals, Su Jin also ordered someone to secretly get thousands of barrels of high-quality quality hidden in the cave for storage, sooner or later, these fire oil will play a huge role.

The asphalt asphalt road was also paved from Baoshan to Yanzhou, and from Yanzhou to Weizhou, which was originally to facilitate the entry and exit of coal, raw coal and materials, but at this moment Su Jin had a new idea; Since he plans to attract investment, these wide and flat asphalt roads are naturally the best hardware, even if the funds are tight, Su Jin also decided to quickly pave all the asphalt roads and main roads between the states into asphalt pavement.

In addition, several major cities should also be properly renovated, low and narrow streets and houses should be demolished and rebuilt, and each state capital should have at least one main street that can be handled, the roads should be spacious and clean, and the shops should be open and bright, so that the merchants who came to inspect would feel that this is a place to do business, otherwise it will be a dilapidated city, which seems to be ready to abandon and flee at any time, which merchant dares to come to do business?

Su Jin's grand blueprint depicts eye-catching, but the wives and concubines in the family are quite worried after learning about the current situation, one evening, when Su Jin and everyone were sitting in the courtyard chatting, Yan Biyun quietly handed over a piece of paper full of numbers.

Su Jin smiled: "What is this?" ”

Yan Biyun sat down gently, hugged the tiger who was scurrying around and hugged it in his arms and said: "This is the money that Ling'er and Rou Niang calculated for you, according to your assumption, just the road repair and the renovation of the streets of the old city will cost 30 million yuan, which is about to catch up with the financial and tax money of our Great Song Dynasty for a year." ”

Su Jin smacked his tongue and said, "So much? Damn, it's not enough to smash my bones into slag and sell them. ”

Hu'er spoke in a milky voice from Su Jin: "Fuck ......"

Rou Niang on the side hugged Hu'er and gave her a white look and said, "Hu'er, don't learn these foul words from your father, you must speak elegantly, otherwise Aunt Rou won't let you sleep with me." ”

Hu'er hurriedly shouted: "Hu'er doesn't dare to speak foul language, Aunt Rou takes Hu'er to sleep, and Hu'er wants to eat Aunt Rou's big. Grandma ......"

Rou Niang's face was red, and she spat: "Stinky boy, I will tear your mouth ...... nonsense again."

Su Jin secretly laughed, this kid has the style of a father, and he has begun to learn to take advantage, but soon Su Jin can't laugh, the amount of money is too big, it is really difficult to solve in a short time, and Su Jin can't make the whole family tighten their belts to eat porridge and drink thin for these things.

"Hey, it seems that my plan is a pipe dream, it's difficult." Su Jin sighed.

Yan Biyun stretched out his hand and grabbed Su Jin's arm and said: "Husband is too anxious, he always wants to ascend to the sky in one step, according to the slave family, we don't have to circle ten state capitals so much, do you think, the four major governing offices of the Northwest Fourth Road, Weizhou, Qinzhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou, are so far away, and it takes too much time and money to build roads over mountains and mountains, and the old streets of these cities have been formed, if it is renovated, where do you teach the original residents to live?" Will another house be built? Isn't that another expense? And you mean to attract businessmen. Doing business, prospering business, and taxes can be abundant, so why do you have to spend so much money and goods depending on your goals? ”

Su Jin tilted his head and said, "What you said makes sense, according to Madame's opinion, what should I do?" ”

Yan Biyun smiled and said, "The slave family thought about it all night last night, and felt that there was a way that might work. ”

Su Jin said softly: "Last night? Didn't you fight me all the time last night? How do you have time to think? ”

Yan Biyun hammered Su Jin and said, "Let's get down to business, if you don't listen to the slave family, you won't say it." ”

Su Jin hurriedly said: "Listen to me, Mrs. will teach." ”

Yan Biyun said: "The slave family thinks that instead of making great efforts to blossom everywhere, it is better to build a new city in a suitable place, choose a flat terrain near the river, and a place where shipping and land transportation are fast, and build a small city according to the husband's vision, with spacious streets and new shops, plus some preferential conditions, and then establish a large market that can be traded in all states. ”

Su Jin's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands and said: "My mother, why didn't I think of this, concentrating resources and radiating with points, this is Uncle Deng's concept of the Special Economic Zone, '1979, it was a spring......' This idea is absolutely amazing!" ”

Yan Biyun looked at Su Jinxi suspiciously, full of words that he didn't understand, such as 'Uncle Deng, radiation, special zone', etc., and sang nondescript tunes, could it be that he was crazy?

Su Jin hugged Yan Biyun and said loudly, Yan Biyun hurriedly pushed him away and said, "What are you crazy about?" "Look around, glad no one saw it.

Suddenly, I heard a milky voice coming: "Aunt Rou, look, my father and my mother kissed just now, and Aunt Rou and Hu'er also kissed one." ”

Yan Biyun was ashamed to death, glared at Su Jin fiercely, Su Jin was unconscious, hurriedly rushed into the study, lifted a piece of red cloth on the case, carefully studied the sand table for a long time, and finally pointed to a place and said to himself: "This is the best, the north-south thoroughfare, the east-west connection, this is it." ”

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Su Jin said that this fast place, is located in Jingzhou, Longzhou, Fenzhou three states junction zone, but also Qinfeng Road, Jingyuan Road, Huanqing Road three road junction, here Jing River, Longshui, Fenshui, Wei River four water convergence to form the mighty Wei River to the south into the Yellow River, the four major water systems can basically run through the north and south of one-third of the northwest four road boundary; The south side of Jingxi and Northwest South Road can be traveled here by the Yellow River, and the traffic here is far from the road traffic of Yanyan Road, and the geographical location is in the heart of the Northwest Fourth Road; Therefore, Su Jin called it a north-south thoroughfare, east and west, which is indeed a good location.

In order to prove that the waterway is smooth, Su Jin chose to go to Longzhou by land, and Jingtai, the prefect of Longzhou, sent someone to get a big boat, accompanied Su Jin down along the Longshui, and arrived at this alluvial plain where the four rivers converge in just one day.

As far as the eye can see, the green waves are rolling on the endless fertile soil, and the vegetation is luxuriant, and it is obvious that this is a fertile land; But what Su Jin values is not the fertility of the land, what he values is the geographical location here, after a busy day of checking around, Su Jin chose the address of the new city, which is a village and town south of an inconspicuous hill.

Su Jin circled this small village and town called Wild Donkey Ridge on the map with a brush like a great man, and threw a pen and said: "This is it, this city must be as beautiful as a pearl, so let's call it Pearl City." ”