Winter turns to spring, and the various areas in the northern part of Yizhou are full of life. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoWhether it's the farmers who are busy cultivating rice in the fields, or the craftsmen in the docks and workshops, everyone is very busy.

Lu Ren was sitting on the top of a hill with a general view of the newly built city, the wharf, and the fields. And he was followed by Zhen Mi, and there was a simulated sand table in this area on the ground.

"Xiao Mi, do you think if we want to expand the dock, where is the right place?"

Zhen Mi looked at the sand table for a long time, then stood up and looked at the corresponding coast, and had some plans in her heart, and then stretched out her finger on the sand table: "If you want me to say that it is more appropriate to repair here." The depth of the water is suitable, and if you are planning to build a stone pier, the transportation conditions in this area are relatively convenient, and all kinds of materials can be transported quickly. ”

Lu Ren nodded, then pointed to a place next to the area where the dock was built and asked, "What do you think of building a new dock here?" ”

Zhen Mi looked at it for a while and nodded: "I also think it's good, but compared to the dock, if you build a dock here, you have to build an extra road, otherwise the supply of raw materials will be more inconvenient." ”

Lu Ren said: "This is not a big deal, the road must be repaired first." Even if the wharf and dock are first built, all kinds of facilities needed in the surrounding area must also be put in place......"

After discussing it for a while, Zhen Mi changed the topic and said, "According to what you mean, some time ago, I went to count our population and various industries here in Yizhou. Now that the inventory is complete, would you like to listen to it? ”

Lu Ren stood up and walked a few steps a little tiredly, looking at the sea view from afar, Quan should relax: "Well, let's listen to it." ”

Zhen Mi saw that Lu Ren did not have a crown on his mane, and his waist-length hair was just tied up with a ribbon at the waist. In terms of the customs of the time, it was a bit nondescript, but it was not an uncommon thing in this part of Yizhou. With a slight smile, he took the notepad from Yahuan's hand, opened it and began to report: "After the beginning of spring this year, the household registration in Yizhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou and other places will total more than 276,300 households, and the population will be more than 1.4 million. One-fifth of these households are engaged in farming, and we produce a surplus of all kinds of grains each year. I've calculated that we only need 40% of our annual production at most......"

Lu Ren said: "In other words, we don't have to worry about eating, there is still a large amount of grain and rice surplus, right?" ”

"Exactly."

Lu Ren nodded, and asked again, "So how is the granary in the mountains behind this newly built small city progressing?" ”

Zhen Mi sighed lightly: "The progress is very slow. Although we have a population of more than 1.4 million, there is still a shortage of laborers everywhere, and at present there are less than 400 people who can be transferred to build the granary in the back mountain. If you expect to be able to accumulate 100,000 people in the granary of Houshan for three years, under normal circumstances, I am afraid that there will not be two years...... No, it can't be built in more than three years. Fortunately, our current warehouse is still sufficient, otherwise I really don't know what to say. Yihao, are your requirements for the warehouse too high? ”

Lu Ren stretched out his hand and knocked on the door of his head, and said with a headache: "I have a little difficulty explaining many things to you, so don't ask too much." Anyway, you remember, the granary I built here is not as simple as storing grain. Besides, there are more than 6,000 Liaodong prisoners serving as laborers here, and we don't have to waste three months. ”

Zhen Mi shrugged his shoulders from Lu Ren's habit and didn't argue much.

Speaking of which, Zhen Mi did not understand Lu Ren's intention to do this. And Lu Ren did this, in addition to using the existing Liaodong prisoners at hand to lay the foundation for this planned new town, there were two other purposes.

The first purpose is to stimulate the economy. In modern economic theory, we pay great attention to circulation, and many times we have to find ways to stimulate the money in the market to turn around, because money will only be more valuable when it is circulated.

You must know that it has been more than ten or twenty years since the development of Yizhou, and the vast majority of the poor and poor homeless people have now become the middle class in Yizhou, and they have more or less money in their hands. Based on the idea of small-scale peasant economy, coupled with the fact that they have all suffered from war, everyone will choose to hold the money firmly in their hands, and generally will not spend it easily in case of emergency.

In other words, Yizhou's economic circulation is not very ideal, so Lu Ren has to find a way to make everyone's money circulate more after discovering this problem, and to put it bluntly, it is to stimulate consumption, otherwise Lu Ren's taxes on hand will be a little unsightly.

And in modern economics, there is such a bad trick, which is the so-called method of digging holes...... If the government comes forward to dig a pit and call an engineering team, then after the engineering team comes, the people in the team will also need corresponding living needs, and there will be related industrial chains near the project site, such as small restaurants, small bars, etc. At this time, the money handed over to the engineering team will be spent by the members of the engineering team in these locations during the course of the work. The same 100 yuan will go around in this way around the engineering team, consumption points, and raw materials, and then become taxes and return to the government. That's probably what it means, anyway, money is meant to be circulated, not moldy in a warehouse.

There is also a story about a traveler who went to a place and paid the rent with 100 yuan, and the landlord used the 100 yuan to pay off a friend's debt, and the friend who received the debt used the 100 yuan to buy food, and the food merchant used the 100 yuan to buy raw materials, and the raw material merchant used the 100 yuan to buy clothes, and the clothes merchant used the 100 yuan to buy wine...... And after a final turn, the 100 yuan was compensated to the traveler because of an accident by the landlord. is also a hundred yuan, how many things have actually been done in this circle, and how much circulation has been driven?

In short, Lu Ren is now using the foundation of the 6,000 Liaodong prisoners to build a new town, just like the 100 yuan that the government paid for the engineering team to dig a pit and the travelers paid the rent. Of course, it's not that simple, but the truth is the same.

As for the second purpose, Lu Ren wanted these Liaodong soldiers to know the good living conditions and methods in Yizhou, and after they were released back to Liaodong, they would naturally bring some topics that Lu Ren wanted to bring to Liaodong, so that he was also preparing for the future Liaodong strategy.

I won't say much about this, just say that Lu Ren continued to look at the picture and think about things, Zhen Mi looked at Lu Ren's back and sighed softly in her heart, she could feel Lu Ren's physical and mental exhaustion. Gently walked behind Lu Ren and just wanted to speak, but suddenly found something, and then said softly: "Yihao, don't move." ”

Lu Ren was a little confused when he heard this, but he still stood there motionless as he said.

Zhen Mi reached out and groped the back of Lu Ren's head for a while, and suddenly pulled hard, and Lu Ren's scalp also numb. Stunned, he turned around, but saw Zhen Mi staring at his fingers and sighed lightly: "Yihao, you are only forty years old, but there is a silver thread hidden in your hair...... Don't blame me, you've been working too hard lately. If this happens, your body will be exhausted. ”

Lu Ren's face was full of tiredness, and there was also a bit of helplessness in his expression. With a long sigh, Lu Ren smiled bitterly: "I can't help it." A lot of things don't just have to be explained in a few words, or I can point them out. You think I don't want to lie comfortably at home, drink a little wine and tease you? But you also know that the opponent we have to face this time is not only as simple as the Gongsun clan in Liaodong, but also counting Lao Cao and Sun Quan, how can I be careless? ”

Zhen Mi looked at Lu Ren, and for no reason, she also felt a burst of heartache: "When I went to look for you in the morning, I heard Sister Wen Ji mention that since you intended to be in Liaodong, you often sleep less than three hours a day. During the day, you have to be busy with the construction of Yizhou, and when you go back at night, you always find more time to accompany a few ladies, and occasionally guide a few children's studies...... Yihao, if you continue like this, I'm afraid you'll be overwhelmed and sick. Supposedly, you should recuperate for a while. I don't think there will be any major events in the near future, Yihao, you can just take the time to patrol once in a while. ”

Lu Ren turned around and sat down on the side facing the sea, shook his head and said, "No, I can't worry about many things at all." Take the small tribe that caused trouble not long ago, I thought they really wanted to come to us, who knows...... If it weren't for Old Man Huang's extra heart and secretly eavesdropping on their conversation, I am afraid that we will not know how much of our extra effort will be ruined by them. ”

Zhen Mi said: "People's hearts are unpredictable, Yihao, why should you blame yourself too much? Although they destroyed some of our houses in that battle, fortunately there were no casualties......"

Lu Ren said: "No casualties? You don't know what Old Man Huang did next after that! This is already the third tribe to be wiped out by us...... To be honest, I'm worried that this will cause discontent among the people of Southeast Asia, and if they are to rise up and attack, we will have nothing to say. ”

Zhen Mi said: "Probably not." Ziliang has also visited several tribes recently, and they are basically relatively kind. Like the tribes who want to rob us of our money, food, and possessions, they are also very disgusted. ”

Lu Ren said: "I hope we can all go in a good direction." ”

Zhen Mi shook her head slightly, walked behind Lu Ren who was sitting on the ground, bent her waist and leaned on Lu Ren's back and said softly: "Yihao, I still want you to put down everything in your hands for the time being and go to recuperate for a while." In case you are really tired, I am afraid that Yizhou will be in chaos. Yihao, even if you don't think about yourself, think about Yizhou, okay? ”

Zhen Mi was a little too intimate, and even leaned her head gently on Lu Ren's head. Lu Ren's nose was full of the fragrance on Zhen Mi's body, that is, the faint orchid fragrance that Zhen Mi spit out when he spoke, and the fragrance of fat powder after Zhen Mi's makeup. And because Zhen Mi was too close, Lu Ren could feel two soft warmth on his back, and for a while he screamed in his heart that he couldn't bear it, and deliberately straightened up to avoid Zhen Mi's overly intimate two-point contact, and stammered a little when he spoke: "Okay, okay, I promise you." As soon as Zhao Yu's fleet returns, I will go to recuperate for a month. ”

Zhen Mi smiled faintly, still lying on Lu Ren's back: "Yihao, don't break your promise this time." It's been a long time since you've ...... me."

Lu Ren said dumbly: "Recently, I have been very tired every day, and I don't have that energy." Don't talk about you, Wen Ji, where have I met someone recently...... By the way, how is this year's spring ploughing? ”

Zhen Mi said: "Eighty percent has all been put in place, and the remaining twenty percent will be completed soon." ”

Lu Ren nodded, reached out and patted Zhen Mi's forearm on his shoulder and said, "Okay, okay, don't lean on it, if you rely on me like this, you have to crush me into a hunchback." Get me up, I still have something to ask. ”

Zhen Mi turned back, and Lu Ren also stood up. It's just that Lu Ren didn't dare to look back at Zhen Mi, the reason is very simple, if Zhen Mi really hooked Lu Ren with an iron heart, Lu Ren would really be a little unbearable, but he was doing business now!

After thinking about it, Lu Ren asked, "Is there any news from the newly sent team of people to Jakarta?" ”

Zhen Mi said: "Yes." They have recently discovered two very backward small tribes, one of which is still slash-and-burn. The two tribes together seem to have more than 500 people, and there are about 200 young and strong men. Maybe in another half a month, the fleet will bring them back. ”

Lu Ren said: "It's so good, let's gather the aborigines of Southeast Asia as much as possible, and only when the people gradually prosper can we develop." Who wouldn't want to have a good life with peace of mind and comfort? Compared with their slash-and-burn farming, hunting animals and birds in the forests and mountains, there is no problem for them to have a full meal, as long as they can pay the corresponding labor here, they can have a full meal. If we want to mix better, we don't have a chance to give them. ”

Zhen Mi said: "Yes." Take the arsenal, for example, where some of the craftsmen used to have a hard time eating a full meal for three days, but now they don't know how comfortable they are. I heard from the person in charge that there are a few female workers who have hooked up with the same factory and are preparing to get married recently. Yihao, you insisted on mixing female workers with male workers to work together, and you said that 'men and women are matched, and they are not tired of working', did you want them to be paired up for a long time? When they all get married and start a business, they will only be more inseparable from here, because we may be the only ones in the world who will allow husbands and wives to work in the same factory. ”

Lu Ren said: "At that time, there was no one, I could only find a way to make the best use of it...... Hey, ready to get married? Sister, you should quickly remember that if a female worker is pregnant and gets a written certificate from a doctor, she can choose whether to quit her job and go home to give birth to a child or come back to work after giving birth. In the latter case, maternity leave is granted for one year from the third month of pregnancy, during which wages are suspended. If there is any difficulty in the family, you can report it to us and we will send someone to determine, and after confirmation, a certain amount of grain and rice subsidy will be issued according to the situation. ”

Zhen Mi didn't dare to slack off, and immediately took out a graphite pencil and wrote it down on a notepad. After remembering it, Zhen Mi looked at it for a long time and said with a smile: "In the whole world, maybe only Yihao will be so thoughtful to our woman, right?" ”

Lu Ren smiled awkwardly, and said in his heart that these were one of the basic laws of the country in the later generations. And in some countries where feminist ideology is heavier, anyone who dares to violate it will be fined a huge amount of money, or you will be closed immediately. If there is a demonstration organized by the women's association, they will wait for the media to report that the reputation of being a boss will be discredited. Although Lu Ren also encountered some people who dared to disobey, he only dismissed the female workers, and when the female workers gave birth to children and were willing to go back to work, the length of service was recalculated. It's kind of a sideshow.

Shaking his head, Lu Ren said: "Women are also human beings, and they should not be worse than men in terms of status." Nowadays, the world is patriarchal, and many times women are reduced to objects, and I really can't stand it. It's just that if you want to blame this thing, I'm afraid you have to blame Old Man Kong and Old Man Meng...... We don't have that ability, so we can only take care of the women where we can get it. ”

Zhen Mi looked at Lu Ren, and there was an indescribable feeling in her heart, but there was a very relieved smile on her face: "Yihao, I remember when you and I first met, to be honest, I still looked down on you a little. It's just that as time goes by, my opinion of you has gradually changed. Yihao, if what you do is in the eyes of those scholars and Confucians, it may be light to say that it is deviant. It's just that for some reason, what you did was to make our women feel comfortable...... may have followed you for so many years, but unconsciously I was also taken by you Yihao and became very deviant. Is this considered to be red near Zhu and black near ink? ”

Lu Ren smiled: "Then do you hate me, or thank me?" ”

Zhen Mi shook her head and smiled: "I can't tell." However, the Zhen family has returned to prosperity, and my two younger brothers and daughters-in-law are also pregnant, and my Zhen family is expected to revivenation, and I can only be grateful to you. If you send me anything one day, I will surely die. ”

"Never give up?"

Lu Ren opened his mouth when he heard this, and finally reacted relatively quickly, swallowing back some ridiculous words.

Zhen Mi saw Lu Ren's appearance of wanting to speak and stopped, and asked with a smile, "What do you want to say?" ”

Lu Ren shrugged his shoulders to hide his bad stomach. Just seeing Zhen Mi's wonderful eyes, Lu Ren was a little overwhelmed, turned his head sideways and said in a joking tone: "Come on, your people are all mine, what else can I say?" Then again, even if it's to please my mother-in-law, I have to do a lot of things, right? ”

Lu Ren shrugged his shoulders to hide his bad stomach. Just seeing Zhen Mi's wonderful eyes, Lu Ren was a little overwhelmed, turned his head sideways and said in a joking tone: "Come on, your people are all mine, what else can I say?" Then again, even if it's to please my mother-in-law, I have to do a lot of things, right? ”