From May to August of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, it was the time for the great development of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

More than 1.4 million mu of wasteland has been reclaimed by Juntun, and many water conservancy projects have been built at the same time, especially farmland ditches that were originally reclaimed outside the fortress. According to this estimate, by the spring and summer of next year, more than 2 million mu of wasteland will be reclaimed and repaired, not counting Mintun and Shangtun.

Counting Xuanfu Town, Mantaoer and other places, by next year, the fields under Wang Dou's name will also reach more than 4 million mu.

More than 500,000 people have migrated to Anbei from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia and other places, which are already overpopulated and have little land, and have been in drought in recent years. Perhaps the surface of Monan is much drier than that of Shanxi and other places, but the groundwater here is abundant, and the water can be produced in less than one zhang of wells, which is much better than the deep wells of dozens of zhang in Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places.

Moreover, under the rule of Wang Dou, it was famously stable, and many people with assets were willing to immigrate here, even if they were large families, and they were also willing to send their children to live. They bought land and established commercial tun, bringing a large amount of income to Wang Dou, no wonder the later government was so keen on real estate, and it turned out that the income from land sales was really a lot.

Wang Dou estimates that by next year, the number of immigrants could exceed one million.

Anbei Bank also developed rapidly, they collected a large amount of money, the landlord's old wealth cellar silver winter melon, a steady stream of silver yuan, and opened a large number of branches in Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places.

Wang Dou's goal is to establish a branch in every big fort in Anbei and every county in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Ningxia, and the bank will definitely have a monopoly, and no private money will be allowed to exist in the future. However, they can exist in the form of joint shares, or branches.

At this time, not only does the money stored in the bank not only have no interest, but also have to keep the fee. Wang Dou is planning to introduce an interest rate system to attract more people to save money.

He also contemplated the implementation of a passbook system for officials and officials, and each person's monthly salary would be directly transferred to his personal account, so that the disadvantages of deduction could be reduced without going through the upper departments, and at the same time, the money on the books could also be used for investment.

Dots with noodles. After officials and officials get used to passbooks, people will also follow to save money and handle passbooks. Greatly reduce the tragic fate of gold, silver, and copper coins buried in the ground, and accelerate the circulation of money.

With a large amount of capital, banks can encourage private investment and lend at an appropriate interest rate. Prosperity of industry and commerce at the same time. It can also effectively crack down on the unscrupulous usury industry in various localities and reduce the tragedy caused by blood-sucking loans such as rolling interest.

In May, Wang Dou started to build three post roads at the same time, one connecting the three towns of Monan, one from the naturalized city to the town of Xuanfu, and one from the naturalized city to the town of Datong. That's the power of modern finance.

After these three roads were built, the road from Guihua City to Ningwuguan in Shanxi Town. The road to the town of Ningxia will also be built.

In June, a normal university was established in Guihua City, with Wang Dou as the president, and at the same time, there was also a medical and health university, Wang Dou also served as the president, with Wu Youxing as the vice president, in charge of the plague department, responsible for teaching infectious diseases, causing a great sensation.

A number of horse farms have been set up in the middle town of Monan, especially near the city of naturalization, and under the careful maintenance of Ou Mubu and others, Wang Dou estimates that by next year, the goal of Jingbian soldiers owning horses, and most of them will still be war horses, can be successfully achieved.

Omubu was very energetic, and after he was rescued, he was named the king of Shunyi of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention, Wang Dou also pulled out the captives to give him a population of 5,000, a batch of property, and no more than 1,000 guards.

However, under the rule of the Jingbian Army, if there is a dissenting heart, not to mention a thousand people, even if there are 5,000 people, it is useless, and this place is too peaceful and happy, why do you need so many guards? To show his loyalty, he kept only a team of fifty guards.

He has become a full-time horse breeder in the Metropolitan Protectorate, and in order to get Wang Dou's respect and appreciation, he can be said to have done his best to raise horses.

The 5,000 people who were pulled out of him were also glad in their hearts, according to the regulations of the Metropolitan Protectorate, originally these captives were sinners, and they had to accumulate a certain amount of merit or atonement money in exchange for the freedom of themselves and their families, but now they are directly Yi nationality and exist as free people.

Looking at those people in the original tribe who were still working hard to accumulate meritorious deeds, a sense of superiority arose.

Oumubu is also quite economically minded, while taking care of the horses, he also saw business opportunities, and asked Wang Dou to inscribe for him, and got the words "Qingcheng cheese", and soon opened a cheese factory, and then opened a tannery and felt carpet factory.

The leather cheese and felt carpet products on the grassland were originally very popular, but now the more people in the naturalized city, their products are in short supply, and the money is rolling in.

For ordinary captive herdsmen, it was not easy to live on the grassland, not to mention all kinds of black and white disasters in the grassland, the original tribes were serfdom, and the nobles and leaders brutally oppressed and exploited them, and all of them lived in hardship, and only the road to the Central Plains to rob could subsidize it.

Now they are arranged to work in various horse farms, livestock farms, and felt carpet factories, with a simple identity, and there is no original noble person to oppress them, as long as they honestly accumulate meritorious deeds, they can eat enough, and their life is much better than the original.

If you have some free time, you can also engage in some woolen sideline business, sell some money to subsidize the family, want to make contributions, get Yi nationality as soon as possible, and also participate in the new annex army, life is much more prosperous than in the past.

And they also have their own ideological sustenance, that is, at the end of May, Guihua City ushered in the fifth Shida, who was rescued by the Jingbian army. Lai Lama Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, when the grassland was a sensation, there were not many Mongolians in the south and north of the desert who went to the Dazhao Temple to worship and worship, and the grand occasion was unprecedented.

In order to show his respect, after a grand reception of Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, Wang Dou specially stipulated that in addition to the Han nationality, no matter which ethnic group he ruled in the future, whether it was Meng, Hui, Uighur, or Tibetan, every household must have a monk as a lama.

Such a favor made Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso grateful, he was persecuted by various factions in Tibet, and he hid in Tibet everywhere, and most of the Protector Wang Dou did not say that he had a life-saving grace, but also such a courtesy, how could this favor not be repaid?

Under the persuasion of his own letters, many tribes in Hetao Mongolia, Qinghai Mongolia, Ningxia Mongolia, and even Turpan expressed their willingness to surrender, or sent envoys to Nagong to claim vassals, and even the Mongolian tribes in the Qing Kingdom were fluctuating.

Because of this relationship, the various departments of Mobei have a closer relationship with Guihua City.

After the war last year, the Khalkha tribes in Mobei had no intention of fighting with the king, and the leaders of the tribes who had been captured returned to the tribe to make friends with the capital after paying the ransom, especially the assistant Taiji of the Tushetu tribe was more resolute.

The tragic war had already frightened the Khalkha Khan kings, and even heard that the Marquis of Yongning of the Ming Kingdom was willing to live with the past, and was willing to trade with the ministries.

Coincidentally, the Tushetu Department, the Chechen Department, and the Zasaktu Department all sent envoys to the Naturalization City, expressing their willingness to abandon the darkness and the Qing Dynasty, and instead pledge allegiance to the Ming Dynasty, and hope that the two sides can trade as soon as possible.

As they wished, Wang Dou conferred the official positions of the three khans on each of them, and at the same time rewarded the officials with the official uniforms and honor guards, and ordered the officials of the Naturalization Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to accompany them back to the pasture, to deal with the affairs of the tickets, and all the things that were dressed like Manchurian braids and clothes must be changed back to the original Mongol clothes, and the right robes and robes.

At the same time, Wang Dou also opened up a number of border trade markets in the three towns of Monan, which were not the reward-shaped border markets of the old days, but free trade, with all kinds of commercial goods, and even the iron pots and ironware that were forbidden in the old days were sold, which surprised the various departments of Mobei.

Wang Dou didn't mind the flow of some iron tools into the grassland, for him, he had entered the modern industrial age under his rule, how could he be afraid that the Hu people would have a few more swords, arrows and iron tools?

After opening a few more border trade markets and forming a fixed trade relationship, it can also attract various tribes to settle, and the settled nomads will no longer have any threat, and can increase the supply of raw materials.

In this way, the two sides came and went closely, and all kinds of trade continued to deepen, and after Taiji, the assistant of the former Tu Xie Tubu, as an envoy, traveled back and forth to the Naturalization City many times, he soon became familiar with Omubu, and saw that Omubu opened a cheese factory, a tannery, and a felt carpet factory, and his waist was bulging, and he couldn't help but be very envious.

Omubu also intends to open up the Mobei source trade route, and now hit it off with Taiji, the assistant director of the original Xie Tu Department, and let him take a stake in one of his felt carpet factories, and the two worked together, and the factory quickly became popular.

Seeing such a good thing, the heads of several departments in Mobei could not sit still, and they came to Guihua City to look for opportunities, and for a while, the Mongols in the south and north of the desert were shrouded in an atmosphere of doing business.

Originally, the Khan kings of the Mobei tribes were still wary, worried about whether the Ming Kingdom would annex them after they were annexed.

However, a long time has passed, but Wang Dou has been ignoring them, if it weren't for the honor guard of the official uniforms of the Metropolitan Protectorate around him, as well as the officials of the Naturalization Department who handled the tickets and licenses in the station, he would still think that he had never been in contact with the Metropolitan Protectorate.

They can't help but laugh at themselves, they think too much of themselves. Also, the Han family has always been rarely interested in Mobei, what is the use of this barren land? is to occupy Monan, more out of military considerations.

Under such a state of mind, and because of the incident of Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, many pious and Buddhist leaders came to the Naturalization City many times, and they were reluctant to return to their own residences, and finally bought houses and land in the Naturalization City and lived there for a long time.

Even the three Khan kings are like this, especially the Tushetu Khan King Gunbu comes more and more often, I am afraid that most of the year will live in the Naturalization City, compared to the original place where his birds don't, this kind of prosperous place can be described as a paradise, the more he lives, the more he doesn't want to go back to that rough and simple place.

The fame of the naturalization city is getting louder and louder, now not only the south and the north of the desert, but also Ningxia, Qinghai, the Western Regions and other places are famous, every day there are people of all ethnic groups who come to do business, visit, and Buddha, and the various accents in the city are bustling, and the name of the heavenly city has spread far away.

Various caravans of the capital also penetrated into the Mobei tribes, and they were often mixed with some healers, so they were very popular, especially Lai Mancheng's caravans, under the cover of the dart game, connected with the Buryats on the shore of Lake Baikal.

The iron tools sold by their caravan were extremely popular, and the profits were amazing, a rusty iron nail could be exchanged for a good fur, and the fur exchanged for a pound of iron was calculated by the pile, and the trade trip, the caravan made a fortune from top to bottom, and Lai Mancheng was even more surprised to come this time. (To be continued.) )