Sending Zhang Tang away, Liu Che brought Shaofu Ling Cen Mai again.

After Cen Mai came, Liu Che asked about the installation of the water truck.

Cen Mai then simply reported the specific situation to Liu Che.

Now, the waterwheel in Shanglin Yuan is basically loaded, and all the accounts in the Shaofu Inner Treasury that cost all the money are naturally effortless.

However, outside of Shanglin Garden, the promotion of this waterwheel has become difficult.

Chinese have never seen rabbits or eagles.

Before you see the benefits, no matter what you say, no matter how many promises you make, not many people will believe it.

Even Liu Che took out the so-called 'tax rebate' as a carrot, and set a tax rebate amount, which can be used to offset taxes and purchase government-made iron farm tools at a reasonable price.

For example, many of the new agricultural tools that Moyuan improved and developed, such as the quyuan plow, shovel and soil fertilizer, can only be purchased through the tax rebate credit.

However, these things are all new, and the attraction to the people is just that.

Like the waterwheel, if you want the people to flock to it, I am afraid that it will take a year and a half, waiting for the people to see the power of these things, to experience the benefits, and to have a strong contrast, they will be enthusiastic.

Before that, I'm afraid that most of the people, that is, to watch the excitement, want to be fresh.

If you want them to come up with real money, it's very difficult!

It is only Xinfeng County governed by Zhang Tang, because Zhang Tang is well organized or the big households in the county want to hug their thighs and pat their ass, so it is more smoothly promoted.

Liu Che listened to Cen Mai's report. Also sighed.

He turned his fingers for a moment, and then said, "Cen Shaofu has worked hard. Let's do this for now......"

It's something that can't be helped.

The population is unwilling. Liu Che can't force the cow to drink water, and with the demonstration of Shanglinyuan, next year's waterwheel and related tax rebates should be able to make progress.

It's just a year to wait, and Liu Che can afford to wait for this time!

"Aiqing, how many craftsmen in Shaofu have mastered the technology of building blast furnaces now?" Liu Che changed his words and asked about the topic he was most concerned about.

"Returning to His Majesty, according to His Majesty's edict. The minister did not dare to relax for a day, poured the power of Shaofu, and made every effort to train relevant craftsmen, but there are too few places in Guanzhong to build a blast furnace, and coke is hard to find, so far, only about 1,000 people in Shaofu know how to build a blast furnace......" Cen Mai knelt down as he spoke, and bowed: "Please Your Majesty to cure the sins of the ministers!" ”

Liu Che hurriedly got up. said: "Get up, the blame for this matter is not in Qing!" ”

Guanzhong naturally also has a lot of coal resources.

However, want to dig coal. And then build a blast furnace, this is not a simple matter.

The blast furnace that Liu Che made consumes a lot of energy. The pollution is high, and the damage to the environment is very strict.

Not to mention Shaofu. Even Liu Che can't afford to take the responsibility of destroying the environment in Guanzhong!

Today, Shaofu has built about 100 blast furnaces in Shanglin Garden.

But last month, Liu Che ordered. Sixty of them were discontinued.

Because, the damage caused by these blast furnaces to the environment is too great.

In a place like Guanzhong, if the blast furnace is used to make steel, it will not take ten years, and the entire Guanzhong will become a hell of black smoke and miasma.

Moreover, blast furnaces require large quantities of high-quality coking coal.

In Guanzhong, if you want to get qualified coking coal, you have to go to the mountains to dig coal and prepare coal, which will severely destroy the vegetation in Guanzhong.

Although it is said that industrialization will definitely destroy the environment and cause serious consequences.

If humanity wants to industrialize, it will have to bear these consequences.

But China is not Europe.

There are only 100 small blast furnaces in Shanglin Yuan, with a monthly output of up to 100 tons of iron, and the nearby mountains and forests are in a mess, and there are almost no fish and shrimp in the nearby rivers.

And that's just the beginning.

If it continues, or even expands the scale, I am afraid that Shanglin Yuan will not be able to live in it......

Based on this consideration, Liu Che has abandoned any plans to build a new blast furnace in Guanzhong, and similarly, the original alternative area of Hedong has also been abandoned.

Hedong County is in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and if the environment in Hedong is destroyed, I am afraid that it will cause disaster to future generations.

Moreover, there is only coal in Hedong County, but there is no iron ore.

It is not suitable as an industrial base.

As a result, Shu County and Nanyang County entered Liu Che's sight.

After choosing and choosing, Liu Che finally decided to build Nanyang County into the steel industry center of the Han Dynasty.

Because the advantages of Nanyang County are greater than all other places.

First, the local area has abundant human resources, with a population of nearly 2 million in 35 counties in Nanyang. This is an extremely densely populated region in the world.

Second, there are also many coal and iron mines in Nanyang, at least, which can support the initial steelmaking demand.

Third, Nanyang has developed transportation and abundant water resources, which is an indispensable condition for an industrial center.

On top of that, Nanyang has a rich history of iron smelting, and the local people are also accustomed to the storage of iron-smelting workshops, even if it will damage the environment, Nanyang's bearing capacity is stronger than that of other places in the Han Dynasty.

Liu Che sent Zhang Tang and Ning Cheng to Nanyang, not only to clean up the local heroes and officialdom, but also to pave the way for Zhang Tang and Ning Cheng's future plans.

As long as Zhang Tang and Ning Cheng controlled the situation in Nanyang, Shaofu would immediately go to Nanyang to carry out large-scale blast furnace construction work.

However, Liu Che still needs Zhang Tang and Ning Cheng to further investigate this matter in Nanyang and come up with more detailed numbers before he can start preparing for implementation.

After all, the location of the industry is also very important.

Like the Hanyang Steel Mill at the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was because of the wrong location selection, and the result has been half-dead.

Cen Mai didn't know this, so he was naturally a little scared.

Liu Che sighed: "A thousand people ......"

Craftsmen of this scale are obviously far from enough for a large-scale iron-smelting and steelmaking center with an annual output of one million catties or even millions of catties in the plan!

Without twenty or thirty thousand skilled craftsmen and corresponding other workers, do you want to talk about industrial iron smelting?

Undoubtedly a fool's dream!

Liu Che hesitated for a moment, and then said, "In this way, after Qing goes back." Arrange more craftsmen and learn with the existing workers. Didn't I order the sixty blast furnaces to stop smelting iron? Qing arranged for them to go to the sixty blast furnaces and let the skilled craftsmen lead the team. Teaching and training really can't work, so they tear down the sixty blast furnaces and build them, and build and dismantle them......"

There is no way but to smash it with money.

The only good news is that none of these blast furnaces are expensive to build.

The cost of a blast furnace is less than twenty or thirty gold, which is cheaper than the pavilion that Emperor Taizong wanted to repair!

Cen Mai bowed deeply: "No! ”

Send Cen Mai away. Wang Dao took the information of the embroidered clothes guard and began to report.

After Liu Che heard this, he also laughed: "This master is really smart!" ”

Wang Dao reported that he had just been escorted by Tingwei and forcibly moved to Maoxiang, the address of the Lingyi that Liu Che had already set, and became the first Lingyi people.

The Shi family can actually be regarded as lying on the gun.

Liu Che didn't plan to touch it.

But who told Zhi to report their family?

For the emperor, a giant like the Shi family is simply like an ant, and he is basically too lazy to pay attention.

Since. Zhidu has reported it, and Liu Che will naturally not cut Zhidu's face, and the left and right Maoxiang needs a large number of people and strong people to fill it.

For the past sixty years, the Han dynasty has been a means of passing guò. On the one hand, it weakens the world's powerful and merchants, and on the other hand, it uses such means. Forcibly create another economic hotspot in Guanzhong.

Like Taizong's Baling, that's the case. From a poor rural area where birds don't poop, it has become a prosperous city with a population of nearly 10,000 households.

And. It can also be used to buy off all levels of the entire Guanzhong.

Those who forcibly migrated to Guanzhong were powerful and wealthy merchants, as long as they entered Guanzhong, it would be a meal on the plate of the powerful family in Guanzhong.

In Guanzhong, the most profitable industry is not usury at all, let alone business.

Rather, it is a big eater.

A large family in the Kanto region, with a family property of millions at least, enters the Guanzhong, at least half of the family property will be divided by forces from all sides.

Moreover, all walks of life are arrogant when they eat big households.

For example, a wealthy merchant was moved to Guanzhong.

Do you want to buy a field? Do you want to buy a house in Chang'an City?

The vast majority of people will choose it.

In this way, the land price in Guanzhong and the housing price in Chang'an will naturally rise.

One acre of land can be sold for twenty or thirty thousand yuan, which is just like playing, and the land close to Chang'an is sold for forty or fifty thousand yuan per acre, which is also normal.

As for the mansion in Chang'an City, the location is relatively good, such as Shangguanli, a small courtyard, which can be easily sold for hundreds of thousands.

In this way, it is often impossible to buy it.

In addition, the powerful merchants from Kanto, when they entered the Guanzhong, must have wanted to integrate into the upper class.

As a result, many people will choose to marry with the Haoqiang family in Guanzhong.

usually marry their own daughters to the children and grandchildren of a powerful or big man.

As a result, a large dowry would have to be spent.

Of course, you can also choose not to do this and become a miser.

However, the rangers in Guanzhong and the local officials will soon let you know that the consequences of not paying protection fees are very strict.

In the past few decades, the wealthy families in Guanzhong have relied on such means to continuously suck blood from the big families in the Kanto region and grow stronger.

In contrast, what usury, what buys high and sells low, is less important.

As far as Liu Che knows, the wealthy families in Guanzhong have long been gearing up and waiting for the feast to begin.

But the teacher is ......

Very clever!

According to Wang Dao's report, the Shi family had just been released by the officials of Tingwei in Maoxiang and placed in the mansion prepared for them by Liu Che, and Shi Dan, the head of the Shi family, immediately took out 10 million yuan and sent it to the mansion of Princess Taichang.

Who is the pavilion?

Who in the whole Guanzhong doesn't know that this eldest princess is famous for taking money to do things, Tong Su is not bullied, and her reputation is very guaranteed.

took the teacher's money, and Guan Tao immediately let out his words.

said that her son Cheng Chan took Nashidan's concubine as a concubine.

In this way, the Shi family hugged a golden thigh.

If that's the case, the master is not smart, at best, he is just clever.

But then, the Shi family took advantage of the gold signboard of Guantao, shuttled back and forth among the big households in Guanzhong, scattered a lot of money and promises, and married the remaining daughters of his family to Tian's, Anling's and Wang's local snakes in Guanzhong, and also recruited more than a dozen famous rangers in Guanzhong to serve as diners, well, it is the kind of empty diners who get paid but don't need to go to work.

After paying so much price, the Shi family actually bought a thousand acres of land in Maoxiang at a flat price, and bought a big mansion in Shangguanli.

This means that the Shi family has officially been recognized by other heroes in Guanzhong and has become one of them. (To be continued......)