Chapter 1724: Accumulation
Ye Chunqiu is not a short-sighted person. Although the temptation of money is very great, he believes that to create wealth, one must not only rely on talent and opportunities, but also decisive.
Now that he has a great foundation, Ye Chunqiu sees greater rewards.
Accumulating strength and making progress is the current ecology under Qinglong.
Over the years, both Zhenguo Mansion and Ye family have accumulated too much family background.
What's more, these top ten business banks that made money with the Ye family, as well as countless merchants, have already had a net worth of more than one million. Even some small merchants and countless shopkeepers and senior craftsmen have earned a family business. The railway between Qinhuangdao and Qinglong has also been built. Now that the entire line is opened, the steam train running on the line has become a spectacular landscape in the eyes of Qinglong people. As long as you have a beautiful expectation, countless people will soon invest the money they have saved for the rest of their lives in the construction of new railways.
Not only that, the grassland is vast and sparsely populated, which makes it easier for people who are willing to leave the customs to gain a foothold. Zhenguo Mansion began to open pastures in various pastures. With pastures, market towns inevitably began to appear. Market towns rose one by one. Although within hundreds of miles, it was just a small market similar to markets, with a population of less than hundreds or thousands, but every now and then, refugees always poured in.
As long as the population continues to grow and the pastures continue to expand, these towns will inevitably flourish. Now they are just small merchants sending some necessities of daily necessities. So soon, as the population increases, more and more merchants will pour in. If the railway line running through the desert begins to be built, Ye Chunqiu believes that along the line, cities will rise up and become more prosperous.
In the past, the biggest hidden danger outside the pass was safety issues, but in fact, life inside the pass was not much better than outside the pass, because there was a very obvious problem outside the pass, that is, there were many people and few lands, and they were mainly engaged in farming. Once a disaster encountered, the tenants who had no surplus grain would soon fall into a state of food and clothing. Small farmers with a few acres of land had to buy land and became tenants. Some small landlords, although they had a hundred acres of land, would soon fall back into poverty.
Now, the safety hazards outside the pass have been solved. With the new army of the country like heavenly soldiers in the eyes of the subjects, outside the pass has become a hopeful choice. At the end of the year, a major disaster occurred in Shandong. This disaster soon led to a surge in the population leaving the pass. In order to survive, hundreds of thousands of victims flew out of the pass with their families.
Qinglong and even the entire desert never worry about the increase in population. On the contrary, both the town government and the merchants like refugees and disaster victims, uh... because they often only seek food and clothing and are very hard-working. Qinglong's industries are prosperous and need more labor.
Because of this, Zhenguo Mansion directly set up a porridge shed outside Shanhaiguan, and there were special personnel responsible for receiving disaster victims.
Looking around, the size of the cities in the Qinglong area has begun to expand. Almost along the railway line between it and Qinhuangdao, many markets and workshops emerged like bamboo shoots, like a jade belt, which has begun to accumulate a population of 600,000 tonnes in this area. The steel production this year is expected to exceed previous years. The expected steel production will reach 50,000 tons, and the coal production may even reach 700,000 tons.
But even so, it is obviously not enough. In the satellite city near Qinglong, several giant steel workshops put into production by the Ye family have begun to be prepared to start construction. They use the latest equipment and recruit tens of thousands of craftsmen. In order to support the upcoming railway construction craze outside the pass, a large number of steel craftsmen in the capital Zhenguo Mansion were transferred outside the pass and ready to start production at any time.
This is a world composed of a group of rough men. Because of this, there are not many rules. Although the Duke of Zhenguo is noble, under the suggestion of Tang Bohu, a ruling structure began to emerge.
First, the establishment of the administrative center. The original Zhenguo Mansion was just a six-story building. In the past, most of the official duties were carried out here, but now it has become obviously out of place. Therefore, a new Zhenguo Mansion will be built here more than ten miles outside Qinglong City. This will be a magnificent building covering an area of 100 acres, mainly the Ye family's office, discussion and living place. A small cabinet is planned opposite the Zhenguo Mansion.
The small cabinet is a huge six-story building that covers a considerable area. It will be the administrative center of the future Zhenyuan Kingdom. There are various yamen nearby, all of which are built, all of which are like stars holding the moon, surrounding the Zhenguo Mansion and the small cabinet in the center. In contrast, there is a huge square, after all, it is a suburb, and the land in the desert is not worth anything, so this square is 500,000 square meters, which is even larger than the largest square in the world in the later world.
The civil architects of the institute now have rich experience in large-scale projects, so they quickly came up with several plans for this huge project.
In terms of laws, Ye Chunqiu began to abolish the kneeling and worship method. That is, as long as he left the pass, even if he was a Duke of Zhenguo, no one could kneel down, but just bow. Of course, this may not be that Ye Chunqiu had the intention to make something positive and progressive, but because now, outside the pass, lifestyle has begun to become extremely fast. Ye Chunqiu set an example and abolished some common etiquettes, which saved others too much effort in this polite courtesy of the Duke of Zhenguo. When you see Duke of Zhenguo, you are just bowing. Are you old and you have to kneel down and talk?
The so-called upward action and downward effect is Ye Chunqiu’s purpose.
Time passed by, and the end of the year was coming, and every day was changing here. In this city from scratch, everyone was witnessing it. There was almost no restraint, no ethics, it seemed mixed, but in the dark, there was another set of rules that had been agreed upon. At this time, Ye Chunqiu finally received a message from the pass, which was Li Dongyang's sanctions.
Li Dongyang was not confiscated and exterminated, nor was he even beheaded. Instead, he was deposed and exiled for three thousand miles.
Three Thousand Miles are just an imaginary number, but Ye Chunqiu still knew that Li Dongyang was finished.
Chapter completed!