Chapter 130 The Beginning of the Great Railway Age

After seeing off Liu Zhubu, Sun Yuanda's spirit was relaxed and he sweated like a slurry in an instant!

I slowly walked back to the hall, where there were people again.

Sun Yuanda sat tiredly on the chair, took a sip of herbal tea and said to the people present: "Have you heard it clearly?"

Yang Wenhu took the lead in standing up and bowing deeply to Sun Yuanda, saying, "If Sun Gong is sent, Yang Wenhu will follow."

Feng Tong also stood up tremblingly and bowed to Sun Yuanda and said, "Sun Gong is the best in protecting the salt merchant industry in Yangzhou!"

Immediately, more people stood up and saluted Sun Yuanda. They were not dissatisfied with Sun Yuanda's extensive spending of their money, but were grateful to the Qin Shang, who was not usually eye-catching.

Sun Yuanda untied his gauze light clothes and twisted them casually. Everyone saw that sweat was twisted out and the ground was splashed.

"The officials stationed in Yangzhou in Lantian are all elite, and the officials left in Yushan in Lantian are also worldly-wise. Just as Liu Zhubu said, none of the official officials who came out of Yushan Academy are easy to deal with.

What they do seems to be imaginative, but it is very effective and has their own rules.

There are new rules in the new dynasty, which is almost certain, and the general disdain of money by officials in Lantian is something we have never encountered before.

It is said that a thousand miles away is only for money, but these Lantian officials are not like this.

It’s not that they don’t value money, but in their eyes, money, is a tool to allocate the yin and yang of the world!

And this is exactly the most terrible thing for us merchants.

When money becomes a tool... then, many of the meanings given by money no longer exist. They can be used for adventure, consumed, or even sacrificed when necessary.

In Yuanzhou, there have been incidents where officials in Lantian spend a lot of money to sustain their lives for sixteen craftsmen.

Three thousand civilians were dispatched to dig day and night, just to rescue the sixteen craftsmen buried in the underground mine,

For the sake of these sixteen craftsmen, they did not hesitate to drill through the good mine next to the mine, allowing the water from the accident mine to flow into the good mine, and flood the good mine lively.

The value of this mine is - 300,000 taels of silver.

In the end, they only rescued four people, and the remaining twelve people were all killed.

They seemed to have spent more than 400,000 taels of silver, but with the 400,000 taels of silver, they bought all the craftsmen and the young people in Yangzhou Prefecture.

Those dead craftsmen received considerable compensation. Looking at the whole thing, the government and the people were the beneficiaries. The only ones who suffered losses were us... they lost money, were warned, and were eventually fined.

From this incident, we can see that Lantian officials are really better to the people than to us.

Dear shopkeepers, this is an extremely dangerous warning. If we cannot prove to the Lantian imperial court that we still have usefulness, then it won’t take long to get our good days to come.

This is why I spent 100,000 taels of silver, spent more than half a year, did nothing, went anywhere, and stayed in Lantian, hoping that these crops could help me to reach our hearts.

This is our only opportunity. Liu Zhubu is also the only intermediary among the officials in Lantian who can let us contact the imperial court, and he, the intermediary, is just a relatively mediocre person.

Just as Liu Zhubu said himself - if we change to a official from Yushan Academy, we will not be able to achieve the current results.

God bless me, I should not die!

It is absolutely necessary to spend some money."

Yang Wenhu laughed and said, "I can't compensate you, I can't compensate you. If Your Majesty can allow us to operate these railways, I can guarantee that we will be able to recover the money invested in within three years.

Even if Your Majesty does not give us the management rights, building a two hundred-mile-long railway will definitely collect a large amount of land. We can use this to create some industries for everyone here in the most central area of ​​Guanzhong.

Mr. Sun told Liu that the suggestion of building several railway stations was simply a masterpiece, which would allow us to easily obtain several important railway commercial ports.

It's great. Yang recognized 800,000 taels of railway construction. If any shopkeeper is tight and there is insufficient money, Yang is willing to recognize 1 million."

Feng Tong held Yang Wenhu's hand and said, "Shopkeeper Yang, Qin merchants and Hui merchants have been fighting for many years. At this time, everyone was sitting on the same boat. I thought that they should have equal benefits.

There are hundreds of salt merchants here. Your family occupies one million. How can you let the rest of the people bear it?

Everyone wants to take this opportunity to move to Lantian. This is related to your wealth and life. Don’t overdo it…”

Yang Wenhu laughed and said, "Everyone, aren't we not making a living? Since Your Majesty has allowed us to build a railway from Yushan City to Fenghuang Mountain City, why can't we just use the construction of a railway as a new business?

Manager Feng, don’t compete for some interests on the mere two hundred miles of railway.

Think about it, what do you think if we built the railway from Chang'an to Luoyang?"

As soon as Yang Wenhu finished speaking, someone shouted again: "Luoyang to Kaifeng Prefecture, Kaifeng Prefecture to Yingtian Prefecture, Kaifeng Prefecture to Shuntian Prefecture... Oh my God, as long as we start working, at least three or five generations of business will be settled..."

Sun Yuanda unbuttoned his sweatshirt and shook a huge black paint folding fan and fanned hard. At this moment, his whole body was hot, and he felt that the already on fire was about to jump out of his throat.

"The railway's operating rights cannot be given to them."

Zhang Guozhu's brows frowned deeply.

"I would rather invest in land than allow the railway to be controlled by a group of merchants."

"Since they are willing to build railways, they can give them some benefits, but after they get these benefits, they cannot just build some railways that are likely to make money, and some railways that are related to military and national affairs. They must also participate."

"If this is not possible, can you make these merchants live with the country? My opinion is that they can respect them with their money. As long as they don't lose money, they will make a little profit. The main force in building railways must be the country!"

"What are you talking nonsense? The Ming Dynasty has just gotten so angry. It is very inappropriate to empty the treasury. You can only use the money from these people to do big things.

Building a railway is a very large project, which consumes a lot of wood, steel, roads and other materials. At the same time, the manpower required is also a very large number.

Now that all industries in the Ming Dynasty are in decline, we just need such a big project to turn the Ming Dynasty's money into living money. As long as the money flows into ordinary people, it is a great news for local officials to pay sting money.

People in poverty can earn rations and money by working on railway construction sites. As long as the railway is continuously built, a large group of people will have work to do.

On the other hand, the consumption of such a large group of people on the construction site can provide great benefits to the people along the railway. Your Majesty, I think that while the demand for the people in the Ming Dynasty is not high, we should vigorously build the railway..."

"Weichen also believes that building a railway is a great thing at this time. Yushan Academy has established a discipline dedicated to solving railway problems, allowing these people to gradually mature in the process of building railways and accumulate a lot of experience.

From now on, our railway will be as His Majesty once said, and we must open roads across mountains and build bridges across waters. I dare to guarantee that within twenty years, we will be able to cultivate a capable railway team..."

Yun Zhao discussed the construction of the railway with Zhang Guozhu and officials from various departments for a whole day in the study.

Finally, a result came out - the construction of railways can be leveraged by the salt merchants, but salt merchants can only invest in the form of money and obtain 20% of the profits of the railways at the same time.

At the same time, you can invest wholly in the stations along the railway and obtain the right to operate the stations, and you can obtain the right to maintain the railway. These powers will be written into formal documents and will be approved by the Lantian Congress Committee and written into the formal text.

In Yun Zhao's view, this text is too generous to merchants, but Zhang Guozhu and others believe that it is something that the Prime Minister can tolerate to inspire merchants to invest in railways in the early stage.

In Zhang Guozhu's eyes, nothing is more important than making the lives of the people of Ming Dynasty better quickly.

The population of the Central Plains is extremely declining. People who hide in the mountains and forests need to lead them back to the Central Plains to live, and people whose means of production have been completely lost and destroyed need to leave their original hometowns and continue to live on the fertile land of the Central Plains.

Lantian officials are very suitable for poverty alleviation and rescue of the poverty on a large scale in large corps. This can easily improve the national strength of the Ming Dynasty quickly. As for those piece-by-piece poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation matters, they need to work hard in the future.

After the other officials left, Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu were left in the room.

Seeing Yun Zhao turning a blind eye, Zhang Guozhu said dissatisfiedly: "Why do you look at me like this?"

Yun Zhao smiled and said, "When I look at stupid pens, I usually look like this, I am afraid that if I look at both eyes together, I will be contagious as stupid pens!"

Zhang Guozhu said angrily: "What is a stupid pen?"

Yun Zhao said: "A fool is a fool who shows the brush in the **** to others."

Zhang Guozhu sighed and said, "I inserted it wrongly, I should insert it into the pen holder."

Yun Zhao smiled and said, "If you don't want to be such a fool, you'd better allow me to continue getting the telegram!"

Zhang Guozhu sneered: "Now, our army is invincible, our officials are governing the local area, and the entire Ming Dynasty is gradually freed from disaster because of us.

The moment of prosperity of the Ming Dynasty is coming, and we are already on the right path.

At this time, as the emperor, what kind of telegram you personally get is a fool!”
Chapter completed!