What is free trade, let alone the merchants in the north, do not understand, that is, few people inside the "revolutionary army" understand.For example, Wang Kaiwang, who is in charge of business activities, is not very understanding, and he does not even understand why his boss reacts fiercely to the tax collection in the direction of Tongzhou.It was not until he got the answer at the economic work conference within the Commerce and Trade Section.

"Cracking tax is a symbol of centralization, and we now want to crack down on the central authority that is the Ming court in the north, and prepare as much as possible for the peaceful recovery of the north."How can you watch it tax?”

"Then once the north and the south are engaged in commerce, Tongzhou is the transit point of the trade of water transport."Don't say to take a year or two years, that is, half a year, they all have to make a lot of money.If Mingting sets up card fees everywhere, but we don't care, does that not equal the enemy?"

"We should forcefully reduce logistics costs and encourage the development of agriculture and industry by encouraging the private sector to obtain the agricultural and raw materials it needs."Sooner or later, when the private sector develops, it will be our tax target.”

"At the same time, we also have to screen the businesses we work with, and all the businessmen who are not in our interests are the target of our attack."By the time our business network is large enough, we can isolate those who violate our laws and values.Let the enemy find out that he has no partners.”

At the meeting, Wang Kai suddenly realized that his boss's vision was long-term, or that his mind was poisonous enough.However, Tongzhou is only the only way to Tianjin in the direction of Beijing, and the population and factories of the "Revolutionary Army" are constantly swallowing various commodities, so another, more important land passage is being planned and built.

“What the hell is this Zhaozhuang in?”Stone took the map to the countryside and searched hard, full of sweat.

Song Yingxing became Stone's deputy, although he is still in the stage of reading the knowledge of the data, but some daily administrative and technical guidance work is good, some people have also given Stone a shift.Stone came to the land of Gyeonggi from Liaodong to find the legendary Tangshan "opening coal mine".

Ancient and modern maps are very different, and place names are also very different.There is no satellite positioning this year, and there is even danger in the distance.Stone led the team, pulled up Wang Kai, and even brought Li Weihan from Beijing, plus the people responsible for security and planning, a huge wave of two or three hundred people appeared in the border of Tangshan.

"First camp, go to the surrounding villagers, and ask if there is any open-air coal stone found?"It is also convenient for us to carry out large-scale exploration.”Stone ran tired, casually looking for a stone to sit down to rest.

Li Weihan from Beijing laughed and served the command servant to serve, and was very kind to the "revolutionary army" in front of him.With the previous relationship in the first class of the tiger skin, the former Liaodong governor is now regarded as a foot two boats.

Li Weihan himself clearly sees the general trend in the world, and feels that "in the clear camp, the heart is in the revolution" is the best way to survive.In the past three months, he has purchased iron materials from Liaodong and Gyeonggi to the "Revolutionary Army".This guy has a lot of ability, and nearly a thousand tons of pig iron have been transported before and after, accounting for nearly half of the production capacity of Jinzhou Iron and Steel Plant in the same period - this amount has been very small in the Ming Dynasty.

"Minister Shi, if your ministry wants to open a mine here, how many silver two will you invest?"Levickon, he looked up and wanted to know this.He was surrounded by more than a dozen powerful merchants from the direction of Beijing, and these people either came in person or sent slaves to inquire about the news.

“Our exploration has not yet begun, and it is the approximate location of choice.However, according to the plan of our Ministry of Mines, the initial investment will not be less than 500,000 silver dollars, and the later investment will certainly be 3 to 4 million silver dollars.In addition, we also intend to open a Tangshan to Tianjin light-loaded wooden rail, the length of the track is 100 kilometers, the first to engage in a single line, the investment will not be less than 600,000 silver dollars.

Listening to Stone's mouth, hundreds of millions of numbers popped out, Li Weihan and others were in an uproar.But someone asked worriedly: "Secretary of history, your ministry's ability to start a mining business, we are all admired."The noble department has always been kind to the gentry, how can we be at ease?”

Stone suddenly sneered, "For those who bear blood debt, treat the people badly, and run rampant, our 'revolutionary army' has always been ruthless, and there will never be half-integrated."But for the enlightened squire, we still have to reassure it.If you are willing to cooperate with us, that is your business.Without you, we can do things.

Don't complain, sign a contract and you can supply us.Large-scale construction, wood, masonry, livestock, etc. are needed soon, and do not hesitate to make money.As for what will happen in the future, it depends on how much you have contributed to the revolution.He's also reasonable, he's not killing himself."

The last sentence that heard everyone's heart was shocked, and even Li Weihan was silently planning that he was not a "revolutionary army" of his own people.In the face of this so-called local sage in front of him, his heart is extremely despised.He knew that these people could not pass Xu Bing's pass even if they could pass the level of Zhou Qingfeng, and the Ministry of Administration had begun to explore "public-private partnership".

A revolution is a process of redistribution of wealth.The "Revolutionary Army" categorically did not let the past rich continue to grasp the truth of a large amount of wealth, at most let them retain a part of the property, the big head still has to spit out.

The investment in the development of industry is extremely large, a mine, a factory, and millions of dollars are needed.Where does this money come from?Either suck the bones of the bottom people, or harvest the original rich class.As a new force, the "revolutionary army" does not need to know how to choose.

Several traversal of the "Revolutionary Army" have long had a consensus, the territory is too large, the population is too large, it is easy to indigest, and it is self-eating.Or develop the industry first, master enough production capacity as well.At present, the population of the "Revolutionary Army" territory is large enough, there are nearly one million in the Liaodong Peninsula, and Tianjin has exceeded one million, but the funds have begun to restrict industrial development.

Money is never enough.

Stone did not worry about these things, he took his own training of more than a dozen mining apprentices in the Tangshan area for half a month, with the help of local villagers to choose more than a dozen more convenient open and shallow mining farms.They first want to mine the coal mine, and then they come to the iron ore.

Tangshan this place is particularly suitable for the development of industry, where the mining field is rich, the coal and iron have, the hydropower resources are also extremely good, the terrain is flat for development.After determining the mine, Tianjin immediately organized a militia of 30,000 people and migrant workers to move forward along the way, one to clean up the place, the other to build roads, and three to carry out the construction of the mining area.

The "Revolutionary Army" has taken great action to develop Tangshan, and the local government of Mingting is completely unable to cope with it.A large number of counties directly surrendered were taken over, and a small number of recalcitrant people were not able to move the Guards, and the militiamen could lay them down.Next is a large number of fast-growing cadres who received half a year of education from Jinzhou University to re-build the local management system.

The construction of the new system is bloody, and all those and forces that are considered to be likely to cause obstacles to the construction of the "Revolutionary Army" will be purged.Ordinary skin scoundrels, bandit bullies were the first to be identified and executed.Then there were the obstinate gentry, but these people often fled, with a little money and food to Beijing or the mountain customs to Liaxi.

The local people, in the midst of trembling, welcomed a team of engineers with rattan helmets, wearing a standard earth cloth, riding a carriage, and holding a shoal.The fact that this team alone was eating and drinking Lazarus and sleeping triggered a market boom.

The construction of roads and houses along the way, the construction of roads and houses, wood and masonry from the rear transport is too bad, the local production and procurement is the most cost-effective.The young son of the mulberry carpenter, who was only sixteen years old, came to be captain in this engineering team, with a team of fifty people under his hand.He is responsible for statistics, accepts, and distributes the work materials that the fifty people use.

Road construction requires exploration planning, but there is a lack of people inside the "Revolutionary Army" who understands civil engineering.Only Li Shuwei has a group of people who have accumulated some experience in the construction of farmland water conservancy last year.

Among them, the outstanding workers received training at Jinzhou University last winter and taught themselves a lot of civil knowledge.Some of them continued to study and engage in education, while others drove the ducks to build roads and mines.

In front of San Wenlai, several fledgling engineers were fiddling with several mechanical units of homemade topographical measuring equipment, the most important being a tripod with telescopes and scale.This thing is said to be produced by the newly established instrument factory of the Ministry of Machinery, but unfortunately, a few engineering rookies do not seem to be very useful, and the busy sweat can not measure accurate data.

Fifty migrant workers are building a row of warehouses on the roadside, which will be used to stack building materials for road construction.Jinzhou Machinery Plant produced a large number of hydropower machinery will be transported to the wood processing, processing raw materials provided by the northern merchants.

The migrant workers work while squinting at the engineering rookie who is doing road measurement.The latter holds far higher wages than migrant workers, and the subsidies for eating and drinking are enviable.But they could not work when they went to the court, and they were laughed at by a large number of unsightly migrant workers.

“What the hell is it?”Sang came to sweat in a hurry.The people who made the measurement did not make any fame for a day, although he did not understand it, but he thought that he was a group with these engineering rookies.They hurt each other, and they hurt.

The eyes wasted a day, a few out of the single engineering rookie can only admit defeat.One of the leaders said with a bitter face: "This optical latitude and longitude ranger is a new thing, very valuable, one is tens of thousands of silver dollars."We had only learned principles before, but we didn’t learn much, and we didn’t use them.It is a shame that I do not understand this today.

“A million dollars?”Sangquan listened to the tongue, I can't understand why this thing is so expensive?“So what are you going to do?”

"We can only go back to Tianjin and train once, and we can only recognize it if we have to be punished."Several engineering rookies are all shaky, their age is in their thirties and 20s, originally enthusiastic to come out to engage in construction, the result of the first task encountered difficulties.

"I'll arrange for you a carriage, and I'll be able to get to the nearby county before dark."Sangquan couldn't help but want to help, only to do his best.

As the project rookie walked away, the migrant workers who built the warehouse suddenly tugged: “These boys have not done anything.”That's one day's pay."

“What is the use of reading?You can't be an officer, but come with us as a poor man.If my child also reads such useless books, I will not kill him.”

"When you came, the cow roared, now I know that your ass is not your ass, right?"The errands of road building depend on us for these hardships."

In the face of the ridicule of migrant workers, Sang Quan is also ashamed.Although he was the head of fifty, he could not crush these rough men at all.Most of the people at the bottom are not high quality, let alone open-minded, and the engineering rookie who takes more money but does not show his ability is very unseeing, and there are too many cool words.The migrant workers taunted the escaped engineering rookie, and the eyes of Sang Quan came were also full of disdain.

Sangquan sighed and bowed his head.This seems to be very different from the school!