In March, the earth rejuvenates.

The back of the cold winter completely disappeared on the distant horizon, and green seemed to sweep across Ruzhou, which was covered with mountains and forests overnight.

In the yamen, Zhao Liang sat opposite Su Hetai, the governor of Ruzhou.

This seems to be very similar to the scene in Chenzhou Prefecture in the past, but it actually gives birth to a very different story.

In February this year, Ruzhou was finally promoted, and Su Hetai was finally promoted.

Ruzhou changed from a state to a prefecture, and Su Hetai returned from a fifth-rank official to the original fourth-rank official.

But Zhao Liang is no longer the son of the insignificant country squire in the past.

Not mentioning the current size of the Zhao family, not mentioning the reputation and influence of the Zhao family in Chenzhou Prefecture, only talking about Heshen standing in the capital, the official problems are not a problem.

What? You said Heshen was demoted, and Heshen was not going to be able to do it?

That's nonsense, isn't it?

Don’t you know what Heshen is doing now? Supervise Chongwenmen’s tax affairs and is in charge of business affairs.

Do you know what is the supervision of Chongwenmen taxation?

Chongwenmen’s tax customs, the name of the agency, the tax collection general agency of the capital, and the general office that controls the collection of commercial taxes for goods entering and leaving the nine gates of the capital. Its chief is called "Chongwenmen Supervision".

"Being a job" here is "one of the top ten outstanding people in the capital".

Although Qianlong punished Heshen to show to his old friends and relatives of Cao Wenda, he was not really annoyed Heshen no matter how he looked.

This is really lifting up high and falling gently.

Heshen was placed in the Chongwen Sect, and it seemed that Heshen was punished, but he was really punished, from first-rank to second-rank, but it was actually harmless. Just looking at his current position, outsiders should know Qianlong’s true attitude towards Heshen.

Moreover, the Chongwen Party’s duty supervision was selected by the emperor from the princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty. The term of office was one year, and he could be re-elected one year later, but he could not be re-elected. In other words, Heshen was at most a woman was detained for one year!

Besides, Heshen’s military minister has not been erased yet.

He is still one of the top small people in the Qing Dynasty, and he is in charge of business affairs.

This is when Qianlong went on a tour north. Heshen was the main housekeeper of the entire team. This must be the person the emperor trusted and closest to be an official.

Therefore, Heshen was found guilty by Qianlong at the end of the first month and was demoted to two degrees for the crime of misunderstanding, but this did not hurt his foundation at all.

All the people in the officialdom are top people, how can they not see this and have the illusion that the Zhao family’s backer is not going to work?

Su Hetai is not arrogant when facing Zhao Liang now, and has regarded this former disciple as an object of equal communication.

"The prefect and the boy are old friends, and the boy dare not dare to deceive the boy. This time, he came to Ruzhou, and the boy bought the mine for one thing."

"Sir, I know that the blacksmith shop in Zhoujiakou is now a large workshop. I use a lot of good iron and coking coal every year."

"The boy also got involved in Lingnan and threw a boat gang, and this boat gang is ready to move from the inside out. The iron tools of our Qing Dynasty are not ordinary hot in Nanyang."

In front of Su Hetai, Zhao Liang spoke without any cover, as if Daqingguo was not strict at all, metal materials were sent abroad.

But Su Hetai didn't react at all after hearing this. No one was a little cabbage chicken. Who didn't know that on the boat going abroad, except for cloth and tea, are the things that Daqingguo want to forbidden?

If anyone who has the ability to amplify the ship goes abroad, no one is really clean.

"Ruzhou coal and iron, made by Zhoujiakou, and then transported thousands of miles to Lingnan. How much does it cost? Why not use materials locally? Guangzhou Iron is the best in the world."

Foshan iron smelting, cast pots, cast iron stoves, stir-frying iron, making iron wires, creating iron locks, agricultural tools, iron nails, frying pots, etc., which were famous all over the world during the Zhu Ming period.

"There are circles everywhere, and Guangzhou is thousands of miles away. Although the boy can get a share of the pie by relying on his kindness to the adults, he is ultimately controlled by others. How can he compare the freedom to bring goods and supply goods by himself?"

In the words of later generations, Zhao Liang is a one-stop production and sales.

"As for the cost, I also want to set up a large workshop in Ruzhou. As long as the transportation is smooth along the way, the cost is no more expensive than buying Guangdong iron tools on the spot."

Before coming to find Su Hetai, Zhao Liang had already made people angry with Gongyi's Kang family.

The iron tools from Ruzhou were transported to Baisha Town by land, which was the banks of the Yichuan River, and then loaded and delivered to the Yellow River. The Yellow River fleet of Kang's family sent the goods directly to the mouth of the Daqing River, and then took the sea route to the south of the Yangtze River, and then transferred to the Zhubing Boat Gang.

The cost price will definitely increase a lot along the way, but after careful calculation, it was found that the price of ironware after this was comparable to that of local local railway tools in Guangzhou.

As long as the Zhao family ironware is of excellent quality, there will be no need to worry about no sales in Nanyang.

Of course, Zhao Liang would not let his transportation lifeline be controlled by the Kang family for a long time.

While doing business with the Kang family, he would also ask his uncle to vigorously integrate the boats on the Shaying River to help the boat, and then quietly watch what tricks Liu can do in Jiangnan.

Even when the time comes, he will set up a coastal fleet mainly consisting of flat-bottomed sand ships in Laizhou Bay, and create a second inland fleet mainly consisting of river transportation on the Han River and Yangtze River front line.

Diversify your own transportation lines.

Although the money and energy spent on doing this will be extremely good, it will definitely be of great benefit to Zhao Liang's future layout.

As I said, no matter how grand the goal is, it needs to be achieved step by step.

The boats on the Shaying River, the sand boat fleet in Laizhou Bay, the Han River, and the second inland river fleet in the Yangtze River all want to take a long time to slowly realize it.

Just like the foreign ships built by Zhu Bin, just like what Zhao Liang is going to do in Ruzhou, it was not achieved overnight.

Zhao Liang had the patience to wait, he had a lot of time.

What he has to do now is to establish relations with the Ruzhou government led by Su Hetai and prepare for his large-scale investment in Ruzhou.

"If the prefect feels it is difficult to make a decision for a while, why not take a look at this data first. Come and have a visit tomorrow!"

Of course, Zhao Liang would not hope that Su Hetai would agree to everything on the spot.

Whether those mineral mines have masters or have no masters, they are all from Ruzhou. It would be fine if Zhao Liang tried it out before, but now he would have to bring in 100,000 taels of silver. This impact on the local "miner owners" is obvious.
Chapter completed!