Fuyuan, the front line of fighting against the barbarians back then... Now it is only a military center in Dingzhou. Dingzhou's First Arsenal has been expanding over the years, and its scale is getting bigger and bigger. The rapid expansion of the arsenal has made it worse than before in terms of personnel management and production efficiency. In order to allow the arsenal to concentrate on researching and developing technology and maintain Dingzhou's dominant position in the ordnance industry, in addition to some key core technologies, Li Qing outsourced some auxiliary equipment of the arsenal and allocated private assets to intervene in the...

Military production has always been a hot commodity. In the past, the gap has always been very tight. No matter how rich the outsiders are, they cannot get involved. Now, once they are relaxed, a large number of private capital suddenly rushed forward, and countless merchants rushed to Fuyuan, and the carriages of silver were dragged to Fuyuan, just to buy land, build houses, open factories, and recruit workers... Some equipment opened by the arsenal are not technically expensive and can be produced easily. As long as there is land, houses, and people can open it.

As a result, the land price of Fuyuan has risen rapidly, from ten taels of silver per acre to the last acre of land, to the price of 100 taels of silver per acre, which is mainly because after the kilometers in Fuyuan County and the county government handled it, there was no land to sell. According to the Dingzhou law, private land is strictly prohibited from being bought and sold privately. Even if the people are jealous of the silver, they cannot sell it themselves...

Li Qing, who learned about this situation, discussed with the cabinet as soon as possible. Although everyone in the cabinet did not agree with Li Qing opening this hole, Li Qing used his authority and disagreement. The cabinet issued a document to specifically approve the free sale of land in Fuyuan County... Although the cabinet was worried that this would easily lead to a new round of land annexation and re-enter the old path of the Great Chu Dynasty, Li Qing had his own ideas on this point. The current land transaction in Fuyuan is very different from the land annexation of the Great Chu Dynasty. Don't worry for the time being, the high land price is enough to allow landless farmers to do some small business... Moreover, after buying and building a factory, those merchants also needed a large number of industrial workers, which also found another way for landless farmers to survive. Moreover, it is only a special county in Fuyuan, and other places will strictly control land transactions...

The relaxation of Fuyuan land has caused another round of land trading in Fuyuan County. The entire... Fuyuan County has almost turned into a large construction site, and construction is underway... All kinds of factory buildings have risen...

Dingzhou First Arsenal did not designate a contractor, but adopted a bidding system. Whoever has the lower price and better quality will purchase whose products. The contract is signed every year and after a year, it will be re-tendered. This new mechanism has made the merchants in Fuyuan stand on the same starting line, but the competition is even more cruel. After more than a year of survival of the good intentions, a large number of merchants have no choice but to withdraw, and some have lost all their money for this...

Putting aside these negative effects, for Dingzhou... the sale of land has accumulated a sum of money, and the fierce competition has made all merchants dare not slackewer at all. Once the quality declines, they will face the fate of being eliminated in the next year. On the one hand, they have to make money... On the other hand, they have to ensure quality and quantity, and reduce costs, forcing all merchants to continuously spend money on researching and developing new technologies and new processes, which has made these equipment change rapidly... The production cost has been greatly reduced compared to the first arsenal...

Of course, it is not unwilling to go through a crooked way... By bribing the purchasing staff of the First Arsenal, the arsenal can adopt its own products, but the internal information department of the Dingzhou Supervision Bureau is not a vegetarian. When the bribery officials were tied up and imprisoned in cages, from Fuyuan New City, where merchants gathered, and then the heads were hung high on the flagpole outside the gate of the arsenal, when the bribery merchant was expelled from Fuyuan and strictly prohibited from entering this industry in this life, all the merchants with this... thoughts immediately became honest and devoted their thoughts to how to improve the process and reduce costs...

At the same time, except for the craftsmen related to sensitive technologies, the other craftsmen allowed to move freely and could leave the First Arsenal to seek their own career. This order has set off a new round of people-snatching merchants in Fuyuan. A large number of craftsmen from the First Arsenal of Dingzhou have left the arsenal and become the backbone of technical forces among these private capitals...

In the past two years, Fuyuan has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to the beginning. There are fewer and fewer farmland, more and more factories, and more and more towns. It has become faintly the second largest city in Dingzhou area outside Dingzhou City. A large number of people flow to Fuyuan, causing the service industry there to begin to expand, and its prosperity is no less than Dingzhou City... And Fuyuan is in a county, and the taxes paid to the central government are almost the same as those of a state...

If Dingzhou City is the political and cultural center of Dingzhou, then Fuyuan has undoubtedly become the economic center under Dingzhou...

The carriage walked on the street that stretched for dozens of miles. Although Lu Yiming had already learned about Fuyuan's power from the text briefing, he was still amazed and surprised when he was really immersed in the scene.

Li Qing was not surprised, and lay lazily on the carriage and said with a smile:...Ming, how about this carriage?...

Lu Yiming praised:... It's true, Gong Gui, this is more stable than your horse, and there is no longer the squeaking sound of the past...

Li Qing smiled, "The speed of this kind of carriage is more than twice as fast as that of previous carriages.

"How could there be such a big gap? ... Lu Yiming said...

Li Qing took out a...thing from behind and handed it to Lu Yiming..." It's this thing! Well, look, it was made by a merchant who specializes in carriage construction. With this little thing, he almost monopolized the entire carriage business under Dingzhou. Now he is just rich and rich.

Lu Yiming took the wheel-shaped thing in Li Qing's hand and looked at it carefully. The two circles inside and outside were scattered inside, and there were small iron balls embedded in it. He held the circle inside with his hands and turned it hard. The iron circle outside rotated happily, with extremely small sound and extremely fast speed...

"Oh, what a good thing. The oily layer here is greasy, right?... Lu Yiming kept turning the iron circle in his hand with interest...

"Yes, it's oil, but it's a pity. It would be great if the oil could be further improved. But now, it would be great if it could be done like this. Li Qing shook his head and sighed... Anything can't be done overnight. Take it slowly, take it slowly, Yiming, do you know that this little thing was made of pig iron. Although it's good, it's very easy to damage. If you say that this businessman is also a character, he actually spent a lot of money to buy steel from an arsenal to produce this thing. He is courageous!...

"Jingdiao is a controlled product...but this thing is also very useful in military industry. Lu Yiming nodded and said... It's okay to sell it to him...

Li Qing laughed "Old Road, Old Road, Ren Ruqing has also thought of being the Minister of Works over the years. His vision has become much broader. He doesn't want money. He invested in this kind of steel. This merchant wants to improve the quality of this roller... He must use steel, and only Dingzhou First Arsenal Factory is the only one in the fine steel, and there is no other part-time. Ren Ruqing relied on this point and provided steel with Dingzhou Arsenal, which occupied 30% of the shares in this carriage manufacturer...

"Thirty percent? That's so high, that businessman can do it too?"...

"Why don't you do it?...Li Qing smiled and said:...Don't think this businessman is at a disadvantage... He has a share in the First Arsenal, and he has a hat on his head. He is a red-topped businessman. It's not an exaggeration to say that he is an official and businessman...

"A profiteer!...Lu Yiming shook his head and sighed... He really couldn't plot against them...

Li Qing smiled and said nothing. If he wanted to make plans, who could have a plan for power? Although the officials and businessmen were very powerful... But when the people in power were going to deal with you, it would be easier. When talking about traitors and fraud, the ministry would have to have the people in power. Of course, he would not say this to Lu Yiming... Looking at Lu Yiming's eyes flashing... I don't know what to pay attention to...

"Although this little thing is small, it is of great significance. It means that our Dingzhou merchants are beginning to walk their own path. Li Qing said:... In fact, it is not just a roller, but technological innovations like this are endless in Fuyuan today!... Li Qing lifted the curtain and pointed to the factory outside... "Did you see that those who can still stand here more or less have a new technology that can be established in this place, and those unprofitable businessmen have been eliminated. If these merchants stop here, they will soon be replaced by rising stars... Free competition is always the permanent driving force for progress, so don't be afraid of those merchants chasing wealth. We just need to guide them to chase wealth. Look at the people who are preparing to go overseas to hunt for gold this time, most of them come from here, and they are rich now!...

Lu Yiming also sighed:...Yes, yes, the old ship eliminated by our navy was swept away, and the new ship orders had even been placed ten years later. When I saw the briefing, I was shocked. This was the first time in history such a huge fleet!...

"Long Sihai, Qi Yu bought ten old warships that were eliminated at one time. They had money and had ways, and the others did not have the funds they recommended like this, but several people joined the shares and bought ships and went into the sea. Do you know? The Supervision Bureau even came to report that our merchants bought ships and went to Dengzhou, Berzhou, Dingzhou, and smiled...

"I have also read this information... Lu Yiming was a little worried..." The lord, the merchant ships were 50% hiring retired soldiers and allowed them to arm the ships. Will this pose a threat to Dingzhou? Such a huge caravan, no, it should be said that it is a huge navy, enough to shake the foundation of the country!...

Li Qing laughed, "It's okay, don't be afraid, their roots are here. Besides, their merchant ship armed forces are still on some of the equipment in the past. Compared with our navy, it is a very different place. If you go overseas, you can still show off your power, but in our local area, it is vulnerable. Besides, they can only attach to our big ship so that there will be no risk of capsizing. If anyone really can't figure it out, I'm willing to kill the chicken and show it to the monkey. Besides, this huge merchant ship is led by Long Sihai and Qi Yu. With these two people in the formation, are you still afraid that they have any bad intentions?

Lu Yiming twisted his beard and said:...That's right, Long Sihai has a very good vision and courage. Xiaotian is inferior to him...

"Xiaotian is the governor of the whole province, and he has done his best and achieved great success... Li Qingdao:... The first generation is conquering the country, and the second generation is conquering the country. Long Xiaotian must be relieved that Long Sihai is old. This is also the reason why he dared to set sail to sea when he was nearly sixty years old. There are successors!...
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