Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 1019 Factory Area

After a while, the fish came up and Lu Yihao took a bite. Said: "This fish has no fishy smell, and the smell of onions is very strong. In addition, the fish meat is sweet, it really tastes good!"

Several people used chopsticks to pick up the fish and eat it.

This is a taste they have never tasted before. The fish is sweet and delicious, the lamb loin is crispy and juicy, and the lamb is plump and chewy. Paired with sweet grape wine and blowing the spring evening breeze on the Luo River, I don't know how pleasant it is.

Suddenly, the sound of a man and a woman talking came from next door.

The male voice said: "Madam, you have worked hard these days, please eat a bunch of kidneys to make up for it."

The female voice said with a smile: "I'm a woman, what's the point of eating kidneys? It's better for you to eat them. You'll feel stronger after eating them at night."

The male voice said: "If you don't want to eat kidneys, why don't you eat some fish? The fish tonight is particularly plump. I asked the owner to specially pick it out and save it for us."

It sounds like eating fish. Then the female voice said: "Well, the fish is really good, it's fatter than usual."

After a moment of silence, the male voice said: "You usually manage thousands of people and bother yourself about countless things. It's not good for your body to be exhausted. This roasted pigeon is not only delicious, but also the best way to replenish qi and blood. Eat quickly."

Lu Yihao, Li Guang and Zeng Mao looked at each other. Zeng Mao stood up and walked around outside. He came back not long after and whispered: "The woman is fat and the man has picturesque features. It seems to be Sister Xi Sanjie and Song Silang that the porters were talking about during the day. But looking at the way they eat, they really love each other."

Lu Yihao said: "How can the workers in this factory not have true love? It's just that their love is different from ours."

But then I thought about it, Lu Yihao didn't know anything about what the workers' true love was and what kind of rules their love followed.

The three of them ate the barbecue in silence, listening to the soft conversation coming from next door, and they all fell into deep thought again.

After eating barbecue, the three of them walked along Luoshui for a while, feeling the smoke of fireworks around them.

This is the real smell of fireworks in the city, unlike the fireworks near Fanlou in Bianliang, which are caused by the outings of dignitaries. This kind of pyrotechnics coming from the market always grows unscrupulously and savagely. With the strong supervision of the Luoyang government, it became like this. How he will grow up in the end, no one knows. All I know is that he has great potential and is growing rapidly.

The next day, Lu Yihao came to Hefu Yamen and met Gao Ying, the judge of Henan Prefecture.

After the ceremony was completed, everyone took their seats, and Gao Ying served tea.

After drinking tea, Lu Yihao said: "Yesterday I went to the Jingxingfang area in the north of the city and saw many factories and the surrounding area was full of fireworks. Tongsheng, how many factories are there in that area? How many workers are there? How many people live there? Woolen cloth?"

Gao Ying was shocked. He didn't expect that Lu Yihao would arrive at the factory area of ​​Luoyang as soon as he arrived and grasp the lifeblood of Luoyang.

After getting up and carrying a stack of documents, Gao Ying said: "For the governor, there are now sixty-eight factories there, including twenty-three government-run factories, not counting small family workshops. There are seventy-eight thousand employees. There are more than a thousand people. If you include family members, there are about 153,000 people in total." Lu Yihao nodded and murmured: "No wonder, no wonder. In such a small area, there are hundreds of thousands of people gathered, how can the fireworks be so powerful? insufficient?"

Gao Ying said with a smile: "Xuanfu still thinks that the population is too small. According to Xuanfu's plan, the textile factory alone will use about 150,000 people. If their families are included, how can there be more than 300,000 people?" . Most of the workers in textile factories are female, and they always have to get married, and there must be enough factories to accommodate their husbands."

Lu Yihao said: "Wang Xuanfu is so ambitious! Hundreds of thousands of people must live in one city! How many people will Luoyang City need in the end?"

Gao Ying said: "Preliminary estimates show that if you include the surrounding acropolis, there will be about two million and hundreds of thousands of people. It is indeed the number one city in the world. The world really needs such a city to be worthy of it. Get on."

Lu Yihao nodded and opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

It seems that Wang Xiaolie really has the world in mind and has begun to consider the world's affairs.

At its peak, Kaifeng Mansion had more than one million people, but that was achieved with hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops. The official and civilian population alone is hundreds of thousands. Wang Xiaolie's wish to have more than two million people in Luoyang City was indeed a wild idea.

In fact, without relying on the imperial army, there are more than two million people just relying on industry and commerce, and the final population will probably exceed three million. This population exceeds that of many countries, which is really amazing. Although Luoyang City is the largest city in the world, its population of three million is too much.

Such a big city stands majestically in the Central Plains, and no one dares to underestimate it. Zhao Gou's current attention to Wang Xiaolie does not include his plan to build the best city in the world. If he knew about Wang Xiaolie's grand plan, he would probably hate him even more.

After thinking for a while, Lu Yihao said: "More than three million people can't all gather in Luoyang City. I know that Yique and Shou'an are two important industrial towns around Luoyang. Are there any other places?"

Gao Ying said: "There is a casino in the east of the city. It just so happens that Xuanfu wants to open it on March 16th, when the peonies are in full bloom. Now the news has spread, and people from many places across the country are rushing to Luoyang to see it. I saw the excitement. The governor happened to be at the meeting and went to visit it."

"Casino?" Lu Yihao couldn't help but frown. Looking at Wang Xiaolie's personality, he doesn't seem to like gambling, so how can he build a gambling city?

Gao Ying looked at Lu Yihao and said: "As for building a gambling city, Xuan Fu gave an example, which I think is excellent. People have to eat, drink and urinate in life, not only eating all kinds of delicious food, but also peeing and pooping. The whole country The same thing is true. If you want other places to be governed well, there must be a place to shit and piss. Casino is such a place. Things that are not allowed to be done in other places are allowed to be done in the casino. In addition, there is a strong Governance is beneficial to society.”

Lu Yihao said: "But the easiest thing for a place like this is to harbor filth and evil and become a cancer in society!"

Gao Ying said: "Xuanfu also said that such a place must be equipped with strict governance. And the governance must focus on high-end industries, and don't arrest hawkers on the street every day. That's fine. Without governance, it's okay to say It is a joke that casinos are the sewers of society. The same is true for real sewers. Without management, sewers will inevitably become the dirtiest places in the world. Similarly, without management, casinos will inevitably become places where filth and evil gather together."

Lu Yihao nodded: "That's the truth, but managing a gambling city is so difficult!"

It is extremely difficult to govern a place like the gambling city, where materialism is rampant and money is worth tens of millions. Wang Xiaolie's strategy was to strictly control the involvement of middle and high-level officials in the court and use specialized officials to rule the area exclusively. As long as middle and senior officials are ensured not to interfere, governance will be much easier.

(End of this chapter)