I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

For the Kingdom Army, the biggest advantage of the veterans retiring to build a new continent is that there is no big obstacle in governance!

He was considered to be an early member of the second generation, but at that time he was only a junior among the dozen or so governors of the Dagan, and he had no right to speak at all, and he was naturally weak in the competition for projects. Fortunately, Jizhou was governed, and Dagan is located in a wealthy state, and can rely on state finances to display the projects he wants to do. At the same time, because Jizhou is located in the ruling center of Dagan, it is also one of the key investment points of the imperial court.

Most of the time, the project is in his hands without scrambling. The only project he took the initiative to build is the Grand Canal that runs through the entire Jizhou. , now leads to Luoyang City, and has become the most important water transport road connecting Hebei and the Central Plains. This can be regarded as his greatest achievement in Jizhou that year.

But he has seen many scenes of elders vying for projects. At that time, the elders were all powerful and ambitious, and each of them formulated huge development plans. At that time, the prime minister, Niu Gui, slightly explained the financial difficulties.

They will shout: "The imperial court only cares about Hebei, only government-run enterprises, and doesn't care about our locality at all. We want to develop on our own, and the imperial court refuses to give some financial support. It wants us to fend for ourselves!"

However, the Wang Guojun knew that their infrastructure and industrial projects exceeded the imperial government's finances by several times, and they could not get so much money if they sold the imperial court, nor did they have enough materials to build these projects. Big dry the worst inflation.The ruling party severely criticized these veterans several times before they learned to declare projects according to the imperial court system.

But it is a characteristic of these veterans that they are very happy. It is fine for them to apply for some infrastructure construction. No matter how they do it, they will not suffer a loss. However, it is hard to describe the establishment of factories by local officials. There is a lack of sufficient technical personnel and skilled workers in the local area. Most of the factories produce low-quality products at high prices, and soon these factories are in a state of insolvency.

Then they tried to find ways to cut down on the financial support issued by the imperial court to the local governments. In the past, the government allocated funds for local compulsory education and local infrastructure construction costs, and these veterans were often invested in insolvent factories. The result was big. Some of the funds were wasted, not to mention, and it also made local officials miserable, because a large part of the funds they saved was their salaries.

In the end, there was no other way but to hand it over to the imperial court to take over. The ruling party was also very troubled by such a problem. He could only cut off his wrists, let these factories go bankrupt, and redistribute the personnel.But because of such a hole, the local development has to stagnate for several years!
It can be said that after more than ten years of lessons, these veterans realized that the industry is not so easy to develop.Only the development of plantations is the most successful.But because their imperial court has paid enough tuition fees, even the ruling is very helpless. After all, these elders are for development, not corruption, and he is not good at severely punishing these elders.

And when these veterans retired, their influence completely faded, and the imperial court's control over the localities was also comprehensively improved. The imperial court vertically controlled local factories and strengthened the management system of money shops, making it even more difficult for local officials to Take control of your money.

In this way, the local officials do not have financial support if they want to mess around. At the same time, their prestige is not enough. The juniors of the Wang Guojun have now become the leading brothers. At least these governors dare not say anything at the meeting. , The imperial court only cares about Hebei, and at the same time they dare not save money!

However, their tradition of scrambling for projects has been preserved. After all, as long as they grab a project from the imperial court, it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and even more than one billion or even billions of dollars, which can benefit 10,000+ people.

"Prime Minister, you used to be the governor of Xiliang, the old Shangguan of our Xiliang people, you can't ignore us, you know that in Xiliang, there is sand everywhere, there is still a Silk Road that can make money , but the development of the Maritime Silk Road in recent years has reduced half of the merchants in Xiliang, and if you don’t care about us, the people of Xiliang will only eat sand!" Xiliang Governor Lu Yao said with a bitter face.

Xiliang can be said to be the biggest loser in the age of great voyages. There was no Maritime Silk Road. have sufficient purchasing power.

The dry silk, tea, sugar and porcelain can all trigger the madness of Guishuang's rich and powerful. Under such circumstances, merchants are willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the qualifications to go to the Western Regions to do business, but now no one is willing to waste this money. Everyone They all bought sea ships to go to Tianzhu, and these countries sold silk in Tianfang.

If Xiliang hadn't vigorously developed animal husbandry in recent years, and cultivated a large amount of land to grow cotton and grapes, Xiliang would have declined and become the original Eastern Han Dynasty.

Wang Guojun didn't change his expression when he heard these pitiful words: "The imperial court also supports you Xiliang the most. Every year, the money for desert control alone exceeds 10 billion yuan. The average distribution to your Xiliang people is enough for each person. If you get 2000 coins, you must know that farmers in the Central Plains only earn this little income from farming every year!"

Xu Wei is a descendant, so of course people understand that desertification has damaged the Western Regions. At this time, desertification in Xiliang and other northern states is not as serious as later generations. Most of the land is still beautiful, only Xiliang has a little more desert. .

Xu Wei learned the method of later generations, using straw to make square grids to control the expansion of the desert. At the same time, he also had this money to give the Qiang people in Xiliang and other ethnic minorities a job that could provide them with food and clothing, so that the area of ​​Xiliang would not be destroyed. In the event of turmoil, it is more cost-effective than spending tens of billions of dollars to counter the rebellion.

Now Xiliang employs 10,000+ people all year round to control the desert in Xiliang. At the same time, Dagan also invests in financial subsidies for Xiliang’s infrastructure. The sum of these funds is 20 billion yuan. It can be said that it is the investment of this money that has slowed down the development of Xiliang. decline!

But Lu Yao smiled wryly and said: "We don't want to rely on the support of the imperial court all the time. The government has always taught us to make enough food and clothing by ourselves. If you don't want to invest in a steel factory in our Xiliang and build an industrial zone, if there is enough steel, our Xiliang will also The railway can be built! At that time, the railway can also be used to connect the Western Regions, so that the Silk Road can be revived on the road!"