Xuande

Chapter 272 No One Knows Better Than Me
To appease the excited subordinates, Liu Bei got a report from Guan Yu and learned that Shaodangqiang had accepted his opinion and agreed to take water from Qinghai Lake to make salt.

He was very happy and immediately started planning other more detailed things.

For example, the issue of fuel, a large part of the price of salt is the price of fuel, because it needs to be cooked.

The price of fuel in ancient times was not cheap, especially in places where the vegetation was not very rich, the price of fuel was relatively high, so for the common people in some places, it was not easy to cook food. There are many places where it is customary to eat food raw.

Life or death is up to chance.

In a place like Liangzhou, if you simply use firewood to cook salt, or the kind of large-scale salt cooking, there are some problems. Moreover, Liu Bei still needs firewood to do a lot of things, so there is more demand in this regard.

This prompted Liu Bei to look for cheaper and more convenient fuel.

Fortunately, Liu Bei found out that there is a place in Liangzhou that produces coal, and that some local people use coal as fuel to smelt iron. He was very happy, and immediately sent people to investigate, and planned to establish a coal workshop at the same time, and collect coal as fuel on a large scale.

In addition to coal, Liu Bei also heard about two things.

One thing is about a thing called Weishui.

It was an official from Beidi County who told Liu Bei that this kind of thing often floated on a river in his hometown. Someone in his hometown found that this kind of thing could burn, and it burned quite violently, so some local people collected it. This water is used as fuel.

There is also a thing called a fire well.

It is said that in the south of Shuzhong, the local people found a fire well. For some unknown reason, fire would erupt from the well, and once it was lit, it would last for a long time. The local people used the fire in this well to cook Salt, so the local salt price is quite cheap, and almost all local people can afford salt.

Liu Bei thought for a while, and began to suspect that one of these two things was oil and the other was natural gas.

The history of Chinese people using oil and natural gas is quite early, but they don’t have any special understanding and exploitation methods for these two things. They are usually used only after they appear on the surface. The serious exploitation will have to wait a long time. .

Liu Bei couldn't go to the middle of Shu, and he couldn't use the natural gas there, so he sent the official back to his hometown in Beidi County to collect some Weishui and bring it to him to have a look. Mine it as a reserve.

Petroleum was called stone paint in ancient times, and it also had another name called fierce fire oil.

Fire oil that can be used in war.

The kind that can't be put out with water.

If this is used on the battlefield, it is quite meaningful.

There were several unexpected discoveries at once, and Liu Bei was very happy to see that the salt industry in Liangzhou was about to develop, but the industry he wanted to develop was not limited to this.

The animal husbandry industry in Liangzhou is developing very well.

From the current point of view, Liangzhou's animal husbandry industry is divided into several systems.

The imperial court system, the Liangzhou government system, the local powerful system, and the foreign system.

Among them, the foreign system is naturally the largest, and the scope of animal husbandry is not only in Liangzhou, but the vast areas outside Liangzhou are their grazing places. A large-scale tribe can often have millions of cattle, sheep and horses, and the scale of grazing is very large. huge.

Local tycoons of the Han people also learn from foreigners to engage in animal husbandry. They can often occupy some relatively high-quality pastures to engage in animal husbandry. The scale is relatively small, but it can be used by a local county or county.

The imperial court system used to be the largest, and the former eunuchs were responsible for raising horses in the six counties in the northwest. However, since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the scale of the imperial court's horse breeding has been greatly reduced. After the war in Liangzhou, it was even more dilapidated.

The rest is the Liangzhou government system, including the animal husbandry departments set up by the state capital and the county government, which are not part of the system, and some even depend on the preferences of the local governor, so the scale is smaller.

The animal husbandry industry controlled by Liangzhou Prefecture is very small, mainly concentrated in Hanyang County and Longxi County.

It was almost dilapidated because of the war before, almost like nothing. If Liu Bei wants to manage it, he has to start from scratch.

Fortunately, in the previous war, the five generals obtained a total of more than 20 cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock for Liu Bei.

Originally, some of these trophies were rewarded to the soldiers, and the rest were shared and sold. A good meal was also considered a reward for everyone.

But Liu Bei does not.

He wants to find a place to raise these cattle, sheep and horses, rebuild the animal husbandry system of Liangzhou Prefecture, find high-quality pastures within the scope of Liangzhou, raise these livestock and breed them, and then he can also do business and sell them for money. Provide high-quality war horses for the Liangzhou army.

It is true that this requires a lot of investment, but as long as the salt industry is in operation, the income that the Liangzhou government can get can definitely support the initial investment in the animal husbandry industry.

So far, Liu Bei has planned four one-stop industries for the entire Liangzhou: one-stop salt production and sales, one-stop coal mining and coal production, one-stop rose apple planting and rose apple wine brewing, and one-stop livestock breeding and sales. Industry, if each industry can operate normally, it can bring great industrial benefits to Liangzhou.

However, Liu Bei was not satisfied with this and continued to plan.

He continued to plan for Liangzhou a one-stop industry of mining and iron making, iron products manufacturing, and a one-stop industry for China Unicom to attract investment from the Western Regions, including catering and accommodation, etc. He has planned more distant plans for Liangzhou.

Some seem far away and difficult to achieve.

But some industries are just starting to start now, and the level of results will be seen soon.

This blueprint for development and construction at the level of ten or twenty years left the subordinates of the State Shepherd's Mansion speechless.

Liu Bei kept planning, held meetings to discuss the development plan, and spit at the speech meeting, spitting out a professional term that stunned the big guys.

But after being stunned, all the local officials in Liangzhou had to admit that this Han family clan member and Confucian disciple from Youzhou was sincerely thinking about the future of Liangzhou, and he really wanted to make Liangzhou better. of.

With such a long-term blueprint as a basis, when Liu Bei followed up with the proposal to implement political reforms, the resistance was really not that great.

"If you want to rule Liangzhou, you must have great determination and perseverance. In addition to great determination and perseverance, you must also have a long-term plan. You must have a long-term vision, and you must be willing to invest and build. It is necessary to establish a series of local Industry, and only industry can drive development.

And as officials, you can't turn a blind eye to this, and you can't think that you only need to issue orders. When you should conduct on-the-spot investigations, you must conduct on-the-spot investigations. If you don't understand, you must ask, or feel ashamed to ask.

Confucius said that three people must have my teacher. Don’t think that you know everything because you have read a lot. When it comes to Confucian classics, who dare to say that you know more than me?My words are not modest, but they are also true. No one here understands better than me.

Even so, I also feel that I have many deficiencies in many matters. In terms of industrial construction and productive labor, I still have deficiencies just like everyone else, so I still have to ask what should be asked.

Ask farmers, craftsmen, and those who we have never paid attention to in the past, the Master said, don’t be ashamed to ask, this is the right way!You must keep it in your heart and be alert to yourself at all times.

Don't let me ask you a question, and you don't know what you should know. Then the ones who will be eliminated because of poor political performance will be all of you here! "

(End of this chapter)