Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 174 Great Construction ([-])

one year later
Heping two years
Liaodong
沓乡
南沓
bang bang——

Thousands of horses galloped here, and thousands of carriages galloped on the Nanta Plain, pulling and transporting countless slates, stones, wood, iron nails, glass, crystal, agate, emerald, corn, pickled vegetables, pickled fish, and salt wait.

Because the Wang family controlled the taxes of [-] people in Liaodong, and the great general Wang Hongnian went to Liaodong to "relief" hundreds of millions of people every year, the wealth of the Wang family expanded dozens of times in a short period of time.

The total annual income of the Han Dynasty is only about 130 billion yuan, which does not include daily expenses, such as paying salaries to officials, repairing frontier city walls, providing logistics for soldiers, and building palaces for the emperor, etc. .

However, General Wang Hongnian, the Great Sima, allocates 130 to [-] million yuan from [-] billion miles to Liaodong for "disaster relief" every year.

As a result, the Han court, which was already struggling to make ends meet, became even worse. The world was full of hunger and death, and it looked like a subjugated country.

In order to digest the huge amount of wealth, the patriarch Wang Fengbang decided to start the "big construction" plan that the previous patriarch Wang Hongyin had never started.

Large-scale construction will be carried out in Luoyueyuan, Taohuayuan and Nanta areas.

Build a large and wide stone road, and there must be street lights on the road.

The street lamp is inlaid with moonstones, which can reflect moonlight at night and emit light blue light.

The street lights near Xinwangjia Manor are inlaid with night pearls (natural fluorite). Night pearls can absorb sunlight during the day and automatically release the sunlight absorbed during the day at night. The released light can last for six hours.

These precious stones were bought or robbed by the Wang family from all over the Central Plains and surrounding barbarian tribes at a cost of five baht.

Just one luminous pearl is worth 1000 million baht, and the moonstone is also worth a lot, and a moonstone costs 80 baht.

A huge amount of disaster relief money was taken away from the imperial treasury by the Wang family, and then they bought stones to decorate the street lamps.

From the lifelong employment of craftsmen from all over the Central Plains to Liaodong to polish the stone slabs, each stone slab is engraved with various beautiful patterns, such as various mythical animals, such as phoenixes, white tigers, basalts, and green dragons, and various beautiful flowers, such as peonies, chrysanthemums, plum blossoms, snowflakes and more.

These patterned stone slabs were laid in the new Wangjia Manor, while ordinary stone slabs without patterns were laid on the road.

And the so-called New Wang Family Manor was the former county seat of Dashi County.

The county seat of Dashi County has long been removed from the statistics of the imperial court by the Wang family. The court no longer knows that it once had a county called Dashi.

After the Wang family forcibly relocated the people of the Ta family, they took the county seat as their new manor.

He also felt that a county seat was too small as a manor, so the city wall of Tashi County was demolished.

The houses in the county had been burned long ago, and some of the remaining houses were also burned by the flames, so they were simply demolished by the Wang family.

In the big construction plan, a real manor is to be built on the ruins of the county town of Tashi County!

A stunning estate!

All the farmland in Luoyueyuan was eradicated, paved with stone slabs, built port area, industrial area, residential area, and planted flowers and trees on both sides of the road.

The residential area is divided into ordinary residential area and artisan/private soldier residential area.

Even in ordinary residential areas, each household has an independent two-story masonry house.

In the craftsman/private soldier residential area, each craftsman/private soldier's house is larger than the house of the landlord Hao Qiang in the Central Plains. There are bedrooms for the head of the household, bedrooms for wives and concubines, and bedrooms for relatives to visit.

The Wang family has always been generous with craftsmen and private soldiers. One is technology, and the other is expansion. They allocate houses and women for them to ensure their prosperity and wealth throughout their lives.

Silvermoon Port is more suitable as a military port due to its small harbor area and narrow exit, so in the large-scale construction plan, Silvermoon Port was renamed as Silvermoon Shipyard. All the residents in Silvermoon Port were relocated, and only the shipbuilders were retained. , and servants and prostitutes serving shipbuilders, etc.

The new commercial port is located on the eastern coast of Taohuayuan. The harbor here is wide and deep, and can berth a large number of ships at the same time, which is more suitable as a commercial port.

A school is set up in the port area, and the female children of the family who have nothing to do will teach the residents literacy in the school, which is naturally charged.

There is also a medical center, where doctors hired for life from the Central Plains provide paid medical services for residents in the city, and train the next generation of doctors by the way. For each qualified doctor who is trained, the trainer can get a lot of rewards, including five baht Money, gold, wives, houses, etc.

In the craftsman hall, retired old craftsmen train a new generation of craftsmen in the hall, so that there is no need to hire craftsmen from the Central Plains at a high cost in the future.

There are a large number of workshops in the industrial zone, including weaving, brewing, smelting and so on.

The Wang family took the lead in mastering the advanced technology of weaving while dyeing, and has a large-scale textile workshop, whose textile efficiency is several times that of the Central Plains.

At the same time, he has been buying hemp and kudzu from local people in the hilly area of ​​Eastern Liaodong for a long time. There are special hemp and kudzu workshops to process these two raw materials for textile cloth, and a large number of livestock are raised on Penglai Island, which can continuously provide wool, which is also a raw material for textiles. And the cost is lower than Ma and Ge.

Hemp and kudzu from the hills of Liaodong, wool from Penglai Island, white paper from Amanda Island, animal skins from Samhan, fruits from Yingzhou Island, grain from overseas islands, and fishing grounds in Bohai Bay. In the end, they were all transported to the industrial area by cargo ships or horse-drawn carriages, and after manual processing, they were sold to the Central Plains area where no commercial tax was charged. Relying on the profits earned from the Central Plains area, they continued to expand production scale and increase industries. number of workers.

The royal family of Liaodong, relying on the bloody primitive accumulation of killing and conquest, owned the first pot of gold.

Relying on the first pot of gold, he gradually expanded his family business, and slowly learned cultural knowledge, squeezed into the court, and gradually transformed into a powerful gentry.

And then rely on the power of the family in the court to continue to expand the family business.

Population is robbed; wealth is robbed; books are also robbed; territory is even more robbed.

The Wang family is not interested in usurping the throne and becoming emperor, they just want to make money to expand the family business with peace of mind.

Even if he is a foreign relative now, he is not interested in any dictatorship, but whenever the emperor wants to be in charge, the great general Wang Hongnian will not hesitate to give up the power, and he is absolutely loyal to the emperor.

"Our royal family is a family of honest people, so we only make money, never get involved in imperial power, and will never pose the slightest threat to His Majesty the Emperor!"

Patriarch Wang Fengbang said so.

What if you become the Son of Heaven?

You have to spend all your energy to manage the people. If you manage well, it will only extend the dynasty for more than ten years.

We have to work hard to deal with all kinds of intricate forces, to prevent eunuchs and foreign relatives from monopolizing power, to prevent powerful noble families from becoming bigger, to prevent foreign enemies from invading, and to prevent corrupt officials from deceiving their superiors and subordinates.

This is too tiring!
Instead of being a big tree to fight against moths, prevent moths from corroding your empire.

So why not just be a moth?

Hiding in the dark to suck the nutrition of one big tree after another.

When the big tree of the big man fell, he would continue to be the loyal minister and moth of the next dynasty, and continue to suck the blood of the next dynasty.

When the next dynasty is also sucked up, it will continue to suck up the next dynasty, and so on in an infinite loop.

Isn't this longer than being an emperor, being an emperor?

I would rather be Master Huang for ten thousand years than the county magistrate for three years!

(End of this chapter)