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

Chapter 193 Great Construction ([-])
ten days later

Taohuagang

This was originally the habitat of Jian people, a forest.

Now, the Jian people are extinct, and the few remaining nobles of the Jian people have also been sinicized. This forest has also been leveled and built into a port city by the Wang family.

Yinyue Port (Lushun) is the military port and military training base of the royal family.

Taohua Port (Dalian) is the commercial port and industrial area of ​​the Wang family.

The Daxiang Government Office (Jinzhou) became the manor of the Wang family's children.

The Nanda Plain is the Wang family's land reclamation area.

Between the Nanda Plain and the Liaodong hills, the Wang family built a city wall tens of miles long. Inside the city wall, there are many blockhouses, trenches, horse-repelling, and iron spikes to prevent foreign invasion at any time.

Outside the city walls of Nanta, there are the tenant farmers' area of ​​Dongda, the tenant farmers' area of ​​Xida and the north tama and kudzu plantation area.

After the discussion of the four major families, the taxes on the people of Liaodong remained unchanged, but all corvee and military service were cancelled, so as to prevent the people from living too hard and becoming refugees and rebelling.

In the past, the four major families lacked financial resources, so even if they risked being exterminated by refugees, they had to exploit them to the end, so as to complete the primitive accumulation as soon as possible.

Now after decades of sucking blood from the imperial court, the four major families have plenty of money, so there is no need to put themselves in danger for such a little fly meat.

The owner farmers in Liaodong are now barely starving to death, and their living standards are not very good. Their living standards are not as good as those of the tenant farmers of the four major families.

But even so, it is very happy for them.

After all, although Liaodong had a hard life, he barely survived starvation, and the Central Plains was already eating each other.

I am afraid of comparison in everything. Although everyone is suffering, when compared with Zhongyuan, everyone feels that it is not suffering, and they all show happy smiles.

The four major families just annexed all the self-cultivating farmers in their own counties, and they didn't bother to manage other counties within their sphere of influence.

Anyway, the world is in chaos now, and there is no need to pay taxes to the court, just let those self-cultivating farmers who are far away pay the taxes to the four major families, which is no different from an annexation.

The Zhang family has 70 mu of land, and the Li family has 65 mu of land. The Lu family moved the family away from Xiangping, because Xiangping is a county seat, and it is not easy to conceal it when it is merged. It is inconvenient to hide it in the next dynasty. The county built a new manor and merged all the fields in the county, and now there are 50 acres of fields.

As for the big iron mine and big salt mine in Pingguo County, they are all owned by the Wang family.

Liaodong is currently in a state of autonomy, and the four major families have the final say.

After the discussion of the four major families, soldiers from Liaodong County (now supported by the four major families) were dispatched to block the passage between Liaodong and Liaoxi to prevent refugees from the Central Plains from flooding into Liaodong.

Liaodong does not have so much money to support refugees. If refugees are allowed to flood into Liaodong, a large-scale refugee team will quickly appear in Liaodong, threatening the rule of the four major families.

But the blockade is not a complete blockade. The rich among the refugees are welcome in Liaodong.

We welcome the rich people who have fled to settle down in Liaodong, and they will be the fat sheep of the four major families in the future.

At the same time, they also selected beautiful girls from the refugees to enter Liaodong, let them settle down in Liaodong, and improved the appearance of the offspring of Liaodong people, so that in the future, the four major families can also choose better quality maidservants in Liaodong.

As for other refugees?

Where do you come from and where do you go back? Liaodong does not support idlers!

But the most welcome in Liaodong is actually craftsmen and doctors.

For these two types of people, the four major families give money, women and houses.

The Central Plains is in dire straits, and Liaodong is prosperous!
Taking advantage of the war in the Central Plains, the four major families in Liaodong absorbed many craftsmen and doctors from the Central Plains, and obtained a large number of beautiful girls.

After ten days of sea voyage, Lu Yanjun and others finally came to Liaodong, and arrived at Taohua Port.

It was late at night, and the sea was pitch black, and a group of royal sailors lit lanterns to illuminate.

After a while, two bright lights appeared on the horizon in the distance.

"That's it?" Lu Yanjun was very curious, how could there be such a bright light at night?

"That is the lighthouse of our Taohua Harbor." The captain (a servant of the Wang family) proudly said to Lu Yanjun.

When I got close to Taohua Harbor, I realized that even in the middle of the night, boats were still coming and going in the harbor, and there were still many dock workers carrying goods in the middle of the night.

At this time, Lu Yanjun finally saw the lighthouse of Taohuagang clearly.

It turned out that the lighthouse was the eyes of a stone statue.

This stone statue is a statue of Confucius. It is fifty feet high. The eyes of Confucius shine, illuminating the dark sea in the distance, and enlightening the direction of the ships in the sea.

The statue of Confucius in Taohuagang is different from other places. The stone statue of Confucius here is standing and bowing. Both eyes are inlaid with precious glass gemstones. Inside the eyes inlaid with glass gemstones, there are blazing flames shining through the glass.

So from a distance, it seems that the two eyes of Confucius are emitting light.

A flame was lit on a high platform in the harbor. There were street lamps everywhere on both sides of the road and at the pier. The street lamps were inlaid with more precious moonstones. The moonstones absorbed and reflected the moonlight from the bright moon in the sky, covering the ground of the port with a layer of light blue. Color light, looks very warm.

"Go ashore!"

With a yell the captain ordered the sailors to drop anchor.

After Lu Yanjun and others got off the boat, they suddenly felt urgent to urinate, so they asked the servant of the Wang family beside him, "Is there a latrine near here?"

"Look at that." The servant of the Wang family pointed to the beautiful road sign next to him and said, "This is a road sign. You can follow the road signs to find where you want to go."

Seeing the road sign, Lu Yanjun was even more shocked.

The road signs are also made of stone, covered with carved patterns. There are a few words on the road signs, which respectively indicate the directions of places such as latrines, Hong Kong Governor's Mansion, and commercial districts, and use an arrow to mark the direction.

And these characters and arrows are all made of moonstones that can reflect moonlight.

One moonstone is enough for a family in the Central Plains to live comfortably for 100 years.

But here, it is used to inlay road sign stone plaques.

Following the instructions, Lu Yanjun (Mother Lu) came to the toilet.

"There are men and women in the toilet?"

Looking at the two characters of men and women made of moonstone on the toilet, Lu Yanjun felt very novel.

But when I entered the latrine, I found that there were squatting pits like those in the villages of the Central Plains and dung buckets like the ones in the houses of the powerful families in the Central Plains. However, the walls are made of jade, and each pit has pearl ornaments.

Hemp paper, which is extremely expensive in the Central Plains, is only used to wipe buttocks here.

After solving the three emergencies, Lu Yanjun returned to where he was just now.

"Where are we going now?" Lu Yanjun asked the servant of the Wang family.

"Go and take a big carriage!" The servant of the Wang family replied.

Everyone then followed the road signs to the bus stop. The road was covered with cobblestone roads, and both sides of the road were full of street lamps inlaid with moonstones. Plant exotic flowers and rare trees.

The commercial area not far away is full of red lanterns. Even in the middle of the night, it is still dimly lit, full of people, and there are vendors doing business everywhere.

The streets and alleys are full of the scent of flowers and plants, and there are special women cleaning the fallen leaves on the streets.

A manhole cover made of hardened iron was opened, and the manhole cover was inlaid with emeralds and agates. A dozen strong men covered in stench came out of the sewer. They were dredging the city's sewer just now.

Female workers still work in the textile workshop even late at night, and countless hemp, kudzu, and wool are transported to the workshop for spinning and dyeing.

When they were further away, there was still the smell of wine. It was a group of young girls who were making wine in the brewery. They were frolicking while making wine, as if it was not late at night.

The people in the Central Plains don't even have to eat the bark, but the people here still have surplus grain to make wine! ! !

Lu Yanjun felt that this must be the legendary fairyland, otherwise how could it be so rich?
After finally arriving at the boarding point, I found that many people like her were also waiting for the bus.

These men and women are standing closely together like this, there is no difference between men and women, and the concept of incompatibility between men and women does not seem to exist here.

After a while, a large carriage came.

The large carriage is pulled by ten horses at the same time, and can seat up to fifty people at the same time.

Small gilded bells hung all over the carriage, and everyone sat on their buttocks.

A soft mat was spread on the seat, and a piece of silk was spread on the soft mat. There were also many sachets in the carriage, and the sachets were filled with spices.

There were a few red lanterns hanging around the carriage, and the driving speed was a little slower, but it was better because the road was flat and it was much more comfortable to sit on.

The other people on the carriage were also talking and laughing. They were free citizens of Taohuagang and also workers of the Wang family. They worked in two shifts a day and worked in the industrial area. Some of them ran some small businesses. Commercial area to do business.

They go to and from work every day in the big carriage of the Wang family.

(End of this chapter)