At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 341: Desire for quick success and Hu Hai’s new project

Xu Fan understood that Chen Ping's speech at this time was suitable for the current Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty could obtain the greatest benefits through the Spice Island, strengthen the Han Dynasty's military preparedness, and even strengthen the Han Dynasty's financial strength. He could gain hundreds of thousands more gold a year. The fiscal revenue can allow the big man to build thousands of more miles of canals and turn millions of acres of fields into irrigated fields.

But things in this world have always had two sides, good and bad. This policy is too similar to the infamous sea ban policy of later generations.

Today, the Han court can monopolize the interests of the Spice Island. After his death, the Han officials will first seize the interests belonging to the court into their hands, and then impose a sea ban on the basis of the ancestral law that cannot be changed to prevent the people from getting involved in the interests of sea trade. Then there was another fire that burned all the charts.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty had already set a good example, and Xu Fan understood that the Han officials would only do better. Chen Ping's strategy seems to be eager for quick success. The short-term benefits are huge, but the consequences are extremely serious.

Xu Fan has seen too many things that are quick and easy. There are basically no good things. Even if there are benefits, the hidden consequences are dozens of times greater than the benefits, and he will regret it in the future.

Based on what he saw in later generations, Xu Fan understood that taking shortcuts meant taking detours. The closer you took, the farther you detoured.

If you want to truly start the great maritime era that belongs to the Han Dynasty, you must share the benefits of maritime trade with the whole world. The Han officials can block the royal family and control the court, but they can never stop the thousands of people who want to realize the dream of the Han Dynasty. As long as the general trend has begun, and the bureaucrats want to block this general trend, they can only block it with their hands.

And for the current Han Dynasty, the most difficult thing is not the ships, but having enough manpower to develop these islands.

The population of Han Dynasty at this time was still too small. Although there was a baby boom in Han Dynasty in the past two years, with millions of new people added every year, compared with the territory of Han Dynasty at this time, this population was still too small.

After Xu Lu finished his report, Luan Bu ordered his men to bring two phoenixes he had brought back from Nanyang.

If you want to suppress the trend of auspiciousness, you must not allow people to benefit from things like auspiciousness.

If it could attract millions of people to Nanyang like Jinshan in later generations, Xu Fan would laugh out of his dreams.

The land of the four major princes of the Han Dynasty can only provide tens of thousands of immigrants every year. Even the Han Dynasty itself is extremely short of population due to industrialization. It also needs the land of the four major princes to provide tens of thousands of young and strong labor force every year to do some dangerous tasks. live.

Other civil and military officials were also shocked. Luan Bu not only brought back a large amount of spices, but also brought back the legendary phoenix. But considering that phoenixes never leave without treasure, it makes sense that they live on the Spice Island.

"This is a phoenix!" Shusuntong said in shock.

Only by using spices to attract some knights who want to realize the dream of the Han Dynasty, and if they leave the Han Dynasty, the public security of the Han Dynasty will be greatly improved, social conflicts will be greatly alleviated, and it will also be beneficial to the internal stability of the Han Dynasty.

Seeing that the civil and military officials of the Han Dynasty were so excited, he couldn't throw cold water on them, but this auspicious wind must be suppressed. Today he dared to admit that these birds were phoenixes, and maybe tomorrow an official would bring out some kind of unicorn.

Other civil and military officials also followed suit and saluted, saying: "The Holy Emperor is in the court, the phoenix appears, and I, a great man, will be favored by heaven, and I will surely live a prosperous life and prolong my life."

Therefore, even if it is to absorb the population, the imperial court cannot monopolize the Spice Island. Instead, it must find ways to guide more Han people to the Spice Island alive.

This means that they can also obtain the interests of the Spice Island. It is very difficult for ordinary people to get a ship with thousands of materials, but it is nothing to them.

Xu Fan looked at the two colorful birds in the hall. They were so beautiful. He had never seen them in later generations and didn't know their names.

Many Han officials still feel that there are still too few shipyards in Han Dynasty. There are less than a hundred new sea-going ships every year, and most of them are small ships with thousands of materials. This is not enough. This year, every county must start a shipyard.

All the civil and military officials of the Han Dynasty shouted in unison: "Your Majesty is wise."

With the proportion of homesteaders among Dahan at this time, it was almost impossible for farmers to risk their lives to open up future territories for Dahan.

The Yongle Dynasty of later generations does not have a very funny picture of a unicorn, but it is actually just a giraffe.

Luan Bu saluted Xu Fan and said: "The general found 32 phoenixes on the Spice Island. The Holy Emperor is in the court, and phoenixes are born. This is the auspiciousness that God has sent to my great man."

They are probably extinct. After all, the people of Da Qinzhou like to do things that drive them to extinction. The elephant birds in Southeast Asia, the dodo, were killed by them. It is normal for this phoenix-like bird to be killed by them.

Xu Fan decided to allow the Han people to freely go to the Spice Island.

But he knew that this was definitely not a phoenix. In later generations, the entire earth was covered with human footprints and no phoenix was seen. How could it appear in this era of Han Dynasty? This should be a beautiful bird on the southeastern island.

Shusun Tong said happily: "It is rumored that the sound of a phoenix can delay the fate of a country for a hundred years. Today, 32 phoenixes appear in the world, which shows that the world of our great Han Dynasty can be passed down for thousands of years."

Xu Fan thought for a while and said: "Order of the Young Master."

Chen Chui said: "I am here."

"You lead the Shaofu craftsmen to build a Phoenix Garden in Chang'an City, so that people all over the world can watch the Phoenix and appreciate the auspiciousness of my great man."

Chen Chui said: "No"

Then he said to the civil and military officials of the Han Dynasty: "Luan Bu was the first person to discover this bird. Let's name this bird the Phoenix Bird. From now on, whenever there is a new thing discovered, it will also be named after the first person who discovered it." Naming rights to incentivize discoverers.”

As soon as Tianxia finished speaking, the excited atmosphere in the court suddenly dropped, and Shusun Tong's face froze.

Zhou Zhang looked at the emperor helplessly. This is something the emperor can do. Phoenix and phoenix bird, don't look at the name difference, there is only one word, but they are thousands of miles apart. One is a mythical beast that represents auspiciousness, and the other is really just a kind of beast. What a beautiful bird.

Then Xu Fan looked at Luan Bu and said: "The Spice Island is extremely important to our Han Dynasty and must be guarded by important ministers. Luan Bu, do you want to establish a country on the Spice Island and guard Nanyang for our Han Dynasty, or do you want to stay in the Han Dynasty?"

Everyone looked at Luan Bu with envy. The emperor was going to entrust the Spice Island to Luan Bu.

The territories entrusted by other princes were really barbaric lands, and the princes had to open up little by little. Dukes like Yingbu and Chen Xiao opened up in central Guizhou and southern Guizhou. The people were as black as monkeys, especially Lu Chen and Ji Bu. They have to fight with the barbarians all the year round. Although the two are the princes of the country and have the strong support of the emperor, they still owe a lot of debt. From this, it can be seen that this development is difficult, and the princes of the Han Dynasty are not that easy. It will take a generation of hard work. People, bit by bit, create a country for future generations.

But Luan Bu's situation was different. The spice of sitting on an island was that on Jinshan Mountain, the difficulty of developing a vassal state was reduced by more than a hundred times.

Luan Bu said seriously: "I want to continue to serve the Han and the Emperor."

Luan Bu had already thought clearly that he would rather stay in the South China Sea Fleet than become a prince.

Xu Fan said: "Female Luan Bu as Marquis of Liang County, and increase the number of 3000 households in the city."

Then he looked at Deng Zongdao: "The generals who supervise the army, count the meritorious officials, and make sure there is no mistake in the rewards given by each."

Although the South China Sea Fleet made a lot of money for the Han Dynasty this time, the danger was not great. It could only be regarded as some hard work, and the scale of the enfeoffment was not too large.

Deng Zongdao: "I accept the order."

In the sixth year of the Han Dynasty, September 7th, Chang'an City, Phoenix Garden.

Zhao Yu called out: "Little uncle, hurry up, the Phoenix Garden will be full if it's too late."

After receiving Xu Fan's order, Chen Chui led the craftsmen to build the Phoenix Garden in less than ten days to house the phoenixes. In order to achieve the effect of hundreds of birds paying homage to the phoenix, Chen Chui also collected a large number of birds in the Phoenix Garden. As a result, the Phoenix Garden became a new hotspot in Chang'an City. Countless people from Chang'an City came to watch. However, as long as the people had seen the Phoenix Bird, they were all amazed. They had never seen such a beautiful bird. Suddenly, a phoenix bomb appeared in Chang'an City. Word spread throughout the world that more people flocked to Chang'an City just to see the Phoenix.

Zhao Yu had heard about the Phoenix a long time ago in Zhao Li and had always wanted to watch it. On this day off, he asked his father and uncle to take him to the Phoenix Garden in Chang'an City.

Hu Hai, who was following him, said: "Everything about phoenix is ​​a lie. My uncle has seen a lot over the years and has never seen a phoenix."

Zhao Yu said angrily: "So many people say it's Phoenix, how could it be a lie?"

Fusu, who was next to Hu Hai, smiled and said: "There is not only one kind of Phoenix bird in Phoenix Garden, but there are also hundreds of species of birds such as peacocks and wild geese. It is also good to see other birds."

Then they followed the queue of people and entered the Phoenix Garden step by step.

Fusu asked Hu Hai: "I haven't seen you recently. If you don't manage the textile factory well, what are you going to do?"

Hu Hai and his collective textile factory are developing well. This year, Zhao Li vigorously planted mulberry and hemp, which made the textile factory extremely abundant in raw materials. The villagers in Zhao Li raised silkworms and weaved silk. Fusu also learned how to raise three seasons from the "Book of Wealth" silkworm.

There are three seasons of spring silkworms, summer silkworms and autumn silkworms in Zhaoli. The silk production capacity has increased three times. With sufficient raw materials, Zhaoli, a small textile factory, has been able to weave silk for more than half a year. Although the quality of the silk is not high, But silk is extremely profitable.

In August, the hemp harvest began again, and the people in Zhaoli directly spun the hemp into linen cloth, directly connecting the upstream and downstream of the industry, and obtained the most generous profits.

At the same time, Fusu also learned the fire-kang incubation technology, and opened the breeding technology tree for Zhao Li. With a big market like Chang'an City, Zhao Li's poultry has no shortage of consumers, and it can be sold as soon as it is produced.

Now Zhao Li's poultry has a regular customer in a restaurant in Chang'an City. Zhao Li now delivers hundreds of chickens, ducks, and thousands of poultry eggs to Chang'an City every day. With both production and sales booming, Zhaoli has transformed from a small village into an agricultural complex base.

This year, although the people in Zhaoli have no rest time throughout the year, and even Chang'an City has rest time, for the villagers, who is willing to rest if they can make money.

After a year of hard work, Zhaoli Rural Textile Factory not only recovered its capital, but also made hundreds of thousands of dollars in the poultry industry. There are hundreds of households in Zhaoli, and each household can receive several thousand dollars, which is equivalent to hundreds of acres of additional land. With the income, Zhaoli suddenly became one of the richest villages in Guanzhong.

Lu Shu, the country rose husband, happily regarded Zhao Li as a model of getting rich and reported it to the Imperial Order.

Hu Hai was indispensable for the success of the Zhaoli Textile Factory. Fu Suben was extremely pleased, thinking that with the presence of this textile factory, Hu Hai could be tied down and prevented from running around.

Hu Hai said: "I did several small businesses in Chang'an City."

Fusu asked curiously: "What business?"

Hu Hai said: "This year Chang'an City is not doing a lot of infrastructure construction. The wooden track from Chang'an City to Luoyang City alone cost 10 gold, but the Han court did not have corvee labor.

The imperial court also had capable people, and they thought of a subcontracting method, subcontracting the 500 miles of wooden rails into dozens of sections, and inviting powerful merchants to bid. As long as the wooden rails were built according to the standards of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty court would be able to make money. One share of 10 gold. "

"This is an unprecedentedly large piece of steamed bun, and the track manufacturing is not complicated. It just requires straight wood splicing. It can be made by just finding some craftsmen.

But there is still a problem in taking over this project. The Han court will only pay if it passes the inspection. To build the track in front, the engineering team needs to purchase the wood themselves and the workers' wages are enough. Don't ordinary people have this kind of money?
Big businessmen are naturally not short of money, but there are also some contracting teams composed of carpenters. They are not short of skills, but they are short of money. "

Then Hu Hai said proudly: "Well, I happened to have some money in my hands, so I lent it to them. When they completed the project, they would increase the profit by 10% and return it to me. This kind of project usually only lasts three months, and I will finish it in three months." Earning 10% profit can be said to be extremely impressive!”

Fusu said angrily: "You're crazy. How dare you do such a thing to advance capital? You haven't seen through what the officials are like. They use their power to do evil. They can't do anything. They say it's to advance capital. They What can you do to them if they don’t pay?”

Fusu had gone to Shangjun to build the Great Wall and the Straight Road back then. He was also aware of the twists and turns among the Qin officials. The Qin officials even deducted the rations of the people. Even though he was the eldest son of the emperor, he had no way to punish these Qin officials. , because he also has to rely on these Qin officials to do things. Fusu could only ask these Qin officials not to go too far and affect the progress of the project.

He had also seen the situation of the lower-level Han officials. The situation in Guanzhong was better. With the Han Emperor suppressing them, they did not dare to be lawless.

But the Han officials and Qin officials in other places were the same. The only difference between them was that the Han emperor held them tightly.

This kind of subcontracting is not safe at first sight. How can the mere craftsmen and merchants compare with the powerful Han officials? The Han officials want to embezzle money. What can the craftsmen below do? It is too late to hide from such a thing. Hu Hai is actually stupid. It was delivered to his door automatically, and Fusu didn't know what to say for a moment.

Then Fusu immediately thought of pointing at Hu Hai and said: "Where did you get the money? Is it the payment from the textile factory?"

All of Hu Hai's money was invested in the textile factory. Although he might still have some money in his hands, it was definitely not much. Where did he get the money to advance payment to others? After thinking about it, Fusu only had money from the textile factory.

Hu Hai said proudly: "Instead of depositing the money in the bank, it is better to borrow money and circulate it. This is money making money. It is a game played by the upper class of Han Dynasty. Many such merchants obtained projects by borrowing money from Han aristocrats. If you don’t lend money, who will help you, I can only make some scraps and make a little money.”

"The folks in Zhaoli are blessed. I, Hu Hai, have led them to make a fortune. This is much easier than what you have to earn after working hard for a year."

Fu Su was so angry that he wanted to beat Hu Hai on the spot. If this failed, their whole family would not be able to stay in Zhao Li any longer.

Hu Hai found out that Fusu was about to hit him, so he ran and said, "Brother, please listen to my explanation, this money is very safe.

Who was Emperor Han?

That's a hero who conquered the entire world from one master! Does he know the twists and turns below?
People have already taken precautions. As long as the contract is signed, the project funds will be transferred into the designated accounts of the agricultural and development banks. After the project is verified to be qualified, the money will be transferred into the accounts of the engineering team and will not be handled by Han officials at all. "

Hu Hai is really right about this. Although he has never seen how projects in this world are done, he has seen too many how projects in later generations are constructed. It is really difficult not to know.

All those Party A were pulled out and shot, no one was innocent, all kinds of empty tricks, all kinds of loan sharking innovations. It turned into dominoes, one fell down, all fell down, causing a terrible disaster, causing everyone in the world to suffer, and everyone paid for their mistakes.

The fundamental reason for all this is that the imperial court also had a crooked upper beam and a crooked lower beam. These loan shark innovations were not created by themselves.

So Xu Fan simply did not let the Han officials handle the money. All the project funds were deposited in the bank. He formulated the rules of the project and got a share of the money for doing a job.

You can do whatever you want with how much money you have. At the same time, Xu Fan also warned the Han officials below not to be too eager for quick success and quick success. If you do things well in advance, you will not be rewarded, but if you have problems, you will be dealt with.

In the Han Dynasty, there was no such thing as not punishing the officials, and there was no such thing as not punishing the public according to the law. Draw the red line in advance, and then kill the chickens to scare the monkeys. As far as the current situation is concerned, the effect is quite good. At the very least, anyone who is familiar with the Emperor knows where the bottom line is today.

Hu Hai continued to explain: "In the past few months, a certain person has earned 10 yuan. This is not as easy as what the folks in Zhao Li earn after working hard for a year. This is because I have less capital. When I have more money, I will earn hundreds of thousands a year." Wan Qingjie, the hot spot for Dahan now is the Spice Island.

Countless heroes are rushing to Kuaiji County, hoping to make a fortune on the Spice Island. However, although these heroes are not afraid of death, they have no money. If my younger brother pays them to buy a sea ship, they can make dozens of times more money just by going to sea. Profit is not much better than hard work. "

Fusu was so angry that he was speechless. He finally saw that Hu Hai was not a peaceful person. If the folks in Zhao Li continued to get involved with Hu Hai, they would be dragged to death by Hu Hai sooner or later.

So he said: "Everyone has made some money this year, please return your shares."

Hu Hai said angrily: "Just retreat, brother, you don't believe me, and I won't make you rich."

(End of this chapter)