Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

As far as the organization of a printing newspaper is concerned, it does not seem to be difficult.

Of course, in the end Zhang Yan still did not put the establishment of Lujiang Weekly into practice.

It's not that there are any difficulties for him in printing and distributing the publication itself, but judging from the current literacy rate of less than [-]% in the entire Lujiang River, even if the best publication is released, the sales volume will not be high.

After thinking about it, Zhang Yan simply used the remaining inexhaustible money as a cost, and established many bookstores in various places in Lujiang.

Chapter 10 The largest coal producing area in Lujiang

To be honest, bookstores, a special store that "sells knowledge", are not really advanced things.

On the contrary, unlike most people’s impressions, the earliest bookstores appeared on a large scale as early as the Western Han Dynasty when Emperor Wu of Han deposed Baijia.

During the period of Emperor Han Yuan, the "Sanfu Huangtu" once recorded that "Mingtang Piyong is the [-]th area of ​​the doctor's residence, and it is Huishi".

That is to say, at the Taixue office in Chang'an at that time, there would be a market dedicated to book trading twice a month, allowing those scholars who were studying at the Taixue to exchange their books and enhance their knowledge.

With such a precedent, Zhang Yan would set up a special store to sell books now, and naturally it would not arouse much reaction from the gentry in Jiangdong.

After all, in their eyes, those who can go to the bookstore to buy books must be scholars who are studying, so to put it bluntly, they are not from their family class?Zhang Yan's behavior will not cause the leakage of knowledge at all.

In the final analysis, this kind of behavior was also understood by them in disguise as a statement of Zhang Yan's friendship with the aristocratic family class. Therefore, even though the bookstores under his name set the book sales price very low, it still did not raise enough interest among those aristocratic families. vigilance.

It's just that Zhang Yan is not sure whether these aristocratic families will cooperate as they are now when he further promotes basic education in Lujiang around the autumn harvest this year at the earliest.

If there are various excuses to explain the opening of large libraries to the public and the opening of bookstores for all residents, then the opening of schools to popularize basic education is undoubtedly a vain attempt to force all old-fashioned His family turned against him directly.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Yan has delayed the universal education that many novel protagonists like to do, and is unwilling to implement it so early.

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Busy making money, busy spending money.

They are busy developing productive forces and adjusting production relations.

In fact, since the turn of the year, Zhang Yan has clearly felt that he has more and more affairs, and he has become more and more tired.

Local officials such as Kuai Qi may be able to help him solve some basic local tasks, but it is obvious that the shortcomings of not having suitable civil servants as the cabinet have gradually been exposed.

If it is like Liu Bei and Cao Cao, with the assistance of Zhuge Liang, Xun Yu and others, in fact, as long as Zhang Yan arranges the goals for many things, these people will arrange things in an orderly manner, and there is no need for him to confirm one by one. Worry about it one by one.

For example, right now, Zhang Yan had to start from his old nest, Wancheng, and head towards the edge of the Lujiang River because of a small detail that needs to be confirmed...

Taking Ye'er out of the gate, Zhang Yan glanced at the sun that had just risen in the sky, and for no reason, he felt a faint longing for those top-level civil servants who could be used as chief assistants to form a cabinet.

After all, sometimes it costs 30.00% more lifespan to be diligent in governing than to be lazy in governing.

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"Well, it looks like it's still early, I hope I can get there before sunset today."

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With a silent mutter in his heart, Zhang Yan then boarded his exclusive carriage with the help of the waiter, and then staggered out of the city with Ye'er.

In addition to the affairs mentioned earlier, Zhang Yan has actually been busy with a lot of work recently.

For example, today, he set off from Wancheng as agreed, intending to go to a somewhat unpopular small town on the border of Lujiang River.

The name of this small town is Xiacai.

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Speaking of the urban distribution of the entire Lujiang River, Wancheng is almost at the center of the Lujiang River.

In the south of Wancheng, Qianxian County is within a day's distance, Xiang'an County is located in the southeast, and Shu County is located in the northeast, which completely guards the southeast and southeast directions of the entire Wancheng City.

As for the two directions of the west and north of Wancheng, since the west of Wancheng is the Dabie Mountains, the west side, if not uninhabited, at least it can be said that there is no Mao.In the north of Wancheng are the Anfeng and Yangquan Marquis, most of which are rural settlements and other buildings, and there are no large-scale cities.

The destination of Zhang Yan's trip this time, that is, the small city called Xiacai, is on the northernmost border of the entire Lujiang River, which is further north of the Yangquan Hou Kingdom.

The so-called Xiacai, although not well-known and without any famous figures, is actually a city with a very long history in the entire Lujiang River, even compared to Wancheng, the symbol of Wan Province in later generations. .

This city can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty at the earliest, about 900 BC, and was set as a feudal state by the emperor of the Western Zhou Dynasty who was expanding wildly at that time. At that time, his name was not called Xia Cai, but was called "Xia Cai". The state came to the country".

Later, in the 16th year of King Zhou Jing, the state of Wu conquered the state and came to the country, and then Cai Zhaohou established the "Xiacai State" on the former site of the ancient state, and it has been more than four hundred years.

For more than [-] years, Zhoulai has always been the core of the entire northern Anhui region. Not only is it close to the Huaihe River, the transportation is very convenient, and there are even many special products.

Zhang Yan's trip this time was precisely for one of Guzhou's special products.

That is to say, it is the largest coal vein available for open-pit mining in the entire Lujiang River.

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As mentioned before, Zhang Yan ordered the construction of three large smelting blast furnaces in Lujiang Wancheng last winter to improve the metal smelting level of the entire Lujiang.

Since a large-scale metal smelting work is to be carried out, in addition to a large amount of metal raw ore, there is another very important factor, that is, there must be sufficient coal resources around the smelting area, so as to facilitate the metal smelting process. In order to continuously obtain sufficient energy at a relatively low cost, the factory will not be shut down due to the high cost of coal acquisition.

According to Zhang Yan's idea, he wanted to start from Wancheng, the prefecture of Lujiang, and build a road leading directly to the coal-rich area in the Zhoulai area.

As long as this road is repaired, the coal produced in the Zhoulai area can be continuously transported into the interior of Wancheng, and then used as raw materials to produce a large amount of copper and iron for the construction of the entire Lujiang River.

It's just that road construction may not be difficult in modern times, but in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, it was indeed a large-scale project.To build an extra mile of road is a huge investment of time and manpower for Zhang Yan.

Now that there is no helper or spokesperson, Zhang Yan can only go to Xiacai to confirm by himself. After confirming that there is no problem, he can order to promote the implementation of this matter.

After all, compared with those ordinary county towns or Hou countries, Xiacai is still a little bit different.

Chapter 11 Along the Huai River

As we all know, "Zhoulaiguo" is located in the north of Wancheng, on the northern border of Lujiang River.

If it is divided according to the administrative regions of later generations, it is not far from Huainan near Fengtai. It is a very ancient Chinese civilization settlement site.

It's just different from the "Ancient Wan State" and "Ancient Shu State" in Lujiang. Zhoulai State was later destroyed by the war, so there were no cities like Wan City and Shu County left behind. Towns exist in the middle of Han Lujiang County, Jiujiang County, Xiapi County and Runan County.

That's right, like most "settlements" on the border, this is also a well-known "three-way" zone in northern Yangzhou.

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The so-called "Three No Matters", actually dates back to when it first appeared, and refers to a busy city in the south of Tianjin today.

This downtown area is located in the middle of the former Japanese and French Concessions, and it is extremely remote and chaotic. Therefore, neither the Japanese nor the French are too concerned about this place, and they don't want to deal with a series of messes here.

Coupled with the fact that the Qing court had no right to intervene in the internal affairs of the concession, Tianjin's "South City" became the first three-way zone recorded in the history of China.

It’s just that most people don’t know that this kind of situation didn’t just appear in modern times. As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, those abandoned ancient cities, or areas between several big states, often suffered from "Three don't care" treatment.

Taking this state as an example, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, or even Yangzhou don't matter. If Zhang Yan wants to build a road leading to Wancheng here, he will inevitably have to bear a lot of burdens during the construction process. security risk.

In addition to these, the population in the state area is even less, and the economy and industry are not developed. Therefore, once Zhang Yan vigorously develops here, there is no doubt that a group of people will migrate from the center of Lujiang to the state. They come to live around the nearby coal mines, which is obviously not conducive to the process of urbanization in Lujiang.

It can be said that Zhang Yan needs to personally go to understand and weigh all these pros and cons, so that he can finally make a decision.

All in all, Zhang Yan took Ye'er into the carriage like this, and drove all the way to the north of Lujiang River.

On the way, he didn't say much, but took advantage of the opportunity that there was nothing to do on the road, and enjoyed the long-lost rest as much as possible.

Time passed quickly along the way, and when the sun gradually tilted to the west, Zhang Yan was also freed from the seemingly endless hills, and came to a slightly popular place.

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"drive!"

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The coachman's voice was still echoing between the mountains and fields, but what Zhang Yan, who was sitting behind the carriage, saw was no longer the overlapping mountains before, but was pleasantly surprised to find that there was a road far wider than him. The imaginary river stands not far in front of him.

"Hey, Ye'er, look out the window!"

"Looking at it from a distance, it's the Huai River, right?"

"Could it be that we've reached the state border?"

Pointing out the window, he said in surprise, in Zhang Yan's eyes, after the mountains gradually receded, there was an extremely wide river running straight from east to west, even if it was as magnificent as the Yellow River not far from Luoyang in the north.

It's just different from the "violent" Yellow River. Although this river has some fast-flowing places, it will become gentle near some relatively flat land, as if the river has its own spirituality. Chi, unwilling to destroy the water and soil environment here.

On both sides of the river, there are fields developed one after another relying on this small plain. The people on both sides are busy in the fields, as if they are preparing for the reclamation work in the spring of this year.

Undoubtedly, the river here is the founder of the Jianghuai Plain among the three major plains of the entire Chinese civilization, which is also one of the mother rivers of the Chinese civilization, and the third of the five mountains and four ruins, the Huai River.

Different from the Huaihe River, which gradually became turbid and foul-smelling in later generations, in this era, Sidu was still one of the four most important water veins in the entire Huaxia landmass. Therefore, the water quality of the Huaihe River is very pure and clear in the eyes of Zhang Yan today, and it is not so different from that of many people. Dirty things appear.

This kind of situation did not gradually appear in human society until after the gradual development of science and technology and the importance of industry completely overwhelmed agriculture.

Now that he poked his head out of the window, Zhang Yan naturally didn't have much interest in paying attention to the water in the river, but focused all his attention on the farmers on both sides of the river.

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"Well, Ye'er, why don't we go over and see the situation?"

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Since the river in front of him is the Huaihe River, the large field on the south bank of the Huaihe River still belongs to the territory under Zhang Yan's rule in name, and accepts his control.

At this moment, from his point of view, this large expanse of fields seems to be a specially prepared reclamation area. Every field has been turned soft and flat. I just don’t know if this year’s crops have been sown in the furrows of this land. seed.

Looking at the busy farmers from a distance, although Zhang Yan is huddled in the carriage at the moment, he is unavoidably interested in the reclamation situation on the edge of the Lujiang River, and plans to take everyone along the way to see it. look.

If we really talk about it, although Zhang Yan said that he was too tired all day long, when he really encountered this kind of opportunity to conduct "private visits on micro-services", he never missed it and worked hard. Integrate your work and life together.

When he was in Wancheng, he had issued a decree to ask the cities under his command to cooperate with him in reclamation, and to hire people to reorganize fertile land in the name of the government. The area of ​​cultivated land is planted, hoping to feed as many people and soldiers as possible under the limited yield per mu.

Since the time is right now, Zhang Yan happened to chat with those busy farmers to see how the land reclamation work that he has been vigorously promoting has been completed.

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"Yo, old man, are you busy?"

Joyfully jumped off the carriage first, Zhang Yan first signaled to the driver to wait for him here, and then took Ye'er from the shaft of the carriage, and took him to the wheat field not far away.

It was just beyond his expectation that the reality was not as simple as those interview columns in the previous life showed.

When he spoke, not only the old man opposite him who had been busy with himself was taken aback for a moment, but even some young people around him looked at him with vigilant eyes instantly.

Chapter 12 Private Interview

"You, who are you?"

Some stuttered and asked Zhang Yan, the old man looked at Zhang Yan who was walking not far away, as if he was a little curious about the identity of the other party.