Xu Guangqi naturally agreed to Han Yi's invitation, saying that he would send someone to invite Han Lian to Tianjin at that time.And then, another group of family members of important officials of the imperial court came to visit Xu Guangqi to find out, and even the British Duke Zhang Weixian sent people to find him.Xu Guangqi should accept them one by one.Because Xu Guangqi also understands that he can't refuse this kind of thing, otherwise he will cut off people's wealth and will die without a place to be buried.And Xu Guangqi has to admit that these powerful people are really insatiable.Because Xu Guangqi found out after Tianjin City, a large number of industries run by powerful and wealthy gentry have been established here.Although the industry of Tianjin City belonged to the emperor, and even the shops in the city were built by the emperor, and merchants could only lease business when they came to Tianjin City, and paid the unique business tax of Tianjin City, Xu Guangqi found that the merchants who came to Tianjin City to lease shops to sell cloth, salt, oil, and vinegar were still powerful and gentry backgrounds.Obviously, these powerful gentry are still very good at making money, and the imperial court has just spent a lot of money to build a new city here, and let hundreds of thousands of displaced people settle here, these people smelled the business opportunities here, and used their financial resources and power to rent the shop first.Xu Guangqi also knew that this was unavoidable, and the small traders naturally couldn't compete with these powerful gentry.But Xu Guangqi was very pleased that after the imperial court settled hundreds of thousands of displaced people here and paid them for work, the economy here was indeed active.Although most of the shops in the city are occupied by the powerful and gentry, the other vacant land is still crowded with many small vendors, and even outside the city are full of various stalls, and even many wine shops and teahouses have been added.After all, the construction of the city and the repair of official roads have made these new residents a lot of profits.It's just that their income is all silver coins, so whether they eat, dress, or heat, they have to use money to buy and generate economic activities.So, consumption here is very active."
Grain is mainly sold by the Grain Industry Bureau, however, the Grain Industry Bureau does not have so many people directly responsible for grain sales, so the lower officials still let the merchants come to the Grain Bureau to buy grain, and then rent shops by these merchants to sell the grain to these new households, but according to His Majesty's instructions, the grain price must be determined by the Grain Industry Bureau, in addition, grain merchants cannot transport grain to Tianjin City to sell by themselves, they must buy it in bulk from the Grain Industry Bureau and then transport it to the city for retail.""
It's the same with salt, all salt merchants trusted by the lower officials sell cheap official salt, of course, it is difficult for private salt to come in, only a few traders may have entrainment, but if it is discovered, it is considered a felony."
Bi Ziyan, who stayed in Tianjin, reported to Xu Guangqi after he came."
But the grain shop and the salt shop are still in the hands of these powerful gentry, can they really cooperate with the official system of the government?"
Xu Guangqi asked after hearing this."
I can't help them, this is the place where His Majesty directly intervenes, who dares to come nonsense?
Have you seen the comprehensive store, that is the business name that His Majesty ordered the East Factory to open, and also directly takes grain from the Household Grain Bureau and salt directly from the Household Department, which is responsible for the parity of all kinds of daily necessities, not only as a place to stabilize the price of important materials, but also as an intelligence collection point and resettlement point for the East Factory, and also to generate income for the personnel of the East Factory, including His Majesty himself also divides a small part of the profit, there is a comprehensive store, no one can hoard Juqi, and even once it is illegal, it will be immediately discovered by the East Factory. ”Bi Ziyan pointed to the big shop at the intersection of a T-shaped street in front of him and said.Xu Guangqi nodded because of this, and said in his heart: "Your Majesty, who did you learn from this method of trading?"
”For a while, Xu Guangqi said again: "After a look, there are many people who come to Tianjin City to do business nearby, some pick firewood to sell, some sell straw shoes, and some sell insoles, and even sell sticks and heads, it looks quite prosperous, but as the ministry said before, these new people have obviously made the nearby people have a living through work, and they are no longer more impoverished because of the heavy burden of Jingshi Caoyun, but after the official road renovation project and the city construction project are over, what should these people do, will they become displaced people again, Will the people in the vicinity fall into hunger and cold again?
”"So, Your Majesty Shengming!"
Bi Ziyan said with a smile, and said: "I don't know, Your Majesty has already let Shang Gongjian build many workshops in Tianjin City, including wood workshops, stone workshops, iron workshops and other types of manufacturing equipment purchased by Shang Gongjian, and the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau is also setting up many branch factories, Your Majesty calls this manufacturing, these manufacturing industries currently need a lot of young and strong, and many homeless people who started to make up households have now entered these manufacturing industries as workers, which is the work of drought and flood protection, as long as Shang Gongjian and the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau have always needed these equipmentand they will always have a job!
In addition, Xiaguan has set up many carpentry schools, masonry schools and ironwork schools in Tianjin City in accordance with His Majesty's instructions, specifically training some young homeless people, so that they can directly participate in the manufacturing industry in the future, and now there is still a big gap in these manufacturing industries.
According to the next recruitment needs of the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau in Tianjin City, in addition to the new household names in the city, it will have to recruit people in the surrounding areas at that time. ”Xu Guangqi suddenly realized after hearing this, and said in his heart: "No wonder Your Majesty wants to expand the scale of your Xu family's cotton yarn industry, and immediately establish a new government-run weaving industry with flying shuttle looms. ”"How is the study and politics doing?
The activities of complaining and thanking the emperor have not been held?
”Xu Guangqi asked again."
According to the edict and your requirements, I have been doing it, ten social studies have been built in the city, and the social studies are hung with the icon of the Son of Heaven, and every ten years, Hua Yuncheng, the general judge of Tianjin, will let the officials of each fang organize the people of each fang to gather in each fang, and then the people of each fang will take turns to complain, telling why they were displaced in the past, what are the bitter things, and then the fang is responsible for telling them that they can now be stable because of the emperor's grace!
Now, therefore, the newly settled people are very loyal to Your Majesty, and today is just the day to complain, why don't you take you to the nearest square to see?
”Bi Ziyan took the initiative to propose as he spoke.Xu Guangqi nodded.So, Bi Ziyan took Xu Guangqi to the nearest workshop called "National Grace", and the name of the workshop was naturally to hope that the people of this workshop would be grateful for the grace of the country.Just like the newly built Tianjin City, there is also a "Huang'en" workshop.As soon as Xu Guangqi followed Bi Ziyan to the social studies of the "Guo'en" workshop, he saw a middle-aged woman who was obviously a newcomer in front of the statue of the Son of Heaven crying in front of the statue of the Son of Heaven, how her husband was beaten to death by Haoqiang, how she fled here with her children in great difficulty, and then was taken in by the officials here.Because it is true and real, and they are all similar experiences, the people below have a special sense of substitution, special empathy, and tears.And when Fang was in tears, it was the emperor who told them to settle down now and let them shout Long live the emperor, these people really shouted enthusiastically."
Long live the emperor!""
Long live the emperor!""
The emperor is a good emperor!"
…… Xu Guangqi looked at all this, and he was deeply affected by the environment at this time, and couldn't help but be excited: "What about conniving and offending all the gentry in Jiangnan than letting so many people live in peace?!"
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