amaotonovel Chapter 539
Chapter 539
Chapter 539
When the news of the boatload of silver at Songjiangkou was released, there was actually a big commotion already.
In fact, since the massive construction of railways began, the production of steel, coal and other workshops has been booming.
However, although it is hot, merchants are still cautious.
Although the current business is easy to do, and the demand in the market is also great, the railway company has taken several measures to prevent the high cost of materials and even hoarding of goods.
On the one hand, it is the steel workshop under the jurisdiction of Qixia Commercial Bank, which produces large-scale self-production.
On the other hand, there is a maximum price for all purchases, that is, there must be a profit, and it is not a lot, but there is also a limit.
Because of this, many of the mines, logging workshops, machinery manufacturing workshops, and iron and steel workshops involved took advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money even though they were profitable, but they did not dare to expand production wantonly.
After all, the investment in these gadgets is a huge amount of real money. This year's business is good, but who can guarantee next year?
In particular, the imperial court's annual expenditure of tens of millions of taels of silver is obviously unsustainable in the eyes of many people.
After you have expanded the new workshop and everything is complete, a year or so has passed. By then, once the heat passes, you may lose everything.
But now, after the news came out, many workshops have begun preparations for production expansion.
The emperor has plenty of money. From this point of view, the railway will be able to continue to be repaired year after year. Now whoever expands production first will earn more.
As a result, almost everyone in Qixia was talking about steel and smelting, it was extremely lively.
Zhang Anshi sits in the capital, but almost every day he has to ask about the situation of Jiangxi Chief Envoy.
With the continuous advancement of the railway project, the current problems are also varied. In general, Zhang Anshi will not deal with it specially, as long as he knows that there is such a thing.
Next, it depends on how Zhu Zhanji disposes of it and the aftereffects after the disposal.
Zhang Anshi only cares about one thing, and that is to use the Ministry of Railways to build several colleges about railways.
With the expansion of the railway, talents are the most important, whether it is road construction craftsmen, personnel who survey and design railways, and even talents who improve steam locomotives, and those who surround the railway in computing, medicine, literature, Wu and others.
The recruited personnel can be roughly divided into three categories, one is academically advanced, and they have passed rigorous examinations for further study.
The other is to recruit students from various provinces, the conditions are relatively loose, and the schooling period is two years.
There is another kind, that is, the artisans and laborers below are recommended for a one-year training.
Now the Ministry of Railways has no shortage of money, but the only thing that is lacking is people.
At this time, Raozhou Station.
The Jiangxi Railway Division has moved away.
With the opening of Raozhou Station, the station of the Railway Department also moved to Nanchang Prefecture.
And what stays here is still just a Raozhou station.
Almost every day, rumbling steam locomotives pass by here.
In particular, there was an endless supply of steam locomotives that transported rails, sleepers, and other raw materials to Jiangxi.
Raozhou Station is responsible for the security and maintenance along the railway line to ensure that it can be connected at any time.
At the same time, it is also responsible for the market, school, hospital and other measures around the site.
Here, a market has gradually formed.
Many businesses followed the steam locomotives, so a store opened slowly.
The goods from Qixia were placed on various shelves.
Merchants with various accents, as well as common people who gradually poured into the area under the jurisdiction of the railway, discussed the price of the goods.
Of course, these merchants are just small merchants.
Some large commercial firms have already made arrangements here.
They built a lot of warehouses along the route, and besides that, they also set their sights on a lot of cheap resources in Raozhou Prefecture.
Such as raw silk, raw hemp, and various ores.
There are some goods that can be sold locally, so they use these cheap raw materials to directly build several workshops on the spot and carry out some simple cotton spinning.Others are transported to Zhili by steam locomotive.
Naturally, there are also various mountain products that are in short supply. Jiangxi is already mountainous and has outstanding people. Merchants who came here to buy a large amount of mountain products transported the mountain products to Zhili.
But for Hu Mu at this time, his headache was the influx of a large number of people.
After less than four months as a secretary, because of the vacancy of the official in Raozhou Station, he was finally promoted to be an official.
At this time, he already has a serious official status, at least if he is in other yamen, the pawns do belong to the ranks of officials, but... they are not very popular.
Of course, his authority is much greater than that of ordinary pawns.
He is more like a brick, wherever it is needed, it needs a little edge.
But now, everyone in the station is worried about the affairs of the common people.
At the beginning, the station and the people of the nearby prefectures and counties were in a state of complete innocence.
Although they have also recruited workers, after all, there are very few applicants. The local people still need to take care of the one-third of an acre of land. From their point of view, recruiting workers is like a corvee. Who would dare to come?
But gradually some people ate crabs and got salaries, and gradually, some people began to focus.
Some daring people began to come in, and later, people discovered that even if they were not repairing the railway or working as coolies, they even went to the land under the jurisdiction of the railway company to work for the workshop or to be responsible for the construction of houses. , I also go to the shop to show people the shop, but there is also a salary, this salary... can support the family.
The four characters of supporting a family may not be a big deal to the nobles who are far away in Zhili.
But for these ordinary people, it has a fatal attraction.
In the past, when renting and planting land for people, they would not have enough food and clothing throughout the year. At the end of the year, they might even have to owe rent or debts to make ends meet.
But here, it's the real thing, you can really eat your fill.
Not only that, Raozhou Station began to overhaul the dormitories and provide rentals. Although they are all small houses, they can barely shelter from the wind and rain.
But many people saw that it was actually made of bricks.
This is much better than those thatched huts with thatched roofs and mud walls.
As long as you are willing to work hard, you will have a way out.
Ever since... many people came with their families.
If it is said that Zhili is prosperous, but after all, it is too unfamiliar to the people thousands of miles away. No one is willing to leave their hometown, and no one dares to easily take the risk of leaving their hometown thousands of miles away.
But this Raozhou station is right in front of the house, even if there is something, at worst, you can go back to your hometown on the mountain road for a day or two, so this kind of attraction is beyond ordinary people's comparison.
So a large number of people began to move in.
The clerks in the station must register every person who enters, and distribute the household register to ensure that the population can be controlled.
In addition, a large number of people come with their families and have no place to stay. Therefore, measures must be taken, otherwise, chaos may arise.
Therefore, Hu Mu kept his feet on the ground and led people to set up a temporary resettlement site in the area near the west of the station. Because the construction of the dormitory could not keep up with the speed of the influx of people, he simply hired people to build a lot of resettlement sites. In the place, temporary large work sheds were set up one after another. Although it was to teach everyone to huddle here, there was finally a place to stay.
But the more this kind of place, it is easy to breed chaos, even quarrels and fights, in addition to this, there is a problem of hygiene, and there are many inconveniences for the female relatives.
If left unattended, in the long run, it will easily become a place where filth is hidden.
In the hall, it has already been written down, the more it is such a place, the more it has to do its best to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
Therefore, a lot of inspectors and doctors were transferred to the station, and some volunteer teachers were even hired.
With these guarantees, people's hearts are actually at peace. You don't have to worry about your baggage being taken away at will, and you don't have to worry about your female relatives being harassed.
Even children who have nothing to do now have a place to go, and they are taken away one by one. Although the conditions are relatively simple, in fact, what can be taught is just to recite a thousand-character prose, but this kind of calming effect is other things. There is no substitute for anything.
"Your Highness is really admirable!"
Hu Mu, who had just inspected the medical center from the temporary resettlement place, was about to go home at this time, wearing a bamboo hat and facing the scorching sun.
The secretary Liu Zhan who was following behind couldn't hear clearly, so he wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand and said, "What?"
Hu Mu looked back at Liu Zhan. At this time, Liu Zhan was in a bit of a mess, his clothes were a little wrinkled, and a few strands of his well-combed hair were hanging down.
Hu Mu couldn't help thinking of the scene just now.
Just now several doctors from the medical center have complained a lot, complaining that the medicine in the station is not timely, and they also want to increase the population. We must be careful about the sanitary conditions of this temporary resettlement site, even though autumn is coming soon Yes, but we still need to prevent epidemics.
After all, Hu Mu was a pawn, so it was not easy for them to complain, so they simply chattered with Shu Zuo Liu Zhan.
Liu Zhan looked disgusted at this time, and seemed a bit depressed.
Hu Mu then smiled and said: "Health is really important. People can't be recruited. It's better to rely on the mountain to eat the mountain. Let the station allocate some money to select some careful people from the soldiers and civilians in the resettlement site. , Clean up every day, especially the garbage and feces that occur every day, especially dispose of them properly."
Liu Zhan sighed quietly, and said with a bitter face, "I'm afraid the station won't approve."
Hu Mu said: "If you say you want to be clean, you will definitely be reluctant to approve it, but if you talk about epidemic prevention, and then take the words of those doctors, and say that the doctors said that the epidemic may be rampant this year, see if the station will agree."
Liu Zhan's eyes lit up immediately, and he said in surprise, "I understand, Dianli Hu has a solution. Dianli Hu, just now you said Your Highness..."
Hu Mu said: "Yes, I said His Highness really has a way!"
Liu Zhan said suspiciously: "Ah... Isn't His Highness thousands of miles away?"
Although Liu Zhan, as a clerk from a government school, naturally admired Zhang Anshi, but he really couldn't think of anything today that could make Hu Mu express such emotion.
Hu Mu said: "Your Highness said that the places where people are temporarily resettled, the first thing to ensure is to recruit teachers. With teachers who teach, then people's hearts will be stabilized. At first I thought something was wrong, but these days, it is deeply I have a feeling, as expected, there is a teacher, then everything will be in order."
After hearing this, Liu Zhan laughed and said, "Haha, I know this. This is the experience His Highness learned when helping the people in Henan, Guanzhong and other places. After that, His Highness ordered to promote it. Our official school has a special class This is what I learned.”
Hu Mu raised his eyebrows and said in surprise, "Learn this?"
Liu Zhan nodded and said, "Actually, it is to analyze the cause."
"Have you analyzed it?" Hu Mu asked, looking very interested.
Mentioning the things about the old school, Liu Zhan's spirit suddenly improved, especially seeing Hu Mu's interest, he became more interested in talking, so he said: "The analysis came out, and the final result is that the world Is it possible that the soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty value culture and education, and they value their children and grandchildren to the point that it cannot be increased. Therefore, the children have a place to go, can read some books, and know some words, so the common people have hope and hope , This teaching teacher can not only carry out some simple missions, but also teach some children some superficial literacy and hyphenation skills, and it can also calm people's hearts, so it is the focus of many tasks."
After Hu Mu heard this, a look of longing flashed across his face, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "If it wasn't for my age, I would really like to go to a government school and study for two years."
Liu Zhan laughed and said, "I've heard others say that Dianli Hu's family history is very deep, and he also has a lot of knowledge. Why is this so?"
But Hu Mu shook his head and said: "This is different. In the past, I felt that I had read a lot of books and had some ink. But now that I have experience, I find that...that is not the study of the world, and I am ashamed to say it. Your Highness' knowledge..."
Before Hu Mu finished speaking, Liu Zhan said, "But Your Highness doesn't teach any knowledge on weekdays."
Hu Mu said with a smile: "This is where the knowledge is so great. The real knowledge cannot be learned by a few steps of classics and history. I heard that your government schools often talk about traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books. .Now it seems that this is a university question."
Liu Zhan laughed.
Hu Mu suddenly changed his subject and said: "When you go back, send the newly made yellow book to my desk. There are too many people pouring in these days. I want to check one or two, oh, yes..."
He became serious again, and began to explain many things: "Recently, the troupe is singing about that monster, what's going on?"
Liu Zhan said: "Officer Hu, you don't like to listen to operas, but you don't know that these operas are the most popular nowadays. It is said that there are sea monsters outside the territory, so there are heroes to kill demons and demons."
Liu Zhan looked happy, and said to Hu Mu with relish: "Look, there are mountain monsters from Annan, water monsters from Luzon, and Siamese ones..."
Hu Mu only felt a headache. He was old and couldn't bear it, but suddenly he thought, "Is there something strange about Java?"
Liu Zhan thought for a long time, then shook his head: "That's not true."
Hu Mu coughed and fell silent.
Back to Yali.
Hu Mu sat down, did he wrinkle slightly, was a little distracted, seemed to be thinking about something, always felt that his brother was getting more and more outrageous, but the third brother had already grown up, even if he was an older brother, he didn't Good discipline.
When thinking and worrying.
But Liu Zhan had already arrived with the household register and the latest form.
Hu Mu raised his head when he heard the movement.
He nodded to Liu Zhan, and immediately started to read, and then...he showed a somewhat unbelievable look, and said uncertainly: "The number...isn't it."
Liu Zhan said firmly: "There is nothing wrong."
Hu Mu frowned deeper, and then slowly relaxed it.
After a long time, Hu Mu said: "This is something that people never expected... Doesn't this mean that... we stand, and the soldiers and civilians under our jurisdiction will surpass Raozhou's capital in a short time?"
Liu Zhan smiled and said: "Recently, you have been so busy that you have fainted. Now the population of each section of the station is increasing rapidly. The surrounding counties, especially some places, have become empty. The point... A few days ago, people from Raozhou Prefecture even sent people to the station to negotiate for this matter, saying that we lured the people, and that the people fled, but the station manager ignored them."
Hu Mu couldn't help asking: "Maybe they are willing to rest?"
Liu Zhan said: "It must be unwilling, and I still want to quarrel. Later, the director of the station said that this matter has nothing to do with them. If they want to talk about it, let them talk to His Highness Huang Sun, or go to Beijing to talk to His Highness Song Wang. "
Liu Zhanxi smiled and said with a bit of complacency: "As soon as those people heard this, they turned around and left."
But Hu Mu thought about it seriously and said: "The more people there are, the easier it is to cause troubles. You must strengthen your vigilance during inspections everywhere, and you must prevent young people from sneaking in to cause trouble."
He frowned, and started to get up and pace, with a look of worry on his face, and then said: "I see, some people will not be able to swallow this breath."
Liu Zhan subconsciously said: "They dare to..."
But Hu Mu said: "It's better to be more careful. It's better to be prepared than nothing."
After hearing this, Liu Zhan closed his mouth that was about to open, looked at the worry on Hu Mu's face, and nodded in agreement.
Hu Mu sat down again. He seemed to be completely different from when he first came here. After a brief moment of pondering, he said again: "The Raozhou government... find a way to find a few people... and the officials over there, Literary officials, see if anyone has found a familiar relationship, and pay attention to every move over there."
Liu Zhan raised his eyebrows and thought about it seriously for a while, then opened his eyes slightly, and said: "There is really one, who is a fellow student of the student, but he is not an official, but he opened a medical clinic in Fucheng. The people here are familiar with each other, and they often go in and out to treat people."
Hu Mu smiled and said, "Then I have to trouble you."
Liu Zhan said, "Is this really necessary?"
Hu Mu didn't explain much, but said succinctly: "It's time to share the worries for Your Highness."
(End of this chapter)