The portable magic tower of the Three Kingdoms

Sure enough, the disciples of the Xian family are the disciples of the Xian family, and they are not existences that mortals can understand.

"That's not my original purpose of building the railway!" Liu Tao replied, "I guess you already know the survey report of the Baiyun Iron Mine, right?"

"I already know that the reserves are indeed astonishing, and the quality is also very good. Your Majesty is far-sighted, and I admire you very much." Jian Yong replied, completely from the bottom of his heart.

I never thought that there would be such a large reserve of iron ore, and the quality is not bad. This kind of iron ore was just north of Yinshan Mountain, and I don't know how many generations it took to discover it.

"The construction of Baiyun City has already started, and then a large amount of ore will be mined. Although it will basically be smelted into iron ingots there, the transportation is a problem." Liu Tao replied, "So we need something that can Large quantities of iron ingots were transported from Baiyun City to Taiyuan, and even other places..."

Compared with horse-drawn carriages, railways are obviously the best means of transportation, after all, transportation costs are the lowest.

If the iron ingots are transported to Taiyuan, the transportation cost will be higher than the cost of iron, then the Baiyun Iron Mine will become a pure national strategic reserve and cannot be used by civilians.

If it cannot be used by civilians, it means that all the expenses incurred in mining and transportation must be paid by the imperial court, which is obviously not cost-effective.Taking a step back, if this model is followed, Baiyun City will become a city completely dependent on the imperial court. Once the imperial court has no other iron mines, then this place may decline rapidly.

Liu Tao wants Baiyun City to be able to make blood by itself, and to be able to transport the blood out.If you can supplement nutrition for yourself, instead of the imperial court constantly feeding it, then you will be a giant baby.

In other words, the railway not only needs to continue to be repaired, but also needs to be repaired to the side of Baiyun City.After all, from Yunzhong to Baiyun City, one has to pass through the Yinshan Mountains, and the transportation cost is also very high.

Jian Yong suddenly realized when he heard the words, and then wrote this down in a small notebook as a future memo.

Chatting and chatting, around three o'clock in the afternoon, a group of people have arrived in Yunzhong County...

Chapter 625

Yunzhong County, for so many years...it hasn't changed...it's no wonder!Originally, I wanted to sing "Chang'an County" and felt a lot of emotion, but it turned out that Yunzhong County was completely different from what I remembered before I knew it.

The whole city has already expanded a circle, according to this scale, it is estimated that it can become a big city like Luoyang Chang'an.

The outer city is made of Sanhe soil. Speaking of which, Sanhe soil was first used in Baiyun County, and then used in various counties of Bingzhou. The new city wall of Yunzhong City was built with this material.

"When did the expansion start?" Liu Tao knew this for the first time.

"Beginning the year before last, I wrote a special memorial at that time..." Jian Yong was very surprised, so he carefully reminded.

The year before last?Liu Tao was taken aback when he heard the words. His memory of the year before last was very vague, which was very strange. After all, that year seemed to have disappeared suddenly, and he didn't know what happened.Anyway, after a whole year, the memory is very vague.

It seems that there is such a thing vaguely, and it seems that there is no such thing. Thirty o'clock spirit did not let him remember what happened in that year. It was simply a year hidden by God.

"I don't remember clearly, what is the reason for the expansion?" Liu Tao asked curiously.

Jian Yong didn't care why Liu Tao couldn't remember. Anyway, as a secretary, he could only recall it carefully, and then replied: "The population has skyrocketed, so that the original city is no longer liveable, so I applied for expansion. His Majesty's reply, It is to build this place into the most prosperous city on the border, and also an important logistics transit point... It seems that the approval at that time was like this."

I don't remember doing that at all... Liu Tao complained silently in his heart, but this fits his personality very well.

"But isn't the expansion scope too wide?" Liu Tao sighed.

"It's nothing. Just as the railway was built, a large number of people were waiting to allocate farmland. But even if the allocation is completed, farming will not start until next year, so I took the opportunity to gather them all and help build the city wall. This is what Gaoguan Du meant. .” Jian Yong explained.

Senior official Du is Du Xi, who can be regarded as an old man who started his career with Liu Tao, and is currently a senior official in Shanxi Province.Only people like him can keep up with Liu Tao's train of thought, at least he can roughly know what to do next.

For the people who have no real income at present, it is not bad to be able to exchange wages through construction.Anyway, it was also engaged in construction before, so it would be better to follow the original establishment directly, so as not to need to re-arrange.

Now the entire Yunzhong County is a large construction site, and the city wall is being repaired little by little. A group of local people have been recruited to participate. Many people have come out to help since the second year of junior high school and have been working for more than a month.

After the calculation, there are still about two months before going back to farming.As the old saying goes, April is the best time for planting on the side of the cloud, otherwise it will be too cold and the seeds will not grow.

It was already a bit late, and it would have taken two days to travel normally, but it was compressed into one afternoon, which was already a very remarkable result.Take another ride, almost in the middle of the night, and dinner is also a problem.

Jian Yong thought about this issue, and proposed to rest in the cloud tonight and go back tomorrow night, Liu Tao also agreed.

After entering Yunzhong City, I realized that there was a construction site outside, and there were construction sites everywhere inside.A large number of buildings have begun to be constructed, but many of them have the feeling of a logistics distribution point.

Large quantities of goods are stored here and then loaded onto trucks for transport.Many of them go to the grasslands, and more go to the south.

The prefect of Yunzhong... Oh, now it is called the magistrate. The magistrate here is Guan Jing, who was originally under Gongsun Zan's command. Later, he surrendered with Yan Han and accepted the assessment. Now he serves as the magistrate here.

Knowing that Liu Tao was going to stay here for one night, he immediately arranged for a carriage to pick him up and drop him off.

Jin Yiwei's people, they originally had three horses, so although they were a bit slow, they still arrived one after another about half an hour after Liu Tao came here, and began to guard them.Coupled with the concealment of the carriage, people who are not familiar with it should not be able to see that Liu Tao is here in person.

"I've been the magistrate here for a year, how does it feel?" Liu Tao looked at Guan Jing in the carriage.

"It's hard to imagine that this was originally Bianjun. Everything is developing very well. If it continues, it is very likely that it will be more prosperous than Jixian or Jinyang." Guan Jing replied truthfully, without any exaggeration.

Liu Tao's plan was very good at the beginning, even if he left, Yunzhong was still developing little by little according to the predetermined plan.

Although the library and colleges have moved to Jinyang one after another, there are still branch schools here.In addition, a group of people have already participated in the imperial examination, so the style of study here is also very strong.

Many people are preparing for the imperial examination two years later, and at the same time, because of their original martial style, many scholars have the potential to be both civil and military.

A large amount of logistics brings a large number of jobs, and ordinary people can earn money while studying.

Perhaps the trend of extravagance has not yet formed, and most of the scholars are not even counted as poor. They can make money while studying.On the contrary, those who do not come out to work because of their family's wealth have become the objects of contempt.Of course, there is also some hatred of the rich.

Most of the outer cities were immigrated later, or where large chambers of commerce are located.The inner city was the original residential area, but as time went by, rich people gradually occupied it, so the area of ​​the outer city gradually became a poor residential area.

There are no pure poor in the cloud. After all, there are jobs everywhere and money can be made everywhere.If you can still be poor in this way, you can only say that you don't want to work hard, so no one is to blame.

Maybe you can put it another way, not a 'slum' area, but a residential area where 'the family doesn't have much money'.

Yes, Liu Tao also discovered a very good phenomenon along the way, that is, there are no beggars in this city!

Near the center of the city, there are a large number of hotels, pubs and restaurants, and the dilapidated brothels are now very well repaired.There are some academies, cram schools, and even night schools that can be vaguely seen.

Not only the state-run ones, but private ones have also begun to appear... Everyone knows that the imperial examination is important, and the family has spare money. Of course, parents hope that their children can study more and then have the opportunity to take the imperial examination.

Unless the dream is shattered at the age of 40, it is natural to fight for it.

"There are rumors that when His Majesty unifies the world, all the official positions will eventually be filled. At that time, as many officials as are needed every year, as many Jinshi will be recruited. People may have to wait a long time before they can become official, so everyone is desperately studying." Guan Jing Apparently he also noticed that Liu Tao cared about this, so he came forward to explain.

"It's not a rumor..." Liu Tao didn't hide anything, "The role of the Ministry of Officials will only be played when there are enough officials. At that time, the personnel transfer will indeed be determined according to the actual vacancies. But as long as you pass the exam , the number of Jinshi will still be issued, the Ministry of Officials will have a reserve, and local vacancies will be prioritized."

Chapter 626

As for official positions, the higher you go, the fewer positions there are.There can be hundreds of county magistrates, but only dozens of prefects, thirteen governors, three sangongs, and one emperor.

When the chief officer and deputy are always filled up, at most the local 'officials' may still have a place.

However, in many places and in many eras, this thing actually has the habit of "inheriting" to some extent.Many sons of petty officials will inherit their positions.This habit still exists in modern times. For example, many old workers in factories will retire early and give up their positions to their sons.

Officials also need some old people who know the local area to help them govern the local area. As long as their abilities are not too bad, they will generally not destroy this tradition.Moreover, the appointment of small officials is the prerogative of the county magistrate.Only the county lieutenant and the county magistrate are appointed by the state.

In some small counties, there are even only county magistrates and no county magistrates, so there will be no county magistrates.The power of county magistrates has been further strengthened.

There is also a solution, and that is the civil service system.Put all officials into the scope of 'civil servants', give them a formal establishment, and allow 'little officials' to be promoted, eventually become senior officials, and even enter the six ministries.

It's just that this is still a bit too advanced for now, so Liu Tao didn't do it.