After dinner, I rested for a while before the convoy slowly left Xinye.

Sima Bei went back after he finished speaking, and did not exchange any greetings, nor did he get involved with everyone.

What Legal students hate the most is Confucianism that forms gangs, and then the children of the royal family and nobles.

Otherwise, Miao Yan would not have taken ruthless measures to deal with them every time.

The members of Liu Mingqi and his group and the maids were only about forty, but there were more than one hundred carriages close to two hundred.

There is no way, these young masters and ladies are used to enjoying it. They usually stay alone in the carriage, and are not used to hudding together for a few people.

Various daily necessities, various grain reserves, as well as the equipment of the guards, tents, etc., need to be loaded with so many things, so naturally the carriage must not be missing.

Most of these carriage drivers are carried by young people themselves. They are powerful men of Kong Wu. They can take up swords and guns to fight when encountering emergency situations.

Liu Mingqi didn't care so much, all three of his confidants were there in his carriage.

Anyway, Princess Yu gave the order.

Unless they live in the inn in the city, Dazhu and Fan Shan cannot leave Liu Mingqi's side.

I spent more than half of the time on the way in the carriage. How could they not accompany Liu Mingqi?

If there is a volley of thousands of arrows, they will not be able to save them.

Sitting on the carriage, Liu Mingqi was thinking about what had happened just now.

In fact, when Sima Bei came over, Liu Mingqi suddenly remembered that the second step of his sweet potato experiment could be implemented here.

As soon as Sima Bei actively built a canal and irrigated the fields well, he was very concerned about agriculture and would not ignore sweet potatoes.

The land needed by sweet potato itself is not the kind of fertile one. On the contrary, the relatively barren sandy land is the favorite growth environment for sweet potatoes.

So it does not have to compete for the current land of the people, but it can bring extra grain harvests to the people. This is the best of both worlds.

Secondly, Sima Bei himself has great prestige, and even the gentry dared not neglect the things he ordered.

In this case, Liu Mingqi sent to guide the people who grow sweet potatoes to say what they will do.

Only by being so obedient can the best harvest of sweet potatoes be achieved, which will completely shock them and allow them to spontaneously start promoting planting in the future.

Sanlai Xinye was originally known for its agriculture. In later generations, Xinye’s sweet potatoes happened to be a very well-known agricultural product and were sold well across the country.

Therefore, Liu Mingqi believes that this place is very suitable as a promotion base.

But Sima Bei was talking about the honeycomb coal.

Once the honeycomb coal workshop starts construction in Xinye County, the sweet potatoes can be temporarily put aside.

After all, sweet potatoes have just begun to be planted and promoted, so they cannot be gathered together with the coal ash flying all over the sky.

So, in turn, is it okay to build a honeycomb coal workshop in Xinye County?

OK!

Moreover, Sima Bei's positioning is too accurate!

What he said about the cheap labor and hard work without saying much. These advantages are like this for almost every common people in every place.

That is, the people around the capital have become a little spoiled.

So this is not the advantage of Xinye Prefecture.

The biggest advantage of Xinye County lies in the geographical location mentioned by Sima Bei.

Xinye is the county closest to Hubei in the Gyeonggi region.

Otherwise, Liu Mingqi would not have come here to make a sled car before.

It is well-connected here, and it is Xiangyang City less than 150 miles away!

Xiangyang City is one of the important towns in Hubei. The last time the prince went to Hubei to provide disaster relief, he chose there for the first stop.

Then it is 400 miles away from Jingmen City. If you get fast, you can reach it in a day and a half.

Even it is only about 300 miles away from Suizhou, an important town in northeastern Hubei.

This basically covers the western and northern parts of Hubei.

Then from Xinye to Yichang, Hubei, it is 650 miles away, that is, 250 miles away from Jingmen, and it can be reached in two and a half days.

What does it mean to go to Yichang?

Yichang is one of the important hubs of the Yangtze River transportation line.

From here, you can go south by water to Jingzhou, Yueyang, Huanggang, and Jiujiang.

Walk west from here and you can enter Sichuan through the Three Gorges.

In fact, the large amount of honeycomb coal transported to Xikang by the imperial court now is the route.

If a honeycomb coal workshop is set up in Xinye County, the journey to Xikang will save at least three days.

Three days are not short, and this is not considered the consumption along the way.

This is a very important saving for an ancient dynasty.

In fact, according to this situation, it is best to build a honeycomb coal workshop in Yichang.

But Yichang has reached the center of Hubei, while Xinye County is in the Gyeonggi area.

Compared to outside, Xinye County is easier to manage, so Liu Mingqi can come over to deal with something happening.

If it was in Yichang, Liu Mingqi could not get over there, so she could only rely on Tian Rong and Chi San.

Moreover, Sima Bei is a capable person and a student of the Legal family. He is very fond of Liu Mingqi. If Liu Mingqi is asked to choose, he will naturally be willing to choose Xinye County.

In fact, Liu Mingqi had long wanted to move further away.

Letting the people in the capital run for three or four hours a day is as hard as letting a worker go to work from Yanjiao to the west of the capital.

Only those who have experienced it can experience the pain of being too long.

Sometimes they would rather work more overtime on their own and ride a shared bicycle for more than ten minutes to go home to eat and sleep than spend a lot of time on meaningless commuting.

Don’t worry about the life problems of the people in the capital.

In the future, there will be so many businesses in Prince Yu's mansion, and there will be more and more workshops, so they will not have to worry about not getting good jobs.

Besides, when there was no Prince Yu’s Mansion before, were they just going to live?

The workshops in Prince Yu’s Mansion should still be placed according to actual needs.

However, this ancient version of investment promotion has to give me a lot of benefits, right?

I can’t just leave you alone to Xinye County to solve your big problem.

It also requires sufficient reasons and advantages to attract this super workshop to settle in.

Not to mention anything else, how to transport this coal, you have to think of a solution for me, right?

It’s only 400 miles from Jincheng, Shanxi to Emperor Jing Mansion, and it will definitely take two days to walk.

Yuncheng is a little further away, eight hundred miles, but Yuncheng just happens to be the same as the Imperial Palace. It is convenient and fast on the Yellow River waterway.

This is also an important guarantee for the continuous production of energy sources of the honeycomb coal workshop.

But it has become more than 800 miles from Jincheng, Yuncheng, and Xinye!

Such a long increase in traffic distance is very costly and will cause deviations in the coal dispatch there, not as convenient as before, as it was transported to the capital.

"San'er."

Liu Mingqi opened her eyes and asked, "What do you think about Xinye County that I just told you just now that I want to do honeycomb coal?"

Chi San was also thinking before and heard this, saying, "I think it's okay. Their location is very convenient. Many merchants like to come here to transfer. If it is transported to the two lakes and the southwest provinces, it is much more convenient than the capital."

"So what do you think we should pay attention to if we move here?" Liu Mingqi continued to ask.

"It's very simple, just how to protect the interests of Prince Yu's Mansion." Chi San is worthy of being Liu Mingqi's hardcore brother, and he thinks about the same as Liu Mingqi: "First of all, there must be a police yamen next to our place. Although Xinye County is small, hundreds of police officers should patrol around to prevent any accidents, right?"

"Don't worry about safety, it's just honeycomb coal. Is there anyone here to rob the honeycomb coal?" Liu Mingqi smiled slightly, "But this attitude still needs them to do."

"Secondly, we need to choose a good place to choose a good place, with mountains and water, and transportation also needs to be convenient." Chi San said: "The money you can't spend too much money on buying land, otherwise we have to build a workshop and make a lot of investment preparations. If you have to spend 100,000 taels of silver to buy land, what's the thanks?"

"right!"

Liu Mingqi nodded.

This is a bit of a taste of attracting investment in the future.

The land in later generations was so expensive that it could be sold at a bargain price or even given away.

The Yu Palace has some land requirements, which is not an exaggeration.

Besides, this is a workshop, not an encroachment on farmers' land, and Sima Bei should not be embarrassed.

Dakang still has strict regulations on the workshop.

The cultivated land cannot be moved, especially the business of the royal family.

Then the royal family can buy land to build workshops, but once the workshop is not done, it is impossible to convert it to land for cultivation.

This is not like later generations. You can also buy the workshop to build houses and sell them to ordinary people.
To be continued...