Yueliang Bay, a subsidiary of Wuyi County, was originally an extremely remote place. The land was barren and rocky. Most of them were saline-alkali land. When the residents were the most, they were just a few dozen families. However, with the development of Wuyi and the expansion of the city, Yueliang Bay has now become one of the most prosperous places in Wuyi. The most important thing is the completion and put into use of the Yueliang Bay cargo wharf.

After more than two years of great investment, a canal connecting the Sushui River and the Dezhou Canal was officially completed. This canal was directly named Wuwei Canal. And Moon Bay Wharf is the only dock above this new canal. All goods from Texas are ashore here and then transported to other places in Wuyi.

After the political reform, Wuyi was upgraded to a prefecture, which was also one of the two prefectures under Li Ze’s rule, one was Hezhong Prefecture, and the other was Li Ze’s ruling center, Wuyi Prefecture.

Wuyi's former Wuyi County and Nangong County were cut from Yizhou, and the other was Shiyi County in Dezhou. Wuyi County was the body, while Nangong and Shiyi were like their spreading wings. Although they were blocked from the Daqing Mountains to Shiyi, a road several meters wide was now being constructed day and night between the Daqing Mountains.

Whether it is digging the Wuwei Canal or building the road in the Daqing Mountains, the main force of the construction is the prisoners captured by Wuwei after winning the war.

These prisoners usually serve one to two years of hard labor, and within these two years, they basically take the heavy labor work of such large-scale projects.

The autumn harvest has basically ended. As a net grain import site, the importance of Moon Bay Wharf is self-evident. Now Wuyi Prefecture has only three counties in jurisdiction, but there are more than 200,000 people in Dingkou. These 200,000 are basically concentrated in Wuyi County and Nangong County. Shiyi is being listed by Wuyi Prefecture as the next goal of vigorous development.

The urban scale of Wuyi and Nangong is expanding, and the area of ​​arable land is getting smaller and smaller, which also makes food and daily supplies basically rely on external supply, and the cost of land is obviously much greater. The maintenance of Wuwei Canal has made this problem perfectly solve.

Two years ago, when the construction of Wuwei Canal began, Li Ze's subordinates, including Zhang Hui Gongsun Changming, all opposed it, believing that it was completely unnecessary and wasted money by the people. But today, they have to admire Li Ze's foresight.

Looking back now, the completion of Wuwei Canal is actually the most simplified method. In a few years, all the investments were made back. You should know that when building this canal, a large number of prisoners of war were put into use, the construction cost was actually greatly reduced. These people do not need to pay wages, just eat enough to fill the meal.

Finally, Li Ze was leisurely, and because of his excitement, he brought Liu Ruyan to Moon Bay, wanting to see his proud work. He originally wanted to make an appointment with Xia He, but the current Ministry of Revenue of the Duzhi Department, who was in the past, took a look at it, and Li Ze gave up. Therefore, at that time, Xia He was in her general office, wearing a manly outfit, holding a pen in one hand and a book in the other, and was muttering about it, but the red lips were already covered with black ink.

The autumn harvest ended and the autumn tax began. Taxes from various places were reported one after another. According to the budget at the beginning of the year, the expenses were eliminated. Those who had surplus had to be escorted to Wuyi. Those who had owed to find out the reasons, which were local payments, central payments, and transfer payments, which were enough for her to drink. What's more, there are more than a dozen prefectures in Zhaoyi, Wei Bo, Hezhong, Hedong and other places that have newly submitted this year. These places are undergoing reforms similar to Wuyi in terms of financial levies. Although the Ministry of Revenue has sent a large number of personnel to guide, Li Ze can also imagine that these places are now in a mess, and they are still messy.

Liu Ruyan is also a lively person. She hit it off with Li Ze. Li Ze only brought Li Gan, and Xia He only brought Xiao Chan, and then headed straight to Moon Bay.

Li Ze really didn't expect to meet Wang Mingyi here.

He didn't expect that Tianming Pavilion, the best teahouse in Moon Bay, was hard to find. Not to mention the private room, even the hall below was crowded.

He originally wanted to take Liu Ruyan to sit in the third floor private room of Tianming Pavilion and enjoy the panoramic view of the Moon Bay Pier. The location of Tianming Pavilion is excellent. Because of this, it has become a place for merchants or officials to gather here. Even though the charges of Tianming Pavilion are extremely expensive, a pot of most ordinary tea costs hundreds of millions of yuan. When you go to the third floor private room, you can't get out of the door without ten taels of silver, but you are still crowded.

Standing outside Tianming Pavilion, Li Ze felt a little sad.

It was at this moment that Wang Mingyi from the third floor accidentally looked down and first saw Li Gan, who was tall and extremely conspicuous. Then he turned his eyes and saw Li Ze in front of Li Gan.

Seeing Li Ze's appearance, Wang Mingyi understood what Li Ze meant immediately, but it was hard to go down to greet him in person. There were quite a few people who knew him here. If he went to greet him in person, Li Ze would be indifferent, but he would be afraid that he would go bankrupt immediately. He would either go back quickly or there would be a large group of soldiers coming over to protect the place.

Retracting his head, thinking for a while, he attracted his close follower, and whispered a few instructions. The follower showed a look of surprise on his face. He immediately left. When the follower left, Wang Mingyi sent out the two merchants who were having a good conversation with him in a few words. Both of them were from Jiangnan and came through the line of slaughtering tigers. When he first arrived in Wuyi, Wang Mingyi was just the leader of the supply and marketing cooperative, but within two days, Wang Mingyi transformed himself and became the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue of the Tang Dynasty.

In their eyes, Wang Mingyi's weight increased greatly. After preparing generous gifts, the two sides had a great conversation. Now, Wang Mingyi came to Japan and sent them back on the boat.

For Li Ze, he was really at the end of his life and there was no way out. There was another village with dark and bright flowers. When he stepped into the door, he seemed very happy.

"Mingyi, why are you here?"

"Li Xiang, why are you here?"

The two of them asked questions at the same time, but they both laughed.

"Sit!" Li Ze gently pulled the chair for Liu Ruyan and let her sit in the best position. Then he walked to the opposite side of Liu Ruyan and sat down. Liu Ruyan's eyes were filled with the light of happiness. In Liu Ruyan's unintentional actions, in Liu Ruyan's eyes, naturally meant to be particularly fond of her.

At a table, Li Ze and Liu Ruyan sat two seats by the window. Wang Mingyi naturally sat on the side of the window and smiled and said, "Li Xiang, today I will send two businessmen from Jiangnan. These two are quite powerful in Jiangnan. After Tu Erye's line, they came to me to discuss cooperation. The two sides hit it off. They wanted to make a bigger fortune. We wanted to open the market in Jiangnan and nail it into it, and they just took the right one."

"Doing business in Jiangnan is no better than ours. No matter what we do, I am afraid that I will not be able to break away from the local wealthy families and governments." Li Ze said with a smile.

"These two people are not considered wealthy families or high-ranking officials, but they are quite capable." Wang Mingyi said.

Li Ze's eyes turned and he understood, "It's similar to Bai Mingli's situation?"

Wang Mingyi smiled and said, "Li Xiang is indeed aware of thousands of miles."

Li Ze laughed loudly, "Don't flatter you, don't you say it clearly, aren't you just trying to test me? But the backgrounds of these two people meet our requirements."

"Yes!" Wang Mingyi was a little regretful, "After the promulgation of the new court's policy, it had a great influence in the south. The two merchants were also very regretful, saying that if this was not the case, they would have done better. They took this opportunity to suppress our price. They would take out the extra part and open the joints."

Li Ze smiled slightly but did not respond. The implementation of the new policy will definitely encounter various obstacles. Even Wang Mingyi is already feeling the pressure now.

But as he and Jing Xiang said, if the problem is not fundamentally solved, then what would he work so hard to do?

Jingxiang said it well, whether it is aristocratic or wealthy family, the old ones will go away, the new ones will still rise, destroy them one after another, but as long as the system keeps up and minimizes their influence on the state and government affairs, then at a certain time, it will be just a cleanup again.

Of course he would not say these words now. Even if he wanted to revolution, he had to do it step by step. Now he just learned to climb, so it was too early to say that he ran.

The steaming tea water poured into the cup, and the fragrance filled the entire room immediately. I picked up the cup, sniffed it deeply, nodded slightly, took a sip, and turned my eyes to the ships on the dock not far away, leaning against me, I leaned against your ship, and looked away from a distance, and more ships were headed and tailed, and they could not see the edge at all.

On the dock, countless men were bent, carrying bags of grain and boxes of goods from the ship, loading them on the carriages that had been waiting here for a long time, and then heading into the distance.

"The dock's income is quite good every day, right?" Li Ze asked.

"This is natural." Wang Mingyi is naturally familiar with this. "The ships have to pay fees when coming in, and the goods on the ship have to pay taxes. The warehouses and shops on the wharf were all built together when they were built. Xia Shangshu's idea of ​​renting but not selling was really wise. Now it's very considerable to collect rent just by collecting rent. For example, Tianminglou will pay us 10,000 yuan this year. Next year, the price will definitely rise. I wonder how many people are staring at this location?

Li Ze was very proud because Xia He's idea was originally made by him. Things like wharfs will naturally be made, and those within their radiation range are all old hens who can lay golden eggs. And to make this wharf only requires appropriate policies. Isn't this policy something he formulated?
Chapter completed!