After Wu Meiniang's promotion, the next specific matter was done by Han Yi and Cui Jieren.

The patterns are actually the same.

It is engineering construction.

Not to mention the imperial court’s road construction and river construction projects, just talking about businessmen’s investment, the first step is definitely construction.

Why is the disaster area the best to build? Because manpower is cheap and not difficult to find, it is everywhere. If anyone is willing to build a road in normal times, it will definitely be very hard to build a road. But now it is different. Just give me some food now. Moreover, if you don’t work, you will starve to death and you must work. Now the market is still under construction, and there is no need to consume and pay wages. But by the fall of the next year, you have to pay wages. By then, the market will be almost built.

Moreover, the speed of road construction is very fast because there is too much manpower and very concentrated. Wherever the food is, people will be everywhere and they can do anything quickly.

But Han Yi believes that this is not exploitation. These roads and rivers will benefit the locals for a long time, and they are working for themselves.

This attracted many businessmen to enter the disaster area. Some of the merchants who were still watching were watching. Seeing these wealthy businessmen investing a lot in the disaster area, it proved that this was definitely profitable and this opportunity could not be missed.

More and more food enters the disaster area.

This is also due to the restructuring of the canal transportation. An important part of the restructuring of the canal transportation is warehouses. The warehouses at these intermediate stations are basically full, and merchants can temporarily dispatch grain to enter the disaster area.

But at the same time, many people in the disaster area also left their hometowns. Some craftsmen with craftsmanship directly recruited Chang'an and Luoyang. Now merchants have a great desire for manpower, but most of them follow merchants to a distant place, namely Lingnan, or even the farther South China Sea islands.

Moreover, this invisibly helped the businessmen solve an urgent problem.

Because a war belonging to merchants is coming, that is, sending troops to the Buddha's country, this requires a lot of material support. The goods in Shandong and Guanzhong are moving south, and manpower is very tight, so these people will also send the materials there.

For these people, as long as they board the canal boat, the food is not a problem.

While construction is being carried out, agriculture is also being planned, and the reforms of industry and commerce and agriculture and sericulture are carried out simultaneously.

Xiangzhou Prefecture.

"Brother, I've killed you this time!"

"Oh! I didn't know that this would happen. But don't worry, Brother Han must have a solution."

Han Yi was studying the geography of Xiangzhou in the lobby. Suddenly, he heard someone talking outside the house. He couldn't help but look back and saw He Ruohan and Yuwen Xiumi walking in with a depressed look on their faces, and couldn't help but ask, "Why are you here?"

The two of them were originally from Weizhou.

He Ruohan said with a depressed look on his face: "Isn't it all my fault for brother."

Yuwen Xiumi said with a sad face: "Brother Han, you have to help us!"

Han Yi asked, "What happened?"

Yuwen Xiumi glanced at Han Yi in embarrassment and then said, "To be honest, Brother Han, when we were preparing to enter the disaster area, in order to save trouble, we wanted to buy food directly from the landlords here as before, so we didn't bring much food. It was quite successful to Weizhou, but it didn't work when we came to Xiangzhou!"

Han Yi said: "Why?"

Yuwen Xiumi said: "Don't Brother Han know?"

Han Yi shook his head.

Yuwen Xiumi said: "Some local gentry in Xiangzhou have been promoting new farms recently, saying that they want to change the model of traditional farms. This has led to many big landlords not willing to sell food and land to us, and are still competing with us for the land of farmers."

"New farm?"

Han Yi said curiously: "What new rural club?"

He Ruohan said: "It is said that this farmer and a farm are extremely similar. It is that everyone's land is merged and the farm's business model is adopted to manage it in a unified manner. However, this new farmer is not owned by one person, but owned by everyone. It is calculated by shares, and it must be invested in land. Now many big landlords in Luoyang want to purchase it, but they have encountered a lot of obstacles. If those farmers join the farmer, they can also get food relief. This has led to the big landlords preparing to build a new farmer and are unwilling to sell the food to us."

In fact, the Tang Dynasty always had a farming club, with a strong background of gentry. For example, the farming club was to complete the work of farming and sericulture, and also provided a mutual assistance organization for villagers. If someone was poor, the farming club would organize everyone to help the family, but it was not market-oriented, and had a great connection with the ancestral hall. The concept of this new farming club is obviously aimed at market-oriented.

Han Yi frowned and thought for a moment, and said, "You come to me for this matter, and I have no choice. I can't force others to sell food. Instead of complaining here, you might as well go to the surrounding prefectures and counties to buy food. However, I advise you to go to Luoyang, and I guess the same is true for other prefectures and counties."

Yuwen Xiumi said depressedly: "In this case, when we transport the food, we may not even drink the soup. Otherwise, we will take credit first. How can the court guarantee us? We will not be able to pay any debts."

He Ruohan nodded straight.

Han Yi shook his head and said, "This is not possible. If you are on credit, then they will also come on credit, but the court hopes that more food will enter the disaster area. If it weren't for this, your investment wouldn't be so convenient. You'd better find a way for yourself."

The two idiots looked at each other and left with disappointment.

After they left, Han Yi immediately said, "Come here!"

"I am in a humble position."

"Go and notify Cui Zhongcheng and ask him to go to the agricultural area with me this afternoon."

"Here"

In the afternoon.

"Xinnongshen, haha, this is the idea you came up with."

Han Yi walked by the field and smiled at Cui Jieren beside him.

"So this is the purpose of your appointment with me." Cui Jieren said with a smile.

Han Yi nodded.

Cui Jieren asked again: "I don't know what Shangshu Ling thinks?"

Han Yi said: "I don't know much about this yet, I'd like to hear it in detail."

Cui Jie said: "Actually, I learned the concept of the new farming club from Shangshuling. Simply put, we will set up agricultural groups similar to Guanzhong and Shandong Group, adding everyone's land as shares, integrating arable land resources. On the one hand, it will be more competitive with management and farming. In the future, Henan will become a big market, and then grain will naturally be put into the market, which will lead to Henan's grain facing the impact of Jiangnan farmers. If farmers sell it scatteredly, the grain price will be controlled by those big farmers. The farmers are obviously not the opponent of the landlords.

But if we form a farming club, our competitiveness in the market will become stronger in the future and will bring more wealth to farmers. In addition, in the new farming club, we will also implement the closing method, hoard some food, and deal with this sudden disaster. In this way, we will not be as good as we are now, and we can only rely on the breath of merchants and live humbly."

Han Yi laughed and said, "You haven't said anything else, that is, this can increase your aristocratic influence in this area. Your aristocratic people already control a large amount of land and have a very high reputation. If you invest in arable land, your aristocratic people will naturally be the largest shareholders, and then the people here are almost united around your aristocratic people."

Cui Jieren did not deny it, and avoided the important thing and said lightly: "Has Shangshu Ling expressed his opinion yet?"

Han Yi pondered for a moment and said, "How can you say this? If you want to do well, that is of course a good thing, but you also shoulder all your responsibilities. Therefore, if you don't do well, your gentry will face a major crisis, but I am not optimistic about your gentry."

Cui Jieren snorted softly: "If our aristocrats don't do business, it doesn't mean they can't do business. Under the leadership of our aristocrats, the farmers' lives will get better and better. In fact, the difficulties faced by farmers are not only natural disasters, but also oppression. It is not that easy to oppress the farmers in the future."

Han Yi smiled and said, "You dare to say this in front of me, aren't you afraid that I will say it?"

Cui Jieren smiled and said, "I, Cui Jieren, have a clear heart. Since I dare to say it, I am not afraid of being known."

You bastard, you really can stick gilds on your face. If you hadn't known some of my secrets, how could you dare say that? Han Yi smiled and said, "I finally saw the beautiful style of your Qinghe Cui Family today."

Cui Jieren couldn't hear his sarcasm, but he smiled and said, "Excessive award, more award."

But then again, Han Yi really admired Cui Jieren and actually came up with such a move.

Don’t underestimate this new rural society. This can really ensure that the gentry class will not be eliminated by this great era, and at least temporarily alleviate the impact of merchants on the gentry class.

Because the main influence of the gentry is mainly in the countryside, and the countryside is full of farmers. When Hanyi wants to be urbanized, the citizens will definitely increase, and the population in the countryside will decrease. This is certain. Nowadays, the population of rural areas is decreasing. In this way, the influence of the gentry will definitely weaken significantly.

The plan of the New Rural Society is actually to directly transform villages from the ancestral hall system to the group system. In fact, it is essentially commercialization, which means that these gentry directly transform from landlords into bosses of a group. Although they cannot prevent the population of rural areas from decreasing, the land will not decrease. The New Rural Society will control the land, that is, they control the food. Then they will not only continue to maintain a strong influence in the countryside, but also compete with merchants in the market, and even increase the conditions for negotiations with the court.

It can be seen that Cui Jieren is not bragging. You want to commercialize Hanyi. No problem, we also commercialize it, but even if it is commercialized, our gentry can still maintain their authority and status.

Although this was beyond Han Yi's expectations, Han Yi did not object.

Because the gentry class at this time was different from the gentry in the Qing Dynasty, and they could not be confused. During the Qing Dynasty, most of the gentry were small landlords, and they did not have independent personality. Because their thoughts had become numb at that time, they actually had no thoughts. It was difficult for them to contribute to society. However, most of the gentry classes were from aristocratic families. For hundreds of years, they have been leading the trend and promoting the progress of the country. They have made great contributions to society. These great gentry families have produced many prime ministers. The key is that they have very free ideas. Therefore, this also leads to many factions among the gentry, whose ideas are different, some are very conservative, and some are very open-minded.

A very simple truth: if the gentry were very conservative, just like the Qing Dynasty, then the Tang Dynasty would not be open-minded, because the higher the Tang Dynasty was, the more open-minded the thinking, and ordinary people were more conservative, and the highest divorce rate and remarriage rate were the upper class.

However, this conservative party has always had the upper hand because the traditional Chinese idea is to rank seniority, so the elders will definitely be more conservative. Young people are suppressed, and they can only follow the opinions of their elders. However, this change brought about by Han Yi led to the enlightened gentry class such as Cui Jieren and others gradually gaining the upper hand, and the young people began to take over.

This is all because of external pressure. Just talking about this, the gentry class is certainly dissatisfied with the court's disaster relief policy, but they dare not say anything, because if you have milk in the disaster area, you are the mother. If you can't bring out so much food, then shut up. No major reason is useful. You have to eat enough first to talk about benevolence and righteousness.

The conservatives could not come up with a way to deal with the changes in the entire society, so Cui Jiren and his ideas gradually became recognized by everyone, especially the Shandong gentry, because they still had traditions to support, that is, Guan Zhong's business thoughts. Don't everyone respect the ancients? Didn't Qi Huangong and Guan Zhong also our ancestors, their ideas also belong to us, and when our Shandong region was the most powerful, wasn't it the industrial and commercial era of Qi?

You should know that Confucius was not recognized at that time.

In fact, it is the same routine as Han Yi, which is to use ancient times to reform.

Han Yi was taking the opportunity to commercialize Henan, while Cui Jieren silently used this to integrate the gentry class. Although Cui Jieren was very low-key in the court, he was more low-key than Changsun Yan and Di Renjie, and usually rarely spoke, but his current status in the gentry class is no longer comparable.

This is what Cui Pingzhong saw that Han Yi was a transformation from bottom to top, so Cui Jieren did not focus on the court, but on the inside of the aristocratic family.
Chapter completed!