I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

For Zhang Nuo, whether it is sea ships or railways, these seemingly huge and complex projects are in the final analysis just a tool for Datang to develop more rapidly.

Moreover, when you jump out of the limitations of a certain project and look at the problem from a global perspective, you will find that not only will you not bring much benefit to Datang, but sometimes it will even cause the entire The collapse of the country.

In fact, if you think about it a little bit, you will know that it is right to build roads first if you want to get rich, but can the low productivity of this era really bear the simultaneous start of multiple railways?

Trains, rails, stations, and post-maintenance all have extremely high requirements for resources and manpower. If you really think that as long as the railways are repaired everywhere, the entire Tang Dynasty will be able to develop, then it is actually bullshit.

After all, the development of transportation is actually to promote the high-speed circulation of personnel, materials, and information, so that various places can generate commerce and trade through circulation, thereby further prospering.

But what if there is no need for inflow and outflow of materials in connected places?

That's right, this is indeed something Zhang Nuo needs to consider. Why did later generations not repair roads until the 90s, and why didn't they repair them before?

One is that the country has no money, and the other is that the productivity is not very developed, and there is nothing to circulate at all, so why repair it?Specially for visiting relatives?

Not to mention the Datang in this year, among other things, the population of the entire Datang, according to Lao Li's statistics, is probably a little over 2000 million.

There are so many people scattered in the vast land of the Tang Dynasty, but there are really not many of them.Therefore, in terms of railways, repairing Chang'an to Luoyang and Chang'an to Shandong is basically enough to create a preliminary material exchange channel.

As for the railway network all over the country, or the railway branch lines to the border areas, these things should wait for the further development of Datang.

For the same reason, sea transportation is undoubtedly much cheaper than railway transportation, and after sea ships are built, it is not just as simple as traveling between Shandong Road and Pyongyang Road.

Since you can run on both sides, why can't you go to the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai free shipping areas to transport something?

It can be said that according to Zhang Nuo's plan, he planned to use Shandong Road as the import port for the entire north.

At that time, all external sea transportation will eventually be transported from Shandong Road to Chang'an by railway.

The idea is naturally good, the cost is relatively lower, and the resource consumption does not seem to be as much as the railway, but in fact, the troubles in the sea transportation plan are not less than the railway plan.

The first problem is the manufacture of sea-going ships. It is not easy to solve any of the three aspects of site, raw materials, and labor.

The site is better, at least there is an ordinary shipyard by the sea, but it still needs to be built after all, and the raw materials and labor are troublesome, and it really can't be done all at once.

Raw materials need to be prepared in advance and not just a little bit in advance. Better wood takes several years to prepare. This cannot be changed. Perhaps some substitutes can be produced after mechanical and chemical development to a certain extent. .

But at that time, steel battleships or steel freighters are not too difficult, maybe there is no need for wooden ships at all.

So this thing is also a headache, but compared to the labor at the end, maybe the trouble of wood is not too troublesome.

Shipbuilding is not simply a matter of picking up wood and clinking it for a while. This is quite different from traditional woodworking. Some crafts that traditional woodworking can't use or can't think of can be seen everywhere in the shipbuilding industry.

Therefore, even if a large number of carpenters are transferred to boatmen, they must be trained.

That's why Zhang Nuo felt that the shipping plan was troublesome.Moreover, not only sea-going ships are troublesome, but how to get a large number of crew members and captains is also a big deal.

This is different from fluttering in the inland river. When you really sail on the sea, you either have enough excellent knowledge and experience, or you can only pray that you are lucky enough to avoid any bad things.

The training of sailors and ordinary merchant ship captains is naturally not as troublesome as the training of the navy. At least things like artillery shooting and battle formation drills are completely unnecessary.

But even if the military content is removed, what is left is a very complicated subject, especially for people in this era, navigation, especially a complete system of navigation, is almost no different from magic.

Use constellations to calculate latitude, longitude and azimuth, calculate and adjust the cargo on board reasonably, arrange materials reasonably, deploy manpower...

When these things are no longer word of mouth experience, but a variety of well-organized norms, this is the beginning of mass production of seafarers, and it is also a nightmare for students.

Good professional ethics and professionalism are the foundation of a stable voyage, so don't think that on a sea-going ship, there are not many people, and repeating orders rigidly is a plot in TV dramas. It is a system that has been deeply rooted after training.

Only in this way can the corresponding things be trained to be able to respond to those natural and man-made disasters like a conditioned reflex in a harsh environment.

Zhang Nuo looked at some problems in the shipping plan he had sorted out, thought about it for a while, and simply picked up a piece of paper next to him and started writing.

He decided to recruit sailors within Korea.

On the one hand, this is a supplement to the shortage of Datang's population and the shortage of strong men. After all, if the population has been transferred from the customs, Li Shimin probably will have a big head.

On the other hand, it is also helpful to help the original residents of Goryeo to integrate into the Datang system. After all, although the profession of seaman is a bit difficult, and it takes a year or so to go to sea frequently, the income is really good.

What's more, this profession is really a profession that gets better and worse as you get older. As long as you work hard on the ship and slowly accumulate experience, you will be promoted sooner or later.

In this way, at least this profession will cultivate many wealthy families on the Pyongyang side.

This is naturally beneficial to the development of the entire Pyongyang Road. Only when the people in the jurisdiction are rich will they produce consumption, or in other words, only if they have spare money in their hands will they produce some unnecessary consumption.

And this kind of consumption will in turn stimulate the further prosperity of the local market, which is how the total economic volume increases.

Chapter 573 Ma Zhou's Salted Fish Boss

Unlike Li Shimin who needs to transfer people from the customs or relocate the population, Zhang Nuo can handle the matter of selecting some people from Pyongyang Road and Liaodong Road to enter seafarer training with a small note.

He just formulated a policy that he could sign up with a foundation in Tang Mandarin, and no tuition fee was required after entering. After a year, he passed the examination and was directly exempted from slave status. He also allowed his immediate family members to redeem their own slave documents at the same time, but it cost money.

And even if it is a year of study in school, food and housing are included, so there is no need to worry about basic necessities of life.

The best condition is that you can get a salary from the beginning of the internship period. As long as you have completed one year of study and one year of internship, you will be able to become a full-time employee, and then you will be able to work on a sea-going ship with relevant qualifications.

In the middle, you can also pool your own money to come to the school to learn other knowledge. Similarly, as long as you take the assessment after studying, you can become a chief engineer, first mate, captain, etc.

Although there is no position of Chief Engineer yet, there will definitely be one in the future.Otherwise, wouldn't it be necessary to make people a crew member for a lifetime?

Zhang Nuo can almost imagine how attractive this kind of policy, which seems quite deviant in this era, will be to the people of Pyongyang Province once it is released.

After all, as long as you pass the selection, it means that as long as there are no major mistakes, you don't have to worry about work and money in this life.

However, Zhang Nuo said very proudly that it doesn't matter, the current Ma Zhou Changshi will take care of all this and help the king handle these affairs well.

In the city of Pyongyang, fifty kilometers away, Ma Zhou sneezed suddenly, but he just wiped his face with his sleeve indiscriminately, and then continued to deal with official duties indifferently. , It can almost pile up the official documents that are overwhelming.

As a long history of a bastard prince, Ma Zhou is undoubtedly hard-pressed, and all kinds of affairs are almost endlessly found, but this bastard prince still has the first-class power in the world. Well, there are more things to do.

Then Ma Zhou fell into bad luck. He originally thought about whether he would work under Zhang Nuo for a few more years, so as to train himself. After all, there is no other place where one person holds all the power like he is now. position.

The other is to repay Zhang Nuo for his kindness. After all, without Zhang Nuo, no one knows what his future will be like.

So he thought about helping Zhang Nuo with the government affairs, and giving him time to fish would be the best reward.

But recently, Ma Zhou felt that it might be better for him to get rid of this idea, because he felt that his hair loss was getting worse and worse, and if he continued like this, he might become a bald man.

Moreover, as Zhang Nuo had more and more thoughts and movements recently, Ma Zhou was also a little bit overwhelmed.

The current Pyongyang Road, under the governance of Ma Zhou, has begun to rush forward according to the road designated by Zhang Nuo, but it is this kind of rush that gave Zhang Nuo the confidence to realize more ideas, and turned around and arranged another road. new route.

These new routes are like planting a seed. After Zhang Nuo buried it, he threw the cultivation tutorial to Ma Zhou and ignored it. Then Ma Zhou worked hard to cultivate the seed into saplings, small trees, and big trees. , and then Zhang Nuo cut it with a knife, and then gave more seeds, and the cycle repeats.

This is also the reason why Ma Zhou felt more and more strenuous. After working so hard, the things at hand not only did not decrease, but increased.

Moreover, these affairs have gradually evolved from the people's livelihood that he was familiar with at the beginning to some industries that were originally only available in Lantian City, but then some industries that he had never been in contact with also appeared.

This gave Ma Zhou a bit of a headache. How can he manage things he doesn't understand?

Therefore, during the day, Ma Zhou conscientiously handles official duties, and when he returns home at night, he has to take the various professional books that Zhang Nuo threw to him to make up lessons by himself.

Otherwise, he wouldn't know how to deal with those government affairs that were gradually popping up that he couldn't understand at all.

But in this way, there is also an advantage, that is, Ma Zhou can be said to be the first Datang official who gradually learned political economics, mastered major industrial systems, and gradually applied them to practice.

To put it in a very immodest way, the future Ma Zhou may become a model for all officials of the Tang Dynasty to learn from.

However, if you want to become like the future, this process is a bit difficult.

If Ma Zhou went to Zhang Nuo for advice, Zhang Nuo would not be unable to teach him. After all, although he hadn't studied systematically, his knowledge was there. Let me give you an example, and Ma Zhou would basically understand.

But the point is that Ma Zhou is busy dealing with endless government affairs, Zhang Nuo seems to be fishing every day, but in fact he also has projects and industries that he cares about. rare.

Therefore, after discovering that Zhang Nuo's tutoring and learning cheat often hangs up and occasionally drops the line, Ma Zhou finally understands that there is only one word "liver" that can solve these new knowledge.

Fortunately, Ma Zhou is not stupid, but also has good perseverance, otherwise the problem of hair loss is not a problem, but a problem of hanging southeast branches.

Zhang Nuo naturally knew about this situation, but he chose to pretend he didn't see it.

Meow, he himself is also a victim, okay? He was cut leeks by that bastard Lao Li as a training base for administrative officials. He himself was almost turned into a portable grandfather by Lao Li to train top officials. That's not tossing to death.

If he doesn't do this, he will be sorry for his salty fish temperament!

Therefore, Zhang Nuo was not at all embarrassed about leaving the job to Ma Zhou and fishing everywhere by himself, but took it for granted, otherwise, what would happen?

Do you still want him to bow his head and be willing to deal with government affairs every day like a ox?

Then go to hell!

The reason why he acquired so many properties in the Tang Dynasty before, or accepted the title of King Qin, was not for the sake of leaving a name in history, but for the convenience of himself to live comfortably.

But if the things I bought not only didn't allow me to live a happy and happy daily fishing, but instead made me work hard every day, hehe, what a shit King of Qin, the number one king in the world, I don't want it, who would love it? whoever wants to go.

He, Zhang Nuo, traveled back to the era of Datang in a daze. No mobile phone, no computer, no internet, no games, no mahjong was already painful enough. If he had money and status and had to work desperately, then his days would be hopeless.

Chapter 574 The Arrival of New Immigrants and Hou Junji

Batch manufacturing of sea ships, batch manufacturing of trains, rails, rock crushers, steam engines, batch production of various new materials, batch breeding of livestock, batch planting of potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, rice...

Under the guidance of Zhang Nuo, the deployment of Ma Zhou, the efforts of shareholders, and the hard work of slaves, the entire Pyongyang Road is changing from its original barren appearance to an appearance that no one has ever seen.

Zhang Nuo's attitude is that being idle is idle, anyway, he doesn't need to do it himself, and simply throws out many industries that will definitely pay off in the future.

Anyway, if you invest in your own technology and have a fleet in hand, you can still bear part of the sales. Why not do the good thing of investing once and waiting for dividends.

Therefore, in just a few months, Zhang Nuo has acquired a lot of messy industries in Pyongyang.

However, these can only be exerted after the development of the shipping industry in the future. At present, only in the face of the domestic demand of Pyongyang City and the caravans coming from the pass, the production capacity has not yet been fully developed.

It has been half a month since returning from the sea test. Zhang Nuo originally thought that the most important thing for him in the recent period was the trial operation of the train.

But I didn't expect that Xu Bowen hadn't finished it yet, but another matter came up to me in a daze - Hou Junji is here!

Hou Junji came here with immigrants from the pass, and walked slowly all the way, Hou Junji wanted to die at this moment, it was too slow.

But I have to say that although Hou Junji has a lot of shortcomings, as long as it is in his hands, he will definitely try his best to handle it well.

So obviously he was almost mentally broken by this kind of slow-moving life, but in fact Hou Junji still worked hard to bring everyone here.

Not all of these people were brought to Pyongyang City. This has been arranged long ago. On the way, people were arranged to bring materials to meet them. The first half is over.

But with so many people coming, it is impossible to ignore it, so Ma Zhou pushed up again, and his hair fell down in strands.

After all, this is an immigrant in the pass, which is a completely different concept from the local slaves in Goryeo.

At worst, these people can become workers or teaching assistants in language schools. After all, even if they are illiterate, they can still speak Tang Mandarin.

With the addition of these people, not only the entire Pyongyang Road is more stable and harmonious.At the same time, it also further stimulated the self-motivation of the Korean slaves.

After all, no matter where these Datang immigrants are scattered, the local government will accept them and compensate them for farmland at a ratio of at least [-]:[-] according to their land in the pass, not to mention a series of other policies such as free schooling for their children.

These treatments made those local people envious, and it also made the happy life of the people of Tang Dynasty, which was just a fantasy in their minds, very vivid.

In the past, I could only rely on imagination, or if I occasionally met a few families, they were small and medium-sized nobles from the Tang Dynasty or managers from big families. It's also normal, after all, he is a nobleman.

But the immigrants who came this time are different. These people are all ordinary citizens of the Tang Dynasty. They have no background and background, which is no different from before their country was subjugated.

But it was precisely these people who enjoyed the things that the officials of the Tang Dynasty had declared before, which they thought were the things that the Tang Dynasty used to fool them.

Now it is really used on the people of Tang Dynasty.

This makes people sad!

Almost overnight, their emotions changed from unbelievable, to envious, to full of energy, and the transition was so fast.

This is because they finally discovered that the things that the officials and nobles from the Tang Dynasty said were all true. It turns out that as long as they do not make mistakes for two years and save enough money to redeem themselves, they can enjoy the life of the people of the Tang Dynasty. The treatment, it turns out...

Many families in the entire Pyongyang Province learned many facts almost overnight. Even if they knew this information before, after all, what they hear is what they see is what they believe. Now they really understand.

For Zhang Nuo, he didn't care about what these people thought at all, after all, the previous Pyongyang Road itself had stabilized.

But when everyone in the entire Pyongyang Road broke out with a strong enthusiasm for work, Zhang Nuo couldn't help but sigh, mother, you are really motivated!

But Zhang Nuo didn't have the time to lament about other things, he had to deal with the vicissitudes of life in front of him, the middle-aged man with an uncertain expression.

Hou Junji led the people here according to Li Shimin's order, so according to the rules, he has to pay the order to Zhang Nuo, and at the same time listen to Zhang Nuo's orders, and both parties need to review what happened along the way. .

But when Hou Junji came in, he found that Zhang Nuo was drinking tea and reading a book, and then he saluted, the other party hummed, he paid the order, the other party hummed, then waved him away.

This made Hou Junji so aggrieved that he didn't know what to say.

Is there any mistake, he is a dignified general, the status of the Duke of the state, although he has few friends in Datang, but in terms of status, no matter where he goes, everyone has to be polite.

Shouldn't His Royal Highness Prince Qin try to win him over?

This is actually the usual method of aristocratic families and nobles. Even if I don’t get along with you, if I can win you over, it’s better to win me over. It’s good for face. As for continuing to work after turning around and leaving the door, that’s after leaving the door. things.

But why does His Royal Highness King Qin not follow the routine at all? Does he just hate himself so much?

At this moment, Hou Junji had mixed feelings in his heart, complicated and inexplicable, and didn't know what to say.

On the contrary, Zhang Nuo occasionally looked up and saw Hou Junji's appearance was a bit strange, so he asked directly,