Northern Dynasties Imperial Industry

Amid the cheers and applause of the crowd, Li Tai also took the lead into the park under the obedience of the soldiers.

This Nandu Wuhuayuan occupies an extremely large area, spanning both sides of the Xian River, with an area of ​​more than ten hectares, and is divided into different areas.

Different parks are divided by various crop green plants between Jianghan and Han, and these green plants themselves also have considerable economic value, such as moso bamboo, tung trees, lacquer trees, citrus and other fruit trees. In this spring day when the vegetation is revived, the park is full of vitality.

A group of Shiliu followed behind and entered the park. The scenery they saw made them take a deep breath, and soon they exclaimed in exclamation.

As far as the eye can see, there is an open garden. The garden is decorated with flowers in a circle, and in the middle is a three-dimensional map with exquisite workmanship and lifelike shape. This map is based on the sand table map of the General Manager's Office. It simulates the territory of the states and counties under the General Manager's Office of Jingzhou and the mountains and rivers and geography in each area. It is carved and stacked with wood and then decorated with various paints.

Due to the rush of work, this sandbox map is not realistic and exquisite in general, and the details are very rough and inaccurate. Of course, some places are inferior in craftsmanship, and some are deliberately so. After all, the geographical details of the territory are absolute military secrets. Li Tai cannot let people make a one-to-one replica and display it publicly just for the sake of temporary surprise.

But despite this, the people present had rarely seen such a way of displaying landscapes and geography. Seeing the mountains and rivers vividly gave people a sense of pride and pride, and they were all amazed for a moment.

Although this map is seriously inaccurate in terms of scale and layout, all the familiar mountain and river signs are marked. Although the actual reference value is not great, the visual impact it brings is by no means small.

The so-called green waters and green mountains are mountains of gold and silver, and the most valuable thing under the jurisdiction of the Jingzhou General Administration is naturally the territory.

Nowadays, the fertile fields, hills and plains are in front of you. What you see is the most intuitive message. Originally, the Jingzhou General Administrative Office did not have jurisdiction over a corner of Mianbei, but now it has to add the Shannan area east of Hanzhong and the vast area. The territory of the Handong area, as well as the areas around Yiyang in Huainan, etc., has been expanded several times, which also gave Shiliu a more intuitive understanding of the achievements of the Jingzhou General Manager's Office.

Clothing, food, farming and weaving are the foundation of all industries. A wider territory means richer farming and weaving resources, warehouses full of grain and grass, and silk cloth piled into the mountains. Today's big tycoons themselves have accumulated considerable wealth through the large estate economy of enclosing land and holding slaves, so they are naturally more sensitive to the increase and loss of territory.

However, the General Administration has its own policy plan for the gradual development and distribution of these mountains, rivers and wilderness, and will not attract too much private capital intervention. The reason why this is presented is, firstly, to boast, and secondly, to heighten the public's enthusiasm for this investment fair so that they can actively participate in subsequent investment projects.

After Li Tai's repeated urging, the crowd reluctantly left this spectacular sand table map and continued walking into the park.

The first park you enter is a large market. Of course, it cannot be a real trading place, but it is a simulated market layout, with rows of stalls and shops on display. The stalls display various northern and southern fashion products and indicate their respective current prices.

When Li Tai walked into the park, he suddenly wondered whether future generations would make a special note of this incident when writing his biography, saying that he was greedy for profit and would open up questions within the government when he served as the general manager of Jingzhou. Market, forcing domestic tycoons to enter the market to buy goods, and then being quoted out of context by marketing accounts, and finally becoming the industry ancestor of the anchors who bring goods?

Putting aside this daydream, Li Tai also began to tour the market seriously. Before that, he had already obtained the list of products provided by the General Manager's Office. There were hundreds of items in various varieties, some of which even Li Tai had never heard of.

Although the territory of Jingzhou General Manager's Office has been greatly expanded, the internal governance alone is not enough to gather so many fashionable goods. The main reason is that we signed a trade agreement with Jiangling before, which has been going on for a long time from last year to now.

Although the people of Nanliang are now in dire straits because of Hou Jingzhi's chaos, they are still only able to be pacified. Therefore, the originally prosperous trade in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River has almost stagnated. However, as a large town in the middle reaches, Jiangling itself is also a place where rich products gather. The commercial activities carried out among them also greatly enriched the types of commodities and the content of trade within the jurisdiction of Jingzhou Governor's Office.

Products from Jiangling include ivory, rhinoceros horn, pearls, tortoise shells and various spices produced in Yuanfan in Lingnan, as well as various metals such as mackerel skin, tortoise shell, silver, tin, bran, gold, dendrobium and snake gall, which are specialties of Nanliang itself. Various medicines, as well as various handicrafts such as lacquerware, colorful fabrics, bamboo mats and bronze mirrors.

Some of these items are exclusively for the luxurious enjoyment of the powerful, some are indispensable raw materials for important industries such as military industry, and others are closely related to daily life.

Even Li Tai was dazzled by the dazzling array of products with different uses after entering this market. Those wealthy people in Guanzhong who had not seen much were even more amazed and couldn't extricate themselves from being addicted to it.

Various commodities are clearly priced according to their quality and value, allowing visitors to see clearly at a glance. After thinking about the price of the same commodities in Guanzhong, and secretly calculating the profits and risks involved, they already have the desire to make a big purchase. idea.

However, investment promotion and trade are two different concepts. Li Tai's real purpose is to let these local tyrants in Guanzhong invest their assets in the construction of the jurisdiction of the Jingzhou General Administration Office, rather than buying and selling, making a quick buck and leaving quickly. Therefore, although the goods in this market are rich and colorful and attractive, they are still content to set the atmosphere, not the focus of this investment promotion conference.

After leaving the market, the next park to enter is a workshop area. After arriving here, Li Tai's speed of progress has obviously slowed down, leaving enough time for the officials in the office to introduce the process steps of the workshop in detail to the visitors, and also allowing the local tyrants to observe the efficiency of various processes and the final product effect.

Li Tai had previously extorted 10,000 craftsmen from Jiangling. Although the number seems huge, since the ancient craftsmen were basically managed by the government in a separate register, and Jiangling was an important town in the middle reaches, and the governor of many states and counties around it, the scale of the craftsmen raised was also quite considerable. Before and after the New Year, when Li Tai was still in Guanzhong, this batch of craftsmen had already arrived in Jingzhou in batches.

Although Xiao Laoqi did not bargain on this, he still played a trick when actually delivering it. Although there were many craftsmen sent to Jingzhou, most of them were in the papermaking, dyeing, gardening and other industries. There were even nearly a thousand craftsmen who cast Nanliang iron coins. As for the more important craftsmen such as boats and carriages and military industry, there were very few.

At present, this park displays the skills of papermaking and dyeing. The craftsmen are arranged to work in different processes, allowing the masses to visit carefully. At the same time, the finished paper and colorful fabrics are displayed on the side.

Compared with other regions, Guanzhong can be called a cultural desert, but the demand for paper is still increasing year by year. For example, a large amount of paper is needed for government offices and temples to copy scriptures. In recent years, culture and education have gradually flourished, so the demand for paper among the people has also increased greatly.

The papermaking workshop that Li Tai had previously set up along the Luoshui River also had considerable profits every year. However, the cultural industry here in Nanliang is more prosperous, and both raw material technology and industrial scale are fully crushing Guanzhong.

Now the Jingzhou General Administration Office has more important things to plan and deal with, so it has handed over these manual productions to the people. The workshop land, craftsmen and raw materials are all ready here, so it can be said that as long as a certain cost is invested, production can be started immediately.

While the masses were concentrating on appreciating the process displayed by the craftsmen, the officials of the prefecture explained that these local tyrants only needed to invest a thousand pieces of silk to own a papermaking workshop or a dyeing workshop with considerable output, and they could make a considerable profit every year.

Even if you don't understand this industry, it doesn't matter, because the prefecture will guide you from the supply of raw materials to the recruitment of craftsmen. If you can't achieve a certain profit level within the first few production cycles, you can even claim compensation from the prefecture.

After hearing these explanations, the tyrants who visited the park were all very interested. Some of them who were rich and powerful and paid more attention to political progress didn't even look at it carefully, and immediately expressed that they would invest thousands to tens of thousands of pieces of silk, making the scene very lively for a while.

The park that the prefecture spent many days carefully preparing could not only show these. Ancient handicrafts can basically be divided into food processing, textiles, smelting and forging, ceramics, civil engineering, boats and vehicles, and this park covers almost all of these aspects, and there is no lack of black technology that is beyond the level of the times.

After walking out of this park, the water conservancy spinning wheel that Li Tai built shortly after he came to this world stood on the bank of the Bian River in front of him. He had kept it a secret before, but now he finally has the confidence to make it public, so that this equipment can truly promote and promote the development of the entire industry and benefit the world!

When others saw the spinning wheel, they were still a little confused and didn't know what it was. Li Tai was quite moved. If you are poor, you can only take care of yourself, and if you are rich, you can help the world. Now he can finally practice the second half of this truth and bring real beneficial changes to this world through his own efforts.