Chapter 556: Outstanding Yunzhi (Please vote and subscribe)

Sitong County is backed by the forest, so the buildings in the city are mainly wooden buildings, and bricks and tiles are rare. This is because making bricks and tiles requires a lot of water and mud. The main reason is that there is little water here. After all, there are only a few canals formed by streams, which are not rivers. In addition, the terrain halfway up the mountain is not suitable for digging wells, which requires digging very deep to dig out water.

To be honest, in terms of current productivity, the location of Sitong County is not the most suitable place to build a city and live, but it is an important transportation hub. The purpose of building a city here was to serve as a rest station. Otherwise, the Han tribe is too long in the east and west, and it takes at least a week to communicate back and forth, which is very inconvenient for management and governance.

However, the lack of water resources could not stop the determination of the Han tribe to build the city. There was no difficulty that could not be overcome. Therefore, most of the houses in the city had wooden walls. Only the roofs of the houses and the kangs and stoves inside were built with bricks or stones. For example, in order to save materials and build quickly, many families picked up stones from the mountains and built stoves and pig pens.

This is why Sitong County was able to be built so quickly, because a large amount of natural materials were used, which reduced the time for making building materials.

Another feature of Sitong County is that there are many warehouses in the city. After all, it is a land transportation center, and many goods from all directions will circulate here, which is really convenient for the circulation of goods.

All the specialties of the counties will be transported here and then stored in warehouses. For example, if the newly built Weishan County wants to obtain iron farm tools and cloth from Hanyang County, they don’t need to go to Hanyang County, they can directly pick up the goods in Sitong County. If Hanyang County wants to obtain animal skins and aquatic products from Liuyang County, such as lotus leaves used to package food, and a large number of bamboo products, there is no need to go to Liuyang County in person, they can also get the goods directly in Sitong County.

In this way, the specialties at both ends of the territory are circulated, and the time for both sides to exchange goods can be reduced by half, from running back and forth for half a month to running back and forth for six or seven days, which greatly improves the speed of logistics turnover. Therefore, it is still necessary to build a city here.

After Luo Chong came here, he mainly checked the living conditions of the people. If he saw any inconveniences they had, he would give them some suggestions on how to solve the problem as much as possible with local materials.

Another thing is to check the various warehouses in Sitong County to see if the inventory meets the standards and whether protective measures have been taken, especially waterproof and fireproof, rat-proof and moisture-proof, and anti-theft. However, there has been no case of people stealing public property in Sitong County.

Because no one will buy if they steal. When they come here to buy things, they directly go to the government to open warehouses for large-scale transactions. If you steal one or two items, no one will buy them. If you use them yourself, they will not be able to use them at all.

The conditions in Sitong County are not the best, so in order to appease the immigrants here, Luo Chong’s subsidy policies are all of the highest standards. Although the houses are not the best, the things that the Han tribe has are not lacking by the people here. It’s useless to steal them, and if you are caught, you will be sentenced and punished. The system of five-tenths joint guarantee is there, and no one will cover you up. If you are discovered by your neighbors, you will be implicated if he does not report it.

There is no profit and the risk is high. Only fools will steal those things for nothing.

Coming to Sitong County is just to check the construction situation. There is definitely no shortage of supplies. The most lacking thing here is supplies, so Luo Chong doesn’t need to prepare supplies for them.

After staying for half a day, Luo Chong led his men to Weishan County again. This new county is located on the shore of Daze Lake, at the foot of Babao Mountain, and backed by the forest.

Weishan County has a large shipping terminal, which is responsible for communicating with dozens of lake island tribes in Daze through water transportation, as well as other tribes established along the lake around Daze. According to Yun Zhi, these tribes have a population of 50,000, and he is sure to coax these people to the Han tribe. This is also the condition for him to ask Luo Chong for the position of county governor, but it has not been achieved yet.

Another land transportation line is a small road through the Dark Forest, which can also be used by large vehicles. This is the second year that Luo Chong came to this world. When he officially started to mine the Babaoshan copper mine, a mining road provided by the big tree. His tree tribe lives in this forest and is very familiar with the terrain. Although the road they found is in the forest, after simple repairs and repeated crushing by heavy mining vehicles, this road has become much easier to walk. Now it is the main road from Weishan County to Sitong County.

Luo Chong came to Weishan County this time, first to check the development situation, and second to ask Yun Zhi for an answer sheet. Let's not talk about the 50,000 people along the lake. He had promised to move the tribes of more than 20 islands in the middle of the lake first, but I don't know if it has been completed yet.

Luo Chong is still waiting to use those islands to build a chemical plant.

"Chief, you are here." Yun Zhi heard the news that Luo Chong was coming and ran out to greet him enthusiastically.

"Well, I see that the kilns by the lake are still smoking. What are they burning in them?"

Luo Chong jumped off the back of Huishan, patted its big butt and let it go to the water to play, and then talked to Yun Zhi while walking.

"That's a brick kiln, and there's also a ceramic kiln. As our population grows, we definitely need to build more houses, so I'll keep the brick kiln burning. Anyway, we're guarding the forest, so there's no shortage of firewood, water, and clay. If we don't burn it now, we'll have to burn it later when new people come. If we burn it in advance, we can build houses directly when new people come.

And we can also build some houses in advance to attract people from other tribes to join us. As long as they are willing to join the Han tribe, we can even give them houses directly. Of course, after they come, they have to obey the arrangements and build houses for the new people.

As for the ceramic kiln, With so many people here, we need a lot of containers. We can't have too many plates and bowls for eating. It would be too slow to transport them from Hanyang County, and it would waste oxcarts and horse carts. If there were so many oxcarts and horses, it would be better to run less transportation and use more to open up some farmland to solve the problem of eating for the people. "

Yun Zhi introduced the work of several kiln factories in detail, as well as some of his own ideas. Luo Chong could see that this guy wanted to achieve the flag he had set in front of him, as long as he could seduce those people, even if they came to give him houses. Anyway, in a word, everything is based on absorbing population.

"It's okay to burn more bricks and store them, and it's okay to build houses in advance. Then what are you burning so many ceramics for? This thing is not a consumable. A family can use a few plates and bowls, and they will not break if they are not broken." Luo Chong asked as he walked.

“Hehe, I’ll make more pots and pans, mainly for gifts and trades. Mainly for those people from other tribes. Using these containers as gifts will make it easier to communicate with them, and they won’t be treated as enemies. I can first establish friendships with them, and then find a way to get them back.

After all, I came with gifts, so they couldn't just chase me away. What's more, I could use these pottery basins and porcelain bowls to exchange for some local specialties with them, such as sweet sorghum stalks, so that we can get more raw materials for making sugar for our tribe. And the brooms and sweepers we produce are made of bamboo and sorghum ears. Other counties in our tribe also need these things, and they can be sold for a lot of money. "Yun Zhi explained his idea again.

Luo Chong sighed after listening, and had to admit that this guy was indeed a smart man and was very good at managing the territory.

Before he joined the Han tribe, the Ling tribe he controlled had been trading with the Han tribe for a long time, which brought a lot of benefits to his own tribe and learned a lot from the Han tribe.

Later, he asked Luo Chong for a county governor position at the cost of bringing 50,000 people to the Han tribe. In one fell swoop, he went from a newcomer to a frontier official of the Han tribe. The county governors of the Han tribe can now be counted on one hand, and he is one of them.

After becoming a county governor, Yun Zhi also showed his true ability. At least those tribes on the Daze Lake Island were fooled by him one after another. Come on, don’t worry about whether they are giving houses or pots and pans, they really brought back the people from other tribes, this is a real skill.

And this guy has another advantage, that is, he is good at management and knows how to delegate power. Although he also likes power (otherwise he would not have asked Luo Chong to be a county governor), but to his subordinates, Yun Zhi still knows how to delegate power.

He is a newcomer after all. Although he has maintained transactions with the Han tribe for more than a year and taught himself Chinese and some Chinese characters, he still doesn’t understand anything about many things. Since he doesn’t understand, he simply doesn’t care.

I only ask you for results, and how to do it is your business. Tell me what you need and I will find a way to get it for you. If you have any difficulties, I will find a way to solve them for you.

Who doesn’t like such a leader?

Therefore, although Yun Zhi is Although he is a newcomer, he has a lot of say in front of his subordinates and is very popular with them. Even the common people praise him as the county magistrate.

His behavior reminded Luo Chong of a famous business saying he had heard in his previous life: a good boss does not need to know everything. He only needs to be a good servant to his employees and serve them well. Naturally, his employees will help him solve various problems. Yun Zhi is such a person.

To give a simple example, Yun Zhi does not know how to make sugar, but his Weishan County has a sugar workshop, which is a government-run workshop, that is, a state-owned enterprise. He does not understand it, so he does not participate in sugar making at all.

However, sugar making is an emerging industry. Currently, the Han tribe only grows sweet sorghum in Weishan County, but the raw materials provided are very limited. However, it is difficult to obtain sugar for the people. In order to ensure that the workshop had enough raw materials to start production, he found a way to make pottery and exchange it with other tribes, and used the raw materials to support the workshop's production.

In this way, the efficiency of the workshop was high, and the rewards for the workers were also high. Which worker would not like him as a local official?

Moreover, he was good at using the resources at hand to manage the purchased sorghum stalks and the bamboo cut from the island in the middle of the lake. He organized the people in the area to develop handicrafts and make things like winnowing baskets or brooms. Then, he purchased them in a unified manner as an official and sold them to other counties of the Han tribe in exchange for money to increase the income of the people under his rule. He was a bit like the leader of a professional farmers' cooperative.

Which local official who could seek benefits for the people and make money with the people would not support him?

"How is it, how many people are here now, are the supplies for the winter ready, autumn is coming soon. "

Luo Chong and Yun Zhi talked as they walked. They met many tribesmen along the way. They would take the initiative to say hello to Yun Zhi. Some people had never seen Luo Chong, but they used the "Luo Datou" to buy things every day, so they were very familiar with the man on the coin. In addition, Yun Zhi's attitude towards Luo Chong made the smart ones guess Luo Chong's identity, so some people tried to talk to Luo Chong.

After learning that Luo Chong was the leader of the Han tribe, they were even more excited. Although they had never seen Luo Chong, it did not mean that they had never heard of him. It could be said that Yun Zhi had a great influence here, but no matter how great it was, it was not greater than Luo Chong, because when they came here, all the new things they came into contact with had the shadow of Luo Chong on them. It's

true that you came here to divide the houses, but do you know who taught everyone to build these houses? Do you know who invented the kang? Do you know who made the ceramic iron pot you use? Do you know where the white salt you eat every day comes from? Do you know who invented the farm tools? Do you know? Do you know who designed the big sailboat? Do you know who is on the coin you use every day?

It's the chief, all of them are chiefs. Without the chief, you wouldn't have the good life you have now. All of this is brought by the chief of the Han tribe, and everyone should love him.

So when someone knew Luo Chong's true identity, he was immediately surrounded by a group of excited tribesmen. Everyone greeted Luo Chong one by one, and some would show off what skills they learned in the Han tribe, and say that they were also the chief's apprentices, looking forward to Luo Chong's personal praise.

That scene, in other words, was: "The chief, alive, everyone come and see, don't let him run away."

Luo Chong also smiled and responded one by one, greeted these enthusiastic people, asked them if they had any difficulties at home, if they lacked anything, whether they were used to the food in the Han tribe, etc., and finally broke out of the encirclement. Yun Zhi took Luo Chong to the county governor's office, and the two sat in the lobby, so that they could have a good talk.

"To reply to the chief, there are now more than 8,600 registered residents in Weishan County, all of whom are from the tribes on the lake island, a total of 21. There are still three tribes that have not moved here yet. They also grow sorghum and rice on the island, so I plan to wait until their food is harvested before bringing it here, otherwise the food will be wasted. The remaining islands are uninhabited islands. Give me another two months and I will definitely move them all out."

(End of this chapter)