The winter mood of Haizhou finally arrived as scheduled.

The climate in this era is much colder than in later generations. After a heavy snow and wind, Yuntai Mountain became an ice-like existence. Most of the streams on Yuzhou Island also had a thick layer of ice on the surface.

However, Haizhou is better than Kaifeng Prefecture in winter. Not only is the temperature higher, the sea will not freeze. The sea is where Haizhou is vital, like a canal to Kaifeng Prefecture. The canal of Kaifeng Prefecture will freeze in winter, and fresh utensils from all over the Song Dynasty will be difficult to transport in winter. Not only will the prices become high, but it will also cut off the livelihoods of many civilians who eat water and transport food. Although the officials have their own grace, they will issue a little money to help the poor, and they will also allocate rice, salt and vegetables to allow Kaifeng citizens to spend the winter, winter is still an unhappy season for Kaifeng Prefecture.

However, in the winter of Haizhou, there are plenty of fresh and very cheap seafood. There are also small sea merchants who are greedy for profit and transport fresh fruits and vegetables from the south to supply wealthy families and nobles. There are also large ships from Goryeo and Liaodong along the north wind, transporting countless furs, raw medicine, and various rare toys that come out of the deep mountains and forests, filling the merchant warehouses in Qushan County and in nearby Haizhou Quoting.

Compared with previous years, the number of various "North Goods" shipped to Haizhou since autumn this year is extremely large, and there are many fine products, and the prices have also been reduced a lot due to supply and demand. However, I was so happy that the merchants who came to Kaifeng Prefecture to purchase are spent in Haizhou every winter, in order to prepare enough "North Goods" in winter, and transport goods into Kaifeng Prefecture through the canal as soon as possible after the spring, and make a good profit.

And their arrival really made Haizhou prosperous. This era is not only the best era in Kaifeng Prefecture's history, but also for Haizhou. It is now a rapidly rising industrial and commercial center city. If it were not for the fall of the Central Plains, this city would have become a metropolis like Shanghai... After all, China's economic center in the early 11th century was still in the northern Central Plains.

The Tianya Town construction site located next to Qushan County, Shou County, Haizhou is also in full swing this winter.

Looking out from the window of the second floor of the just-built Jingong Building, the roads and ditches in Tianya Town have basically been completed. On both sides of the road, there are construction sites connected to each other. On both sides of the north-south Fuguan Street (the meaning of being a re-official is such a good name), the project progress is faster, and there are two or three-story pavilions that have been built halfway or nearly completed. In addition to the completed Jingong Building, the Ximen Tower, the Ximen Tower, the Pan Family Gold, Silver and Silk Store, the Haizhou Branch of Christie's, the Huagu Store, the Yunwu Tea Store, the Donghai Store, and the Haizhou Branch of the Pan House, the Wanglou, Fengle Tower, and the Haizhou Branch of the Xiefang Building, all of them are built on this Fuguan Street.

The intersection with Fuguan Street is Gaosheng Road. Because Tianya Town has a narrow east-west and long north-south direction, the east-west direction of Gaosheng Road is very short and cannot build too many houses, but the value of this street is no less than that of Fuguan Street. Because the buildings distributed on both sides of Gaosheng Road are "Town Council", "Town Office", "Town Capital Protection Office", "Town Police Office", "Town Tax Office", "Town Qualification Office", "Tinya Academy" and "Yuntai Academy Tianya Hall".

In addition to the Tianya Academy, which teaches six arts, they are all "autonomous institutions" of Tianya Town. After the "Tianya Shifu" is drafted, these institutions can lead the scholars, farmers, industry and commerce in Tianya Town to go straight to the "Three Generations of Governance".

"Yuanhui, for your teacher, I will hand over Yuntai Academy and Tianya Town to you to take care of."

On the Jingong Tower, a farewell banquet is underway. Now it’s time to talk about the three rounds of wine and the five flavors of food.

Because of Zhao Ji's edict, Wu Haogu could not celebrate the New Year in Haizhou, so he had to hurried back to Kaifeng Prefecture to meet the saint. In Haizhou, he had to rely on the big disciple Mi Youren to stare at it.

Wu Haogu gave him two tasks. One is that the construction of Yuntai Academy and daily operation of the Academy's infrastructure cannot be completed for ten years. It has just begun, but there are many projects waiting to be contracted! As for the daily operation of the Academy, it mainly involves printing books, and a bunch of students and teachers' food, clothing, housing and transportation, of course, the collection of tutors and miscellaneous fees, the payment of teachers' salaries, and various teaching expenses.

The tuition and miscellaneous fees charged are extremely low, which means paying food fees. Tuition, book fees, and accommodation fees are all borne by the academy. The salary of teachers, or "job money", is quite generous. It is entirely formulated by reference to the Imperial College.

The teaching expenses of Yuntai Academy are not low, because the academy is a "all-round education", which is the first thing to do is to encourage literature and martial arts, and then to practice literature and science. Not to mention how much it costs to practice literature and science, just one business and martial arts will have to spend a lot of money.

The three subjects of fencing, horse riding and archery must be arranged, the venue, teachers and teaching aids. The teaching aids also include long swords, wooden swords, soft bows, horse bows, step bows, and protective gear. Of course, the most expensive investment is still horses!

What you want to buy is not one or two horses, but a herd of hundreds of strong horses. It must have a certain area of ​​racetracks and professional horses and veterinarians to take care of. This expense alone will probably be as high as 20,000 yuan.

In other words, the 10,000 yuan given by Song Huizong was not enough to spend. And withdrawing money from Jiehe Maritime Ware is actually just a name. Jiehe Maritime Ware Maritime Ware is under the jurisdiction of Hebei East Road Transportation Command, so how easy is it to raise money from the Transportation Command? Even if Zhang Shangying is easy to speak, it would be too much for a year to give 10,000 or 20,000 a year... How much does the Imperial College in Kaifeng Prefecture cost in a year?

As for Jiehe Commercial Market, it has not started to make profits now, and even if it makes profits, it belongs to shareholders. Therefore, most of the expenses of the Academy have to be paid out of his own pocket. As for the future, Wu Haogu hopes to use the taxes in Tianya Town to fill a part.

"How much is spent, Yuanhui, just reimburse Sister Ximen directly." Wu Haogu smiled and pointed at Ximen Qing beside him.

Ximen Qing will not return with Wu Haogu, and Haizhou still needs her to take charge.

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "Yuanhui uses money for less than 50,000 yuan, so there is no need to repay me."

"I understand." Ximen Qing replied.

This is said generously, in fact, to show absolute trust in Mi Youren. The academy is now invented, and there is no perfect mechanism. It can only use the "rule of man" method to first formulate a total budget and then delegate power to Mi Youren. The 50,000 yuan budget was formulated by Ximen Qing and Mi Youren, including land purchase, school building construction, etc. It does not include the cost of Yuntaizhuang, nor does it include the cost of buying horses, and as for personnel expenses, it is not included.

Similarly, Wu Haogu also delegated power to Ximen Qing and Hua Manshan for the construction project here in Tianya Town, and Pan Xingye and the other three were fully responsible.

"Yuanhui," Wu Haogu said again, "The 'Shibition' of Tianya Town was formulated, and the Yuntai Academy must participate in the matters recommended by the council and the town office of Tianya Town... You are my disciple, the general of Kaifeng Prefecture, or the shareholder of the Republicans. You must participate in it and speak for the great entrepreneurship and businessmen. Do you understand?"

Now the "Tianya Shishi Agreement" is being drafted, and Wu Haogu certainly would not miss the opportunity to intervene. The way he "usurped" feudal leadership was to build the Yuntai Academy Tianya Hall in Tianya Town, as the residence of the teachers of Yuntai Academy in Tianya Town.

In this way, Su Dongpo, Huang Tingjian, and Mi Youren can be justified in the formulation of the "Tianya Scholars' Agreement".

"Teacher, do you mean to let business participate in the taxi appointment?" Mi Youren frowned slightly. There would definitely be some resistance in this matter.

Wu Haogu smiled, "Of course we have to let the big businessmen participate. If it is just a literati and no business owners, who will pay taxes to Tianya Town? Who will serve those literati and officials?

To put it bluntly, those officials who have been demoted to Haizhou will not be involved in industry and commerce? Even if they put money in the warehouse and eat interest, isn’t it equivalent to lending money? And who is not an official household in the big business that can open a business in Tianya Town?”

The discrimination against industry and commerce in the Northern Song Dynasty was actually a conflict between urban and rural areas. Officials from big cities did not have the idea of ​​looking down on big workers and commerce. Because big workers and commerce are also official households, and either their children and nephews in their family are Jinshis, or they have a Jinshi son-in-law or brother-in-law, and brother-in-law of Jinshi.

Only those who came from the countryside and did not marry the daughter or sister of the great businessmen would regard urban businessmen as enemies of feudalism...

Among the civil servants who were born in the Song Dynasty, most of them came from the countryside and did not get the "bourgeois lady". Therefore, they are somewhat hostile to industrial and commercial people, and tend to adopt the state-owned government-run method to manage industry and commerce.

Therefore, Wu Haogu cannot hand over all the autonomy of Tianya Town to demoted officials, and must let the industry and commerce invested in Tianya Town participate in it, so as to ensure that Tianya Town will become the second Jiehe Commercial City in the future.

"The teacher is right," Mi Youren thought for a while, "so how can we get the big business and businessmen to participate?"

Wu Haogu thought about it, "One is an official household. As long as it is an official household, you have bought or rented a large house in Tianya Town. Regardless of whether you have a background (referring to a Jinshi), you can participate in the contract and autonomy.

The other is tax payment. If you are not an official household, you can participate in the contract and autonomy if you pay more than 100 taxes in Tianya Town last year, and buy it in Tianya Town and rent a house."

"How to participate?" Mi Youren asked again, "Based on the head?"
Chapter completed!