Chapter 1190

After the Grand Canal was thrown out, there were all kinds of sounds.

There are different opinions, but more people just talk about it. As a topic, they don't understand and are not very interested in the construction of the canal.

Some people scolded Zhang Yu for wasting his life and money, but it didn't touch their interests or cause them to lose anything, so they also expressed their opinions.

As for daring to make trouble, they dare not.

It's OK to express your opinion. Once you dare to make trouble, I'm sorry. They are welcome in the dark room of the police station.

It's a pity for the people.

We can't dig the river without passing them.

This river digging is immortal. It has money to take and food to eat. If you dig it for a year or two, you can knock down the house and rebuild it when you go home.

More people have nothing to do with themselves.

Only a part of the people and businessmen are related.

A canal, North and South can use a more economic way of communication, how can they not think of.

These businessmen immediately began to move their minds, and some powerful businessmen have entered in advance and directly bought the industry in the cities along the way.

They are also worried that originally Zhang Yu quietly, few people see Zhang Yu's intention, but now they all see Zhang Yu's intention.

Zhang Yu is to build a north-south canal, when many waters are linked together.

The final result is that the cost of North South trade will be further reduced.

Businessmen are profit-making and have a keen sense of smell.

But now they are worried.

Because there are many people talking about Zhang Yu's waste of money, and even someone directly wrote to Zhang Yu to stop building the canal.

This makes these businessmen very worried, the canal is too good for them to build.

If the imperial court is under pressure and refuses to repair it, what should it do?

This is a very serious matter, so they have to find a way.

The imperial court must continue to build the canal. The canal is too important and can't be delayed. The best thing is to start building it as soon as possible.

The role of the canal is so great that businessmen are staring at it.

As a result, several imperial relatives and relatives were lobbied, and some local governments also wanted to repair it. Through their efforts, a place could prosper.

In this way, they have formed a very powerful force, and they are willing to influence through various channels.

Zhang Yu calls in old Qiao and Zhen Yi.

"Two abbots, I heard that people often disturb you recently." Zhang Yu invited the two abbots to dinner.

Both of them are big businessmen. The main development direction of Zhen Yi is Jizhou.

Jizhou is his base.

"They are all here to get information. They are very concerned about the north south canal." Zhen Yi said.

Qiao old wry smile for a while, then said: "not only very concerned, they want to give money for your majesty, help your majesty quickly to repair the canal."

This canal is very important.

Businessmen have seen the benefits.

They really want Zhang Yu to be in place in one step and repair the canal as soon as possible.

But the leak of the canal project has caused great concern.

The merchants were afraid.

"Help me repair it? It's a good suggestion. I'm short of money recently. "

This is true. Zhang Yu's lack of money is very serious. The main reason is that all provinces have to build roads.

It's a chidao road. At the same time, the counties and cities in the province also need to build roads.

There are so many roads to build, but it costs a lot of money.

Today, although the empire is rich, it mainly earns a lot of overseas income every year.

Today, South Africa, North America and Fusang provide a large amount of gold and silver every year.

In other words, there were not many gold coins on the market before, and now there are also many gold coins.

There are many silver mines, but gold mines are very rare.

"Two abbots, it takes a lot of money to build roads. Now the Treasury is empty. It's really hard to build roads quickly. I'm afraid it will take ten years to build roads slowly." Zhang Yu said.

Zhen Yi doesn't care. Now chidao has been built from the capital to all provinces in Jizhou, and his business is mainly concentrated in these places.

But it has a big impact on Joe.

Ten years, ten years is too long.

"Your Majesty, why don't you ask your ministers to collect some money from them and speed up the progress." Joe suggested.

"How sure are you and how much money can you raise?" Zhang Yu asked.

The old Joe was not sure, and then said: "in recent days, dozens of families have come to the upper reaches of the government house to say that if they are called together, plus several states along the way, they may be able to raise millions of silver coins."

"Let's issue bonds. I'll raise 30 million yuan. Ten million yuan is for two years and the interest rate is 3.5%. Ten million yuan is for ten years and the interest rate is about 5%. The other ten million yuan is for donation. If I raise enough money, I'll invest twice as much manpower to build it." Zhang Yu said.

Zhang Yu released the news in order to test the reaction of the people.

Today, there are no large-scale people writing to give up building the canal.

People's response is flat, and there are not many people paying attention to it. Even compared with the division of administrative regions, it is simply insignificant.

The north and South canals are divided into several, and now the most important is the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal, which connects several water systems and is 1000 Li long.

Now it's been a year and a half, and one fifth of it has been finished, but it costs a lot of money.

The daily consumption is very large. Zhang Yu in the middle has added people several times. Now, more than 100000 people are slowly building these buildings.

Zhang Yu understood that the construction of the Grand Canal still started from an easy place.

Although Sui Dynasty soon connected several canals, they recruited millions of people.

Only when so many people are solicited and distributed can big problems arise.

Zhang Yu lengthened the time and spent several more years to repair it. In the Sui Dynasty, it took more than two years to repair Beijing and Hangzhou. What he prepared was five to ten years, depending on the situation.

Next, there will be some areas that are not easy to repair, and they need to be repaired slowly.

In fact, some of the more difficult places, Zhang Yu let the people of Engineering College mark up, has sent someone to repair.

There are only a few points, and there are only a few hundred people in each point. They are asked to repair them slowly, and even the cement is used.

Qiao Xuan and Zhen Yi don't know how to answer Zhang Yu's words.

In fact, it is not very difficult to raise 30 million silver coins, but these businessmen do not know whether they are willing or not, because 10 million of them are given to the imperial court in vain.

"If you pass on the news, local banks will handle it for one month from ten days later. If it is feasible, I will use at least 300000 people to dig the canal next year." Zhang Yu said.

Now, in fact, there are only 100000 logistics personnel. Some of them are used to transport food and grass, cook food and other auxiliary services. Only about 80000 people dig on the construction site every day.

"Yes, I pledged 200000 silver coins first, and I donated 300000 instead of buying bonds." Zhen Yi said.

Zhen Yi's demand for the canal is not great, but Zhang Yu's policy, he must support.

"I will at least help your majesty collect 500000 silver coins."

This is silver, not copper. Although a large amount of silver has been imported into the Empire, there are many silver coins, but silver is still very old in this era.