Yucheng, in the chamber.

Many Fanyang administrators headed by Deng Junliang gathered here, with heavy expressions, at a loss, and Fanyang Mansion, which was busy and rapidly developing, finally encountered ups and downs.

Liu Yandong reported on the overall situation of reclamation of wasteland in various places, in general, it is a lack of short, lack of production tools, few villagers, short time, Liu Feng's craftsman camp, full start, will also be able to provide the entire Fanyang Mansion production tools, but the craftsman camp has other tasks, still unable to provide comprehensive production tools; Even if Liu Feng's land policy is extremely attractive, in the harsh winter, there are not too many villagers from all over the country; And next year's spring ploughing is only a few months away.

In addition, the construction of water conservancy, paving roads, bridges, building houses, and repairing city walls are all kinds of things, which also consumes manpower and material resources. In addition to Yucheng, the rest of Cizhou, Xingzhou, Jizhou are all poor and white, everything has to start from scratch, in terms of resources and materials, fully rely on Yucheng. No matter how enthusiastic the villagers are, there is nothing they can do without these necessary production resources.

In just over two months, Liu Feng rewarded the soldiers, cultivated wasteland, built three passes, repaired the city, dug canals, paved roads, built bridges and other major projects, and spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Fortunately, Yuchengnan has a bumper harvest this year, coupled with the food provided by Huainan Xu Fu, it can also make the villagers in Fanyang Mansion not live a hungry life as usual.

"General, it is estimated that in the future, it will take 50,000 silver per month to maintain the operation of various places!!" Pan Qingyun, the envoy of the Du branch, said heavily, the situation in Fanyang Mansion is not too optimistic now, and the situation that Liu Feng has spread out at once is too big, and the accumulation is too small, which has led to the formation of the current situation.

"Hmm!" Liu Feng nodded and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry! I'll fix it! The work everywhere cannot be stopped, continue to speed up the pace! ”

Liu Feng knew that Fanyang Mansion fell into this situation mainly because his own series of industries, in addition to the burning camp, can provide a large amount of surplus for himself, while other workshops are not yet able to make too much profit, coupled with the inconvenience of transportation and the inability to circulate a large number of products after the winter, resulting in the current situation.

And his burning camp, this time in terms of tile making, is not as powerful as usual, failed a few times, so that Liu Feng is also a little distressed, at this moment, it is urgent to open up a new financial route.

Jizhou County Shouyu Wen Jiayou under the hall said abruptly: "General, there are some things that my subordinates have to say, I don't know if I should say them or not?" ”

Yuwen Jiayou is a member of the Bairong family, and he is also a famous person in Jizhou, known for his talent, and at the invitation of Liu Feng, he came forward to serve as the county guard of Jizhou.

Hearing this, everyone is him, as a county guard, but he is not wearing an official robe, he is dressed in white, his black hair is fluttering, although he is a Bairong clan, he is fair-skinned, his face is angular, and his eyes are also dark and deep, so that he has a trace of the feeling of a rich and noble son in the south of the Yangtze River.

Liu Feng bowed his head and said: "Yuwen County Shou, no need to be polite, it doesn't hurt to be blunt!" ”

Yuwen Jiayou, still looking cold, said slowly: "I heard what your lords said just now, the reason why Fanyang Mansion is not rich in money is mainly due to two reasons: one is that the expenses are very large, and the other is that the trade routes are not accessible. ”

Seeing that everyone was also pondering, he continued: "Then let's start to solve the problem from two aspects, in terms of expenses, in addition to the necessary material expenses, in terms of manpower, the main thing is to work for relief!" ”

"In terms of trade transportation, throughout the ages, transportation is nothing more than land and water, and my Jizhou Lion City is not far from the coast, if we rely on sea transportation, our financial route will be opened!"

When Liu Feng heard this, he said happily: "Yuwen Junshou woke up the dreamer with a word!" I forgot that there was a sea route to transport that! He complained in his heart, put all his mind on production, but looked at the opening of the road, and left behind the famous sentence that if you want to get rich, you must first build the road.

Yuwen Jiayou then said in an orderly manner: "Although the Lion City is not a maritime city and cannot travel to the ocean, it can still go all the way to Lin'an by going down close to the coast!" ”

"I wonder how much Yuwen-sama knows about shipping? Are there any sea vessels in the Lion City? Is there a caravan? Liu Feng sat up straight and asked seriously,

Yuwen Jiayou said with a smile: "There are two sea fleets in the Lion City, and one of them is the fleet of Wu Liji, they returned to the Lion City with the Southern Tang Lin'an City a month ago, and they were taken down by their subordinates in one fell swoop and detained in the Lion City!" ”

"Oh!?" When Liu Feng heard this, he remembered that in the Di newspaper, it seemed that such news, but he was too busy during this time, and some neglected, Liu Feng also suddenly realized his own shortcomings, and in some things, he did it himself, but he didn't have time to focus on the long term, and a large part of this crisis was caused by his improper planning.

Liu Feng nodded thoughtfully, and said slowly: "Even if you sell velvet garments and porcelain to Lin'an, it can only maintain the temporary economic stability of Fanyang Mansion!" ”

Yuwen Jiayou glanced at Feng in surprise, and said: "General, we can also buy goods from Lin'an and buy them in Yucheng Lion City and other places!" ”

"Yes! We can buy from Nantang, silk tea and so on! Liu Yanxi continued, he was in business, and now he was also in charge of several caravans in Fanyang Mansion, but because of the Lion City and other places, it was not long to recover, and in addition, the seaport of the Lion City was small, so that he also ignored this matter.

Liu Yanxi is still very familiar with the caravan operation and trade, which is much more familiar than Liu Feng and Yuwen Jiayou, and after Yuwen Jiayou's guidance, he opened the conversation box and said excitedly: "The southern waterway transportation is convenient, and in the Lin'an area, you can buy Shu brocade, and the tea and grain in Jingchuhuai can also be completed by sea, so that our grain caravan will be less stressed." ”

"Moreover, the shipping time is short and the volume is large, and the products in our craftsman camp can be sold to the villagers in the Lin'an area in large quantities! The goods bought from Lin'an are sold by land to Longcheng, Baozhou and other places! It's a lot of profit! ”

Liu Feng's eyes flashed, and he said in a deep voice: "That's good, with the project in the hands of the Jizhou baggage battalion, we will make every effort to repair the port of the Lion City and open up the passage to the sea, and my uncle will also go to the Lion City to arrange the two fleets in a unified manner, and try to go south as soon as possible!" ”

Liu Yanxi gave up his hand!

Liu Feng thought for a while, and then said: "In this way, it is inconvenient for Yucheng to expand the workshops, Yuwen County Shou, you also go to the Lion City to sit down, I and dozens of excellent craftsmen from your workshops will rebuild the salt camp and leather camp and other workshops in the Lion City, and recruit shipwrights and shipwrights in the Lion City, establish a dock, and build sea ships, this matter must not be mistaken!" ”

When Yuwen Jiayou heard this, he took his life!