Chapter 131, Seeking Earth-shaking Changes

No matter what the situation, security always comes first. After occupying Liuqiu, Jiang Wei's first consideration was also security. The first is the strength and system.

The first question of troops, since the strength of the troops is 52,000 composed of robbers, and the defenders are more than 20,000, which seems to add up to 70,000 troops. However, due to various factors such as the source of the soldiers, the quality of the soldiers was uneven, and Jiang Wei began to delete the selection of soldiers the next day.

After this deletion, the corps composed of 50,000 former robbers was almost cut in half, and only 30,000 people remained.

As for the defenders who were Liuqiu, they had been deleted from the past, and the 20,000 men had not changed much. The next step is to break up and reorganize, and start to reorganize the personnel.

Subsequently, new non-commissioned officers were selected and the system of the army was formulated.

Jiang Wei is not very familiar with formulating the military system, but he understands a truth, that is, the separation of powers. Of course, the decentralization here is not to give to those who don't understand, but to take the final decision into your own hands. Only when we have the power of the army can we grasp the initiative.

When he was not there, there was a need for checks and balances at this time, and he couldn't concentrate all his strength on one person, so Jiang Wei divided the power between Li Qing and Li Wu, and the final decision was in the hands of Song Cen Yue.

Because he decided to let Song Cen Yue stay to help him manage Liuqiu, of course, Song Cen Yue only has the right to decide, not the right to command.

The second is development, which is also what Jiang Wei pays the most attention to.

If you want to develop and enter the industrial age, the first thing you can't do without is the machine tool. In order to build a machine tool, Jiang Wei's first thing was to build a workshop for making acetylene, which was used to make acetylene in large quantities for welding steel.

Due to the steam engine parts built by the Ministry of Industry, only two steam engines were suitable for the preparation of two steam engines. So the second one is to build a steam factory. Two steam engines were used as power to produce steam engines, and the mechanical age began.

Then there are the machine tools for making gun barrels, as well as screw machine tools, cannon barrel machine tools, which also use solid gray hole drilling technology.

And the most important thing is the production of steel, and of the more than 20,000 people who retreated from the army, Jiang Wei sent some of them to mining.

In order to encourage the enthusiasm of miners, Jiang Wei also gave a salary higher than the market.

To meet the demand? Jiang Wei took out the design drawing of the flat converter. Is an open-face converter a type of steelmaking furnace? Works well with blast furnaces, but very nice. Moreover, the flat converter does not have high requirements for materials, which is not too difficult for Jiang Wei.

Got a flat converter? There is no problem at all with the production of steel. And what about the barrel? Whether it's a barrel or not, only a small part will be satisfied.

What's next? It's business.

If you want to grow, business is essential? Arguably? Without business support, what do you do with no funds?

When he was in Chang'an, Jiang Wei never had the heart to do this, the first reason was that he didn't have the motivation to do this? The second fundamental reason is that there is no such environment.

When one machine tool is produced? With the foundation of industry, then something that can greatly improve efficiency can be made, whether it is what you want to produce, and then cooperate with water power, or steam engine? All of them can bring extremely strong productivity to production.

And Jiang Wei has been on a piece of paper for the past few days? There are many production plans written, first of all, a chemical plant? Caustic soda, soda ash? Sulphuric acid? Nitric acid? hydrochloric acid, five chemical plants.

It was then developed according to five chemical plants, which included the refining of soap, paper, metal, steel washing, aqua regia, and so on.

But all of this needs to be done step by step, and the most profitable, and what can be done by the sea, is undoubtedly the production of salt.

After the salt factory was manufactured, it was sold to dwarf countries, Goguryeo, and Silla. It is also a good choice to sell to Central Asia, Europe, and other countries.

During this period, no matter which country was short of salt, in this period of Europe, the production of salt was only in the hands of the king. And what Jiang Wei wants to do is to use the purest white salt to reduce the dimensionality, and he believes that those businessmen will be willing to do it no matter how big the risk is when they see this salt.

The second piece is paper. Good paper in this period is very expensive. With three acids and two alkalis, it is not difficult to make bleach and make white and smooth paper.

At this time, the demand for paper was very large, and because paper was too expensive, many countries in East Asia and Europe were still using animal skin books.

Finally, there is the mining side, where other metal minerals such as gold, silver and copper are planned.

Then came the town construction, Jiang Wei repudiated the previous plan, drew a circle in a new area, and built a new area. At the same time, for the purpose of construction, he also asked Song Cen Yue to invite the Song family's house design team.

Now that the Song family and Jiang Wei are basically tied together, he is more at ease. At the same time, in terms of grain, the seeds of Champa rice were also introduced.

Compared with the inland, the climate of Liuqiu is relatively warm and the water is sufficient, which is more suitable for the growth of Champa rice than the inland. At the same time, in order to allow more people to participate in the construction. Liberated from the land, Jiang Wei planned one farm tool after another.

These include threshing machines, hand transplanters, and many more.

For half a month, Jiang Wei was basically busy with these things, and when everything was planned, the problem came.

That is, these require a lot of funds, and the more than 100,000 yuan brought by Jiang Wei is not enough at all, and there is not much money left in the palace. Even if the gold-sucking salt factory is built, it is far from keeping up with consumption. How much does it cost to build a city alone? There are still more than 100,000 people who can pay their wages, and all kinds of factory construction and so on need money.

And the huge consumption of this money is not a small amount.

"Childe, most of the people in the palace have already arranged to go out."

Jiang Wei listened to Li Qing's report and nodded,

"How many people are left in the palace?"

Li Qing thought for a while and said,

"There are still four hundred people in the palace."

"Four hundred?"

Jiang Wei felt that he had heard it wrong, and confirmed it.

"Yes, four hundred."

Jiang Wei felt strange, such a good opportunity, arranging accommodation, helping blind dates, how could anyone stay? Do you want to stay here for the rest of your life?

"Why are there so many people?"

Li Qing smiled bitterly,

"Childe, these four hundred people are not begging people, but the concubines of the rich and noble families that Liu Zhongxiao got in the inland, if they send them back to the inland, many people are willing, but in this case, should we send them back?"

Of course Jiang Wei won't send them back to the inland, if this situation sends them back, isn't that looking for excitement? But if they don't leave, what's the point of staying?

"Are they all concubines of rich families?"

"Yes."

Jiang Wei rubbed his forehead, he was very busy these days, but he didn't look at it very carefully, and most of them accompanied Ruoniang and the Song sisters as soon as they were free.