Yi Xin and the others didn't dare to speak, but Liu Ximing smiled disappreciatively and walked to him.

"Don't say anything else, what do you hundred or so people think of my family?"

Yi Xin's heart was relieved, and he hurriedly bent over and replied: "That is naturally a good place in the world, and the little ones are honest, even in Nanjing City, I am afraid that there is no comfort here for the uncle." ”

"Hahaha", a group of people from Liujia Village who followed looked up to the sky and laughed, this dead old man still has a little eyesight.

Liu Ximing also shook the fan in his hand quite proudly, he believed that Yi Xin did not mean flattery.

In addition to the population of Liujia Village, which is not as good as Nanjing, the other living environment and public facilities are far behind any city in the world today.

Liu Ximing folded the fan in his hand and pointed at Yi Xin and the others casually.

"Then if Ben Jue says that he can provide for you in this old age, and your descendants will also arrange the work, will you do as I say, and pass on all the skills to each apprentice?"

A trace of horror flashed on Xie Changda's face, and he hurriedly took a step forward, "Uncle, this, this can't be helped, if this opening is opened, how will everyone in the family manage it in the future?" ”

"Hahaha, special affairs, if there are people with special talents in the future, they can naturally handle it in the same way." , Liu Ximing laughed loudly.

Yi Xin turned his face to look at Yuan Nan and the others, and found that everyone's expressions at this time had changed from fear to eagerness, and they knew a little in their hearts.

"Uncle", he bowed to Liu Ximing, "The stakes are very high, can you let the little ones discuss a few words?" ”

"You ......", even though Xie Changda wanted to be angry, he was blocked by Liu Ximing.

"Okay, then you guys hurry up and discuss, let's talk about digging the lake first."

After speaking, Liu Ximing really took Xie Changda and the others and left.

"Uncle......", Xie Changda wanted to persuade him, but was stopped by Liu Ximing again, "I have my own plans." ”

"Yes", Xie Changda hung his head and bowed his head.

The overall shape of Liujia Village is a zigzag around the Jialing River, in the south of the village near the west direction, where the water also washes out a small cofferdam.

Liu Ximing carefully observed the circle, and said to Xie Changda: "Dig the lake here, first send someone to cut off the river water, and then dig it up from it." ”

"The whole lake must be at least 200 zhang long and at least 100 zhang wide, and remember that the depth of the lake must reach more than two zhang, not an inch less."

"Huh?"

Xie Changda's jaw almost fell to the ground when he heard Liu Ximing's data.

"Young master, this, this, this project is too big!"

Xie Changda cried with a sad face, it's not that he hasn't seen the world, it's just that according to Liu Xi's order, this project is really too much

It's big.

Liu Ximing is also helpless in his heart, there is space, he can bring the ship to the South China Sea even if he is building a ship in Shunqing, but the ship is easy to build, and a qualified navy needs time and sufficient training.

100-year-old navy, 100-year-old navy, this name is not called in vain.

The five Zheng family warships that were now sitting quietly in his space were all sea ships, which were used for training before his shipyard built them.

But Liu Ximing had already understood in advance that the draft of these sea ships was at least more than four meters deep, and the Jialing River next to his house was an inland river, and only a few places could reach this depth, and none of them were near Liujia Village.

Therefore, he could only come up with this solution, relying on digging out a large lake 660 meters long and 330 meters wide, at least let the boat run first.

"Don't worry, this thing is difficult to do, but I'll leave it here, the shipyard and digging the lake are the key tasks for a period of time in the future, and you can apply for the deployment of excess human resources in the whole village, and our tens of thousands of laborers can't make such a thing?"

Hearing Liu Ximing's words, Xie Changda's face became a little better.

Seeing that things couldn't run away, he had to squeeze out a smile with a stiff face, and reluctantly agreed.

Dou Yuquan asked with some curiosity: "Wujiang, it is understandable to build a shipyard, but why is it digging a lake?" ”

"Hehe, it's June now, and the cotton from Shaanxi will be shipped back in a few months, you have personally presided over the work over there, so you are naturally very familiar with it, how much cotton can we weave this batch of cotton?"

Dou Yuquan had been helping Su Jin settle the displaced people in Guanzhong before, and he could be regarded as the founder of Guanzhong.

He carefully recalled the arrangements in Guanzhong, and at that time, he and Su Jin, Lei Hong, Zhao Xiangyang and others were all there, so they couldn't help but want to do something about it.

100,000 people were dispersed by them into ten parts, and ten villages were established along the line of the Qinling Mountains.

This is far away from the real Guanzhong Plain, there is no wealthy family to pay attention to, with Sun Chuanting's warrant, a group of people are really here or open up or buy, get 530,000 acres of land out.

Of course, it's not all flatland, but there are also a lot of mountains in between.

But according to the seeds provided by Liu Ximing, at least 2 million asbestos can be produced.

Nowadays, with the sharp rise in cotton prices, ordinary cotton cloth has long risen from a horse of silver to two dollars of silver, according to the production capacity of Liujia Village has been expanded, at least millions of taels of cotton cloth can be produced.

Dou Yuquan took a breath after finishing the calculation, not that he didn't know, but he didn't know that the Liu family's power was expanding so fast.

He looked at Liu Ximing and said, "Are you worried about the sales of cotton cloth?" ”

Liu Ximing nodded, "That's right, it stands to reason that the domestic market is big enough, and there should be no problem in selling it, but at the moment, there is a war everywhere."

chaos will definitely have an impact on sales. ”

"So I plan to open up the sea trade route and sell cotton cloth directly to foreign countries, so that we can really revitalize our family's strength."

Dou Yuquan thought thoughtfully, "The first thing to guard against in maritime business is all kinds of pirates, so you are planning to form a sailor?" Use this lake to train first? ”

He originally planned to ask Liu Ximing why he was training inland, and where the ships came from, but when he thought of Liu Ximing's magic skills, he immediately withdrew the words back into his stomach.

At this time, Yi Xin and the others also finished discussing and walked over from the city wall in great strides.

"Plop"

A group of boatwrights knelt down one after another, and Yi Xin saluted Liu Ximing and said: "The little ones have figured it out, the uncle is willing to take in the little ones, that is a great blessing for the little ones, and the little ones are willing to agree to the conditions of the uncle, but this is just ......"

Yi Xin secretly glanced at Liu Ximing in the middle of speaking, and stopped talking: "I just don't know if my uncle can come up with a certificate or something." ”

"Bastard"

"Bold"

Everyone in Liujia Village roared angrily.

Liu Ximing laughed and said: "What is the difficult thing for me, you can rest assured, this lord is a noble of the imperial court, where will he break his word to you people." ”

"In this way, this lord must not only sign a contract with you, but also announce it in front of the whole village, so that you will be satisfied, if I really ruin it, the whole village will not believe me in the future, I will not do this kind of thing."

Yi Xin saw that Liu Ximing did not get angry but put forward such a better suggestion, and kowtowed on the ground twice and said:

"The little ones are all sluts, and they have been deceived by the official master a lot, so I thought of these pickled ideas, and asked the uncle to be okay, and from now on, I should obey the uncle's dispatch."

Liu Ximing still stepped forward with a smile and helped Yi Xin and the others up.

"Covenant with the people, do everything according to the law, this is what we and other superiors should do, there is nothing wrong with your approach, on the contrary, this lord will vigorously promote it for you."

Seeing that everyone in Liujia Village, including Dou Yuquan, was a little puzzled, Liu Ximing explained with a smile:

Han Feizi said, the law is as obvious as it is, and it will be known to the people. Now that the imperial power is not lower than the county, my family is in charge of so many people for His Majesty, and it is naturally no different from the government. ”

"If both the government and the people do things in black and white, the government governs on paper, and the businessmen do business according to the contract, then the world will naturally be fine, and many unnecessary lawsuits can be canceled.

"Wonderful, wonderful", Dou Yuquan closed his fan and smiled, "Brother Wujiang, this is to stand on the door, so the people in the village will follow suit, hahaha." ”

Liu Ximing touched his non-existent beard, and his face was full of pride.

Sure enough, Brother Yuquan understands me.