Guan Xiaotong, Lu Han, and Xu Xiaohu hurriedly raised their voices, and said respectfully in unison: "I understand my humble duties." ”

Waving his hand to let the three of them sit down, Wang Junlin said to Qian Zhengkuo again: "After the fertile land is cultivated and cultivated, it is necessary to prevent wind disasters and sea tides on the seaside. Therefore, if you have spare energy, you can send people to find tree and shrub species that are suitable for saline-alkali sandy soil, and large-scale cultivation of coastal defense forests is the only way to effectively reduce wind damage and tidal flooding at this stage. ”

Qian Zhengkuo was surprised in his heart, the omniscient and omnipotent omnipotence shown by Nie Xiaoyu before had shocked him deeply, and he didn't want this kind of delicate thing to even be thought of by Lord Taishou, so he hurriedly responded to the order.

Wang Junlin looked at Lian Zhongtao again, the latter quickly stood up, and when Wang Junlin spoke, Wang Junlin waved his hand to let him sit down, and then said: "After Lian Zhongtao's new salt boiling method is on the right track, it will be handed over to the five masters to be specifically responsible, and you just need to be in charge." ”

Lian Zhongtao sat up straight and said respectfully.

Wang Junlin continued: "I mentioned once before, to set up an engineering school in the salt factory, this matter can start now, Lian Zhongtao is in charge, we must hurry up, in the future, all six or seven years old children in the salt field, regardless of gender, must be enrolled, the basic course is literacy and arithmetic, the time is five years, and when these children grow up to thirteen or fourteen years old, they will begin to learn the craft, shipyards, armory workshops need a large number of craftsmen. And the loyalty of the brat who came out of the salt workers and salt slaves is not questioned. You first make a plan, all the students who are enrolled in the school will manage two meals, and how much money will be needed for the school building, Mr. and all kinds of supplies, I will instruct someone to arrange it. ”

Lian Zhongtao's heart was shocked, he faintly felt that Lord Taishou was so sparing no money and food to build the salt field into a country within a county, and the plan was very big, but he didn't dare to ask more, and hurriedly said: "I will come up with a plan tomorrow." ”

The aristocrats, officials, and scholars of the time were ashamed of their work, and regarded miscellaneous craftsmanship as a miracle. But in later life, even a junior high school student could say things like "science and technology are the primary productive forces" and "the economic base determines the superstructure".

Wang Junlin believed that the Sui Dynasty would inevitably fall in the end, and there was really no external strong enemy, even the Turks were not afraid, mainly because of the continuous internal strife, and the main reason for this was the main reason

It is the country's finances that are on the verge of collapse, and now the imperial court finances have already shown this trend, and it is difficult to recover it, and Yang Guang continues to forcibly promote his great cause.

In the past four or five years, Wang Junlin has earned a huge amount of money through the military town in the northwest, Xiaoyu Theater, backer wine, Lihua fragrant tea, Mingyue perfume, martial arts guild, etc., and these businesses will continue to earn him a lot of money every day.

Originally, he could's house from Dou Shihai and got more than 100,000 taels of silver, and Wang Junlin handed it over to the imperial court, which was also one of the reasons why Yang Guang agreed to all the officials at all levels in Fanyang County recommended by Wang Junlin. In the next step, the Lu clan can also get a lot of silver money, and Wang Junlin also decided to hand over half of it to Yang Guang, he knows very well that Yang Guang is short of money now, and doing so will win Yang Guang's favor for him, which is very important to what he has done in Fanyang County, and the benefits brought are far from being comparable to silver money.

Wang Junlin deliberately based his core forces in the salt field, because of the particularity of the salt field, he was not too worried about causing others to be vigilant, and even if someone knew something, because the salt field had an open terrain and no danger to defend, it was located in . On the edge of the sea, with the traditional thinking of Yang Guang and the court officials and various gate valves, they will not set their eyes on the salt field.

However, even if the terrain restrictions are not considered, the salt field is about 400,000 mu in a radius of 150 miles, and only half of the land can be reclaimed as grain fields, and the normal grain output at this time is at most 200,000 stone of grain a year.

With such a limited productive force in the salt works, even if it is well developed, it is already the limit to raise 100,000 people and organize 10,000 troops.

Even if Wang Junlin accidentally exposed his ambition to control the salt works at this time, as long as he paid the salt tax of 500,000 taels of silver every year, Yang Guang and the court workers would not take it to heart, because in their opinion, 500,000 taels of silver had already drained the salt works.

Wang Junlin knew that there was a lot to be done to control the salt works.

The difference in production mode determines that there is a fundamental gap between the population base that can be fed on the same piece of land, the material wealth generated and the military organization ability.

Because in addition to the salt works known and imagined by the world in this era, such as boiling salt and cultivating farmland, Wang Junlin also had to vigorously develop traditional handicraft workshops in the salt works, and even more efficient and large-scale manual workshops, so that more people could be accommodated and more surplus financial resources could be generated.

However, there is a serious disconnect between the knowledge of Wang Junlin and the handicraft production process of the world.

Later generations used to use bolts to fix and assemble objects, according to Wang Junlin's requirements, craftsmen in this era can also make suitable bolts, but to make a bolt requires a skilled craftsman to work hard day and night for seven or eight days, the cost is amazingly high.

Therefore, as for more efficient and large-scale manual workshop operations, it is natural to rely on Nie Xiaoyu to implement them. This is also the main reason why Wang Junlin wants to set up an engineering school.

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"My lord, Wei Chi Jingde has just sent someone to deliver the news, and he will lead them to Fanyang County in the next month with 2,000 soldiers and horses and more than 5,000 family members. I have already arranged for the people to take over and open up the relationship through the door of the Blue Guard's Mansion, so that he can divide the people into more than a dozen batches and come to Fanyang County. After Xu Xiaohu and the other five officials of the salt farm left, Guo'er came in again to report.

As early as a few years ago, Wei Chi Jingde's old mother's illness was cured by Nie Xiaoyu, and settled in Wang Junlin's mansion in the county town to recuperate.

"The mountain behind the Lu family's ancestral house contains the military camp that the Lu family has built for many years, and there are tens of thousands of acres of mountain fields. Tell that Lu Youxuan, then the back mountain will nominally continue to be their Lu family's private property, and it is also their forbidden land, and then you are responsible for quietly placing all the more than 7,000 people of Wei Chi Jingde in that mountain. Wang Junlin had a plan, smiled and said.

He is the only one in the world who knows Yu Chi Jingde's ability, according to his plan, this bandit under Yu Chi Jingde will become a strange soldier of his, of course, from now on, he will give the other party grain and grass, military salaries, and even war horses, armor, bows and crossbows and other weapons and equipment, according to his plan, Yu Chi Jingde will be expanded to 3,000 soldiers and horses, and the only thing Wei Chi Jingde does at the moment is to train the soldiers, and train these 3,000 people into an elite army.

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