When Chen Daojian returned to the island, he found that everything was normal on the island.

There were several more ships moored in the harbor than before, and each ship was full of sacks.

There are also workers who keep carrying these more than 100 pounds of marijuana bags at the dock, and everyone is sweating.

After carrying ten bags, the workers go to the steward's clerk to get the signature, and each of them is full of 100 bags, about everyone is tired, and most of them will finish the day's work, but there are still a few capable and strong men, who continue to carry goods to the ship.

Chen Daojian knew that this was all sun-dried table salt, fine, fair, not worse than official salt at all, no, even the quality was much better than official salt.

The selling price is the price of private salt, these salt packages will sweep everything as soon as they arrive in the inland market, because the price is private salt, but it is a veritable official salt, Nan'anhou Mansion has the right to boil salt, although drying salt is not boiling salt, but that is the lack of national law, which has nothing to do with Nan'anhou Mansion.

In short, the official salt is sold at the price of private salt, and the official gentry and wealthy merchants everywhere can sell it publicly, which is tantamount to completely sweeping the private salt market.

It is estimated that the income of official salt will be reduced by one or two million guan, which is an acceptable loss for a huge empire with a wealth income of more than 100 million guan.

Local officials or the three divisions of the central yamen, arbitrarily take a name and add some taxes, and they can fill such a small hole.

It's different here in the Eastern Domain.

Chen Daojian's eyes were full of furniture, and he knew that the salt works had been repaired in more than a dozen places, and the expected output was far from keeping up with the demand, and now there were thousands of workers in the salt works alone.

In fact, if the sales volume continues to expand, more than 10,000 salt workers alone will be needed, and with their families, the immigration speed on the Eastern Domain's side can be greatly accelerated.

This trend, I am afraid that Xu Zixian did not expect it, Xu Zixian knew that salt is a necessity and hard currency. But he did not expect that the quality of official salt in various places was uneven, and ordinary people felt how painful it was to feel the high price of salt.

A large amount of sea salt dumped to Fujian, Guangxi, Jinghu South Road, North Road, Zhejiang, before there have been people from the Changwen Marquis Mansion to come to the island, and then came to some gentry and businessmen, they were shocked by the salt place here without exception, the salt method actually has some doorways and know-how, but it is not too complicated, what is needed is the geographical environment and artificial, plus brine, wind, sun, Fujian is the first place in history to appear the salt law, if it is not for the need for control, the salt law should have been promoted.

But for businessmen everywhere, when the miracle preached by Chen Duzhu and others really appeared in front of them, they still dropped their jaws and were dumbfounded.

Many people are crazy about the salt works here, but the output is so much, there are ships waiting on the shore every day to be loaded, and the salt works are repeatedly opened and expanded.

However, Chen Daojian knew that the plan of the Hou Mansion was not to exceed 3 million stone a year, which was compared to the population base of about 150 million people in the Great Wei Dynasty, and this salt production would not have much impact on the overall official salt, and the Hou Mansion could obtain a net profit of more than 2 million yuan.

This plan may not be maintained, at least according to the current trend, it is estimated that the output will reach five or six million stones, roughly covering Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangzhou, and two lakes, and the annual output of five or six million stones will exceed the original private salt production of these provinces, affecting about 30% of the official salt sales, which should still be within the scope that the imperial court can tolerate.

In this way, the net profit of the Hou Mansion a year is about five million yuan.

When Chen Daojian was in the Wa Kingdom, two ships would bring with him the documents of an official of his rank, some of which were official notices, some of which were minutes of meetings, including, of course, the salt meeting.

It is undeniable that Chen Daojian was frightened by this ambitious plan.

In addition, he felt that whether it was Li Yi, Kong He, or Fang Shaoqun, the wise men of these Hou Mansions were afraid that they were too wishful thinking and the court didn't mind.

In fact, the imperial court should be very mindful, in addition to about half of the millions of people in the Hou Mansion, they are robbing the salt sellers' jobs, and half of them have to be filled by the imperial court.

Now the imperial court is planning the Northern Expedition, and it is also a well-known fact that the treasury is insufficient to support the cost of the Northern Expedition.

It is also true that the Son of Heaven has opened his own pile sealing warehouse, and a large amount of property is lost every day.

If the next step is insufficient, of course, all localities will urgently increase the endowment, and even the imperial court will find big merchants, mainly with the help of big salt merchants, which has a precedent.

However, in the Chongde Dynasty, where the central authority of the imperial court was insufficient, it was difficult to say how much money the Son of Heaven and the will of the two governments could raise.

Chen Daojian suspected that the Northern Expedition lasted until the end, and I am afraid that it was not the military that was fighting, but the financial, material, logistical, mobilization, and continuous fighting capabilities.

In terms of national strength, the Great Wei is of course far above Donghu, and the cultivated land of the Donghu people is not as much as that of Fujian, and the total population does not exceed 10 million.

However, its ability to mobilize and protract war is higher than that of the Great Wei.

Prior to this, the Donghu people had been fighting in the territory of the Great Wei, which was regarded as a war to nourish the war, and they had been looting, but if the results of the looting were not good, the war potential of the Donghu people would soon be exhausted, and they had to retreat in embarrassment.

It has been studied that the Donghu people would not have been fighting for more than three months before Chongde.

War horses, farming, and people are all shortcomings that limit it.

However, after the Chongde year, the Donghu people cooperated with the Beiyu on a large scale, and even conquered many Beiyu tribes, and the two sides began to attack the interior of the Great Wei along the defense line of the Great Wall for thousands of miles, burning, killing and looting, and robbing everything.

A large number of people, materials, and wealth were continuously transported to the grassland, and then to the Liaodong area, which greatly enriched the treasury of the Donghu people and supported their war potential.

By the fourteenth year of Chongde, the Donghu people had been able to continue fighting for more than a year, and could mobilize about 200,000 soldiers, which was almost about 30% of their prime Dingkou, while before Chongde, this was almost half of their Dingkou number.

If all the Dingkou factions were on the battlefield, their farming industry would be completely destroyed, but because of the plundering of a large number of strong men and placing them in the fields, the fierce Donghu soldiers could almost completely detach themselves from agricultural production, and the longer they spent on mounted archery and tactical training, the greater the threat to the Great Wei.

All this is due to the Donghu people's Chechen Khan, this Great Khan is more than forty years old, in the prime of life, when he was a teenager from his father and ancestors to conquer the Great Wei, for decades he is not only a skilled Donghu noble knight, but also a quite outstanding Great Khan.

Sweeping away dissent internally, eradicating many troubles and problems left over from the tribal council, changing the system of the khans to the system of kings, setting up ministries internally, and unifying tribal affairs, he has been the Great Khan for more than ten years, and his prestige has been established, and he is almost a word.

The Hu people will always be trapped in internal strife, even more than the Great Wei court, but under the leadership of Chechen Khan, the Eastern Hu people have resolved the internal strife and determined a clear purpose, that is, to destroy Wei, replace the Great Wei court, and dominate the world.

Even conquered the Northern Captives and Xiqiang, and established a huge empire that was even more brilliant and great than the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the Donghu nobles, who had succeeded each other for several generations, were almost all working hard for this goal.

The Northern Expedition of the Great Wei Dynasty could not hide people, and the Donghu people were also set to mobilize.

The two sides are competing for national strength, fortune, army, and also the court, including mobilization ability.

In a country like Donghu, barbarism, bloodshed, and court wars all ended in killing, and the more so, the more it had some characteristics of early classical militarism.

Extreme barbarism is the extreme ability to mobilize all people, and the Donghu people can starve half of the people in their territory to death, including people of other races and their own races, as long as they win the war.

Great Wei obviously couldn't do this, this is the difference between civilization and barbarism, and it is also the reason why barbarism can often defeat civilization before the age of firearms.

Chen Daojian was very worried, the pressure in front of him and the side eyes of the Great Wei Dynasty, and the Eastern Domain was about to face something decisive, and the victory or defeat was not only a life and death judgment, but also confidence and space for future development.

When jumping on the pedal and climbing the causeway, Chen Daojian felt a wave of dizziness, and he felt that he was too nervous.

Of course, it may also be too young, and from the moment he got the news, Chen Daojian's pressure was too great.

Walking through the bustling dock workers, surrounded by the fishy smell of the sea breeze and the smell of sweat on people, Chen Daojian was not uncomfortable, and the conditions on the Japanese side were much worse than here.

He walked through the wharf, there was a public works bureau in the port, and there were officials who had long known that Chen Daojian had returned, Chen Daojian was weak and weak, but his identity was the right envoy of the division from Cao, half a level lower than Chen Zuocai who judged the division from Cao, and in terms of official position, he was a fairly high-ranking official in the system of the Nan'an Hou Mansion.

And in terms of qualifications, Chen Daojian's qualifications are also very old, he is the first batch of officials recruited by the Hou Mansion of Nan'an, in addition to Li Yi, Kong He, Fu Qian, all entered the Hou Mansion with Chen Daojian, in about two years, the big guy and Xu Zixian of Nan'an Hou have done a lot of great things together, and their current status is completely different than usual.

The officials of the Public Works Bureau arranged a carriage, there were not many carriages in Fuzhou, basically ordinary people would choose to walk, the rich people had their own carriages or sedan chairs, and the use of public carriages was either too widespread, or there were some rations in the city.

In the Eastern Domain, there were no conditions in the early stage of development, but now the roads are open, and the officials of the Public Works Bureau explained to Chen Daojian that recently, the Craftsman Division has been continuously manufacturing horse-drawn carriages, and they are divided into various types.

There are large public carriages, four or six horses, or even eight horses pull, the carriage is quite large, even sitting with hanging, can sit as many as thirty or forty people, which makes the circulation and transfer of personnel between various departments or hundreds of households relatively simple and convenient.

At present, the area controlled by Nan'anhou Mansion is in a large oval shape, and the official road around the island has been built for more than 300 miles, and it is almost completely completed.

There is also a need for a road to the pasture, as well as a road and a perimeter patrol point on the perimeter of the pasture.

The other direction is the salt pan area to the southwest, where there are already more than a dozen salt farms, different scales, all of which are stone fences built around the sea, the brine pool and the crystallization pond are separated, there is also the salt drying area, the loading and shipping area, etc., and there is also the living and resting area of the salt workers.

According to the officials of the Public Works Bureau, new settlements are still being opened up in the Yan area, and salt workers have recently been recruited in the areas of Penghu, Zhangzhou, and Xinghua Army.

It is likely that these salt workers will settle down for a long time, and they will also be willing to move their families to the Eastern Domain.

When these salt workers first arrived or did not arrive, of course, they were suspicious, the Eastern Domain was a desert island before, and now who knows what it looks like?

However, when the salt workers arrived in the Eastern Domain, they quickly fell into a strong sense of regret, and moving their families to the Eastern Domain became the most urgent goal of these salt workers in the near future.

Of course, Nan'anhou Mansion will try its best to meet this demand, but there is still a considerable shortage of manpower on the island.

This is also an important reason why Xu Zixian, Li Yi, Kong He, Fu Qian, Chen Zuocai, and all civil officials, including Chen Daojian, tried their best to give immigrants good treatment, and even the Changwen Marquis Mansion did not object.

If it weren't for the excellent treatment, how could the Eastern Domain attract a large number of immigrants in a short period of time?

Chen Daojian sat in a light carriage that could only accommodate two people, a single horse, the carriage was light and thin, and it was also very small, and two people could stand behind the carriage in case of emergency, but under normal circumstances, only two people could sit.

Chen Daojian was the only one in the carriage, of course, from the straight port road to the east, and then into the official road around the island, and then the carriage galloped north.

The construction of a large textile mill is nearing completion.

In addition, there are large oil mills, which are of course also hydro-powered and are also under construction on a large scale.

After walking nearly 20 miles, Chen Daojian saw a large cotton field and the people working in the cotton field along the way.

There are also workers who go upstream to Nan'an Creek or Tiger Leaping Creek, most of them in large carriages, or riding donkeys, mules, or miscellaneous horses.

After more than half a year, many thin men, overdrawn men who are doing hard work gradually grow fuller muscles, they do the same heavy work, but they eat better, and the nutrition is basically sufficient, so the long-term labor does not further harm their physical functions, but makes them stronger.

Everyone is about the same, full of muscles, strong bodies, especially when walking, everyone's steps are quite firm and powerful.

People's expressions are almost the same, a very satisfied, happy look, there is a smile on their faces, a look of confidence in life, confidence in the future.

Because of closer cooperation between people, they often work together to build roads, bridges, and buildings, and work together in the fields, which is different from the model of a pure small-scale peasant economy, in which it is difficult for even the same clan to get real help, and production is based on the family, unless the family is broken, the clan will provide the least help to such bankrupts, that is, to help orphans and widows not starve to death or live on the streets, in fact, many clans cannot do such things.

The Great Wei Dynasty once had a relatively complete welfare system, but with the decline of national power, those welfare institutions have long existed in name only.

In the Great Wei Dynasty, people's lives were quite stressful, and at the same time, because of the many competitions brought about by arable land, production, and life, it was not surprising that they were wary of each other, and even hated each other.

In the Eastern Domain, people watched and helped each other, and the sense of dependence on each other was very strong, on the large island surrounded by the vast sea, it should have been so, coupled with the intentional advocacy of the Nan'an Hou Mansion, Chen Daojian knew that the security on the island was very good, and the well-staffed guards could also solve occasional incidents, such as occasional brawls, thefts, or family disputes.

In fact, these things are rare, and people are eager to pay off their debts quickly, to open up more land, and for workers to get on track and make more money.

This is a land of vitality, people are full of hope, and not only that, the status of the officials is limited, although they have power, but the constraints are more, the kind of wolf-like Yaqian errand of the Great Wei is not to be seen here in the Eastern Domain.

People walk energetically, with smiles on their faces, strong bodies, trust each other, and are full of self-confidence.

Seeing the groups of people along the way, Chen Daojian's worries and fears were alleviated a lot.

The sky here seems to be much bluer than in the Wakoku country, the atmosphere is much better, and the place is clean.

The Japanese people seem to be living very depressed, and everyone is quite concerned, that is, those Japanese warriors who live well can't help but get drunk at night, and it seems that they can only release their stress after they are drunk.

In contrast, Chen Daojian certainly preferred the Eastern Domain.

I love it so much.