"Deng Wenjun and Lu Sihai are gone." Xu Zixian said to Fu Qian beside him: "Muzhi, what do you think of the two of them?" ”

Fu Qian said: "Lu Sihai has a very rebellious breath and is a heroic man, Deng Wenjun is thoughtful and does not leak. Both of them are about forty, very energetic and physical, and have been at sea for more than 20 years. ”

Xu Zixian smiled slightly, nodded slightly, and quite agreed with Fu Qian's judgment, Lu Sihai and Deng Wenjun Xu Zixian not only recognized, but also quite familiarized. When they were in Beijing, the performance of the two under the leadership of Wang Zhi was also remarkable. If this is the case on land, both of them are famous at sea, how can they be worse than on land?

This time, the two came together, and Wang Zhi's intentions were quite clear.

Xu Zixian admired Wang Zhi'er a little, this guy started to lay out two years ago? has been making the two subordinates fight, and finally selected Xu Zixian, the prince of Kaifu, as the object of action, strength, territory, power, and popularity, all of which are completely qualified, the two sea tycoons are nominally four-rank generals, and the festival is left behind, in fact, in the eyes of the court officials, the positions of the two of them are not much different from those fetters and toasts.

If the two of them want to be whitewashed like Wang Zhi, they must at least have to be the gatekeeper dog for the court for 20 years, and after 20 years, which bigwig in the court gets enough bribes, and with a big stroke of the pen in a good mood, these two people are allowed to go home safely with the rank of Sanpin general, and go home safely to retire, which can be regarded as good luck for the two.

If you make a slight mistake, you will definitely be framed by countless people, not to mention that you will die rich, and it is quite difficult to get a good death.

Only when he is under the command of a strong prince who has such a magnificent bearing and sufficient strength as Xu Zixian, and has made more military exploits in the south and redeems himself, Xu Zixian will naturally give Wang Zhi's old subordinates a way out.

"This old fox ......" Xu Zi figured out this section first, and also laughed to himself.

When I saw it at the post station, I was seen through by Wang Zhi, an old fox. Ambitious, self-contained, self-contained, and able to soar once there is an opportunity.

From the Marquis of Nan'an to the King of Zhongshan, and then to the King of Qin, he opened the mansion and awarded the Yue Festival, Wang Zhi can be regarded as finding the best way out for his subordinates.

You must know that the people of Fujian Road and Guangdong South Road can be said to be the two roads that hate pirates the most in the Great Wei Dynasty, and these two roads are the worst places to be harmed by pirates, and I don't know how many people have a blood feud with pirates. Although Wang Zhi was attached to the obedience, it was the northern court that accepted them, and the Fujian passers-by in the south were not necessarily willing to accept them. You must know that Wang Zhi is a native of Mingzhou, although he has been submissive, and now he is the Jiedu envoy and awarded the second rank general, but he is still removed from the state of being removed from the genealogy within the clan, and if he wants to be re-listed in the genealogy, he has to work hard, and after he doesn't get the title of marquis, the clan will pinch his nose and give up his prejudices and accept his return to the clan. As for the rest, most of them are descendants of the Great Wei who have been exiled overseas, and there is no clan in the first place, and some of them are people from the Great Wei who have committed juvenile crimes and have fled overseas, and it is also extremely difficult for them to return to the clan like Wang Zhi.

This time, Wang Zhi's choice seems to be helpless, but it is actually the result of optimization.

"Our sailor will be able to grow three more in a month or two."

Xu Zixian didn't say double, although Wang Zhi may have ordered his subordinates to bring dozens of large warships and dozens of small and medium-sized warships, it seems that he has half the strength of the naval division of the government army, and his subordinates are also pirates who have accumulated years and have good strength.

But pirates need to be diverted and used, and some of them are unruly and untamable and will not stay, this must be made clear first, so as not to grudge each other, without strict training, diversion, and reorganization of pirates, they may have some combat power when they jump on the side at sea, but internally

will also offset this benefit. After the training and reorganization, these pirates can be regarded as officers and soldiers of the government army, and because of their excellent maritime experience, they will adapt to the status of officers and soldiers of the naval division earlier than ordinary soldiers.

The second is those warships, which need to be repaired according to the situation, Wang Zhi does not have large shipyards on the northern islands and Dengzhou, and the ships must be damaged and need to be repaired. The key point is that Fu Qian's heavy artillery casting was quite successful, Xu Zixian had an idea a few years ago, the ship transformation should be done slowly, from the construction of the hull to the change of the sailing mode, there must be a process, but the weapon can be replaced by a strong crossbow and trebuchet for a heavy cannon.

The Taizu of the Great Wei Dynasty and the current Taixi people use small artillery, some of which are similar to the Franc machine guns, which are son-mother guns, and some are small copper cannons, which are not very powerful.

It is not technically difficult to cast a cannon with the sand turning method, Xu Zixian said that Fu Qian understood, the key is that this technology has always been reserved in China, but there was no such way of thinking before, and it is actually relatively simple after saying it.

The important thing is the funds and craftsmen, as well as sufficient iron materials, these things are not lacking in the Eastern Domain, and it is only a matter of time to solve the artillery technology, but fortunately, Fu Qian did not ask Xu Zi to stay for a long time.

In this way, it is estimated that it will take a month or two when Wang Zhi's subordinates go south, during which the newly cast artillery will be placed on the original battleships of the government army, and then about two months, and by the end of summer, it is estimated that all the ships under Wang Zhi's department will be able to install the newly cast artillery.

After the fleet was generally equipped with artillery, Xu Zixian gave Fu Qian the task of casting five or six hundred catties of land artillery with good air closure and improved gunpowder, installing artillery carriages, which could drag small artillery weighing several hundred catties on the march, and firing shells of about four to six catties, with an effective killing range of about five hundred steps, so that there was basically no need to worry too much about the war against the Donghu people in the future.

Standing on the ship's floor, Xu Zixian's view is also excellent.

The Ninth and Tenth Armies were also successively transported to Fujian Road, where they were stationed in Zhangquan and other military states. Now even Tingzhou has a corps, and all localities are reforming the system of officials and garrisons, and the Xiang army has been largely abolished, and there has been some backlash in various places, but the problem is not big. In particular, Jianshu and Fuzhou, Xinghua Army and other places were basically completely controlled by the shogunate.

In the name of suppressing thieves and suppressing the localities, officials and guards were dispatched, and the work of reorganizing the Xiang Army and reorganizing the Lijia was quite smooth. Great Wei can't help but annex land, but the statistics of the number of people have been quite vague, one is that the Great Wei has not established fine management, many local things are still the clan's final say, there is no need to be so serious in the matter of Lijia, the beginning of the country is to recompile a yellow book, determine the number of taxed households. In addition, there are some hidden households in the Xungui family, including Xu Zixian's official household before, which also exceeded the normal number, this time he reorganized the Lijia, and stated in advance that he would insist on reducing taxes and taxes, otherwise many official gentry and big families would be quite disgusted.

It is expected that in another month or two, the reorganization and reorganization of the entire Fujian Road will be largely completed.

In this way, the Fujian Road can be regarded as a solid foundation, and the situation of the Eastern Domain is obviously better.

It's almost April, there are still a few days of Qingming, according to the practice of Fujian Road, it is a few days after Qingming to harvest the spring tea, and the people of the tea mountain on the island are already eager to try, ready to stop.

The number of spring tea is not very large, and it is estimated that the harvest is worth more than 100,000 guan at most, but when it comes to autumn tea, that is, about ten days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is expected that the number of tea leaves harvested will exceed one million.

Of course, there are tea mountains on Fujian Road, there are quite a few, but most of them are scattered, only a small number of gentry and large households have a piece of tea mountains, and the rest are small households that grow tea and pick tea by themselves, Fujian

The road is the raw silk road and the iron road, and Jiangxi Road is the first porcelain, Jiangnan East Road is porcelain, paper, raw silk, tea, cotton cloth, all aspects are quite strong, so all kinds of comprehensive comparison, Jiangnan East Road is well-deserved first, Fujian Road and Liangzhejiang Road ranked second and third, the trade of Guangnan East Road is also quite developed, because its sea route leads directly to the Nanyang countries, but Guangnan East Road has not formed its own fist products, there is quite a lot of trade is entrepot trade, that is, to take goods from others and then go to sea, The profit is certainly not as high as the place of origin.

The tea of the Eastern Domain is a large area of land that has been cultivated in the hilly area, mobilizing all the Ding Zhuang of Lijia and a large number of livestock to cultivate and plant, the technical content required for the tea mountain is not high, but the tea is a well-known hard currency, because the climate of the Eastern Domain is quite suitable, Xu Zixian felt that he would get more than one million yuan of income just by exporting tea.

In addition, there is sugar cane extraction, and now there are medium and large sugar mills being built all over the island, and the preparation of sugar extraction tools and training personnel is doing very well, and what is lacking is a large number of mules and horses. Sugar extraction can not rely only on manpower, to squeeze out sugarcane juice needs double heavy stone grinding reciprocating cycle of continuous rolling, with manpower, a stone mill will be dozens of strong men day and night shift pressing, which is obviously quite unreasonable in cost and manpower use, but more than the use of horses, mules, donkeys, cattle and other livestock to squeeze sugar, so that it is the most economical, the effectiveness of sugar extraction is also higher.

The stone mill is fine and heavy, the principle is simple, what is lacking is the quantity, and there is sufficient animal power to press, as for the production of brown sugar or white sugar, with Xu Zixian's decision, of course, it is mainly to make white sugar.

If salt is a necessity of life, no matter how expensive it is, people have to eat salt, sugar is the most expensive luxury that poor families can buy and are willing to buy.

For example, some people like to eat sweet pastries, and some people don't like to eat sugar because they don't like to eat sugar, but in fact, fruits with high sugar content, including refined grains with high sugar content, are all people's favorites, but the focus of everyone's sweet preference is different.

It can be said that the Eastern Domain is the most suitable place in the world for large-scale cultivation of sugarcane and sugar extraction, and Xu Zixian's goal is to make the Eastern Domain sugar market all over the world within 10 to 20 years, with more than 100,000 related employees. Twenty years later, the population of the Eastern Domain may exceed one million, and except for a few people who specialize in rice cultivation and engage in pure agricultural work, a large number of people are cultivating tea, sugar cane, sugar extraction, mining, iron casting, cotton planting, shipbuilding, ship repair, weaving, and various workshops, making weapons, armor and other things.

Under the threat of the invasion and destruction of civilization by the Donghu people, Xu Zixian built the Eastern Domain into a fairly comprehensive foundation according to his own intentions in the past few years. Iron, cotton, tea, sugar, and of course salt, iron casting, textiles, raw silk, shipbuilding, if everything goes smoothly and there are no unexpected changes, the population of the Eastern Domain may be more than one million less than two million in twenty years, after all, resettlement requires time and financial investment, and twenty to two million people is already a very fast speed.

However, in terms of wealth creation, the wealth created by the Eastern Domain, which is one or two million people, may be the sum of Fujian Road and Liangzhejiang Road, and even exceed Jiangnan East Road.

Of course, this refers to the wealth created by the Eastern Domain to Xu Zixian, the salt, sugar, tea, textile, iron, and manufacturing industries of the Eastern Domain, all of which are direct investments by Xu Zixian, even after the land is reclaimed, the immigrants have to pay a considerable share of the harvest to the Qin King Shogunate to offset the taxes, plus the collection of coastal defense donations, the establishment of a company for direct trade, and the annual income of more than 10 million yuan is attributed to Xu Zixian personally, not the state tax income.

This is closely related to the refined management and the unique natural geographical conditions of the Eastern Domain, which is indeed a treasure island. And Xu Zixian's way of doing business is more like running a company.