Su Lie walked into the camp with Han Donghu and Feng Yi, and it was hard to imagine that the camp in front of him was built within three months, with only the handwork that had arrived first.

What caught his attention even more was that the shipyard located on the southeast side was quite large, which was better than when Yin Peng visited half a month ago, and it was quite like building large and medium-sized ships.

On the way to see Han Qian, Su Lie couldn't help but ask Feng Yi: "The timber needed to build a big ship is not to say that it will take several years to dry in the shade before it can be used after cutting, how can you build a big ship here?" ”

Although Su Lie is not very clear about the specific things involved in shipbuilding, he still understands some basic common sense.

The newly cut wood is extremely damp, and after drying, it can even reduce the weight by six or seven percent at most, and it will be deformed and seeped into water in a few days if it is directly built with new materials.

Not to mention large ships with a load of three or four thousand stones, medium-sized ships with a capacity of three or four hundred stones, as long as you want to sail in the medium and long distances, you can't be sloppy in your requirements for timber.

It is difficult to resume work in the shipyard near Jinling, in addition to the big trees in the Jiangnan area, which have been cut down in recent years due to charcoal burning and large palace buildings, the more important reason is that even if the firewood is transported from Jiangxi and Hunan now, after the newly cut timber arrives on the shore, it will have to be hoarded and dried for three or four years before it can be used.

Maybe Chishan will need to have its own shipyard in Shiliang County in the future, but it shouldn't waste too many resources here at this time.

It is also unrealistic to transport the timber needed for shipbuilding from Xuzhou on a large scale.

"Xuzhou has a method of drying wet wood, and the newly cut wood can be used for shipbuilding in as little as one month." Feng Yi said.

"Drying directly over fire? That's not going to work, the wood that is directly dried is very easy to crack, and it can't be used to build ships. Su Lie was puzzled, he found that his understanding of Xuzhou was really shallow, and he secretly thought that it was no wonder that Xuzhou had been building big ships with energy sources over the years, and there were really too many secrets that were unknown to the outside world.

"I don't know exactly how. Since some warships and merchant ships are going to be built here, the cellar should also be built, so we'll see it later. Feng Yi said confidently.

The three views and six rooms of the Chishan Society are headed by Su Lie, Han Donghu, and Guo Quan, and the Baihogang camp will eventually serve as the main hall of the Chishan Society, which will be presided over and responsible for by them.

And seeing that Feng Yi said so firmly, Su Lie was also very happy.

Not to mention Hongzepu in the north, Fanliang, Shao Bo and other lakes in the west, Shiliang is also a large and small river, the lake is also longitudinal and horizontal, the Chishan Society wants to gain a foothold here, where can you leave the boat?

Not to mention, the Chishan Society also plans to develop its forces along the Yangtze River waterway in the future.

Although Su Lie and Han Donghu only went to Yangzhou for the first time this time, the attitude revealed from Yangzhou was obviously to limit the Chishan Army from having too strong armed forces.

The warships of Xuzhou, not to mention passing through Yangzhou, were delivered to the Chishan Society, and it was extremely difficult to get out of the Ruan River.

The ability to build warships with a scale of two to six hundred stones on the White Hoof Gang side is too important for the Red Mountain Army.

Huaidong can restrict the transit of Xuzhou's commercial goods from Yangzhou, but it can't restrict Chishan from building its own shore on the west bank of Fanliang Lake, which is probably something that Huaidong did not expect beforehand, right?

However, Su Lie was worried about another thing and asked:

"Can Xuzhou afford such a large expense?"

Not to mention others, Shang Wensheng, as the head of the Gyeonggi lords, knows the five soldiers, poetry, and laws, and can also be said to be a talent that can be applied to the world.

To tell the truth, in addition to his martial arts and actual experience in commanding operations, Su Lie is slightly inferior to Han Donghu, but he is stronger than Han Donghu in other aspects.

However, his perception of Xuzhou is still stuck in the old concept, thinking that it is true that Han Qian, the Marquis of Qianyang, was given the title of Xuzhou, but Xuzhou is located in a remote area, even if he controls the trade route leading to Xiangtan in Guizhou, the financial resources cannot be compared with Shangzhou in the Jianghuai region.

Xuzhou took out 40,000 yuan before that, as the capital for the preparation of the Chishan Army, and the construction of the Baijiegang camp was also invested by Xuzhou, and a batch of reinforcements would be added every one or two months, and a shipyard would be built here, and warships and merchant ships would be built, Su Lie really didn't know if Xuzhou's financial resources could withstand it.

"You don't have to worry about that." Feng Yi laughed and said.

After he met with Lin Zongjing, he knew that the Wuchuan Salt and Iron Institute under the auspices of Guo Ke had successfully drilled four brine wells more than 50 zhang deep in the deep mountains of eastern Qiandong, which not only showed that the small-hole drilling method was easy to use, but also had a great effect.

Before the end of Wuchuan, more brine wells can be drilled, and things such as filtering brine and boiling brine are also being prepared rapidly, so that not only the nearly 20,000 quintals of salt required by Xuzhou every year can be self-sufficient, but also the surplus can be exported to central Guizhou, Nanzhao and other places.

Prior to this, the imperial court raised the salt tax twice, and in order to maintain a stable salt price in the territory of no more than 30 yuan per catty, and not to excessively infringe on the people's interests, Xuzhou had to subsidize an additional 10 yuan per catty of salt.

The population of more than 200,000 people in Xuzhou, plus large and small livestock, and the export of pickled food, need to use more than 24.5 million catties of salt every year, which means that Xuzhou cannot achieve self-sufficiency in salt, and the state treasury has to pay 25,600 yuan every year.

Now that the situation has been reversed, not only does it not need to be reversed, there will be more than 50,000 yuan of salt profits in Xuzhou every year, and this will be a gap of 70,000 or 80,000 yuan, and the financial resources will be much more relaxed.

Tens of thousands of the old headquarters of the Zuoguang German army moved to Shiliang to gain a foothold, and the preparatory preparations for the Chishan Conference were very expensive, but after gaining a firm foothold, most of the congregations would engage in various livelihoods, and there would be no more large expenses to subsidize in Xuzhou.

At that time, Xuzhou's expenses will be stabilized, and Xuzhou will officially form a production system that can be exported to the surrounding areas in a large way, and it will have enough financial resources to maintain a standing elite combat force of 10,000 people or even larger.

At that time, there will be no need for Xuzhou to pretend to be a little daughter-in-law as before.

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Feng Yi, Su Lie, Han Donghu and others walked to the front of the reconstructed meeting hall of the ancestral hall in the depths of the village, and there was no need to report that Han Qian was already standing in front of the hall with Feng Yi, Guo Rong, Lin Sheng, He Liufeng and others.

Seeing Han Donghu and Su Lie walking into the courtyard, Han Qian said with a smile: "But I finally looked forward to you, and we don't need to work hard anymore." ”

Su Lie walked to the courtyard and bowed down: "The subordinates are incompetent, only the adults control the overall situation, so as not to make mistakes and omissions......"

Su Lie knew that Xuzhou did not bow down, but after all, he was not like Han Donghu but a descendant of Xuzhou, so he had to clearly express his allegiance.

Su Lie was like this, and Han Donghu and several accompanying main leaders also knelt down in the courtyard and saluted.

Seeing Su Lie like this, Feng Yi, Guo Rong and others were also happy.

"The family doesn't talk to each other," Han Qian stepped forward to pick up Su Lie and invited everyone into the hall to speak.

Su Lie first reported on the preparation and organization of the Chishan Association in Guangde Province and along the shores of Taihu Lake during this period.

Some of the old troops and families of the Zuo Guang German army who were invaded on the land of Guangde Province went to their relatives and friends to fend for themselves, and there were almost more than 12,000 people who had a difficult livelihood.

In addition to the congregations and families that have been transferred to Shiliang County, Han Donghu and Su Lie, the congregations they attracted before Guangde Mansion came forward to serve as the leaders of the congregation, and organized seven or eight or more than a dozen people to rent the fields of large households to cultivate, or purchase boats and boats to enter Taihu Lake to fish and shrimp or trade commercial goods for business, so as to maintain the livelihood of most of the people first, and at the same time organize people to enter the towns and cities along the Taihu Lake in pairs to work and earn a living.

In the future, more than 3,000 women and children will be transferred, and it will not be a problem for the old department and small families of the Zuoguang German Army to lose their land, but if the Chishan Society still wants to further expand the scale, there are still 140,000 old troops and families of the Zuoguang German Army in Guangde Mansion, and they are still thinking about the former envoys in their hearts.

"That's it for now." Han Qian didn't want the scale of the Chishan Society to be too large for the time being, mainly because of the money and food to be invested in the early stage, which was too high.

Feng Yi then talked about the many situations when he and Guo Xiao went to Yangzhou and Chuzhou: "We stayed in Chuzhou for more than half a month, and we couldn't see King Xin's face, Yin Peng appeared again, and said that the matter was done-I guess King Xin should have gathered old officials who were good at salt affairs to deliberate that our new method of drying salt would work, and finally gave in." By the way, if King Xin really wants to follow our new salt drying method and dry sea salt along the coast of Haizhou, how much can the yield be increased? ”

"At present, Huaidong only has 1,000 soldiers in Haizhou secretly boiling sea salt, and they can get seven or eight thousand quintals of sea salt every year. Han Qian said.

"Ah, then to put it this way, as long as King Xin sends four or five thousand more stove soldiers, wouldn't there be no problem with Huaidong's own salt use? It's really a big advantage for them. Feng Yi asked.

"Huaidong has too many standing soldiers and horses, and the supply is unsustainable, and there is no need for the imperial court to exert pressure, so Huaidong will inevitably take the initiative to remove a large number of standing soldiers and horses and arrange them for cultivation in the tuntian. They arranged for four or five thousand old and weak soldiers to dry salt in Haizhou, and there was no problem at all. I gave him such a big bargain, and I just begged him to turn a blind eye to the affairs of the Chishan Society, and he didn't allow it, and it was really a little too unkind. Han Qian said with a smile.

Feng Yi also said that he met Yao Xishui and Chun Shisanniang in Guazhou Port and took the Weaving Bureau procurement boat to peep closely.

Han Qian said with a smile: "No matter how long the cooperation with Huaidong will last, but in the eyes of outsiders, Xuzhou and Huaidong have already become a confluence, and then, you will run more on my behalf to Yangchu and other places, so that some people will be suspicious and suspicious......"

Since Han Donghu and Su Lie have both arrived at Baihogang, Han Qian still has to hand over the daily affairs of the Chishan Society to them, and the focus of the follow-up work is still on the construction of the camp.

"At this time, the left and right displaced people, even if there are no boats, can still enter the water barefoot, catch fish and shrimp to wrap their stomachs, but in another month, the cold current goes south, the weather is cold, and they can no longer go into the water, and they can get fewer fish and shrimp, so it is difficult to eat, and looting will be frequent. The forbidden army may have to delay for another month before it can completely capture Chaozhou, counting the time to chase the dead and chase the defeat, this winter, I am afraid that the imperial court will not have time to help the refugees nested in this corner,"

Han Qian said to Su Lie, Han Donghu, and Lin Sheng,

"The shipyard is preparing to build about 600 stone ships in the future, but this matter can be postponed, and more fishing boats can be built and sold on credit, or more refugees can be helped to survive this ......catastrophe by living on the lake."

The total number of households in the old army of Zuoguang and the German army that had been seized was only 3,000 households, and if they were all moved over, there were only 14,500 people, most of whom were still old, weak, women and children.

Even if they didn't take care of the livelihood matters, the Chishan Society would not be able to mobilize too many strong men to form a water battalion, let alone try to control the waters on the west side of Fanliang Lake or the south side of Hongzepu under the eyes and noses of the more powerful Huaidong soldiers and horses and the rebels of Anning Palace.

However, if they can guide the displaced people and refugees stranded in Shiliang County to move to the shores of Hongzepu and Fanliang Lake, and even enter the Huxinzhou and Huxin Islands, relying on Shuize for a living, and forming a series of fishing villages and waterfront forces near the lake and waterfront, if the Chishan Society can still maintain enough influence among them at this time, it will be beneficial and harmless for the Chishan Society to take root here in the future.

Selling fishing boats on credit can be said to kill many birds with one stone.

Although Han Qian had only transferred more than 30 skilled shipwrights from Xuzhou, more than 4,500 people had gathered near Baijiegang, most of whom were still well-organized old units of the Zuoguang German Army, and the women and children were also diligent and capable.

Two or three thousand sturdy laborers are organized, cut wood for materials, and there are all kinds of tools transported from Xuzhou, and there is no need to use large timber, so it is naturally very fast and convenient to build a fishing boat on the lake for three or five people.

There is not so much attention, there is the previous foreshadowing work, and I don't need to think about the supply problem for the time being, and I will start work with all my strength before the cold winter completely comes, and it will not be a problem to build four or five hundred fishing boats.

Su Lie was secretly impressed when he heard this, thinking that they only wanted to move as many old German troops as possible, and wanted to build a batch of warships as much as possible, but they didn't think that with the same investment, they would strive to expand their influence to the extreme; But they didn't think that even if they built a batch of warships, they wouldn't have more benefits than exposing their strength in advance and arousing Huaidong's vigilance......

Han Qian chose to mainly teach Su Lie and Han Donghu face-to-face, but the construction of the camp, the subsequent development and expansion of the Chishan Society, and the construction of the intelligence network in the Jianghuai region involved too many aspects, and it was impossible to finish talking about it for a while.

Han Qian planned that Feng Yi would be in charge of his affairs, so the more specific things were also Feng Mi who was responsible for guiding Su Lie and Han Donghu.