The problem Qin Mu faced was too tricky.

First of all, it's a ** annoyance. As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves. His own guard regiment was obviously remembered by thieves. And this thief was still running very fast, Qin Mu sent people overnight, but he didn't even find Zhang Xun's shadow at all.

Qin Mu couldn't help but regret a little - shouldn't he have raised a police dog earlier? With a well-trained dog, Zhang Xun will definitely not be able to run.

But now people haven't practiced Lisuo, how can they have time to practice dogs.

The police force should be strengthened, and more importantly, the security of the Guards Regiment itself. Don't look at the Guards Regiment armed to the teeth, but since it is a human being, it is inevitable that there will be weaknesses. The soldiers of the Guards Regiment were not heavenly soldiers, but Qin Mu himself, who also trembled when facing the steam crossbow.

Since they plotted against the weapons of the Guards and even wanted to kill the soldiers of the Guards, then they must have a plan. It's just that the level of the minions captured is too low, and they don't know the real plan at all. Wu Yongfu's methods have been used all over the time, and he has not squeezed out more dry goods.

In this way, the Guards had to be more vigilant.

Now it is not only the Guards Regiment that must be vigilant, but also Qin Mu and Qin Mu's harem. Even if Jia Hongxian and the others have a beautiful kung fu, it is easy to dodge with open guns, but it is difficult to defend against hidden arrows.

The enemy does not have a sniper rifle and cannot threaten himself for hundreds or even thousands of meters, but it is still easy to hide and put two arrows.

In this way, Qin Mu had to strengthen the security of himself and the harem.

They are not the only ones in the coal mine, there are also many senior managers, such as Tong Han, Ma Qing, and Wu Xiaomei, what about these people? Doesn't it matter? Apparently not.

There are only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no thousand days to prevent thieves. Qin Mu's head hurts now when he thinks of returning to the first place.

Although the remnants of Guiyi have been imprisoned in the big prison - the reconstructed prison, even a mosquito will not want to escape, but the key is that their leader has escaped.

Qin Mu was a little bit of a way to take it together.

In addition to Guiyi, the Weishanhu Coal Mine is also very problematic. There is a big problem in front of us that is not easy to solve. Food! Weishan Lake is a bit of a food shortage.

In this time and space, grain will gather in the big cities - grain is not just food, but also wealth, and of course the imperial court must collect it.

But Weishan Lake is not a big city at all, not even a city.

This is a new population concentration created by Qin Mu, so naturally there is not enough food.

For a long time, the grain from the Weishan Lake Coal Mine has been supplied by the Zhejia, but as the population gathers more and more, the Zhejia family has become a little overwhelmed. It's not about money, it's about capacity.

Quantitative changes will cause qualitative changes, and it is no problem to supply 500 people, and it is okay to supply 1,000 people, and even 5,000 people can be improvised. But it is not possible to grow indefinitely.

Because of the huge improvement in technology, coal mines can swallow a huge number of people. Needless to say, there are people from ten miles and eight towns, and even people from hundreds of miles away come to work in the coal mines.

Of course, Qin Mu did not refuse to come—he was afraid of fewer people, and he was never afraid of too many people.

The enterprises he built in this time and space are basically all labor-intensive industries, and they never dislike the large number of people, and they will never have enough to eat in terms of population.

But with so many people and so many mouths, Qin Mu couldn't let them eat briquettes, and he had to eat. Where does the food come from?

The three elders of Teng County are not without a way. Coal mines are also their money bags, and the more natural people the better, so that they can earn more.

But there is nothing the county can do. There wasn't much surplus food in the county. It can only be relied on by two patriarchs.

The patriarchs have some grain, but they will never buy and sell it at a fair price - why not make money if they have it?

Qin Mu is now facing the trouble that Li Qingzhao once encountered, that is, the area of Weishan Lake has begun to have inflation. And the momentum is extremely strong.

Today's grain prices have risen several times as much as in the past, and if it weren't for the high wages Qin Mu gave to the workers, they would almost not be able to buy grain.

But even so, food is still in short supply.

Grain has now become hard currency, and the more scarce it is, the more reluctant merchants are to sell it. Both patriarchs were reluctant to sell a little more grain in stock. They know that according to this trend, the price of grain will have to rise, so why should they be in a hurry to sell it out now? Anyway, the workers didn't starve to death, they just had to eat half full and work.

Zhi Meiluan is very clear about all the difficulties in front of her, with a computer and a database, she can see problems at a very high and comprehensive level.

The problem of food is a big problem.

But on top of the food problem, there is also the problem of inflation. Zhe Meiluan understands the concept of inflation, and now Weishan Lake is facing inflation and soaring food prices, but she has no solution.

Even if the grain is transported by organizing more grain ships, it will not be able to quell inflation.

This is a major matter related to the people's livelihood, and she has to find a way to solve it, so Meiluan no longer gives Qin Mu and the God of Gambling more time to be affectionate, and directly robbed the official to her boudoir.

Of course, if she was just to sleep with the officials, Jia Hongxian would definitely not agree - how could she rob it, I would come first if she wanted to rob it, but under the banner of solving the problem, Jia Hongxian would have no choice.

But there is no way, there is no way, since you want to solve the problem of people's livelihood, then I must also listen and learn.

So Zhe Meiluan's boudoir was crowded with people.

Not only are the sisters of the Zhejia family here, but Jia Hongxian, Fang Haoyin, and Yu Liyan are also here, and they also have to learn.

Obviously, I can't be intimate tonight, and I regret it a little - I can't get past it with fake public money, these sisters are too shrewd. Then let's discuss the solution to the problem, after all, the people live on food, and there will be big problems when they are hungry.

The problem of agriculture, or the problem of food, has always been in Qin Mu's heart, but he did not expect the coal mine to develop so quickly and the population to gather so quickly.

This is beyond his plan.

Now there are more than 20,000 miners in the Weishan Lake coal mine, and there are no less than 5,000 people living in the surrounding coal mines.

His armed forces, only one platoon of the Guards Regiment here, numbered more than thirty people. The remaining police force can only rely on Guo Ting and the few sisters she brought, and the newly recruited people can only be filled, not done.

Fortunately, thanks to the good organization of Zhemeiluan and the effective management of Tong Han, the production can be carried out in an orderly manner. If it weren't for these two people, Qin Mu felt that the coal mine would have become a mess of porridge.

Now that he has a capable wife and capable subordinates, Qin Mu must solve the problem for them.

Food and inflation, we have to negotiate a result tonight.

Qin Mu already had some idea of these two major problems, he looked at the ladies sitting in a circle, and said with a smile: "Meifeng, I'm going to trouble you again." ”

In the short term, grain needs to be solved by breaking the family, but in the long term, the aquaculture industry must be developed. This stuff can greatly reduce food consumption. Under the condition of maintaining the existing transportation capacity, if the aquaculture industry can be developed, then the food will change from a shortage to enough to eat.

Zhi Meifeng didn't need Qin Mu to say it, she immediately nodded and said, "Brother-in-law, don't worry, the breeding slaves will be arrested." ”

Qin Mu gave her a smile approvingly. Then he said to Zhe Meiluan: "Meiluan, the problem on the Zhe family's side is that the capacity is not enough. I've prepared a plan that will greatly increase the capacity. ”

Meifeng didn't want to dress up the same as her sister now, she deliberately distinguished herself from Meiluan, so as to give Qin Mu a different feeling. Therefore, now everyone can distinguish their sisters, so that they will not always admit their mistakes.

"What? Do officials want to buy boats? But the boat is not so easy to buy, not that we want to buy it, but someone wants to sell it, and such a big ship is very rare. ”

Zhe Meiluan is telling the truth. The commerce of the Great Song Dynasty was developed, and water transportation was the top priority, so the big ships that could transport goods were sought-after commodities. Shipbuilding can be said to be the most high-end handicraft industry in this time and space, and it is almost industrial, so big ships and good ships are worth thousands of dollars, and they are difficult to buy, and they are all predetermined.

Now if Qin Mu said that he wanted to buy a new one immediately, it would definitely be too late. If they could buy it, they would have bought it earlier, and they would not be short of money at all.

"No, don't buy a boat, just use the existing one, renovate it, and I'll speed it up. It turns out that the journey of one day can be completed in only half a day, so doesn't this increase the capacity in disguise? ”

It's really a good way, after listening to it, Zhi Meiluan's eyes couldn't help but light up. This really solves the big problem. Originally, if ten boatloads of grain could be transported in one day, after the speed was increased, it would be equivalent to being able to transport twenty ships, which greatly alleviated the pressure on grain.

However, what treasure did the officials use to speed up the ship?

Qin Mu is not busy talking about this now, there is actually nothing to say, it is just a matter of a diesel paddle machine, and there is no need for Meiluan to understand the principle, just use it.

He is concerned about inflation.

Now that time is pressing, he can't waste any more, so instead of heuristic education, he just starts cramming.

What is the difference between the inflation in Weishan Lake and the inflation in Qingzhou, Qin Mu carefully explained to the ladies.

In fact, there is a difference between the two, the difference is that although the inflation in Qingzhou is a large influx of money, the influx is basically all paper money, which is about to rot in time and space, and no one wants it, so once people receive paper money, the first thought is to spend it and quickly exchange it for real goods.

But Weishan Lake is not. Here, Qin Mu uses copper coins to pay salaries, and copper coins themselves are valuable, can be collected, saved, and can always be used as money to maintain their value. Therefore, the scale of inflation in Weishan Lake is much smaller than that in Qingzhou.

If it had reached the scale of Qingzhou, the economy would have collapsed long ago with the size of the Weishanhu coal mine – first of all, the price of grain would have to go up to the sky.

But inflation is inflation, and all inflation, if not controlled, will eventually end up on food. At least on this plane.

If Qin Mu wants to calm inflation and let the price of the transported grain not soar to the sky, then he must give money a way out. To put it bluntly, it is to produce a large number of commodities that can be traded and sold.

Coal doesn't work - why do people buy this stuff if they have nothing to do.

The goods that Qin Mu wants to provide must be closely related to the lives of the people.

In fact, the people in the countryside in this time and space lack everything, not even kitchen knives.

Qin Mu came up with more goods. But no matter how much you think about it, it will be in vain if you can't make it. He had to have manufacturing skills.

So what goods are manufactured?

When Qin Mu asked this question, the ladies were suddenly like boiling water in a pot, and they were all vying to talk.

It turns out that this is how easy it is to solve the problem.

Jia Hongxian was the first to say: "Cousin, the slave thinks he should make more clothes." What woman doesn't like to wear beautiful clothes, you think? She thinks producing more clothes is a good solution to inflation.

However, this kind of thing will not only look at Jia Hongxian speaking alone. Fang Haoyin also spoke: "Cousin, the slave thinks that this commodity must be a necessity for the people, or let's make medicine." Who doesn't need it? ”

Zhe Meiluan can't let her two sisters steal the limelight, not to mention that she is proficient in government affairs and has more right to speak: "Officials, slaves think that what the people need most is kitchenware, and some of them don't even have a pot, let's make a pot." ”

Yu Liyan can't lag behind, if he doesn't say anything, he will be preempted by Zhe Meifeng. I can't let her take the lead, although she is the youngest, but after all, she is the first, and she can't be the boss: "Brother-in-law, make knives and guns." When they have money, they have to arm themselves to protect their property. ”

The prairie woman is really strong. Is this a request for all the people to be soldiers?

After Zhi Meifeng and others finished speaking, she spoke unhurriedly: "Brother-in-law, according to the idea of a slave, you don't have to do anything, and vigorously develop the breeding industry." We raise chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, which can provide a large number of eggs, duck eggs, and beef and mutton. That's enough to drain their money. ”

After presiding over the aquaculture industry in Yongbyon, Zhe Meifeng has no shortage from theory to practice. She immediately thought of the brilliant idea.

A person has an idea, there are reliable and unreliable. However, in Qin Mu's opinion, it is still not very reliable.

"Clothes need fabric, we can't produce this ourselves, so we can't make it in large quantities, red line, I can't help it."

Hearing Qin Mu's words, Jia Hongxian pursed his lips. 's own method is obviously so good, but my cousin refuses to do it, and he pushes back and forth, is it that his heart has run to the gambler? That's not going to work.

"Medicine, you only need it when you are sick, it's okay to have some medicine at home, at this stage, the people have not yet realized this. Of course, in the future, there will definitely be some commonly used medicines in every family, and the method of good sound, just like the red line, is a long-term goal, and I will definitely consider it in the future. ”

You can't favor one over the other. Qin Mu carefully organized the language. It is really difficult to deny and affirm at the same time. Sometimes, Qin Mu felt that it was better to run out at home. In the face of a group of beauties, it is really unblessed, one by one is too bad.

Fang Haoyin's idea was also denied. But she wasn't angry. My cousin's idea is the final idea, and my own is just a reference. In any case, making medicine is better than making clothes.

"Kitchen utensils, knives and guns, this requires a lot of steel, and now we only have coal, not iron, and we can't do it even if we think about it. Of course, this is also a long-term plan, a long-term plan, what Meiluan and the girl said makes sense, it makes sense. ”

"Breeding is a direction, but at present, cattle and sheep cannot be raised, which consumes too much feed, or mainly chickens and ducks."

Seeing that all the sisters' ideas were rejected, and only half of her own methods were adopted, she couldn't help but be overjoyed. But she thought about it again, no, her brother-in-law arranged for herself to raise chickens and ducks just now, which means that this is Qin Mu's idea, and it has nothing to do with her. All the cattle and sheep he carried were cut down, and the sisters were all wiped out.

"Cousin, don't let us guess the riddles, just say what to do." Jia Hongxian was angry. Since what our sisters said is not right, then what do you want us to say?

"Okay, I say." Qin Mu hurriedly said his solution: "The first commodity we want to make is a kerosene lamp. ”

Making kerosene lamps is the result of Qin Mu's careful consideration.

In the time and space of the Great Song Dynasty, at the beginning, he felt that the most uncomfortable thing was the night. It was too dark at night to do anything.

In the place of Weishan Lake, Qin Mu decided to change this status quo. Let the night light up first, so that it is equivalent to adding a long time to the people out of thin air. Even if this time cannot be used by themselves at first, sooner or later, they will get used to this extra period of light.

With such a period of light, it is possible to read and write.

With a large number of new human beings who are literate and literate, his new world has taken shape a little bit. Otherwise, they are all illiterate, how to manage the new world.

It turned out that there was no oil field in Qingzhou, there would be no kerosene, and he couldn't do it if he wanted to. Now that there is an oil field, and he has experience in the construction of glass factories, there is no difficulty in terms of hardware and technology, so that kerosene lamps can be born.

Qin Mu believes that human instinct is to yearn for light, no one likes black lights and blind fire, even if it is a boudoir interest, it is good to have a little light.

This thing, as soon as it is made, will definitely be a bestseller or a necessity.

This is not Qin Mu's imagination and speculation, but real history.

In addition to opium, the British dumped goods into China, as well as matches and kerosene lamps.

Even in the early days of New China, kerosene lamps were still a necessity for every household.

Therefore, Qin Mu was completely sure that he would sell kerosene lamps to thousands of households.

And then based on that, more products are manufactured one after another. This solves the problem of inflation. It's to give money a way out, don't keep an eye on food.

Qin Mu is short of iron, so the kitchenware suggested by Zhe Meiluan, such as the cauldron, although it is also a necessity for the people, Qin Mu can't make it now.

Kerosene lamps are different. This doesn't use a lot of iron. The iron used to make a cauldron is enough to make dozens of lamps.

Qin Mu turned on the computer, called up PS, and drew a kerosene lamp casually.

"It's this thing, it's called a kerosene lamp, and this thing will bring light to the world!"

Qin Mu was ready to end with this bold sentence and draw a successful end to his proposal. But I didn't think about it, Jia Hongxian pouted and said: "Cousin, this thing is a fire, where can it be brighter than a candle, really, I don't think it's as good as clothes." ”

Qin Mu almost fell back in anger.

This Principal Jia is really not easy to fool! If I can't beat you, I have to taste my husband's iron fist.

(Author's note: It's best to add a group, 981934549, some of the chapters can't be reviewed, and I'll post them in the group.) ）