"Xiuqing, the official has decided, so let's replant all the low-grade land that has been newly reclaimed and planted into cotton. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Li Xiao made up his mind, so he instructed Xu Xiuqing.

Xu Xiuqing was very happy when she saw that her suggestion was adopted, and hurriedly replied: "Your Excellency is wise. In this way, according to the students' estimates, the newly reclaimed inferior land in the entire Dengzhou Prefecture is about 600,000 mu. In the view of the students, because these inferior fields are relatively poor, and the cotton fields can only be planted once a year, and the growth cycle is also long, it is better to take 30 acres of cotton fields per household as the benchmark, so that cotton households can have enough cotton output to ensure normal living needs. ”

Xu Xiuqing's suggestion, Li Xiao thought about it, and then nodded in agreement.

If each household is granted 30 acres of cotton fields, then about 20,000 households can be arranged, and a total of 80,000 displaced people can become cotton farmers.

It is easy to calculate that 600,000 mu of cotton fields can produce about 300,000 quintals of lint, a total of 36 million catties of cotton, and each cotton cloth with a width of 4 feet and a length of 7 zhang needs to consume 3 catties of cotton, and a total of 12 million cotton pieces can be produced.

Even if it is because of Li Xiao's inferior soil, because the land has been abandoned for too long and is relatively barren, its yield per mu is low, and the yield per mu is only 0.3 quintals, 600,000 mu of cotton fields can produce about 180,000 quintals of lint, a total of 21.6 million catties of cotton, and 7.2 million cotton cloths can be produced.

Due to the length of each piece of cotton, it is actually enough to make clothes for 3 adults. So now, with the newly recruited displaced people under Li Xiao's rule, about 1.2 million people under his rule, with 3 sets of clothes per person a year as the standard (in fact, for most poor people, 2 sets a year is enough), then a total of 3.6 million sets of clothes a year are needed, and about 1.2 million pieces of cotton cloth are needed to supply.

In this way, Li Xiao still has 6 million pieces of cotton cloth, which can be used for external sales. Even if the wholesale price of 3 taels of silver is maintained, it is still a sales volume of 1.8 million taels, and after deducting the cost, there is a net profit of nearly 1.2 million taels of silver.

Although this profit margin cannot be compared with raw silk and silk, it is actually very considerable compared to growing grain.

And if Li Xiao can expand overseas sales channels and sell products abroad, the wholesale price of cotton cloth can of course be further increased, and profits will also rise significantly.

In fact, the reason why Li Xiao plans to use so much land to develop cotton fields is mainly due to two considerations.

First, in order to cope with the future situation, if the population under the jurisdiction continues to rise, there will be sufficient cotton cloth to supply the needs of the military and civilian people. The second reason is that if the shipyard wants to build a large number of sail warships, it also needs a large amount of thick cotton cloth to make sails.

Li Xiao listened to the opinion of Lin Dazhuang, director of the shipping factory, that in order to pursue high speed and flexibility like Western ships, it is necessary to use a large sail area, so it is necessary to use the traditional Chinese hard sail, but to use the soft sail that is customary in Western-style ships.

And this soft sail has much higher requirements for the quality of the canvas. An ordinary cotton cloth weighs 20 taels, but a boat soft sail canvas of the same size weighs 12 catties, which is 192 taels, and the weight is 10 times that of ordinary cotton. In Li Xiao's plan, all kinds of large new warships imitating the first, second and third class warships of the Netherlands will be launched in large quantities, and the demand for cotton cloth used to make sails is expanding rapidly.

After arranging the development work of the various prefectures and counties in Dengzhou, Li Xiao naturally began to carry out the next step of rectification and arrangement for the four Davids in Dengzhou Prefecture.

Li Xiao believes that the four Davids of Weihaiwei, Chengshanwei, Jinghaiwei, and Dasongwei were all established to resist the invasion of the Japanese invaders. And now, with the Japanese Kou already dead and the more elite Chifeng Battalion stationed in Dengzhou, these four Davids have little value in existence.

However, the commanders of these four Davids, because they are the three rank officials of the imperial court, cannot be moved lightly, so Li Xiao intends to keep the establishment of the guard and arrange them as they are, and including the subordinate commanders and commanders, as well as the generals such as thousands of households and hundreds of households, the land and interests owned by Li Xiao also intends to recognize.

However, Li Xiao's only requirement for them was that all the redundant personnel and redundant troops in the various guard stations, as well as the false salaries of the soldiers, should be eliminated and completely eliminated as much as possible, so as to save military expenditures and achieve the goal of streamlining the administration of the army.

It should be said that Li Xiao's plan was still very cautious, and he made great concessions, and also took into account as much as possible the actual interests of people such as the commander and the thousands of households below. Li Xiao thought that the generals of the guards below might be dissatisfied in their hearts, but they should still accept it silently.

Therefore, Li Xiao first sent people to the four guard posts, handed over his own reception plan to the four guard post commanders, and then ordered them to report various data such as land, population, and soldiers for statistics.

It's just that what Li Xiao didn't expect was that what he thought was a safe and generous plan was being gritted his teeth with hatred by the four commanders of the guard post below.

Weihaiwei.

The commander of the guard envoy Xu Chengrong's official residence.

In a secret room in the official residence, Wei Haiwei commanded Xu Chengrong, Cheng Shanwei commanded Liu Zhiqian, Jing Haiwei commanded Zhao Shunming, and Da Songwei commanded Wang Xingdao.

These people all received Li Xiao's reception arrangement, and they were all very dissatisfied in their hearts and hated Li Xiao bitterly. Therefore, at the secret invitation of Xu Chengrong, the commander of Weihaiwei, they came to Weihaiwei to discuss matters.

"Commander Xu, a certain family heard that this Li Xiao is just a broken hunter in Liaodong, extremely despicable, but now he has been named an uncle, and he has become the chief military officer of the Dengzhou regiment, but he looks like a dog and has five people and six people, it is really fucking shit luck! Now, this guy wants to take a hereditary guard commander like us to open the knife, it's really damn damnable! “

Da Songwei commanded Wang Xingdao, the most fierce and irritable personality, he stared at a pair of ruthless triangular eyes, shouted at Xu Chengrong, finished speaking, and smashed his fist on the square table.

"That's it, damn it! Now in the Ming Dynasty, the commander of which guard does not eat false salaries and does not falsely report the number of soldiers, this dog Li Xiao can't get along with us, and he wants to use our big financial resources to open the knife, which is really hateful! Jing Haiwei's commander Zhao Shunming also looked angry.

"Hmph, do you think that Li Xiao, who entered the dog, will stop after canceling the false soldier salary? Phew, a certain family will not be so easily fooled. You have also seen that Li Xiao has now applied to the local squires in Dengzhou, like Chi Fengwei, first declared the land, and then implemented the system of the squires paying grain and paying taxes in one piece. A certain family is thinking, it is estimated that Li Xiao's next step is to ask for a military field like ours, and also pay grain according to the acres of land. Cheng Shanwei commanded Liu Zhiqian's eyes full of hatred.

"That's right, damn it, step by step, put the knife on our necks, so that we gradually can't move, this guy's method is ruthless!" Da Songwei commanded Wang Xingdao to curse angrily.

Hearing the three commanders gossiping in front of him, they all scolded Li Xiao's cruel methods, and the commander of Weihaiwei, as the master, made Xu Chengrong's heart feel like a mess.

, since I became a commander, how can I be bullied and slaughtered like this!

Now, this Li Xiao has been killed in front of him, and he seems to have no way to counteract at all.

Thinking of this, Xu Chengrong was furious, and he let out a loud shout, interrupting the conversation of the three commanders.

"Say no more! What you are talking about, this commander has never thought of. It's just, what do you say now?! Now people are swordsmen, and I am fish and meat, so Li Xiao is deeply favored by the emperor, and he is willing to violate the ancestral system and let him be a military attache in charge of the entire Dengzhou territory. Such a person who is deeply trusted by the emperor, even if we are not convinced, what can we do?! “

Xu Chengrong sighed hatefully, his face was agitated and ugly.

"Commander Xu, in my opinion, or we will jointly appeal to the Ministry of War, saying that Li Xiao violated the system of the guard station and bullied the lower officials, and asked the Ministry of War to come forward for us to impeach Li Xiao?" Jing Haiwei commanded Wei Zhao Shunming and said hesitantly.

After Zhao Shunming finished speaking, the three commanders all shook their heads.

"No, then Li Xiao, now I just said to us that we must cancel the false salary of the soldiers, so as to realize the policy of streamlining the government of the elite army. If he acts like this, the Ministry of War is afraid that it is too late to commend him, how can it be used as a reason to oppress us. Xu Chengrong immediately vetoed Zhao Shunming's opinion.

"If this plan doesn't work, can we just take it one step at a time and see if Li Xiao will stop there?" Cheng Shanwei commanded Liu Zhiqian and said unwillingly.

"Hmph, do you really think that Li Xiao will spare me and wait, I think it's beautiful! Let me tell you, since Li Xiao can attack the landlord and squire, we will naturally be poisoned sooner or later. The only difference is how fast or slow the time is. The most grumpy Da Songwei commanded Wang Xingdao and roared: "If you can only survive in such humiliation, let Li Xiao cut meat like a slow knife, Wang would rather die than obey!" “

"So what do you say? Do you want us to rebel like Kong Youde back then? Seeing his own opinion, he was rejected by Wang Xingdao, and Liu Zhiqian, the commander of Cheng Shanwei, was also anxious.

"Commander Liu, there is no need to rebel, but, in the opinion of a certain family, I would not like to join forces, and as a result, the dog thief Li Xiao, as long as this fight is over, I will be the four Davids, and no one will come to plot again." Wang Xingdao gritted his teeth and finished speaking, a cold light flashed on his face.

Listening to Wang Xingdao's rebellious words, the other three people all shuddered.

Isn't it, this king wants us to join forces to murder that Li Xiao?!

This is the following great crime of rebellion!

When everyone was panicking, the words of the commander of Da Songwei Wang Xingdao sounded coldly: "Everyone, instead of waiting for him to come and kill us one day, it is better for us to strike first and end up this guy first, so that everything is over, isn't it the best policy?" ”

In the sound of the room, there was silence for a while.

The heavy breathing of the four could be heard clearly.

Hearing this, in fact, Xu Chengrong, the oldest commander of Weihaiwei, although he was calm and quiet on the surface, he had tacitly agreed with the statement of Wang Xingdao, the commander of Da Songwei.

Yes, while Li Xiao is defenseless now, he immediately ended up with this person, so he will no longer live in fear in the future, which can be described as once and for all.

Although there is a certain risk in murdering Li Xiao, it is much better than worrying day and night about being punished by Li Xiao, and the property and power that he has finally found cannot be preserved and turned into floating clouds.

"The strategy of the king's command should be the only feasible plan now." Xu Chengrong coughed lightly a few times, and then said loudly: "It is really a woman's opinion to put hope on Li Xiao's mercy in the future. When Li Xiao turns his face, I can't find a place to cry. We still need to design to get rid of Li Xiao while there are still soldiers and horses in hand, so that we can solve the problem fundamentally. ”

"Good! Since everyone has talked about this, it is considered a certain family, and everyone will do it together! Cheng Shanwei commanded Liu Heqian to grit his teeth and agree.

"A certain family is also one, and vows to get rid of this thief!" Jing Haiwei and Zhao Shunming also followed.

"Okay, since everyone has reached an agreement, then next, I'll discuss how to lure that Li Xiao to come, and then, cut this fang with one sword!" Xu Chengrong's face was grim and tense, and he stretched out his right hand and made a sudden downward gesture.

Subsequently, after careful deliberation, the group decided to resort to the following strategy.

First of all, the four commanders and envoys each presented a recital, saying that they completely agreed with Li Xiao's arrangement, eliminated the false salaries of the soldiers, eliminated the redundant soldiers, and welcomed Li Xiao to send people to the guard post to count them.

After gaining Li Xiao's trust, Xu Chengrong, the oldest commander of Weihaiwei, sent an invitation to Li Xiao, and four commanders were his companions, and asked Li Xiao to take the guards to Weihaiwei, the closest to Dengzhou City, for a banquet.

If Li Xiao led the crowd to come, he was first designed to be isolated from the guards, and then four commanders accompanied Li Xiao to the banquet.

At the banquet, poison was placed in the wine pot that Li Xiao drank in advance, and if Li Xiao drank it, he would be killed during the banquet. If Li Xiao found that he didn't drink, the fifty swordsmen and axes who were lying in ambush outside the room came out and slashed them all indiscriminately, slashing them on the spot.

If Li Xiao's life is big, and after escaping from the restaurant with a group of guards, the thousands of armor soldiers who are in ambush outside the restaurant will attack and kill Li Xiao and his guards, all of whom will be killed and cut into meat sauce.

If Li Xiao died, the four commanders immediately announced that Li Xiao was attacked by robbers on the way to the banquet, and unfortunately they all died. Since the deceased could not speak, the court and the military department, even if they noticed that something was wrong, could not say anything because there was no real evidence.

After the plan was agreed, the four thick right hands were put together layer by layer.

Subsequently, the commanders left Weihaiwei and returned to their guard posts, and then counted the personnel stationed by Li Xiao, presented the number of soldiers and the amount of land, and expressed their determination to resolutely eliminate the redundant personnel.

Seeing that these commanders were quite cooperative and obeyed his own arrangements, Li Xiao was very happy in his heart.

Thinking that things would go very well, he sent personnel to express his appreciation to the four commanders.

When the four commanders saw that Li Xiao admired him so much, they thought that he had trusted him, and they couldn't help but be very happy, and everyone thought that the time had come, so they sent an invitation to Li Xiao to come to Weihaiwei, and at the same time, the four commanders and envoys all came here to come to Li Xiao's great car and wash the dust.

After the invitation was sent, the four of them were both inexplicably excited and very nervous.

Ten days have passed, and there is no news from Dengzhou City.

Just when the four of them thought that the matter was exposed, and Li Xiao was afraid that he would find out, suddenly a messenger from Dengzhou City came, saying that in three days, Li Xiao would lead the guards to Weihaiwei and let them prepare for the work.

The four commanders were immediately very excited, especially Xu Chengrong, the commander of Weihaiwei, whose faces were even more full of joy.

He immediately ordered someone to clean up the entire Weihai Acropolis to welcome Li Xiao's arrival.

Of course, a series of conspiracies have also been quietly arranged.