For many days in a row, Li Xiao and Zhu Huimei indulged in the joy of their newlyweds together, the two loved each other, snuggled and lingered, it was really like glue, and it was difficult to distinguish for a moment. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIf others see it, they will secretly envy it in their hearts, what a loving couple with a good talent and good looks.

It's just that Li Xiao has always been rigorous and fast in doing things, and he will never waste time easily. During the more than one month of preparing for the wedding, Li Xiao had seized the time and made detailed plans and arrangements for all the work to be carried out, ensuring that all kinds of plans related to Li Xiaojun's future could be carried out in an orderly manner.

Two weeks after the end of the Battle of Iron Dragon City, Monk Tian Wei'an and others recruited a total of more than 60,000 displaced people from the neighboring county towns in Shandong, as well as from the areas of Guide Mansion in Henan Province and Fengyang Mansion in Nanzhili.

Coupled with the more than 15,000 people in the villages and towns of Shanxian County who hid in the Iron Dragon City, the number of people who need to be resettled in the Iron Dragon City now is as high as nearly 80,000.

These people, Chen Zilong made a statistic, there are more than 30,000 strong men, more than 25,000 strong women, more than 5,000 old men, more than 4,000 old women, and more than 10,000 **** young girls under the age of 14, with a total of more than 20,000 households.

Among them, in addition to strong men and strong women, there are about 3,000 sturdy old men and women who can be used as laborers, and the remaining more than 10,000 people are all old and weak people who have no ability to work.

In addition, the number of existing prisoners in Iron Dragon City, the Black Scorpion Department and Zhang Xianzhong's Department combined, also has more than 10,000 people.

In other words, there are nearly 100,000 people in Iron Dragon City now, and Li Xiao needs to make arrangements.

Li Xiaojing discussed in detail with Chen Zilong, Wu Liang and others, and in view of the abundant manpower now, all kinds of large-scale actions and related specific plans can be implemented.

The first and most important thing is to expand the army.

In order to make up for the huge loss of troops in the last battle, General Chifeng and General Tielong, together with the auxiliary troops to be replenished, recruited a total of more than 6,000 recruits and added them to Li Xiao's army.

Among the recruits who joined the army, in addition to the 5,000 soldiers recruited from the homeless strong men, there were also about 1,000 rogue soldiers with less bad deeds selected from the newly surrendered rogue and new annexed army through mutual reporting, and added to the army.

Li Haoran, the son of Li Maofang, the governor of Shandong, volunteered to go to the cavalry unit, and Li Xiao, who wanted to keep him by his side, saw that he was so eager to do so, so he arranged for him to become a captain of the Red Phoenix Wei Fei Harrier, commanding a hundred subordinate light cavalry, Li Haoran was very happy, and he went to take office without mentioning it.

Next, the key work that Li Xiao has to do is to expand the production of the steel industry.

The earliest iron-making blast furnace has been dismantled, and now there are 3 iron-making blast furnaces newly built, all of which are 30 cubic meters pasted with high-alumina vanadium refractory brick blast furnaces, in addition to the construction of iron-making blast furnaces, Li Xiao has increased the steel-making frying furnace to 2, and needs to increase the number of strong laborers by 3,000 people. Li Xiao demanded that according to the effective volume of 30 cubic meters of blast furnace is about 20 cubic meters, even with a low utilization factor, such as 2~3, each blast furnace can smelt at least nearly 6 tons of wrought iron every day, ensuring that more than 18 tons of wrought iron can be produced every day.

Due to the increase in the number of iron-making blast furnaces, the number of mining, crushing, and washing laborers outside the city has naturally increased significantly.

According to the research of Li Xiao and Yan Jun and others, the iron content of the ore in the rich pulse iron ore dug in Shanxian County can reach 50%, which is quite a pure purity. You must know that China is an iron-poor country, and most of the iron ore mining areas have only about 30% iron ore content.

However, in many places in the Ming Dynasty, because of the primitive process, a ton of hematite with an iron content of 50% can only produce less than 300 kilograms of iron, and if the ore contains many impurities such as sulfur, phosphorus, arsenic, etc., it is quite good to produce 200 kilograms.

The iron-making method that Li Xiao now uses a variety of advanced technologies can smelt 450 kilograms of steel from one ton of ordinary hematite with an iron content of 50%.

Li Xiaoneng can greatly increase the amount of iron produced, will undoubtedly greatly save the production cost, compared with other iron ore, under the same quality, Li Xiao Iron Dragon City produced steel, in terms of price will have a considerable advantage.

Now, it can be simply calculated that in order to maintain the output of Li Xiao's three blast furnaces for 20 days per month, including transportation and wear and tear, a total of about 800 tons of iron ore will be produced every month to ensure that the blast furnace will not be stopped and waiting for materials.

Since it is now a purely manual excavation, a laborer in the mine can dig about 150 to 200 kilograms of iron ore a day, excluding the time of sick rest every month, a month, about 25 days, a month can dig about 0.4 to 0.5 tons.

It is easy to calculate that the production capacity of an excavation team of about 2,000 people is required to ensure normal production.

In order to be on the safe side, and to store the surplus iron ore in the warehouse, Li Xiao arranged for a full 3,000 prisoners to go to the mining work.

More than 2,000 people were also arranged for grinding and washing and round-trip transportation.

Li Xiao stipulates that the hardest and most tiring mining work is to be carried out by those who have committed the heaviest crimes in mutual reporting, and those who have committed slightly less crimes will go to dry crushing and washing mines.

These captives were all compulsory labor in the nature of re-education through labor, and they did not have any wages except for food and lodging, and they worked under the whip of the overseers every day, which was regarded as redemption for the crimes they had committed.

The more than 2,000 people in Henan and Shanxian who used to do this kind of hard work were arranged by Li Xiao to go to other places.

In this way, more than 10,000 captured rogues and soldiers, and more than 4,000 people need to be arranged.

From these more than 4,000 people, Li Xiao selected 3,000 prisoners who committed less crimes than the grinding team and the washing team, and arranged for them to become steelmaking workers who operated the blast furnace and the frying furnace, just enough to meet the manpower needed for the expansion of the blast furnace and the frying furnace. And, in order to make them work more conscientious, in addition to food and housing, Li Xiao also gave them a salary of 2 yuan of silver per month.

In the end, the remaining 1,000 prisoners, who committed the least crimes, went to the forge as apprentices for three and a half cents a month.

Li Xiao divided the captives into three, six, nine and so on, artificially creating a difference in treatment, which could effectively prevent them from holding together, so that even if they wanted to resist, they could not form a cohesive force.

Next, the forging and smelting field, which was a large employer, was divided into three groups by Li Xiao, one group specialized in the production of weapons, including solid cannonballs, earth-shaking thunder shells, etc., one group specialized in the production of armor, and one group specialized in the production of various household utensils. According to the requirements of Zhang Tongzhu, the head of the general department, a large number of homeless male workers were recruited as apprentices, in addition to the above 1,000 captive apprentices, 2,000 Henan people and 3,000 homeless strong men transferred from the mining site were recruited into the forging and smelting plant.

In fact, the forge not only accepts these male workers, but also recruits more than 5,000 female workers to sew and stitch armor in places that require a lot of manual work, such as the armor group.

In order to save labor, Li Xiao arranged for female workers to do such work as kneading granular gunpowder, filling earth-shaking gunpowder, and packaging bullets. Male workers were responsible for heavy work such as mixing, preparing and transporting black powder, and initially recruited 200 male workers and 300 female workers.

Another artillery factory recruited 300 male workers, whose main job was to manufacture trebuchets, and Zhao Jie was also in charge.

Up to now, in Iron Dragon City, all the captives have been arranged, and the original people have also been arranged, and another 8,500 homeless strong men and 2,300 homeless strong women have been arranged.

Next, Li Xiao focused on arranging the work of granting land in Shanxian County.

Speaking of which, although the Liukou wantonly plundered the villages and towns of Shanxian County this time, although it caused tragic damage to Shanxian County, it also brought Li Xiao an unexpected benefit.

That is, the landlords and gentry of Shanxian County have basically been wiped out by the rogues, and the land under their hands has become a borderless land, and the original remnants of the people in the villages and towns have also been incorporated into the Iron Dragon City by Li Xiao, and now, it is just right for Li Xiao to re-divide the land according to his own wishes.

Because of Chi Fengwei's experience, Li Xiao divided Shanxian County into 8 townships, and like Chi Fengwei, he set up civil affairs offices in each township, as well as basic official positions such as township heads, village heads, and Li Zheng.

According to Chen Zilong and Wu Liang during this period, they found that in the entire Shanxian County, there were 400,000 mu of cultivated land, including 80,000 mu of upper field, 130,000 mu of middle field, and 190,000 mu of lower field.

Similarly, Li Xiao, like Chi Fengwei, gave priority to arranging for the families of military merits to be granted land, and a total of 2,500 families of military soldiers were given the right to be given priority to land by virtue of their military merits because of their remarkable merits and the fact that there were more laborers in their families.

Each family of military merit is issued a field deed, 40 acres of land are granted, and according to the size of the merit, priority is given to good quality land, and then the cattle are divided into one cattle for every 5 households. Li Xiao specially presented these ploughing cattle to them in recognition of the merits of the soldiers and soldiers.

After the families of the soldiers and soldiers have divided 100,000 mu of upper fields and middle fields, the original people of Shanxian County will give priority to dividing the rest of the fields, and after the original people of Shanxian County have finished dividing them, they will be assigned to the displaced people for farming. For these single-county people and displaced people, each household is granted 20 acres of land, and each household is required to have at least 4 people in the family, and two of them can be used for production and cultivation to ensure that the labor force for farming is sufficient. The cattle used by the displaced people are based on one ploughing ox per 10 households, and they need to pay their own expenses, which will be deducted from the grain tax at that time.

The remaining 300,000 acres of land were distributed to 15,000 households, and more than 60,000 people were arranged.

Li Xiao stipulated that these families who have been allocated land, like Chi Fengwei, will start this year to collect one bucket of grain per mu of land, twice a year in summer and autumn, and pay in kind, without having to be converted into silver, and in the year after that, they will receive two buckets of grain per mu of land twice a year. From then on, it will always be a law, and there will be no increase in the grain tax.

Since it was now past the winter wheat cultivation season, Li Xiao arranged for the people to give priority to planting millet with a short growing period, so that when the millet was ripe, they could start planting sorghum immediately.

As for the farm tools and wheat seeds, Li Xiao bought them from Yanzhou and nearby county seats, and then sold them to every family at a flat price.

So far, all the fields and industries in Shanxian County have been arranged, and the local people and the displaced people have basically been properly resettled, and a very small number of displaced people have been recruited by various shops outside the city as partners, which can be regarded as solving the employment problem.

However, Li Xiao is still not satisfied with the current situation of Shanxian County.

According to the results of Chen Zilong and others who went to the countryside to verify, there are still nearly 150,000 mu of wasteland in Shanxian County, and it has not been developed because the land is barren and difficult to grow grain.

Li Xiao planned, like Chi Fengwei, to improve these wastelands into mulberry fields in order to maximize the use of land in Shanxian County as much as possible.

He thought very clearly that if the 150,000 mu of mulberry fields were developed, it would bring considerable benefits to himself.

According to Zheng Rubao, the head of the sericulture section, these improved mulberry fields can produce about 1,000 catties of mulberry leaves per mu, 5 to 6 catties of silk can be reeled, and 750,000 catties of raw silk can be produced every year, plus 30,000 mu of mulberry fields of Chifengwei, a total of 900,000 catties of raw silk can be produced every year, and if sold to China, 540,000 taels of silver can be obtained every year, and if it is sold overseas, at least 1.2 million taels of silver can be obtained!

This is an astonishing fortune, and Li Xiao wants to hold this profit firmly in his hands.

Next, Li Xiao began to arrange Chi Fengwei's industrial production.

Now Chifengwei has been fully built, a circumference of 12 miles, the whole city is covered with green bricks, moats, urn cities, fort towers, corner towers, female walls, horse roads, pheasant moats and other defensive facilities have been fully completed city, east of the Beima River, north near Longkou Bay, with the river choke the sea, a majestic and grand new city at the end!

The zoning plan of the city is also completely in accordance with Li Xiao's requirements, which divide the city into six districts, which are named Northeast District, East District, Southeast District, Southwest District, West District, and Northwest District according to their location. The specific plan is as follows:

The eastern area is a civilian area, a large number of civilian houses have been repaired, the original residents of Chifeng Fort have moved out of the inner city and moved to new houses, those who came to Chifeng City, Li Xiao is also the same as Tielong City, let them move in early, and stipulate that they will pay for the house in the future. In the eastern area, public bathhouses, wells, medical halls, and schools have been built to facilitate the lives of the residents.

The western district is a wealthy area, and buildings such as theaters, temples, clubhouses, and small gardens are built to attract wealthy families to buy residential land and live in peace for a long time. However, because Chifeng City is still newly built, there are only a few wealthy families in Huang County or Zhaoyuan County who have bought land here and built their own mansions.

The southeast area is the location of a large bazaar, where various goods from the south and the north, such as silk, tea, ceramics, and wine, can be traded. Because it has just been established, there are only a few of them that have opened here.

The southwest district, because of its close proximity to the rich area in the west and the large trading market in the southeast district, was built into a large-scale consumption center by Li Xiao, ready to be bought by the merchants themselves, and all kinds of shops, restaurants, shops, guild halls and other places were built here for the people in the city and the rich businessmen who came and went from the south to the north to consume and rest.

In the northwest area, Li Xiao's own professional warehouse area was set up to store grain, ironware, woolen woolen and other items produced by our army.

The northeast area was set up as a special trading area for Li Xiaojun's products, such as all kinds of ironware, wool cloth and other items, were traded here, and the four-wheeled carriage manufacturing company was also relocated from the original Chifeng Fort.

And now the inner city of Chifeng City has been changed to the location of the Chifeng General Military Camp and a number of government offices.

Looking at the brand-new and vibrant Chifeng City, Li Xiao was very excited.

Perhaps, in a few years, this Chifeng City, which is close to Longkou Bay, a fine harbor, will become the first commercial center in Shandong and the most prosperous overseas trading city.

It's nice to change history and create a bustling city with your own hands.

Up to now, there are still more than 15,000 displaced people who came from Xuanfu Town last year in Chifengwei Middle School and need to be arranged.

Among these displaced people, there are about 7,000 strong men, more than 5,000 strong women, and the rest are old and weak.

Among these displaced people, more than 500 of them have been absorbed into the various newly established shops and businesses in Chifeng City, and the rest of them, Li Xiao began to assign them to other places.

Now the expansion of the salt plant has been completed, a total of 1,000 acres of salt field of the sea salt plant has been opened, by the head of the salt field Xue Dafu is in charge, recruited 1,500 male workers, 500 female workers, male workers dry salt, turn salt, ship, female workers are in charge of bag packaging and other work.

The carriage company recruited 300 men and 100 women to work.

Now Zhaoyuan's Jinyinling gold mine, has been preliminarily completed, and planned the mine, Li Xiao appointed Ma Tang, who surrendered on the same day, as the person in charge, in addition to more than 500 bandits were used as coolies, Li Xiao in order to expand gold production, and 500 homeless male workers were recruited into it.

Li Xiao is not satisfied with mining gold only in this place, after all, he has negotiated with Zhao Yungong, the commander of Zhaoyuan County, and now in Zhaoyuan County, all remote mountainous areas are stationed and managed by Li Xiaojun, Li Xiao intends to explore in these places again, perhaps, can find more gold deposits, but also solve more jobs for displaced people.

The rest of the displaced people were arranged by Li Xiao to go to agricultural sites.

At present, Chifengwei's 50,000 acres of heavily saline-alkali land, of which 20,000 acres, have been converted into a military horse farm, in which alfalfa and pasture grass are planted, and Li Xiaojun's temporarily useless surplus war horses are raised, and a total of 200 male workers have been recruited.

The other more than 30,000 mu will be converted into cash crop planting farms, which will be contracted according to the number of households in the same way as farmland, and Li Xiao stipulates that each household will contract 60 mu, with a total of 500 households and more than 2,200 people being arranged.

For these contractors, Li Xiao decided that because the saline-alkali land had just been improved and was still too barren, Li Xiao decided that within two years, no taxes would be charged, and all the output would be owned by the growers. From the third year, the tax will be levied only once a year, and only one bucket of cash crops will be levied per mu.

This is a decision made by Li Xiao considering the meager output of these lands, after all, it is a good thing to be able to use these originally useless lands to resettle these displaced people, and Li Xiao does not expect to rely on such cash crop plantations to obtain much profit and income.

Next, is the distribution of 30,000 acres of mulberry fields that Chifengwei has changed well, Li Xiao decided to contract according to households, give priority to those who improve the saline-alkali land, open up the people of Henan who can plant mulberry fields, after the arrangement, and then arrange the displaced people in Xuanzhen, a household contracts 30 acres, after the production of silkworm cocoons, the first year to pay 10 catties of silkworm cocoons per mu as a tax, from the second year, then pay 15 catties per mu, from then on forever as a rule, no more taxes. The rest of the cocoons produced by the Sericulture Division will be purchased at the market price. The mulberries produced by the mulberry tree are left for the silkworm households to eat for themselves.

In this way, a total of 1,000 households have become the mulberry households of Chifengwei, and more than 4,000 people have been arranged.

Next, Li Xiao plans to build the Longkou Bay port.

Li Xiao believes that after the completion of Longkou Bay, it will be of great help to Chifeng City's foreign trade. Perhaps, the kind of trade prosperity of thousands of ships and gathering in the port will be realized under his own hands.

There are still more than 3,000 homeless strong men left, and more than 2,000 strong women have not been arranged.

In order to save costs, Li Xiao decided to build the building materials of the port, and tried to buy and use them from the brick factories, lime factories, and quarries in the squatting dog mountain, and in order to expand production, he arranged for 700 male and 300 female workers to join each factory.

For the remaining laborers totaling more than 4,000 people, Li Xiao arranged for them to work with Chang Dali and other craftsmen to build the Longkou Bay port and the official road connecting Longkou Bay and Chifeng City.

If these people finish the construction of Longkou Bay, they do not have to worry about unemployment. Because they can naturally become dock workers, they can also become the partners of the major merchants who will settle in Chifeng City in the future, and in the same way, the employment problem is basically solved.

After all the displaced people were settled, Li Xiao let out a long breath, and there was an indescribable sense of relief in his heart.

Now he has a feeling that it is becoming clearer and clearer.

That is, in the near future, the era of self-exertion is coming. (To be continued.) )