To get rich, you must first build roads, and after having cement, Song Youliang's enthusiasm for building infrastructure is unprecedentedly high. He first ordered a trench to be dug deep enough on the foundation of the original dirt road, and a layer of gravel was laid on the first layer of it to form a solid foundation; Then lay a layer of fine gravel; Spread the mixed soil cement on the gravel and tamp it; Finally, it is paved with hard granite slate. The resulting road is both pressure-resistant and waterproof, and the first stone road is from the 8th Tun of Hai Duong to Rushankou Port.

"The days of being gray on a sunny day and mud on a rainy day are now gone" Song Youliang shouted excitedly at the ceremony when the first stone road was built through (horse-and-horse) carriages, "In the future, our Haiyang's goods will be continuously transported from this stone road to Rushan Pass, in exchange for gold and silver for the people of Haiyang, everyone will walk forward along this Cotai Avenue together~"

"Let's follow Qianhu and live a good life together~" Xu Erduo shouted when he raised his throat

"Follow the thousand households to live a good life," the military households shouted together

Song Youliang slowed down his tone again and said: "The eleventh year of Chongzhen was an unpeaceful year, with droughts, locust plagues, and horse thieves coming in waves. But our Haiyang people are not discouraged, they are all heroes, we fight against drought, locusts, and horse thieves, showing the backbone of our Haiyang people everywhere, and fighting the majesty and spirit of our Haiyang people~" Speaking of this, Song Youliang glanced at Xu Erduo, who was standing stupidly

"Spirit~" Xu Erduo hurriedly shouted, and then kept slapping each other with the palms of both hands, making a snapping sound

"What is this for?" The military households didn't know why, and there was only one person clapping their hands on the huge school field, which looked extremely embarrassing

"What do you care about him, it's right to follow Erduo" So after a short cold scene, there was warm applause on the school field

Song Youliang pressed down with his hands in satisfaction, and Xu Erduo and the military households stopped applauding

"This year, the yield per mu of our grain has reached two stones, whether it is a new ding or a long-term or short-term worker, each person will be rewarded with 5 stones. The deputy tun chiefs of the tun house were rewarded with 10 stones, and the tun chief was rewarded with 15 stones. If the yield per mu reaches three stones in the coming year, the workers will each be rewarded with 8 stones and five buckets of grain, the deputy tun chief will be rewarded with 15 stones, and the Datun chief will be rewarded with 20 stones. What are you talking about," Song Youliang shouted loudly

"Good" The military households naturally opened their throats and shouted hello

Song Youliang said: "As the saying goes, there is no stability without farming, no business without life, and no work without wealth." Now that we have the first two things in Hai Duong, next, I plan to hold a handicraft workshop in Hai Duong, what do you think? ”

Someone shouted: "As long as thousands of households lead us to make a fortune, we can do anything~"

"Yes, it's okay to do anything~"

In the past two years, Haiyang has undergone earth-shaking changes. Originally, except for the mansions of thousands of households and deputy thousand households, which were tiled houses and dilapidated and old, the other military households lived in thatched houses, which could be said to be ventilated on all sides. Today, the mansions of the thousand households and the deputy thousand households have long been large courtyards. The rest of the ordinary military households who accepted the employment of the Song family also lived in tiled houses.

The most immediate and obvious change is that the pedestrians walking on the street are no longer in tattered clothes and sloppy. Most of them were dressed in new clothes and groomed. Occasionally, the elderly are reluctant to throw away their old clothes, and still wear old clothes with patches, but they are all clean. Everyone was ruddy and refreshed, and everyone had a smile on their faces

Since the crops recently planted in Hai Duong are all grain crops, there are relatively few melons, fruits and vegetables, so some people in the surrounding areas have lively minds, so they pick up some fruits and vegetables they grow to Hai Duong to sell, because they can't enter Hai Duong City, so they simply set up stalls near the tun houses outside the city. Fortunately, there was no chengguan in the Ming Dynasty, and Song Youliang did not plan to organize chengguan, so there were more and more stalls, and finally night markets were spontaneously formed around the tunwu.

In the area of Fortress Mouth in the south of Hai Duong, more and more fishing boats go out to sea every day to fish, and the boats are getting bigger and bigger. Every day, tens of thousands of catties of fresh fish and seafood are traded in these three places. What was once a barren beach has now spontaneously formed a well-known fish market.

The so-called no agriculture is not stable, no business is not living, no work is not rich. Song Youliang has established a solid agricultural and commercial foundation in Haiyang, and as long as the current Haiyang people are not lazy and have some smart people, even if they are not employed by the Song family, it is not difficult to mix food and clothing or even be well-off. Having solved the problem of food and clothing, the demand will naturally develop to a higher level.

Of course, according to the current level of technology, the so-called industry is also the level of manual workshops. Song Youliang's current craftsmen are mainly craftsmen from the former Haiyang Ordnance Institute, Sun Hejing, Shen Buqi and others, as well as newly hired Western craftsmen Dogos. As a result, Song Youliang divided the handicraft workshop into four major parts - civil, military, mining, and shipbuilding, and the civil bureau was subdivided into agricultural tools for making sickles and hoes and agricultural machinery for building large agricultural machinery; The Military Bureau is subdivided into sharps for swords and spears, armor for armor and robes, crossbows for bows and crossbows, and firearms for muskets. The mining business is divided into two parts: the mine and the salt field, and the shipyard located on the Gulongzui Peninsula is divided into two parts: civilian ships and military ships.

The Civil Bureau is under the jurisdiction of Zuo Anmin, the former general banner of the newly promoted Wai Baihu, who has been fighting farm tools for decades, and his sickles are better than Yanling knives and Pu knives. Besides, the Civil Bureau is a money-making department at the moment, and Zuo Anming is also happy about it. The Military Bureau is managed by Sun Hedou and Shen Buqi, and the immediate goal is to mass-produce flintlock smoothbore guns. As for Togos's spiral rifled gun, due to the high production cost, labor and time-consuming, mass production is not required for the time being, and Song Youliang specially recruited a group of young men for the Manufacturing Bureau, and selected them to learn the craft with a flexible mind to achieve talent localization. The mines were in charge of Shen Lusu, who was in charge of the mining of lime, clay, granite and marble, as well as the management of the salt works. As for shipbuilding, it was the newly hired Deng Liansheng, who was originally a craftsman and had been shipbuilding for generations. When Song Youliang was planning to build a shipyard, he hired it with a lot of money. It's just that at present, shipbuilding is mainly based on building fishing boats and small merchant ships, which makes Deng Liansheng, who is used to building large ships, a little unpleasant

In July of the 11th year of Chongzhen, after a month of preparation, the Haiyang handicraft workshop was officially opened. On the opening day, the gongs and drums were noisy, the colorful flags were fluttering, and the atmosphere of the scene was very warm. Song Youliang invited the commander Song Guozheng and Dengzhou Tongzhi Wang Zilin, and asked the two to cut the ribbon for the handicraft workshop. How do the two know what ribbon cutting is, they just cut the red ribbon with scissors according to Song Youliang's appearance.

"The virtuous nephew is really ambitious, and the future is limitless~" Song Guozheng stroked Song Youliang's shoulder, "I can't write two Song characters with one stroke~" Song Guozheng lowered his voice and said: "If there is such a good thing in the future, I can't forget your uncle and me~"

"Virtuous nephew?" Song Youliang was stunned for a moment, and then echoed with a smile: "Of course I won't forget my uncle~"

Wang Zilin also stepped forward and said: "If there are continuous disasters today, Brother Song is really a model for work to provide relief, resettle displaced people, and share worries for the country." The prefect is busy with official business and can't get out, before I leave, the prefect Chen himself said, 'This government will definitely praise Brother Song's righteous deeds'~"Since solving the Dengzhou grain incident, Chen Guoying and Wang Zilin's attitude towards Song Youliang has become closer and closer, of course, this has something to do with the fact that there is also their share of money in the handicraft workshop."

Since he had invested some money, Wang Zilin naturally wanted to know what this handicraft workshop was for, so he asked, "Brother Song, what do you do in this workshop?" ”

"Right now, it's farm tools and food." Song Youliang said with a smile: "Take agricultural tools as an example, including ten categories: the first is cattle and horse harness, including traditional horse yokes, cow flails, and jute ropes; the second is land preparation tools, including ploughs, harrows, shovels, iron axes, mountain hoes, iron rides, etc.; The thirtieth fertilization utensils, including manure sweeps, manure buckets, manure spoons, flat burdens, etc.; the fourth is to smash tools, grinding, stones, etc.; the fifth is sowing tools, strip sowing plows, cocoon carts, manure seed carts, seedling horses, etc.; The sixth is the tools for plowing and weeding, hoes, rakes, shovels, rakes, claws, sickles, etc.; The seventh is the harvesting utensils, such as sickles, wheat samariums, wood axes, wood knives, baskets, flat poles, two-toothed forks, etc.; The eighth is grain processing tools: mixing barrels, flails, beating down beds, wooden hulls, stone grinders, stone mortars, fan cars, dustpans; The ninth is irrigation and drainage appliances, orange trees, wheels, waterwheels, windmills, etc.; The tenth is the means of transportation, wheelbarrows, ox carts, four-wheeled vehicles, etc. ”

"Huh" Wang Zilin smacked his lips, "Did Brother Song invite Master Luban?" Can you build so many things? ”

Song Youliang said with a smile: "Actually, these things have been there for a long time, but the government is unwilling to make them, and the people can't afford to make them~"

"What about eating?" Song Guozheng asked

"There's not so much to eat!" Song Youliang said again: "There are pigs, cattle, sheep, rabbits, chickens, ducks and fish in my pasture, and salt in my salt farm, so the initial plan is to make these meat and poultry into bacon after salting, so as to facilitate long-distance transportation and sales." In addition, the bones of livestock can be ground into powder and can be used as fertilizer, the offal can be boiled in water, the horns can be used for bow tires, cowhide, pig skin and sheepskin can be tanned, and rabbit fur and wool can be used for warm clothes and gloves, etc."

Wang Zilin never thought that livestock could be dismantled in this way, a livestock skin, flesh and bones and internal organs can be used to make money, no wonder this small thousand households are called the God of Wealth in Haiyang.