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Three days later.

Li Yanna, Chen Liqing and Li Shishi introduced.

Daqing three days.

Li Yan and his entourage worshiped the Nine Heavens Xuannu, and then set off.

The heroes who went to find Jeju Island with Li Yan this time were: Wang Lun, Li Jun, Tong Wei, Tong Meng, Ruan Xiaoqi, Ma Ling, Wang Dingliu, Shan Shiqi, Shi Bao, Lu Zhishen, Deng Fei, Ma Lin, Ruan Xiaowu, Meng Kang, Huang Fuduan, Ling Zhen, Tao Zongwang, Sun Jing, Qiu Yi, Kong Hou.

Meng Kang, Huangfu Duan, Kong Hou, Ling Zhen, and Tao Zongwang were specially brought by Li Yan, and anything could happen on this expedition, and taking these people with him could deal with emergencies.

And the reason why he brought Sun Jing and Qiu Yi together was because Li Yan was afraid that these two guys would become moths.

You know, this is not impossible at all, Sun Jing is known as Sun Hedgehog, if he can't keep it, he will use some crooked tricks, even if Qiu Wei's strategy is not as good as Sun Jing, it will not be too far behind, and if you look at the overall situation alone, Qiu Wei may even be above Sun Jing, the most important thing is that except for Li Yan, others may not be able to pay so much attention to the two of them, and then it is possible to give them a chance to take advantage of it, and then ...... unimaginable.

Therefore, it is better to bring Sun Jing and Qiu Yi with them safely, and at the critical moment, they may be able to give Li Yan some strategies or something.

In addition, Li Yan also wanted to see if he could subdue these two.

This is not completely impossible, don't forget, Li Yan also has a big killing weapon brought out of the palace in his hand.

In addition to a group of heroes, Chen Liqing and Master Li, who had just entered Li's house, also followed.

To tell the truth, Li Yan didn't want to take them, this is not an outing, what are you taking them for?

Moreover, bringing them will also give the impression that he is obsessed with women.

But......

After listening to Li Yan describe the beautiful scenery and food of Jeju Island, Master Li, who was really moved, blew the wind in Li Yan's ears for two nights in a row, wanting Li Yan to take her.

And Chen Liqing, despite her inconvenience, still cleanly beat Ruan Xiaoqi, Ma Ling, and Wang Dingliu to the ground to prove to Li Yan that she was the most qualified personal leader.

Later, Liu Huiniang also persuaded Li Yandao: "Take them with you, on the one hand, they can take care of you, on the other hand, they can help you more or less officials, moreover, if you are not close to women, you may not be really heroic, Liu Bang never shy away from his own love for women, but is more supported by his subordinates." ”

Li Yan thought about it too.

You're not close to women anymore, how can you let your people get close to women?

And these heroes pin their heads to the waistband of their trousers and act as thieves with you to accompany you in the business of killing your head, what are you doing the Tao for, is it really for the so-called righteousness or for the sake of heaven?

To put it bluntly, it's not about power, money, and beauty.

If it doesn't make sense at all in this regard, sooner or later something will happen.

Of course, if you want to do big things, you still have to grasp this scale, at least the form that should be there still to go, and try not to leave people with a handle.

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In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, a scholar named Li Chui wrote an article called "Guiding the River Shape Shengtu".

Li believed that the course of the Yellow River would continue to move northward (from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, the course of the Yellow River did move northward), and eventually flow into the territory of the Liao State, at which point the Khitans would be able to go downstream, and the Yellow River moat would no longer be able to defend the capital Kaifeng.

Decades later, the lower reaches of the Yellow River were diverted on a small scale, a few miles to the north, and the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers were greatly stimulated, believing that what Li Chui said was true, and once the Yellow River finally flowed into the Liao State, the Khitan sailors would go directly south to Tokyo...... It's horrible! The Song Dynasty began a decades-long diversion project of the Yellow River, known in history as the "Three Easy Returns" – the basic goal of which was to make the Yellow River go straight to the east, not to the north.

With the level of productivity in ancient times, it was too difficult to change the direction of the Yellow River, and then during the period of Wang Anshi's reform, the old and new parties made a big fuss about the Yellow River, which led to repeated decisions on the Yellow River.

The Sanyi River has not been so large for hundreds of years, and Hebei, Shandong and other places have been depressed for thousands of miles.

But—

That's a story for later.

At present, Zhao Ji, who has not yet completely indulged in Dandao, still looks a little bit like an emperor, and the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty are still continuing the policy left by their ancestors to fight the Yellow River.

Judging from the current war situation, Zhao Jijunchen temporarily had the upper hand, and also erected the Sanshan Yellow River pontoon bridge on the Yellow River, and the Yellow River was suppressed and assumed the great task of transporting it.

Thanks to the blessing of Zhao Jijun's ministers, Li Yan's four large ships entered the Yellow River from the canal and sailed all the way east into the sea.

But—

In three years at most, the Yellow River will erupt!

At that time, Li Yan would not be so easy to sail directly into the sea from Liangshanbo, and it is estimated that he would have to rely on small boats to reverse or sail on dry land at that time, and he would have to take a lot of effort, which was also one of the reasons why Li Yan decided to make this trip.

At that time, there will be countless people displaced and hungry in Hebei and Shandong, which will lead to thieves in Hebei and Shandong, Tian Hu, Wang Qing, Fang La, and Gao Tuoshan (Zhang Xian, Zhang Wanxian), Sun Lie, Wu Hu, Yang Tianwang, Prince Li, Xu Jin, and Liu Dalang will revolt one after another, and Li Yan is afraid that he will not have time to find Jeju Island, which is also one of the reasons why Li Yan decided to make this trip.

Entering the Bohai Sea, Li Yan did not directly take a group of people to find Jeju Island, but took them along the shore to Chengkou Town, which is located in the northernmost part of Shandong.

Everyone is confused about this!

But Li Yan didn't explain at all.

After walking back and forth more than a dozen times in the sea opposite Chengkou Town, Li Yan chose a place with flat terrain, wide beaches, and plenty of sunshine.

After that, Li Yan took a group of heroes and Chen Liqing and Master Li off the boat, and then rode a horse and looked for two more days before Li Yan chose a place.

After choosing a place, Li Yan asked the Marines and Horses to cooperate with Tao Zongwang's engineer battalion, and before the future, he asked Tang Long to move all the things they built off the ship.

With the help of more than 1,500 people, it took only seven days for Li Yan to burn a large amount of cement, and at the same time, Li Yan also asked people to clear a large area of open space in this place where birds don't, and let people dig a channel that can let seawater in.

Seeing this, some people can probably guess that Li Yan is building a salt drying factory.

Before the Song Dynasty, the manufacture of sea salt was all from concoction.

Frying salt consumes a lot of firewood and grass, which is labor-intensive and labor-intensive, and the key is that the yield is extremely low.

In fact, there is now a method of drying salt, but due to technical limitations, the effect of drying salt is not very good, so frying salt is still far more than drying salt.

If Li Yan does not appear, it will not be until the end of the Qing Dynasty that the sea salt producing areas will switch to the drying method, and the technology will gradually be perfected, and the pan and salt frying equipment that has been burned for thousands of years along the coastline will become a historical relic.

When he was a soldier, Li Yan came to the Chengkou Salt Farm to perform tasks and stayed in the Chengkou Salt Farm for more than ten days.

The Chengkou Salt Factory, built in 1958, was too simple for Li Yan, a person who could even maintain warships, so much so that Li Yan didn't have much effort to understand the principle.

At present, the biggest difficulty in building a salt plant is cement.

A large part of the reason why Li Yan has been so busy in the past few months that he doesn't even have time to take concubines is that Li Yan is firing cement with his rough memories of cement and the power of craftsmen such as Liu Huiniang and Tang Long.

Fortunately!

Half a month ago, Li Yan and others successfully fired the world's first batch of cement!

This is also one of the reasons why Li Yan decided to make this trip.

In this era, there are not many transactions that are more profitable than salt, so Li Yan actually planned to intervene in the private salt trade for a long time, but Li Yan has not found a suitable opportunity before, and Li Yan's own strength is not enough, so he has waited until now to come to Chengkou to fill in the salt drying factory.

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PS: Since Tian Hu's prototype may be Zhang Di, the book of Big Bird erases the role of Zhang Di. As for Wang Qing's prototype Wang Ze, he is a character from decades ago and has little influence, so I won't delete the character for him.