After a rigorous investigation, more than 50 Qing army spies were uncovered by the Military Investigation Bureau.

The Tiance Army has tightened its scrutiny of the fugitives coming from the north, and has publicly demanded that everyone hand over their blades and firestarters. Then everyone will be searched, and once suspicious items such as daggers are found, then they will be isolated and examined, become suspects, and first undergo a three-year labor camp.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty's plan to infiltrate Lushun by using fugitives failed, and even if a few people infiltrated Lushun, they were under the strict surveillance of the Tiance army, and it was difficult to do anything.

However, they are not giving up, there is no way by land, there is also a sea route, and the Arthur Peninsula is not a completely closed place.

A few or a dozen people, carrying dry food, blades, fire oil, etc., a small raft or a canoe, these Qing troops embarked on the journey.

Such small boats are afraid to enter the deep sea, so they all sail along the coast.

Dare to play the Great Leap Forward-style "special operation", these people are the dead soldiers in the Qing army, the elite of the elite. However, the reality is cruel, in fact, the sea route is more difficult than the land route.

Although the coastline of the Arthur Peninsula is long, the marine radar of the Tiance Navy makes these people have nothing to hide. The marine radar of modern ships can detect a distance of up to 150 kilometers in dry weather, of course, the resolution of such a distance is reduced, but within a radius of 20 or 30 kilometers, such a flat boat cannot escape the detection of radar.

So throughout the summer, batch after batch of Qing warriors disappeared into the vast sea and never returned. They disappeared silently, and none of them were able to land on the Arthur Peninsula. It's just that on the naval patrol log received by Navy Commander Wei Xiaoliang, one record after another:

"On a certain day in a certain month, a small boat of the Qing army was discovered, and my patrol law enforcement boat was ordered to attack and sink it." That's all.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty, who had just come out of the slave society, how did they know that the Tiance Army still had a big killer weapon like radar? Originally, the frontal battlefield could not be defeated, and I wanted to rely on the "local advantage" and "warrior spirit" to play a special operation, but this is the result.

Although there were not many losses before and after, only five or six hundred people, those were all elites of the Qing Dynasty, and they died silently. Although most of them are traitors, it also makes Huang Taiji's liver hurt.

Huang Taiji was angry, disgusted, and tried to control the fear in his heart, and Lushun's Tiance Army was like a sharp knife against his chrysanthemum, making it difficult for him to sleep, but he still had to stop this senseless special operation. One consolation is that the Tiance army did not advance further north for several months.

Yes, the Lushun Peninsula is under construction, the construction of port roads and other facilities has begun, and with the increase of population, the cultivation of land is also on the agenda.

Liaodong is sparsely populated, but there are only more than 3 million people in such a vast area, which is also the result of the Jurchen massacre. Compared with other parts of eastern Liaoning, the climate in Lushun is warmer and more suitable for the development of agriculture.

Most of the Northeast people in later generations were Shandong, Hebei, and a small number of Henan people who immigrated to the eastern part of the country, of which Shandong people were the main force. Wang Yue also wanted to restore the original state of history, and successively emigrated from Shandong to Liaodong.

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Tianjin Port, after two years of development, the port terminal has been built 18 kilometers, as the home port of the Tiance Army Navy, the facilities have been very perfect.

The two shipyards here have grown to twelve docks with more than six thousand workers.

The salt pans in the Dagang area have already begun to produce salt, with a half-year output of 30,000 tons, more than three times that of the nearby Changlu Salt Farm, according to statistics in the first half of this year. Historically, during the Japanese occupation, the highest annual output of the Changlu salt field was 420,000 tons, and in modern times, the output reached 1.19 million tons, accounting for a quarter of the national output.

Therefore, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the output of Dagang Yantian, and it is expected that the annual output will reach 80,000 tons by next year, and there will be greater development after the annexation of Changlu Yanchang in the future.

The monthly output of 5,000 tons of salt, or more than 100 tons per day, has been able to meet the needs of the Shijingshan Chemical Plant. Since this year, there has been another product in the starting point city, that is, edible salt.

Selling illicit salt is not the only thing Wang Yue does this, but the salt merchants of the Ming Dynasty are doing this, not to mention the second boss. The salt and iron monopoly system of the Ming Dynasty has existed in name only by the end of the Ming Dynasty, and now what is the salt tax in the Ming Dynasty in a year? It's only five thousand taels, which is not enough for the salt merchants to ransom an oiran and go home.

The annexation of Changlu Salt Field should be the trend of the times, because Dagang Salt Field adopts industrial salt production, and the cost is unimaginably lower than that of boiled salt, and the quality of the filtered salt is incomparable, so the salt in the starting point city is also called refined salt.

The best salt in the Ming Dynasty is green salt, that is, lake salt, and the price is also the most expensive, a pound costs five dollars of silver, that is, five hundred Wen, which is something that only the rich and noble people use. There is also a kind called well salt, which is the product of natural salt mines, and the price is close to green salt. This is the price at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which is several times more expensive than in the Wanli period.

Ordinary salt is more than 200 yuan per catty, which is a relatively good product, the more mainstream salt, is the sea salt that has been slightly processed, due to backward technology, the filtration is not pure.

The cheapest is coarse salt, which is the kind of natural sea salt that has not been filtered and processed, this kind of sea salt has a lot of impurities, small stones, soil and other sundries, and it is bitter and astringent, but because the price is relatively cheap, but it also costs about 100 yuan, it is the main salt for the majority of poor people.

The wholesale price of salt produced in the starting point city is only 30 wen, and according to this year's annual output, the profit of Dagang Yantian is 3.6 million taels a year, and the profit is amazing.

However, the wholesale price of refined salt in the starting point city is only 30 Wen, which is lower than the traditional coarse salt price, and the quality is higher than that of green salt.

The salt merchants rushed to the chrysalis, and the starting point city demanded that the retail price of refined salt in the starting point city should not be higher than sixty yuan, otherwise the supply to violators would be stopped. It cannot be ruled out that these salt merchants secretly sell high-priced salt, but it doesn't matter, the salt in the starting point city can be wholesaled if there is money, and there is no need for salt introduction and trust, and with the competition, the price will naturally fall.

Moreover, the Beijing-Tianjin area is already the self-reserved land for the business of the starting point city, and the Jiangnan area will follow suit, so the price of salt in these areas will soon have no room for these salt merchants to operate, because the retail price of the starting point city is only 50 wen.

The wholesale price of refined salt in the starting point city is set so low in order to dump a large amount and seize the market.