All the high-ranking officials and nobles in Chaolin City knew that Lin Ji had just returned, so they all put good words in front, making Lin Ji feel that he had been well educated in the previous few years, so he had achieved a lot of results.

Even the inconspicuous Shenglan, who sat at the end, reported on the trade situation of the caravan he led. They went up the Yangtze River, and found an extremely wide pool of water eight or nine hundred kilometers to the west, where fish and beasts were abundant, and there were many tribes, and in just one year's trade, they exchanged thousands of young men and women for them.

Lin Ji also praised Shenglu and marked the place he explored on the map, naming it the Jinghu area. At the same time, Lin Ji promoted Shenglan, who had been removed from his official position, to the western liaison officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responsible for diplomatic contacts in this area, and at the same time responsible for finding out the situation in this area.

The Jinghu area was a strategic location for later generations, with Shuzhong to the west, Guanzhong to the north, and Huguang to the south, and it was possible to attack the current kingdom by going down the river. This place doesn't suffer if you value a little.

At this point in the meeting, Dipu and Qingshi were almost confused. They were not very familiar with the language here, and they did not know any of the words that had been moved from later generations. Even if they understand something, they don't know much about it, and they don't know what role these things have in management or production.

Occasionally I understand something, and then I will become more and more things I don't understand. By the halfway point of such a meeting, they no longer had any arrogance, and they had no opinion on the arrangement of Lin Jirang's study. According to this way of working in the Kingdom, they may not understand anything if they don't learn for three or five years.

At this point in the meeting, the good news is basically over.

Lin Ji saw that Ying and Huo Nan and a few others had not yet spoken, so he said, "Let's talk about the situation of heavy industry and smelting." ”

The Kingdom has established a Ministry of Industry and a Ministry of Smelting, which is responsible for not only light industry, but also metal forging, processing, and simple machine making, which are under the management of Eagle. The smelting department is responsible for mining and ore smelting, cement firing, etc., which are under the management of Honan.

The friendly atmosphere was immediately gone. Everyone's dissatisfaction with the two departments was quickly exposed.

"There's not much development in these two departments?"

"My bike broke down and they couldn't even make a chain."

"Not to mention the bike, I want a screw and they can't make it."

"Screws? My iron pot is broken, and I can only repair it, but I can't make new ones. ”

"I can't fix my broken watch."

"They will make a little bit of knives and axes, and the quality can't keep up with what the king provides, and it's always rusty."

In the crusade of the crowd, Ying and Huo Nan bowed their heads and remained silent, looking very ashamed.

Lin Ji waved his hand to interrupt everyone's crusade, and defended the two of them: "You blame them. Screws and chains, it's good that we can survive on our own in 20 years. If you want them to do it now, it will be difficult for them. This involves the establishment of an entire industrial system. I couldn't help it for a while. If we want to make a pot, let's change the continuous casting method, maybe it will work. There is no way to do this if the watch is broken, put it away first, and then look at it in a few years. ”

The production of screws and chains involves metal stamping, the use of machine tools, etc. If progress is slow, these problems may not be solved in the lifetime of the forest. Now the stamping equipment in the small town has been transformed, and it is considered the limit for pressing copper coins. It is unlikely that more will be produced.

But these nobles obviously don't know the importance of this. I thought that screws were cast like axes.

Ying and Huo Nan were quite grateful to Lin Ji for helping them out of the siege, and they were still about to report on the situation of weapons and various metals, but Lin Ji asked: "Didn't I build a research institute before I left, and how is the acid and alkali trial production in it?" ”

The two of them were a little ashamed again: "Get it, you can't get it out." ”

They can make some of the experimental materials given by Lin Ji, but they can't replace them with their own materials. Their foundation is too poor and they don't figure out what the problem is. The book that Lin Ji gave them...... A lot they don't understand.

"Speaking of which, I also have a question on my side." Lin Miao'er moved her fat body, and said a little embarrassed: "In the past two years, the yield of some land has been greatly reduced. I thought those people were lazy. As a result, this year, I found that even some of Himelin's land is decreasing. Deep ploughing of one acre of land, the yield is less than 200 catties......"

"Oh? This should be the exhaustion of the earth's strength. Lin Ji wrote down this question in his notebook, looked up and asked, "Who else still has a problem?" ”

That's all there is to it.

Almost every department, every workshop has a lot of problems. There are two pages of questions recorded before and after the forest tracks. These problems need to be studied or deployed to solve, and it is not clear for a while. Lin Ji arranged the rest of the schedule, and arranged time to meet with people from different departments to solve these problems.

After reflecting the problems at work, I don't know who started, and everyone began to reflect the problems in life. To sum up the problems in life, it is: the various daily necessities provided by Lin Ji have been used up, is there still a king?

Among the honorable treatments, there is a regular distribution of cleaning products. As soon as the forest trail was gone, this was naturally interrupted. It's really unaccustomed to using these good things, and then using various local methods to make things. This is called from thrift to luxury.

"It seems that you don't want me to come back, but you are just reluctant to give up these things......" Lin Ji said with some grumbling: "In a few days, I will sort out the clues and see what else can be sent to you." But the ugly words are ahead, and those who have not performed well during this period of time may be reduced. There will be fewer and fewer in the future. ”

After the meeting ended, Lin Ji took the notebook and went back to his office. Passing by a window, I looked out. Opposite the square outside the window, three courtyards stand opposite each other, which are the military courtyard, the government affairs yuan and the elders' house that have been built.

A few people such as Arc, Po Tu, Qian Mian and others habitually followed Lin Ji's side, and Lin Ji pointed to the opposite side and said, "I'll go over and have a look in the afternoon." ”

Back in his office, Lin Ji spread the notebook on the table and looked at it, with a headache. Some of the problems that everyone responded to were easy to solve. Others may have to move forward with the entire system.

The most troublesome thing is that there are too few talents now, and he can only repair the watch by himself if it is broken, otherwise he can only leave it alone. Because at this time, few people understood the mechanics.

"Now we can basically cover the Yangtze River and Huai River basins. The population, including slaves, should have exceeded four hundred thousand people. External expansion, except for the Montenegrin tribe to let him open up the road to the grassland, the rest can be slowed down a little. The point is to build up the interior and improve it first. Lin Ji said his thoughts casually.

Hair arc took the notebook and prepared to record: "How do we develop internally? ”

"Encourage farming, breeding, procreation. Promote education, medical care, promote the free flow of goods, and guide everyone to actively work to establish a complete industrial system...... Try to be self-sufficient, copying all kinds of machinery or objects that I take out. ”

Each of these items can be written into a plan, and it can be written into a five-year or ten-year plan, which is enough to be busy.

"Mine have?" Qian Mian also took out a notebook.

Lin Ji said: "Find out the situation of all the large tribes with more than 1,000 people in the vicinity of our crossing, and the tribes with more than 5,000 people will plant people in and try to destroy their connections with each other." Befriend...... Leave the matter of friendship to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Yes, who is the Minister of Foreign Affairs now? How did Yuanxiao take people to the grassland? Also, there is one more thing that comes to mind. When I went north last year, Bayang was waiting for me on the road, who leaked the news? ”

Lin Ji looked up at a few people around him. When the first question was asked, the arc lowered his head, and when the latter question was asked, no one could answer.

"Check it out!" Lin Ji said fiercely.