After the meeting, Wang Shuangming of the Ministry of Industry and Yang Yong of the Ministry of Construction also went home to formulate their own development plans, while the Ministry of State-owned Assets and the Ministry of Foreign Trade both reported directly to Wei Minsheng.

In Wei Minsheng's courtyard, Wei Minsheng summoned Xiaobao, Li Yan, Wang Steward and others to discuss together.

Li Yan said: "My lord, I don't know how to carry out the main work of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. ”

Wei Minsheng said: "You are also relatively clear about the current situation of our villa, and the main problem is that there are too few formal members who have passed the assessment, so that a lot of work cannot be arranged.

I'm going to absorb some of the population from Yiling County to expand the population base of the mountain villa, and replace those regular members from simple jobs, so that I can play to their strengths, I wonder what you can do? ”

Li Yan said: "Nayiling is the military town of Wu State, and the entry and exit of the population is relatively tightly controlled, unless the lord can force him, use the power of heavenly fire to convince Sun Heng, and bring Yiling County under our rule." At that time, where the population of Nayiling County will go is not a matter of the lord's words. ”

Wei Minsheng said: "I don't like to use drastic means to force a breakthrough, otherwise it is likely to cause chaos in the world and ruin lives, which I don't want to see."

I think we can follow Wang Wushun's previous way of recruiting workers in Ziguicheng, gradually drain the manpower of Yiling, and achieve the same goal in a fusion way. ”

Li Yan said: "But the people of Yiling County don't know the situation of our villa, and their words are unfounded, is it attractive to them."

Moreover, there are hundreds of miles of waterway from the mountain villa to Yiling, and there are robbers from Longdong Bay on the way, which is not very safe, and I am afraid that not many people are willing to take this risk. ”

Wei Minsheng thought for a moment and said, "The robbers of Longdong Bay? Why do I seem to feel a little familiar? ”

Wang Wushun said: "Owner, Longdong Bay is the place where the bandits called Long Xiaotian are entrenched, and there are more than 400 people under his command, who make a living by extorting passing merchants near the Yangtze River. Didn't the owner of the village still think about exterminating that dragon roaring sky before?

It's just that at that time, the manpower of our villa was indeed too small, and there were not enough people in the villa, and everyone felt that as long as he didn't come to our villa to make trouble, we didn't need to care about him, so the matter of exterminating Long Xiaotian was stopped. ”

"It's that guy, what's going on with them now?"

Steward Wang said: "Owner, since our villa has absorbed all the people in the villages scattered around, the thirty-mile radius around the villa has almost become a no-man's land, and Long Xiaotian has nothing to rob if he wants to." Anyway, no one near our villa has found any trace of the bandits. ”

Wei Minsheng said: "As long as they don't come to attack our idea, we will leave him alone for the time being, you just need to do your own thing."

What Li Yan said just now is right, who in this world would believe that there would be such a place in this poor mountain and remote place without worrying about food and clothing. No matter how wonderful your tongue blooms, everyone still believes that seeing is believing.

And this nearly 100-mile waterway is also a problem, there are no suitable ships, even if you can recruit people in Yiling, there is no way to transport them over, so I decided to build a dock opposite Zigui City first. ”

"Build a dock? Lord, there are good wharves on both sides of Zigui City, both sides of the bank are relatively gentle slopes, and it is very convenient for ships to dock. ”

Wei Minsheng said: "Your wharf can't stop big ships, take advantage of the low water level in winter, I want to build a big wharf that can dock iron ships with a draft of at least 1,000 tons." ”

"Thousand-ton iron ships?" Li Yan almost bit his tongue and asked in disbelief.

"Are thousand-ton iron ships rare? A very large material distribution center will be built on the edge of the wharf in the future, and all the materials will be transported to various places through this wharf, and at the same time the special products and materials we need will be transported back. If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't find the right people to drive these big ships, I would have wanted to get a few 10,000-ton ships to come over and have fun. ”

"A 10,000-ton ship?" Li Yan's eyes were like two copper bells, and the thousand-ton iron ship that he dared to say was the smallest in his eyes, he really didn't dare to imagine how big the 10,000-ton giant ship was, it was tens of thousands of tons, not tens of thousands of stones.

Li Yan has only seen a granary of tens of thousands of stones in Xiangyang City, and the momentum of the granary, the grain is piled up like a hill. But this is tens of thousands of tons, with the knowledge he has just learned, it is enough to millions of stones of grain, so how big a place should it be stacked.

Wei Minsheng ignored Li Yan and continued: "The bigger the ship, the deeper the draft, so the Zi is on both sides of the strait, the larger ships can't dock at all, and it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to transfer goods by small boats. ”

Li Yan listened to Wei Minsheng's tone, it seemed that the lord of this wharf was determined to build it, but everyone had no experience in the construction of this kind of wharf, and he didn't know what it would look like, so he had to stop talking and see what Xiaobao and Steward Wang said.

Xiaobao thought for a while and said, "Master, I've only seen this kind of wharf in movies, but I don't know how it was built, and even if we want to build it, we don't know where to start?" ”

Wei Minsheng thought about the appearance of the wharf in his memory, at such a depth, it is impossible to avoid using a large amount of cement, and fortunately, cement in the real world is in a period of overcapacity, as long as the demand is sent online, a large number of cement sellers will naturally come to the door.

There is also the technology of underwater construction, even if Wei Minsheng finds construction machinery, there may not be many people who can operate it, so he still has to think of another proper way.

Wei Minsheng turned on the computer and looked at the screenshot pattern of the satellite map, the shape of the lock gave Wei Minsheng inspiration, he didn't build the kind of deep-water wharf by the sea, he could directly dig a deep ditch 30 meters wide and 200 meters long by hand at the location of the lock in the real world.

In order to ensure that the 10,000-ton giant ship can be used in the future, the bottom of the ditch is at least 10 meters below the water surface of the Yangtze River.

When digging this deep ditch, leave a section of embankment near the river to prevent the river water from pouring into the deep ditch, and wait for the main structure of the deep ditch to be built, and after the maintenance of the concrete embankment on both sides expires, then dig that section of the embankment to connect the deep ditch with the Yangtze River.

After the sand dredging boat was used to remove the remaining soil and rocks from the mouth of the ditch, the deep ditch became a wharf where huge ships could dock.

In order to facilitate the removal of the soil and stone excavated in the deep ditch, several tower cranes can be installed on both sides of the deep ditch, and the soil and stone dug out manually are directly lifted up with the tower crane, which can greatly save manpower, and after the wharf is built, it is much more convenient to use the tower crane to get on and off the goods from the ship.

As for those large rail-mounted container cranes, forget it, what are you kidding, how long has the current Minsheng Company been established, and there is so much money to purchase these heavy equipment. Even if you have the money to buy it, you won't be able to provide it with enough electricity.

Wei Minsheng told everyone about the wharf construction plan he determined, and after learning about the use of excavators, tower cranes, cement and other equipment and materials, Li Yan and others no longer had any doubts about the construction of this huge wharf.

PS: Is it better to lure the soldiers who returned to the city with interest or to force each other by force?