Chapter 383: The Artificial Dead Sea Begins Construction

Under the deliberate arrangement of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, the distance between the 10,000 soldiers from Qianzhong Road and the local people is gradually shrinking, although it cannot reach the level of taking the initiative to fight for the local people.

Then Zhang Xiaobao began to buy a large number of pottery from Changning County, after all, the Thousand World Chamber of Commerce did not cooperate with the people sent by Zhang Xiaobao, one was always that Zhang Xiaobao was unreliable, and the other was the request mentioned by the people who sent out, as long as the contract was signed, then the pottery of the Thousand World Chamber of Commerce in the future was not allowed to be sold to the north of Hebei Province.

If you want to sell, you need to contact the people of Zhang and Wang's two families, let Zhang and Wang's two families sell, and at the same time be responsible for transportation, if you are not responsible for transportation, you have to give up a part of the profits.

The people of the Thousand World Chamber of Commerce came from Silla, and the places in the northern part of Hebei Province except for the Khitan people are Silla, how can they hand over the right to sell goods in their hometown.

The people sent out by Zhang Xiaobao found other people who fired pottery to sign the contract, and the same as what he mentioned in the Qianshi Chamber of Commerce, the people who were found later did not have so much thought, and the northern part of Hebei Province was still too far away for them, so they all happily signed the contract, and sent the first batch of goods to the river, waiting for the ship from Jili Prefecture to be transported away.

It didn't take too long for Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan to receive a batch of pottery, take the waterway, and pack it, even so, one-fifth of the pottery was damaged when they arrived at the place.

The first batch of pottery, Zhang Xiaobao did not send it to the people of Jili Prefecture, not enough, too many people, the first batch of shipments can still be used only 50,000 pieces, if you want to send it, you can't send one person, at least it has to be a set.

Zhang Xiaobao used 50,000 pieces of pottery as gifts, and gave them to powerful people in the surrounding and more northern places, and sent a few sets to the family, and used the remaining pottery to buy the coastal land next to Jili Prefecture, and bought a seaside, not *** local fishermen go out to sea to fish.

It is a trade ship from elsewhere, and any cargo ship that wants to dock must be approved by the state of Jili.

The reason for this is that there are very few ships to trade with each other, and anyone who has a ship is not willing to go to this poor place in the northern part of Hebei Province, and the usual small trade is by land, and those who are willing to take risks come and trade with the people here.

What Zhang Xiaobao has to do now is to wait, and after the people who received the pottery show off to others, more people are willing to go to Jili Prefecture to buy enough, and they are also waiting for the people sent north to pass back the specific situation on the Mohe side.

Don't look at the distance to Mohe is not as good as the distance from Jili Prefecture to Jiannan Road, the road is very difficult to walk, you need to find a place to replenish food and water, you need to fight with wild beasts, you need to go over the mountains and mountains, the more you go north, the more you go, and when you get to the Mohe River, it is estimated that it will be almost winter, I don't know if the people sent out can bear it.

Zhang Xiaobao, who seemed very idle for a while, in addition to exercising his own body, spent more energy on his younger brothers and sisters, teaching them, and letting Wang Juan take care of all the affairs of the army.

Wang Juan really asked people to make a bunch of big swimming pools in the seaside place, and poured the saturated seawater in the salt pans into it, so that the two battalions that took turns training learned to swim, in fact, many people can swim, but it is not standardized.

One of the purposes of Wang Juan is to allow people to exercise their bodies by swimming, different swimming styles can exercise muscles in different places, and can also improve lung capacity, and more importantly, to travel from here to North America in the future.

She discussed with Zhang Xiaobao and found that it was too difficult to go to North America from the land, and the Russian side was not only cold, but also the road was not easy to walk, so it was better to walk along the seaside, bypassing Silla and moving forward, if the sea was frozen, let Zhang Hu train the dog more and use the dog to pull the climbing plow.

This dog must be found in a cold place, and the hotter the place, the more unusable the dog is, and who knows how much effort it will take to make the dog snow.

In this way, the swimming training program was determined, not only to swim now, but also to swim in the future, even in winter, so that the 10,000 people who came from the south could resist the cold and prepare for a year later.

Changning, as a pottery supply place, is now also working hard to start, and the next batch of goods required by Jili Prefecture is too much, and it will be compensated if it is not prepared early and cannot be delivered at that time.

Li Yu's recent life has been very comfortable, the yamen has collected a lot of taxes, and all welfare plans have been implemented.

The plan in front of Li Yu today is for him to find a place in Changning County where the road is clear, preferably where there is clay and a deep pit, and then prepare to lead a river over to form an artificial lake in the big pit.

Why he did this, he didn't know yet, but Zhang Xiaobao said it, and he was ready to follow the arrangement and bring the worm over to ponder the deep meaning of digging a pit and building a lake.

"My lord, I can't guess, could it be that an artificial lake will be built, and a pleasure boat will be placed on it when the time comes?" Xiao Worm seemed very helpless every time he faced Zhang Xiaobao's plan, he didn't expect to surpass it, as long as he could learn more.

"Whatever, dig first." Li Yu thought that the usually very smart worm would be able to guess a little, but seeing that the worm looked uncertain, he was ready to do it first.

Choose a good place on the map for people to dig, give more wages, and have good food, now the labor force in the county is not easy to find, and the people have something to do, so don't expect to let a person come and work for a day with a few cents.

People in the surrounding counties have also moved to Changning County, and the number of immigrants still cannot meet Changning's labor needs.

Just when Li Yu was directing the digging of the pit, a lot of small cargo boats came up on the river that brought the water, and the goods of the big ships on the river were transported to Changning by boat, and the sacks loaded were not big, but they were very heavy, and the people who could usually carry about 200 catties of grain carried a bag of goods reached the limit.

"Li Gongzi, the river on your side is too small, you have to find a way to expand it, otherwise it will be delayed." It was Xu Si who came with the boat, and he greeted Li Yu as soon as they met.

Li Yu heard about the things sent by Jili Prefecture, so he ran to the river to greet him, listened to Xu Si's words, nodded seriously, and asked, "What is it?" ”

"Salt, the worst salt." As Xu Si spoke, he motioned to a porter to put the bag down, took out a knife, and cut the bag directly, sprinkling large black and yellow salt grains inside.

After Li Yu saw it, his brows furrowed, this salt was too bad, and at first glance, he knew that he hadn't handled it well at all, so he bent down and picked up a grain, put it in his mouth and chewed it vigorously, and spit it out again, and there was sand in it, which was bitter and astringent.

Spit a few more mouthfuls of spit, "This is what Zhang Xiaobao sent over to the people in the county to eat?" ”

"No, it's used to pour it in the lake, and then you will know that one is that Li Gongzi bought the salt at a cheap price, and the other is that my little son uses salt to buy shares." Xu Si explained.