Just when Yang Xi's development plan was in full swing, thousands of miles away from Jiangxia, there was a place called Wa Guo, a certain northern region of Wa Guo, a coastal port, and Kazuo Yamamoto was sitting in the house.

On the table in front of Kazuo Yamamoto, there are two maps, if Yang Xi is there, he must be able to see that these two pieces of paper and Chenhe paper are not bad in craftsmanship.

On these two pieces of paper, one is a map of the Wa Kingdom, and the other is a map called Goguryeo at this time.

Outside the house, there was also a factory with two or three thousand people, and the workers were busy inside and out.

Kazuo Yamamoto put his finger on the map and glided all the way to a stop when he slid to the place of Goguryeo, and then he picked up the pen and landed somewhere in the country of Wa, and a black line appeared on the map, and at the end of the black line, it was Goguryeo.

So the pen made a small fork here, continued west, and the line extended to the Han Dynasty, and then became a huge fork.

Yang Xi didn't know all this.

More than two months, in a blink of an eye, now Yang Xi's black and white reputation has gone out, and the people who defected have also risen, especially some homeless people, who have arrived in Jiangxia, basically come to Chenhe Port.

There are even many who defected with their skills, and Yang Xi secretly had fun in his heart, but he didn't expect the thieves to have such an effect.

In two months, more than 600 people were accepted, including more than 100 elderly and children, and more than 400 were strong. Yang Xi placed them in Zhushan Pavilion and began training, and now it is a group of more than 4,000 people.

With Luo Lan, the county magistrate, Yang Xi wants to occupy the land of the imperial court, which is much simpler, and it is simply digging into the wall.

Roland also opened a large number of roads for Yang Xi to pass through the passes between various counties, and in the future, it would be much more convenient for Yang Xi to do business across counties on land.

Yang Xi drew a map of all the counties in Jiangxia on a piece of paper, and the approximate locations of them.

"Xiling, Jingling, Xiyang, Yi County, Qi County, E County, Anlu, Shaxian, Qichun, Yan County, Yundu, Xiapheasant, Pingchun County, Nanxin City and County, a total of more than ten counties, we can reach the place where our ship can reach now, only a few, not in the county by the river, our Chenhe Chamber of Commerce has no way to do business, can only through other chambers of commerce. Unless the railroad is built, otherwise, it is time-consuming and resource-intensive, and it is not cost-effective. ”

Yang Xi still insisted on using the Yangtze River and its larger tributaries as the trade routes, and other merchants radiating to the far-reaching inland, not all the money could be earned by themselves.

In this way, many other small merchants and small families can also have the opportunity to make money and grow. Now in the territory of Exian County, in addition to the Huang family and the Hu family, the two old stubborn and need capital transformation for a long time, the other small landlords have basically been dealt with by Roland, and the vice president of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce has reached six, as for the smaller level of member units, there are more than 20.

Exian County has become a three-legged situation.

"If you want to take over the Huang family and the Hu family, you have to advance at least one level, and if you can control the entire salt industry in Jiangxia, it will be almost the same. But to control Jiangxia Salt Industry, you need to defeat the Huang family, which is not an ordinary difficulty. ”

On the tenth day of the first month of June, Chenhe was launched on the 11th, and Yang Xi made an appointment with Jian Xi through the salt gang.

Jian Shi, Qin Fang, and Yang Xi are in Chenhe Restaurant.

"Brother Chenhe! Your Chenhe Port is really not an ordinary ferry, this prosperity has surpassed Xiling Ferry, and even Chaisang Ferry, it is also inferior. ”

Qin Fang shook his head and said: "Otherwise, Brother Yizhou said but I don't dare to agree, although there are many people and money here, and the cargo throughput is second to none in Jiangxia, but there is one thing, not a good place!" ”

At this moment, Yang Xi, who was originally a little proud, was also stunned. I have been running my own business for a few years, asking myself to eat, drink and have fun, it should be all good here, etc., fun, fun is not.

Sure enough, Qin Fang said: "There are many merchants coming and going here, and after most of them are purchased, in addition to drinking and eating, Brother Chenhe thinks he should do something?" ”

Jian Xian laughed dryly, expressing understanding, but Yang Xi patted his thigh and said: "Fortunately, Brother Shanxiang reminded me, I said that this Chenhe Port, now more than 100 merchants have rented a façade here, and there are at least hundreds of trips to and from the merchant team every day, and the number of people is two or three thousand, but there is no popularity. ”

It turned out that Qin Fang was talking about the fact that there were no brothels and courtyards in Chenhe Port, Yang Xi thought about it, not to mention other merchants, that is, Chenhe Shipping, there are now more than 500 shipbuilders, only a few dozen women, and now almost all of them have been divided. There are also these merchants, all from all over the world, some want to spend the night here, just to repair the inn, what is the use. These are rich people, who don't make their money, whose money they make.

But the way this brothel is operated, Yang Xi can't just do business, and he will have to get a better charter in the future.

Qin Fang was joking, but he didn't want Yang Xi to fall in love, which can be regarded as the best example of the three stinkers topping Zhuge Liang.

The three of them drank a few bottles of wine like this, and Yang Xi began to say that he wanted to invite the two of them over.

After listening to Yang Xi, Jian Xi was fine, but he was a little foggy, but Qin Fang was happy.

"Brother Chenhe, don't be joking, I helped hundreds of people in Hunan cook salt day and night, and only got 500 stone of salt in a month, you said that you have more than 200 people, and 5,000 stone of salt will be released in two months, Brother Chenhe's magic of arithmetic, isn't it bullying."

Yang Xi said cautiously: "Now the price of salt has risen to 350 yuan per catty, the cost of your salt gang is 50 yuan, the transportation and operating costs are 30 yuan, and the cost is 80 yuan." If I do, the cost can be a pound of salt and three dollars, with my Chenhe shipping ship for transportation, the transportation cost should be reduced to ten dollars a pound, you calculate, full of calculations, the cost of the whole pound, less than fifteen dollars a pound, do you believe it or not, believe me, just cooperate with me, I will definitely let the two of you want to stop in the future, hehe! ”

Yang Xi has already said this, Qin Fang still doesn't believe it, how difficult it is to change people's concepts. Finally, Yang Xi took a step back.

"Brother Shanxiang doesn't believe it, so in this case, you give me two uninhabited islands in the south of the river and the sea, as long as there is the size of Chenhe Port, it can be regarded as a favor for my brother."

"This is not difficult, not to mention a small island, now uninhabited islands, I'm afraid I don't know how much. When are you going? I'll send a guide to walk with you, and I'll take you there at any time. ”

"Good! Two days later, I will leave in more than a month, I will bring back three boats of salt, and then Brother Shanxiang can buy salt from my Chenhe Port at the price of thirty yuan a catty. ”

Qin Fang doesn't cooperate, Yang Xi can transport the salt back to his Chenhe Port first, and when the time comes, see if he still believes it. As for Jian Yan, of course, he listened to Qin Fang, and Yang Xi didn't mention the idea of letting him lead the team. When the first batch of salt arrived, it proved that what Yang Xi said was true, and the conditions at that time were different.

On the second day, the guide of the Hunan Gang was sent over, an old fisherman on the beach, in his thirties, named Qian Dahai, whose name is the name of the sea, and the key is the surname Qian.

Yang Xi entertained Qian Dahai at the Chenhe Hotel and arranged special accommodation for him in Chenhe Port.

Inspired by Qin Fang, Yang Xi called Master Lu, and asked him to build a row of single-family houses in the specially planned living area, each of which had three floors, and there were more than 20 houses in a row, but Yang Xi did not explain what these houses were used for.

This time, Yang Xi transferred three big ships, Chenhe No. 1, Chenhe No. 10, and Chenhe No. 11, with Wei Gua as the commander of the ship's guard battalion, commanding the defense of the three ships, with Bajin as the captain of Chenhe No. 1, Chenhe No. 1 as the main ship of the fleet, and the other two ships under his dispatching and command.

This mission was particularly important, so Yang Xi himself led the team, with a total of 153 guards, 3 captains, 96 people, 30 crew sailors, 1 guide and 10 carpenters.

The three boats left the port quietly, and there were no escorts on the shore, because this trip was a secret operation, and only a few people knew about it. When Liu Ba came to look for Yang Xi, he found that he had been out of the ship for two days, and Liu Ba had no choice but to leave Exian and return to Xiling.

Compared with the huge Yangtze River, the Chenhe fleet, which looks huge in Chenhe Port, is like a mud cow entering the sea in the center of the river, and it cannot attract people's attention at all.

Yang Xi walked to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River for the first time, and every time he passed a place, he had to roughly feel the azimuth distance, passing Qichun, Chaisang, Pengze, and continuing to cross the Lujiang River, Danyang, Jiujiang, and Guangling into the sea.

It took five days before and after, and the Chenhe fleet finally reached the waters off Wu County and Lou County (now Shanghai County), walked in the sea area for another half a day, passed by several small islands, and finally landed.

Yang Xi went ashore and looked at this nameless island, this island is really not big, and it only took half an hour for the fleet to circle around the island.

But after going to the island, Yang Xi felt that it was not small, compared to Chenhe Port, it was estimated to be two or three times larger, and the island was overgrown with trees, like a small hill.

Fortunately, the slope of the mountain was not very steep, and Yang Xi felt that it was barely usable, and he didn't bother to look for it again, so he set up camp on the island.

As for building houses, this is not the time, everything can only come after suffering, but time waits for no one. In two more years, Emperor Ling will die, and then the era of the real princes will come, and if there is no place for it, there will be no place to bury it.

Yang Xi ordered people to hide the boat in a small bay, ordered people to guard it day and night, and after a day's rest, someone went to the mountains to look for water. Most people started to clear the land in the dirt above the beach. This field is not a rice field, but is prepared for drying salt.

It took seven or eight days for twenty or thirty salt pans to be opened, but these salt pans were not square salt pans, but terraced rice fields, which were cultivated up the hillside. The salt pans, which have been reclaimed, have already sent people to carry seawater in wooden barrels and expose them to the sun. In the summer of July, when the sun was the most poisonous, only a few days, the earliest salt pans had been more than half sunburned, but Yang Xi ordered people to fill water again.

In this way, day by day, day by day, day by day, more and more salt fields, fifteen days later, suddenly someone screamed loudly, Yang Xi was also a little excited.

"It's almost, I should go and see it, these earth leopards who have never seen the world have already learned basic chemistry, and they haven't even seen the coarse salt and mother liquor left after evaporating the seawater."

In fact, not only others, Yang Xi himself also felt excited, only to see that in the first few salt fields, coarse salt crystals have been crystallized, although not much, but when the seawater completely evaporates, only table salt and some liquid minerals that cannot be evaporated are left, that is, the mother liquor.

At this point, both newcomers and old people respect Yang Xi like a god. I am even more convinced of the books written with Yang Xi.

As for those who have just come out of the primary training for a month and got on the ship, they have a stronger sense of belonging to the Chenhe factory.