Of course, salt industry alone is not enough, he brought more than a thousand young people to the seaside, not only to build a salt factory, he also needs to find a deep-water harbor, build a wharf, develop maritime trade, and build a sailor.

Moreover, Cui's caravan had a private wharf at the mouth of the White Wolf River, which was the mouth of the Daling River, and also built a cargo store, with a small number of private soldiers stationed. But Zhuang Yi doesn't have time to look at it at the moment, and he doesn't plan to take it back, he needs Cui's help to get some sea boats. When your own wharf is completed and you have ships, you can do maritime trade. Then build a shipyard, design and build your own warships, and everything will be there.

In fact, there is no need to find a place to build a wharf, he knows from memory that in the entire eastern Liaodong, there are places that are most suitable for building a sailor base. There is one right now, and about fifty miles southwest of this salt farm, there is a peninsula, which is simply a natural wharf. But his time must be barren saline land, and he needs to see it before making a decision.

Guo Wengbo also knew about this place, but it was inconvenient for him to go in person, so he called his eldest son Guo Dalang and four or five young people to take Zhuang Yi there.

Guo Dalang is in his thirties, tall and strong, dark-complexion, honest and honest, and does not like to talk. Zhuang Yi didn't ask him, he rode on the horse, just thinking about hurrying away.

"Guo Dalang! Is there a village over there? How many families are there? Zhuang Yi asked.

"There are more than 30 families ......," Guo Dalang said with a smile.

"That's not right...... Obviously there are 38 households, less than the people in my village, the village is called Qingpu Village, the people in the village are rowing small sampans out to sea to fish, they don't boil salt, the village is by the Putou River, I went there last year. A young man in his twenties next to him named Guo Wulang said at this time.

"Oh...... Do you know that from here to Yuguan, there are villages on the road? Zhuang Yi asked with a smile.

"I've also been to Yuguan, but I haven't seen it on the road anyway, and I haven't heard of anyone on it. As far as our people are concerned, they still moved from Liucheng! Guo Wulang explained.

"Huh...... I see! It is really a big wilderness, but when the Shahuwan salt farm is built, and there is this wharf and port, the population here will definitely increase in the future. ”

"Zhuang Jun Envoy! Are you telling the truth? If there is a large population here, there is no need to worry about the family, we can also join the army! Guo Wulang looked at the beautiful bright light armor of the guards, and his eyes were full of envy.

"Haha! We don't recruit this year, and you can come next year! That's right...... Do you know how to swim? Zhuang Yi laughed.

"Yes! People in our village, children dare to go into the water! Like me, it is not a problem to swim three or four miles into the water and come back. ”

"Not bad...... When this is done, I will register the household registration of your two villages, and I will all need to be able to swim, and I will train into the navy in the future. Zhuang Yi said with a smile, this is the seed of a sailor and sailor, otherwise, with the people he brought from Madu Mountain and the Shanbei grassland, all of them are landlubbers, and it will take a long time to train to become sailors.

A group of more than 50 people rode horses, and arrived at the village by the Putou Creek in half a day, and there were large green wheat fields in the fields, and the wheat seedlings were growing well. Some villagers who were working in the fields suddenly saw dozens of cavalry horses, and they were so frightened that they threw down their farm tools and ran away.

"The people in troubled times are like frightened birds...... Zhuang Yi shook his head and smiled bitterly, sighed with emotion, turned his head to Guo Wulang and said: "You go to the village to spread a word, just tell the truth!" ”

Guo Wulang agreed with a smile and went into the village first. Zhuang Yi asked the soldiers to dismount and rested on the side of the road for a while.

Not long after, people came to the village, and dozens of young people surrounded an old man in his fifties and sixties with gray hair who stepped forward, and the old man tilted his head to look at Zhuang Yi for a long time, and then he saluted: "It is said that you are the new Yingzhou soldier and horse envoy, the little old man's surname is Hou, and the unknown military envoy is coming. ”

"My husband doesn't need to be polite! I heard that you have a good terrain here, and you can build a harbor wharf, I came here today to see the situation, I wonder how far your village is from the sea? ”

"Not far, not far...... Thirty or forty miles south of the Putou River on the other side of the village, it is the seaside, and if you go straight to the east for seventy or eighty miles, you can also reach the seaside. ”

"That's a good feeling...... There are about fifty of us here, and we will camp outside your village for a few days, and then we will return after some investigation. And also...... You need to register the population of your village...... Don't worry, just register, don't pay your taxes. ”

Speaking of household registration, Zhang Lao looked nervous, and Zhuang Yi had to explain in detail to dispel his concerns. Immediately, Zhang Lao led the way to a wasteland outside the village, where Zhuang Yi camped and stayed temporarily.

The next day, Zhuang Yi led 10 soldiers, rowed by the villagers with about 20 fishing boats and small sampans, and after going south along the Putou River for more than 20 miles, they really arrived at the mouth of the sea. It was the beginning of March, the ocean monsoon was moving south, and it was located in the Bohai Bay, so the sea was calm and there were no big winds and waves.

Zhuang Yi was okay, the ten soldiers were pale and confused, and the villagers were snickering, but when they saw that Zhuang Yi was not seasick, they couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

On this day, the fleet followed the coastline all the way north, and arrived at the Shahuwan Salt Works in only half a day, rested here for one night, and returned to Qingpu Village the next day. In the days that followed, Zhuang Yi asked the villagers to lead the way around the peninsula, which was very large, with a radius of dozens of miles, and it was more than enough to build docks, shipyards, and naval bases.

But at the moment, Zhuang Yi did not have enough labor to start the work, so he had to first roughly survey the terrain and draw a detailed map of the entire peninsula, and when several major projects were completed, the matter here could be put on the agenda.

Seven days later, Zhuang Yi said goodbye to Mr. Zhang, who asked the villagers to give him two bags of salted fish and some home-brewed fruit wine. Zhuang Yi didn't shirk, let the soldiers accept it, and went all the way back to the Shahuwan Salt Field.

The seaside stalls have been dug up, that is, they are surrounded by rough stones and bad soil on the beach, like paddy fields, when the sea water is at high tide, it will be submerged, and when the tide is low, it will naturally form a large puddle, which will be exposed to the water by the sun, and at the same time, the sediment will also be filtered, and then the salty soil will be scraped and steamed into salt.

But you can't just wait for the tide to rise, because that's too much trouble. Zhuang Yi drew a drawing of the overturned car to the carpenters, asked them to take the wood to build, and personally supervised and instructed, and after the first forming test, he no longer cared about the water diversion.

This thing of overturning, also called keel waterwheel, is a kind of manpower as the power to step on the runner, the scraper on the runner is continuously lifting water, this pure wooden machinery is not difficult to build, it appeared in the Three Kingdoms period, it was perfected by the famous craftsman Ma Jun at that time, and promoted in large quantities, to the Tang Dynasty, the folk have been widely used.