"Four million taels in total! So it's almost all spent at once! ”

Ten miles southwest of Yantai, in a shallow sea, Yang Chao's spaceship was lying here. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the spaceship, Yang Chao asked Lao Jiu to count the boxes of white and swaying Mexican Eagle Ocean, and found that the port construction had almost emptied his own family.

Where did the boxes of silver coins in the spaceship, this is Yang Chao's money, come from? Of course it came from the sea.

After a trip from China to Europe, Yang Chao was not idle, salvaged many Chinese shipwrecks in Chinese waters, and of course it was impossible to let go of the treasure ships of the Spaniards transporting treasures.

However, it was only a few ships salvaged along the way, probably on the route from Mexico to Spain, and there were three sea ships in a row, all of which were loaded with Spanish gold and silver coins.

"See how many gold coins there are?"

"Two hundred thousand taels!"

Yang Chao nodded with satisfaction, looking at several boxes of gold coins and gold bars, totaling 200,000 customs taels, which is seven tons, but when converted into pounds, it is only more than one million pounds, five million dollars, and more than six million taels of silver.

"Enough. It's just how to transport it back? ”

Yang Chao was a little troubled, how could he get such a large amount of silver from the sea to the Yamen and send someone here to pick it up? It's so unreliable.

Yang Chao suddenly found that he lacked a nest to cover his façade, and he couldn't help but think in his heart.

It seems that there is a lot of wasteland along the coast.

In this era, it is not that there is a lack of land as imagined by later generations, but that a lot of land cannot be developed, especially along the coast, where the saline-alkali land adds up to more than 100 million mu.

These lands are often formed by the continuous impact of sediment from rivers and the coastline is pushed back, and the sediment accumulation is naturally very flat, which is logically suitable for farming, but there is a problem that these lands are generally salinized.

Zhang Jian engaged in industry to save the country, established the Tonghai Reclamation and Animal Husbandry Company on the coast of Nantong, and finally opened up more than 5 million mu of cultivated land, and Shandong's saline-alkali land is no less than that of Jiangsu, and most of it is concentrated on the coast of the Bohai Bay south of Yantai.

How did this wasteland come about, look at the Yellow River flowing into the sea from here, and there will be an answer.

The sediment of the Yellow River washes into the coast, slowly silts up, and finally emerges from the sea every year, becoming a barren beach.

Soil salinization is generally related to water. For example, in the arid zone of northwest China, where evaporation is high and precipitation is low, salt dissolved in water tends to accumulate on the surface of the soil, resulting in salinization. It is also related to the topography, and the water-soluble salt moves from high to low with the water and accumulates in low-lying areas, so low-lying areas are prone to salinization. There is also the influence of groundwater, the groundwater level is raised, and it is easy to bring the salt in the formation to the surface, forming saline-alkali land. There are also coastal areas where coastal saline-alkali soils are formed due to seawater immersion.

Laizhou Bay this long saline-alkali land, is how to come, the Yellow River water seepage is too high groundwater level, seawater once again and again impregnation aggravated the salinity, the combined force of the two effects, not only make the coastal areas of Shandong more saline-alkali land, and the alkaline is very heavy, there is no possibility of cultivation at all.

What's more appropriate is that Shandong's main saline-alkali barren beach is just along the coast of Denglai Qing Sanfu, which can be under the control of Yang Chao, and immediately wrote a letter to the prefect of Sanfu, they are happy to be a favor, saying that the coastal barren beach is occupied by Yang Chaoquan.

Even in the 21st century, Shandong's saline-alkali land and barren land area are more than 5 million mu, and in the Qing Dynasty, it was even more, probably 7 or 8 million mu, but a larger amount of saline-alkali land near the mouth of the Yellow River belongs to Wuding Prefecture and is not under the jurisdiction of Yang Chao, otherwise this continuous wasteland area is afraid that there are not as many as 10 million mu.

After studying the map for a long time, the more he studied, the more Yang Chao sighed, and finally decided to write a letter to the governor of Shandong, he wanted to encircle the barren beach of the Yellow River estuary of this generation, that is, the wasteland of Lijin and Kenli counties, the reason is very simple, this is located at the mouth of the Yellow River, the later Dongying is here, there is a big oil field there, if you engage in construction, where is the most suitable place to choose the nest.

explained in detail to Zhou Fu that he planned to reclaim wasteland and use wasteland to engage in industry, hoping to encircle a wasteland at the mouth of the Yellow River, Zhou Fu was not as good at talking as those prefects, and he replied to allow Yang Chao to occupy 10,000 acres of wasteland, but not to occupy people's land, not to disturb the people.

After getting Zhou Fu's reply, Yang Chao immediately chose a location, asked Lao Jiu to drive the spaceship over, and built a building there.

In 1901, at the beginning of November, a black monster landed a few miles away from the water, up the Yellow River.

Although it is a saline-alkali land, it is not too barren, and the tenacious vitality of the wild grass has long conquered here, at this time there are yellowish wild grasses everywhere, a piece of withered yellow, and there are fluffy white tidbits hanging on it, which are fluttering in the wind, and may be blown away by the wind at any time.

Grain cannot be grown on saline-alkali land, but it is suitable for the growth of some salt-alkali tolerant weeds, such as motherwort, which is a specialty of this saline-alkali land, but in addition to these motherwort, alkali grass, artemisia and other alkali-tolerant grass species, there is not a single tree near and far.

Suddenly, a large black disc with a diameter of more than 200 meters and a diameter of nearly 100 zhang slowly floated out of the turbid surface of the Yellow River, and then floated, and at the bottom of the disk, more than 800 fumaroles spewed out high-speed air currents downward, dragging the entire spacecraft up, and then rushing into the wilderness with the splashed Yellow River water vapor.

Sticking to the tip of the barren grass and flying for several miles, until a village ten miles away, it stopped, that village needless to say, it is the Dongying Village that Yang Chao has already selected, it is said that there was this village in the Tang Dynasty, the Taitang Sect went east, and the two camps in the east and west were named here.

Soon a disc fell on a barren flat ground with wild grass and a mottled surface covered with hoarfrost, and just fell to the ground, in the more than 800 holes that had just been squirted, more than 800 metal tentacles the thickness of arms stretched out at the same time, and the tentacles quietly plunged into the ground like snakes.

Then the ground was as if it had been arched by more than eight hundred pythons, and everywhere became loose, and at the same time the ground began to grow, and soon grew into a dirt bag, arching the black disc.

But this is not done yet, it is still very early to complete, this place is piled up by sediment, dig a few feet down, is the fine sediment of the Yellow River, this sediment is completely useless to the local people, but for Yang Chao's spaceship, it is a good building material, piles of sediment are swallowed by the tentacles of the spaceship like earthworms, turn around in the spaceship, and immediately become hot magma-like, and then erupt from other tentacles, piled up little by little, and finally become a circular stone wall.

The stone wall grew slowly, until it grew to a height of six meters before stopping, the stone wall with a diameter of more than two hundred and thirty meters, squatting on it an inverted watermelon-like disc, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a rural barn, but the size is too scary.

However, the black disc lying on the roof looked listless, really listless, because all the energy that the ship had accumulated since it could absorb the solar energy was used up in one night.

It's just that no one knows about it yet, including Dongying Village, which is ten miles away.

For the villagers of Dongying Village, November has come to winter, the weather in the north is unusually cold, there are no mountains to shelter the sea breeze, so the winter is particularly cold, so they can go out less often, even the most playful children, it is impossible to drill into the yellow grass beach ten miles deep to play.

If it was summer, there would have been some people who came to herd sheep, but now it's winter, and the ghosts will come to this place.

It wasn't until the tenth day that one of them finally got angry with his parents and ran to hide in the grass beach where he often came to play, but he was suddenly startled by a big building that suddenly appeared.

The child had no idea when this building appeared, nor who built it, let alone how, he looked at a building curiously, and kept touching it with his hand to silently start with a piece of cold, no different from a frozen stone in the field.

Of course, this can indeed be seen as a stone, because the way of the trip is similar, it is made up of melted quartz sand, so to speak, this is a huge granite, but it is hollow inside.

"Hey, boy, what are you doing around my house?"

The child was suddenly startled, and when he turned around, he realized that he didn't know when, five horses and five people appeared behind him.

The child was a little overwhelmed by these strangers who suddenly appeared.

Dongying Village has always had very few people, after all, there are some saline-alkali land around here, and there is not much development value, the people of Dongying Village have lived here for generations, and they have only opened up some land around the village, even if they have worked very hard, but the output in the land is still low and pitiful, and they usually rely on hunting and herding sheep in the yellow grass beach to barely make a living.

"I, I don't know."

The child suddenly burst out of the sentence.

"Don't know what?"

Immediately asked alone.

The child said, "I didn't know this was your home." ”

"Hahahaha!"

The man on the horse burst into laughter.

Then he turned to a few people next to him and said, "This is our house." Black Bull, you can bring your daughter-in-law. ”

Immediately, it was Yang Chao, who finished speaking to Hei Niu, and saw several other people with envious looks.

Yang Chao continued: "If you are willing, you can also take your daughters-in-law over." Simply, bring everyone over. ”

Saying that, Yang Chao had already made up his mind to bring those dozens of soldiers, along with their daughters-in-law, here.

Those soldiers were already on the road at this time, they were still staying in Jinan because they didn't have a house, and now they don't have to worry, the stone house under the spaceship, although it is only more than six meters high, but it has two floors, and the diameter of more than two hundred meters ensures that the area of one floor is more than 100,000 square meters, and it is more than enough to separate a hundred houses.