In the wasteland about a mile south of Wanzikou Village, hundreds of Liaodong refugees sat neatly on the grass, watching Chu Fan and a man in a blue silk jacket squatting on the ground, pointing to a big drawing and discussing.

This black silk jacket was sent by a grain merchant in Nadengzhou, surnamed Lu Mingdu, 29 years old this year, who has been apprenticed with a grain merchant for more than ten years, and was originally going to be sent to Yangzhou. After the grain merchant invested 50,000 taels of silver, he sent him over, saying that he was assisting Chu Fan in setting up a tobacco factory.

Not only grain merchants, but also Cai Zhifu, who had invested 20,000 taels of silver, as well as Bing Beidao, Feng Lao and others who had 10,000 taels of silver, also "recommended" people to Chu Fan, some said that they helped manage the accounts, and some said that they helped manage the purchase, there were seven or eight people.

said that he was helping, but Chu Fan was like a mirror in his heart, wasn't he afraid that he would run away with the money?

At the banquet that day, Chu Fan only took a few seconds to think clearly, after all, it was white silver, and it was inevitable that everyone would worry, so he would simply put the cigarette factory in Dengzhou under their noses - the cigarette factory produced serious cigarettes and sold them in Daming; Added cigarettes are still placed on Niudao Island and sold exclusively in the country.

As for the eyeliner stuffed by the shareholders, it can all be arranged in the cigarette factory - these eyeliners are all experienced and familiar hands, which just makes up for Chu Fan's shortcomings in the current shortage of people everywhere.

This also has an advantage, that is, all Chu Fan's actions in Dengzhou in the future can be carried out in the name of the tobacco factory, which is bright and bright, and can get the help of all shareholders.

The bad thing is that his wishful thinking of recruiting enough people to avoid Niudao has failed again - the fanfare recruitment in Shahe has already attracted attention, and if it weren't for the Penglai Pavilion fundraising meeting, someone would definitely have jumped out to stop it now.

Speaking of which, Chu Fan really doesn't want to deal with these officials of the Ming Dynasty, they are greedy and shameless, and they are still conservative, and they have no responsibility at all, how can they be relieved to cooperate with them?

However, life is not as good as it should be, and it is always eight * nine! Chu Fan can only comfort himself like this now.

"Young Master Chu, do you want to build a brick wall to enclose this large area?" Lu Du asked, looking at the charcoal drawings

"Yes, the entire factory area should be completely isolated," Chu Fan nodded, pointing to a point on the drawing, "So the brick factory should be the first batch to be built, in the factory area, well, here, there is a small hill, dug just to burn bricks." ”

The black silk jacket looked up for a moment, found the small hill, and nodded, "Understood." ”

After speaking, he buried his head again, looked at the drawings carefully and asked, "Young Master Chu, this factory building is so large, but I haven't seen any pillars, I'm afraid that it will collapse...... And the same is true of this warehouse...... I can understand this cafeteria, but what is this dormitory? ”

His first question, Chu Fan admitted, was that he was not thoughtful - the houses in this era are not like the color steel factories of later generations, and they will definitely not work without pillars.

The second question, Chu Fan explained to Lu Du for a long time, but he couldn't convince the latter - in Lu Du's opinion, recruiting people to work, pay wages and manage meals is already a great kindness, how can you still help people build houses? Isn't this just an increase in costs?

In the end, Chu Fan had to bring out the shelf of the big shopkeeper to subdue him, and then the two repeated this argument several times: for example, the bathhouse where the female workers changed their clothes and bathed, Lu Du thought it was redundant, and then he was very dissatisfied with Chu Fan's need to unify the tooling; For example, for the greening of the factory, Lu Du's opinion is even greater, he can't figure out how to make the workers happy, he has to plant flowers and trees, that is a lot of money!

However, complaining is complaining, after Chu Fan ordered him to do so in the tone of a big shopkeeper, Lu Du immediately nodded and agreed.

It was easy to explain to Lu Du how to build the tobacco factory, and Chu Fan watched him divide the Liaodong refugees into several groups, building brick kilns, digging soil, and drawing planning lines...... Even the logistics of who is responsible for buying rice and vegetables, who is responsible for cooking, and who is responsible for stir-frying and making soup are all arranged in a very organized manner.

Seeing that he was so meticulous and sincere, Chu Fan was more and more satisfied with him in his heart, and it seemed that he was really right to choose this Lu Du to be the director of the tobacco factory - this kind of person who admits death and drills the horns and is in good order is the most suitable person to be the person in charge of the production enterprise.

After leaving the cigarette factory construction site, Chu Fan didn't even care about going back to his home, so he rode on his horse and continued to face south, and after galloping for four or five miles, he came to a hidden mountain nest.

As soon as I arrived at the mountain pass, I heard the familiar password voice, "One-two-one...... One-two-one, stand! ”

After Chu Fan turned into the mountain nest, a hot drill scene appeared in front of him.

I saw that in the mountain clearing, the escort team, including the pillars, each brought about 20 people, divided into eight groups and were practicing, either in battle posture, or walking in the right steps, and there were also those running in circles around the mountainside -- the escort team had recruited 100 people, and Ge Bi had found forty or fifty sailors, all of whom were training here.

Liu Zhongwen, as the leader of the escort team, naturally did not have to lead the team in person, and stood on the sidelines with his hands and legs behind his back and watched silently.

"How? Is there any progress? Chu Fan walked up to him and asked.

"It's okay," Liu Zhongwen pursed his lips, looking at a homeless man who was beaten by Doudou crackling and beating the military stick in the field, "I started practicing from Lushun, and now it's been seven days, and these guys can be regarded as having a clear difference." ”

"Hey!" Chu Fan shook his head and said, "This speed is not possible, there is still a guard detachment waiting for the escort detachment to guard over there...... Now that Ling Ming is a few of them, I really don't feel at ease. ”

Liu Zhongwen sighed and said, "This matter is not urgent...... This isn't boring, he's playing with the twenty people in the life drill detachment. ”

The stuffy man is the old brother who followed the pillar into the escort team, 2 years older than the pillar, he looks honest, he doesn't talk much, and he often doesn't say a word for a day, so he got such a nickname, but no one remembers his big name Qian Jikai.

Because he is more down-to-earth and obedient, after discussing with Liu Zhongwen, Chu Fan planned to let him bring a 20-person escort detachment to guard Niu Island.

"It's really not possible, just let the stuffy guy take people directly to Niujima...... Where to practice is not practice," Chu Fan thought for a while and said, "I estimate that Yang Dijiao should also arrive in the next few days, and then let the stuffy man take the detachment and go with the first batch of people." ”

“…… Yes," Liu Zhongwen nodded, and then remembered something, "There is another thing, I'm afraid we won't be in this place for long...... If you want to practice firecrackers, you'll have to change places! ”

This is indeed a difficult problem, even the basic training of military posture and queue has to be hidden in this mountain nest, and the fight is even more earth-shattering, what kind of place should I find to hide people's eyes and ears?

Chu Fan thought about it, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he thought of a good place.

[Thanks for the big correction :)]