After the breakup, Zhang Ting was not so light, and after the banquet, he hurriedly returned to Meng's Mansion to meet the head of the family, Meng Guangshan, this is not a small business, and it is not a trivial matter involving silver and copper, which can only be decided by the head of the family.

Meng Guangshan, who is in his early forties, is meditating in the study at this time, because the inspection department will reduce the Meng family's salt introduction by one-fifth next year, Meng Guangshan has a big headache, and he can't come to the door to ask to see, he understands that the previous few companies colluded to expand their salt introduction, reducing their own income from other small and medium-sized families. This reduction in the Meng family is still a loss, but it will be reduced again next year, although the family has already spread out in the money bank, warehouse, shipping and other places just in case, however, the windfall of the salt administration is still the big one, and this is the direction of the wind, which is a sign of whether the business is close to the official family, and it also indirectly affects other businesses in the family.

"Call him in." Hearing Zhang Ting's request to see, Meng Guangshan was a little surprised, although Zhang Ting was the youngest of the three chief stewards, only in his thirties, but he has always been diligent and cautious, and it was the first time to come so late, Meng Guangshan could only hope that the news was not too bad.

After Zhang Ting entered, he didn't dare to delay the head of the family too much time at night, and after the ceremony, he told everything he had talked about with Huang Han today, and asked Meng Guangshan to decide.

Meng Guangshan thought about it again and again, there is a certain risk, after all, it is the smuggling of goods from the Japanese state, but with such a large volume, this three-rank commander must be a joint shareholder with other powerful ministers and nobles, and the risk is not great. And if you take the road from this, you will benefit greatly from the expansion of your own money bank and warehouse, not to mention that you can also make connections with the commander and the people behind you.

"Well, Zhang Ting, for the sake of safety, after the handover of the goods is completed, you will go to Shandong with this person to see if it is as he said. If what he said is true, it is a good thing for both of us and me, as he said, Zhang Ting, you are the first to take credit. Meng Guangshan set the charter.

Zhang Ting's heart was hot and hurriedly agreed.

Zhang Ting began to list the goods the next day, deployed his own ships, and arrived in Zhenjiang three days later to trade the payment.

Around the Ming Dynasty a group of heroes are not idle, Zhao Lie is even more busy, this year is about to enter the winter, winter wheat and cultivation is completed, but next year's harvest after the schedule is in front of us, Zhao Lie is counting on this land as a test field for agricultural income, fertilizer is the top priority, later generations, due to the hot sale of organic vegetables, so that Zhao Lie's second uncle eyes are hot, it is Zhao Lie from the Internet to query, and help uncle to establish high-temperature organic fertilizer, after two years to explore skillfully, in the suburbs of the greenhouse to grow vegetables, greatly improved the income of the uncle's family. Fattening is also a breeze.

Zhao Lie asked Liu Ping to gather 100 middle-aged and elderly military households who farmed the land to demonstrate how to fatten at high temperatures in a military field on the outskirts of the town. It is known as the Qi people's technique. It's actually quite simple.

All the beggars and military households were suspicious and went into battle, digging pits, cutting rods, laying layers, adding water, and were very busy, as for whether to believe it or not, God knows, anyway, after Mr. Li looked at it for a while, he left in advance, Zhu Ying, Zheng Yimin, and Liu Ping were Zhao Lie's subordinates, and left with a bitter face, Liu Ping was Zhao Lie's full-time responsibility for this matter, and he had to shout and urge everyone to master it skillfully.

Zhao Lie looked at the duplicitous response of the crowd, and he didn't bother to say much, before there was no result, it was useless to say more, but when Shangguan spoke, such people didn't dare not do it. Zhao Lie felt that he was like some officials in later generations in the minds of the military households, who obviously did not understand agriculture, but it was an idea to pat his head and ask for a crop or fruit to be planted below, and to ask for merit reports on what kind of agricultural economies of scale are called in the name of the United States, how to generate income for farmers and quickly reap political achievements, as for the harvest and aftermath that is the business of the next official.

More than ten days later, a large number of Weihai division warships led by Yu Fu of Fukushima to Shidao, transported a large number of materials such as limestone, thousands of Liao people, dozens of craftsmen, and the remnants of the army led by Guo Tao and Xu Hong. The hustle and bustle of Shidao began, the first thing was to build a wharf first, which was the top priority, Zhao Lie personally went into battle, and gave a speech at the opening ceremony, saying that each person should be paid half a tael of silver per month and provide three full meals. The Liao people shouted thunderously, and the people worshipped. Then Zhao Lie led Du Li, Wang Quan and more than 20 military surpluses, divided the manpower into several waves, divided the Liao people into a thousand corps, a hundred corps, and a Shi team, which was convenient for dispatch, and began to build wharves, underground nests, and planning craftsman households, government offices, military camps, residential areas, shop areas, medical halls, brick kilns, lime kilns, forts and other functional areas, and also excavated drying kilns under the advice of shipwrights, and the martyrs' shrine was also surveyed on a dirt hill in the west of the island bay. At the foot of the mountain, a pig farm and a chicken and duck farm were also built, which were taken care of by Liao women. After all, the meat of tens of thousands of people is not a trivial matter, without meat supplement, the physical strength of the refugees is difficult to maintain, Zhao Lie wants the Liao people who are alive and jumping, not the sick seedlings, although the fields cannot be produced immediately and even have to be invested, but a large amount of output will be produced in a few months, and it will be much more saved than buying at that time. Zhao Lie is also funny sometimes, in later generations, he was a crack army and a streamlined government, removing the problems of the small society of state-owned enterprises, but he wanted to establish a small and complete circle in Shidao.

After a few days of hectic work, I finally had a little clue, the wharf was built, most of the ground was excavated, most of the kiln mouth was excavated, the location of each area has been determined, the whole Shidao Bay is a big construction site, smoke and dust everywhere, bustling, noisy, and changing the silence of this place. In order to speed up the progress of the project, Zhao Lie sent such a big killer as cement, limestone Dengzhou is produced, the price is cheap, under Zhao Haiming's order, Weihai Haishi took out a few Cangshan ships to transport, that is really the command of the order who dares to disobey.

Clay stone island in the northwest of the production, mixed into the kiln calcining, out of the kiln after the crushing and grinding can be, in this era do not point to the ball mill, are used to pull the stone pulled by the cow to crush the crush, and finally manually in the mashing some, the efficiency is very poor, the powder fineness is poor on several levels, but, after all, it is the original cement, drying into a row is fast, the hardness is high, greatly speeding up the speed of construction. However, the degree of coarse cracking of the particles is a bit large, in Zhao Lie's words, deal with it, after all, it does not use manpower and animal power to ram the earth, which greatly saves time, so many roads and houses If they are built of rammed earth, they will not be completed in two years.

Zhao Lie also established a salt factory in the southeast corner of the bay, the Ming Dynasty at this time is still boiling salt, basically no salt, so labor, firewood consumption is very much, the cost of salt production is quite high, and in later generations along the coast of Liaoning Zhao Lie has seen the folk self-made salt drying site, that is, using cement to build several salt ponds along the gentle coast along the seashore, into a stepped shape, when the tide is high, the sea water flows into the salt pond along the inlet, and the entrance is closed when it is overflowing, so that the seawater stays in the hardened salt pond, and the scorching sun is exposed, and the seaside wind evaporates and blows the water dry, leaving salt crystals, The shallower pond at the top crystallizes first, and then the seawater below is poured into the top pond with the already high salinity, and the salt crystals continue to thicken, and so on. Between the salt price of the people of Damingkeng, and the shyness of his own pocket, Zhao Lie decided to copy the salt pond, and the extra sea salt can also be sold nearby, and dried fish can also be salted.

Zhang Huan, Lan San, Yu Qiang and other fishermen's families are also in full swing, the military master sent a reward, buy a large number of fresh fish, the amount is staggering, the small fishing village can drive all the fishing boats, the small boats are fishing in the bay off the coast, the two slightly larger dilapidated fishing boats to the east to the Shidao fishing grounds.

Zhao Lie stipulated that breakfast was gruel and pickles, dry rice and sea vegetable soup at noon, and seafood at night. Zhao Lie and everyone crawled around the bay, lived in a nest, ate seafood, and laughed at himself in his spare time that he was addicted to seafood in this life, and he could eat until he vomited, and he avoided smelling the smell of seafood.

Ten days later, when Zhao Lie arrived at the Chishan Town Government Office with forty soldiers, Mr. Li was stunned when he looked at Zhao Lie, whose face was full of dust and the wrinkles of his clothes were sour. Wang Yue and Juan'er were even more distressed tears.

Zhao Lie bathed and changed clothes, had a full meal, and finally could stop eating fish at a time, sleep soundly, and relieve fatigue.

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