Chapter Thirty-Seven: The First Appearance
Time passed in the busy, more than a month was fleeting, when the first heavy snow came, Shidao Bay all changed, there were several straight streets in the north of the bay, government offices, markets, hospitals, barracks, and even public baths, but these are the main buildings, standing alone on several streets, the west is a large area of shacks, extending to the foot of the mountain, the refugees of Weihai have all moved to Shidao, even Zhao Meng and Wanji have come to Shidao, the broken army has also entered the barracks, and the artisan camp has also been put into use, Zhao Lie snatched Yuan Yi, Guo Fu and other craftsmen of the Weihai division to Shidao, only the shipyard coastal planning a rough framework, Huang Han and Wang Quan had already gone to southern Fujian to hire shipbuilders and iron smelters, and bought a large number of Fujian iron and corn seeds.
The brick kilns and lime kilns are full of black smoke and busy, and they are still burning bricks and limestone, which are urgently needed in the constantly built stone island. The adjacent craftsman's workshop also made a constant noise all day long, and the movement was not small, and the armor, firearms, and gunpowder began to be trial-produced. Garment factories are also running at full speed, making ready-to-wear garments, shoes and socks for refugees and war uniforms for soldiers.
In the official office of Chishan Town, Zhao Lie sipped hot tea and listened to the measurement results of the fields.
"My lord, the total number of acres of land this time is more than 26,000 acres, including more than 6,000 acres of upper fields, more than 5,000 acres of depressions, and 14,000 acres of slope land, of which most of the slopes and depressions have been abandoned." Xu Hong's loud voice echoed in the hall, "In addition, the acres of land of each military household have been re-registered, and those who are less than 30 acres have been made up. ”
"My lord, all the fertilization in various places has been completed, and now it is just checking the heat every few days, adding hot water, and individual military households are lazy and slacking off, and their subordinates are playing the board together with hundreds of households. The penalty was deducted. Liu Ping reported the matter of fertilization.
"Okay, very good," Zhao Lie was also very satisfied, dozens of people in the official office were all in a big circle, and Zhao Lie also did not hesitate to reward. "The reward is ten taels of silver per person, and those who are loyal to the state should be rewarded sparingly."
Xu Hong knelt down excitedly and thanked him. Ten taels of silver, that's nearly a year's worth of silver.
Zhu Ying, Zheng Yimin, and Liu Ping were also full of emotion, a few months ago, a few people thought that Zhao Lie was measuring the acres of land with great fanfare, thinking that they were doing enough work for their greed for ink acres, who would have thought that Zhao Lie would really give all the acres of land to such a muddy leg, in the old officialdom, I really couldn't understand what Zhao Lie was asking for. Running back and forth in the winter, dusty and dusty, eating a big pot of rice, wearing tattered clothes, not deducting food and livestock to support the family, and not greedy for money in Motianmu, such a few generals have never seen it, and a few people have not figured out Zhao Lie all day long, Zhao Lie is unique in the Ming officialdom.
Mr. Li nodded secretly, more than half a year ago, when Zhao Lie was arguing about the situation in the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that he had Su Qin and Zhang Yi's eloquence and Zhang Liang's vision, and in the past few months, he has Zhang Taiyue's hard work, Zhuge Liang's things must be bowed to himself, and Mr. Li, who has a lot of experience, can't accurately evaluate Zhao Lie, he has never heard of such a person, he is both civil and military, persistent and hard-working, and will become a Qi Ye in the future? Father-in-law? It's not like it, and I really can't know what this son will accomplish in the future. Zhao Haiming is really blessed, his son is much older than Zhao Lie, and now he is still stuck in the pile of books and lacks experience, a pure nerd. The gap between the two is insignificant.
Zhao Lie instructed the government office to dispatch good manpower to repair the irrigation canal and dig irrigation wells in March. Liu Ping and Xu Hong are also responsible for this matter.
Thousands of households recruited a hundred clerks, these clerks will become Mr. Xuetang, teaching Liao children to read big characters, while teaching soldiers in the army, this matter is in charge of Mr. Li, decades of hard study, and finally the Golden Palace roll call is only a very few, only three hundred people in the palace test, and the whole world in the imperial examination on the road to run no less than hundreds of thousands of people, not in the middle of the people do not know how many, many people sell their property to barely support their studies, so several times missed, that is, poverty, Therefore, being able to be a clerk and have a share of food and salary is the wish of many children from poor families, and Zhao Lie is not worried about not being able to recruit people.
In the end, Zhao Lie once again made a decision that shocked everyone to the point of numbness, planting all sweet potatoes on the slopes and sorghum on the swales in the spring. This is a god horse thing, sorghum has always been planted on the slope, can Lord Zhao not be so nonsense, you must know that the output of acres is the foundation of thousands of households, once the yield is greatly damaged, the whole thousand households have to make a fuss. Mr. Li also clicked his eyes and put Zhao Lie into the ranks of those who still had to be trained. However, Li Mingyu didn't say anything, Zhao Lie was on the rise, maybe it would be a good thing to encounter a little setback, and he would lose some money and food, Zhao Haiming and Lord Zhao would definitely not stand idly by, and he could afford to pay tens of thousands of taels of silver.
In the silence, Zhao Lie returned to Shidao Bay with satisfaction, officially trained the captive army, and formed a naval division.
The formation of the sailor is focused on the future, the sailor is the first priority in Zhao Lie's mind, as a later generation of people Zhao Lie understands too well that the sailor is the key to his own life and death, at present, this foundation is really insignificant, several major forces in the south are hundreds of sea ships, of course, there are few big ships, most of them are 100 tons, or even dozens of tons of small boats, but this is not Zhao Lie can compare. The formation of sailors must be based on the long-term, and it is better to wait for people to wait for ships than for ships. Zhao Lie summoned more than 3,000 descendants of fishermen from the Liao people, or young and strong people who grew up by the sea to form a sailor, but this kind of sailor only has a few bird boats, sand boats, and a Cangshan can be practiced, so he has to train in batches, and turn around in and around Shidao Bay, and let them go to the queue in their spare time to correct military discipline.
The bustling training of the sailors and soldiers in Shidao Bay also made Shidao Bay not too empty in winter, and it had some popularity.
Sea ships, there are still too few, but to build a ship, you must prepare timber first, the local timber is only some primeval forests on the northwest mountain of Shidao, Zhao Lie plans to send people to cut down, but it is still too little, a drop in the bucket. Zhao Lie had already sent Gu Wuyue to hire ships to buy them in North Korea, and the trees that had been cut down by human beings along the coast of Daming for thousands of years were really too few for shipbuilding, and the timber from Fujian and Liangguang was not enough to be divided by several major forces. In the north, only the northeast has a large number of primeval forests, and the primeval forests on the borders of the two provinces of Heiji in later generations are boundless, but unfortunately, Zhao Lie only has the share of greed, and now the master there is Jiannu, and Zhao Lie does not deal with it, then only the Korean forest is available. Fortunately, Shandong is really not far from North Korea, and the wood is not expensive, otherwise Zhao Lie would have died of sorrow.
The wood used for shipbuilding is dried in the kiln, and it has to be left for three or two months before it can be used, and the naturally dried wood is three or five years later, so the wood is on a large scale and it is a few months later.
Because there are not too many boatmen, and there are not too many old materials, Zhao Lie just let dozens of shipwrights lead more than 1,000 Liao apprentices to start building fishing boats, the existing fishing village boats are not far from the sea, the amount of fish harvested is limited, far from meeting the needs, tens of thousands of people's meat can only come from the sea for the time being, and the daily demand is huge. Now there are five fishing boats of dozens of tons built on the dock, the speed is extremely slow, not many people can build ships, a lot of time in the craftsman explains, demonstrates, starts, travels, stoppages, explains, rework and other reincarnations disappear, plus cables, shed sails, iron nails, iron cables, anchors, rust prevention, etc. must be built from scratch, Zhao Lie doubts that next spring will be able to see fishing boats go to sea.
On this day, when Zhao Lie was inspecting the shipyard, he finally heard the best news in recent times, the fleet came back, and it was the sun-burned black and red drums that came to report on the Fuhai, and the big stone in Zhao Lie's heart was finally put down. The flesh of the heart is back.
ps I'm sorry, I'm late, but I'm still cheeky to ask for a recommended collection.