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It is not that they do not want to enter Tianjin Port directly and then return to Fujian by sea, but the surrounding sea routes have been completely blocked. The Qing court knew that the Fujian side was powerful in the navy, so it also set up heavy defenses in Bohai Bay, and several important areas strengthened the original forts, and the red-coated cannons were also doubled, and the total number of guns had exceeded 100, which can be said to have taken a lot of effort.

The matter of Linghui Temple can't be hidden from others for long, the sound of grenade explosion disturbed the people of the village not far away, someone will definitely come to check during the day, even if Hao Laoba has arranged for someone to delay the time, but at most it will drag on for a day, and it will inevitably be discovered by the Qing soldiers who came to meet it in the end. However, such a long time was enough, and the ship carried more than 300 large boxes to Baiyangdian, selected a body of water, and immediately sank these boxes.

Everyone doesn't have to worry that this box will be discovered by others in the water, first of all, the water in this water area is deep, more than ten meters deep, as long as their own people don't leak secrets, no one can find out. The people involved in the operation this time are all the elites selected by the Ponytail Army, who will leak it out? With so many chests, it seems that the volume is not small, but it is also insignificant when cast into this vast water, and there are bursts of water, and there is no appearance that it has been filled with three million taels of silver here.

When the work was over, the teams and intelligence officers returned to their respective homes, and as they had come, they dispersed and returned to their places of origin. Just as if nothing happened. Hao Laosan, the head of the intelligence department in Beijing, had already planned it. The squad rested for a few days. and some intelligence officers will start to return to Fujian, as for the capital side, without the support of the action team, there will be nothing to do, after all, their task is mainly to collect intelligence, and it is difficult to have a next operation like this one. Even if the rich man of Shanxi transported the silver again, it would be impossible for them to succeed in the robbery, after all, the Qing court was not a fool after eating a trench and growing wise. There is no protection for you to rob. This time, the fluke component is really big enough, this is already close to the hinterland of the capital, and no one really thought that the silver car would be robbed here.

A day passed quietly, Linghui Temple is only two hundred miles away from the capital, but a day passed, the sentry that was originally responsible for reporting the itinerary of the fast horse every half day was nowhere to be seen, and the capital finally felt abnormal, so it sent a fast horse sentry to investigate back and forth on this journey, and soon found the abnormality of Linghui Temple. When the team arrived, all they saw was corpses all over the courtyard. But there was not a single silver car.

The prefect of Baoding and the household servant from the capital were shocked, they really couldn't bear such a big thing. However, thousands of people were sent to inspect back and forth, but they still did not find any problems. I followed the car reel prints, but I only traced it to the river, and then there was nothing. But this is also a clue after all, so the Qing court followed the vine to track down the ships in the vicinity in the past few days. It's a pity that Hao Laoba and everyone were driving at night, and after dawn, they entered the range of Baiyangdian, put down the silver box, and then dispersed the ships and drove away, and when they reached the predetermined position, they set their respective ships on fire, even if the Qing court tracked down these ships, then at most they could only see the wreckage of these ships!

On the Fujian side, Geng Jingzhong and they haven't gotten any news yet. Although Hao Laosan and the others made a plan and sent people to Fuzhou, there was also a war in Zhejiang, and the distance was so far, three or five days was really not enough. But at this moment, Geng Jingzhong also has a happy thing, and the latest plan to make a fortune is about to start, which will make them more abundant.

In the past six months or so, the resources consumed have been astronomical, and it is no wonder that the Qing court's finances will be unbearable, and there will be a strict deficit. Although the previous victory over Guangdong got a lot of money, the subsequent construction cost more. It's the same on the Jiangxi side, now the territories taken by the Mawei Army are all under construction, and they must also do this in order to consolidate these territories they have taken, so that they can completely digest them into Geng Jingzhong's own, otherwise even if they occupy the capital, it will be empty.

Geng Jingzhong's many industries, of course, the most profitable is the Fuzhou Ocean Trading Company, and the newly established bank, but now the national war has a great commercial impact, and the monthly profit is less than half of the original. Another reason was the cessation of the offshore formations, and the production from all parts of Fuzhou could not be sold to the north, so the Ministry of Government had to make great efforts to take over these things and then find a way to transport them to the southern countries and sell them at low prices. In short, Fujian as a whole is in a situation where income is worse than income, and the monthly expenses are much more than the monthly income, so although there is still a balance of tens of millions of taels of silver in the treasury, Geng Jingzhong sees that the total number is getting smaller and smaller, and he is also anxious.

Although Fujian has most of Guangdong and Jiangxi, it is the area of two and a half provinces, that is, how much can it collect from taxes? What's more, he has always adhered to the principle of taking from the people for the people, and in the newly acquired land, he has greatly reduced taxes to appease people's hearts, so the silver spent every month is like flowing water, and most of the tens of millions of taels of belongings have slipped away in a few months.

In the account books sorted out by the Ministry of Political Affairs, the most expensive ones are road and river repairs. Needless to say, road construction can be ranked first in importance and plays a vital role in the overall development. In Guangdong Province, the construction of roads between various prefectures and counties not only exhausted all the more than 10 million taels of silver obtained from Guangdong, but also put tens of millions of taels in Fujian, with the result that hundreds of thousands of people in various parts of Guangdong were mobilized to start large-scale construction. And Jiangxi's newly won prefectures have also begun to start construction, and the same large amount of money has been spent.

Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi are not short of water, but too much water is not good, and if it is not handled well, it will form waterlogging. For example, in Jiangxi, there are terraced rice fields that are famous in the world, and the construction of water conservancy facilities there is even more important. Judging from Geng Jingzhong's huge amount of money spent on building water conservancy facilities, this will not only be of great benefit to his rule in the future, but also capture the hearts of the people now. Repairing water conservancy and river works is better than repairing roads in terms of spending money, but at this time they are all manually digging rivers and ditches, and the silver is really not as good as water!

In fact, in the hearts of the common people, for saying that the emperor is good or not, it depends on whether he cares about agricultural affairs, Geng Jingzhong's actions are extremely concerned about the people and agricultural affairs, coupled with a series of measures of the Ministry of Political Affairs, Geng Jingzhong's people's voice has been bullish all the way, and after half a year, it can be said that Guangdong Province is very stable, and the occupied provinces in Jiangxi will not be long before they will be the same as Guangdong, completely turned into Geng Jingzhong's territory.

After racking our brains for many days, Geng Jingzhong finally thought of a new plan to make a fortune - refining refined salt. Yes, it is to refine refined salt! He also paid attention to the salt farms before, but at that time, he just wanted to bring the salt farms in Fujian under his control, and then let all the people of Fujian afford to eat low-cost salt, but he didn't think about refining refined salt. In his opinion at that time, after making some improvements to the salt farm, the quality of salt has been greatly improved, the price has also dropped a lot, and the people can afford to eat salt.

Now the salt farms in Fujian are under their control, although there is a lot of salt, but Geng Jingzhong restricts the price of salt, and the prefectures, counties and towns can only earn less than 100,000 taels of silver per month, which is unbelievable to die in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the salt merchants there are in a province, if they don't earn 500,000 taels of silver every month, they will feel that they are busy in vain, how can they do this to Fuzhou. But ordinary coarse salt and refined salt are different, the price of coarse salt is very low, but refined salt is different, the price has soared dozens or hundreds of times, and the price of a pound of refined salt can easily exceed 100 Wen. Geng Jingzhong thought of the method of refining refined salt with coarse salt, this method is also very simple, everyone in the world learned it when he was in middle school, and now it is definitely a great plan to make a fortune by applying this method.

As mentioned earlier, there were generally three types of salt in ancient times, namely well salt, lake salt and sea salt. The quality of well salt is the best, also commonly known as refined salt, but because its mining cycle is too long, and the cost is high, the output has not been able to rise, so the price is also extremely expensive. Although the quality of lake salt is not satisfactory, the production areas of lake salt are mainly in Qinghai and Xinjiang, not to mention the long distance, and the risk along the way is also extremely high. And the worst quality is sea salt, it is made by people using the sun to expose the sea water or roasting with fire, not to mention the poor quality, some black-hearted salt dealers even have to mix mud and sand in these coarse salt to make profits, but because sea salt is easy to produce and cheap, it is also the salt used by the vast majority of ordinary people.

Fujian is close to the sea, and the food has always been sea salt, and after the quality of sea salt was improved, Geng Jingzhong did not increase the price of salt. Now the coarse salt here is a little larger, the taste is slightly bitter, it is not obvious, it is already considered the upper quality of salt, but it is still far less than refined salt.

Geng Jingzhong wanted to refine refined salt, in fact, the Mawei scientific research base outside the city had already been made, but no one cared about it. In the chemical laboratory, Geng Jingzhong personally drew drawings and let the craftsmen make all kinds of instruments to help the researchers, two years ago it can be said that someone boiled out fine salt in the crucible, that is, refined salt, but that is only with salt water to make real yàn. In the theoretical book compiled by Geng Jingzhong, the most commonly used is to use brine to make zuò caustic soda, and fine salt appears in the actual yàn but no one takes it seriously, but now it has become a big money-making weapon! (To be continued......)

PS: Sorry, it should have been uploaded at half past eleven, but my little brother actually fell asleep! At this time, it can be regarded as a new day to send it, and the tears are running!