Liu Minyou walked through a group of laboring people, a factory is being built, there is a broader residential area next to the factory, here is a private port in Jinghaiwei, Wendeng County, Chapter 187 of his planning is about a few days, the distance to Japan is also closer, Chen Xin's positioning of Weihai is to Tianjin commercial goods transportation, where the goods are mainly sold to Linqing and Jingshi, Jinghai's positioning is the commercial goods base of Jiangnan and Japan, so the factory should also be built near the private port, in order to save the cost of land transportation, Jinghaiwei gave up 6,000 acres of land, and the Wendeng battalion established a fort here, a peasant corps, and a bureau of soldiers.

The factory planning here is tobacco and luggage, because there is no technical threshold for luggage, Liu Minyou is not very optimistic, maybe it will be imitated quickly like the original dress, Liu Minyou inspected the local cotton and linen and other textile prices in Linqing and Jiangnan, and the calculated cost is lower than that of Wendengyun in the past, and they have doubts about the competitiveness of bags, so they plan to supply a large number of goods at the beginning, reach a certain sales volume in the early stage, and then occupy the market advantage through guò advertising, Liu Min hopes to reduce the cost of transportation through the guò assembly line and low labor, and if the production along the canal is produced in small workshops and there is no assembly line division of labor, the manpower they can use will be relatively expensive.

Liu Minyou stood on a hill, full of people carrying labor, Xu Yuanhua and several civil affairs assistants followed him. With some plans in hand. Finally, there is his bodyguard, the stupid monk.

"Lord Liu, the factories, warehouses and simple houses here can be repaired in more than a month, and when winter comes, these people will not be able to do much work."

Liu Minyou frowned and looked at the crowd, nearly 2,000 people here are men in the prime of life, and 50 people are classified as a first-class, after the repair is completed and put into production, most of the workers in the bags will use female workers, and the main work that needs to be used by men is to carry and other work, and it is indeed impossible to arrange.

to feed these multitude. This year, their population has reached more than 40,000, most of whom are men and women in the prime of life, and forty percent of them are Liao people from all over the world. The workshop and Tunpu can only absorb less than 10,000, the new two factories are still unpredictable, Wendeng does not produce many tobacco leaves, and now it has begun to purchase in the Jiaodong Peninsula and Linqing, Zuo Changhao in Jiangnan promised to supply two ships first, but it has not yet arrived, so that Liu Min has a daily worry about raising people.

"Then let them build the road from this port to the Wenden camp."

Xu Yuanhua said: "I'm afraid that the soil will be hard in winter, and the current affairs will be half the result." ”

Liu Minyou shook his head and said: "That's better than raising it for nothing, we have a lot of things to do this year." General Chen will not let them eat for nothing. If it's too cold, just feed them and let them do some training. ”

Xu Yuanhua promised: "My subordinates remember this, contact the training team at that time, and ask them to send someone over." ”

Liu Minyou continued to ask: "How is the grain matter?" ”

"The grain here is currently shipped from Weihai, and those sailors are training by the way, and the price of grain in Dengzhou has reached one or two or six yuan a stone, and one stone is calculated according to one hundred catties, and there are more than 2,000 people here, and more than 30 stones are consumed every day. In January, it was a thousand taels of silver, and this month there were two sea-going ships, and the grain they sold was only one tael or three yuan, and one stone was one hundred and twenty catties, but it was mainly rice. ”

Liu Minyou squinted and calculated. said to Xu Yuanhua: "You don't care about rice and wheat, you can eat it." Two ships are too few, so I will discuss this matter with Lord Chen, and quickly let the sailors station some ships here, stop those sea boats, and buy their grain. ”

Liu Minyou was also forced to be unable to do it, and after thinking about it for a long time, it was the easiest thing to use the army.

Xu Yuanhua hesitated for a moment and said: "My lord, Jinghai's entrained grain was originally bought by a gentleman surnamed Huang here, and he opened two grain stores in the Acropolis, and this person's cousin is an official in Shandong's political department, so he is afraid of ......."

Liu Minyou remembered what Chen Xin said about not provoking the gentry first, but now when it comes to specific interests, how can he care about so much, and said a little impatiently: "No matter him, the boat is not his family, and he can still control who others sell it to." ”

After Liu Minyou finished speaking, he asked the other people to leave, leaving only Xu Yuanhua, and then said to him: "The matter of the old shop, you can't do it again in the future, next month I will find inspectors in this literacy class, and visit the people in various tunpu and workshops every month, if your relatives want to do business, you can't occupy the official shop, and there will be private shops in the tunpu in the future, you can pay to help them rent it, but you can't engage in those crooked things." ”

Xu Yuanhua said with some shame: "My subordinates remember it, and they won't do it again in the future." ”

"There is also the matter of dividing the fields among the tunhu, I have heard some people say that you have an unfair distribution, and the people from Yanggu have only been in the tunpu for three months, and they have divided the ripe fields first."

The subordinates will check when they go back, and a few of their subordinates are from Yanggu, and the villain must investigate thoroughly. ”

Liu Minyou sighed, his civil affairs system should also be reorganized, the matter of dividing the field was carried out partially when he went to Jiangnan, and after coming back, he still listened to Shen Li talk about the problems, Xu Yuanhua was the first to follow his civil affairs deputy, and now the functions of the workshop have been divided according to the factory, that is, the civil affairs system of Tunpu has not been subdivided, Xu Yuanhua has basically become the second-in-command, and now there are three concubines, Chen Xin also heard some rumors, and knocked on the side last time, but Liu Minyou knows that Xu Yuanhua has always been serious about doing things, and he is also very able to endure hardships, so there was no severe punishment, just a warning, and now that the stalls are spreading, the transformation of the civil affairs system is even more urgent.

He said to Xu Yuanhua again: "You don't have to be upset, I see what you have always done, and you will still do things well in the future." ”

Xu Yuanhua promised again and again, knowing that the matter of the shop was revealed, Liu Minyou took him to continue to walk forward, and the group continued to walk forward, and when they arrived at the construction site of the warehouse, the warehouse required moisture-proof, rat-proof, anti-theft, etc., and the requirements were higher than the factory building.

The stupid monk went up and shouted. A few taps to separate the crowd from the periphery. Let Liu Minyou and others go inside, Liu Minyou hurriedly went in to take a look, only to see a person on the ground, a middle-aged man in luxurious clothes standing in front of the person, with a few people who looked like domestic servants, was beating the people on the ground, the person on the ground was beaten into a ball, protecting his face and abdomen, and the surrounding homeless people were afraid of their fierce flames, watching them commit murder in fear.

Liu Minyou is different now than before. He was already much bolder, and he went up and pushed away a beating servant, who was pushed to the ground, and when he looked back, he saw that he was a tall man. I guessed that it was not an opponent, but I was angry in my heart, so I grabbed a flat pole on the ground and hit it.

There was a bang, and the servant's eyes were full of flowers, and only half of the flat shoulder was left, and he turned his head to see that a strong man with a big waist and a round waist was looking at him in a daze.

"Mom, murder." The servant shouted, and ducked behind the others.

The richly dressed man shouted angrily: "What are you doing, you soldiers still dare to kill people." ”

The stupid monk looked at Liu Minyou and asked, "My lord." Kill or not kill. ”

Liu Minyou shook his hand at him and said, "Kill what to kill." "Go and help the farmer on the ground to help him up, and the farmer is bleeding from his mouth and nose, and he looks at the people in fear.

Xu Yuanhua said in Liu Minyou's ear: "This person is the gentleman surnamed Huang who bought the entrained grain, his name is Huang Gongcheng, he is a showman, his home is in Jinghai Acropolis, I have seen it once." ”

Liu Minyou has also met some officials, and he didn't take this so-called gentleman too seriously, so he asked the gentleman: "This Brother Huang, Liu Minyou is in command of Liu Minyou in Weihaiwei." I don't know what happened to this brother Huang and let your subordinates have such a heavy hand. ”

That Huang Gongcheng didn't return the salute, hehe sneered and said: "Brother Huang is called by you, you don't have to be close to me, this person is my family's house slave." I signed a deed of sale, but I didn't expect to be abducted here by you. I'm going to have an explanation today. ”

"House slaves?" It was the first time for Liu Minyou to meet someone who came to ask for a house slave, turned his head to look at Xu Yuanhua, Xu Yuanhua leaned over and said in a low voice: "My lord, the house slave is sold to others, and even the children are from the master's family. ”

Liu Min only remembered this, because the north generally employs more, there are not many domestic slaves, and Jiangnan and other places are more popular to keep slaves, and he doesn't hear much on weekdays, so he didn't react for a while, it is said that domestic slaves are also recognized by the Ming Law, and even the sentences are heavier than those of free people, and they are completely second-class citizens.

As soon as the people around heard that it was a house slave, they all buzzed and discussed, Liu Minyou hurriedly called the first chief of the first one, the first chief was a Qingzhou man, and said a little timidly: "My lord, they have already caught one and left, this one is running fast, they chased for a while before catching it." ”

Liu Minyou glared at this armor chief with some annoyance, his subordinates were captured, he only knew that he was watching the excitement on the side, but at this time he didn't have time to deal with this armor chief, Liu Minyou turned his head to look at the house slave, and the man was also looking at him, with a pleading look on his face.

Liu Minyou patted the man on the shoulder, turned his head to that Huang Gongcheng and said, "You said that he is your slave, what is the evidence." ”

Huang Gongcheng was stunned, today it was his housekeeper who saw this person here, and ran to inform him to arrest him, he came out in a hurry, forgot to bring the deed of sale out, coughed and said: "How can the deed of sale stay by his side, but this is the truth, I will definitely take him away today." ”

Liu Minyou shook his head and said, "If there is no evidence, then I can't let you take him away." ”

Huang Gongcheng sneered: "Don't think that you Wendeng Camp killed a few Tartars, you dare to run rampant in the township, this slave was self-refuge in me back then, there are hundreds of households as evidence, I have raised him for many years, how can I let him say and leave." ”

The beaten house slave saw that Liu Min was in charge of him, and he also had the courage, he scolded angrily: "You have raised me for so many years? We can't finish the work every day, we can't eat enough, my daughter-in-law is also occupied by your family, and my daughter is also sold by you, what are you going to do? ”

When the people around listened to it, the buzz was even louder, most of them were people who had been forced to leave their homes, and they had a common understanding of suffering, and some people began to accuse the gentleman, which slowly turned into scolding, and the crowd was surging.

Huang Gongcheng looked around fiercely, and scolded arrogantly: "A group of mud-legged people still can't rebel, I have a deed of sale in hand, and it makes sense to go wherever I go, if you don't pay it today, I will definitely go to Wendeng County to complain, even if Wendeng County is afraid of your Wendeng camp, there are Ninghai Prefecture above, as well as Denglai Road, and Shandong according to the judge, in broad daylight, how can you be allowed to wait for the martial arts to be arrogant." ”

When he said the name of the official office, he suppressed those homeless people, these people have been obedient to the government for a long time, and the adults are high, and that sense of authority exists after all.

Liu Minyou has been worrying a lot recently, and said unceremoniously after hearing it: "Not to mention that you don't have a deed of sale, even if you have a deed of sale, I can't let you take him away, because you are still a person who has read the books of sages, taking wives, selling children, and reading books into the belly of a dog." ”

Huang Gongcheng was so angry that he smoked, pointed at Liu Minyou with his hand, and was about to do it after a few steps. Before he could get to the front, the stupid monk was in front, Huang Gongcheng quickly calculated the force value, stopped and gasped: "You guys wait for me." ”

After saying that, he turned around and left, and there was a commotion from the surrounding homeless people, and some people shouted loudly to get out.

Seeing that they were leaving, Liu Min turned his head to Xu Yuanhua and said: "Don't be afraid of him, I'm afraid this person's purpose is related to bringing food, transfer this slave back to Wendeng camp, and the first commander has withdrawn, and the future A commander will choose someone who has the courage." ”