"I've been waiting for three days, and I haven't started yet?" Someone in the crowd gradually became impetuous.

"There's a lot of nonsense, is it less for you to eat and less for you to wear? Isn't it good to have food and rice if you don't work? The people around him scoffed.

The big man who had spoken before scratched his scalp embarrassedly and pulled his hair towel.

He is Zeng Ah Shui, who is thinking about his son.

Being able to eat without working is of course a dream for many people. However, this kind of dream is often too far away, even if the small landlord with a hundred acres of family wants to live a well-off life, he has to go to the land himself. Everyone was very happy to be able to enjoy the treatment of a big landlord by chance.

Others, who were more in need of money, had already taken advantage of the spring rush and found a short-term job in the neighborhood that ended up once a day.

The stewards of the Xu family turned a blind eye to this kind of part-time short work, and they also won the reputation of "generosity" from everyone. On the contrary, there are quite disputes among the laborers, and some people think that since the Xu family has given money, even if they have nothing to do, they should not pick up outside work, which is called eating inside and outside.

However, because of the short time, the controversy has not yet brewed into a contradiction, and Chen Yizhi has already found a job for them: start building roads.

Stones were mined, smashed, and piled up on the roadbed, and drainage ditches were built on both sides.

It's a simple dirt road, but it's a huge amount of work.

Chen Yizhi has already settled down to communicate, and it will be a few days before the sea ship can reach Jinshan Island. Of course, it is not advisable to waste labor, and let them build the roads first, purely to avoid people being too bored and causing trouble. As for whether these roads can be used in the future and whether they will be ridiculed by the construction society, it is irrelevant.

Xu Yuanzuo had already Kang Pengzu on Jinshan Island in one step. As he expected, the population of the island was only about a dozen people, and there was no one more than those who had been exiled himself.

But it's already very good with a lot of people.

The forces on the island are divided into two factions. Xu Sheng, and the thief who was caught in the ambush.

When Xu Sheng saw this group of thieves that day, he was so frightened that his legs were weak. Fortunately, he has Shang Fang's sword - Xu Yuanzuo put him in charge of this place and put these people in charge. If he has three longs and two shorts, the mainland will not send grain and firewood to this small island.

The spring water on Dajinshan Island is very small, and it is good to be able to store two barrels a day. Two or three people may be able to survive on a small vegetable patch. A dozen or so people didn't even have enough to drink. There is no food at all, and if the mainland runs out of food, the people on the island will have to eat grass roots and tree bark.

Holding this door of life, Xu Sheng finally controlled this group of thieves, at least he didn't let them seize power. These thieves work as farmers on weekdays, and occasionally work part-time as robbers, but now that they are on the island, they have no ability to swim back, so they can only work obediently. Fortunately, there is a boat that regularly brings some firewood and rice. Hunger is not starving.

The only obstacle is that in the dead of night, I think of that bodhisattva-like face and say to them: I have some property outside the Acropolis...... Nightmares are inevitable.

This is indeed more than ten miles outside the Jinshan Acropolis, but there is a deep sea in the middle!

When Xu Sheng saw Xu Yuanzuo again, he knelt on the ground from afar, crying loudly.

Xu Yuanzuo almost didn't recognize it, and thought it was one of the thieves that day. Who would have thought that in just a few months, Xu Sheng would already have a dark face. The clothes are not covered, and the exposed places can be seen craggy and skinny. Compared with Xu Sheng, who was pampered that day. It is impossible to recognize the same person at all.

――I'm still alive.

Xu Yuanzuo's heart was relieved, and he beckoned to him: "Xu Sheng, come." ”

Xu Sheng knelt on the ground and didn't get up, his hands were propped up on the ground, and he used his limbs together to crawl towards Xu Yuanzuo.

It's pretty fast.

Xu Yuanzuo shook his head and said, "It's not like this." ”

Xu Sheng is different from thieves. He used to be left alone on this island for a long time. This stimulus of isolation from human society even outweighs the fear of starvation. Don't say like a dog, as long as someone is willing to take him back to the mainland, even if it is a real dog.

Xu Yuanzuo patted him on the head and motioned for him to stand up.

Xu Sheng staggered and stood up. It was as stiff as a shrimp, and his eyes only dared to sweep over Xu Yuanzuo's feet.

Luo Zhenquan, an old pirate, couldn't look at it, and quietly turned his head.

Xu Yuanzuo said: "Isn't there enough food and water? How did you starve like this? ”

On the mainland, supplies are sent once every five or seven to ten days.

If you send it once every five days, you can still save some. It is delivered once every seven days, barely enough to eat. If you come back once in ten days and run out of food, you will have to go hungry or gnaw on the bark and grass roots. It didn't take much, as long as he came down twice, Xu Sheng didn't dare to get any more food and start eating, he had to be extremely hungry, so he ate some, so as not to gnaw on the bark of grass roots and trees - the taste of a mouth full of bitterness and astringency and numbness of the tongue was really not much better than starving to death.

"Enough." Xu Sheng replied with tears in his eyes: "Grandpa is merciful, they have sent food and water no less. ”

Xu Yuanzuo just didn't starve to death, and said, "I don't see any of these small docks, what kind of work have you done?" ”

Xu Sheng's legs were weak. Zuo Ye let them work here, can they eat for nothing? But to do this kind of work, you must first eat half full, at least not be dizzy from hunger...... Secondly, there must be tools, there are only two rakes on the whole island, and they are all bamboo and wood, what kind of project can be done? Rely on this to repair the dock?

He stubbornly said: "Grandpa, there are really not enough people, and there is no tool, so it is not fast to work with bare hands......

Xu Yuanzuo stood on the tidal flat, looking at the landing beach. The width and length are not bad, and because it is a rock-based island, there is no need to worry about collapsing one day like a sandbar. If you build a dock here, you can have eight large ships berthed at the same time, which is much better than those ports that can only dock two ships.

"This place needs to be leveled, where does that road lead?" Xu Yuanzuo asked, pointing to a looming path.

Xu Sheng hurriedly said: "It's the road to the peak." ”

Xu Yuanzuo looked up at the main peak and said, "Go and have a look." ”

The main peak is only 100 meters high, but the path up the mountain came out after Xu Sheng came. Although there were military households stationed in the Jiajing period, after more than ten years, the traces of human activities have long been unable to be found, and there is only a beacon tower, indicating that there was indeed a garrison here.

Xu Sheng relied on this abandoned beacon tower to spend the first years. Later thieves also built huts near the beacon tower. There are also shallow pits dug nearby, apparently used to collect rainwater.

Xu Yuanzuo glanced at it and continued to climb to the top of the mountain. As a port, it is desirable to have a lighthouse at the high point that can be used as a navigational sign to facilitate the navigation of ships at night. It's just that Jinshan Island is too primitive. Xu Sheng's gang did not climb to the top on weekdays, so Luo Zhenquan climbed up while opening the mountain, and walked for most of the hour.

Xu Yuanzuo finally stood on the top of the mountain, and when he looked around, it was full of green vegetation. There are a few cols that can be used to build houses and inns, mainly to shelter from typhoons and rains, which is a good place. It's just that if you want to develop Jinshan Island, I'm afraid the investment will be bigger than you think.

"Here...... There can be four or five hundred acres. Luo Zhenquan said.

Xu Yuanzuo turned around and asked, "How big is Shuangyu?" ”

Luo Zhenquan recalled what he saw and heard when he went to Shuangyu that day. Said: "There is no comparison, I'm afraid it's hundreds of times bigger than here!" ”

Xu Yuanzuo himself knew that it must be incomparable, otherwise how could those seafarers choose Shuangyu instead of here.

"Alas, what a pity." Xu Yuanzuo sighed.

"Although it is small, it is closer to the mainland than Shuangyu." Luo Zhenquan said: "In the past, as long as you go to the sea, it was a crime to kill your head, but now you are not afraid of the government to investigate, and it is more convenient to be close to the mainland." Maybe in the future, we can open a port directly in Jinshan. ”

Xu Yuanzuo said secretly: Even if the country opens the sea, we are smuggling. Open a private port on the mainland. How powerful is that? Not to mention that the local health center and the state capital have to be completely opened, and they have to be bought by a provincial governor. and no one in Beijing made trouble. Unless I have the power to control the three provinces, I'm kidding.

These three provinces have to be Nanzhi, Zhejiang and Shandong, which are connected together, which is very important to the imperial court, and naturally can do whatever they want.

"How much appetite to eat, Shuangyu is good. But it's not something we can control. Xu Yuanzuo said: "Developing this place is nothing more than a matter of silver, and it is very simple." ”

"How much silver?" Luo Zhenquan asked.

Xu Yuanzuo shook his head: "It's hard to say now, plan it first and then look at it." ”

"Anyway, as soon as the harbor opens, there are ten thousand taels of gold. This is always done. Luo Zhenquan said.

"I'm going to issue shares at that time, and if you have silver, you'd better save a little, and don't buy all the land." Xu Yuanzuo reminded.

Luo Zhenquan showed regret on his face: "Even if you want to buy it, someone has to sell it, and now the land in Songjiang is so expensive that it makes people's teeth ache." ”

Xu Yuanzuo smiled. For a long time to come, land will still be the first choice for investment that is ingrained in people's hearts.

Coming down from the top of the mountain, Xu Yuanzuo finally stepped into the beacon tower where Xu Sheng lived.

This small bunker-like building is also called the chimney pier, as the name suggests, it is a place for smoke warnings. According to the system promulgated by the imperial court in the Jiajing period, the chimney pier should be able to accommodate five people, store five months of grain, firewood and grass, have artillery gunpowder, and open a well on the side of the pier, which must be high and thick, and even covered with bricks. It was these regulations that allowed the chimney to stand under the siege of the Mongols until reinforcements arrived, or the Tartars retreated.

The chimney on the island is not so demanding, in addition to the size is acceptable, the thickness and height are a little worrying.

Xu Sheng was very cautious, the food and firewood that saved his life were stored in the chimney, and no one else was allowed to live in. Over time, he turned this place into his own little world.

After Xu Yuanzuo came in, he looked around and said, "You can still use it if you repair it." ”

Xu Sheng grinned, wanting to laugh but couldn't.

Xu Yuanzuo motioned to take out a drawing left and right and spread it on the stone platform: "Come and see, you have to find a place for me next, and I will arrange the construction." ”

Xu Sheng took a closer look, and it turned out to be a city pattern. However, it says Tang Xingzhen, which is obviously not used here.

"This is to give you an idea." Xu Yuanzuo took Tang Xing's map and said: "Look, with this chimney mound as the center, spread out, there must be two rows of houses as warehouses, and there must be a place for people and animals to excrete and compost, what I can't stand the most is to see those filth, you have to do it for me." I had to dig out the water cellar, higher than the living quarters, and draw a channel to bring the water down. Wharves and ports don't need to be built by you, and the places have to be measured clearly by me. The path is to be made of stones. ”

Xu Yuanzuo roughly explained the city plan, and then said: "You work hard for me, and I promise you to go to Tuolin for five days a month." But you have to write down to me what you did and what you did. If I'm not satisfied, next time you can go to Xiaojinshan Island to live by yourself. ”

Xu Sheng shuddered. If the days of Dajinshan Island are the same as suffering in hell, then Xiaojinshan Island is undoubtedly the eighteenth layer of hell.

"Zuoye, don't worry, you must be attentive, you must be attentive." Xu Sheng chased Xu Yuanzuo all the way out, and lowered his voice again: "Zuoye, I've been thinking about it on the island for a long time, and I have to let you know something." ”

Xu Yuanzuo stopped: "What's the matter?" ”

"There are some people in the cloth shop who seem to be loyal, and their hearts are like snakes and scorpions. Xu Qing is a thief bird, and there are still a lot of private properties outside...... I should have forgotten all these things, but who knew that after living on the island for a long time, I remembered them again. Xu Sheng said quickly.

Xu Yuanzuo continued to walk forward, saying as he walked: "Write down what you think of and give it to me, and I will reward you according to the situation." Well, today you will go back with our boat first, take a bath, change your clothes, and everyone will stink. ”

Xu Yuanzuo didn't finish saying this, and suddenly felt strange: Why didn't Xu Sheng even say a word of gratitude?

When he looked back, he saw that Xu Sheng was so excited that he burst into tears, his lips squirmed rapidly, and he muttered, "I can finally go back...... Finally able to go back......"

Xu Yuanzuo turned around and continued to walk forward, without ruining Xu Sheng's happy time.

Cats eat fish, dogs eat meat, living on an isolated island for a long time can return to the mainland, sometimes happiness is so simple.

After Xu Yuanzuo inspected the island, he went to Guishan Island and Xiaojinshan Island to have a look, and sure enough, there were no traces of human activities. If it weren't for Kang Pengzu, who really couldn't find a more suitable place, Xu Yuanzuo would really be reluctant to destroy the natural environment here.

When returning home, Xu Yuanzuo saw the battleship prepared by the Kang family and walked forward in a zigzag shape. The two sides exchanged flags and passed by, and Xu Yuanzuo waved to Kang Pengzu and An Shopkeeper on the opposite flagship. They were going to pick up the cargo ship that was carrying copper, and at a time when there were no radios and no positioning satellites, God knows what kind of black technology would be used so as not to miss out on both sides.

"Actually, I was thinking that if there was a gantry crane, the loading and unloading work could save a lot of labor." Xu Yuanzuo suddenly thought of the steel giants on the dock.

If it is in a mainland port, even if there is a gantry crane, Xu Yuanzuo also has to consider the cost. However, on Jinshan Island, the number of people accommodating is really limited, so in order to ensure efficiency and snatch customers from competitors such as Liujiagang, some auxiliary tools are necessary.

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