Except for sending a secret report to the emperor, Han Dongqing did not give Chen Sheng any interference. For Chen Sheng's tough methods in Fujian, some of them obviously violated the Qin law, and he also turned a blind eye.

It was also seeing Chen Sheng's methods that Han Dongqing understood why the emperor appointed Chen Sheng to be the county guard of this Minzhong County. Because this place happens to need someone who is tough enough and able to maneuver. There is no doubt that Chen Sheng has a very good grasp of the scale between rigidity and softness. Because after killing a group of rebels, Chen Sheng used the confiscated land wealth as a local relief and education fund, which was used to raise the elderly and the disabled, and to educate and enlighten children.

Chen Sheng attaches great importance to education. However, there are not many literate people in the local area, and even Mr. Teaching has to be imported from outside, which makes Chen Sheng's education promotion very inconvenient. In the end, Li Zuoche came up with a way to let the villages in Minzhong County send young people to the county government or local schools to study in a centralized manner. The knowledge learned is also simple enough, only the "Erudite Chapter" compiled by the calligrapher Taishi Ling Hu Wujing and the "Love Chapter" written by Zhao Gao. Inside are the most commonly used fonts of Daqin Xiaozhen.

The government paid the young people sent from these villages, and at the same time exempted them from all taxes in their families. Therefore, the young people in each village hope to be able to take their turn. In addition, Chen Sheng also stipulated that if the children receiving education in each village are assessed every six months, if they get excellent in the government's examinations, then the entire village will be praised and rewarded by the government. The rewards were crop seeds and iron tools, which were extremely scarce in the region.

Chen Sheng's measures have greatly stimulated the attention of all localities in central Fujian to education. Almost everywhere in central Fujian, you can see such a scene: under the big trees in the village, next to the hard-working fields, there will be gentlemen in the village who are also not very literate and carefully draw characters in the sand table, and the surrounding area is full of teenagers who are seven or eight years old or even seventeen or eighteen years old.

For these local school officials, if the education is not good, the government may deprive them of their qualifications. Then there will be less salary and all kinds of power given by the government, and the students also know that if they do not study well, then their families will not get the government's allowance, and they will not be able to enter the school palace set up by the government to learn real knowledge.

The patriarchs of each village know better that times have changed, and if they still stick to the old rules, they are likely to be surrounded and suppressed by the government. Even if the government hadn't taken those deadly actions, just not giving them food seeds and iron tools, it would have been fatal enough. Because other villages have such tools, the production capacity can be increased several times, then more people can be fed, and then the power will be even stronger. In addition, those children who enter the school palace, according to the government, if they have excellent grades in the future, they can enter the government and become officials. This is even more incomprehensible, so whether it is for their own interests or the interests of the villages, the heads of the villages are extremely supportive of the education policies promoted by the government.

Of course, all this is not going to be too fast. And it takes a lot of money to implement it. The 200,000 gold that Ling Suyun supported was squandered by Chen Sheng in a blink of an eye, and he barely established an education system. The specific thing was not implemented by Chen Sheng, but by Li Zuoche, who he had just recruited.

Li Zuoche showed his outstanding ability, and every idea of Chen Sheng, with his supplement, can be turned into a qualified and mature plan. It's just that Li Zuoche is very puzzled. Minzhong County is vast and sparsely populated, for the imperial court, the capture of this place is of greater political significance, and the imperial court needs to support more places, how can it not be the turn of Minzhong County, a ghost place where birds don't. How did Li Zuoche know that a small part of the investment in Minzhong County came from the sponsorship of Fusu and Meng Yi, and the other part came from the investment of the Ling family represented by Ling Suyun.

But for Chen Sheng, these huge sponsorships are still a drop in the bucket.

Therefore, what Chen Sheng is seeking is a plan to open up sources and reduce expenditure. His first plan was to build a simple salt pan by the sea to dry salt.

At the beginning, Chen Sheng thought that the simple method of drying salt in seawater had already been mastered by people along the coast. But after he asked the officials who controlled the salt industry in Minyue in the old days, he was surprised to find that the people here did not know how to dry salt at all.

Only then did Chen Sheng understand why even the people living in Minzhong County had a very high price of salt. However, when he heard the news, Chen Sheng was even more overjoyed. This means that the methods he uses can make him a huge profit.

After pacifying Don'ou, Chen Sheng asked Ji Bu to rush from Yangcheng to Minzhong. After Ji Bu arrived in central Fujian, he immediately received Chen Sheng's instructions to establish salt pans on the tidal flats by the Dongye Sea. Chen Sheng carefully painted the pattern of the coarse salt site, from how to build the windmill that introduced seawater, to the initial drying pond to the sedimentation tank, he painted very carefully on the cloth, the entire salt field is nearly 1,000 acres, and it can be continuously expanded, and it can be produced while building. Chen Sheng knew that within a few months, the first batch of sea salt here would be sold and he would be able to get a lot of money to support his huge plan. In the process of building these salt works, at least 2,000 local jobs have been created. In the future, when the Yantian is completed, it will also provide a large number of local jobs.

The only thing that made Chen Sheng feel awkward was whether the salt farm belonged to the state or private, which made him a little embarrassed. It stands to reason that in the construction of this salt farm, Daqin did not produce a half tael. But according to Chen Sheng's own words, the whole world is not the king's land. Both the sea and the tidal flats belonged to the empire. Naturally, the emperor would not think that these seawater Chen Sheng could be used for nothing.

After thinking about it for a while, Chen Sheng decisively split the equity. The empire has produced resources and land, accounting for 60% of the shares, and the rest is controlled by the Ling family, represented by Ling Suyun. Of course, in the part of Lingjia Holdings, Chen Sheng also owns half of his own shares. Chen Sheng is not as selfish as the Grand Duke to the point of Uncle Lei Feng. Wealth is the foundation of strength. Chen Sheng knew that it was impossible for others to support him all the time, and it was easy to be controlled by others. Only with your own strength can you have enough right to speak. In order to be able to maximize the benefits. Chen Sheng also squeezed out a little bit of his 20 percent stake and distributed it to some villages around the tidal flats where the salt works were built. With these interests in mind, it is only natural that the patriarchs of these villages will double down on the government's work in the vicinity. Achieve mutually beneficial results.