For the mining of the Sanming Iron Mine and the construction of the iron-making plant, Wang Xuan transferred one-third of the personnel from the Fuzhou Iron and Steel Plant into Yanping Mansion, and due to the strong support of the other six, the government was directly settled.

The only thing that bothers everyone is that there is a lack of manpower!

Industry needs more people than agriculture, and coal mining alone has already exhausted all the surplus labor in the vicinity of Sanming, and if they recruit people in the local area again, it will inevitably lead to the abandonment of land and affect the interests of local landlords.

In the end, there are nearly 20,000 households concentrated in the two major mining areas and steel mills, and the population of nearly 80,000 is already more than the population of ordinary counties.

This dispelled everyone's resistance.

Moreover, these people have to spend the money they earn in the mine and in the factory, and they have to spend it locally, eating, wearing, living and traveling, which has given birth to a lot of related industries, and the vicinity of the mining area has become more and more prosperous, and has surpassed the nearby Shaxian County.

Large quantities of coal and better-quality and lower-priced steel attracted a large number of wealthy families from several other nearby provinces, and in this era, there were no ordinary people who could deal in iron tools.

The steel plant is worthy of being the foundation of heavy industry, and the Sanming Iron and Steel Plant alone has almost connected all the wealthy families in the four nearby prefectures, and a relatively complete industrial chain has been established in a short period of time, allowing Wang Xuan's influence to expand greatly to the surrounding areas.

After returning from Sanming, Wang Xuan set his sights on the salt industry.

Old-fashioned salt-drying is a brine mixed with mud, and after filtration and other processes, the final salt produced is not good in color or quality.

But after having cement, it is too convenient to dry sea salt, and Wang Xuan directly bought a large piece of tidal flat saline-alkali land along the coast of Changle County, Fuzhou Prefecture, which is as cheap as not asking for money.

A large number of cement was transported over, and soon, under the overtime, a piece of salt-drying pond was repaired, and then only the seawater needs to be brought over, after two processes, the crystal sea salt can be produced, saving time, effort and money, not to mention, the quality is much better than before.

It's just that Wang Xuan doesn't want to conflict with the two big salt merchants now...... Well, he didn't have the strength to conflict with the other party, so he increased his investment in the fishing industry before that.

In the past, although fishing was also carried out in coastal areas, most of the marine fish died when they came out of the water, and they would stink in two days, and they could not be preserved at all.

But now, Wang Xuan does not sell salt directly, but uses salt to marinate salted fish and then make salted dried fish, and the profit he can get after the finished product is produced is higher than simply selling salt.

With Wang Xuan's current fame, I don't know how many people pay attention to his every move, when the product of dried salted fish appeared, it immediately attracted the attention of other coastal mansions, no one did this before because the yield of salt was low, and it was good enough for ordinary consumption, and it was impossible to make dried salted fish.

Now it's different, like this kind of salt drying field, as long as there is cement, a large area in the coastal areas of Fujian can be built, and the cost may be exaggerated, but it is not too much.

At this moment, the wealthy families of Funing Prefecture, Quanzhou Mansion, Zhangzhou Mansion, and Xinghua Mansion moved all of a sudden.

In a short period of time, Wang Xuan's threshold was almost not broken, and a large stack of worship posts was sent.

Wang Xuan had already expected this, Wang Xuan selected some wealthy families that had been looking for a long time, and the format of the reply was also completely unified.

Half a month later, Qiu Shiju closed his doors and closed down, just entertaining the seven major families from the five prefectures, among which the Xing family in Funing Prefecture who had previously cooperated with the Giant Whale Gang to sell stolen goods, was subdued by Wang Xuan by strong means after the collapse of the Giant Whale Gang, and now he is Wang Xuan's leader.

Fuzhou Mansion is naturally what Wang Xuan said, and Xinghua Mansion, Quanzhou Mansion, and Zhangzhou Mansion are two per prefecture.

After everyone gathered, Wang Xuan still took people to visit the port wharf, shipyard, steel factory, cement factory and other industries in a four-wheeled carriage, and then went to the Fuzhou Health Station to watch the military training performance, a display of strength, which shocked other families.

After returning to Qiu Shiju again, Wang Xuan directly threw out a plan to establish the Fujian Marine Industry Association!

What is the Fujian Marine Association?

The seven major families looked at each other, and no one spoke for a while.

Seeing that the head of the Xing family was a little cold, he immediately asked out loud, "What does this Marine Business Association mean?" ”

Wang Xuan laughed and said: "Of course, it is the related industry on this ocean, and to put it more clearly, it is the fishery and salt industry!" ”

"In the future, the amount of salt produced in Fujian every year and the price will be decided by our association, so as to control the production of salted dried fish, so as not to waste manpower and material resources, and avoid indiscriminate salt production, resulting in low prices and affecting everyone's interests!"

Of course, what Wang Xuan said was salted dried fish instead of salt, everyone knew that this was to avoid conflict with the two Huai salt merchants to a certain extent, which everyone welcomed.

At the same time, it can also crack down on people who dry salt in private, which endangers everyone's interests.

"As for the specific prefectures, you will be in control of the situation in your own prefectures."

Everyone understands this, this can push up the social status of several families in this province, and it is also beneficial to everyone.

After these two most important points were pointed out by Wang Xuan, the establishment of this marine business association became a foregone conclusion.

These seven families are all upper-class families in each province, although they are not the largest, but their strength and power cannot be underestimated, and Wang Xuan will not look for the largest families, which is not conducive to him controlling the entire association.

As for the details of how much construction is left and how much to output, everyone doesn't pay much attention to it, and it can be discussed slowly, anyway, the construction of Yantian is not something that can be completed in a day or two.

Moreover, we don't really sell salted dried fish, in the end, we still sell salt, but we don't sell it directly to people to eat, but only to those who fish.

When the time comes, everyone will also divide this fishing business to the next family, so that they can unite more people to protect their own interests.

At that time, a whole industrial chain will be formed based on the salt industry, shipbuilding, production of fishing nets, fishing, purchasing and drying, trafficking, etc., and at that time, there will naturally be people in the industrial chain all day long to maintain the development of this industry.

Wang Xuan only needs to give orders from the top level and exert influence.

After these things were done, Wang Xuan turned his attention to the shipyard.

Fuzhou Mansion itself already has the foundation left by Zheng He's seven trips to the West, although more than a hundred years have passed, but still left many inherited talents.

After Wang Xuan destroyed the Giant Whale Gang, these people became his bag.

Now, with the reopening of the shipyard and the guidance of Wang Xuan's shipbuilding experience accumulated in the Pirates of the Caribbean, the first improved small Galen ships are about to be launched today.

This batch of Galen ships was cut off by Wang Xuan, and the stern was made square, which had better handling ability.

Moreover, after all, it is a merchant ship, and it is relatively thin in the thickness of the ship's plank, with fewer production processes, lower costs, and can resist wind and waves, and there is no need to consider the problem of fighting, even if there is a battle, it is a duel between masters.

The ships launched this time are all small vessels with a displacement of 500 tons, and the main purpose is to transport goods and accumulate experience, while the ships with a displacement of about 100 tons for offshore fishing will be discharged.

Currently, only six dry docks are used for manufacturing, and more are under construction.

But these six ships with a displacement of 500 tons alone are also big ships in the current Ming Dynasty, after all, Zheng He banned the sea after that, and the technology of making 2,000-ton ships has been burned by Liu Daxia, the secretary of the 'Scholar' Military Department, just to prevent the emperor from bringing up the matter of opening the sea again.

Although Jiangnan shipbuilding is relatively developed, and maritime trade has never stopped, this has nothing to do with the state, and the money must not be handed over to the state!

Now the ships used by the Ming Dynasty are generally flat-bottomed sand boats and small ships with two masts with pointed bottoms, generally about 500 materials (100 tons), and those with thousands of materials are almost invisible.

After all, at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the pirates in Fujian and Guangdong could still fight the Dutch and Portuguese one or two thousand ton warships, if they were really about 100 tons of small ships.

In addition to the members of the previous Marine Business Association, there are also many wealthy families in inland provinces, if you want to control Fujian, these inland wealthy families also need to be co-opted.

When seeing the huge sailing ship that is tens of meters long, these major giants are amazed one by one, even if many coastal sea trade do not use more than 100 tons of boats, 200 tons are extremely rare, such a large ship is the first time we have seen.

Boarding the ship through the dry dock, Wang Xuan took a group of people up and down to visit, three decks, which can place a large number of goods, so that the cost of shipping will be further reduced!

That's what everyone cares about!

According to Wang Xuan, the speed of this kind of ship is nearly twice as fast as that of ordinary ships, and it is more convenient to control, even if it is headwind, the speed will not drop too much.

At this time, the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty was still in the stage of monsoon trade, and it was only possible to go back and forth along the monsoon when the seasons were adapted, for example, the trade with the Wa State was a round trip a year.

This is because ordinary sails do not hold their own shape, creating the Bernoulli effect.

"Gollum...... Rumble! ”

As the gate opened, a large amount of seawater poured into the dry dock until it was completely filled, and all six big ships floated, Wang Xuan gave an order, and the sails on the three masts on the ship slowly rose, and under the wind infusion, the ship slowly sailed towards the sea.

Under the command of Wang Xuan, the ship began to do various navigation tests in the open sea, downwind, crosswind, and upwind.

These people who visited the wealthy families were not fools, and they could naturally see the benefits of this ship, but more specifically, what they could do with this kind of big ship and how much money they could make, everyone still couldn't figure it out for a while.

When he returned, Wang Xuan mentioned it, such as transporting our steel from Fujian to other provinces.

Due to Wang Xuan's vigorous development of the steel industry, now the output of the two steel plants alone has 23 of the total output of the Ming Dynasty, although this amount is very low in Wang Xuan's opinion, but the iron price of the whole Fujian has been suppressed a lot.

If it is a large-scale sale, the price given by Wang Xuan will definitely be lower, and if it is sold for deep processing, the profits that can be generated will be greater, whether it is a coal stove or something else.

Wang Xuan has introduced, this ship can carry 8000000 catties, even if it sells salted fish to Guangdong, Guangxi, you can also make a lot of money, not to mention, with the spread of textile machinery in Wang Xuan's hands, now there are many people in the major state capitals involved in this industry, the future can be predicted, with the increase in production, Fujian will inevitably be unable to digest, foreign transportation is almost inevitable.

At this mentions, everyone thinks of more things, and everyone is excited for a while, which Wang Xuan has long expected, as everyone begins to chase economic interests, the income that farming can bring will gradually decrease, and Wang Xuan will start the third plan!

It's just that this plan will have to wait a little longer.

Six large ships were ordered at once, and Wang Xuan only promised to sell four, he always had to keep some until the larger ships were produced, but with the completion of the new dockyard, more ships could be built at the same time.

……

In the afternoon, Wang Xuan had just finished dealing with some business matters, and was laughing with the little maid when there was a sound of confusion outside.

"Lord, some suspicious characters have been found in Fuzhou Mansion."

"Huh?" Wang Xuan put down his hand and touched his conscience, and ran out with a red face.

Turning his head to look at Ye Chao, "Who actually makes you feel suspicious?" ”

"Six people, one master, as soon as they came to Fuzhou Mansion, they began to secretly investigate the affairs of the Fuwei Dart Bureau in the south of the city, and it looked sneaky and ill-intentioned."

Fuwei Dart Game ...... At the mention of Ye Chao, Wang Xuan realized that he had forgotten about the Fuwei Dart Game for a long time, although both the indiscriminate and Ye Zhi practiced the sword technique of warding off evil spirits.

Yes, Night Confusion is also a cultivation of evil swordsmanship, and he has not experienced the pain of cutting chickens, all because Night Confusion is a rare innate body with a balance of yin and yang, or intersex.

He was one of the orphans that Wang Xuan took in at the beginning, and he was abandoned in his early years because he was born bisexual and was considered a demon, and his family couldn't bear the pressure and couldn't bear to drown the child, so he abandoned him when he was five years old.

Wang Xuan was already 17 years old when he saw him, and he didn't know how he had survived all these years, anyway, he was black and thin when he was first taken away, and it was only after Wang Xuan knew that he was intersex that he taught the sword technique to ward off evil spirits, and he also had the attitude of giving it a try.

I didn't expect it to be really practiced, and since then, I have come to Wang Xuan's side to do intelligence, but the time is still short, and now I am only about third-rate skills.

Now when Ye Chao mentions the Fuwei Dart Bureau, Wang Xuan's first thought is the Fuwei Dart Bureau Extermination Case!

Wang Xuan is still grateful for the Fuwei Dart Game, although he has forgotten them for more than a year.

When encountering this kind of thing, Wang Dashan has to intervene no matter what, after all, he has also returned the cause and effect of the other party's evil sword technique.

This is definitely not a sudden reminder that they have trade routes and various strongholds to communicate with Jiangnan!

Oh, and outside the city, I don't know if there are two little mice of the Huashan faction.

"Keep an eye on them, and let me know when there's a move."

Three days later, news came that Lin Pingzhi had mistakenly killed one person from the Qingcheng faction outside the city, and the other party had already begun to attack the people of the Fuwei Dart Bureau.

Wang Xuan is not in a hurry to make a move, it has not yet reached the critical moment...... and the people of the Fuwei Dart Bureau are not in despair, and now the harvest cannot satisfy Wang Xuan!

He didn't just set his sights on the Fuwei Dart Bureau, since the Qingcheng faction came to his place to make trouble, then compared to it, don't think about leaving anything behind!

Wang Xuan ordered all the people near the Fuwei Dart Bureau to be withdrawn and set up defenses on the periphery.

At this time, the people in the Fuwei Dart Bureau were already panicked, and four people died in a row silently, all of whom were people who followed the young master Lin Ping during the day, and at this time, even a fool knew that the Fuwei Dart Bureau had caused a big disaster.