Three days later, the ship gradually arrived at the northwest corner of Kunzhou, and Fanning stood on the side of the ship, silently watching the deep blue calm sea, flocks of seagulls hovering overhead, like countless snow flakes flying on the sea.

"A-Ning, what are you thinking?" Zhu Yuanfeng walked up from behind.

Fanning smiled, "I've been thinking about the next step in Kunzhou's development for the past two days. ”

"Do you want to completely turn Kunzhou into a state of the Great Song Dynasty?"

"Not exactly, in fact, I want to make Kunzhou a model, and in the future, when the Great Song Dynasty develops overseas, we can refer to the development experience of Kunzhou, which can greatly improve the possibility of success in overseas development."

Zhu Yuanfeng frowned slightly, and asked puzzledly: "Kunzhou is a relatively cold place, suitable for raising horses, and wheat can also be grown, but for example, the Great Song Dynasty established an overseas state in Nanyang, which is tropical, how can Kunzhou's experience be copied?" ”

Fanning smiled slightly: "The so-called experience is what to do, but how to do things, how to recruit laborers, how to develop resources, how to manage the people, how to build cities, docks, etc., with this ability, you can successfully establish a foundation anywhere." ”

Zhu Yuanfeng smiled and nodded, "I see, I can understand it in this way, this kind of development ability is really important." ”

After thinking about it, Zhu Yuanfeng said again: "I think you attach great importance to the development of resources. ”

Fan Ning said lightly: "I have a good relationship with Wang Anshi, but this time I got married, he was in the capital, I sent him a wedding sticker, but he didn't come to my wedding, what is the reason, did the third grandfather think of it?" ”

Zhu Yuanfeng shook his head, Fan Ning said: "Wang Anshi is a staunch reformist, and I am a reformist, the two of us can be said to be in the same bed and different dreams, or it can be said that we have the same path, I do not advocate moving the interests of the vested, but advocate making the bread bigger, and then when distributing the new bread, give the people more shares, so that they can moisten things silently in the reform, and finally succeed, but where does the flour for making bread come from, that is, to find resources from overseas, gold, silver, minerals, timber, grain, livestock, jewelry, etc. ”

Zhu Yuanfeng sighed: "This is your dream, and I also hope that it will succeed one day!" ”

.........

In the afternoon, the boat arrived at the Bailong River, and the originally desolate field became lively, and tents could be seen in the distance.

Bailongchuan is currently the largest gold field found in Kunzhou, Kunzhou allowed five private gold mining families to concentrate here, including the Zhu family, the Cao family, the Gao family, the Yang family, the Pang family and other five families each obtained about 30 miles of river mining rights, plus the government and the opposition postponed a year to tax Kunzhou's private gold mining, so seizing the opportunity of the first year has become the most urgent task of the five families.

Of course, the brothers Mingren and Mingli also mined gold here, but they were divided into a section of ten miles from the Zhu family's river, and the time was three years, and in another two years, the two brothers would end their gold mining in Kunzhou and start a new business again.

There is a natural harbor of about ten miles, about twenty miles away from the Bailongchuan, the big ship docked in this natural harbor, everyone got off the boat, and the horses were also led out of the bottom warehouse.

Fan Ning pointed to this good port and smiled at Zhu Yuanfeng: "This is the reserved land of Jin County, this year I plan to develop a small town here, and after the approval of the imperial court, I will directly build the city wall." ”

"To develop a small town, what do the people do for a living?"

"The initial considerations are animal husbandry and logging!"

Fan Ning said with a smile: "On the other side of the strait is Whale State, which is about fifty miles away, so they can go to Whale State for grazing and logging, and the Kunzhou government will subsidize them for grain, fish and meat every month." ”

"What about the land?"

Zhu Yuanfeng questioned: "The people of Tang County and Han County have land, but the people of Jin County do not, can they accept it?" ”

"Of course, there will be land, this is a promise from the imperial court, but it is not necessarily used to grow grain, you can plant some melons, fruits and vegetables, there is plenty of sunshine here, there is plenty of water, and it should be good to grow melons and fruits!"

As he was talking, Jian Meizi rode over and said to Fan Ning: "The little lady wants to compensate her aunt to go to the big ship, and the aunt wants to go to inspect the mine, just go by yourself, and the little lady said that she won't go with her." ”

"Alright! The old man and I will be back in two or three hours. ”

Fan Ning and Zhu Yuanfeng urged the horses to run towards Bailongshui, which was twenty miles away......

Since the release of labor employment ten days ago, the five major families have submitted applications to the state government, Fanning approved all of them on the same day, and the number of recruits in each family is capped at two hundred, and the number of people recruited by each family has been intensively mined in the past few days, in addition to the clansmen of each family sitting in Jintian, each family has also sent more than a dozen henchmen to assist in management, such as cooking for laborers, procurement, supervision, etc., and then each family has also signed a security agreement with the overseas economic strategy, and the military camp will send certain soldiers to maintain law and order.

If nothing happens, the government generally does not ask about private gold mining, and today Fan Ning did not come to Bailongchuan to inspect in an official capacity, but to accompany Zhu Yuanfeng to check the gold mining situation of the Zhu family.

Fan Ning was more cautious, did not go to several other families, but came directly to the upstream, thirty miles upstream is the Zhu family's mining field, but also the area with the highest gold content, from a distance I saw that there are hundreds of big tents here, more than 20 big tents are warehouses, which are full of all kinds of food materials, a few large stoves have been built on the open space, five cooks are busy cooking, this is a camp of four hundred people, just eating is a major project, it takes five cooks to go all out every day to complete.

"Third Master!"

The chef who was steaming rice suddenly saw Zhu Yuanfeng and Fan Ning galloping on horseback, he was immediately surprised and delighted, and hurriedly stepped forward, "Third master, uncle, why are you here?" ”

"I'm here to see everyone!"

Zhu Yuanfeng smiled and asked, "Ah Yuan, are you still used to it here!" ”

"Fortunately, although it is a little lonely, I can still bear it."

"Do it hard for two years, the Zhu family will not treat you badly, you will be able to buy a good house in Changzhou County when you go back, and your wife and children will have their own home."

These 20 or so entourages are all servants of the Zhu family's old house, each of the three leaders has 50 yuan per month, and the others have 30 yuan per month each.

"Master, I'll try to persevere."

Zhu Yuanfeng nodded, "What about the two brothers, and Zhu Sheng?" ”

"The two little brothers are in front, and the second yamen is still walking another ten miles to see them."

"You keep busy, let's go over and see."

Zhu Yuanfeng and Fanning urged the horses to go north, walked out of about two miles, and saw a large group of Japanese laborers panning for gold in the water, they first used a wooden bucket to dig up the sediment at the bottom of the river, and then rinsed in the water with a fine dustpan, basically every time they rinsed, they can find a few pieces of gold sand, in fact, this is more wasteful, but Akihito they only want to do it for another two years, so they use rough gold mining.

Mingren and Mingli are like overseers, patrolling more than 100 laborers back and forth to wash sand, in fact, they also have a few overseers, who were sent to them by the Zhu family, this time the Zhu family followed Zhu Sheng to more than 30 people, not only the Zhu family needs to pan for gold, but the other part is also to support Mingren and Mingli.

"Akihito!"

Zhu Yuanfeng waved his hand and shouted, Mingren's eyes lit up, and he ran over.

"Old man, why are you here?"

"Look at what you're saying, can't I come to Kunzhou?"

"I didn't mean that, I meant that when I saw the old man in Kunzhou, I really had the feeling of suddenly seeing spring, and everything became beautiful." Akihito grinned and said with a flamboyant tongue.

"Look at your mouth, I don't know how many catties of soybean oil I ate today, forget it, I'm too lazy to pay attention to you, I'll go see Zhu Sheng!"

Zhu Yuanfeng urged the horse to the north, but Fanning turned over and dismounted, handed the horse to an overseer, and asked Mingren, "How is the gold mining situation in the past few months?" ”

Akihito shook his head, "It's obviously not as good as last year, the gold sand content was very good last year and the beginning of the year, and it has almost halved from April to now. ”

"Did you find the reason?"

"The reason is actually that Mingli and I both know, it's really Mingli who is here, a little can't look down on those Kun people, they pick up two grains of gold sand will be greedy for one, sometimes Mingli sees it, and he doesn't dare to provoke them too much, these guys are very fierce, I'm afraid something will happen if they provoke them, Mingli can only swallow his anger."

"The Kun people are also greedy for gold sand?" Fanning was surprised.

"Why aren't you greedy?"

Akihito said angrily: "At first, they were relatively honest, but after coming back after a winter, they became treacherous and slippery, at least they all know that with gold sand, they can go to drink, buy things, and play with women, and they will let go of this kind of good thing?" ”

"What about these Japanese laborers?"

Fanning looked at the two hundred busy laborers and asked, "How do you prevent them from stealing gold?" ”

"I will deduct their wages first, I will tell them the ugly words, do it honestly for a year, if you don't steal gold sand, I will reward each person with a tael of gold, and I will search my body at the end of the day at the end of work, if I steal a grain of gold sand, not only can I not get a reward of one or two gold, but also the wages are gone, they are not stupid, at most they can only steal half a tael of gold, and if they steal more, they will be discovered, so the gains outweigh the losses, so they simply work honestly."

Fanning came to the river and watched the laborers digging sand, his brow furrowing.

"Does A-Ning think there's something wrong?"

"Isn't it a bit too wasteful for you to dig sand like this?"

"There's no way, we've only been doing it for two years, and it's such a long section of the river, so we can only be a little rougher."

"I'm not saying that you waste river sand, but that you waste manpower and use a hundred people to dig sand, is it necessary?"

"And what can you do?"

Fan Ning thought about the way to pan for gold in later generations, and said to him: "You see that the water of this river is not very urgent, and the amount of water is not very large, you can dig an aqueduct next to it, such as about 100 zhang, let the river water go around a bend and then flow into the river, and use mud bags at both ends to scoop up the river water, so that you don't have to dig up the river sand, and directly pan for gold in the river, isn't this a good way?" ”

Akihito thought about it, this method is really good, it is called sharpening the knife and not cutting firewood, why didn't he think of it, he hurriedly shouted loudly: "Second brother, come here!" ”

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