In fact, there is another person, Sun Lin, seeing that his friend Qian Chengzhi and his brother-in-law Fang Yizhi have joined Xujiazhuang, he also has the idea of joining.

And he basically agreed with and accepted Xu Jiazhuang's concept, and realized the major shortcomings of Confucian governance.

But after thinking about it, he had to give up.

Because he is a hereditary military attaché, once he joins, he is very likely to be impeached and criticized, and even affect his family.

So he only changed into Xujiazhuang's new-style clothes, and did not shave his hair, which was half of the change.

……

End of January.

The weather is getting warmer.

The road surface began to thaw, barely passable, and soon it was officially spring.

From the end of last year to the beginning of this year, the senior personnel of Xujiazhuang have been discussing and brewing for more than a month.

Xujiazhuang's "Marine Strategy" is about to be officially launched and implemented, taking a new and extremely important step.

What is a marine strategy and what is the specific content?

There are three main areas: sea salt production, the development of marine fishing and marine trade.

"On the ocean, there are endless opportunities and wealth, Xujiazhuang wants to achieve better development, must go through the ocean, from the sea to obtain more resources and development space."

"First of all, salt, the people of the Ming Dynasty are nearly 200 million, even if each person only eats one pound of salt per year, they also need 1.6 million stones of salt, if the average person consumes up to ten pounds of salt per year, it is the salt market of up to 16 million stones, and now the coarse salt on the market is about 100 yuan a pound, converted into a penny of silver, the quality is very poor, the price is very expensive, but salt is a necessity, even the poorest family, you have to buy one or two pounds of salt every year, otherwise you have no strength to work."

Therefore, according to the market price of the consumer terminal, the market space of salt is more than 20 million taels every year, and may even reach 50 million taels, and the production cost of salt, according to different production methods, ranges from 5 to 20 wen per catty, and the profit margin is five to twenty times, but most of these profits are obtained by salt merchants, officials, nobles and gentry, who all eat their brains full of fat, monopolize the production, transportation, sales and other links of salt, and sell salt that costs a few cents to ten times the price to the people. Huge profits are made, but the people are getting poorer and poorer, but because salt is a necessity, no matter how the price is manipulated, the salt merchant interest group will not make less. ”

"We intend to change this status quo, go to the sea to build a large-scale salt factory, the use of the most advanced salt, electric heating, filtration and purification technology, to achieve an annual output of 1 million tons of salt (1 ton = 16 stones) of the goal, to meet the needs of each Ming people to consume at least ten catties of salt, due to the use of the most advanced salt technology, the cost of our production of a catty of salt, after the amount of it, can be reduced to about 1 per catty, the consumer price, 10 to 20 wen, so that the people can buy high-quality and low-cost sea salt at the same time, It can also ensure that we get about ten times the gross profit, and the people get benefits, and we have at least tens of millions of taels of profit every year. ”

"The business of sea salt has huge interests, and Xujiazhuang must enter, even if it will offend countless salt merchants and interest groups! If they dare to use force, we will use force for force and completely kill them! ”

"The second is to build a large harbor city, recruit a large number of sailors and fishermen, purchase the latest electric fishing boats, and use this harbor city as a base to develop the fishing industry, and obtain countless marine fish and seafood from the sea as a new source of meat."

"Compared with the land, the area of the ocean is infinitely broad, the number of fish, shrimp, crabs, snails living in the sea, the number is difficult to count, just in the coastal area of Daming, there are at least 10 million tons of fishable resources every year, we only need to have a 100 or so advanced fishing boats, each boat catches 500 tons of seafood every year, 50,000 tons per year, so that 500,000 people can eat 100 kilograms per person per year."

"The sea fish and seafood have the advantages of delicious, high protein content, less oil and fat that is not easy to lead to obesity, although the calories contained are also low, the sense of satiety is not strong, but three catties of sea fish and seafood, is able to offset with a pound of pork, the sea is the secondary meat farm, the disadvantage is that the nutritional quality is low, but the ocean is infinitely vast, no need to pay management costs, no restrictions on how to fish."

"From the point of view of food consumption, every pound of seafood caught from the ocean, it is equivalent to reducing a pound of food consumption, from the ocean to catch three pounds of seafood, it is equivalent to reducing the consumption of a pound of pigs, cattle and mutton, now the food in many places in Daming is still insufficient, and it may be more scarce in the future, if you can get enough fish and shrimp from the sea, it is to bring a new source of food, as long as the fishing boat leaves the port, it is the harvest season of food at sea, even if the amount of fishing is not much, it can at least give countless hungry refugees, Bring food for life. ”

"If there is more fish, it can also be made into dried fish, canned fish and other by-products, which can improve the shelf life and utilization rate of food, and bring more benefits."

"Therefore, the significance of marine fishing is also huge, and it must be developed as soon as possible."

"Finally, there is maritime trade, after the completion of our harbor city, there will be a large number of docks that can be berthed, and then we can form our marine trade fleet, go to the world to do business, maybe allow foreign merchant ships, cargo ships to dock in the port, allow merchants who come to the harbor city, go to the business area to purchase Xujiazhuang goods, and then sell them to all parts of the world."

"We have a lot of special commodities in Xujiazhuang, including bicycles, glass mirrors, lighters, soaps, shower gels, sugar, grain, canned food, all kinds of non-staple foods, etc., are very good goods, is the upper class just needs, but also through the sea trade to open up a broader overseas market, such as North Korea, Japan, Western countries, the potential of these overseas markets, will not be weaker than the Ming Dynasty, once the market and channels are opened, there will be millions of taels of gold and silver into the account every year."

As long as the foreign maritime trade of the harbor city develops, in addition to earning a large amount of gold and silver, it can also obtain resources from all over the world, such as high-quality timber, iron ore, coal, cotton, grain, shipbuilding and artillery craftsmen, etc., and then you can develop your own shipbuilding industry, manufacturing a large number of cargo ships, merchant ships, warships, etc., and so on through sea trade to accumulate a strong enough strength, You can sound the clarion call to conquer the world, use Harbour City as a starting base, and conquer every corner that can be connected by the sea. ”

The above three aspects!

The purpose of making sea salt is to control the huge consumer market of salt.

The development of marine fishing is aimed at opening up new sources of food and alleviating the problem of food shortages.

The development of maritime trade is to dump more commodities through maritime trade, and at the same time bring or attract raw materials and resources from all over the world to form a greater economic circulation.

These three aspects, no matter which aspect, all contain huge benefits, have reasons for entering into development, and represent an infinite amount of new space for development.

Taken together, it is the 'marine strategy' in Xu Yuan's mouth, which is the only way for Xujiazhuang's future development, and a grand strategy that must turn the blueprint into reality.

Seeing the huge benefits, the high-level personnel of Xujiazhuang naturally would not be as ignorant and short-sighted as the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, their eyes were red, and they all expressed their support, and under the command of the order, they immediately entered a state of full mobilization, turned into a super-efficient machine, and mobilized almost all human, material and financial resources to serve this strategy.

……

February 3rd, morning.

After the swearing-in mobilization meeting was held.

Order!

300 tractors are in front.

100 excavators and 50 rollers followed, widening the road in front and repairing it.

Then there are 1,000 bicycles, heavily armed guards.

Finally, 30,000 young men and women who have been organized and trained are either helping to push four-wheeled carriages, or pushing wheelbarrows, or taking sand boats to walk the dry rivers, all loaded with all kinds of materials, and go straight to the seaside of Rugao County, more than 100 miles to the east.

This huge team, which marched by land and water, created a huge movement along the way.

The mechanical monsters that rumbled and emitted black smoke were lined up for miles, shaking the mountains and rivers, undulating as if they were walking on the ground, giving onlookers a shock that they would never forget.

There are endless bicycle teams, four-wheeled teams, unicycle teams, and fleets behind them, at least tens of thousands of vehicles and ships, leaving countless rut marks, and I don't know how huge amount of materials they carried, and what terrible things they planned to do?

Rugao County, who had never seen such a scene, trembled with fright, and rumored that Xujiazhuang had rebelled, and the momentum was unstoppable, so it was better for them to surrender immediately.

The officials and gentry of Xinghua County also panicked, and there was a feeling that the boots had fallen to the ground and the end was coming, but they waited left and right, and discussed the countermeasures for several days, and even when the surrender faction gained the upper hand, they were ready to cut off the head of Xin Shiqi in Zhixian County, and surrender the city to Xujiazhuang, only to be told that Xujiazhuang was going to the sea to build a harbor city, and what kind of maritime strategy was going to be carried out, and they were not interested in rebellion at all, so don't believe rumors.

The officials and gentry suddenly looked at each other, their expressions were wonderful, and their moods were quite complicated, not only relaxed and happy, but also a sense of humiliation of being ignored and despised by them, and finally anger, this hateful Xujiazhuang, made such a big scene and movement, scared them out of half their lives, it was not a rebellion, what did they want to do? When the time comes, what kind of scene will it be? Directly scare them to death? This hateful Xujiazhuang is really unbelievable!

Moreover, the planning and actions of Xujiazhuang to build a harbor city have also made them attach great importance and concern, and they want to know the purpose of Xujiazhuang's construction of this harbor? What exactly is this trying to do? In addition, do you occupy so much seaside wasteland, with their approval and consent?

And because the movement was so big, not only the local officials, but also the officials and gentry of the entire Yangzhou Prefecture, and the officials and merchants of the entire Nanzhili also set their eyes on the coast of Rugao County, expressing great importance and concern.