Chapter 3 The Return of Lushunkou

When He Xi arrived at Lushunkou, there were already many people waiting on the dock.

Headed by Ye Wang. Ye Wang didn't just come to greet He Xi. He also greeted his own son. Ye Shen is by He Xi's side, and he has also accumulated some credit in Nanyang, and now he is already a thousand households. However, he followed He Xi and did not lead troops. At this moment, when you are in Liaodong, you can go down to take up a real position.

Although he is still under his father's command, he is not favoritism.

The second is Huang Zicheng.

Huang Zicheng was extremely powerful in Liaodong.

This is because Liaodong is in the end under military control, and there are almost no serious civilian officials. After that, Shandong Province set up an envoy or something, which was also a later thing. So Huang Zicheng is in a situation where he has no boss in Liaodong. In other words, Huang Zicheng's boss is in Jinan and in Beijing.

And although Ye Wang is the largest official in Liaodong, he really can't control Huang Zicheng.

In addition, Ye Wang looked at He Xi's face, not only did not restrict Huang Zicheng, but also gave support. So Huang Zicheng's power is almost unlimited. That's where we are today.

As soon as He Xi arrived at Lushunkou, there was no need to mention it when he exchanged pleasantries with these people.

He just turned around, looked at it, and felt that Lushunkou was very different. The first is the berth at the port of Arthur. Although Lushunkou is a natural harbor, the wharf and berths still need to be built artificially.

It's a lot more than the last time He Xi came.

And there are a lot more shops in Lushunkou.

The people who came and went before were all from the yamen. Therefore, there are not many shops here. But now there are a lot of merchants coming and going. Naturally, there is a demand. That's why there are so many new shops. Other than that, it's the warehouse.

Densely packed warehouses, several miles long. This is all grain and grass transferred from the south, of course, this is only a transit station, and it needs to be transferred to the front line one station at a time. In other places, there are a lot of large trees in the open air, almost a mountain of wood. The pile is very high, very high.

People walk in it, and even get lost.

Seeing this, He Xi couldn't help but say; "Zicheng, you have done a great job in Liaodong."

Huang Zicheng said; "The teacher praised, without the teacher's support and arrangement, I don't have today, I just follow the teacher's plan, and do some hard work, here is 1.5 million stones of grain, of which 1 million stones are transferred by the Marquis of Navigation. And what was bought out of wood was only 500,000 stones. ”

"There are very few left."

He Xi said: "Is 500,000 stones less? Not a lot. ”

What is the concept of 500,000 stones, before that, the grain that Daming transported to Liaodong every year was about this number. It is enough for the military and civilians of Liaodong to live almost the same. After all, Liaodong can be cultivated. It is only because of the war that agricultural production has been affected, and there are still a large number of people who have left production, that there is a food shortage. Today, although the grain output in Liaodong is not high, there are also few people. If there is no war, self-sufficiency is not a problem.

He Xi said: "Before I left Beijing, I had already played the imperial court and promoted you to participate in politics in Liaodong. He is in charge of logging matters and is in charge of both sides of the Yalu River. You have to keep up the good work and don't let the court down. ”

The participation in politics in the Ming Dynasty was not as good as the participation in politics in the Tang and Song dynasties, and the participation in politics in the Tang and Song dynasties was the participation of the governor, in fact, he was the prime minister. And the Ming Dynasty's participation in politics was just the deputy of the political envoy. But even so, it is also a third-grade official. Even in the Quan Dynasty, but for a person who was still a magistrate a few years ago, it was as if he was promoted to take off.

However, since He Xi became the governor of Liaodong, he had an idea in his heart, that is, Liaodong should be set up as a province.

There are two prerequisites for the establishment of a province in eastern Liaodong, the first is security. As long as there are no enemies around, Liaodong can take off military control. Secondly, there are enough households. There is nothing without people, and there are at least 10,000 or 20,000 people in a county. If you want to set up a province, hundreds of thousands of people today are simply not enough.

Both of these issues will be solved, though.

Since Liaodong is a province, there are naturally many vacancies. Huang Zicheng's official position is too low, I'm afraid I won't be able to grab the fattest piece.

He Xi, this can be regarded as both public and private.

Doing things for the state is one thing, and it does not prevent you from getting some benefits for your own people. After all, people are not vacuum creatures. He Xizhen is selfless, and he was taken advantage of by others, and he also hurt his morale. Promoting Huang Zicheng in this way may not mean that there is no meaning of horse bones in the gold market.

Huang Zicheng said: "The students will definitely do their best to serve the imperial court, and they will die with all their might. ”

He Xi said: "I heard that you built a shipyard? ”

Huang Zicheng said: "It's here." Huang Zicheng pointed to the side and said.

He Xi turned his eyes to look over, only saw a large piece of wood, and said; "Let's take a look."

Huang Zicheng led the way, and the group walked over. He Xi saw these woods from a distance, and suddenly found that they were different, the previous woods were all stacked on a large scale, and there was nothing to pay attention to. Today, however, the wood is arranged in a very regular manner.

This is in the shade to dry.

Walking through the places where the wood was hoarded, He Xi saw a large area of open space. In the distance of the void, there is a river. The place where the river is about to enter the sea seems to be connected to the ocean and is very wide. And there are a lot of wooden slides on the ground. Some of the vessels, both formed and unformed, were supported by stones and beams.

He Xi clearly saw the structure of the keel. These unbuilt ships are like big fish stranded on land, exposing their backbones and thick bones.

Once it's built, it's pushed into the sea along the rails.

In addition to this, there is a shipyard. In short, it occupies a large area and has all kinds of tools.

What makes He Xi more satisfied is nothing else. But the whole factory, there is a logic of division of labor in it. Unlike the shipyards He Xi saw in Ningbo, those shipyards were more workshops than factories.

Every ship has no certain rules, depending on the mood of the tool.

And this is different, although it also needs to be presided over by a master craftsman, but in many places, we can see the footnotes of future industrial production.

After all, Huang Zicheng had listened to He Xi's lecture.

He Xi said; "Zicheng, you have studied well."

Huang Zicheng said: "I only learned 12/10 of the teachers. If Senior Brother Ge comes, this is just a small skill of carving insects. ”

He Xi said: "Ge Tiangong is also here. ”

He Xi brought not only Ge Tiangong, this time the Jinghai Merchant dispatched several ships to bring He Xi and He Xi's attaché over, including many people from Guozijian and a large number of craftsmen led by Ge Tiangong.

Huang Zicheng said with great joy; "Senior Brother Ge is here too? That's great. ”

The reason why Huang Zicheng is looking forward to Ge Tiangong so much. It's when you really do things that you feel the importance of technology.

Of course, this is also because Huang Zicheng is different from others, he has listened to the class under He Xi and has no prejudice against technology. It is also the idea and motivation to take the initiative to reform technology and solve problems. When Huang Zicheng opened the forest farm, he also made some technical improvements.

It's just that Huang Zicheng didn't do this after all, a lot of his knowledge in this area was obtained from listening to lectures and communicating with classmates, and he didn't have much research, and it was already the limit to be able to do this.

With Ge Tiangong here, he will definitely be able to help him a lot.

He Xi said; "Alright. I'm not here to listen to nice things, but to solve problems. If you brothers want to catch up, wait for now. Let's find a place first and talk about the problems in Liaodong. ”

"Yes." The group said.

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Inside the main hall of a thousand households near Lushunkou.

He Xi heard them talk about the problems faced by Liaodong.

Ye Wang said; "I just got the news that the Yellow River is flooding, Shandong has suffered heavy losses, and His Majesty has issued an order to reduce or exempt Shandong's money and grain, more than 2 million stones, and Henan's money and grain of hundreds of thousands of stones. As a result, the battle plan for this autumn was postponed. Actually, it made us breathe a sigh of relief. Otherwise, we will have to transport this more than one million stone of grain to Zhenbei Pass, north of Shenyang, within the next month, and it is estimated that all the military and civilians will have to be dispatched in an all-round way. This autumn's harvest is gone. ”

"If we go to war again next year, we will have a chance to breathe."

He Xi frowned and said; "Why not ship it in advance? Why is it dragging so tightly? ”