This time, the first destination of Li Miao's double-sailed small sea boat was Lingshan Island. Lingshan Island is on the coastline of Li Miao's Qiwan Grange in Huangdao County, more than ten miles east of the deep sea. In this era of forbidden seas, Lingshan Island is almost an uninhabited island.

Now the common people on land are living in such a difficult way, let alone on an island far from the mainland. In the first half of last year, Wang Yonggui began to organize manpower to develop Lingshan Island.

A total of more than one million taels of silver were invested. Transform Lingshan Island into a livable place and a shipbuilding powerhouse. It is also Li Miao's holy place for scientific research.

Lingshan Island is more than three miles wide from east to west, and more than ten miles long from north to south. With an area of more than 40,000 acres, it is also related to Li Miao, and Li Miao's internal space area is similar to it.

The altitude of Lingshan Island is five or six hundred meters high, which is very valuable, and there is no need to worry about the impact of high tide on the island.

The forest coverage rate of Lingshan Island has reached seventy or eighty percent, and most of the ancient trees are excellent timber for the construction of large sea ships, which is really a natural island tailored for Li Miao, and Lingshan Island has a natural harbor, and there is only one harbor.

This natural harbor can easily dock even large sea ships, saving Li Miao a huge amount of silver and time, even if he has time and silver, Li Miao can't build such a good harbor. Working under the sea is inherently unsolvable in this era without machinery.

Except for this natural harbor, Lingshan Island is not even able to dock small boats in other places, unless you get off the boat for swimming. That is, as long as this natural harbor is guarded, Lingshan Island is safe.

Wang Yonggui also thought in his heart, the owner may be a person with great luck, the owner from a travelogue, found such a treasure of feng shui, if there is no such a large natural harbor, it is still impossible to build a sea ship.

Li Miao asked Wang Yonggui to find Lingshan Island and occupy it secretly, the main purpose was to build a large sea ship. Now there is no shortage of silver, craftsmen, and technology in Li Miao's hands, and now there is no shortage of Lingshan Island.

After the construction of the sea ship, Li Miao can start his marine strategy. In Qingzhou, Li Miao didn't dare to make a big ship. Now the manufacture of double-sailed small sea boats also has a bit of a famous taste.

However, Li Miao, who was accustomed to being low-key, was unhappy. Now the first sea ship in Chengzikou Port on Lingshan Island is about to be completed. Li Miao's ocean-going maritime trade business is about to set sail.

At that time, the first thing to bring to Li Miao was a huge amount of wealth. Li Miao, who came from later generations, knew that there were still many Western countries in this world, and they might soon enter the ocean age.

The real hegemon is determined by the strength on the oceans. Li Miao didn't want to repeat the old path of later generations. Now that he's in this world, he won't allow that to happen again.

Now Li Miao is developing ocean trade, accumulating experience in ocean shipping, and cultivating a large number of shipping talents. Prepare for the coming age of the oceans. Not to mention how much the strength is ahead of others, at least it is no longer passively beaten.

Li Miao didn't believe it, he earned a lot of silver through ocean trade, and then invested in the shipping business, so he couldn't kill the Western maritime overlord, so it was better to go home early and wash and sleep!

Lingshan Island is a habitable island, there were more than 100 Tu people on the island, and it is said that they were the lucky ones and their descendants who swam to the island after a ship wreck.

Wang Yonggui organized more than 3,000 immigrants, all of whom were hungry people in various coastal areas, and all of them dragged their families with them.

In addition, nearly 50 slave families were arranged to manage more than 3,000 people, and a total of seven villages were built in the open land around the island, and these 3,000 people were arranged to live in.

Lingshan Island has now reclaimed more than 20,000 acres of fertile land, strengthened and newly excavated four reservoirs, and the fresh water on the island is enough for tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of livestock.

The island is home to a large number of six animals. Last year's food income alone was enough for more than a few thousand people on the island to feed for five years.

The inhabitants of the island have long lived and worked in peace and contentment, and even those Tu tribes felt that their homes had been invaded at first, but now it seems that they are fortunate to be invaded. Otherwise, how could there be today's life.

Wang Yonggui also used a large amount of seaside beach to dry salt according to the salt drying technology given by Li Miao. The tidal flats of Lingshan Island are no less than hundreds of thousands of acres, which are much better than the tidal flats on the coast of Yangzhou.

The salt that has been dried since last year alone will cost no less than one million taels of silver if it is sold as private salt.

This is still not the energy to focus on drying salt, if you go all out, it will not be a problem to increase the production several times. Moreover, Li Miao did not let the salt be sold, but hoarded it on Lingshan Island as a strategic reserve.

Of course, Li Miao will not sell illicit salt, first, such a large amount of illicit salt enters the market, it is impossible to be without movement. Not in line with his low-key personality.

Second, he is not short of silver for the time being. I can't spend the money in my hand. So there's no need to look for trouble. In Li Miao's heart, salt is more effective than silver. It can be stored as a strategic material.

Wang Yonggui saw the good salt he had sun, could it be bad? It's almost time to catch up with the expensive refined salt on the market. If this is sold, it will definitely sell for a high price.

Lingshan Island itself is located in the deep sea, so there are few impurities in the seawater, and the salt content is also high. Coupled with Li Miao's comprehensive advanced technology, the salt produced is not only of high quality, but also low cost.

Wang Yonggui sometimes thinks that the proprietor's money is too easy to make, and if he makes a name for himself, he can earn millions of taels of silver a year.

At present, the scale of Chengzikou Port on Lingshan Island is quite large, there are more than 200 craftsmen and more than 300 skilled workers, and all of them are dragged with their families.

These craftsmen were all collected by Wang Yonggui in various places in the Great Zheng Dynasty, not only requiring good craftsmanship, but also having a family, otherwise no matter how high the level is, it is not necessary.

Now these craftsmen are Li Miao's people, and it is incredible in the future generations, so many excellent craftsmen are in a hurry to be accepted as slaves by Li Miao.

This is also the sadness of this era, if you can't treat the craftsmen well, how can the technology progress? So I picked up the leak for Li Miao, and the craftsmen were grateful to the owner from the bottom of their hearts.

Now Lingshan Island implements free education for all resident boys, not only learning, but also Jeet Kune Do, Li Miao really treats them as his own.

In fact, this is also the case with all of Li Miao's industries now, where school-age boys are enrolled for free, and are paid from one to three hundred wen per month according to their academic performance. All half-sized children on Lingshan Island will participate in the escort team.

As for the young and strong farmers, they will also join the escort team when they are not working. Now Lingshan Island is heavily guarded, and every village on the island has no less than thirty guards.

Chengzikou Port is even more impressive, with 300 good players transferred from the Southern Bureau and the Northern Bureau. Specializing in the security of ports.

Not counting the more than 200 local guards who have been trained on Lingshan Island for a year, and now this group of guards is also beginning to take shape, and they will soon be sent to new positions. Most of them will go to large and small sea ships to serve as guards.

If you want to stay in Chengzikou Port as a guard, you must be the best among them.

The current guards of Chengzikou Port are no less than five taels of silver per month. They are all masters from the north and the south. It can be seen that Li Miao attaches great importance to Lingshan Island.

Li Miao's personal maid Ding Qiusheng's brother, Ding Chunsheng is one of the pipe leaders. It can be seen that Li Miao attaches great importance to him, and he is in charge of a hundred strong martial arts guards, which is really a reckless hero.

According to Li Miao's understanding, Ding Chunsheng is also a type who is not highly educated, but he is very good at doing things. With his sister Autumn gave birth to a type.

Chengzikou Port is more prosperous than the average county seat. The port of Chengzikou, which has thousands of people, is in good order, and the guards are crowded, and the guards are all high-paid people, so commerce and trade here are prosperous.

It was close to noon on this day, and it was rare for Chengzikou Port to be under martial law. A small sea boat with two sails docked at the wharf, Wang Yonggui and his entourage greeted at the wharf, Li Miao and his entourage went directly to the expert building of Chengzikou Port after getting off the boat, and the locals are used to calling it the guest house.

It is rare for VIPs to live here, and it is intended to be built for craftsmen who have made outstanding contributions, and the craftsmen here are proud to be qualified to live in the craftsman building, and there are only four craftsmen living in the expert building. And it's all family.

In total, there are twenty specialist buildings. Wang Yonggui was also puzzled, twenty sets of expert buildings, costing nearly 200,000 taels of silver, at first Wang Yonggui thought it was not worth it, and then he gradually saw the fame.

The enthusiasm of more than 200 craftsmen alone frightened him, and various technological innovations emerged one after another. Ships of the sea are being built much faster than expected.

In this way, there are still sixteen sets of expert buildings empty? In total, only four specialists have been granted permanent residence. Now, Wang Yonggui looks back and sees that these 20 sets of expert buildings have been built too correctly, which fully mobilizes the enthusiasm and sense of honor of the craftsmen.