Zhuang Shaoyou and the Goguryeo king Gao Nanwu completed the transaction on the west bank of Mazishui in Pingdong, Xi'an, and after the ink commander conducted a simple training of the Goguryeo sailors, he loaded 3,000 catties of gold and Gao Yingying onto another four-masted warship, and then began to return, while Gongsun Du stayed in Xi'an Ping for a day, and returned to Xiangping by land after explaining some things to Gongsun Yan.

On the way back, we traveled against the wind, which took nearly three days, and returned to the city at dusk on June 28.

After coming back, how to settle Gao Yingying has become a big problem, the county government? Square peg! Other places are not enough specifications, and it is really difficult to do!

Finally, he discussed with Guoyuan and Sun Qianyi to build a large Siyi Pavilion, and after the Mo family's accounting, it is estimated that one hundred catties of gold will be allocated. Now for Zhuang Shaoyou, a hundred catties of gold is not in his eyes at all.

After Zhuang Shaoyou returned to Yuqi, two days later, Zhou Tian and Wu Liang's caravan returned!

Zhuang Shaoyou rushed to the dock to greet him, and the two led the fleet to the south of three four-masted sailing ships in World War II, bringing a large number of northern specialties, and after selling them, they purchased a large number of Jiangnan specialties, such as silk, jade, tea, etc., with a balance of 700 catties of gold, five baht and 6 million, and three ships of Jiangnan specialties! The five hundred pounds of gold and silver he carried with him when he went south were not touched.

And another big gain of this trip is to find out the route of the Yangtze River estuary, but it has not been deepened, because for the sake of safety, the two of them still went to Huiji Qiantang and Yuhang to do business, and the result was that the ship was already full in those two places.

Zhuang Shaoyou summarized the current situation:

Interior aspects

There are 3,700 catties of gold in the county vault, and about 17 million baht of five baht.

And the monthly commercial tax income is about two million yuan, and now the county's official and merchant fleet only purchases special products in the Bohai Rim Circle, and has not yet sold them, so the trade income is undetermined, and the special products purchased from Jiangnan on Sunday will be counted after the sale.

In terms of farming, in the past two years, the county's cumulative cultivated land has reached more than 30,000 hectares, of which 8,000 hectares are newly cultivated summer grain corn fields this year.

Spring wheat was harvested in mid-July, corn was harvested in early September, and grain stocks were basically empty last year, leaving less than 30,000 tons of grain in stock.

Military-political aspects

The remaining cavalry battalion has 3,500 cavalrymen, the main general Tai Shici, and the deputy general Qin Ling, equipped with an officer-army standard cavalry suit and a light bow, with a range of 200;

The remaining infantry of the infantry battalion is 1,900 people, the main general Zhang San, the Wanzi Town garrison of 500 people, the main general Li Le, the infantry is equipped with official and military standard suits and two consecutive Mojia crossbow machines, with a range of 250 paces;

1,500 sailors, concurrently led by ink, the shipyard has four docks, two three-masted docks, and the production cycle is forty-five days; Two four-masted docks with a production cycle of 60 days.

At present, a total of four four-masted warships are being built, one of which was transferred to Goguryeo, and three four-masted merchant ships (two were newly launched in June); There were four three-masted warships and eleven three-masted merchant ships.

There is a forging factory, a small and medium-sized iron mine in the Great Black Mountain, and more than 500 slaves and prisoners.

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On the first day of July, Zhuang Shaoyou convened everyone to discuss the next development plan.

In the administrative hall of the county government, Zhuang Shaoyou sat at the top, Guoyuan, Hua Xin, Sun Qian, Zhou Tian, Wu Liang, Luo Yu and other civil officials, Moshi, Motu, Motie, Moshui, Moqiao and other Mojia sons, Tai Shici, Qin Ling, Zhang San, Li Le and other military generals were all present.

Zhuang Shaoyou glanced at everyone and said, "Everyone! In the previous stage, we completed the spring ploughing, summer ploughing, repelled the invasion of Goguryeo, and last month with Goguryeo carried out a shipbuilding transaction, speaking of which, it is a lot of harvest, remarkable achievements, but there are already many problems, next, please speak freely, offer advice, work together, and build our Weidi better!

Zhou Tian was the first to speak: "General, colleagues! There is a lack of gold and silver currency in the south of the Yangtze River, and most of them are still five-baht coins, but the quality of five-baht coins is too inferior, easy to put away, and difficult to spend, but this is the current situation of the Han Dynasty, and the exchange ratio of five-baht coins and gold and silver is becoming more and more outrageous. I hope you can help you a little bit! ”

The five-baht money system was formulated by Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, which can be said to be a very reasonable monetary system in ancient times, but to the Eastern Han Dynasty, after the four emperors of quality, Chong, Huan and Ling, the inferior five-baht money was issued indiscriminately, although there is gold to support, but the silver reserves of the intermediate currency are too small to play a balancing role, so the currency in the Han Dynasty is disordered, the price has risen sharply, and the five-baht money in the hand has always been in a state of depreciation!

For the question raised by Zhou Tian, everyone did not pick up, this thing is too big! It's not something that can be solved by a county! I'm afraid that Liaodong County has no choice, it has to rely on the imperial court!

Zhuang Shaoyou took a look at everyone's expressions, and said with a slight smile: "This issue is very important, we can discuss it finally, let's talk about other issues first."

Guo Yuan and Luo Yu discussed a few words in a low voice, and then Guo Yuan spoke: "General, colleagues! Now it is already July, and there will be another half a month to harvest spring wheat, this year's spring ploughing in the whole county on the basis of last year's cultivated land and newly cultivated 13,000 hectares of fields, spring wheat planting has reached nearly 23,000 hectares, according to last year's harvest of 70 hectares of coarse grain, this year's spring wheat will harvest about 1.6 million hu.

In addition, the summer grain will be harvested in September, and the corn will be harvested 150 Hu per hectare according to the Moshi Ruler Experiment, and the 8,000 hectares of corn fields will be harvested 1.2 million Hu Hu, which is a huge amount, and the total capacity of the current two granaries is only 600,000 Hu, which cannot accommodate so much grain, so it is necessary to build two 2 million Hu granaries to accommodate the newly harvested wheat and corn respectively! The budget cost is a million dollars! ”

Zhuang Shaoyou smiled and waved his hand: "Mr. Guo, Chief Luo, where are the two enough, you can build four granaries with a capacity of two million hu, the population in our county is increasing, and we will definitely continue to reclaim new fields next year, and then we will have a headache and no place to put it, in case there is anything wrong next year, it is too late to deal with it, if the grain is rained, then it is not in vain!" ”

"What the general said is very true!"

Guo Yuan first agreed, and then continued: "General, there is one more thing, that is, the population of our country is getting more and more, more than 8,000 refugees were transported from Qingzhou in the first six months of this year, more than 1,000 refugees fled from Jizhou itself, and there are hundreds of refugees from Liaodong and Lelang, and the population of the county is nearly 30,000!"

Fortunately, thanks to the grain embargo issued last year, otherwise the grain in the official warehouse would not be enough to support it until now, so many people have concentrated in the county, causing chaos in the county and a decline in public order. And the space in the county is already insufficient, and the Siyi Pavilion that was planned to be built a few days ago has been delayed because of the lack of land in the city! ”

When Zhuang Shaoyou heard this, his brows immediately furrowed, when he came back from Xi'an Ping a few days ago, he found that there were groups of refugees in the city, this problem is indeed not small! I can't live in the city, it's a real headache, a county can't even live for 30,000 people, how was it designed in the first place?

In fact, this can't be blamed on the designer, two years ago, the population of the county seat was only more than 5,000, and now it has increased sixfold, it is strange that it can be installed, the designer simply could not have imagined that such a remote small county town would have a sharp increase in population.

Everyone expressed their opinions, some had to say that the city should be expanded, some would build more new cities, some would rebuild Hongya Town, etc., and finally Zhuang Shaoyou made a decision: "Your opinions are very good, so I decided to adopt them all!" The county seat must be expanded, a new city must be built, and Hongya Town must also be rebuilt, otherwise, we will not be able to control the 200,000 hectares of fertile land in southeast Liaoning!

Moreover, the geographical location of Hongya Town is important, the north is the remaining veins of the southern foot of Changbai Mountain, the mountain is rich in resources, and the shipyard is not short of wood? There's definitely one in there! Also, Mo Tie, you take some people to explore the mountains to see if you can dig out the mine, whether it is gold, silver, copper and iron, it is good!

As for the construction of the new town, I have thought about it, and I will set it in Liujia Village, fifty miles southwest of the county seat, and Mr. Guo can send someone to deal with it, and the construction can be started slowly, so that the refugees from Qingzhou can settle there first! ”

After Zhuang Shaoyou finished speaking, he glanced at everyone, and asked at the beginning of the ink: "General, the four-masted warship technology we sold to Goguryeo a few days ago is already our latest technology, should we build a five-masted ship?" ”

Zhuang Shaoyou looked at the longing expression on Ink's face, and suddenly felt funny, what a shipbuilding fan! But that's the technologist's style! So he smiled and said: "Ink, don't worry, I was about to talk about this question, the reason why I agreed to sell shipbuilding to Goguryeo last time was because I had planned to build a five-masted ship, and the new dock would be built in the harbor in the south of the county, and a new deep-water dock would be built in the south."

In the future, we will build a large ship with more than five masts, so the wharf must be built better, and we must make plans for future development, and this matter will be handed over to you, you can discuss it with Mr. Guo! Don't save where you should spend money! After the beginning of spring next year, I want to see the five-masted warship! ”

"Yes!" Ink agreed very excitedly, so he couldn't wait to do it immediately, anyway, the next thing had little to do with him.

Hearing that the water division was about to develop again, Tai Shici on the side couldn't sit still anymore, and said, "General, shouldn't our cavalry battalion also be expanded?" Five hundred men and horses were lost in the last battle, and now there are only three thousand five hundred left in the cavalry battalion! ”

Zhang San and Li Le also echoed: "General, there are very few people in the infantry battalion, it's time to expand the army!" In case Goguryeo turns its face again, it's not easy for us to fight! If it is all dependent on the water division, in case that Goguryeo raids Xi'an Ping and directly enters the southeast of Liao, then the water division will be useless! ”

Zhuang Shaoyou glanced at them: "General Taishi, the cavalry battalion should be replenished to four thousand, but the army cannot be expanded anymore, so let's focus on training!" Our county has a total population of less than 30,000, and there are already nearly 8,000 soldiers! The young and strong labor force is basically emptied! If it weren't for the constant recruitment of refugees from Qingzhou, normal operation would have been a problem now, you see spring ploughing and summer ploughing, all women and half-grown children and old people ploughing the fields! ”

Tai Shi Ci hung his head in disappointment and stopped talking. Zhuang Shaoyou glared at Zhang San and Li Le fiercely: "Zhang San, your infantry battalion has 2,000 people, give me training as soon as possible!" Zhang San and Li Le were silent and didn't dare to say anything more.