Stimulated by the huge profits brought by the export of local products for the first time, the whole territory of Liaonan County, including Qicheng City, Beifeng City, Hongya Town, Wanzi Town, Santai Town, Liujia Town and many other places have begun to tap local specialties and advantages, and make every effort to develop the handicraft manufacturing industry, and the county is a thriving scene.

At the beginning of May, Liaonan County organized the people to carry out summer ploughing, but the people who tasted the sweetness brought by the handicraft industry have reduced their enthusiasm for cultivating new fields a lot, and the county's current population is 50,000, which is 40 percent more than this time last year, but the newly reclaimed corn fields are only 4,000 hectares, plus last year's 8,000 hectares, and the summer grain planting area is 12,000 hectares.

After the summer grain sowing, the ink soil belt people began to experiment with planting rice, the result of tossing for half a month, the survival rate of rice seedlings is still very low, it seems that the southern varieties are not adapted to the soil and water in the north, it is difficult to survive, all the rice seedlings do not survive in ten, they can not be promoted at all, Zhuang Shaoyou was disappointed by this, and the Northeast rice idea suddenly collapsed.

In mid-May, under the guidance of Jiangnan craftsmen, Beifeng's silkworm breeding was a great success, and the first silk in Liaonan County was born! Although the texture and craftsmanship are a few chips worse than the silk in Jiangnan, this is still a great start! Zhuang Shaoyou was overjoyed and ordered to reward the first person to spin silk, and for a time Beifeng set off a silk fever.

The porcelain of Santai Town is even better under the guidance of craftsmen, and it is only slightly inferior to the porcelain in Jiangnan, but it is already considered a first-class product in this northern land! The carving and processing of Xinchang Xiuyan jade is also very improving!

In addition, in Hongya Town also built a new medicinal material processing workshop, although the scale is not large, but the creativity is very good, many genius treasures in Changbai Mountain, ginseng deer antler velvet and so on are too numerous, but it has been suffering from preservation difficulties, so the medicinal material industry has not been prosperous enough, and the profit is extremely low, medicine farmers are unscrupulous businessmen are squeezed unprofitable, Zhuang Shaoyou heard about it, specially approved to lend to the pharmaceutical workshop to expand the scale, encourage its courage to innovate!

Liaonan County in a thriving summer through the scorching summer, into August, mid-term, the spring wheat harvest season arrived, the people of the county finally from the handicraft boom a little calmed down, in any case, food is fundamental, this is the experience passed down by the ancestors, can not be shaken!

So the whole county began the spring wheat harvesting work under the organization of the county government, a total of 40,000 hectares of wheat fields were cultivated and sown in the spring ploughing in March, and a total of 2.88 million hectares of wheat were harvested this time, of which 8,000 hectares were harvested in Juntun field, and 580,000 hectares were harvested.

In view of the fact that this year's grain harvest is a big increase, the granary can just be put down, but it will definitely increase next year, so Zhuang Shaoyou ordered that two giant official warehouses will be built in the newly built Chengnan Wharf and Wanzi Town, which is closer to the southeast plain of Liaoning, with a design capacity of 8 million hu! The two official warehouses have a total capacity of 16 million hu!

With the addition of these two new official warehouses, and last year's four official warehouses with a capacity of 2 million households, the total capacity is more than 20 million! Even if all the more than 200,000 hectares of land in southeast Liaoning are reclaimed, the grain produced can be loaded!

In Zhuang Shaoyou's words, it is necessary to solve the problem of at least fifty years at one time, in exchange for long-term peace and stability, money is not a problem!

At the same time, the county government will purchase the grain directly in the field, and the official will load it back to the official warehouse, so that everyone can worry about it!

In September, the county carried out the summer grain harvest, a total of 12,000 hectares of corn fields harvested 1.8 million hu, of which the military tun field accounted for half, about 900,000 hu.

After the spring grain and summer grain harvest, the supply of wheat and corn to Xiangping City was 200,000 hundred, and they were sold at a flat price, while the impact of the Wuhuan raid suffered by Liao Pingyuan this year was small, so the spring grain harvest was relatively rich, and the grain produced was enough to supply the surrounding areas of Xiangping, and there was also considerable wealth, so the grain price of Xiangping began to fall.

The other part was loaded on ships by Zhou Tian and transported to places where there was a shortage of food, such as the Ryukyus, the Wa Kingdom, and Samhan, and sold in exchange for a large amount of real money, silver, and special products.

In October, the first five-masted merchant ship was successfully tested, with a length of 18 zhang 9 feet, a width of 7 zhang and 5 feet, a height of 4 zhang and 7 feet, and a draft of 1 zhang and 5 feet, suitable for ocean voyages, with a standard crew of 150 people.

According to Zhuang Shaoyou's requirements, the merchant ships should also be equipped with manpower oars, so the third generation of manpower oars was added to the bilge, a total of five masts, five horizontal and three vertical sails, and the speed of the ship was 200-450 miles a day, which was much slower than the five-masted warship, and similar to the four-masted warship.

The cargo hold space is 3,000 square meters, more than two and a half times more than that of a four-masted merchant ship, but the ship's armament is slightly thin, the foredeck is still not equipped with weapons, the sides of the ship are equipped with twenty-four six-repeater crossbow planes with a range of 250 paces, and the rear deck is equipped with six improved small trebuchets with a range of 600 steps.

The production cycle of the five-masted merchant ship is two and a half months, half a month faster than that of the warship, and the cost of a single ship is 1.5 million yuan, because the material used by the five-masted sailing ship has obviously exceeded that of the four-masted sailing ship by two times, so the cost has risen greatly.

In the fourth year of Zhongping, the tide of handicrafts and trade that had been boiling for a year gradually cooled down with the arrival of winter, Zhuang Shaoyou and his subordinates were concentrated in the meeting hall of the county government to take stock of a year's work, everyone's face was with a smile of relief, even Guoyuan, which has always rejected commerce, is the same, a gentleman loves money, and takes it in a good way, and this is the case in southern Liaoning!

The issuance of new currency, the beginning of the copper money in the world Tongbao issuance was stopped, and then fully invested in the casting of the world's Jinbao, Zhuang Shaoyou will trade the gold, plus the gold mined from the gold mines in the west of Xi'anping, all used to cast the world's Jinbao, Zhongping four years and a year, a total of more than 40,000 pieces of the world's Jinbao, the world's Jinbao with the circulation of merchants in southern Liaoning to the Central Plains, Jiangnan, Goguryeo, the Korean Peninsula, the Wa Kingdom, Ryukyu and other places, has become the hard currency of the world's merchants.

Under the deliberate control of Zhuang Shaoyou, the world's Jinbao rarely enters the Yellow River Valley, even if a small amount of Jinbao enters the east of Puyang, basically does not circulate to Luoyang, there is only one purpose, don't run to the feet of the Son of Heaven to attract the attention of the imperial court!

The copper mines in the northern part of Hongya Town and the silver traded back from the Wa Kingdom are stored for another shot when the time is ripe!

A total of 100,000 catties of silver were stored in a year, about 100 million yuan! There are 800,000 catties of copper in storage, which is about 60 million yuan! Although the number seems to be a lot, it is far from reaching Zhuang Shaoyou's expectations, this money enters the Central Plains, and it will be gone!

This year, the handicraft industry in Liaonan County has developed rapidly, and the private capital is active, and Beifeng's garment-making, silkworm spinning, clay pottery, salt-drying, seafood pickling, pharmaceutical, jade carving and other industries are the most prosperous.

The horse farm in Beifeng is also established, from the grassland high-priced purchase of excellent horse breeds began to breed on a small scale, a few months has raised hundreds of horses, although not much, but just started, will gradually grow in the future, so that the cavalry battalion can also be replenished at any time, and the infantry's mobility can also be greatly improved.

The scale of the water division has rapidly expanded from 1,500 to 3,000 people, which has attracted Tai Shici's heart to change his career!

In addition, from the middle of the year began to expand and renovate Beifeng City, a total of 2,000 catties of gold, 10 million money, and finally completed before the end of the year.

Zhuang Shaoyou disagreed: "This is for the sustainable development of the city, and this is not a border fortress, so there is no point in building the city wall!" In vain! Besides, all of you here are the strongest city walls in southern Liaoning, if there are no of you, no matter how strong and tall the city wall is, it will be broken one day!

Zhuang Shaoyou's words not only dispelled everyone's opposition, but also made everyone under his command full of excitement, willing to serve the general to the death, the so-called soldier is a confidant to die, probably so!

The wharf of Wanzi Town, the north of the city and the south of the city have been expanded on a large scale to adapt to the increasingly prosperous port loading and unloading.

At the end of the year, after the huge bonuses were given to his officials, scribes, and soldiers, the financial balance was 12,000 catties of gold and 30 million pounds of money, which was equivalent to 150 million yuan of five baht!

Guo Yuan said excitedly: "In the heyday of Emperor Wu of the former Han Dynasty, the world's annual income was no more than eight billion yuan!" And most of them are concentrated in the Central Plains with a large population and rich land, such as Youzhou, a barren place, a state's annual income has not reached 100 million yuan, and now there are only 60,000 people in a county in southern Liaoning, and the annual income has reached 150 million, and the general is really a god! ”

Zhuang Shaoyou laughed and dismissed it, this agriculture-based and business-oriented, the speed of wealth accumulation is naturally incomparable! Besides, a county in southern Liaoning has done half of the world's business, and it will not be so exaggerated in the future, small countries are easy to get rich, and big countries are difficult to manage, this is the truth!