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Zhan Ou personally enclosed the land to build the enemy city, and when this news came out, Li Xuan was induced. Great attention from top to bottom. Everyone knows that this is actually the action of the Governor of Lorraine.

You raise the price, you control the supply, okay, it's okay, myself

No one knows about the rules of the barren beach for the time being, but everyone is watching Leo's subordinates recruit salt workers near Nedle.

Some people applauded the Governor of Lorraine, saying that it was a practice of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle. Most of the big salt merchants scoffed, and seeing that Lorraine had not touched them, these ruffians were much more emboldened, and even dared to laugh at Lorraine in teahouses, restaurants, and public places where it was strictly forbidden to talk about state affairs.

These salt merchants have a good reason: they know how to boil the salt themselves, and they really think that they can produce as much salt as they scrape the beach?

A large pot filled with seawater has to be boiled for a day and a night before a layer of salt at the bottom of the pot can be stunned. Even one salt worker can take care of three cauldrons. Leo's salt works only employ a thousand workers, and according to this scale, the output of this salt works is very limited.

Of course, there are those who oppose and those who support, and they are optimistic that this is just the beginning, and Leo has taken away 5,000 acres of beach land with a turn of his hand, and more than 1,000 workers can't even occupy 500 acres, so it can be seen that this is just the preliminary preparation of the governor of Lorraine, and this salt farm may eventually have 10,000 workers.

There are already people in front of Lorraine who say that the governor is wise, driving the economy, promoting employment, the best of both worlds, high, really

But no matter what everyone said, Lorraine and the relevant personnel in the Doge's Palace did not comment on it. It seems extremely unfathomable.

The salt works are under construction here, and Lorraine herself is not idle.

Because the empire in order to avoid warlord secession. All the senior officials are asking for only office. In this way, there is no team of its own. There will be no way to rebel.

And Lorraine is no exception, after all, he can't run shamelessly in front of Emperor Zhulunde and tell the boss: I am your niece's concubine, adulterer, plus bed partner, your old man gives face, master, let me bring three or five thousand cronies over?

I guess if you really dare to say this. The next day he had to enter the palace and work in the promising profession of eunuch.

Therefore, he came this time, although he brought a lot of retinue guards, as well as royal guards. But it's basically empty. If you really want to manage government affairs and handle the military, you still have to rely on these local officials.

In his contact with those officials, he has also been quietly observing them, that. Is it really mixed with himself, that one is soy sauce, and that one is Erwuzai?

Through Guò's observation for a period of time, Lorraine has also done it in his heart, after all, for such a long time, even an old fox should have exposed his tail.

Lorraine stared at those positions, and sneered in his heart: Don't blame the governor for being fifteen at the beginning, go home obediently and pick up the child.

Lorraine now has her eyes on the mid-level officials, and she has begun to consider those people who are loyal to her. Can be promoted.

Like all bosses, Uncle Lorraine's criteria for selecting people are still loyal and unconditionally listen to his own words. Ability is only placed in second place. If you don't have much ability, just give him two capable deputies.

It's like the truth that a good employee can never be a leader, and his brother-in-law has always been a department manager.

In the words of the boss, of course, those who have the ability are placed in key positions.

Then again, you are an imperial official. Whatever your boss tells you to do, you should do it, just do your job honestly.

So capable, so capable, what do you want to do? Ambitious, do you covet the position of Shangguan, or do you want to rebel and play the management buyout of the empire?

A guy like this who doesn't know the height of the sky. If I don't step on you, who should I step on?

At the same time, Lorraine and Leo's use of the salt drying method in the salt works was also kept extremely secretive, and a large number of legions were stationed around the salt works, and no one outside the salt works knew about it.

How big is 5,000 acres? Riding a fast horse and running a lap takes at least half a day.

Although this salt field belongs to the Flying Eagle Company, Leo has set up a subsidiary of the Flying Eagle Company for business reasons.

The main reason for this is to be able to make false accounts and carry out reasonable tax evasion.

As the head office, Flying Eagle Company is its main business. It is still a high-tech manufacturing industry.

The blue waves are vast, the sea and the sky are the same, and on a sandy beach that cannot be seen, the salt pans surrounded by Tian Gong are square one after another. Neatly arranged, the salt pans have been filled with a layer of seawater. It is naturally steamed under the scorching sun of midsummer and the strong sea breeze.

Behind the salt pans are rows of makeshift sheds made of logs and tree branches, as well as warehouses still under construction.

There is a simple wooden pier on the left and right on the beach, and two medium-sized transport boats are tied to the pier.

There were also several boats shuttling through the sea, some patrolling and some transporting daily necessities from Naider.

On the beach, between the salt pans, there is a tall wind-powered pumping machine at intervals, and a pipe made of metal extends from the sea, connects to the pump, and then lays it into the salt pan.

The huge fan blades of the pumping machine are blown by the sea breeze. Slowly rotating, with wind power on top and animal power on the bottom.

The pumping machine uses a tin pipe with a gauze strainer to pump seawater into the salt pans, which are used for steaming. After a few days of exposure to the steaming pond, the pumping machine sinks through another pipe and puts the water into the crystallization pool, where the salt will be instantly removed from the seawater: after a simple process to remove impurities, the white crystals produced can be used as salt and marketed.

The wind and water conservancy equipment produced by the flying eagle company has now reached the third generation, in Leo's words, that is, it has the advantages of modularization, intelligence, humanization, etc., the most important thing is that the average person can not repair, and the broken can only find the after-sales service department of the flying eagle company.

Under the training of Lorraine, the after-sales service department of Feiying Company has fully learned the modern and advanced business management experience.

If you can fix it today, you must wait until tomorrow to go. If it can be repaired at one time, it must be divided into three or five times, and within the warranty period, it will definitely not give you replacement parts.

Outside the warranty period, drop a bolt, the entire drive shaft has to be replaced, if you don't change, we are not an insurance company, collapsed, and admit that you are unlucky.

Under the finger of advanced experience, but also under Leo's strong control of costs, the efficiency of the after-sales department has surpassed that of the sales department and led the whole group and passed on as a good story.

After the successful patent application for the salt drying method. Flying Eagle Company has declared 15 major patents and more than 200 patents in one go. For this reason, Leo simply gave a lot of red envelopes and invited the entire patent office into the Flying Eagle Company to work on the spot.

Everyone at the patent office burst into tears of joy.

These ruffians, who used to be very down-and-out, came to understand: our patent office was originally like an imperial dining room, an institution dedicated to serving the royal family, and this was an iron rice bowl with establishment, steel and steel

This time, when I talked to my colleagues who were reluctant to come in, didn't their eyes turn yellow?

Lorraine and Leona are the forbidden spell mages in the pit man industry.

In the space of eight months, Lorraine successfully evolved from scraping the ground to being a friend of Hades, and then Hades' neighbor, who is now Hades' brother, and has the potential to become Hades himself a few months later, and a year later to Hades' father.

Leo originally only wanted to apply for patents for wind mills, water mills, and hydraulic equipment, but under the guidance of Lord Lorraine, he applied for patents for all parts, from fan blades, water wheels, transmission systems, down to bolts and nuts, connecting rods, and pulley blocks. There is also metallurgy, casting. Grinding, forming and other processing techniques, these have become the patents of Feiying Company.

Leo according to the design drawing, all the parts to come, it is estimated that in the future, if the Ruman people want to play a Maza, they will have to pay the patent license fee to the Flying Eagle Company.

In Leo's words, I'm just grabbing money. It's a hooligan, what are you doing to us!

After the initial construction of the salt works, Lorraine and Leo first paid attention to the secrecy of the salt works. Not only is there no human population within a few dozen miles of the salt works. There is no shadow of the dormitory, but the entire salt pan has been tightly surrounded by barbed wire and watchtowers.

The Flying Eagle Company's own security team was closely guarding the place, and even the patrol team was already operating ten miles away from the salt works.

A security guard of the Flying Eagle Company wearing a standard black smock over the chain mail, armed with a strong bow and a crossbow. Spears sharpened, leading hounds to patrol the saltworks camp non-stop.

If you don't know, at first glance, you will think that this is Auschwitz, even if it is better, it is a version of a gulag labor camp.

I would never have thought that this was the production workshop of the salt company.

The uniform of the Flying Eagle Company was emblazoned with a badge, and the Eagle Commander was like a brother to the Ruman Eagle.

This team, which was originally formed only to defend the real yàn room, grew with the growth of the Flying Eagle Company. It grew up quickly and expanded in scale. The members have been expanded again and again, and now the number of security teams in each region is as large as that of a legion, and Leo is even considering whether he needs to build a training base.

The members of the security team were also mostly veterans of the Grand Duke Julius.

After a few years, the size of the security team continued to expand, and after the Flying Eagle Company was reborn and promoted from a commercial organization to a public institution, the security team became independent of the military and political system. Relying on the Flying Eagle Company, the paramilitary forces directly under the royal family, the security team of the Flying Eagle Company guarding all parties became the vanguard army to consolidate the imperial power and deter local forces.

For this reason, Lorraine reorganized the security team several times, and finally became the security army in a grand manner, and Lorraine divided the security army into different corps-level departments such as the Black Water Division, the Deyang Division, and so on.

There is even a legend that there is a mysterious force in the security army, which is responsible for collecting local intelligence for the royal family and eliminating dissidents who are dissatisfied with the royal family.

When local personnel mention the security team, they are all talking about the tiger's discoloration. Lorraine had praised them for being a brocade guard in a black uniform.

(From the emperor's point of view, the Jinyiwei was crucial to consolidating imperial power, and the Jinyiwei was also tasked with overseas operations to maintain national security.) Emperor Chongzhen estimated that he had a shadow in his heart about Jinyiwei. As a vassal king, he is the key supervision object of Jinyiwei. After coming to power, he abolished Jinyiwei, and the result was tragic, the Jingguan didn't hang him in the end, tried to change the emperor, and killed him early. ）

What's more, with the development of Flying Eagle's overseas business, the security team has gone abroad to protect the expatriate and subvert the hostile regime.

In view of the strength of the security forces, the League of Nations officially met and threatened Lorraine and Leo. It is necessary to jointly sanction the security forces, and the Ruman people guarantee that in foreign conflicts, we will never use "chengguan" first, uh, no, security forces.

The workers of the saltworks knew very well about the recent Ansheng incident in Ness, and they all knew this, and the saltworks were opened by the Governor of Lorraine.

But after seeing the salt drying method proposed by Lorraine, these old salt workers who have been dealing with smoke and dust and sea water all their lives are unceremoniously worried, and they have been cooking for thousands of years to make enemies by drying them, and Zhou Xun is all in vain, and our governor is really whimsical.

However, the people who came to teach the salt drying method were all swearing, and the steps of drying salt were so clearly written that the salt workers were suspicious of the salt according to Lorraine's method of drying salt. Pour the pool.

Estimating that the days were almost up, Lorraine took a day off and took the family to the salt works in high spirits.

Leo and Vera would make a trip to the salt works almost every day, and Leo would be dark for a few days. Vera's complexion is also incredibly healthy.

Catherine, Adele, and Melina were very ladylike in their parasols, protected by the many Praetorian Guards, and Leo and Vera ran away as soon as they entered the salt works.

Lorraine looked at the massive salt works. I thought about how much money I spent on this place. How much money do you have to throw into it, and there is output. The manager of the salt works, with a team of managers, followed behind them in Lorraine.

At this time, Lorraine and the others heard someone in front of them shouting: "Salt is out, salt is really out."

The salt workers near Lorraine and the guards ran towards the shouting place together, and the manager behind Lorraine was in a hurry, and he didn't dare to throw Lorraine and run over by himself, so he could only stretch his neck to look ahead.

The Lorraine family also walked towards the salt pond, and when they arrived, the onlookers in front of them saw Leo and Vera standing on the edge of the salt pond.

Vera bit her finger in her mouth and looked nervously at the salt pool.

Leo walked impatiently around Tian Gong. He also said loudly: "Hurry up." Hurry up again. ”

A saltman on the side was holding something like a fence and pulling it from the bottom of the salt pond.

Lorraine could see from the side, the precipitated salt grains gathered at the bottom of the salt pond.

The salt worker pulls the crystal to the edge of the salt pool. Throwing down the fence, he squatted down and scooped up a handful of salt, first stretched out his tongue and licked it, and shouted loudly: "It's salt, it's really sunburned." ”

Leo said disdainfully, "It can still be fake." ”

The salter's excited face fluttered on the salt merchant in his hand, and he was covered with the salt grains of seawater.

All the salt workers on the side cried excitedly.

The manager of the salt farm squatted on the edge of the salt pond, grabbed a handful of salt and stuffed it directly into his mouth, so salty that his facial features were squeezed together. I don't know what I'm talking about.

Leo looked at the manager of the salt farm, cut it, and said, "I'm not afraid of eating too much and turning into a salt bat." ”

The salt farm manager coughed twice, withheld the salt from his mouth, and said to Lorraine: "This method of the great man is immeasurably meritorious. ”

"Yes, in the future, everyone can think about the carrot and the carrot, and want to win the cucumber crisp cucumber. ”

"Look at your little bit of talent, you will be neck pickles, and I will roll the flatbread and eat it with salt. ”

Catherine took Lorraine's arm and said happily, "You have done a great service to the Empire. If you want any reward, I'll go to the emperor's uncle and ask for it

Lorraine tilted his head and thought for a while, "Can you give a gold medal for avoiding death?"

Catherine pinched Lorraine's waist and said, "I mean it."

Lorraine said, "Seriously, then play games with me tonight." ”

Catherine snorted and stomped Lorraine's feet.

Leo jumped up to Lorraine and said loudly, "Boss, let's do it, I've done the math, it's to sell twenty copper plates a pound, and we've all reached it, and one salt is tens of thousands of gold coins." ”

Lorraine smiled and said, "No hurry." Remember the guys who poured your salt? We're going to bankrupt them this time. ”

Leo squeezed his fist, waved it and said loudly, "Okay, boss, what do you say?" ”

Catherine said with a fist: "I haven't done it for a long time, this time we will open meat for them."

Lorraine turned to the salt farm manager and said, "Hurry up production, count the output and send it to me, I have a task for you." Also, be careful to keep it secret. For the past month, the salt works have been closed to the public

Two days later, a ship laden with salt docked in Nidel's harbor. Under the jealous gaze of others, the ship's owner unloaded the whole bag of salt and piled it on the dock.

The salt merchant who smelled the smell rushed to the scene as soon as possible, brandished a bag of gold coins, and shouted: "Eighteen silver coins per pound, I have all the money." ”

A worker on the dock glared fiercely at the salt merchant in front of him, snorted, and scolded: "Something with a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs." ”

At this time, a rich middle-aged man jumped down from the carriage next to him and shouted: "I want to collect eighteen silver coins, you are sick, I will give twenty silver coins a pound." ”

Seeing the competitor coming, the owner laughed, moved a wooden barrel and sat under his buttocks, and said loudly: "I am a businessman today." It is not easy to pull a boat to cross the ocean, and I will give it to whoever bids high. ”

The salt merchant cursed to himself: You black-hearted ghost. Raise your voice and shout: "Twenty-two silver coins, I will lose at a high price."

The person next to him laughed and said, "You are not sorry. Two days ago, the price of the net increased again, and I gave twenty-five silver coins a pound

The salt merchant grimaced, gritted his teeth, and said, "Thirty." I don't believe you would dare to pay more than thirty. ”

"Okay, if you're ruthless, let's take a look. After saying that, he shook his hand, jumped into the carriage and left.

The owner of the ship came over and took the salt merchant's hand, and said with a smile: "This boss, let's go over the scales, I will say okay first, only collect cash, and will not settle the account, sell it quickly, and I will go home and collect another boatload of salt."

The people on the dock looked at them and thought worriedly: the price of salt may be going up again. (To be continued)