Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 99 All the way to the east

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Three days later.

Li Yanna, Chen Liqing and Li Shishi get started.

Daqing three days.

Li Yan and his party paid homage to Nine Heavens Xuannv, and then set off.

The heroes who went to find Jeju Island with Li Yan this time are: Wang Lun, Li Jun, Tong Wei, Tong Meng, Ruan Xiaoqi, Ma Ling, Wang Dingliu, Shan Shiqi, Shi Bao, Lu Zhishen, Deng Fei, Ma Lin, Ruan Xiaowu, Meng Kang, Huangfuduan, Ling Zhen, Tao Zongwang, Sun Jing, Qiu Xian, and Kong Hou.

Meng Kang, Huangfuduan, Kong Hou, Ling Zhen, and Tao Zongwang were brought along by Li Yan on purpose. During this expedition, anything may happen by accident, so bringing these people with you can deal with emergencies.

And the reason why he brought Sun Jing and Qiu Xian together was because Li Yan was afraid that these two guys would make trouble.

You know, this is not impossible at all. Sun Jing is known as Sun Hedgehog, and he will use some crooked tricks if he fails to keep everything. Even if Qiu Qian's strategy is not as good as Sun Jing, it will not be too far behind. Looking at it, Qiu Xian may even be above Sun Jing. The most important thing is that other than Li Yan, other people may not be able to value the two of them so much, and they may give them an opportunity, and then... unimaginable.

Therefore, it is better to bring Sun Jing and Qiu Qian by your side for safety. At critical moments, they may be able to give Li Yan some tricks or something.

In addition, Li Yan also wanted to see if he could subdue these two people.

This is not completely impossible, don't forget, Li Yan still has a big killer brought out from the palace.

In addition to a group of heroes, Chen Liqing and Li Shishi, who had just entered Li's family, also followed.

To be honest, Li Yan didn't want to take them with him. This is not an outing, so why take them?
Moreover, bringing them will also give the impression that he is obsessed with women.

but……

After listening to Li Yan's description of the beautiful scenery and delicious food of Jeju Island, Li Shishi, who was really moved, kept listening to Li Yan for two nights, and wanted Li Yan to take her with him.

And Chen Liqing beat Ruan Xiaoqi, Ma Ling, and Wang Dingliu to the ground neatly despite her inconvenience, and proved to Li Yan that she was the most qualified personal leader.

Later, Liu Huiniang also persuaded Li Yan: "Take them. On the one hand, they can take care of you, and on the other hand, they can help you to some extent. Moreover, if you are not close to women, you may not be a real hero. Liu Bang He never shy away from his love of female sex, but he is even more supported by his subordinates."

Li Yan thought so too.

You are not close to women anymore, how do you let your subordinates get close to women?
And these heroes put their heads on their waistbands and act as traitors to accompany you in the decapitation business. What do you think it is for? Is it really for the so-called righteousness or for the sake of heaven?

To put it bluntly, it is not for power, money and beautiful women.

If you are not reasonable at all in this regard, sooner or later something will happen.

Of course, if you want to do big things, you still need to grasp this scale, at least the form you should have must be adopted, and try not to leave any talk for others.

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In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, a scholar named Li Chui wrote an article called "The Picture of Guiding the Shape of the River".

Li Chui believes that the course of the Yellow River will continue to move northward (from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, the course of the Yellow River did indeed move northward), and will eventually flow into the territory of the Liao Kingdom. At that time, the Khitan people will be able to flow down the river, and the Yellow River will no longer be guarded by the natural moat. The capital is Kaifeng.

Decades later, the lower reaches of the Yellow River were diverted on a small scale, heading north for a few miles. The emperors and officials of the Song Dynasty were greatly stimulated, thinking that Li Chui's words were true. Once the Yellow River finally flowed into the Liao Kingdom, the Khitan navy would go directly south to Tokyo... this is too scary!So the Song Dynasty began a decades-long Yellow River diversion project, known in history as the "Sanyi Huihe"-the basic goal is to make the Yellow River go straight east instead of north.

With the level of productivity in ancient times, it is too difficult to change the flow of the Yellow River. In addition, during the period of Wang Anshi's reform, the old and new parties made a big fuss about the Yellow River and argued with each other, which led to the Yellow River's frequent refusal.

As a result of the Sanyi Huihe River, the water has not been so large for hundreds of years, and places such as Hebei, Shandong and other places are depressed and uninhabited for thousands of miles.

but--

That's another story.

At present, Zhao Ji, who has not been completely addicted to alchemy, is more or less like an emperor. The monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty are still continuing the policies left by their ancestors to fight against the Yellow River.

Judging from the current battle situation, Zhao Ji's monarch and ministers temporarily gained the upper hand, and also erected the Sanshan Yellow River Floating Bridge on the Yellow River. The Yellow River was suppressed and assumed the task of water transportation.

Thanks to Zhao Ji's blessing, Li Yan's four large ships sailed eastward from the canal into the Yellow River and into the sea.

but--

In at most three years, the Yellow River will explode!
At that time, it may not be so easy for Li Yan to sail directly from Liangshanbo to the sea. It is estimated that he will have to rely on small boats or sail on dry land at that time, and it will take a lot of trouble.

At that time, countless victims in Hebei and Shandong will be displaced and have no food to eat, which will lead to bandits in Hebei and Shandong. Tian Hu, Wang Qing, Fang La, including Gaotuo Mountain, Zhang Xian (Zhang Xian, Zhang Wanxian), Sun Lie, Wu Hu, Yang Tianwang, Prince Li, Xu Jin, and Liu Dalang revolted one after another. Li Yan was afraid that he would have no time to search for Jeju Island, which was one of the reasons why Li Yan decided to make this trip.

Entering the Bohai Sea, Li Yan did not directly lead a group of people to find Jeju Island, but led them along the shore to Chengkou Town, which is located at the northernmost tip of Shandong.

In this regard, everyone is at a loss!
But Li Yan didn't explain at all.

After walking back and forth in the sea facing Chengkou Town more than ten times, Li Yan chose a place with flat terrain, wide beach and abundant sunshine.

After that, Li Yan took a group of heroes, Chen Liqing and Li Shishi off the boat, and then rode around to search for another two days before Li Yan finally chose a place.

After choosing a place, Li Yan asked the water and land horse army to cooperate with Tao Zongwang's engineering battalion to move all the things he had built before Tang Long and the others off the ship.

Using local materials and the combined efforts of more than 500 people, Li Yan fired a large amount of cement in just seven days. A large open space, and someone dug a channel to let sea water in.

Seeing this, someone might have guessed that Li Yan is building a salt factory.

The manufacture of sea salt before the Song Dynasty was all out of decoction.

Decocting salt consumes a lot of firewood, which is labor-intensive, and the key is that the output is extremely low.

In fact, the method of sun-dried salt has appeared now, but due to technical limitations, the effect of sun-dried salt is not very good, so decocted salt is still far more than sun-dried salt.

If Li Yan did not appear, it would not be until the end of the Qing Dynasty that sea salt production areas would switch to sun-drying methods, and the technology would gradually improve, and those burning pots and frying salt equipment erected along the coastline that had burned for thousands of years would become relics of history .

When he was a soldier, Li Yan came to Chengkou Salt Field to perform missions and stayed there for more than ten days.

The Chengkou Salt Field, built in [-], was too simple for Li Yan, who could even easily maintain a warship, so that Li Yan understood the principle without much effort.

At present, the biggest difficulty in building a sun-dried salt field is cement.

A large part of the reason why Li Yan was so busy these past few months that he didn't even have time to take concubines was that Li Yan was firing cement with his own shallow memory of cement and the strength of craftsmen such as Liu Huiniang and Tang Long.

fortunately!

Half a month ago, the world's first batch of cement was successfully fired by Li Yan and others!
This is also one of the reasons why Li Yan decided to make this trip.

In this era, there are not many businesses that are more profitable than salt, so Li Yan actually planned to get involved in the private salt business. I waited until now to come to Chengkou to fill in and build a sun-dried salt factory.

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PS: Since the prototype of Tian Hu may be Zhang Di, the role of Zhang Di was erased from the book Big Bird.As for Wang Qing's prototype, Wang Ze, he was a character decades ago and had little influence, so we don't make any deletions for him.

(End of this chapter)