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Chapter 235 Encourage production and pay attention to safety, Shandong Rebels learn from Song Jiang

Yang Minghe said: “Some female prisoners were transferred to the county, and the county government assigned them to single men with outstanding merits.

The remaining part is used by our Hexi Town to trade with the people - if the people have sufficient resources, they can directly exchange for a female prisoner to be their wife. "

Speaking of which, Liu Sheng started giving wives to single men with outstanding merits last year.

This outstanding contribution mainly includes the military exploits made in North America, the expedition team's major discoveries in geography and products, the useful inventions and creations of craftsmen, and the model workers in each town and camp.

According to Liu Sheng's understanding, the number of people involved in the first few items is very small due to the high randomness, and model workers are often the largest group of people.

Huachu County Government wanted to use model workers to encourage people to work hard in production.

Nowadays, the female prisoner camp in Huachu County is basically empty, so it can only be replaced by traded native female prisoners.

The outside rebels would still send some prisoners to North America intermittently after public trials of the evil gentry and bullies in the occupied areas, but the proportion of female prisoners among the prisoners sent was very small.

Because the Ministry of Education has also set up a female prisoner camp in Queshan, and will allocate female prisoners who have completed their labor service to single low-level officers who have made meritorious services and are in need...
In the trading market, after the "bulk" transaction between the Kuaibu official and the Altay Alliance ended, there was nothing to see.

Liu Sheng left.

Before leaving, I visited the primary school, adult school and various workshops in Hexi Town.

Finally, Liu Sheng asked someone to call Di Hong over and asked, "How much do you know about the native tribes upstream that are at war with the Altay Alliance?"

From late July to early August, various towns in North America established formal Minyong Camps, and Di Hong was promoted from the captain of the hunting brigade in Hexi Town to the commander of the Minyong Camp.

He left the hunting team not long ago. He had been responsible for leading the team to hunt and conduct reconnaissance further upstream. He did have some understanding of the Altay Alliance and its hostile native forces.

He heard the words and replied: "Report to the commander-in-chief, those native tribes are more barbaric than the Altay tribe, but they do not seem to have formed an alliance, and then they were defeated one by one under the attack of the Altay Alliance.

The surviving tribes have already migrated further upstream of the Xinluo River, and the general believes that by the fall, the number of captives that the Altay Alliance can exchange for may be significantly reduced. "

Liu Sheng said nothing, but he didn't think so in his heart.

As far as he knew, the upper reaches of the Xinluo River was very large.

Although the Altay Alliance moved upstream, it is estimated that it is still far away from Yuba City in later generations, let alone Chico, Paradise and other places further upstream.

In addition, it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

The Altay Alliance has tasted the benefits of using female captives to trade with the Wei tribe, and will probably continue to move upstream so that they can obtain female captives by attacking other tribes and maintain the trade with the Wei tribe.

However, this change will extend into the next few years and will have little impact on the Department of Health.

After that, Liu Sheng inspected Hexi Town Minyong Camp and left with his accompanying guards...

On the ninth day of August, Liu Sheng went to Huilong Bay to inspect the fishery camp.

Last time, thousands of new immigrants were allocated to the fishery camp, and now there are tens of thousands of residents in the fishery camp.

After the executive general manager Yu Hengfeng welcomed Liu Sheng, he first took Liu Sheng to inspect the salted fish drying ground, smoked fish workshop, fishing port and other places as usual, but finally took Liu Sheng to a large rice field.

"Commander, please look at this. The large rice field here alone covers more than 1000 acres! There are several others of similar size in other places!
All the rice fields add up to about [-] to [-] acres. As long as the autumn harvest can go smoothly, our fishery camp does not need Huachu Camp to supply so much food! "

Liu Sheng learned through letters that the fishery camp had transformed some of the wetlands in Huilong Bay and planted rice.

But the wonderful feeling brought by the vast rice fields in front of me is definitely not what a few lines of text on the letter can give.

Especially now that it is mid-August, the rice will be harvested in just over a month.

Therefore, after reading this, Liu Sheng also had a smile on his face, patted Yu Hengfeng on the shoulder and said: "Your fishery camp did a really good job! You can work harder after the autumn harvest and cultivate more fields.

The forest here is far away from the river, and there are mostly wetlands on both sides. It is indeed easier to cultivate than in Huachu County.

This winter, I will take time to inspect again. If the reclamation results of your fishery camp and salt factory are good, I will consider setting up town and county-level yamen here at the same time. "

Yu Hengfeng was slightly stunned at first, then overjoyed.

He heard the hidden meaning in Liu Sheng's words - at least towns should be set up in Huilong Bay and Longshou Bay this winter. If the reclamation results are good, they can even be set up as counties!
By then, these general managers will definitely be the first candidates for county-level officials!
Although the camp manager has greater power, how can a county official have such a big name?

He, Lao Yu, was originally just a fisherman on the Zingtou River. If he could become a county magistrate, he would definitely be a proud ancestor!
He immediately slapped his chest and said, "Commander, look at it. After the autumn harvest, our fishing camp will have to cultivate thousands of acres of paddy fields!"

Liu Sheng smiled, but reminded: "You guys, please don't push the people too much in order to achieve results. If you cause any trouble, I won't punish you politely - development must be stable first, and fast second, do you understand?" "

Yu Hengfeng calmed down after hearing this, nodded and said: "My subordinates must remember this!"

After leaving the fishing camp, Liu Sheng went to Longshou Bay to inspect the salt factory.

The villages around the salt factory have also reclaimed a lot of fields, but they pale in comparison to those at the fishing camp.

Because there are many forests on the coast here, and they are all big trees, it is not easy to cultivate wasteland.

However, the current salt production efficiency and salt output of Longshouwan Salt Factory are equally surprising.When he arrived at the salt factory, Liu Sheng saw large tracts of snow-white salt fields on the tidal flats, which made him happy just to look at them.

Yang Dagui, the managing director of the salt factory, became much more confident when facing Liu Sheng and introduced him with a glowing face.

"Commander, you don't know, the sun here in the dry season is so big. Although the salt workers are doing it, the efficiency of salt production in the salt fields is really high. We have estimated that it is almost higher than when we can only boil salt in the rainy season." Pay a hundred times more!”

Liu Sheng was also very happy.

Where is the salt in front of me? It is clearly money.

In the Ming Dynasty, Henan and Huguang can be said to be the provinces most lacking in salt and with the highest salt prices, because most of the surrounding provinces produce salt.

There are Lu salt (Changlu salt field) in North Zhili, Huai salt in Shandong and South Zhili, green salt (Huamachi Salt Lake) in Shaanxi, well salt in Sichuan, and sea salt fields along the coasts of Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong and Guangxi.

The price of salt in the Ming Dynasty has actually dropped a lot compared to the Tang and Song Dynasties - in fact, it could have dropped even more during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Unfortunately, because the court and salt merchants had to make money through the salt industry, the price of salt was not considered high until the founding of New China in later generations. Really come down.

The Longshouwan Salt Factory can produce so much good sea salt, so there is no shortage of salt in Kueibu.

If it is taken to the surrounding forces in Weibei, even if it is sold at a slightly higher price than other salts, it will be sought after.

If the price is equal to that of salt produced in other places, it can easily dominate the market.

However, in Liu Sheng's view, Longshouwan Salt Factory needs to continue to expand its production capacity if it wants to occupy the salt market in Henan and Huguang.

So he first expressed his praise for the work of Yang Dagui, Wu Ming and the salt factory managers, and then encouraged: "Including the original site selection of the salt factory, I have been to the Longshou Bay Salt Factory three times, and I am impressed by everyone's progress. You can see that I am also very happy that the salt factory has achieved today's results.

However, I hope that everyone will not be proud and continue to work hard to bring the salt production of Longshou Bay Salt Factory to a new level in the dry season next year! "

Yang Dagui was a dutiful person, his face was full of excitement, but he didn't know how to respond.

Wu Ming, the chief clerk next to him, had already assured loudly: "Don't worry, Commander, now the salt factory has thousands more salt workers and people. By the next dry season, the salt production of our salt factory will definitely be expanded at least ten times!"

Wu Ming didn't lie.

In fact, during this dry season, because they were inexperienced, they did not do enough in many aspects and wasted a lot of time.

Now that the salt factory has more people and a certain amount of experience, it will be easy to open more salt fields in advance next year and expand salt production tenfold.

Liu Sheng still used the same routine, first encouraging production, and then not forgetting to remind him about production safety.

"It's really hot and sunny here during the dry season. You have to ask the salt workers to take protective measures - we can't treat the salt workers as harshly as the Ming Dynasty. Do you understand?"

This time Yang Dagui answered quickly, he nodded and said: "Don't worry, Commander, we have already followed your instructions and made sunscreen using fish oil, and also equipped the salt workers with some herbs.

In addition, the salt workers’ shifts are reasonably arranged so that even if the salt workers occasionally suffer from sunburn or sores on their hands and feet, they can receive treatment and rest and recover quickly. "

Liu Sheng inspected the salt workers and chatted with several salt workers. Seeing that the salt workers were in good spirits, Liu Sheng ended the inspection of the salt factory.

Later, Liu Sheng also wanted to visit the grasslands upstream of the Joaquin River (later the San Joaquin River), but considering that going upstream would take too much time, he had no choice but to give up.

After the hunting group organized by Huachu County left, they sent a letter saying that the journey was too far and it was best to arrange for a group of immigrants to go to the grassland to establish a camp so that they could better utilize the grassland resources.

Liu Sheng was already considering this matter.

Although the grasslands in the central and southern part of the California Valley are not large, they are not small either. In addition to using the bison, antelope and other prey there to obtain meat, fur and other supplies, horse farms can also be established.

Considering the long-term development of Chang'an, it is indeed necessary to establish a camp there.

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August twelfth.

Liu Sheng was sitting on the sofa on the first floor of the villa, watching the Xunfengwei report forwarded from Ruyang, and couldn't help but touch the short beard on his chin with his hand and thought deeply.

Li Xiangyun washed the fruit, cut it into cubes, put it in a transparent glass fruit plate, snuggled next to Liu Sheng, and fed it to Liu Sheng with a toothpick.

Looking at Liu Sheng's thinking, she stared at him infatuatedly for a while before asking, "What are you thinking about, husband?"

Liu Sheng still has no idea that the harem cannot be involved in politics.

The pot-bellied red lady is still the brigade commander of the [-]th Independent Brigade, Zou Runniang, the mother-in-law, is still the director of the telecommunications department, and Li Xiangyun is still working as a correspondent.

So while eating the fruit, he said: "There is a butcher named Li Qingshan in Shandong who revolted in Shouzhang in July. Now he has gathered more than [-] people, almost blocking water transportation.

Someone from the Xunfeng Guards in Shandong took the opportunity to join Li Qingshan's rebel army and has now become a senior general of the rebel army.

It was precisely because of this that the Xunfeng Wei found out that Li Qingshan and other rebel decision-makers intended to learn from Song Jiang in "Water Margin" and accept the imperial edict of the Ming Dynasty in the future. "

　First more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)