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Chapter 441: A way out of the salt factory

In the second year of Qianyuan, on the ninth day of June, Concubine Hui gave birth to the emperor's third son, named "Lingyou".

Liu Sheng currently has three sons and one daughter. The children's nicknames are chosen by their mothers, while Liu Sheng is responsible for choosing their first names.

The same is naturally true for the trip to the Emperor's Third Son's Mausoleum.

When Liu Sheng just learned about this nickname through a telegram, he didn't know what it meant. After asking, he learned that it was a medicinal material.

Lingyou, commonly known as gentian, can be used to treat many kinds of diseases, and it is widely distributed and highly adaptable.

Bai Taiwei gave his son this nickname, obviously hoping that he would be as useful and easy to support as Lingyou.

Liu Sheng naturally had no objection to this, and would only give his third son a name after he was one month old.

Previously, Liu Sheng's names for his children were all single characters, with the character "王" next to them, such as: the eldest son of the emperor Liu Rui, the eldest daughter of the emperor Liu Yao, and the second son of the emperor Liu Yu.

Not surprisingly, the third prince’s name is also the same...

Although Liu Sheng was very happy to have another son, he still went to the newly established Longshou County for inspection the next day as planned. (The name in the previous chapter was wrong, Longshou County was added.)

Last year, Liu Sheng immigrated 150,000 people to North America at once, and five new camps were added at the mouth of the Xinluo River.

Because Yang Minghe was the first magistrate of Longshou County appointed by Liu Sheng.

In addition to the original salt farm camp and fishery camp with more than 20,000 people each, the newly established Longshou County actually has a population of about 70,000.

Yang Minghe also joined the Weibu earlier and has sufficient qualifications.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Especially when he was the mayor of Hexi Town, he opened a special market to trade with the natives, which made Hexi Town more prosperous than Hebian Town and second only to Weichu Town.

Two of the new camps were attached to the Saltworks Camp and three to the Fishing Grounds Camp.

There are only more than 8,000 people in each new camp, which means an increase of more than 40,000 people.

"See Your Majesty!"

According to Liu Sheng's order this time, Longshou County will have two towns and seven camps (two of which are newly established this time).

Liu Sheng's first stop was still Fishing Camp, or Fishing Town.

Yu Hengfeng and others knew this person as Yang Minghe, the mayor of Hexi Town, but now they may want to change the name and call him Yang Zhixian.

The newly appointed mayor Yu Hengfeng and deputy mayor Gongsun Tai brought a dozen camp managers to meet the driver at the dock. There was no pomp, but it was very grand.

Yang Minghe made good achievements when he served as the general manager of Hexiying affairs and the mayor of Hexi Town.

"Flat body."

After a brief set of etiquette, Yu Hengfeng and others straightened up, glanced at Liu Sheng first, and then couldn't help but cast their eyes on a young official with a mustache beside him.

Therefore, Yu Hengfeng and others were not dissatisfied with him being appointed as the first magistrate of Longshou County.

However, they have learned from the documents (declarations) that arrived a few days ago that the county seat of Longshou County is set in Yuchang Town. This means that from now on, Yu Hengfeng will have an immediate boss next to him, and he still feels a little uncomfortable. of.

But no one dares to violate Liu Sheng's will. Now Yu Hengfeng just hopes that his immediate boss will be easier to get along with...

After some pleasantries, Liu Sheng had a meal and took a short rest, then asked Yu Hengfeng to take him and Yang Minghe and other officials who had come to Longshou County to inspect various industries in Yuchang Town. From last year to this year, Liu Sheng only came to North America once, and naturally only once to Longshou Bay, so Yu Hengfeng cherished this opportunity to perform in front of the emperor.

As soon as he left the big cafeteria in Yuchang Town, he began to introduce Liu Sheng to the various industries in Yuchang Town today.

“Today, our fishery town is still mainly engaged in fishing industry, and also takes into account shipbuilding and agriculture.

Taking the fishing industry as an example, from June last year to June this year, we shipped a total of fresh fish, salted fish, shrimps and crabs and other seafood..."

Yu Hengfeng and others were mostly influenced by Liu Sheng in Weibu before, and even deliberately learned Liu Sheng's speaking style and vocabulary, so there are many later vocabulary in this discourse.

But the same was true for Yang Minghe, Gongsun Tai and others, and they didn't feel there was anything wrong. On the contrary, Liu Sheng would occasionally have a trance-like feeling.

But it has to be said that what he wanted to know was more concise and easy to understand when described using the vocabulary and speech methods of later generations.

According to Yu Hengfeng's introduction, Liu Sheng felt that the amount of seafood exported by Yuchang Town every year may not be inferior to that of ordinary coastal counties in Damei.

After all, the coastal counties in Da'ei rely on each fisherman family to catch and process seafood by themselves, which is still a "small farmer economy."

But here in Fishing Town, a collective of more than 20,000 people is involved in production. As long as there are no problems in organization and scheduling management, the efficiency of fishing and processing will be much higher.

The powerful energy and high efficiency of collective production in the early stage have been proven in later generations.

Perhaps problems of this kind will arise in the future, causing production and development to plummet. But at present, collective production has caused Yuchang Town and Dawei's other towns and camps in North America to burst out with powerful energy and develop rapidly, which can be called a miracle!

Liu Sheng stayed in Yuchang Town for a day. He not only inspected the factories of various industries in Yuchang Town, but also inspected several camps and even some farmland.

The next day, Liu Shengcai took his guards to Yanchang Town by boat.

Yang Dagui, the mayor of Yanchang Town, and Wu Ming, the deputy mayor, who were also appointed just a few days ago, also guided Liu Sheng, Yang Minghe and others to inspect the factories in the town after picking up the driver.

Yanchang Town naturally focuses on salt production, supplemented by agriculture, logging, and even trading with the native people in this area - compared to the salted fish in Yuchang Town, the white salt is more popular with the natives.

As for Yanchang Town's achievements in the past year, Yang Dagui didn't need to introduce it, Liu Sheng knew it very well.

In the past year, not only the salt needed by various towns and camps in North America was provided by Yanchang Town, but also some people in Henan and Hubei were eating salt from Yanchang Town.

Of course, considering the issue of profit, what Yanchang Town transports through the time and space gate is basically refined salt. Therefore, most of the people who eat the salt in Yanchang Town are wealthy people.

In addition, the salt from Yanchang Town will not be sold to the time and space gate for a long time.

In the past, the territories controlled by the Wei tribe were mainly inland areas such as Henan and Hubei, but now Damei controls most of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no shortage of salt-producing areas, such as the Huaiyan salt in Huainan Province, the Changlu Salt Field in North Zhili, and the well salt in Sichuan , Fujian and Guangdong sea salt, etc.

With these salt-producing areas, as long as the salt industry management and production technology are innovated, salt can be produced as efficiently as salt farm towns in North America. In terms of transportation, the salt produced in these places does not need to go through the time and space gate, and the price will be cheaper, which is obviously more competitive.

Therefore, after inspecting Yanchang Town, Liu Sheng met with Yang Dagui, Wu Ming and others to have a conversation in this regard.

He said directly: "In the future, the salt from Yanchang Town will mainly be sold to all parts of North America - in addition to various towns and camps in Weichu County and Longshou County, you must also try your best to develop salt trade with the natives."

Yang Dagui was puzzled after hearing this, but Wu Ming was thoughtful.

Seeing this, Liu Sheng simply explained the impact of external changes on Yanchang Town.

(End of this chapter)