Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator.

Li Ji naturally didn't know that Gan Ning's uncle was actually his devoted fan. Furthermore, the Jin Yi Si's operations hadn't yet expanded to Yizhou, so information about Jiang Zhi was scarce.

After Li Ji had properly arranged the transportation of those 300,000 dan of grain and was leaving Dantu County to return to Wu County, he learned from the information reported by Liu Yang that Gan Ning and Jiang Zhi were constantly discussing the drawing of nautical charts. He then discovered that Jiang Zhi was actually a rare individual who understood how to draw nautical charts.

For Li Ji, this was undoubtedly a pleasant surprise.

After all, nautical chart drawing was an extremely unpopular and obscure skill in this era. Finding someone who knew how to draw nautical charts was not an easy task.

Li Ji's original plan was to return to Wu County, ask Cai Zhaoji if she had any related books, and then find a way to temporarily train a few teenagers from Taoyuan Village who knew how to roughly draw nautical charts. He would then send those teenagers to sea with Gan Ning.

Now, with Jiang Zhi's existence, it saved Li Ji a lot of trouble.

Unlike the entire Han Dynasty's general unfamiliarity with the sea, Li Ji understood that if there really were any secret treasures in the sea, then the sea itself was undoubtedly a secret treasure that could be continuously developed.

As long as the fishing industry was developed enough, the fish caught from the sea would be enough to feed countless people.

And in "work-for-food relief," simple grains were not enough to replenish the daily consumption of strong laborers. Even the soldiers in the army needed a considerable amount of meat to carry out high-intensity training every day.

Grain could fill the stomach, but to really build strength, meat was essential!

However, the Han Dynasty's animal husbandry was not developed, and Wu County currently did not have the conditions for large-scale breeding of chickens, ducks, pigs, and sheep.

Therefore, fish was undoubtedly the best choice.

The sea contained endless protein!

Drawing nautical charts of the area around Wu County meant quickly finding areas where fishing could be carried out quickly, and formulating routes for subsequent large-scale fishing boats to avoid problems such as running aground or getting lost.

However, to develop a large-scale fishing industry in the Han Dynasty, where only scattered fishermen along the coast were fishing, Li Ji would have to establish a complete set of corresponding configurations.

Li Ji had already prepared to give the first experimental seagoing vessel from the shipyard to Gan Ning for his use, allowing Gan Ning to take the lead in sailing out to sea and drawing nautical charts of the coastal areas of Wu County.

The subsequent shipyards would then quickly modify a batch of fishing seagoing vessels based on the experience of the experimental seagoing vessel, and concentrate the scattered fishermen of the entire Wu County for large-scale fishing.

As for the various tools required for large-scale fishing, this was a minor problem for Wu County now.

The large number of refugees migrating south allowed Wu County to quickly accumulate a large number of craftsmen.

In an era where even seismographs, such black technology, could be manufactured, you could despise the craftsmen for not being able to make steel, but they could use chromium crystal lattice etching and chromium plating technology on the Sword of King Goujian of Yue.

It could be said that often, as long as these craftsmen were given a direction, they could give corresponding satisfactory results.

It's still that saying: The bonds of nine generations should not be underestimated!

But the most troublesome thing at the moment was the other things that went with fishing.

Lighthouses, fishing docks, salting places, road construction…

Lighthouses, fishing docks, and road construction are self-explanatory, these must be built.

Without a lighthouse, the return of fishing boats would be a big problem.

The fishing dock was naturally to be separated from the confidential places like the shipyard. You can't just bring back the catch every day and unload it at the shipyard, right?

Therefore, it was also very necessary to build a dedicated fishing dock again.

As for salting places, it was a helpless choice based on the times.

Perhaps ice preservation was known to be an excellent choice, and even making ice would not be a difficult task for Li Ji.

However, the problem was not whether making ice was troublesome, but the limitations of transportation efficiency made even large-scale ice production meaningless for preserving fish.

If ice preservation was used, 150 jin of the 300 jin of goods that were basically transported by manpower would have to be ice.

And even so, the ice would probably melt before long during transportation, and the fish would quickly rot.

Wu County already had insufficient transportation capacity and low efficiency, so how could Li Ji adopt such a presumptuous method.

Therefore, salting and preservation became the best choice.

Now, there were many refugee women in Wu County who had no place to go, and the salting work could be completely handed over to the women.

And the difficulty in transporting salted fish would be greatly reduced.

However, a large amount of salt was needed in the salting process…

The Han Dynasty lacked salt and it was expensive!

Although Li Ji knew that there was plenty of salt in the sea, privately making salt was tantamount to rebellion and required caution, caution, and more caution.

After pondering for a while, Li Ji finished writing the promotion plan for a series of supporting facilities such as lighthouses, fishing docks, salting places, and road construction on bamboo slips, and then wrote a secret order to let two or three craftsmen quickly research the method of drying salt according to the ideas Li Ji knew.

As for the real construction of salt farms, Li Ji immediately thought that it would be more appropriate for Jia Xu to be responsible for it later.

And in the stage where Emperor Liu Hong had not yet passed away, the sea salt made by drying seawater could not flow into the market. Li Ji only planned to use it internally for salting fish.

As Li Ji sat in the carriage and returned to Wu County, straightening out the matters that he wanted to quickly promote while maintaining "work-for-food relief", he only felt a burst of dizziness when he came back to his senses. He couldn't help but rub his somewhat swollen temples and shouted.

"Stop!"

Suddenly, the entire convoy that was returning to Wu County stopped.

Zhao Yun walked to the carriage and asked.

"Mr. Zikun, is there any situation?"

"How far is it from Wu County?" Li Ji asked.

"It will take about half a day's journey," Zhao Yun replied.

"Let's rest for a while before continuing on our way."

Li Ji said, then lifted the curtain of the carriage and crawled out.

Although Li Ji's physique was much stronger than before, after being bumped in the extremely uncomfortable carriage for half a day, and being deeply immersed in thinking for a long time, it seemed… he was carsick.

Due to his image and face, Li Ji endured the churning discomfort in his abdomen and stood calmly beside the carriage, looking into the distance.

It wasn't that Li Ji didn't want to move, but that Li Ji didn't dare to move, for fear that moving would affect his whole body.

However, Zhao Yun noticed Li Ji's pale face and asked with concern. "Mr. Zikun, are you really okay? Do you need to call the accompanying physician?"

"It's okay, just some small problems in the current situation."

Li Ji waved his hand calmly, then looked around.

"Is this about ten miles west of Piling County?" Li Ji said with considerable certainty.

For Li Ji, who had the ability to never forget, it was impossible to forget this road that he had previously taken while inspecting the water network of Wu County. He almost instantly judged the problem he was in.

Li Ji thought for a moment and said. "Two miles west from here, I remember that there is a river that I planned to excavate. Let's go take a look."

When Zhao Yun saw this, he shouted at the surrounding guard cavalry. "You two, bring the horses over."

"No need, don't make too much noise, lest you disturb the normal excavation progress. Just take a few glances from afar."

Li Ji waved his hand and took the lead to walk towards the west.

When Zhao Yun saw this, he quickly followed with his sword at his waist to protect him on the left and right, and ordered a team to stay in place to protect the carriage, and another team to follow far behind for protection.

Two miles was not much of a journey for Li Ji either.

Now that he got out of the carriage and walked around, Li Ji felt that his original carsickness quickly recovered a lot, and his eyes kept looking around.

Soon, as Li Ji crossed a small slope, what came into view was a scene in the distance where about several thousand people were constantly excavating a river.

It was already nearly June, and the sun was already quite harsh.

Li Ji, standing in the shade of a tree, also felt quite stuffy. Most of the thousands of strong laborers who were excavating the river below were working shirtless.

And in this era without any heavy machinery, all that could be relied on was manpower.

Li Ji never questioned the miracles that manpower could create, just like the miracle of the Burma Road was dug out by 200,000 laborers, including the old, weak, women, and children, in the Hengduan Mountains.

However, as Li Ji watched, he saw that the thousands of strong laborers, although there were no supervisors whipping them, they hardly stopped, diligently excavating according to the direction and depth required by the scholars who were also running back and forth on the construction site.

Li Ji stood and watched until a group of old, weak, women, and children prepared food and brought it to them, and then the group of strong laborers rested and ate.

Even though the distance was extremely far, Li Ji could occasionally hear the hearty laughter and expectations for the future from the group of strong laborers who were eating.

When Li Ji came back to his senses, he suddenly found that his eyes were inexplicably filled with tears.

"Mr. Zikun?"

Zhao Yun, noticing Li Ji's condition, said softly.

Li Ji gently wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his index finger and said with emotion.

"Grateful, hardworking, and simple, they deserve a better life, they should live and work in peace, not be displaced…"

"They have not failed us, and we should not fail them even more."

Zhao Yun was shaken by these words.

Although what Li Ji said was not any grand ambition, the simple words revealed a true heart of benevolence, and greatly touched Zhao Yun, who was also born from a poor commoner.

"Yun is also willing to devote his life to the prosperous and peaceful world created by our lord and Master Zikun!"

Zhao Yun said in a deep voice, even suddenly feeling a certain belief凝聚 in his heart, a belief even stronger than his past blind loyalty.

(End of this chapter)