Turbulent Times Chapter 1009: Chi Jingde, the strange soldier

Guan Xiaotong, Lu Han, and Xu Xiaohu hurriedly raised their voices and said in unison respectfully: "I understand."

Beckoning the three of them to sit down, Wang Junlin said to Qian Zhengkuo again: "After the fertile land has been reclaimed and cultivated, it is necessary to prevent the wind and sea tide from flooding the seaside. Therefore, if there is spare capacity, we should plant more in the direction of the sea in the east. For miscellaneous trees, you can send people to look for trees and shrubs suitable for saline-alkaline sandy soil, large-scale cultivation of coastal defense forests is the only way to effectively reduce wind damage and sea tide infiltration at this stage.”

Qian Zhengkuo was surprised. Nie Xiaoyu's omniscience and omnipotence had shocked him deeply. He didn't expect such a delicate matter to be thought of by the prefect, so he quickly answered his orders.

Wang Junlin looked at Lian Zhongtao again, who stood up quickly, waited for Wang Junlin to speak, Wang Junlin waved him to sit down, and then said: "After Lian Zhongtao's new method of cooking salt is on the right track, we will continue Hand it over to the five master craftsmen to be responsible, and you just need to take charge."

Lian Zhongtao sat upright and respectfully said yes.

Wang Junlin went on to say: "I mentioned once before that we will set up an engineering school in the salt field. This matter can start now, and Lian Zhongtao will be in charge. We must hurry up. In the future, all children aged six or seven in the salt field, regardless of Men and women must go to school. The basic courses are literacy and arithmetic. The time is five years. There is no need to question the loyalty of the boys who come out of it. You first make a plan, and all the students who enter the school will manage two meals at the school, and I will tell someone to arrange the total amount of money for the school building, teachers and various supplies. "

Lian Zhongtao was shocked. He had a faint feeling that the prefect was so willing to spare money and food to turn the salt farm into a country within a county. The plan is planned."

Aristocrats, officials and scholars of the present generation are ashamed of production, and miscellaneous learning and craftsmanship are strange and ingenious, but even a junior high school student in later generations can say that "technology is the primary productive force", "economic foundation determine the superstructure" and so on.

Wang Junlin believes that the Sui Dynasty will inevitably perish in the end. In fact, there are no strong external enemies, even the Turks. The main reason is the continuous internal strife. With this sign, it is difficult to have a good plan to recover, and Yang Guang continued to forcefully promote his great cause.

So, a lot of things ultimately come down to "money". In the past four or five years, Wang Junlin has earned money through military towns in the northwest, Xiaoyu Theater, Backing Mountain Wine, Lihua Fragrant Tea, Mingyue Perfume, Wulin Guild, etc. He spent a huge amount of money, and these businesses will continue to earn him a lot of money every day. Now Fanyang County has no money in finance, and the recent series of big moves in the saltworks are all paid for by Wang Junlin himself.

Originally, Wang Junlin confiscated more than a hundred thousand taels of silver from Dou Shihai's house, and Wang Junlin handed it all over to the court. In the next step, the Lu family can also get a lot of money, Wang Junlin also decided to hand over half of it to Yang Guang. What you do is very important, and the benefits it brings are far beyond what money can compare.

Wang Junlin intends to base his core forces in the salt field. Because of the particularity of the salt field, he is not too worried about arousing the vigilance of others, and even if someone knows something, because the salt field is open, there is no danger to defend, and it is located in the sea. On the side, with the traditional thinking of Yang Guang, the court officials and various powerful people, they would not set their sights on the salt farm.

However, even without considering the terrain restrictions, the salt field has a radius of 150 miles, and the converted area is about 400,000 mu. Only half of the land can be reclaimed as grain fields. With the normal grain production at this time, at most 200,000 acres a year One hundred thousand stones of grain.

With the limited productivity of the salt field, even if it is well developed, it is already the limit to support 100,000 people and organize 10,000 troops.

Even if Wang Junlin accidentally exposed his ambition to control the salt field, as long as he pays a salt tax of 500,000 taels of silver every year, Yang Guang and the court workers will not take it seriously, because in their view , 500,000 taels of silver have already drained the saltworks.

But Wang Junlin knew that there was a lot to be done in controlling the saltworks.

The difference in production mode determines the population base that can be supported on the same piece of land, and there is a fundamental gap in the material wealth and military organizational capabilities produced.

Because in addition to boiling salt and reclaiming farmland in the salt field known and imagined by the world in this era, Wang Junlin also needs to vigorously develop traditional manual workshops in the salt field, and even more efficient and larger-scale manual workshop operations , in that way, it will be able to accommodate more people and generate more surplus financial resources.

However, the knowledge mastered by Wang Junlin's later generations is seriously out of touch with the current handicraft production technology.

Later generations used bolts to fix and assemble objects. According to Wang Junlin's requirements, craftsmen in this era can also make suitable bolts, but making a bolt requires a skilled craftsman to work hard day and night for seven or eight days. The price is astonishingly high.

As for more efficient and larger-scale manual workshop operations, it is natural to rely on Nie Xiaoyu to implement them. This is also the main reason why Wang Junlin wanted to set up an engineering school.

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"My lord, Yuchi Jingde has just sent someone to send the news that he will lead their 2,000 soldiers and more than 5,000 family members to Fanyang County in the next month. The Yiwei mansion opened up a relationship, let him divide people into more than a dozen groups and come to Fanyang County." After Xu Xiaohu and the five officials from the salt field left, Guo'er came in again to report.

As early as years ago, Yuchi Jingde's old mother was cured by Nie Xiaoyu, and settled in Wang Junlin's mansion in the county to recuperate. The German general received it under his command.

"In the mountain behind the Lu family's ancestral house, there is a military camp built by the Lu family for many years, and there are tens of thousands of acres of mountain land. Tell Lu Youxuan that the back mountain continues to be their Lu family's private property in name, and it is also theirs Forbidden land, and then you will be responsible for secretly placing all of Yuchi Jingde's 7,000 people in that mountain." Wang Junlin had a plan in advance, and said with a smile.

He is the only one in the world who knows Yuchi Jingde's ability. According to his plan, the bandits under Yuchi Jingde's command will become one of his surprise soldiers. Of course, from now on, he will give them food, military pay, and even Horses, armor, bows and crossbows and other weapons and equipment, according to his plan, Yuchi Jingde will expand to 3,000 soldiers and horses, and the only thing Yuchi Jingde is doing right now is training soldiers, training these 3,000 people into an elite army.

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