"Deng Wenjun and Lu Sihai are gone." Xu Zixian said to Fu Qian beside him: "Mu Zhi, what do you think of them?"

Fu Qian said: "Lu Sihai has a strong aura and is a heroic man. Deng Wenjun is meticulous and acts without any leakage. Both of them are about forty years, and they are very energetic and physically strong. They have been on the sea for more than twenty years. In my opinion, they are rare talent for the navy general."

Xu Zixian smiled slightly, nodded slightly, and agreed with Fu Qian's judgment. Xu Zixian, Lu Sihai and Deng Wenjun, not only recognized him, but also was quite familiar with him. In the capital, the two of them performed well under the leadership of Wang Zhi. Even so on the land, both of them were famous heroes at sea, so how could they be worse than on land?

This time the two of them came together, and Wang Zhi was quite clear about his intentions.

Xu Zixian admired Wang Zhi's old man. This guy started to make arrangements two years ago. He kept fighting with two subordinates, and finally chose Xu Zixian, the Prince of Kaifu, as his target of serving. His strength, territory, power, and people hoped that they were all perfectly qualified. The two maritime heroes were nominally fourth-rank generals. In fact, in the eyes of the imperial court officials, their positions were similar to those of the chieftains.

If the two of them want to be as white as Wang Zhi, they must at least be content with the gatekeeper for the court that they have been for twenty years. Twenty years later, which big boss of the court got enough bribes. When they were in a good mood, they let the two of them retire with the rank of third-rank general and return home to retire safely. This is what makes them have good luck.

If you make a mistake in your behavior, you will definitely be framed and targeted by countless people. Not to mention that wealth and honor will last forever, it is quite difficult to achieve a good end.

Only by participating in the role of Xu Zixian, who is so magnificent and strong, is under the command of a strong prince, who has made more military achievements in the south and serves to redeem himself. Xu Zixian will naturally give Wang Zhi's old subordinates a way out.

"This old fox..." Xu Zi first thought about this section and smiled.

When I saw him at the post station, I was clearly seen by the old fox Wang Zhi. I was ambitious, had my own circle, and had my own pattern. Once I had the opportunity, I could soar into the sky.

From the Marquis of Nan'an to the King of Zhongshan, to the King of Qin, to the founding of the mansion, and to the lords and ceremonies, Wang Zhi also found the best way out for his subordinates.

You should know that the passers-by in Fujian and the people on Guangdong South Road are the two routes that hate pirates the most in the territory of the Great Wei Dynasty. Both routes are the most miserable places that have been harmed by pirates. I wonder how many people have deep blood hatred with pirates. Although Wang Zhi surrendered to the inner court, the people who accepted them were the northern court, and the passers-by in Fujian in the south may not be willing to accept it. You should know that Wang Zhi was from Mingzhou. Although he had surrendered and was now the Jiedushi who was awarded the title of second-rank general, he was in the clan.

The genealogy inside is still expelled. If you want to re-list it in the genealogy, you have to work hard. Only after you are not sure that you have to be a marquis will the clan members pinch your nose and give up prejudices and accept that they will return to the clan. As for the rest, most of them are descendants of the Great Wei who are wandering overseas. There are originally no clans, and some are juvenile criminals from the Great Wei people who are wandering overseas. It is difficult for them to return to the clan like Wang Zhi.

This time, Wang Zhi's choice seemed helpless, but it was actually the result of optimization.

"Our navy will grow by 30% in one or two months."

Xu Zixian did not say twice. Although Wang Zhi might have ordered his subordinates to bring dozens of large warships and dozens of small and medium warships, it seems that he has half the power of the Navy of the Palace Army, and his subordinates are also pirates with years of age and are of great strength.

But pirates need to be diverted and used. Some of them are unruly and difficult to tame and will not stay. This must be explained first to avoid resentment from each other. Without strict training, diverting and reorganized pirates may have some combat power when jumping to the sidelines at sea, but internal

The loss will also offset this benefit. After training and reorganization, these pirates are considered soldiers of the government army. Due to their outstanding maritime experience, they will adapt to the identity of naval officers and soldiers earlier than ordinary soldiers.

The second is the warships, which need to be repaired according to the situation. Wang Zhi did not have large shipyards in the northern islands and Dengzhou. The ship must have some damage and needs to be repaired. The key point is that Fu Qian's heavy artillery casting was quite successful. Xu Zi had an idea a few years ago. Ship transformation should take a slow step, and there must be a process from hull construction to changing navigation mode, but weapons can be replaced by strong crossbows and catapults to heavy artillery.

Taizu of the Great Wei and the people of Taixi now use small cannons, some of which are similar to the Folang machine cannons, such as mother-child guns, and some are small copper cannons, which are not very powerful.

It is not technically difficult to cast a cannon with the sand-turning method. Xu Zi first explained Fu Qian. The key is that this technology has always been reserved in China. Before, there was no such idea. After talking about it, it was actually relatively simple.

What matters is capital, craftsmen, and sufficient iron materials. These Dongfan are not short of these. It is only a matter of time to solve the artillery technology. Fortunately, Fu Qian did not ask Xu Zi to stay for a long time.

This would probably take one or two months to wait for Wang Zhi's subordinates to head south. During this period, the newly cast artillery was placed on the original warships of the government army, and then for about two months, by the end of the summer, it is estimated that all the newly cast artillery ships of Wang Zhi's troops would be able to install all the newly cast artillery.

After the fleet was generally equipped with artillery, Xu Zi first gave Fu Qian a task of casting five or six hundred kilograms, with better air closure and gunpowder. He also needed to improve land war artillery cannons, installed artillery mounts, and could drag small cannons weighing hundreds of kilograms to marching, and fired about four to six kilograms of shells, with an effective range of about five hundred steps. In this way, there would be basically no need to worry too much about the war against the Donghu people in the future.

Standing on the boat building, Xu Zixian's vision was also excellent.

The Ninth and Tenth Armies were also transported to Fujian Road, stationed in military prefectures such as Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. Now even Tingzhou has a military stationed, and various places are reforming the official and garrison systems. The Xiang army has been generally abolished, and there have been some rebounds in various places, but there is no big problem. Especially in Jianzhou, Fuzhou, Xinghua Army and other places, they are basically fully controlled by the shogunate.

In the name of suppressing thieves and suppressing local areas, the work of sending officials and guards to reorganize the wing army and reorganize the Lijia was quite smooth. The Great Wei could not help but have annexed land, but the number of people was still quite vague. First, the Great Wei did not establish a refined management, and the clan had the final say in many local affairs. There was no need to be so serious about Lijia. At the beginning of the country, it was enough to reorganize the yellow book and determine the number of tax collectors. In addition, there were some hidden households in the noble family, including Xu Zixian's official households, which had exceeded the normal number. This time he reorganized Lijia and declared in advance that he would insist on reducing taxes and taxes, otherwise many large officials and gentry members would be quite disgusted.

These tasks have been basically completed, and each army has been stationed in place. It is expected that in one or two months, the reorganization and sorting of the entire Fujian Road will be basically completed.

This will consolidate the foundation of Fujian Road, and the situation in Dongfan is obviously better.

It’s almost April, and there are still a few days left to Qingming Festival. According to the custom of Fujian Road, spring tea will be harvested within a few days after Qingming Festival. The people on the island who have tea mountains are eager to try and are ready to stop working.

The amount of spring tea is not very large, and the maximum harvest is expected to be worth more than 100,000 yuan. However, in autumn tea, about ten days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is expected that the harvest will exceed one million tea leaves. These tea mountains in the Dongfan alone will bring considerable benefits to the Qin King's shogunate.

Of course, there are tea mountains on Fujian Road, and there are quite a few, but most of them are scattered. Only a small number of gentry owners have large tea mountains, while the rest are small households grow tea and pick tea by themselves. Fujian

The road is the raw silk road and the iron road, while Jiangxi Road is the first in porcelain, and Jiangnan East Road is the most powerful in porcelain, paper, raw silk, tea, and cotton cloth. Therefore, if you compare it in various aspects, Jiangnan East Road is well-deserved first, Fujian Road and Liangzhe Road rank second and third, and Guangnan East Road is also quite developed because its sea routes directly lead to the countries of Nanyang, but Guangnan East Road has not formed its own flagship products. A considerable amount of trade is re-export trade, which means picking up goods from others and then going to sea. The profit is definitely not as high as the place of production.

The tea in the Dongfan is a large area of ​​land that is opened up in the continuous hilly areas. It mobilized all the Dingzhuang and a large number of livestock cultivation in Lijia. The tea mountain needs not high technical content, but the tea is a well-known hard currency. Since the climate in the Dongfan is quite suitable, Xu Zixian felt that he would earn more than one million guan just by exporting tea.

There is also sugarcane sugar pressing. Now, large-scale sugar pressing factories are being built everywhere on the island. The tools and training personnel are preparing sugar pressing tools are doing very smoothly. What is lacking is large batches of mules and horses. It is impossible to squeeze sugar from manpower alone. To squeeze sugar juice, double heavy stone mills need to be continuously crushed. With manpower, a stone mill pressing machine requires dozens of strong men to change shifts day and night to suppress. This is obviously quite unreasonable in cost and manpower use. Only by using multiple horses, mules, donkeys, cattle and other pastoral livestock to squeeze sugar, which is the most economical and the effectiveness of sugar pressing is higher.

The stone mill is made in fine and heavy, but the principle is simple. What is missing is quantity and sufficient animal force to press. As for whether to make brown sugar or white sugar, Xu Zixian's decision is of course to make white sugar.

If salt is a necessity for daily life, people will eat salt no matter how expensive it is. Candy is the most expensive luxury that poor families can buy and are willing to buy.

People like sweet taste without exception, but the degree of sweetness is different. For example, some people like to eat sweet pastries, while some people don’t like to eat soy sauces and some people think they don’t like to eat sugar. In fact, fruits with high sugar content, including refined grains with high sugar content, are all the favorites of sweetness, but the focus of people’s sweetness is different.

It can be said that the Dongfan is the most suitable place for large-scale planting of sugarcane and squeezing sugar in the world. Xu Zixian's goal is to achieve the Dongfan sugar marketing world within ten to twenty years, with more than 100,000 related practitioners. Twenty years later, the population of the Dongfan may exceed one million. Among them, a few people specialize in rice planting and engaged in pure agriculture work, a large number of people are growing tea, sugarcane, squeezing sugar, mining, cast iron, growing cotton, building ships, repairing ships, textiles, and various workshops, making weapons, armor and other things.

Under the threat of the Donghu people invading and destroying civilization, Xu Zixian built the Dongfan into a very comprehensive foundation in his own wishes in recent years. Iron, cotton, tea, sugar, and of course salt, cast iron, textile industry, raw silk, and shipbuilding. If everything goes smoothly and there are no unexpected changes, the population of the Dongfan may be more than one million or two million in twenty years. After all, resettlement of immigration requires time and financial investment, and twenty to two million people is already very fast.

But in terms of wealth creation, the wealth created by the Dongfan, which has one or two million people, may be the addition of Fujian Road and Liangzhe Road, or even surpass Jiangnan East Road.

Of course, this refers to the wealth created by the Dongfan for Xu Zixian. The salt, sugar, tea, textile, iron, and manufacturing industries of the Dongfan were all directly invested by Xu Zixian. Even after land reclamation, immigrants would have to pay a considerable share of the harvest to the Qin Dynasty shogunate to pay taxes. In addition, the collection of coastal defense donations and establishment of a company for direct trade, the income of over 10 million a year was attributed to Xu Zixian's personal, rather than the national tax revenue.
Chapter completed!