"Xue Rengui reported that the special products of Xihai County include A-level sea fish and S-level sea salt. In addition to building salt farms, sea salt can also be used to pickle fish. In addition, a shipyard can be built at the mouth of the local river to produce salt for trade.

Ocean-going merchant ships, opposite Xihai County is the land in the southern part of Koryo."

Xia Liang, who was in charge of the economy, had long ago encouraged Chu Tian to occupy a port, firstly to mine sea salt, and secondly to develop foreign trade as soon as possible.

Maritime trade was very prosperous during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and even became an important source of finance for the Southern Song Dynasty.

Sea transportation seems to be of little use now, but in the later period, whether it is used to transport food and troops, or to attack Korea and Japan, a powerful navy will be needed.

Chutian could train a high-level horse infantry in one year, but given him one year, he might not be able to form a combat-effective navy.

If we were to attack Korea across the Yellow Sea, the navy would need at least five or six years of preparation time.

Chu Tian had already made preparations: "You buy the blueprints for the salt drying field, shipyard, wharf, and naval camp from the merchants, send them to Xihai County, and arrange for local officials to build them."

"Do I need my subordinates to go to Xihai County in person to preside over the construction?"

"No, just stay in the Lord's Mansion, otherwise it will be inconvenient for me to use other people here."

Chutian arranged for a group of officials to take over Xihai County.

"How many levels are needed for salt drying plants, shipyards, docks, and naval camp buildings?"

"The salt drying field uses the highest-level blueprints available. As for the shipyard, dock, and naval camp, level four is enough."

Chu Tian's knowledge of the navy was limited.

The fourth-level shipyard can produce plank ships, sentinel ships, walking ships, stern ships, small sand ships, and medium-sized sand ships, which can basically meet the current demand.

The fourth-level naval battalion can recruit most common naval arms. Unless it is a special naval arm, a higher naval battalion is required.

High-level naval battalions can not only recruit high-level troops, but also recruit more soldiers at a time. A first-level military battalion can recruit 100 soldiers at a time, and a fourth-level military battalion can recruit 500 soldiers at a time.

The dock can increase the probability of ships on the route entering the port for supplies, and also has a bonus to the port.

Chutian made plans to turn Xihai County into a port city.

As for Xu Sheng, Chutian still stayed in Liangshan Town to develop the Yihe Navy. The goal of the Yihe Navy was to go south to besiege Xiapi City and control the Yihe River Basin.

Although ships from the Yi River cannot be transported to the Yellow Sea, the sailors, shipwrights, and naval soldiers trained can be sent to Xihai County.

Small and medium-sized wooden ships are not important, sailors, soldiers, and shipwrights are important. Chutian can use the wood from the coastal hills to build ships.

"The sea salt in Xihai County is subject to a government monopoly, and the shipyard mainly produces cargo ships."

Chutian considered that he did not yet have the capability of naval warfare. The port in Xihai County was mainly for trade. In the future, he could even consider selling and purchasing goods from Yangzhou, Korea, and Japan.

Xia Liang reminded: "Lord, you should set up a special salt and iron officer to control the salt and iron in each county."

Chutian did overlook something. Since he decided to monopolize salt and iron, he naturally had to have special officials to manage it: "Each county will set up a salt officer and an iron officer, and two other salt and iron inspectors to prevent the salt and iron officers from using their power for personal gain."

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Chutian had to establish a monitoring mechanism.

Governing a population of two million in seven counties, Chutian has thousands of officials. If supervision is not carried out, fubài will easily occur.

Xia Liang suggested: "It is better to take this opportunity to establish a supervision system, with Fang Xuanling, who assesses the performance of officials, responsible for conducting surprise inspections on officials from time to time."

Chutian benefited a lot from her words.

The current performance appraisal system for officials in Langya Kingdom is one small test every year and one big test every three years.

This is a regular assessment.

The irregular assessment proposed by Xia Liang will be conducted at the same time as Fang Xuanling's regular assessment, which will effectively reduce fubài.

Chu Tian thought about it: "As the supervisor, you are responsible for establishing a supervisory agency of thirty people and conducting surprise inspections of officials in various ministries from time to time. The supervisory agency is divided into two parts, the northern part and the southern part. The northern part has a temporary quota of 24 people to supervise hundreds of officials, and the southern part has a temporary quota of 24 people.

There is a quota of 6 people to monitor the north."

"I?"

"The two assessment methods should be separated."

"yes."

Xia Liang thought that he had a lot of things on his hands, so he left and went to deal with it.

Chu Tian added: "The supervisory agency is only responsible to me."

m. He wants to keep the supervisory agencies firmly in his hands.

This is why he asked Xia Liang's authority to be separated from Fang Xuanling's.

Fang Xuanling conducted regular performance appraisals for all officials, which was a self-examination of the staff department.

The supervisory agency is in the hands of Chu Tian. Chu Tian can investigate whoever he wants. Even if he accuses his subordinates, it will be easy. This is an external supervision.

At the same time, there is also a self-inspection agency within the supervisory agency.

Supervisory agencies have existed since ancient times to ensure the loyalty of officials and prevent corruption and bribery.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chutian established the most basic supervisory organization of Langya Kingdom.

At present, the officials of Langya Kingdom have been baptized by the fire of war and do not dare to act recklessly for the time being. It will be better not to do so in the future.

Chu Tian also ordered Xue Rengui's army to be recalled, leaving Yin Li to recruit 2,000 troops to garrison locally.

Xue Rengui also wanted to participate in the crusade against the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, so he could not stay in Xihai County.

Xihai County did not dare to rebel, otherwise Chutian would attack him with the troops of six counties at any time.

Chutian always stationed his elite troops in Xiacheng. The number of troops in small counties ranged from 2000 to 5000, and they lacked the power to rebel.

Xia Liang recruited 30 officials to form a supervisory agency. Every month he would send one or two teams of supervisors to various counties to conduct secret investigations, which frightened the officials in each county.

The ultimate person in charge of the supervisory agency is Chu Tian. As long as Chu Tian wants to convict, the supervisory agency will always find a reason.

Diannong Captain Li Kui came to report after the summer cooled down: "The demobilized Taishan bandits have been allocated to the river plains in Kaiyang, Yangdu, and Juxian counties. It is expected that all of them will be resettled before the spring equinox. A total of

There were 100,873 Taishan bandits. In the other half of the year, a total of 21,312 bandits, remnants of the Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army and their family members were captured, mainly settled in Jiu Town in Hedong."

Chu Tian also did not expect that there would be such a large number of Taishan bandits plus ordinary bandits, and that these people would become an important source of labor and soldiers for the Langya Kingdom.

He estimated that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army provided more labor force than the Taishan Bandits.

Li Kui continued to report: "Because Langya Kingdom is relatively peaceful, as many as 20,000 households have flowed into Langya Kingdom from Beihai Kingdom and other places. There are even refugees from Yanzhou and Jizhou flowing in."

"The refugees who had not been bandits moved into Xiacheng and arranged for them to reclaim wasteland and farm it."

Chu Tian longed for more people to enter his territory.

His crusade against the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army this time was to rob people and cattle.

Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army plundered various places, and Chutian went to rob them, and justifiably plundered the population of Qingzhou to Xuzhou.

Chutian re-examined the resources, and found level 4 iron ore resources in the Mengshan area of ​​Yangdu County, and level 4 copper ore resources in the Wulian Mountain area of ​​Ju County.

Fourth-level natural resources are already very objective. As for high-level natural resources, they are only found in special places.

For example, the North Sea Fishing Ground is a level 10 marine fish resource, and the Potosi Silver Mine is a level 10 silver mine resource.

The Jiaodong gold mine in Qingzhou is also of high grade, and the famous Anshan iron mine is also famous.

Chutian established five-level mining fields in two places. Each mining field invested approximately 2,000 to 3,000 miners to continuously provide Chutian with copper and iron resources.

Needless to say, the importance of copper. Copper coins are the most basic unit of circulation in "Lords" and are also hard currencies. Although Chu Tian discussed with officials, they mostly calculated them in silver taels, but the common people at the bottom still used copper coins.

Chutian cannot issue paper money. Paper money is worthless in troubled times and will only lead to inflation.

Iron ore resources involve the production of weapons, agricultural tools, and armor.

In addition to the fourth-level iron ore, the fourth-level copper mine, and the third-level gold mine, there are also some scattered natural resources in Chutian's territory. As long as there are resources, Chutian will build mining farms and try to increase the number of resources in his hands as much as possible.

resource output.

Fang Xuanling came in hurriedly: "Lord, no, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army has appeared at the junction of Langya Kingdom and Beihai Kingdom!"

"It seems that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army intends to actively defend and bring the flames of war to our Langya Kingdom. Order Zhou Yafu, Zang Ba, and Sun Guan to guard the first line of defense and not give the Qingzhou Yellow Turban an opportunity. The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army wants to put pressure on the border

, let them move around, we will send troops in March according to the original plan. Then let Hua Mulan lead a cavalry to the border to monitor the movements of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, so that they cannot be too arrogant. "

Chutian was not panicked by the actions of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army. There were three generals guarding the first line of defense of the Langya Kingdom, and the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army could not break through.

Among the counties in the northern part of the Langya Kingdom, Dongwu County was attacked by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army. The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army entered the Kou Langya Kingdom. Yellow scarves and flags covered the mountains and plains as far as the eye could see!

Wu Sangui, who had taken refuge in Dorgon, rode on a war horse and led 3,000 Yellow Turban cavalry and 50,000 Yellow Turban infantry as the vanguard of the invasion of Kou Langya Kingdom.

His knowledge of the terrain and roads of Langya Kingdom made him highly valued by Guan Hai and Dorgon.

The lords of various counties and Dongwu County were unable to resist the mighty Yellow Turban Army and were easily destroyed by Wu Sangui.

The magistrates of various counties felt their scalps numb when they discovered that all the people under the city were surrounded by the Yellow Turban Army.

There were so many Yellow Turbans that they were like locusts. Wherever they went, even the bark of trees was eaten up, the springs were drank up, and all villages that blocked the Yellow Turbans were destroyed.

"Lord County Magistrate, we only have 5,000 Han soldiers in the city, and there are at least 50,000 to 60,000 people outside the city. How should we defend this?"

When the military commanders in various counties saw the locust army below, their palms became sweaty.

The Yellow Turban Army has a large number of people, and their general does not care about the lives of this group of cannon fodder. He uses the human wave tactic every time he attacks a city or territory.

The level of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army is not low, because the governor of Qingzhou, Prime Minister Beihai, has been sending people to the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army. As a result, the combat effectiveness of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army is far better than that of the Yellow Turban Army in other states.
To be continued...