"Most of them are gay..."

"gay?"

When Li Zhixiang understood what a fagot was, he immediately shook his head and said: "Throw them all into the sea and drown them!"

"They can swim!"

"Tie a hundred kilograms of rocks to them. If they can still swim up, consider them awesome!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "Did you sink all the black-tailed boats this time?"

"Seventeen ships, all are black-tailed ships!"

Shen Shikui smiled bitterly and said: "The characteristics of the black-tail boat are obvious, and we will definitely not admit our mistake!"

Song Xiance said with a gloomy face: "We are going to face Zheng Zhilong!"

Cheng Shijie solemnly said: "Never mind Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhihu, the sea is the lifeline of Liaodong's survival, and our own lifeline can only be in our own hands."

"That's what I said, but the problem is that I'm afraid Zheng Zhilong won't take it easy..."

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "For blacksmithing, you need to be tough. As long as we are strong enough, Zheng Zhilong will be friendly. If we are weak, we deserve to be beaten. If we don't want to be beaten, then we must practice hard and strengthen maritime patrols. Since Shanghai,

Bei, if they cross the line, I’ll beat them up!”

"yes!"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "We are now seriously lacking in maritime power, so we should continue to expand the shipyard. It makes no sense to expand the Lushun shipyard. Eight giant shipyards are enough. Then build a new shipyard in Jinzhou Donggang, and

Just like Lushun Shipyard, eight large docks will be built to ensure that our shipbuilding speed can keep up!"

"The speed of shipbuilding can be increased, but the problem is the artillery!"

"The artillery foundry also needs to be expanded, and artillery should be given priority to the navy!"

At present, for the Ning Navy in Liaodong, slave creation is not a threat for the time being. The only threat comes from the sea and from the Zheng family's pirate group.

To prevent Zheng Zhilong from causing trouble, we can only arrange for Ning Haijun to patrol and expand the scope of the patrol. If you want to wipe out a group of pirates at sea, if you don't have reliable intelligence, you will only hit the dead mouse.

The pirate incident also reminded Cheng Shijie that the matter of the strategic grain reserve warehouse was urgent. Just when Cheng Shijie was preparing to establish a strategic grain reserve warehouse system in Liaodong, there was one thing that he had to come forward to handle.

This time, the person who came to Liaodong was Li Wang, the crown prince of Zhaoxian of North Korea (the original pronunciation is Wang, which cannot be typed). He was the eldest son of Li Zhu and was named crown prince in the fifth year of Tianqi.

As the crown prince of Joseon came to Liaodong, Cheng Shijie naturally had to come out to receive him. After all, Zaiji was also a crown prince with a different status. He accompanied Prince Zhaoxian to play in Liaodong for a few days. The officials accompanying Prince Zhaoxian vaguely suggested to Song Xiance that they

I want to purchase Liaodong-style armor and weapons and equipment.

For North Korea, the armor produced by Liaodong is not only of good quality and strong defensive power, but the key is that the manufacturing price is lower than that of their own, especially the defensive capabilities, which are simply incomparable.

Cheng Shijie naturally welcomed the business that came to his door. What surprised Cheng Shijie was that the purchase of armed equipment was just child's play, while the larger purchase orders were for luxury goods, such as luxury four-wheeled carriages, silk, gold, and jewelry.

In fact, although there are more than a dozen textile factories of varying sizes in Liaodong, which produce woolen cloth, cotton cloth, linen cloth, linen cloth, grass cloth, canvas and other cloth and clothing, they do not produce silk. They mainly meet the needs of Liaodong and are economical.

Mainly crops.

Many people don't know that the sales of products in Liaodong, North Korea, have always been good, whether it is porcelain, furniture, or of course luxury four-wheeled carriages. In addition to having bridge-type shock absorption and spring shock-absorbing systems, this kind of carriage also has bearings.

Steering mechanisms, these devices have some technological content.

The most important thing is that North Korea requires these carriages to be made of good wood and inlaid with gold, copper, silver and various precious stones. Because they are equipped with too many luxury goods, such carriages are actually very expensive.

, a vehicle cost up to 6,000 taels of silver, and North Korea purchased fifty vehicles at once.

Looking at the wealthy purchasing group, Cheng Shijie lamented that North Korea is really rich, or in other words, the North Korean royal family is really rich. The strange thing is that they spent 350,000 taels of silver to purchase weapons and equipment, but spent 300,000 to purchase carriages.

Liang of silver, including other luxury goods, the total purchase price is as high as more than one million taels of silver.

Then these orders became part of the weapons and equipment. As for Prince Zhaoxian of North Korea returning to North Korea, how to explain that the weapons purchased by North Korea are so expensive is beyond the scope of Cheng Shijie's consideration. Cheng Shijie has nothing to do with people spending their own money.

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Immigration is the focus of development in Liaodong. However, as the population of Liaodong has exceeded three million, especially in the four southern states of Liaoning, there is not much land left. In addition to the mandatory migration to Liaoyang, the fifteen and eight independent

With thousands of households, most of the immigrant people would rather take the land in southern Liaoning that is not suitable for farming than the land in Zhongwei or Guangningwei in Liaoning.

The problem now faced is that Liaodong spends too much money, and needs to invest more in education. After the Ning navy expands its army, it also needs to conduct large-scale joint exercises, as well as road and ditch construction, especially the need to build a new shipyard.

, the expansion of new warships and the expansion of artillery factories will inevitably lead to serious funding gaps.

To solve this problem, it is nothing more than increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.

But Song Xiance proposed another way to let farmers solve farm management problems by themselves. He suggested that newly arrived immigrants could borrow money from banks and then purchase land from the management committee. They would manage it themselves and be responsible for their own profits and losses.

Cheng Shijie frowned: "Since then, risks have been weighing on the people. How can they resist the risks? Farming now requires not only your own efforts, but also depends on whether God will give you face. If you encounter natural disasters or man-made disasters, this is not forced.

Leading the common people to hang themselves?"

Song Xiance explained: "What I mean is that at the basis of all this, it is all based on voluntariness!"

"Voluntary? You won't use coercive means to make people volunteer, right?"

Cheng Shijie believes that this so-called voluntariness is not actually the true voluntariness of the people. "Voluntariness" under the threat of a knife is not only not good governance, but also harmful to the people.

"Lord, among the current immigrants, there have been many self-cultivated farmers who want to avoid taxes, as well as small landowners. They have some savings, but they are not willing to become our military households."

Ning Haijun's agricultural reclamation company is responsible for managing the military households in the fields. The agricultural reclamation company is responsible for providing seeds, farming tools and land, and arranging farming for the military households. Thirty percent of the income goes to Ning Haijun's agricultural reclamation company.

However, as time went by, especially when Cheng Shijie severely punished the slaves, Liaodong gradually stabilized. At the same time, taxes in various parts of the Central Plains became more and more heavy. Not to mention the escape of the peasants, even some small landowners could not bear it.

Living.

Those small landowners had no backing, no background, and no tax-free privileges. Ordinary farmers were like stones and could no longer squeeze out oil. Therefore, these gentry and officials set their sights on ordinary small landowners.

Despite their reluctance, these small landowners could only sell their land to gentry with connections and backing at low prices. Some small landowners sought refuge with relatives and friends. Those with no connections had no choice but to go to Liaodong to try their luck.

Currently, in Liaodong, only military and martyred families have independent land. Private individuals can only purchase commercial land, which is gravel land or alkali wasteland that is not suitable for farming.

However, the people of the Ming Dynasty were very good at farming, just like Guo Changxi, a businessman in Guide Prefecture, Henan Province. He was originally a cloth merchant, but because he had no backing, the big fish ate up the small fish. He could no longer persist and had to sell it.

Ancestral house and shop, came to Liaodong with hundreds of taels of silver.

Last year, Liaodong had a bumper harvest of potatoes and sweet potatoes. He followed the trend and purchased a batch of grinding machinery, preparing to open a mill to process potato flour.

He purchased more than 150 acres of floodplain land in a wide section of a tributary of the Liao River and prepared to build a factory. However, the problem was that when he was just about to start construction, he found that more and more mills were being built and the profits were getting thinner and thinner.

If not, you will lose money.

Guo Changxi found that the soil he had on the river bank was of good quality, although it was mostly covered with stones. Is this a problem? The people of the Ming Dynasty were persistent in farming. Not to mention just a few stones, even a mountain of stones could be harvested bit by bit if necessary.

Moved away, so this problem is not a problem at all for Guo Changxi.

Guo Changxi hired some refugees to collect stones on the river beach, and used the stones he picked up to build a river embankment. In this way, at the beginning of spring, he used the 150 acres of commercial land under his name for planting.

Crops such as wheat, soybeans, and corn.

For Song Xiance, Guo Changxi was obviously taking advantage of the loopholes of the Liaodong Management Committee. The commercial land he purchased was not used to build factories, but was transformed into fertile farmland, especially along the Kuanshui River. Watering was very convenient. Such a meal

After the operation, it turned out to be excellent farmland.

Guo Changxi's success was immediately imitated by others, some of whom purchased swampland in southern Liaoning and others who purchased hillside land.

The area along the Kuanshui River has been transformed into a small town with 6,000 to 7,000 acres of fertile land, which brought an income of 50,000 to 60,000 taels of silver to the management committee.
Chapter completed!