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Wang Junlin then said: "Now let me clarify for you your respective locations and main tasks."
"Huang Shaoqiu's 30,000-strong naval force is still stationed at the Rongcheng County Naval Station. It took him six months to replace all of them with the latest thousand-rock or above warships from the shipbuilding workshop, and completed adaptive training tasks. He was responsible for the maritime defense of Fanyang County and Shedao.
Focus on protecting the safety of the salt field, and build another navy camp for you in the salt field later. You will deploy 10,000 people to station in the salt field for a long time."
"I humbly obey the order." Huang Shaoqiu quickly stood up and bowed to accept the order.
Wang Junlin looked at Yuchi Jingde again and said: "Yuchi Jingde led 20,000 cavalry and was stationed in Zhuo County in the west. Lu Han led 15,000 people and was stationed in Fangcheng County. Guan Xiaotong led 15,000 people.
Stationed in Gu'an County, the three of you must maintain a certain degree of vigilance in addition to the safety of your respective stations and nearby counties, as well as the neighboring counties."
The three of them stood up to accept the order, and Wang Junlin said to Luo Shixin: "Xin'er doesn't have too many people, just leave five thousand cavalry, and give the rest to Shan Xiongxin. Tomorrow you can lead these five thousand people and follow me to Luoyang.
Escorted more than 10,000 Goguryeo captives along the way."
He had worked hard to get more than 7,000 people to join him. In addition, he already had more than 8,000 people, and now he only had 5,000 left. Luo Shixin was depressed after hearing this, but he could follow after hearing this.
When Wang Jun came to Luoyang, he became excited again and quickly got up to accept the order.
Wang Junlin finally said to Shan Xiongxin: "Shan Xiongxin will take over Xin'er's 3,000 extra men, and then select 500 people from each of the county soldiers in the eight counties to gather 10,000 people to garrison the salt field. We must ensure that the salt field is on land."
defense security.”
Fanyang County still has 20,000 soldiers stationed in the county town, led by Yingyang Fulang General Xue Li. This man is currently very loyal to the court. For the time being, Wang Junlin has no way to control or drive away Xue Li and the 20,000 people.
, but Xue Li has the control in Wang Junlin's hands, and it is better to let him stay in Fanyang County than to send someone else to serve as General Ying Yang.
After arranging the army garrison, Wang Junlin thought for a moment and then said to Du Ruhui: "Ke Ming starts to make some preparations and start setting up a residence newspaper."
"I have already identified a few people before I started to work. This matter will be done soon.
Expand." Wang Junlin had told Du Ruhui about the establishment of Dibao before, and the specific regulations were also discussed in detail. At this time, Du Ruhui knew what Wang Junlin meant without Wang Junlin's further explanation.
"If you need any information, you can ask Guo'er." Wang Junlin added.
Guoer also quickly said yes.
In Wang Junlin's plan, Di Bao played a more important role, which Wang Junlin had not told Du Ruhui and others.
In the beginning, Di Bao just collected the latest information from various places and central centers, distributed it to the counties under Wang Junlin's command, and printed and sold it to local nobles and officials. It was considered the prototype of later government-run newspapers. However, in the early days, Di Bao was just a collection center.
Notifying all parties about the situation in various places will not play a role in guiding public opinion.
Later, when people gradually adapt to and get used to Di Bao, Wang Junlin will use Di Bao to control public opinion. At that time, with the cooperation of Xiaoyu Theater all over the world, Wang Junlin will even have the confidence to control the public opinion of the entire world.
Wang Junlin knew very well that in some specific periods or specific events, the role of public opinion is no less than that of a hundred thousand troops.
No matter how stubborn they were at that time, most people would find it difficult to stick to their opinions after being brainwashed ten times, hundreds, or a thousand times. The key point is that there are very few channels for people to receive external news.
Apart from notices and hearsay from traffickers, merchants, and tourists, most people have almost no access to the outside world.
You must know that even in later generations, the views of some people who lack the ability to judge some things will be easily influenced by various messages written by the media and the Internet for certain interests. Even more stupid people even do it because their favorite celebrities endorse a certain person.
Advertising will make you like a certain product. It is conceivable that the masses are often not sharp-eyed at all, and they are the group most exploited by some careerists.
Wang Junlin added: "With the popularity of Dibao, the number of engravings that need to be engraving will increase. With the current engraving workshop, the manpower, financial and material resources required are too great, and the cost will be too high. Keming and others will find it after discussion.
Come to a few of our own engraving masters, and I will teach them a new engraving technique called movable type printing. After this technique is popularized, it can improve engraving.
The printing efficiency will be more than a hundred times higher, the cost will be reduced a lot, and it will also become a huge financial resource for us, so we must do a good job in keeping it confidential."
Du Ruhui was refreshed. What else could he say? He could only sigh: "My lord is really... a scholar."
"In the beginning, the Dibao will be published every half month! It will be distributed to each county by Chuanyi. Nobles, officials, gentry, and civilians must buy from Chuanyi. Local private printing is strictly prohibited. Each county will have multiple locations in the city set up by Chuanyi.
Point of sale." Wang Junlin added.
Wang Junlin knows that when movable type printing technology matures, it will have great advantages in cost and printing speed over traditional engraving printing for large-scale printing. The cost of printing can be so low that the ordinary printing industry will despair.
, and only if the cost is low, the price will be low, so that Di Bao can be spread widely. Otherwise, most people can't afford Di Bao, so what's the point.
After reporting the matter to Di, Wang Junlin asked Liu Ziming to set up a Salt and Iron Department to take charge of the salt and iron industries in Fanyang County.
Moreover, in addition to the eight counties of Fanyang County, the other areas controlled by Wang Junlin and more than a thousand overseas islands and Annan Kingdom were merged into the unified management of the Salt and Iron Department. In this way, how big the total annual income can be can be determined.
Roughly speaking.
The core of financial work is to "live within one's means". If there is no relatively accurate judgment on annual income, how to arrange military and civilian affairs for the coming year?
At present, Wang Junlin has many forces under his command, and his income is also varied, so the annual income situation is the first thing Wang Junlin needs to understand when he returns to Fanyang County.
"Thanks to the new method of boiling salt implemented by your lord in the salt field, and after the salt shop came under your control and the salt sales in the salt field were merged, in addition to paying the five hundred thousand taels of salt tax to the court, the entire county
The total amount of salt received has increased about seven times compared with the same period last year." Yang Kongchan said, "The income is no less than one million taels of silver."
"That's right." Wang Junlin nodded and said, "As the saying goes, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and rely on the sea to eat the sea. The income from the salt industry is a big part, and it is inexhaustible. Moreover, people's livelihood everywhere is miserable now, and they are used to eating light food. This
Once the price of salt comes down and we take another two to three years of rest, the living standards of our people in Fanyang County will improve, and the income from the salt industry will gradually increase."