Fortunately, due to the tidal movement patterns of the Bohai Bay, there are also a small number of deep-water channels among the silt in the shallow sea area. Large sea-going ships can berth directly on the shore, making it a rare natural harbor.
However, in order to take advantage of this, we have to wait until the dredging of the Salt River is completed. The salt field will be connected to the river channel through the Salt River before it can become another important port fortress of the salt removal field, and it can directly connect to the inland 300 miles away.
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In addition to Snake Island, Daluo Island, Bai Ling and other islands, a considerable number of the hundreds of thousands of refugees who Wang Junlin gathered in the past two years were dispersed to the salt fields for resettlement.
There is no definite date for Wang Junlin's return, and no one has notified the civil and military officials on the land in advance. Therefore, Fanyang County cannot arrange the reception in advance. Apart from Yang Kongchan, only Qian Zhengkuo, who is responsible for the political affairs of the salt field, organizes
Xu Xiaohu, who was carrying out the dredging of the Yan River, and Lian Zhongtao, who was in charge of the weapons and equipment production base, heard the news and came to greet them.
Wang Junlin stood on the seawall, listening to the three people reporting on the development and changes of the salt field over the past year, as well as their achievements.
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"Your Majesty, according to your original instructions, a rammed earth city wall was built around the area where Salt Town was originally located. Now it has become a large city with more than 400 steps vertically and more than 600 steps horizontally, with a dock inside and a coastal port outside.
Named Yancheng, simply in terms of land area and inner and outer cities, Yancheng is much larger than other county towns in Fanyang County."
Wang Junlin looked at the city in the distance, nodded, and said with a smile: "Yes, but although Yancheng is large, it is far from a majestic city and strong. Fanyang County has heavy rains in summer and autumn, and the soil is soft, so the city walls are only rammed earth.
The building is not strong enough and is easy to collapse. It needs to be covered with green bricks, so we use the bricks and stones produced by our brick factory to reinforce it. In addition, the Yancheng coastal area is vulnerable to strong winds and waves, so the seawall needs to be reinforced next.
Large areas of mixed forest should also be planted inside and outside the seawall to protect against sea and wind, and land protection and berms must also be considered."
Qian Zhengkuo said: "What the prince said is very true. From my humble opinion, in addition to protecting Yancheng from storms, the seawall and sea-proof forest belt can continue to extend southward. Those tidal flats that are barren of grass and are easily flooded by sea tides can
There are conditions for transforming it into fertile farmland.”
In addition to salt pans and a large number of cultivated fields inland, nearly half of the land in Yancheng is coastal beaches and swamps. If we really put a lot of effort into cultivating it, it would be easy to acquire another million acres of land besides pastures. It has to be said that the money
Zhengkuo has been in charge of salt farm administration for the past two years and has made great progress.
However, in the short term, reclaiming fertile land in coastal areas is actually a money-making business. Previously, land reclamation in other parts of the salt field was nearly 500,000 acres of fertile land in two years. However, more than 300,000 taels of silver were invested, and only rice grains were cultivated.
One shipment to the island cost 240,000 stones, because it took nearly 100,000 people to work hard for two years to achieve such a result.
Although under Wang Junlin's intention, a large number of refugees have come to Fanyang County, and there is no shortage of labor, but with Wang Junlin's character, if these people are allowed to work, not only will they be paid, but they should at least be fed.
Now that he is competing in the world and a large-scale war is imminent, Wang Junlin needs to concentrate the resources in his hands and use them on his army. He no longer has the money and food to build large-scale seawalls and reclaim wastelands in Yancheng. After all, he was in the Sui Dynasty.
There was only one county, and the overseas islands had few resources. They relied entirely on various profitable businesses to support hundreds of thousands of troops. As for Goguryeo's Annan Kingdom, it could only barely maintain its local army.
"One county is still too small. It's time to expand the territory." Wang Junlin suddenly found that the development of his forces had reached a bottleneck, and what affected and restricted all of this was that the territory he controlled was too small.
With a larger land, we can expand the planting scale of the high-quality grains produced by Nie Xiaoyu, thereby producing more grains, accommodating more displaced households, and having a broader base for recruiting soldiers. Of course, there will be other Urgently needed resources, such as iron ore, coal, etc.
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Wang Junlin, Shen Guoer and others only stopped briefly in Yancheng and headed west along the post road on the south bank of the Yanyan River.
The dredging project of the Yan River has been going on for nearly half a year. The construction sites on both sides of the river are busy, but in an orderly manner, and the homeless people working are also in high spirits. This is far from what Yang Guang used to force the people with when he was building the canal or the Great Wall. His work was unparalleled when the corrupt officials below did not give the people enough to eat, which amazed the experts from the Xianyin Sect who were secretly accompanying him.
In the past two years, regardless of overseas islands such as Shedao, Daomi Island, Baengling Island, the salt farm alone has resettled more than 34,000 households, more than 76,000 young people, and about 5,000 strong people. The new recruit battalion of the General Administration of the Far East March was sent to the Shedao training camp for intensive training. After the training was completed, additional troops were assigned to each battalion to make up for the losses in the war with Yang Su against the bandits.
According to Wang Junlin's request, Fanyang County recruited people to work, whether they were local people or refugees from other places. In addition to being paid in rice and grain, they also adopted a method of reducing taxes and paying them.
Ding Zhuang will be paid two and a half kilograms of japonica rice for each work he does. However, if Ding Zhuang works one work, the amount of japonica rice collected will be reduced by three kilograms of japonica rice in this year's summer and autumn grain rent tax collection; women and children will be paid half as much; The mules and horses participating in the dredging work were given fifteen kilograms of grass and two kilograms of feed every day, which was counted as one work.
By reducing taxes and calculating remuneration, workers with a surplus of food in their families are encouraged to receive as little remuneration as possible, thereby alleviating financial pressure.
Only in this way, the laborers did not starve to death, freeze to death, or die from exhaustion. However, even if we do not count the investment in mules, horses, livestock and a large number of dredging tools, the amount of silver and rice distributed in the past six months alone has reached 20. Fifty thousand stones.
Fortunately, in two months, Fanyang County will enter the rainy season, and the Yunyan River will also be dredged before then. Warships with more than a thousand stones can directly pass through the Yunyan River and penetrate deep into the hinterland of Fanyang County to participate in operations and defense. Said that merchant ships can also directly transport a large amount of resources to the county and Fanyang County, which improves efficiency and saves a lot of manpower and material resources. It is also conducive to irrigation of fertile fields and even increases a lot of paddy fields. With the high-quality rice produced by Nie Xiaoyu Improved rice varieties can produce millions more grains every year, so in the long run, it is worth spending such a high price.
In the evening, Du Ruhui, Shan Xiongxin, Liu Ziming and others came from the county to meet him. As soon as they met, Du Shihui congratulated: "Congratulations to the princess for giving birth to a big fat boy for the prince. I heard that he is fat. It weighs nine kilograms. After the prince and I have met, we should wait until tomorrow to discuss official matters. It would be best for the prince to go back to the house quickly to see the princess and the young prince..."
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