Turbulent Times Chapter 1165: The current salt field

(In the previous chapter 1156, it was said that Yuan Taejo died, but I quickly changed it to suicide attempt after uploading, but people who have read that chapter before don’t know, and there are other platforms that have not been changed. Sorry for the confusion.)

Autumn is getting deeper, Wang Junlin left Annan in mid-September, stayed in Dami Island and Baekje Island for half a day, continued westward, stayed in Snake Island for a few days, sent the others away, and went alone with Nie Xiaoyu After staying for three days, no one knew what the two said or planned during these three days.

When Wang Junlin came to Snake Island, he only brought five hundred special forces and five warships,

Other direct line troops and more than 60,000 Sui troops went directly to Fanyang County. Half of the 20,000 Goguryeo captives were left on Snake Island, full of coolies, and the rest were sent to Fanyang County.

Three days later, Wang Junlin came to the salt field again. After more than a year of vigorous development, the salt field has become the largest salt-producing area under Wang Junlin's command, the largest weapon workshop, and the largest iron-making area. Sui, and even the largest shipbuilding base in the entire world.

In addition to the convenience of transportation by the sea, and the fact that the salt field is easy to control and keep secret, what Wang Junlin likes is that there is an iron mine in the salt field. In addition, there is a coal mine in Fanyang County, which is also the foundation and premise for the saltworks to become the iron and steel smelting center under Wang Junlin's command, thus supporting shipbuilding and the manufacture of a large number of weapons.

During this process, Wang Junlin has successively allocated more than one million taels of silver to the saltworks for the construction and operation of ironworks, mines, and shipbuilding workshops. Started to make a profit, because of the strong hull and fast manufacturing, coupled with Yang Kongchan's external sales, the ship industry in the salt field has now monopolized the sales of civilian ships and merchant ships in Fanyang County and the surrounding counties. According to this situation, All coastal private ships in the Sui Dynasty will eventually be monopolized by the salt field shipping industry, which is a very big profit.

In general, the entire salt field has become a production base for weapons and equipment. In this short period of more than a year, the salt field has undergone earth-shaking changes. With the increasing number of troops under Wang Junlin's command, the demand for weapons and equipment has increased sharply. All kinds of equipment and massive weapons and equipment are rapidly promoting the rapid development of the production base of weapons and equipment in the salt field. This development is not only the expansion of production scale, but also the improvement of production speed and efficiency, as well as the improvement of the quality of weapons and equipment. In addition It is the birth of some new weapons and equipment.

Of course, it is not simply the promotion of war that made all this happen. Sui and Goguryeo have also fought continuously in recent years, and the number of troops is larger, but why there is no such brilliant result? The root of all this is Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu.

Specifically, it is the result of a series of policies and measures implemented by Wang Junlin, such as vigorously improving the status of the craftsman industry and generous remuneration, in addition to the craftsman training technical school opened by Wang Junlin in the salt field, etc. Wait, it is because of Wang Junlin's vigorous promotion of these things that today's salt field weapon and equipment production base exists.

In addition, with the continuous expansion of the scale of each workshop, Liu Ziming and Du Ruhui deliberately, the entire Fanyang County has a flock of skilled craftsmen to vote, and after systematic training at the craftsman training technical school, master craftsmen The number of divisions has increased year by year, and a large number of technical talents have been reserved. It can be said that even without the control of Nie Xiaoyu, the current weapon and equipment production base in the salt field can continue to develop at a high speed.

Now the small town of Salt Field more than a year ago has expanded several times. Although according to Wang Junlin's request, the weapon and equipment production base of the Salt Field is subject to militarized control, but in addition to the weapon and equipment production base, relying on weapons In the small town of saltworks developed from the equipment production base, there are relatives and family members of the artisans. The artisans strictly implement the one-day-off system on weekends. Every seven days they work, they will get a day off. At this time, they will return to the town. In your own home, share the family happiness with your family.

The craftsmen's social residence has improved, and their pockets have bulged. Yang Kongchan saw the business opportunities here, and took the lead in arranging people to buy land and houses here, open shops, start business, and then come here to do business. The number of merchants grew like a blowout, and together with the workers and peasants who were originally converted from 30,000 to 40,000 salt slaves and salt laborers in the salt field, the number of people here now exceeds 100,000, which is the size of a large county.

With the increasing importance of salt fields, security, defense and management are becoming more and more important.

Wang Junlin went to Goguryeo this time, and he kept Shan Xiongxin in Fanyang County. The latter led an army of 3,000 to be responsible for the safety of the saltworks. On the basis of this, a huge organization was established, with Qian Zhengkuo, Xu Xiaohu, and Lian Zhongtao in charge.

Qian Zhengkuo led an organization equivalent to the county government, which carried out the daily management of the saltworks, maintained law and order, and collected taxes. And Xu Xiaohu cooperates with Shan Xiongxin to be responsible for various security, confidentiality and defense matters. Lian Zhongtao's jurisdiction is extremely large, including the production research, construction and production of weapons and equipment, promotion rewards for craftsmen, grade evaluation, etc. Place an order or receive an order.

The entire salt field is roughly divided into two areas: the living area and the equipment production base. It is not so easy to equip the production base. Every craftsman or apprentice in the equipment production base has a special badge and a unique number. Only those who have these badges can enter and leave the base.

And some key departments in the base are even more heavily guarded, and no one else can approach them at all.

With the appearance of gunpowder on the Goguryeo battlefield, Yang Guang, the Sui court, and even various aristocratic families, as well as Goguryeo, all sent people to spy on them, so every once in a while they would crack down on several spies who tried to sneak into the factory area, and some of them were light-hearted. , Martial arts high-strength generation.

The salt field today is even more unusual, because Wang Junlin is coming to inspect it.

Because Wang Junlin planned to go directly to the port closest to Fanyang County City, the county town, and coming to the salt field was a temporary change of plan, so Wang Junlin did not participate in the grand welcome ceremony held by Du Ruhui and Liu Ziming at another port, but Hundreds of warships led by Yuchi Jingde, Luo Shixin, Lu Han, Guan Xiaotong, and nearly 100,000 prisoners of Goguryeo were transported ashore successively, and the ceremony was held normally.

Yesterday evening, the salt farm received news that the prefect who had returned triumphantly this morning came directly to the salt farm for inspection. As the sky was bright, the production base of the salt farm was under martial law. The streets were full of soldiers with guns and sabers, vigilantly looking for suspicious persons .