Leo personally enclosed the land to build Yancheng. As soon as the news came out, it immediately aroused great concern from all over Naian Province. Everyone knew that this was actually the action of the Governor of Lorraine.
You raise the price, you control the supply of goods, okay, it doesn’t matter, I will do it myself~!
No one knew about the plan for that wasteland yet, but everyone was watching with helpless eyes when Leo's men recruited salt industry workers near Naider.
Some people applauded the Governor of Lorraine, thinking that this was an attempt to draw money from the bottom of the cauldron. But most of the big salt merchants sneered. Seeing that Lorraine had not touched them, these ruffians became a lot more courageous, and even dared to
In teahouses, restaurants, forums and other public places where it is strictly forbidden to discuss state affairs, they laughed at Lorraine in a low voice, saying that this was a cowardly behavior.
The reasons for these salt merchants are very good: as long as you boil the salt yourself, do you really think that you can produce as much salt as you want on the beach?
A large pot is filled with sea water and boiled for a day and a night to get a layer of salt at the bottom of the pot. Even if one salt worker can take care of three large pots, Leo's salt field only recruits a thousand workers. According to this scale
It is estimated that the output of this salt farm is very limited.
Of course, there are those who are against it, but there are also those who are supportive. They are optimistic that this is just the beginning. With one move of Leo's hand, he was able to remove 5,000 acres of beach land. More than a thousand workers could not even occupy 500 acres. It can be seen that this is just the preliminary preparation of Governor Lorraine.
, this salt field may eventually have 10,000 workers.
Some people are already flattering Lorraine, saying that the Governor is wise, stimulating the economy and promoting employment, getting the best of both worlds, high, really high~!
But no matter what everyone said, Lorraine and the relevant personnel in the Governor's Mansion did not comment on this. It seemed extremely unfathomable.
The salt farm here is under construction, and Lorraine himself is not idle either.
In order to avoid warlord separatism, all high-ranking officials in the empire were required to take office only. In this way, without their own team, there was no way to rebel.
And Lorraine is no exception. After all, he can't shamelessly run to Emperor Julunde and tell the boss: I am your niece's mistress, adulterer, and bed partner. Please give me some face.
Master Gao, would you like me to bring over three to five thousand of my trusted subordinates?
It is estimated that if he really dared to say this, he would have to enter the palace the next day to engage in the promising career of a eunuch.
Therefore, although he brought a lot of accompanying guards and royal guards when he came this time, he basically went to the post empty-handed. To really handle government affairs and handle military matters, he still had to rely on these local officials.
When he was in contact with those officials, he had been secretly observing them. Which one was sincerely fooling around with him, which one was a soy sauce guy, and which one was a 25-year-old?
Through this period of observation, Lorraine has already figured it out. After all, after such a long time, even the old fox should show his tail.
Lorraine stared at those positions and sneered in her heart: If you are in the first grade of junior high school, don't blame me for being in the fifteenth grade. Just go home and take care of your children.
Lorraine has now set his sights on middle-level officials and begins to consider those who are loyal to him and can be promoted.
Just like all bosses, Uncle Lorraine's criteria for selecting people are loyalty first and listening to himself unconditionally. Ability is only second. If he is not very capable, just give him two capable deputies.
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This is like the reason that excellent employees can never become leaders, but my brother-in-law has always been a department manager.
In the words of the boss, those who are capable must of course be placed in key positions.
Having said that, as an imperial official, you should do what your superiors tell you, and just do your job honestly.
So capable and capable, what do you want to do? Ambitiously, do you covet the position of Shangguan, or do you want to rebel and play management buyout of the empire?
A guy like this who doesn’t know the bounds of heaven and earth, if he doesn’t step on you, who should he step on?
At the same time, Lorraine and Leo's use of the salt-drying method in the salt field was also kept extremely strictly confidential. A large number of legions were stationed around it, and no one outside the salt field knew about it.
How big is five thousand acres of land? To put it simply, it would take at least half a day to run around on a fast horse.
Although this salt field belongs to Feiying Company, for business reasons, Leo established Nai'an Salt Technology Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Feiying Company.
The main reason for doing this is to evade taxes reasonably through false accounting.
As the head office of Feiying Company, its main business is still high-tech manufacturing.
On a vast expanse of blue waves, the sea and the sky are the same color, and on an endless stretch of beach, there are square salt fields surrounded by fields, neatly arranged one after another. The salt fields have been filled with a layer of sea water. Under the scorching sunshine and strong sunlight in midsummer,
It evaporates naturally under the blowing sea breeze.
Behind the salt fields are rows of temporary work sheds made of logs and branches, as well as warehouses still under construction.
There is a simple wooden pier on the left and right of the beach, and two medium-sized transport ships are tied to the pier.
There are still several small boats plying the sea, some are patrolling, and some are small transport boats carrying daily necessities back from Naider.
On the beach, between the salt fields, there is a tall wind-powered water pump at intervals. Metal pipes extend from the sea, are connected to the water pumps, and are then laid into the salt fields.
The huge fan blades of the water pump rotate slowly under the blow of the sea breeze. There is a wind mechanism on the top, and animal power can also be used on the bottom.
The water pump pumps seawater into the salt field for evaporation through a tin pipe covered with a gauze filter. After the evaporation pond is exposed to the sun for several days, the water pump then passes through another pipeline system and puts the evaporated water into the crystallization pond.
Here the salt will precipitate from the seawater, and then go through a simple impurity removal process, and the white crystals produced can be sold as table salt.
The wind power and water conservancy equipment produced by Feiying Company has now developed into the third generation. In Leo's words, it already has the advantages of modularity, intelligence, humanization, etc. The most important thing is that it cannot be repaired by ordinary people.
, if it breaks, you can only contact Feiying Company’s after-sales service department.
Under Lorraine's training, the after-sales service department of Feiying Company fully learned modern and advanced business management experience.
If it can be repaired today, you must wait until tomorrow. If it can be repaired in one time, it must be divided into three or five times. If it is within the warranty period, we will never replace the parts for you.
If it is outside the warranty period, if you lose a bolt, the entire drive shaft will have to be replaced. If you don't replace it, we are not an insurance company. If it collapses, you will be in trouble.
Under the guidance of advanced experience, and under Leo's strong control over costs, the efficiency of the after-sales department once exceeded that of the sales department, leading the entire group and became a legend.
After successfully applying for a patent for the sun salt method, Feiying Company applied for fifteen major patents and more than two hundred minor patents. For this reason, Leo simply sent out a lot of red envelopes and invited everyone from the patent office to
Joined Feiying Company and worked on site.
Everyone in the patent office burst into tears of joy.
These scoundrels who had been in such a miserable state finally realized: Our Patent Office turned out to be like the royal kitchen, an institution dedicated to serving the royal family. This is a well-established and iron rice bowl!
When you go back and tell those colleagues who were unwilling to come in at the beginning, why don't you make their eyes turn yellow with anger?
Who are Lorraine and Leo? They are forbidden curse mages in the deception industry.
In eight months, Lorraine successfully evolved from a land scraper to a friend of Pluto, then a neighbor of Pluto, and now a brother of Pluto. A few months later, Dayou became Pluto himself, and a year later he was upgraded to the old man of Pluto.
Dad's attitude.
Leo originally only wanted to apply for patents for wind mills, water mills, and hydraulic equipment, but inspired by Lord Lorraine, he applied for patents for every component, including wind blades, water wheels, and transmission systems.
Down to bolts and nuts, connecting rods, and pulley blocks. There are also processing techniques such as metallurgy, casting, grinding, and molding. These have become the invention patents of Feiying Company.
Leo followed the design diagram part by part. It is estimated that in the future, even if the Ruman people want to make a Mazar, they will have to pay the patent licensing fee to Feiying Company.
In Leo's words, I'm just robbing money and acting like a gangster, so what do you do to us~!
After the initial construction of the salt field, the first thing Lorraine and Leo paid attention to was the confidentiality of the salt field. Not only was there no human habitation within dozens of miles around the salt field, and there was no shadow of the dormitory, the entire salt field was already tightly surrounded by barbed wire fences and watchtowers.
Flying Eagle Company's own security team closely guards this place, and even the patrol team is already operating ten miles away from the salt field.
The security guards of the Flying Eagle Company, wearing standard black smocks over chainmail armor, armed with strong bows and crossbows, spears and swords, and leading hounds, patrolled the salt field camp constantly.
If you don't know better, at first glance, you might think this is the Auschwitz concentration camp. Even if it's better, it's still a version 2.0 of the Gulag labor camp.
Never would I have imagined that this is the production workshop of a salt industry company.
There is a badge printed on the Flying Eagle uniform. The eagle-shaped one and the Ruman eagle flag are like brothers.
This team was originally established just to protect the laboratory. With the growth of the Flying Eagle Company, it quickly grew, its scale continued to expand, and its members expanded again and again. Now the security teams in various regions combined have as many as a legion.
So many, Leo is even considering whether to build a training base.
Most of the members of the security team are veterans who retired from the service of Archduke Julius.
A few years later, the size of the security force continued to expand and develop. After the Flying Eagle Company was reborn and upgraded from a commercial organization to a business organization, the security force then became an organization that has always been independent of the military and political system, relying on the Flying Eagle Company and directly under the royal family.
As a paramilitary force, the security teams guarding the Flying Eagle Company on all sides became the vanguard force to consolidate imperial power and deter local forces.
For this reason, Lorraine reorganized the security force several times, and finally officially became the Security Army. Lorraine divided the security force into different corps-level departments such as the Blackwater Branch and the Deyang Branch.
There are even legends that there is a mysterious force within the security army, which is responsible for collecting local intelligence for the royal family and eliminating dissidents who are dissatisfied with the royal family.
When local officials mentioned the security team, they all made a fuss about it. Lorraine once praised them as a team of guards wearing black uniforms.
(From the emperor's point of view, Jinyiwei is crucial to consolidating imperial power, and Jinyiwei is also responsible for overseas operations and maintaining national security. Emperor Chongzhen probably had a shadow of Jinyiwei. As a vassal king, he was the key subject of Jinyiwei's supervision, and he was abolished after he came to power.
Jinyiwei, the result was tragic. In the end, the officials in the capital did not hang him up. If he tried another emperor, he would have been killed long ago.)
What's more, with the development of Flying Eagle's overseas business, the security team has gone abroad to show off its power overseas, with the task of protecting expatriates and subverting hostile regimes.
In view of the strong strength of the Security Army, the League of Nations formally held a meeting and threatened Lorraine and Leo to jointly sanction the Security Army. Only then did the Ruman people guarantee that in external conflicts, we will never use "urban management" first. Uh, no, the Security Army
Team.
The workers at the saltworks knew very well what had happened recently in Nai'an, and they all knew that the saltworks was run by the Governor of Lorraine.
But after seeing the salt-drying method proposed by Lorraine, these old salt workers who had been dealing with smoke, dust and seawater all their lives laughed unceremoniously. They have been cooking salt for thousands of years. If they rely on drying, they can produce salt.
Salt, these thousands of years have not been in vain, our governor is really whimsical.
However, the people who came to teach the salt-drying method were all sworn in, and the steps for drying salt were written so clearly. The salt workers were still doubtful and followed Lorraine's method of pouring water, drying salt, and pouring the pond.
Guessing that the day was almost over, Lorraine took a day off and took her family to the salt field excitedly.
Leo and Vera basically go to the salt field every day. Over the past few days, Leo has become darker and Vera's complexion has become extremely healthy.
Catherine, Adele and Melina held parasols and stayed like ladies under the protection of many guards. Leo and Vera ran away happily as soon as they entered the salt field.
Lorraine looked at this huge salt farm and mentally calculated how much money had been spent on this place, how much money would have to be thrown into it, as well as output, selling price and other things. The manager of the salt farm led a group of management staff,
Follow Lorraine and the others.
At this time, Lorraine and the others heard someone shouting from the front: "Salt is out, salt is really out!"
The salt workers and guards near Lorraine ran towards the place where the shouts were coming. The manager behind Lorraine was anxious, but they did not dare to leave Lorraine and they ran over on their own, so they could only crane their necks to look ahead.
Lorraine's family also walked towards the salt pond. When they arrived, they separated the crowd of onlookers and saw Leo and Vera standing on the edge of the salt pond.
Vera bit her fingers and looked at the salt pool nervously.
Leo walked up and down the field impatiently, shouting: "Hurry up, hurry up."
A salt worker nearby was holding something like a fence and pulling it from the bottom of the salt pond.
Lorraine could see from the side that the precipitated salt particles were clustered at the bottom of the salt pond.
The salt worker pulled the crystals to the edge of the salt pond, threw down the fence, squatted down and picked up a handful of salt. He stretched out his tongue and licked it before shouting: "It's salt, it's really made by the sun."
Leo looked down upon him and said, "It can still be fake."
The salt worker's excited face hit the salt merchant in his hand, and the salt grains from the sea water smeared his face.
Some of the salt workers nearby were so excited that they cried.
The manager of the salt farm squatted down at the edge of the salt pond, grabbed a handful of salt and stuffed it directly into his mouth. It was so salty that all his facial features were squished together, and he was mumbling without knowing what he was talking about.
Leo looked at the salt farm manager, made a cut, and said, "I'm not afraid that if I eat too much, I'll turn into a salt bat."
The salt farm manager coughed twice, took out the salt from his mouth, and said to Lorraine: "This method invented by your Excellency is of great merit."
"Yes, from now on everyone can pickle radish and pickle cucumbers if they want."
"Look at your achievements. You know how to pickle pickles. If I want to make pancakes, just roll them in salt and eat them."
Catherine took Lorraine's arm and said happily: "You have made great contributions to the empire. If you want any reward, I will go to the emperor's uncle to get it for you."
Lorraine tilted her head and thought for a moment: "Can I give you a death-free medal?"
Catherine pinched Lorraine hard on the waist and said: "I mean it seriously."
Lorraine said: "Are you serious? Then play games with me tonight."
Catherine snorted and stepped hard on Lorraine's feet.
Leo jumped up to Lorraine and said loudly: "Boss, let's do it. I've done the math. It's sold for 20 copper plates a pound. We are already rich, and one production of salt is worth tens of thousands of gold coins."
Lorraine chuckled and said: "Don't worry, remember the guys who turned over your salt? We will make them bankrupt this time."
Leo clenched his little fist, waved it and said loudly: "Okay, boss, tell me what to do."
Catherine geared up and said, "We haven't done anything for a long time, this time we will give them a hard time.
Lorraine turned to the salt farm manager and said, "Step up the production. Calculate the output and send it to me. I have other tasks for you. Also, keep it confidential. For the past month, no entry or exit is allowed in the salt farm."
Two days later, a transport ship loaded with salt docked at Naider's port. Under the jealous eyes of others, the ship owner had just unloaded the entire package of salt and piled it on the dock.
The salt merchant who smelled the smell rushed to the scene immediately, waved a bag of gold coins, and shouted: "Eighteen silver coins per pound, I've got them all."
A worker on the dock glared fiercely at the salt merchant in front of him, made a sound and cursed secretly: "You are a wolf-hearted person."
At this time, a rich middle-aged man jumped out of the carriage next to him and shouted: "I want to take eighteen silver coins. You are sick. I will pay you twenty silver coins per pound."
Seeing the competitors coming, the ship owner laughed, moved a wooden barrel, sat under his butt, and said loudly: "I am a businessman. It is not easy to pull a ship across the ocean. I will give it to whoever bids the highest price."
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The salt merchant cursed secretly: You black-hearted ghost. He raised his voice and shouted: "Twenty-two silver coins, I will lose money in Gao."
The person next to him laughed and said, "Are you sorry or not? The price just increased two days ago. I will pay twenty-five silver coins per pound."
The salt merchant grimaced and gritted his teeth and said, "Thirty, I don't believe you dare to offer a price higher than thirty."
"Okay, don't worry, let's wait and see." After saying that, he waved his hand, jumped on the carriage and left.
The ship owner came over and took the salt merchant's hand and said with a smile: "Boss, let's weigh it now. I've agreed first that we will only accept cash and no credit. Sell it quickly. I will go home and collect another ship of salt."
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The people on the dock looked at them and thought worriedly: The price of salt might rise again.