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Of course, in addition to the steel plant, Yan Kai also plans to add a coke plant, cement plant, refractory brick plant, etc. next to it.

After doing some calculations, it turned out that his steelmaking plant actually occupies the least space.

Because old experts said that an earthen blast furnace can produce more than 2000 tons of pig iron in a year.

The old experts came from that era, and they actually know a lot about many other things besides local steelmaking.

It really echoes the saying that having an elder in the family is like having a treasure.

The old man even said that after using this empty thing, people are no longer weak at all.

He also has a group of old friends who may not be able to modernize, but if they want to run these adobe factories and cement factories, they are all very good at it.

Yan Kaixin was happy, but unfortunately his live broadcast level could only invite two people to join.

Otherwise, he would definitely be willing to let these uncles come to their Datang to engage in team building.

This steel-making thing wouldn't be built for a while, so Yan Kai just asked old experts for a lot of advice and sent him back first.

The main reason is that I still don’t know whether this thing will have any impact on the real human body.

If the old expert had too much fun here and wouldn't be able to do it again in modern times, then Yan Kai would be guilty of a big crime.

Qian warned and asked Wan to ask Ke Shanlan to take an old expert for a comprehensive examination.

Then at night, Ke Shanlan sent a message.

"Brother Yan, is everything okay?" Ke Shanlan said, "Both of us have undergone comprehensive examinations, and the doctor even said that my leg seemed to have been stimulated by some nerve, as if someone had been massaging it for a day."

He asked with some excitement: "Will I go to your place often in the future and my leg will heal on its own?"

Of course Yan Kai didn't know, but he really hoped that Ke Shanlan, who had been with him from the beginning, would get better.

"Let's do this for now. I'll build some basic things tomorrow. You can come over if you want. Then you can just play by yourself. No more talking. I'll eat first."

"Wait, Brother Yan."

Yan Kai was stopped by Ke Shanlan.

"Anything else?"

"Um...can you treat me to a meal?"

Ke Shanlan asked a little embarrassed.

"Eating?" Yan Kai was stunned for a moment, and then he came to his senses.

Fine.

He opened the access, and then saw Ke Shanlan appearing in the dining room of his home.

There are many people eating at Yan Kai's house now.

There were almost two full tables, one for women and one for men.

The dishes are almost the same, but the main reason is that the men's table sometimes drinks some wine or something and eats too slowly.

"Wow, delicious!"

"Wow! It's so delicious!"

"Wow, Brother Yan, don't you get tired of eating such delicious food every day?"

Because Ke Shanlan can see other people, he always hides and hides when picking up food.

Probably like a ghost that only Yan Kai can see, grabbing food here.

In the past, we could only see what Yan Kai and the others ate in the live broadcast room, but this time they could actually eat it.

After eating, Yan Kai sent Ke Shanlan back and started thinking about the biggest problem.

people!

He is in short supply right now, very badly in need.

To build roads in Kuoding County, a large number of people are needed.

To build a ship, you need people.

To build so many factories, we need people.

Dengzhou has a small population, so it is impossible for him to hire all the people in Dengzhou to work for him.

Someone has to farm the land.

The locust plague is coming in the next two years, and the most he can do is give a warning. He can't tell Li Shimin with any certainty that there must be a locust plague. You are still a fool to eat locusts.

The best way is to stockpile grain.

There are many kinds of potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn across the country, which are then ground into powder and stored at home.

So those who farm the land cannot move, so where do the people who work for them come from?

Seeing Zheng Zhixun doing questions under the biogas lamp on the side, Yan Kai asked: "Zhixun, do you know where I can get someone to do the work?"

"Sir, are you still looking for workers? Then should I go to Dengzhou again?"

"That's too few recruits." Yan Kai shook his head: "There must be at least ten or twenty thousand people."

"Ten thousand or twenty thousand!" Zheng Zhixun was surprised: "So many people?"

So Yan Kai probably told Zheng Zhixun what he wanted to do.

Just because he plans to open more intensively cultivated land next year like this year's experimental field, the ten or twenty thousand people can absorb it all.

If his ship hadn't been built, he would have gone to Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje and Fusang to rob people.

It is not to rob the local people, but to rob the coastal people who were robbed.

But he didn't expect that the idea Zheng Zhixun gave him was similar to what he thought.

"So many people can actually be found in the north." Zheng Zhixun frowned and said.

"north?"

"Yes." Zheng Zhixun said with some seriousness: "From the end of the Sui Dynasty to the present, the Turks have invaded the border every year and kidnapped many of our people."

After the historical Wei River Alliance, Li Shimin proposed to the Turks: Return the plundered Chinese residences.

In December of the third year of Zhenguan, the Ministry of Household Statistics reported:

"The number of Chinese who returned from outside the Great Wall and the Turks who came before and after the invasion of the country and established the four barbarians as prefectures and counties totaled more than 1.2 million men and women."

"There are 300,000 people belonging to Dangxiang Qiang before and after."

This is almost more than 1.6 million people.

But this time, because there is no Weishui Alliance, Li Shimin has not yet started asking for people there.

That is to say, Zheng Buqi became a member of the Ministry of Household Affairs because of his merits as a dragon, so Zheng Zhixun roughly knew these situations.

"That's it!" After listening to Zheng Zhixun's introduction, Yan Kai also fell into deep thought.

If these people can be brought back, they have already lost their land. In Kuoding County, whether they are farming or working in factories... working in factories, they can live a good life.

The biggest problem is how to bring it back.

It’s easy to say that part of this is because they escaped from the war in the late Sui Dynasty.

Many more were kidnapped and used as slaves.

If you want to bring it back, those Turkic nobles will definitely not let it go.

If we had to fight hard, Chun Yuzhen's more than fifty men, even if they were armed to the teeth, would not be that effective against a large number of Turkic cavalry.

After thinking for a long time, Yan Kai slapped his forehead, and he just thought about robbing people.

Everything in this world is for profit.

What is the purpose of Turkic dignitaries taking people as slaves?

In addition to fighting, we also want to use them to make money.

In a war, these slave soldiers are actually cannon fodder, and their main function is to make money for them.

Just think of a way to buy people back.

Let Li Anyan use the current fleet to enter the interior from the Luan River in the north of the Bohai Sea and reach the Turkic border.

Then steal, buy, lie, get the person, and then come back along the waterway. This is the safest route.