The room goes through the late Ming Dynasty, and the back door leads to North America at the beginni

Yang Minghe said: “Some female prisoners were transferred to the county, and the county government assigned them to single men with outstanding merits.

The remaining part is used by our Hexi Town to trade with the people - if the people have sufficient resources, they can directly exchange for a female prisoner to be their wife. "

Speaking of which, Liu Sheng started giving wives to single men with outstanding merits last year.

This outstanding contribution mainly includes the military exploits made in North America, the expedition team's major discoveries in geography and products, the useful inventions and creations of craftsmen, and the model workers in each town and camp.

According to Liu Sheng's understanding, the number of people involved in the first few items is very small due to the high randomness, and model workers are often the largest group of people.

Huachu County Government wanted to use model workers to encourage people to work hard in production.

Nowadays, the female prisoner camp in Huachu County is basically empty, so it can only be replaced by traded native female prisoners.

The outside rebels would still send some prisoners to North America intermittently after public trials of the evil gentry and bullies in the occupied areas, but the proportion of female prisoners among the prisoners sent was very small.

Because the Ministry of Education has also set up a female prisoner camp in Queshan, and will allocate female prisoners who have completed their labor service to single low-level officers who have made meritorious services and are in need...

In the trading market, after the "bulk" transaction between the Kuaibu official and the Altay Alliance ended, there was nothing to see.

Liu Sheng left.

Before leaving, I visited the primary school, adult school and various workshops in Hexi Town.

Finally, Liu Sheng asked someone to call Di Hong over and asked, "How much do you know about the native tribes upstream that are at war with the Altay Alliance?"

From late July to early August, various towns in North America established formal Minyong Camps, and Di Hong was promoted from the captain of the hunting brigade in Hexi Town to the commander of the Minyong Camp.

He left the hunting team not long ago. He had been responsible for leading the team to hunt and conduct reconnaissance further upstream. He did have some understanding of the Altay Alliance and its hostile native forces.

He heard the words and replied: "Report to the commander-in-chief, those native tribes are more barbaric than the Altay tribe, but they do not seem to have formed an alliance, and then they were defeated one by one under the attack of the Altay Alliance.

The surviving tribes have already migrated further upstream of the Xinluo River, and the general believes that by the fall, the number of captives that the Altay Alliance can exchange for may be significantly reduced. "

Liu Sheng said nothing, but he didn't think so in his heart.

As far as he knew, the upper reaches of the Xinluo River was very large.

Although the Altay Alliance moved upstream, it is estimated that it is still far away from Yuba City in later generations, let alone Chico, Paradise and other places further upstream.

In addition, it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

The Altay Alliance has tasted the benefits of using female captives to trade with the Wei tribe, and will probably continue to move upstream so that they can obtain female captives by attacking other tribes and maintain the trade with the Wei tribe.

However, this change will extend into the next few years and will have little impact on the Department of Health.

After that, Liu Sheng inspected Hexi Town Minyong Camp and left with his accompanying guards...

On the ninth day of August, Liu Sheng went to Huilong Bay to inspect the fishery camp.

Last time, thousands of new immigrants were allocated to the fishery camp, and now there are tens of thousands of residents in the fishery camp.

After the executive general manager Yu Hengfeng welcomed Liu Sheng, he first took Liu Sheng to inspect the salted fish drying ground, smoked fish workshop, fishing port and other places as usual, but finally took Liu Sheng to a large rice field.

"Commander, please look, the large rice field here alone is more than a thousand acres! There are several others of similar size in other places!

All the rice fields add up to about 5,000 to 6,000 acres. As long as the autumn harvest can go smoothly, our fishery camp does not need Huachu Camp to supply so much food! "

Liu Sheng learned through letters that the fishery camp had transformed some of the wetlands in Huilong Bay and planted rice.

But the wonderful feeling brought by the vast rice fields in front of me is definitely not what a few lines of text on the letter can give.

Especially now that it is mid-August, the rice will be harvested in just over a month.

Therefore, after reading this, Liu Sheng also had a smile on his face, patted Yu Hengfeng on the shoulder and said: "Your fishery camp did a really good job! After the autumn harvest, you can work harder and cultivate more fields.

The forest here is far away from the river, and there are mostly wetlands on both sides. It is indeed easier to cultivate than in Huachu County.

This winter, I will take time to inspect again. If the reclamation results of your fishery camp and salt factory are good, I will consider setting up town and county-level yamen here at the same time. "

Yu Hengfeng was slightly stunned at first, then overjoyed.

He heard the hidden meaning in Liu Sheng's words - at least towns should be set up in Huilong Bay and Longshou Bay this winter. If the reclamation results are good, they can even be set up as counties!

By then, these general managers will definitely be the first candidates for county-level officials!

Although the camp manager has greater power, how can a county official have such a big name?

He, Lao Yu, was originally just a fisherman on the Zingtou River. If he could become a county magistrate, he would definitely be a proud ancestor!

He immediately slapped his chest and said, "Commander, look at it. After the autumn harvest, our fishing camp will have to cultivate thousands of acres of paddy fields!"

Liu Sheng smiled, but reminded: "You guys, please don't push the people too much in order to achieve results. If you cause any trouble, I won't punish you politely - development must be stable first, and fast second, do you understand?" "

Yu Hengfeng calmed down after hearing this, nodded and said: "My subordinates must remember this!"

After leaving the fishing camp, Liu Sheng went to Longshou Bay to inspect the salt factory.

The villages around the salt factory have also reclaimed a lot of fields, but they pale in comparison to those at the fishing camp.

Because there are many forests on the coast here, and they are all big trees, it is not easy to cultivate wasteland.

However, the current salt production efficiency and salt output of Longshouwan Salt Factory are equally surprising.

When he arrived at the salt factory, Liu Sheng saw large tracts of snow-white salt fields on the tidal flats, which made him happy just to look at them.

Yang Dagui, the managing director of the salt factory, became much more confident when facing Liu Sheng and introduced him with a glowing face.

"Commander, you don't know, the sun here in the dry season is so big. Although the salt workers are doing it, the efficiency of salt production in the salt fields is really high. We have estimated that it is almost higher than when we can only boil salt in the rainy season." Pay a hundred times more!”

Liu Sheng was also very happy.

Where is the salt in front of me? It is clearly money.

In the Ming Dynasty, Henan and Huguang can be said to be the provinces most lacking in salt and with the highest salt prices, because most of the surrounding provinces produce salt.

There are Lu salt (Changlu salt field) in North Zhili, Huai salt in Shandong and South Zhili, green salt (Huamachi Salt Lake) in Shaanxi, well salt in Sichuan, and sea salt fields along the coasts of Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong and Guangxi.

The price of salt in the Ming Dynasty has actually dropped a lot compared to the Tang and Song Dynasties - in fact, it could have dropped even more during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Unfortunately, because the court and salt merchants had to make money through the salt industry, it was not until the founding of New China in later generations that the price of salt was Really come down.

The Longshouwan Salt Factory can produce so much good sea salt, so there is no shortage of salt in Kueibu.

If it is taken to the surrounding forces in Weibei, even if it is sold at a slightly higher price than other salts, it will be sought after.

If the price is equal to that of salt produced in other places, it can easily dominate the market.

However, in Liu Sheng's view, Longshouwan Salt Factory needs to continue to expand its production capacity if it wants to occupy the salt market in Henan and Huguang.

So he first expressed his praise for the work of Yang Dagui, Wu Ming and the salt factory managers, and then encouraged: "Including the original site selection of the salt factory, I have been to the Longshou Bay Salt Factory three times, and I am impressed by everyone's progress. You can see that I am also very happy that the salt factory has achieved today's results.