Entering the Mediterranean coast, in July, the hottest July, the mountains, hills, basins, and river beaches within dozens of kilometers of the middle and lower reaches of the Francoli River became uninhabited areas. The mountain villages and farms, which once crowed and neighed by roosters and neighed by horses, became completely abandoned after being set on the map.

Because they cannot obtain the food supply and identity cover of the villagers in this area, when they encounter French patrols, a small group of rebels are shot dead or surrendered. A large number of rebels dare not set up an ambush easily, because once they are entangled by the patrols, the French army's quick response troops will appear within 1 hour. Along the way to escape from the mountains and forests, no rebels can hide their identity, and can only use their own feet to compete with the French war horses, and the result is self-evident.

Attacking a safe village with tight defense was even more stupid suicide. The rebels once tried. When a team of 300 people secretly entered the safe area while it was dark, they were surrounded and intercepted by the French army that had received the news in advance, and then destroyed the entire army. Because the rebels sent to the safe village, several spies who tried to cooperate inside and outside were discovered by the gendarmerie as soon as they entered the village, they were secretly arrested. After torture, the sneak attack plan was exposed.

At the same time, Desai also adopted a policy of wit and asked the families of the rebels in the safe village to write letters to their relatives, informing the rebels in the mountains to surrender as soon as possible, and after serving in the concentration camp for one to two months, they could return to their families in the safe village. Thousands of such letters were mimeographed and pasted at various traffic intersections in the blank area, near the mountain passage.

The reality of the decline in activity space, severe food shortages, and continuous defeats in attacks, resulting in large numbers of casualties, which made the morale of the rebels increasingly disintegrated. Usually, one person initiated, and others from the same village responded one after another, carrying weapons, secretly went down the mountain, and surrendered to the nearest French patrol.

The third month of the implementation of the "Safe Village Plan" was awesome. In early September, more than 3,000 rebels who were once rampant in the Santa Barbara Mountains either died or surrendered, leaving only less than 200 people, and they continued to grit their teeth and persevere. A few days later, they had to escape from the jurisdiction of the Desay Traveller under the leadership of the leader and migrate to the central and inland areas of Spain.

Migrating villagers and encircling and suppressing rebels was just the first two stages of the "Safe Village Plan" and the implementation was very good. But in Desai's view, the most important and core, and the ultimate security of the safe village is the third stage, harmonious development.

In the safe village, due to the intervention of the military police and the existence of the Maintenance Association, the relationship between the garrison and the people is not blindly opposed. At least for the latter, the French will not wantonly kill villagers, plunder their food, and rape their wives and daughters in the safe village. It seems that the safety factor is much higher than in the original village.

However, the premise is not to violate any decrees. All decrees are pasted at the entrance of each village square, and a dedicated person is responsible for preaching every day. At first, the Catalans did not agree and believed that this was just one of the means by the French to deceive them. The so-called decrees were only beneficial to the French army themselves, and specifically controlled the Spaniards in the safe village. However, as many soldiers of the occupying army were sentenced in public, and the execution of gunfire, the villagers gradually believed and began to abide by them.

The Catholic church is retained in the safe village and properly resettled clergy. As long as they do not openly incite the people to violently resist the French rule, they basically let it go. In several "star-level" safe villages, the priests in the Catholic church are also invited to the maintenance association and participate in secular management. In addition, Desai will return most of the tax collected from the safe village to the maintenance association in various names to the maintenance associations of each village for the expenses of medical care, education and relief, and public facilities.

But these are far from enough.

Due to the 30 safe villages, tens of thousands of villagers were limited to 10 kilometers of activity, farming, raising livestock, hunting, fishing, or crossing the border, resulting in a serious oversupply of labor in the safe village, and more than 10,000 young and strong men and women were idle at home and doing nothing.

On the one hand, Desai asked the Maintenance Association to organize these people to build public facilities such as churches, hospitals, schools, relief centers, windmills, mills. Women also organized themselves, with skilled skills to make various military uniforms for the French, and others mostly washed and mended the French army. Desai warned all officers and soldiers that all drinking water and food for soldiers and war horses should not be exposed to the Spaniards, at least before the "safe village" was promoted to the "star village".

On the other hand, the time traveler started his old business. He recruited people in the safe area, between villages, and built several canned workshops. The time traveler used the method of getting rich and obtaining his first pot of gold, producing and filling canned fruits and meat packaged in tinplate. Of course, the canning machinery is strictly kept confidential and is limited to the Irish operation and use.

At first, Desai just wanted to solve the problem of the remaining labor in the safe village, so as not to let these idle people wait. After eating and drinking, they were all thinking about rebellion. At the end of July, the first canned tin workshop was opened near the "Star Village". At first, only more than 100 people worked here, and the daily canned production was less than 200 (2 pounds); at the end of August, the number of workers in the workshop increased to 300; in late September, the number of people suddenly surged to 2,000, with a monthly output of 150,000 listen to 2 pounds of canned food.

Although the production efficiency of canned factories is extremely low, the profits are still considerable due to labor costs and the low cost of main raw materials. In 1809, the average daily wage of workers in the Paris factory (farm) was about 3.5 francs, equivalent to 18 rials, which could only support the family to live on the food and clothing line. In the workshop in the safe village, Desay paid each worker 1.5 to 3 rials as a full-day salary, but on the western coast of the Mediterranean, they began to cultivate the first middle class.

With formed products, the production date and service life will also be marked on the product packaging. As for the brand of canned food, Desai rejected everyone's proposal to use his own name "Desai" as a trademark. He gave a very mediocre name, Mediterranean canned food.

From July to September 1809, Desai built multiple canning processing workshops in his personal name, investing more than 1 million riyals to factory construction, land requisition, equipment purchase, raw material acquisition, and worker wages. By the end of September, all costs had been recovered. Every month afterwards, Desai would have an absolute return of 1 million riyals. As the output increased, the monthly income figure was still changing upward.

While the rapid development of canning workshops also began to drive the upgrading of related industries. When the production of tinplate was obviously insufficient, the market for smelting workshops in Safe Village was also bullish. Irish craftsmen joined forces to set up mines. Along the lower reaches of the Francoli River, several metal smelting workshops with the help of hydraulic power rose one after another, and thousands of laborers were engaged in ore mining and metal smelting.

In addition, whether it is vegetables, fruits, beef, mutton, pork and other raw materials, the safe village can no longer meet the digestion speed of the canned farm. Desai allows the village to organize the transportation capacity of thousands of people, and to the border of France, dozens of kilometers away, continuously purchase vegetables, fruits and various meats. During the process, few villagers flee privately.

Under the operation of Jewish profiteer, Candiola, the vegetables, fruits and various canned meat produced in the safe village were sold to European countries at an astonishing speed. On the Iberis Peninsula, guerrilla rebels began to like to rob French baggage teams that transported canned food; in the Danube, French and Austrian troops who ate the same "Mediterranean" canned tinsels fought again; and in the British Mediterranean Fleet, British sailors had a special liking for canned vegetables and fruits. After Candiola promised the British that they could provide the canned vegetables and fruits needed by the Mediterranean Fleet at a preferential price, Jewish merchant ships were unobstructed in the Mediterranean, and the Mediterranean brand of canned cattle and sheep were crossing the ocean, becoming a cold meal delicacy enjoyed by Turkish nobles.

When Candiola sold canned Mediterranean food to Austrians and British, Desai was startled and quickly found a lawyer in the barracks to consult. When he learned that the act of selling to Austrians did not violate imperial laws, Desai finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although it is illegal to sell canned food to the British fleet, there is no other way. Who said that the French Navy is not good at doing well and is bullied by the Mediterranean fleet and dare not come forward to fight. The entire Mediterranean Sea has almost become a bathtub for the British and is free to play. Anyone who does shipping business in France and Spain will have connections with the British.

In addition, the lawyer also told General Desai not to worry about anything. Because the emperor issued the third round of embargoes on the British Isles in Madrid at the beginning of the year, although cans were included in the third round of embargoes on the British Isles, there was a small loophole, because the cans mentioned in the embargo amnesty order refer to the canned glass bottles invented by Appel, rather than the canned tinplate invented by Desai.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about anything, Mediterranean canned food is ready to usher in a new round of great development.

By accident, the time traveler seemed to release a canned trust in the restless country. But if you think about it carefully, it doesn’t matter. First of all, your huge profit of 1 million riyal per month is the most important, no matter how floods will be in the future; secondly, the safe villages in the area of ​​Hruna are close to the border between the West and France. When the Peninsula War is in failure, you can consider temporarily migrating to France for refuge; in the end, even if it is taken away by the Spaniards, Desai doesn’t feel a pity. After all, the production efficiency of the handmade workshop is extremely low. Desai can build a real canned factory at any time and engage in assembly line operations. With better efficiency, higher output, better quality, and lower prices, it is easy to defeat the canned manual workshop he created by himself.
Chapter completed!