Before March of the 15th year of Xiantong, all the spring plowing work on the three arable islands in Shamen Town was completed. More than 20,000 acres of spring wheat were sown, and every 100 acres of deep well in the arable land was also completed, and the water trucks made by the carpenter's workshop were also made in place.

However, the people on each island have not put much thought on these lands. After the seeds are sown, each family will not need too much time to serve the two and a half acres of land. Since the spring plowing, each fort has already started to launch several new projects taken out by Li Guan.

The flint mine in Daheishan Fort, the fire shell blacksmith's workshop, the flint grinding yard, and the lighter assembly workshop. Dayuanshan Fort and even Shamen Town all organized a huge fishing team to go out to sea to catch fish, and each formed a slaughterhouse and canning yard, and even a new pot factory and porcelain factory were expanded.

The salt drying plants on Nantuozi Island have also officially transferred people to the ground and officially opened up a large area of ​​salt fields. The entire Nantuozi Island has been officially closed and is known to the outside world as a military important place, and idle people are not allowed to enter. In fact, Zhang Chengye, the military supervisor, was afraid that Li Yan's salt drying method would be known to others.

One thousand acres of salt fields were opened in the entire Nantuozi. March to May of each year are the peak season for salt drying, which can be called the flood season. However, the end of October to January of the following year can be called the minor flood season. This new salt drying method can complete the entire salt drying procedure every twelve days and formally collect salt. The output of this salt drying method is extremely high, with a salt yield of three percent of the seawater, and a mu of salt can produce 4,000 kilograms of salt per mu. According to the output and manual calculations, Zhang Chengye and Zhang Hong were surprised to find that a salt factory worker can produce 40,000 kilograms of salt per year. This is just the output of only 108 days of salt drying during the two large and small flood seasons each year.

The salt farm produces more than 30,000 stones of salt in the twelve days. The workers only need one thousand workers. They can dry ten stages of salt in a year, reaching more than 300,000 stones of salt. The salt produced is white in color, large in size, dry in quality, and much better than ordinary sea salt. Even the world-famous Huai salt is not as good as the salt produced. Only some high-quality products with multiple filters can be compared.

When the first batch of salt fields were produced, and a piece of white salt like snow was lying quietly in the field, Zhang Chengye and Zhang Hong were very excited, and even Lin Wei and others who came to watch were shocked and could not speak. Over the years, everyone has long been used to cooking the sea for salt, and they have never seen anyone who drys the sea for salt before.

"The quality of this salt is better than Huai salt, which is comparable to green salt, good salt, and good salt." Zhang Chengye shouted happily.

Green salt is not sea salt, but lake salt, also known as stone salt, a specialty of Qinghai. The price of this salt has always been high. The dou salt is 300,000 yuan, or even twice the price of rice. Now, the salt of the imperial court has a hundred yuan of salt. At this price, if the Nantuozi Island produces more than 300,000 stones a year, then the annual output of this salt field is worth more than 700,000 yuan. Even if it is calculated at half, it is still a huge profit of 300,000 yuan. And this does not require much effort at all. The cost is just the wages of a thousand salt factory workers, and the labor cost per year is less than 5,000 yuan. It is simply a profitable transaction!

"Nantuozi strictly prohibits everyone from entering and leaving, so you must strictly defend it. It is best to move all the families of those salt factory workers to Nantuozi Island to prevent them from going out to reveal their secrets." Zhang Chengye was more concerned than Li Guan, and immediately saw the huge profits of the salt factory.

By the end of March, the salt factory had officially released two phases of salt. The white salt in the salt warehouse on Nantuozi Island was nearly 70,000 stones. Looking at the salt warehouse in one warehouse, Zhang Hong, the butler, couldn't even close his mouth. After the salt production first took effect, the first batch of lighters in Daheishanbao were finally officially produced. According to Li Guan's guidance, the positioning of these first batch of lighters was luxury goods, and the target was also those rich and wealthy officials, so the case was extremely luxurious, including four styles of stainless steel, brass, silver, and gold, and they were all inlaid with jewelry. These lighters were completely a collectible, using kerosene. Each lighter also sold a small porcelain bottle of kerosene.

"How much is the price?" Lin Wei sent several lighters to Li Guan and asked nervously. Now almost half of the tens of thousands of people in the entire Daheishan Island have joined the project.

Li Guan looked at a few running lighters and said with some dissatisfaction: "Your lighters are pretty good, beautiful and luxurious. But I have said earlier that our positioning is a luxury. Since that is the case, we will not only make the product well. This packaging is more important. You have to pack it with silk and then pack it in a nanmu box. Finally, there must be patterns on the box. In short, just one box must be a rare luxury. In addition, you must use a celadon bottle for your kerosene bottle, don't worry about the cost. All of this can be added to the price, and even more, so you must make it luxurious."

"As for the price, the four types of steel, bronze, silver and gold, it is better to price ten, twenty, fifty, and one hundred. When selling, according to the sales method of liquor, they are sold by distributors in major regions. They must be hungry and marketed to make the price. Not only should the price be sold at a high price, but they also have to be made into a wife, with no price. In this way, you will not have to worry about not being able to make money."

"Is anyone buying it for such a high price?" Lin Wei asked worriedly. This small lighter now affects the people of half of the Black Mountain Fort. The lighter looks mysterious, but the cost is not high. He thinks that Li Guan can't actually offer such a high price.

"The people who are willing to spend money to buy lighters are all children of wealthy businessmen, high-ranking officials and officials. Do you think they are willing to spend money to buy such luxury goods, how can they still care about the price being more expensive?" Li Yan replied with a smile.

Li Yan was in a very good mood recently. Since March, in addition to the logistics camps, the other six battalions in Shamen Town took turns to attack, and each time they went out, one to two to three to attack. There was Gongsun Lan of the Meihuamen Gate providing information on the pirate bandits, and the reconnaissance battalion was reconnaissance and verification of the intelligence in advance, inquiring about the detailed routes and the realities of the enemy. In addition, Li Yan and the officers of the camp discussed and planned a war plan in detail. Li Yan gave the commanders who attacked the attack every time the right to make temporary decisions on the battlefield. It can be said that with such an arrangement, the entire bandit suppression battle was very good.

Over the past month, all the sixth battalions took turns to attack. The battle situation was also very gratifying. More than 30 battalions were divided into more than a dozen batches, and they successively wiped out nearly twenty pirate bandits near Shamen Town and on the coast of Dengzhou. There were more than three or five thousand pirate bandits, and there were fewer than eight or nine hundred, and none of them could escape under the attack of Shamen Town Army and all were destroyed.

The bandit capital was executed, and the remaining bandits and families, as well as the money, grain, weapons and other items from the various villages were transported back to Shamen Town. When this son-in-law was hit, Li Guan also mobilized the prisoner-of-war camp and the barracks, and even specially recruited a civilian battalion to follow the army to train their coordinated combat capabilities. By the way, it also transported all the nests and property. On the other hand, it also solved a lot of surplus labor and gave the people a chance to make money. The civilians who participated in the transportation of the army received a lot of rewards, and finally Li Guan had to take turns to recruit civilians, which calmed the envy of other people.

More than 20 thief caves were wiped out. While training troops, Li Guan brought more than 100,000 jin of extra money to Li Guan. He also obtained thousands of pairs of swords, guns, bows and arrows. Although these weapons were varied and even damaged, Li Guan directly threw them to the Arsenal Shop for re-repair and processing, and then piled them into the arsenal for foreign trade.

In addition to seizing money and weapons, these hamlets were wiped out. Li Guan also obtained more than 30,000 stones of food, and obtained more than 20,000 pirate bandits and their families. These people all became Li Guan's prisoners. Li Guan had no intention of taking these people in, and directly imprisoned them into a prisoner of war camp, preparing to sell them to Liaodong, or exchange them for some young and strong prisoners of war, slaves, war horses and other supplies.

During this round of combat training, each battalion also suffered some injuries. In total, nearly a hundred people died in the battle, which were caused by the inexperience when they first went to the battlefield. Although such a large casualties seemed to have occurred, Li Guan thought it was absolutely worth it. After only a month, after the baptism of war and swords and guns, these Shamen Town Army soldiers had completely changed their minds when they walked past Li Guan again, and there was a real killing spirit in the operation.

"Yane, these newly supplied canned foods in the army are really good. Every time I attack, I fight for outsiders and fight, I have to travel for more than two days. During the march, there is very little cooking time. With these canned foods, there is no need to make a fire to cook. Each group directly sends a few cans, and then use fried rice, fried noodles or a guokui cake made in logistics. It is simple and easy and delicious. Especially the braised beef canned foods, it is the first time I have eaten so much beef for so many times, which is so delicious." Liu Shouqian said loudly.

Beef was a precious thing in the Tang Dynasty. People were not allowed to commit suicide. The cow died of old age and illness. Before the killing, they had to report to the officials, and the officials sent people to kill them. After the killing, the cow horns, horns, stings, and skins had to be conquered by the officials. It is normal for ordinary people to have never eaten beef in their entire lives.

These canned beef were made by Li Yan after slaughtering a large number of old cows transported by him from Qingnipu. The soldiers below were ate it all at once and aftertaste.

The canned food produced by several islands is now divided into five categories: meat, poultry, aquatic products, fruits, and vegetables.

Specifically, it is also divided into canned steamed meat, canned seasoned meat, canned pickled meat, canned smoked meat, canned sausage meat, canned viscera, canned offal meat, as well as canned white-fried poultry, canned boneless poultry, canned seasoned poultry. Oil-soaked aquatic products, canned seasoned aquatic products, canned steamed aquatic products, canned sugar-water fruits, canned syrup fruits, jams. Canned vegetables for clearing, canned vinegar-stained vegetables, canned seasoned vegetables, canned salted vegetables.

There are so many varieties that are very rich. Nowadays, all the clay pots are picnic packs, each can be packed several kilograms, and one can be used for a group of sergeants. According to Li Guan’s requirements, next, the canned workshops of each island will also sell the production family packs. They are divided into ordinary family versions according to the price, and are packed with bamboo tubes, gourds and even small clay pots, each can pack about one kilogram. The other is a luxury type, with exquisite porcelain bottles, and the price is higher.

Since the canned food was supplied in the army, it has attracted a lot of enthusiasm, and the soldiers liked it very much.

Li Guanzheng and Han Zhongwu, the military officer of the Warehouse, discussed increasing orders for various canned workshops, and the warehouse stores more canned food. Suddenly, the guard head Zhao Jiang came in to report: "Yanei, a man who claimed to be the leader of Shangjun of Puzhou came to see Yanei."
Chapter completed!