After the transfer of power on New Year's Eve, Li Mingxun actually became the highest talker in Jialuo Village. Although Lin Cheng still had the hat of a head-on family, he fully supported Li Mingxun's attitude to safeguard Li Mingxun's authority. Li Mingxun's performance was very good, saving the lives of refugees, which made new immigrants follow their lead. The rich rewards brought by the large market trade made the villagers of Jialuo Village have a good New Year and the people of Jialuo Village have a good impression of him.

After the Qishe Blood Contract, the villagers who went out to farm and fished in the sea were no longer disturbed by the indigenous people, and made them even more grateful to Li Mingxun's kindness. As a result, after Li Mingxun gained absolute power, he began to build the structure of the Tenglong Trading Company.

In addition to the sailors on the two bird boats, Li Mingxun drew personnel from Dingkou and formed two teams, one was a craftsman team, and the other was a guard team under the name of a hunting team. In addition to more than 30 craftsmen, Li Mingxun drew dozens of Ding Zhuang and Zhuang women to join. The guard team carefully selected from the hunters and sailors with combat experience in their villages, but there were only 30 people. In order to avoid insufficient troops, Li Mingxun also arranged for all Ding Zhuang to conduct military training in his spare time.

For more than ten days, Li Mingxun was so busy. In the evening, when Ah Hai walked into Li Mingxun's room, he found him drawing a map and sat there with his face hanging down, obviously a little unhappy.

"Why, I think the matter left to you is too complicated?" Li Mingxun asked without raising his head, knowing his disciple's thoughts.

Ah Hai muttered, "I know it's not easy to be the head of the country. It's all about money, both food, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea."

It turned out that these days, Li Mingxun handed over all the unacquainted children in the trading house to Ah Hai for management. Most of them were orphans who escaped from Manila, and there were also two indigenous children in the village. They were even allowed to Ah Hai to handle their food and accommodation. During this process, Li Mingxun taught him a lot of knowledge such as accounts, calculations, and of course, some human relationships and worldly ways.

"Master, why do you think these children are so edible?" Ah Hai suddenly asked.

Li Mingxun put the quill into the ink bottle and said, "I'm so old that I'll eat it to death. Leave the accounts to me."

Ah Hai took out the account, Li Mingxun opened it and looked carefully. Ah Hai said, "It's not just my subordinates, but my uncle went to check the warehouse this morning and said that if this continues, we will be famine."

"Do you know why?" Li Mingxun asked.

Ah Hai had thought about this problem for a long time, and sat next to Li Mingxun with a stool and said, "I have thought about it carefully. The main reason is that there are too many idle people. The newly arrived people who originally ate the trading company's public food have more than 200 new people. Now the master has set up a craftsman team and a guard team, and has also recruited a large number of male and strong women to work. Those who originally ate their own food now eat public food, and it would be strange if the warehouse is not bottomed out."

"I don't mean to object. My uncle said, what you asked to do is a big deal, and this is all the capital you need to invest." Li Mingxun misunderstood, Ah Hai first expressed his attitude, and he said, "I'm just afraid that everyone will know, and I'll talk about your hometown's gossip."

Li Mingxun looked at the young man who was too thoughtful in front of him with interest and asked with a smile: "Since there is not enough food, why not eat meat porridge?"

Ah Hai was slightly stunned and then smiled: "Master, don't test me. I know this allusion. It is said that it was a foolish emperor in ancient times. Although I have never read a book, I have heard from the scholars."

"But the emperor you mentioned is the Central Plains Emperor, but we are on the beach. If you don't have food, you should eat meat porridge." Li Mingxun knocked on the table.

"What's the matter? Unless the sun strikes the west," Ah Hai looked disbelieving.

Li Mingxun smiled: "I'll let you see this Western scenery tomorrow!"

The next morning, Li Mingxun brought Ah Hai and others to the dock. There were already three fishing boats waiting on the dock. The boat was originally a fishing boat in the village. A dark-skinned guy walked up and called out, saying, "Big shopkeeper Wan'an, the little shopkeeper Wan'an, the big shopkeeper, the big shopkeeper made all the things prepared, the three boats and the fishing nets were also dried."

"Hu Cheng, you did a good job. Take the net with you and we go out to sea to fish." Li Mingxun said immediately after checking the fishing net.

Hu Cheng smiled and took a dozen strong fishermen on board. Ahai followed Li Mingxun onto a smaller one and sailed down the river to the outside sea. He was very familiar with Hu Cheng. This guy is a brief head of Jialuo Village. In addition to farming, there are also several fishing boats, and sometimes they also trade. The three "rooster pairs" in front of him are his boats.

Ah Hai has been running to the sea since he was a child, so he naturally knew that there were only two or three roosters going out to sea to fish, and only five roosters. However, Li Mingxun placed eight people on each of the two large ships.

"Master, really... is it really fishing?" As Hai saw the fleet coming to the outer sea, the two roosters asked in disbelief.

Li Mingxun didn't say anything, but the rowing fisherman said: "Fishing is really fishing, but I have never seen the French fishing style of the shopkeeper."

Ah Hai stared at the wide eyes. Hu Cheng, not far away, had already commanded people to open the net, but the net was surprisingly large, more than five or six times larger than the usual fishing net. Moreover, a net was hung on a boat at the end. Under the net, there were sinkers made of iron balls and floats made of leather bags. As Hu Cheng sounded the trumpet, the two roosters began to distance each other, pulled the net completely, and dragged it forward with ropes. Hu Cheng whistled the trumpet and directed the sailors on the two boats to control the speed with oars. Every time when the turn was about, he would use flags to direct the rowing fishermen and drove on the sea.

After watching for a full quarter of an hour, seeing that they didn't close the net, Ah Hai looked at Li Mingxun and found that he had already covered his straw hat on his face and was sleeping on the board.

Ah Hai didn't dare to call Li Mingxun. After an hour, as Hu Ke blew the horn, Li Mingxun lifted his straw hat and asked the fishermen to lean over. Hu Cheng was sweating all over and looked at Li Mingxun and asked, "Master, can you close the net?"

Li Mingxun looked at the sun and nodded slightly. Hu Cheng immediately ordered the net to close. The two roosters began to approach, and the sailors on the boat kept gathering the ropes. Seeing the float getting closer and closer, they soon saw the sea fish jumping inside. However, the net to close had problems. There were too many fish in the net pocket, and everyone couldn't drag it up. Even Ah Hai came forward to help, so it was difficult to get started. Hu Cheng looked and looked again and said, "Big shopkeeper, let's drag it back."

"That's all!" Li Mingxun was also helpless. He just knew the efficiency of the double-boat trawl, but he never thought that the efficiency was so high that the fish in the fishing net could not be caught.

Hu Cheng tied both ends to his rooster, called four sailors to come up, and rowed together before sailing into the Bazhang Creek. He towed the fishing nets. Hu Cheng could only park the boat at the dock of the big market and chose a flat sandy land. Hu Cheng asked all the sailors to pull the ropes together, but they couldn't pull it up. Ahai hurriedly called on the indigenous people who were trading in the big market and Ding Zhuang who built the warehouse, and nearly a hundred laborers who worked together to pull the fish in full swing.

Seeing all kinds of sea fish and shellfish jumping all over the ground, everyone cheered. They first used their hands, then used shovels, and finally even the door panels were removed, piled up the fish into a large pile. The people in the village were alarmed and even the indigenous people around them were all here to watch the wonder. Although Hu Cheng patted his chest and promised, some people still couldn't believe it. The two ships caught thousands of kilograms of sea fish in one hour.

In desperation, Hu Cheng re-used the same trick and caught thousands of kilograms of fish in the afternoon. Now everyone believed it. Li Mingxun immediately ordered all the fish to be distributed to the employees of the trading company and the people of Jialuo Village. Even the indigenous people got a lot, because the next day was the Lantern Festival, and the villagers of Jialuo Village replaced the Lantern Festival with fish balls. After a fat year, there was another rich Lantern Festival.

"Big shopkeeper, you teach the villain this French way of fishing, it is simply the villain's rebirth of his parents..." On the night of the Lantern Festival, Hu Cheng brought the prepared fish balls and Lantern Festival to Li Mingxun's residence, and after entering the door, he thanked him repeatedly.

Li Mingxun said, "Hu Cheng, I have taught you the method, but it doesn't mean that others can't learn it. So, whether you can save this job depends on your own luck."

"Don't worry, the fish harvest given to our trading company is definitely the lowest price." Hu Cheng said with a smile.

Li Mingxun smiled and said, "The food of the trading company will depend on you."

Hu Cheng saw that the leaders of the trading company had entered the hall and didn't stay much. He then left after saying thanks. Ah Hai looked at the smug back and was a little lost.

Li Mingxun asked the servant to divide the dumplings to everyone and asked, "Ahai, do you want to give you another bowl of fish porridge?"

When Ah Hai heard the fish porridge, he shook his head repeatedly, and laughed so that everyone was rumbling back and forth. Not only did they feel funny about the jokes between Ah Hai and Li Mingxun that day, but they were also relieved of solving the food problem. Although it is impossible for people to only eat seafood and fish, if such high-nutrition food is mixed into the meal, at least there will be no famine.

After eating Lantern Festival, after packing up the dishes, Li Mingxun and Ah Hai opened a map on the table. The map was drawn by Li Mingxun himself. It covers more than 20 miles of land around Jialuo Village. It also marks farmland, jungle, and mudflats in various colors, and has simple contour lines. Although the marked height is not accurate, it is enough for people to know where it is higher and where it is lower.

The scope of activities of the villagers of Jialuo over the years and the location of the six villages of the Hongya tribe. Li Mingxun's finger was on a lagoon north of Jialuo Village and said, "You also know that Jialuo Village is a region ruled by the Dutch. There are many things we are not good at doing here. It would be fine to build a market. If there are other activities, the Dutch will probably have to take action."

Lin Cheng smiled: "That's right, the Dutch are old cats and salted fish, and I wish this island would be his family."

"Brother Lin is very particular, so we have to arrange some activities more secrets. I have inspected the surroundings these days, and it is the most suitable here." Li Mingxun pointed at the lagoon and said.

The so-called lagoon is a bay about ten miles north of Jialuo Village. The headland protrudes from the land and a sand dune from south to north are like two thick and powerful arms surrounding a sea area. There is only a gap less than half a mile in the middle. The sharp reefs and small sand dunes exposed to the water at low tides have reduced the width of the passageway. This is a natural safe haven, and the dunes and reefs block the peeping of the facade outside. It is a rare treasure land for Li Mingxun, who wants to keep it secret.

Song Laoqi grinned: "Hehe, it's a good place. Speaking of which, the Dutch occupied Dayuangang, which is only a little bigger than it. In fact, it's not as good as this place, and it's a real bag array!"

Li Mingxun nodded slightly and said, "Manager Song is interesting. Since that's the case, please call him Budai Port."

In fact, Li Mingxun just went to the fore. This place was Budai Town in the historical time and space of later generations. What really made it famous is the specialty salt here. Budai Salt Farm was known as the Southeast Salt Farm in later generations and is also one of the four major salt farms in China.

"You may not know that during the Three Kingdoms, people from Wu visited Taiwan. Historical books record that this place has sufficient sunlight and windy winters, and the seawater has high salt content, which is most suitable for salt drying. Our trading company's salt farm will be set up here in the future." Li Mingxun said.

Lin Cheng said: "Mingxun, salt drying, we Qiu Ba Hai Dogs don't understand it. Don't make jokes at that time."

Li Mingxun smiled and said, "Old brother, don't worry, there is a salt handle among the craftsmen we rescued from Manila. It's not difficult to open salt fields with him. It's just that the initial investment in salt drying is too large. In order to produce quickly, I'd better cook salt first! Budai Port is full of mountains and forests, but there is no shortage of firewood. I'm going to set up the salt yard and brewery where I cook salt."

"I said you asked dozens of people to go there to log wood. It turns out that's the reason." Lin Cheng smiled.

As he was talking, Ah Hai suddenly said, "Master, I'm talking about the logging team, I have something to tell you, it's about the person who got lost three days ago."

Li Mingxun nodded slightly. A few days ago, he heard Song Laoqi say that a lumberjack was lost. It was normal for him to get lost in this wilderness. Li Mingxun and others didn't think much about it. Now, hearing Ah Hai's solemn mention it, naturally something happened. Li Mingxun asked: "Is it the natives who came out of grass?"

This was the worst result he could think of, which meant that the lumberjack must have died. According to the Qishe Blood Deed, only with sufficient evidence can the murderer be asked to pay his life or pay for his sins, but this is almost impossible.

"It's not about making a straw, but was captured by the people from the Huweilong Club!" Ah Hai said in a solemn tone.

"Huweilong Society, weren't they driven to the mountains by the Dutch?" Li Mingxun asked in surprise. Two years ago, the Dutch conquered all the villages and communities near Jialuo Village. Only the Huweilong Society, which had the largest number of people and the strongest combat power, did not surrender, but hid in the mountains. Li Mingxun was still a little afraid of this indigenous village that caused casualties to the Dutch and had strong combat power, especially now that he still has enough strength.
Chapter completed!