As soon as Wei Hong walked out of the door, a servant flashed out of the corner of the main hall and quickly left Hongyuan Trading Company. Soon, the servant appeared in the Zichen Hall and told Comrade Lao Li everything Wei Hong said.

After listening to the servant's report, Comrade Li stroking his beard and laughed: "Haha, you Wei Hong, you have resentment towards me, and you dare not say it clearly, so let Duke Wei take the blame?" After that, Comrade Li called a guard and told the guards what Wei Hong said, and asked the guards to convey to Li Jing.

After the guard left, Comrade Li waved his hand to the servant: "You don't need to monitor Wei Hong anymore, go down."

After a while, the guards conveyed the message to Li Jing. Li Dejian was also beside him. The boy was afraid that the world would not be in chaos, so he told him all the things that Wei Hong often put his shit on Li Jing's head.

After hearing this, Li Jing was so angry that his beard trembled. He slapped the table, pointed to the direction of Hongyuan Trading Company, and cursed loudly: "Good you little bastard! You dare to treat me like this, I will never end with you!" After that, Li Jing shouted at Li Dejian: "Go! Tell Cheng Zhijie and Yuchi Gong that Wei Hong said bad things about them behind their backs. He said that Wei Hong said that they were always together and dared to fight when they went to court, which was unruly! He was so old that he was still like a child and could not get on the table!"

Upon hearing this, Li Dejian scratched his head and said in confusion: "Mr. Wei really said this?"

Li Jing slapped the table with a slap, stood up, and yelled at Li Dejian: "Whatever I ask you to say, what will you say! Wei Hong's little bastard put the shit on my head again and again! I'm a kind person who is yin to him once!"

"Forehead……"

When Li Jing tried to "revenge" Wei Hong, Wei Hong took Zhou Dali to the Ministry of Revenue and learned that the 100 acres of land that Comrade Li praised was in the capital, more than 30 miles east of the city. When Wei Hong arrived, he found that the land was indeed called fertile land, with fertile land, and there was a river not far from the land. The river water was sufficient and there was no need to worry about irrigation.

Zhou Dali was born in poverty and often went to the fields to farm when he was young, so he was very good at the quality of the land. He squatted down and picked out a piece of frozen stone-like soil from the flat ground, crushed it with his fingers. Seeing the sparse soil passing through his fingers, Zhou Dali sighed: "Sir, this land is quite fertile. When the millet is planted next year, there will be a good harvest in autumn."

Wei Hong looked at the endless land and shook his head and said, "Why do you want to grow millet? If you want to plant wheat."

In this era, there was a huge gap in crop yields in the north and south. Rice was mainly grown in the south, while millet was mainly grown in the north, that is, millet. However, millet yields were low. To balance the grain output of north and south, millet had to gradually change into wheat. However, wheat is used few now and there are very few people who grow it, so it is not accepted by the general public.

Zhou Dali didn't understand why Wei Hong wanted to grow wheat, so Wei Hong didn't explain much. He took Zhou Dali around his territory, made a rough plan in his mind, and then took Zhou Dali back. Back at Hongyuan Trading Company, Wei Hong went directly into the study, took out paper and pen to plan and design.

Wei Hong has a total of 100 acres of land, and it is definitely impossible to build a factory building for one hundred acres. And now it is in an important period of grain reform. As long as you can get the lead, you can make a huge profit. The factory must be built, and crop planting has reached an imminent point. Wei Hong first drew a rough terrain on paper, and then designed the workshop as a factory building covering an area of ​​ten acres, which is located at the very edge of the territory, and is on both edges of the river. Try to stay farther away from the river. Although water is required when making equipment in the workshop, a large amount of industrial wastewater will also be generated. Wei Hong has seen the consequences of environmental pollution in later generations, so it must not be discharged easily. Furthermore, this river is the only source of water for irrigating crops in Wei Hong's territory, and it plays a crucial role and must not be contaminated arbitrarily.

After planning the factory, Wei Hong drew a square at the corner of the territory. The area of ​​this square is about five acres. Wei Hong planned to make this land into a test field. Except for the test field and the factory, the rest of the area was planted with wheat.

After drawing the planning drawings, he handed them over to Zhou Dali, asking Zhou Dali to start recruiting workers and build the walls around the factory. As for the test fields and the rest of the farmland, he was not in a hurry. After all, it was winter now, and everything had to be discussed until the chun was opened.

Wei Hong is very urgent now. On the one hand, he has to build a factory, on the other hand, he has to help Hongyuan Commercial Bank to manage business, and on the other hand, he has to implement a banking system for Comrade Lao Li. Therefore, the factory must be built as soon as possible, and at the latest it must be completed before the next year's chun. If you want to build a factory quickly, you must recruit a large number of workers. In fact, it is easy to find workers. After all, it is winter now, and it is the most leisurely time of the year for the people. As long as Wei Hong posted the recruitment notice, I believe that many people will take advantage of this time to make some extra money.

Previously, Comrade Li returned 100,000 taels of silver to Wei Hong. Wei Hong did not hand over to Hongyuan Trading Company, but planned to use it as funds for the construction of the factory. Except for the 100,000 taels of silver, the other rewards were handed over to Li Xuanqing for processing.

Zhou Dali was very quick and took only two days to recruit more than 60 workers. The sixty workers were temporarily booked, and Wei Hong then gave Zhou Dali money to buy raw materials for the construction of the factory. Since all the things Wei Hong wanted to make involved commercial secrets, the walls of the factory must be built very high, initially setting them to five meters. If you want to build a five-meter high wall, it is very labor-consuming and time-consuming just by using rammed earth. Therefore, Wei Hong simply asked Zhou Dali to buy a large amount of bricks and prepare to use bricks to build the walls directly.

Although bricks appeared very early, they were not widely used in this era. Only some wealthy families or nobles used bricks when building houses and tombs. Therefore, bricks were not cheap and the quantity was not large. Zhou Dali spent half a month searching all the bricks in the entire capital before he could barely get enough materials for building a factory.

After all the raw materials for building the factory were collected, the number of workers had reached 200. Wei Hong immediately ordered that the construction start immediately. A large number of tents were temporarily built in the place where the factory was built, so that workers could live directly on the construction site and build the factory day and night.

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Chapter completed!