Zhao Fuxiang certainly didn't care about Kong Shouzhen when he said this. He didn't care whether these refugees lived or died? Zhao Fuxiang was interested in Kong Shouzhen as a scholar.

Different from the era when everyone is equal in later generations, the Ming Dynasty was a status society. If you were a scholar, even your farts were fragrant. If you were a scholar, you could basically run rampant in the countryside. If you were a scholar, it was even more extraordinary. You could compete with the county magistrate.

Sit on an equal footing.

Zhao Fuxiang knew that although he had some money, his status was just that of an ordinary person, so how to establish relations with the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty became a top priority.

It turned out that Zhao Fuxiang wanted to make friends with Zhang Juren through building relationships, but as Zhao Fuxiang was a businessman, how could Zhang Juren take a fancy to him?

Duo, tell Zhao Fuxiang not to go there again. This is a slap in Zhao Fuxiang's face, but there is nothing we can do about it. Zhao Fuxiang is nothing now, and Zhang Juren will do whatever he says.

Although this Kong Shouzhen is a hanging scholar, he is a descendant of Kong Sage. Zhang Juren should give him face if he comes forward!

Zhao Fuxiang wanted to take advantage of Kong Shouzhen, so he naturally wanted to recruit him. After giving Kong Shouzhen a free status, he also hired him as his staff master. At this time, Kong Shouzhen was not the vicious and vicious treacherous official who was against the same party and different parties. Although after several years of ups and downs,

Liang Li had seen too many things in the world, but Kong Shouzhen was extremely grateful that Zhao Fuxiang could treat him so kindly.

In the next few days, Zhao Fuxiang's lard bibimbap played a big role. With the help of this high-fat and high-salt food, the refugees quickly regained their strength and began to devote themselves to normal work.

Several decent shacks were quickly erected in the center of Xinbu Island. These were the homes built by the refugees for themselves. In addition to the large open spaces in the center of these islands, the felled trees were neatly stacked in one place.

Zhao Fuxiang was able to complete the task so quickly and exceeded the quota, which was indispensable to Zhao Fuxiang's new master Kong Shouzhen. Zhao Fuxiang discovered that this guy was also an expert in manpower dispatch. The twenty-nine refugees were well organized under Kong Shouzhen. What should they do when they get up every morning and what tasks should be completed at night.

Whether the tasks are not completed, what tasks need to be completed overtime tomorrow, etc., Kong Shouzhen arranges them in an orderly manner.

After the cleaning task was basically completed, Zhao Fuxiang patted Kong Shouzhen on the shoulder and said, "Brother Kong, I didn't expect you to have such expertise!"

After several days of contact, Zhao Fuxiang discovered that although Kong Shouzhen was older, he was only thirty-six years old, a few years younger than him, so he called him brother without hesitation.

Zhao Fuxiang could call him like this, but Kong Shouzhen did not dare to call Zhao Fuxiang his eldest brother. He smiled slightly and said: "My boss, Kong followed the refugees south. Because he had studied for several years, everyone recommended Kong as the leader. He usually went to beg for food.

It was arranged by Kong, so he is just proficient, not a specialist!"

Zhao Fuxiang secretly sighed in his heart that the ancients did not deceive me! As the saying goes, horses with a thousand miles of horses are often found but Bole is not always found! Among the thirty refugees bought, there is such a human resources management expert. It seems that talents are everywhere.

Yes, it’s just that there are very few of them!

Thinking of this, Zhao Fuxiang couldn't help but be very happy that he could recognize people with his sharp eyes. This Kong Shouzhen was a thousand-mile horse, so wouldn't he be a bole? Thinking of this, Zhao Fuxiang thought of the rogue emperor Liu San. This guy was useless, but he knew how to use people, so he won the country.

His academic level is much better than Liu San's, so doesn't he also become the emperor?

Zhao Fuxiang was immersed in his fantasy and giggled. Kong Shouzhen and Fan Jian beside him didn't know why his boss was giggling. However, because Fan Jian had been with Zhao Fuxiang for a long time, he knew that his boss was stupid from time to time, so he didn't say anything more. Anyway, after a while, his boss was stupid.

will become a normal person.

Kong Shouzhen didn't know. She thought Zhao Fuxiang was suffering from some illness, so she quickly stepped forward to push Zhao Fuxiang and asked, "Master, what's wrong with you?"

Being interrupted by Kong Shouzhen, Zhao Fuxiang laughed awkwardly and said: "Haha, it's nothing, I just thought of something interesting! By the way, now that the basic work is done, we will start making the filter pool in the afternoon!"

Kong Shouzhen knew that Zhao Fuxiang hired them to work, so he didn't ask any questions and began to arrange for the refugees to do some preliminary preparations.

The filter pool in Zhao Fuxiang's mind should be a cement purification pool with a depth of several meters like that of later water purification plants. But now he doesn't even have enough bricks, and there is no cement to build infrastructure, so the filter pool can only be withdrawn.

The next best thing is to use the most wood on the island instead.

Of course, due to the porous nature of wood, it cannot be used as an internal waterproof layer, but can only be used as a reinforcing material for the outer layer. In order to prevent water leakage, waterproof materials must be used in the inner layer.

Zhao Fuxiang was worried about what kind of waterproof material to use. There was no quick-drying cement in the Ming Dynasty. Where can I find this waterproof material? However, the problem was easily solved. Zhao Fuxiang quickly solved it after asking the locals.

The wisdom of the working people in ancient China is infinite. As early as the Song Dynasty, they invented native cement, which is the green ash often used in the construction industry.

In the Song Dynasty, a large number of bricks and tiles were used to build houses. The waterproofing of the roof became the key. Small tiles were overlapped up, down, left and right. If you want to make it watertight, it will be very difficult to prevent leakage for a hundred years. It is not enough to rely on one layer of tiles to waterproof.

Multiple lines of defense must be set up. After experiments, the bricklayers added a layer of green ash under the tiles, similar to the current cement mortar. The green ash is mixed with finely ground lime and fine clay, mixed with water, and patted down. In order to ensure the quality, some large households still

Tung oil will be used to increase the waterproofness, so this green gray is like the concrete rigid waterproof layer in later generations.

Zhao Fuxiang is working on this kind of green gray waterproof layer, but in order to ensure that it does not leak, Zhao Fuxiang also adds an appropriate amount of sisal to the green gray. This kind of thing* greatly increases the strength of the green gray layer and can ensure that the waterproof layer does not leak for a long time.

After all preparations were completed, Zhao Fuxiang began to lead the construction team. Zhao Fuxiang first dug a deep square pit with a side length of six meters and a depth of half a meter on the ground. Then he laid solid thick wooden boards around and at the bottom of the pit, and finally evenly spread the wooden boards on the wooden boards.

A green-gray waterproof layer was applied. In order to ensure the waterproof effect, Zhao Fuxiang applied a waterproof layer of five centimeters to ensure no leakage.

After everything was completed, it was necessary to start drying in the shade. Because tung oil was added to the waterproof layer, direct sunlight was to be avoided. Zhao Fuxiang also set up a straw shed over the deep pit to block the sun.

It takes some time for the waterproof layer to dry in the shade. Zhao Fuxiang happened to return to Haidian Island at this time. The clay and lime he brought with him were all used up and he had to come back to get some.

Not long after returning to Haidian Island, Li Zhengdao happened to be escorting 5,000 shi of brown sugar to Haidian Island. Five thousand shi was not a small amount. It took two large-scale ships to pull down the 5,000-yuan ship. After they were all unloaded,

Afterwards, Zhao Fuxiang stared blankly at the mountain-like yellow sugar straw buns.

Li Zhengdao looked at Zhao Fuxiang who was in a daze and said with a smile: "Brother, why haven't you seen so much brown sugar?"

Zhao Fuxiang nodded, and Li Zhengdao smiled and said: "What does this mean? The brown sugar we transported is only a drop in the bucket. Last year in Xuwen alone, the Folangji merchants transported 100,000 shi of frosted sugar. This does not include the consumption in the mainland.

What do you think our five thousand stone yellow sugar is?"

One hundred thousand shi? This is five thousand tons! If one stone of white sugar is 40 taels of silver, one hundred thousand shi is four million taels of silver. It seems that foreign trade is still profitable!

Of course, foreign trade cannot be calculated in this way. The price of large-scale purchases is very low. At the same time, those Franconian merchants do not have so much silver. They all barter, using spices and grains shipped from Nanyang in exchange for sugar, but they are converted into silver.

It’s also an astronomical number.

"Brother, according to the 30% sugar production rate you mentioned, these 5,000 shi of yellow sugar can produce 1,500 shi of frosting sugar, which can be converted into more than 3,800 taels of silver. My entire wealth is based on this.

Please, big brother!"

Li Zhengdao couldn't help but worry. The thousand taels of silver he invested were all used up by Zhao Fuxiang in the early stage. He still used the public funds of Furui to pay for the five thousand stones of yellow sugar. If his family knew that he used public funds, his father would beat him to death.

He had a heart, so Li Zhengdao would never allow Zhao Fuxiang to make any mistakes.

Zhao Fuxiang laughed: "Brother, you still can't trust me? My brother's family is here, how can a monk escape from the temple if he runs away? I go back and wait for the good news about my brother. I will deliver a large amount of sugar to you in half a month at the latest!"

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It was for this reason that Li Zhengdao insisted on coming to Haidian Island. He wanted to see what Zhao Fuxiang was up to, but when he arrived at Haidian Island, he saw nothing except the brick kiln that was roaring with fire. The brick kiln did not look like it was out of business.

A place with white sugar. Li Zhengdao knew that Zhao Fuxiang had a secret, but there was nothing he could do if they didn't show him, so he left with doubts.

Five thousand stones of goods cannot be transported to Xinbu Island, which has no wharf. They can only be piled here on Haidian Island, and then transported to Xinbu Island in small boats one by one. Zhao Fuxiang looked at the brown sugar as high as a mountain, and felt in his heart

Silently recite the Tathagata of the West, Buddha of the East, Jesus of the North, Guanyin of the South, and other great gods. Please be sure not to rain these days, otherwise all the brown sugar will turn into sugar water.

While the workers were carrying brown sugar, Zhao Fuxiang took the time to go to Baisha Zuodun to find the pier leader Fan Tong. Now he has brought five thousand stones of brown sugar to the island. This cannot be kept secret. After a while, he will

In the large-scale production of white sugar, even a blind man would know that he had the technology to purify white sugar. In order to avoid being ordered by someone who was interested, Zhao Fuxiang decided to find Fan Tong to protect himself.

Although Fan Tong only has two top soldiers under his command, Fan Tong is an official after all. If he takes the lead in forming the Baisha Village joint defense team, he can also stop some people's mouths and avoid unnecessary trouble for himself. In fact, according to

As for the scope of responsibilities, Xinbu Island is also under Fan Tong's jurisdiction, but there are no people living on it, so Fan Tong does not patrol it.

Zhao Fuxiang and Fan Tong quickly made an agreement after meeting. Zhao Fuxiang paid for the establishment of a joint defense team in Baisha Village, and Fan Tong, the pier leader, was responsible for commanding it. The joint defense team's guard area included Haidian Island and Xinbu Island, and Fan Tong had to go to Xinbu Island every day.
Chapter completed!