Chapter 1280
Yinggehai County
Chapter 1280 Yinggehai County
Yinggehai County is one of the few areas on the island that is governed by naturalized officials, but the old man in power here is not a novice, he is one of the first local officials of the Ming Dynasty who defected to Haihan, Yacheng Shuizhai Luo Shengdong, admiral of the navy.
After joining Haihan, Luo Shengdong gained a lot of benefits. Not only was he successfully promoted from a low-level officer to a general, but he also used his power to traffic warships to the Ming Dynasty at that time. The private salt produced by Haihan has made a lot of money after years of hard work.Later, Luo Shengdong saw that Haihan was becoming more and more powerful in Hainan Island, and the salt business was gradually changing from underground smuggling to open operation. The space for private salt dealers was getting smaller and smaller, and he didn't want to hang around as a useless general. He simply gave up his official position in Ming Dynasty, bought a house in Sanya and became a naturalized citizen, and became a native of Haihan with peace of mind.
Now that he has given up his identity as a Ming person and become a Haihan person, Luo Shengdong's consideration has naturally shifted from getting rich to future development. This is not only about his personal destiny, but also related to the future prospects of the family.For Luo Shengdong, money is definitely inexhaustible in this life, and the next generation can basically live comfortably.He has invested in some plantations on Hainan Island and various colonies in the South China Sea, and has gradually entered a stable income period. The annual profit is not much worse than the previous salt smuggling, which is enough to meet the needs of his family in the future.
But this alone is not enough. Luo Shengdong has tasted the sweetness of holding power, so he is naturally not willing to be a landlord in the second half of his life. What's more, the national power of Haihan is booming. If he can't win a better birth for his descendants, Then no matter how rich the Luo family is, they are still ordinary people, trying to find a way to become an official in Haihan, Luo Shengdong thinks this is the best plan to protect the descendants of the family.
Luo Shengdong thought that he got along relatively well with the high-level officials of Haihan, so he came forward to ask the executive committee on his own, hoping to serve the country in a different way. The committee has also done a lot of things, and he even participated in many shady things. There are credits and hard work, so he was given such an opportunity.Anyway, Haihan had a long history of appointing officials who surrendered from Ming Dynasty and other countries, and Luo Shengdong was no different.
Of course, Luo Shengdong did not take office immediately after the executive committee nodded, but participated in a period of government affairs training, and then practiced in Sanya, Danzhou, and Haikou for about a month before he was appointed. Director of the Management Committee of Yinggehai County.
However, Luo Shengdong worshiped the right bodhisattva and burned the right incense. He forcibly worshiped Anxi, who is in charge of the salt industry in the Haihan Industry Department, as his teacher a few years ago for his private salt business. He was several years older than Anxi, but after that, he treated Anxi as a master and apprentice.When Luo Shengdong proposed a change of job to the executive committee, Anxi also spoke out for him in the middle, so that the errand in Yinggehai County was handed over to Luo Shengdong.
Luo Shengdong has a famous teacher, and he has been in this industry for several years, so he knows all the tricks. If he is the magistrate of the salt production area, he is professionally competent.Although he used to be a military officer, but after Haihan's government affairs training, he is capable enough to manage a county.Although there are many rich salt merchants coming and going here, Luo Shengdong is a rich man himself, and he will not be easily bought with money. In addition, he also knows that Haihan's internal supervision has an independent operating system. This official position is not an iron rice bowl, so since he took office for more than a year, he has managed the place in an orderly manner and has not committed any obvious mistakes.
Sanya sent inspection teams to various counties to inspect government affairs and people's conditions. Luo Shengdong had been notified about this in advance, but he only learned the news after Yu Xiaobao and others came to live in Yinggehai.Luo Shengdong's attitude was still very correct, and he came to the county guest house to meet Yu Xiaobao early in the morning.After everyone had breakfast together, Luo Shengdong hurriedly took them to visit the production situation of the local salt field.
"I still have to take a car?" Liu Shang couldn't help but wonder when he saw several carriages with awnings parked outside the guest house.Isn't this place a bit too rich? The salt farm is clearly within sight, and a few carriages are specially sent to pull people.
However, Luo Shengdong then explained the reason clearly: "The salt field in the county is too large, and it is too tiring to rely on two legs. Everyone can take a car to inspect, and the body can relax a little bit."
Luo Shengdong's move was really not just to show off his wealth or to flatter. The Yinggehai Salt Field is quite large, with a distance of about ten miles from east to west and north to south. It would be tiring to visit on two legs.Moreover, most of the people who came here to visit were salt merchants. Naturally, these pampered big merchants wanted to take a tour by car, and now they just gave Xiaobao and his party the same treatment.
After the carriage came close, Liu Shangcai discovered that the salt fields here were not as white as they looked from a distance, but consisted of countless rectangular salt fields.Some salt fields have basically completed the process of drying salt, and the white sea salt is like white snow covering the salt fields.Some saltworks workers are using wooden shovels to shovel the sun-dried salt together. From a distance, the piles of salt do look like snow in winter.
It's a pity that the car Liu Shang was riding in was not equipped with a special commentator, and Luo Shengdong was accompanying Yu Xiaobao and Zhang Qianzhi in the car in front. Liu Shang wanted to know the scale and production of the local salt fields. Ability, probably can only be wronged first.
However, even though Liu Shang was not that familiar with the production process of the saltworks, he still quickly discovered a special item he knew in his field of vision—the steam engine.Different from the steam engine elsewhere, it is mainly used to draw water here, pumping the saturated salt solution in the brine pool into the crystallization pool, which is much more efficient than the original manual pumping.Liu Shang looked at the humming steam engine, and thought that the Haihan people really used this steam engine in various occasions, even the salt field. Boasting that this is the number one salt field in the world, it really has confidence.
In fact, Haihan started trialing steam engine irrigation equipment in the Salt Field Commune outside Shengli Port a few years ago to assist production. After accumulating a lot of experience in use, it was gradually extended to other salt production areas including Yinggehai Salt Field.However, in the promotion of Yinggehai, we also encountered a small problem, that is, the local fresh water resources are relatively scarce, especially in the vicinity of Yantian, there is no fresh water source at all, and groundwater can only be exploited by drilling wells To meet the working needs of the steam engine, it also took a lot of extra manpower and material resources.
However, the increase in production efficiency brought about by the use of steam engines is very significant, and the increased benefits quickly make up for these expenses. At present, more than ten steam pumps have been put into use in various saltworks in Yinggehai.However, this is far from enough for the production scale of Yinggehai. Luo Shengdong also hopes to take advantage of the opportunity of the inspection team from Sanya to inspect the work, and then explain the local production needs, so that the Ministry of Industry can reschedule as soon as possible. Produced several sets of steam engine lifting and irrigation equipment and delivered them to Yinggehai Saltworks.
Similar to other places, when more and more people realized the productivity change brought about by steam-powered machinery, the early promotion gradually became the initiative of users, and Haihan’s industrial manufacturing capacity was far from enough To solve the demand for steam engines, many places can only submit orders to the Ministry of Industry first, and then the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Industry will jointly decide which regions and industries need to be solved first.
In the current environment where Haihan is constantly expanding the actual control area, military is undoubtedly the first use that needs to be taken care of. Haihan's sea area spans more than [-] miles from north to south. Steam warships have become an indispensable combat weapon for the navy. Haihan The maritime military advantage maintained by other countries depends largely on the performance improvement brought by steam power to warships.At least half of the steam engine production capacity of the Ministry of Industry must be allocated to military projects, and the rest can be divided among other civilian projects. The competition can even be described as fierce.
Although Luo Shengdong has a little friendship with Haihan's top management, he has been in the officialdom for so many years, and he also understands that it is not a wise behavior to use personal friends to solve official affairs, so even though Yinggehai Salt Works has a great demand for steam equipment , he still can only try to make requests to the above through formal channels.In Luo Shengdong's eyes, the inspection team can actually be regarded as a shortcut worth trying.
As long as Yu Xiaobao and others can be persuaded to apply to the executive committee, the effect may be much better than the result of Luo Shengdong's own report.He knew very well that Yu Xiaobao's popularity in Haihan and his friendship with high-level figures were not comparable to his own, so he also made certain preparations for the arrival of Xiaobao and others.Among other things, the inspection team was all allocated single rooms when they checked in at the guest house. This was the result of Luo Shengdong's advance greeting.
Of course, Luo Shengdong's means are more than that. Based on his official experience, he believes that a young and ambitious young official like Yu Xiaobao doesn't care too much about other people's flattery, because he probably doesn't like such people at all. In short, as for the means of bribery in disguise, it is absolutely unacceptable. Once the other party thinks that he has some bad intentions, and he goes back to make a small report to the chiefs, he will not be able to clean up by jumping into the South China Sea.
Luo Shengdong believes that the key to pleasing the other party is to make the other party feel happy during their local business trips. In addition to providing Yu Xiaobao and others with more comfortable food, accommodation and transportation conditions, he also specially convened the management of various local departments in advance. The personnel made preparations, the production unit emphasized labor discipline, the residential area and commercial area were cleaned up, and the government affairs materials were prepared by themselves, so that the inspection team could not find too many problems in the local area.
Both parties are naturalized cadres, and their official positions are almost the same, and they have known each other eight years ago, but there is no intersection at work, and they seldom interact with each other.But I have to say that Luo Shengdong's rough and detailed arrangements really suit Xiaobao's appetite. He only hopes to complete his work in Yinggehai County smoothly, and he doesn't need the other party to give him anything Benefits or a flattering attitude, as long as they can cooperate with explaining the local government affairs situation.
After walking for about two miles, the convoy stopped at a place with many houses.This is not the residence of the local people, but the production center that manages the nearby salt fields.The functions here are mainly to allocate manpower and production tasks, store production tools, and storehouses for storing finished salt.
Liu Shang noticed that the houses here are all built with heavy stones. It was the first time Liu Shang saw this kind of houses made of stone after he came to Hainan Island. When he walked in, he could see the surface of the outer walls of the houses. There are pieces of tiny salt particles attached to it, which can be twisted with a finger.
At this time, Luo Shengdong also introduced to everyone the reason for building this kind of house. The reason for building this kind of house is because the local air has a heavy saline-alkali content, and other building materials are easily corroded. Only stone can maintain long-term stability.However, in this way, the cost of building houses is naturally much higher than that of other places. If it were not for the abundant financial resources of the salt farm, it would be difficult to build a large number of such expensive stone buildings.
Luo Shengdong led the crowd into one of the rooms, where several people were at their desks fiddled with some salt on the table in small porcelain dishes.Luo Shengdong introduced: "The head of Anxi has set three standards for the locally produced salt. Here, the salt that has been made is sampled and tested to see if it meets the standard. If it does not meet the standard, it cannot be sold outside. of."
The so-called third-grade standards are actually more for the consideration of commercial sales, and the quality of table salt is used as the reference standard for pricing, so as to achieve the purpose of covering all price points.Specifically, it is divided into three grades of coarse salt, refined salt and special salt.
Coarse salt is basically the natural salt after the evaporation of salt water and the crystallization of the salt. The production process is the simplest, the cost is the lowest, and the price is naturally the cheapest. It is Haihan's sharp weapon to seize the low-end market.The production process of refined salt is much more complicated. It needs to be filtered with coarse salt, added to other solutions to form a precipitate, and various impurities are removed, and then water is evaporated. After a series of physical and chemical means of purification, it is obtained. The purer refined salt.This process is much more complicated, and the price on the market will naturally increase exponentially.
As for the more high-end special salt, it is based on the concept of commercial packaging, adding some edible spices to the refined salt, coupled with exquisite packaging and a specially formulated brand promotion strategy, the sales target is also Most of the upper-class people in society who are not short of money, the price is more than ten times higher than that of coarse salt.Although the output is not high, the profit is considerable.
(End of this chapter)
Yinggehai County is one of the few areas on the island that is governed by naturalized officials, but the old man in power here is not a novice, he is one of the first local officials of the Ming Dynasty who defected to Haihan, Yacheng Shuizhai Luo Shengdong, admiral of the navy.
After joining Haihan, Luo Shengdong gained a lot of benefits. Not only was he successfully promoted from a low-level officer to a general, but he also used his power to traffic warships to the Ming Dynasty at that time. The private salt produced by Haihan has made a lot of money after years of hard work.Later, Luo Shengdong saw that Haihan was becoming more and more powerful in Hainan Island, and the salt business was gradually changing from underground smuggling to open operation. The space for private salt dealers was getting smaller and smaller, and he didn't want to hang around as a useless general. He simply gave up his official position in Ming Dynasty, bought a house in Sanya and became a naturalized citizen, and became a native of Haihan with peace of mind.
Now that he has given up his identity as a Ming person and become a Haihan person, Luo Shengdong's consideration has naturally shifted from getting rich to future development. This is not only about his personal destiny, but also related to the future prospects of the family.For Luo Shengdong, money is definitely inexhaustible in this life, and the next generation can basically live comfortably.He has invested in some plantations on Hainan Island and various colonies in the South China Sea, and has gradually entered a stable income period. The annual profit is not much worse than the previous salt smuggling, which is enough to meet the needs of his family in the future.
But this alone is not enough. Luo Shengdong has tasted the sweetness of holding power, so he is naturally not willing to be a landlord in the second half of his life. What's more, the national power of Haihan is booming. If he can't win a better birth for his descendants, Then no matter how rich the Luo family is, they are still ordinary people, trying to find a way to become an official in Haihan, Luo Shengdong thinks this is the best plan to protect the descendants of the family.
Luo Shengdong thought that he got along relatively well with the high-level officials of Haihan, so he came forward to ask the executive committee on his own, hoping to serve the country in a different way. The committee has also done a lot of things, and he even participated in many shady things. There are credits and hard work, so he was given such an opportunity.Anyway, Haihan had a long history of appointing officials who surrendered from Ming Dynasty and other countries, and Luo Shengdong was no different.
Of course, Luo Shengdong did not take office immediately after the executive committee nodded, but participated in a period of government affairs training, and then practiced in Sanya, Danzhou, and Haikou for about a month before he was appointed. Director of the Management Committee of Yinggehai County.
However, Luo Shengdong worshiped the right bodhisattva and burned the right incense. He forcibly worshiped Anxi, who is in charge of the salt industry in the Haihan Industry Department, as his teacher a few years ago for his private salt business. He was several years older than Anxi, but after that, he treated Anxi as a master and apprentice.When Luo Shengdong proposed a change of job to the executive committee, Anxi also spoke out for him in the middle, so that the errand in Yinggehai County was handed over to Luo Shengdong.
Luo Shengdong has a famous teacher, and he has been in this industry for several years, so he knows all the tricks. If he is the magistrate of the salt production area, he is professionally competent.Although he used to be a military officer, but after Haihan's government affairs training, he is capable enough to manage a county.Although there are many rich salt merchants coming and going here, Luo Shengdong is a rich man himself, and he will not be easily bought with money. In addition, he also knows that Haihan's internal supervision has an independent operating system. This official position is not an iron rice bowl, so since he took office for more than a year, he has managed the place in an orderly manner and has not committed any obvious mistakes.
Sanya sent inspection teams to various counties to inspect government affairs and people's conditions. Luo Shengdong had been notified about this in advance, but he only learned the news after Yu Xiaobao and others came to live in Yinggehai.Luo Shengdong's attitude was still very correct, and he came to the county guest house to meet Yu Xiaobao early in the morning.After everyone had breakfast together, Luo Shengdong hurriedly took them to visit the production situation of the local salt field.
"I still have to take a car?" Liu Shang couldn't help but wonder when he saw several carriages with awnings parked outside the guest house.Isn't this place a bit too rich? The salt farm is clearly within sight, and a few carriages are specially sent to pull people.
However, Luo Shengdong then explained the reason clearly: "The salt field in the county is too large, and it is too tiring to rely on two legs. Everyone can take a car to inspect, and the body can relax a little bit."
Luo Shengdong's move was really not just to show off his wealth or to flatter. The Yinggehai Salt Field is quite large, with a distance of about ten miles from east to west and north to south. It would be tiring to visit on two legs.Moreover, most of the people who came here to visit were salt merchants. Naturally, these pampered big merchants wanted to take a tour by car, and now they just gave Xiaobao and his party the same treatment.
After the carriage came close, Liu Shangcai discovered that the salt fields here were not as white as they looked from a distance, but consisted of countless rectangular salt fields.Some salt fields have basically completed the process of drying salt, and the white sea salt is like white snow covering the salt fields.Some saltworks workers are using wooden shovels to shovel the sun-dried salt together. From a distance, the piles of salt do look like snow in winter.
It's a pity that the car Liu Shang was riding in was not equipped with a special commentator, and Luo Shengdong was accompanying Yu Xiaobao and Zhang Qianzhi in the car in front. Liu Shang wanted to know the scale and production of the local salt fields. Ability, probably can only be wronged first.
However, even though Liu Shang was not that familiar with the production process of the saltworks, he still quickly discovered a special item he knew in his field of vision—the steam engine.Different from the steam engine elsewhere, it is mainly used to draw water here, pumping the saturated salt solution in the brine pool into the crystallization pool, which is much more efficient than the original manual pumping.Liu Shang looked at the humming steam engine, and thought that the Haihan people really used this steam engine in various occasions, even the salt field. Boasting that this is the number one salt field in the world, it really has confidence.
In fact, Haihan started trialing steam engine irrigation equipment in the Salt Field Commune outside Shengli Port a few years ago to assist production. After accumulating a lot of experience in use, it was gradually extended to other salt production areas including Yinggehai Salt Field.However, in the promotion of Yinggehai, we also encountered a small problem, that is, the local fresh water resources are relatively scarce, especially in the vicinity of Yantian, there is no fresh water source at all, and groundwater can only be exploited by drilling wells To meet the working needs of the steam engine, it also took a lot of extra manpower and material resources.
However, the increase in production efficiency brought about by the use of steam engines is very significant, and the increased benefits quickly make up for these expenses. At present, more than ten steam pumps have been put into use in various saltworks in Yinggehai.However, this is far from enough for the production scale of Yinggehai. Luo Shengdong also hopes to take advantage of the opportunity of the inspection team from Sanya to inspect the work, and then explain the local production needs, so that the Ministry of Industry can reschedule as soon as possible. Produced several sets of steam engine lifting and irrigation equipment and delivered them to Yinggehai Saltworks.
Similar to other places, when more and more people realized the productivity change brought about by steam-powered machinery, the early promotion gradually became the initiative of users, and Haihan’s industrial manufacturing capacity was far from enough To solve the demand for steam engines, many places can only submit orders to the Ministry of Industry first, and then the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Industry will jointly decide which regions and industries need to be solved first.
In the current environment where Haihan is constantly expanding the actual control area, military is undoubtedly the first use that needs to be taken care of. Haihan's sea area spans more than [-] miles from north to south. Steam warships have become an indispensable combat weapon for the navy. Haihan The maritime military advantage maintained by other countries depends largely on the performance improvement brought by steam power to warships.At least half of the steam engine production capacity of the Ministry of Industry must be allocated to military projects, and the rest can be divided among other civilian projects. The competition can even be described as fierce.
Although Luo Shengdong has a little friendship with Haihan's top management, he has been in the officialdom for so many years, and he also understands that it is not a wise behavior to use personal friends to solve official affairs, so even though Yinggehai Salt Works has a great demand for steam equipment , he still can only try to make requests to the above through formal channels.In Luo Shengdong's eyes, the inspection team can actually be regarded as a shortcut worth trying.
As long as Yu Xiaobao and others can be persuaded to apply to the executive committee, the effect may be much better than the result of Luo Shengdong's own report.He knew very well that Yu Xiaobao's popularity in Haihan and his friendship with high-level figures were not comparable to his own, so he also made certain preparations for the arrival of Xiaobao and others.Among other things, the inspection team was all allocated single rooms when they checked in at the guest house. This was the result of Luo Shengdong's advance greeting.
Of course, Luo Shengdong's means are more than that. Based on his official experience, he believes that a young and ambitious young official like Yu Xiaobao doesn't care too much about other people's flattery, because he probably doesn't like such people at all. In short, as for the means of bribery in disguise, it is absolutely unacceptable. Once the other party thinks that he has some bad intentions, and he goes back to make a small report to the chiefs, he will not be able to clean up by jumping into the South China Sea.
Luo Shengdong believes that the key to pleasing the other party is to make the other party feel happy during their local business trips. In addition to providing Yu Xiaobao and others with more comfortable food, accommodation and transportation conditions, he also specially convened the management of various local departments in advance. The personnel made preparations, the production unit emphasized labor discipline, the residential area and commercial area were cleaned up, and the government affairs materials were prepared by themselves, so that the inspection team could not find too many problems in the local area.
Both parties are naturalized cadres, and their official positions are almost the same, and they have known each other eight years ago, but there is no intersection at work, and they seldom interact with each other.But I have to say that Luo Shengdong's rough and detailed arrangements really suit Xiaobao's appetite. He only hopes to complete his work in Yinggehai County smoothly, and he doesn't need the other party to give him anything Benefits or a flattering attitude, as long as they can cooperate with explaining the local government affairs situation.
After walking for about two miles, the convoy stopped at a place with many houses.This is not the residence of the local people, but the production center that manages the nearby salt fields.The functions here are mainly to allocate manpower and production tasks, store production tools, and storehouses for storing finished salt.
Liu Shang noticed that the houses here are all built with heavy stones. It was the first time Liu Shang saw this kind of houses made of stone after he came to Hainan Island. When he walked in, he could see the surface of the outer walls of the houses. There are pieces of tiny salt particles attached to it, which can be twisted with a finger.
At this time, Luo Shengdong also introduced to everyone the reason for building this kind of house. The reason for building this kind of house is because the local air has a heavy saline-alkali content, and other building materials are easily corroded. Only stone can maintain long-term stability.However, in this way, the cost of building houses is naturally much higher than that of other places. If it were not for the abundant financial resources of the salt farm, it would be difficult to build a large number of such expensive stone buildings.
Luo Shengdong led the crowd into one of the rooms, where several people were at their desks fiddled with some salt on the table in small porcelain dishes.Luo Shengdong introduced: "The head of Anxi has set three standards for the locally produced salt. Here, the salt that has been made is sampled and tested to see if it meets the standard. If it does not meet the standard, it cannot be sold outside. of."
The so-called third-grade standards are actually more for the consideration of commercial sales, and the quality of table salt is used as the reference standard for pricing, so as to achieve the purpose of covering all price points.Specifically, it is divided into three grades of coarse salt, refined salt and special salt.
Coarse salt is basically the natural salt after the evaporation of salt water and the crystallization of the salt. The production process is the simplest, the cost is the lowest, and the price is naturally the cheapest. It is Haihan's sharp weapon to seize the low-end market.The production process of refined salt is much more complicated. It needs to be filtered with coarse salt, added to other solutions to form a precipitate, and various impurities are removed, and then water is evaporated. After a series of physical and chemical means of purification, it is obtained. The purer refined salt.This process is much more complicated, and the price on the market will naturally increase exponentially.
As for the more high-end special salt, it is based on the concept of commercial packaging, adding some edible spices to the refined salt, coupled with exquisite packaging and a specially formulated brand promotion strategy, the sales target is also Most of the upper-class people in society who are not short of money, the price is more than ten times higher than that of coarse salt.Although the output is not high, the profit is considerable.
(End of this chapter)