Chapter 347: The Light of Righteousness (Part 1)
While Lin Wen was tidying up the housekeeping in the back, he was also remotely controlling Qin Luoshuang over the phone.
Under Lin Wen's meticulous command, Shizhou's so-called strongest ancient Dacheng army suffered defeat after defeat.
After discovering that street fighting was extremely disadvantageous, Gu Dacheng ignored the protests of several profiteers and bombarded Jiangkou City.
Qin Luoshuang, who knew Gu Dacheng's plan in advance, had already withdrawn the residents and troops back to the inner city. Their current goal was to delay time as much as possible and move all the supplies.
To be honest, Qin Luoshuang didn't expect that there were so many things hidden in Jiangkou City.
She discovered underground warehouses under several large warehouses and many hidden warehouses in the city. Without exception, they were all filled with food.
Preliminary estimates put the total at at least one million tons.
The current grain price in the empire has soared to 6,000 yuan per ton.
These one million tons of grain are worth 6 billion yuan, more than three times the price two months ago.
Qin Luoshuang soon realized that this was the grain that the bigwigs of the empire were hoarding.
The empire issued a military order to Shizhou a month ago, requiring them to hand over 10 million tons of grain within a month.
However, the bigwigs in Shizhou had no intention of giving up their own grain. Instead, they used the banner of the empire and frantically plundered the peasants, regardless of the risk of rebellion.
They only handed over a portion of the collected grain, and kept a large portion for themselves, causing the price of grain in the empire to skyrocket, and then they made huge profits from it.
Qin Luoshuang was already used to this routine, but she didn't expect it to be so crazy.
Jiangkou City alone has stored one million tons, so how much is stored in the entire Shizhou?
If you think about it carefully, the empire was short of food during war, so why wasn't there a shortage of food during peacetime? Could soldiers eat ten times as much food during war?
It is somewhat unreasonable. Obviously, the empire's grain group is taking advantage of the war to make huge profits.
Doesn’t the Supreme Council know this?
She must know, but there are too many people involved, and her father must be one of them, and he is not even the biggest one.
The fear of deep sea once again gripped her, and inexplicable anxiety and tension rose from her heart. The dark side of the empire was like the dark seabed. You had no idea how many monsters were hidden there.
They are like small boats sailing on the dark sea. Once they fall into the sea, they will be eaten by countless monsters.
But this time, Qin Luoshuang did not give in. She tried hard to think of Lin Wen's face, imagine his fearless smile, and imagine the powerful people he had killed.
Then, this demonic darkness gradually moved away from her.
The sun's rays seemed to shine on her again, warm and swelling.
She smiled unconsciously.
The confidence to overcome all this returned to my heart.
She immediately returned to the temporary command center, found Fang Dashan and Wang Zhengwu, and arranged the next steps of the battle.
Good news came. Lao Xie somehow managed to purchase some high-performance cargo ships and inland patrol ships used by the navy, which were not available through normal channels.
Changshan County's freight capacity has been greatly improved.
As soon as these one million tons of grain are transported, the Changshan County army will board a cargo ship and take refuge in the temporarily rented Yunzhou port.
Changshan County will not have to worry about food problems for a very long time in the future, and can even sell food to ease financial pressure.
So, now all we have to do is delay time.
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In the following days, Lin Wen inspected the refugee camps, the accommodation for 500,000 workers, the construction site, Ji Fuxiao and Xiao Li's new town, the fishing company and food factory, Changshan Iron and Steel Plant, Chen Xingtai and Yun Qingshui's Shangxi Town.
They are in very good condition and everything is in good order.
The large-scale development of Changshan County is proceeding very smoothly. Huaizhen has started to build a ring road, and the northern suburbs are preparing to build an airport. The western suburbs are preparing to incorporate Qingze Township, the laborers' accommodation, into the administrative management of Huaizhen.
It is said that there are plans to build a subway.
For this reason, Lin Wen personally went to talk to Zhao Minggong and told him that if he wanted to build a subway, he must not look for an engineering team from other places to use a tunnel boring machine to dig the tunnel.
Spending tens of millions to dig one kilometer is such a huge loss.
Just let his... Java engineering team come, it's free, he can finish a year's work in one day.
Zhao Minggong did not have much doubt. As the Java Engineering Team played an increasingly important role in the construction of Changshan County, people gradually stopped being surprised by those magical things.
If you come across anything strange, it's the Java Engineering Team's job.
However, because the Java Engineering Team is too mysterious and their work is elusive, it has aroused suspicion from some people.
However, the accommodation of the Java Engineering Team was under strict guard by the KGB, and no one could get a glimpse of what was going on for the time being.
Lin Wen plans to set up a real Java Engineering Team and make it public in a while to avoid rumors that there is no Java Engineering Team and that it is the gods who are helping them.
This kind of feudal superstition is very harmful to the scientific development of Changshan County.
Lin Wen's ability is not universal, so it must be an urban legend. Science is the truth of this world.
The future development of Changshan County must be based on science. Lin Wen is just speeding up the development process a little bit.
The second stop was Changshan Iron and Steel Plant.
Everything is running well at Changshan Iron and Steel Plant now. Due to the abundant funds some time ago, it even introduced two production lines, which increased the steel output by one third, greatly filling the gap in steel needed for the construction of Changshan County.
The sales of the Flying Sword Workshop also returned to normal. Last time, Lin Wen took their two weeks' output and contacted foreign buyers through Qin Luoshuang.
Lin Wen smuggled the knives himself and sold them at a 10% premium.
When overseas companies openly sold these knives at double the price, the Imperial Military Factory knew that their joint pressure had failed and that Changshan County had a way to bypass the blockade and sell the products abroad.
They could only resume normal trade with the Flying Sword Workshop, otherwise they would suffer greater losses.
Top-notch cutting tools have a limited lifespan, and the precision parts produced from them are as valuable as gold.
No one can accept the loss of work stoppage.
Therefore, Changshan County's largest economic pillar has returned to normal.
Lin Wen’s third stop was Tianjiang Fishery Company and Changshan Food Factory.
The fishing company strictly follows the environmentally friendly fishing volume set by Lin Wending, averaging 3,000 tons per day, with a gross profit of around 15 to 20 million yuan.
Food factories are developing very rapidly. In addition to fish processing plants, a large number of flour food processing plants have also been built.
As many as hundreds of flour foods were produced here and circulated throughout Changshan County, taking a solid step towards the achievement of "a wide range of goods".
The two factories also created huge social value. They accommodated more than 400,000 people, including 300,000 disaster victims in Xinzhen.
The workers' committees they formed managed to run both factories at a very high level of efficiency without any conventional leadership.
With stable jobs and reliable security, the entire social atmosphere has changed.
The public security environment in more than a dozen towns in the central and western parts of Changshan County has improved significantly. No one is causing trouble, fighting, or stealing anymore, and even the number of "street urchins" has decreased by more than half.
As a key new town in the central region, its atmosphere and environment can be said to be the best in the entire Changshan County. It truly realizes the scene of leaving doors unlocked at night, not picking up things on the road, and neighbors helping each other, creating a harmonious atmosphere.
Living here makes you feel extremely comfortable. Everyone is like a friend, friendly, enthusiastic and harmonious. No matter what difficulties you encounter, it is natural for everyone to come and lend a hand.
Even if you are walking alone on the street in the dead of night, you don’t have to be afraid.
This is a warm but not hot society.
It comes from the shared joys and sorrows of 300,000 people and is formed by the concerted efforts of 300,000 people.
Every piece of soil and every brick here were built by County Chief Lin.
Lin Wen suddenly realized that a large part of his good karma must have come from here.
After the food factory was built, his good fortune suddenly increased. At first, he thought it was the good fortune from the food factory, but now it seems that it was the good fortune from the new town.
Ji Fuxiao and Xiao Li did a good job.
Lin Wen had met them once. Rather than being the mayor and deputy mayor, they were more like good friends of the townspeople.
They were young, full of energy and passion. Instead of living in the palace, they went out to mingle with the townspeople, listen to their voices and ideas, and eventually created this warm town.
If the symbol of Xinzhen is coziness, warmth and harmony, then the symbol of Shangxi Town is enthusiasm and gay passion.
Chen Xingtai and Yun Qingshui have governed more than 600,000 people. They have reclaimed more than 10 million acres of land, built water conservancy facilities on 10 million acres of land, established a logging camp with more than 20,000 people, and a hunter organization with more than 10,000 people.
They established more than 60 logging sites and more than 400 hunters' cabins in the Taixu Mountains. The large amount of wood produced allowed 600,000 people to have at least one simple wooden house to live in.
A large amount of game enriched the tables of the common people in Changshan County.
The refugee camp also operated well. After the refugee committee was regularized, its efficiency did not decrease at all. They gladly accepted the identity of Changshan County officials and were happy to work for such a government office.
Therefore, Lin Wen was very happy these days. Seeing Changshan County so prosperous and harmonious, he had a premonition that his good karma would increase significantly again.
Today, he will go to inspect the new factory to see how they are working, whether the benefits he has agreed on are being distributed properly, and whether the production line improvement plan he gave to Yang Shaohu has improved efficiency.
Arriving at the factory, Lin Wen saw a large number of trucks, unloading boxes of plastic-bottled salty soda and delivering them to the sweating workers.
Salty soda is cheap and plentiful, making it perfect for people after work.
This bottle of water costs only 1.2 yuan, but it plays a big role. After hard work, a slightly sweet and slightly salty liquid flows down the throat into the stomach, which can indeed greatly relieve fatigue, boost spirits and improve work efficiency.
Yang Shaohu handled this matter very well. There were more than two million workers working in the new factory at the same time, so many that the factory could not accommodate them all, so they had to sit on the nearby mountains to assemble artillery shells.
This means that the distribution of more than two million bottles of water cannot be accomplished without strong organizational capabilities. Forcing it to do so may even cause chaos and affect production order.
But now, from Lin Wen's point of view, the whole scene did not seem chaotic at all. People were even arranged to recycle empty plastic bottles, and they were doing it with ease.
Lin Wen was very happy, and he became even happier after Yang Shaohu reported on his work during this period.
After he installed a crank structure on the production line according to the solution provided by Lin Wen, his production efficiency increased by at least 30%.
After the workers received good welfare protection, their enthusiasm was even higher.
The daily production rate has now exceeded two million pieces, which is almost enough to run out of spare parts and require urgent purchases.
In addition to the part of the produced artillery shells that were handed over to the empire, some were provided to Zhongzhou, and some were sold to the empire's highest military department at market price.
After careful calculation, the income actually exceeds the welfare expenditure.
Yang Shaohu was truly impressed by this, and he also deeply understood a truth: endless exploitation cannot achieve the highest efficiency.
Think about the workers from their perspective, and the workers will think about you from your perspective.
This is the way to harmonious coexistence.
(End of this chapter)
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