The next day, the entire county government office became busy.
Lin Xue left Yuhai County alone with Mo Bai and Dong Wu, heading to the nearest prefecture!
He found an opportunity to get the two away and rented a courtyard to put the grain inside.
At this point, she didn't care about cheating anymore. Lin Xue had already started making preparations when she learned that Huang Dehai was going to take up a post in Yuhai County.
Apart from the two acres of precious medicinal herbs, she planted ordinary grains in all the fields in the space.
For example, corn, soybeans, wheat, and rice are planted in rotation.
Her spatial level is now quite high, and the spatial flow rate can be adjusted to be up to ten times that of the outside world.
Furthermore, due to the abundant spiritual energy in the space, the grain yield was extremely high, so Lin Xue brought back tens of thousands of kilograms of grain to Yuhai County this time.
Although Dong Wu and Mo Bai came out with Lin Xue, they still didn't understand where Lin Xue bought the grain from until they brought it back to Yuhai County.
However, the two were also very sensible, knowing that there were some things they couldn't interfere with.
With this grain, Yuhai County can get started on its development.
Originally, the entire Yuhai County was extremely poor, and almost everyone who could escape had already fled.
Those who remain in Yuhai County are mostly the elderly, the infirm, or the disabled, or young people with elderly, infirm, or disabled family members who are unwilling to abandon their families.
Lin Xue directly instructed Huang Dehai to distribute three jin of grain to each household. Although it wasn't much, it would be enough to sustain these people for a while.
Yes, just three kilograms of grain could sustain a family for several days.
Because the weather hasn't reached its coldest point yet, people can still go to the beach to collect seafood and to the mountains to dig for wild vegetables.
A handful of rice is enough to cook a large pot of wild vegetable porridge. Compared to plain vegetable porridge with only water, this one with added grains is naturally more nourishing.
Lin Xue's team also moved quickly, and with the migrant workers she had gathered, they first built a brick and tile factory.
In addition to what was needed to build the county government office, they also planned to build a factory to recruit workers.
This can be considered as finding a way for the people in the county to make a living.
All the laborers recruited by the government were given a pound of grain every day, which caused a sensation throughout the county.
Everyone who could still breathe and walk eventually gathered in the county town.
At first, Huang Dehai was worried that the people would become restless, but after Lin Xue and Dong Wu used force to suppress them, even those who wanted to cause trouble had no choice but to obey.
After the brick and tile factory was built, Lin Xue handed it over to Huang Degui's family to manage!
Worried that Huang Degui might not be able to control the situation, Lin Xue directly assigned Mo Bai to him.
After the brick and tile factory was built, Lin Xue's second project was to build a shipyard.
After all, people rely on the sea for their livelihood. As long as they build sturdy ships, they can organize the people to go out to sea to fish.
Lin Xue only learned about the shipyard from the local people when she was about to build it.
Ten years ago, life in Yuhai County was still manageable, as fishermen could support their families with their fishing skills.
However, later, due to the harassment by Japanese pirates, many fishermen in the vicinity were killed or injured.
Eventually, no one dared to go out to sea to fish anymore, and in recent years even the Japanese pirates have stopped coming to rob them.
Because Yuhai County is really poor now, let alone Japanese pirates, even rats would cry and leave.
Lin Xue promised the people that the matter of the Japanese pirates would be handled by the imperial court. They only needed to focus on building ships, and then follow the magistrate's orders to fish and dry their seafood properly.
At the same time, Lin Xue also sent Dong Wu, who had always been by her side, away.
Previously, Yuhai County didn't even have a county magistrate, let alone a county assistant magistrate.
According to the yamen runners, the old county magistrate had starved to death a few days before Lin Xue and her group arrived.
Then I asked about the county constable's situation, and what I found out was quite shocking. It turned out that the county constable of Yuhai County couldn't stand the poverty here at all, so he secretly left his post and no one knew where he had gone.
"Great, now we don't even need to eliminate dissidents!"
Lin Xue sighed and directly put Dong Wu in charge of the county magistrate's duties, allocating him some money and grain, and instructing him to select young and strong men from the county to train a group of soldiers.
Once Yuhai County showed signs of improvement, Huang Dehai, in his capacity as county magistrate, truthfully reported the situation of the local officials to the imperial court.
By the way, we should also submit the list of candidates for these two positions. I doubt that the people in the capital will know the true situation in Yuhai County for a while.
In the court's perception, this was a place so poor even birds wouldn't defecate there, and presumably no one would object.
After more than a month of hard work, the first batch of fishing boats was built.
Lin Xue led the fishermen, whom she had selected and raised for more than a month, on their first fishing trip at sea.
Because there hadn't been any large-scale fishing in these waters for several years, the first operation was a great success.
The people cheered loudly as they watched the fishermen bring back boatloads of big, fat fish.
Lin Xue did not intend to process this first batch of fish into canned fish; instead, she paid it to the workers as wages.
News came from Huang Degui's side that the cement plant had been completed.
The first batch of cement was also developed using the formula provided by Lin Xue.
Lin Xue only offered her opinions and participated in the planning of the blueprints for the construction of the dam; the rest was left to Huang Dehai.
After all, she is just one person, and she can't be in two places at once, so it's impossible for her to be perfect in every aspect.
Once the coastal dikes are built, the next step is to construct flood discharge channels.
All of this was left to Huang Dehai and his team, while Lin Xue had Huang Degui continue building factories for him.
Every ten days or so, Lin Xue would go to another place and bring back truckloads of grain.
The initial workforce was sustained by the grain that Lin Xue brought back!
After the cannery was built, Lin Xue handed the job over directly to Huang Dequan's family.
There isn't a single proper private school in the entire Yuhai County now, so all the children stay at home, and Lin Xue has specially hired a tutor to teach them individually.
Because glass had not yet been manufactured, the first batch of canned goods was stored in earthenware jars.
Although this method has some drawbacks, except for Linhai County where the winters are not too cold, the outside world is already covered in ice and snow.
This first batch of goods couldn't travel too far, so Lin Xue arranged for people to deliver them to several nearby prefectures for sale.
Moreover, Old Man Mo was among the people accompanying them this time. After all, he was one of their own family members, and he was much more reliable than outsiders.
With the indenture in his own hands, he wouldn't dare to embezzle the money!
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