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Chapter 29 Huang Yu, Beixuan Island

"His Royal Highness, the county academy has been built, and the selection of the teaching has been completed, and we can start recruiting students." Lu Shou said.

Zheng Ming nodded slightly, and said, "Then let's recruit them. If you don't have to finish your training, you will be provided with lunch at noon. All teenagers in the city from the age of eight to 16 years old can enroll."

Shanhai County has been lax in literature and Taoism, and scholars are very scarce. Now that the academy is completed, he must train a group of qualified scholars as soon as possible.

Knowledge does not need to be too deep, as long as you can read and write vernacular.

There are about 30,000 people in Shanhai County, and there are about 16 people between the ages of eight and 1000 years old. Excluding women, there are only about 500 people.

Zheng Ming estimated that it would be good to recruit 300 people. After all, not everyone wants to study.

Teenagers over the age of ten are already considered the labor force of their families, and those from poor families are likely not to enroll.

As for compulsory or compulsory education, Shanhai County does not yet have that kind of strength.

There is no shortage of silver, Zheng Ming and the county government. What is lacking is teachers. Without teachers, compulsory education is delusional.

So now Zheng Ming only opened one academy and one martial arts institute, as for the rest, let's take it slow.

"His Royal Highness, if you don't put a stop to the cultivation, the Academy of Literature will probably not be able to last." Lu Shou said in a low voice.

"Have you made a budget for next year's income and expenditure?" Zheng Ming asked.

Lu Shou walked to the desk, took out a book, handed it to Zheng Ming, and said, "I have already done it, and it is expected to lose 50,000 taels of silver next year."

At present, the main expenditure of the county government is the salaries of officials and construction costs. Road repairs, expansion of cities, construction of houses, etc. are all large.

The county government's main income is only the taxation of cultivated land, and the gap between income and expenditure is very large.

Zheng Ming looked at the booklet, but he didn't care too much.

Such a result is normal. Shanhai County has little arable land, and the development of Shanhai County cannot be supported by the land tax. If it wants to develop, it must rely on business.

Shanhai County is not without products. Fur, herbs, etc. in the mountains, fishery products and sea vegetables in the sea can all be sold.

But these alone are not enough, Shanhai County also needs some pillar industries.

such as salt.

Zheng Ming does not know the specific steps of drying salt, but he knows how to dry it.

In fact, Shanhai County is not short of salt, because some people can cook salt. Since boiling salt can be done, there is no reason why it can't be dried. The big deal is to experiment a few times.

As for whether the salt will affect the interests of others and attract hatred from others, Zheng Ming has not considered it for the time being.

In addition to salt, there are also high alcohol, soap, glass, etc., which can be slowly experimented.

After the Wendao in Shanhai County is prosperous, Zheng Ming may be able to launch various scientific disciplines.

But these all take time.

Zheng Ming looked at the booklet, pondered for a long time, and said, "How much money has been released so far?"

"There are more than 80,000 taels." Lu Shou said.

"With a population of 180,000 and 100,000 taels of silver, even if the folks had saved money before, the per capita would still be less than one taels of silver." Zheng Ming calculated.

"Next year, another 200,000 taels of silver will be released. At the same time, we will increase our business and trade efforts with the Northern Mansion and form more caravans."

Zheng Ming still has one million taels of silver in his hand, but in order to avoid inflation, he can only release it little by little.

Silver is a good thing, but for the small Shanhai County, too much is not good.

Lu Shou and Yao Haisheng looked at each other, they couldn't understand Zheng Ming's thoughts.

According to their ideas, those deposits should be spent slowly, otherwise, like Zheng Ming, he would be profligate, and the county government would run out of money in a few years.

However, they had just experienced Zheng Ming's anger, and they did not dare to raise any objections.

……

After receiving Zheng Ming's order, Yu Huatian immediately set off with two factory guards and Li Chuan.

Their first stop was Beixuan Island.

Beixuan Island is located in the northern part of the Luoyu Islands, close to the Luoyu Mountains, almost to the north of Fuhai Island.

It takes three hours to arrive by boat from the coast of Shanhai County.

However, Yu Huatian waited on the boat all night before arriving at Beixuan Island the next morning.

Beixuan Island is several times larger than Fuhai Island, in the shape of a north-south strip. Because there is a mysterious mountain on the island, it is named Beixuan Island.

But there are only more than 300 residents on the island, most of whom are Huang Yu's family members and those of his disciples and grandchildren.

Huang Yu is 62 years old this year. She is not tall, with gray hair and wearing a linen jacket. She looks like an old country farmer.

If Li Chuan hadn't said that he was Huang Yu, Yuhuatian would not have believed that such a rural old farmer would be the owner of Fuhai Island.

In a shabby hall, there are several sets of tables and chairs with peeling paint, which is not as good as a rich country family.

Yu Huatian walked into the hall, and the factory guard behind him immediately wiped a chair and placed it behind him.

"The chief supervisor is Yuhuatian, the chief supervisor of Xichang under the command of the king of Shanhai County." Yuhuatian looked at the old country farmer in front of him indifferently.

Huang Yu glanced at him, but did not care about his attitude, but smiled kindly: "It turns out that it is the person of His Royal Highness the Prince of the County.

There were also several of Huang Yu's disciples in the hall, and they all looked at Yu Huatian in surprise.

His own family knew his own affairs. Huang Yu was pure-hearted and had few desires. He did not like power or money, but he was quite strict and had high requirements for his disciples.

Therefore, although Beixuan Island's strength is very strong, it is not as powerful as Yihetang on Luoyu Islands.

Under normal circumstances, very few people would come to Beixuan Island.

Yu Huatian didn't sell his way, and asked directly: "Is the Lord Huangdao willing to be loyal to His Royal Highness the Prince?"

"Thank you for your highness and the overseer's kindness. I'm just an old country villager with no virtue and incompetence to assist your highness. I also look to the overseer Haihan." Huang Yu refused without hesitation.

Yu Huatian looked down at the hilt of the sword and said, "His Royal Highness will give a sect order to Beixuan Island."

Huang Yu's eyes were slightly bright, but they soon dimmed.

Establishing a sect is the dream of many loose cultivators. Huang Yu also had this idea when he was young, but unfortunately, as he grew older, he no longer wanted it.

On the contrary, he felt very troublesome to join the command of the king.

"Beixuan Island's strength is low, and I really dare not accept His Highness's love." He still refused.

On the contrary, the disciples around him were a little moved.

It's just that Huang Yu is strict, they dare not intervene.

"You are rejecting His Highness's kindness." Yu Huatian touched the hilt of the sword and said softly.

"I don't dare, I'm just immoral and incompetent," Huang Yu said in a deep voice.

Just relying on Yu Huatian's few words is like asking him to surrender to a strange prince, it is absolutely impossible, not to mention that he has no intention of surrendering to others, even if there is, it is not the prince of Shanhai.

In the east of Luoyu Islands is the Dongying Dynasty, in the north is the Dajin Dynasty, and in the south there is the Dazhou Dynasty. Although it is the closest to Shanhai County, it is not far from the other three dynasties.

If he wants to surrender, the Great Golden Dynasty in the north is more suitable, after all, they are more familiar with the Great Golden Dynasty on Beixuan Island.

(End of this chapter)