"Good!" Zhu Linmiao took the food box, "You made it yourself, I'll try to finish it." ”

However, before he could eat a crab meat bun, he saw Shi Lin helplessly communicating at the door, "My lord, Governor Fan asked to see him, saying that there is something urgent." ”

"Alas......" Zhu Linmiao sighed, "let him wait for me in the side hall." Then he grabbed a piece of honey cake and stuffed it into his mouth, smiled apologetically at Mu Zhiqing, got up and walked out of the house.

"What's the urgency of Lord Fan?"

Fan Jun hurriedly saluted, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and said: "Back to Your Highness, last night there were refugees from Changhua and Yuqian pouring into the city, because there were too many people, the lower officials had to order the city gate to be closed temporarily......"

Zhu Linmiao frowned and said, "How many people?" ”

"It's always more than thirty or forty thousand."

"I'll give you another 30,000 taels. As long as it lasts for a maximum of another month, I will have the means to resettle the refugees at my own pace. Not long ago, half of the 150,000 taels of "labor army silver" given by King Lu was spent.

Fan Jun still said with a bitter face: "Your Highness, even if you have money, it is difficult to do it." Fang Guoan once requisitioned most of the grain and rice in the city, and now the surplus grain in the city is enough to deal with these people for eight or nine days at most. ”

"Then hurry up and transfer food from elsewhere!"

Fan Jun hesitated for a moment, and arched his hand: "Your Highness, it is to transfer food to deal with this group, and I am afraid that a large number of refugees will come later......" He paused and continued, "The lower officials think that it is better to let the refugees go to Zhoushan." ”

"Zhoushan?"

"Zhoushan is vast and sparsely populated, and it is extremely rich in sea fish, and a few nets can be enough for a family to eat for two or three days. Since then, it will take the waterway to the east, and it will not take ten days to arrive, not only can these refugees be placed, but also Shaoxing can take a breath. ”

Zhu Linmiao is a little strange, since the products are so rich, why is the land vast and sparsely populated?

He asked Fan Jun again to learn that due to the ban on the sea during the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered all the people of Zhoushan and the nearby 46 islands to be moved to Ningbo and other places.

Although people returned to the island one after another, they began to riot again, and the isolated island was extremely vulnerable to attack, and the people had to flee one after another. Therefore, until now, we can only sit and watch the rich fishery resources of Zhoushan, but not many people go to fish.

"That's a good arrangement." Zhu Linmiao nodded. After the population of the island increases, it is more convenient to build a supply port for sailors there than to return to Ningbo and Shanghai. In addition, the fish from Zhoushan can also be transported to the mainland to be sold, and the people on the island will be able to become richer day by day, and even the fish can be transported as rations for the Dragon Guard.

However, fish meat is not easy to keep fresh. He suddenly remembered the canning factory that he had wanted to build a long time ago, and it would not be a problem to make canned fish and transport it to Yunnan. You must know that the price of fish and meat in the western Ming region is at least thirty or forty times that of Zhoushan!

And with the "artifact" of canned food, it can also greatly improve the logistics and supply capacity of the Ming army, especially the sailors. In this era, it was not easy to eat vegetables and fresh meat after going to sea, and even a large number of sailors suffered from sepsis as a result. If you have a half-cabin can, these problems can be solved immediately.

He secretly planned that he could now take advantage of Zhoushan's abundant and cheap fishery resources. The relocated refugees can also participate in the construction of the cannery to earn some wages, so as to quickly improve their lives and reduce the pressure on the imperial court to help the refugees.

So he instructed Fan Jun: "Then Lord Fan will arrange for the refugees to go to Zhoushan as soon as possible." There has been no fighting in the sailors lately, so they can set aside some boats to help transport the refugees. ”

As a person of later generations, Zhu Linmiao felt that it was a matter of course for the warship to rescue and rescue the disaster, but Fan Jun was greatly shocked, and knelt on the spot, "Your Highness is sympathetic to the people of Li, and it is really a bodhisattva's heart!" Thank you for these tens of thousands of refugees! ”

Zhu Linmiao hurriedly helped him up, sent him to work first, and then returned to the dormitory by himself, and hurriedly ate two bites of breakfast, and began to write a letter.

Mu Zhiqing cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks on the side, and saw that Zhu Linmiao was burying her head in the public case, so she stepped forward to help him polish the ink again, tilting her head and scanning the words "canning factory".

After a while, Zhu Linmiao picked up the finished letter and dried it, and then Wen Mu Zhiqing said adoringly: "Your Highness, Zhiqing really suspects that you are from Penglai Immortal Island, and in the past two days, she has said many strange things that have opened my eyes, what is this cannery?" ”

Zhu Linmiao handed her the letter. The letter was addressed to Song Yingxing of the Ministry of Works, and the first half asked him to send some men to Zhoushan to build a canning factory there. The second half was to ask him to go to the shipyards in Yongbeili and Nan'an to urge the progress of the newly built warships.

"Canning food is to use a small bottle to fill the food, then steam it for half an hour, and then seal it while it is hot." Zhu Linmiao explained to her, "After processing in this way, the food can be kept from going bad for several months.

"I want to move refugees from the Shaoxing neighborhood to Zhoushan, where I can build a factory where I can canned fish from Zhoushan and ship it to the mainland for sale."

Mu Zhiqing said: "Fish meat is the most perishable, this can be stored for months without spoiling?!" ”

Zhu briefly told her about bacteria and molds, and how killing these microorganisms with high temperature can prevent food spoilage.

Now that she was no longer surprised by what he said, she only nodded and wrote it down carefully, and said: "Zhoushan produces a lot of fish, and Your Highness's cannery will be very big." ”

Zhu Linmiao said with a smile: "At the beginning, it was 1,000 bottles a day, and in the future, I plan to produce 100,200,000 bottles a day." ”

"In this way, there must be a lot of investment."

"Yes, I plan to invest 30,000 taels first, and order 5,000 taels to make porcelain vases. In the future, when the glass factory is completed, the price can be reduced by half by half. ”

Mu Zhiqing pondered: "There is a lot involved in the construction of this factory, and there will be people who are greedy for ink from such a large sum of money, and His Highness has to send a reliable person to keep an eye on it." ”

Zhu Linmiao nodded, and summed it up in her heart, but found that her henchmen were busier than the other.

Seeing him frowning and sighing, Mu Zhiqing turned to him, pointed to the tip of his nose and said, "Or, Zhiqing will help His Highness to keep an eye on it, right?" I can manage the accounts of tens of thousands of households in Lijiang, and ensure that no one will be greedy from the canning factory! ”

Zhu Linmiao shook his head and said, "The island is exposed to the wind and sun, and you are tired of doing a lot of work, I'm afraid you will work too hard there." ”

"Your Highness," Mu Zhiqing said as she stared at him seriously, "Zhiqing only hopes to help you, and her heart is already extremely happy." Then she smiled playfully, "As for the wind and sun, I can use an umbrella." Don't worry, I won't let myself get ugly. And even if I'm really ugly, you can't dislike me! ”

Zhu Linmiao had to nod her head in agreement under her soft grinding and hard bubbles, and carefully advised, if you feel hard, you will return to Shaoxing immediately.