Cui Shenji almost didn't vomit on the spot when he found out, he said with a dull face: "Master Hou, envoy, this matter is not about money, we are not that short of money."

It's okay to say that Jiaozhou is very rich. After all, it is only a middle state, and it is impossible to be richer than Shangzhou.

It's just that the establishment of the arms factory is not from the state treasury, but from military expenses. After all, these will all be part of the military factory in the future.

Although their military expenditures are large, their income is not low, so they don't have to worry about money. The problem is that they are short of people.

Luo Shixing scratched his head: "This...I'll think of a way."

Cui Shenji was tired and said: "Or let the Xuanyi Army participate."

In their view, these soldiers have nothing to do except training every day, and it feels like a waste of manpower.

However, Luo Shixing flatly refused and said, "No, the duty of soldiers is to protect their families and the country, and they don't need to do anything else."

Cui Shenji was helpless, hey, what a strange persistence.

He spread his hands: "There is no way."

Luo Shixing rubbed his chin and said, "Organize all the prisoners in prisons in the counties and states, and let them come over for labor reform!"

"Reform through labor?" Cui Shenji froze for a moment.

Luo Shixing nodded and said, "Go and invite Mr. Wei over, just to settle this matter."

Wei Siwen was also a little dazed after hearing the word "reform through labor" when he came over: "What is that?"

Luo Shixing said: "Soldiers still have to train every day. It's too wasteful for those prisoners to eat and drink for free in prison every day. Let them do some things within their ability, such as simple processing or infrastructure construction, and perform well. sentence can be reduced.”

Because of Luo Shixing, the laws of Jiaozhou are relatively lenient in sentencing, and they will not easily sentence people to death unless the crime is extremely heinous, so they basically have two kinds of laws in parallel here. If it is minor, follow the laws of Jiaozhou.

This led to more and more people in the prison. Wei Siwen had mentioned this problem before, but at that time everyone was busy with other things, and the only solution was probably to expand the prison cells.

Now that Luo Shixing was finally going to solve this problem, Wei Siwen was so moved.

And this method is good, unless those who are on death row or life imprisonment, if the remaining people really repent and work hard to make contributions, it would be good to let them go as soon as possible.

Wei Siwen hurriedly said, "I'll do the statistics right away."

Cui Shenji frowned: "But this may not be enough."

There are several munitions factories they want to build, and those few people are really a drop in the bucket.

Luo Shixing said, "It's okay, I'll borrow some people."

Borrow someone?From whom?Of course he borrowed it from his younger brother.

Luo Shixing wrote directly to the governors of the other three states: Are there any prisoners?Help me with the project.

The governors of the other three states were all lost when they received the letter. What's the situation?Why do you want prisoners?

Especially the letter said that the heavier the crime, the better, and life imprisonment is better.

The governor of Sanzhou was a little confused about what he wanted to do, wondering if this guy was looking for an excuse to find out about the crimes committed in their place.

From ancient times to the present, the crime rate of criminal cases has always been one of the evaluation criteria for magistrates.

It's just that this place in Lingnan has a lot of pre-Qin traditions, and fighting is not a problem. The court never counted on the crime rate here, so it didn't strictly examine it.

It's just that what if the economic envoy wants the new official to take office?

So the governors of the other three states laughed and wrote back: How many people does your old man want?Let's find good people.

Luo Shixing replied very quickly. Of course, these letters were all written by the secretary, and now he does not need to write ordinary letters himself.

When the governor of Sanzhou received the reply, everyone was paralyzed. Their economic envoy wrote very clearly in the letter: These people will not be able to go back once they come. Think about it clearly.

He wants prisoners because he doesn't want to compete with these people for the population, but the things that are being built now are all confidential, even if they don't tell them what they are building, they can't let them pass on the news that a factory building is built here, so using prisoners is the best way. OK

The governor of Sanzhou had already started picking people. After receiving this letter, he immediately called a stop, and then counted and collected a bunch of prisoners and sent them over.

The arrival of these prisoners can be regarded as greatly alleviating the problem of employing people, and there is no need to worry about other things.

If they are ordinary people, there is a high probability that those who participate in this construction activity will settle here in the future, or become factory workers, or farm in the surrounding area. It is impossible to let them go anyway.

Prisoners are much simpler. When they are finished, they will be locked up directly. It is impossible for them to pass on the news.

The construction of the factory has been going on for nearly four months. The construction of the factory is easy, but the surrounding supporting facilities are more difficult. After all, if you want people to settle here and work, you must be able to guarantee food and drink.

Because these people can't go out easily, and they have to make a report if they want to go out. Of course, they usually don't agree easily when they make a report, unless there is an important task.

As for visiting relatives... Generally, this kind of thing basically involves all the nearby villages and towns, and relatives are there, so there is no need to visit relatives or not.

After the factory started to be put into operation, Luo Shixing quickly wrote a memorial to Wu Zhao, telling her that the next step was to start building a secret passage, but he could only plan passages within the range of Lingnan, and the court had to intervene in other places.

But the bigwigs in the DPRK and China obviously thought of this a long time ago, so they told him directly: the roads are all repaired.

By the way, he also gave him the road map.

Luo Shixing: ...

It feels a step slower.

He hastily asked people to take the prisoners to continue to build roads. To be honest, Luo Shixing was already a little fond of letting the prisoners go through labor reform.

Those who have participated in the construction of arms factories or are still guilty of crimes are generally heinous people. There is no need to be particularly gentle with such people. As long as they are useful, they will be used to death.

But this time, the matter of the secret passage basically cannot be kept from the governors of the other three states, because they need to go from them.

It just so happened that the governors of the three states all wrote letters, and there was only one request: they hoped to be able to borrow money to build the port.

When Luo Shixing received their letter, he was stunned for a moment, and asked with some surprise: "They got the news? No way? Is it so fast? Didn't our ship just dock?"

The fleet they sent out finally came back after four months. This time, the fleet did not go too far because it was only exploring the waterway to get familiar with the sea conditions, but only arrived in Tianzhu.

In the middle, they stopped in Linyi Kingdom for a period of time. After occupying Linyi Kingdom, the imperial court had discussed it, and finally decided to make Linyi Kingdom a subordinate state, paying tribute every year, and just accepting it.

Because this place is too remote, the overall scope of Linyi Kingdom is basically the long strip along the coast, and the rest is the territory of Chenla Kingdom.

Now the newly elected king of Lin Yiguo is smarter, you can say cowardly, anyway, he is very honest.

Of course, it may also be because Jiaozhou is bordered by Lin Yiguo. The Sima of Jiaozhou who had directly entered Wangcheng before was staying here. Does he dare to be dishonest?

After replenishing in Linyi Kingdom, the fleet went all the way to the later Malaysia Islands along the coastlines of Linyi Kingdom and Chenla Kingdom, and then followed Sanfo Qi, which is Sumatra Island, to the Pandya Kingdom.

In the records before the Central Plains, the Kingdom of Pandya was collectively referred to as India along with other small countries and the largest Chalukya dynasty.

Lieutenant Lin, who was sent to guard the fleet, said with emotion: "There are many countries in Tianzhu. I don't even remember their names. Compared with the nine surnames of Zhaowu in the Western Regions, they are not enough."

After all, strictly counting the nine surnames of Zhaowu, there are only nine families. There are at least fifteen countries in Tianzhu that they only know about, but I heard that there are still more. Anyway, the people who were sent there were a little dizzy, but the interpreter was very calm: "These are normal."

Luo Shixing did some calculations, oh, it is the most chaotic time in India right now, dynasties and countries come and go one after another, and countries often appear and disappear suddenly. Anyway, if you really want to study the history there, it is also a headache.

After all, it is also one of the four ancient civilizations, but Luo Shixing didn't care about the changing situation in India at all. He asked, "Did I find everything I wanted? Did you bring it back?"

The person below said immediately: "The sugar cane and cotton were brought back, but the rubber tree was not found."

Luo Shixing was slightly taken aback, isn't there a rubber tree?If it is not here, then it should be in Africa and other places.

He is not very clear about the origin of the rubber tree. Although it is a pity that he did not find it, it is very good to be able to bring sugar cane and cotton in.

He has prepared the place to plant these things, just waiting for sugar cane seeds and cotton.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that apart from these two things, the fleet actually brought back some local plants, which were determined to be edible after their inspection.

Luo Shixing was very interested when he heard it. He is not an encyclopedia, so it is impossible for him to remember the origins of so many fruits and vegetables, so he is very happy when his subordinates know that they have brought them back.

It's just that after seeing those things, Luo Shixing only had one thought: what are these things?

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