I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 179 Layout
At this point, Zhu Houxuan’s first phase industrial layout had been determined.

Tangshan will become a heavy industrial center in the north, with coal coking industry and equipment manufacturing industry;
Tianjin will become a center for salt industry, fishery, marine food manufacturing and cotton spinning. The reason for choosing Tianjin is that it is located on a major transportation route and is not far from the Nanbu Salt Field. Moreover, the output of the Nanbu Salt Field is not enough. Later, he will select a suitable place in the Bohai Bay to continue building salt fields.

Jinzhouwei will become a shipbuilding center, where there will be the largest shipyard in the Ming Dynasty and a complete industrial chain for the shipbuilding industry, manufacturing a large number of various ships for the Ming Royal Group.

The shipbuilding industry has a high technical threshold, and Zhu Houxuan does not have many golden fingers to use, so he can only rely on the Chen family in Quanzhou and the Wu family in Guangzhou to build his own shipbuilding industry. He also placed it in Jinzhou Wei because of its advantageous geographical location, which also made it convenient for him to control.

Beijing will become a financial and cultural center.

Of course, this is just a preliminary layout. As the number of fishing boats and sea vessels increases, the fishery and marine food manufacturing industry will be transferred to Jinzhouwei.

In fact, building such a large factory in the north was already his limit.

The funds have not reached their limit, but the available talents have reached their limit. He can only continue to expand after cultivating more talents.
Zhu Houxuan has been working in Nanbao and Tangshan in turn. The project in Tangshan is mainly to build a larger mine, workers' dormitory, steel furnace, leveling land and roads. In short, in the location of Tangshan in the future, a city born specifically for steel is being built.
It is relatively conservative to recruit only 150,000 laborers this time. In fact, they can use more laborers, but the organizational and management capabilities of the managers have not kept up, so they are so conservative this time. More laborers will be recruited later. After all, the manpower and resources required to build an industrial system in this wilderness are enormous.

Zhou Laosan felt that these days were the happiest days in his life. As long as he was obedient and worked hard, he would have enough to eat. These days made him laugh in his dreams many times.

In addition, the project command center also invited many storytellers to come to the construction site to tell stories for them. These storytellers were very popular among the workers, and every time they started a lecture, they were always surrounded by people.

Normally, if they wanted to listen to storytellers, they had to go to teahouses in towns or counties, and spend a few coins to listen to them once or twice. But now there are free storytelling opportunities to listen to, which is really unbelievable.

While telling stories, the storyteller also undertook a lot of propaganda tasks, such as promoting nationalism and promoting the Ming Royal Group. Of course, the propaganda for the Ming Royal Group was mainly centered on Zhu Houzhao, supplemented by Zhu Houxun.

The content of the storytelling was also carefully selected, and was mixed with a lot of stories that were promoted overseas.

The emergence of these storytellers greatly satisfied the spiritual needs of these common people.

According to them, this is a fairy-like day.
Zhou Laosan thought so too, but he still had some worries in his heart. First, he was worried that he had been away from home for almost three months, and there was no man in the family who could take charge of the family. In addition, there was still a lot of farm work to be done on the 20 acres of land he rented. He wondered if his wife and three children at home could do the farm work.

Moreover, he and his eldest son are living a fairy-like life here now, but his relatives at home are probably reluctant to eat and drink and are in a state of hunger every day. Thinking of this, Zhou Laosan felt a little ashamed, but he could only eat the food in the cafeteria on the same day, as it could not be kept in such a hot weather.

The second thing he was worried about was his eldest son, Zhou Abao. Since that day, Zhou Abao had become very close to Zhou Erwa, the captain of their team. He was always actively involved in everything and was praised many times by Zhou Erwa. He was very prominent in the Zhoujia Village team.

This style of striving to be the first in everything made Zhou Laosan a little frightened. He had heard that people from the same village had complaints about Zhou Abao, which made Zhou Laosan even more worried. Their family was just a lower-class family in Zhoujia Village, and they could not withstand the jealousy of their fellow villagers.

He talked to Zhou Abao several times, hoping that he would change his way of doing things, but Zhou Abao, who was usually very obedient to him, sneered at Zhou Laosan's request and even said that Zhou Laosan was timid and afraid of things. This made Zhou Laosan very depressed, and he felt that he was not worth keeping, but he could do nothing about Zhou Abao.

Third, the dam is almost completed.

This project was built by 100,000 workers over nearly three months of hard work. Although there was no large machinery, the workers' morale was very high and their work efficiency was very high, which brought the project forward by a full month.

At this time, the main body of the 62-mile-long dam has been formed, and the eight gates are also being debugged. Now the workers' work focus has shifted to leveling the land within the dam, and some people are reinforcing the dam.

In short, the engineering goals that seemed out of reach are now close to completion.

The project was completed, which meant they would be laid off, and that meant his god-like days would soon be over. Although he had been mentally prepared, he still felt sad.

He also knew that he had to leave because autumn was approaching and it was time for the harvest, and after the harvest it would be time to sow seeds. His old wife and three children at home would definitely not be able to do such heavy farm work.

There are many workers who share the same idea as him. Although this place is very good, they still have to return to their familiar life.
Workers kept petitioning, demanding that their wages be paid and that they be allowed to go home. After three months of getting along with each other, they realized that these people who called themselves the Ming Royal Group would not blame them for such things.

The project command has also been evaluating and checking the progress of the project, and finally announced that everyone would be allowed to go home after 10 days, so that the workers would not be delayed from returning home for the autumn harvest. This made the workers very happy, but they also felt extremely disappointed.
Just when everyone was preparing to go home, the people of Zhoujia Village received bad news.
One morning, when the roll call was called, the fourth uncle had not arrived yet. Zhou Abao volunteered to go look for the fourth uncle, but he found that the fourth uncle was lying in his earthen hut, wrapped in his cloth, and had died.
Zhou Abao quickly told everyone in Zhoujia Village about this matter. Everyone in Zhoujia Village quickly ran over to check on Fourth Uncle's condition. Seeing Fourth Uncle's condition, they were all plunged into sorrow.
Just when he was about to go home, Fourth Uncle collapsed here. It was really fate's trick.
(End of this chapter)