Half a day later, Lin Mo closed the last book, leaned back in his chair, and closed his eyes.

A complete purchase list has already formed in my mind: photovoltaic panels, battery packs, inverters, distribution cabinets, network cables, cameras, video recorders, monitoring monitors, walkie-talkies, and a full set of electrical tools.

He wants to install an independent photovoltaic power supply system and a fully covered, blind-spot-free monitoring network at the Lianhai County government office.

Bringing electrical technology from the main world to ancient times is like having an extra pair of eyes that can see 360 ​​degrees without any blind spots.

Lin Mo took a picture of the shopping list he had just written with his phone, and then dialed Su Qing's number:

"Aunt Su, I just made a shopping list and sent it to you on WeChat."

Go find Xinlu according to the list. She's in the jewelry business and has more experience with industrial product channels than you. Ask her to help you connect with suppliers.

This batch of goods is urgently needed; it needs to be delivered to the warehouse within one day.

"Okay, I'll get right on it!"

Su Qing hung up the phone after she finished speaking.

Lin Mo turned around and went back to the third floor of the library. This time, he went straight to the architectural engineering and urban planning section.

Lianhai County is now extremely poor, but its poor foundation also means it has no historical baggage, making it a blank canvas for drawing.

He wanted to transform that dilapidated fishing village from scratch into a modern metropolis capable of supporting an army, manufacturing weapons, conducting trade, and resisting enemies.

He pulled out five professional books from the bookshelf: "Principles of Urban Planning," "Code for Design of Urban Road Traffic Planning," "Design Manual for Water Supply and Drainage Engineering," "Port Planning and Layout," and "Code for Design of Industrial Buildings." The stack of these books was about half a foot thick, and he moved them to the reading table by the window.

His top-tier comprehension was running at full speed, and the pages of the book flipped rapidly between his fingers, making a dense rustling sound.

The core of urban planning is functional zoning.

Residential areas, industrial areas, commercial areas, and administrative and military zones must be strictly separated; otherwise, urban expansion will result in chaos.

The road system is the skeleton. The three-tiered road network of main roads, secondary roads and branch roads must reserve sufficient width. Otherwise, as the population grows in the future, the roads will become parking lots.

The water supply and drainage system is like a blood vessel. Rainwater and sewage separation, centralized water supply, and sewage treatment are all infrastructures that must be planned and implemented in one go. Otherwise, if you dig and repair them repeatedly in the future, the wasted money will be ten times that of the original construction.

Port site selection should take into account water depth, tides, shelter from wind and its connection to the hinterland, and the tonnage of the wharf should be reserved for future upgrades.

The layout of industrial zones should be arranged according to the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. Heavily polluting areas should be placed downwind, while precision processing areas should be placed upwind. Raw material warehouses and finished product warehouses should be close to docks or main roads to reduce logistics costs.

He became more and more excited as he looked at it.

These things are just compulsory courses for engineers in the main world, but in the first world, they represent urban planning concepts that span millennia.

Planning alone is not enough.

Turning a city from blueprints into reality requires people, money, and time.

Lianhai County has a population of less than 1,000, most of whom are elderly, weak, sick, or disabled.

People are the greatest resource; without people, even the best plans are just worthless paper.

However, in those days, famine was rampant everywhere in the world. Every day, people with their families were fleeing north along the official roads outside the city. As long as food was provided, there was no shortage of people to be recruited.

He closed the book on urban planning, then pulled out a book on "Introduction to Human Resource Management" and a book on "Industrial Organizational Psychology," and quickly flipped through them.

Hiring is easy, managing is difficult.

After the refugees arrive, a complete system is needed for how to organize them, assign tasks, conduct assessments, and provide incentives.

In ancient times, the Baojia system was used to manage household registration, and military merit and titles were used to motivate morale. These methods can be improved upon in Lianhai County, but they cannot be copied verbatim.

He possesses the management tools of the main world: rosters, job descriptions, performance appraisal systems, and piece-rate wages—things that would have been overwhelming management advantages in ancient times.

He then flipped through several books on mineral exploration and metallurgical technology.

Lianhai County is located by the sea and has abundant fishery resources, but its real wealth lies underground.

The county annals mention that there are iron and limestone mines in Lianhai County, but the previous magistrate had neither money nor manpower, so they remained undeveloped.

Iron ore is the foundation of industrial modernization, and limestone means cement. With cement, we can build city walls, ports, and barracks, instead of relying entirely on glutinous rice mortar, which was both expensive and slow, as in ancient times.

As for glass and soap, those are even more lucrative industries. A soap that costs only a few cents to make in the main world becomes a luxury item that wealthy women fight tooth and nail to get in the first world.

In ancient times, glass mirrors were a hundred times clearer than bronze mirrors, and a single glass mirror could fetch an astronomical price.

He read through the books one by one, and a general roadmap had already formed in his mind.

The first step is to recruit refugees.

Food and lodging were provided, and the young and strong were incorporated into the guard team, with Zhang Tie in charge of training them.

Skilled craftsmen will be given priority in employment, and their wages will be determined according to their skill level.

Ordinary laborers were put into infrastructure construction, such as road building, mining, and port construction.

In the early stages, apart from government officials, everyone else was not paid in silver, but only in rice and cloth. Once the economic cycle was running smoothly, the system would gradually transition to monetary wages.

The second step is to prioritize infrastructure development.

First, the roadbeds for the county government office and several main roads in the surrounding area were laid out, and at the same time, a simple seaport wharf was built.

Without a dock, the movement of goods in and out relied entirely on people carrying and pulling horses, which was extremely inefficient.

Once the port is completed, fishing boats can dock directly to unload their cargo, and building materials and minerals can also be transported in and out by sea, at a cost that is more than ten times lower than that by land.

The third step is to generate revenue through industry.

Starting a glass workshop or soap workshop has low technical barriers, readily available raw materials, and high profits, making it the fastest way to monetize.

At the same time, they began building lime kilns and cement kilns, using their own cement to pave roads and build city walls, which was much cheaper than transporting cement from the main world.

Finally, they would mine and smelt iron. Ironware was a form of hard currency. Farm tools could be sold, and weapons could be used by themselves. Even in Hai County, guns and cannons were used, while armor and other cold weapons could be sold to other places.

The fourth step is to establish trade routes with the sea.

After the dock was completed, a merchant fleet was formed to transport Lianhai's glass, soap, and seafood to other coastal and riverside cities, and even overseas.

They exchanged it for grain, cloth, medicine, and horses.

Once trade and commerce are established, Lianhai County will be able to transform from relying on external aid to becoming self-sufficient.

He went through these steps in his mind several times, making sure there were no major logical flaws, before finally letting out a long sigh of relief.

In ancient times, the biggest bottleneck in infrastructure construction was not money, but time.

Building a section of city wall usually takes three to five years, and building a port can take more than ten years. But he is different. He has construction equipment and engineering blueprints brought from the main world, as well as unparalleled firepower. He can reduce the construction period to one-tenth of the normal level.

More importantly, the main world's knowledge base contains a complete set of proven urban construction and industrial planning schemes, so he doesn't need to figure things out by trial and error; he can simply copy them.

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