Dual Transmigration: Starting from being captured and brought to the Hehuan Sect!

He stood up, closed and stacked the books that were spread out on the table, his mind still churning the plan he had just made.

The sky outside the window had darkened, and the incandescent lights in the library were on. Several students who were studying were yawning and packing their bags. They were already used to Lin Mo, the library's Jiahao, who sat in the corner and flipped through books extremely quickly.

Lin Mo picked up his phone and glanced at the time. Su Qing had sent a message an hour ago:

The photovoltaic panels and cameras have been arranged with Xinlu and will arrive tomorrow morning.

He replied with an "okay," put his phone in his pocket, and turned to go downstairs.

Back at his residence, he asked Long Qingxue to charge his device and began cultivating.

The next day, Lin Mo arrived at the warehouse, where Su Qing was checking the list one by one. Dozens of cardboard boxes and wooden crates of various sizes filled half the warehouse. There were twelve lithium iron phosphate battery packs alone, each as tall as a person, with their silver-gray metal casings gleaming coldly under the warehouse's incandescent lights.

"Two hundred photovoltaic panels, four hundred and fifty watts of monocrystalline silicon."

There are twelve sets of batteries with a total energy storage capacity of 240 kWh.

There are three off-grid inverters, two of which are in operation and one is on standby.

Thirty outdoor waterproof night vision cameras, 20,000 meters of network cable, four power distribution cabinets, and two computers.

The accessories and tools are all in those small boxes.

Su Qing handed the list to Lin Mo.

Xin Lu asked me what I was going to do with all these solar panels, and I told her I was going to build a research and development lab. She didn't ask any more questions.

She quoted the channel price, and the bill was recorded under the company's name.

Lin Mo took the list, glanced at it, and nodded.

Su Qing is becoming more and more reliable in her work. If Lin Mo didn't have so much to do, he would have already planned to reward her.

Lin Mo put all the supplies into his spatial storage and then took out a list and handed it to Su Qing.

"Aunt Su, I also need your help to get Xin Lu to help me purchase these devices!"

"Cement, iron smelting lines, railway tracks, trains... Do you want to open a factory?"

Su Qing looked at the list and asked in confusion.

"More or less!"

"Okay, no problem, but could you hire another person to help me? There's a lot of equipment, and I don't know much about finance. Small amounts are fine, but for larger amounts, Xinlu said that company funds can only be transferred between company accounts. If they're transferred to a personal account, we'll have to pay taxes and stuff."

"Great, I happen to know an accountant!"

Lin Mo took out his phone and called Yang Liu.

"Auntie, are you busy?"

"I'm fine, what's wrong?"

"I need some manpower here, why don't you come and work for me?"

"Okay, but you'll have to wait a few days. The handover process will take several more days."

"Okay, I'll send you her phone number in a bit. She's my secretary. Just contact her when you're done!"

Lin Mo then sent Su Qing's phone number to Yang Liu's WeChat.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Mo and Su Qing went to the building materials market and bought a batch of cement, steel bars, shovels, and wheelbarrows. They also stuffed a whole set of surveying tools and several boxes of engineering drawings into their space.

With everything prepared, he vanished from the warehouse with a thought.

When they returned to the Lianhai County government office, it was still early.

Long Qingxue was teaching arithmetic to the children in the lobby. The multiplication table was written on the blackboard, and the children were reciting it aloud.

Lin Mo didn't disturb them, and went straight into the back room to call Liu Si over.

"My lord, what are your orders?"

"How many migrant workers are there in the county and surrounding areas? Approximately how many households?"

Liu Si counted on his fingers:

"In our Lianhai County, besides the children who have already been taken in by the county government, there are still some scattered in the dilapidated temples outside the city and the fishing villages by the sea, at least thirty or forty of them."

Thirty miles to the east, there is an abandoned salt field where about a hundred people have gathered. They are all people who fled famine in the last two years and survive by picking clams on the mudflats after the tide recedes and digging for wild vegetables. I heard that several groups of people have already starved to death.

Further north, near the official road in Cangwu County, there were several refugee shacks. I'm not entirely sure how many people lived there, but there were at least a hundred.

He paused, then lowered his voice and added:

"Sir, I'm not being nosy, but most of these refugees are young and strong men. They're excellent at working, but when it comes to eating, they can eat three times as much as you could eat!"

"I'm not afraid of them eating, I'm afraid they won't work!"

Send Zhang Tie and Wang Laonian to these refugee settlements and tell them that the Lianhai County government is recruiting people, providing food and lodging.

Those who are young and strong and willing to stay and work will receive a monthly salary. Those who perform well will be directly incorporated into the county government guard team and will also receive a monthly allowance!

Skilled craftsmen, whether they were blacksmiths, carpenters, kiln workers, or weavers, were all given priority in job placement and their wages were determined according to their skill level.

Even those who truly know nothing can stay to build roads or mine; they'll still be provided with food and rations.

Lin Mo pointed at the table and spoke.

Liu Si was stunned for a moment.

Recruit them all?

There are at least two or three hundred refugees, and when you add the existing population in the county town, the monthly food consumption alone is an astronomical figure.

He opened his mouth as if to say something, but then, remembering that the new county magistrate seemed to have a powerful background, he swallowed his words and only responded with a single word:

"Yes, I'll go and relay the message to Zhang Tie and Wang Laonian right away."

As he reached the door, Lin Mo called him back.

"Wait. There's one more thing. Are there any blacksmiths in the county?"

Liu Si thought for a moment:

"A blacksmith? There used to be a blacksmith shop in the east of the city, but it's been abandoned for two years. The blacksmith there was a cripple and couldn't travel far, so he should still be in the city."

"Bring him here. Also, go and check if there are any other mines near Lianhai County, including iron mines, limestone mines, and clay mines. Make sure you find out everything."

Ask more elderly people, especially the old fishermen; they should know.

"Yes."

Liu Si took notes one by one in his notebook, then turned and left the back room.

Lin Mo leaned back in his chair, picked up the county gazetteer on the table, and started flipping through it again.

He remembered that the county annals mentioned that there was an abandoned iron mine twenty miles north of Lianhai County. It was an old mine that had been mined in the previous dynasty, but was later abandoned due to pirate attacks.

If the mine still exists and its grade is acceptable, then Lianhai County's steel production can be solved locally.

As for limestone and clay, coastal areas have no shortage of them; the key is to find suitable mining sites.

Over the next few days, Lin Mo barely rested. After directing people to install the photovoltaic energy storage and cameras, he also had them build a lookout tower in the yard using red bricks and cement.

He also took Long Qingxue, Zhang Tiewang, and Lao Nian with him, and they traveled all over the area within and around Lianhai County, covering a radius of fifty miles.

Twenty miles north of the city, the old iron mine recorded in the county annals still exists, though the entrance to the mine pit is blocked by boulders and shrubs.

Lin Mo used explosives to blast open the large rock blocking the mine entrance. He then used a powerful flashlight to probe inside. The iron ore on the mine wall gleamed with a dark red luster under the light, and its quality was visibly good.

Five miles northeast of the city, on a bare, bluish-gray rock face, Long Qingxue picked up a stone and handed it to him. It was a piece of limestone of extremely pure quality, a top-grade raw material for burning lime and cement.

Next to the abandoned salt field thirty miles east of the city, there are several abandoned pottery kilns. In the cross-section of the pits near the kiln sites, you can clearly see the grayish-white clay layer, which is fine and sticky. It is perfect for building refractory brick linings for glass melting furnaces, blast furnace walls, and coking kiln bodies.