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

Without stopping, Lin Mo arrived at the abandoned salt fields, where the snow-white crystals shimmered in the setting sun, stretching as far as the eye could see.

If seawater is reintroduced into these salt fields, the salt produced can be enough to feed several prefectures.

Salt and iron have been state-monopolized hard currencies since ancient times. Lianhai County has no shortage of iron, lime, clay, or salt!

As long as these resources can be transformed into output, the ability to generate revenue is no worse than anywhere else!

Of course, that's all in the future; right now, he doesn't have the resources to sell salt.

Otherwise, he would soon be targeted by the salt merchants of Jiangnan. It would be one thing if they impeached him, but if they sabotaged him behind his back, he would suffer greatly.

Lin Mo mentally constructed a three-dimensional model of the terrain surrounding Lianhai County, then drew a line in the air with his finger.

The main road runs north-south through the center of the county town, turns west at the seaside, and leads directly to the planned port.

The road was divided into residential areas, workshop areas, warehouse areas, and military areas, with each plot of land pre-marked and left with sufficient leeway.

The port was located in a natural sheltered bay south of the county town. The bay is surrounded by low hills on both sides. The entrance is narrow, the inner bay is wide, and the water depth is estimated to be sufficient for large ships of a thousand liters to dock.

Once the breakwater is repaired and the docks are paved, the entire harbor can be put into operation immediately.

He fenced off a piece of land in the northeast corner outside the county town as a workshop area, arranging glass workshops, soap workshops, lime kilns, and cement kilns there. Following the prevailing summer winds, the sea lies below, and the exhaust fumes do not pass through the residential area.

They also reserved space at the foot of the mine for a smelter, where iron ore will be smelted locally and the crude iron will be transported to the workshop area for further processing.

Once the volume of trade increases, a separate distribution market will be set up next to the port for the transshipment of goods and trade settlement.

Upon returning to the county government office, Lin Mo immediately drew up a detailed construction plan.

The drawings were extremely neat, with the main roads, secondary roads, and branch roads marked in different colors.

The port terminal is marked with water depth data and the number of berths. The workshop area is arranged in order of upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and the residential area has reserved the route of water supply and drainage pipelines.

A ring of watchtowers was designed around the county town, and the locations for surveillance cameras were marked on the walls.

He had no formal art training, but the book on urban planning principles included many standard diagrams, which he used to draw quite well.

After finishing the blueprints, he locked himself in the back room of the county government office and began to sort out the next steps for research and development and construction.

Lianhai County needs to produce too many things; simply transporting them from the main world won't be enough.

Materials that can be sourced locally, such as cement, red bricks, and steel bars, must be produced locally as soon as possible.

The cement step is the most crucial.

Cement is needed for everything: road construction, dock construction, city wall construction, and barracks construction.

The limestone mountain northeast of Lianhai County is a natural cement raw material base, and the principle of cement production is not difficult.

Limestone is crushed, mixed with a certain proportion of clay and iron powder, and calcined in a high-temperature kiln to produce cement clinker. This clinker is then mixed with gypsum and ground into powder.

The key is that the kiln temperature must be kept stable at over 1400 degrees Celsius, and the high temperature must be maintained continuously.

The biggest problem in ancient kiln firing was the inaccurate temperature measurement and the fluctuating kiln temperature, which resulted in inconsistent quality of cement clinker.

However, he has thermocouples and temperature control equipment from the main world, coupled with a solar power system, to monitor the kiln temperature in real time and automatically adjust the temperature, which can increase the yield rate to over 95%.

The cement formula needs repeated testing to determine the optimal ratio. He plans to first build a small test kiln, buy some cement plant formulas, and then test-fire batch by batch.

The finished product is sent to a building materials testing agency in the main world to test its compressive strength and initial and final setting time. Once the proportions are stable, it is scaled up to a rotary kiln with a daily output of over 100 tons.

Smelting and steelmaking require blast furnaces and coke.

Ironmaking requires blast furnaces, and coke production requires coking coal.

There are no coal mines within Lianhai County, so coking coal has to be purchased from outside.

Before the local coal supply chain is established, Lin Mo plans to use coke from the main world as a substitute. After all, the amount of iron smelting in the early stages is not large, and a ton of coke in the main world only costs a few hundred yuan.

First, build a small-scale experimental blast furnace, designed to produce five to ten tons of pig iron per day. Once the process is running smoothly, gradually expand the production capacity.

Once Lianhai's fleet is assembled, we can simply seize the coal mines!

He meticulously documented the process flow, raw material sources, equipment list, and construction period for each production line, recording each item in his notebook.

The calculation results put him in a good mood. As long as the initial infrastructure construction is in place, within six months, Lianhai County can transform from a poor fishing village that relies entirely on charity for food into a base that can generate its own revenue and expand continuously.

Four days later, all preparations were in place.

A thick stack of survey drawings was completed, mineral exploration reports were compiled into a booklet, the site selection and design sketches for the cement test kiln were finalized, and the installation drawings for the photovoltaic power generation system were also verified to be correct.

The workshop area has been leveled, and the first batch of refractory bricks and construction tools transported from the main world are neatly stacked on the open ground.

The notices recruiting refugees were posted separately by Liu Si and Zhang Tie at various refugee shacks and post stations along the way. The content was simple and direct: Lianhai County was recruiting people, providing food and lodging, and offering work and food.

Lin Mo sat at his desk in the back hall of the county government office, checking the timeline of the entire construction plan one last time to ensure that there were no loopholes in the connection between all the links.

The sea breeze blowing through the window ruffled the corner of the planning map on the table.

He used a paperweight to hold down the blueprints and looked up at the gray-blue sky outside the window.

The night was as dark as ink, and the candlelight in the back hall of the county government office flickered erratically in the sea breeze.

Just as Lin Mo lay down, Long Qingxue tried her best to help him relieve the fatigue of the past few days.

Liu Si's hoarse, urgent voice boomed from outside the door:

"grown ups!

Oh no, sir!

Zhang Gou Dan in the monitoring room said that a lot of people had come to the county government office!

A dark mass of people stealthily surrounded the county government office!

Long Qingxue's feet stopped in mid-air.

Lin Mo took a deep breath and sat up in bed.

Long Qingxue picked up the long robe beside her, put it on, and was about to go out with him.

Lin Mo glanced at her office lady uniform and black stockings, then waved his hand:

"Why don't you change your clothes first?"

With that, he grabbed his clothes, put them on, and went out the door.