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Author: Xiaoyaohu

On May 12, the fourteenth year of Tianxuan, Qu Mao, Su Yan and Mo Yangqiao left the Principality of Pengda after handing over 20,000 warships of various types to Sylvia Ocean and Fur Swanpu.

The port city on the western border did not immediately take a naval warship to return to the Holy Land of Emperor Yi's territory. Instead, it took a naval warship to return to the independent territory with a seaport city in the northwest area of ​​​​Pengda Principality.

After landing on the independent territory, Qu Mao, Su Yan and Mo Yangqiao, escorted by 10,000 fifth-level palace guards, marched toward the northwest region of the Eastern Continent.

Although it was mid-May, the weather became cooler the further north we went. Qu Mao, Su Yan and Mo Yangqiao put on extra clothes twice along the way. It took them two days and two nights to get far enough to see a large number of people.

Area of ​​reinforced concrete buildings.

Su Yan pointed to the reinforced concrete building in front, smiled and said to Qu Mao: "Sir, this place was still an uninhabited desert two years ago. Because of the discovery of a large number of primitive metal mines, it developed into a radioactive wasteland in just two years.

An industrial urban cluster of towns with a diameter of 200 kilometers and a total of seven reinforced concrete buildings accommodates a population of no less than 3 million."

Qu Mao nodded, took out his telescope, and while observing the cluster of reinforced concrete buildings in the distance, he murmured: "Such a big change!"

Su Yan nodded and said: "Yes, there are indeed such big changes, and we haven't made any investment. They are all spontaneous actions of mine owners and entrepreneurs."

Mo Yangqiao smiled and said: "It shows that under the governance of your lord, the residents of our Yi Di territory are still relatively wealthy. If we go by the strength of the Mughal Empire in the past, even if the royal family contributes money, it is unlikely that such a big change will occur within two years.

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While Su Yan introduced the development and changes of this area to Qu Mao, she accompanied Qu Mao and continued walking towards the town cluster.

When he walked into the first city, Qu Maocai discovered that the city here was similar to the industrial cities that had spontaneously formed around Shacheng, but not like the towns built under the leadership of Emperor Yi's territory.

Because the first city was basically composed of reinforced concrete buildings, there was no city wall or city lord's palace, and the more functional buildings were material warehouses and granaries.

The scale of this city exceeds 5 kilometers in diameter. The city is composed of reinforced concrete buildings, and the main roads are also hardened with cement.

According to Su Yan, this is mainly a residential area. Even some commercial institutions serve the residents living nearby, and there are basically no other functional buildings.

At dawn every day, residents would come out of the concrete buildings where they lived, take steam trains or horse-drawn carriages to work in the mines a few kilometers or even dozens of kilometers away, and then take the same transportation back to rest at night.

In fact, there is still a certain degree of separation between residents' living areas and working areas.

Of course, areas where urban residents live together also have supporting facilities such as hospitals, shopping malls, restaurants, grocery stores, and clothing stores. After all, not everyone goes to work in the mines. Some of the family members of mine workers do some simple things in urban areas.

service industry.

Qu Mao stayed in this industrial city cluster for 10 days. In this area, Qu Mao truly felt the atmosphere of life in a small 18th-tier county town in another world, even though the history of its formation here is very short.

It may not even take two years.

Qu Mao has basically visited every reinforced concrete building, every city, and every street here.

After walking all the way, Qu Mao was surprised to find that most of the more than 3 million residents gathered in the entire industrial city cluster had migrated spontaneously or were privately recruited by mine owners or entrepreneurs, without any efforts from the heroes stationed in the Yi Emperor territory.

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The total number of managers and their families sent by the garrison heroes to manage the urban agglomeration does not exceed 2,000.

Shortly after the three aboriginal kingdoms voluntarily surrendered to Emperor Yi's territory, the intelligence department of Emperor Yi's territory actually discovered a large number of metal mines nearby. However, Qu Mao considered the existence of the Pengda Principality and did not agree to station heroes at that time.

Develop these metal mines.

Subsequently, the garrison heroes paid to publish the news about the existence of these metal mines in "Yidao Weekly" and gave development policies. As a result, a large number of mine owners and entrepreneurs flocked to the city and voluntarily invested in the development of metal mines.

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In less than two years, this area has gathered a population of more than 3 million thanks to the efforts of mine owners and entrepreneurs.

Seeing this result, Qu Mao vaguely understood why Liu Qianhui was so anxious to issue policies to attract the mine owners and entrepreneurs in Emperor Yi's territory to spontaneously develop the mines located in the desert of the Western Continent in the early days of the founding of the Shaliu Kingdom.

metal mines.

After ten days of careful investigation in this industrial cluster, Qu Mao actually began to waver and organized Liu Qianhui to attract mine owners and entrepreneurs to develop metal mines in the Western Continent.

Maybe the metal mines in the desert area of ​​Shaliuhou State do have extremely harsh living conditions, but if all development measures are handed over to these mine owners and entrepreneurs, and Shaliuhou State only provides policy support, maybe they can come up with something

Better development methods are coming.

However, Qu Mao did not announce the news rashly, but hoped to wait until he returned to Shaliu Hou Kingdom and met Liu Qianhui before discussing specific policies.

At the end of the day, Qu Mao thought that we had to wait until the steam trains between the Holy Land of Emperor Yi's territory and Xirong City expanded to three times a day, otherwise there would be a high risk of a lack of fresh water supply.

It's just that Qu Mao didn't expect that the Shaliu Kingdom had not yet issued a policy, but the mine owners and entrepreneurs in this area were impatient to wait.

When Qu Mao was conducting research in this area, many mine owners and entrepreneurs had already taken various forms to ask Qu Mao about when the metal mines in the desert area of ​​​​the Shaliu Hou Kingdom would be opened, and what specific policies would be introduced.

policy.

They had long known from the report of "Yidao Weekly" that there were a large number of metal mining resources in the desert area of ​​Shaliu Hou Kingdom.

Faced with such inquiries, Qu Mao could only tell these enthusiastic mine owners and entrepreneurs tactfully that everything would have to wait until Liu Qianhui, the lord of the Shaliu Kingdom, made the final decision, and the policies issued by Liu Qianhui would prevail.

It was not until late May of the fourteenth year of Tianxuan that Qu Maocai, accompanied by Su Yan and Mo Yangqiao, reluctantly left this new industrial city cluster area and slowly headed towards the port city.
Chapter completed!