"Your Majesty the Witch King, looking at the map, this place is closer to the Mongolian people. Do you think we can build a road from here to the Mongolian people? Wouldn't it be more convenient to travel there?"
After dinner, while the sky was bright, a group of people gathered in front of the map to discuss the road construction plan. An officer from the Yugong clan suddenly asked out of curiosity.
Xu Chen nodded and said, "It's true. It's very close to the Mongolian salt mine. According to my guess, it won't be more than forty miles away..."
"Wow, why didn't we expect that this place is indeed very close to us!" A Mongolian officer excitedly looked at the map with his hand and said excitedly.
Lei and a group of hunter officers also expressed that this idea was indeed more reliable. There was already a road directly from the Yu Gong clan to the Mongolian clan. If a road was built from here to the Mongolian salt mine, it would seem to be much closer.
However, these people only saw the superficial phenomenon, but did not see the problems behind it.
In fact, Xu Chen also thought about this path.
After all, before the divination the night before yesterday, he had already deduced through scientific methods that the distance between the salt mine and the Mongolian people was not too far.
In addition, the barbarians near the Mongolian people and the barbarians here are from the same group. They used to communicate with each other, and there must be roads between them. This will indeed reduce a lot of construction work.
But even if the road is built, it can only be used as a temporary road.
It is more than two hundred miles from the Yu Gong clan to the Mongolian clan. When there was no road before, it would take at least five days to walk. Now even if there is a road, it takes a whole day to ride a horse. It is still about twenty miles from the Mongolian clan to the salt mine, and then to
There are still about forty miles here, so the total distance is at least two hundred and sixty miles.
But it is only seventy miles from the Yu Gong clan to the Xiu clan, and one hundred and twenty miles from the Xiu clan, so the total is less than two hundred miles.
Although it seems that the gap is only a few dozen miles, the detour distance and cost are not small. It is far more convenient to drive here from Xuchen than to build a road directly from the Xiu tribe. Once completed, the salt problem will be solved once and for all.
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The main reason is that the Mongolian salt mine is too small and has little development value. After several years of excavation, it has been unable to continue to expand the scale and increase production capacity. The output will even become lower and lower as time goes by.
But it is different here. The site is wide and there is a salt lake exposed on the surface. It is at least ten times the size of the Mongolian salt mine. It is fully developed and can fully supply the needs of the entire country of Pakistan. Once the road is built here and put into large-scale production, the Mongolian salt mine will be
It can be mined casually by the Mongols, but it no longer has much value.
However, since it is impossible to complete the road from the Sheng clan to the Xiu clan and then here in a short period of time, it is indeed a good idea to temporarily recruit people from the Yugong clan to complete the road from here to the Mongolian clan.
So in the next time, Xu Chen discussed the road construction plan with a group of people. After the sky got dark, he lay down around the campfire and slept in his clothes again.
Early the next morning, Xu Chen was awakened again by the noisy chirping of birds.
The forest is still filled with morning mist, and the whole world seems to be shrouded in gauze.
Xu Chen yawned and went to pee and defecate outside the camp, then went to the small lake to wash his face and hands.
As all the hunters got up one after another, the peaceful barbarian camp soon became lively.
The barbarian men, women, and children also came out of their earthen caves and tree holes, and then, with sullen eyebrows and eyes, under the scolding of the hunters and the command of several barbarians brought by the Mongols, they began to collect firewood and relight the bonfire, using clay pots.
Go to the lake to get water and help start making breakfast.
Xu Chen finished washing up and started walking around the lake with Pu and Jia.
This lake may not look big from a distance, but it is actually quite large. It covers an area of at least twenty acres. It is surrounded by reeds, aquatic plants, thorns, and many acorn trees. When you first arrive, it looks like a primitive and wild scenery.
, but after a group of hunters caused a logging disaster yesterday, the entire lake suddenly opened up a lot.
There are signs of collapse and discarded treetops and branches everywhere, many of which fell directly into the lake.
Logging was used to build camps.
In this wild and primitive forest, the most indispensable thing is wood, so it is the simplest and most convenient to build a house with wood directly from local materials.
Lei is responsible for arranging the construction of the house. Xu Chen does not need to worry too much. It is estimated that the framework can be completed in two or three days. However, in order to successfully develop the salt mine in the future, in addition to the barbarians, at least dozens of people will be stationed here all year round.
A team is needed. In addition, in order to transport large amounts of salt, salt transport teams will come and go every now and then. Therefore, it is most important to solve the food problem of these people.
Although the virgin forest is rich in products and has a wide variety of animals and plants, no matter how abundant or good it is in the wild, it is not safe, and it also requires a lot of manpower and time to hunt and collect.
As an experienced traveler, His Majesty the Great Witch King, who strives to lead primitive tribes into agricultural civilization, this place has mountains, water and woods, which happens to be the best land for agricultural development.
If all the valleys around the lake could be reclaimed, at least thousands of acres of fertile farmland could be obtained.
Rice is grown near the shore of the lake, wheat, beans and other grains are grown in the woodland on the hillside. Lotus roots and chicken heads are planted in the lake. There are also fish, shrimps, turtles and turtles in the lake. We also raise a group of chickens, ducks, geese, some pigs, sheep, horses and dogs, and some spicy peppers are planted in front of and behind the house.
Fruit citrus and hemp…
If you have nothing to do, just grab a fishing rod and sit by the lake to fish.
Damn it, it’s the wonderful life you’ve always dreamed of!
Looking at the clear lake filled with light mist, and thinking about the future development vision of this place, Xu Chen couldn't help but utter a curse word, and started to drool.
Before traveling through time, he had imagined countless times that one day he would be able to live his whole life in such an isolated mountain village and live a peaceful and happy life.
But after traveling through time, he found that the world is picturesque and there are paradises everywhere, but there are not many places that really fit his imagination.
The Ba people can barely be considered one, but there are rivers but no lakes there. Although I later dug a pond, it was just a pond after all, and could not be compared with this natural, pure and beautiful ecological lake with rippling blue waves.
The most important thing is that the Ba people are not suitable for growing rice.
For him, who had been accustomed to eating rice since he was a child, rough primitive oats and wild beans were not considered food, but at best necessities for survival.
Otherwise, after he discovered that the Cicha people were sowing rice, he would not have braved the cold river water in early spring to dig paddy fields on the river beach himself.
Although this place is primitive and wild, if it is truly developed, it will definitely achieve the beautiful scenery Xu Chen imagined.
It is already the season of autumn, and although the water in the lake has receded and exposed a large beach, the amount of water is still quite large.
Xu Chen stepped on the dry and cracked tidal flats of the exposed lake shore, walking around the lake while observing and thinking about land reclamation plans. Along the way, he saw many wild animals running to the lake to drink water, including groups of wild boars, monkeys, forest deer and wild wolves.
wait.
We even saw huge beast tracks on the lake beach. One was about the size of a foot, and it was very deep. At first glance, it looked like a huge species, but we couldn't tell what kind of beast it was.
"Chen Ga, go back, it's too dangerous to go forward!" After walking less than a third of the way around the lake, Pu and A nervously pulled Xu Chen back.
Although there are many people here this time, this place is indeed a wild and unexplored wilderness. There are so many kinds of wild beasts. These huge footprints are not kind beasts at first glance. If one suddenly jumps out, the three of them will basically be killed.
Died.
At this time, the sun had already jumped over the mountains in the east, and soon the thick fog in the lakes and forests began to recede quickly.
By the time Xu Chen returned to the camp, the sun was shining and it was another sunny autumn day with a clear sky.
While eating breakfast, Xu Chen called Lei and a group of officers in front of him and assigned them tasks.
The Yugong allied forces arranged for thirty people, bringing enough dry food and equipment and weapons, and selected a few men from the barbarians to serve as guides, and went southwest to explore the road leading to the Mongolian salt mines, and marked them along the way.
Lei led more than a hundred hunters and barbarians to continue logging and building camps.
Xu Chen personally took the remaining people to the salt mine and officially began the planning and construction of the salt factory.
Compared with the small salt mine of the Mongolian people, the salt mine here is much simpler to develop.
Although Xu Chen has a big appetite, he also knows that large-scale development cannot be done in the short term, so he decided to temporarily enclose the salt lake in the central area and an area with rich salt crystal reserves in the southeast, and then build some wooden houses. As for other large areas,
We can only leave it alone for the time being.
If there were a lot of people, there might not be a need to encircle it at all, but this area is already in a primeval forest and it's a barbaric era where wild beasts are rampant, so you have to be careful.
This salt flat usually attracts a large number of herbivores to lick it, and of course it also attracts a large number of large carnivorous predators.
On this salt-alkali flat, there are all kinds of beast excrement and all kinds of eaten and scattered beast bones everywhere. Even in the mud under the salt-alkali flat, they have accumulated for countless years, and it is unknown how much is buried.
Therefore, in order to keep his salt consumption clean and hygienic in the future, he decided to surround the entire salt lake, otherwise the carcasses of several beasts might one day be found in it.
Although it will not rot or deteriorate, it will be very uncomfortable to turn into a salt-and-wax corpse specimen with feces.
This salt-alkali flat has a pattern of high in the northwest and low in the southeast, so the salt content and salt crystal storage in the southeast are much higher than in other areas.
Moreover, an artificial salt pond is formed by digging from the southeast. After heavy rains in summer wash away more salt water, more salt water will be obtained. After evaporation, the best fine salt will be obtained. There is no need to manually flush the salty sediment to obtain salt water.
In fact, Xu Chen has observed that the reason why a salt lake can be formed here is that, in addition to the relatively shallow underground salt brine layer, there are no streams or rivers nearby, so the salt cannot be washed away and all accumulates in the center. Coupled with the high temperature
Evaporation is relatively fast, and it is easy to form a saturated salt lake, where salt crystals continue to precipitate over the years.
If this entire salt-alkali beach can be excavated into a salt pond, the underground brine will continue to gush out, and the rain will wash and melt it. This will be a natural salt drying field. There is almost no need for additional tools, just keep fishing out the salt.
Although the salt factory planned by Xu Chen is not large in scale, the workload of building a wall around the entire salt lake and the southeastern area is not small.
Hundreds of people wielding copper axes, hoes, pickaxes and even spears and wooden sticks worked hard for a day, and only completed a quarter of the fence project around the salt lake. In addition, only a few main support pillars were built in the work shed.
The main reason is that there are not too many trees near the salt-alkali flats. To cut down a tree, you have to go a mile away, which is very energy-consuming and time-consuming.