The mineral resources buried underground in the Nanling Mountains are very rich. Xia Jing read the information in the last days and found that there are more than 110 kinds of minerals that have been mined, of which more than 70 kinds have astonishing reserves.
Among them, the reserves of tungsten and bismuth rank first in the world, and the reserves of tin, zinc, gold, silver, iron, and copper are not low. It was once known as the Museum of Nonferrous Metals, which shows how rich its mineral resources are.
Therefore, she was not surprised or surprised when Li Dingguo, the bandit leader who surrendered to Jigong Mountain, presented an iron mine.
As long as she sends out her men, she has a chance to explore several mines.
For example, King Qian sent people to explore two mines in the Nanling Mountains, one iron mine and one copper mine.
I don’t know if he is lucky or if it is due to the rich mineral resources in the Nanling Mountains.
Let’s talk about a mine near Jigong Mountain.
This iron mine was originally dedicated to Xia Jing by Li Dingguo.
Most of the people mining here are prisoners, and a few are guards and managers in custody.
Speaking of prisoners, they were all bandits, captured by Xia Jing's personal guards to mine.
Among the captives with black hair and yellow skin, there were a few captives with red hair and blue eyes that stood out among the crowd.
It's just that their white skin can no longer be seen when they go into the mines to mine.
Locke, who was covered in dirt, staggered along with the team carrying a basket of ore on his back, transporting the ore carried out of the cave to the designated place.
The people who were sent in with him were all exhausted and no longer as high-spirited as they were on the sailboat.
After transporting the ore to the designated wooden shed, Locke breathed a sigh of relief. He finally managed to survive this trip without being whipped.
Although I didn't get whipped this time, the skin on my shoulders was scratched, and coupled with the sweat, my shoulders were burning.
There are two quarters of an hour for lunch, so several Xiyi people will naturally take advantage of this time to get together.
"Locke, we have been here for a while, why hasn't the Governor noticed that we are missing?"
"I don't know when the Governor will come to rescue us. It's really not a human life here. I don't know how long I can hold on?"
"The Governor is wise and powerful. He must now know that we have disappeared. He will soon trace the location of our disappearance. Knowing that Dayu people robbed us, he will definitely lead a fleet to threaten Dayu, forcing Dayu to release us.
"When the time comes, I will definitely apply to the Governor and ask the Dayu people to compensate for our losses!" Locke gave everyone confidence, but he was really afraid that everyone would lose confidence and lose the courage to live.
His companion took a sip of the illuminating porridge in the bowl and sighed: "I don't know how long it will take to wait until that day comes. In the past, we took many captives and rushed to mine, but we didn't realize how complicated the miners' life was.
It’s sad, why is it so difficult to experience it yourself?”
"Do you think this is God's punishment for us, to punish us to suffer hardship?"
A fist-sized black flour pancake and a bowl of gruel were the Chinese food for these prisoners. This amount of food was simply not enough to fill the stomachs of men engaged in physical labor.
Just after lunch and before going down to the mine, these people became hungry again.
I had to stay hungry for several hours, and only after dark did I get another black pancake and a bowl of gruel.
High-intensity physical labor, coupled with lack of food and lack of physical strength, drove these Xiyi people almost crazy!
I really wanted to escape from this mountainous area at night, but without foreign aid, how could these weak foreigners escape?
Escape but unable to escape, repeating the same physical labor every day, the few Xiyi people become more desperate every day.
In despair, on this day, Locke completely broke out. He rushed to the guard captain who was guarding them with all his strength, shouting that he wanted to see the master behind them, and they applied for deportation.
However, he had only been in Dayu for a short time, and most of the people spoke dialects. Poor Locke babbled a lot in a serious manner, but the guard who was guarding him didn't understand a word he said, and treated him as a foreigner.
Yi took the lead in making trouble and chopped him down with the back of his sword.
Locke fell to the ground, almost losing his breath from the pain.
Now, although there was no bleeding on my back, it was definitely bruised.
And the mine owner Xia Jing, whom Locke was thinking about, had long forgotten about the few Xiyi people.
However, although Xia Jing had forgotten several Xiyi people, her next plan had something to do with them.
After the busy farming season, crops were planted in all the reclaimed fields.
The cement plant is also on the right track.
Xia Jing put all her energy into the iron workshop. As a person with mental powers, her learning ability and memory are amazingly strong.
Among the materials collected in the apocalypse in space, there are many books, and Xia Jing will look through them when she has no time.
After the steel was smelted, she dug out the thermal weapons that craftsmen of this era could create from her memory, selected the blueprints for flintlock guns and red barbarian cannons, and began to let the craftsmen try to make them.
Facts have proved that the craftsmen have done an excellent job on the two thermal weapons with low technological content.
After the finished product was tested, Xia Jing asked the craftsmen to consider how to mass-produce it and see which parts could be assembled on the assembly line. The precision parts would be handed over to skilled craftsmen.
I think it won't be long before I can equip Li Chengmu's 5,000 soldiers and horses and more than 1,000 of his own personal guards.
This is the top equipment in the world. The flintlock gun Li Chengmu got from the Xiyi people last time was rough in workmanship, but it was not as exquisitely designed as hers, the range was not as far as hers, and the loading of ammunition was not as convenient as hers.
A sailing ship with more than a hundred people is equipped with a flintlock gun. It can be seen that the Xiyi people do not have many firearms. It is possible that the Xiyi people have just produced flintlock guns not long ago and have not yet mass-produced them, so they cannot equip them.
The whole team.
Xia Jing's analysis is just a conjecture and cannot be verified now.
Therefore, Xia Jing set her mind on the north of the city again.
In the north of the city, the central axis is where the Xinfu Yamen is located. At this time, the craftsmen in this area are very busy. With cement, a time-honored adhesive, laying the foundation is more than twice as fast as the ordinary method.
Xia Jing thought that the new government office in the north of the city was already under construction, so she would have to come up with a good plan for the other wasteland that belonged to her.
Just do it if you think of it.
In the past two days, Hongmei discovered that the princess did not go out again. She stayed busy in the study all day, which attracted the attention of several other rooms. She sent people to inquire, but she calmly stopped her and went back.
Xia Jing finished her work that day and asked Hongmei to send someone to the outer courtyard to call Ye Fei.
"Princess, do you have something to do with your subordinate?"
Xia Jingchao waved to him, then picked up the plan on the table and handed it to him, "Recently, I feel that there is a shortage of manpower under my command, and there are too few capable subordinates like you. This time, you will be in charge of the plan in the north of the city for the time being.
Take it back and look at it, and if you don't understand anything, come back and ask me."
Ye Fei took the plan, hesitated for a while, and said, "If my subordinates take over this matter, they won't be able to protect you at all times. What will happen to your safety?"
Xia Jing was very happy after hearing this: "Don't worry, your squadron has a hundred people to protect me, which is enough. Just feel free to complete the task I gave you."
What a talent!
Xia Jing is in urgent need of talents from all walks of life.
It was precisely because of the lack of available people that he had to send his own guard captain on a mission.
However, after getting along with Ye Fei during this time, she found that this boy was capable and smart enough, and she believed that he could handle this task well.
Ye Fei flipped through the plan roughly. Although he didn't read it carefully, he couldn't help but secretly smacked his lips, "Are you sure there is nothing wrong with this plan? Is there anyone willing to pay for it when the house and store haven't been built yet?"
Buying a home is a big deal in the eyes of people nowadays. Will you spend a lot of money when you can't see the building?
Xia Jing didn't think there was anything wrong with this plan. If her funds weren't strong enough, how could she push the business of laying golden eggs out?
"If you do a good job of publicity in the early stage, there will be no problems. Don't forget that the new government office currently under construction in the north of the city is driven by the government. Believe in yourself, you can successfully complete the task."
Ye Fei scratched his head and responded: "I obey!"
A few days later, everyone in the teahouses and restaurants in Fucheng was talking about one thing, and that was Huaxia Real Estate Firm.
It is said that this business bank is planning to build a commercial area in the north of the city.
The most controversial thing is that the houses in this commercial area are at least three stories, and most of them will be four or five stories high.
This stunt immediately attracted everyone's attention.
In the era when clay and lime were used as adhesives, it was obviously impossible to build a house four or five stories high. Unless it was a palace, it was possible to build it entirely with precious and strong wood.
But in this case, the construction cost will remain high, and the maintenance of this kind of house is a very important issue. If not done well, the wooden pillars may rot in ten years.
Then a question arises, how much does Huaxia Real Estate Company intend to sell a shop?
If the price is unreasonable or not cost-effective, then the general public and the powerful may not pay for it.
Regarding this, teahouses and restaurants have been discussing it, with mixed praise and criticism.
"Is this reliable? A four- or five-story building is really not afraid of the wood rotting in a few years? Will anyone buy such an unstable house or shop?"
"We have a lot of rain in Lingnan, especially in the late summer and early autumn. When a typhoon hits, the foundation of the wooden building may be soaked in water. If this happens for a few years, it will be troublesome for such a tall building to break from the foundation."
"You're right. I doubt that these shops built in the north of the city really have room for appreciation?"
"The rich and noble people are all concentrated in the east and west of the city. I really don't know why this Chinese trading company doesn't go to the east and west of the city to build buildings?"
"There is no open space for Huaxia Commercial Bank to build in these two directions."
After all, some smart people have different considerations. "The shops on several streets in the city have been divided up by major forces. The major forces building this store in the north of the city should look down on it. You think we will do it when the time comes?"
Can you scrape up some money and buy a smaller shop?"
Although he asked this question, he actually had a plan in his heart.
A few days later, people settled in the wasteland north of the city, and construction started on the original wasteland.
The people who were always paying attention to the north of the city were immediately shocked.
At this time, the people were able to confirm that the Huaxia Real Estate Company wanted to carry out construction in the north of the city.
Now people are beginning to worry about the price of real estate in the north of the city. Is it affordable for them?
Everyone is very concerned about this.
King Qian has also been paying attention to this matter.
No, that day he heard that construction had started in the north of the city, so he came over.
"Princess, you are so courageous. You are ready to build half of the city at every turn. I am ashamed of your courage."
Xia Jing heard his sarcastic words and rolled her eyes at him, "You came here to scold me for nothing?"
Anu, who was following behind, explained with a stern face: "Princess, the master is concerned about you. He is afraid that your financial chain will be broken and it will not end well."
It's okay if you don't explain it. The more you explain it, the more people will misunderstand it.
What does it mean to have a bad ending?
Xia Jing raised her eyebrows, and her words were a bit rude, "Don't look for trouble. If you have something to say, you can talk it over. If you are still so arrogant, be careful that I don't give you face."
King Qian took a sip of tea and placed the tea cup heavily on the table, "You are so old, how can you not hear what you say? You spread the stall so big at once and built half a city. You know it is necessary
How much silver?"
Not to mention building houses and shops, even basic projects require a large sum of money.
Once the foundation work is completed, the amount of money used to build houses and shops is currently immeasurable.
Xia Jing corrected: "It's half a city, it's a quarter. Since I started the construction, I must have planned it thoroughly. None of the problems you are worried about are problems. Of course, I will definitely be responsible for my own affairs.
, you don’t need to worry about any of this.”
King Qian still didn't believe that she could handle it on her own and asked, "Where did you get so much money?"
"You'll know in a few days."
King Qian was still worried, but he also knew that she didn't want to say anything. According to her stubborn temper, she would never tell him.
This matter could not be solved for the time being, so he took a deep breath and talked about the situation of suppressing bandits.
"The territory of Lingnan is infested with bandits. Today, the King of Japan received news from the front line. Tens of thousands of people dispersed. A small group of bandits heard the news and fled, allowing them to easily destroy the stronghold.
However, it is a bit difficult to suppress the more powerful bandits. They will not pay attention to my soldiers and horses, and they will encounter these bandits stubbornly resisting wherever they go. As a result, my king's soldiers and horses have lost a lot.
What good advice does the princess have for this situation?"
After hearing what he said, Xia Jing was slightly stunned. She admired this old dude's face. He was really thick-skinned!
However, the two of them are now in a cooperative relationship. Regarding his question, she thought about it for a while and then said two words, "Recruitment!"
"Invitation to peace?" King Qian thought about it seriously. The two gentlemen's opinion was also to appeal to peace, and now the princess's opinion is still to appeal to peace.
Since the opinions of the three people he trusted most were all for recruiting him, he needed to seriously consider it.
Xia Jing nodded affirmatively: "In the final analysis, these bandits in Lingnan are just ordinary people. They were forced to go up the mountain because they couldn't survive. If they are not heinous people, recruiting them to peace is actually the best way to deal with them. Now that they can be dealt with,
Bandits can also increase our own strength, so why not?"
For example, when Li Chengmu suppressed bandits last time, many surrendered bandits joined his team.
Of course, the bandits and gangsters who committed the most heinous crimes were sent to the mines, and that was the only place suitable for them in the second half.