"What's the matter with calling me back in such a hurry?" Li Xiang took off the thick layer of clothes on his body, leaving only the last layer of linen.
The cold winter is going away. Now you can take off this heavy layer of clothing and throw it aside until winter comes.
Li Yi put aside the clothes Li Xiang took off: "I asked you to come back because the fox man told a piece of news. He knows the location of a gold mine, which is about a month away from us. There is also the Western World.
Something about!”
"One month!" Li Xiang reached out and touched Li Yi's forehead: "You don't have a fever, right? It's a month's journey, do you want your lord to die from exhaustion on the road?"
There are no mounts in Xiliang until now. All movements are done on two legs. A one-month journey is exhausting. Even if you upgrade to the feudal era and have horses, it will be shortened to half a month at most. Half a month
, riding a horse is not comfortable!
Moreover, it would take two months to go back and forth without doing anything. He, Prime Minister Li, did not have so much time to waste.
Li Yi moved Li Xiang's hand away: "This gold mine is not a small gold mine, but a large gold mine. Of course, this is what the fox said. Based on the analysis by his subordinates, it is really possible that it is
A massive gold mine!”
Li Xiang sat next to the fire: "Even if it is a large gold mine, so what? We now rely on legs for transportation. A month's journey, even if we can get it, send people to mine and transport, all these are needed
For more than three months, we don’t have any extra manpower to waste!”
"Now we are short of manpower. I am already recruiting fifty farmers. After recruiting them, we will enter the feudal era!
Clean up the surrounding areas. Those cottages should have a lot of supplies, food, gold and all kinds of natural materials and treasures. After I take down several small cottages in the surrounding area, I will then consider things to the west!"
Li Xiang already had a general plan in mind. Among the 5,000 people, he had 2,500 militiamen, and about 1,500 people were engaged in construction, fishing, and logging. This type of people will be collectively referred to as workers from now on.
The remaining thousand are orthodox farmers. The wilderness beside the giant lake has been turned into a large area of farmland, which is irrigated day and night for ten millennia.
The wilderness will become a food supply area for the Xiliang camp as Li Xiang hopes. In about a month, the first batch of food in the wilderness will be harvested.
At that time, they could eat other foods instead of roasting, stewing, grilling, and boiling fish every day. This also meant that the Xiliang camp did not need to rely on hunting and fishing to support itself.
After the farmland is harvested, they will have a stable food income, and Li Xiang can recruit farmers with peace of mind. He does not need to calculate how many farmers to recruit every time so as not to affect the development of the camp.
The larger the population in the camp, the more food consumed every day is an astronomical figure. Li Xiang must ensure that the camp has enough food before the next food arrives.
Because he didn't know how many fish he could catch in the giant lake, he had to be prepared and the food stock must be sufficient.
Now that there is farmland, as long as there is no major incident, there will not be a big difference in the harvest of crops in the farmland.
Li Yi put the clothes away and sat next to Prime Minister Li: "I know that the fox man knows a lot of things. I learned a lot about the Western world from him. My lord, do you know why he appeared in the northwest this time?"
There are three or more Western tribes on the earth.
No one from the Western world has been to the East before, but this year there are so many more!”
Li Yi's words aroused Li Xiang's curiosity: "What's the reason!"
Li Yi said bluntly: "The fox man is a member of the Orc Empire, a large tribe. According to his words, in the past ten years, there have been quite a few people who have set out from the Western World to look for the Eastern World.
The largest sect in the Western world is not satisfied with just preaching in the Western world. Their 'god' longs for a broader world, so the church spends a lot of money to support people who want to go to the Eastern world. If someone really goes to the Eastern world,
You will receive a gold coin reward equivalent to one thousand taels of gold, you will gain the friendship of the church, and you can stay in the Papal City!
This has made countless Western humans want to go to the Eastern World, but in the past ten years, no one has returned to the Western World to receive the reward."
"Some people who came back halfway said that there are a large number of time and space cracks between the Eastern World and the Western World. These time and space cracks block the East and West worlds. If people are accidentally sucked in, they will die directly.
The fox man set out twice before, but he keenly discovered that the cracks in time and space were decreasing, and the third time he finally found all the cracks before coming to this side of the world!"
"I specifically asked him to draw a general map. I found that the route of the jackals was different. The jackals and their party set out from further north, and also walked out of the Beast God Mountains, which the fox people said was insurmountable. So after they
The route is much safer than where these people have traveled!”
"My subordinates have calculated that the space-time rift that separates the east and west worlds will be healed by the power of the world within ten years. By then, the two worlds will be officially connected!"
Li Yi looked at Li Xiang with his eyes as he spoke: "Lord, this is an opportunity. The land between the eastern and western worlds is extremely huge. If we, Xiliang, occupy it..."
Li Yi wanted to continue talking, but Li Xiang waved his hand to interrupt Li Yi: "I'm thinking too much. Just tell me what you want to do?"
Li Yi chuckled: "My lord, although the road the fox man walked is very dangerous, you can still walk through it as long as you are careful. In the Western world, the silk and porcelain here are extremely precious. We can replace them with ours."
Want resources!
And I found that the place where the fox-man is is not far from the starting point of the jackals. We can divide the army into two groups, and a few soldiers will go through the dangerous time and space rift with the fox-man to the end of the orc empire where the fox-man is. They will not
How much supplies do you need to bring? After all, only one person can go to some places. It is dangerous to bring too many things. Another group of soldiers will take the path of the jackals to transport a batch of goods.
When the time comes, the two can meet at a place and take these things over, and the exchanged materials can also be transported back in this way.
It's a pity that we can't recruit people with Western faces in the Xiliang camp, otherwise we can pretend to be the brave men going to the Eastern world, and transport these supplies to sell them openly!"
Li Yi had a look of pity on his face. Oriental faces are very conspicuous in the Western world and cannot be faked. Language is also a big problem.
Li Xiang thought about the possibility Li Yi said, and after thinking for a while, he asked: "Is the fox man reliable?"
