Chen Wenhui spent a beautiful and lively Spring Festival with Zhao Chongyi in the heavy snow at Tiebi Pass.

As soon as the Spring Festival passed, Chen Wenhui began to devote herself to busy work. Some time ago, especially after entering winter, Chen Wenhui's body was always sick, which may be due to the lack of adaptation to water and soil, and the climate is too cold. After the Chinese New Year, although Tiebiguan is still cold, the breath of spring has come, and Chen Wenhui's body is much better.

After her health recovered, she began to fully assist Zhao Chongyi in building the Iron Wall Pass. There is so much that needs to be done. The workshops in the city need to be expanded, and the trade to the grasslands outside the city needs to be led by people. The spring ploughing work in the three provinces of Guanli needs to be coordinated with the thorn history of each province.

Chen Wenhui began to promote new seeds and new textile planting techniques in the three provinces, and with the money allocated by the emperor, he hired the children of the black family, especially the masters of the Alchemy Hall, to survey minerals and measure the soil quality of various places to facilitate the overall planning.

Zhao Chongyi can't care about managing these trivial matters now. These things were handed over to Chen Wenhui and Yan Shupeng to lead the officials to handle. He led the Northwest Army and began to formulate a war plan, and when the snow had melted and the grass began to sprout, he would command the Northwest Army to strike at the disobedient tribes.

Time passed in such a hectic way. When the south of the Yangtze River is already a piece of spring, the northwest has only begun to thaw, but from the beginning of the first ice crack of the frozen river, the spring of Tiebiguan has come.

As the weather gradually warms up. All kinds of construction in the city, which had been stalled, began again.

The mansion built by Chen Wenhui continued to be constructed, and the various workshops in the city began to expand. Reconstruction. And all kinds of workshops in the city have also sprung up. With the increase of small workshops, the people of Tiebiguan found that there were more and more recruitments, and most of the residents in the city had jobs. Of course, spring is coming, and more importantly, the vast fields outside the city are about to be planted.

Gradually, there is a shortage of labor in Tiebiguan.

Chen Wenhui was not in a hurry at all, because when she and Zhao Chongyi came last year. has already negotiated with the history of the assassins of the three provinces. Let them organize some people to migrate to Tiebi Pass, where there is a lot of work waiting for them.

In addition to these three provinces under their jurisdiction, Chen Wenhui also had a large population with those who were in trouble and had a large population along the way from the capital to the northwest. The stressed government all said hello. Let the local officials cooperate with her to move some of the people over.

Of course, these officials will not listen to Chen Wenhui and his wife in vain. But. Chen Wenhui is a fine person, and he has already passed the handover of officials step by step on the way to last year. A private agreement was reached with these officials, as long as they sent people over, they would definitely get the benefits of the Northwest Iron Wall Pass.

The magistrates in these poverty-stricken areas naturally worked hard when they saw the benefits. Therefore, at the beginning of spring, when there were just recruitment difficulties in Tiebiguan, the people sent from all over the country had already appeared on the road to Tiebiguan.

When Chen Wenhui waited for the first batch of people from other places to enter the Iron Wall Pass, he recruited a large number of people, provided them with shelter, provided them with food, and distributed monthly money every month, so that they could start repairing the city wall and repairing the roads in the city. There are also roads outside the city that connect various towns and small cities. After these were done, the construction of roads connecting the three provinces began. This project was carried out for nearly ten years at once, and a lot of manpower and material resources were invested.

Of course, the money used was allocated by the emperor. The people who use it are these people from other places.

These people are all landless poor people in the three northwestern provinces, or those particularly poor places along the way from the capital to the northwest. Although they have nothing in their hometown, they are inseparable from their homeland, and they do not want to go to the more impoverished northwest, the Iron Wall.

In their minds, Tiebi Pass is a place full of war, brutality, danger, and poverty. It's not as good as their hometown. Although they don't want to come. However, the small arms could not reach the thighs, and the prestige of the local officials was very great, and at the sound of an order, these people could only pack up their simple baggage and go on the road.

Originally, there must have been a lot of casualties along the way. However, they found that from the moment they set foot on the road to the northwest, there were good reception measures along the way. These are not the work of the magistrates. These were sent by the Northwest Duke and Wife of Tiebi Pass. These reception measures were very thoughtful. There are doctors who treat the people, and there is free food. The food was much better than what they ate at home. There are not only white flour steamed buns, but also rice, side dishes, and even meat. This made the poor people, who had never eaten meat in their lives, suddenly dispelled the resentment in their hearts. Many people say that it is worth it to ask them to die for a life where they can eat meat every day.

Of course, the Iron Wall Pass recruited them over, not to tell them to die. These people can clearly understand this. Because the treatment given by Tiebiguan was really good, they were given warm cotton clothes to wear, and later, after the weather became hotter, they were given jackets, and then they were also given single clothes. This has not yet reached the Iron Wall Pass, and each person has already obtained a few sets of clothes. You know, some of these poor people have not even worn new clothes in their lives. Now all at once there are a few new outfits.

On the way to Tiebi Pass, there was an endless stream of hurried merchants, some of whom were sending grain there, some of whom were sending people there, and some of whom were selling things. There is also the production of the Iron Wall Pass to be transported.

The whole Tiebi Pass is a lively scene, and a large number of people enter and leave the city gate every day.

Outside the Iron Wall Pass, there was originally a mountain, and beyond those mountains, it was an endless grassland. Tiebi Pass was built here, and the original intention was to use the natural hazards here to guard Dachu. But now there are no more barbarians.

Chen Wenhui is on the other side of the mountain outside Tiebi Pass, and a majestic city has been built on the grassland. Anyway, the emperor gave a lot of money, and he was not afraid of spending, besides, the emperor also knew that although the investment in this city was huge, after it was completed, the benefits were also huge.

In this city, Chen Wenhui asked the emperor to give it a name. Although the city walls have not yet been built, roads, sewers, and tree planting are already underway inside the city.

There are also various houses under construction, and shops are also under construction.

The foremen who built here were all contractors who had rich experience in building cities in Nanyang. Chen Wenhui contracted all these things that the government did to businessmen one by one. There are merchants from Dachu, merchants from the northwest, merchants from Jiangnan, merchants from Tiebiguan, and merchants from Yizhou Island and Nanyang.

In particular, the merchants of Yizhou Island and Nanyang have experience, so the construction is very fast. Some are responsible for the construction of roads, some are responsible for the construction of sewers, some are responsible for the construction of shops, and some are responsible for the construction of residential complexes.

The Iron Wall Pass is under construction, and the Xiongcheng Mountain and Sea City, which has been given the name by the emperor outside the Iron Wall Pass, is also under construction.

The reason why so many projects under construction are progressing so quickly is that there are many people recruited from all over the country. This recruitment of the people is different from the recruitment of the people of Nanyang and Yizhou Island. In the South Seas, Yizhou Island recruited people from Da Chu to the territory of Xiao Chen's family, and the emperor and the first emperor were reluctant. However, this migration is only a migration within Great Chu, and the emperor is of course very concerned.

With the support of the emperor, and in advance, Chen Wenhui and his wife have already established a good relationship with the magistrates in these migration places, can they migrate unhappily?

In addition to the large number of people and the many people who work, there is also a huge workshop and cement factory built in the mountain outside the iron wall. The completion of this cement plant is of great significance, and the cement produced is of great help for building roads and city walls.

The northwest is different from the south, where there are few mountains, less stone production, and not much wood, and if you want to build quickly, you really can't do it without a large supply of cement.

However, in her previous life, Chen Wenhui knew that cement was too polluting to the environment, so she did not set up the cement factory in the city, but hid it deep in a mountain col, and strictly controlled the discharge of sewage and waste gases, and thought of many ways. The goal is to try not to damage such a beautiful natural environment.

Such a spring is spent in this busy development.

When Shanhai City was still under construction, it had already begun to play a role. This city is an important step used by Chen Wenhui to stabilize the northwest, and this mountain and sea city is used to trade with various tribes in the grasslands of the northwest.

Now in the spring, all the tribes have ended the cat winter, and drove cattle, sheep and horses to Shanhai City, using cattle, sheep and horses, and some livestock skins in exchange for various Dachu commodities. Salt, grain, tea, silk, cotton, quilts, and porcelain are the most popular. Of course, a variety of beautiful ready-to-wear garments are also popular.

After trading a few times, the tribes realized the importance of Shanhai City, and in the future, I am afraid that this place will come for a long time, after all, if they want to trade their own tribe's things in the future, they will come to this place. Therefore, some large tribes, such as the five major tribes Qiang, Rong, Naiman, Shaman, and Xing, are relatively wealthy, and the trading volume is relatively huge. Therefore, all five of their clans found Zhao Chongyi's place to buy a place where the clansmen lived in Shanhai City.

The actions of these big tribes naturally caused some small tribes to follow suit, and for a while, more small tribes bought places in Shanhai City.

In addition to these tribes, the merchants of Dachu also began to buy houses and shop here. Among them, the Jiangnan porcelain Cao family was the first to buy shops and mansions here. There are also some small families of the Wen family, the Xi family, the Zeng family, the Ma family, and Tiebiguan who all buy real estate and shop here.

Therefore, half of the houses in Shanhai City have been sold before the shop is built. (To be continued......)