"There are a lot of herders in the city, right? If you buy horses like them, will it be easy to get them? ”

Lu Chensheng took some time out and taught the students for a while, and then found Gu Zhifang to ask.

There were three hundred horses in the city, which belonged to them, but the number of three hundred was really too little.

"Although the nomads don't want to sell us horses, if we are willing to buy ironware, salt, etc., they are still willing."

Although this thing is forbidden, there are still a lot of private transactions.

Lu Chensheng listened suddenly, if this is the case, maybe he can use it to buy some good horses.

"Shopkeeper, you don't want to do such a business, if a large amount of iron flows into their hands, it will be bad for us."

Gu Zhifang saw that Lu Chensheng seemed to be a little easy to move, so he hurriedly opened his mouth to say a word, with a little anxiety in his tone.

Seeing this, Lu Chensheng immediately smiled lightly, "What are you doing in such a hurry, if you give them some inferior iron tools, you can also exchange them for good horses, why not?" ”

Gu Zhifang was stunned when he heard this, "However, those people are not stupid, if they are given some inferior iron tools, they will naturally be able to distinguish them, how can they be willing to trade?" ”

"If you research better iron tools, then some of the previous iron tools will naturally become inferior products."

As he spoke, Lu Chensheng patted Gu Zhifang on the shoulder.

For the nomadic people, the iron tools now used in the three countries are excellent.

But now, the craftsmen recruited by Lu Chensheng can smelt better metals, and the previous iron tools have become scrap iron.

What's more, the iron tools sold are actually worse in terms of quality, just like the horses sold by the other party to the Central Plains, in fact, there are not many good horses.

Lu Chensheng thought about taking some defective products and exchanging them for some horses, even if they were defective products, they were still precious in the hands of nomads.

Everything in the city was carried out in an orderly manner, and Lu Chensheng immediately came to the valley.

Seeing this, Bai Yi also followed.

There are some weeds in the valley, but it is not dense, and you can see a lot of stones everywhere, and the valley is surrounded by mountains on both sides.

At first glance, the valley is extremely large.

Lu Chensheng asked people to lead the horses over, such a huge place, if you want to finish it on foot, you don't know how much time it will take.

A rough estimate shows that there are thousands of square kilometers.

With such a huge place, it is no wonder that Bai Yi said that it is definitely not an easy task to build a city wall around the surrounding city by relying on the mountain range.

"Do you really want to rely on this place and build a mountain range?"

Bai Yi glanced around, and still felt that Lu Chensheng's method was really a little unreliable.

The amount of work involved is too large, and the manpower and material resources to be consumed in the middle are countless.

"It's a bit difficult, but don't you think this place would be extremely majestic if it was built with walls built on the mountains? And with such a huge place, there is enough place to play. ”

Hearing this, Lu Chensheng pointed to the extremely large valley here, and said with a smile on his face.

Bai Yi was silent for a moment when he heard this, and then turned his head to look around, and had to admit it.

If it is really done as Lu Chensheng said, then there is no place where the majesty of this place can be compared.

"There is little water outside the side plug, has anyone dug a well in this valley?"

Lu Chensheng rode his horse and walked inside, there was grass in it, there were a lot of trees on the mountains, and it was reasonable to say that there was water.

"I have inquired before, and the people in the city have only dug three wells to come out, and there are no more."

Three wells were barely enough for the people in the city, but they were only barely enough.

If the population were to increase in the future, the well would not be enough.

"Looks like we'll have to see if we can dig some wells."

Hearing this, Lu Chensheng rubbed his brows slightly and said.

Bai Yi nodded when he heard this, the water source is indeed very important, and if this place is surrounded, it will be even more important.

"Looking at the inside of the mountains, it seems to be quite wet, and if you dig into it, I don't know if there will be water."

Lu Chensheng dismounted and leaned towards the mountains on the side, some water stains seeped out of some rock walls, and it didn't look like a place without water.

[ ] "Digging a mountain? ”

When Bai Yi and several people heard this, they looked at each other, and they wanted to find a water source, didn't they all dig wells? What do you do when digging mountains?

Bai Yi and the others didn't understand, and Lu Chensheng didn't explain.

Dig a well, and there is only a little water.

But if you dig a mountain, and if you are lucky enough to dig an underground river, then there will be enough water.

In such a large valley, it is perfectly possible to use some places to grow food or something.

In the end, there is a lot less water in the wells dug, so it is for people to drink, which is really not enough.

According to the people in the city, it is not good to dig wells underground, but you can try to dig some caves to try.

Lu Chensheng pondered for a moment, and then led the people to continue walking forward.

The vastness of the valley was somewhat unexpected by Lu Chensheng, the key is that there are still many places in the valley, which look quite good.

"It's a nice place."

Lu Chensheng looked at it and was immediately satisfied.

It would be a shame not to take advantage of such a huge place.

But at the moment, there is no way to build it directly, so we have to wait.

After wandering around the valley roughly, Lu Chensheng also had some bottom in his heart.

Then they left the valley together and returned to the city.

Everyone in the city is quite busy, and there are many places to work, due to the lack of manpower, Lu Chensheng specially spent money to hire some people in the city as laborers.

By the way, the students began to count the population of the city.

The previous data was not too careful, and Lu Chensheng needed to carefully count how many people lived in this Wudeng City this time.

Blacksmiths and carpenters have already recruited a lot, but now they see that the number is still a little insufficient.

Lu Chensheng suddenly felt a little sorry when he thought of this, he had known this, he had bought some more craftsmen before, and now he was bringing it, and he could definitely help a lot.

"When the workshop is built, these things will be built by the way."

Lu Chensheng drew some drawings and handed them to the blacksmiths.

The blacksmiths glanced at the drawings at random, and they memorized the things on the drawings, but they did not know very well what their shopkeepers wanted to create such a simple thing.