Unlike the dense reefs and turbulent undercurrents of the Jingshi Campus, it has been five years since the name change of Sanshen Garden. In these five days, the new owner Gao Pragmatic still has some gains.

He not only preliminarily trained a 50-person family guard on the basis of the original amateur militia, but also simply renovated the Shenyan Yuan into a soap factory and began trial production, and at the same time personally led people to the southwest of Sanshenyuan to start looking for a coal mine, which was the location of the famous Muchengjian Coal Mine in the capital in later generations.

Not surprisingly, there is indeed a direct discovery of coal mines suitable for open-pit mining, unexpectedly there is about ten miles of mountain road from Mucheng Stream to Yongding River, if you want to get to Sanshenyuan, you have to cross the river and walk another five or six miles.

Whether it is ten miles or fifteen or sixteen miles, it is only a few minutes' drive in later generations, and as a resource production area, it can be called convenient transportation. But this situation is a bit troublesome in Daming, there is no car and train, not to mention, the key is that there is not even a serious road.

When Gao Pragmatic led a group of people over, he walked between two mountains, a bit like a long valley, but this valley was not straight, but had several big bends, and the total mileage had increased again.

So if you want to develop this coal mine, you first have to build roads. Sanshenyuan human resources are quite sufficient, the main cost of building the road is wages and food, Gao pragmatic heart simply estimated, if it is just to repair a solid dirt road, about three months to repair, the cost is close to a thousand taels of silver; If you want to build a solid bluestone street, it will cost at least 2,500 taels.

After thinking about it, it's still a dirt road, after all, the dirt road straight road built in the Qin Dynasty can be repaired until two thousand years and no one walks and no grass grows, although he doesn't have that ability, but after all, the current official road and post road are not dirt roads, and I didn't see that the road is too bad to use, after all, there are no big trucks in these years, and the road repair is not so easy to rot.

But this road still can't start immediately, because Gao Pragmatic's capital on hand is only five or six thousand taels, and after coming to Sanshenyuan, it cost two or three hundred taels to send a wave of small benefits to everyone, and now there is a gold-swallowing beast called the Jiading Guard, and then remove the first batch of investment and raw material purchase costs of the soap factory...... In short, there is no spare money, and the construction of roads and mines must be postponed.

But in the afternoon of this day, Cao Gan, the former "Bald King" of Baili Gorge Xiangma, brought good news to Gao Pragmatic.

After he returned to Baili Gorge, he persuaded a dry Xiangma and his own wife Liu, Baili Gorge basically achieved the surrender of the village, and even Xiangma and his family only walked more than 100 people, among which the serious Xiangma who could fight immediately only walked more than 30 people, which was not a big loss.

However, the name he brought to Gao Pragmatic was a real pure dry goods, and the entire Baili Gorge was packed with people and materials and put into Gao Pragmatic's name, and this is by no means an insignificant small amount:

There were 925 people who were able to ride horses in Baili Gorge, 117 children of Xiangma who were over 10 years old and under 16 years old who had been trained in riding and fighting, 479 men who were farmers, 1,863 female dependents who could do various kinds of female red or chores, 347 infants and young children, and 96 people who were severely disabled and the elderly who had no labor force -- a total of 3,384 people and a total population of 3,827 people.

In addition to one large village, three small villages, and the private property of each family, there are also a large amount of money and materials, including living animals: 1,262 war horses, 573 horses, 167 mules, 249 donkeys, 204 cattle, 398 pigs, 257 sheep, more than 4,000 chickens, ducks, geese, and other birds, and even 23 sika deer that they don't know what to keep for them.

In terms of money, it was a big surprise, with more than 1,400 taels of gold, 117,346 taels of silver, more than 12,660 taels of copper coins converted into silver, and a small amount of jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, but it was not easy to calculate the value for a while. In addition, there are 3,427 horses of silk and brocade and more than 6,500 horses of cloth produced in various places.

In terms of materials, there are more than 400 large and small wagons and ox carts, more than 200 large and small domes (yurts), and more than 400 simple marching tents; Saddles, stirrups and other stocks can be equipped with more than 4,300 horses.

What surprised Gao even more was that according to Cao Gan's report, Bailixia could still produce a small amount of low-grade silk, about 100 horses a year, although it was not much, it was better than nothing, after all, China's silk industry had long since flourished in the south and declined in the north. As for ordinary cloth, the production capacity of Baili Gorge is acceptable, and the annual output can reach six or seven hundred. In addition, Bailixia can also make all kinds of furniture every year, whether it is a bed, wardrobe, desk, chair or something else, not only can it be self-sufficient, but it can also be sold in exchange for other materials preferred by the Mongols in Xuanfu and even around Datong.

It's just that after Gao Shishi asked, he learned that whether it is silk, cloth or furniture, the production model of Bailixia is very backward, and it is all done by each family on their own, and Cao Gan, the big boss, is just a unified purchase at a relatively reasonable price and then sold it. This made Gao Pragmatic very emotional: If there was Lao Tzu's guidance, your production capacity would have to be at least doubled.

But no matter what, the strength and wealth of Baili Gorge still surprised Gao Shishi, and then he was overjoyed: I originally thought that I had gone out to pick up a piece of silver by going out with shit, but after a closer look, I found that this is a piece of silver, which is a piece of dog's head gold!

Needless to say, the strength and combat effectiveness of this Baili Gorge can even be said to be far above Sanshen Garden in terms of wealth alone! Sanshenyuan has more fields than the ravine in Baili Gorge, but how much rice and noodles are produced in the fields, and how much money is it worth? The kind of "foreign trade-type" small production base in Bailixia is the chicken that can really lay golden eggs!

If it weren't for the fact that Baili Gorge was nearly a hundred miles away from Jingshi after all, it would be nearly a hundred miles away from Sanshen Garden, and Gao Pragmatic would even want to move his lair over directly. But after thinking about it carefully, he was relieved - there is a coal mine here in Sanshenyuan, which is an important initial base for his future development of the industry, and although Bailixia has a good foundation now, due to the limitation of geographical location, it will definitely not develop as fast as Sanshenyuan in the future, and it will definitely be overtaken by Sanshenyuan in the future.

Gao Pragmatic praised Cao Gan with a smile on his face, until the bald head of this guy was a little red, only to find that there was a child standing behind him who was younger than himself, and suddenly remembered the incident that Cao Gan mentioned before leaving Sanshenyuan and returning to Baili Gorge, patted his forehead, and said with a smile: "This kid ...... Is it Ling Lang? ”

"Yes, yes, it's the dog." Seeing that he finally remembered this, Cao Gan excitedly hurriedly pulled the child forward and said, "Ke'er, I haven't seen the young master yet!" ”