After the Chinese New Year, the weather was still very cold, and after a blizzard, the whole city was closed by heavy snow.

"There's a lot to do this year."

Wang Lanling sat in the county office's room, and sat around a firewood stove with the rest of the people.

The stove burned very brightly, and around it sat and stood people dressed in gray cotton clothes, or simply animal skin clothes.

The shortage of materials is a big problem to be faced now, whether it is food or various things, we need to find a way.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, everything needs to be developed.

"Now the county doesn't care about us, and the state government doesn't let us communicate with other counties, so we can only find our own way to solve most of the problems before the Chinese New Year this year."

Gong Yueman put his hands in the left and right cuffs, hid all his fingers in his sleeves, and put his hands in front of him when he sat on the bench, stepping on the ground with his toes.

"Limestone is easy to find, it can be seen from the outside, but the coal mines are really hard to find, and there are not enough people," he said. ”

Wang Lanling said while roasting the fire: "To develop this kind of thing, it is not enough to rely on us alone, it is too slow, and we will not see results in a few decades, we must rely on the strength of the rest of the people." ”

His own wisdom is actually not high, and Wang Lanling has also thought of many ways to make a fortune, but from the perspective of history and ancient and modern development, the development of this kind of thing really requires some external forces.

Gong Yueman craned his neck and asked, "What is your good plan?" ”

Wang Lanling withdrew his hand from the fire, hugged his hands in front of him, and hid his palms under his armpits.

"We are really freezing to death here, and we are better in the house, and there is a risk of freezing to death when we go out, so I think we should solve the coal problem first."

Gong Yueman said with emotion: "I thought that Heishui County was cold enough, but after coming here, I found that it was not cold, it was frozen." ”

The cold in Heishui County is cold, and the cold here is painful, and it feels like my hands and feet are about to crack, and I feel like I'm stinging.

There are many kinds of Muzhou people, but the Muzhou people here in Shanhai County are already accustomed to this kind of severe cold, but the people of Heishui County, who have stronger physical fitness, can't stand this harsh environment.

Lin Zunian, who was on the side, took a sip of hot wine and said, "People often freeze to death here, especially the old man and wife. ”

Every winter, the old people who will bring a burden to the family will be eliminated in advance, and in this frontier land, there is no such old person who has been sick for several years, and the most is the kind of person who cooks and feeds the cattle and sheep the night before, and finds himself in bed the next day and cannot sleep.

It is not uncommon for a son to see that the old man does not get up to work in the morning, and then go to the dark stove house or the house where the cows and sheep live and shout a few words.

If you can't call someone, you're probably dead.

Wang Lanling said: "Older people are not suitable to live here in Muzhou, especially our place and several other places, so I also understand that some people miss their homeland more when they get older." ”

Gong Yueman added: "On the one hand, this is because of the old people in my hometown, and on the other hand, because the people around me are gradually dying of old age, it is inevitable that they will want to return to their hometown, not simply because of the hardships of life. ”

Wang Lanling didn't care about this supplement, and continued: "If we want to say that there are any advantages here in Shanhai County, the first thing is reputation, my reputation, we must make good use of this if we want to develop." ”

Tong Yue handed a roasted sweet potato to Wang Lanling, "What the lord said is, who in the county now doesn't know your prestige?" ”

Wang Lanling took the roasted oily sweet potato, which was only the size of a mouse, mainly to warm his hands and feet, and by the way, to fill the heat on his body.

The rest of the people also got a piece of sweet potato one after another, some big and some small, and there were no rules.

Wang Lanling tore open the top of the sweet potato, held the hot sweet potato in one hand and said: "With this reputation, the rest of the matter will be solved, the state capital will not take us to play, we will play with several nearby counties, mutual benefit." ”

"First of all, there is the problem of grain, this year we must increase the grain output, where we can grow wheat and rice, we will grow fine grain!"

"The rest of the less inferior land is planted with corn, millet, barley, sweet potatoes, potatoes, soybeans and peas."

Gong Yueman said: "This is no different from before, how to solve the coal problems?" ”

Wang Lanling said: "Food is not simply used for eating, such as winemaking and industry need to be used, we are now short of manpower, in the future many places will need to rely on external forces, coal and grain is the same, can develop their own development, if it is not possible, go to the outside exchange." ”

Lin Zunian ate the sweet potato in his hand with the belt meat, swallowed it and said, "As far as I know, there is no place for coal in several counties on our side. ”

Gong Yueman also nodded and said: "That's true, there are very few places where coal is produced in Muzhou, and the coal mines here are all bought from Shanzhou." ”

"I know that." When Wang Lanling was still an official in Heishui County, he knew the wealth of the people of Shanzhou, and said at this time: "But I think it's because people don't have any demand for coal that needs to be spent on money, if this thing is really equated with money, then it will be different." ”

Gong Yue was puzzled, "Please also elaborate." ”

Wang Lanling said: "We are going to be busy after the snow melts, these 100,000 people are not enough to toss at all, I have written to the people in the rest of the counties, there are 20 counties in this Shanhai County, there is always one who can dig coal." ”

Most of the area here is no man's land, and most of them are near the mountains, and there may not be large coal mines, but it is not difficult to find a small coal mine with reserves of several million tons.

The total amount of coal mines in this world should exceed that of the earth, and the territory is much larger.

Gong Yueman looked worried, "My lord, are we doing too much right now?" The IOU you proposed is actually similar to printing currency, as well as the formation and construction of an arsenal and the establishment of a city defense army, which are reasonable and legal, but after being caught by someone with a heart, it is not easy to do. ”

Wang Lanling smiled and said: "You can see this kind of thing, and others can naturally see it, but the current situation is very complicated, the people above are unwilling to deal with us, and the people in the court can't manage us here, in short, just rest assured, I know more than you." ”

The rest of the people breathed a sigh of relief, they had actually thought about the problem of Gong Yueman, and they always felt that Wang Lanling was taking a risk.

Gao Wangshan said with a smile: "The lord won an official position for us, and the state government directly agreed, and the lord is a celebrity in front of the emperor, we do these things for the court, and we are all duty, if Lord Wang is selfish, he will not come to this broken place where birds don't to suffer!" ”

Gong Yueman nodded, and said to Wang Lanling: "What adults have is insight, there are too many things to do at the moment, I don't know which thing adults care about the most?" ”

Wang Lanling said: "First of all, there is the issue of products, we need a product that can absorb wealth from the neighborhood, my idea is cotton cloth, matches, iron nails!" ”

"We can manufacture these three kinds on a large scale, we can grow cotton ourselves, or we can buy it on a large scale from Hu Wangxiang, I will find a way to find a specific transportation channel, we have the technology of textile machines in our hands, it is a pity not to play this."

"Matches are simple to make, I have better production technology, now the folk use more flint, although this kind of flint can be used, but the effect of matches you also know, this small profit but quick turnover, it is easy to eliminate the flint, I am ready to use this to open the market in the state capital."

"Iron nails can be used in many places, building houses, making furniture, and horse-drawn carriages and many other places, this thing is not easy to preserve, Muzhou will buy a lot of this when he goes to Yunzhou to do business, we have iron ore, not to do this is a waste."

Gong Yueman said suspiciously: "This ...... Aren't there many in other places? ”

Wang Lanling shook his head, "It's different, those are the operation of small workshops, what we want to do here is industrialized machine production!" ”

Cotton cloth, matches, iron nails, Wang Lanling is ready to use these three commodities to impact the small family and small household production system in the feudal era, and at the same time obtain a large amount of foreign trade funds.

The imperial court forbade cross-county business, and at the moment Wang Lanling had no way to fight just because the interests were too small.

Once the benefits exceed a certain level, the people below will find a way!

It's really not good, take the most legal path and become an official businessman!