Cai Yang, Zheng Sheng doesn't have a deep impression of this place, it seems to be a small county in Jingzhou, right? Zheng Sheng looked at Wang Jun.

"Caiyang is a small county in the southeast of Yiyang County. Xinye is in the north, Deng County is in the west, and Xiangyang is in the southwest, which is also an important place. Wang Jun whispered.

Zheng Sheng nodded and didn't say anything more, Zheng Meng was appointed as Cai Yangchang, and he was not interested in this matter. Cai Yang? Zheng Meng went to this place, so he couldn't affect him anymore, right? Their brothers live their own lives, he is a good official, and Zheng Sheng has accumulated his skills, which is really good.

Putting down the long knife in his hand, Zheng Sheng instructed the craftsmen to continue to work hard and strive to make a good knife as soon as possible, and then he walked out of the mountain.

Out of the iron-smelting valley where the blacksmith's workshop was located, Zheng Sheng could be regarded as returning to the mountain road. Now the mountain road has changed dramatically.

The group of families in the spring breeze came to Qingzhuling in late January, and Zheng Sheng wanted to come to these nearly two hundred people in a big package. But after they arrived, Zheng Sheng was a little blind, what should they do?

Zheng Sheng thought about it, and first selected some talents with special skills from among them, for example, what he valued most was craftsmen who could strike iron, but it was a pity that only one pair of uncles and nephews among these people had engaged in a similar industry when they were in Shunyang, so Zheng Sheng sent them to the blacksmith shop.

But after all, these people are poor people, if they have a skill and can support their family, they will not go to Qingzhuling to be Zheng Sheng's family.

In the end, Zheng Sheng decided to build the road.

The saying "if you want to get rich, build roads first" is the most appropriate. After Zheng Sheng decided to choose a suitable location in the mountains east and south of Xishan Daying as a workshop, the matter of building the road became even more urgent.

This is another expansion of Zheng Sheng's "future base".

More than 100 people said that the speed of road repair is not slow, after all, it is just a short circuit with a straight line distance of less than two kilometers.

And in order to speed up the progress, Zheng Sheng also deliberately took advantage of the last free time before this farming to hire people from nearby villages to help mine bluestone and pave the road.

A bluestone pavement more than half a zhang wide took more than half a month to repair.

But Zheng Sheng was not very satisfied with it. One is that the road is not wide, only for a horse-drawn carriage; The second is that this road is built according to the direction of the original dirt road, this road as a whole is north-south, but in fact it is tortuous, and there are even two sections of road in the middle: first northeast and southwest, and then sharply bend to northwest and southeast.

Therefore, Zheng Sheng plans to expand the repair, and it must be repaired to at least one zhang wide, so that the carriage traffic will be very smooth.

Then it is straight and straight, he doesn't plan to dig a tunnel out, but some detours that affect the speed of passage too much, Zheng Sheng plans to rely on manpower to level out some low slopes and small hills, just to build roads, bluestone will be taken from these places, and it will not be a waste of manpower.

After February, the people of the surrounding villages began to be busy with spring ploughing, and the speed of expansion of the road naturally slowed down.

However, there is no need to rush this project, after all, it is not very useful now. The main function is just to step on this road every day when the Tiger Guard Camp comes to step on this road in the morning.

And Qiu Fuzi is very satisfied with this road, the old master is old, although it is very comfortable to live in Qingzhuyuan, but he is also willing to come out every day to yo-yo and bend, do a set of "five bird plays" to strengthen the body, this bluestone ground is always more comfortable than the land. Qiu Fuzi was in a good mood, and with a stroke of his pen, he gave the trail another name, Bluestone Road.

Zheng Sheng didn't bother to argue with him about the name of a mountain road. Qingshi Road, the name is okay, and it was determined.

After repairing the road, Zheng Sheng naturally started the next stage of the plan - the construction of the workshop.

Zheng Sheng considered these two plans together.

Even during the Taikang year, he considered moving the blacksmith shop and the fireworks workshop to a new location. After all, the West Courtyard was too small.

But where to move? There are not many places to choose, and Qingzhuling is a place that is water in addition to mountains.

For safety reasons, Zheng Sheng didn't plan to move the workshop far away. Therefore, the mountains to the south of the small courtyard are close and hidden, which is really the best choice.

But it was a barren mountain, and the location was a problem.

However, as he became more and more familiar with the surrounding mountains and forests, Zheng Sheng also roughly sketched the nearby terrain in his mind. In February, the family built roads, and he and Wan Yun and others also ran to several nearby mountains, and after some discussion, finally chose a location.

I have to say a few more words that in order to distinguish several nearby mountains, Zheng Sheng originally planned to name them after No. 1 Mountain, No. 2 Mountain, and No. 3 Mountain, which is simple and clear, easy to remember. But his name was quickly overturned by Qiu Fuzi on the grounds that such a name was too simple and that no one had ever named a mountain with a number.

In the end, the result of everyone's discussion was to name these mountains with five directional words in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, Zheng Sheng felt that the last name was equally simple and crude, why couldn't one, two, three?

The so-called North Mountain is to the south of Zheng Sheng's small courtyard, including the hill between the small courtyard and the Xishan camp.

Dongshan is the continuous mountains east of Qingshi Road, Zhongshan is south of Beishan, Xishan is the mountain south of Xishan Daying, Nanshan is farther to the south, and Qingzhuyuan is in Nanshan.

The iron-smelting workshop was built in a col between Beishan and Zhongshan, Zheng Sheng actually had an impression of there, and the first time Li Anjian took him to the camp in Xishan, he passed by there.

Zheng Sheng named this col the Iron Valley, which was equally simple and rude.

The Iron Smelting Valley is a small col in the northeast and southwest direction, the valley is less than a kilometer long, but the two sides are steep and difficult to climb the average three or four hundred meters high hills, there are only two exits in the northeast and southwest (good concealment, this is an important consideration for the iron smelting workshop built here), the whole valley is like a pear, of course, Zheng Sheng did not name the pear valley because it looks like a pear.

The knife that Zheng Sheng had just experimented with was made by craftsmen who had just moved to the Iron Smelting Valley with the first iron-smelting furnace that had been built.

The iron-smelting cave in the west courtyard is very narrow, and several blacksmiths are crowded there. When Zheng Sheng took them to the Iron Smelting Valley to see it, and made sure that this valley was where they would work in the future, they couldn't wait to move here.

At present, only one iron-smelting house has been built in the valley near the north entrance, and in addition to the residences of several craftsmen in the middle of the valley.

The early stage of entrepreneurship was hard, Zheng Sheng could only motivate them with rewards, and if he built an ideal steel knife, he promised them a large amount of rewards.

The north exit of the valley is a narrow mountain road that can hardly be called a road, but after some leveling, it is barely passable. The last part of this mountain road is the iron-smelting cave behind the west courtyard.

Go out of the south exit, go west again, and after passing a winding mountain road, you can reach the camp of the West Mountain. And to the east, is the bluestone road.

Now, Zheng Sheng is standing on the bluestone ground near the south entrance.

He nodded with a few Tiger Guard Battalion guards who were guarding the south entrance and headed southeast along the bluestone road. After walking a short distance, I arrived at another workshop, the Fireworks Workshop.

The fireworks workshop is also built between two mountains, but it is a long and narrow flat land, not a valley. The bluestone road passes through this clearing along the northwest and southeast directions, both sides are also mountains, the northeast side belongs to the east mountain, which is not a high mountain, and the southwest side is the middle mountain, which is very steep, and the more you go inside, the higher the mountain rises. Zheng Sheng knew that it was the Wudang Mountain of later generations and the current Taihe Mountain.

The location is actually very convenient and the space is also very large. So, the fireworks workers happily left the secret room and moved here.

Now, Liu Wei'er has completely stopped caring about the production of fireworks. Wang Zhong helped him choose a calm and reliable person with good skills among these workers to be the head of the fireworks shop.

This person's name is Zheng Wanghu, he is twenty-five or sixteen years old, tall and thin, and he is one of the family members who helped Zheng Sheng grind ore. Although he was young, during this time, he managed the fireworks workshop with the help of Wang Zhong, and he did a good job.

Zheng Wanghu saw Zheng Sheng walking over and hurriedly greeted him.

Zheng Sheng watched the flowers and flowers, and the scale of the fireworks workshop is now much larger than that of the iron smelting workshop.

After cooperating with Shunyang Wangfu, Zheng Wen and Wang Zhong successively added a lot of workers to the fireworks shop. Now there are more than 30 workers in the fireworks shop, but they are in order, and everyone is working in an orderly manner. Zheng Sheng felt very satisfied.

In fact, the fireworks shop has been divided into several departments, such as making shells, manufacturing inner cylinder balls, filling drugs and so on. These departments are separated by high brick walls to prevent secrets from being revealed.

At first, when Wang Zhong wanted to do this, Zheng Sheng was unimpressed, and he felt that it would be enough to let the workers be responsible for only one task.

But Wang Zhong told him that this was not enough, not only did the high walls surround each work area, but in the future, the workers in each area would have their own residences, and they were not allowed to work together during the day and communicate with each other at night.

Zheng Sheng choked, is this too ruthless?

Then, Wang Zhong suggested that he should sign a confidentiality clause with these craftsmen, that the workers who worked in the workshop could not leave for less than a certain number of years, and that those who had to leave under special circumstances should be treated with extreme caution, and even the resignation of a worker must be confirmed by Zheng Sheng himself to be effective.

Later, Zheng Sheng thought about it carefully and felt that these measures were still quite good.

With this fireworks workshop, he can also be regarded as a capitalist. Then, naturally, the status must also be changed, although this is to limit the freedom of the worker, but for the sake of profit, he cannot but do it.

What's more, there is also * manufacturing here. In this way, even if it is limited by 10,000 times, it is worth it.

However, Zheng Sheng is obviously too worried, the workers in the fireworks workshop are highly paid, and they are in charge of food and housing. Freely? Jin people said that Shenma is freedom? Can you eat it?

After confirming that the workers would soon accept the restrictions, Zheng Sheng set the retirement limit, and workers who reached the age of 60 could retire, and after retirement, they could still receive a pension with a certain monthly salary. Then he planned to move the families of the fireworks workers to Qingzhuling.

Zheng Sheng thought, he's like this, outsiders can't dig into his corners anymore, right?