The green mountains are still there, the beautiful water is beautiful, the sky is high and the clouds are light, the cool breeze is blowing, the air is mixed with the fragrance of flowers and trees and the smell of the earth, Luo Zongshan took a few deep breaths of fresh air comfortably, and then, holding hands, began to inspect his own jurisdiction.

It is a wide basin with a small river flowing through it and green hills all around, making it a rare place.

Now, on the flat ground, there are gray tents scattered everywhere, and countless people are busy between the tents, some are weeding, some are digging pits, some are carrying water, some are making mud, some are pulling earth bricks, and some are cutting wood in the woods not far away.

Luo Zongshan didn't hold a whip in his hand, and he didn't tear his throat to urge his subordinates, everyone was very conscious, because if they didn't build a house quickly, they would be sleeping in the open in another ten days, and the tent they live in now can be borrowed, and it can only be returned in half a month.

Due to the urgency of time, Luo Zongshan did not let people build tall and sturdy brick houses, he asked the people below to build low adobe houses, because in two months here will enter the winter, they have no time to burn red bricks and build buildings, so they can only build some low adobe houses to make do with the first to live in.

Fortunately, they came from a poor place, and even in their hometown, they didn't have the money to buy coal to burn red bricks, and they used adobe bricks to build houses, so they were familiar with building adobe houses.

Everyone is very busy, but Luo Zongshan didn't do it, although he is also a strong laborer, but he is still the head of these people, he has to worry about the food and housing of thousands of people, he has to think about how to feed these thousands of people in the future, how to develop, how to make money, the burden on his shoulders is heavy, how can he have time to build a house.

The most he has done these days is to read books in his tent, whether it is the books given to him by Ma Kai or the books given to him by the major royal merchants, because he wants to figure out what to do here to make the fastest money and what to do with the highest profits.

After watching it for a few days, he finally had a general understanding.

To say that the fastest money is naturally to go hunting, to collect precious medicinal materials and fruits, the same day, there will be a harvest on the same day, however, hunting skills need to be trained, medicinal materials and fruits need to be identified by familiar people, these are urgent problems.

To say that the most profitable is naturally to open a mine, no matter what kind of mine it is, as long as it is found, the reward of the imperial court is a lot, and then you can organize people to dig it out and sell it for money, of course, the premise is that it is here, and it must be found.

As for breeding and planting, there is no profit in a short period of time, and these things can be taken care of by the elderly, women and children, and they do not need to spend too much energy.

Based on these circumstances, Luo Zongshan decided to divide his strong labor into four groups.

He personally took two hundred households and three hundred strong people to find mines, and spent a month looking through the entire jurisdiction to see if he could find mineral deposits;

The more knowledgeable Lao Wang took two hundred households, three hundred or so strong, took a book, went to the mountains and forests to find precious medicinal materials, first roughly searched, to see if there was such a thing in the jurisdiction;

The more clever Lao Zhang took two hundred households, three hundred or so strong, took a book, and went to the mountains and forests to collect precious fruits, and he also looked for it roughly first to see if there was such a thing in the jurisdiction;

Lao Xie, who is more brainy, took two hundred households, the most clever young man of the three hundred, to practice hunting skills first, and then go into the mountains to hunt;

As for the eldest Lao Cai, he stayed at home and took the rotten and old people to do some planting and breeding, anyway, this guy was originally raising livestock.

At this time, fifteen days have passed for twelve days, and he hurriedly ordered Lao Zhang to take his group of 300 people to return the tent and pull the grain back, as for the cement, it will not be used this year anyway, if it can be pulled, it will be pulled, and it will be the same after it cannot be pulled.

Fortunately, the road had been widened when they came, and there was no need to drag the family with them, Lao Zhang's group of people drove the carriage, and they could go back and forth in a day.

The amount of grain allocated to them by the imperial court this time is eight months' supply, except for the one they brought back on the first trip, the rest is about 20,000 stones, and they will be transported back in two trips, and as for the cement, it will be 5,000 bales, and it will be transported back in one trip, which is also a coincidence, in exactly three days, everything has been transported back, and the carriage has been handed over, and there is no need to go to the Yamen side of the capital for the time being.

Immediately afterward, Luo Zongshan began to distribute personnel, weapons, and tasks.

Lao Xie's group, 300 people, equipped with 100 spears and 100 waist knives, plus 200 longbows and 3,000 feather arrows, all the personnel selected the best;

Lao Wang and Lao Zhang's 300 men were 100 spears, 100 waist knives, and 100 longbows and 1,000 feather arrows;

As for his own group, 300 men with a hundred spears and a hundred waist knives are too much, because they still mainly carry hoes.

As soon as the task was assigned, all groups began to take active action, because these are all related to money and future life, basically without Luo Zongshan's supervision, they will automatically and consciously do a good job.

Luo Zongshan himself is also very positive, or very rough, because the mineral deposits are the most profitable, he can't be excited if he wants to, after explaining the task, he immediately took more than 300 people, and looked for it all over the mountains.

To talk about this luck, I don't know whether to say that he is lucky or unlucky, in fact, what he wants to find most is those mineral deposits with surface characteristics, like iron ore dense places will generally have traces of lightning splitting, as the saying goes, there are many broken trees, like copper ore dense places will generally find malachite, if you see a large piece of green and faint stone on the surface, there is definitely copper ore below.

However, at the beginning, he was extremely lucky, and after searching for more than ten days over the mountains and mountains, he did not find any similar surface features at all, in other words, he found nothing and worked in vain for more than ten days.

This Luo Zongshan is also a strong-willed person, or rather, he is a little stubborn, looking for more than ten days and found nothing, not only is he not discouraged, but with the mineral deposits, the eyes can't see, then dig, so, every time he crosses a mountain, he has to make people dig hard at the foot of the mountain, dig down a foot or two deep, he wants to see, his jurisdiction is all soil, if it is all soil, then die the heart of looking for mineral deposits, go all out to do other things.

I have to say that at this time he was extremely lucky, because more than half of the coal mines in Siberia are surface mines, that is, as long as the floating soil on it is excavated, the coal can be seen.

He dug this time, and really found coal, many places are black oil coal that is dug down less than a zhang, and there are more and more such places, almost everywhere, his jurisdiction is a huge open-pit coal mine!