After more than a year of construction, the smelting plant and copper manufacturing plant in the mountain recess have formed a scale. It not only solves the problem of smelting technology, but also manufactures exquisite bronze utensils to meet the living needs of various nomadic people in the north.

Although the nomadic people in the north are scattered in the vast steppes and the desert in the northwest, they are very large in area and quite large in population. In terms of population, it is not less than the people in Zhoudi, but it is too scattered and too wide.

Such a huge market is almost monopolized by the Bai Gui family. That profit, it is conceivable.

The current mountain recess is a very mysterious place, and ordinary people can't enter it. When you enter the recess, there is no cave. It has its own independent market, and everything is sold, which is similar to that of Linquan Castle.

The road leading from Linquan to the mountain recess is wider than the official road in Zhoudi, which is equivalent to the highway of modern society. Not a two-lane road, but a multi-lane.

At the exit of the hollow, the road narrowed. At the mountain pass, there is a checkpoint, which is guarded by "heavy soldiers", and ordinary people are not allowed to approach it casually. Those who do not listen to the dissuasion and forcibly approach will be killed.

The setting of the border is the same as the checkpoint between countries. On both sides is a high wall, and in the middle is the only passage. The walls were guarded by archers. Order! Anyone who enters the passage will die.

Once you enter the checkpoint, you will find a wide road inside, as wide as a modern highway. And! The same is closed.

There are passages to cross along the way, but! During the delivery of goods, the crossing of the aisle is restricted. You can only cross if the convoy carrying goods has passed.

At the end of the road is a transit warehouse, and there is a large square in front of the warehouse, on which hundreds of horse-drawn carriages are usually parked. Behind the parking lot is a row of teahouses and restaurants, and there are no liquor stores.

Over here! Alcohol is not allowed. It is equivalent to checking drunk driving in modern society, which is very strict.

Because! These drivers are responsible for transporting goods back and forth, and if you drink alcohol, it is easy to get into trouble. So! Alcohol was directly banned.

The coachman can drink if he wants, leave here and go outside, stop pulling goods, and drink as much as he wants.

The warehouse is divided into two warehouses. One warehouse is the ore, coal, etc., that are pulled in from the outside, and the other is the finished copperware made by the factory inside.

Ore and coal are brought in from outside. The coal was dug from a nearby coal mine, the same one that was first discovered. Other ores, which were previously brought in from Zhou. Right now! It was mined from the mountains behind and transported.

In the nearby mountains, on the side of the large minerals, there is a smelting furnace on the spot, which refines the ore and then sends the finished product away. Small-scale minerals are mined ore and then manually carried onto the road through horse-drawn carts, and then pulled by horse-drawn carts.

The road leading to the warehouse was guarded by guards, and the carriage could not enter without the leader of the caravan. The convoy came, the escort of the team leader went to report first, and the accountant of the warehouse came out to check the personnel. If there are strangers, they will be interrogated.

In general, strangers are not accepted. It is then released and the goods are delivered to the freight yard. Or! Go to the warehouse to pick up the goods that were pulled away.

Except for the section from the checkpoint to the warehouse, which is in contact with the outside world, other places are forbidden areas, and the driver cannot walk around casually. Otherwise! At one's own risk.

Of course! If you have a family card, or if you have someone inside to pick you up, you can enter. You can go inside, drink, and brag.

But! You can't go to places such as smelting test areas and smelting furnaces.

And also! You can't get into the copperware factory!

In a word, you can't get into the factory area. You only have to go to the living quarters, the agricultural production areas. Sightseeing is also only in the designated area. If you want to wander around the primeval forest at the foot of the mountain, or look for a new entrance and exit at the bottom of the mountain, then you may die here.

At the smelter and pilot plant, soot billows all year round, melting ore and testing new data.

On the side of the copperware factory, smoke is also often emitted. Every time there is smoke, a new batch of products comes out. When a new product is produced, you can hear a clanging sound, which is the workers polishing the newly made bronze.

Underneath the natural pond are rows of cultivated crops.

Near the living quarters, there are planned vegetable gardens.

The families of the workers who live here, some have entered the factory, and some have contracted the land. There are also people who are idle at home because their families are rich or they can't leave with children or take care of the elderly.

There are also some family members who work as casual workers in factories. When the factory is busy, they go to the factory to work. When the factory is idle, or when there is no work for them, they are idle at home.

In addition to factory workers, technicians, specialists and their families, there are also lumberjacks, craftsmen of all kinds.

Houses need to be built here, so all kinds of craftsmen and handymen are needed. These people are not allowed to move around casually, and can only move within the prescribed range.

In the beginning, everyone lived in thatched huts. Right now! With the construction of more good houses, experts, technicians, leaders and others give priority to living in new houses. Others! Waiting for the new house later.

In the innermost part of the recess, there is also a town. The town is small but bustling. Merchants are not just anyone who can come in and do business, they must be "locals", the families of the people who work here.

There are no strangers here, they are all acquaintances. Or! They are all brought in by experts, technicians and their families. It doesn't matter, no one lives here, you can't get in at all. So! There are no idle people here.

Because this place has only been built for a short time, so! Their accommodation is still very difficult. Most of them are thatched houses, with only a small number of standard good houses with stone and wood structures.

But! The road is very wide, well planned, and not chaotic at all. Thatched houses are lined up in rows, concentrated in one place. But! and not connected to prevent fires.

It has also done a good job in water conservancy construction. Ditches that used to form naturally have been artificially widened. Other than that! Ponds have also been built in low-lying areas. Even if it rains suddenly, it won't cause waterlogging!

In a flat basin like this, if the drainage system is not properly designed, it is easy to cause waterlogging when heavy rains come.

Lumberjacks cut wood in the primeval forest all year round, and carpenters make all kinds of carpentry work in the sheds all year round.

Stonemasons quarry or polish stones in designated quarries.

Craftsmen who know how to weave pick natural rattan in the mountains and weave various household utensils.

Bamboo weaving craftsmen cut bamboo, cut it into bamboo skin, and weave it into various bamboo crafts......

The toto-dong produced by these craftsmen can be sold not only inside the mountain recess, but also regularly sent out and sold to outside vendors.

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