The next morning, Bai Gui left the lazy man's retreat with his eldest daughter and others, left the eldest girl, did not go home, and went to the mining area.

Coming to see the big girl and the lazy man is one of them, and it is also necessary to visit the situation in the mining area often.

Today's mining area, because of the large iron reserves, the scale of mining is already very large. More than 200 people work in the mine every day.

In order to ensure ventilation inside, the mine mouth is large, the size of half a mountain. The quarried stones are all needed for Bai Gui, and they are used to build houses on the side of the pasture.

Next to the mine, a new smelter has been built to smelt the mined ore into finished iron. And then! Deliver finished iron products to various places.

Right now! Iron is a high-end cutting-edge technology product. So! Most of them were transported to Linquan. Only a few are transported to other smelters of their own, mainly for scientific research.

There is a scientific research team in Linquan, and there are also scientific research teams in other places. So! If it is to be transported to various places, let scientific research experts from all over the country carry out their own scientific research.

The road leading to the mining area is very wide, much wider than the official road built by the government. There were horse-drawn carriages coming and going, and they were all convoys. There are basically no pedestrians, and pedestrians usually ride on passing vehicles.

When the vehicle is going uphill, if the horse can't pull it, the hitchhiker will come down and push it after him.

Most of the pedestrians are workers and their families in the mining area, as well as scientific researchers, and strangers are not allowed to enter. At the main junction into the mining area, there are road stops. A person who does not have an identity document and cannot prove that you are a member of the worker's family cannot enter.

Outside the mining area, that is, on Lan Gongzi's pasture, Bai Gui built houses for the workers in the mining area to house the workers and their families. On holidays, workers can return from the mine and live in the compounds of their families. If you work overtime or do not go back for a long time, your family can issue a certificate to visit the mining area.

In the mining area, there are also special husband and wife rooms and family rooms. Families can bring their children with them.

Theoretically, Baekyu worked according to the monthly system. How long a worker works in a day, with a few days off in a month. During the holidays, you can go home and stay longer.

But! In order to earn more money, some workers work overtime for others or voluntarily work overtime. Such! If you don't go home for a long time, your family will come to visit.

On a small uphill road, when the convoy passes, everyone helps each other. Because it's a team, everyone is in a group, and it's necessary to help each other. The vehicle behind stops, and the driver gets out of the car to push the vehicle in front. Wait until it's uphill, then go back and push the second car, and so on.

For the big uphill and downhill roads, Bai Gui has arranged a special "push and pull team".

When going uphill, use a "push-pull team" composed of one horse, two horses, or four horses to tie up the uphill carriage and help pull it up.

When going downhill, pull the butt of the carriage with a rope to maintain the speed of the carriage and prevent the carriage from sliding out of control down the ravine.

"White officials! White officials! White officials! ”

When the people in the pushing and pulling team saw the white officials coming on horseback, they all greeted each other.

"Everyone's worked hard!" Bai Gui greeted.

Slowing down, he said to the people in the push and pull team with concern: "On the slope, we need to build a big shed and build a big parking lot." The convoy is coming, and you can rest on it after pulling uphill. Prepare tea on top for everyone to drink. ”

The convoy of goods is not available every day. Generally, there are batches, and a batch should be pulled for at least one day. When there is no convoy, there is no need for a push-pull team.

Normally! Once or twice a month. Sometimes, it only happens once every two or three months. But! One time can be a few days.

In the past, when there was no smelting furnace, it was necessary to pull goods every day. Later, when a smelting furnace was built, it was only to pull the finished product, and there was less fleet.

When the construction of the mine began, there were trucks of stone pullers. Afterward! There is also less stone, and the fleet is gone.

The stones on the ranch are now mined from the nearest place, and there is a special passage. There are stones and pebbles on the other side of the quarry, so! The road out of the stone quarry is very easy to walk. The stones and stones were pressed against the pavement, and the pavement was very strong, with little dirt. The roadbed is also hard, and it is made of stones.

After inspecting the mining area, I came back to see the situation in the quarry. And then! only then did he take his eldest daughter home.

Over there at the horse trading market, I've been there before.

Today, the horse market is being built according to the basic plan, and the foundations of the streets have been built. There are no good houses with stone and wood structures on it, and there are many places where thatched houses are built.

Naturally, the horse trading market was not formed, and people from all over the world came to buy horses, most of them in the pasture, and they did not go to the trading market.

Especially recently! He wanted to give his son-in-law Shang Ying 10,000 good horses, and the horses on the grassland were all transported to Linquan Castle.

If you don't tell others and ask others to traffic horses to Lan Gongzi's ranch, who wants to come?

What Bai Gyu means is to first build the infrastructure such as the horse trading market streets and grounds of the Lan Gongzi Ranch, and then develop it later.

The 10,000 horses prepared for Shang Ying this time were all prepared from Linquan. Or! Temporarily trafficked from nearby tribes such as Deer Park. The horses in Lan Gongzi's ranch did not move.

In the middle of the night, Baekyu returned home with his eldest daughter.

Dinner was eaten at the quarry, so! After washing up, I went back to my room and got ready for bed.

"What nerves does she have eldest daughter? Crying to go with you to the mountains? Zhao Nu asked suspiciously.

Bai Gui and Zhao Nu leaned their backs on the head of the bed and did not fall asleep immediately.

"Guess what?" Bai Gui asked quietly and rhetorically.

"I thought about it? It can't be who she likes about her, right? Zhao Nu guessed.

"And who do you think she might like?"

"I don't know! Which guard is behind the lazy guy? Isn't that right? They all seem to be very old! My daughter is a very high-minded girl. What she meant was: It seems that she is going to marry a nobleman......"

"Marrying a nobleman? What did she say? ”

"Didn't you say that? You said you were going to marry your eldest daughter to a nobleman? ”

"Me?" Bai Gui smiled bitterly: "Aren't I comforting her?" Didn't I mean? It's best to find one of the guards and let them stay here. ”

"You?" Zhao Nu complained: "Your words don't count!" ”

"I'm busy! Am I not? ”

"So what did she want to do this time?"

"She's got a crush on someone!"

"Who do you like?"

"Guess what?"

"Me?" Zhao Nu thought about it carefully and said, "I can't guess!" But! Absolutely! It's not like a certain guard! ”

"Who else but the guards?"

"Won't it be?"

"What won't it be?"

"Wouldn't it be someone she shouldn't love?"

"Maybe it's someone she shouldn't love!"

"How maybe? You said? Who does she like? ”

"Who does she like, will you say yes?"

"Except for the lazy guy! As long as she likes it, I'll say yes! ”

"Why can't a lazy man?" Bai Gui's heart sank and asked.