"My lord, the scout camp has found a place where a large amount of coal is hidden."

In the hall of the village administration center, Ah Hui, who was dressed in military uniform, reported respectfully to Sima Yu. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

With the establishment of the Seigong, the task of finding coal for ironmaking fell on the scout camp, and a large number of people were sent to investigate in Ahuilan.

"Oh, great, where is it?"

Sima Yu was overjoyed when he heard this, and now the construction of the Seigong Workshop has been mostly completed with the full efforts of hundreds of workers, and as long as the coal is found, iron smelting can begin.

"Hui Zhugong, it's in the mountains and forests less than 2 miles southeast of Yongxing Village," Ah Hui muttered.

"Yongxing Village, it's hard work, you go down first"

Sima Yu was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't expect that there were still coal deposits next to this abandoned Yongxing Village, and then comforted Ah Hui and muttered.

"Yes, my lord, my subordinates retire"

"Quickly go find Zini and come to the discussion"

After Ah Hui left, Sima Yu paced in place and thought about it, and then walked to a guard guarding the door.

Sima Yu's personal guards have been formed for a while, and the 200 recruits have basically been able to take on the first duty after training, with 40 personal guards taking turns guarding the village administration center every day, and other personal guards who are not on duty are trained as usual.

"Yes, my lord!"

The guard quickly took the order.

"Lord, what is the matter with summoning your subordinates?"

Soon, Guo Yuan came to the village administration center and said to Sima Yu.

"Zini, just now Ah Hui came to report that coal deposits have been found outside Yongxing Village," Sima Yu said.

"Oh? That's great, my subordinates will order someone to mine, so that the Seiko workshop will be able to start soon" Guo Yuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly said.

"Zi Nimo is in a hurry, the reason why I am in such a hurry to find you is that there is still something to discuss with you," Sima Yu hurriedly stopped Guoyuan Dao, who was about to go out.

"My lord, please speak!"

Guo Yuan was slightly surprised when he heard this.

"Do you remember the request of the king before?" Sima Yu said.

"Naturally remember! The lord is ready to establish a subordinate village."

Guo Yuan was enlightened when he heard this, and asked out loud.

Sima Yu's Wang Yuanwai is a villager in Qilin Village, originally a landlord in the Southern Song Dynasty, his family has good land, his family is quite rich, and he also brought a lot of gold and silver taels when he came to this world.

After coming to Qilin Village, with the privatization of assets, this Wang Yuanwai scattered his family wealth to buy dozens of acres of newly opened fertile land in Qilin Village.

More than ten days ago, this Wang Yuanwai and several other heads of households who had also purchased fertile land like him had come to the village administration center and asked Sima Yu for permission to recruit tenants to establish a village near his own fertile land on the grounds that their fertile land was too far away from Qilin Village.

At that time, Sima Yu refused on the grounds that there was a shortage of manpower for village development at this stage.

The main reason is that at this stage, Qilin Village is in the midst of expansion and construction, and it is not full of manpower, and it is afraid that the population is scattered and vulnerable to sneak attacks by other forces.

But now that Sima Yu thought about it carefully, he felt that it was not appropriate to concentrate all the more than 100,000 people in Qilin Village.

Due to the large population and insufficient supply of private houses, a large number of villagers have been living in tent areas for a long time, which is not only inconvenient for management, but also easy to breed riots, which also makes Qilin Village unable to upgrade to Qilin Town.

Moreover, a large number of the more than 100,000 people are from farming families, and their main work is also on fertile land, which is not suitable for the distance, and most of them will not stay in the city in the future.

With the emergence of a similar division of labor, it is an inevitable trend to separate affiliated villages.

Moreover, due to the sneak attack of Qilin Village, the original area of Daxi Sixteen Village has become a blank area, and a large number of materials have not been rationally used.

Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity of the discovery of coal deposits, Sima Yu was ready to promote the establishment of affiliated villages.

"Yes, Zini, now that most of the people's hearts have been attached, in order to avoid being taken advantage of by others and make reasonable use of the surrounding resources, I am ready to start building affiliated villages," Sima Yu nodded.

There is such a large blank area around Qilin Village, if Sima Yu does not send people to occupy it for a long time, it is very likely that the surrounding forces will send people to occupy it, and it will take a little more time to take it back when the time comes.

"What the lord said is reasonable, I wonder how many affiliated villages the lord is going to establish?"

Guo Yuan also agreed with the establishment of affiliated villages at this time, even if Sima Yu didn't mention it today, he would probably have to make suggestions.

"I came to Zini to discuss where to establish affiliated villages, how much population to allocate and other related matters" Sima Yu shook his head when he heard this, and said to Guoyuan.

"Lord, according to the opinion of his subordinates, in the early stage, four affiliated villages can be established according to different functional needs, and each village can be allocated 4,000-5,000 people, totaling about 20,000 people, so that it can just digest the villagers who still live in the tent area, and it will not affect the development of Qilin Village.

As for the location of the village, one can be established in the agricultural area southeast of Qilin Village, and most of the more than 600,000 mu of fertile land planned today has been reclaimed.

To the northeast, Yongxing Village, which was already rich in clay that could be used to make pottery, and now that a coal deposit has been discovered, it would be better to rebuild the village there, and then distribute the villagers to mine the coal and clay there.

The third village can be built on the prairie next to Chengshui Lake in the west, across the river from Houbao Village in Dongliu Town, where the water and grass are abundant, suitable for growing horse grass and domesticating livestock, and can be developed into a horse farm in my Qilin Village in the future.

The fourth village might as well be built in the northernmost part of Qishan Village, which is under the command of the former Daxi Sun Kewang, which is located at the edge of the current junction between our village and Daxi, the terrain is towering, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and can be used as a forward outpost for our army to fight against the Great Western Army in the future.

Guo Yuan thought about it after hearing this, and said slowly, at a glance, he knew that the plan for these four affiliated villages had probably been brewing in his mind for a long time.

"Okay, Zini is really comprehensive, just do what Zini said, not only combined with the surrounding resources, but also take into account the dangers in the east, west, and north directions, I have Zini in Qilin Village, why not worry, haha"

After listening to Guoyuan's thoughts, Sima Yu was overjoyed and immediately clapped his head.

"The lord praises it!"

After the policy was set, Guoyuan began to allocate manpower on the same day and arrange the establishment of affiliated villages.

In the afternoon of the next day, wagons carrying food and other supplies, surrounded by thousands of villagers, set off from Qilin Village to the new village where they would live in the future.

The four villages are Wugu Village, Yongxing Village, Chengshui Village, and Qishan Village, and Guoyuan has also made great efforts in the distribution of population, mainly focusing on villagers suitable for the characteristics of each village.