When the two-mile radius of the field was reclaimed.

Tang Xidong prepared the next step of masonry city wall, in order to save manpower and time, he chose to use local materials and directly excavate mountain stones in Beishan.

But immediately after a day, the situation took a new turn.

After the outer skin rocks of the North Mountain were excavated.

Tang Xidong was hurriedly invited by the workers to the foot of Beishan Mountain, and then a gray-white foot of the mountain appeared in front of Tang Xidong's eyes.

For the continuous gray-white rock mass in front of him, Tang Xidong is very familiar.

Limestone!

This North Mountain is actually a lime mountain?

Tang Xidong didn't expect such a situation to occur.

After asking the villagers in the village, I learned that there have always been many karst caves on this mountain, which are unfathomable, and few people will enter.

If there is a stalactite cave, there may be lime, and at this moment limestone has appeared in front of Tang Xidong's eyes.

Looking at a large area of excavated limestone body, Tang Xidong couldn't understand his mood at the moment, but after all, there was more joy than headache.

The plan to build the city wall with local materials was declared bankrupt after the limestone appeared, and Tang Xidong still had to spend a lot of labor to dig out the stone from the mountain behind Luoliang Mountain, and then laboriously transport it down.

But one of the biggest benefits of limestone is.

Tang Xidong's industrial plan was implemented.

With lime, cement can be made.

Cement, thinking of this name, Tang Xidong's heart trembled excitedly.

It can be said that the emergence of cement has accelerated the process of urban development and is a cornerstone of urban construction and development.

At this moment, what appeared in front of his eyes was one of the main materials for the construction of cement, not to be precise, with limestone, it must be accompanied by gypsum mines.

And the last raw material for the production of cement is clay, which is the best thing to look for.

Tang Xidong needs to think about what to do next?

The dense forest is located, the land is fertile, and it is frequently close to the stream, in the planning of Tangxi East, it is very suitable to open up a large number of fertile fields, if the whole dense forest is cut down, turn over the grain, it is nearly 20,000 acres of fertile land, or a flat river.

Even if the yield per mu is not high at this time, it is an annual output of nearly 10 million catties of grain.

Relying on the South Mountain and the North Mountain, as long as you build a city wall along the official road, you can protect a large area of fertile land.

In addition, there are a large number of wild animals in the dense forest, and as long as a small part is hunted, you can start your own wild farming.

Improved, copycat eating habits.

In the future, the new population can also be distributed on the two mountains in the north and south.

When the time comes, a stone bridge will be built on the official road, which can connect the east and west and connect with the opposite Luoliang Mountain.

Such an important strategic location naturally cannot be easily abandoned.

In troubled times, food is heavy, and it is impossible for Tangxidong to abandon this treasure land.

Then the lime mountains that have been discovered now, and the possible gypsum mines, must be re-found to hoard and re-find the site for the construction of the cement plant.

After repeated thinking and argumentation, Tang Xidong decided to enclose the remaining part of the entire Luoliang Mountain as a site for opening a factory in the future.

First, the backhill is remote, noise and pollution will not affect residential areas and cultivated land, and secondly, the geographical location of the backhill is deeper, which is more safe from being disturbed and peeped by enemies.

After that, Houshan was used as an industrial park, and the dense forest area was used as a new center of gravity for cottages.

Wait for the population to slowly increase.

A mountain city that attaches great importance to agriculture and opens up new industries has appeared in this small corner of the Ming Dynasty.

Regarding industry, Tang Xidong plans to build a coking plant, a steel plant, a ceramic glass factory, and so on in addition to opening a cement plant.

However, the emergence of industry also requires all raw materials to be mined and factories to be built.

For Tang Xidong, he has only touched the shadow, and he will need to wait for a long time for the time being.

Now that the lime mountain has appeared, Tang Xidong is not in a hurry to mine, which will cause a lot of pollution and can only be temporarily accumulated in the early stage.

Baoshan is placed there and will not be moved away with long legs.

So after sorting out the clues, Tang Xidong decided to ignore the lime mountain for the time being, and first reclaim the dense forest at hand on a large scale.

As a result, Tang Xidong gave up the masonry of the city wall and ordered the labor of the entire cottage to continue to reclaim deep into the dense forest.

At the same time, in order to prevent large wild animals from infesting and injuring people, a small group of people will be divided into companies trained in the cottage to patrol and guard the edge of the wasteland in turn.

According to the speed of reclamation within a radius of two miles in two days, all the trees were cut down and piled up within two miles of the dense forest near the mountain road.

The site that stretches for ten miles and is two miles deep appears on the side of the official road.

In the next few days, the cutting of the dense forest was still proceeding slowly, and it advanced again two miles in depth.

A new situation suddenly arises.

Two villagers who were cutting down trees were attacked by a wild boar that suddenly appeared, killing one and seriously injuring one in just half an hour.

When the trees were cut down, people died.

It immediately caused a huge panic among the working villagers.

Everyone was so frightened that they didn't dare to approach the edge of the jungle again.

Tang Xidong had to temporarily stop the reclamation of the dense forest.

After discussing with Liu Lianqing and others, it was decided to send the entire Luoliang Mountain company to dig traps, press deep step by step, and prepare to capture wild animals in the dense forest on a large scale.

At the same time, the other laborers in the cottage cannot stop the work at hand, although they cannot continue to go deeper for the time being, but there is still other work to do, after all, the trunks of the trees were simply cut down before, and the roots of thousands of trees are still in the ground, and everyone needs to uproot them next.

So while the company began to capture wild objects, the rest of the cottage began to dig up the roots of the trees with pickaxes and shovels.

Tang Xidong specially arranged a few experienced hunters to teach the company members how to set traps, how to avoid wild animals, how to find and distinguish wild animals, and how to deal with sudden animal attacks.

After two days of assault training, the entire company was sent down the mountain to the dense forest, ready for capture.

The rest of the staff dug deep into the roots of the trees and leveled the land on the originally reclaimed site.

In the first two days, the company's gains were very small, except for the movement of a large number of men entering the dense forest, driving the wild objects to flee to the depths of the dense forest, and very few wild objects could be caught.

Tang Xidong was not in a hurry, after all, the team members were just getting used to dealing with wild animals.

Just two days later, after the entire company was accustomed and skilled, the number of prey caught instantly increased dramatically.

Although it is still just a few small hares, pheasants......

But, at least there is a gain.

As time went on, large wild boars, bobcats, wild dogs, and even blind bears hunted.

Chickens, rabbits, and pigs that can be domesticated are captured and raised in captivity on the new field opened up at the edge of the dense forest, classified and tamed, and those that cannot be domesticated are directly slaughtered and distributed to everyone as a reward, and everyone can eat a little bit of meat.

After the company's hunting had made great progress, the others began to advance again into the unexplored forest.

Everything is going on steadily.

After all, there are five or six thousand people piled up in the dense forest every day in the entire cottage, and the speed is still very fast.

It took half a month for Tang Xidong to achieve the effect he wanted to achieve in front of him.

A wide square stretching out at the foot of the mountain appeared in front of you.

The triangle is more than ten miles long and more than ten miles deep, and it looks like a flat river.

The creek that flows between the two mountains divides the entire site in two.

After half a month's hard work, the wild animals captured by the company were also densely fenced with fences made of trees.

Hare, pheasant, wild boar, bison, goat, elk, wild duck, white goose, these eight kinds of wild things were left by Tang Xidong to prepare for captivity and domestication, and the rest were either hurried to the depths of the mountains and forests, or directly captured and slaughtered.

In half a month, the company also injured more than a dozen people, but fortunately, Tang Xidong repeatedly emphasized careful and steady progress, and they were all in groups of twenty people during the hunt, although these ten or so people were injured, they could slowly recover.

Eight kinds of wild animals, the number varies, and although the largest hare has died quite a lot, there are still more than a hundred. The least number of bison, only about a dozen. Others also vary in number.