After negotiating with Chen Zhenbang, Song Hu and Qi exchanged a few words of greeting and then withdrew.

After all, Chen Zhenbang is still hiding a big living person in the quilt behind him, isn't it?

After exiting the virtual world realm of the space-time trader, Song Hu turned off the system, and he sat on the sofa with his eyes closed and pondered.

The railroad is about to be laid, and his authority can only use a billion yuan of funds a month.

And this billion yuan of funds, which also includes urban construction, as well as the cultivation of Huaxia gene people and other facility planning, so it seems that a lot of funds are far from being enough.

In this regard, Song Hu has no choice.

Who gave him that much authority?

If only the authority was larger, the amount of money that could be used was more.

Song Hu sighed deeply.

However, he can't control this thing, only after Zhao Hongyu's administrative level is promoted, he can promote the corresponding authority here.

So, he can only complain here.

Boiler-powered wooden ships now seem to be no longer possible.

This thing is too cheating, because the skills I have now are not good, so it will always cause the hull to overheat and catch fire, so this kind of ship cannot be manufactured and promoted in large quantities.

For the time being, sailboats were still a popular thing in the Empire.

Although tin fishing boats can be purchased, they also have many flaws in terms of price and use.

Because they were originally scrapped, many times they would break down at sea, or even the engine would break down.

This gave Song Hu a little headache.

However, it was thanks to the scrapped tin fishing boats that they were able to defeat the pirates in the summer.

But since they discovered the shortcomings of the tin fishing boats, they have been treated as secret weapons and kept for use when it is critical.

This made Song Hu deeply disappointed.

Fortunately, he came up with a copycat of inferior rocket artillery this year, which is used in the navy or army, and it is a resounding big killer.

Compared to heavy artillery, this disposable knock-off rocket launcher is easy to carry. It's very convenient to use.

It's just that it is more time-consuming to manufacture, and for the time being, it is impossible to equip the naval and land forces on a large scale.

If Wang Shan is really satisfied this year, it is the small hydropower station and the set of coal mine excavation equipment that he got his hands on.

With these equipment, the excavation of coal mines has undergone a sea change, and it is really faster than manual digging.

With just that coal mine near Ontario City, Song Hu can guarantee that Quebec and Manhattan, as well as his own side, will have enough fuel to heat up in the winter.

However, considering that the transportation is not very convenient now, it is only possible to transport the honeycomb coal made into these two cities by manpower or through caravans.

As for the good coke, Song Hu pondered and prepared to build a small thermal power plant. Prepare for the next year, prepare some more electricity to prepare some factories.

At the same time, electric lighting has also begun to be used in Ontario city schools.

So, every night, when the street lights are on, people will go out into the street and look at the street lights in amazement. Nowadays, the street lights of Ontario City have become a scene in the whole city at night.

At the same time, Ontario City is not fully developed. However, with the abundant freshwater fishery resources, people live a very prosperous life.

People who work in mines and construction sites can also buy slightly more expensive Manhattan grain and vegetables with a good salary. Even fur products from the Quebec side.

According to Song Hu's idea, Ontario City was planned to be built into a heavily industrialized city, and all the iron products produced and used by the empire in the future would flow out of this city.

A blacksmith shop in Ontario City. There are also shipyards, both of which are more than Manhattan and Quebec.

After all, here in Ontario City. There is a huge iron ore mine.

You must know that the iron ore produced here in later generations accounted for a large part of the world's Lu world.

In particular, the Motor City of the United States was built here because of the iron mines.

In this era, the abundance of iron ore resources is also related to the lifeblood of a country.

Compared to gold and silver, iron ore is also very important.

After all, in this era, whether it is the West or the East, cold and still the mainstream.

The tools used by people are more or less inseparable from iron products.

In particular, you can see how important it is to own an iron mine.

Fortunately, the American continent is rich in mineral resources, and there is no shortage of iron ore, gold ore and even silver ore.

Especially in Ontario City, in addition to the easy to mine coal mines, there are also abundant reserves of iron ore. There is also a large area of silver and copper mines, which are so diverse that they are staggeringly rich.

In addition, the Great Lakes region has fresh water resources, so there is a lot of wildlife living nearby.

So, the people who live here in Ontario are not short of food and vegetables, but they are not short of meat at all.

In particular, you can also fish from Lake Ontario to replenish the protein needed by the body.

Of course, nothing is absolute.

Nowadays, there are many caravans traveling between the three cities, and they bring not only some daily necessities, but also a lot of food and vegetables from Manhattan.

This is very rare in winter.

There are very few types of vegetables, just potatoes, carrots, green radish, and some sauerkraut, but even that is enough to surprise people.

You must know that before Zhao Hongyu and the others appeared, the Indians and even the people of Europe rarely ate green vegetables in winter.

And Zhao Hongyu's father-in-law in Manhattan followed Zhao Hongyu's advice and began to build a greenhouse.

I can also grow some vegetables in the winter.

In particular, the fungus cultivated in the greenhouse is welcomed by everyone.

Although the price is much more expensive, everyone doesn't mind spending some money in order to taste it fresh in winter.

Besides, the salaries of the various jobs in the empire are very good, and everyone is fully capable of having an occasional luxury.

Ontario City is located here for heavy industry, while Manhattan is for agriculture and commerce, as well as animal husbandry.

Quebec, on the other hand, has a combination of agriculture and animal husbandry, each with its own development goals.

After thinking about it for a while, Song Hu felt that he should also reclaim some land in the coming year to grow some food.

Even if the food is enough for the Empire, it can be sold to the Temporal Trader.

In the past few years, a lot of food has been sold in Manhattan through the space-time trader.

According to Zhang Tie, this kind of grain and vegetables that are not polluted and harmed by pesticides are more than three times that of ordinary rice.

This is also a way to make money.

In addition, the natural environment here in the Americas is very good, and there are many wild mushrooms in the dense and vast forests.

This thing can also be sold for a lot of money in the future generations.

If you give up such a financial path by yourself, it will not be brain-dead.

And there are abundant wildlife resources here, so you can make good use of it.

For example, reindeer or elk, as well as wild boars and other animals.

If you can organize people and set up a breeding farm, then the annual income that these wild animals can bring after domestication is also very good.

After all, they have advantages that all countries in the world do not have.

Even if you can't sell the materials you produce, you can sell them in the space-time trader.

You must know that the population of the virtual world world that the space-time trader is connected to is three times more than that of the real world world in the later life, so the shortage of food is quite large.

Especially here in China, there is a greater gap for the consumption of wild animals.

It is normal for the meat of wild animals to be four or five times more expensive than the average human being.

Therefore, it is also a good way to keep wild animals in captivity.

Thinking of this, Song Hu took out his notebook and began to take notes.

He plans to start implementing these plans after the New Year.

After all, although the American continent is now rich in wildlife resources, if the indiscriminate killing continues, it will not be many years before these animals become extinct.

In the history without their existence, there were no large cities in the whole of America (not counting the Mayans), and the total population of the British, French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies combined was not very large.

But look at the present, there are more than 300,000 genetic people of Chinese descent on the American continent alone, not counting the genetic people of other gerins.

At the same time, the entry of Indians increased the urban population.

Today, the population of Ontario City has exceeded 600,000, and Quebec is mostly French because it was a French colony, but even after adding some British laborers and Indians, it has exceeded the 300,000 mark.

Not to mention the city of Manhattan, which was the first city to be founded.

In addition, it is also the most attractive to Europeans, so the city of Manhattan has begun to grow towards 1 million people.

Combined, these three cities have a population of almost 2 million, which is a very large number.

Of course, this so-called enormity is relative to the population of European cities in this era.

If you compare it to the cities of the East, this is still not comparable.

And Song Hu has not counted the other five developing cities, according to Song Hu's contact with these people, the smallest of the other five cities also has a population of 30,000, and the largest has exceeded the 100,000 mark.

It can be seen that in the next two years, the population of these five cities will also grow on a large scale.

As the population grows, the demand for many things increases, and the habitat of wildlife is destroyed.

Therefore, Song Hu considered taking advantage of the opportunity to quickly capture some wild animals and come back to domesticate them to open up a financial route for himself.

Otherwise, maybe one day I won't even be able to take regret medicine. (To be continued.) )