This period is as long as half a year.

It was only a three-month journey from here to Iron Town, and although it took as much as half a year to find the iron ore, there was a big gap between rushing to the two places and looking for things aimlessly.

So it wasn't until half a year later that a magnet and pig iron sample were sent over.

The shape of this magnet is an uneven strip with a gray body and "hairs", which are actually iron powder containing iron.

This is a good thing to absorb polyiron-containing substances, just pick up a pile of sand and roll it in, you can suck out a lot of iron.

However, these didn't seem to be of much use, and what interested Wang Yang was those pig irons.

"This is iron?" Those who came to see it together, including the hundred officials of the imperial court, countless people looked at the iron here, and then picked it up and looked at it, and knocked it on the ground, which was very fresh.

"This is pig iron, which is relatively hard and brittle, and if you exercise dozens of times, you can make steel, and you can also make wrought iron." Wang Yang helped Baiguan explain.

"Well, with this iron, we can improve the tools again and replace the bronze."

Everyone is very excited, the sharpness of the tools can not only make everyone's work easier, but also greatly increase the output.

"Don't rejoice too soon, how to forge is the trouble." Wang Yang poured a basin of cold water on everyone.

It is not difficult to exercise wrought iron, the difficulty is to train into steel, there is an idiom called 100 refining into steel, it is from here, even in the Ming Dynasty, forging a good steel, it is also extremely troublesome, and the loss of manpower and material resources is great.

"Didn't they forge it?" Baiguan took the pig iron in his hand and asked.

"It's forged. However, only pig iron was forged from iron. ”

"Then let's send more people there to study ironmaking."

"It's not good to scream, everyone is already very satisfied with this kind of life. Who wants to go there and make iron? Wang Yang shook his head.

I already dialed 100 people last time, and I want to dial again. It's too difficult, you can't make a wish every time, as long as you are willing to pass, you can be an official, right?

"There are only more than 100 of them, and there are too few people, so I am afraid that there will not be enough, and the progress of the guide zhì is too slow."

In fact, it's not just that Iron Town needs manpower? Manpower is needed everywhere.

A hundred teams, after being dispatched two years ago, have gained a lot in two years. Many resources have been found and are waiting to be developed.

And many primitive people have also been found, these primitive people should be all human beings in the Paleolithic Age, roughly divided into three categories, Homo sapiens, craftsmen, and Homo erectus.

These people are scattered outside, and the total number reaches five thousand, if the search continues. More can definitely be found.

Together with the population of the forest, wheat land and grassland, the number has exceeded 10,000, which is a heavy progress, and the population directly represents the labor force. And the labor force is linked to the speed of development.

"I have a way to help the population of Iron Town grow quickly." Li Si walked out and said.

Wang Yang glanced at him calmly and did not ask. Instead, he nodded slightly: "That's it." ”

Baiguan was inexplicable, and he didn't understand what the two were talking about. Why is it that the plan has not been discussed before it has been discussed?

"What the hell is the plan?"

Li Si wrote: "It is to take those who only find people. The team that didn't find the resource was taken back and integrated into the other teams that found the resource. ”

"This ......"

Wang Yang nodded: "Yes, this is the plan, they have been out for more than a year and almost two years, and the people they can find are basically these, although there will be gains if they continue to look for it, but the difficulties must be great." ”

"So, it's time to take them back, assign them, and form complete towns."

Baiguan didn't have any opinions, originally he went out this time with two purposes, either to find people or to find resources.

Today, there are dozens of locations where various resources have been discovered, and a hundred teams have become hundreds.

At this time, it would be too slow to pay attention to the development of a group of ten.

"I have seen dozens of resources, and many of them are duplicated, and there is no need to divide the duplicate resources into two teams to mine, put them together, mine them locally, and hoard them locally.

The hundred officials nodded slightly when they heard this, and they all agreed, since they are the same resources, it is good to mine one place.

Moreover, according to the current situation of reduction, it can be reduced to more than 20 towns in total, so that each town can have at least 200 people, and the labor force can be abundant.

However, Wang Yang obviously has no idea of stopping: "We still have to continue to release labor and guard the warehouse, how much is the reserve of cloth?" ”

"After the first two years of the system, the total amount of cloth owned by the state immediately exploded, and now it is enough to last for eight years, including those babies that will be born in the future. ”

Wang Yang nodded: "Yes, it's enough for a while, and it's moldy to produce so much, Li Si, you and Shoucang discuss the reserve status of materials and the number of workers, and then assign those people who are not in need and are not important to other towns, and come up with a charter." ”

Li Si frowned, a little worried: "We can do it if we calculate the transfer of people or something, but everyone may not go, I look at their appearance, and I don't want to go to a remote place." ”

Wang Yang also knows this truth, people's sociality determines that people must live in groups, this cannot be changed, and the more people, the better.

A place with more people and a place with fewer people, many people will choose to go to a place with more people.

Just like the rural population of later generations, they love to run to the metropolis, firstly, because of social reasons, and secondly, the metropolis means better development prospects.

There are two reasons why I have rarely heard of living in a small place, one is that the survival pressure of the metropolis is very high, and the other is that the small place has begun to develop rapidly, and entrepreneurs and bosses have brought funds to it, attracting many people.

For Wang Yang, this is a problem, but not a big one.

He can work backwards, and people who study history often have to work backwards, and they can learn to think about problems in junior high school.

"You don't have to worry, on the one hand, we have to restrict, or even revoke some of the jobs, which is a negative means."

"On the other hand, we tell people that the wages are higher, which can impress some people who are not prominent in their original jobs."

"There is also a part, driven by those merchants, telling them that other towns are going to develop, do they also need food stores and clothing stores?"

"They will recruit people and bring them over. This is a positive means. ”

"If you use both methods, sooner or later those people will go to other towns."

In this way, the officials understood that the two means were complementary, and in any case, the removal of some people's work quotas would definitely arouse dissatisfaction.

But with the lure of profit, they will not sulk at losing their jobs, but face the future positively.

The reverse is also true, using inducements to make some people move, but the heart may not necessarily be put into action, and cutting off some places is equivalent to helping them make up their minds.

The officials have no opinion, Wang Yang's method is very ingenious, and there is no reason not to implement it.

"The specifics are up to you." Wang Yang waved his hand and returned to the second floor.

……

Now he doesn't know if he was influenced by the little guy, and he doesn't want to move, although he still exercises a lot, he always feels no enthusiasm, and he doesn't even feel like he's in the mood to tease the blade-toothed tiger.

Lying on the rocking chair, Wang Yingying came back from swimming, and while helping him massage, she gestured to him with her hand: "Great, the water level has risen again." ”

"It's gone up again? You can swim, right? Swim less, it's too dangerous. ”

The water level of that river, since the previous two years, began to rise sharply, and this year it has exceeded the water level of that year, which is really incredible.

According to the news from the north, it is said that it is still snowing heavily, and the snow is very large, but it seems that the ice will melt after a long time.

Wang Yang pinched his fingers and calculated: "No, the ice age has only just begun for more than ten or twenty years, even if it is going to recede at this time, it will not snow, but due to the reflection of ice, it will make the earth cold for several years, not to mention that the snow is still falling now, there is no reason to melt." ”

For this natural phenomenon, Wang Yang almost couldn't figure it out, the mystery of nature, later generations of human beings have not studied it thoroughly, and he doesn't know much, and he can't figure out what went wrong.

However, Wang Yang didn't need to figure it out, whether there was water in the river to nourish all things, it was quite good, at least it wouldn't make the wheat thirsty.

……

"Don't keep nagging every day, where is the danger!" Wang Yingying was very unconvinced.

"I can't guarantee that there will be no crocodiles in the river, and if you meet one, you won't have a chance to convince me."

"Humph!" Wang Yingying doesn't care about anything now, she only cares about playing with herself and eating her own every day, except for her old love to swim in the river, which is very well-behaved.

Recently, she has been very interested in eating: "By the way, I heard that I found bamboo, and fruits and rice? That's what it's called, right? When will these delicious things arrive? ”

"If you eat and eat, you will know how to eat, can you eat bamboo? Are you a panda? How many times have I said that bamboo shoots can be eaten. ”

"Aren't they all the same thing?" Wang Yingying stuck out her tongue.

"yes, I haven't eaten those things in a long time, so I want to eat them." In fact, people have not only discovered rice.

In other words, it should not be called rice, such as wheat in this era, but it is related to modern wheat and is their ancestor.

That kind of thing called rice is only close to rice, and it is not as perfect as that of later generations.

You can still eat it, and the taste will not be any worse, let's call it rice.

Other food crops were also found, such as corn, sorghum, and other grasses.

Now Wang Yang has to ponder the question, should he grow these grains? (To be continued......)