After Princess Xinyang asked Empress Dowager Wen to say goodbye, she went back to her palace.

She is an unmarried princess and still lives in the palace.

After Princess Xinyang left, Princess Liyang and Princess Weiyang came over to greet the Queen Mother, chatted casually, and saw that Mrs. Wen was tired behind, so she retreated again.

After the two princesses left, Mama Xu, who was beside Empress Dowager Wen, lowered her voice and told Empress Dowager Wen what happened in front of Princess Xinyang's palace before.

"Think about what their mothers look like, and you can know what they look like." Empress Dowager Wen didn't say too many mean words, because there was no need, just a light sigh, she stopped paying more attention to these two people, and began to worry about Qiu Qi: "Hey, I don't know where Yu'er is now, whether it is going well or not, is her body and bones okay?" ”

Qiu Qi, who was worried about Empress Dowager Wen, walked all the way to the northwest for a month, and finally found limestone on a remote barren mountain!

The whole barren mountain is limestone, which is considered a mineral source.

Qiu Qi walked all the way, releasing his divine sense all the way to find it.

When the divine sense found out, Qiu Cha motioned to the guards to stop, she went to inspect it herself, and used the tools in her hand to open a few pieces, looked at them carefully, and finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

Although it is said that there should be limestone here according to the geological landform and geographical location, there is always a gap between theory and reality.

Therefore, when he really saw the limestone, the heart that Qiu Qi had been carrying before could be put down.

"This is it." Qiu Ji signaled, and then asked the commander of the guards to contact the nearest county seat, preparing to let the county order here directly block this area.

This piece of land, Princess Fengyang has packaged.

The county commander never expected that he would be able to see a princess in his lifetime!

trembling, they helped Qiu Qi block this mountain, and let Qiu Qi toss and turn in their county.

Qiu Qi found a house in the county, the house is in the suburbs, and there is a vacant land behind it, which is just convenient for him to build a kiln to burn cement.

The main components of cement are limestone and clay.

The limestone is well found, and the remaining clay is easy to find.

Because although this kind of soil cannot be said to be everywhere in the territory of Chen, it is found in most places.

For example, this small county town has it.

The rest of the small proportions, Qiu Qi has been prepared before coming, even if he is not prepared, he can also send a guard back to the capital to get it.

When everything is ready, it's time to get started!

Qiu Qi does not have enough people on hand now, and the number of people who can be requisitioned on the county side is also limited.

However, Qiu Qi is not in a hurry, mining limestone requires people, and these requisitioned villagers can be.

It is not yet spring, and it is not time for spring planting, so there is still some time to use.

And Qiu Qi did not directly let them serve as conscription, but paid to work.

So, it's not about enslaving the people.

As for the cost of exploitation......

Qiu Qi expressed his gratitude to all the young ladies in the harem of Yan Kingdom for their hard work.

Before leaving, Qiu Qi not only took away other people's plug-ins, but also took away all the belongings of the concubines of the palace.

Silver tickets are not convenient to use, after all, the silver tickets of Yan Kingdom are only good in Yan Kingdom, so Qiu Qi only takes valuable items, as well as spot gold and silver.

This trip is actually quite a lot.

Because when Qiu Qi left, just in time for the New Year's Festival, the concubines gave the concubines a good, more practical New Year's gift in order to give their mothers some manpower.

I spent a lot of money in the autumn as my own research and development and mining funds for cement, which was enough!

The county is called Yuhe County, which is located in the northern county, because the crops are not abundant, so the development of the county is also average, and the villagers are barely able to live and wear.

After all, the tax reduction has also been a matter of the last two years, and the people have just recovered from the heavy taxes.

Life was not easy, so as soon as they heard that someone had paid them to mine mountains and rocks, or the county magistrate was the one who brought the strings, the people trembled at first, for fear that this would make them obey the heavy punishment.

For the sake of the development of the county, the county order almost broke his mouth to explain this matter.

But even if he doesn't explain, in fact, the people have to go honestly.

What can you do if you don't go?

Waiting for the officials to come and arrest someone?

I thought that a good day was finally coming, but it turned out to be like a dream, and after waking up, I still didn't dare to move!

The people came to the quarry tremblingly, and when they found that there was meat and soup at noon, as well as white-flour steamed buns to eat, they all reacted in a daze.

This time, it doesn't seem to be a conquest and conscription!

If you are really requisitioned by the imperial court, you can still be given steamed buns to eat, and you can also be given meat?

It's nice to have a fart to eat!

The people were very excited, and then they worked harder.

Before the official start of construction, Qiu Qi had already made a plan, on the one hand is the mining of mountain stones, and on the other hand is the production of baking kilns.

On the side of the baking kiln, Qiu Qi is going to use people borrowed from Ran Yixuan, after all, this involves the matter of his own cement ratio.

So, you have to use people you can trust.

It's not that Qiu Qi can't trust the people, but Qiu Qi doesn't want to take risks, and puts everything on people he doesn't know.

Prepare for half a month, of course, this is to prepare for the kiln, and send people back to the capital to borrow people, the quarry has officially started.

Most of the quarry workers in Chen Guo were guilty of serious crimes, and when they went there, they were considered to be in service.

However, Qiuqi is a temporary mining here, and the mountains are high and the roads are far away, so it is not convenient to recruit people.

So, for the time being, use the people.

In his letter to Ran Yixuan, Qiu Qi specifically mentioned this matter.

Of course, Qiu Qi only said that he would give Ran Yixuan a little surprise.

Because Qiu Qi knew that even if she explained the cement, there was no physical object, and Ran Yixuan would not believe it.

Ran Yixuan didn't dare to expect surprises, as long as it wasn't frightening, he was satisfied.

However, he has been in a good mood recently, because he heard that the Emperor of Yan is having a very bad time.

As long as the enemy is not doing well, he is much more comfortable.

Emperor Zhao Mingyan of the Yan Kingdom has really not had a good time recently.

A fire in the harem on Chinese New Year's Eve burned one of his concubines, which was nothing to Zhao Mingyan.

What that concubine looked like was vague in his mind.

But!!!

This fire burned his mind-reading skills, which he couldn't accept!

Because of this incident, Zhao Mingyan was sick, and he lay down in Chengming Hall for the New Year until the fifteenth day of the first month, losing twelve pounds, and then he barely got up and passed the Lantern Festival.

Zhao Mingyan suddenly lost weight, which frightened the courtiers.

Some courtiers also secretly speculated, is Zhao Mingyan not good?

Otherwise, how could a normal person suddenly lose weight like this?

In Zhao Mingyan's half a month, except for a little liquid food, more often, he couldn't eat half a bite, plus his worries were hard to dissipate, so it was strange that he was not thin!