Nine years ago, Yao Heier took her daughters, Cuiling and Mrs. Shan's family from Shanjia Village, crossed the mountains and mountains, crossed the city and town, and came to a place with beautiful mountains and rivers.

There was no one in the vicinity, and the two families struggled to survive by cutting down trees and building houses, clearing wasteland, and cultivating fields. This place is at the junction of the three kingdoms of Hu, Yan and Xu, because it has always been deserted, and the three kingdoms have not bothered to take care of it, so this place has become a place that is not under the jurisdiction of anyone.

Fortunately, Yao Hei'er had already made sufficient preparations, and along the way, she kept buying a lot of grains, vegetable seeds, and all kinds of necessary farm tools and tools along the way.

The first year passed, and the two families had cultivated a thriving farmland and built two rustic wooden houses. Although the two families had a hard time, they also had no worries about food and clothing.

Beginning in the second year, a constant stream of overwhelmed peasants fled to this deserted place – no, there were already two families. Yao Hei'er and Shan Hulu were very kind to the new residents, and they enthusiastically told the new residents where there was water, where there was the best wood, and where they could be newly cultivated for farmland. The new residents also have great respect for the original "natives" - the Yao family and the Shan family. When it gradually became a small village, Yao Hei'er, who was literate and agile, took on a similar role as a lieutenant.

Yao Heier has always been dressed as a man, and no one knows that this Yao "captain", who is thin and small, has fine skin and tender meat, but works like an old cow, is actually a daughter. They only know that this "lieutenant" is named Yao Zhen, who is a shrewd and capable person, and a trustworthy person.

This year, an old man who also came to flee came to "Yaojia Village". The old man's surname was Kong, he was about fifty-three or four-year-old with a teenage grandson. Both grandparents and grandchildren were covered in dust, with yellow faces and thin muscles, and they stumbled when they walked. Yao Hei'er, who was hoeing in the field, hurriedly stopped them and brought them his own bread to eat.

Since then, the grandparents and grandchildren have also lived in Yaojia Village.

Because seeing that this family was old and small, Yao Heier would gather the young people in the village and build a room for the Kong family together. Everyone is in exile, empathizes, knows the difficulty, and is infected by Yao Lichang, and takes good care of these grandparents and grandchildren.

After the grandfather and grandson settled down, Yao Hei'er took the old man to the mountain, originally wanting to tell him where there is good firewood and wild fruits, and also let them have a little way to make food, after all, no one in the village has a lot of money. Who knew that this old man followed behind Yao Hei'er, and didn't listen to Yao Hei'er's explanation at all, but grabbed a handful of soil or a stone from time to time and looked at it carefully.

Yao Hei'er wondered in her heart, could it be that this old man found some treasure?

Sure enough, Kong Laohan followed Yao Hei'er to turn half of the mountain beam, and told Yao Hei'er in a serious way that there is a very important mineral in this mountain - iron ore.

Yao Hei'er was pleasantly surprised, she knew that having iron ore meant that iron could be smelted, and iron meant that it could become a huge wealth.

Kong Laohan said unhurriedly: "Brother Yao, I used to work in an iron-smelting mine. Later, both sons were dragged to the battlefield to fight, and they were both killed in battle not long after, and seeing that it was about to be my turn as the only little grandson, I had no choice but to escape with him. ”

Yao Hei'er pressed the excitement in her heart vigorously, and said as lightly as possible: "Old man, do you know how to smelt iron?" ”

Kong Laohan nodded solemnly, and sighed again: "It's a pity that we don't have the necessary furnaces here, otherwise wouldn't iron smelting be much better than farming?" ”

Yao Hei'er hurriedly said: "This furnace or something, can you make it yourself?" ”

Kong Laohan showed a trace of smugness on his face, and said with a smile: "How could it not? I've been working in the mine for most of my life, and I'm familiar with every process. It just takes money, and good charcoal must be used for iron smelting, otherwise the temperature will not be reached. ”

The smile on Yao Hei'er's face rippled, and she said, "Old man, charcoal and money are not a problem. Your old man said it together, what else do you need, even if you go to the cold city, I will prepare it for you. ”

Kong Laohan looked at Yao Hei'er carefully, nodded and said: "Since money and charcoal are not a problem, nothing else is a problem, and there is another one, iron tools are now franchised, let's open a mine here privately, I don't know if it will cause trouble?" ”

Well, Yao Hei'er hesitated. In the past two years, no official personnel have come to trouble, but it is also because this village is too small, and it is newly opened, and it is far away from the government, so it is not worth their effort, or maybe they have not discovered this newly built small village at all. But if the iron ore mine is really opened, seeing that there are huge profits, how can the government still sit idly by?

But where does this place go? Yao Hei'er didn't know at all.

After thinking about it for a long time, Yao Heier decided to do it first. The reason why the government wants to take care of it is nothing more than to collect some silver, and when they find out, they will take the silver to go up and down more, that is.

Yao Hei'er asked Shan Hulu to take two strong young men, and went with Kong Laohan to the nearest town, which was also a hundred and ten miles away, to buy some necessary materials, mining utensils, etc., and built furnaces and bellows in the mountains, burned a few cellars of good charcoal, and opened some iron ore.

The tiny village of Yaojia is boiling. Everyone knows the value and importance of ironware.

This furnace of iron, Yao Hei'er sold it to Yan Kingdom. She didn't dare to go to Xu Guo's market to buy it, for fear of causing trouble. Iron, for Yan and Hu, is a very scarce material, they need these in large quantities, to make weapons, to build farm tools...... Therefore, it is not a worry about sales.

Iron quickly made this small village, which had just been established for two years, busy and rich.

Sure enough, the government soon came to the door. At this time, Yao Hei'er knew that this neighborhood was under the jurisdiction of Yuanying Mansion, and the first county of Yuanying Mansion was Yuanying City. There were two supreme governors in Yuanying City, Taishou Chuxiang was in charge of administrative affairs, and both commanded Jin Chong to be in charge of military affairs.

Yao Hei'er was left and right, and the pockets of Chu Xiang and the officials who supervised the matter were stuffed and bulging. The state official gave the court a newly discovered iron ore to be mined, and a few people came, pretending to inspect it, and the two sides reached an agreement - in the future, the iron smelted in the mountains, the government and Yaojia Village, each accounted for half of the profits, and it could be regarded as officially becoming a state monopoly, but Yao Heier was responsible for management.

The state government also concealed the situation that the villagers of this village were all homeless.

It seems that the profits have been reduced by half, but from then on, Yao Hei'er can mine iron ore and smelt iron on a large scale and openly, and he can also sell it to any part of the Xu Kingdom with confidence, and he can also buy more equipment and build a bigger furnace. This also means that Yao Heier's wealth will roll up.

There are still displaced people fleeing here, Yao Hei'er wants to expand production, the state capital needs increasing income, the two sides tacitly know, Yaojia Village is getting bigger and bigger, and slowly becomes a large market town, but everyone still habitually calls this place Yaojia Village.

In just a few years, Yao Hei'er was rich enough to rival the country, and Yuanying Mansion also became an emerging economic powerhouse in Xu State.

The year after she officially obtained the mining rights, Yao Heier sent a report to the state government, saying that she would form a militia team to protect the safety of the mine. After all, there is still the Yan Kingdom in the north.

Although it is only a militia, it is also a matter of military affairs. Chu Xiang consulted with the commander Jin Chong, and the two thought that this was also reasonable. Jin Chong specially sent a general with strong martial arts skills to help Yao Hei'er train the team. The young and middle-aged boys in the village, the half-grown children, such as Tiezhu, and Kong Zang, the grandson of Kong Laohan, all began to learn some martial arts.

Tie Zhu reads and reads in a mess, but he learns martial arts well. In the past two years, he and Kong Zang have become militia captains. One of them used a spear and the other a knife, and in their spare time, they rode a vigorous war horse and danced in the open space of the village.

At the same time, Yao Heier went to Yuanying City and invited a knowledgeable old Confucian to teach his daughter and the children in the village who were willing to read.

Every New Year's Festival or the end of the season, without Chu Xiang and others worrying, Yao Hei'er took the taxes and interest that should be paid, and handed them over to Yuanying City without a day of delay, and Chu Xiang and other state officials were also happy to sit back and enjoy their success, and rarely came to Yaojia Village.

In the country of Xu, where the war is raging and the people are hanging upside down, Yaojia Village has become a paradise that has not been affected in any way.

However, Chu Xiang and Jin Chong didn't know that the head of Yaojia Village, whose name was Yao Zhen and was actually Yao Hei'er, sent them comfortably because she didn't want them to come to Yaojia Village; The reason why I didn't want them to come to Yaojia Village was because Yao Hei'er was secretly doing something that they couldn't let them know.