Huang Xuan went out from the lumber yard and brought back about 50 kilograms of wheat to give to the lumberyard workers, and the four of them were ecstatic, the reason why they ate black bread was not that they knew that black bread was nutritious, but that there was no food, and a whole bag of wheat was enough for them to pay for most of the month.

The female worker holding the wheat thanked Huang Xuan again, her palms clasped tightly, as if she was worried that the wheat would leave, she seriously pointed out the way to Kaiserslautern to Huang Xuan, and kindly asked, "Are you here to do business?" ”

There are few new industries in the Rhineland, and production activities are not vigorous, as a yellow person, Huang Xuan is even more unlikely to join the army, and the female worker seems to have guessed very accurately.

Seeing Huang Xuan nodded, the female worker said in a hurried voice: "If you want to do business, there are many merchants in Ludwigshafen, and Duke Ludwig of Württemberg has built a palace there. ”

"Ludwig?" Huang Xuan thanked the four of them again, and turned to the west, wherever he went, he needed to reach Kaiserslautern first, and only when he got there, could he have roads, supplies, and preferably a few carriages.

Lorraine quickly searched for information and said to Huang: "Ludwig does have the largest port in the vicinity, and it is possible that there are the most merchants in the vicinity. ”

"Then you didn't tell me earlier?" Huang Xuan always thought that Lorraine was omniscient and omnipotent.

"I can only count the number of people in a region, but I can't make judgments, all judgments are based on meeting the set conditions, and I don't have the ability to judge independently."

"Whatever." Huang Xuan waved his hand, in short, he was going to Kaiserslautern.

"I'm sorry for that, because Ludwig was 1 day away, so I didn't consider it."

"I thought you'd scan this neighborhood."

"But not beyond the scope."

Huang Xuan smiled and said, "It's to save energy again?" ”

"The search range must be determined, and even a first-level base does not have the ability to search the entire universe."

"Okay, okay." Huang Xuan finally laughed, it is not easy for Lorraine to make a mistake, and rare things are expensive.

At this time, Kaiserslautern was still a small town, located in the heart of the Palatinate Forest, and by the end of World War II, it had become the most forested city in Germany, but even if it had a Bundesliga team, the entire city had a meagre floor area and population, about 100,000 people, equivalent to a slightly larger town in China.

And in the 19th century, Kaiserslautern was even smaller. The forest gave it resources, but it limited its development, and on the whole, the town was always so thin that it seemed that it could be seen from one end of the city to the other. But Wong was surprised that in any part of the town, even his busiest streets could be seen with tree-lined trees, and the only beer hall was covered in the shadow of the entire tree.

There is no market in the town, and groceries are sold in the center of the town every morning, but they don't open until the next morning. Lumberjacks, who can be considered industrial workers, mostly work outside the towns, drink two dark beers in beer halls during breaks, and occasionally visit restaurants, but there is not even a place to consume in the whole town.

There is no hotel in the town, it is also a beer hall and a business, when Huang Xuan arrived, it was already evening, the beer hall was still lively, Huang Xuan walked in a little restrained, he didn't have a dime in his hand, so he had to let Lorraine take out a few kilograms of sugar, hold it with his clothes and take it to the bar, and said: "I brought some sugar and want to exchange it for some money, are you willing to accept it?" ”

In Germany, beer halls are often the center of local communication, and the guy at the bar shook his head in confusion and said, "You can look at Thomas." ”

The bearded uncle, who was sitting on the other side of the bar, heard his name, raised his beer glass and said loudly, "What do you need Uncle Thomas to see?" ”

Huang Xuan smiled at the guy, turned around and walked towards Thomas with white sugar, and said, "I need some travel expenses, and I want to exchange these sugars." ”

"Then you've found the right person." Thomas looked like an alcoholic gambler, put down the wine glass with red eyes, pinched a few grains of sugar and put them in his mouth, Huang Xuan was very suspicious that his taste after being poisoned by alcohol could be of any use.

"Good quality, how much do you want to exchange?" Thomas dropped his beard into his glass as he spoke, and he habitually fished it out, then took another long sip of beer.

Huang Xuan wrinkled his nose, turned his head away from looking at him, and said, "I want to stay here for one night, and take a carriage to Ludwig tomorrow, if you want, for so much money." ”

"No problem." Thomas raised his glass again and said to the guy at the bar, "Hunter, take him to bed, take him to bed, take me account." After that, he drank beer again.

Huang Xuan originally wanted him to remember the carriage, but seeing that he looked drunk, he shook his head and walked out, to be honest, the taste of this beer hall is not good.

The room was a hard bed made of birch, which was very uncomfortable, Huang Xuan got up early, and the beer hall at this time was very clean, and Kaiserslautern was like a city built in the forest, exuding the smell of vitality.

"Guest, the carriage is leaving, do you want to get on the bus?"

"Of course." Huang Xuan wiped his face and followed, but he didn't expect that Thomas to look sloppy and do things very quickly.

However, when Huang Xuan saw the carriage, he didn't think so.

It was a troika, but it was unbearable that there were eight people in the small carriage.

"Do you want to sit?" The coachman was a Prussian with a face full of vicissitudes, and he spoke in a rough voice.

"His money was given by Thomas." The beer hall guy relieved Huang Xuan.

At this time, it is useless to say anything, this is obviously a long-distance carriage, specially designed to travel between the two places, Huang Xuan originally wanted to hire a carriage himself, or rather, he did not know that there were public carriages in Europe now.

What a self-inflicted mistake. In a carriage mixed with the smell of horses and people, Huang Xuan thought to himself.

A fair-skinned Prussian sat opposite Huang Xuan, the brown-haired woman beside him seemed to be his wife, and the two of them whispered sweetly, Huang Xuan didn't want to listen to other couples, but the voice came into his ears without leaking.

"Fisher, are we going to cut down the woods too?"

"Well, Hartich is right, the volume growth of pure coniferous plantations is higher, and the yield can be greater if you build a high-productivity plantation."

"Then do we still have to buy saplings and fertilize them?"

"Of course, I think it's better to plant coniferous forests, so that there will be more useful growth."

Although eavesdropping was not good, Huang Xuan still whispered curiously: "Lorraine, what are they talking about?" Plantation? ”

Lorraine quickly searched for information and said: "This is the reforestation movement that began in the 19th century, and Hartig, the head of the Prussian State Forestry Agency, advocated cutting down all the trees and planting them with faster artificial coniferous forests, planting the forests as if they were crops." ”

"Is that okay?" Huang Xuan's mouth opened wide.

"Of course it failed, but throughout the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, this argument was very marketable and did yield high yields, but they chose to go too far and end up with soil degradation and early forest land mortality with pests and diseases."

"So, they must have cut down a lot of natural forests?"

"I cut it for about 50 years, and I regretted it in the end."