It seems that more than two-thirds of the people here are around the poverty line, and in the other third, the number of rich households and landlords is less than one-tenth, and the rest are at most stronger than the people hovering on the poverty line, but they are not much stronger.

"We have more than a few dozen landlords here, and there are only more than a hundred wealthy businessmen. And here, every five or ten directions is the market, and the surrounding people will rush to sell their own specialties, or rice grain, and some hunted beasts, mountain goods, and ......"

The more I said, the more speechless my son was, poor enough, I originally stayed in Luoyang, the eastern capital, and felt that the ancient life was very beautiful, and when I came to the county government that belonged to my son, what I saw and heard along the way was really a little difficult to accept.

One word: poor, two words: very poor, three words: super poor. Ben Gongzi sat in this bedroom that had been cleaned in a daze, looking at the bean-sized candle flame, which was very indescribable.

First, there is no industry, commerce is not developed, and agriculture is almost not much better than slash-and-burn farming. I am very glad that I am not crossing in such a place, and I am even more glad that I am not crossing in the war-torn land of Shandong and Henan, otherwise maybe this son has just crossed, and the rebellious people or the officers and soldiers who rushed over to suppress it will be slaughtered.

Khan I is this unpredictable thinking, why did he suddenly go over there and come back. It seems that there are a lot of things that this son needs to do. But the most important first point is to build roads first. The road to the coal mine was repaired, and one more thing was to expand the docks.

Early the next morning, Ben Gongzi took people to the coal mine, to tell the truth, the coal mine is not far from the city, about fifteen miles away, and the county seat is about seven miles away from the river bank, but this is a turn.

If it is a direct distance from the coal mine to the river bank, I am afraid it will be less than ten miles. Moreover, when I arrived here, I found that the terrain of the coal mine here is quite flat, and there is no need to climb over the mountains, and you only need to walk through two valleys to go directly to the river bank.

Moreover, the valley is spacious enough and the mountain is gentle, so it is not difficult to dig rocks into the mountain. And from here through the river, if it is transported to Luoyang, the cost is actually not high, because it is a waterway, and there is no need for a lot of manpower and animal transportation. Only enough ships are needed to deliver it.

According to the old master's estimate, if the coal mine here wants to mine a lot, it can produce at least 20,000 catties of coal per day, and the only difficulty is transportation, transportation is really nothing for Ben Gongzi who has a large number of horses, but unfortunately, there are no railroad tracks and no steam locomotives in this era, otherwise, 20,000 catties of coal, that is, one-third of the wagons.

When I asked him if he could produce 100,000 catties a day, the old guy stared at me with a neurotic look, and he was so angry that his son had a black line on his face. Damn, is it so difficult for only 100,000 catties? Think about the future generations, a coal mine, not to mention 100,000 catties, there are many large coal mines with a daily output of one million kilograms. Ben Gongzi doesn't want to make a fuss, he just wants to increase production.

"Childe, a person can dig up to three or five hundred catties a day, but after digging, it has to be transported out of the mine, so generally, if a person goes up once, at most he will carry fifty or sixty catties out, and then go down, back and ......forth" Li Yuanfang saw Ben Gongzi's expression and quickly explained

Hearing him say this, I realized that there were no explosives, no electrical machinery, and even the miners of them, except for a pickaxe, were a back pocket. There are almost no other things

I could see that more than 50 workers were working diligently on this large black ridge, or open-pit coal mine. Fortunately, it is in the open air, otherwise the gas bombing, or underground operations, it is too terrifying, there are no explosion-proof lights in this era, sweat

"Fortunately, the coal mine here is open-air, otherwise I am afraid that it will not be able to mine 10,000 catties." The old guy seemed to think that this prince was not only the county commander of the county, but also a dignified national official, and seemed to feel that it was really inappropriate for him to despise a national grandfather just now, so he hurriedly laughed and laughed.

"There is nothing to do, there is no matter, there is such a talent, and it is indeed difficult to expand production if you have to climb to the top of this ridge to dig." Chong waved his hand at the old guy disapprovingly, this son is not the kind of person who will turn his face when someone else says a word, besides, what this old master said is also very reasonable.

Maybe in the future, and then find a way to increase production, at this stage, what this son wants, is to work hard to build the road is true, but, there is no explosives today, want to open the mountain and split stones to build the road, it is too difficult, fortunately the paved road here does not need to do that.

After seeing the coal mine, it is natural to take a look at the valley, from the coal mine to the side, a total of 35 miles of road, not far, but the road is very difficult, to climb over two hills, and then through a narrow valley, in order to enter the valley that is about ten miles long and nearly four miles wide.

This narrow valley was only found by local hunters, otherwise, if you want to enter it, you have to climb over the top of the mountain, which will take at least two more hours, and the mountain is so steep that you can't even ride a horse.

The valley is more than ten meters wide, but it is nearly a mile long, and the mounts under him can only wade through the water with difficulty, and it took almost an hour for this mile alone. After entering the valley, I felt that the temperature here seemed to be warmer than outside, and the lush weeds were as rich as ears of rice about to be harvested.

Endless grass mats, after coming out of the valley, everywhere, and the slope inside, not as steep as the outside, relatively gentle, I jumped off the war horse, pulled out the treasure knife around my waist, poked into the soil, a knife, you can see, the grass roots, is the kind of fat black mud, I don't know how many years there is no trace of the road, the weeds do not know how many reincarnations the road has gone through, these land, cultivated to extremely fat

"It's a good place, huh, there's wild alfalfa here?" I looked at the plants hanging on the blade, and my eyes lit up, and God was really helpful, not only did I give my son such a good place to raise horses, but even the forage was ready.

"Childe, this is really a treasure land, it is enough to raise four or five thousand horses, and there is a water source, you see over there, the river flows through there. It's a pity that it's not very convenient to get in and out. Li Yuanfang excitedly patted the mount that was munching on these yellow and green wild alfalfa, and his face was happy.

And the parts behind me were all happy. "It's such a big valley, if you raise horses, it's enough to even train horses." The tribesmen were babbling there.

"It's already very good, if it's easy to get in and out, can such a treasure land be used by us in turn?" Ben Gongzi glanced at this guy whitely, he was really greedy. Under the guards of Li Yuanfang, Sister Qingxia and more than 50 famous tribesmen, they slowly rode their horses to the riverside about half a mile away from the valley.

The river is surging towards the southeast, and the river surface is only about fifty steps wide, churning with waves and white foam, and where I stand, is a huge flat stone, watching the river under my feet rumbling through, its abundant water, really makes Ben Gongzi smile.

At the southeastern exit of the valley, the valley widened so much that it looked less like a river and more like a lake, at least about three hundred paces wide. The river was narrow and wide, forming a low waterfall, and the river rumbled down, forming a light mist in that area.

And by this lake, there is also a large open land, and after looking at the topography and landforms in the valley, I took over the sketch map of the valley handed to me by Zheng Chen.

I took the horsewhip in my hand and pointed at the boulder where I was standing: "The water in this area is extremely abundant, just right, this area will be used to set up a smelting factory, a water wheel, a water hammer, these things, also have to be made, in addition, the place to live is arranged close to the valley, far away from here, it is good to save the factory work, affect the rest of other people, as for the horse shed, it is arranged at the other end, well, on this, to build a few more bridges, do you know the road?" ”

"Don't worry, Childe, the little one will be marked." After Li Yuanfang gave an order very understandingly, more than a dozen subordinates rushed towards their respective goals.

"In the future, this will be the first base of my son, and this is my future." I took a deep breath and looked at the vast valley, and couldn't help but smile. Sister Qingxia behind me looked at this valley, I don't know what Lu Dao was thinking, her eyes were full of bright light.

For a full five days, Ben Gongzi has been under the protection of the tribe, wandering around the territory of Hancheng County, well, everything he saw with his own eyes, let people write down, I have to say, although Hancheng County is very poor, but, this land is really good.

There are iron mines, there are coal mines, and according to the prospectors who came to explore in the early stage, there is a lot of limestone here, and as for clay, it is everywhere on the ground, and there is no problem at all if you want to build a cement, lime and other building materials factory here.

Well, it's very good, in this way, the only thing that this son needs to worry about is labor. However, it is believed that in the near future, a large number of displaced people will definitely be summoned.

"Childe, here in Hancheng County, there were originally four grain kilns, storing 40,000 stones of grain, and after receiving your news, we stepped up the construction of ten grain kilns, but if you want to transport grain from outside, you can only take the waterway.

"Now, the new grain kilns are full of three, and there are two that have not yet been filled, with a total of 80,000 stone of grain." Zheng Ye stood in front of me and pointed to the grain storage kiln with a diameter of nearly twenty paces and said. This is an industry that was opened in the name of this son as early as last year, and was placed outside the county seat of Hancheng County.