After eating well at noon, everyone was more energetic in the afternoon, and Shi Fist and his group actually loaded a full ten carts of ore.

After having dinner in the mining area again, Shi Quan said to Tang Ping: "We won't stay here tonight, we will go back." ”

Tang Ping didn't stop either, he knew that the people of these tribes wanted to know if these bronze medals could be exchanged for the food they said.

Now people need to build trust, so he even said, "It's too full for you to walk back, I'll send you in a car." ”

The people of those tribes had seen it during the day, and those carts were loaded with so many stones, and they could still drive fast, and they all agreed.

Now I can only describe their mood as returning to their hearts, and it is certainly good to be able to go back earlier.

Eighty strong men, loaded with four trucks, staggered out of the mine, and arrived at the Eucalyptus tribe at almost twelve o'clock.

The people of the eucalyptus tribe did not expect that they all came back in the evening, and one by one torches were lit, illuminating the gates of the tribe.

The warehouse outside their tribe has not yet been built, but the grain Tangping has been delivered to the eucalyptus tribe in advance.

The people of the other tribes came back in the evening, and Elder Eucalyptus had no choice but to call the whole clan up and carry the grain sent by Tang Ping in advance to the door.

Stone Fist stood at the front, and with some nervous hands, he handed the thirty bronze medals to the boulder.

Juyan dropped two bronze medals in a box on one side, and asked someone to bring a bag of 15 catties of rice.

After all the bronze medals were lost, 15 bags of rice were placed at the feet of Stone Fist.

"Everyone has eaten rice in Tang's mining area today, right? That rice is made from this rice. ”

Shi Fist listened to Elder Eucalyptus's explanation, opened a bag, grabbed a handful of rice and looked at it with the stone in front of him, although this rice was still hard, but it was indeed very similar to the meal he ate today.

I wanted to grab a handful and put it in my mouth, but I was stopped by Elder Eucalyptus.

"It's not cooked yet, it's the same as raw meat that hasn't been roasted, and it tastes different from cooked meat."

Elder Eucalyptus asked Wuyun to bring a pot and said, "This is a gift from the kind Tang to everyone, you have to add water to cook this rice into rice when you go back." However, in the future, if you need this kind of pot, you need to change it with this brand, and you need a pot

Four brands. ”

The dark clouds stretched out their fingers to the side and taught them the secrets of cooking.

After Shi Fist remembered it carefully, he and Shi Gong carried their three bags of rice and a pot and rushed back to their stone spear tribe overnight.

It's true, it's all true.

There really is a fool who has made a place, as long as he picks up stones and digs stones in that place, he can have food and shelter, and he can also receive so much delicious food.

In this case, it is natural to call more people.

The other tribes also had the same idea as the Stone Spear tribe, and after handing over the bronze medal and getting their own food, they left quickly.

After the people of the other tribes had left, Elder Eucalyptus changed his dignified appearance just now, and directly poured the bronze medal in the box on the ground and shouted, "Quick, bring a torch and light it up a little." ”

Then one by one, he threw the bronze medals into the box and counted them.

In one day, eighty of these tribes brought back a full two hundred and ten bronze medals.

Then she took the rope and the stone and wrote and drew on the ground, and after a long time she said excitedly.

"These can be worth more than two hundred and ten bags of rice, half of which is given to other tribes and more than one hundred and five bags of rice, and then fourteen bags of rice need to be given to the Montenegrin tribe, and our tribe will earn ......"

"More than ninety a bag of rice!"

After she finished shouting, the entire eucalyptus tribe was quiet for a moment, and then began to cheer in the middle of the night: "Hooray, hooray." ”

"With so much food, I can eat for almost a day."

This is more than 1,300 catties of rice, and hundreds of people in their tribe are indeed enough to eat for one day.

And this is only the first time that eighty people have come, and when those people go back to the tribe and call more people, their eucalyptus tribe will be able to earn more food.

And just as they thought, four or five days later, people from the tribe rushed to Tangping and their mining area to start working.

Some of these people have to go back once in three or four days when they have some certificates, and some will only go back once after working for more than ten days.

The miners in the mining area also came and went, but there were about 600 people when there were few people, and even more than 800 more than 900 people when there were more people.

Truckloads of iron ore were transported to Tangping, where they first docked

and then shipped back to Qiongzhou.

In recent years, under various encouragement policies of the Tang Dynasty, many landless people in Qiongzhou have reclaimed land to grow rice.

Just transport the rice from the granary of Qiongzhou to Australia to exchange for iron ore.

Datang's steam freighters were a little short for a while, so they could only use the sailing ships of other chambers of commerce to send the iron ore from Qiongzhou back to the Central Plains Continent to smelt into steel.

Li Tai received so much iron ore at once, but he was not satisfied.

He began to urge Li Chengqian to speed up vocational training, especially for iron ore smelting craftsmen.

Because Tang Ping said that there are huge iron ore and coal mines on the Australian mainland, instead of sending these two minerals back to Datang for re-smelting.

It will be more economical and efficient to directly find a place in Australia to build more iron smelting plants, and smelt iron ore into iron ingots before sending them back to Datang.

These smelters had no way to find the local aborigines of Australia, so they could only rely on Datang to train themselves and send them over.

Even Li Tai wrote to Li Shimin, hoping to establish the first overseas city of Datang in Australia.

After all, after the establishment of the smelter, the workers can't just work in the factory, right? You still have to have some supporting facilities to attract people.

The best thing is to have a full-fledged city, where the workers can even start a family and have children, and the children born there can also be educated.

For this reason, Li Shimin specially recruited Tang Ping back.

He showed him Li Tai's book and asked, "You are most familiar with the situation in Australia, what do you think?" ”

Tang Ping nodded after reading it, this Li Tai is one of the smartest people in Datang, and his idea of this city can basically be said to be quite perfect.

It is not just an industrial city surrounded by ironworks, but a comprehensive city with multiple industries such as agriculture, industry, trade, and transportation.

"I think it's feasible, it's very feasible, and the address is to choose the Port Hedland where we dock."

"A port was already being built there, and when the time comes, the city will be connected to the port, and it will be more convenient to transport goods between us and Datang."

After listening to Tang Ping's words, Li Shimin said with a smile: "The person who presides over the construction of this new city ......"

Tang Ping looked at Li Shimin's smile, and a sense of foreboding emerged in his heart.