The blind date lasted for a whole week, and there were more than 2,000 newlyweds in the royal court.

And these newlyweds who received Zhang Qi's congratulatory gifts also made many families in the royal court who were originally husband and wife feel envious.

There are not many things, but they are all real necessities, cloth can be replaced by fur, but oil and salt are very valuable things in the grassland.

In particular, in the past, herders did not have much access to salt, so they had to follow the herd to find bitter clods of soil to extract salt.

And now, just by getting married, you can get as much as three taels of salt, which can be eaten sparingly, and it is not a problem for the family to use it for a month or two.

So there is now a very festive scene in the royal court, where there is a queue at the door of the legal department every day to receive the marriage certificate, some of whom were originally husband and wife, and some of whom spontaneously formed a family after the blind date.

In this regard, Zhang Qizhi thinks it is very good, firstly, it can refine the registration information of the royal court's population, and secondly, the increase in the rate of family formation means that the birth rate of newborns in the coming year will also increase.

At present, there are nearly 30,000 people in total, and there are more women than men, even if Zhang Qi gives congratulatory gifts to each couple, at most no more than 10,000 gifts.

It is only 30,000 feet of cloth, 10,000 catties of oil, and 3,000 catties of salt.

Since it can increase the number of newborns, and it can also improve the happiness of the royal court now, with a little resources, Zhang Qiqi will also send it, and the sum of these things is only one hundred and thirty or four hundred thousand dinars.

And in the future, he will be able to collect dozens or even hundreds of times the rewards he has paid now.

The weather is getting warmer day by day, and Lu Mu, who has been clearing the wasteland for more than ten days, also returned to the royal court today to report to Zhang Qi on the results of the recent stage.

Inside the yurt.

"These are the fruits of the thirteen days of Xiao Lao'er and the herdsmen."

Lu Mu bowed down respectfully and handed Zhang Qi the board book burned on the wooden board.

A female soldier beside Zhang Qi took it and handed it to Zhang Qi.

Zhang Qi glanced at it a few times and nodded: "Yes, in thirteen days, nearly 1,000 acres of fields have been cultivated, and you 100 people have also worked hard." ”

"We didn't use much strength to plow with horses, and although Xiao Lao'er was far away, he had also heard about Lang Jun's actions these days, and it was a fluke for us to be able to act under the protection of the gods and Lang Jun."

"And Xiao Lao'er also wants to bring more people over when he comes back this time, dare to ask Lang Jun, can those Xianbei people use it with confidence now?"

Lu Mu looked at Zhang Qi's eyes and asked cautiously.

Zhang Qihe laughed twice and put the board book on the table: "Available, how many people do you want?" ”

Lu Mu was overjoyed when he heard this: "Lang Jun handed me a hundred new ploughs, and now they are all put into use, and there are thousands of Quyuan plows in the warehouse, now that the weather is warming, the earth is not as frozen as before, and the little old man thinks that these Quyuan plows should be able to be used normally." ”

"Based on our current experience in controlling ploughs, it takes more than 1,100 people and 2,000 ploughing horses to cultivate 800 to 1,000 acres of thin fields in one day.

Xiao Lao'er looked at this weather, and then there was more than a month to sow seeds, so Xiao Lao'er thought, in this month's time, first reclaim 20,000 acres of fields for cultivation, to ensure that there is enough food during the autumn harvest. ”

Zhang Qi nodded, with the field, there can be a fixed grain income, so that the subsidies for logistics that Zhang Qi needs to provide will be greatly reduced.

Although this is a newly cultivated field, there will definitely be a decrease in yield, but Zhang Qi does not plan to plant sorghum as soon as it comes up, and the new field must be fertilized first.

Phosphate fertilizer, potassium fertilizer, can be replaced with bone meal, grass ash, and other fertilizers, Zhang Qi can only be applied through crops.

Beans are a good choice, and now there are bean seeds that have been selected and bred in the experimental fields in the riding and chopping world, and Zhang Qi only needs to let the wolf cubs change the sorghum in Suotai Village into beans in advance, then there will be enough bean seeds to use.

After thinking about it, Zhang Qi looked at Lu Mu: "Okay, go to Hui to coordinate, and then find Bo to mobilize manpower, within a month, I hope you can lead people to reclaim 20,000 acres of land." ”

"No!"

Lu Mu bowed, then took the cloth with Zhang Qiyin's letter and left the yurt.

Not long after Lu Mu left, someone came in again, and after the female soldiers passed the word, Liu Chai came to the yurt in a hurry.

"See your lord!"

He was joined by three sentinels, all of whom were a company of wind servants, and their faces were covered in frostbite.

Looking at them, Zhang Qi's slight expectation others didn't know what Liu Chai was doing when they disappeared for more than two months, but he knew it.

"Found it?"

Zhang Qimei's eyes were full of anticipation.

Liu Chai, who was kneeling on one knee, also had a smile on his face, tapped his head, and presented a map and three animal skin bags in his arms to Zhang Qi.

"Your Majesty, in two months, the inferior people explored within three hundred miles around the Great Xianbei Mountain according to the methods you said, and the gods hung the curtain, and the inferior people in six groups of people explored a total of three minerals, these are sampled soil products, and please take a look at the mountain."

Zhang Qi stood up from the table excitedly, he knew that the Northeast was well developed and included almost all the minerals in the entire Huaxia region, but he didn't expect that in just two months, Liu Chai and they found three.

The map was put aside, Zhang Qi didn't need to look at it to know that it was a map that recorded the distribution of minerals, and he was now concerned about the contents of the bag to see which minerals they were.

Three bags of sampled ore were dumped on the table, and he poured out of the bags in three different colors: green, black, and red.

He didn't know the mine, so he could only guess first, the green pile looked rough, but the color was beautiful, and from what he had seen and heard, all he could think of was malachite, that is, copper.

Copper? Zhang Qi was a little disappointed, not that the copper mine was bad, but that he already had a mature iron-melting process, and steelmaking was already a project that could be carried out as long as there were materials, and now if this ore was copper, then he could only use it to mint coins.

"Record it in the book first, and melt it later."

Zhang Qi put aside the green pile and looked at the black pile, this thing is easy to recognize, it is the coal mine that Zhang Qi misses, Zhang Qi is overjoyed, with coal, then there are more things that can be done, honeycomb coal, coking coal steelmaking, all need the support of coal mines.

"How far is this mineral from the royal court?"

Zhang Qi asked directly about Liu Chai.

Liu Chai looked at the black pile pointed out by Zhang Qi on the table, thought quickly in his mind, and then said loudly: "It's not far, only one hundred and twenty miles away."

"Good! Don't care about the others, go to Hui, ask him to gather the herdsmen, bring tools to mine this mineral, and let the people lead the way! ”

"No!"

After receiving the order, Liu Chai got up directly and left to walk out, Zhang Qi waited for him to leave before looking at the last pile of reddish ore.

I can't see it either, but it doesn't matter, you'll know what it is when you melt.

(End of chapter)