An afternoon seemed fleeting to Chu Mu, who was focused on the book.

The inspection that came to change shifts has arrived, and the inspection that has been on guard for a day has left with shouts.

Chu Mu silently put the book into his arms, looked up at the dim sky, a gust of evening wind blew, but he couldn't help but tighten the armor on his body.

"It's supposed to be a change......

Chu Mu pursed his lips, the division of seasons in this era is no different from the previous life.

Spring, summer, autumn and winter, the four seasons are reincarnated.

The current season is the end of autumn, the cold winter is coming, the sun is about to set, and the evening breeze is already a little more chilly.

Chu Mu glanced at the conscripts who were still working not far away, all of them were ragged, and they were still thin clothes in summer.

With just a glance, Chu Mu withdrew his gaze, tidied up his clothes, and Chu Mu walked towards the outside of the mine with the inspection of the next value.

Nanshan Town is located at the foot of the mountain, from the Jiazi mine, you only need to go straight down the mountain road, and then pass the ironworks located on the mountainside, you can reach Nanshan Town.

At this time, it was dusk, and on the mountain road, in addition to the patrols and patrols on duty, there were only forced servants carrying baskets to and from the mines and ironworks.

The ironworks are located on the mountainside between the two mines, and the black smoke of the ironworks can be clearly seen from a long distance.

The ironworks were not far away, and Chu Mu's pace also slowed down.

When he first arrived, Chu Mu had too many puzzles about this era, and the ironworks in front of him were the one that confused Chu Mu the most.

Normally, a mine with thousands of people and an ironworks would undoubtedly lead to the development of a large area around it.

Not to mention anything else, for the location of the mine and smelting, the most basic iron tools will definitely be much cheaper than other places, not to mention the other aspects driven by the mine iron factory.

But in this Nanshan Town, in Chu Mu's opinion, it seems to be diametrically opposed.

The Nanshan Iron Mine, as well as the iron-making plant in front of them, not only did not benefit the surrounding people, but instead suppressed the people of Qinghe County like two mountains, becoming an almost overwhelming burden.

The reason for this is very simple.

The mine is an official camp, nothing more.

The mine is an official business, Qinghe County levies and sends forced labor to mine ore, and the ironworks smelt the ore, and according to Chu Mu's knowledge, except for a very small number of craftsmen employed by the Qinghe County Ya, most of the rest are also forced labor.

It is not difficult to see that this is almost a complete no-capital transaction.

The Qinghe County Government pocketed everything almost nothing, and the price was almost entirely passed on to the people of Qinghe County in the form of an order to levy and issue conscription.

If this is all there is to it, it is not difficult to understand that it is nothing more than oppression and oppression.

This kind of thing, in the world of Chu Mu's previous life, has been staged for thousands of years!

But the problem is also here, among them, the Qinghe County Ya, or the "official", seems to be a complete empty glove white wolf, occupying all interests.

But as far as Chu Mu knew...... Among these links, the Qinghe County Ya is just one of them.

All the ore mined in the mine is transported to this ironworks to smelt the ore into crude iron, which is then stored in the warehouse in Nanshan Town.

Every three months, Qinghe County sends an inspection escort to the county.

And Chu Mu's doubts lie precisely in this.

Supply and demand, supply and demand, there is supply, there is demand, in the same way, there is demand, there is supply.

Qinghe County mines ore and then smelts it into crude iron, which is the supply side, and every three months, the stored crude iron is transported to the county town, which is the demand side.

But the question is...... The county town needs minerals, which is nothing more than forging ordnance and tools.

But the county seat is hundreds of miles away from Qinghe County, and with the transportation conditions of this era, I don't know how much manpower and material resources will be spent just to transport minerals.

In that case, why not generate demand directly in Qinghe County?

Isn't the mining of ore in mines, smelting and processing in iron plants, and the direct delivery of finished products to demand much stronger than the deformed supply-demand relationship that is now in place?

Chu Mu knew that every time he transported minerals to the county seat, Qinghe County had to make a big move, and it cost countless manpower and material resources!

Chu Mu estimated that if it was calculated in terms of money and silver, the manpower and material resources for transporting the mineral materials to the county town would definitely be much higher than the value of the mineral materials themselves, not to mention the terrible cost of mining and smelting.

If you make it clear one link at a time, it seems that all the people in it are trading at a loss!

The people of Qinghe County carry an unbearable burden of forced labor, with little in return, and there is a high risk of paying the price of their lives.

The Qinghe County Ya is also struggling to maintain order and suppress the boiling grievances, but the final mining and smelting of mineral materials has nothing to do with Qinghe County.

On the county side, mobilize countless manpower and material resources, just to get the mineral materials that will inevitably lose all your money?

Even though there are interests that Chu Mu can't see now, no matter how Chu Mu looks at it, the secret interests can't be compared to the countless manpower and material resources spent on the surface!

Chu Mu stopped in place and stared at it for a while before slowly retracting his gaze.

Maybe...... It's not necessarily that he's lonely.

After all, the original owner's perception of this era, because of his withdrawn nature and age, was only limited to a small area, and even, if the original owner's father was not transferred from Qinghe County to this Nanshan Town, the original owner estimated that it would be difficult to even Qinghe County.

And his own perception of this era, in a large way, is only from the memory of the original owner.

It really belongs to his own cognition of this era, and it has been less than half a month.

Mu Chang Chu exhaled, as usual, once again suppressed the doubts in his heart, took a step, and walked along the mountain road down the mountain towards Nanshan Town.

The afterglow of the setting sun was still there, and Chu Mu had already stepped into Nanshan Town, perhaps because of the repeated levies and forced labor, the streets were obviously empty, but it didn't seem to affect the popularity of this Nanshan Town.

After all, there are more than 500 inspections at the Nanshan Inspection Institute alone, and counting the family members who inspect them, this is at least a thousand permanent residents.

Moreover, according to the county's standards for levying and issuing conscription, relatives who inspect can be exempted from conscription, and the condition for exemption is only that they need to pay some money.

Compared with being conscripted into forced labor, the day is in danger, and even there is a danger to life, and some money is obviously a little insignificant.

In my memory, when the original owner had just turned fourteen, he was conscripted into forced labor, but he was spared the disaster by the original owner's father.

Later, the original owner's father also moved around and wanted to get an official identity for the original owner to keep him safe, but he never succeeded.

Who would have thought that this official body would finally fall on the original owner in the way that the original owner's father was martyred.

But in the end, it was cheaper for him, a man from another time and space.

"Stay safe, ......"

Chu Mu touched the inspection armor on his body and muttered to himself......

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