Chapter 383: Let Merchants Invest in Blessed Land (Ask for Subscription)
In addition, Xuan Zheng and Li Xian both had space holy relics in their hands, and they obtained a large number of space treasures in the battle with the corpse soldiers in the blessed land, such as the stone pillars that originally supported the portal of the corpse soldiers' secret realm, etc., and they worked hard to build that stone building, and a fourth-order great master master could open the portal by holding the space holy relics, greatly reducing the difficulty of activating the portal.
According to Xuan Zheng and Li Xian's ideas, the next step is to establish a stable spatial teleportation array, so that the portal can be opened twenty-four hours a day, and there is no need to be as intermittent as it is now, and the amount of material transportation between the two places will double again.
Once this transport and conveyance problem is solved, the rest of the problem is much simpler.
The Sanyuan Blessed Land is actually equivalent to the primitive tropical rainforest, and all kinds of materials are extremely rich, but it was only because there were too many fierce beasts and demon beasts, and there were various constraints of the imperial court, so that the development level of the Sanyuan Blessed Land has always been very low, and the number of people in it is very small.
After deciding to develop the blessed land, Li Xian led a large army of soldiers and horses to kill it, first cutting down the trees around the portal, and then enclosing the stronghold with trenches, fences and stone walls, and then began to slaughter the large animals and fierce beasts around the stronghold.
There are many large predators with a body size of more than ten meters in the blessed land, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, etc., and ordinary warriors can only escape when encountering these huge animals, and an innate master like Xuanzheng can compete with one or two.
What's even more terrifying is that these animals have thick skin and thick flesh, and their bodies are huge, and ordinary rifle bullets hit them, which are not very useful, and they are almost like tickling.
However, Li Xian also had his own method, using stones, cement, concrete, etc. to build a strong enclosed fort, luring these giant beasts to the vicinity and slamming them with artillery, hunting them on a large scale, and eliminating them little by little.
The effective firing range of military artillery is about 1,200 meters, and the shells range from six to 30 pounds, and the largest can even reach 68 pounds.
When Xuan Zheng saw these military artillery pieces for the first time, his eyes lit up, thinking that using this kind of artillery to hunt large animals could completely change the structure of the food chain in the blessed land, making it easy for humans to become predators at the top of the food chain.
In addition to direct artillery bombardment, Li Xian also shamelessly used poisonous bait, traps, traps, etc., to gradually eliminate thousands of giant beasts within a hundred miles of the diameter of the stronghold where the portal was established, and finally established the hegemony of human beings in this area.
These behemoths have a very wide territory, and after clearing these thousands, there are basically no large animals that must be hunted with artillery.
As for other smaller animals such as saber-toothed tigers, pangolins and velociraptors, they look ferocious, but they can be dealt with with with muskets, and they are much easier to hunt.
The current strength of the Huaxia Army is 25,000 regular troops with 25,000 auxiliaries, plus more than 50,000 prisoners.
In the process, a large number of trees were obtained by cutting down the trees in and around the stronghold, some of which were used as firewood, some were made into charcoal, and some were good wood for building ships and making furniture.
As for the large wild animals and ferocious beasts hunted, in addition to providing the Huaxia army with precious cultivation resources such as Dao species and Dao sources, it can also provide a large amount of meat, in addition to supplying its own army, the rest can also be made into bacon and sausages, etc., and sold to the people of Guangzhou City.
However, there were at least 100,000 troops and prisoners, and the total amount of grain consumed every day was extremely large, and only a small part could be taken out and sold into the city of Guangzhou, so the grain reserves were not as reassuring as the timber reserves.
However, now that the number of large giant beasts and saber-toothed tigers around the stronghold has decreased a lot, and the danger of walking in the wild has been significantly reduced, the next step is to drive ordinary people to collect various herbaceous food resources, and even go down to the river to fish, which can greatly increase the food harvest and further alleviate the plight of Guangzhou City.
According to Li Xian's plan, the next step in Fudili is to vigorously promote animal husbandry, fishery, agriculture, etc., and most of the food and timber needed by Guangzhou people can be solved by Fudi, which can effectively break the material blockade of the Qing court and provide a huge source of funds for the army.
At that time, a huge freight yard will be built around the portal, and various materials will be imported and imported between the blessed land and the Overworld;
military barracks, residential quarters and commercial areas were built around the yard for human habitation;
and establish a heavy industrial zone with the steelmaking research institute near the residential area, and take advantage of the special environment of the blessed land to develop black technology and industry;
Establish a light industrial zone and develop supporting facilities that can make money such as food processing, charcoal production, glass products, leather processing, etc.;
In addition, around these relatively densely populated strongholds, animal husbandry and hunting were vigorously developed, and even wharves and docks were built along the rivers to develop fishing activities, in short, the blessed land was turned into a cash cow and a training base for the army.
This plan is undoubtedly very ambitious, making Li Xiandu feel like he is playing classic games such as "Civilization", "Age of Empires", and "City 3000".
However, in this way, it is far from enough to rely on the Huaxia Army's own investment, and it is necessary to attract a large amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources from the outside.
Not to mention anything else, it is to develop fisheries in the blessed land, it needs a large number of fishing boats and fishermen, Li Xian has a lot of technical personnel, but more investment in the research and development of more demanding products such as warships and steam engine ships, fishing boats and other low-tech civilian items are still handed over to private shipyards for production, which is also the reason why Li Xian is very interested in Sun Daoyuan's Sun Ji Boat Company.
However, if Sun Daoyuan knew that Li Xian was looking for his own production of fishing boats, most of which were actually to be produced in the blessed land, his expression would probably become very exciting.
Guangzhou is one of the best big cities in this era, especially rare is the developed commerce, the level of handicrafts is relatively high, Li Xian and Wang Jiuxuan invited these leaders this time, just to let them see the situation of the blessed land, and then let them contribute money and efforts to invest and build in the blessed land.
Taking advantage of the fact that these people were shaken by the train and the blessed land, Li Xian and Wang Jiuxuan took them to watch the scenery in the blessed land, visit the construction scene, and even blew the development prospects of the blessed land into the sky, which successfully aroused the investment desire of these people, and many people promised to invest in the blessed land on the spot.
More than 200 people who entered the blessed land this time are the heads of the big families, mainly those with a family property of more than one million taels, and the net worth of more than 100,000 taels is counted, and the amount of money and resources that can be leveraged is extremely huge.
Among these people, there are also shrewd businessmen, who know in their hearts that there are many good things in the blessed land, that is, if they recruit 1,800 people to come in and cut down trees, make charcoal and sell them to the people of Guangzhou City, they can also make a lot of money, and there are many opportunities for collecting medicine, fishing, hunting, and mining.