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Chapter 362 Development of Beizhou

After Xuanyuan Yuchen reported to the imperial court, he opened the two treasuries and paid all the military salaries owed by all the soldiers.

All the rest of the money was used to build the Northern State Defense Project.

Huanfengguan was repaired. After the city walls on both sides were repaired, a checkpoint was set up on the civil road in the east of Huanfengguan to prevent Beiming people from suddenly entering Beizhou.

Beizhou City ushered in the first happiest and most stable New Year.

After three months of hard work, all the checkpoints in Beizhou were corrected, and the strength of the army doubled.

In the past three months, people from Beiming have not come to harass them once, and the people have begun to prepare for the spring planting, and everything in Beizhou is stable.

In the past, there were only 10,000+ people who settled in Beizhou City. Because of the management of Xuanyuan Yuchen and his wife, now all the people in the nearby villages have moved to Beizhou, causing the housing prices in the city to increase again and again.

Spring is here, and many things are speeding up. Prince Xuan's Mansion has started to be renovated, and all bad parts have been demolished and rebuilt.

During this period of time, all the people in the palace moved to the magistrate's mansion, and the newly appointed Chen Guangyao in Beizhou was young, energetic, honest and pertinent, and he admired Xuanyuan Yuchen a lot.

All the military power in Beizhou fell into the hands of Xuanyuan Yuchen. He was the king of Beizhou, and even the position of magistrate was resigned to his fate. Now the control of Beizhou is completely in his hands.

In the past three months, thirteen factories were built in Beizhou, all of which were built by Tong Xiaowu, including five iron mines, two iron factories, three weaving factories, and two paper packaging factories. and a pharmaceutical factory.

All Beizhou farmers, as long as they want to, can sign a cotton purchase agreement with the Wangfu this year. People who used to grow corn began to learn to grow cotton.

For the first time in so many years, the people started farming with peace of mind. They used to be afraid of wars. Now the defense works have been repaired and a lot of new ones have been built. In addition, Xuanyuan Yuchen led the army well and defended properly. Now they are not afraid of Beiming at all. people.

At noon that day, Tong Xiaowu was working, and An Luo was standing next to her. An Luo had already been transferred from the capital, and Fu Jialan stayed behind, mainly responsible for the business in the capital.

"Ma'am, you don't look well, why don't you take a break?" After Lu Xing was injured, An Luo came over, and the main task was to be responsible for Tong Xiaowu's personal safety.

Tong Xiaowu shook her head slightly, "It's been more than two months, and the output of the iron factory is still very small. This is all because of the lack of coal supply. Although there are many forests in Beizhou, because of the drought, the trees can't be messed up." Cut down indiscriminately, otherwise it will harm future generations."

Tong Xiaowu has never learned iron-making technology. The technology here is based on the ancient method. First, use magnets to collect iron ore in places rich in iron ore, and then use high-heat charcoal fire to refine it.

Now that the iron output cannot increase, these two factories cannot even earn wages for workers.

Although Tong Xiaowu is not short of this money, Beizhou can't rely on other business support. If they want to develop, they must have their unique income method.

In the first month of this year, Tong Xiaowu traveled to Beizhou and found that in the west of the anticline mountain near Heilang County, there are black substances in many sandy soil layers.

After looking for someone to see it, I found out that the soil here is rich in iron ore, but the technology is limited, so it has not been mined.

Besides, Qu Boyi has been the magistrate for more than ten years, he is busy with corruption and accepting bribes, how can he have time to want to mine minerals and think about development.

Therefore, Tong Xiaowu decided to mine by herself, so she asked three iron smelting masters from Xizhou, which is rich in iron, to mine iron ore and build an iron smelting factory according to the master's requirements.

Unexpectedly, three months have passed, and the daily output of iron is less than [-] catties. The iron sand of the iron ore has piled up into a mountain, and it is impossible to produce iron here.

Tong Xiaowu also asked the iron smelters, and they said that the iron ore in Beizhou is harder and requires higher temperatures to be refined, so the output is relatively small, but the quality is high.

The swords mined from the iron mines in Beizhou are dark and sharp. Compared with the iron swords produced in Xizhou, they are harder. They are typical northern iron products. However, the output is so low that the factory may not be able to keep food and clothing in the future.

"Princess, take a rest!" Seeing Tong Xiaowu frowning, An Luo poured her a cup of tea and handed it to her.

Tong Xiaowu sighed, regretting that she didn't study hard when she was in school, otherwise she wouldn't be so passive when encountering heavy industry problems now.

"By the way, An Luo, how is the establishment of schools in all the counties in Beizhou going?"

"It's in progress. Now that the soil has thawed, the workers can start building the school. In about a month, the school will be completed, and the supplies will be in place, and it will be put into use at that time!"

"Well, Beizhou is no better than Nanzhou. The winter here is long and the temperature is cold. Don't forget to have thicker walls, and don't forget to prepare a stove for each class so that the children will not be cold in class in winter. "

Tong Xiaowu took a sip of tea and said.

"Yes, my subordinates will definitely do it well!" An Luo looked at Tong Xiaowu who had lost weight recently, feeling a little worried. In the past three months, the princess has worked day and night, and the war situation in Beizhou has been brought under control. Now She was busy with development again.

The prince is not in Beizhou recently, he has been stationed at Huanfengguan, what should we do if this continues?Someone has to persuade the princess.

"Princess, King Xuan is stationed at Huanfeng Pass day and night, why don't you go and have a look? Didn't you say that the generation of Huanfeng Pass has coal? As long as the coal can be mined there, the iron-making problem will be solved?" An Luo He said again, as long as the prince sees the appearance of the princess, he will definitely dissuade her.

Tong Xiaowu sighed slightly, "Who says it's not? It's just that you can't do it now. Without complete preparations, this mine can't be revealed. Otherwise, it will be Pandora's magic box. After opening it, Beizhou may be affected. "

"What?" An Luo didn't hear Tong Xiaowu's words.

She stood up, "How long has it been since the prince came back?"

"More than a month!"

"Is Hongying there? Let's go to Huanfeng Pass to see..."

"Okay!" An Luo was very happy, and immediately went to the mansion to bring Hongying over.

Tong Xiaowu came out of the office and came to the street, many people greeted her, "Is the princess going out? The princess should pay attention to her body, the princess has lost weight!"

Tong Xiaowu laughed, nodded to everyone, then rode Hongying out of the city gate, all the way to the west, she, An Luo and Zhang Quan headed west, when it was the generation of Huanfengguan, she suddenly Pulling the reins, he stopped.

She looked at the endless green hillside, and her heart was turbulent. All the treasures buried in the ground, what a pity, what a pity...

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