Great Song Pirate

Chapter 302
Although it is difficult to walk in the forest, with these Po Sang people leading the way, they are not in danger of getting lost. Following the Po Sang guide, they ran all the way in the forest. Yang Zaixing, who had never been in this kind of jungle, was very excited at the beginning. But when they walked for a while, they saw a lot of snakes and insects, and they were immediately terrified. They didn't expect Yang Zaixing to be afraid of snakes, insects, spiders and other things with such a great ability, so he immediately fell from the front of the leader. In the middle of the team, nervously holding his waist knife and staring at him with wide eyes, he was afraid that a snake or insect would approach him, causing Xu Yi and Li Bo to burst into laughter, which made him lose face, and forced himself to follow Xu Yi closely The pace, for fear of falling behind the team.

Xu Yi didn't care about it either, as long as people have their own fears, Yang Zaixing has a high status in his heart, but he is still a human being, not a god, and being afraid of something is not a bad thing at all. , On the contrary, I feel that he is much more cordial.

Posang people are worthy of living in the jungle since they were young. They know all kinds of situations in the jungle very well, and they walk through it like walking on flat ground. But they have their own way of remembering the way, and they don't have the slightest risk of getting lost, which makes Xu Yi and the others admire them.

Xu Yi no longer has a compass on his body, but he is not helpless, because he asked the craftsmen to make some according to the method he said. The small things that he carried with him looked crude, but they were also useful. He held one of these things along the way to observe their direction.

As the Posang man said, after half a day's journey, they came to a valley. The Posang man excitedly pointed at the valley and said something loudly to Xu Yi and the others.

"He said that if you go down from here, there will be black stones like those you burned all over the place, and there are a lot of them here!" Chai Wei explained to Xu Yi and the others.

Xu Yi immediately took the lead and went down, and indeed found a lot of coal in the valley. It seems that the coal should be exposed after the earthquake or other activities tore the place a long time ago, so that the poor mulberry people passing by here can give it to them. Found.

Standing in the valley, Xu Yi was very happy looking at the coal in this place. He didn't study geology or prospecting, so he couldn't tell how big the coal reserves here are, but judging from the coal that can be seen so far, this place The reserves are definitely enough for them to toss for many years. He originally wanted to use Dulong Island as a reserve and manufacturing base for steel, but now he has changed his mind. Although Dulong Island is close to Yangzhou, it still needs to purchase a large amount of coal from land. For smelting, not to mention spending money, it also consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, but I didn't expect that I would actually get a cheap one. There is coal here in Jilongzhai, which is equivalent to saving him a lot of money, and the output If it is big, they can also directly ship the coal here and transport it to Fujian Road for sale. It is also a very lucrative business. This is a good business with huge profits!

The more Xu Yi thought about it, the more beautiful he became, he couldn't help giggling for a long time, which frightened Li Bo and the others, thinking that Xu Yi was in the jungle, so he called him in a low voice, for fear of scaring his soul away.

Xu Yi waved his hands and smiled: "It's okay! I'm so happy! I didn't expect all the good things to happen to us. I just counted the distance. It's half a day away from our chicken cage village. It looks like a dozen miles, as long as we open a road, we can transport the charcoal out of the mountain, and it takes about an hour to go back and forth, and now we are rich again! Haha!"

Li Bo and the others were also happy to see Xu Yi happily depicting the bright future, because something that can make Xu Yi so excited must be a great thing for them.

However, after hearing about Xu Yi's plan, the mulberry headman obviously didn't agree with him. In his eyes, Xu Yi's wanton felling of trees near the chicken coop village was already an act of offending the gods. He didn't care It's quite a face, but Xu Yi still wants to build the road directly here, so I don't know how many sacred trees will be cut down. The headman shook his head like a rattle, expressing his disapproval of Xu Yi and the others going to the forest to cut down trees , Build roads, which will alarm the mountain gods and bring disaster to their tribe.

Xu Yi couldn't do this matter according to his will, so they camped on the spot and began to bargain with the Posang headman. Xu Yi promised a lot of benefits to the Posang tribe, and hinted that his force was stronger than Posang's. The Sang tribe is a hundred times, and it is impossible not to agree to this matter. Under both soft and hard measures, the attitude of the leader began to become more active.

Although the mountain gods should not be offended, this leader is not a fool. Through their interaction during this period of time, he also realized that these outsiders seem to be much better than them, and now he sees more and more people from Xu Yi, who have surpassed Xu Yi. They don't know how many times, and besides, after this period of time, they have indeed gained a lot of benefits from Jilongzhai. With their current equipment, it is incomparable compared to before, and they are not willing to lose it like this. Without friends such as Xu Yi and the others, turning against them is equivalent to cutting off one's own path. Besides, Xu Yi's offer is really attractive to them. He promised to give them some beautiful female slaves and provide their tribe with enough food for them to eat. , give them cloth and clothes, and also match them with knives, spears, bows and arrows, etc. With these things, they can say that they are no longer afraid of conflicts with other tribes. In the end, the leader simply ignored it. The gods were not done by their tribe. If the mountain gods punished them, they wouldn't be punished. Just do whatever you want!

Xu Yi discussed with this headman, not because he was afraid of them, but because he didn't want to offend the gang of local snakes. When they opened the way, he would cause troubles that he couldn't figure out all day long. Just dealing with them would consume a lot of manpower. , it’s really not cost-effective to do so, and if you get their help, the benefits are great. You have a bunch of the best guides, and you can use them to provide some protection for the loggers on your side, and learn how to deal with them. All kinds of dangerous techniques in the jungle are definitely worth the price. After seeing him nodding in agreement, Xu Yi was overjoyed again. The Sang people bid farewell and parted ways, and took the firewood back home.

Xu Yi let go of the idea of ​​leaving Jilongzhai immediately, and immediately summoned the big and small leaders of Jilongzhai to discuss this matter. This is their top priority. The manpower and material resources needed are absolutely astronomical. Finally, after deliberation, Xu Yi handed over the matter to Chang Le, and asked Gao Jun to lead some people to guard their safety, Jia Qian was responsible for various logistics supplies, and Gao Xu cooperated with Kong Qingxi to take charge of various affairs of the village.

Dictatorship can sometimes have a good effect on economic development. What's more, people here agree with Xu Yi's opinion. As long as they have a unified understanding, many things will be much easier to do. The plan was immediately cancelled, and all forces were concentrated on logging to open the way.

And Xu Yi immediately wrote two letters in his own hand, one notifying Qian Laoben on Dulong Island, asking Lei Tong and Qin Huzi on the island to take most of the blacksmiths to Jilongzhai, and to bring along with them the person who established the blacksmith workshop. Most of the tools and materials will be worked here in the future. Another letter notifies Gray in Yangzhou that once the steel from the north is delivered to them, it will be directly transferred to Jilongzhai instead of Dulong Island. At the same time, let Gong Zhen lead the boatmen to report directly here, and start to build their boat yard in Jilongzhai.

The blacksmith workshop in the village immediately started working at full capacity to make all kinds of logging tools, such as machetes, axes, and large saws. It was necessary to ensure the needs of logging to open roads. He was even busy making various vehicles for transportation, and all the forces in the village were concentrated on this matter.

And those landless islanders were also mobilized. Those who had not completed the construction of their houses continued to speed up their house construction, and those who had already built their houses were immediately put into logging and road repairs. However, the goal was changed to the direction of Carboniferous Valley, and it was clear. Tell them that anyone who participates in this work can get enough materials to feed their families every day, and those who stay at home and don’t want to work, sorry, go hunting and support yourself!
So in a short period of time, they mobilized nearly ten thousand people and drove into the jungle. Like ants, they began to gnaw a passage tens of meters wide in the jungle. It was so lively inside, and the big livestock sold to them by the Yu family in the early stage also played a huge role this time. Solving it by carrying it on his shoulders and carrying it, Xu Yi hated that there were no tractors now. It would be much easier to get a few of these guys, but he just wanted to give up. At this time, thinking about that thing is purely obsessive, it is better to do something practical things.

Road construction is easy to say, but it is not easy to do. It requires someone to coordinate various affairs well. In the beginning, there was inevitably confusion. People were in a mess and didn't know what they should do. They rushed up to cut wood, and then swarmed to transport the wood. After finding that the road was muddy and difficult, they all rushed to pull gravel and sand to pave the road. The scene was chaotic like a group of headless flies. Xu Yi himself felt a headache when he saw it. I stayed on the construction site all day and was busy directing. I was very busy, but the effect was not obvious.

In the end, it was Jia Qian, the Minister of Logistics, who came forward to help Xu Yi with advice, and clearly divided all the people involved in the construction into a clear division of labor. Those who felled the wood were in charge of logging, those who unpacked the trees were dedicated to untie the big trees on the spot for easy transportation, and those who repaired the road were in charge of transportation. Sand and gravel were pulling stones to build roads, those who transported timber were dedicated to transporting timber, and those who served food were dedicated to serving food. After some rectification, this chaotic situation was effectively contained.

My son is still sick, and I still have to go to the hospital today, and try to update another chapter tonight!
(End of this chapter)