Lord, he is not a man [infrastructure]

The shop just below the square of the Lord's Mansion has been bustling for several days, with people queuing up to buy food every day.

But the stalls of groceries and snacks are rarely patronized, especially the latter. Everyone looks greedy, but very few people buy it, and no one even asks how the food is made.

Tang Bo was still surprised at the time, and only after chatting with the housekeeper did he realize that the citizens just dare not ask, unless the lord's mansion discloses the food practices.

On the second payday, there was a long queue at the door of the store again. It seemed that as long as the leaders had money on hand, they would use it all to buy food.

After the short autumn, the long winter also came at this time, which led the people to pay more attention to food.

Tang Bo asked the store employees to start promoting soybeans and told them about the various benefits of soybeans.

It wasn't until this time that the citizens realized that the so-called aristocratic foods that made them greedy were all made of cheap and unpalatable soybeans.

Because the lord said how much soybeans the lords would plant in the coming year, he would receive as much as he wanted, and the price was the same as the purchase price of wheat. Within two days, soybeans became the most in short supply after wheat flour.

The white deer leader bought it back not to eat, but to keep it as grain for cultivation in the coming year.

Tang Bo originally wanted to disclose the practice of bean products, but at the suggestion of the steward, he temporarily withdrew his idea, and planned to open a bean product shop in the Lord's Mansion, and then push carts to sell it in various villages.

The reason is very simple, not for the sake of keeping secrets, but the method of soy products is simple, but it consumes a lot of time, firewood, energy and labor. Even if every family learns to make soy products, they don’t have so much time to make them frequently.

There is an old saying in China on Earth that goes, "There are three hardships in life, and tofu is grinded with boats and irons." It can be seen how hard the work of grinding tofu is for people who do not have modern tools.

Even if it’s just to germinate bean sprouts in winter, it needs a suitable temperature, but most of the Bailuling people suffer in winter, and everyone sleeps together to keep warm at night. It’s almost impossible to get a warm kang and a greenhouse to let soybeans germinate. possible things.

How to keep everyone warm is also one of Tang Bo's headaches. He remembers how to make and lay the kang and the fire path, but it needs to be remodeled for every household. Not only does it require labor, but also a lot of materials, and it also needs a lot of firewood.

He originally took it for granted that as long as the white deer leader cooks every day, the heat in the stove is enough to supply the heat of the kang, but after entering the winter, he discovered that the white deer leader cooks only once a few days in order to save firewood. Thick bread, put it there after it is done, soak it in cold water when you eat it.Noodle soup and hot water are all gone.

Jia Dou also reported this question, "My lord, there is not enough firewood in the territory. Winter is coming, and all the withered grass that can be collected has been pulled out. If you want to collect firewood, you can only go to the mountains. But you can't live in the mountains. Let’s move, there are only a few dead branches, our territory itself is not considered rich in vegetation, and now... not only are there no firewood for every household, but there is also no firewood for brick kilns and lime kilns.”

This is the biggest problem of White Hart Collar right now, lack of fuel.

The discovery of coal mines is Tang Bo's new expectation for Yanren.

But Yanren was unfamiliar with everything in coal mines.

"Have you ever seen a black, flammable stone?" Tang Bo asked Yan Ren expectantly.

Yan Ren shook his head without even thinking about it, "My grandfather took me to many places, but I have never seen the coal mine you mentioned."

"What about your family, did you mention it to you?" Tang Bo asked again.

Yan Ren spent some time recalling this time, but finally shook his head: "They didn't say it, but..."

"But what?"

"Well, my great-great-great-grandfather is the most powerful prospector in our family. He once presented a map of the entire Luma Principality to the Luma Duke. There are many mineral veins marked on that map, and some he thinks It's a strange place. Maybe there will be the coal mine you mentioned on that map, but I can't guarantee it." Out of trust in Tang Bo, Yan Ren has almost exposed his life experience.

Tang Bo was very interested in that map: "Your ancestor never thought of leaving a copy of this map for future generations?"

Yan Ren spread his hands, "You guessed it right, he did keep it, but that map and other things in our house were taken away by this generation of salt cave lords."

Tang Bo narrowed his eyes: "The one I killed?"

Yan Ren nodded: "That's him."

"And does he know about the map?"

Yan Ren shook his head, "I don't know the details. He once tortured my family and forced out a few maps, but those maps were just unimportant replicas. Later, he took all the things in our house."

"Where is that map kept in the castle?" Tang Bo's question almost meant that he knew Yan Ren's identity.

Dong Lin looked at Yan Ren worriedly, but Yan Ren felt that Tang Bo might already know his details, so he replied without much hesitation: "In the secret room, there is a sandwich wall between the bedroom of the lord and the lord's wife. That map, as well as the map of new mineral veins found by the successive lords of the Salt Cave Territory, are hidden in the hilt of an iron sword. However, I don’t know if this iron sword is still there. People take it and use it, or take it and give it to others."

"What are the characteristics of that iron sword?"

"It's very big and heavy, and most people can't shake it."

Tang Bo verbally said that he would go to the castle again if he had the chance, and when Yan Ren and Dong Lin left, he immediately took out all the three iron swords he had collected in the secret room.

At that time, he didn't examine the three iron swords carefully, but felt that they were sharper than ordinary iron swords, and they were well maintained.

Looking at these three iron swords now, we can see that each has its own characteristics.

One of the swords was indeed very large and heavy. Its size was very suitable for the little giant Baidou, and it weighed at least seventy to eighty catties. Even a weaker person could not lift it, let alone wield it in battle.

And this heaviness is probably also an important reason why the salt cave lord gave up using it and did not give it to others.

Tang Bo put away the other two swords and carefully groped for the hilt of the epee.

The hilt was large and covered with leather.

Untie the leather to reveal the same iron hilt inside.The hilt seems to be integrated with the blade.

Tang Bo twisted the hilt left and right, but it didn't come off.

Maybe he should call Yanren?

Tang Bo was about to ask someone to call Yan Ren when his fingers touched a slightly raised strip.

Tang Bo turned over the hilt of his sword to check the protruding strip.

After a while, Tang Bo laughed. At this time, the skillful craftsman was not bad, and he even made a groove-like buckle.

Tang Bo held the hilt of the sword back and forth several times, and finally found the trick. With a push and a pull, he unlocked the buckle and let the hilt fall off the blade.

The fallen sword body also had a shorter and thinner hilt, which was the protruding strip he touched.The original large hilt was put on the small hilt like a sleeve.

Something stuffed into the hilt of the big sword.

Tang Bo patiently pulled out the contents little by little.

It was rolled parchment, very good quality, thin and strong, and easier to store for a long time than ordinary paper.

There are four sheets of parchment, one of which is very large, as large as 3 meters by 2 meters. This parchment is made of multiple sheets of parchment glued together. The production technology is very delicate, and the seams are almost invisible.

The other three parchments were of different sizes, and the smallest one was about one meter.

Tang Bo looked at the largest parchment first. This is indeed a map covering the entire Luma Principality. It not only marked the five tower counties and various territories of the Luma Principality, but also marked several principalities around the Luma Principality.

But after watching for a while, Tang Bo still asked Yan Ren to be called again.

He couldn't understand the comment above.

Seeing the four maps Tang Bo took out, Yan Ren looked at him in surprise: "You..."

"Don't ask me how I got it, anyway, it's in my hands now. Come and see, what do these annotations and marks mean?"

Yan Ren didn't think too much about it anymore. It was better for the important family map to be in the hands of Tang Bo than to fall into the hands of the Duke of Luma. If it really fell into the hands of the Duke of Luma and the future lord of the salt cave, he would be furious.

"Okay, I'll draw you a marking diagram, so that it will be much easier for you to look at." Yan Ren took a piece of parchment from Tang Bo, and made notes while explaining.

"The X mark in this circle means that there must be ore veins here, but I'm not sure what it is. The circle mark in this circle means that there are copper mines here. The triangle means iron ore, and the pentagon means gold mine. The rectangles represent silver deposits, the two lines represent tin deposits, and the one with antlers in this circle indicates that there are many wild animals here..."

Tang Bo pointed to a mark with a flame symbol in a circle, "What does this represent?"

Yanren paused: "This means that there is something that can burn here, but I'm not sure what it is. The time interval is too long, and the accident in our family was very sudden. My grandfather didn't have time to explain to me too much. The detailed inheritance of the map is all by word of mouth, in order to avoid leaking secrets."

Tang Bo and Yan Ren spent almost a day on these four maps until Tang Bo could understand them all.

White Hart Collar is very inconspicuous on these four maps, except for the largest map, the other three are not even marked with White Hart Collar.

There are two flame marks on the largest map, one of which is in the red taro collar.

Tang Bo diverged his thinking. Many coal mines and iron mines are close together. If one of them is found, it is easy to find another vein nearby.

Since Hongshan has iron mines, it is not surprising that there are coal mines in the nearby red taro collar.

But even if Hongyu owns the coal mine, how can he get other people's coal to his own?

Tang Bo decided to take Yanren for a trip to Hongyuling to see if there was any coal there. If so, it was an open-pit coal mine, or deep mining was needed.

As soon as he thought about it, Tang Bo handed over the affairs of the territory to the steward, and set off with Gu Ding, Ah Shu, Yan Ren, Bai Dou and Jia Dou.

Jia Dou had been jealous of Tian Min for a long time because Tian Min went out with Tang Bo last time, and being named by Tang Bo this time made him very proud in front of Tian Min.

Tian Min just laughed at this, he was in charge of building the canal, how could the lord take him away at this time?

When Tang Bo left, he asked Pijie and Baidou's people to form a new caravan, and followed them with a few carts of coarse salt.But the two teams did not go together, and their destinations were different.Piglet will lead the caravan to the red taro collar and open up a new trade route for the white deer collar.The person in charge of this caravan is Baidou's father, Baihu.

Tang Bo's trip this time is not fast. He wants Yanren to draw a more detailed map of the surrounding area of ​​Bailuling, and at the same time explore whether there are other available mineral sources.

For going out, Gu Ding is the happiest, he likes to run in the wild.

During this period of time, he was in charge of the big and small cases of Bailuling, which almost bored him to death. He was always looking for him for trivial matters, forcing him to organize the idle children in various villages, give them snacks, and let them do it. His eyes and ears.Anyway, very busy.

"It's getting colder and colder." Gu Ding rubbed his little hands in Tang Bo's arms.

Tang Bo embraced him, "Wait on the way to see if there is any good fur for sale, and I will make you a scarf and gloves, and then make you a pair of fur boots."

Gu Ding tilted his head to look at him: "Why are you so kind to me?"

"Because you are useful."

Gu Ding stared at Tang Bo, grabbed his hand and took a bite.

Tang Bo wiped all his saliva on Gu Ding in disgust.

Gu Ding was angry for a while, and then happily enjoyed the wild scenery. It was very comfortable to go out with Tang Bo who had the space, at least he didn't have to worry about food, drink and shelter.

White Deer Collar also has four distinct seasons, but summer and winter are longer than spring and autumn.Winter is from early October to mid-February, summer is from early May to mid-August, and autumn is the shortest.

But the cold here is dry and cold, and there is a lot of snowfall in winter. The people of Bailuling almost rely on the snowfall in winter to freeze the bugs and fertile fields in the ground. When the next spring, there will be only a very short sunny day suitable for farming, and then until summer Coming is the continuous rainy season.

Then there are the long dry days in the summer, with little rain, and this lasts until the end of the autumn harvest.

Tang Bo didn't even care about the construction of the lord's mansion. He had to rush to build the canal because of the special natural climate of Bailuling.

In order to ensure that the water in the canals and reservoirs will not be dried up during the dry season, not only the problem of leakage must be prevented, but also the canals and reservoirs must be dug deep enough.

Tang Bo also plans to plant trees around the canals and reservoirs, which is also one of the ways to protect the sun and fix the soil.This made Tang Bo observe what good tree species could be transplanted along the way.