New Year's Day is still far away, but Huayi is decorated with lanterns, red and jade, creating a festive scene.
But this is not to prepare for the New Year, but to prepare for Xia Nanbo and Xia Hua's wedding.
For this reason, Xia Hua's brother Yi Boliang and his mother, who were far away in the south, came to Huayi and met his in-laws, Su Shi and his wife, Su Bohu.
The wedding that had been noisy for a day finally came to an end, after the guests from all over the world, including the Qilin Guards, General Huben and others who attended the wedding banquet were sent away.
Only then did Hua enter the bedroom.
Under the light of the oil lamp, Daji looked even more charming.
She sat on the edge of the bed without saying a word, her cheeks flushed.
Hua also sat next to her.
There was a foot of space between the two of them, and they were both silent, but their hands moved little by little toward each other along the edge of the bed.
Finally, the two hands were held together.
Hua said softly: "In this life, we will be together forever."
Daji blew out the oil lamp fiercely, hugged Hua's neck and fell down The next day, Hua got up on time as usual.
He touched the tooth mark left by Daji on his shoulder.
He smiled in his heart and said, "What a little fox."
Handle official business.
The difference between the Xia Kingdom and any other Fang Kingdom is that there are no officials.
Only personnel affiliated with the palace handle daily affairs for Hua.
Now a palace servant presented to him the documents reported by the officials stationed in various vassal states and the consuls of the newly built cities.
At this time Mr.
Mai entered the house.
This is another place where the Xia Kingdom is more efficient than the indigenous Fang Kingdom.
Any system personnel can enter and exit the palace hall unobstructed to find Hua Narrative.
Of course, these system personnel have no major matters and cannot disturb Hua.
"Mr.
Mai is here today for important matters."
Hua knew that Mr.
Mai would not come to him unless there was something important.
"I would like to congratulate the Lord first.
There is indeed something important that I want to report to the Lord."
Hua looked directly at Mr.
Mai and motioned for him to continue.
"The merchants have begun to conquer Xu Yi, one of the Eastern Yi.
Does your lord know about this?"
"I know, our personnel stationed in Chaoge reported this situation many days ago."
"The battle to conquer Xu Yi did not go well, and the war escalated rapidly.
Not only Xu Yi, but also many Yi tribes were involved, causing the battle line to expand to almost the entire eastern coastal area."
"Oh, what does it have to do with us if you hit him so hard?"
Hua asked in surprise.
"It has nothing to do with us directly, but most of the eastern coastal salt fields have been closed due to this, causing the price of salt in the market to skyrocket," Mr.
Mai said anxiously.
"How much has it increased?"
"The price has increased more than seven or eight times compared to the original price.
That is to say, most of our caravan's monthly profits must be used to buy salt in order to maintain the daily consumption of the Xia Kingdom's 20,000 to 30,000 people."
"Salt, salt, salt mine" Hua suddenly thought that the system could build a salt mill or a salt mine.
But I need a salt mine or a salt field near the sea, so I murmured to myself.
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"What are you talking about, Lord?"
Mr.
Mai looked at Hua in surprise.
"It's nothing.
The salt stored in the on-site warehouse is enough for two months.
Don't buy salt for the time being.
Uncle Ben has his own way."
After sending Mr.
Mai away, the Huazhu people sent an order to the governor of Yingguo in Yingyi, asking him to organize labor to dig water wells in the area designated by Hua, and the wells must be deep.
When the governor of Ying State saw the order, he wondered why he was digging a well when there was no drought or disaster.
But who would dare to disobey Nan Bo's order?
What's more, it also stated that labor can be offset against Ying State's taxes and tribute.
Then let’s get started.
Not many days later, the well was dug, and Xia Nanbo came to inspect it in person.
There were more than 30 wells, and he asked someone to fetch a bucket of water from each well and tasted it himself.
By the seventh sip, the water was bitter and salty.
After calling up the system panel, I saw that the salt mine was found.
At the same time, I completed a temporary task to find a salt mine within 150 kilometers of the main city, and received 1,000 points.
Without further ado, the governor of the country recruited civilians to build a tall wall around it with logs.
Then he spent 200 points to build a primary salt-making workshop, and spent another 300 points to upgrade it to an intermediate salt-making workshop.
With the busy work of the salt workshop craftsmen, they were able to produce quite good quality green salt.
Hua named the place Yanzhai.
Finally, more than 20 soldiers were transferred from the Bronze Fort to take care of it, and ordered Ying Guo to provide daily living supplies here.
"Look at what price this product can sell for," Hua said as he handed a small bowl of bluish-white crystalline powder to Mr.
Mai.
"What's this" "Salt."
"This is salt."
Mr.
Mai dipped some of it with his fingers in disbelief, put it in his mouth, licked it, and smacked his lips.
"It's really salt.
It's less bitter than common salt, and it looks better.
I think it can sell for at least double the price of ordinary salt."
Mr.
Mai said with bright eyes.
Another year passed in the blink of an eye.
Due to the fierce war in the east, the price of salt soared and the price of slaves plummeted.
Xia Fang exchanged his own high-grade green salt for a large number of slaves and supplies, and the news that Xia State accepted escaped slaves gradually became known to the world.
Therefore, the escaped slaves gathered in Xia Kingdom one after another.
The fifth Huben Division is at full strength.
China has restored its balanced population ratio.
Hua spent 500 points to upgrade the palace to a primary Iron Age palace.
This upgrade did not significantly change the appearance and shape of the palace.
It was only when Hua looked carefully that he discovered that the roof of the palace had been changed from thatch to blue tiles.
He then spent 400 points to upgrade the military camp to an Iron Age primary military camp.
After the military camp was upgraded, several new units were added, and his eyes rested on the warriors, warriors, and heavy infantry with shields and swords.
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The prototype of the military soldier Rui Shi is the military soldier of Wei Dynasty, but the armor on his body is changed from leather armor to iron armor, and the weapon with inherent disadvantages like Ge is discarded.
The prototype of the latter is the "Roman Shield Lobster Soldier".
Both arms can be upgraded by the Bronze Shield Guard.
The former requires 2 points to upgrade and generates 7 points, while the latter requires 1 point to upgrade and generates 6 points.
In the end, Hua chose to upgrade all 200 existing bronze shield guards into warrior warriors, and generated 200 warrior warriors.
These 400 warriors are all wearing iron scale armor, iron helmets, and holding iron swords and three-foot round shields.
He also carried a three-foot hand crossbow with twenty arrows.
Walking is still as fast as flying.
Hua asked them to demonstrate the shooting of the hand crossbow and found that the range of this hand crossbow was slightly longer than that of Qin Nu's arm crossbow, and could reach an effective range of 100 meters.
As a short-soldier configuration, this is enough.
And the iron swords in their hands can cut the thin copper Goge blade into pieces.
Points: 205 System population: including 50 farmers, 30 hero hunters, 2 traders, 3 witch doctors, 400 warriors, halberd warriors: 40, spearmen: 30, compound bow archers: 20050, officials: 36, budding cavalry : 60, mahout 20, lobbyist 2, total 923 people Population balance: 2098 Building facilities: Iron Age elementary palace, military camp, Bronze Age advanced workshop, residential pigeon house, rammed earth city wall, warehouse, copper mine smelting house, elementary winery, elementary stables, intermediate salt making workshop: