This period of time lasted for half a year.

It only takes three months to get to Iron Town from here. Although it took as much as half a year to find the iron ore, it was a big difference between rushing to the two places and looking for things without targets.

So it was not until half a year later that a magnet and pig iron sample was sent over.

The shape of this magnet is an uneven long strip, gray all over, covered with "hair", which is actually iron powder containing iron.

This is a good thing to absorb substances with poly-iron content. Just pick up a pile of sand and roll it inside to suck out a lot of iron.

However, these seem to be of little use. What interested Wang Yang were those pig irons.

"Is this iron?" Let's look at the iron together, including the officials of the court, countless people looked at the iron here, then picked it up and looked at it, knocking it on the ground, it was very fresh.

"This is pig iron, which is relatively hard and very brittle. If you exercise dozens of times, you can make steel or cook iron." Wang Yang explained to all officials.

"Okay, with this iron, we can improve the tools again and replace the bronzes."

Everyone is very excited. The sharp tools can not only make everyone's work easier, but also greatly increase the yield. It is not difficult to train iron, but the difficulty lies in the difficulty of training into steel. There is an idiom called "Hundred-Triggered Steel", which comes from here.

Even in the Ming Dynasty, forging a good bit of steel was extremely troublesome, and manpower and material resources were greatly damaged.

"Didn't they forged it?" asked the officials with the pig iron in their hands.

"It was forged, but only pig iron was forged from iron."

"Then let's send more people there to study iron smelting."

"It's not easy to scream. Everyone is already satisfied with this kind of life. Who would be willing to run there to smelify iron if you have nothing to do?" Wang Yang shook his head.

Last time, I had already thrust a hundred people over. It was too difficult to thrust another person again. I couldn’t always be appointed as an official and make a wish every time. As long as I am willing to go over, I can become an official, right?

"They only have more than one hundred people. If they have too few people, they are afraid that they will not be enough, which will lead to too slow progress."

In fact, it’s not just the Tie Town that needs manpower? It’s all over the place.

After one hundred teams were dispatched two years ago, they gained huge gains within two years, and many resources were found and just waiting for development.

Many primitive people were also found, which should be all humans in the Paleolithic era. They are generally classified into three categories: capable people, craftsmen, and homo erectus. In addition, the population of forests, wheat fields and grasslands has exceeded 10,000.

, This is a major progress, and the population directly represents the labor force. The labor force is linked to the speed of development.

"I have a way to quickly help the population of Tie Town increase." Li Si walked out and said.

Wang Yang looked at him calmly, and did not ask. Instead, he nodded slightly: "Just do it."

The officials were puzzled and didn't understand what the two were talking about. They decided before they even spoke out the plan to discuss it?

"What's the plan?"

Li Si wrote: "It is to take back those teams that only found people but did not find resources and integrate them into other teams that found resources."

"This..."

Wang Yang nodded: "Yes, this is the plan. They have been out for more than a year and almost two years. They can find people. Basically, these are the ones. If you continue to find them, you will get rewards. But the difficulties must be great."

"So, it's time to take them back. Send them down and form a complete town." ...

All the officials had no objection. This time they went out, they were just for two purposes, either finding people or finding resources.

Nowadays, there are dozens of places where various resources are found, and a hundred teams have become hundreds of them.

At this time, it would be too slow to pay attention to the development of a group of ten people.

"I have seen dozens of resources we have. There are many resources that are duplicate. There is no need to mine them in two teams, put them together, mine them on the spot, and hoard them on the spot.

After hearing this, the officials nodded slightly and expressed their agreement. Since it was the same resource, just mine one place.

Moreover, according to the current situation, it can be reduced to more than twenty towns, so each town can have at least two hundred manpower and more abundant labor.

However, Wang Yang obviously had no idea of ​​stopping: "We must continue to release labor and keep the warehouse. How much does the cloth reserves still have?"

Morika stepped forward and said: "After the system in the past two years, the total cloth owned by the state immediately surged, and now it is enough to be used for eight years, including those babies who will be born in the future."

Wang Yang nodded: "No, it's enough for a while. If you produce so much, it will be moldy. Li Si, you and Shoucang discussed the reserve status of the supplies and the number of workers, and then put them into consideration.

Not big or important personnel will be assigned to other towns and a charter will be drawn up as soon as possible."

Li Si frowned and was a little worried: "We can do it by calculating the dispatch of people or something, but we may not necessarily go there. I don't want to go to remote places when they look like them."

Wang Yang also knew this truth. Human sociality determines that people must live in groups, and this cannot be changed, and the more people, the better.

A place with more people and a place with less people, many people will choose to go to a place with more people.

Just like the rural population in later generations, they like to go to metropolis. First, it is because of social reasons, and second, it means better development prospects.

It should be rare to hear about living in small places. There are two reasons here. First, the survival pressure in big cities is very high, and the second, the small places are beginning to develop rapidly, and entrepreneurs and bosses bring funds to them, which attracts them.

Many people.

For Wang Yang, this is a problem, but not a big problem.

He will think backwards, and those who study history often have to think backwards, and the means of thinking about problems can be learned in junior high school.

"You don't have to worry. On the one hand, we have to limit or even cancel some work quotas. This is a negative way."

"On the other hand, we told everyone that the salary was higher there, which would impress some people who were not outstanding in their original jobs."

"There is also a part of it, relying on those businessmen to promote it, telling them that other towns are going to develop, do you also need food stores and clothing stores?"

"They will recruit people and lead people over. This is a positive method."

"With both methods, those people will sooner or later go to other towns."

After saying this, all officials understood that the two methods were complementary. No matter what, revoking some people's work quotas would definitely arouse dissatisfaction.

But with temptation, they will not sulk for losing their jobs, but will actively face the future.

The same goes for the other way. Using temptation to make some people tempted, but being moved may not necessarily take action. Cutting off a part of the quota is equivalent to helping them make up their minds.

All the officials had no objection. Wang Yang's approach was very clever and there was no reason not to implement it.

"You can handle the specific details yourself." Wang Yang waved his hand and returned to the second floor.

...

Now, he is not sure if he is influenced by the little guy and doesn't want to move anymore. Although he still exercises frequently, he always feels that he doesn't have much enthusiasm and even loses his mood to tease the blade-toothed tiger.

Lying on the rocking chair, Wang Yingying came back from swimming and massaged him while gesturing at him: "It's great, the water level has risen again."

"It's rising again? You can swim, right? Swimming less is too dangerous."

The water level of that river began to rise sharply since the previous two years, and by this year it has exceeded its water level of that year, which is really incredible.

According to news from the north, it was said that it was heavy snow or it was still falling. The snow area was very large, but it seemed that the ice that could not be formed for a long time would melt.

Wang Yang calculated with his fingers: "No, the ice age has only been around for more than ten or twenty years. Even if it is about to recede, it will not snow anymore. However, due to the reflection of ice, the earth will be kept low for several years, let alone now

The snow is still falling, there is no reason to melt."

Wang Yang almost couldn't understand this natural phenomenon. The mystery of nature has not been thoroughly studied by humans in later generations, and he didn't understand much, and he couldn't figure out what went wrong.

However, Wang Yang doesn't need to figure it out. It's good to have water in the river and nourish all things, which is quite good, at least it won't make the wheat thirsty.

...

"Don't nag every day, where is the danger coming from!" Wang Yingying was very dissatisfied.

"I don't guarantee that there will be no crocodile in the river. If you really encounter one, you won't have the chance to convince me."

"Hmph!" Wang Yingying is now careless and only cares about playing with her own things every day. In addition to always loving to swim in the river, she is very obedient.

Recently, she is very interested in eating: "By the way, I heard that I found bamboo, fruits, and rice? That's it? When will these delicious foods be shipped?"

"Just eat, you know that you can eat bamboo? Do you think you are a panda? How many times have you said it before you can eat bamboo shoots."

"Aren't it all the same?" Wang Yingying stuck out her tongue.

"Yes, I haven't eaten those things for a long time, so I really want to eat them." In fact, everyone not only discovered rice.

In other words, it should not be called rice. For example, wheat in this era is only related to modern wheat and is their ancestor.

That kind of thing called rice is just near rice and is not as perfect as later generations.

It can still be eaten, and the taste will not be bad, so just call it rice.

Everyone also discovered other grain crops, including corn, sorghum, and other grass plants.
Chapter completed!