On June 6th, the 14th year of Tianxuan, after Qu Mao and Liu Qianhui held the development planning meeting of the Marquis of Shaliu in the city hall of Yuexia City, they started the town inspection tour of the Marquis of Shaliu together with Liu Qianhui that night .
Due to the desert climate of Shaliuhou Kingdom, except for the area within the new city wall of Yuexia City that has been transformed to be suitable for daytime activities, the other areas are still in a very harsh desert environment, so Qu Mao and Liu Qianhui can only choose to travel at night.
Compared with the unbearable heat, the severe cold at night can still be resisted slightly. After all, as long as there are no storms or sandstorms, wear more clothes to keep out the cold, and lie on camels more when driving, you can barely walk, Sha Liuhou The military and civilians of the country have accumulated rich experience in traveling at night.
During the day, Qu Mao and Liu Qianhui inspected various towns in the Marquis of Shaliu. In fact, the towns in the desert, and even if the city walls are built, the soldiers and civilians don’t have to worry about extreme desert weather such as sandstorms and storms, but the temperature difference between day and night remains the same. There is no way to change it, so the working time is very short. Most of the towns are not very well built. Basically, they are buildings such as the City Lord's Mansion, City Hall, Granary, Material Warehouse and Military Barracks.
On the morning of June 8th, the 14th year of Tianxuan, when Qu Mao and Liu Qianhui inspected Yueshang City, they proposed that regardless of whether water is stored or not, all towns in the Marquis of Shaliu should use the specifications of Yuexia City to build water in every city. For the excavation of a reservoir with an area of no less than 30,000 square meters and a depth of 6 meters in a town, sandbags of 5 meters or more must be piled on the walls and bottom.
Although severe weather is almost everywhere in the desert area of Shaliuhou Kingdom, towns protected by second-tier city walls will generally not be affected, and there is no need to worry about the hard-earned water reservoir being buried by a sandstorm. .
Now both Mid-Moon City and Upper Moon City have green plant experts brought by the Lord of Lian Island Greening City, the Holy Land of the Yi Emperor, who are trying to plant shrubs and weeds around Yuexia City. Suggestions like Qu Mao and Liu Qianhui have been received by all the green people. He received a warm welcome from planting technology experts and was immediately executed by the town lords of the towns in the Marquis of Shaliu.
When Qu Mao and Liu Qianhui finished inspecting Yueshang City and Yuezhong City, they rushed to the third town built by the Marquis of Shaliu, the excavation of the city's reservoir had already started, and the soldiers and civilians were extremely busy. It's a joy, although there are no green planting experts to plant desert shrubs in this town.
It was in the middle and late June of the fourteenth year of Tianxuan that Qu Mao and Liu Qianhui returned to Xirong City and inspected all the ten towns and Xirong City built by the Marquis of Shaliu on their own.
There are only 11 towns, and the distance between each town is no more than 30 kilometers, and the closest is no more than 20 kilometers. It took Qu Mao and Liu Qianhui more than two weeks to inspect them all.
In the past two weeks or so, Qu Mao and Liu Qianhui have been working very hard, basically traveling at night, patrolling towns during the day, and resting at noon when it is the hottest.
Xirong City is considered to be the most livable town in Shaliu Hou Kingdom after Yuexia City. When Qu Mao and Liu Qianhui arrived, two reservoirs of more than 10,000 square meters each had been excavated in Xirong City. A three-meter-wide, three-meter-deep, and 100-meter-long ditch connects the two reservoirs, but there is no stage of filling the reservoirs yet.
Judging from the current fresh water efficiency of the Holy Land of Emperor Yi's territory to the Marquis of Shaliu, and the fresh water accumulated in the early stage of the Marquis of Shaliu, at least it is not a big problem to fill the two reservoirs of Xirong City. At the same time, Xirong City is currently also on the scale of green plants A town second only to Moon City.
Of course, Qu Mao and Liu Qianhui did not stop their efforts to inspect the Marquis of Shaliu. After inspecting all the cities and towns, Qu Mao and Liu Qianhui began to make full preparations to go to the depths of the deserted desert to mine the metal mines. Also read it carefully.
For such a long time, Sunan has arranged intelligence personnel in advance to investigate all the territory of Shaliuhou State, and marked all the metal mines in the wild on the map.
However, no matter how well-prepared they are, marching and camping in the desert area still has great risks, so Qu Mao and Liu Qianhui only hurriedly inspected the areas where the three metal mines are relatively concentrated, and hurried back to Shaliu City.
On June 30th, the 14th year of Tianxuan, Qu Mao and Liu Qianhui returned to the palace in Shaliu City, and began to discuss their feelings over the past 20 days of inspection.
Qu Mao said: "Liu Qianhui, I think the 12 towns in the current Shaliuhou Kingdom are too far away from the area where the metal mines are relatively concentrated, and the nearest one is 30 kilometers away. The steam train in Xirong City has been increased to three times a day, and I don't want you to issue policies now to attract mine owners and entrepreneurs to develop these metal mines by themselves.
It is too far away, it is not easy to walk there, and it will be too late to rescue if something happens.
After all, if residents die, we will still be responsible for the responsibility of Emperor Yi's territory, which will affect the overall loyalty and centripetal force of residents. "
Liu Qianhui nodded and said, "Qu Mao, I agree with you, but the Kingdom of Shaliu still needs to develop these metal mines after all, otherwise it is impossible to develop by itself. What do you think should be done?"
Qu Mao frowned and said, "What else can I do? Continue to build the city.
I think that in the area where the three metal mines are relatively concentrated, we should choose the central location and build three towns, even if it is just to build the city wall, to provide a place for the mine owners, entrepreneurs and residents who develop the metal mines. A place to stay is better than nothing now. "
Liu Qianhui smiled and said: "We have the same opinion, so let's build the city as soon as possible.
I just got the news: The steam train from the Holy Land of Emperor Yi's Territory to Xirong City has been upgraded to twice a day.
The factory director of Liandao Locomotive Factory entrusted us with a guarantee: at the end of July, we can guarantee to increase to three shifts per day.
That is to say, the soonest we can issue a policy in August of the 14th year of Tianxuan to attract mine owners and entrepreneurs to come to Shaliuhou to independently develop metal mines. "
Qu Mao said: "In this case, let's plan to build three more towns, called Iron Ore City, Minmetals City and Metal City, what do you think?"
Liu Qianhui nodded.
Qu Mao continued: "Of course, I will also send a message to Su Yan and Mo Yangqiao, asking them to start transporting fresh water resources from the Eastern Continent to the Holy Land now, otherwise starting in August, three steam trains a day will total 600,000 tons of fresh water Supplies to the Marquis of Shaliu will exhaust the fresh water in the Holy Land in a short time."
Liu Qianhui said: "Okay, let's split up, maybe we have to build the city ourselves."