On May 12, the 14th year of Tianxuan, Qu Mao, Su Yan, and Mo Yangqiao left the Principality of Pengda after handing over 20,000 warships of various types to Sylvia Ocean and Fuer Swanpu The port city on the western border did not immediately return to the Holy Land of Emperor Yi's territory by naval warship, but returned to the independent territory with a seaport city in the northwest area of ​​the Principality of Pengda by naval warship.

  After landing on the independent territory, Qu Mao, Su Yan, and Mo Yangqiao, under the protection of 10,000 fifth-tier court guards, walked towards the more northwest area of ​​the Eastern Continent.

Although it is mid-May now, the weather gets cooler as you go north. Qu Mao, Su Yan, and Mo Yangqiao added clothes twice along the way, and it took two days and two nights to walk far enough to see a large number of Areas of reinforced concrete buildings.

Su Yan pointed to the reinforced concrete building in front, and said to Qu Mao with a smile: "My lord, two years ago this place was still a barren desert, because a large number of primitive metal mines were discovered, and in just two years it developed into a radiant desert. An industrial city cluster with a diameter of 200 kilometers and a town composed of seven reinforced concrete buildings, accommodating no less than 3 million people."

   Qu Mao nodded, took out his binoculars, and while observing the cluster of reinforced concrete buildings in the distance, he murmured: "There is such a big change!"

  Su Yan nodded and said: "Yes, there are indeed such big changes, and we haven't made any investment yet. It's all spontaneous behavior of mine owners and entrepreneurs."

Mo Yangqiao said with a smile: "It means that the residents of Emperor Yi's territory are relatively rich under the rule of the Lord. According to the strength of the Mughal Empire in the past, even if the royal family invested, it may not have such a big change in two years. "

  Su Yan introduced the development and changes of this area to Qu Mao, and accompanied Qu Mao to continue walking towards the town group.

  When entering the first city, Qu Maocai discovered that the cities here are similar to the spontaneously formed industrial cities around Shacheng, but not like the towns built under the leadership of the Yidi territory.

  Because the first city is basically composed of reinforced concrete buildings. There is no city wall and no city lord's mansion. Instead, the more functional buildings are material warehouses and granaries.

  The scale of this city exceeds 5 kilometers in diameter. The buildings in the city are composed of reinforced concrete buildings, and the main arterial roads are also hardened with cement.

  According to Su Yan's introduction, this area is mainly a residential area. Even some commercial organizations serve the residents living nearby, and there are basically no other functional buildings.

  Every day at dawn, the residents will come out of the concrete buildings where they live, take a steam train or horse-drawn carriage to work in the mine several kilometers or even tens of kilometers away, and take the same transportation back to rest at night.

  In fact, there is still a certain degree of separation between the living area and the working area of ​​the residents.

Of course, there are hospitals, shopping malls, restaurants, grocery stores, clothing stores and other supporting facilities in the areas where urban residents live together. After all, not everyone will go to work in the mine. service industry.

In this industrial city cluster, Qu Mao stayed for a full 10 days. In this area, Qu Mao really felt the life atmosphere of another small county on the 18th line of the world, even though the history of formation here is very short. It may not even be two years.

   Qu Mao basically visited every reinforced concrete building, every city, and every street here.

After all the walks, Qu Maocai was surprised to find that most of the more than 3 million residents gathered in the entire industrial city group had migrated spontaneously or were recruited by mine owners or entrepreneurs privately, without any effort to station heroes in the Yidi territory .

  The management personnel and their families sent by the garrison heroes to manage the urban agglomeration do not add up to more than 2,000 people.

Shortly after the three aborigine kingdoms voluntarily surrendered to Emperor Yi's territory, the intelligence department of Emperor Yi's territory actually discovered a large number of metal mines nearby. However, Qu Mao did not agree to garrison heroes at that time considering the existence of the Principality of Pengda. develop these metal mines.

Subsequent garrison heroes paid for the news of the existence of these metal mines in the "Easy Island Weekly" and gave development policies, so a large number of mine owners and entrepreneurs flocked to consciously invest in the development of metal mines .

  In less than two years, this area has gathered more than 3 million people thanks to the efforts of mine owners and entrepreneurs.

Seeing this achievement, Qu Mao vaguely understood why Liu Qianhui was so eager to release policies to attract the mine owners and entrepreneurs in Yidi's territory to develop the land in the desert of the Western Continent in the early days of the establishment of the Shaliuhou Kingdom. metal mines.

   After ten days of careful research in this industrial cluster, Qu Mao actually began to waver and organize Liu Qianhui to attract mine owners and entrepreneurs to the Western Continent to develop metal mines.

Perhaps the metal mines in the desert area of ​​Shaliuhou State are indeed extremely harsh living conditions, but if all the development measures are handed over to these mine owners and entrepreneurs, the State of Shaliuhou is only providing policy support, maybe they can come up with A better way to develop.

  However, Qu Mao did not release the news hastily, but hoped to wait until he returned to the Marquis of Shaliu and met Liu Qianhui before discussing specific policies.

   At worst, Qu Mao thinks that it is necessary to wait until the steam train between the Holy Land of Emperor Yi's territory and Xirong City develops to three times a day, otherwise it is very likely that the fresh water supply will not be available.

   It's just that Qu Mao didn't expect that the Marquis of Shaliu hadn't issued a policy yet, but the mine owners and entrepreneurs in this area couldn't wait any longer.

When Qu Mao was researching this area, many mine owners and entrepreneurs had asked Qu Mao in various ways when the metal mines in the desert area of ​​Shaliuhou State would open and what kind of policies would be introduced. policy.

  They have long learned from the report of "Island of Yi Weekly" that there are a large number of metal mine resources in the desert area of ​​Shaliuhou Kingdom.

  Faced with such inquiries, Qu Mao could only tactfully tell these passionate mine owners and entrepreneurs that everything had to wait for the final decision of Liu Qianhui, the lord of Shaliu Hou, and the policy issued by Liu Qianhui shall prevail.

  It was not until the end of May in the fourteenth year of Tianxuan that Qu Maocai, accompanied by Su Yan and Mo Yangqiao, reluctantly left this new industrial city cluster area and slowly moved towards the port city.

  After this stop, Qu Mao, Su Yan, and Mo Yangqiao's nearly three-month tour of inspecting the territory was officially declared over, and all three of them needed to return to their respective jobs.