Urban Sims

Chapter 567 Coal Mine, Wine
After successfully growing food in the greenhouse.

The top leaders of the Snow Clan canceled the plan to invade the south, and turned to vigorously develop their own productivity and engage in production campaigns.

Zhou Ming became the general manager of the agricultural department, fully guiding the agricultural development of the Snow Clan.

There are tens of billions of strong men from the Snow Clan that Zhou Ming can use.

In addition, in order to refine enough light-transmitting glass, the two elders of the Snow Clan, Wulu and Kamen, also became Zhou Ming's subordinates, helping to refine glass every day.

Even the Ice and Snow Maiden herself went into battle, raising tens of millions of tons of sand with a wave of her hand, and when it landed, it turned into millions of pieces of glass...

This shows that the Snow Maiden attaches great importance to agricultural work.

In addition, under the snowy area, there are many places buried with a kind of black ore, which can burn and generate heat. Its properties are similar to coal, and its reserves are very large, which can fully meet the heating needs of greenhouses. The logging team does not have to risk being patrolled by humans. At the risk of killing the team, go to the south to cut down a large number of trees.

"Trees can't grow on the snowy land, so how can there be coal underground?"

This question popped up in Zhou Ming's mind.

You must know that the geological activities in Lingyuan Continent are not very active and do not have the conditions to form coal. Like Wancheng Kingdom and Dongyuan Kingdom, no coal mines have been found in the two countries, which means that most of the trees have not yet entered the ground. In the depths, it has been decomposed by microorganisms.

This proves that coal mines are unlikely to exist elsewhere.

There are a large number of coal mines in the snowy area. What does this mean?
At least two problems are explained.

One, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years ago, this place was still very warm, and there were a large number of cold-resistant trees. Later, due to the colder climate and the raging ice and snow, all the trees withered.

Second, because of the snow and ice cover, the ancient plants were incompletely decomposed by anaerobic microorganisms under the thick snow and turned into coal, so that the snowy area became the only place in the entire continent where a large amount of coal resources could be buried area.

This is a big deal!
With so many coal resources, the Snow Clan can be said to have the wings to take off, and will no longer be troubled by energy problems. No matter what field, they can develop rapidly.

"The sun is getting colder, and the snow is moving south...I don't feel it obviously."

The Ice and Snow Maiden was very surprised by Zhou Ming's conclusion and a little excited, but she didn't quite agree with it.

She has lived for millions of years, and in her impression, the snowy area has always been so large, there has been no significant southward movement, the twelve suns have not changed much, and the light has not weakened.

"That is probably related to the carbon dioxide in the air composition."

"In ancient times, people were sparsely populated and plants were everywhere, absorbing a large amount of carbon dioxide, resulting in a decrease in the concentration of carbon dioxide, a drop in temperature, and the southward movement of snow."

"After the snow area is covered, the ice and snow reflect a lot of sunlight, the heat received by the surface decreases, the temperature drops again, and the snow area continues to move south..."

"In this way, there are a lot of coal resources on the snowy land."

Zhou Ming thought for a while and came to a conclusion that might be closer to the answer.

Because the earth in the real world, during the glacial period, the seas near the equator even froze. This is due to the decrease in solar activity, but the earth itself is not without any problems.

"What is carbon dioxide?"

The Ice and Snow Maiden asked again. The human man in front of her always used new words one after another when talking to her, which aroused her strong curiosity.

"This is a substance in the air, and it is also the main product released after coal is burned. It has a certain heat preservation effect and can also promote plant growth..."

After Zhou Ming explained, the Ice and Snow Maiden nodded again and again, suddenly realizing.

And Zhou Ming, who discovered that there are a large amount of coal resources stored under the snowy area, has a new plan for the future development of the Snow Clan.

The Snow Clan doesn't need to invade the human world, or occupy the land in the warm zone.

The Snowy Land is the place that God bestowed on the Snow Clan to rise up.

One, a large amount of ice and snow materials in the snowy area can open up countless "light-concentrating ice valleys" and build countless greenhouses.

Two, with a large amount of coal resources, we can promote industrialization in the snowy area, set up large factories, and produce all the industrial products we need.

Three, after the industrial and agricultural foundations have been laid, it is not impossible to develop education for all, promote spiritual practice for all, and establish a "Ten Thousand Chengs Country" in the snowy land.

Finally, the "spiritual energy industrial revolution" will be implemented to achieve a comprehensive transformation, and a snow empire on ice will be successfully built!
Zhou Ming estimated that it will take about 100 years to complete.

100 years is not very long for Zhou Ming.

but……

He came to Xueyu this time not to help the Snow Clan people build some "Snow Clan Empire", but for a breakthrough in cultivation.

How can it be possible to plant fields for 100 years?

The Snow Clan is stronger, what are the obvious benefits for him?

After all, he is an outsider, a foreign race, and it is impossible for him to fully integrate into the Snow Clan.

It was enough for him to help the Snow Clan get out of the more embarrassing living situation.

After the Snow Clan's food problem is solved, he will not use all his wisdom for other problems.

As for whether the Snow Clan will continue to go south and invade the human world, he will not stop it in his heart.

……

Five years later.

The vigorous agricultural production activities of the Snow Clan have basically come to an end.

Although great manpower and material costs have been paid, the 5000 million "concentrating ice valleys" and the greenhouses with a total area of ​​nearly 50 billion mu can produce enough food and vegetables every year to meet the needs of tens of billions of snow people.

But compared to the vast snow area, with a population of more than 5000 billion Snow people, it only solves the food problem for 100 billion people, which seems far from enough.

There are still 98% of the population of the Snow tribe struggling on the line of food and clothing.

In fact, with the mobilization ability of the Snow Clan's top management, solving the feeding problem of tens of billions of people in five years is already quite a remarkable achievement.

Moreover, the Snow Clan people don't just eat food. All kinds of prey in the snowy area are their staple food. Food and vegetables account for less than 20% of their daily diet at most.

In other words, these greenhouses can actually meet the needs of the 500 billion snow people.

With the work efficiency of millions of professional construction teams, 1000 million new "concentrating ice valleys" will be added every year in the future, which can meet the needs of 100 billion snow people every year.

At most 50 years, the Snow Clan can completely solve the food shortage problem.

This efficiency, in Zhou Ming's eyes, of course appears relatively low.

But he didn't have a good solution either. In the Snowy Region, the population density of the Snow Clan was too low to gather together. Only when the "war horn" was sounded, all the tribes would desperately gather to the temple to prepare for the southward invasion.

And the large-scale agricultural production activities in the past five years were mainly carried out in the core area of ​​the Snow Clan, including dozens of giant tribes, covering a population of about 100 billion.

In other words, in just five years, Zhou Ming solved the problem of food shortage in the core area.

There is even a large surplus of food.

In the past five years, in the process of dealing with countless Snow Clan people, Zhou Ming also felt deeply difficult.

irritable.

Extremely violent.

The character of the Snow Clan man is like gunpowder, it explodes at the slightest touch.

Even if a work team of about 100 people is organized, the strong men of the Snow tribe in the team will get into fights every day, and their heads will be broken every day.

If you organize a work team with more than 1000 people, you will basically not be able to do the work. You just watch the fights, and fight from morning to night, from small fights of two or three people to group fights together, without stopping for a moment.

If you organize a task force with more than 1 people, people will die every day. One or two deaths is normal, and seven or eight deaths are not a big deal. If dozens or hundreds of people die, someone will take action to stop it.

Zhou Ming thought this was unbelievable, but the high-ranking members of the Snow Clan who partnered with him didn't take it seriously and took it for granted, and sometimes rolled up their sleeves and joined the battlefield.

Zhou Ming stopped countless times, beat countless people, killed a few in a fit of anger, formulated countless strict regulations, and introduced a large number of reward systems, but... none of them worked.

Being short-tempered is not only a genetic problem of the Snow people, but also related to their eating habits. Zhou Ming ate the meat that the Snow people ate daily for a month, and found that his temper also began to become irritable.

It is impossible to ask the Snow people to change their eating habits. This is a tradition they have maintained for hundreds of millions of years.

But without solving the impulsive and irritable problem of the Snow people, it is undoubtedly a fantasy for this race to rise.

How to do?
Zhou Ming racked his brains.

Later, something solved his problem.

liqueur.

The stronger the alcohol, the better the effect.

Even as long as the wine bottle is opened to let the aroma of the wine waft out, the fighting snow clansmen will stop immediately when they smell it, sniff their noses violently, and their eyes will become greedy.

As long as Zhou Ming asks: "Want to drink?" They will become very obedient.

In order to get a drink, they can restrain their temper, work hard, and don't fight for eight hours straight.

Wine is so magical?

It is so amazing!
Zhou Ming made wine not on a whim, but because there was too much food backlog in the granary, and it was easy to deteriorate and rot if stored for too long, so he set up a winemaking workshop, got some distiller's yeast, and started brewing.

He will never forget the day when the beer came out of the vat, smelling the aroma of the wine, at least 10,000+ Snow people gathered around the brewery, densely packed, with longing in their eyes.

As several brewing vats were opened, the aroma of the wine overflowed, and even the soldiers of the Ice and Snow Legion, who were in charge of pulling up the line of defense, couldn't restrain themselves, turned around and rushed towards the wine vats!
"Boom boom~"

"Boom boom~"

Amidst an earthquake-like stampede, the brewery was almost leveled to the ground.

As for the hundreds of barrels of wine that were brewed, they were eaten up by those Snow Clan people without even carrying out the distillation process.

Afterwards, in the extremely messy scene, Zhou Ming saw at least a thousand strong men of the Snow clan lying on the ground staggeringly, with peaceful faces, flushed faces, and satisfied smiles at the corners of their mouths...

Zhou Ming felt strange: "99.99% of the Snow people have never drank alcohol in their lives. How can they have such weak resistance to alcohol? It can even be called crazy?"

He didn't want to get into the specific reasons, he had already grasped the lifeblood of the Snow Clan people, and knew how to deal with them.

From then on, Zhou Ming would always carry wine with him when dealing with various affairs of the Snow Clan.

And uttered a famous quote:

"When dealing with the Snow Clan people, there is nothing that a bottle of wine can't solve. If there is, then two bottles."

All the work and reforms launched by Zhou Ming are progressing smoothly!
It can be said that the emergence of wine has laid a solid material foundation for the rise of the Snow Clan.

(End of this chapter)