Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

Xiao Zirong had already started yawning, but when he heard that the land auction was unsuccessful, he was halfway through his yawn, and he was dumbfounded with his mouth open.

A failed auction means that there were no bids for the land from the beginning, and no bids were made until the end of the auction.

So the current situation is that the best piece of land is not photographed?What's left?

It shouldn’t be, since this piece of land is auctioned at the end, it means that it is the best. Those who understand the rules will definitely keep their points for this piece of land, and when they allocate land, they don’t only have one piece of land for each person. , basically most people took a piece just now, and those with more points still have the ability to compete for the next piece.

Xiao Zirong was keenly aware of what was wrong. Generally, there would be a wait for a period of time if no bid was made. Even if someone was afraid that the price would be too high and they would not be able to afford the bid, they would test the bid after finding no one bid. It was impossible for the auction to fail.

When he just sat up straight and wanted to say something, Liu Cainiang quickly announced that the auction was over, and the unsold land would be owned by the city lord.

Before Xiao Zirong stretched out Erkang's hand and said "wait", everyone dispersed quickly.

Xiao Zirong: ...

He had no choice but to get up and look for Liu Cainiang. Fortunately, further filing was required after the auction, and Liu Cainiang could not escape.

When Xiao Zirong found her, he asked directly, "What are you doing?"

Xiao Zirong would not believe that Liu Cainiang and the others did not ventilate in advance, so it is only possible that these people had already discussed it before the auction.

Liu Cainiang said with a smile: "This is the wish of the sisters, so don't refuse the city master."

Xiao Zirong didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Now half of the city's tax revenue is mine, what should I do so well?"

Liu Cainiang insisted: "That doesn't work, and didn't you say before that you want to improve the seeds? There is not enough fertile land, how do you improve?"

Xiao Zirong said in his heart that I had to learn a bit before making improvements. After all, he had never been exposed to these things before. Even if the conclusions were brought to him, he might not be able to understand them, let alone operate them.

But seeing that Liu Cainiang and the others insisted on leaving the land to him in this way, Xiao Zirong had no choice but to accept everyone's wishes with a smile.

After the land is auctioned, various filings and registrations are required. The household registration is relatively simple. Some of them are relatives and sisters in one household, while most of them are independent households.

If you are outside, everyone will definitely want to cuddle together, but here everyone has the same starting point, and you don't have to worry about being bullied because you are a woman and single.

It happened that through the establishment of household registration this time, Xiao Zirong asked everyone to think about the name. For this reason, he directly wrote some characters with better meanings on the clay board and hung them outside. Choose whichever you like, but he asked that you try not to Duplicate name.

In this way, he finally didn't have to deal with those mischievous mothers. After the household registration was established, everyone was issued a bamboo board with their names, birth dates and ages written on it, which was equivalent to a simple ID card.

It's just that this ID card has no anti-counterfeiting function. Fortunately, no one came here, so there is no need to worry about someone pretending to sneak in.

On the day when the ID cards were issued, everyone was very excited. Liu Cai Niang took A Yin and A Man to roll their names in the square, read them out one by one, and those who got the ID cards would sign with Bai Yan.

It was only then that Bai Yan discovered a very terrifying thing—the little ladies here not only can read, they can also write!

Even some people who don't seem to have read much can at least write their own names, no matter how crooked they are, they can still write.

Bai Yan couldn't help but think that if the city lord had all his subordinates as Xiao Langjun, it might be possible that a country within a country... might not be impossible.

But through contact, Bai Yan found that Xiao Zirong was not that ambitious.

It seems that what he is thinking of is to make everyone's life better. If he is really ambitious, who cares whether you have enough food and clothing, or even lack of clothing is the best, so that you can take the lead in rebellion with weapons.

So why does he have to teach everyone how to read?

Bai Yan couldn't figure it out, so she decided to continue to observe. Now she is even more curious about her city lord.

The curious Bai Yan still couldn't find Xiao Zirong. After all the badges were issued, she turned to Liu Cainiang and asked, "Cainiang, where is the city lord? Why is no one there?"

Liu Cainiang said: "Is it not writing in the room or tossing those tree barks?"

It has to be said that Liu Cainiang still knows Xiao Zirong, and he really went to toss those barks.

The bark had been soaked for half a month until today, and after he dragged the soaked bark ashore, he began to mash it.

Before, he thought that making paper was an easy task, at least in terms of the steps. However, after he really started to do it, Xiao Zirong found that although there was no technical content in this task, it required physical strength!

When Liu Cainiang brought Ayin and Aman to find Xiao Zirong, Xiao Zirong was sitting there looking at the bark that had not been completely mashed.

Liu Cainiang went over and asked, "What is the city lord doing?"

Xiao Zirong wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "It's nothing, everything is done?"

Liu Cainiang replied: "Yes, everyone will start weeding and so on."

Xiao Zirong tilted his head and thought for a while and said, "Let's not worry, let's cut down some trees. Those things in our hands can't be used as agricultural tools. Even if we can do it, it will be too tiring. This won't work."

Liu Cainiang said with a smile: "Don't worry, the city lord, everyone knows this matter well, we can still make some simple farm tools."

Xiao Zirong would have been amazed at how these little ladies could even make farm tools if they had just traveled here.

But now...he found that although these little ladies were insignificant, they were very proficient in doing things, anyway, they were much better than Xiao Zirong.

Xiao Zirong reckoned that if he didn't know a lot of knowledge, if someone who didn't know anything really stayed, he would be a hindrance, and he might be disgusted by these little ladies and thrown out after a while.

Xiao Zirong got up and said: "Let everyone stop busy doing it, oh, nothing else matters, just stop doing the plow, I will improve it later."

Liu Cainiang is now numb, and feels that her city lord seems to be able to do everything - except for giving birth.

She said calmly: "Okay, since that's the case, the city lord should go back and prepare first, and leave this kind of physical work to us."

Xiao Zirong immediately said: "No, I'll do it myself, it's not a complicated matter."

He doesn't know whether his physical strength is good or not, but it seems that he can't compare with those little ladies at present, and he doesn't have much time to exercise on weekdays, so he just uses the opportunity of working to exercise, otherwise he will be a weak chicken in the whole city , is he shameless?

Seeing his stubborn face, Liu Cainiang didn't say much, just pretended to be the city lord and wanted to play. Before leaving, she said: "Tomorrow I will take Ah Yin to bring the salt back. How will you divide it when you see it?"

Xiao Zirong's brows and eyes stretched after hearing this: "The first batch has already come out? Yes, it's a pity that there are no bronze vessels, otherwise it can be faster."

Liu Cainiang said: "I guess we have to ask Ah Yan about this matter. After all, we are not familiar with the outside world."

Xiao Zirong hesitated for a moment before saying, "Wait a little longer."

If you want bronze utensils, you have to contact the outside world. After all, Bai Yan has a good background. What if she gets news of her family after she goes out and wants to go home?

Xiao Zirong didn't have to stop Bai Yan, the problem is that Bai Yan has already been in contact with too many things, because she can read and settle accounts, she has already contacted the core of their place, in this case, it is advisable to let him go. Very dangerous thing.

No matter what, we have to wait for Bai Yan to have a more sense of belonging here, or let her be sure that her family can no longer accept her, or that the Bai family is really involved in a big treason case.

While thinking about it, Xiao Zirong smashed all the bark into fine powder.

Before this, he had already made a mold out of a piece of sackcloth and a few bamboo strips, threw the mold into the pool, and then threw the broken bark in and spread it on the sackcloth with the water flow until it was evenly distributed Then take out the mold, and after the water leaks down, the pieces are left on the sackcloth, and then put it next to the fire to bake, and when it dries, it will be a piece of paper.

The fiber of the paper produced in this way is relatively thick, and it does not look delicate enough, but...it is paper!

Xiao Zirong did not do much for the first time, but more to test whether this method works.

Now that he succeeded, he just used these papers to record the method of making paper.

It's a pity that the pen, ink, paper and inkstone take the least time to use paper. It's not impossible to make ink, but it takes at least a year and a half to make a piece of ink. Xiao Zirong might as well wait for a while Buy in the county.

Without ink brushes and inkstones, it is of course useless. The charcoal pens used by Xiao Zirong, in order to prevent dirty hands, directly wrapped the charcoal with some hay.

After Xiao Zirong finished recording the method of making paper, there were still some paper left, after thinking for a while, he directly called up the disassembled diagram of Qu Yuanli from his mind, and prepared to draw it bit by bit.

Fortunately, he tried it on the clay before drawing on the paper, otherwise...he might face the heartache of destroying the paper he finally made—he once again overestimated his ability to see pictures and draw .

Even he himself couldn't understand what the things he drew were!

Just when Xiao Zirong doubted his life, he suddenly heard cheers from outside.

Before he could react, he saw Ah Yin running in bouncing around and said excitedly: "City Lord, City Lord, salt is out, go and have a look."

Before Xiao Zirong could react, she was dragged out by A Yin, Xiao Zirong couldn't laugh or cry: "It's not the first time I saw you, why are you so excited?"

However, this time he made a mistake. In fact, it was the first time that everyone saw so much salt. When the jars of salt were unloaded from the car, the expressions on everyone's faces were very excited.

And the little ladies who were bought back later widened their eyes even more, with an expression of disbelief.

Salt is the lifeblood of the people. In the past, it was controlled by the nobles of the noble families. Later, the nobles of the noble families shared it equally with the court.

Xiao Zirong was also in a good mood looking at the white salt, and turned to Liu Cainiang and said, "I'll make salt-baked chicken for you tonight!"