After being forced to marry the Demon King, she usurped the throne by relying on the infrastructure

Chapter 14 14. Papermaking and Coal Mining
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Yin Jixue soon received the news that sweet taro had been dug out from the field, and two of them were sent to her.

Probably specially selected for their size, these two sweet taro are the size of cantaloupe.

Since sweet taro was to be promoted, everyone must have eaten it before they could understand the goodness of sweet taro. She asked the soldiers to send a message back and agreed that the students would be given two sweet taro every day.

Yin Jixue asked Ruo to wash the sweet taro, cut it into pieces and presented it.

Ruoshui held the sweet taro curiously. She knew that the palace planted this kind of taro, but it was unexpected that the scorched earth could actually grow food.

If the king knew this news, he would definitely not fight with other demon kings for food.

The washed and cut sweet taro was presented. The flesh was like a peeled and crisp peach, which was white and red inside. Yin Jixue took a piece and put it in his mouth. It tasted sour and sweet.

She thought that sweet taro would be a system-issued flavor, like a combination of sweet potato and sweet taro, but she didn't expect it to be fruity.

Yin Jixue gave Ruoshui a piece: "Taste what it tastes like."

Ruoshui carefully picked up a piece from the edge and put it into his mouth to chew carefully,
"It has a soft taste, with a touch of sweetness."

How could this be?
Yin Jixue tasted another piece: "Are you sure there is no sour taste?"

Ruoshui shook his head: "The taste is slightly sweet, not sour. The subordinates are very sensitive to sour taste, as long as there is a little sour taste, they can't stand it."

Yin Jixue summoned the little maid who was on standby at the door.

"Give them two pieces to taste."

The two maids carefully took the food that Ruoshui handed over.

It is a great honor for the empress to reward the food herself.

"What does it taste like when you eat it?"

The maid on the left: "Sweet and sour, delicious, like sweet and sour pasta."

When the devil is around, the royal chef in the palace will cook more, and the rest will be distributed to the servants in the palace.

This lady-in-waiting happened to be the maid who had been given the food.

The maid on the right said suspiciously: "It's spicy, I still have spicy taste in my mouth."

Ruoshui couldn't understand it either, she tasted slightly sweet, didn't she?

Yin Jixue probably guessed it.

It's no wonder that this is one of the most popular foods among the demons. The taste of sweet taro is ever-changing.It tastes the same as the taste of the person who eats it.

In this way, planting sweet taro is really worth it.

"You go down, by the way, inform the guards in the palace, I have something important to tell them."

After the maid left, Ruoshui said, "Is Your Highness planning to harvest the fruits of the garden?"

Yin Jixue: "Yes, you are responsible for this matter. After counting the quantity, it will be put into the granary and sent to be strictly guarded. After harvesting, there is no need to plant it, it will grow again by itself."

Ruoshui is incredible: "This seed is too amazing!"

Yin Jixue smiled, she also found it miraculous.Obviously, the sweet taros distributed by the system before all have the same taste, but now that the flavors have changed after localization, they can be sold as special products.

According to the system description, it can be seen that the sweet taro has long been extinct in the Demon Race, and the last appearance can be traced back to before the scorched earth spread. At that time, there were so many foods, and no one would necessarily recognize the sweet taro.

Anyway, a few of her dozens of boxes of dowry were seeds, and the queen mother was worried that she would put them on her when the demons were not acclimatized, and she was not afraid that the demon king would question them when he came back.

Yin Jixue has other things to do today, so Ruoshui is in charge of the excavation work.

She called Fengxiu: "Changing clothes for me, I'm going to school."

She made an appointment with craftsmen in the city today, including but not limited to those who can carve, who can make furniture, and so on.

"I'm looking for you today for a major event. If you leak this matter, the four main cities will not accommodate you in the future!"

Say the threat first, and several craftsmen trembled at the same time.

In fact, it is not a big deal, but Yin Jixue still has a lot of things for craftsmen to do in the future.

Although they were loyal to the Demon King, they would inevitably slip up, so she had to strike in advance.

"This matter concerns your children, so I hope you take it seriously."

Yin Jixue explained the method of papermaking, and left the rest to the craftsmen to explore by themselves.

"Whoever makes the first piece of paper, the city's renovation will start from your home in the future, and a new house will be built for you for free."

These few craftsmen seemed to have had their blood pumped, and they wished they could leave on the spot to study the papermaking that the queen was talking about.

According to the queen, paper can be used for writing, and their children can not only read books, but also have writing tools!

The mainstream of the demons is to use parchment scrolls, but parchment scrolls are expensive, and only the royal palace can afford them.

Although the children in their family are in school, they can't read after all.Now the queen said that as long as there is paper, children can write, who can not be excited.

As for the new house, they hadn't seen a three-story building outside the city, so they naturally didn't know what a great benefit it was.

Just thinking about papermaking craftsmen is already boiling.

Originally, papermaking was intended to be promoted in the Yin Dynasty, but she was a princess, and no one believed in a woman's ability.Yinchao still uses bamboo slips, and if he has the opportunity to go back in the future, he will hand over the papermaking technology to his younger brother.

The second thing is that Tengshe reported that someone had discovered a coal mine. In fact, they didn't know what a coal mine was, but Yin Jixue deduced it should be a coal mine based on the description.

It took no effort at all, and with the coal mine, the productivity of the blacksmith's shop increased.

The problem now is the lack of people, especially the lack of labor.

Yin Jixue couldn't help but cast her mind on the residents of the city.

Originally thought that she would have to do a lot of ideological work, after all, it was outside the city full of dangers.

Unexpectedly, these residents have long been envious of those low-level demons who have a mining business, and they wait at home every day for relief food from the palace.The more I think about it, the more unpleasant it becomes.

Why do everyone have hands and feet, the queen uses them even if the lower demons don't use them, and they are stronger in terms of physique!
Yin Jixue couldn't laugh or cry when she learned the truth. She was narrow-minded and looked at these demon residents with the thinking of modern people in her previous life. She didn't expect that their thinking level was really high.

With the labor force, Yin Jixue is full of energy.

"I won't let you work in vain. As long as you are residents of the city who voluntarily participate in mining, I will have your names written down. Your children will be exempted from life-long tuition fees. The renovation of the city will be the first to build your new houses. You and The demons outside the city also enjoy two meals a day."

The current conditions are poor, and they can only use work as relief. I believe that these residents are more willing to buy practical things than money.

Of course she had the money, and the dowry brought several boxes.The magic crystal is also digging out every day, but it is not necessary.When everyone can't eat enough to eat, it is more at ease to give them food and shelter.

Yin Jixue remembered that she always referred to demons as human beings, and apologized to everyone. She wondered if some demons would mind, after all, human beings have always been synonymous with weak.

"Your Highness, you don't need to apologize. It is a compliment for us to be called human beings, and we are praised for our human wisdom."

Demons don't underestimate human beings, but envy human beings with enough food and clothing.It's just that human food doesn't satiate them. As early as tens of thousands of years ago, no demons used human beings as food, let alone cannibalism.

Yin Jixue was relieved now. Fortunately, there was no obvious chain of discrimination between humans and demons. If it hadn't been for the constant introspection at night, she would not have realized that her words were not rigorous at all.

She obviously relaxed after coming to Mozu.Without Yin Chao's prudence, he was afraid of saying the wrong thing and causing trouble to his mother.The living environment here is free, and there is no inequality between men and women. She will inevitably be regarded as the epitome of modern society.

Fortunately, this group of demons are pure in character, they just want to have enough food, live warmly, and have no great talents. Their spiritual food is the demon king.

After entrusting two things at once, Yin Jixue received the system reward.

Digging coal and inventing paper.

Although she couldn't communicate, the system secretly gave her a little treatment.

Just before harvesting the sweet taro, the system issued a task.

[Harvesting task: Harvest 100 catties/500 catties/1000 catties/2000 catties of sweet taro. 】

[Reward: 100 copies/500 copies of building materials; 1 ton/2 tons of new materials]

[Item description: Due to the upper population limit, the reward subsidy is a new type of material, which can be used to build main roads. 】

main road!
What does this mean!
It means that not only new houses can be built in the city, but also big roads can be owned!

Yin Jixue can't wait to recall the construction team. With the main road, the means of transportation should come up.

The reason why she was so excited was because when she came to the Demon Race, she rode in a carriage for seven days and seven nights in the human world. After getting off the carriage, she lost feeling in her buttocks and her legs were weak when she walked.

When they arrived at the demon barrier, Soaring Snake took her into the aircraft, which relieved her discomfort.

So when there is no smooth road, she would rather walk than take a carriage.

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When it was time for the children to leave school, the parents went out of the city together with their luggage on their backs. Those who didn't know thought they were going out to work.

The parents of the Mozu packed up the decent quilts at home and gave them to their children.Even though every family knows that it is the first time for the children to live outside, they are afraid that the children will be ridiculed, and would rather cover themselves with a quilt with holes than let the children lose face in front of their friends.

"Gou Sheng, that's your father, I saw your father!"

"I saw your mother too!"

The children were guarded by Mr. Nan, so they could only stand in the yard and wait for their parents to come over.

And Mr. Zhongshang is still working on sweet taro with Qinghe.

Although Nan Lu told them that it was dug out from the scorched earth, Mr. Zhong Shang insisted that seeing is believing. The field has been strictly guarded, and he can only confirm it tomorrow.

The demons who came out of the city were shocked by the three-story buildings one after another.

"Is there a shadow in front of my eyes? Why is this house so tall?!"

"I heard from Youshang that the Qingluan tribe has a three-storey house where the most distinguished guests live!"

"We are not from the Qingluan clan here, where did we get the house?"

"It must have been built by Her Majesty the Queen, and the west city construction team has been outside!"

As the adults were shocked and discussed, they soon arrived in front of their own children.

They didn't expect the children to live in this kind of house.

Now everyone was so excited that they wanted to enter the building while pulling the children.

But there are also those who are curious about the role of these houses.

Ah Cao is no longer afraid of other people's eyes, and explained the functions of these houses in a very relaxed tone.

"Hey, these people living outside the city live better than us, and they still have jobs in the mines, so I'm envious of them."

"Fortunately, the queen asked us today, and we all agreed. The queen is afraid that we will suffer. Which of us didn't suffer from childhood!"

"That's right, I can't wait to let these outsiders live in and let me live here and work."

After saying this, the parents were silent. If the queen hadn't asked them if they would go to the coal mine today, they really wanted to stay outside the city.

The children didn't know what their parents were thinking, and they dragged the adults to their dormitories in a show-off manner.After seeing the dormitory, the parents' desire to work became stronger and stronger.

The beds are new, the tables and chairs are new, there are still windows in the house, and some houses have toilets.If only they had heard the news sooner.

The person who visited Lian Rui and Lian Ze was an inconspicuous maid in the palace, in order to prevent the Queen's Royal Highness from coming to make the parents feel uncomfortable.

"No wonder the queen mentioned the matter of building a new house several times in the past few days. This house will be the template for us to build houses in the future."

As soon as the parent said this, the other parents also calmed down.

Yes, no matter how well the repairs outside the city are done, this is not their house. In the future when the city is remodeled, they will ask the construction team to repair it according to this style.

Especially the stairs, I don't know what kind of material it is, anyway, it's not wood, running and jumping on it won't affect it, the house must be strong.

After visiting the children, they learned that the children eat better than them here, and the parents are more determined to work in the coal mines.

Yin Jixue had a headache and said that she was going to dig a coal mine, but she didn't say that everyone would go.

"Everyone, don't be impatient. If you want to work, there must be someone suitable for you. There are still many things in the city that need you. The coal mine only needs fifty places, and you must be strong. Don't worry about those who fail, you will all work for Black Dragon City. make a contribution."

In order to reassure everyone, she announced the good news again.

"I believe you have heard the gossip today. I will tell you responsibly that what you have heard is true. There is a crop that can be grown on scorched earth. It is called sweet taro. It is a dowry I brought. The demons plant after eating, and now is the harvest season."

"His Royal Highness, is it possible that with this sweet taro, we will not be short of food in the future?"

She smiled and nodded: "Yes, as long as it is the scorched soil where sweet taro has been planted, it can be harvested after three months, so you don't have to worry about not being full in the future."

Many people wept with joy and turned to wailing.

Yin Jixue watched this group of demons who were young but old enough to be her grandparents shed tears in front of her, and she felt very uncomfortable.

"Don't worry, in the future, everyone will not only be able to eat and clothe themselves, but also eat meat. When all the iron tools are finished, those who want to hunt can report to the palace, and I will let the blacksmith shop make weapons for you."

Hunt!

How long had they not dared to think of hunting!

Even when we were most hungry, no one dared to go outside the city.They are hunters, and those prey are also not weak, and their fur cannot be pierced without weapons.

Only the Demon Lord can catch his prey without using weapons.

There was nothing in the city before, but at the end of the year, the demon king will personally hunt back two high-level monster black mountain pigs, and every demon citizen in the city can get a piece of meat.

Now the queen tells them that they will be given weapons in the future, and they can go hunting by themselves!

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