Fast Travel: Being a Cannon Fodder Heroine Was Spoiled

Chapter 45
Zhao Yanhuan took a few lumps of coal and lit them to make sure they were coal.

There are so many coal mines without digging, which shows that the coal reserves are very large, enough to support her for a long time.

When Zhao Yanhuan checked the situation of the coal mine, many people around were picking up coal with baskets on their backs.

The ancients also knew how to use coal for heating, which can be traced back to 3000 years ago.

In the earliest days, people called coal Shi Nie, and later called coal, graphite, and stone fuel. In short, human beings have a long history of using coal.

These people are so close to the coal mine, they will definitely not let go of coal, a useful fuel.

After confirming that this is a large coal mine, Zhao Yanhuan immediately bought the entire land.

Then they recruited nearby people to mine coal on the spot. Because the work was very hard, Zhao Yanhuan paid him a lot of money, including three meals and lodging, which attracted countless people to work at once.

With coal mines, coking has to be done before it can be used to make weapons. Coal contains sulfur. If you use coal directly to make iron, the iron will be very brittle.

After coking coal and then forging iron, you can get very strong and easy-to-use weapons and armor.

With enough sharp weapons, strong armor, and enough horses and food, then everything is ready and waiting for the right time.

This arsenal, Zhao Yanhuan chose from thousands of choices, and chose to build it in a valley deep in the mountains. At the same time, Zhao Yanhuan chose to let her fourth uncle Zhao Yicang be in charge of the person who managed it.

Although Zhao Yicang has an out-of-the-ordinary personality, he is actually very reliable, and he has never made a mistake in what he is asked to do.

Zhao Yicang has been accompanying Mrs. Zhuang in Qipai Village to manage everyone's farming, but now Mrs. Zhuang has trained and should be able to take charge of it alone.

Besides, Zhao Hua'er was with the Zhuang family, so Zhao Yanhuan directly wrote to ask Zhao Yicang to come to Yi'an Prefecture.

Originally, he only wanted Zhao Yicang to come, but he didn't expect that when Zhao Yicang came to Yi'an Prefecture, even Zhao Hua'er came with him.

Seeing Zhao Yanhuan, Zhao Hua'er said directly: "Sister, my mother said that she can stay in Qipai Village by herself, and let me come with Fourth Uncle to see what we can do."

In the past, Mrs. Zhuang didn't think much about anything, she just focused on cooking, and she didn't think there was any difference between Zhao Hua'er being with Zhao Yanhuan and not being with Zhao Yanhuan.

But now that she has started to take care of things, she thinks more. She knows that Zhao Yanhuan is going to do big things. At this time, only those who follow her can be reused, and they can get more benefits in the future.

Even though they were a family, the Zhuang family didn't have any bad intentions towards Zhao Yanhuan. She had even placed herself in the position of Zhao Yanhuan's subordinate in advance, and never put the elder's profile in front of her.

But this does not prevent Zhuang's selfishness, wanting to let his daughter get more and better treatment.

When Zhao Yanhuan saw Zhao Hua'er, she understood Zhuang's thoughts. She didn't dislike Zhuang's selfishness. Those who have no selfishness are saints. Everyone is an ordinary person, so it's normal to have selfishness.

So Zhao Yanhuan said directly: "Then help me take care of the pasture." On the pasture, Zhao Yanhuan has always let the herdsmen take care of the cattle and sheep, the horse breeders take care of the horses, and let her mother Li Qing handle all kinds of chores.

However, Zhao Yanhuan planned to open a medical class in the future, so that Li Qing could systematically train a group of doctors and nurses.

In this way, Li Qing was at the end of his game, and had to find someone to take care of the pasture. Zhao Hua'er had been by his side for a long time, and Zhao Yanhuan knew that although Zhao Hua'er was silent, she was actually not weak.

Sure enough, Zhao Hua'er said without any embarrassment: "Okay, then I'll go to the pasture."

Zhao Hua'er was always fast in doing things, and this time it was the same. Zhao Yanhuan told her to take care of the pasture, and Zhao Hua'er went to the pasture immediately without delay.

Zhao Hua'er left, Zhao Yicang came over and said to Zhao Yan with a smile, "Yan Huan, Hua'er is going to take care of the pasture, so where do you want my fourth uncle to take care of?"

Zhao Yanhuan didn't smile, she looked at Zhao Yicang seriously: "I want Fourth Uncle to help me manage the arsenal."

The arsenal, as soon as you heard it, you knew it was a place for making weapons, and Zhao Yicang, who had always been eccentric, immediately became serious when he heard this.

Zhao Yicang didn't feel that he couldn't manage the arsenal well, he just assured Zhao Yanhuan: "Don't worry, I will take care of this arsenal for you, and there will be no mistakes."

Zhao Yanhuan nodded and said, "I'm going to transfer 3000 people from Qipai Village, and let them follow Fourth Uncle to build an arsenal deep in the mountains, and at the same time serve as guards for the arsenal."

"I have prepared the people who forged the weapons a long time ago, and this time they will be used. In order to prevent leaks, their families will live together in the arsenal."

Zhao Yicang nodded: "Leave all these to me."

"Okay, I'll trouble fourth uncle next." Zhao Yicang took over the job, and Zhao Yanhuan simply let go, leaving everything to Zhao Yicang.

It is basic for a competent monarch to know people, but it is also very important to employ people without suspicion.

Of course, Zhao Yanhuan won't give up completely. After the arsenal is built, she still has to take a look. After all, she has to give advice on how to build coke ovens and how to make weapons.

The arsenal was done, and then Zhao Yanhuan started to build a school. The teachers were all ready-made, and the outstanding students who graduated from the school in Qipai Village could be teachers.

The school is full of children, Zhao Yanhuan distributes the land, gives high-yield and fine seeds, only charges [-]% of the tax, and rents useful farm tools and cattle to the common people. Everyone's life is easier than ever.

So when Zhao Yanhuan asked their children to go to the school, everyone happily sent their children to the school. If it was the past, they would definitely not send their children to the school.

It's not that they don't know the benefits of studying, but that life is too hard. Even a child is still a labor force and able to work.

What's more, after going to school, the children not only can't work for free, but also have to pay the school. They can't even eat enough, so where can they get the money for the school.

Life is easier now, plus Zhao Yanhuan's school is not restricted at all, the children only need to bring three meals with them, and Zhao Yanhuan even covers the pen, ink, paper and inkstone for reading, so the common people are even less burdened.

In addition to the children who were trained in the school, Zhao Yanhuan also sent people to the fields to teach adults to literacy. Reading is a very sacred thing in this day and age.

It was Zhao Yanhuan, the benefactor who made them literacy especially, so even if everyone didn't like learning very much, they didn't resist literacy. They worked hard to learn literacy in their spare time.

When Zhao Yanhuan asked them to learn to read, she didn't set high requirements for them. What she promoted was to learn simple common characters.

Go out and look at road signs, store signs, and deeds so you won't be deceived. Just learn simple arithmetic, and don't get scammed for money when you buy things.

(End of this chapter)