It is still far from New Year's Day, and Huayi is decorated with lanterns and jade, which is a festive scene. But this is not to prepare for the New Year, but to prepare for the wedding of Xia Nan Boxiahua. For this reason, Xia Hua's brother Yi Boliang and his mother came to Huayi and met the Su family Su Bohu and his wife.

The wedding, which had been noisy for a day, finally ended. After the guests from all over the world who attended the wedding banquet, Qilin Guard, Hu Ben and other guests from all over the world, Hua then walked into the bedroom.

Daji was even more charming under the oil lamp light. She sat on the edge of the bed without saying a word, her cheeks were flushed. Hua was also sitting beside her. The two were silent across a foot of space, but their hands were moving towards each other little by little along the edge of the bed. Finally, the two hands were held together. Hua said softly: "In this life, we will be together forever." Daji blew out the oil lamp and hugged Hua's neck and fell down...

The next day, Hua got up on time as usual. He touched the teeth marks left by Daji on his shoulder. He smiled in his heart and said, "What a little fox" while dressing neatly. Then he covered the quilt for Daji who was still sleeping well and went to the side room in the front hall to handle official business.

The difference between Xia State and any other country is that there is no official. Only the palace subordinates handle daily affairs for China. Now a palace man presents the documents reported by officials sent by various vassal states and consuls of newly built cities to him.

At this time, Mr. Mai entered the house. This is another place where the Xia Kingdom is more efficient than the indigenous countries. Any system personnel can enter and exit the front hall of the palace to find Hua to narrate. Of course, these system personnel have no major affairs and cannot disturb Hua.

"Mr. Mai is coming today?" Hua knew that Mr. Mai would not come to him if he had no major issues.

"I congratulate the Lord first. There is indeed a major event to report to the Lord."

Hua looked directly at Mr. Mai and signaled him to continue speaking.

"The Shang side has begun to conquer Xu Yi, one of the Eastern Yi. Can the lord know about this?"

"I know, the personnel we installed in Chaoge reported this situation many days ago."

"The battle to fight Xu Yi was not smooth, and the war escalated rapidly. Not only Xu Yi, but many Yi tribes have been involved, causing the front line to almost expand to the entire eastern coastal area."

"Oh, you beat me so hard? What does that matter to us?" Hua asked in surprise.

"It has no direct relationship with us, but most of the eastern coastal salt fields have been closed, resulting in the soaring salt prices in the market now!" Mr. Mai said hurriedly.

"How much has it increased?"

"Compared with the original price, it has increased by more than seven or eight times. Now, most of the monthly profits of our caravan need to be used to buy salt to maintain the daily usage of 20,000 or 30,000 people in the Xia Kingdom."

"Salt, salt, salt mine" Hua suddenly thought that the system could build a salt shop or a salt farm. However, it needed a salt mine or a salt field near the sea, so he murmured to himself.

"What is the Lord talking about?" Mr. Mai looked at Hua in surprise.

"It's nothing. The salt storage in the on-site warehouse is enough for two months. Don't buy salt for the time being. Ben has his own way."

After seeing off Mr. Mai, Hua sent a man to send an edict to the Yingyi Consor, who ordered him to organize laborers to dig wells in the designated areas of China, and to deep wells.

When the consul of the State saw the edict, he wondered what well was dug for this drought and disaster-free? But who dared not obey the edict of Nanbo, let alone the above also stated that labor can offset the tax tribute of the country. Then start working.

Not many days later, the well was dug, and Xia Nanbo came to inspect it himself. There were more than 30 wells, and he had someone to make a bucket of water in each well and taste it himself.

When I tasted the seventh mouth, the water was bitter and salty. I turned it out of the system panel and saw that the salt mine was found. At the same time, I completed a temporary task [finding a salt mine within 150 kilometers of the main city] and obtained 1,000 points.

Without saying a word, the consul of Yingguo must collect civilians and build a tall wall around them with logs, and then spend 200 points to build a primary salt maker, and then spend 300 points to upgrade to an intermediate salt maker. With the busyness of the salt maker craftsmen, they can already produce green salt of very good quality, Hua named this place Yanzhai. Finally, more than 20 soldiers were transferred from the copper fort to take care of them, and instructed Yingguo to provide daily living supplies here.

...

"Look at what price this guy can sell?" Hua said as he handed a small bowl of blue-white crystallized powder to Mr. Mai.

"What's this?"

"Salt."

"Is this salt?" Mr. Mai dipped his fingers in disbelief, put them in his mouth and licked them, smacking his lips.

"It's really salt. It tastes less bitter than common salt, and it looks better. I think it can be sold at least twice as high as ordinary salt." Mr. Mai said with his eyes shining.

...

Another year was another year, due to the fierce war in the eastern region, the high prices of salt and the plummeting slave prices. Xia Fang exchanged its own high-end green salt for a large number of slaves and supplies. The news that Xia Kingdom accepted fugitive slaves gradually became known to the people of the world. Therefore, fugitive slaves gathered in the Xia Kingdom.

The fifth Huben Division is already full. Hua has restored a balanced population storage ratio.

Hua spent 500 points to upgrade the palace to [Iron Age Primary Palace]. This upgrade did not significantly change the appearance and shape of the palace. It was only when Hua carefully observed that the roof of the palace had been changed from thatched to green tiles.

Then he spent 400 points to upgrade the military camp to [Iron Age Junior Military Camp].

After the military camp was upgraded, several new troops were added, and his eyes were on [Wu Zu Ruishi] and [Shield Sword Heavy Infantry]. The prototype of [Wu Zu Ruishi] was Wei Wu Zu, but his armor was replaced by leather armor to iron armor, and he abandoned a weapon with a congenital disadvantage, such as Ge. The prototype of the latter was "Roman Great Shield Lobster Soldier".

Both types of troops can be upgraded from bronze shield guards. The former requires 2 points to be upgraded and 7 points to be generated, while the latter requires 1 point to be upgraded and 6 points to be generated. In the end, Hua chose to upgrade all 200 existing bronze shield guards to Martial Sword Sharpmen, and generated 200 Martial Sharpmen.

The 400 martial arts soldiers were all wearing iron scale armor, iron helmets, iron swords and three-foot round shields. They also carried a three-foot crossbow with twenty arrows. They still walked steadily.

Hua asked them to demonstrate the shooting of the hand crossbow, and found that the range of this hand crossbow was slightly further than that of the Qin crossbow's arm crossbow and could reach an effective range of 100 meters. As a configuration of a short soldier, this is enough. The iron sword in their hands can cut the thin copper Ge blade and cut it off.

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【Points: 205】

[System population: including 50 farmers, 30 hero hunters, 2 businessmen, 3 witch doctors, 400 martial arts soldiers, 400 halberd warriors: 40, spear soldiers: 30, compound bow archer: 20050, official: 36, sprout cavalry: 60, elephant trainer 2, lobbyist 2, a total of 923 people]

[Population Balance: 2098]
Chapter completed!