Shen Lang's two thousand people landed in the Tide Islands for only one and a half months, and everything can be described as surprisingly smooth.

After landing on the island, I encountered no resistance because there was no one here at all.

Many years ago, this was once a mine of the Russo family, specializing in smelting iron. Now there are many mine caves and abandoned smelting workshops.

But a few years ago, Duke Debos gave up the mine.

Why? Because the iron ore here has too high sulfur content, the iron refined is too brittle.

Of course, even so, it is a mine after all, and even if it is a smelting iron for daily use, it can have huge benefits. However, later the Russo family discovered an iron ore with higher taste, so they gave up the mine.

So Shen Lang's two thousand people easily occupied the place and began to cast the city.

That's right, it's the city!

Generally speaking, how long does it take to build a city, even if it is a castle?

Qiu Tianwei's Great Castle of the Rage City took more than ten years, the Duke Castle of the Russo family was built for more than twenty years, and the palace of the Queen's City was built for twenty-seven years before it was completed.

How long will Shen Lang's city be built?

Shen Lang set a goal to build a city with 100,000 people in half a year.

When he said this goal, everyone below was shocked and felt that he was talking in his sleep.

How big is a city with 100,000 people? Even if it is crowded, it will take about ten square kilometers. A city with a height of six miles is built by two thousand people. If only wood is used, it will take about two or three years to build it. If stone is used, it will take about five years.

Half a year, it really seems like a fool.

But it was like a magician, and it was so dazzling that it was revealed that new things were revealed.

First, he abandoned the two building materials, wood and stone.

These two things are good, but they are too wasteful.

The first thing he took out was cement.

Some people may say, isn’t cement slower? It needs to be calcined and crushed, which is a completely labor-intensive industry.

This is half true, but who told Shen Lang to find a Feng Shui treasure land?

Not far away there is a fire island with an active volcano on it, which erupts every few years. So what is the most common volcanic island?

Volcanic ash.

When it is added with lime, it will turn into volcanic ash cement. It sounds very primitive, but in fact this cement is already very strong.

You only need to send a boat to transport the volcanic ash back continuously. As for lime? There are several lime mines in the Bichao Peninsula where Shen Lang is located.

So the cement production has been very high almost from the beginning, which depends entirely on the capacity of his fleet.

As for the second thing, it is even less rare, that is bricks.

He used thousands of people to burn bricks and stood up one brick kiln after another.

As soon as these bricks were burned out, they were built into a house immediately.

All two-story buildings are covered with two floors because they do not have steel bars yet, and they are built up to two floors with bricks and cement.

Even later, Shen Lang felt that the speed of building a house in this way was too slow, so he simply made large cement bricks on a large scale, so he built the house quickly.

Therefore, the development of the Bichao Peninsula is changing with each passing day.

Houses after houses stand like mushrooms after rain.

………………………………………

Just one and a half months have passed, and a medium and large town has taken shape.

Shen Lang's command had not only two thousand people, but had soared to five thousand people. The remaining three thousand people were all slaves. He bought them with money, and of course, after buying them, they were all given the identity of a free citizen.

But it seemed that these slaves were not particularly happy, and they were still dull, but when they moved into the new house, the ecstasy could no longer be suppressed.

Almost all slaves lived like pigpens. Even the slaves of the nobles had dozens of people per room. When they came to Shen Lang, they all had two people and twelve people lived in one house. They were so happy that they were crying.

Moreover, these brick flat-topped houses were like palaces for these slaves.

However, the work efficiency of these slaves is really much slower than that of the army. It is not that they are not working hard enough, but that they are too stupid. Most slaves can only do the simplest and most repetitive tasks, such as burning bricks, burning lime, and making cement in a fixed proportion.

But after buying these slaves, he finally freed the two thousand troops under Shen Lang from the boring work, and they could do more advanced work.

……………………………………………………………………

Shen Lang had already opened the box that Jiang Li left behind.

It opened very early because when the moonlight shines on it, a series of Roman numerals and Latin letters appear on the surface of the box.

This is still a password box. Shen Lang was indeed a little amazed at that time. There is no doubt that this is another product of an ancient civilization, and there must be a nightmare stone as the source of energy.

So what is the password for this box? There are as many as 19 digits in total.

It was impossible for someone else to open this box, but Shen Lang could almost see its password at a glance.

It's too obvious. The surface of the box has a circle, so it will undoubtedly be pi.

So Shen Lang pressed the Roman letter 3.141592653589793 and the box opened directly.

It was full of five bottles of elixirs, five volumes of ancient classics, and various materials recorded by Jiang Li, which were more than hundreds of thousands of words.

After Shen Lang finished reading it, he was really amazed. This was simply a huge treasure.

Especially the information recorded by Jiang Li is a lot of the key secrets of the entire Western world.

But what is embarrassing is that this box of things is not left for Shen Lang, but for Princess Helen.

Shen Lang loved his daughter, and Jiang Li was no exception, but when Princess Helen was just born, he left the New World and returned to the Great Yan Dynasty, so he left the most precious thing for his daughter.

During this month and a half, Shen Lang spent most of the time studying the treasures left by His Majesty Jiang Li.

It's so important, it's completely a guiding light for Shen Lang to open up the situation.

Give some examples.

Jiang Li told Helen in the information that there are huge tincture oil mines. The so-called tincture oil is of course oil.

Where are there large gold mines and where are the most tasteful iron ore.

These are not counted. The key is that he also marked two ancient ruins, as well as the history and taboos of the Amazon female warrior tribe, and many of their secrets.

In short, the box left by His Majesty Jiang Li is simply a huge treasure for Shen Lang. He is studying it day and night.

……………………

And in this month and a half, Zhang Chunhua really got so tired that he vomited blood.

As the master, Shen Lang really did nothing, just ordered this and that, and all the deployment was handed over to Zhang Chunhua and the students of Tianya Hai Pavilion she brought.

The internal affairs of five thousand people have already made her anxious, and she sleeps for no more than three hours a day.

Because everything starts from scratch, God knows how difficult it is.

Fortunately, the shelf has been built at this time, so she finally doesn't have to do everything herself.

"Shen Lang, we have no money anymore."

Zhang Chunhua walked in, sat down directly in front of her, and drank a cup of tea.

"There's no money?" Shen Lang said in shock: "When we left the Queen City, didn't we bring more than 300,000 gold coins?"

"It's all spent." Zhang Chunhua said.

Shen Lang was surprised, was it flowers so fast?

"We have purchased more than 100,000 people to eat, bought a lot of cotton cloth, bought a lot of pig iron, bought a large number of blacksmiths, bought a lot of seeds, and bought three thousand slaves, and 20,000 slaves on the sea road."

"Half a month ago, you wanted to buy thirteen sea boats with a big pen. Even if you asked me to sell them, I wouldn't be able to make that much money."

"Also, Mr. Shen Lang, can I ask, why did you buy these things?"

Shen Lang said: "What's it?"

"You bought 150 silks of thirty gold coins per piece, and they are of all colors. Why?"

"And there are also this gold and white jade belt, you bought ten at one time? Why is that?"

"The most expensive sturgeon caviar, there are 150 live deer, 300 dairy cows, 270 yellow cows, 15-year-old red wine, white wine, sweet, semi-sweet, dry red, and 530 barrels of dry white."

"All kinds of flower essences, a total of 356 bottles."

"There are more than one hundred combs, cow horn combs, ivory combs and jade combs in total."

"There are also various gems. You bought more than 300 kilograms. The first time I saw someone who bought gems by kilograms."

"My Majesty the Emperor, what are you doing for buying these things?"

Shen Lang said: "Use it, eat it, drink it."

Zhang Chunhua was about to cry, and he wanted to swing the stool under his butt and smash the future human emperor to death.

When is this? As a monarch, you are leisurely and leisurely reading books every day, but you also have to live a life like a prince.

We are starting a business in a difficult situation. The things you use to buy luxury enjoyment will exceed tens of thousands of gold coins.

Are you really going to fight back to the Great Yan Empire? Why do I think it is unreliable to follow you as a monarch?
To be continued...