Rise of the Plants

Lao Muka happily went back with those special metals and helped Holm completely change his clothes, while Chi Nan became even more depressed. Those iron ingots that I finally risked to obtain now seem to be useless.

As long as you work diligently on your own, the metal used in the front will be enough to support it. So what to do with these iron ingots? In the end, Chi Nan thought about it and simply rewarded those iron ingots to meritorious soldiers and workers.

Of course, rewards cannot be given directly. Chi Nan first asked some blacksmiths who were not very good to make them into iron pots and other items, waiting to be used as rewards. The excess was made into farm tools for use by his farmers who were planting saplings. In the future, they will also need to work when planting jujube trees or even other vegetable plants.

After giving all the instructions, Chi Nan continued to enter his experiment. Chi Nan has no idea about the updated pea cannon yet, but the pneumatic cannon can still be improved.

There is no way to reduce the recoil, and Chi Nan is currently helpless. But Chi Nan already had some ideas about the way to load ammunition. As long as the ammunition and weapons can be separated, the duration of the battle can be increased a lot.

It's a pity that before Chi Nan could come up with anything, something happened in the territory again. "Lord, it's not good, it's not good."

On this day, the bald father who had been busy in the territory ran in. Chi Nan raised his head and was surprised to find that Hermila was also here. Although Hermila and I have never been far apart, Hermila has too much work, so she usually doesn't come to him. Chi Nan is at the door of his room, or behind the castle.

These two places are basically about to become Chinan's special testing places. And Hermila was either correcting various documents in the castle or running around for various things.

Unexpectedly, the bald father actually called Hermila over this time. In this case, it's probably not a big deal.

"What happened? Why are you so anxious?" Chi Nan asked instinctively.

The bald father pointed in one direction: "Lord, what's wrong, someone, someone stole it..."

"What was stolen? Is there anything else in the territory worth stealing?" Chi Nan felt relieved when he heard that it was stolen. In my own territory, I really don’t have any treasures that I am particularly interested in.

The bald father took a breath: "Lord, someone stole our saplings."

Sapling? It was actually a sapling, Chi Nan finally realized. Plants that I don't value very much seem to be very valuable, but they are still the key to the current revival of Hongsha Ridge. Someone actually stole the saplings.

"Let's go over and see what's going on." Chi Nan was annoyed for a while. Is it easy to do something for the territory, but someone actually came to cause trouble. I don’t know if it’s a spy or if someone was bribed.

The three people soon arrived at the north side of Hongsha Ridge under the protection of several soldiers. This place is far away from Hongsha Town, and it is impossible for soldiers to patrol this place normally, so it is normal that they did not notice it. When a group of people arrived here, Chi Nan saw several large pits on the ground.

"Sir, this is the place. It turns out that there are two ironbark trees and a jujube tree here, and they were stolen." The land in this place has been improved and can be used to plant jujube trees.

Chi Nan narrowed his eyes slightly and began to think silently in his heart. Fortunately for the jujube trees, the jujube trees inside Hongsha Ridge do not touch the chassis wood below, so it is basically impossible to transplant them.

The jujube tree has very high requirements on the environment. It can only grow normally in this place after it has been stimulated. Once dug out, it is estimated that it will be difficult for the jujube tree to grow if planted on the same site. Therefore, even if they dig away the soil, it is still impossible to successfully plant it. Chi Nan is not too worried.

But the ironbark tree is different. Ironbark trees are self-fortified and can grow anywhere. Although they could not cultivate seeds after their own treatment, it was also impossible to expand the scale of planting by other methods.

Even the iron bark tree itself grows very slowly, making it impossible to provide iron bark over a large area. However, with the loss of two ironbark trees, the secret of new metal could not be kept after all.

"Do you know who made these things that are eaten inside and out?"

"We have already started investigating. If there are no accidents, we will soon know who did it." Hemila said.

Chi Nan nodded: "Finding who did it is just an unimportant issue at the moment. What we need is to treat the root cause, not the symptoms. Let's do this. In the future, patrols will be strengthened near Hongsha Town."

Chi Nan frowned and thought as he said: "In places further away, don't plant randomly in the future. Let's first build farms one by one and plant iron bark trees inside the farms. After improving the land, we will continue to plant jujube trees inside. . For the time being, we will manage it as a farm, and we will let it go later."

These things will eventually be completely released, but not now. Now we can only use a little troublesome method first.

After doing all this, Chi Nan took the two people back to Hongsha Ridge. "In the future, the construction of spiritual civilization in Hongshaling will be strengthened."

"What is the construction of spiritual civilization?" Hermila felt strange about this new term.

Chi Nan explained: "It is to strengthen ideological education and guide the spirit of the people. Gather them together and teach them when there is nothing to do. Especially those workers and soldiers. When the body is resting, the mind cannot be rested."

It was a bit complicated to explain these issues to them, and Chi Nan had a hard time getting the two of them to understand. "Let's do this. Starting from tomorrow, I will give the first education first, and you can just follow this way from now on. Cultivate some who are smarter and more ideologically aware, and let them educate and counsel in the future. There is no need to teach them every time. It’s all up to us.”

Chi Nan can only think of this method now. Although I have never done these things, haven't I seen them yet? Every time I listen to the leaders' speeches, I feel sleepy. It has already penetrated into my bones.

Besides, this is probably the first time this model has appeared in this world, so no one will know whether it is good or bad. In the future, everyone can slowly improve it, right? But first, we still have to go back and prepare. For example, when it comes to speeches and the like, you can't speak out if you don't prepare. That's right, that's it.

After several people returned to the town, the army immediately began to be on alert, and Chi Nan also began to prepare.