The fuel that Huo Hai could think of was coal, but this thing was not that easy to do. It wasn't that there weren't many, but there were actually many in the direction north of Jizhou.

The main reason is that it is heavy. In ancient times, when transportation capacity was insufficient, it was better to cut wood nearby to make fuel.

While Huo Hai asked Luo Guang to expand the scale of the cave first, he began to go to other places where fuel was needed to see the situation. Not long after he left, he heard the crying of a woman on the opposite hillside.

"What's wrong? This is?"

After Huo Hai asked the question, Wang Dang immediately asked the young men who were following him to run over to check the situation. After a while, he was rewarded.

It turned out that a woman's son couldn't wake up and fainted after taking a nap.

Hearing this, Huo Hai hurried over to see the situation. He had just walked into the cave where the woman lived, and Huo Hai immediately smelled a smell.

Yes, the smell of coal.

"Quickly, take this kid out of the cave, everyone disperses and withdraws from the cave."

Huo Hai's words were the highest order of these refugees. Wang Dang picked up the teenage child and walked out of the cave. After Huo Hai held his breath, he began to kick the soil on the ground and on the wall of the cave, and found that it was covered with black coal. I think that under the kang, there was also a lot of coal.

Sure enough, Huo Hai went outside the cave and climbed into the under the kang to check it out, and saw the coal burned by firewood.

"Haha, I'm really sleepy and I'm sending a pillow." Huo Hai, who crawled out of the kang hole, smiled.

Wang Dang saw Huo Hai kicking in the cave, clenched there, and climbed to the bottom of the kang to check, asking curiously, "There are several caves near the hills that have this smell. Chu Yan said it is the smell of stone carbon. Black Mountain is named because of these black stone carbon. However, it is okay for everyone to sleep in such a cave!"

"Is that right? Then it's fine. These stone carbons can be burned. Let's dig it out, burn bricks, tiles, salt, pulp, fry grease and soap, and even boil water and cook for heating.

The reason why this child was poisoned and unconscious was that the woman was afraid that the child would be cold when sleeping alone on the kang, so she picked a brick next to the child's bed, letting the heat rush up directly, and then put down the felt blanket at the entrance of the cave to prevent the air from circulating. The poison gas was sealed in the cave and allowed the child to suck it in, which caused this symptoms." Huo Haidao.

"This stone carbon is toxic? So is this child still saved?"

"I'll go and have a look."

After Huo Hai finished speaking, he immediately came outside the cave. The woman was still holding the child and crying to everyone. This was the only bloodline left by his husband, and everyone must save him.

I tried the child's breathing but it was not broken. It was just that the skin showed a slight cherry redness, which was a sign of mild poisoning turning to moderate poisoning. However, Huo Hai didn't know these things very well, just let everyone disperse and not watch here, and told the woman that the child would be fine, so she asked the girl to give the child some sugar water later to help him replenish his nutrition.

"You have to promote everyone. Don't move some of the facilities. For example, the kang must be sealed to ensure that the burning poisonous smoke does not enter the room and cause harm to people. I asked you to repair those chimneys so high, because I was afraid that you would inhale these toxic smoke for a long time and feel uncomfortable." People in this era lack scientific knowledge and are generally ignorant, so Huo Hai could only teach slowly.

Wang Dang immediately asked his subordinates to go to various places with dense personnel to promote the request made by Huo Hai. While following Huo Hai to see the salt-boiling site, he said, "Sir, if, I mean, if the court really wants to attack us, isn't our current military strength too little?"

"Can you fight with more?" Huo Hai looked at Wang Dang and asked.

"If you don't fight, I don't know." Wang Dang replied after thinking for a while.

Huo Hai stopped and looked at Wang Dangdao, "If you fight, we will die."

Wang Dang asked in confusion, "Why?"

"Because, once the battle starts, we can't farm, and we can't cheat Sun's food like we are now. As long as the imperial army drags us for a while, we will starve to death. So, what we have to do now is to find a way to make everyone live." Huo Hai explained to Wang Dang.

"But, how can we prevent the court from beating us?" Wang Dang asked Huo Hai in confusion.

"What I can think of at present is to reduce the military organization as much as possible, build the village wall as high as possible, and collect more refugees as much as possible, so that the court feels that we are not at high risk and it is difficult to fight. After the fight, there are still a lot of difficult problems that are difficult to solve. There is only one way to recruit and comfort, which is labor-saving and easy." Huo Hai told Wang Dang what he thought.

"So, building a high village wall is crucial to us, right?" Wang Dang suddenly realized.

"Yes, it is also important to gather the population, otherwise our village will not be able to be built. The more our population, the more the court will consider the cost of attacking us. When the population is larger, we must consider the issue of food.

Therefore, the food problem is still the problem at the very beginning, and now there must be a source of food.

Although I am trying to figure out a way, I can't predict how many people I can get. Now, I can get as many people as I have at the moment!" Huo Hai nodded.

Soon, he arrived at the place where salt was boiling. Most of the half-aged children were adding firewood and adding firewood. Due to the lack of specific process planning and place division, it seemed a bit messy.

After Huo Hai made some adjustments to him, he immediately became much more smooth. Then, when he went to the papermaking workshop, he encountered such a situation. After guiding them to make some adjustments, Huo Hai suddenly realized that this was because of the lack of management-minded talents in Heishanzhai.

People who have never seen any big scenes will become messy as they do it. No wonder at this time, most people must follow Likui or the fellow villagers to do good things.

It’s not like when I talk to people like Zhen Ping and Guo Yong. After saying something, they will immediately understand it, and even understand the meaning in advance, knowing what they should do in the future.

But where can he find such talents?

Is it possible to want those gentry children to come to work with you, Guizhou Head, to work?

"Once I am branded with the Taiping Cult and the Yellow Turban Army, it will be difficult for me to recruit those historical celebrities." Huo Hai sighed in his heart, and began to think of a solution in his heart. It seemed that there was no other way besides cultivating himself.

His current idea is to survive the Yellow Turban Rebellion in front of him, take the road of Zhang Yan in history, submit a letter to surrender, and then hold the city to defend himself, wait until the three-legged tripod and Boss Cao unified the north, and hold an official position and stay in the Heishan Village until he dies of old age.

Of course, this is when you can't wear it back.

Before Huo Hai could see the progress of the construction of the village wall! Chu Yan came back and brought him two people, Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping.

"You are finally here." Huo Hai stretched out his hand and remembered that there was no such thing as a handshake gift in this era, so he had to intervene and hold his fists instead.

"Mr. Huo did a great thing in Heishan!" Zhang Shiping looked at the busy crowd everywhere and said.

"If you don't come, I can't do my business." Huo Hai smiled.

In fact, Huo Hai did not want them to see the appearance of the copycat, but he did not make it clear to Chu Yan before, and only said that after these two people came, they brought them to see him. Now that he was copycat, Chu Yan brought them directly.

"There are now a shop in all counties around the three countries and one county and sixty-nine counties around Changshan Kingdom. No, under your name, you can let go of any business you want to do."

"Three Kingdoms and one county, sixty-nine counties, two of them are quite good!" Huo Hai said in front of his eyes.

"It's just a few million yuan, not worth mentioning. There are so many shops that require a lot of people to take care of." Su Shuang continued with a smile.

Those who do business know very well that when investing in favors, they should give unexpected benefits to each other. They won these stores not just a few million yuan, but not only did they pay five million yuan each, but also used a lot of relationships and owe some favors. The average price of each store exceeded 200,000 yuan.

"This is easy to say. Wang Dang, please help me call Yu'er to prepare some ingredients. You guys will have a banquet with me to accompany Brother Zhang and Brother Su to Wang Dang." Huo Hai shouted at Wang Dang, and then he called Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang to go to the only house in Heishan that was not a cave, that is, Chu Yan's original Juyi Hall.

Chu Yan didn't follow him, but instead followed Wang Dang to the women's labor area where Chu Yu and Baoer were located, and found the two of them.

"Hasn't Mr. Huo just agreed to do business with the Zhen family and the Guo family?" Chu Yan asked Wang Dang.

"I don't understand it here! This is called "eggs cannot be placed in one basket. Once the basket is dropped, the eggs will be broken. If the things we make are sold only to the Zhen family and the Guo family, then our lifeline will be taken by these two families. It will be different if we find the Zhang family and the Su family to cooperate. Even if the path on one side is broken, there is another side to support it." Wang Dang said proudly.

These are all the skills Huo Hai taught him, and he has already understood the essence.

"I didn't expect you to know a lot, so do you know what business Mr. Huo has built so many stores? It's not about selling the same things as the Zhen Guo family!" Chu Yan asked again.

"It shouldn't be, but I know that you will go to Sun's house to pick up things in a few days. Before that, you should go to the surrounding counties to get back those people in the market who have no food to eat." Wang Dangdao.

"I still need people? I don't have enough manpower!" Chu Yan said in surprise.

"Not enough, far from it, I'll tell you..."

Wang Dang told Chu Yan what Huo Hai had told him before, but he frowned. At this stage, he didn't think that the Taiping Sect's uprising would not be successful, so he felt that he should talk to Huo Hai.
Chapter completed!