Chaotian Palace is a Taoist temple, there are many Chaotian Palaces in the Ming Dynasty, most of them were built in the Jiajing period of Daojun Emperor, and before that, Chaotian Palace was in Nanjing, this name was set by Zhu Yuanzhang, Hongwu Emperor, for the meaning of seeing the Son of Heaven.

Nanjing Chaotian Palace has a variety of identities in history, the earliest is the place where Wu Wangfucha and Sun Quan smelt and cast weapons, and later sometimes it is a temple, sometimes it is a school palace, and sometimes it is a Taoist temple.

But in the Ming Dynasty, although it is still a Taoist building, there are three Qing Palace, long live the hall in front of it, but there is also a Xi Yi Pavilion, but also undertake the mission of learning the etiquette of the emperor before the children of the bureaucracy attack the seal.

Chaotian Palace is a good place, and Asia really needs such a place, many gold medals given by Emperor Wanli have not yet been issued, and these tribal leaders will also go to see the emperor when the situation is stable in the future, but build a Chaotian Palace with their own hands?

To be honest, like this kind of large-scale project, Chen Mu really didn't think about it, he ordered to cover the largest building complex is the joint artillery temple position on the Nanyang Military Mansion Wei Island, and let him go to repair the Zhen Temple?

However, in Jincheng, the people there have long been ready to build large buildings.

After learning about Zou Yuanbiao's way of resettling more than 60,000 people, he also did the same, but he placed the people in the four directions of north, south, east and west of Zhuangyuan Bridge, and everything was production.

Jincheng is a blessed land, there are towering redwoods that generally grow to fifteen or sixteen zhang in the north, and the perimeter is two or three zhang; There are large gold and copper mines waiting to be excavated in the south, which are inexhaustible; The west coast is full of fishing and salt, and the east is blocked by mountains blocking the desert, and the mountains have birds and animals for hunting and making skins.

More than 20,000 immigrants and the people of the Zheng Tu Department made the number of registered people in Jincheng County more than 50,000, and they lived scattered between 200 miles and thousands of miles, and did not encounter the dilemma of food shortage like Changsheng County.

The tens of thousands of people in the Zheng Tu Department were originally the people under the rule of Jincheng County, and their production did not start because of the arrival of the Ming army, nor did it stop because of the war with the Western army.

What's more, there is a particularly large Yi tribe in the north, and there are particularly fierce black-footed people hundreds of miles away in the northeast.

The Blackfoot were defeated in the war with Wuzhi County, and now that some of the most ferocious and uncompromising tribes have migrated eastward, the Blackfoot people who still remain in the lands bordering the Yi have become hospitable under the education of Zhenshuo's military artillery.

They were much richer than the Yi people, and Jincheng could get a lot of grain by trading with the two big tribes of the Yi and the Blackfoot.

In all fairness, if a big war made Wu Zhixian feel a little bit like a governor, then now he is the governor of a province.

Because a grass-roots county town is much more difficult than a provincial-level administrative region that has been formed and governed for thousands of years, and there are many more things to manage.

For example, in addition to the routine work of governing the county and guarding the war, Wu Zhongxing was also compiling the county chronicles, and specially assigned six people from the county to follow him to go deep into various places to understand the survival methods of the local people and the common people, and to distinguish everything on the way.

The main purpose is to know and record the herbs and the five insects of the scales and feathers, such as the giant sequoia that they use, and in the county annals, people understand this plant as a beautiful tree pattern, light and soft material, full of toughness, and can be used in medicine, and can be used for construction, bridges, furniture, medicinal herbs, animal husbandry and tanning.

Buildings, bridges, furniture, and any tree can provide these uses, but not any tree can do it for medicinal herbs, animal husbandry, and tanning.

The roots, leaves, bark, wood, cones, and knots of the fir tree can be used as medicine, according to the doctor who came from the immigrant.

As for animal husbandry, it is because the fir tree is very large, and from the Heishui Indigo Islands here is widely distributed geese, which are the main livestock of the local people, some of the cedar trees that grow for more than 1,000 years usually rot, but the outer layer of the fir is still intact, and the local people will call such a tree a goose pen and raise geese in it.

Tanning bark is the glue raised from the bark, just like the goose pen, the people of the Ming Dynasty usually do not do this, although in the Yuan Dynasty people will already use tannin tanning leather, but only used in some special purposes, the most common process is still lime dehairing, nitrate tanning skin.

But here, people use cedar bark to extract an earthy yellow tannin gum, which is used to tann and dye the skin, which is why the leather goods of the Indians are the primary color.

This type of skin, also known as vegetable-tanned leather, is very hard and thick.

Wu Zhongxing is becoming more and more handy in Jincheng, and at this moment, even if he exchanges the prefect of the country with him, he will not go.

No one will miss an opportunity to make a difference.

In a very short period of time, four gold gardens, six wood gardens, three rubber gardens, three leather gardens and four grain gardens, two tile gardens and one nitrate garden were erected in the north and south of Jincheng County, each garden is a factory, but it has different names according to the different uses of production.

Jincheng not only produces gold ingots and copper ingots, but also produces flour, wood, leather goods, bricks and tiles, tannin gum, boiling nitrate and other special products.

For a long time in ancient times, people considered nitrate to be a Chinese specialty, because only Chinese could refine naturally occurring nitrate.

Of course, this era was different, with the Yuan army's westward expedition, the saltpeter known as Chinese snow was brought to the Arab world, and then introduced to Europe, along with the method of farmers to make saltpeter from alkaline soil.

As for alkaline soil, the less rainfall there is, the more alkali there is, so the nitratesmiths of the Ming Dynasty are mostly concentrated in the northwest, so Chen Mu can obtain saltpeter from the cave.

The huge mountain range running from north to south in the east of Jincheng County blocks the water vapor on the west coast, and the scarcity of rainfall on the east side of the mountain range creates a large area of alkaline soil.

The riders of the Black Cloud Dragon ran eastward through the gaps in the mountains, and they stepped out of the road with their warhorses, and found a tribe called the Hunni in the endless alkaline desert, and the leader of the horse team, Hulan, met them at first sight.

This is a land that has not been harmed by Westerners, because there is no grass here except for the sporadic cactus. In contrast, the men of the Hunney were good hunters, and those who could not hunt starved to death.

In Hulan's eyes, the excellence of a Mongolian soldier depends on three points, first he must be an excellent archer, then an excellent warrior, and finally an excellent cavalryman.

The Hughnies have already completed the first step.

However, Wu Zhixian did not plan to let him recruit troops on the spot, the soldiers in Jincheng were already much ruthless, Koreans, Jurchens, Mongols, Japanese, these warriors of all ethnic groups can be seen everywhere, and Wu Zhixian cares more about the alkaline soil under the feet of the Huni people than recruiting soldiers.

Of course, the arrival of the daimyo also brought new technology, composting manure to make nitrate, but Wuzhi County, which focuses on people's livelihood, did not apply it in the county, because this is fertilizer, not to mention the total rain on the west coast, the effect is not good, the yield is very low, and the yield of saltpeter cannot be low.

China has never lacked saltpeter with alkaline soil extraction technology, alkaline soil in the northwest, and rock caves in the southwest have achieved this technology to achieve the Beiyang Army's current rotational firing tactics and their guns.

If you use the words of the nitratemaker, it is said that it is a thousand days of boiling nitrate, which is not worth a cannon from the general; Then the manure to make nitrate is a year for five counties, and a hard battle for one day.

It's all an exaggeration, but it's better to take alkaline soil to boil nitrate than manure, as long as there is a suitable alkaline soil, so Jincheng County is also trading.

Wu Zhongxing exchanged goods and food for the hunters of the Shuny people, and after establishing initial trust, he sent people through the mountains, using ruts and horses' hooves to step out of the saltpeter road belonging to the Ming people.