Chapter 995: Wrong Site Selection?

At the same time, during the actual development process, Ce and his Huaxia quartet also discovered the obvious lack of ability in Zhi and Ma, the representatives of the tribe; they found it difficult to adapt to and complete the future development requirements of the Western Development Group, and they themselves possessed only a bit of prestige and leadership, which was the reason Huaxia was willing to let these two people, who lacked any culture or knowledge, enter the leadership layer.

But now, after training and education, some young people willing to learn have already set aside time to follow along and study while teaching the children; at least twenty-plus people can already smoothly recognize and write over one hundred characters.

Their intelligence is stronger than that of the children, and their age is not yet at the point where the brain begins to degenerate; on the contrary, it is the age where learning ability is strongest and knowledge is best accepted, so they actually learn faster than the children.

However, Ma and Zhi likely believe they are already in the leadership layer and, using the excuse that they are already old and have no time, rarely go to study; to this day, they can only recognize and use Simplified Numerals, which in Huaxia are called Simplified Numerals, easy to remember and easy to use.

One, two, three, and four are still called Small Numerals, while one, two, three, and four are still called Capital Numerals, though ordinary people rarely use Capital Numerals, while the Ministry of Revenue must know how to use them.

Ma and Zhi can only write a simple dozen or so characters, almost no different from when they were studying in Huaxia, and the characters they can recognize are only a few dozen; furthermore, because they have not been in contact with them for a long time, this number has a trend of continuing to decline.

Ce and the others have already clearly realized that their leadership team needs to undergo changes, but the timing is not very mature yet; Ma and Zhi's prestige still remains, while the authority of Ce and Wuzhong has already been gradually established and has gradually surpassed that of Ma and his companion.

Among them, Wuzhong is deeply supported by everyone; for no other reason than that Wuzhong is very capable, has great strength, knows how to build houses, knows how to make many, many things, and can always have some ingenious ideas to solve difficulties when working. Although these were all taught to Wuzhong in Huaxia, in front of these people who know nothing, Wuzhong can be said to be extremely formidable.

Everyone shows extremely high worship for people with ability; conversely, for someone like Ce who only uses his brain, they are not as sincere, feeling more fear of his authority and fear of the Huaxia behind him, which has to do with the fact that everyone's ideological concepts have not yet improved.

It is the same principle as how those who hunt worship powerful hunters more and do not worship the craftsman who knows how to make a Bow and Arrow as much; Ce is that craftsman who makes the Bow and Arrow, though those children who are learning characters worship this Ce, who has a very high cultural level, very much.

But Ma and his companion are not completely useless; at least Ma is very talented in animal husbandry. He is not even afraid of a wild ox and dares to confront it head-on. If he were a herdsman, he would be extremely qualified, and in the future, a position can be left for Ma to serve as an official in the animal husbandry department.

Moreover, judging from the current situation, Ce feels that if their Western Development Group were to mainly develop animal husbandry, it would be absolutely very suitable, mainly because the grassland here is truly too good, with lush grass and water.

The grass and water are too lush, which is actually not suitable for farming. Ce does not have much of a concept of altitude, but he understands a little about height; he feels that the location where he is should be higher than Huaxia City, because the Heaven is bluer and the sun is more scorching, yet the temperature is not that high.

Huaxia should be gradually starting to cool down now, but here at night it is already somewhat cold, and even the Grass is no longer that green; it is completely different from Huaxia.

Abundant water is originally suitable for planting Rice, but unfortunately, the temperature here in summer is not enough, and planting Rice is destined to not have a good harvest. Ce recorded these thoughts of his bit by bit in a notebook, preparing to summarize them into a report to send to Baifeng when he goes to Huaxia, to see if he can turn the Western Development Group into a city dominated by animal husbandry, rather than a city dominated by farming.

But if it were really like that, then it would be a mistake in site selection by Xiong and Baifeng; a city that needs to serve as a capital can absolutely not have animal husbandry as its main industry. In this era, it must be agriculture-based, even industry would be fine, but it absolutely cannot be animal husbandry.

After all, there is a saying that goes well: having a fortune of ten thousand strings of cash does not count the furry ones. A blizzard, or a disease like bird flu, can make this capital go bankrupt and threaten the safety of the people living in the city, so it is absolutely not allowed.

However, because of the lag in information, Baifeng is completely unaware of this problem, and Ce, because he could not come into contact with things that were too deep in his original position, does not know at all that the Western Development Group is aimed at building a capital. He will become the first City Lord of the future capital, an extremely glorious title; if successful, his contributions would be terrifyingly great, but now it is highly likely that this matter will fall through, because the site selection has a problem.

After Sanxin returned home, he carefully pondered what Baifeng had announced this time, fearing that he had missed some important point. He took out the map he had drawn and began to study the location of his fief.

The area of his fief can be ranked in the top ten among all the Nobles in Huaxia; the area is large enough, but it is also very far. Except for a small area of fief near Huaxia City, the main part is in a very distant place, so far that he has never been there and does not know what it is like.

But this time, it gave him a new plan. He estimated his physical fitness and thought that living another ten years should be easy; he dared not hope for twenty years, but fifteen years he might be able to strive for.

Living in Huaxia City is naturally very comfortable, but there are more and more people in the household, making it seem a bit crowded. He built a house and bought land in a town outside, which can be considered having a larger place to go, but after all, the land is not his own.

Not a single hoe has been dug into the fief that belongs to him, even though it is right next to a town; yet without his permission, all the townspeople dare not cross the boundary stone engraved with the name of his Sanxin fief.

Even when the townspeople expand, they only expand in other directions and will not expand onto his fief. But today's incident allowed Sanxin to see the possibility of his fief being developed, and it even included the possibility that the larger piece of fief further away could also be cultivated before he dies.