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Chapter 76: Conch Mountain Iron Mine

Boiron is the son of the chief of a small tribe on the Jiban Plain. His tribe is called Wallon, who has lived by the sea for a long time. In the language of the local tribe, Wallon means dragon in the sea.

Originally, Boiron temporarily took over the rights of the tribe from his seriously ill father last year. He led the tribe to make a living by fishing and handed in tons of fish to the northern autonomous region every year in order to obtain 'recognition' and protection. will be attacked by other tribes around.

Although the northern autonomous region is more stable than other parts of the country, it is only because the northern autonomous region is the product of several large tribes united, and if the small tribes want to survive, they must pay tribute to them.

With this kind of primitive tribal thinking, it is no wonder that the northern autonomous region has been established for more than 30 years, and it is limited to the northern region and has never been able to expand its sphere of influence.

Some time ago, a troop of a legion came to the Wallon Tribe and announced the legion's rule over the northern region. According to the new policy, the Wallon Tribe was changed to Wallon Village, and a politician and two policemen would be assigned to manage it. Village, and let Wallong Village select 08 of its own village cadres to cooperate with the work.

Originally, Boiron and others thought that an exploiter would come, and waited anxiously for a few days, but they did not expect to come to a young man who looked very young. He was accompanied by two policemen, who were said to be recruited from Cuban Province. assigned by the police force.

The young man named Tanguy was not the exploiter they were worried about. Instead, he found Boiron and his father as soon as he came, and elected an elder, and the three of them served as the cadre of the village.

Then organize everyone in the tribe to count the tribe's population, property, and income.

After that, he asked for help from his superiors, and he gave priority to solving the problem of lack of food for the tribe. He also led men to go out to sea to fish, dry seafood, and organized women to make handicrafts, dig local specialties, and send them to the city to sell.

In just a month or two, the whole village has been completely transformed.

Relying on dried seafood, handicrafts and some local specialties, the villagers made money for the first time and bought food, iron pots, iron utensils, etc. The life of the village is getting better and better.

On this day, Tanguy found Boiron and another elder to discuss the development of the village.

"In the entire northern region, there are many small villages like Walong Village. We also have dried seafood, handicrafts, and local specialties. Now we only occupy a condition that is relatively close to Berbera. When other villages develop, our The advantage is gone." In the village square, or on the flat ground, three people sat on the ground, Tang Ji looked at the poor village and said earnestly: "So we must have a long-term product to protect the interests of the villagers!

Boiron and another elder listened very seriously.

After getting along these days, Tang Ji not only brought the village to become rich, but also instilled a lot of things about the legion and the outside world, so the two also knew that the changes now must be great, and they can't rely on support all the time. Having a hard product is the hard truth.

However, their village has been living in this area for a long time, and basically everything has been explored. Except for fishing, there is really no big advantage.

Boiron looked at the sheep and camels in the village and said, "How about expanding the farming? Raise more sheep and camels."

Tang Ji frowned and said, "It's okay to have free-range farming, but there are only so many plants around. It is not good for the ecology to raise too many camels and sheep."

The northern part of the country was originally dominated by deserts and the Gobi, and the animal husbandry industry was already very strong. If it is expanded, there will be pressure.

At this time, the elder who had been smoking and seldom spoke suddenly and said, "Hailuo Mountain in the south...I used to excavate iron ore..."

"Iron ore?" Tang Ji was stunned. There are iron ore in such a poor place?

I saw the elder swallowing clouds and mist, his eyes blurred, and he recalled: "It was more than fifty years ago, when I was only about ten years old. Back baskets of stones, and then brought back to the tribe, in this square, mixed with soil and water, built a chimney, and then threw the crushed stone powder into it...

With the memories of the elders, Tang Ji gradually came to understand that this is a native iron-making technique!

The elder continued: "The elder once said that our tribe migrated from the north because of the war and retained some technologies, but many of them have been lost in history, and the iron ore of Hailuo Mountain is also from that elder. After death, we are no longer allowed to mine, after all, we are too weak."

Tang Ji and Boiron also understood the meaning of the elder at the beginning. Weakness is the original sin. If other tribes knew that there was iron ore here, they would have been occupied by other tribes long ago, and even their life safety is a problem.

Therefore, the previous elders were not allowed to go mining again until they died.

But now it is different. Under the protection of the legion, it is not as chaotic as before. The tribal system has been cancelled, and the rule of the legion has penetrated into the local grassroots.

After seeing the development of the village, and for the future of the village, the elder was willing to take Tang Ji and Boiron to Shanghai Luoshan to find the mining sites in his memory.

Tang Ji called in two village policemen, the policemen who had been stationed in the village with him before. They mainly formed local village policemen, who were responsible for arresting theft and mediating civil disputes. Two policemen, 593, a total of four people, are responsible for managing this small village of 370 people.

A few people set off with baskets and some water and food.

Less than five kilometers south of the village, there is a round mountain. Because of the ravines above it, it looks like a conch upside down, so it is called Conch Mountain by the locals.

The group just followed behind the elder, climbed the mountains and over the mountains, and walked for a whole morning. Only then did the elder find the ravine through the vague memory of facing the sea at that time.

Tangier and Boiron took people to collect a few baskets of iron ore, and then went down the mountain and returned to the village.

Tang Ji also had no knowledge of iron ore, so he could only ask the sheriff to escort someone to escort a basket of iron ore to Berbera to find his superiors, and then wrote a letter himself and asked the sheriff to hand it over directly to a certain department.

Because of the seaside, the sheriff took the boat to Berbera in less than two hours along the coastline.

The next day, the news about the existence of iron ore in Hailuo Mountain reached Wang Yao.

At this time, Wang Yao was preparing to convene the northern region, the former chiefs, patriarchs, elders and other grassroots figures to clean them up.

It is not a bloody purge, but a purge of those who can be used by him, so that his rule can go deeper into the local grassroots.

Because next, he is ready to launch an offensive against the southern region in the second half of the year to completely end the civil war in the country.