Huang Xuan walked out of the lumberyard and took back about 50 kilograms of wheat and gave it to the workers in the lumberyard. The four people were ecstatic. The reason why they ate black bread was not because they knew that black bread was nutritious, but because they had no food. , a whole bag of wheat is enough for them to earn more than half a month's wages.
The female worker holding the wheat thanked Huang Xuan again, clasping her palms tightly together, as if she was worried that the wheat would leave. She carefully pointed out the way to Kaiserslautern for Huang Xuan, and asked kindly: "You Are you here to do business?”
There are few new industries in the Rhineland, and production activities are not strong. As a yellow man, Huang Xuan is even more unlikely to join the army. The female worker seems to have guessed it accurately.
Seeing Huang Xuan nodding, the female worker said quickly: "If you want to do business, there are many merchants in Ludwigshafen. Duke Ludwig of Württemberg built a palace there."
"Ludwig?" Huang Xuan thanked the four people again, turned and walked west. No matter where he wanted to go, he needed to reach Kaiserslautern first. Only when he got there could there be roads and supplies. It was best to There are also a few carriages.
Lorraine quickly searched for information and then told Huang Xuan: "Ludwig does have the largest port nearby, and may also have the most merchants nearby."
"Then didn't you tell me earlier?" Huang Xuan always thought that Lorraine was omniscient and omnipotent.
"I can only count the number of people in an area, but cannot make judgments. All judgments are based on compliance with set conditions. I do not have the ability to make independent judgments."
"Whatever." Huang Xuan waved, he was going to Kaiserslautern anyway.
"I'm sorry about that, it wasn't considered as Ludwig was beyond 1 day's journey."
"I thought you were going to scan the area."
"But not outside the scope."
Huang Xuan smiled and said, "Again to save energy?"
"The search range must be determined. Even a first-level base does not have the ability to search the entire universe."
"Okay, okay." Huang Xuan finally laughed. It's not easy for Lorraine to make a mistake. Things are rare and valuable.
Kaiserslautern during this period was still just a small town, located in the center of the Palatinate Forest. After World War II, it had become the city with the highest forest coverage in Germany. However, even though it had a Bundesliga team, the entire city's construction area and The resident population is pitifully small, with only about 100,000 people, which is equivalent to a slightly larger town in China.
In the 19th century, Kaiserslautern was even smaller. The forest gave it resources, but limited its development. Overall, this town always looked so thin, as if it could be easily seen from one end of the city to the other. But what surprised Huang Sheng was that you could see big trees everywhere in this town, even on the busiest streets, and the only beer hall was covered in the shadow of the whole tree.
There is no market in the town. Every morning, some daily necessities are sold in the town center for people to buy, but it does not open until the next morning. Those who can be counted as industrial workers are lumberjacks. Most of their working places are outside the town. They will drink two glasses of dark beer in the beer hall during their breaks and occasionally visit restaurants. Apart from this, there is not even a place for consumption in the entire town.
There was no hotel in the town, and it was also run by a beer hall. It was already evening when Huang Xuan arrived, and the beer hall was still lively. Huang Xuan walked in a little cautiously. He didn't have a dime in his hand, so he had to let him go. Lorraine took out a few kilograms of sugar, carried it to the bar with her clothes, and said, "I brought some sugar to exchange for some money. Are you willing to accept it?"
In Germany, beer halls are often the center of local communication. The guy at the bar shook his head in confusion and said, "You can ask Thomas."
The bearded man sitting on the other side of the bar heard his name, raised his beer glass and said loudly: "Is there anything I need to see Uncle Thomas?"
Huang Xuan smiled at the young man, turned around, picked up the sugar and walked towards Thomas, saying, "I need some travel expenses, and I want to use these sugars in exchange."
"Then you've found the right person." Thomas looked like an alcoholic gambler. He put down the wine glass with red eyes, picked up a few grains of sugar and put it into his mouth. Huang Xuan doubted that his sense of taste could be tasted after being poisoned by alcohol. use.
"The quality is good, how much do you want to exchange it for?" Thomas dropped his beard into the wine glass as he spoke. He fished it out out of habit, and then took another sip of beer.
Huang Xuan wrinkled his nose, turned his head away from him, and said, "I want to stay here for one night and take a carriage to Ludwig tomorrow. If you are willing, I will exchange this much money."
"No problem." Thomas raised his glass again and said to the waiter at the bar: "Hunter, take him to bed and settle the account with me." After that, he drank another beer.
Huang Xuan originally wanted him to remember the carriage, but seeing how drunk he looked, he shook his head and walked out. To be honest, the smell of this beer hall was not good.
The room had a hard bed made of birch wood, which was very uncomfortable. Huang Xuan got up very early. At this time, the beer hall was very clean. Kaiserslautern seemed like a city built in the forest, exuding vitality.
"Guest, the carriage is about to leave. Do you want to get on?"
"Of course." Huang Xuan wiped his face and followed him. Unexpectedly, Thomas looked sloppy, but he did things very quickly.
However, when Huang Xuan saw the carriage, he didn't think so.
This is a four-wheel carriage, but what is unbearable is that there are eight people sitting in the small carriage.
"Do you want to sit down?" The coachman was a Prussian with a weathered face and a rough voice.
"His money was given by Thomas." The beer hall boy came to Huang Xuan's rescue.
It was useless to say anything at this time. This was obviously a long-distance carriage, designed to travel between two places. Huang Xuan originally wanted to hire a carriage himself, or he didn't know that there were public carriages in Europe now.
What a self-inflicted mistake. In the carriage that smelled of mixed horse and human stench, Huang Xuan thought to himself.
A fair-skinned Prussian sat opposite Huang Xuan, and the brown-haired woman next to him seemed to be his wife. The two of them were whispering sweetly. Huang Xuan originally didn't want to hear the couple talking, but his voice came in without missing a beat. into the ears.
"Fisher, are we going to cut down the forest too?"
"Well, Hartig is right. The volume growth of pure coniferous plantations is higher. By establishing high-productivity plantations, you can get greater output."
"Then do we still need to buy saplings and fertilize them in the future?"
"Of course, I think it's better to plant coniferous forests, so that there will be more useful growth."
Although it was not good to eavesdrop, Huang Xuan still whispered curiously: "Lorraine, what are they talking about? Plantation?"
Lorraine quickly searched for information and said: "This is the afforestation movement that started in the 19th century. Haltig was the director of the Prussian State Forestry Service. He advocated cutting down all the forests and planting artificial needles that grew faster. Ye Lin, plant the woods like crops.”
"Is this okay?" Huang Xuan opened his mouth.
"Of course it failed, but throughout the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, this idea was very popular, and indeed achieved higher output, but they chose too extreme a plantation production method, and ultimately Causes soil degradation and kills forest property and many pests and diseases.”
"So, they must have cut down a lot of natural forests?"
"I have been cutting for about 50 years, but I regretted it in the end." (To be continued)