Chapter 117 Tree Thief

Old Muka happily took those special metals back to help Holm change his clothes, and Chi Nan was even more depressed. The iron ingots that he had finally obtained at great risk now seemed useless.

As long as he was diligent in producing them, the metal used before would be enough to support them. So what should he do with these iron ingots? Finally, Chi Nan thought about it and simply rewarded the iron ingots to the soldiers and workers who had made contributions.

Of course, he couldn't reward them directly. Chi Nan first asked some blacksmiths with lower skills to make them into iron pots and other items as rewards. The extra ones were made into farm tools for the farmers who were planting saplings under his command. In the future, they would also be needed to plant jujube trees and even other vegetables and plants.

After giving all the instructions, Chi Nan continued to enter his own experiments. Chi Nan had no idea about the updated pea cannon for the time being, but the pneumatic cannon could still be improved.

There was no way to reduce the recoil, and Chi Nan was helpless at the moment. But Chi Nan had already had some ideas about how to load ammunition. As long as the ammunition and weapons can be separated, the duration of the battle can be increased a lot.

Unfortunately, before Chi Nan could figure out anything, something happened in the territory again. "Lord, it's not good, it's not good."

On this day, the bald old man who had been busy in the territory ran in. Chi Nan raised his head and was surprised to find that Hemira was also here. Although Hemira and he have always been not far away, Hemira has too much work, so she usually doesn't run to him. Chi Nan is at the door of his room, or behind the castle.

These two places are basically about to become Chi Nan's special test places. And Hemira is either correcting various documents in the castle, or running around for various things.

Unexpectedly, this time the bald old man actually called Hemira over. In this case, the matter is probably not small.

"What happened, why are you so anxious." Chi Nan asked instinctively.

The bald old man pointed in a direction: "Lord, it's bad, someone, someone stole..."

"What was stolen? Is there anything else in the territory worth stealing?" Hearing that it was stolen, Chi Nan felt relieved. There was really no treasure in his own territory that he valued.

The bald old man took a breath: "Lord, someone stole our saplings."

Saplings? It was actually a sapling. Chi Nan finally reacted. The plants that he didn't value very much seemed to be very valuable, and they were also the key to the current revival of Hongshaling. Someone actually stole the saplings.

"Let's go and see what happened." Chi Nan was annoyed. It was not easy for him to do something for the territory, but someone came to make trouble. I don't know if it was a spy or someone was bribed.

The three of them soon came to the north side of Hongshaling under the protection of several soldiers. This place is far away from Hongsha Town, and it is impossible for soldiers to patrol this place at ordinary times, so it is normal that they didn't notice it. When the group came here, Chi Nan saw several large pits on the ground.

"Sir, this is the place. There used to be two iron trees and a jujube tree here, but they were stolen." The land in this place has been improved and can be used to plant jujube trees.

Chi Nan narrowed his eyes slightly and thought silently in his heart. The jujube trees are easy to say, but the jujube trees inside Hongshaling do not touch the chassis wood below, so it is basically impossible to transplant them.

The jujube trees have high requirements for the environment. They can only grow normally in this place after they are induced to grow. Once they are dug out, it is estimated that it will be difficult for the jujube trees to grow in the original place. So even if they dig it away with the soil, it is still impossible to plant it successfully. Chi Nan is not very worried about this.

But the iron tree is different. The iron tree has been strengthened by itself and can grow anywhere. Although they cannot cultivate seeds after their own treatment, they cannot use other methods to expand the scale of planting.

Even the iron tree itself grows very slowly, and it is impossible to provide iron on a large scale. However, after losing two iron trees, the secret of the new metal cannot be kept after all.

"Do you know who made these things that are not worth mentioning?"

"We have already started the investigation. If there are no accidents, we will soon know who did it." Hemi said.

Chi Nan nodded: "Finding out who did it is just an unimportant issue at the moment. What we need is to solve the root cause, not the symptoms. Let's do this. In the future, we will strengthen patrols near Hongsha Town."

Chi Nan frowned and thought while saying: "In places farther away, we will not plant randomly in the future. We will first build farms and plant iron bark trees inside the farms. After improving the land, we will continue to plant jujube trees inside. For the time being, we will manage them in the way of farms and let them go later."

These things will eventually be completely released, but not now. Now we can only use a more troublesome method.

After doing all this, Chi Nan took the two people back to Hongshaling. "In the future, the spiritual civilization construction of Hongshaling will be strengthened."

"What is spiritual civilization construction?" Hemi was very surprised by this new term.

Chi Nan explained: "It is to strengthen ideological education and guide the spirit of the leaders. Gather them together and teach them when nothing happens, especially those workers and soldiers. When the body is resting, the mind cannot rest."

It was a bit complicated to explain these issues to them, and Chi Nan finally made the two understand. "Let's do this. Starting from tomorrow, I will do the first education, and you can just follow this in the future. Cultivate some smarter and more ideologically conscious ones, and let them educate and guide them in the future, so that we don't have to do it ourselves every time."

Chi Nan can only think of this method now. Although I haven't done these things, I haven't seen it. Every time I listen to the leaders' speeches, I feel sleepy, and it has already penetrated into my bones.

Besides, this should be the first time this model has appeared in this world, so no matter whether it is good or bad, no one will know it. Can't we improve it slowly in the future? But first, I still have to go back and prepare. For example, if I don't prepare a speech, I can't say it. That's right, do it.

After several people returned to the town, the army immediately began to be alert, and Chi Nan also began to prepare.