A major discovery was made in Hanjia Village after the spring farming season.

Before farming, Xu Miao took the good seeds that were left at Village Chief Han's house back to his own home, processed them slightly, and then handed them back to Village Chief Han.

Village Chief Han took the improved seeds that Xu Miao had processed and distributed some to each household in Hanjia Village. Even the people in Kangzhuang received some.

The good seeds that Xu Miao brought were not in large quantities, so each family was given a little. After the autumn harvest, they could be kept as seeds for use next year.

Most of the high-quality seeds are cultivated on the land with the best soil in Hanjia Village.

Village Chief Han is quite proactive!

He personally led the village's experienced farmers to sow these good seeds in a hurry.

That’s not all. They then sent people to take good care of these seed babies.

The attitude was like serving an emperor, careful and meticulous, hoping that these seeds would thrive and bring a good harvest to the village.

After the autumn harvest, the grain left for the people of Hanjia Village to eat was used as food, and the rest was kept as seeds.

After finishing the spring sowing, Xu Miao discussed with Village Chief Han about building a few houses for Hanjia Village.

Xu Miao has a sand table of Hanjia Village made by Han Dahai at home, and Xu Miao had already chosen a location to build a house.

Xu Miao wanted to build the house on the abandoned fortification, which was in the back village. It was large and close to the village.

When Village Chief Han heard that Xu Miao wanted to build his house near the fortifications, he shook his head and said, "That's not a good place to build a house. The soil there is brown. When General Liu brought his men here to build fortifications, they only dug for a few days before stopping."

"When I'm free, I'll take you to that place and you'll know for yourself that it's definitely not a good place!"

Village chief Han has been busy with spring sowing in recent days. He took some time in the afternoon and brought Xu Miao to the abandoned pile of earth.

Village chief Han took a shovel in his hand and dug up the pile of earth in a few strokes, revealing the brown soil inside.

"A Miao, look at this dirt. How can you build a house here?"

"When General Liu led his troops to our Hanjia Village, he also liked this location. But when he dug it up and saw the quality of the soil, he changed the location to build fortifications."

While digging, Village Chief Han told Xu Miao the history of this fortification.

Xu Miao squatted down and looked at the brown soil on the ground. The more he looked, the more he felt that there was something wrong with the soil.

Why does it look a bit like the original appearance of a coal mine?

Xu Miao was not sure what was under the brown soil.

He just said to the village chief Han anxiously: "Uncle Han, please ask Brother Han and the others to come. I want to dig this pit deeper. I want to see what's underneath."

"Uncle Han, don't make a sound. Bring Brother Han and the others here quietly."

Village Chief Han: "What's going on? Is there something underneath? And you can't tell anyone?"

When Village Chief Han heard Xu Miao ask him to find Boss Han, he wanted to go back to the village and just find someone to call Boss Han.

Unexpectedly, Xu Miao was still mysterious and didn't want others to know.

Xu Miao: "Uncle Han, I'm not sure if the stuff underneath can be used. You should ask Brother Han to dig it out first."

After listening to Xu Miao, Village Chief Han went back to the village to find Boss Han.

After Village Chief Han left, Xu Miao and others looked around the mound.

She remembered that coal-bearing strata could also form in grassland areas, and that there were many open-pit coal mines in modern Inner Mongolia.

If coal mines could be dug out from under this brown soil layer, Hanjia Village would be completely prosperous.

Coal mines are known as black gold. She had never seen this thing in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Xu Miao waited anxiously in front of the mound for a long time before Village Chief Han came out of the village with the eldest and second sons of the Han family and shovels.

As soon as Boss Han saw Xu Miao, he asked, "Sister Miao, my father said you wanted to dig up this abandoned fortification?"

Xu Miao nodded fiercely. "Brother Han, don't ask yet. Just dig a little deeper. I'm not sure what's underneath."

Seeing this, the Han brothers stopped asking questions and started digging deeper from the edge of the mound.

The two Han brothers dug the mound nearly two people deep. Xu Miao looked at the soil that was turned out from it, and the color was getting darker and darker.

Later, Boss Han threw out several black stones from the bottom of the pit.

When Xu Miao saw the black stones, he told the Han brothers not to dig for the time being.

Wait for the Han brothers to climb out of the pit.

Xu Miao didn't care whether the stones were dirty or not. She lifted up her skirt, wrapped the stones with it, and held them in her arms.

He turned around and called the Han family father and son: "Uncle Han, Brother Han, come home with me. I need to burn this stone and see how it goes!"

The Han father and son were dizzy from Xu Miao's orders. When they heard Xu Miao calling them to go home, he also said that he wanted to burn these stones first.

The father and his two sons stared at Xu Miao in confusion. What? Stones can burn?

Village Chief Han...burn it. Ah Miao said it can be burned, then burn it. If you don't burn it, it seems that Ah Miao is not giving up.

Boss Han...This is the first time he has heard of stones that can be burned.

Han Laoer...If stones can be burned, what is the use of wood?

The Han family's father and son followed Xu Miao, each with their own thoughts, and came to Xu Miao's compound.

As soon as he entered the yard, Xu Miao carried the stones and came to the stove where Chun'er cooked.

In spring, as the weather warmed up, many families in Hanjia Village began cooking in their yards. Xu Miao and her friends also stopped using their stoves in the house and started cooking in the yard.

Xu Miao put the stone on the ground and asked Han Laoer to break the stone into smaller pieces.

He put some more wood in the stove and took some small pieces of stone and placed them on the wood.

The Han family's three sons and father watched as Xu Miao asked Han Lao Er to smash the stones, then put the broken stones on the wood, and then saw Xu Miao take out a fire starter to light the wood in the stove.

Village Chief Han finally couldn't help but ask, "A Miao, what are you doing?"

"What's the point of burning a stone?"

"Can this stone be ignited?"

Village chief Han had seen wood burning, but he had never seen stone burning.

Xu Miao didn't even bother to raise his head. He lowered his head, staring at the black fragments in the furnace, and replied, "Uncle Han, don't worry. I'm not sure what this stone is."

"Burn it and you'll know."

Village chief Han was curious, so he moved closer to Xu Miao, stretched his neck, and stared at the fragments with Xu Miao.

After the wood was ignited, the black fragments also burned along with it.

After a while, thick smoke began to rise in Xu Miao's yard.

Village Chief Han was choking on the soot and coughing. He waved his hand to disperse the smoke as it rushed towards him and complained to Xu Miao, "Ah Miao, what did you make? It smells terrible!"

Village chief Han had never smelled coal smoke, so of course he thought the smell was choking.

But Xu Miao had smelled this smell before. When Xu Miao smelled the coal smoke coming from the stove, she wanted to jump up and laugh.

Now that Hanjia Village has a coal mine, why should they worry about having no food to eat?

They don't even need to farm.

As long as the coal is mined, there will be no shortage of money.

Coal mines are a resource known as black gold.

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