my days with tyrants

Chapter 57 Killing, Killing!

The discovery of the silver mine made the Liaodong generals feel as if they had been injected with something...

Silver Mountain!
And there's gold!

Mountains of gold and silver!
However, this location is really not good. Although it is not far from Kaiyuan, at least according to the standards of farming people, it is difficult to maintain this place by farming, including Liaohaiwei, which is not actually farming. The envoy moved to Kaiyuan because the Han military households who moved in with the command envoy were unable to farm.

Zhu Yuanzhang's Jurchen resettlement guards all had to add some Han military households.

Generally, it is Zhongqianhusuo.

However, the military households of Liaohaiwei could only rely on transporting grain from Kaiyuan.

The maintenance cost is too high.

Not cost-effective.

So simply moved the command organization to Kaiyuan, and then left the Jurchen who didn't need to transport supplies.

Costs are saved.

But the control over the Jurchen has also declined.

Now the Liaodong generals also need to face a problem, that is, the development of silver mines also requires a large number of people who are out of production. After all, it is impossible to open mines without food.

"There is food. As long as we are willing, the transportation from Niuzhuang to Laomiwan is enough. Although it is true that going upstream is slower, but after the river is opened, it will be southerly most of the time. It is enough to rely on sails. As long as we can mine silver , the imperial court must also provide food. It’s just that from Laomiwan to here, the transportation will be troublesome, unless a large number of civilian husbands are used, but the use of civilian labor will also increase food. After all, Kaiyuan can’t grow much food. Water transportation. In the end, we got into an unsolvable trouble. To mine silver, we had to use more people. If we used more people, we had to eat more food. In the end, we had to use more people to transport food. In the end, the silver collected was not enough for these people's work and food.

Not only would it fail to benefit Liaodong, but it would become a burden to Liaodong.

Neither will the imperial court. "

Zhu Sheng said.

Then a group of generals got tangled up one by one looking at the big silver pit next to them...

So tempting.

Because the sun is at the right angle, the new stones that were blown away by the grenade are reflecting the light of silver. This point is actually the location of the largest mine pit that Yang Feng has located. It is full of high-grade ores, and even some of them cannot be called. for ore.

Now when it is exploded, it is a new cross-section, and it is indeed very attractive in the sun.

"That is to say, the key is actually this land transportation?"

Yang Feng said.

"Yes, if it is in the mainland, the 200 miles is really nothing, but it is really a problem here in Kaiyuan. After all, thousands or even tens of thousands of people need to be permanently stationed in order to open a mine. Now Kaiyuan, Liaohai The two guards add up to less than [-] young adults."

Zhuang De said.

"Are you smelting iron here?"

"Yes, there is Tieye in Zhonggu City to the south."

"You don't have a shortage of horses here, do you?"

"There is no shortage, but if it is carried by horses, it will not be enough."

"Then pull the cart. If you want to get rich, build roads first, but they are not ordinary roads. You can say that the wood here is inexhaustible. Then use wood to pave a road from Laomiwan to Kaiyuan, and then from Kaiyuan. Wooden track to get here.

I will design a horse-drawn carriage for you that runs on wooden tracks, and the grain that will be transported to Laomiwan will be transported by this carriage in the future. "

Yang Feng said.

With such good conditions, it would be useless not to repair the railway...

I will talk about the railway later, but the wooden track is really good!

Although the wooden rails are indeed fragile, the problem is that they can be replaced as soon as they are damaged. There is an endless virgin forest next to it. You can cut as much wood as you want, and you have to choose the best ones.Then start from Laomiwan, repair eastward to Kaiyuan, and then northward to Shanmen. In the middle, Liaohaiwei was replenished by the way, and double-tracking was carried out directly, one to the south and the other to the north. In this way, the load was added. The horse-drawn carriage is enough to maintain the transportation.In fact, the wooden rails are not that fragile. In the future, you can learn from the British and add iron sheets to protect them. The anti-corrosion problem is not difficult. After all, this is the Northeast, not Jiangsu and Zhejiang. You can also paint them with oil to prevent corrosion or even burn them.

In short, this is a good solution.

This wooden track is estimated to be more than [-] kilometers.

Let's say one hundred and fifty.

15 meters.

Four pieces of ten meters need [-] pieces, plus sleepers...

It seems that there is no need to use too many sleepers, one every two meters is fine. In short, the material is not a problem at all, the key is to guard the endless forest next to it.

The special carriage is also very simple, that is, a wheel with a groove in the middle.

Double tracks do not need to change tracks.

The faulty one is pushed out directly to make way.

And not only here, if this kind of wooden track is effective, then Zhu Yuanzhang can also be encouraged to build the same wooden track between Beiping and the Yellow River. After all, there is no shortage of wood near Taihang Mountain.It can even continue to be built from the south bank of the Yellow River, that is, along the mountainous area of ​​Henan to the Sheqi, so that it can enter the Han River system, and the grain from the Huguang grain-producing areas can be directly transported north.In this way, there are sea transportation and wooden rail carriage transportation, so the canal is not so important. The canal is indeed important to communicate between the north and the south, but there are too many alternatives for this important. On the contrary, maintaining the canal is a huge burden for the common people.

Not only southwestern Shandong, but the extreme poverty along the Huaihe River in the late Ming Dynasty was also a canal.

Because there must be a trade-off between protecting the Ming Zu Mausoleum and maintaining shipping north of Huai'an.

To protect the canal is to maintain the water level.

To maintain the water level, Sizhou must be flooded.

To protect the Ming Zu Mausoleum, it is necessary to add a new outlet to the Huaihe River, but this means that the water depth of the Qingkou will drop and the tank boats will not be able to pass through the river channel silted up by the Yellow River.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it was desperately maintained between the two choices, and the consequence of the maintenance was that Fengyang had disasters in nine out of ten years, and the dedication of countless laborers along the Yellow River and the canal was also the breach of the Yellow River again and again.Because the sand must be washed, the Yellow River must be narrow enough. Since it is narrow enough, you must be prepared to be washed away during the flood season. After all, the Yellow River will not consider these messy things.But if the maintenance of this section of the canal is given up, then things will be very simple. A main irrigation canal will be dug in northern Jiangsu, and the waterway into the Yangtze River will be dredged at the same time. Immediately plummeted by more than half.

As for the Yellow River, it can flow casually, leaving a wide enough river channel to weaken the power of the flood season.

The modern Yellow River channel is wide enough.

As for silting...

That really can't be helped.

After all, that is not something that can be solved downstream.

Zhu Zhi and the others were completely at a loss for this brain-opening plan, but since it was designed by Yang Feng, it must be good. At this time, he is omnipotent in the minds of these people, and it is enough to listen to what he says , there is no need to doubt, what he said can be done will definitely work.

In short, they have now begun to develop towards fanatics.

Then they went straight to Jilin.

Seven days later, the expeditionary force arrived in Jilin.

Then 3000 people were left to garrison, waiting for the follow-up craftsmen and garrisons, while Zhu Zhi and Yang Feng led the army straight to the northeast along the Kacha River.

This area is almost uninhabited, especially in this cold winter season, those Jurchen fishermen and hunters are also hiding in the mountains and forests to warm up one by one. The only thing this army of more than 1 cavalry has to face is the severe cold and snow... …

Of course, there is also the question of supplies.

To be precise, they don't have any supplies now, everyone is just carrying dry food, and there are also beans for the war horses. The latter can get little food from the mountains and forests. Fail, fail, not even enough food to go back.However, the real threat of this kind of action is not supplies or fighting, but getting lost. As long as you don't get lost halfway, for hundreds of miles, cavalry can still struggle to walk back.

As for getting lost...

"Songhua River!"

Yang Feng stood by the snow-covered Songhua River and sighed.

Then he looked at his watch.

The location is right, Bayan County is not far from the other side.

So with satellite positioning, how could it be possible to get lost!
"Where is Xiyangha's stockade?"

he asked.

"Ambassador, can I use your telescope?"

Polo said cautiously.

Yang Feng handed him the binoculars.

Polo has used it several times, so there is no need to teach it.

"In the mountain over there, his village is in a sheltered valley on the south side of the mountain, not far from here. In winter, he has to find such a place facing the sun and leeward to the river, and he can dig ice for fishing, but this is just him. He is the leader of the Wuzhe tribe, and he also has leaders of all sizes, Ayangha, Tongfo village, and Mongolian village, all scattered around the black pine forest."

Polo pointed to the north and said.

"My lord, let's divide the troops. The black pine forest is this mountain forest surrounded by flat land. I will lead Jurchen and Zhang Fu to attack the black pine forest. Your majesty will lead the troops to patrol around the periphery of this mountain forest to prevent Xiyangha from escaping."

Yang Feng pointed to the mountainous area in the northeast of Bayan County and said to Zhu Zhi.

"Great, Ambassador, shall we attack the Black Pine Forest?"

Polo said in astonishment.

Yang Feng looked at him speechlessly, then opened the insurance, and fired at the river...

"What else are you afraid of?"

he said quietly.

"Don't be afraid, follow the ambassador and kill Xiyang!"

A Jurchen Qianhu roared excitedly.

"Follow the ambassador, kill Xiyang!"

The other Jurchens roared.

"The black pine forest was robbed, and each of them gave away a woman. Today, the king is in charge. This time, whether it is gold, silver, livestock or slaves, the Jurchens are all their own!"

Yang Feng roared.

Then he pulled the trigger against the sky again.

Those Jurchens immediately went berserk, after all, this kind of thing is always exciting.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Feng drove the chariot, and led the seven thousand Jurchen like the night king with a ghoul, and stepped onto the snow-covered Songhua River. Zhang Fu and his camel artillery team had no choice but to follow, followed by Zhu Zhi He and the Ming army silently watched their progress...

"Send an order to surround the Black Pine Forest. No one from Xiyangha or these Jurchens will be allowed to come out alive."

Zhu Zhi said with a sneer.

Zhu Sheng, Zhang Yu and others looked at him in astonishment.

"This is a military order!"

Zhu Zhi said.

(End of this chapter)