blenderwars Chapter 173 1-way horizontal push, looking for mineral deposits (first update asks for automatic sub
Chapter 173 1-way horizontal push, looking for mineral deposits (first update asks for automatic sub
Chapter 173 Pushing all the way, looking for mineral deposits (the first update asks for automatic subscription)
Xiao Qi found that these Goryeo soldiers were very obedient after being captured. Although they didn't understand what you said, they stood there wherever you pointed your hand. They were so obedient.
So cute!
Seeing such a situation, Xiao Qi completely changed his mind, and decided to let the affairs of Dongying be put aside first, to fully control this place, and build an overseas logistics base with a complete system.
But in this way, we have to fight a few more battles here to completely take down the peninsula. All the former leaders of Koryo must be killed or driven out of the peninsula.
And such an obedient worker, I need it very much, not to mention that building a logistics base here requires a lot of manpower, and it will be a lot of work to get back to Dasong to mine in the future!
With such a plan, Xiao Qi stopped the idea of his generals continuing to chase and fight northward, and took advantage of the situation to win the territory in the south for hundreds of miles.
Since you plan to control this place for a long time, you can't follow the previous ideas. Although you can quickly kill the dynasties here, the people still yearn for those previous dynasties.
And judging from the baggage seized by defeating the 10 army this time, the Goryeo Dynasty is now seriously short of food. Although the captured food is for 3 people, it will not last long for the more than [-] prisoners of war to eat.
The more prisoners of war captured at this time, it will become a burden on their side.
These [-] prisoners of war are enough to build the pier and set up the camp. The others should be kept for King Yizong and his ministers to worry about.
In order to solve the consumption of food, gunpowder cast iron bombs and other things on my side.
Xiao Qi ordered that after the twenty troop carriers unloaded the soldiers and various supplies on board, they immediately loaded the ships with the gold and silver treasures looted from within a few hundred miles to the south during the war.
Let them transport it back to Shanghai Port, and then come here filled with grain, gunpowder pellets, and cast iron bombs, otherwise I could have eaten grain for three months here, because with these [-] prisoners of war, it is likely that they will not be able to last for two months.
The next point is to find Koreans who can speak Chinese. Translation must be available, otherwise it will be too much effort to do what you want to do in the future.
Fortunately, because of the foundation of writing, and because there are many caravans of Korean people doing business with Jin people, now those banner people in Jin country have mixed with Han people.
Many people in those caravans could speak some Chinese, and it didn't take long to find a dozen or so Koreans who could speak Chinese.
They were given some pens and paper, and asked them to ask the captives what their names were, where their homes were, and what they did before, and everyone registered them.
Of course Xiao Qi was not idle and wasting paper, he wanted to find out what these people were good at, so that he could arrange things for them in the future.
But what seemed like a waste of precious paper this time brought Xiao Qi a big surprise.
It turned out that these prisoners of war were all recruited by King Yijong Wang Han from the prefectures and counties near Kaijing, the capital of the Goryeo Dynasty. Most of these people fled from the hardest-hit north and came to the center of the peninsula near Kaijing.
There are all kinds of craftsmen among these people, and more importantly, many of them are residents of various mining areas in the north.
Because it is a period of catastrophe, there is a shortage of food everywhere, and mining is heavy physical labor, which requires a lot of food consumption.
Although those mine owners have money in their hands, they can't buy food at all now, so they have to temporarily close those mines, and wait for the catastrophe to pass and the food to be sufficient before starting work.
Xiao Qi was overjoyed by this unexpected news.
Hurry up and ask people to bring all these people who worked as miners, Xiao Qi led the interpreter to ask them in person, in order not to make these people feel too nervous, Xiao Qi also asked people to cook a special meal for these people.
Of course it won't be rich, just a bowl of porridge, half a bread, and a piece of pickle per person.
Many of these people haven't eaten so much food for half a year. Since the catastrophe, they can only drink porridge every day, and even after serving as soldiers, the porridge they drink is thicker.
The dry ones are only considered to have eaten two dry meals before the start of the war, and they are not as big as the half bread.
Although these people didn't know why they were called here, they all knew that they were not going to kill them, otherwise they wouldn't have wasted the food.
When Xiao Qi asked, these people answered every question, not to mention where the mine was, they even explained how many steps to walk.
After asking for three days in a row, the harvest is very great, it can be said that the harvest is huge, Xiao Qi is so happy that his mouth is almost crooked these days.
Because these people not only said a lot about where there are silver mines, copper mines, coal mines, iron, aluminum and zinc mines, but there are even two gold mines.
How could this make Xiao Qi unhappy.
Immediately send someone to bring the map, and carefully mark the location of these minerals on it.
This time, I will take down this place no matter what I say, and manage it well. In the future, this place can even directly provide myself with gunpowder, cast iron bombs, and projectiles.
At that time, the strategic consumption of attacking Japan will no longer need to be transported from as far away as Song Dynasty, and it can be produced directly here.
However, Xiao Qi is still very concerned about the control of technology. These things must be made by Han craftsmen, and the production sites must be heavily blocked. These technologies are absolutely not allowed to be learned by the Koreans.
For this reason, Xiao Qi formulated a strict system. If any craftsman leaks these techniques, all Koreans who know these techniques will be beheaded along with the craftsman who leaked the techniques.
Although he has not even obtained the mine yet, Xiao Qi still worked out a strict system first. Whoever masters these things now is the king of this era.
No matter what this thing is, it cannot be leaked to other races.
Perhaps it was because he worked as an interpreter for Xiao Qi for a few days. A Korean man in his fifties, who traveled several times with the caravan to the Han area, asked Xiao Qi cautiously: "May I ask what minerals does Your Majesty need?"
Xiao Qi didn't understand why they called the supreme leader they thought was the king.
Every time these translators called him that, Xiao Qi felt that he had the potential to become a demon, and couldn't help but want to send two men to patrol the mountains or something.
For this old man's probing question, Xiao Qi would not say whatever he thought in his heart.
Pretending to be sympathetic, he sighed: "Oh! I don't have any mineral deposits in the Song Dynasty!
Although your army of King Koryo offended me, the people of Koryo are innocent, and I don't want to watch them starve to death.
But it is a long way to transport grain from the Song Dynasty, and the cost is huge, and this king can't afford it!
Since there are some mines and miners here, let these people mine mines for me to offset the cost of transporting food here.
I pay grain to those who mine and let them use it to feed their families. This is the only way to save these poor people! "
The translator didn't know whether to believe it or not, so he knelt down and praised: "Your Majesty's benevolence, the people of Korea should be grateful!"
Xiao Qi waved him to go out, then turned around and went to the study room which had already been cleaned up.
As he walked, he muttered to himself: "Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway. I don't care if you are really grateful. I have a cannon in my hand, and I have it all over the world!"
Two months later, those [-] large ships returned with a large amount of food, strategic materials, and [-] sailors.
Because Xiao Qi was determined to go north to occupy a large mining area this time, he wrote a letter to Qin and Tu and ordered the twenty large ships to sail directly to Dongying Port in Shandong.
When the time comes, hand over the letter to the four of Qin and Tu. In the letter, Xiao Qi ordered the four of them to send ten thousand elite soldiers to come by boat, because although there are many mines in the north of the peninsula, most of the mines are in mountainous areas, and these naval and land battles are not as good as they are. The brave army of the ever-victorious battalion.
After the twenty large ships rested for a few days and set sail again with Xiao Qi's letter, Xiao Qi also began to organize the army.
Shandong is not far from the sea here, except that it takes some time to mobilize people and horses, the road will not take long at all.
Xiao Qi decided to start his northern attack now and capture the Kaijing of Goryeo before the [-] brave troops arrived.
Leaving 1 soldiers to watch over the prisoners to build the pier and build surrounding facilities, Xiao Qi led [-] people and began to march north.
These [-] prisoners of war have now been replaced by real construction workers, let alone resisting, because they can eat dry food when they go out to work, and those who have no arrangements can only drink gruel, and they are all vying for the strong to do it live.
As for escaping?
Bah, it's just a fool to run away, the food in this prisoner-of-war camp is better than the food in the Korean military camp, running wool!
Xiao Qi's movement here frightened Yizong Wang Hao and those ministers who were struggling in Kaijing.
(End of this chapter)