The iron ore and the associated copper mines on Qiongzhou Island were more important to the Tang Dynasty, which was eager to develop industry, especially military industry, than Qiongzhou Island itself.

Now that Qiongzhou Island is almost available, the follow-up will consider the development of minerals on Qiongzhou Island!

It's just that it is not easy to develop the iron ore and associated copper mines on Qiongzhou Island, which is now sparsely populated, and has always been the place of exile of the Central Plains Dynasty, and because it is in a tropical climate, this climate is easy to produce water and soil adaptation, which is more serious than the miasma in the Lingnan region.

In ancient times, when the level of medical care was seriously insufficient, it was actually very difficult to develop islands such as Taiwan and Hainan Island on a large scale, and if you forcibly emigrate from other places, it is easy to cause large-scale deaths of immigrants.

In addition, the transportation of iron ore is also a very big trouble, the iron ore of Qiongzhou Island is not on the seaside, but in a place dozens of kilometers away from the seaside, and the mountain road is difficult to walk, the traces are rare, and it is not an ordinary trouble to transport the iron ore in this deep mountain and old forest.

However, even if it is troublesome and difficult, Li Xuan decided to give it a try, anyway, he is not prepared now, and there is no need to carry out too large-scale mining, with the current steel production capacity of the Tang Dynasty, he can't digest too much iron ore!

Nowadays, the iron ore in the small iron mines in the Liangguang area can meet the demand, which shows that the production capacity of smelting steel in the Tang Dynasty is actually very low.

Therefore, he decided to try small-scale mining in the early stage, and the method used is naturally natural and pollution-free pure manual mining, as for industrial large-scale mining, it can only wait for the development of steam engines and railways.

After taking Qiongzhou Island, it can be regarded as a matter of Li Xuan's heart, and then, he naturally has to continue to focus on the affairs of the inland region.

However, it is not a war, because the large-scale operations of the Tang Dynasty have basically stopped, and after several months of large-scale operations, the troops fighting abroad are basically at the end of their strengths, and they need a certain amount of time to rest and replenish in order to restore their combat effectiveness.

The army also needs to take advantage of this opportunity to readjust the establishment of various units and thoroughly reorganize the main force of the six infantry divisions, and at the same time, it is also preparing to take advantage of the current gap to wipe out the numerous illegal armed forces in Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and Guizhou one by one.

Limited by tradition, the Liangguang region and Guizhou under the Tang Dynasty at present, as in the period of the Ming Dynasty, there are a large number of local armed forces and landlord armed forces, and they exist in various names and in large numbers.

Although they no longer dare to resist the rule of the Tang Dynasty, there will always be various armed rebellions from time to time, and the most common is that the landlords and various bandits carry out armed tax resistance.

The agricultural tax and commercial tax implemented by the Tang Dynasty were of great benefit to ordinary people, but they were not so friendly to large landowners and businessmen, especially those who liked to evade taxes.

Therefore, all kinds of armed tax resistance are always endless, and Li Xuan is also as always maintaining tough measures in this regard, for all kinds of rebellions, Li Xuan's views are very consistent with Zhengde's views: resolutely suppress them, in order to set an example!

Emperor Zhengde did not hesitate to use the strength of the entire Ming Dynasty to suppress the puppet Tang Dynasty, and did not even accept the surrender of the officials and generals of the puppet Tang Dynasty, and only maintained one attitude, that is, kill, kill, kill!

Li Xuan in the Tang Dynasty is the same, for all kinds of armed rebellions, regardless of whether the other party is a famous gentry or a bandit and hooligan, just one word: kill!

It can be seen from the consistent attitude of these two dynasties towards the rebellion that in fact, the Tang Dynasty also regarded itself as an orthodox dynasty, rather than some bandits.

In the past, the suppression of this kind of rebellion mainly relied on local raiding camps, but the weak strength of the raiding camps was often impossible to do, and it was impossible to defeat the armed landlords or bandits with a little bit of a larger national population, and in the end it was often necessary for the military to assist in suppressing the bandits.

It was precisely because the robbery camps were unusable that the Tang Dynasty abolished the theft camps altogether, and used them to deal with ordinary public security incidents by strengthening the local patrol police, and at the same time to fight against some small-scale armed rebellions.

Thanks to the acceptance of the elite forces that have been removed from the raiding camps, the patrol force in various places has now been greatly strengthened, and the patrol force at the county level is basically enough to deal with an armed rebellion of several dozen people.

In the event of a large-scale armed rebellion, aid is requested directly from the military, which often has a certain amount of reserve troops in important areas.

For example, in Guangdong, there are currently three divisions, two mixed regiments, and two provisional regiments.

Even in Guangxi, there is a fourth division!

Guizhou also has a second division, and there is a third division in the southern part of Huguang.

In terms of the current control areas and military norms, it is barely enough to suppress the localities, and as for the future, it will not be enough, and new units will be formed in the future.

Relying on these forces, Li Xuan was preparing to launch a large-scale operation against bandits, directly using a large number of regular troops to wipe out many illegal armed forces in Liangguang and Guizhou.

From now on, there can only be an armed force under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, that is, the Tang Dynasty Division, except for the Tang Dynasty Division, any other armed forces are illegal and are not allowed to exist.

This clean-up operation can also verify that after the change in the establishment of the Tang Dynasty's division, the troops can adapt to it first, and at the same time, let a large number of recruits who have been supplemented see the blood, and play a role in training.

After the clearance operation is over, the training is completed, and the troops are fully loaded, it is time for the Tang Dynasty to launch a large-scale attack on the Ming army again.

In late August, the Second Mixed Regiment of the Army on the side of Qiongzhou Prefecture sent back the good news, saying that it had successfully conquered Qiongzhou Prefecture, and several other counties were to be decided, so far, the entire Qiongzhou Prefecture has been included in the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

On 29 August, Li Xuan officially issued a sacred decree to suppress bandits on a large scale, demanding that all units disarm and wipe out all kinds of bandits, thieves, and other illegal armed forces in the defense area.

Therefore, since the beginning of September, although the Tang Dynasty Royal Division has suspended large-scale external offensives, it has been carrying out frequent internal activities to eliminate all kinds of chaotic armed forces.

Most of the troops dispatched are mainly teams and battalions, and in rare cases, because the situation is more serious, regimental troops will also be dispatched.

However, there are still no illegal armed forces that are worth letting the Tang Dynasty King Division use an entire division to attack.

After all, these illegal armed forces are just ordinary bandits, thieves, and landlords, and they cannot be as large-scale and organized as the Ming army.

Beginning in early September and continuing until October, the Tang Dynasty division wiped out more than 500 illegal armed forces, killing more than 2,000 people and capturing more than 30,000 people. After identification, from the more than 30,000 captives, it was found that most of them were foolish people.

But even if they were coerced fools, but since they took swords and spears against the Tang Dynasty Wangshi, then the above-mentioned foolish people who were coerced were also dealt with by ordinary prisoners of war on the spot!

If you have a good attitude, you have to surrender to life and death, swear to serve the Tang Dynasty, the eternal saint Li Xuan is loyal, and at the same time the captives who have passed the comprehensive quality in all aspects, then you will be able to get the opportunity to enter the new barracks, and you will be able to become a soldier of the Tang Dynasty in the future, so as to become a glorious cannon fodder soldier in the Tang Dynasty!

Prisoners with a good attitude and willingness to take the initiative to surrender, but whose quality is slightly poor, and who cannot be selected into the regular army, will be incorporated into the reclamation regiment, and under the arrangement of the military, they will carry out reclamation or other auxiliary work, and contribute to the rise of the Tang Dynasty.

As for the people who were held hostage with a bad attitude, and the main backbone continued to stay in the prisoner of war camp, and then were arranged to do all kinds of coolies, mainly road repair, water conservancy facilities, mining, etc., to contribute to the various construction of the Tang Dynasty.

At present, the Tang Dynasty is preparing to carry out large-scale construction of water conservancy facilities in several major grain-producing areas, especially in the Pearl River Delta and Wuzhou and Xunzhou provinces in Guangxi, to increase grain production in these areas.

Not to mention that if Qiongzhou Island, which has just been taken, wants to develop iron ore, the demand for coolies is very large.

After this period of intensive suppression of bandits, the results are quite remarkable, in addition to killing and capturing a lot of prisoners, but also seized a lot of booty, although these civilian illegal armed forces are poorly equipped, but there are also some landlords armed with equipment that is not bad, what stainless steel swords, armor, strong crossbows and arrows are all there.

This sum up to the fact that the Tang Dynasty King Master was able to capture tens of thousands of iron knives, thousands of steel knives, hundreds of armors, and thousands of crossbows and arrows.

In addition, some horses, ordinary livestock, grain, etc. were seized.

In this way, the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi fought through the suppression of bandits, not only did he not lose money, but he still earned a lot of loot.

Of course, the biggest gain brought by this crackdown on bandits to the Tang Dynasty is not these trophies, but the rapid improvement of the public security situation under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, at least when those caravans are transporting goods, they don't have to worry about meeting a group of bandits when they walk to a certain hill, and they jump out and shout that I drove this road and I carried this tree.

In addition, there is also a very important point that through this anti-bandit operation, the troops of the Tang Dynasty Division have also been tempered to a certain extent, especially several newly reorganized main divisions, and a large number of supplementary recruits during the period have been given the opportunity to fight in actual combat, and have seen blood, and this is very important for the follow-up large-scale offensive.

Yes, after resting for several months, the Tang Dynasty King Division has been reorganized and fully manned, ready to launch a new round of large-scale offensive!

This time, Li Xuan's goal is not one or two places, but the entire southern area of Huguang, and he wants to advance the battle line from the current southeastern part of Huguang to the north to Dongting Lake, and get the opportunity to enter and exit the Yangtze River!

Once Changsha is seized and the opportunity to enter and exit the Yangtze River is obtained, then the strategic space of the Tang Dynasty will be very large in the future, and the Tang Dynasty can cross the river to the north of Huguang, and then continue all the way north to Henan, and then go north to kill the Beijing Division.

If you go east, you can go all the way east along the Yangtze River, only the Qinhuai River!

After winning the Qinhuai River, Li Xuan thought about whether to conduct an Oiran selection, select Qin Huai Bayan who belonged to this era, and then let them kneel in a row in front of him......