Chapter 25 Refugee Flows
After Xiao Tianjian heard this, he couldn't help but be angry, Li Lingfeng told him at the time that this Feng Tiancheng was cunning and insidious, he hadn't taken it seriously, but he didn't expect this guy to be so insidious, as soon as he saw that his Xingtianjun was not easy to provoke and destroyed Zhao Datong, he immediately gave up helping Xiao Changshan, ran to Zhao Datong first, and came to make a first move, and washed Zhao Datong's lair.
Presumably Zhao Datong has been entrenched here for so many years, and he should have accumulated a lot of wealth, but now it's good, this kid took the lead and copied these things one step in advance, he Xiao Tianjian painstakingly overturned Zhao Datong this time, but it was equivalent to making a ready-made meal for this guy.
After waving his hand and letting the two young boys and girls who had survived the catastrophe go down to appease them first, Xiao Tianjian stood angrily in Zhao Datong's stockade, looked at the houses that were set on fire, and scolded angrily: "The fucking surname Feng is really ruthless!" Lao Tzu will never stop with him in this matter! ”
Xingtianjun was busy for a long time, collected the corpses of the people killed in Zhao Datong's village, and extinguished the fire set by Feng Tiancheng, searched all over here, and only found a few pieces of grain that were not burned and a few thousand catties of iron that Feng Tiancheng didn't have time to pull away, and the rest of the things that were slightly more valuable had basically been washed and plundered by Feng Tiancheng, and there were nearly 350 men, women and children killed in Zhao Datong's village, which shows how ruthless this guy is.
After a long trip, they only fished out an empty village, and the Xingtianjun couldn't help but feel a little deflated, and they all cursed that Feng Tiancheng couldn't die well, and clamored to go to Feng Tiancheng's stockade to fight Feng Tiancheng's nest and copy Feng Tiancheng's lair.
After Xiao Tianjian calmed down, he thought about it carefully, dispelled the idea of going to fight Feng Tiancheng immediately, summoned several of his subordinates, and began to discuss things.
At dawn the next day, Xiao Tianjian and a few of his subordinates divided their troops and dispersed to the area of Dongye Town, and quickly controlled the four iron ore mines in the area of Dongye Town, these places originally belonged to Zhao Datong's sphere of influence, and now that Zhao Datong is dead, and his remnants of power have also been swept away by Feng Tiancheng, then these mines have temporarily become a vacuum of power, since Feng Tiancheng has copied Zhao Datong's lair, then these places must not let this guy get involved anymore, otherwise, With Feng Tiancheng being a local, it is easy to take the first step, control these places before the Xingtian Army, and if you want to take them in the future, I am afraid it will take a lot of time.
For Xiao Tianjian, things like money are not what he needs most, what he needs most at the moment is that there are still people on the turf.
Over the years, the people in Yangcheng County can be said to have suffered from the scourge of these local strongmen, many of whom have been ruined by these strong people, and more people have to leave their hometowns and flee to the Zezhou area or further away, so that many villages in the southern mountainous areas of Yangcheng County are now empty and dilapidated.
Xingtianjun has just arrived, and since they want to use this place as their base, they will face a lot of problems next, and Xiao Tianjian will be busy in a short period of time.
The reason why Dongye Town has a smelting word is because of the iron ore produced here, and a long time ago, the government here specially set up an iron smelting supervisor, and a smelting furnace was built here to make iron, so there is this Dongye Town.
After the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court liberalized the mining and smelting industry, allowing the people to mine and smelt, and the government was only responsible for collecting taxes, so that the smelting industry in China in the Ming Dynasty developed rapidly, but on the whole, due to the southward shift of the economic center, the main iron-producing areas of the Ming Dynasty moved to Jiangxi, Huguang and Guangdong in the south, and the main iron-producing areas in the north were in the Zunhua area in the east of Beijing.
For Dongye Town in Yangcheng, the scale of the iron mine here is very small, basically can not attract the attention of the imperial court, in the early days, only some people here to mine and make iron, and gradually formed a small iron-smelting gathering area centered on Dongye Town, but compared to the large iron-producing land, the scale here is nothing, so it is not very valued.
After Zhao Datong occupied this area, he gradually controlled some local mining points, forced the rich people who originally smelted iron in this area out of here, and controlled the iron smelting industry in this area.
To a large extent, Zhao Datong can support more than 1,000 subordinates who work for him, which can be said to be inseparable from the iron ore he controls in this area.
But what everyone didn't expect was that Zhao Datong was just to do Xiao Butcher a favor this time and deal with the Xingtian Army, but he was actually wiped out by the Xingtian Army, and suddenly there was a vacuum of power in the area of Dongye Town.
And the reason why Xiao Tianjian will go thousands of miles, from Longzhou in the west of Shaanxi, along the way with so many subordinates, sleeping in the open air, and experiencing wind and frost to come here, in fact, after listening to Li Lingfeng's words, he learned that Yangcheng County produces both coal and iron, which made him finally decide to choose to go to Yangcheng first to gain a foothold, coal is good to say, Xiao Tianjian values the most is the iron ore here, if an army wants to be strong, in addition to people, there must be controlled resources, and the most inseparable thing to fight the war at the moment is not only people, is weapons, And if the base area he occupies does not have iron, it is okay to solve the problem of food and clothing by farming, but how to solve the problem of equipment for soldiers and generals is very troublesome.
Therefore, since the base area is chosen, then the problem of resources must be taken into account, Yangcheng County was finally selected, and it is precisely because of the resources here, after having iron, many things will be easier to do in the future, coupled with the local terrain of Yangcheng County, it is very conducive to them to establish a base there and deal with the government, so Xiao Tianjian finally chose here.
Although Feng Tiancheng is insidious, his vision is still limited, he only cares about taking the first step to grab the family wealth that Zhao Datong has accumulated over the years, but he did not think of seizing these iron ores and iron-making furnaces first, which also left Xiao Tianjian with a lot of strength.
For taking over Zhao Datong's industry, with the current strength of the Xingtian Army in the Yangcheng area, there was basically no resistance, so Dongye Town was brought under control, even if it was a diehard, they did not dare to resist forcibly, just destroyed the two iron-making furnaces, and then they slipped away, and the remaining mining sites and several iron-making furnaces in Dongye Town quickly fell into the hands of the Xingtian Army.
At this time, the news of Zhao Datong's death had already spread, spreading all over Dongye Town, and the local miners and ordinary people were all very nervous, and some of them had already begun to flee from this place with their families before the arrival of the Xingtian Army.
(At the end of the previous chapter, I don't know if my message will be blocked, if it hasn't been updated in the past few days, I'm definitely going to be invited to tea!) Don't blame me for breaking off! )