On the front line of Gongchangling, the soldiers of Hongtang began to be busy, not only the sappers of Hongtang, but also many laborers.

Li Tianyang's mobilization on Dayuan Island was very successful, and the members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce and the Bengang Alliance watched Li Tianyang generously hand over their share of the spoils that originally belonged to them, and at the same time dispelled their various impacts and losses caused by the war.

And when Li Tianyang proposed to mine the newly discovered iron ore deposits on the front line, he also won the support of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce and the unnaturalized members of the Bengang Alliance.

In today's Bengang Alliance, there are still more than ten large and medium-sized clans led by the Black Panther tribe who are insisting, but their insistence has become more cautious, and they have a very thorough grasp of the charter system of the Bengang Alliance, and they don't give Li Tianyang a handle at all.

For this group of tribes that are already in the bag, Li Tianyang also let them exist, after all, the population of these dozen tribes is also tens of thousands, and most of them have returned to Hongmen, and sooner or later they are all members of Hongmen.

Not only is Hongmen under Li Tianyang in urgent need of iron ore resources, but the members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce and the Bengang Alliance also need pig iron resources, and Hongmen's steel products have always been the straining goods of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce. The members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, such as steam engines and ships, begged Li Tianyang to make them for them, but Li Tianyang refused to give them to the members of the Chamber of Commerce on the grounds of insufficient pig iron resources, so that they could only drool and look at the novel and practical steel products of Hongmenshou China, scurrying around under their noses.

Of course, it was not without members that they had access to the steel creations of Hongmen, and the first steamship among the members of the Chamber of Commerce was taken down by the people of Defuxuan, and then they traveled back and forth between Dayuan Island and Luzon in a grand manner.

The practicability of this ship is too strong, the price of coal is not high, and now on Dayuan Island, in addition to the location of the former Yushan tribe, coal has been found in the area where the remaining dozen tribes are located, and its reserves are also very rich.

In the presence of abundant coal as ballast, although it occupies a part of the warehouse, it is often a steamer to and from Luzon twice, and the rest of the sea ships that rely on the monsoon do not go back and forth at most once.

More importantly, when the rest of the caravan cargo ships were out of service in the headwind season, this steamer was still able to run the business by relying on its own power, and the other benefits generated by this year were far more than those of the previous cargo ships that relied on the sky to eat and wait.

Therefore, all the members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce present did not want to become the second member of the Chamber of Commerce to own a ship, but they were dismissed by Li Tianyang's lack of production capacity.

After many inquiries, Defuxuan was able to obtain this steamship because they provided more than 100,000 catties of pig iron to Hongmen, and also paid a lot of gold and silver as a price.

Gold and silver currency is not a big deal for the members of the Chamber of Commerce who are now rich, the monetary price paid by Defuxuan has long been inquired about by everyone, the price is not unacceptable, the only condition that restricts everyone is the 100,000 catties of pig iron resources.

Pig iron resources, whether in the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, are the most urgently needed controlled items of the major forces, and it is extremely difficult for the members of the major chambers of commerce to secretly collect such a large amount.

Especially in the case that the Qing Dynasty did not know how to produce steel, the Ming Dynasty had just lost the war and urgently needed steel to expand the army, and the rebel dynasties such as Dashun were poor and white, even if the members of the major chambers of commerce were rich, they might not be able to collect much pig iron resources.

Instead of taking a high price and taking risks to buy pig iron, it is more efficient to find a vein to mine iron ore and smelt pig iron. At the beginning, one of the important factors for Li Tianyang to impress the members of the Chamber of Commerce to provide support for the Hongtang army that was fighting in the north was that Hongmen agreed to everyone's right to mine iron ore in the local area after occupying the northeast.

As for the members of the Bengang Alliance, they will not let go of every opportunity to arm themselves, and under the invisible pressure of Hongmen, the members of various tribes who want to maintain their independence are also secretly collecting all kinds of iron, cement and other materials to build more weapons and stronger fortifications.

In Li Tianyang's original blueprint, he assured everyone that there were rich iron ore and coal resources in the land of the Qing Dynasty.

Now that it is the harvest season, Hongmen's exploration team has also explored the location of the iron ore vein, so from the perspective of the businessman, it is right to make their investment return as soon as possible, even if the Qing Dynasty is a great threat to Gongchangling at this time, and the night can not stop everyone's enthusiasm for iron ore mining.

Of course, the necessary risk avoidance still has to be done, the city fortifications designed on the mountain on Gongchangling, without waiting for the Hongtang army to transport the materials over, the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce and the Bengang Alliance have sent money and materials and manpower to help Hongtang build the Gongchangling Castle together.

The heavy troops hoarded by the Qing people in Liaoyang, watching the Hongtang Ming army build fortifications under their noses, the army was ready to move.

However, looking at the 20,000 soldiers and thousands of cavalry placed by the Hongtang army in Gongchangling, it also dispelled the idea of the Qing army, so that it could only stand still.

The previous war, for the Qing people, can be called a nerve-wracking war, and now the major powerful nobles and generals in Shengjing have quarreled, and they have questioned Prince Dolgon's regency rights and command skills.

Therefore, at this time, Prince Dorgon focused more on consolidating the power of the imperial court, but he did not have the spare strength to continue to launch this Ming army that had previously repelled the main attack of the Qing Dynasty.

Even before Dolgon led a group of generals and nobles north to Shengjing, he issued a stern order to the Qing generals stationed in Liaoyang City, ordering them not to easily provoke war, at least not to act again until they re-consolidated their position.

The Qing people have never been so obedient, when the Qing generals on the border of the Ming Dynasty wanted to come to the city to walk, they showed off their strength and turned around, but now in the land that once belonged to them, the Han people on the opposite side can be called a provocative general construction of defense line, Daqing thinks that he can only hold that depressed breath in his heart, that feeling is extremely uncomfortable.

In this way, a castle made of cement and stone, under the noses of the Qing people, rose from the ground day by day, becoming the strongest fortress in the front line of Hongtang.

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