"Goguryeo is just a dry bone in the mound, with the development of our Tang Dynasty, the gap will get bigger and bigger, and slowly cut the meat with a soft knife." Feng Daiwen said with a smile.

"Huh! Yes, after the porcelain and glass come out, increase sales, let them exchange food, and support Baekje, Silla will make trouble, it won't be long before there will be civil strife, and I will wait and watch the show. Ma Zhoufu said with an indifferent expression.

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There are many craftsmen in western Liaoning, Feng Daiwen gathered to take the lead in establishing coking and steelmaking kilns, and if workers want to do a good job, they must first sharpen their tools, which everyone understands, and tens of thousands of miners need tools is also a large number.

Now because it is a slack farm, many tools are borrowed from the people, which not only seriously affects the efficiency, but also delays the spring ploughing.

Having good tools can also be better mining deposits, Feng Daiwen is not worried about the captives holding tools to make trouble, firstly, all the daily work has been counted, and secondly, the captives have no armor, and there is no need to worry about them under the supervision of the crossbow, and Datang is not harsh on them, and there has never been a shortage of food and shelter, compared to many captives, the life of the miners is much better than before, but there is not much freedom.

As a soul of later generations, although Feng Daiwen has been on the battlefield for a long time and has killed a lot, he is still quite humane to the miners, not only organizing them to watch soldiers' performances and military exercises, but also having two days off every month.

More than 100,000 people work in a radius of more than ten miles, so that this place changes every day, tents are constantly removed, and brick houses are turned into dense villages, the only difference is that all villages not only have walls, but also a circle of wooden stakes, which is also like a prison.

Dozens of kilns have been dug up, and the sky is red from the firelight of the kilns every day, and the huge black smoke over more than a dozen steel-making kilns has been non-stop all day long.

100,000 people dug around the earth, the hills were dug up and stretched downward, the excavated earth was used to burn bricks, the used coal slag was paved into the pavement, the ore was sorted and refined, and even the useless stones were transported out to build a wall, and everything was not wasted, it was all used to the extreme.

The ore was dug out, refined into tools, and more ore was dug out, and I had to sigh that Qian'an iron ore mining is really convenient, rich in mineral deposits, and the iron content is particularly high, and there are few useless stones.

The Khitan and Turkic tribes requisitioned a large number of horses for operation, but fortunately, the Xi people are very good at making carriages, and there is no shortage of wood in western Liaoning, and it took a month to continue to produce, and tens of thousands of carriages appeared on the huge construction site, which is a perfect explanation for the busy traffic.

It didn't take long for the warehouse to be full of steel ingots, iron ingots, there were really not enough people to forge, and a hydraulic forging workshop was being built by the river, using water to drive levers and hammer iron ingots, which could save a lot of manpower and material resources.

When Feng Daiwen points out a direction, they can apply it to every aspect, there is no doubt about it, it has not been made before, there is no such concept, and it is always not easy to use things imagined out of thin air to be used in reality, and Feng Daiwen pointed out that the core power is a mature direction, and the rest is just to assemble it with various parts, which is what they are good at.

Liaoning West has fully adapted to the new cultivation methods, ploughing, fertilizing, seed selection, seedling raising, top dressing, and the experimental field will also carry out pollination, cross-pollination and other processes.

Feng Daiwen saw that everything was on the right track, so he returned to Chang'an with confidence, because a group of young generals in Chang'an couldn't wait to go on the expedition, and sent people to Liaoxi many times to urge.

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10,000 rattan armor soldiers, 3,000 guards from each family, family members, etc., entered Shuzhong along the Shu Road from Hanzhong, and it was already early April when they entered Shuzhong.

This time, Feng Daiwen left Xi Junmai in Liaoxi, just in case, and brought Feng Daihuo, Cheng Chubi, Wei Chi Baoqing, Li Dexian, Li Chongyi, Li Tian, Du He, and more than ten other second-generation Chang'an idle officials.

As for Liu Dewei, he will then take the eldest grandson Chong, as well as a group of civil officials, to enter after Feng Daiwen quelled Nanzhao.

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In Xichang, Feng Daiwen met Niu Jinda, who had been leading the army to guard this place, and was also monitoring the family and responsible for logistics support.

"I've seen Niu Jungong!" Feng Daiwen saw that Niu Jinda actually went out of the city to greet him in person, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, after all, Niu Jinda belonged to the same family of military generals, and had a good relationship with Wei Chigong, Cheng Yanjin and others, all of whom were born in Wagang.

"Welcome to the Grand Steward!" Niu Jinda smiled and returned the salute.

"Uncle Niu laughed, and before the little nephew left, Jiayue explained that Uncle was a close friend, and he would ask Uncle for help if he had something." Feng Daiwen hurriedly said humbly.

Feng Daiwen was given the position of the chief of the march of the South Summoning Road by Li Shimin this time, which is just a name for easy management, saying that it is the chief manager, and the regular army is only one or two thousand, and the others are all rabble.

"Haha! In that case, the old man will call you a good nephew. Niu Jinda smiled heartily, his originally ugly face actually made him feel very warm when he smiled at Feng Daiwen.

"It should be so, when the little nephew first arrived, I would like to ask my uncle to introduce the form of Nanzhao." Feng Daiwen thought that he was so friendly to him for the sake of Wei Chigong and others, so he hurriedly asked.

"Let the army be stationed, and you follow the old man into the city to talk about it." Niu Jinda did not shirk and invited.

"I've seen Uncle Niu, Duke Niu!" A group of second-generation officials, all of whom have seen Niu Jinda, have heard of it even if they haven't seen it, and they have been told by their families, and when they saw Feng Daiwen say stop, they all stepped forward to salute and introduce themselves.

Like Yu Chi Baoqing, Cheng Chubi is very familiar, so he naturally didn't dare to slack off, respectfully greeted him as a junior, and waited for a large group of people to salute, leaving the Chen Xiong brothers to set up camp, and then followed into the city.

"The virtuous nephew is an accident, why is the old man so enthusiastic when they meet for the first time?" Niu Jinda, who was walking in front, asked Feng Daiwen, who was one step behind.

"It's really a little confusing, and I ask my uncle to explain it." Feng Daiwen was stunned for a moment, thinking that it was because of Wei Chigong, but then he knew that there was another reason, and hurriedly asked.

"The virtuous nephew brought three crops of rice, improved grain seeds, and promoted advanced agricultural tools, so that the people of the world could not worry about hunger, and promoted commerce, so that the people became rich, which really made the old man admire." Niu Jinda did not answer, but talked about irrelevant things.

"Uncle has won the award, this is all the saint's open-mindedness, let the little nephew mess around, and be able to use what he has learned to contribute to the Tang Dynasty and let the people of the world benefit a little, which is also the honor of the little nephew." Although Feng Daiwen didn't understand why he said it, he still replied modestly.

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