Chapter 292: Emerald
Myitkyina was just a small city, with a population of 50,000 and 8,000 soldiers.
"The people here are also spineless, and they surrendered before the fight started!" Yu Chi Baoqing said dissatisfiedly.
Feng Daihuo nodded approvingly.
"Wouldn't it be nice not to fight? We are on an expedition, and it is not easy to replenish, so it is always good to die fewer brothers if we fight less.
As for why it is so easy to surrender, this is also because they rarely fight, they have always been accustomed to small cities obeying big cities, and they still belong to the city-state system, everything depends on the city lord, the city lord is strong, and naturally the soldiers are not weak. Feng Daiwen stared at the two of them angrily, but still explained to them, after all, the two and two goods are his relatives.
"But even though it's a small town, there's a lot of gold and jewelry! That Emerald Mountain shouldn't be far away, right? Yu Chi Baoqing said with a pout, holding a piece of jade ball that was green and transparent, pure in color, and the size of a fist, and was tossed up and down.
"It's not far off! Thou shalt stay and defend the city, and tomorrow we will set out to find it!" Feng Daiwen glanced at Feng Daihuo again, and the piece of natural human head jade in his hand was like a real skull, with a nose and eyes, but the color was emerald green, and there was no such gloomy feeling.
I don't understand that so much jade has been seized, he doesn't play, but chooses one in such a form, for his younger brother's hobby, Feng Daiwen is also speechless.
"Don't! Brother-in-law, brother-in-law! Let them stay and defend the city, take me to see it, and increase your knowledge! Yu Chi Baoqing hurriedly covered his face and begged with a smile.
When Feng Daiwen set off the next day, he still took Wei Chi Baoqing with him, leaving Feng Daihuo, Li Dexian, and Chen Hu to guard the city, and he brought 3,000 people to hunt for treasures.
Just when Feng Daiwen set off to hunt for treasure, the eldest grandson Chong took Chai Lingwen, Chai Lingwu brothers, and more than a dozen second-generation officials who dreamed of making contributions and making a fortune also arrived in Wa City.
Changsun Chong originally thought that there would be twists and turns in taking over the Wa State, and he had already thought of countless countermeasures, and he knew that as soon as he arrived in the Wa State City, Qin Huaiyu immediately handed over all the affairs of the city.
This made him stunned at the same time, but also uncomfortable, all the ideas had not had time to be used, they had already arrived, as if they had hit an empty punch, and his heart was panicked.
Well, since this is the case, it also saves a lot of things, just when he was planning to show his strength, make some achievements, and surpass Feng Daiwen, he found that his ideals were very plump and his reality was very skinny.
There is no commercial system in the Wa state, and it is all barter, which means that commercial taxation is difficult; Because of the war, there were many fewer young people inside and outside the city, and Changsun Chong thought that these people had all died in battle or fled.
Naturally, he didn't know that Feng Daiwen had transferred 10,000 prisoners, and Qin Huaiyu had organized more than 20,000 people to mine, which was almost the majority of the young people in and outside the city.
"County Guard, what now?" Chai Lingwen asked Changsun Chong at a loss, since it was already September, and the city people were busy with the autumn harvest every day, which made them not know what to do, because they didn't know how to farm, so they had to let the people play, and the population was decreasing, and there was no extra labor to show their existence.
Changsun Chong looked dazed, he didn't know where to start, the city was originally rich, the officials were raided, the rest were all people, and they were all busy with the autumn harvest, which made the whole city like a ghost town, people rarely saw one during the day, and there were no rich people, the economy was even more depressed, there was not even a stall, and its own daily necessities store was still open, but there were few customers to patronize.
Walking on the empty streets, everyone who originally went out to investigate looked at each other, not knowing what they could see, and they couldn't find someone to ask, and now they found that no one could understand the local dialect, which made a group of high-spirited young people suffer a blow.
"The others go and find a way to investigate the situation and see what is going on, Ling Wen, Ling Wu and I will visit Qin Huaiyu!" Eldest Sun Chong gritted his teeth and said.
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"This is the river?" Seeing that Feng Daiwen had been staring at the river below, Yu Chi Baoqing immediately asked with interest.
Feng Daiwen took the telescope and looked around, and then said: "It should be, Baoqing, you take people down, smash the stones by the river to take a look, Chen Xiong takes the prospector to the two mountains over there to take a look, I will take people upstream, and you all come upstream to meet." ”
"Howler! Someone! Find gems with someone! Yu Chi Baoqing greeted excitedly and loudly, and rushed down after speaking, just like a devil entering the village, the generals around him applauded loudly, and led people to follow.
Feng Daiwen shook his head with a smile, looking at everyone's very excited run, and also led people to the upper reaches of the Wuyou River.
It took three days to reach the source of the Uyu River, surrounded by rolling mountains, where the flow of the river is very small, and the water is not deep, and the riverbed is full of rocks.
"Hey, hey! Hey! Brother-in-law, look! Yu Chi Baoqing took hundreds of people, one of whom held one or two stones and piled them up together to offer treasures.
Feng Daiwen looked at it, he was very smart, he just knocked the stones open a little to check, and all the stones had a touch of green.
"It's not bad, go back and let people polish it out, and each brother's piece is an heirloom!" Feng Daiwen nodded and said.
"Oh! Oh! Thank you, General! The soldiers who heard it around cheered happily, and those who didn't hear it hurriedly asked, and after knowing the news, they were all excited.
"Brother-in-law, there are too many of these things, on both sides of the entire river, all the stones may be jadeite, but I don't know what the local natives think, it's obviously a river, and the water is also very deep, but it's called a river." Yu Chi Baoqing said in a very dissatisfied tone.
"It's not simple, this is the source, let people open up another river in the future, and there will be no water downstream, and it's not as much as you want to dig it." Feng Daiwen said with a smile.
Thinking that the best jadeite in the world is left at his feet, and he has to take it by himself, there is no one who is not excited, Feng Daiwen has also seen too much recently, and his mind is a lot calmer.
"Hehe, yes, brother-in-law, your head is good." When Yu Chi Baoqing heard this, this attention was simply invincible, and his whole body was sour with excitement.
"But it's too far, how can you transport so much back?" Then he muttered to himself worriedly.
"I have no choice but to build the road slowly, and move it slowly, but this is also a good thing, too much is not worth it, now it is all Datang's, we must vigorously promote it, so that everyone in the world will fall in love with this thing, so that the price will be high."
As for those that are poor, let the craftsmen put some effort into it, make it a little finer, and make a good name in it, and sell it to the foreign races of Fanbang. Feng Daiwen touched the stubble that he had not had time to take care of, and thought about it.
(End of chapter)