The place where Dolgon sneak attacked was only more than 200 miles away from Guanning City, which happened to be the defense area of the Guanning army, and Cao Wenzhao, the commander of the Guanning army, led his men to camp on the side of the Great Wall less than 100 miles away, and he did not hesitate after receiving the telegram, and ordered 20,000 cavalry to rush towards the village like a whirlwind.

However, he was still late, and Dolgon had calculated before he set out, that the distance would take him at least an hour, even if he galloped wildly, so that when he arrived at the village where the accident occurred, the shadow of Dolgon's early run was gone.

Cao Wenzhao was so angry that his face turned green, and the Qing army dared to run under his nose to spread wildness, and he ran away after grabbing it, so that he had no chance to pursue. But no matter how angry he was, everyone ran away, he really couldn't catch up, so he had to arrange for people to put out the fire, and at the same time let people go to find the villagers who were hiding, and he was busy all day before running back in disgrace.

When the news reached the capital, Zhu Cijiong was also so angry that he gritted his teeth, Huang Taiji was provoking him, first building a dynasty and calling him the emperor, and then sending troops to attack, making it clear that he was invited to go to the Mongolian steppe to practice.

Zhu Cijiong also wanted to send troops to Huang Taiji immediately, but the Ming Dynasty is now in a critical period of development, Sun Chuanting is leading the Qin army to take 200,000 captives to repair the railway from Xi'an to Chengdu, Qin Gongming is also leading the Liao army to hold 200,000 prisoners to build the railway from Kaifeng to Jinling, and Li Mingfu's Wuwei army has taken 100,000 captives and scattered to all parts of the Ming Dynasty to lay a telegraph network, and all the materials, grain and grass, and logistics personnel are serving the 300,000 army and 500,000 prisoners. The Ming Dynasty couldn't spare his hands to teach the Manchus a lesson.

Could it be that the railroad that had been built and the telegraph network that had been laid less than half of it had been laid were stopped, and that all efforts were made to deal with the Manchus? It's not impossible, but Daming's losses are great, not to mention the time wasted by these people tossing back and forth, calculating the losses caused by their shutdown are unbearable.

Now the 50,000 elites of the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force and the First Army of the Expeditionary Force have gone to Nanyang, and the entire Ming Dynasty can only be mobilized by Ma Xianglin's Second Army Corps of the Frontier Army.

After doing all this, Zhu Cijiong returned his attention to the entire construction of Daming, and now the Xicheng District has basically been completed, and the machinery factory, cable factory, cement factory, and steel plant have already been put into production, which brings another problem, the raw materials are not enough!

Especially iron ore, the Ministry of Industry has been crazy to build a few months of turning over the earth, plus Zhu Cijiong ordered four new railway lines, the amount of iron ore can be imagined, although Zhu Cijiong did not hesitate to buy from Schwila, but the iron ore production in Nanyang is so much, you don't have more money, and now almost all the people in Mysore are mining, and this is still not enough to supply the needs of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cijiong was forced to have no choice, he could only set his sights on the territory of Daming, he vaguely remembered that the largest domestic iron ore reserves seem to be Liaodong, and then it is now Monan Mongolia, and then down is Beizhili, Sichuan and Shanxi, and now it is in the agricultural slack season, Zhu Cijiong is ready to let the Ministry of Industry organize a large number of civilians to mine, as for how to find this iron ore, then you have to ask the experts. He has crossed over, not become a god, and it is impossible to understand everything.

It just so happened that he also had to arrange the mining of iron ore, so he simply called several cronies of the Ministry of Industry to his private study and held a small meeting.

He also called Bi Maokang, Wang Zheng and Song Yingxing, these people are all his cronies, and when they arrive in the study, they are naturally not as restrained as newcomers, and under Zhu Cijiong's repeated insistence, they are also used to sitting on both sides of the conference table and listening to the hadith, but everyone sits upright, and does not dare to slack off.

Zhu Cijiong saw that everyone was seated, so he asked Bi Maokang: "Meng Hou, how much iron ore do these factories under the Ministry of Industry use every month?" “

When Bi Maokang heard this, he immediately complained: "Your Majesty, this Weichen really can't reply to you now, because now there is not enough iron ore at all, Wang Gong Factory and Dongdaying Cannon Foundry have stopped working, and all iron ore is used to cast rails and produce steam trains, so it is still a little insufficient." “

Zhu Cijiong rubbed his forehead and said helplessly: "I know what you said, don't you want to find a way to solve this problem, I am asking you to roughly estimate the total consumption of all factories, not asking you about the actual consumption of each month now." “

Bi Maokang hurriedly said in fear: "It's Weichen who is offended, please forgive the emperor, if you estimate it, Wang Gong's factory will be about two million catties per month, and Dongdaying Cannon Foundry will have three million catties per month, as for the steel plant, if only five million catties per month for the machinery factory are enough, but if you want to fully start producing civilian steel, then 10 million catties is only enough for the day, and if you produce in shifts for twelve hours, you need at least 20 million catties!" “

Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but secretly stumble when he heard this, no wonder the supply of iron ore every month is not enough to reach more than five million catties, half a day is enough for the machinery factory, and the steel plant is still in a state of half-operation and half-rest, it seems that this iron mine must be opened.

He thought for a while and said directly: "I want you to send people to organize civilians to dig iron ore during the slack time, but now Daming has some small private iron mines, and the reserves are very limited, how to find iron ore, do you know?" “

Bi Maokang and Wang Zheng were a little dazed when they heard this, but Song Yingxing replied confidently: "Your Majesty, this is simple, Weichen has consulted many books, and places rich in iron ore are actually easy to find, such as the place where iron ore gathers is mostly broken wood, and the soil is dark red and mostly iron ore, etc. “

It is easy to understand that the dark red color of the earth is mostly iron ore, because iron oxide is dark red, but what does this broken wood mean? Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but ask curiously: "What is the severed head wood, does the tree still have a head?" “

Song Yingxing smiled and explained: "Broken head wood is a folk saying, in fact, it is a tree that has been cut by lightning, and the ground is rich in iron ore and easy to lead to lightning, so there are many broken head trees." “

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he couldn't help but suddenly realize, in order to save the time of the Ministry of Industry looking for iron ore, he said nonsense: "Oh, it turned out to be a tree that was cut by lightning, I have heard that people in Beijing, Liaodong, Shanxi and Sichuan often see trees being struck by lightning, especially in Liaodong, almost everywhere, I thought there were too many souls there, and it was because there was an iron mine below!" “

When the three of them heard this, they were all confused, there was such a thing, why hadn't they heard of it, but their worship of Zhu Cijiong was like a surging river...... endlessly.

Uh, digression, in short, the emperor said that there is, there is, just arrange people to look for them in these places, and you don't need to go to other places!