At midnight, Qin Feng finally finished dealing with the last piece of music at hand, stood up and stretched, and let out a long breath, no matter where he went, there were always endless twists and turns to follow his steps.

Xintong County has been taken down, so that the Ministry of Industry and other people are greedy for the mines in Xintong County have now become the property of the Ming Dynasty, those large and small mine owners, when the Ming army entered Xintong, but they all organized their own private army to join Chen Chu's army against the Ming Dynasty, but it was served by a pot, not to mention the dead, the living are now prisoners of the Ming army, and if they want to get out, it is not so simple.

As soon as the Ministry of Industry Shangshu in the Tiger Prison received the news, he immediately went to Xintong with a large number of people, and now he is accompanied by the war horses of the Chasing Wind Battalion, accepting those mines one after another.

Mining areas have always been difficult to deal with, not to mention anything else, just the miners of each mine are more than thousands, and the miners are as few as hundreds of people is a big trouble, when the Taipingshan Daye City was developed, there were troops stationed there. This is still their own territory, and now Xintong has just fallen into the bag, but I'm afraid that there will be big and small messes next, and it will take a certain amount of time to fully digest it.

Qin Feng criticized his own opinions on the excerpt, and he wanted to skillfully choose a few people who were a little more comfortable among the local mine owners to come out as role models, and he couldn't swallow them all, and it was always easier to have locals come out to help him.

These mines are scattered, the productivity is outrageously low, and the technology of iron smelting is completely like slag for the Ming Dynasty, and basically all of them have to be torn down and restarted. It is necessary to build a large number of buildings, fortunately, now Daming is not short of money, but how to use the money, can integrate these mines, Xintong County will basically settle down, and when they can play a role, Daming will have a stable source of steel.

More importantly, the experience of Shencai Daye City, such an area with relatively rich mineral deposits, it is easy to build it into a benchmark urban area, simply put, it is to make this area rich first, and then radiate to the surrounding areas, driving the economic vitality of the surrounding areas.

Qin Feng has a clear understanding of the current Ming Dynasty, compared with the Qi State, there are still great shortcomings, especially the economic potential, if the two countries fight now, or the Ming Dynasty will not suffer any losses in the early days, and even rely on advanced weapons and equipment to take advantage of a lot of advantages, but it is absolutely impossible to defeat the Qi State in a short time, and this war will last for a long time. Even ten or twenty years Qin Feng didn't think it was unusual.

The Ming State is developing, and similarly, the Emperor of Qi Cao Tiancheng is also aware of his own crisis, and is beginning to reform in the country, and power is also concentrating on the emperor, with the background of the Qi State, once they are on the right track, the imperial court can integrate all the forces, and it will definitely become a giant existence.

Whether it is wealth or people, it is not comparable to the Ming Dynasty.

Qin Feng was anxious to annex the Qin State, not only to eliminate the hidden dangers around him, but also to use the people of the Qin State and the land, with the Qin State, the Ming Dynasty had a deeper strategic depth, and to achieve this goal, it was obviously not enough to conquer the Qin State, but also to develop the Qin State in a short period of time. In this way, when confronting Qi in the future, he will have more confidence.

Taoyuan, Wuling, Yiyang are the original rich areas of the Ming Dynasty, when the Qin State withdrew from these three counties, desperately sabotage their purpose, which is nothing more than to destroy the war potential of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, their purpose has indeed been achieved, and now in order to restore the economy of these three regions, the Ming Dynasty has to inject an astronomical amount of money every year. In particular, the loss of population is irreparable in a short period of time.

And the Qin State happened to have a large surplus population. The poorer they are, the more they live, and the Qin State is really a model. Qin is secluded in the western frontier, to Chu, he has the Luoying Mountains, alignment, he has the Hengduan Mountains, the only neighboring country that does not have the danger of the mountains, it used to be the Yue State, and the Yue State is weak, and there is no threat to the Qin State at all, which also makes the Qin State can play inside behind closed doors, and only until the rise of the Ming Dynasty will he be beaten to the ground.

The Qin State was played by its own rulers into this miserable appearance, the domestic political struggle is far more fierce than the external struggle, Li Zhi spent his whole life hard work, but it is only to let the forces that may threaten the imperial power to be honest, but for other domestic contradictions are also helpless, and when he died, the Qin State was immediately chaotic.

The reason why Qin Feng and Min Ruoxi wanted to kill Li Zhi was because of the existence of this old man, who could pinch the forces of Qin to the outside world to the greatest extent, which was of course the biggest obstacle to Qin Feng's conquest plan, and the facts also proved that as soon as Li Zhi died, everything returned to the track expected by the Ming Kingdom.

Now, it's just the final harvest season, and for all this, the Ming Kingdom has been preparing for many years.

A black-clothed guard quietly walked into Qin Feng's big tent and whispered something to Qin Feng, Qin Feng was a little stunned, but then laughed again, waved his hand, and the black-clothed guard turned around again and retreated ghostly.

When Grandpa Le walked into the big tent with a tray, he happened to pass by the black-clothed guard, the man in black didn't seem to see him, and Grandpa Le didn't pay attention to the man in black, as soon as the two entered and exited, it was as if they didn't exist for each other.

"Your Majesty, the millet porridge that has just been boiled, you can drink it while it's hot!" Father-in-law Le put the tray on top of the big case and placed a bowl of golden millet porridge in front of Qin Feng.

"Hmm!" Qin Feng responded, he was busy for half the night, but he was really hungry, he took two bites of porridge, looked at Le Gonggong, and suddenly said thoughtfully: "Le Gong, tomorrow to attack Bauhinia Mountain and Huanghua Mountain, which team are more optimistic about victory?" ”

Father-in-law Le was stunned, Qin Feng would never ask him about this, and he would never inquire. But when the emperor opened his mouth, he couldn't help but answer, and after a long silence, he said carefully: "The old slave is optimistic about the two camps of Huben and Yulin. ”

"Oh, why do you think they're going to take the target first?" Qin Feng drank the millet porridge in the bowl and asked with interest.

"Your Majesty, the old slave thinks that Hu Ben and Yulin are the troops carefully selected by my Ming Dynasty, they are the troops of the garrison capital, although the predecessor was the City Gate Army, but after General Gan Wei took over, he searched for the weak and retained the strong, vigorously rectified, and transferred a large number of backbones in other armies. Now my heart is high. After all, the new third battalion and the new fourth battalion were adapted from the Tiger Prison Army, and in terms of combat effectiveness, they were definitely not as good as Tiger Ben and Yulin. ”

Qin Feng blinked, "You think so?" But also, I'm afraid most people will think so. Le Gong, it's better to do this, let's make a bet, since you are optimistic about Huben and Yulin, I am optimistic about the new third camp and the new fourth camp, let's bet ten taels of silver, how about it? ”

"The old slave doesn't dare to bet with His Majesty!" Grandpa Le shook his head again and again.

"What don't you dare, it's not like you can't take out ten taels of silver, come, gamble." Qin Feng touched his waist bag, but he was embarrassed again, there was not a penny in the bag.

"Since Your Majesty is in high spirits, then the old slave will accompany Your Majesty to be happy!" Grandpa Le smiled and took out a ten-tael silver note from his arms and pressed it on top of the big case.

"I don't have any money in my pocket, but it doesn't matter, because your ten taels must be mine." Qin Feng smiled and said, "If I lose, don't be afraid that I will pay the bill, I will definitely give you ten taels of silver." ”

"Your Majesty is rich all over the world, Chrysostom Yuyan, how can the old slave worry that Your Majesty will not give me money?" Grandpa Le smiled and said authentically.

Money or anything doesn't matter to Grandpa Le at all, for him, as long as His Majesty is happy, it's fine.

The reason why Qin Feng wanted to make this bet with Grandpa Le was precisely because the black-clothed guard had just come in to report some relevant information about these two troops.

The new 3rd Battalion and the new 4th Battalion have been integrated, and all the heavy weapons and various different arms have begun to be reorganized overnight, and the command has been handed over to Chen Shaowei. On the other side of Bauhinia Mountain, Jian Fang and Jiang Hao simply divided the work, and the two camps attacked each side from two directions and it was over.

The four battalions are equal in terms of position, even if Qin Feng previously designated Jian Fang and Chen Shaowei to command the war on the two battlefields, but when it was implemented, the result was very different, it was obvious that in the direction of Huanghuashan, Ke Zhen, the commander of the new third battalion, completely gave up his independent status and integrated the new third battalion and the new fourth battalion together, and on the side of Huben and Yulin, although Jiang Hao also obeyed Jian Fang's orders, but did not further optimize the strength of the troops, reasonable arrangement, although this battle has not yet started, But Qin Feng, who has been fighting for the old man, can already predict the outcome of this competition.

Qin Feng didn't intend to specifically interfere in the command process of this battle, because many things had to be personally understood by the generals and comprehended to really play a role. This time, I have to say that the new third and fourth battalions are attentive. Tiger Ben and Yulin, if they really lose this time, they should also be able to learn a lot.

The current Ming army, especially some old brand troops, look down on the army that has been reorganized from the Qin army, which is not a good sign, maybe this battle can make their views change somewhat. The combat effectiveness of the Qin State is really not bad, especially the individual combat, which is quite strong, which is quite deep for Qin Feng, who has fought with the Qin people in the Luoying Mountains for six years, and how many of his companions have been buried in the hands of those guys who look unclothed. For the Qin people who dared to charge the heavily armed Chu army with a big stick, as long as they aroused the bravery in their blood, they were the best soldiers.