The site where the clay was found was in the shade of a dirt mountain, and after two years of drought and little rain, the land should have been dry and cracked into a crack in the road, but in the shade of the mountain, a piece of damp soil was born, the quality of the clay was excellent, the sand content was very small, the soil was too much moisture, the fertility was insufficient, and the grass and trees did not grow.

The clay soil is not close to Kangjiazhuang, three or four miles away, and it goes deep into the mountains.

If it weren't for the path in front of Kangjiazhuang, Tang Xidong believed that he would definitely not let himself find it so easily.

The pit mined by the Kang family is not large, and the remaining clay output is not small, at least enough for Luoliangshan Cottage to start its horsepower for four or five years.

Since the clay was discovered, Tang Xidong quietly returned to the village.

As soon as he returned to the cottage, Tang Xidong found the two brothers Wang Bao and Wang Jin, and asked them to arrange manpower to take people and horses to the clay soil to mine clay day and night, transport it back to the village, and open it to dry.

In order to prevent the villagers of Kangjiazhuang from making trouble after discovering it, Tang Xidong also asked Zhang Sanshi to take the members of the company who went to Kangjiazhuang today to be responsible for guarding.

Everything was arranged, Tang Xidong watched the mighty crowd pushing the wooden cart out of the cottage, but his heart was not relaxed.

Clay Land said no one's, but after all, it was the Kang family who discovered it first, and he could foresee that the action of the cottage would not be discovered by the other party in a short time, benefiting the society, moving the interests of the Kang family, plus the caravan that robbed the Kang family before, even if the other party was not sure, but obviously after this incident, it was considered a complete enmity with the Kang family.

But no one can stop what Tang Xidong has to do.

All interests and grievances are trivial, only the plan in his heart, little by little to change this era, is a big deal.

For three days, day and night mining and transportation, the clay was piled up on the site next to the coking plant, some of which was left open to dry, and some of which was piled up into a mountain.

Tang Xidong expected that the time for the Kang family to discover the abnormality was delayed a lot, and he thought in his heart that the other party's family business had become bigger, and he didn't expect to be rich with porcelain, so the amount of clay needed was not large, and he hadn't found it for a while.

The days were pushed back two days, and in the evening of this day, the time finally came.

Zhang Sanshi sent someone back to report the news.

The Kang family came to the village, and then the two sides clashed, and the company members who had already been instructed by Tang Xidong were merciless, so they left five corpses, and a dozen or so wounded, and the rest fled back to Kangjiazhuang.

"Send the corpses and the wounded to Kangjiazhuang, and then let everyone retreat to the village." Tang Xidong heard the news and ordered directly.

The entire cottage has also entered a state of combat readiness.

The first and second companies of Luoliang Mountain were stationed on the city walls on both sides of the official road.

Busy arranging the city defense, equipping soldiers, replenishing weapons, and standing on the city wall, Tang Xidong found that since he had crossed, in just two or three months, he had cast a city in an unknown corner of the Ming Kingdom.

Although it is still small, like a seedling that has just sprouted, no one dares to underestimate the potential of this small city, and Tang Xidong has long regarded this place in his heart as the home of his lonely forerunner in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also a small lever for himself to pry history.

Whoever comes, they can't destroy it completely.

When night falls, Binh Duong City is brightly lit.

However, Kang Shounong, who was just over fifty, was already half gray-haired.

At this moment, Kang Shounong sat on the wooden chair with a gloomy face, his fingers tightly grasping the wooden armrest, and he was silent.

Kneeling in front of him was the fifth brother who had been guarding his hometown, his eyes were still red and swollen.

Two months ago, the only son Kang Xuqian and six hundred guards encountered an accident at the foot of Luoliang Mountain, the body was gone, and a large amount of money and food were lost.

He was a large house, and he had four or five children, but only one of his grown sons was born.

The unknown life and death of his son is a heavy blow to him.

begged someone to send someone to inquire by all means, but unfortunately there was no clear news in the end, but he suspected that this matter was done by the mountain bandits on Luoliang Mountain, and in his heart he no longer considered whether the rabble had the ability to rob, and his son suffered an accident, and the resentment and pain in his heart needed to find a place to vent.

It's just that just when he was about to ask the prefect to send troops to attack Luoliang Mountain, the Shaanxi rebels came, and they had no choice but to put it aside for the time being.

I just don't want to, the anti-army just left, and before he hit the mountain, the other party came to provoke.

Now not only does he want to cut off his old family, but also kill his nephew.

This sea of blood is deep, and he is too angry to defend the peasants and does not repay it, how to be worthy of the ancestors who worked hard for this large family business, and how to face the families and houses in the clan.

"Old Five, go back and appease everyone, rest assured, the eldest brother will avenge Yu'er."

Looking at the back of the fifth child leaving, Kang Shounong narrowed his eyes.

When the lion sleeps for a long time, others think it is dead.

Not everyone can move the lion of the Kang family.

In the dark ancestral hall of the Kang family, Kang Shounong knelt under a tablet, opened his memory, and his grandfather's aging face and hoarse admonition struck again: Be kind to others and keep your duty!

However, the way of the world has changed, and it has begun to eat people, and if you don't eat people, you will be eaten.

The empty streets, lit with lights, walked to the prefect's yamen in a sedan chair on the street, and behind them were the guards carrying the silver boxes.

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Luoliang Mountain, Tang Xidong sat in the conference hall, silent, and there were large and small stewards sitting beside him.

The group was waiting for the patrol team that went to Pingyang City to inquire about the news to bring back the news.

Tang Xidong clearly knew that the conflict with the Kang family was the beginning of the Kang family's counterattack.

After a night, the Kang family will not be dull enough to be indifferent, let alone merciful enough to let themselves brush the tiger's beard.

The entire Luoliang Mountain is ready for war, and the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth.

It's a pity that he doesn't have advanced firearms in his hands.

The urgency in his heart made Tang Xidong look forward to the early opening of the steel mill.

On the city wall, in addition to the members of the company, Tang Xidong added 1,000 young men on the other side to assist in defending the city, and placed a city guard crossbow every two battlements.

Castle crossbows, repeater guns, and a unique white-ash hair dryer.

The long wooden pipes stretched out of the city wall, and there was a square wooden shell in the middle to hold the white ash, and finally connected to a hand-cranked blower, once the enemy climbed up to the top of the city on a ladder, it would shake the blower and blow out the white ash powder, which would inevitably inflict heavy damage on the enemy.

The outside of the city wall was also dug according to the layout of the previous trench, and the outside was disguised, and the wooden thorns were buried inside.

Everything is well prepared, just waiting for the foreign enemy to attack.

Even if everything that can be thought of is sufficient, the people sitting in the hall at this moment are still nervous and worried.

Shanzhai has never been so imminently facing the invasion of war as it is now, and things that have not yet been experienced will always bring timidity and nervousness to unknown changes.

In the face of everyone's fear and nervousness, Tang Xidong had no choice, he knew that the best way was actually to win a battle, a beautiful victory.

He understood better that the city was too fragile and needed to go through a war full of blood and life and death.

Let everyone have a sense of belonging to the cottage and be full of confidence at the same time, and at the same time make this city a real spiritual steel city.

Therefore, in Tang Xidong's heart, he was secretly looking forward to the early arrival of the war.

Everyone had their own thoughts, and there was a rush of running outside the conference hall.

Hearing the sound of running, Tang Xidong suddenly opened his eyes and sat up straight.

"The military advisor, the owner of the village. The inspection team reported that a large number of soldiers and horses came from Pingyang City, the number of people is expected to be about 3,000, and no artillery with the army was found, and the expected arrival time is within an hour. The platoon commander of the company who came to report the news finished in one breath.