In January 193 AD, the end of the year is getting closer and closer, and many people are waiting for the arrival of this year's Spring Festival. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

For the First Engineer Regiment of the Chinese Republic, they have to accept an important mission at this juncture of the Chinese New Year. Li Wen has personally issued a notice that they will go to live in a special environment for the next five years.

In the next five years, they had to complete the construction of a port, as well as the construction of two roads and a transport railway.

This is followed by the mining of large quantities of copper and gold ore and the smelting of the ore on site. In particular, the associated ores will also be refined on site and transported back to the Zhoushan wharf.

The departure time is determined to be the fifth day of the first lunar month, and generally speaking, many people do not plan to work at this time. Even the government will start work on the 16th after the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, but they must start setting off on the fifth day of the first lunar month.

For the soldiers, obedience to orders is everything to them, even if it is only a group of sappers who are responsible for building bridges and roads, and building fortifications. They can only obey the state's arrangement, but fortunately, they only have five years, and Li Wen promised to allow them to return to their hometowns after five years, and those who perform well will be promoted, and even qualified to take up posts in the General Logistics Department.

After a year of peace, the effects of the war began to fade. The people of Xuzhou have begun to gradually forget the pains brought about by the change, and began to rebuild their homes under the leadership of Chairman Lu Bu. The Huaxia Republic has invested in a lot of factories here, which makes it impossible for them to lack employment opportunities.

The first caravans of the Han Empire also began to return, bringing back a large number of goods, but because there were caravans from the Han Republic competing with them for business, it was very low. As a result, this brought great contradictions to the two countries, and the Republic of Han was originally based on a monopoly capitalist republic, and the interests of businessmen were infringed, which was equivalent to the interests of the state being damaged.

On the side of the Han Empire, Liu Wei was also very dissatisfied with the merchants of the Han Republic who deliberately lowered the selling price and raised the purchase price. He finally went to trade in the Western Regions, but the profits he brought back were not as good as those in his local trade, which made him very dissatisfied.

At the same time, the behavior of Hongnong Yang and Longxi Li also began to cause dissatisfaction among other gate valves.

In the end, Yang Biao had to take some of his descendants into Qingzhou to establish the Qingzhou Yang clan, which was regarded as breaking away from the Hongnong Yang clan. and handed over a part of the shares and business, and retained its position in the Han Republic; The Li clan in Longxi also divided the Li clan in Taiyuan and the Li clan in Fanyang to ensure the political and economic status of the Li clan in Longxi in the Han Republic.

It is really ironic that in the previous era of pure grain standard, even if there was a change of dynasties, or even two people of the same clan serving in different regimes, it would not be to the extent of splitting the family.

But who let this is the era of economic leadership, food is no longer valuable, even if it is processed, it is not worth much. If the family wants to maintain the expenses of the gate valve, as well as various political inputs, then it needs to go into business and make money. Obviously, the country that currently occupies the largest market is the Republic of Dahan, which has a population of 70 million, and of course the record on the surface is only 30 million.

The market is like a piece of cake, and food is a completely different concept, whoever eats more, who eats less, especially the monopoly operation is so profitable, who does not want to maintain a monopoly position?

Seeing that the two gate valves of Hongnong Yang and Longxi Li are also mixing well in the Han Empire, the other monopoly capitalist gate valves of the Han Republic are naturally very jealous and want to kick them out of the circle of rentiers. Naturally, the two could not let go of the mature market, so they had no choice but to separate.

As for the issue of the Silk Road, in the end it seems that Liu Xie and Liu Wei reached an agreement to form a joint chamber of commerce, in which the Han Empire occupies a seventy percent share and the Han Republic occupies a thirty percent share. Unified procurement of goods, unified sales of goods. In this way, waste can be avoided to the greatest extent, and benefits can be maximized.

However, it is clear that Liu Xie is definitely not satisfied with only 30% of the benefits, mainly because those parliamentarians under his rule are not satisfied. After internal negotiations, Yuan had reached an agreement with the new Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Huchuquan, on the one hand, to build three national highways leading to the Hetao Plain, and to help the Southern Xiongnu establish three grassland cities.

Acquire a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, and, of course, wool. Wool textile technology appeared in the hands of the Li family in Taiyuan, and after the Li family separated from Longxi, although they did not continue to monopolize animal husbandry, they intended to monopolize the appearance of the wool textile industry. It is not difficult to guess that this wool textile technology is simply provided by Li Yu.

In fact, it is true that the Li family of Longxi spent 5,000 gold coins to buy the patent of this technology directly from Li Yu. For Li Yu, the south is not suitable for wool textiles at all, and it is better to sell it than to waste this technology.

The key is that with this technology, the Taiyuan Li family can continue to buy local wool from the southern Xiongnu and even ethnic minorities such as Xianbei and Wuhuan. This thing is usually thrown away by the local people, but now they can exchange it for a lot of money, and use it to buy a lot of daily necessities, especially tea and other good things.

The Southern Xiongnu said that they were willing to escort the caravan of the Han Republic as an escort. After all, the caravans of the Han Republic passing by them will definitely lead to prosperity here. In addition, another request was made to the Republic of Dahan, that is, to help them conquer the Wusun Kingdom.

The Wusun Kingdom has existed since 300 BC, and its history is actually longer than that of the Han Dynasty. However, after more than 400 years, the Wusun Kingdom has completely declined, and the power of the country has fallen into the hands of various subordinate nobles. Not to mention that thirty years ago, it was invaded many times by Tanshi Huai, and it was already weak.

The Southern Xiongnu have long had the ambition of expansion, and there was no way to be arrogant when Tanshi Huai was still there, and the Han Dynasty was chaotic and wanted to pick up the cheap, but who knew that the turmoil was quickly eliminated, so that they lost the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

Living in the Hetao Plain for a long time, some of the people of the Southern Xiongnu have begun to plant wheat instead of grazing or fighting, which is also a success of the long-term sinicization of the Han Dynasty.

Hu Chuquan is an enterprising Shan Yu, as long as he wants to rise in the Southern Xiongnu, he must rely on a strong man. But if it's a really strong person, then it's hard to want to get rid of it again. Obviously, the Han Republic with a slightly empty foundation is obviously the best object, on the one hand, the military strength is strong, on the other hand, it is not so strong that there is no way to get rid of it, so the Southern Xiongnu are still attached to the Han Republic.

This time, the Republic of Dahan planned to use the Southern Xiongnu to open up the road to the Western Regions, and take another road to the Western Regions to do business. Of course, there may not be no intention of continuing to the north and doing business with the prairie people.

Some time ago, Gongsun Zhan, that crazy guy, directly broke through several Xianbei tribes, and sold the men and women inside as slaves, and actually sold them for a good price. These slaves were mainly used for ore mining and high manual labor, so that the Han people could do other light jobs.

The cost of slavery was cheap, basically a fixed price, but a young healthy slave could work for his master for more than ten years, and more than ten years of labor could earn at least ten times more profits, so the slave trade began to flourish.

A large number of foreign slaves began to land in China, not only Xianbei, but even the Wuhuan, Buyeo and Goguryeo 'Dongyi' clansmen also began to flow into the land of China. That is, because the Southern Xiongnu were attached to the Han Republic, they were not among the targets of plunder.

For the proposal of the Southern Xiongnu, the Han Republic finally agreed, and the Wusun Kingdom was adjacent to the Dawan Kingdom, and even directly led to the Kangju Kingdom further ahead. After discussion, the Congress decided to help the Southern Xiongnu expand its sphere of influence, and the key was to put some pressure on the Han Empire on the northern border.

In February 193 AD, with the arrival of the New Year, many people ended their busy work, and even the best shops posted notices in advance that they would not be open for x days during the Spring Festival.

The government also sealed it directly, and it was not until after the Lantern Festival that it began to reopen. It is said that the National People's Congress will soon revise the principles of the Spring Festival office, and some key departments will also have some officials on duty from the third day of the Lunar New Year to deal with emergencies.

On the day of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, this day is a statutory holiday formulated by Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was originally prepared for Buddhism. However, Li Yu announced that this is the Lantern Festival, not only with lanterns and riddles, but also with the food of the Lantern Festival, not to mention various other folk activities, which has turned a religious festival into a pure folk festival.

After the Lantern Festival, a fleet of ships began to leave the Zhoushan wharf and move towards Dongzhi County in the south. Two days later, we arrived there, and after a short rest, we began to sail eastward, arriving at Keelung Port on the same day. Someone specially recorded the latitude and longitude coordinates here, so that it is convenient to go directly to Zhoushan Wharf from here in the future, not to return to Dongzhi County first.

The non-commissioned officers of the 1st Engineer Regiment began to disembark, and began to need to cut down the surrounding trees, clear the mess of plants, and even send some people to explore the way, while the military doctors were also urgently preparing medicines to prevent miasma and other diseases.

There are a lot of wild deer on Yizhou Island, in fact, it is the Taiwan sambar deer, and there are other animals to hunt, and the soldiers who went out to explore came back after a short time, bringing back a lot of prey, and it seems that there is no need to eat dry food tonight.

The soldiers in charge of the farming are also taking care of the sweet potato, potato and corn seeds they have brought in, after all, in five years' time, they will also cultivate a number of fields here and grow food here to supplement the food source. In the final analysis, the cost of transporting grain directly from the mainland is still too low.

Five days later, the Jinguashi gold mine was discovered, and the explorers were pleasantly surprised to find that this is a large gold deposit, not only has a large amount of gold ore on the surface, but it is very convenient to mine.

At the same time, this vein is also accompanied by sulfur arsenic copper ore, chalcopyrite, pyrite, sphalerite, galena, silver and gold ore, etc., and there are many other non-metallic minerals, which can be said to be a huge treasure!

No wonder this is a secret operation, if this gold mine is spread out, I am afraid that even the Han Empire in the interior will have to find ways to obtain access to the sea, and then directly kill and rob it!

It's a pity that this has nothing to do with them, not to mention that they are soldiers themselves, and their mission this time is also to mine here for five years. This is not only related to their families but also their careers, Li Wen may promise that they have been out on duty in the past few years, so their salaries will be paid according to twice the amount, and they will be able to save a good income in five years.

Besides, even if there is some soup to drink, the soldiers have nothing to complain about, after all, if they continue to complain, others will leave them on this desert island, so they don't know how to cry...... (To be continued.) )