"Oh, how do you say?" Zhao Ji asked suspiciously.

"In fact, now we are just separated from the mountain by a mountain pass, the mountain pass is concave, and the forest is dense. You can only spin around the sparse vegetation on the hillside. If you can cut down those dense forests, it won't take you an hour to reach the Atayal tribe. Liu Qi explained.

"Hmm. How far is it from the Atayal tribe? Zhao Ji continued to ask.

"We'll see." After speaking, Liu Qi took a few steps, stepped on the trunk of the tree, and turned over and stood on the top of a giant tree. After looking at it for a while, he volleyed down into the air and said gently: "It's less than three miles, but if you want to walk over, it is estimated that it will take an hour." ”

Zhao Ji nodded, thinking about something. The group did not stop, and walked along the winding mountain road for a while, and the scenery in front of them suddenly became clear, Zhao Ji saw a large open space, almost no grass, and the surrounding grass was also sparse, and red iron ore could be seen all over the ground. Some of them were piled together, and it seemed that they were made by people from the Atayal tribe. The Atayal people are backward and only know how to use iron ore that is scattered on the surface. Zhao Ji bent down and cut open the red mud on the surface, and then he saw a layer of hard dark red mineral exposed.

"What a large piece of open-pit hematite!" Zhao Ji sighed in his heart.

"Ochre, ochre, all ochre." Pang Anshi ran over and said excitedly, and then said: "The purity of iron ore ochre here is very high, if the iron ore here can be mined, the development of Liuqiu will be faster, and the imperial court will increase its income by at least millions of yuan every year." ”

Zhao Ji straightened up, patted the dust on his body, and said, "It is indeed an open-pit iron mine. He turned around and said to Zhao De and Zhao Tong: "I don't know how big this vein is. In a few days, I will let Taizhou send officials to build a city and open mines here, Zhao De, your tribe will become a huge city. ”

"Does the Holy One mean to build a city here? You Han people are here, and where are my people staying? Zhao De said anxiously.

"You don't have to worry, they are all my people, and I won't let you suffer. You can just lead the troops with peace of mind. Alright, go to your stockade. I'm going to stay here for a while. Zhao Ji said happily.

The Atayal cottage is located in a mountain valley not far from the hematite mine, and the mountain springs converge into a river that passes through the middle of the valley, and the population size is not large, about 10,000 people. Eighteen villages of the Atayal tribe, this is the largest village, and the other villages, the big ones have thousands of people, and the small ones are likely to be dozens of people.

For the next month, Zhao Ji stayed in an Atayal cottage, exploring the surrounding terrain and planning how the city should be built. Zhao De and Zhao Tong took the holy decree of the Great Song Emperor and went to all ethnic groups and villages to recruit troops, asking them to come to meet Zhao Xu.

Liu Qi went to Taizhou with Zhao Ji's will. After receiving the order, Gou Hongshe, the governor of Taizhou, immediately transferred 10,000 people from the 50,000 workers who built the gallop road, cut the wood, pave the road, and build a gallop road that leads directly to the cottage of the Atayal people and the open-pit iron mine according to the route formulated by Zhao Ji.

With 10,000 people working together and sufficient materials, a 20-mile-long gallop road was completed in just one month. Its astonishing speed completely frightened the natives. The dangers of the mountains and rivers they relied on turned out to be so vulnerable. In order to complete the order issued by Zhao Wei within the specified time, Gou Hongshe used a large number of civilian thunderbolts to open mountains and split stones, which was invincible.

After the construction of the road, twenty merchants bid for the right to develop the iron ore field. Due to the influx of merchants into the Atayal cottage, soon the Atayal cottage was full of construction sites, houses, brick factories, timber yards, etc. The number of artisans recruited by the merchants reached 30,000, far exceeding the population of the Atayal people.

A month later, under the leadership of the chiefs of the tribes and the elders of the villages, the fifteen tribes and 30,000 mountain infantry soldiers gathered in the Atayal cottage. The population of the Atayal cottage has skyrocketed to nearly 100,000 at once, and it is already a large city. However, many facilities were not built, and there were no walls.

In April of the fifth year of Xining, Zhao Ji set up the Atayal cottage as a red iron city and established a red iron county. Liuqiu fifteen ethnic groups, with a population of nearly 200,000. After Xiao Yiyuan destroyed the fifteen-ethnic alliance state, the Dadu Kingdom, the population plummeted to 150,000. The Great Song Dynasty developed and flowed, and all ethnic groups lost their hunting grounds, and were suppressed by the Song army, and under the pressure of hunger and cold, the population decreased sharply again. By the time Zhao Ji opened up Chitie City, the total population of all ethnic groups was only 130,000.

Because Zhao Ji wants to transfer 30,000 soldiers, according to the military system, all the families of the soldiers must be moved to Chitie City. As a result, almost half of the entire population of the Liuqiu tribes migrated to the Red Iron City, where they established villages outside the Red Iron City, and in addition to traditional hunting, they mainly relied on the salaries of the tribesmen to make a living.

"Holy Lord, I have been constantly reducing the number of soldiers, but now why has the Holy Lord raised foreign soldiers? The natives are soldiers, and in the future, it will be even more difficult for the Liuqiu tribes to surrender. Di Yong admonished.

"The Mountain Corps, don't stay in Liuqiu, I plan to send them to the southwest to fight. King Ming, they all see you as a god. It's up to you to take care of their training! Zhao Ji responded to Di Yong, and then instructed Liu Qi to speak.

"Saint, the last general's martial arts consider himself the second in the world, and no one dares to call him the first in the world. It's just that this training of the army pays attention to the art of war, which is not the strength of the last general. Leave it to someone else! It's okay for me to supervise it, let me train them myself, I'm afraid I can't do it. If you don't practice well later, won't it mean sending them to the southwest to die? Liu Qi said bluntly.

"If you send you to death, you will send them to death, how can there be no immortal in war? Besides, they are hunters, born soldiers, and military training is not the point. The main thing is to train their loyalty. I want you to make them obey orders and obey them absolutely. It's better to train them all to be dead. Isn't there a five-color army you trained at the top of the Mingjiao General Altar? Just train according to your training method. Zhao Ji said with a solemn face.

"Holy Lord, it's okay for the last general to train assassins, let the last general train the army, the last general really doesn't have that ability. The last general's apprentices, Shi Bao, Fang La, and Zhou Tong, are quite talented, so why don't you transfer them over. Liu Qi said with a red face.

"No, it's going to take them over, it's going to be when. That's it, Di Yong, you make King Ming's deputy. The two of you must train them to be soldiers within a month. Zhao Ji looked at the ragged hunter who followed behind him, shook his head and said.

"The last general commands." The two arched their hands.

"I heard that Fang La and Shi Bao have had a good experience in the fire cavalry of the Li Family Racecourse. Let them go to Quanzhou, a month later, the mountain corps arrived in Quanzhou, let them command, Zhao De and Zhao Tong as deputy generals. Zhao Ji thought for a moment and then said.

"The last general thanked the saint on behalf of the disciples." Liu Qi arched his hand and said.

On the afternoon of 20 April, the Mountain Corps was stationed at the Keelung City Joint Defense Army. Here, Liu Qi and Di Yong will conduct a month of reorganization training for them.

The affairs of Chitie City have been handed over to the governor of Taizhou, and Zhao Ji has begun to wander around Keelung again. Zheng Tong, the magistrate of Keelung County, accompanies Zhao Ji almost every day.

"Holy Lord, where do you want to inspect today?" Zheng Tong asked as he hunched over and followed behind Zhao Ji.

"Well, let's go to the shipyard, isn't your shipyard here comparable to the shipyard in Shangjing? I'm going to check it out today. "Patrolling around and seeing the vigorous development of Liuqiu made Zhao Ji feel very good.

"There are eighteen shipyards and twenty-six docks here, do you want to visit them?" Zheng Tong introduced.

Thinking that he had to accompany Zhao Ji all day shopping, Zheng Tong looked helpless. The problems raised by Zhao Ji in the past few days are too many places for improvement. The scribe beside him had to keep a thick book every day, not to mention improving those problems, but to patiently read those problems, and it would take a whole day. Besides, I have to study it, if Zhao Ji comes again next time, it will be like that, then he will not be the magistrate.

"Just go to that house." Zhao Ji pointed to a small boat shop on the bank of the Jilong River not far away, and said while urging the horse to go quickly.

"Keelung He Family Boat Workshop." Zhao Ji got off his horse, read the sign gently, and walked in.

"Quick, go and inform the proprietor of your house, and the saint will come to inspect the shipyard." Zheng Tong hurriedly greeted a boatman from the He family's shipyard and said.

Zheng Tong is the magistrate, that is, the official of his parents. The boatmen of the He family's shipyard were startled when they saw Zhao Ji coming over with a team of horses with more than a dozen iron arm guards. But Zheng Tong, they all know each other. After Zheng Tong finished speaking, they finally understood what was going on, and hurriedly went to find the proprietor to pick up the driver.

Zhao Ji thought it was funny, and also quickened his pace, and followed the boatman all the way to the shipyard.

"The owner, the official family has come to inspect our shipyard, let's go and welcome it." The boatman ran into a small courtyard by the river and said breathlessly

"Quick, prepare the red carpet incense case." The proprietor hurriedly said.

"No need, I'll just take a look and leave." Zhao Ji followed and said.

"Knock on the saint, long live my emperor, long live long live." Immediately the proprietor fell to his knees. Everyone in the small courtyard immediately knelt on the ground.

Not everyone in the small courtyard knelt down, and there were more than a dozen standing there, feeling inexplicable. When a man in gold armor came in with a group of tall soldiers in black armor and iron on their arms, all of them fell to their knees.

"Who the hell is this man in gold armor? Holy? The official family of the Great Song Dynasty? How can it be? The dozen or so people hesitated to kneel.

"Lord Ho, get up! Who are they? Zhao Ji saw that the dozen or so people did not kneel, and felt strange, so he asked.

"They are from Japan and Tiansun Country, and they came to the shipyard of the grass people to order sea boats." He explained immediately.

"Hmm. Tiansun Kingdom? Zhao Ji thought for a moment, still didn't know where Tiansun Kingdom was, and didn't think much about it, looked at the busy shipyard and then asked the proprietor He: "What kind of ships can you shipyard build now?" How much do people from Japan and Tensun want to order? ”

The proprietor He also knew that the official family had come to Liuqiu, and he still heard of the temper of this Great Song official. Seeing that Zhao Ji was very easy-going, he stood up and said: "If you want to talk about this, there are many boats built in my shipyard, and my shipyard can build passenger boats, sea boats, square ships, and tank boats." However, my shipyard is mainly about building sea boats. The sales volume of sea vessels is large, and there are many orders. The maritime merchants of Japan and Tiansun ordered 50 medium-sized ships of 3,000 materials this time. ”

The development of shipbuilding industry and navigation technology in the Song Dynasty were ahead of the world, so many of the sea ships used by Chinese and foreign merchants were "made in the Song Dynasty". The "Chinese ship" has a large carrying capacity, strong stability, safety and reliability, and fast speed, and the Arabs and Persians are willing to take the Chinese sea boat. In the Tang Dynasty, Chinese and foreign merchants and monks also took foreign "Fan Boats".

Three thousand materials refers to the volume of the sea vessel, the medium sea ship carries two or three hundred, and the load is three thousand stones, that is, two hundred tons. The volume of a large sea ship generally needs to use more than 5,000 materials, carry 5 or 600 people, and carry more than 10,000 stones. Zhao's dragon boat is larger than the big ship, a large warship of 20,000 stones.

In the shipbuilding industry of the Great Song Dynasty, the average number of shipbuilders per year was 3,000, and sea vessels accounted for 10%. After Zhao Ji developed and encouraged more shipyards, the number of shipbuilders in the past two years has exceeded 10,000, and forty percent of them are seagoing ships.

"What kind of place is Tiansun Country?" Zhao Ji couldn't help asking.

The maritime trade between Japan and the Great Song Dynasty was prosperous, and it was normal for maritime merchants to order fifty sea vessels. But where is this Tiansun Kingdom? Zhao Ji searched on the world map in his mind for a long time, but still didn't find it.

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