Many years later, Fielding, who was already one of the most loyal ministers of the Emperor's side, still had a clear picture of the moment as if it had just happened, writing in his secret diary: "You cannot comprehend the feeling of regaining recognition when you have been utterly abandoned by everyone and will be reduced to the abyss, and that smell will make you unforgettable for the rest of your life." The diary was not released until decades after Fielding's death.

Looking at Qin Duan's actions with admiration, Zhuge Fang only felt that he had nothing to say, the bearing of the smiling and lazy boss in front of him was indeed incomparable to anyone, he could only give a thumbs up and simply repeat a sentence: "High, really high!" ”

Qin Dui already knew Fielding's ability, if he wanted to really win his loyalty, it was the best time in front of him, he boldly handed over the position of city guard that had fallen to Fielding, and let him continue to take on this important position, undoubtedly regarded him as a henchman who could be entrusted with heavy responsibilities, such a beautiful and generous hand, not only won Fielding's loyalty to the ground, but also made all the generals present, including Zhuge in it, have a state of mind for their master's bearing.

The actions of the Kaman people were indeed as Qin Dui expected, after learning that the Northwest Army had entered Taixuanfu in a big way, the Kamanxi army, which had already marched to the city of Taixuanfu, did not advance but retreated under the leadership of Duke Miley, and slowly retreated to the border between the Principality of Gerlok and Taixuanfu, and also drew part of the troops back to join the battlefield in the Jiama region, which greatly increased the pressure on the Gerlok and Imperial coalition forces fighting on the Jiama front, and the crisis in Taixuanfu seemed to have been resolved.

At the same time, among the nearly 150,000 Kaman troops that had been assembled in Jiayuguan, the corps led by Viscount Dominic, the commander of the Seventh Corps, escorted more than 50,000 captives to the north, and also sent liaison personnel to contact the imperial court and Qin Dui respectively, hoping to negotiate on the matter of capture. Tens of thousands of people who originally lived in the Jiayuguan fortress were ordered to leave the fortress within a week. The 30 miles outside the fortress were designated as forbidden areas, and ordinary people were strictly forbidden to live and engage in agricultural and animal husbandry activities.

Claudia, who had been appointed commander of the front army stationed at Jiayuguan, led the Sixth Corps, which had entered from the north, with a total of more than 100,000 troops, and began to conduct large-scale military exercises outside Jiayuguan, posing as if they could go south at any time.

And Qin Dui also reacted quickly after inspecting the defense system of the entire Taixuan Mansion. On the one hand, he ordered to reinforce the walls of Taixuanfu City, and added a lot of arrow holes and hidden fortresses on the original basis. At the same time, it was ordered to immediately carry out the widening of the moat, and asked the Northwest War Readiness Administration to immediately dispatch a batch of improved multi-bow repeaters and giant stone throwers from Tokugawa to Taixuan to strengthen the active defense capability of the city's defense, and appointed Zhuge Fang as the commander-in-chief of the defense army in the entire Taixuanfu area, and Fielding, the city guard of Taixuanfu, as the deputy commander-in-chief, with full responsibility for the security and defense of the Taixuanfu area, the first and second divisions of the First Army Corps in the Northwest, and the independent first cavalry division of the Second Army Corps in the northwest. The former Taixuanfu Second Garrison Division, a total of four divisions were subordinate to the Taixuanfu Defensive Theater.

After inspecting the city defense system of Taixuan Mansion. Qin Duan inspected the more important market towns in various parts of Taixuan Mansion non-stop, and focused on Xuanwu Town in the southwest corner. As early as half a year ago, while learning about the development of the gold mine in Bashan Province, Qin Duan secretly learned from the exploration department under the General Administration of Industry and Mining that there is very likely to be a mixed vein in the southwest of Taixuan Province, which belongs to the same large multi-vein belt as the iron ore belt in the south of Lulong Province, but there is a fault in the middle, which extends intermittently to the southwest of Taixuan Province, and it is very likely that there are rich copper ore resources in the southwest of Taixuan Province. This is also one of the reasons why Qin Duan is reluctant to give up the Taixuan Mansion.

If the detection of the General Administration of Industry and Mining is true, this copper vein belt can be developed. That brings a great boost to the economic development of the entire northwest including North Loulan, you must know that copper ore is an indispensable thing for the national economy and people's livelihood, it is also a necessary mineral for the coinage of the mainland countries, the annual consumption of this aspect alone is very amazing, the existing mines found are far from enough, so all countries attach great importance to the detection and mining of copper ore.

And Qin Duan has always been very annoyed by the lack of ore resources in his territory. Except for Yinchuan Prefecture, which has coal, iron and silver ore resources, no mineral resources have been found in other places, and Lishan County is not within the scope of its control, and even the iron smelting industry in Tokugawa County must import coal and iron ore from Yinchuan Prefecture, although the distance is not too far. But it was also enough to consume a lot of transportation capacity, and it was also made by people, how could this make Qin Duan rest easy?

Fortunately, good news has come from Shuangdui Mansion in Beiloulan, the news of the discovery of the iron ore belt in the northern area adjacent to Wusun Country has been confirmed, and the preliminary work has begun to be carried out, Lu Man's vision and sense of smell are not trivial, the development of a large iron mine is very important to the economy of Shuangdui Province, especially the development of the backward areas in the north of Shuangdui, he knows better than anyone else, when Qin Duan and Liang Qiming's instructions arrived, this guy had already begun to organize people to develop and build an improvised road from Shuangdui, It is also planned to convert the improvised road into a standard road within two years.

Now if you can develop the copper mines of Taixuan Mansion, you will have the two major ore resources of copper and iron in your territory, and you don't have to worry too much about being controlled by others once you start a big battle, but the location of these two places is not very good, they are both in the border area with outside forces, Shuangdui Mansion is a little better, Wusun does not have this strength to threaten him, but this Taixuan Mansion is different, the Lulong Mansion and the Principality of Gerlok next to it are under the threat of the Kamans, if they are developed, the Kamans will inevitably not have a peeping heart.

But now I can't take care of a lot, I can't waste food because of choking, I'm afraid that the Kaman people won't even do normal construction, Qin Du specially told Fielding for this, asking him to do his best to do the preliminary work, once the copper mine is implemented, he will immediately start to roll out the work, and must not shrink because of the fear of war, especially the road traffic and some other necessary work in the early stage must be done in front. (To be continued......)