Lin Bei was reading the battle report sent back by He Ming.

This time, the Tongguò Giant Tiger tribe conquered the surrounding natives, and He Ming, the commander of the guard, took the initiative to ask for help, and Lin Bei complied with his wishes and let him lead the army.

In He Ming's battle report, he reported the process and results of this expedition against the natives, and in general, the result was good, but the process was more difficult, because it was too difficult to walk in the forest.

The natives have an advantage in the forest, they are quite familiar with the terrain in the forest, if it were not for the giant tiger tribe to do the internal response, it would be quite wasteful to find them, but this also has something to do with the fact that the road is not built.

Lin Bei's task to He Ming is to subdue first, if you can't subdue and then attack, this time two tribes were exterminated, and one surrendered like the giant tiger tribe, this tribe is called the Green Hill tribe, there are only two thousand people, the young and strong are only five hundred, and the strength is pitiful, and the other two tribes are relatively large, and the resistance is also extremely fierce, their blowing arrows and wooden spears have also caused certain casualties to the Dragon God Army, and after capturing these two tribes, the Dragon God Army has killed fifty-two people and injured more than two hundred.

The youth of the Giant Tiger Tribe and the Green Soldier Tribe, plus the capture of the two tribes, increased the number of indigenous slaves in Wanghai City by more than 2,500 people, and He Ming is returning with the Dragon God Army, and it is expected to return in two days.

Afterwards, Lin Bei looked at the map drawn by He Ming, returned to the hall of the City Lord's Mansion, and asked the sergeant to complete the map again.

"The lower reaches of the Mekong River start from Vientiane City, and the more than 2,000 miles to the mouth of the sea belong to the forest plain terrain, the terrain is relatively gentle, and the upper part of Vientiane City is a mountain area, and there are many big rivers, which can be called poor mountains and bad waters, but now there is no problem with the river. It's just that this mountain is a bit tricky. ”

Huang Yueying and the craftsmen have been building a bridge on the surface of the river, the speed is very fast, and now they are almost built, the completion of the bridge marks that the river has been unable to stop the pace of road construction in Wanghai City, and now the only thing that needs to be faced with the road is the mountains, how to open up the road in these mountains.

If you want to build a road in the mountains, you must open the mountains. It is also necessary to let the indigenous people do this, after having a drilling machine, the speed of digging the mountain should be faster, but there are also a lot of dangers, it is conceivable that when the road is repaired to Yizhou, there should not be many indigenous people who can survive.

Thinking about this matter, Lin Bei's heart is slowly firming, the rise of a nation. It will inevitably lead to the decline of another nation, can Lin Bei bear not to use the natives, and let the Wanghai people dig the mountains and pave the road? Or do you simply not pave the way, but stick to the perimeter, cut the land and claim the king, and then settle for pleasure? If Lin Bei wasn't the leader of the Wanghai people, he might have done it, but for now. Lin Bei didn't want to be like this, and he couldn't be like this. Ambition will be worn out, born in sorrow, death and happiness, and even reason said, if Lin Bei stagnates, decades and hundreds of years later, the era of Wuhu chaos will come. Can Lin Bei only watch the Han people being reduced to two-legged sheep? Lin Bei will never allow this to happen.

At that moment, Lin Bei called the sergeant and wrote a letter to He Ming, asking He Ming to join more than 2,000 natives to join the work team, and the bridge was not repaired for the time being. Can't get through? That can't let the natives rest, you have to go to the front of the road that needs to be paved to cut down trees and level the ground, if there is a mountain ahead, then open the mountain and chisel stones, in short, this is a sentence, he needs the natives to have work to do every day, and Wanghai City has progress every day.

As soon as the letter was sent, Cui Lan hurriedly entered the City Lord's Mansion and handed over the military report of Jiaozhi to Lin Bei, "My lord, the big barbarian has made a move." ”

After moving from Xishan Township to Wanghai City, the spies of the Longshen Army will go to Jiaozhi every other day to listen to the news, and later the Changshan suspension bridge was re-erected, Lin Bei increased the intensity of listening to the news, in the coastal area of Jiaozhi, there are more than a dozen boats patrolling around every day, just to prevent the big barbarians from attacking Jiuzhen County through Guò Changshan, so as soon as Jiaozhi made a move, Lin Bei received the news.

"Oh? Let me see? Lin Bei asked Cui Lan to spread out the military newspaper and read it carefully, he was not frightened, he was very calm.

The news in the military newspaper was very simple, only that the Yellow Turban Army had arrived at Changshan, and then went into the mountain to investigate, and then left.

"What does this big brute want?" Lin Bei read the military report and asked Cui Lan.

"My subordinates think that the big barbarians should use troops against me in Wanghai City this year." Cui Lan Dao.

Lin Bei groaned, noncommittal, but asked, "What are the big movements in the Barbarian City before and after the year?" ”

"Didn't Zhen sell 10,000 bicycles to Da Manzi a few years ago? Later, I bought it several times in succession, and now there are 50,000 bicycles of the Yellow Army in Mancheng, and the recent news says that Manshuai is building roads around it, which should be the biggest movement. ”

"Well, I know that, too, eh? Road? Didn't Zhen Ping say that Zhen would launch cement after the year? Judging from the time, the big barbarian should have already gotten the cement, and it seems that it was because of the cement that the big barbarian had a little thought. In the end, Lin Bei smiled.

The cement road can indeed greatly increase the speed and flexibility of the army, as long as the road is built, it is possible to run long distances, before it was limited to the environment of Changshan, the big barbarian knew that he could not enter Jiuzhen County, so he simply ignored it, and now with cement, the big barbarian felt that there was a chance, so he was ready to move.

"My lord, if the great barbarian really builds the road, then how should we deal with it? After all, I don't have many dragon god troops. ”

Lin Bei said with a smile: "Cui Lan, your mind is still at the level of strength and strength of many people, if you think about it carefully, when there are more people, will you really win?" Why didn't you think about it when you broke the eight indigenous tribes some time ago? ”

When attacking the eight tribes, the Dragon God Army only dispatched two thousand soldiers, but it was able to easily defeat tens of thousands of large tribes, in addition to the crushing of IQ, the most important thing is that there are steam ships in Wanghai City, and the small wooden boats of the aborigines are defeated, which is the crushing of the level of science and technology, if Wanghai City now has machine guns and cannons, only a few sergeants need to be dispatched, and the aboriginal tribes can still be defeated, the higher the level of science and technology, the factors that determine the war will focus on the level of science and technology, and the impact of the number of people will only get smaller and smaller.

Cui Lan smiled embarrassedly: "My lord, those are just natives, but the yellow turbans of the barbarian city are elite." ”

"Elite, elite is good, just to test the combat effectiveness of tank combat vehicles."

"My lord? Want to use tanks and fighting vehicles? Cui Lan was immediately excited, although the Dragon God Army had practiced the tactics of tanks and combat vehicles, but it was the first time that real swords and real guns were put into use.

Lin Bei nodded: "I don't move the barbarian city." But it doesn't mean that I don't want to fight the barbarian city, don't look at the barbarian city as strong now, in my future plans, it is vulnerable, but now the big barbarian has the idea of attacking my Wanghai City, if I don't give him a big gift. Aren't you sorry for his thoughts? Now I have a total of thirty tanks and combat vehicles in Wanghai City, right? ”

"Yes, my lord, all of them operate with two steam engines, and they can travel fifty miles per hour."

After the twin steam engines were used on the ships, they were soon installed on the tank tanks, and the more powerful tanks and tanks were more lethal, and most of the iron ore mined now would be used to make tank tanks, so there were as many as thirty of them today, and now the impact of this tank and tanks is enough to smash the three-foot-thick slate. The average city wall can't stand a few hits.

However, the tank tank is not invincible, the most embarrassing thing is that the tank tank can only move forward and stop, and cannot reverse, so unless it can break through the city wall, it will never be stupid to collide.

This embarrassment can be avoided by the operation of the guò sergeants, and the requirements for the terrain are also very low, as long as it does not touch the forest or mountain terrain, the tank and combat vehicles can go unhindered and crush the enemy in a violent way.

"Good. Let the sergeants probe again and wait for He Ming to come back. He used the Great Dragon King ship to transport the tank and chariot to Jiaozhi, so that the big barbarian could see the strength of my Wanghai City, and at the same time let him die. ”

For now, Lin Bei doesn't plan to have a large-scale conflict with the big barbarians, but it will be a trouble if the big barbarians don't give up, so let's deter them first. I have to let him know that Wanghai City is not a rabbit, but an evil dragon.

"My lord, do you still want to use the Great Mighty Dragon King battleship?"

"Well, since it's going to be fought. You have to hurt the big barbarian. ”

"No." Cui Lan was excited.

Compared with the tank chariot, the Dawei Dragon King battleship is even more terrifying, because the Dawei Dragon King battleship is even more huge than the tank chariot, and the eighteen-zhang long Dawei Dragon King battleship is now in Wanghai City, there are only two in total, and they have all been taken out by He Ming to transport the sergeants, once the Dawei Dragon King battleship drives to the inland river, it can really make the enemy frightened.

After the military situation, it is the internal affairs, that is, the issue of dragon god coins.

The dragon god coin is kept secret from the manufacture of the template to the printing, and the last steel template will be guarded by a special person after printing a batch of dragon god coins, unless Lin Bei gives another order, the currency template will be sealed forever, An Zhongzhi also issued a strict order to those craftsmen who participated in the production of currency, prohibiting talking about currency templates, these craftsmen and their families will be under the strict surveillance of the Dragon God Army.

On the same day, in Lin Bei and An Zhongzhi visited the last batch of dragon god coins, this last batch of dragon god coins is the largest denomination of currency, that is, one hundred yuan, a total of only sixty thousand pieces will be issued, that is, six million pieces, plus the previous printing of dragon god coins, the total amount of dragon god coins this time is 100 million.

This 100 million dragon god coins will be put into the hands of the common people in batches, and then increase or decrease according to their prices, which means that if the price is high, then the dragon god coins issued will be a little more, and if the price is low, the dragon god coins issued will be less.

Now the pricing of many basic items has been determined, such as rice, the price of good rice is four to six yuan a catty, brown rice is two pieces of five to three pieces of five pounds, and the price of one pound of unthreshed rice is six to two pieces of eight depending on its quality.

Rice is important, meat is of course also very important, the price of pigs, cattle and sheep these meats has also been negotiated one by one, respectively, the whole, dehaired, slaughtered, the classification is still very detailed, and even the internal organs that can be eaten in the animal body are also negotiated under Lin Bei's instructions.

Through this price, Lin Bei found that the cost of food for the people of the Han Dynasty was actually higher than that of modern people, and the height was not a little bit, but several times.

As far as rice is concerned, the median value of good rice is five yuan a catty, and how much is modern rice a catty? It's just two or three pieces, and if we take into account the yield per mu in modern times and the yield per mu in ancient times, it can be said that the cost of a pound of rice in ancient times is five or six times higher than that of a pound of rice in modern times.

Rice is like this, so is meat, not to mention salt, even if Wanghai City produces salt, but at least in the last few years, Lin Bei will not open the common people to buy and sell and make salt, An Zhongzhi They set the price of salt for forty yuan a catty, which is forty times that of modern salt, this price is incredible in Lin Bei's eyes, but even the common people, do not think that this price is very high, and even many people think that Wanghai City is refined salt, this price is low.

After the Lantern Festival, the dragon god new calendar January 16, that is, the first month of the sixteenth, An Zhongzhi sent the sergeant to issue the first batch of dragon god coins to the Wanghai people, the first batch of dragon god coins are issued according to the number of heads, under the age of three is not counted, over three years old, under the age of 12 and over 50 years old Wanghai people are counted as half a head, only fifty yuan, the middle age is issued according to a head, regardless of men and women, all issued a hundred yuan, Bian Ji, An Zhongzhi and Cui Lan, Huang Yueying are all one hundred yuan, as for Lin Bei, the dragon god lord, It's not a dime.

On the day the money was distributed, Lin Bei sent the sergeant out to inquire about the news, and the sergeant reported back that all the Wanghai people did not touch the money, but carefully saved it.

"Are they going to collect it as an antique?" Lin Bei felt speechless, after a few decades, maybe this batch of Dragon God Coins would really become more valuable, but now, Lin Bei wanted to see the Wanghai people use the money, not cover their hair.

On the second day, that is, on the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the sergeant came back to report that the Wanghai people still didn't use the Dragon God Coin much, but the Dragon God Coin of several families was bitten by children and made Lin Bei cry and laugh, and then realized that the security regulations for the currency had to be introduced.

When An Zhongzhi and some principals urgently negotiated the safety regulations of the Dragon God Coin, Lin Bei came up with a trick that would allow the Wanghai people to use the money, that is, the car needs to be charged, and it is a dime to take a steam car from Wanghai City to Linjiang City, and two cents to Yanhe City (to be continued......

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