After the Eastern Road caravan of the Zhoushui Alliance was robbed by the bandits of the Lingzhi Kingdom, the entire alliance suddenly fell into anger.

Led by the alliance's security services, they began to carry out an organized retaliatory operation, and while they formed a pure bronze cavalry of 1,000 troops, they sent a large number of spies to infiltrate the Lingzhi country to obtain information about the bandits.

The player factions of the branch are very complex and directly conflict with each other, and the spies only need to pay a small amount of copper coins to get all kinds of detailed and cheap information. This is very beneficial to the Zhoushui Alliance to crack down on the bandits of the Lingzhi country.

On February 5, the Bronze Cavalry was formed and the initial training was completed.

On February 6, the bronze cavalry began to cruise more than 100 miles east of the Zhoushui Walled City. The Coalition sent 200 camouflaged transport wagons, escorted by 3,000 infantry men, to lure the enemy in front. The bronze cavalry waited for an opportunity to fight the bandits.

Subsequently, the Zhoushui Alliance began to receive frequent reports of various battles, including reports of the elimination of bandits, and occasionally reports of the defeat of their own armies. The contest between the armies of the Zhoushui Alliance and the bandit forces has just begun.

Qin Xiaobai's focus is still on the Eagle Hand Mining Area, the road leading to Jicheng, the dock of Zhoushui Lake, and the Zhoushui Academy. In his eyes, the bandits of the Lingzhi Kingdom were no more important than the latest research in his dockyard to build a ship. He only glanced at the various anti-bandit war reports he received from the Ministry of Security. He no longer paid attention to it and devoted himself to construction.

I still remember that on January 3, at the banquet to celebrate the complete defeat of the Shanrong army, he and the Great Chief had an agreement to greatly improve the comprehensive strength of the Zhoushui tribe within three months, and let the Zhoushui tribe have a 3,000 bronze armor soldiers within half a year. In exchange for a three-year mining right in the Eagle Hand Mining Area.

Qin Xiaobai firmly remembered this agreement, which was an incentive and challenge for him. Only by making yourself strong can you completely overwhelm your opponent and make it impossible for your opponent to fight back at all. The tens of thousands of bandit soldiers in the territory of the Zhiguo are not qualified enough for him to move. Mobilize all your forces to deal with it.

In his opinion, this is just a small episode. Mobilize the appetite of the players of the Zhoushui Alliance to hunt for wars and liven up the atmosphere - after having the enemy of bandits. The members of the Zhoushui Alliance are obviously much more active, and every time they meet, they don't forget to talk about some interesting things about cracking down on the bandits in the Lingzhi land.

Qin Xiaobai vigorously supported this military operation to suppress bandits, and the main purpose was to train an elite NPC cavalry, and by the way, activate the morale of the players. As for whether the bandits can really be exterminated, it is a secondary matter.

He personally did not hold out any hope of exterminating the bandits. Lingzhi is the breeding ground for bandits, and all the bandits' base camps are hiding in the capital of Lingzhi and the country, so they don't bulldoze Lingzhiguo. Bandits will run out in a steady stream.

Now leave him and the Great Chieftaincy by agreement. A month has passed, and the progress of construction in all aspects is remarkable.

Extracting minerals in the Eagle Hand Mining Area, the Shanjung slaves. There are already 60,000 people, basically a bronze tool for mining. The wheel-rail technology has been quite mature, and the main line wheels and rails that are seven miles long and many branch wheels and rails that are hundreds of miles long have been laid in the Eagle Hand mining area. The slaves were dug out of the mines to dig out the copper and tin mines, and transported them efficiently in wooden carts. Wheel-rail transportation saved a lot of slaves who were used to carry ore and put them into mining.

The Hawkhand mine currently produces 500 units of ore per day per day, which is then transported to the Little White Army camp, where most of it is completely smelted and a small part is hoarded as reserves. It can produce more than 10,000 heavy bronze tools and agricultural tools every day.

This is a rather terrifying number, with this production capacity, once the production of tools and agricultural tools is changed to the production of weapons, then a 1,000-force fully equipped bronze army can be equipped every day.

One can imagine how terrifying it is to produce such an efficiently produced bronze army. Not to mention the tens of thousands of bandit soldiers with backward equipment, even if it is a Lingzhi country with a population of up to 100,000 NPCs, it is not difficult to bulldoze it.

Of course, using as many as 60,000 slaves for mining would consume 60,000 catties of grain every day. Although the Zhoushui tribe already had some bronze farming tools for cultivating the fields, they were far from reaching the level of popularization, and the farmland was still barren, barely meeting the needs of its own peasants and soldiers, and could not support so many slaves.

If it weren't for the large amount of grain obtained from Jicheng, Bohai, Liaoxi and other places through long-distance trade, I am afraid that players would have been unable to bear such a heavy food pressure.

Qin Xiaobai now did not dare to double the scale of these 60,000 slaves, in case the food supply could not keep up, and the slaves would riot, the entire Eagle Hand Mining Area, Beishui Spring, and even the Zhoushui Walled City would fall into disaster.

Rather than simply increasing the number and size of slaves, it is better to focus on improving the efficiency of slaves. Only in this way will food consumption not increase, but production capacity will be greatly increased.

At present, Qin Xiaobai, Blood Kill, Thousands of Miles Without Staying and others are planning to extend the main line wheel and rail from the Eagle Hand mining area to Beishui Spring fifty miles away, and then from Beishui Spring to Zhoushui City Walled City one hundred and ten miles away. The minerals and herbal raw materials in these two places can be directly transported to the city through wheels and rails. There is a lot to be done by saving the tens of thousands of slave laborers who traveled this distance to carry raw materials.

At present, the production scale of wheel and rail and wooden car workshops in Zhoushui City has been very large, and it will not take long to complete the laying of hundreds of miles of wheel and rail.

In addition, a lot of money has also been invested in the research of mining technology and the improvement of "mining, loading, lifting, drainage, lighting, ore crushing and transportation". He even developed a "fire attack mining technology", which uses charcoal to burn in the pit to crush the ore and speed up mining.

Mining tools also use better quality giant bronze diamonds, bronze hammers, etc., which can only be used by several slaves. In addition, bronze axes, chisels, earth-turning tools, wooden shovels, wooden shovels, loading tools bamboo baskets, bamboo dustpans, lifting tools, wooden rollers, wooden hooks, and a variety of bronze and wooden tools. This improved the efficiency of the slaves in mining to a considerable extent.

With the accumulation of knowledge and the improvement of intelligence of NPC craftsmen, it has become feasible to analyze the grades of different copper ores. There are different grades of copper ore, but it has not been possible to distinguish between them because of the limited ability of craftsmen to distinguish the ores. Now, this work is starting to become more and more important. The selection of different ores can help to increase the yield of copper.

This is the recent development of the Eagle Hand Mining Area in terms of mining and mining.

This aspect of the road leading to Jicheng. Under the command of Lord Situ, 50,000 NPC peasant workers progressed to God. In just nine days, the stone road with a width of 30 meters has been paved to Jicheng for 200 miles. As many as seven large and small bridges have also been erected along the way, and the whole road is extremely smooth.

From Zhoushui City to Jicheng, through this flat paved stone road, transport carriages and horses can arrive quickly in one day. Heavy rain or snow will not affect the stone road unless the snow buries the entire road.

Merchants of all sizes between the two walled cities did not need to form large-scale caravans, and could come and go directly by one or two transport carriages. There are not many, if not very few, player robbers on this road. After all, this is the heartland of the Yan Kingdom, and the crackdown on crime is very severe, and it is difficult for robbers to survive here.

However, for the sake of safety, large caravans will still bring a lot of escort troops. Only the kind of small-cost merchant players who can't pay the protection fee and want to save money will take the risk of riding alone and driving a transport carriage between the two walled cities to make a small business.

There are many merchants running transportation between the two walled cities, and the large and small caravans on the road are very frequent, and individual players like to follow behind the large caravans, and get some kind of protection in disguise. Robbers also don't dare to take a single player merchant lightly.

The construction of this road has prospered the economy between the walled cities, and the monarch of Yan Guo Ji Hao was very happy, and specially issued an edict to reward the great chief Ji Zhi, so that the big chiefs of the various walled cities in Yan Guo learned from Ji Zhi, and stepped up the construction of roads between various places to facilitate business and trade in various places.

Although there are no material rewards in the awards, such awards have significantly improved Ji Zhi's political status in the Yan Kingdom. is very much the son of Yan State, and his political status directly determines his future in Yan State.

This is the reason why Ji Zhi attaches great importance to building this road.

Ji Zhi was happy, and rewarded Situ for building the road, gave him a lot of money and rewards, and encouraged him to build a new city. Situ couldn't help but laugh and begged for a few days to postpone the construction and wait for more money to start the project. To repair the road, players can provide certain convenience and free manpower. However, to build a new city, the government must provide money and grain.

Situ is worried, after repairing this new city, how much grain will be left in the money treasury and grain warehouse.

The Great Chief didn't force it this time, but just asked Situ to start construction as soon as possible and not delay it too long