It may be because after weighing the strength between the Yuan State and the rebel army, one of the forces also chose to join the Yuan State, and they asked the Yuan State to also enjoy those benefits with Lu Zhen.

For the forces that choose to join, Yuan Guo naturally does not refuse, and Zheng Hai does not refuse their requests, after all, those preferences are also mutually beneficial.

With the first force joining, naturally there will be a second one, and soon, a one-sided situation will appear, and more and more forces will choose to take refuge in the Yuan Kingdom after analyzing the situation.

The two relatively comparative forces in J City saw that the general trend had gone, and in the end they were helpless and gave in to the Yuan State.

Rather than embarrass them, the Yuan Kingdom established a deal with them, selling iron ore to them on the one hand, and buying their food on the other.

Because the two big forces are also close to the Yuan River, they can also hunt some food, and at present, they have no other equivalent items except for exchanging these foods for iron ore from the Yuan Kingdom.

In July of the second year of the new calendar, the few small forces in the scope of J City who chose to join the Yuan State were transformed into the ** district of the Yuan State under the treatment of Zheng Hai, and then the next month, after rectification and combination, they merged into a city and named Tiecheng.

Tiecheng was formed by several small forces around the Iron Mountain Mining Area, and their main task was to mine the iron ore in the Iron Mountain Mining Area, which was rough-processed and transported to Yuancheng.

Before this, Yuancheng had already transported back a lot of iron ore from the Iron Mountain Mining Area, and with the coal mines transported from the coal area, iron refining could already be done.

Using relatively sophisticated iron ore and coal mines, the iron tools that can be refined are naturally of higher quality, but today's Yuan Kingdom does not have much technology to make iron tools more sophisticated, and these iron tools are preferentially made and used in various daily necessities, such as knives, iron cabinets, cylinder basins, hoes, etc., and will also be refined into steel bars for the construction of houses.

It's just that most of the iron tools are only cast with relatively simple molds, and some are not even polished and used, so the current use of some crude iron, only a small part of them are finely forged and polished, but these are often used in some more fine and complex structures, such as scissors, sickles, iron locks and the like.

In addition to scissors, sickles, iron locks and other items that pay more attention to finesse, those more crude iron tools have been able to achieve preliminary mass production in the Yuan country, although it is not yet possible to do everything in every household, but as long as it is more than half a year, with the expansion of the mining scale of the Tieshan mining area and the expansion of the scale of the iron smelting plant in the Yuan City, it is no longer difficult to apply iron tools to every household.

It's just that if you want to mass produce those fine iron tools, you still need to build some simple machine tools first, and if you want to use machine tools to make fine items, you also need energy, and it will be too lo to use steam, so the establishment of a preliminary power grid is also the goal of Yuan Guo in three years.

It's just that at present, the only way for the Yuan country to generate electricity is to use coal, and the number of coal mines transported from the small coal mine in the south is difficult to meet the needs of iron smelting and power generation at the same time.

Therefore, if you want to build its power grid in the Yuan country, it is also very important to find a large coal mine. Unfortunately, as far as Lin Yue knows, in the range from Yancheng to Yuancheng, there are no large coal mines, and some are only some small coal mines with relatively small amounts.

Even the Broken Wolves, who had the fastest development in their previous lives, were only using those small coal mines to develop.

Therefore, in the large area from Yancheng to Yuancheng, Lin Yue no longer has the luxury of having any relatively large coal mines, and his eyes should be further north or east.

It's just that all this requires a large number of people to be sent to investigate and study, and it also needs to depend on the luck of the Yuan Kingdom.

Moreover, coal is only the driving force for the establishment of power grids, and copper ore that needs to be used to make power lines also needs to be found and mined in large quantities, in addition, there is also a need for erasers or materials that can replace rubber to make the insulation layer on the surface of power lines.

Although it is possible to find a number of wires from cars and other accompanying objects for the purpose of building a small power grid, this small grid is not at all sufficient to provide a factory for making iron tools from machine tools.

"When the problem of food is solved, we will face the problem of resources!" Lin Yue mentioned in his conversation with Zheng Hai: "In the past, we fought with other people for food, now we are fighting with other forces because of iron ore, and in the future, we will definitely fight with more and more powerful forces because of coal resources." ”

"This is the essence of war!" Zheng Hai sighed: "Fighting for resources, whether it is food, minerals or land, etc., these are resources, and all wars are fought around the word 'resource', and this is true of the countries on the earth, and the same is true of our current situation." "Minerals are just one of the jobs of the Yuan Kingdom, and now, food is still the main work that the Yuan Kingdom has to deal with.

As early as May and June of the new calendar, the rice in the planting area of the Yuan Kingdom has been harvested, and although the harvested rice cannot be completely supplied to everyone as a staple food, it is already a necessary grain for every household in the Yuan Kingdom.

In addition, starch-rich foods such as sweet potatoes and potatoes that have been grown by the expansion can also be supplied to each household as a staple food.

At this time, people don't need to eat those disgusting wild vegetables and grass roots every day, although there was fish meat as food, but it is impossible to eat every meal, at most two or three days to eat, and the main food every day is still those wild vegetables and grass roots.

Moreover, by the time of July of the new calendar, the winter of the second year has also arrived, and the cotton harvested in May and June can also make a large number of cotton clothes for the people in the Yuan country to keep warm, and the situation of freezing to death in the first year will not occur frequently.

With warmth in place, people are less likely to get tired when they get to work, and there are no more delays in many jobs like last year, when many people went on strike.

In winter, there is also a new commodity sold in various cities of the Yuan Kingdom, and that is rice wine.

With the harvest of rice, many merchants in the Yuan country also purchased a certain amount of rice to ferment and make rice wine.

Although these rice wines circulating in the market have not been brewed for a long time, they have a mellow taste, which is far from being comparable to fruit wine.

Therefore, as soon as these rice wines were put on the market, they were sold out in less than a few days, and those merchants who seized the opportunity also made a big profit.

Some of the rice wine is sold to other forces, who lack rice, so there is no way to make rice wine.

In addition to sake brewing, rice can also be made into a variety of other foods, such as bread and noodles, and all of a sudden, private restaurants in the Yuan country have also sprung up, doing their best to show their cooking skills.

It's just that because the amount of rice harvested in Yuan China this year is not so much, the price of meals in those restaurants is not low.

In September of the new calendar, several personnel who went to the southwest to conduct a detailed investigation came back to report, and they reported in detail to the Yuan State Council that the current forces in the surrounding area were all reported.

More than 200 kilometers away from the west of the Yuan Kingdom, there is the big force that Lin Yue recognized in his previous life, the broken wolf, and now after Lin Yue's targeted investigation, a lot of information has been collected.

The current development scope of the Broken Wolf is similar to that of the Yuan Kingdom, and a number of strongholds have been established, and the total number of people is no more than 200,000.

And they have planted a lot of plants over there, so they should have basically solved the problem of food so far.

The expansion of the Broken Wolves continues, and they seem to be growing their power by fighting and fighting wars.

It's just amazing that as a force established by the underworld, the laws inside are extremely strict.

The few soldiers who were sent by Lin Yue to lurk in it could even feel that the laws in the broken wolf were even very familiar with many laws on the earth, but the power of the people in the broken wolf was not very much, and almost all the power in the broken wolf was in the hands of the members who formed its broken wolf.

And each of those members is also very capable, whether it is force or management ability.

"During the two months that I was lurking in Broken Wolf City, I fully saw how great the military power of Broken Wolf really is." In the soldier's report, the situation of the broken wolf is detailed: "The broken wolf has so far occupied or established a total of six strongholds, the core of which is the broken wolf city, which is inhabited by 130,000 residents. The other four bases were either established along the river to catch fish, shrimp and grow food, or were established in the mining area to mine minerals. In addition, Broken Wolf has also planned a large open area in one location, seemingly with the intention of establishing a huge city in that area. There is also a force around the broken wolf, and the members of that force are still army soldiers, and after the Great Crossing occurred, many people were organized to establish a force of a certain scale. But in the end, this force was wiped out by the broken wolf. After reading this report, Lin Yue felt very shocked, because Lin Yue didn't know anything in his previous life.

"However, in order to eliminate that army, the price to be paid by the Broken Wolf seems to be great, and at least dozens of members have died as a result. However, after the Broken Wolf eliminated the army's power, it also absorbed the vast majority of the population and resources of that force. So far, the Broken Wolf side should have occupied three coal mines and two iron mines. After reading the report completely, Lin Yue really understood why the power of the broken wolf in his previous life could develop so big.

It was already able to reach this scale in the second year after the Great Crossing took place, and it is strange that it did not develop after that.

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