The matter of the war horse can only be put aside for the time being.

After the people from the Iron Blood Gate came, they directly entered the Dikun Mountain, and Yan Xing took the five thousand people in his gate to temporarily settle down in the temporary barracks built in the Dikun Mountain.

Wang Wei and Doctor Qin joined forces, led more than 10,000 people, and launched a carpet search in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, looking for iron ore or other ores.

The more embarrassing part is that there is indeed a lot of iron ore in the mountain range ruled by the two Titan Pythons, but it is scattered, even if it is concentrated together, it cannot be proportional to the iron ore found in the Fengling Mountain Range at the beginning.

Yan Xing, the master of the Iron Blood Gate, only needs to take a look at it, and he can see that even though the iron ore is piled up into a mountain, the quality is uneven, and at most five thousand spears can be cast.

It's a solution to an urgent need.

What makes Yuan Zheng's eyebrows burn even more is that even if Zhong Nan consciously restrains the development and growth of the Chang Gang, once it takes off, the kite will involuntarily fly into the sky.

There are not a few people who come to Jiangnan from all over the country to avoid trouble.

After small families and large families come to Jiangnan, they can return to their old business and find a good livelihood.

However, most of the people who came to avoid the disaster were poor people, and after coming to Jiangnan, they did not have their own household registration, and second, they did not have their own land.

Although Da Wei's family foundation is thick, it can't be shared too much with the common people.

Therefore, many people who have no background have basically become wild tourists, either joining a certain gang on the spot, or mingling in the street casinos and living a life of walking the streets and alleys.

The façade of Changbang is not bad in this river and lake in Qingshan County, plus there are two walls of Xishu here.

Many people who walk the rivers and lakes come here to join the Changbang.

In other words, Changbang now lacks everything, but not the population.

Among them, many young people are in the year of fighting, and even some young men, who are also practicing family members, are very suitable for joining the army.

Very rarely, they are still craftsmen, good at cooking, bracing boats, ironwork, carpentry, etc.

Zhong Nan wanted to restrain the Chang Gang from absorbing the foreign population, but there was no way, there were many talents, and there was nowhere to go, although he knew that those people joined the Chang Gang just to mix a bite to eat, but some people, if they were trained properly, maybe, they could also stand up to the sky on the battlefield.

The advantages of geographical relations are vividly reflected here in Jiangnan.

Almost every day, three to five hundred people join the Chang Gang, and these three or five hundred people are still good seedlings after screening from three to five thousand people.

Most of them are young and strong, and occasionally meet some middle-aged men, Zhong Nan will also take over the whole thing, because those people used to be either bookkeepers or down-and-out scholars.

In this way, although the finances of the Changbang are not tight, if there are more people who join, many people will have nothing to do.

What's even more troublesome is that Zhong Nan can't offend those people to death.

Anyway, Changbang's attitude to the outside world is that he will have something to eat after joining Changbang, but the premise is that he must have a certain ability.

It seems to have grown stronger, but in fact it is empty and abnormal.

What's even worse is that many members have nothing to do all day long, wandering around places like Qinglou Casino, drinking too much, and inevitably doing unseemly things.

In the two, although these people have the ability, they are taking the road of eating idle food.

The Changbang is currently at the time of employing people, and the people who may be used are only a few elites, to put it bluntly, the current Changbang is still supported by the old foundation of 30,000 Shu soldiers in the Shuangbi of Western Shu.

The people who joined later, first, the time was too short, their minds were unstable, and secondly, they didn't have a good experience, except for the things on the rivers and lakes that can be interfered with by that part of the people, the rest, such as building barracks and building weapons, really don't dare to let those people do it.

After the beginning of spring, Jiangnan soon ushered in the spring flowers.

The smell of flowers in the garden is slightly pungent, and men rarely do such things as planting flowers and plants, and most of them are women.

For example, the gardens in this courtyard are all taken care of by two women, Xiao Zizhen and Mu Yun.

Zhong Nan was still in his study, and Yuan Zheng and Yan Bei were sitting on the tea table drinking tea and chatting.

In fact, Yanbei doesn't want to get too close to Yuan Zheng, in terms of serious things, it's better to keep a little distance, but there is no way, who let the iron mines around Kunshan be a little unable to make ends meet.

After the five thousand spears are built, there is a shortage of iron ore, and if the Iron Blood Gate is not good, it will eat idle food, and then have nothing to do.

Yan Bei took a sip of the big red robe, his posture was chic and casual, obviously a fake gentleman, but it looked like it was real.

said: "Yesterday I went to Qingyue Tower, there is an Oiran there, called Li Xiu'er, a standard southern girl, except for being a little short, the rest of the place is really nothing to say, gentle and understanding, between a smile and a smile, it is full of charming style." ”

"I just don't know how it's going. ”

Where did Yuan Zheng have the time to study the bad things in the Qinglou with Yanbei, back then, it was too much congenital yang qi consumption, and now he has fallen into the root of the disease.

Yanbei is different, Yanbei itself was financially tight back then, and going to the Qinglou once in ten days and half a month was regarded as exercise, but it was beneficial.

indulges in indulgence, and Yanbei does not have that kind of capital.

Yuan Zheng asked Yanbei for advice: "In your opinion, how can we get war horses and iron ore?"

Yan Bei said casually: "When you come to Jiangnan, you have to follow the customs of the locals, and directly try to get war horses and iron ore on the surface, which is tantamount to a fool's dream, but there are not a few big rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, if we put some effort on the waterway." ”

"We can pull a lot of goods on our ship, after we go to the north, find a place in the north where we can sell war horses, and then buy some back, where there is iron ore, you can also take the waterway, on the surface, the government is full of eyeliner, and there is still room for us to interfere?"

Yuan Zhengle sighed: "Listen to what you mean, according to local conditions, we will also make a water army?"

Yan Beidao: "Of course, if you have this ability, you can, but as far as I know, ships are not very expensive in Jiangnan, but the ships we want are basically big ships, and they cost a lot of money." ”

Zhong Nan didn't think about the water army for the time being, because Zhong Nan was very busy just because of the current matter.

Yuan Zheng was really reminded by Yan Bei, and asked rhetorically: "You came to me today, it shouldn't be just for, right?"

Yan Beidao: "Give me some silver, I want to go to Qingyue Tower, and handle Li Xiuer's affairs in a down-to-earth and steady manner." ”

Yuan Zheng smiled bitterly, and had to take two big gold ingots for Yan Bei, which was enough for Yan Bei to go to the Qinglou to be chic and debauched all night.