Chapter 287: Follow me to dig three feet into the ground

Facing Qin Yi's continuous admiration, Yu Feng just chuckled, did not answer, and continued to look back at the port outside the city.

Although it is not possible to transport all the captured materials away this time, the amount of money that is currently loaded on the ship in exchange for selling them at a discount is also the combat allowance of these soldiers under Yu Feng's command for nearly two months, which is enough for them to buy a few more acres of land.

Qin Yi saw that Yu Feng didn't answer his admiration, but he was very strange in his heart, in fact, he didn't know, he just didn't think of it for a while, this was not an idea that Yu Feng came up with, but to learn from Wang Ze.

When Wang Ze attacked Baekje and Silla, because of the lack of manpower, he requisitioned local people to assist in transportation, and after transporting all the supplies, he also swept away all the population, but only carried the enemy's logistics baggage.

So in this case, Yu Feng, who was deeply influenced by Wang Ze, not only stared at the supplies of the Goguryeo army in the city, but also packed and transported all the tens of thousands of Goguryeo people within 20 miles of Luojin City and the surrounding area, regardless of men, women, old and young.

In the past 100 years, Goguryeo has done a good job in the sinicization of the country because of the need to learn advanced civilization on a large scale, not only many nobles are proficient in Sinology, Chinese, and Chinese etiquette, but even many ordinary Goguryeo people can understand Chinese.

Although these people probably can't speak, many people can understand the listening aspect, so after these Goguryeo people are transported away, they only need a little training to be a good labor force, which is a good supplement to the current shortage of labor in the Xia Kingdom of the East China Sea.

In order to ensure the local stability of the Donghai regime, Wang Ze now only imports 200,000 people from Sanqi every year, so that with the high-born baby boom in the East China Sea, the number of people has now reached 1.5 million, but there is only nearly half of the labor force, of course, these are not counting the slave population.

In fact, in Feng's heart, these Goguryeo people are very suitable to be treated as a group of people who can be assimilated, because there are also a large number of Han people among the Goguryeo people, so after hundreds of years of intermarriage, Goguryeo's sinicization is very powerful, and it can be treated as Huhua Han.

However, these things are all things at the strategic level, and they all need to be considered by Wang Ze, Yu Feng just thought about it casually, even if these Goguryeo people were sold as slaves, they could be sold for an excellent price.

Nowadays, due to the extreme scarcity of the population in the East China Sea, the price of slaves here is rising, especially for high-quality women.

If it weren't for the fact that Xiao Hou Ye issued laws many times to strictly prohibit the sale of Han people as slaves, and severely punished several incidents of officials in the East China Sea participating in the trafficking of Han women, I am afraid that Nan Chen would also be able to sell many Han women, and the wealthy families there could do anything.

Thinking of this, Yu Feng couldn't help licking his tongue, although as a senior general, he could give priority to getting a lot of high-quality beauties, but in comparison, among the women of various countries, the Nanchen Han women, who were known for their gentleness and loveliness, were the most in line with his taste.

Since ancient times, Wu Yue has produced beautiful women, and the beauties there have been famous all over the world since the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Han women who came out there have good skin and gentle speech, which is like the fierce women of the East China Sea, and now they are getting closer and closer to the title of "female tiger of the East China Sea".

As time passed, seeing that the sun was gradually turning west, and the ships in the port had been replaced with a new batch of ships loading goods, Yu Feng suddenly remembered something, so he turned around and asked Qin Yi beside him: "General Qin, have all the scouts in the northeast been dispatched?" The Goguryeo army is not easy to deal with, so be prepared! ”

Qin Yi only stared at the materials that were constantly being transported to the ship, his face was full of smiles, he had long been overjoyed by the huge gains of this battle, this time the harvest was far greater than he imagined, and after he went back, he could buy dozens of acres of land.

At this time, hearing Yu Feng's inquiry, he was stunned for a moment, and then nodded very pertinently: "Don't worry, general, I have already sent scouts to focus on reconnaissance there, as long as the Goguryeo army enters within fifty miles of us, the scouts we have arranged in the northeast will definitely come with news!" ”

"That's good," Yu Feng stared at the gentle mountains in the northeast of the city, and said slowly, "The Goguryeo people should not be underestimated, but we can't be complacent and look down on others just because we attacked their logistics base so easily this time!" ”

"General, General!"

With a series of hurried footsteps, a team of Yu Feng's personal soldiers ran over quickly, looking at them, they were still holding a lot of things in their hands.

"What's going on? In a panic, could it be that the treasury that the city lord of Luojin did not confess before his death was found by you? Yu Feng asked these soldiers with a smile, but all the people in the upper positions always like to put on a kind appearance towards the soldiers at the bottom, as well as some subordinates around them who serve them, even Yu Feng is no exception.

The leader of the personal soldiers replied: "General, the treasury has not been found yet, but according to many investigations, it should be near the city lord's mansion, and some Goguryeo people claim to have seen a large amount of soil transported from the Luojin city lord's mansion three years ago, and we speculate that the basement was probably being built at that time!" ”

Seeing that Yu Feng listened carefully, the pro-soldier then said: "But when we scraped the City Lord's Mansion before, not only did we not find the basement, but even the gold in the City Lord's Mansion was less than ten catties, and some of this must be hidden!" "Look at the Book Pavilion

Yu Feng nodded, this time in Luojin City, just the deputy city lord and some other powerful wealthy families each collected dozens of catties of gold, even if the city lord was incorruptible, he was embarrassed to go out to meet people without thirty or fifty catties of gold.

However, hearing this, Yu Feng's voice changed and said: "Since you haven't found that vault yet, why are you running over so hot, but there is something more important than this?" ”

After several pro-soldiers looked at each other, it was the pro-soldier at the beginning who spoke: "That's right, General, we think this matter is more important than the vault!" With that, the soldier asked the other soldier to open a small, very shabby box.

Inside was a very worn-out leather scroll, open it and see that it was something left by a local Wofu tribe a hundred years ago, and many words on it were symbols used by the Wofu people themselves to remember, which made Yu Feng look extremely big, how to understand this.

Seeing this, the pro-soldier next to him hurriedly explained: "General, this, you took it upside down!" You'll have to look at it backwards! ”

Yu Feng hurriedly turned upside down and took a look, and suddenly found that a small number of Chinese characters and another symbol appeared in the large pile of Wofu symbols, it seems that these Wofu people used three languages to write, and it was actually written on the location of an iron mine.

Seeing this, Yu Feng was very excited, this iron shell is large-scale, high-grade, and the depth of burial is also very shallow, which is very conducive to mining, but it is a pity that this iron ore is in the land of Goguryeo, and he can only be happy in vain.

At that time, the tribe that discovered this iron ore was very weak, and there was no blacksmith of its own, so it was impossible to mine it at all, and only this information could be preserved so that future generations could be able to mine it.

However, this small tribe was finally eliminated in the great wave of history, and then this leather scroll made of animal skin nitrate was preserved and became the collection of a wealthy family, this time it was inadvertently obtained by the soldiers under Yu Feng's command, and he did not dare to slack off and sent it to Yu Feng.

Yu Feng is very envious and jealous of the good luck of the Goguryeo people, if such a big iron mine can be changed in his own territory, so that everyone will not fight for some iron mines all day long, and now because of the lack of iron, even the arsenals on Jeju Island and Qinjin, Pingyang City and other places have stopped working.

Not only that, but even several large shipyards that consume a lot of iron materials have now had to cut their shipbuilding budgets for the next two years, so that the counties in the East China Sea, which were originally in full swing of economic development, suddenly seemed to be poured a basin of cold water and suddenly slowed down.

After Yu Feng stared at the scroll and studied it for a long time, he suddenly found that there was a map on the scroll, but because the level of drawing was too poor, and the time was long, it was not easy to be discovered.

After looking at it for a long time, he suddenly realized that this iron mine was not near Luojin City, but along a large river further north of Luojin City, nearly two hundred miles away from Luojin City.

Wait a minute!

To the north of the 200-mile road, isn't that the Tongmen River?

Thinking of this, Yu Feng's originally somewhat cold mind suddenly became hot, if this is the case, it is still somewhat feasible for his side to seize this iron ore and then mine it.

After all, now that they have eliminated the back route of the Goguryeo army and destroyed their baggage bases, they will inevitably withdraw their troops quickly due to lack of supplies, so that the area near the mouth of the Jiangkou of the Tongmen River that has been emptied will become their own territory.

At that time, you can find this iron ore along the Tongmen River, and the mined ore can also be conveniently transported to the mouth of the sea using the nearby Tongmen River, and then transferred to a large ship to transport it to all parts of the East China Sea, which is a good supplement to the iron ore in the East China Sea.

It's just that Yu Feng can't be the master of how to treat this iron mine, what he can do at present is to send people to investigate the true extent of that iron mine, and report to the little marquis in time, so that Wang Ze can decide the strategic layout of this step.

After all, the location of this iron mine is really a coincidence, neither south nor north, it is just between Haecheng in Xia Kingdom and Wonshan City in Goguryeo, although there is a buffer zone of hundreds of miles in the middle, but if it is not handled well, it is easy to trigger a war between the two countries again.

Thinking of this, Yu Feng also lost the interest of taking the soldiers to find the Luojin City Lord's vault, he glanced at the deputy general Qin Yi beside him and said: "Old Qin, I have to write a letter to the little marquis here, or you can go for me, and see how much gold this Luojin City Lord has hidden!" ”

Qin Yi, who was born as a bandit, liked this kind of money grabbing work the most, even if the gold was not his own, but he just liked the feeling of this kind of gold flowing through his hands, so he immediately waved his hand to the soldiers and said, "Go, brothers, follow me to dig three feet into the ground!" ”