The discovery of silver ore made all the Liaodong generals feel like they had been injected with something......

O Silver Mountain!

And there's gold!

Mountains of gold and silver!

However, this position is really not good, although it is not far from Kaiyuan, but at least by the standards of the farming people, it is difficult to maintain it by farming, including Liaohaiwei is actually not farming, if you can farm, you will not move the command to Kaiyuan next year, because the Han military households who moved in at the same time with the command and envoy cannot farm.

Zhu Yuanzhang's Jurchen resettlement guards all had to add some Han military households.

Generally, it is a thousand households.

However, Liaohaiwei's military households could only rely on transporting grain from Kaiyuan.

Sustaining costs are simply too high.

Not cost-effective.

So simply move the command structure to Kaiyuan, and then leave the Jurchens who don't need to transport supplies.

The cost is saved.

But the control over the Jurchen also declined.

And now the generals of Liaodong also need to face a problem, that is, the development of silver mines also requires a large number of people who are out of production, after all, it is impossible to open a mine without food.

"There is grain, as long as we are willing, the transportation from Niuzhuang to Laomiwan is enough, although it is indeed slower to go upstream, but most of the time after the opening of the river is a southerly wind, it is enough to rely on the sail, as long as the silver can be mined, the court will inevitably give grain. It's just from Laomiwan to this side, this transportation is troublesome, unless a large number of people are used, but the use of people also has to increase food, in the end, Kaiyuan can't grow much food, or have to rely on water transportation. In the end, we fell into an insoluble trouble, in order to mine silver, we can only use more people, use more people to eat more grain, and finally use more people to transport grain, so that the layers are added, and the silver mined in the end is not enough for these people's food.

Not only could it not benefit Liaodong, but it became a burden to Liaodong.

The imperial court will not do it. ”

Zhu Sheng said.

Then a group of generals looked at the big silver pit next to them and became tangled one by one......

It's so tempting.

Because the sun is at the right angle, those new stones that have been blown open by the grenade are reflecting the light of silver, this point is actually the location of the largest pit located by Yang Feng, which is full of high-grade ores, and even some of them cannot be called ores.

Now as soon as it explodes, it's all new sections, and it's really tempting in the sun.

"So the key is actually this land transportation?"

Yang Feng said.

"Yes, if it is in the mainland, more than two hundred miles is indeed nothing, but it is really a problem in this Kaiyuan, after all, it takes thousands or even tens of thousands of people to live in the mine.

Zhuang De said.

"Do you smelt iron here?"

"Yes, there is iron smelting in Zhonggu City in the south."

"You don't have a shortage of horses here, do you?"

"There is no shortage, but it is not enough to carry it on horseback."

"Then pull the car, if you want to get rich, build a road first, but it is not an ordinary road, you can say that the wood here is inexhaustible, then use wood to pave a wooden track from Laomiwan to Kaiyuan, and then from Kaiyuan to here.

I will also design for you a horse-drawn carriage that will be specially used to walk on wooden tracks, and the grain transported to Laomiwan will be transported by this kind of carriage in the future. ”

Yang Feng said.

With such good conditions, it is in vain not to build the railway......

The railway will talk about it later, but the wooden track is really good!

Although the wooden rails are indeed fragile, the problem is that they can be replaced with the breakage, and there is an endless primeval forest next to it, and you can cut as much wood as you want, and you have to choose the best one. Then start from Laomiwan, repair to the east to Kaiyuan, and then go north to Shanmen, and the middle is just by the way to supply Liaohaiwei, and directly engage in a double line, one to the south and one to the north, in this way with a loaded carriage is enough to maintain transportation. In fact, the wooden rail is not so easy to break, and you can learn from the British to add iron sheet protection on it in the future, and the anti-corrosion problem is not difficult, after all, this is the Northeast instead of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and you can also brush oil on it for anti-corrosion or even simply burn it.

Anyway, it's easy to solve.

This wooden track is estimated to be more than 100 kilometers long.

Even if it's one hundred and five.

150,000 meters.

Ten meters and four require 60,000 pieces, plus sleepers......

It doesn't seem necessary to use too many sleepers, just two meters apart, in short, the material is not a problem at all, the key is to guard the endless forest next to it.

The special carriage is also very simple, that is, the wheel with a groove in the middle.

Double-track also does not require track changes.

The faulty ones are pushed out directly to make way.

And not only here, if this kind of wooden rail is effective, then Zhu Yuanzhang can also be encouraged to build the same wooden rail between Beiping and the Yellow River, after all, there is no shortage of wood like Taihang Mountain. It can even continue to repair from the south bank of the Yellow River, that is, along the mountainous areas of Henan all the way to Sheqi, so that it can enter the Hanjiang River water system, and the grain from the Huguang grain-producing area can be directly transported north. In this way, there are sea and wooden rail carriage transportation, and the canal is not so important, the canal is indeed important to communicate the north and the south, but there are too many alternatives to this importance, on the contrary, maintaining the canal is a huge burden for the common people.

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Not only southwest Lu, but also the extreme poverty along the Huai in the late Ming Dynasty was also a canal.

Because there must be a trade-off between protecting the Ming ancestral tomb and maintaining shipping north of Huai'an.

To protect the canal, you have to maintain the water level.

To maintain the water level, you have to flood Sizhou.

To protect the Ming Ancestral Mausoleum, it is necessary to add a new outlet to the Huai River, but this means that the water depth of the mouth is reduced, and the boats cannot sail through the river channel that has been silted by the sediment of the Yellow River.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it desperately maintained between the two trade-offs, and the consequence of maintaining it was that Fengyang had nine disasters in ten years, and the countless laborers along the Yellow River and the canal also broke the Yellow River again and again. Because the sand must be flushed, the Yellow River must be narrow enough, and since it is narrow enough, it must be prepared to be washed away during the flood season, after all, the Yellow River will not think about these messy things. But if the maintenance of this section of the canal is abandoned, then the matter is very simple: dig a main irrigation canal in northern Jiangsu, and at the same time dredge the waterway into the Yangtze River, and release the water of the Huai River blocked by Qingkou and Gaojiayan, and the flood disaster along the Huai River will immediately plummet by more than half.

As for the Yellow River, it can flow casually, leaving a wide enough channel to weaken the power of the flood season.

The modern course of the Yellow River is wide enough.

As for siltation......

That really can't be helped.

After all, that's not something that can be solved downstream.

And this brain-opening plan made Zhu Zhi and the others completely at a loss, but since it was designed by Yang Feng, it must be good, at this time he is omnipotent in the minds of these people, just listen to his words, don't doubt it, he said that what can be done will definitely be done.

In short, they have all started to develop into fanatics now.

Then they went straight to Jilin.

Seven days later, the expeditionary force arrived in Jilin.

Then 3,000 men were left to garrison, waiting for the follow-up craftsmen and garrisons, while Zhu Zhi and Yang Feng led the army along the Kacha River to the northeast.

This area is almost uninhabited, especially in this cold winter season, those Jurchen fishermen and hunters are also hiding in the mountains and forests one by one to roast the fire, this army of more than 10,000 cavalry, the only thing to face is the severe cold wind and snow......

And, of course, there is the issue of supplies.

To be precise, they don't have any supplies now, all of them just bring dry food, plus beans for the war horses, the latter can not get much food from the mountains and forests, this trip can be said to be a desperate gamble, only success is not allowed to fail, failure is not enough food to go back. However, the real threat of this kind of action is not supply, nor fighting, but getting lost, as long as you don't get lost halfway, for hundreds of miles, for the cavalry, you can still struggle to walk back.

As for getting lost......

"Songhua River!"

Yang Feng stood on the bank of the ice-covered Songhua River and sighed.

Then he looked at his watch.

The location is right, not far from the other side is Bayan County.

So with satellite positioning, how can you get lost!

"Where is the village in Xiyangha?"

He asked.

"Ambassador, can the little one use your clairvoyant mirror?"

Polo said cautiously.

Yang Feng casually gave him a telescope.

Polo has used it a few times, so he doesn't need to teach it.

"The mountain over there, his stockade is in a sheltered valley on the south side of the mountain, not far from here, in winter, you have to find this kind of sunny and leeward place to spend the winter, and you can also dig ice and fish, but this is only his main village, he is the leader of the Vultures, and there are also large and small leaders under him, Ayangha, Bronze Buddha Village, Mongolian cottages, all scattered around the black pine forest."

Polo said, pointing to the north.

"King, let's divide the troops, the black pine forest is this mountain forest, surrounded by flat land, I took the Jurchen and Zhang Fu to attack the black pine forest, and the king led the armies to patrol on the periphery of this mountain forest, so as not to escape from Xiyangha."

Yang Feng pointed to the mountainous area in the northeast of Bayan County and said to Zhu Zhi.

"Great, Ambassador, are we going to attack the Black Pine Forest?"

Polo said in astonishment.

Yang Feng looked at him speechlessly, then opened the insurance and fired at the river......

"Are you still afraid of anything?"

He said calmly.

"Don't be afraid, follow the ambassador and kill Xiyangha!"

A Jurchen Qianhu roared excitedly.

"Follow the ambassador and kill Xiyangha!"

The other Jurchens roared.

"Robbed the black pine forest, one person sent a vulture, today the king is in charge, this time the Jurchen grabbed whether it is gold, silver, livestock or slaves, all of them are their own!"

Yang Feng roared.

Then he pulled the trigger again at the sky.

The Jurchens immediately went into a frenzy, after all, this kind of thing is always exciting.

Immediately after that, Yang Feng urged the chariot and took the seven thousand Jurchens like the Night King with the ghouls, surging onto the snowy Songhua River, Zhang Fu and his camel artillery team had no choice but to follow, and Zhu Zhi and the Ming army silently watched their advance......

"Pass the order down and surround the black pine forest, whether it is the people of Xiyangha or these Jurchens, none of them will be allowed to come out alive."

Zhu Zhi said with a sneer.

Zhu Sheng, Zhang Yu and others looked at him in amazement.

"This is a military order!"

Zhu Zhi said.