At the beginning, Gu Lan considered that Helian Mountain stretched for hundreds of thousands of miles and would definitely have a lot of rich minerals, so when the village's hunting team went into the mountains to hunt, she always told the people in the village to remember to search for special mines.

Until now, iron ore and coal have been discovered, as well as several rare earth mines.

Then how to exploit these resources became a new problem, Gu Lan couldn't think of a good way, and finally he was inspired, and suddenly thought that he could use explosives to mine minerals.

She knew what she needed to make explosives, and after telling Ji Sihai, she kept this matter in the back of her mind, but she didn't expect to really study it.

In the large cave that can accommodate more than 1,000 people, there are several tall furnaces, which are the secret base of Xiaolongkan, and the natural cave is stacked with mined iron ore, which is thrown into the furnace and turned into molten iron, and then comes out to be polished and soaked in cold water to form all kinds of sharp iron tools.

There is also a wide variety of farm tools.

Since Gu Lan exchanged the process diagram of the blast furnace and the villagers made the furnace for smelting steel with the assistance of Aji, the speed of making iron tools in the village has increased.

With the help of the points exchanged for hammering iron, Gu Lan exchanged the method of making mines, and now, boxes and boxes of mines are transported to the secret base outside the cave, carefully preserved to avoid any accidents.

This mountain has become the back garden of Xiaolongkan, opening up one battlefield after another, and many things are placed here in places that the people of the village do not know.

There was food, weapons, and all sorts of useful things.

Gu Lan looked at these things with satisfaction, these were their confidence.

"Gu is in charge, how are we going to suppress the bandits?"

In the cave in the back mountain, Gu Lanshao, the old man, the old man, Uncle Ming and others were all in front of the table, and there were more than a dozen people sitting around the good log table.

There were only two women, and Gu Lan was sitting at the top, with a complete tiger skin on the chair.

Gu Lan said with a smile: "The development of our village has come to a standstill, it is obvious that just a stone town can no longer meet our needs, if you want to continue to develop, you must break through the current environment and fight for the world!" ”

Fight for the world?

Everyone's hearts are on fire, and these three words are not the big trouble they have had in their hearts for many years.

"Fight for the world," Old Man Shao touched his beard, closed his eyes, and the past seemed to appear in front of him again.

He thought of the brothers who had fallen at the foot of the barren mountain, and of the palace that burned that day, the emperor who committed suicide, and the weeping queen who entrusted the young prince to him.

Since then, he is no longer the god of war he used to be, but an avenger with a deep blood vendetta.

He has always had a thought in his heart, that is, to take Aggie back to that homeland and see Aji in his place again.

Old man Shao smiled with satisfaction, after all, he didn't see the wrong person, and he didn't live up to the trust of the queen back then.

"Lan girl, tell me, how are we going to fight for the world?"

Now, they always have to find a way to become famous.

Gu Lan was also worried about this.

But soon, the opportunity came.

Seeing that it was time for Xia Ploughing, the imperial court once again levied a grain tax, this time more harsh than the last time.

There is not only a grain tax, but also a head age, and all those over the age of three are subject to a poll tax, one hundred yuan for men, eighty yuan for women, and even more, those who are still unmarried over fifteen years old are required to pay additional taxes.

Last year, people just experienced a snow disaster, because Gu Lan told everyone that cassava can be eaten, so there was no large-scale starvation, who knew that the good days had just passed a few days, and the first half of the year was quite smooth, but who could produce so much food and make up so much money.

Once again, the red-clad court officials rode tall horses to the enclosed land, and this time, they were even more cruel.

If there is no way to pay enough taxes, the man will be drawn to build the palace of King Jing, I heard that it is a concubine of the current monarch of Jingguo, and gave birth to a thirteenth son for him.

In order to celebrate the birth of the thirteenth son of the monarch, the whole country looted the people's fat and ointment.

There is no shortage of people in the land of Jingguo who can endure hardships, and no matter how many monarchs have changed above, the people here have never had a good life.

But no matter how miserable they are, all they can do is endure.

The people in Stone Town are also complaining about hardship, the people here have been relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water, and they all rely on the sky to eat, and the successive looting by the imperial court has made most people unable to afford it.

All of a sudden, the sound of crying was everywhere, and I don't know how many wives were separated, and families were ruined.

Gu Lan once again walked on the road to Stone Town, unlike the previous beautiful mountains and rivers, now it was summer ploughing, and the crops in the fields had already matured, but no one had harvested them.

Looking at the peasant households in the village, the ten rooms and nine emptiness, the young people fled to the mountains, in order to avoid taxes, but those red dogs were not willing to let go of the old people, and if they could not catch the young people, then they would arrest the old people, and they didn't care if these old people could go to build the palace alive, as long as they caught enough people.

There are also some people who were caught on the way to escape, and were hacked to death directly in the middle of the road, and now in the hot summer, in less than a day's effort, they emit the smell of corpses, and the corpses are dragged everywhere by wild dogs, and no one collects the corpses.

Gu Lan's heart was desolate, and her heart hurt when she saw it, but she still forced herself to open her eyes, her eyes were about to split, and she wanted to see the purgatory in front of her clearly.

"Don't look at it."

Aji grabbed Gu Lan's hand and broke her fingers one by one.

"You're bleeding," Aji looked at Gu Lan distressedly.

Gu Lan finally couldn't bear it anymore, and her lower lip was bleeding from her bite.

She threw herself into Aggie's arms, tears streaming out of her eyes and soaking Aggie's clothes.

"Why?" Gu Lan gritted her teeth and grabbed Aji's clothes, "These people, don't they have families, brothers and sisters?" How could they bear to be so ruthless! ”

Gu Lan, who lives under the red flag, has never seen such a cruel scene, these people kill civilians, and they don't treat them as human beings at all.

Aji was silent, he was born in a family, but he grew up in the countryside, and he understood the rules of the family and the suffering of the people.

He could only say, "Now you are the only one who can save them." ”

He didn't mention anyone else, he just said that he relied on Gu Lan.

Because in his heart, it is estimated that only Gu Lan in the whole world will do this for these people.

"You have to be strong and think about what we should do next, only then can we save more people."

With his encouragement, Gu Lan strengthened her determination.