Chapter 25: The Strange Mining Village

Thinking of this, Shen Fei woke up to the fact that such a civilized world cherishes land very much, no matter how poor and dangerous it is, it will not give up the hereditary land, unless there is a force that makes Linhe Village helpless, so that Linhe Village is eager to throw the land out, so as not to cause trouble with the forces to survive.

And this force is definitely not the power of Donghai County, because people are here to loot, not occupy, Linhe Village has been like this for so many years, where will they give up the land because of Donghai County!

"Damn! It seems that the biggest trap is in this mining village! Poor me, I haven't even learned the power of a samurai! What kind of force is controlling the mining village? It actually forced Linhe Village to be willing to throw away the land rather than touch it? What a trouble!" Shen Fei touched his chin and thought.

Shen Fei summoned several warriors from the fishing village and the tree village to ask them about their understanding of the mining village, and the result was not surprising to Shen Fei, they all only said that the mining village could produce pig iron and make weapons, and the number of people was only about 500. As for whether the business is good or not, how much pig iron is produced, and how many weapons are built, it is not clear at all, and even whether there are really 500 young people, they have only listened to the businessmen who have entered the mining village.

And there is a strange place, that is, they want to buy a katana nearby without getting through the guò merchants, but they are directly rejected by the mining village, saying that they can't destroy the market, and the procurement personnel they sent only stayed in the mining village for a while, and they were persuaded to leave the mining village without even staying overnight.

Shen Fei continued to touch his chin, needless to say, there seemed to be a lot of weirdness in this mining village.

"May I ask who is here?" the village gate opened, and a middle-aged man dressed as a blacksmith walked out and asked in a loud voice.

Shen Fei raised his eyebrows again, because although the middle-aged blacksmith looked a little apprehensive in his movements, he looked very calm when he looked at his eyebrows. How can you say it? It's that he is afraid that he will be cut down as a messenger, but he is not afraid of the hundreds of troops on his side.

Shen Fei's thoughts flickered, because he didn't know anything about the situation behind this mining village. Originally, I wanted to directly conquer the mining village, but after perceiving so many doubts, I dispelled it. So he walked out a few steps directly and shouted: "I am the Yamada family, the lord of the entire territory on the east bank of the river in Linhe Village! Don't tell me that Linhe Village has not informed you that the local lord has been replaced by me Toyogen Village Taro! So you should know what I am doing today!"

"Ah?!" The middle-aged blacksmith was stunned for a moment, obviously he didn't expect that the person who came with the military might actually be the new lord! It's just that what made Shen Fei's heart chuckle was that the middle-aged man hesitated, and a trace of hideousness actually flashed in his eyes.

Shen Fei's mind turned, and he directly waved his hand and roared very imposingly: "Go back and inform you of the leader of the mining village! Your behavior of ignoring me, the new lord, makes me very angry! Now I want you to make a statement! Are you willing to surrender or ruin! I am a very talkative person, if I am willing to surrender, the amount of tribute will be doubled! I am willing that you will continue to enjoy the old days! But you must be compensated for the crime of contempt for the lord! As for ruining miè. That's even simpler!

With Shen Fei's words, all the soldiers present stomped their feet and roared angrily: "Ha!"

The uniform movements and shouts made the middle-aged man a little vigilant and hesitant, but when he thought of something, his expression became relaxed again, and he just made a look of panic and said: "Lord Lord, forgive me, the villain will go and report to the head!"

While waiting, Shen Fei sent out nearly a hundred soldiers. also came back one after another, but unlike the capture of Shucun, so many people went out, but only a dozen or so young people came back. It is said that there are many tunnels in the mine, and if you are not careful, you will get lost, and they are worried about the battle situation on Shen Fei's side, so they dare not go too deep and delay. After catching a dozen miners who didn't have time to escape, they returned.

"Ask them for information, the most important thing is the iron ore production and pig iron production of this mining village, the number of weapons to build, and the number of people!" Shen Fei ordered directly.

"Yes!" several team members immediately went for the so-called questioning. And the samurai of those fishing villages and tree villages were also busy helping out.

After a while, several team members came back to report: "Lord, the other party is just a coolie fixed in a tunnel to dig, and I don't know much about it, but according to the rumors of my companions, this mining village can produce more than 100,000 catties of pig iron in a year, which is only a lot more." The exact details of the weapons manufactured are unknown, but some people have witnessed a merchant taking away three ox carts of katana at once. As for the population that may be much higher than estimated, it is said that there are dozens of people in a single mine, and there are far more than 20 caves in this mining village. ”

Speaking of the back, the faces of several teams also tightened, and they who have experienced cultural education naturally know what these numbers represent. Obviously, the master's attempt to conquer the mining village failed this time, and maybe he even mentioned an iron plate. Not to mention anything else, there are at least more than 300 katanas in three ox carts, and there are more than 2,000 miners in 20 mines!

With such a huge disparity in numbers and equipment, no matter how good you are, you can't compete with it! I just hope that the lord will not be annoyed and angry, otherwise it will be very troublesome.

Shen Fei looked up at the top of his head, the image above his head had not changed, it was obvious that the mining village had not surrendered to him, so the number he got would not be displayed. But Shen Fei was very calm, what he said before had clearly informed the mining village that the reason why he would bring troops here to find bad luck was because your mining village did not recognize himself as a lord first, and also said that he only needed to double the tribute to make them the same as before.

Since the behind-the-scenes control of the mining village was able to recognize the rule of Linhe Village before, then naturally he could also admit his control power on the premise of increasing the tribute by two hundred catties. As long as the mining village recognizes its own sovereignty, then the number of jù that has been detected before can be transformed into real materials through the golden finger on the top of guò's head. Such a beautiful thing, naturally you have to do it, as long as you have the materials sent by the golden finger on your head, hehe, how about letting this mining village get away for the time being?

After a while, the middle-aged man led a few so-called mine village leaders who were dressed very well, but their expressions were not as good as those of the middle-aged people, and they came out to apologize. Not only did he agree to Shen Fei's request to double the annual tribute, but he also gave ten superb katanas as a gift for offending the lord.

Shen Fei smiled very satisfied, because in the image above his head, there was a small piece of mine in the image, and he also learned that this mine could produce 100,000 catties of refined iron for himself during the autumn harvest every year! 100,000 catties of fine iron! A pound of fine iron is worth the same thing! Here it is enough to 100,000 catties! The daimyo of millions of stones is not rich in his own bronze apprenticeship!

And with the appearance of goldfinger, which has been promoted to the qualification of no matter what other materials, he only needs to occupy the silver and gold mines. Then you can directly produce pure silver and pure gold! The value is several times higher than that of the silver and gold mines themselves!

Hehe, it seems that you have to ask where there is a silver mine and gold mine near here, it doesn't need to be big, it just needs to be carried out, as long as it is occupied, then the gold finger on your head can give you a sum of pure silver and pure gold every year!

Seeing Shen Fei's triumphant appearance, the people on Shen Fei's side were just a little stunned in confusion, while the people on the other side of the mining village were secretly disdainful.

"Haha, yes, since you have surrendered. If I apologize again, then I will not blame the past. Come on, pull these ox carts back, and treat them as the tribute of the mining village this year!" Shen Fei waved his hand aggressively, and everyone who had already collected the ox carts and the products on them immediately responded excitedly and loudly.

The people in the mining village all showed a trace of pain but didn't dare to say anything, seeing them like this, the people on Shen Fei's side naturally laughed, under Shen Fei's order. The ox cart full of supplies drove back.

Seeing Shen Fei walking away, the talent in the mining village spat and muttered: "It seems that they still think that we are suffering from pig iron, iron ore and charcoal, but in fact, we are sorry for those dozen cows!"

"Damn, who said you didn't need to deal with the new lord in the first place? There is no way to provoke us? How did the more than 300 troops led by others come out of now?"

"It's all Linhe Village that harms people! I knew that if I surrendered according to the old rules, there would be nothing!"

"Hey, forget it, we don't lack that little thing, and it's good to be able to continue to settle down. Missing a dozen cows is nothing, and you can always ask the merchant to buy a batch to make up for it. At one place, everyone actually said yes. And the one who said this was actually the first middle-aged man to deal with Shen Fei, needless to say, he was the leader of the mining village.

"My lord, it's just that the Fengyuan family arrested some of our miners, and also asked about our output and the number of weapons we built, as well as the population we have, although those miners don't know too much about it, but it also let the Fengyuan family catch our details, I'm afraid there will be trouble in the future. A young man who had just asked about the miners who had been released came up and saluted.

"Hmph! So what?! Could it be that after knowing such a situation, the Fengyuan family would have the courage to target us? I saw that they left in such a hurry, they must have known our details, so they were scared away!"

"That's right, my lord, why don't we lead the troops to destroy the Fengyuan family?!"

"No, we have a lord on the surface, which is more beneficial to our career, and the other party is also interested in doing this, as for him to be sensible or sensible, it depends on his appearance, if the well water does not violate the river water, then we will also send him a batch of weapons during the New Year's Festival, if he is not interested, then let him see how our iron cave people are stored!" The middle-aged man sneered.

"Yes!" everyone saluted in submission, and then the mining village resumed its original lively scene, and countless goods began to enter and exit again.

After Shen Fei was far away from this side, the team was still driving the ox cart slowly, and Shen Fei had already turned his head to look in the direction of the mining village with deep palpitations, and his palms and vests were already soaked.

Shen Fei was very dissatisfied with his own expression: "Damn! Why can't you bear the coercion so much after changing your body? If you give the coercion, you will actually break out in a cold sweat all over your body! And what is too much is that Lao Tzu's consciousness has no problem at all, but the body feels this coercion, which is really boring, and the strength is not there, it can't be awesome! It's just that I didn't expect that middle-aged messenger to be the source of this coercion, looking at the appearance of that coercion, that product should be even better than Kanda, the first of Yamada Martial Arts!"

"It's just that why is such a person hiding in this mountain? Why is he forming a mining village? With his ability, blatantly occupying this mine, the surrounding forces will definitely admit it, and then do everything possible to hire this goods into their own family!"

"And more importantly, he is already such a powerful character, why should he care about this bit of mining iron? It is his most powerful move, and the cost of studying at the shrine is not comparable to the profit of the mine in a year. So it's certain that such a character is definitely under the control of a higher person, and he was sent here to not know what to guard, and this strange thing must be in the mines. Similarly, his origin above must be very big, maybe once exposed, it will be known to the whole world, and then there will definitely be countless people who wonder why such a powerful character as him hides in such a remote mountain forest to play in the mines. ”

"At that time, it will definitely attract countless people to come to investigate, and even people who are better than him will come to investigate, and then it will definitely be a lot of trouble. So it is conceivable that this is why such a powerful guy hides so carefully, and is willing to surrender to the hiding under the command of a village head who is only a few thousand stones. And I also understand why the goods in Linhe Village are throwing away the territory like throwing hot coals. Obviously, he was aware of the existence of that awesome character, but he didn't want to cause trouble, so he threw it out directly along with the trouble and the territory!"

Shen Fei, who finally figured out the reason, did not have his curiosity as in the past at this moment, after all, he knew that he was not awesome now, and if he was too curious, he would hang up early, and he didn't know how to torture the mastermind if he didn't complete the task. Therefore, you don't need to pay attention to those strange things, you have to wait for yourself to talk about them. And now, let's not interfere with the river water in the well water of the mining village, and concentrate on the rest of the territory. Anyway, with the gold finger on the top of his head, he won't be short of iron, so when he finds a few blacksmiths, he can't even say that he won't be short of weapons!

Shen Fei and his party spent more than a day to drive the ox cart back to the fishing village, only to find that the fishing village was not suitable as their own station, it was too narrow to even fit the dozen or so ox carts, let alone hundreds of young people.

Shen Fei naturally didn't keep these young people, after inviting them to eat and drink, each of them was rewarded with two copper plates, and these elite peasant soldiers were disbanded.

And Shen Fei also took advantage of the fact that he had seized so much charcoal, iron ore, pig iron, and especially more than a dozen cows, and fourteen teams were promoted to ten-stone samurai, and the rest of the ashigaru were all promoted to five-stone samurai. Then the two priests who had been promoted to full samurai began to divide knowledge and action with pain and happiness. This is a very troublesome thing, and there are endless troubles to divide it into whoever has good knowledge and action, and whoever has bad knowledge and action.

Ignoring the two busy commissioners, he directly stopped these samurai who fantasized about how much they could expand after obtaining Zhixing, and ordered them to take small teams as units, bring dry food, and run around the territory, one is to find out the wild people hidden in the mountains and forests, and after the autumn harvest, gather all of them in the countryside to increase the population. The second is to draw a map, what terrain, what main roads, trails, rivers, streams, springs must be clearly depicted. The third is to look for mountain specialties, herbs and minerals.

In the end, Shen Fei said that the best team was rewarded with 10 stones, and immediately let these warriors who had just returned from the battle be full of morale, and went to the logistics department to receive dry food, and rushed to all the regions in Shen Fei's territory in small teams.

And Shen Fei waited for the arrival of the autumn harvest and the power of the golden finger on his head. (To be continued......)