Three days later

Noon

Wushan Iron Ore Mine

This is the largest iron ore mine in Huangzhou, the mine covers a very large area, and Huangzhou has always been used as an iron ore export area in southern Xinjiang.

The iron needed by the five states of southern Xinjiang, about seventy percent of which is produced in the barren state, the reason why Dayu must take the barren state.

The main reason is because of the abundant iron ore resources in Huangzhou.

As the hometown of Nanban, Huangzhou was rich in iron ore, so the Nanban refining industry was very developed.

This also caused Dayu to crown the iron weapons of various ethnic groups, and once met an opponent in Nanban.

At that time, because of the advantages of the Southern Barbarians, and the fact that the Southern Barbarians were easy to kill, this made the Southern Barbarians once become the most jealous foreigner under the Northern Captives.

Therefore, there will be Dayu to mobilize a large army and attack the Nanban with all his might, and it will directly beat the Nanban into the mountains and occupy the vast wasteland.

Over the years, although the Nanban clan has no source of a large amount of iron ore, however, the art of alchemy has not fallen, through the purchase of raw iron from Dayu traders.

In order to be able to refine the few iron ores, they can make better weapons, so that their own family members can not fall behind when fighting with the Dayu army.

Over the past hundred years, the weapons held by the Nanban clan are more than the weapons used in the hands of the Yu army.

Before the occupation of the Wushan Iron Mine, there were no less than 100,000 people mining here all year round, so as to provide iron ore for the iron tools needed by the people and the army in southern Xinjiang.

After Nanban occupied this place, he was also afraid that the Dayu army would soon come over, so the number of people here surged by more than ten times.

In order to increase the speed of mining and ironmaking, the Nanban placed most of their own ironsmiths and forgers in the Wushan Iron Mine.

In order to be able to forge weapons as soon as possible for the use of the Southern Barbarians fighting on the front line.

However, unfortunately, not long ago, due to the sudden change in the situation in southern Xinjiang, Nanban was hit hard in Qiguan.

Just in case, most of the Nanban refiners and forgers left with most of the iron ore and returned to the mountains.

Only a small number of Nanban refiners and forgers and soldiers guarding the iron mines remained, but basically, the refined iron was transported away every few days.

In each iron ore mine in Huangzhou, there is a refinery dedicated to refining raw ore and refining iron, and there are no less than tens of thousands of refiners in the seven iron ore mines in Huangzhou.

With such a huge iron-making team, Shangguan Qiuyu would not let it go, and he learned from Tie Yi that although there was iron ore in his fiefdom.

However, it was not mined, and the reason was that because he had no experience in this area, all the sources of his weapons were purchased through the four major merchants, Lieutenant Chi's family.

Every few years, his family would spend a lot of money to buy a large number of various weapons from Wei Chi's family, which made Shangguan Qiuyu complain.

In this way, I am afraid that my own strength has long been clearly understood by those who have a heart, which is extremely unfavorable to my own development.

The army is the capital of one's own life, and weapons are the capital of a soldier's life, which is related to one's own lifeline, and it is best to be able to control it in one's own hands.

I don't want to make money from this, I just want to be self-sufficient, so that I can not be restricted and manipulated by others.

Moreover, the number of their own troops will not be known to outsiders, which makes it difficult to understand, which makes those who have a heart dare not act easily without knowing their own strength.

Therefore, after capturing the Wushan Iron Mine, these refiners and the forging masters of the Southern Barbarians were all isolated by the Shangguan family Qiuyu.

He won't let go of any of these people, and he won't give them a chance to escape.

An iron ore mine, Nanban actually arranged 100,000 Nanban soldiers to guard it, which shows how much attention Nanban attaches to Wushan Iron Mine.

According to later statistics, there are nearly 500,000 Dayu and nearly 900,000 men in the prime of life in the Wushan iron ore mine.

What Shangguan Qiuyu didn't expect was that in less than two months, nearly 100,000 people died tragically in the mining process due to fatigue.

Nanban has special respect for the soldiers who dare to fight to the death, but for the soldiers who surrender, they are extremely strict.

Almost half of those who died, and many more died than the common people who were forcibly plundered.

The reason for this is that the pawns work one-third more time than the general population, and at the same time, they spend one-third less time resting than the ordinary people.

Therefore, when Shangguan Qiuyu entered the Wushan Iron Mine, a group of soldiers found that someone had come to save them.

One by one, they were almost not afraid of death, and all rushed to the southern barbarian soldiers regardless of life and death, because of the weakness of their bodies, they often had to pay the price of several people for every time they killed a southern barbarian soldier.

However, even so, these soldiers who were tortured by the Southern Barbarians could not be timid.

In the end, nearly 500,000 soldiers surrendered, and nearly 200,000 people died, and the reason why so many people died was because Shangguan Qiuyu finally made a group of his own iron guards stop.

Let those soldiers go to fight with the Southern Barbarian soldiers themselves, Tie Yi and the others didn't understand why their young general let them stop halfway through the killing.

However, Shangguan Qiuyu didn't explain so much to them.

Surrender, what is a surrender, in addition to the generals who are afraid of death and order to surrender, and then the soldiers themselves are afraid of death.

Therefore, the intention of surrender will be born, and the bloodiness will be lost, and there will be such a thing as a pawn.

And the reason why Shangguan Qiuyu didn't let his own iron guard and Ying Lao make a move was that he wanted to use this to stimulate their inner blood.

Let them have the courage to pick up arms again and fight the enemy, only an army with blood is what Shangguan Qiuyu wants.

He wanted a pack of bloodthirsty wolves, not a pack of lambs to the slaughter.

After rescuing them, Shangguan Qiuyu asked his iron guard to tell his identity to the soldiers and the people.

At the same time, he also told them that they were going to be moved to their own fiefdoms, and the soldiers and people who learned the news were a little surprised by Shangguan Qiuyu's identity.

There was no resistance to the fact that he was going to be moved to the fiefdom of the Shangguan family, after all, it was better to be there than in this precarious mine.

Shangguan Qiuyu didn't tell them that they were already their own slaves, and their life and death were in my hands.

After all, everyone clearly understands in their hearts, but the Shangguan family has a good reputation in Dayu.

In addition, if they don't become slaves of the Shangguan family of Zhenguo Gong, they will either die of exhaustion here in the end, or they will be sold elsewhere, and they will still not be able to escape the status of slaves.

As for escaping, now that there is war everywhere in southern Xinjiang, where can you run, it is better to stay in the fiefdom of the Shangguan family, with the protection of the Shangguan family of the Zhenguo Gong, at least you can have a peaceful life.

This is the voice of the people, the lives of people in troubled times are like mustard, and the common people who live in the frontier and have suffered from foreign invasions for generations.

For them, a stable life is what they yearn for the most.

As for whether there will be people who are reluctant to have wives and children, Shangguan Qiuyu is eager to settle them, and their wives and children can also move to their own fiefdoms.

Of course, that's all for later.

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