In the first battle of 'Hongyan' City, the troops under the command of Yang Tian killed more than 400,000 siege enemy troops, and less than 30,000 of the 130,000 troops led by him remained, and the remaining more than 4,000 sons and brothers of the Guards Regiment were even more vomiting, nightmares, and babbling for more than half a month.

Qiong Daotian didn't talk nonsense, and wrote down a particularly big military feat for Yang Tian, and all the subordinate generals were promoted by two levels, and then he mobilized elite soldiers to make up for his 200,000 subordinates. General Long of the 'Tiger Wolf Army' transferred 150,000 of his subordinates' elite to Yang Tian without saying a word, and the Qiong family's private army was also the strongest 50,000. When Qiong Daotian was talking to other generals in private, he commented on Yang Tian and said: "This kid, I originally thought that he was a not very bad young master at most, but who knows, this performance is really unexpected to me." ”

In the next two days, Yang Tian suddenly showed a strength on the battlefield that was inconsistent with his previous performance, and this matter gradually blew into Qiong Daotian's ears. Qiong Daotian smiled, didn't say anything, and said to the Qiong family's own generals: "I can understand General Yang's approach...... If it were me, I would be like this. After all, if he behaved too well, he wouldn't have survived. "The implication is that some people in Shengjing are very dissatisfied, only mediocre talents can survive, and good talents must be obliterated, and he Young Master Qiong can't stand it anymore.

After seven days of recuperation, and when the soldiers had recovered their energy after a long battle, Qiong Daotian convened a military meeting for the first time at the rank of captain or above of all 1,000 people in the First Army. He solemnly said to his subordinate generals: "This time, although we have broken the enemy's army, we have also lost more than 200,000 brothers. You should also have heard from the brothers in 'Red Rock' City about the strength of the blood-red cavalry, but they were forced away by us before they could make a move. It's not that their strength is inadequate, it's that the strategy of their commanders is inadequate. As for these soldiers who were killed by us for more than a million years, although they were also elite soldiers, they were all on the battlefield for the first time, and they couldn't be compared with the Black Cloud Empire's Hundred Battle Heroes at all. ”

The generals didn't say anything, after all, they still captured more than a thousand captives to ask for confessions, and they all confessed what they knew, among the more than three million enemy troops, the regular troops of the Black Cloud Empire who supervised the battle and helped the war did not make a move at all, and all fled with Feng, the Celestial Empire's record this time was very brilliant in terms of people, and in terms of connotation, it was a little watery.

Qiong Daotian nodded and said: "According to the plan in advance, the fastest is that the Second Route Army will arrive in four months, and if there is any problem on the road, it is estimated that it will take more than half a year." During this time, we must do all the fortifications and accumulate enough food and grass for the Second Route Army, and no one knows when the Black Cloud Empire will launch a second attack. Now I will issue the tasks of the generals. ”

"The commander of the 'Tiger Wolf Army' Long led the 'Tiger Wolf Army' to carry out regular patrols to strictly prevent the other party's harassment and attack. "General Long led the promise and strode away.

"Qiong Feiyun, recruiting local civil servants, focusing on deepening the walls of several cities, moats, etc. A middle-aged general with a grim face nodded and went out.

"Qiong Daobing, you take people to find those local little nobles and talk to them well, after all, we are also here to liberate them, they want to be more or less meaningful, donate more military pay or something to me, and they are responsible for the wages of civilian service. A young general with a kind face, but a fierce look in his eyes, went out with a smile......

Yang Tian was anxious, sneered and pounced on Qiong Daotian's military order case, and said with a smile: "Big brother, what about me, you have to give me something to do, huh? Don't look at me if I'm injured, you don't want to go, hehe...... Hey...... Hey hey"

Qiong Daotian also laughed a few times, looked up and down at Yang Tian and said, "How could I not be upset? Your brother doesn't seem to have any wounds...... Well, find a good messenger for you, the nearby villages, you take people out every day to inspect it, and we have collected all their surplus grain, and compensated them a little bit according to the market price...... Well, at the same time, they were ordered to plant more grain and grass while it was still early, and they would collect more if they could. In addition, you have captured all the local craftsmen of iron, wood, lacquer, and gold to the Heavenly City, and requisitioned them for the army. ”

Yang Tian lost his spirit all of a sudden, and he had just been promoted, Zeng Guoxuan and Jiang Chunshui, who accompanied him in, also paused, and said weakly: "What kind of bad thing is this, it's boring, it's purely those mud-legged poles of the Ministry of Industry." ”

Qiong Daotian said quietly: "In addition, you are responsible for investigating how many accounts there are in the area under our control, and whether there are any capable people and whether they may be used by us." Moreover, and the most important one......" Qiong Daotian lowered his voice and said slowly: "You lead 100,000 craftsmen to explore whether there are minerals such as gold, silver, iron, diamonds, coal, lime, etc., as long as you find it, before the arrival of the Second Route Army, I will allow you to act cheaply, vigorously mine, and subsidize the military." ”

Yang Tian suddenly bulleted, Zeng Guoxuan's two eyes immediately became bright and bright, he simply snatched the mining document from Qiong Daotian's hand, and the three of them ran out like a fly. Qiong Daotian slapped his forehead fiercely and scolded angrily: "You remember, no matter how much you embezzle, you are not allowed to hack all of them." ”

Now all that is left in the big tent are some of the Qiong family's henchmen and generals, and an old man asked puzzledly: "Young Master, if you ask these people to mine minerals, I'm afraid that they will pay a pound of gold at most one or two, can this still be done?"

Qiong Daotian smiled: "Even if they only hand over one tael of ten catties of gold, I am happy, it is better than nothing...... What's more......" Qiong Daotian's face was a little hesitant: "Those eldest young masters of the Guards Regiment have suffered heavy casualties this time, and any of their grandparents will blow a little wind in the court against His Majesty, and we can't afford to be guilty...... If we don't buy their minds with some benefits, I'm afraid that before we can triumph, our heads will go back first. Hmm? You should not always rigidly act in accordance with military law, after all, many things in the world still have to be done by paying attention to human feelings. As long as this group of big young masters is happy, the casualties of their companions will be reduced to small things, and small things will be turned into small things......"

After a pause, Qiong Daotian laughed and said: "You have also seen the report of the battlefield survey, more than half of those eldest young masters actually forced out their sword qi at the last moment, although they are weaker, they should not be underestimated, maybe, they will still have a very strong combat power in the future." It's better to have a relationship with them now than to wait for them to make a name for themselves in the imperial court, and the Qiong family has no ambitions, but it's very good if they are prosperous and rich, if you don't please them now, when will you please them?"

Everyone in the Qiong family suddenly realized, and said one after another: "The eldest young master is wise, wise. Qiong Daotian smiled bitterly in his heart: "I am wise, as long as you deal with those adults in the imperial court more, you will become like this sooner or later...... Eh, fortunately, there are Zeng Daxue and Jiang Daxue, as long as their son is happy, they can't protect our Qiong family, this time, it seems that there will be no consequences...... But should this report be sent to Shengjing right away?"

After calculating for a long time, Qiong Daotian silently made a decision: "Forget it, wait until the final decision, the army all the way can't withstand the anger of those who have died in the heart...... Let's wait for Wen Dashuai to come over. ”

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Yang Tian and the other three rushed to the place where their group of sons and buddies were recuperating from their injuries, and casually beckoned several generals such as Yue, Bai, Li, Zhang, Leng, and Feng to their subordinates, and handed over to them all the things about counting household registrations, collecting grain and grass, and urging the people to plant grain and grass, and quickly flashed into the camp.

Before the generals gathered their men, those boys who were weak two days ago, had nightmares, and couldn't move their knives had already grabbed their weapons and armor and rushed out, putting armor on their bodies as they ran. By the time the men and horses mobilized by several generals arrived, these boys were already neatly dressed and arranged in a phalanx with high spirits, and even a few seriously injured guys followed behind with bared teeth.

Yang Tian laughed, sent someone to greet the old ghost of the Black Sky, and then brought 30,000 elite cavalry of the 'Tiger Wolf Army', 10,000 strong archers of the Qiong family, and more than 100 masters of prospecting and searching for pulses, brought enough materials for a month's life in the wild, and charged out hotly. Several generals were shocked and roared at the subordinate soldiers: "Look, look, look at the speed of others, you are still elite, and you still look down on those young masters, but the performance of others is much better than yours, don't you feel embarrassed? ”

I really don't know what these generals would think if they finally understood what made these sons so energetic. But now, these sons and brothers are constantly dancing with mountains of gold and silver in their minds, eh, I really don't know how they are going to transport them back to Shengjing when the time comes.

Some of the local residents had slowly gathered in the square in the center of the city at the friendly or unfriendly invitation of the soldiers, and in the face of the Celestial Empire's military offer, which was twice as high as the usual local market, these people accepted the activity of helping the Celestial army repair and expand the city walls. In addition, a siege had to be built, which had to be able to accommodate a large number of troops.

Hundreds of thousands of troops galloped freely within their control, investigating everything they were interested in. The distribution of mountains and rivers, the distribution of people's settlements, the situation of special products, and all the conditions are recorded on the map. In the first half month, the biggest discovery was a huge river, a huge river that could directly penetrate into the hinterland of this continent, according to the surveyed water depth and flow rate, now the most advanced ironclad gunships of the Celestial Empire can easily raid from a distance.

As for Yang Tian, Long Feng, Feng Ling'er, Black Sky Old Ghost, and Gnu, the five people brought more than 40,000 people, and they had been running with those more than 100 pulse seeking masters in the wilderness for ten days. They didn't know what reason, all the way to the mountains, farther and farther, gradually, the old ghost in the black sky was also a little surprised, his eyes flashed with green light, and said in surprise: "Hey, these boys still have some ability, fuck, Lao Tzu sees that the golden essence in the north is flourishing in this area, there must be a large number of metal ores below, but I don't know what kind of minerals it is, how can they see it?"

The leader of the seekers replied respectfully, "Lafayette, we judge by the color of the rocks on the ground, the population of particular plants, and the topography of the mountains. It's just that experience has given us an idea of where it might be, and if we could see the gas with such certainty as Galeries Lafayette, we would be much more efficient. ”

The old ghost of the black sky laughed proudly and said: "Lao Tzu, this ghost spirit eye has been practiced for fifty years, I can teach you, haha, as long as you have half of Lao Tzu's skills, it's fine." ”

These pulse seekers immediately fell silent, half of the skills of the old ghosts in the black sky? They have to practice for at least 10,000 years.

Jiang Chunshui couldn't wait to ask: "What kind of minerals are here?"

The leader smiled and said, "This should be a huge stone blue mine, there are the best stone blue mining ......" Zeng Guoxuan had already interrupted him: "Eh, what's the use of that kind of thing? fuck, Bai is happy." Didn't Lafayette say that the golden spirit here is very strong?"

The leader hurriedly explained: "Your Excellency doesn't know, the stone blue ore must be accompanied by the silver mine, and there must be a silver mine below here, but I don't know what the exact content is." ”

The strength of the boy's buddies came, and they jumped off their horses one by one, and were courteous to those pulse seekers, urging them: "Hurry up, hurry up, where, where?" A few surnamed Zi were in a hurry, and had already begun to send soldiers back to the city to inform the chief craftsmen in the city, asking them to send people here to mine as soon as possible.

After wandering around this area for three or two days, they finally surveyed the location of this silver mine, and the old ghost of the black sky and the dragon wind joined forces to uncover a rock layer in a hundred zhang square, revealing the gray-white ore with silver spots below. The old ghost of the black sky was excited, and the mana of his whole body was slackened and pounced on it and shouted wildly, Long Feng was careless, he didn't work hard with the old ghost of the black sky to lift the huge rock layer in the air, and now the old ghost of the black sky suddenly withdrew, he was under a lot of pressure, and the rock layer was immediately pressed down as it was, and the old ghost of the black sky who was obsessed with wealth smashed underneath.

Everyone was shocked, and hurriedly rushed up to dig the crumbled rock, and a black shadow had already broken through the rock formation, soared into the sky, and roared wildly in the air: "Fuck, this is a fortune, a fortune...... Damn, this mine is more than all the offerings of the people of the Celestial Empire for ten years, and it is even more......"

The boys cheered and desperately used their swords to dig up the raw silver ore. Especially when the old ghost of the black sky and Long Feng melted a piece of ore weighing more than 10,000 catties with magic fire and practiced a silver ingot, this kind of fanaticism reached its peak.

Yang Tian ordered: "Brothers, don't look from the side, those craftsmen will still have a few days to come, we will help them mine more ore now, and when they come, we can start mining immediately." Come on, go to the nearby villages and gather the laborers and ask them to bring tools to mine...... Fuck, these idiots, don't they waste so much money underground?"

The cheers resounded through the valley, and the soldiers were glad that their salaries were greatly guaranteed, and they would definitely be able to win several battles fiercely;

Zeng Guoxuan and Jiang Chunshui pulled Yang Tian aside and discussed in a low voice: "Boss, we have to solve this problem first, how can we explain the silver we have refined to the top?"

Jiang Chunshui said viciously: "Fuck, the mines that Lao Tzu found, of course they can't be cheapened for nothing." According to me, a pound of silver ingots, one or two is enough to give them...... Later, if you find those iron, matchmakers, or something, you can give them at all. ”

Yang Tian slapped his head hard and scolded him in a low voice: "Idiot, stupid, waste." It's just a little bit of silver...... Our vision should be long-term, the goal should be ambitious, the 'money' road is beautiful, we don't care about the little profit at the beginning. This bit of silver mine, can we face the top half of the point? Later, when we found a gold mine, we would send one or two pounds. Otherwise, we will send too little this time, and if Boy Qiong won't give us this errand in the future, won't it be cheaper for others? How can you learn from your father, if you don't go for a little money, you won't get a big money. ”

The two of them nodded suddenly, stretched out their thumbs to Yang Tian and said, "Boss, smart, smart." ”

Yang Tian said proudly: "At this point, I still have confidence, you look down on the medium and iron, you are really stupid." In the future, we can apply for the right to mine and distribute all the media and iron on these three continents. According to our power in the imperial court, it is easy to get such a little management power, right? Although the media and iron themselves are not money, they can exchange money, and a lot of gold and silver are what they have in exchange. Do the common people want to use iron tools? Do they want to burn the medium? If we have the media and iron in our hands all over the world, can they not obediently send money? At that time, the price can be set as high as we want, and the cost can be pressed as low as we want, and we will really make a fortune. ”

Zeng Guoxuan's eyes were fascinated: "Yes, boss, we can not only specialize in media and iron, but also salt, Lao Tzu doesn't believe that these ordinary people of the Black Cloud Empire don't eat salt, right?"

Jiang Chunshui added fiercely: "By the way, in the future, you will have to collect taxes for building houses, damn it, if you don't pay taxes, you won't let the common people build houses, won't they live in cave......s? Damn, didn't you say that the total population of these three continents was nearly a billion? One person earns ten gold coins, which is two taels of gold, and my God, three of us brothers can have two billion taels of gold...... One person is more than 600 million ......"

Yang Tian laughed evilly: "So, we have to pay a lot of money now, and get a good relationship with those bigwigs above, as long as we do a good job, these transactions will be ours in the future...... I still think that in the future, we will definitely set up a great consul in these three continents, and we will not go back. There are a lot of beauties here, as long as we are rich and powerful, we are more comfortable than being the emperor, we can also play with the people here at will, in the Shengjing, you don't dare, right?"

Zeng Guoxuan and Jiang Chunshui instantly made up their minds, once they conquered the Black Cloud Empire, they would definitely not return to the Celestial Empire, and the prospects on this side were simply too good.

Yang Tian looked at the results of his demagogy with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "This kind of good thing, we can't forget our brothers, you talk about it well, a few more brothers, in the future, we will definitely be the important ministers of the Commander's Mansion, everyone takes care of each other, these three continents are not what we say......

Zeng Guoxuan and Jiang Chunshui didn't say a word, they quickly rushed out and began to win people over.

Long Feng laughed in a low voice behind Yang Tian: "If you are together, you can expand the army indiscriminately, and if you find an excuse in the future, you can also rebel, right?"

Yang Tian grinned: "What do you think? Is it possible?"

Long Feng nodded and said, "That's a great idea." The son of the court boss rebelled in the territory of the Celestial Empire, and the court must be in chaos, and when they straightened out the relationship and sent troops to suppress it, they had no chance. However, you have to start thinking about how you can force your brothers to follow you to the death of the Celestial Empire. ”

Yang Tian muttered: "I'm not in a hurry, I'm not in a hurry, there is still a long time to conquer the Black Cloud Empire, and I have a lot of time to think about it slowly." He raised his eyebrows, swaggered and walked towards the construction site of the hot and desperate silver mine, and said desperately: "It's a pity, these knives are used to cut people, and now they are used to mine stones, what a pity...... Stupid, be careful, don't cut with the tip of a knife, this knife is also made of money. ”

Feng Ling'er suddenly appeared beside Long Feng and asked puzzledly, "Do you think of conspiracy as fun?"

Long Feng smiled and said, "Eldest sister, you don't know, different races and different traditional cultures." Intrigue is, in our opinion, a pleasure...... It's a pity that the intrigues and tricks on the side of the Celestial Empire are a little inferior, if you have the opportunity in the future, you can go to my motherland with me, and the intrigue between the country and the country over there can probably scare you to death......"

Feng Ling'er's head was big, and she groaned, "I can be scared to death now...... You can deceive the best brother in your mouth at will, devise plans to betray the country while loyally shedding blood for the country, and use your family affection, your so-called most wonderful affection, to blackmail others, O God...... Your homeland must be a hellish place. ”

Long Feng Zhengse said: "Wrong, for me, my motherland is heaven...... This is something that your race will never understand, and so, it is why your mighty race has been wiped out so quickly. Feng Ling'er still looked confused, and Long Feng smiled secretly in his heart: "I won't teach you these things, otherwise, when your clan has **, we will definitely not be your opponents." ”

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20,000 craftsmen from the Celestial Empire, under the escort of 100,000 troops, rushed to this silver mine at night, hastily built some sheds that could accommodate their bodies, and began the intense mining work.

Yang Tian constantly sent troops to collect cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens and other livestock from nearby villages, and entertained these craftsmen with the best food every day. At the same time, he took the initiative to take the lead, leading the sons and brothers and the soldiers who guarded them, and began to cut down logs, build strong wooden houses, and create comfortable beds and furniture, so that these craftsmen could live and eat well.

The craftsmen were very moved, Yang Tian was a person with the title of Duke of the Celestial Empire, and now he was still a senior general commanding an army of 200,000 people, how could they have imagined that such a person who was so far away from their status would be covered in mud and lead a group of noble children of the Celestial Empire to build houses for them, craftsmen, and even cook food for them personally?

Long Feng was very satisfied in his heart, Yang Tian's recent performance was too good, although he was not qualified to be a good emperor, but at least he was qualified to be an ordinary annihilator. These craftsmen are all selected people with excellent craftsmanship and no concern in the Celestial Empire, as long as they can buy their hearts, they can develop their own territory in the future, and improve their weapons and armor, which is the greatest help.

Those boys, although they don't have such awareness, but for the sake of the face of those silver ingots that are piling up higher and higher, they are also working hard to serve these craftsmen, and each of them has accumulated a lot of silver in their accounts, which is also their biggest motivation.

More than 100 pulse seekers have begun to look for other minerals in the nearby mountains, and have found several small iron veins one after another, it is estimated that there will be a large iron ore vein nearby, they are busy according to the guidance of the old ghost of the black sky, 30,000 soldiers are divided into a hundred patrol detachments, patrolling in the mountains and forests to prevent possible disturbing activities of the Black Cloud Empire.

Gradually, in two months, Yang Tian's current 200,000 troops have all been mobilized, and more than 300,000 craftsmen are desperately busy under Yang Tian's command. Yang Tian is still desperate as always to leave the most perfect impression on these craftsmen from the Celestial Empire or locally mobilized, corporal Lixian, shameless questioning, shushing the cold and asking for warmth, and taking the lead, Yang Tian's performance everywhere has impressed these ordinary people. Inadvertently, the 200,000 soldiers were also deeply infected by Yang Tian's actions, and they had completely changed their views on Yang Tian......

Another harvest is that those sons and buddies have more or less experienced the hardships of ordinary people, and have gone through the test of life and death, and they are slowly changing in such ordinary life.

A gold mine, a silver mine, three iron mines, two coal mines, and a few charcoal-burning workshops, all of which were now under the direct command of Yang Tian, were spread across the two hundred miles of mountains. Qiong Daotian was afraid that Yang Tian's manpower would not be enough, so he sent an additional 100,000 horses to Yang Tian. What reassured the Celestial Empire army was that in those mountains and forests, the Black Cloud Empire would not be able to launch a large-scale attack even if it wanted to.

Truckloads of strategic resources such as silver ingots, iron blocks, and charcoal were continuously transported to the Paradise City. In comparison, the production of gold ingots is much less, well, the reason for this, the senior generals are clear, but no one has broken it.

Under the tutelage of Long Feng, Yang Tian also began to inspect nearby villages, asking craftsmen from the Celestial Empire to guide the local people to develop their own industry and agriculture. In addition, Yang Tian also sent a batch of gold and silver that was not very large, but it was enough to buy ordinary people to the local people, and unconsciously, Yang Tian knew the kind of spring breeze enjoyment brought by buying people's hearts, and he began to consciously make friends with even the lowest local people.

The generals of the Qiong family, who were busy dealing with the overall affairs, ignored these things and lost the opportunity to win the hearts and minds of the people in the occupied areas......;