The heavens start from the red building

Chapter 164

At this time, Chen Dong also came over. Seeing this little thing, he felt that the city lord must have hidden something. How could he only have this little thing because he was so fierce at harassing the people.

Let the city lord be dragged down and tortured, and he must ask where the things are hidden.As for this thing, just throw it to the Ruan family brothers and other subordinates.

Now even if this stone city is taken by Chen Dong, because the group leader doesn't like to communicate with outsiders, so few outsiders come to this city.

It just happened to be convenient for Chen Dong. After all, Chen Dong was not from Dongying. If other Japanese nobles knew that he had occupied Shicheng, they would definitely find a way to get him out of Shicheng.

Chen Dong still wants to occupy Shicheng, and then continue to think of ways to slowly turn Dongying into his back garden.

After cleaning the battlefield, Chen Dong walked around the city lord's mansion. This was still the city lord, and the place he lived in was not as good as Chen Dong's house in Dengzhou.

But there is an advantage here, it is quite close to the Iwami Silver Mine, and this city can be used as a logistics base for the mine.

In the following days, Chen Dong lived in the city lord's mansion, and the people in the city didn't feel the change of the city lord at all. Anyway, whoever became the city lord, their life would still be the same.

For the time being, Chen Dong didn't care about the common people. Those who went out to recruit people came back one after another, bringing back a large number of miners. With people, Chen Dong started mining.

The mining efficiency was not very high at the beginning, but almost a ton of silver ore was mined in a month.

This is rich ore, almost 1500 catties of silver can be refined.

This is just the beginning, and the output will increase a lot when you become proficient later, and even if Chen Dong gets rid of all kinds of expenses, the net profit will be close to 1000.

However, as the ore mining was on the right track, Chen Dong had another worry. Dongying is an island, and there is very little land that can be cultivated.

In addition, the grain output at this time was low, and now there are more and more miners, and the grain gradually cannot keep up.

Chen Dong asked Ruan Xiaowu and Xiaoqi to take people out to sea to fish to supplement food, but it was okay for two meals, if they ate fish every meal, except for those Dongying people, others would not be able to bear it.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for Ruan Xiaoer and Zhao Wei to come back with the boat, this time with a lot of food on board.

But at the same time, they also brought back a lot of people, and they were all from one household to another, so the food would not last long.

While Chen Dong asked Zhao Wei to take him on board to buy food quickly, he also specifically told him not to go to Dasong to buy food.

You must know that he went back to take so many people away last time, and now he goes back to buy food, and it is too conspicuous to keep going back and forth.

Moreover, it will take more than two months to go back and forth to Song Dynasty. Now that there are so many people here, the food can only last for half a month at most. When he comes back, everyone will starve to death.

When these people first came to Dongying, they were uneasy. If they found that there was no food again, if there was a riot, Chen Dong couldn't kill them all!

Zhao Wei also knew that the situation was urgent, so he hurriedly set off again without taking a good rest. This time, Chen Dong asked him to bring the newly refined silver with him to buy food.

In the days that followed, Chen Dong fed the mine workers with fish and shrimp from the sea, and all the food was saved for the people of Song Dynasty.

Among them, some miners must be dissatisfied, but just as they wanted to make trouble, they were suppressed by the security team composed of Dongying people.

Once these people gained power, they oppressed other Dongying people even harder than Chen Dong. If it weren't for Chen Dong's strict supervision, it is estimated that a large number of workers in the mine would be killed by them every few days.

But this is good for Chen Dong, because knowing that it was Chen Dong who asked the security team not to beat them ruthlessly, these miners respect Chen Dong very much.

With this group of gangsters acting as bad guys, it was obvious that Chen Dong and those from Da Song were all good guys.

This time was also the same, they only let the Dongying people eat fish and they wanted to make a fuss. After the security team came forward to suppress it, Chen Dong came forward to promise that when the food came back, they would still give food to everyone equally.

From ancient times to the present, no matter where the people are, it has been like this.As long as those in power come forward to ensure that they feel that they have a way to survive, they will not be willing to rebel.

Zhao Wei came back five days later, bringing good news and bad news to Chen Dong.

The good news is that within two days of walking to the east by boat, there is a relatively large city called Datian. Zhao Wei looked at it and found that there are many farmers farming in it.

And he also asked about it. The weather has been good here these two days, and a lot of grain can be harvested every year.

However, most of the fields here are the private property of the city lord, and the harvested food is also stored by the city lord. As long as the city lord is willing to make a deal, Chen Dong's food shortage problem will be solved.

But the bad news is that I don't know what is going on with the current Japanese nobles, all of them are very xenophobic.

The city lord of Datian heard that Zhao Wei was here to buy grain, so I didn't let Zhao Wei talk too much, and asked someone to drive him away.

Zhao Wei found that if he hadn't brought twenty or so people with him, and all of them were armed, the city lord was afraid that he would lose too much in a fight, and Zhao Wei might not even be able to leave the city.

After hearing the news, Chen Dong didn't hesitate at all. Since he refused to buy it, he would grab it by himself.

He asked Zhao Wei if he knew what was going on in that city, and how many troops the city lord had.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Wei really knew. After Zhao Wei was kicked out, he probably guessed that Chen Dong would definitely not give up. He had already arranged for someone to step on him.

This city lord is several times stronger than the city lord of Shicheng. After all, this is an agricultural society, and having food means there are people.

Zhao Wei had already inquired. The city lord had a total of 500 men, and all of them were equipped with swords, and a small number of them even had armor.

Hearing this, Chen Dong knew that he couldn't just rush over as he did last time. Even counting those recruited by Zhao Weixin, he could only gather 100 people at most.

Moreover, many of those newcomers were ordinary farmers before. This time Zhao Wei went back to pick up a bargain.

Hearing that Zhao Wei's recruitment conditions are so good, and he can bring his family, these people wanted to take a gamble and followed Zhao Wei.

But these people used to be honest and responsible people, not to mention fighting, many of them had never even fought.

If he took them to attack Datian now, he would take them to die. Chen Dong knew that there were very few people who were willing to leave their hometowns at this time. It was not easy for Zhao Wei to recruit these people. He couldn't let them die for so long.

As for the Dongying people in the security team, Chen Dong has no idea of ​​letting them play yet.

It wasn't that he was reluctant to send them to their deaths, but the main reason was that the gap between the enemy and ourselves was so great that Chen Dong was afraid that they would join the enemy directly.At that time, he will be attacked from both sides.

Since he couldn't be reckless, he had to outsmart him. Looking at the three Ruan brothers, Chen Dong had an idea.

(End of this chapter)