Daming Military Empire

Chapter 274
The place where Dorgon attacked was only more than 200 miles away from Guanning City, which happened to be the defense zone of the Guanning Army. Cao Wenzhao, the commander of the Guanning Army, led his men to station at the edge of the Great Wall less than a hundred miles away. After he received the telegram, Without hesitation, [-] cavalry were ordered to rush towards the village where the accident occurred like a whirlwind.

However, he was still late. Dorgon had calculated before departure that this distance would take at least an hour even if he ran wildly on horseback. Therefore, when he arrived at the village where the accident occurred, the shadow of Dorgon running early Gone.

Cao Wenzhao was so angry that his face turned green. The Qing army dared to run under his nose and run wild, and ran away after grabbing it, so that he had no chance of chasing him.But no matter how angry he was, it was useless, everyone ran away, and he couldn't keep up with the flattery. He had to arrange for people to put out the fire, and at the same time let people find the villagers who were hiding. After working all day, he ran back in disgrace.

When the news reached the capital, Zhu Cijiong was also gnashing his teeth in anger. Huang Taiji was provoking him. First he established a dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor, and then he sent troops to sneak attack. It was clear that he was invited to practice on the Mongolian grassland.

Zhu Cijiong also wanted to send troops immediately to show Huang Taiji some color, but Daming is now in a critical period of development. Sun Chuanting is leading the Qin army to build a railway from Xi'an to Chengdu with 20 prisoners, and Qin Gongming is also leading the Liao Dynasty. The army is detaining 20 captives to build the railway from Kaifeng to Jinling, and Li Mingfu's Wuwei Army has already deported 30 captives and dispersed them to various parts of Daming to lay telegraph networks. All supplies, food, and logistics personnel are working for this With 50 troops and [-] captives serving, Daming simply couldn't afford to teach the Manchus a lesson.

Could it be that the railway that has been repaired and the telegraph network that is less than half laid have been stopped, and all efforts have been made to deal with the Qing Dynasty?It's not impossible to do this, but Daming's loss is huge. Not to mention the time wasted by these people tossing back and forth, the loss caused by their stoppage is unbearable.

Now that the [-] elites of the Second Corps of the Expeditionary Army and the First Corps of the Expeditionary Army have already rushed to Nanyang, Ma Xianglin's Second Frontier Army Corps can only be mobilized in the entire Ming Dynasty. Zhu Cijiong had no choice but to order Ma Xianglin to set off from Xiangyang. Go to Liaodong and accept Sun Chengzong's dispatch to prevent the Qing army from making trouble again. At the same time, all the reserve corps in Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan are sent to the Great Wall in the northwest to garrison to prevent Huang Taiji from taking advantage of the gap.

After finishing all this, Zhu Cijiong turned his attention back to the entire construction of Daming. Now the Xicheng District has basically been completed, and the machinery factory, cable factory, cement factory, and steel factory have already been put into production. This brings another problem, the raw materials are not enough up!
Especially for iron ore, the Ministry of Industry has been frantically building the earth-digging dragon for several months, and Zhu Cijiong ordered the construction of four new railway lines. It is conceivable that the amount of iron ore used is huge, although Zhu Cijiong spared no expense. Vera bought it, but the output of iron ore in Nanyang is only so much, no matter how much money you have, and now almost all the people in Mysore are mining, and this is still not enough to meet the needs of Daming.

Zhu Cijiong was forced to have no choice but to turn his attention to the territory of Daming. He vaguely remembered that Liaodong seems to have the largest iron ore reserves in China, and then it is the current Monan Mongolia, and then it is Beizhili and Sichuan. And Shanxi, and now it is the slack season, Zhu Cijiong is going to let the Ministry of Industry organize a large number of civilians to mine. As for how to find this iron ore, you have to ask the experts.He has time-traveled, not become a god, it is impossible to understand everything.

It just so happened that he also wanted to arrange iron ore mining, so he simply called several of his cronies from the Ministry of Industry to his private study and held a small meeting.

He also called Bi Maokang, Wang Zheng, and Song Yingxing. These people are all his confidants. When they arrived in the study, they were naturally not as cautious as the newcomers. It's just that everyone sits upright and doesn't dare to slack off in the slightest.

Zhu Cijiong saw that everyone was seated, so he asked Bi Maokang, "Meng Hou, how much iron ore do these factories under the Ministry of Industry use every month?"

When Bi Maokang heard this, he immediately complained: "Your Majesty, this humble minister really has no way to answer you now, because there is simply not enough iron ore now. Wang Gong Factory and Dongdaying Cannon Factory have both shut down. All iron ore It’s all being used to cast rails and produce steam trains, and that’s not enough.”

Zhu Cijiong rubbed his forehead, and said helplessly: "I know what you said, I don't want you to find a way to solve this problem, I want you to roughly estimate the total consumption of all factories, not to ask you every day Months of actual usage."

Bi Maokang hurriedly said in panic: "It's my humble minister who offended, please forgive me. If you make a rough estimate, Wang Gong Factory has about 200 million catties a month, and Dongdaying Cannon Factory has 300 million catties a month." Enough is enough. As for the steel factory, if it only supplies the machinery factory with 500 million catties per month, it is enough, but if it is to start full-scale production of civilian steel, then 1000 million catties is only enough for the daytime. At least 2000 million catties are needed!"

Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but be dumbfounded when he heard the words. No wonder the monthly supply of iron ore has reached more than 500 million catties, which is not enough. Half a day is enough for the machinery factory. The iron and steel factory is still half open and half rested. It seems that this Iron mines must be opened.

He thought for a while, and said directly: "I want you to send people to organize civilians to dig iron ore during the slack season, but now Daming only has some small private iron mines with limited reserves, how to find iron ore, you guys do you know?"

Both Bi Maokang and Wang Zheng were at a loss when they heard the words, but Song Yingxing replied confidently: "Your Majesty, this is simple. I have consulted many books. It is actually easy to find places rich in iron ore. For example, there are many places where iron ore is concentrated. head wood, earthy dark red mostly iron ore and so on."

It is easy to understand that the earthy dark red color is mostly iron ore, because iron oxide is dark red, but what does this mean for broken wood?Zhu Cijiong couldn't help asking curiously: "What is a dead wood? Does a tree have a head?"

Song Yingxing explained with a smile: "The dead wood is a folk saying, but it is actually a tree that was cut off by lightning. The underground is rich in iron ore, which is easy to cause lightning, so there are more dead trees."

When Zhu Cijiong heard the words, he couldn't help but suddenly realized. In order to save the time of the Ministry of Industry looking for iron ore, he said nonsense: "Oh, it turned out to be a tree that was cut off by lightning. I have heard that the capital, Liaodong, Shanxi and Sichuan often Some people saw trees being struck by lightning, especially in Liaodong, almost everywhere, I thought it was because there were too many ghosts there, and it was because there were iron mines below!"

The three of them were stupefied when they heard the words, why hadn't they heard of such a thing, but their admiration for Zhu Cijiong was like a torrential river.

Uh, digressing, in short, in their eyes, the emperor is the reincarnation of the gods. He said that if there is, then there must be. Just arrange for people to look for it in these places, and there is no need to go to other places!
(End of this chapter)