Iron Dynasty

Liang Dahai pinched his waist and looked at the slave who was being loaded onto the ship.

All these slaves came from Liaozhou. After Ye Qingyun occupied Liaozhou, a large number of slaves went to the ancient city of Haicheng.

Because the number of slaves reached more than 200,000, they dispatched all ships, including warships, to transport them.

And in order to prevent slave rebellion, a recruit composed of 8,000 people came to Haicheng to be escorted.

Oh, with so many slaves, the gap for slaves in the Great Yu Kingdom is now closed. Li Kaiyuan was also in Haicheng City, and his business control over Goryeo was still in progress.

Liang Dahai opened his mouth wide, and the scar on his face shook with a smile. He said, No, the emperor may be very happy.

Having said that, but the matter of recruiting laborers in Goryeo can't be vague. The emperor is very ambitious now. This slave is not afraid of more, but less.

After all, the two looked at the slave and smiled knowingly. In their opinion, with these many slaves, the development of the Great Yu Kingdom will definitely leap forward.

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In Shanhaiguan, Lu Fei escorted slaves from Pingzhou City to this place while implementing the Kanto people policy.

After some rest, these 120,000 slaves arrived in Qingzhou after a seven-day trek.

Your Majesty, these slaves must be given to our railway department. Now the railway is in desperate need of manpower, and the number of people Liang Dahai recalled from Gaolizheng is simply not enough.

In the imperial study, Princess Pingyang was very dependent on her stance, and she came over to this slave Qingzhou like a cat asking for a fishy smell.

Xiao Ming returned to Qingzhou two days earlier than these slaves. By this time, the news of the victory of the Great Yu army had already been publicized by the newspapers.

When he returned to the city, he was greeted by the people of almost the entire Qingzhou, which made him realize the grandeur and heroism of a triumphant return.

With the prestige of a great victory, Xiao Ming clearly felt that the official's attitude towards him was more respectful than before, just as he had expected.

Coupled with a name who can fight well, his status in the Great Yu Kingdom is even more unshakable, and there are even articles in the newspapers comparing him to the eternal sage.

This article was written by Fan Zeng himself. Although the taste of flattery is obvious, it also proves from the side that the great defeat of the barbarians brought shock to the people of Dayu.

Because this is not only a national strategic victory, but also a reshaping of national self-confidence.

In addition, the by-product of this victory is the purpose of Princess Pingyang's coming here, a large number of slaves from the grasslands.

Don't worry, Auntie, this batch of slaves is just the beginning. The slaves from Liaozhou will soon arrive in Qingzhou, and if Jinzhou is successfully captured, we will get more slaves. Xiao Ming said indifferently.

The reason why he came back from Shanhaiguan was to deal with this slave issue. For him, the dividends of this war were very rich.

This slave frenzy will bring a large amount of precious labor to the Great Yu Kingdom. Only when the labor force increases can he build large-scale facilities in the Great Yu Kingdom.

Princess Pingzhou burst into laughter when she heard the words. As the chief officer of the Railway Department, she has experienced a change in her mentality from her initial response to her original intention to build the Great Chongqing Railway Network.

It was not that she had become noble, but that the magic of the railway and the lucrative profits it could bring made her feel that she would be more secure in her position.

The emperor said that, I feel at ease. Princess Pingyang was relieved, she said to Xiao Ming: Emperor, now the Qingzhou-Laiwu railway has been repaired halfway, and give me another 100,000 slaves, it only takes a year for the railway manager to It can connect Qingzhou to Laiwu and Qingzhou to Kaiping.”

Xiao Ming's eyes lit up. One year is not too long or too short. If this route is opened up, it will bring incredible changes to the six states industry.

After pondering for a while, he said: Of course this slave is coming close to the railway company, but a year is too long. I want to open it to traffic by the end of this year.

In fact, it is not very difficult to build a railway on a flat plain such as Qingzhou Prefecture. According to data, on June 9, 1881, the first self-built railway in the Qing Dynasty was built from Tangshan to Xugezhuang. for three months.

Although the railway is only 20 miles long, the number of workers used to build the railway is also very small.

And now there are more than 200,000 people who build railways under the command of the Railway Secretary, and the number of slaves this time is estimated to be as high as 300,000.

So many people build a railway with a total length of more than 300 kilometers, and even if it builds one kilometer a day, it can be completed within a year.

Of course, the railway department is not only building this route, but also the route from Qingzhou to Dengzhou.

This route will pass through Laizhou, which is rich in gold and silver production, and then reach Dengzhou until the port.

Although it's a little troublesome at the end of the year, it's not impossible, but the premise is that the emperor has promised these 100,000 slaves. Princess Pingyang's eyes rolled.

Construction of the railroad was slow in the first year because the slaves were inexperienced and the production of railroad tracks could not keep up.

It is different now. They have now cultivated a large number of elite craftsmen who build railways. These craftsmen can lead slaves to build railways independently.

Moreover, after the establishment of Laiwu and Kaiping steel mills, the output of this rail has also followed up, and now there is no need to worry about materials.

Well, I promise you. Xiao Ming raised his brows, the railway was a long-term project for the soldiers of the Great Yu Kingdom.

Now that the transportation is not very developed, railway transportation will be an artifact, and this will also be more conducive to the deployment of the army of the Great Yu Kingdom.

After asking some more about the railway construction, Xiao Ming let Princess Pingyang leave.

Three days later, Liang Dahai successfully arrived in Qingzhou with the barbarian slaves. According to the agreement of Princess Hepingzhou, he transferred 100,000 slaves to her.

There were still more than 200,000 slaves left. Xiao Ming allocated 120,000 people to the Minerals Division, and the remaining 80,000 people were stuffed into slave plantations.

Industry is important, so is food, and with the development of industry, more raw materials are needed, such as sugar cane, cotton, rubber and the like are now in great demand.

While allocating slaves, Xiao Ming also sent craftsmen from the Minerals Department and the Iron and Steel Workshop to Liaozhou. This Liaozhou is the contemporary Liaoyang, and the famous Anshan and Benxi iron mines are near Liaoyang.

Anshan and Benxi are among the top five open-pit iron mines in China today, and Anshan, together with Benxi iron mine, has a proven reserves of over 10 billion tons, making it the hegemon of iron mines.

Over the years, the barbarians have used these two mines that can get iron ore casually to cast their artillery.

It is precisely because of this that it is so important to conquer Jinzhou, because once Jinzhou is opened up, three points and one line are connected, these two large iron mines will be under his control, and there will be no shortage of iron mines in the initial development of Dayu Kingdom.