Iron Dynasty

The wind on the steppe rattled the golden tent of Dorgo.

Golden Horde Nageltu's words were approved by most of the flag leaders, and the consecutive failures had made them lose their confidence.

They can no longer afford the loss of tribal cavalry. After all, in addition to the Great Yu Kingdom, they also face the threat of the Ottoman Empire in the Western Regions, and there are some small tribes in the north of the grassland who covet the grassland. They are called the Tatars. Their ancestors came from Persia. Has been living near the North Sea.

After closing his eyes and pondering for a long time, Dolgo gradually calmed down. Although he hated Geertu very much, he admitted that Geertu was right.

It was impossible for them to capture the city occupied by the Great Yu Kingdom, and when they lost the city, they also lost most of their slaves and clansmen.

He believed that Da Yu would take advantage of this great victory to continue to conquer the remaining three cities before winter, and with the current strength he was simply unable to stop it.

What's more, for him, a person who is more threatening than the emperor of the Great Yu Kingdom appeared, this is Geertu.

If the city is gone they can take it back, but if the Golden Horde is divided, their glory will be in the past.

Obviously, now Gertu is already challenging his authority, if he throws his tribe into the war with the Great Yu Kingdom, Gertu is likely to raise his troops to rebel and seize his khan position.

After all, all the sons who were eligible to inherit his khan throne were dead.

So for him, the most important thing now is to win over the flag heads of these tribes, and to win over them, he must follow their wishes.

After pondering for a long time, Dolgo said: You are right, I will not send my clan to die, but now that the Great Yu Kingdom is pressing hard, what should we do?

Moving west, now we should move west. A flag leader said, The next step, the Great Yu Kingdom will attack Raozhou, Shengdu is too close to Raozhou, and now we have to move westward, the grassland is our hometown.

Dolgo sighed, in fact, the tribes that were nomadic in the grasslands never looked down on the clansmen who farmed in the six cities.

To them, it is noble to live on horseback.

Let all the clansmen in Raozhou, Jianzhou, and Yingzhou withdraw from the city, and burn the city to the ground. Nothing can be left for the Great Yu Kingdom. Gertu said sternly.

Dolgo nodded, losing the protection of the cavalry, these three cities could not resist the attack of the Great Yu Kingdom at all.

Continuing stubborn resistance will only allow Dayu to get more clansmen and slaves. He knows very well what Dayu has done to their people after occupying the city.

Dolan, you go to Jianzhou now, Balu, you go to Yingzhou now, Wutuo, you go to Raozhou immediately, tell the tribe to burn down the city, kill the slaves who refuse to leave, and don't give anything. Da Yu will stay. Dolgo said bitterly.

The three Golden Horde soldiers left in response.

The flag leaders nodded with satisfaction. Although this was a result they did not want to see, it was obvious that they were now unable to stop the Great Yu Kingdom's army from attacking the three cities under them.

On the grassland, they live by water and grass, and they can migrate at any time in the face of threats, but the city is different, and they cannot leave the city with them.

Gertu wanted to use this incident to unite the flag leader against Dolgo, but now Dolgo's decision gave him no excuses. He snorted and looked at Dolgo with unwillingness in his eyes. .

In his heart, it was Dolgo that the Golden Horde was facing such a desperate situation now, and he was no longer worthy of being the Heavenly Khan of the Golden Horde.

It's just that there are still a large number of flag heads supporting Dolgo. It's no good for him to directly oppose him now, but he will not stop there. On the grassland, their goshawk tribe is very powerful.

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Qingzhou.

After three days of drizzling rain, the weather gradually cleared up, and the people who were worried that the grain would rot in the fields finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, the Qingzhou government also issued an order to the production teams in various prefectures and counties, asking them to quickly grab it to avoid unnecessary losses.

Although the imperial court has now opened up private commerce among the people, Dayu State has never relaxed its supervision of all walks of life. Freedom needs restraint, otherwise endless freedom will only cause disaster and national turmoil.

Xiao Ming sees this very clearly, so now the economy of the Great Yu Kingdom is not a completely free capital economy. Behind the free circulation, Xiao Ming has always kept a hand.

In addition to industry and commerce, agriculture Xiao Ming naturally did not allow its savage growth. The current situation of the Great Yu Kingdom is not suitable for the people to do whatever they want. In fact, in the difficult period of the country, the country pursued a planned economy. The Roosevelt New Deal during World War II fully explained it. this point.

During this period, the United States gave up the liberal economic policies adopted before, and began to intervene in some areas of the market economy in a planned way. At this time, the centralized economy exerted its strong advantages.

Precisely because of this, Xiao Ming believes that the most important thing to do in the Great Yu Kingdom is the combination of a centralized economy and a free market. After the Great Yu Kingdom can reach the initial prosperity like Europe, it will gradually let go.

Your Majesty, I have to say that the establishment of this mechanical workshop is too timely. This year's spring plowing first had this horsepower drill, which made the plantation's cultivation efficiency twenty times higher than before, and now it has horsepower for harvesting. The saved slaves can completely open twenty more plantations. Zhan Xingchang accompanied Xiao Ming for a walk in the fields.

The time is about to come out of June, which is the season of wheat ripening, and out of Qingzhou City, the golden wheat waves are gratifying, and many people have already harvested them in the fields.

Every year during the harvest season, Xiao Ming will go to the farmland and plantations around Qingzhou City. Every time he sees these grains, his heart will be calmer.

According to contemporary standards, most of the areas in Da Yu are below the poverty line, and these areas are very fragile. Once natural and man-made disasters occur, production may be reduced or even no grains will be harvested. At that time, it will be a disaster.

Looking at the three-horsepower harvester in the field, Xiao Ming said, That's why I often say that technology is productivity. What used to take twenty people to do can now be done with only two people.

While talking, Xiao Ming and Zhan Xingchang went down to the field.

This is the plantation of the imperial court, and now the field uses the early horse-drawn disc cutter harvester, compared with the common people who use a sickle to cut down the wheat.

This horse-drawn disc harvester can cut the wheat piece by piece, and the people behind only need to bundle the wheat and pull it back to the threshing floor.

For this kind of harvester, the time to harvest one acre of wheat is often the time it takes for the horses to walk back and forth, which is about an hour.

But if the people are allowed to harvest, only fifty people can achieve this effect.