From Gaizhou to Liaoyang, it is said that it is not far, and it is not close to it, more than 200 miles of road, passing through four horse posts.

Originally, Gao Pragmatic planned not to take the land route and take the waterway of the Da Liao River and Taizi River system to Liaoyang, but later heard that he was going to pass through Anshan Horse Station, so he changed his mind and chose to take the land route.

Obviously, he is not interested in Anshan Horse Station, but only in the place of Anshan.

Anshan was known as the "steel capital" and "jade capital" in later generations, especially the proven reserves of iron ore reached 10 billion tons, ranking first in the country.

Jinghua has Kaiping, coal is certainly not lacking, but iron ore is not, although it seems that there is no shortage now, but that is because the current steel supply is mainly military, in fact, if it is open to civilian supply, iron products in this era are almost always in short supply - because the production capacity is so large.

Of course, there are some other problems involved here, such as when digging iron ore, it is obviously impossible to dig extremely deep as in later generations under the current conditions, and can only dig some open-pit mines and shallow mines, which greatly limits the improvement of iron ore energy.

In addition, although iron products are now high-profit products, but because the iron itself is very heavy, so the cost in the transportation process is also larger, although from Kaiping to Liaodong can take the sea route and then turn to the inland river, but in any case, it is certainly not as good as direct local production in Liaodong.

Originally, Gao Pragmatic did not engage in the steel industry in Liaodong, not because the resource conditions in Liaodong were not good, but because the political and military situation was uncontrollable, but now that he has become the governor of Liaodong, he is confident that this uncontrollable will be changed into controllable, and correspondingly, the iron and steel industry in Liaodong can also be considered into the agenda.

At this moment, Anshan also has a city, but the city is very small, and it is about the level of a lower county in the Central Plains. The garrison here is also very limited, and there is only one hundred households left here by the Dingliao Left Guard, which is simply not worth mentioning.

Gao pragmatic delayed a day's work in Anshan, looked around, and asked the local people, confirming that the local people often pick up iron ore, Xiuyan jade, etc., especially Xiuyan jade, although Anshan City is small, there are more than a dozen jade carving workshops.

That's right, this Anshan is the Anshan in memory.

Jinghua Anshan Iron Mine, Jinghua Anshan Arsenal or something, now you can start to send people to Anshan to explore and select sites.

However, Gao Pragmatic did not intend to make Anshan's iron smelting and weapons industry too huge, at least there was no need to compete with Kaiping, his requirements for Anshan Arsenal, the first step was to supply Liaodong, and the second step was to expand to support the war of aid to Korea.

Although the three major campaigns of Wanli in history were won, they were not bulldozed, especially the war of aid to Korea, which was fought again and again, and the Ming army also suffered a lot of losses many times.

Although the repeated fighting of the First War of Aid Korea was not due to the fact that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was inferior to that of the Japanese army, but because of the light enemy at the beginning and the later logistics support was a mess, under the consistent thinking of high pragmatism, logistics support itself is also an important part of combat effectiveness, and logistics support is unfavorable, that is, the combat effectiveness is defective, so the shortcomings in this area must be made up in advance.

But then again, the worst aspect of the Ming army's logistics support at that time was not the shortage of ordnance and materials, but the intermittent supply of food and wages. There is a great responsibility of the Korean court here - according to what was said at the beginning, the North Korean side was to provide grain and grass for the Ming army nearby, but in fact, the situation in North Korea was completely out of control at that time, and the Korean court could not control the place at all, how to provide grain and grass?

The Ming side itself is not to save that bit of grain and grass, but it is quite inconvenient to transport grain from Liaodong to North Korea - the eastern part of Liaodong itself is a large area of mountains and forests, and the northern part of North Korea is also a mountainous area, and the transportation loss is huge, which should have been avoided.

But North Korea only begged Daming's father to send troops as soon as possible, no matter whether he could do it or not, he agreed to come down first, and as a result, the Ming army fell into a situation of insufficient materials as soon as it passed.

Moreover, this situation was not completely resolved until the end of the First World War to aid Korea, so that the Ming army continued to engage in refueling tactics in Korea, and the maximum number of troops was only about 70,000, far inferior to the Japanese army. On the Japanese side, because they were replenished by sea, and as invaders, they could loot at will in the occupied areas, but they had relatively sufficient grain and grass.

From this point of view, it is not enough to build the Anshan iron ore mine and arsenal alone, the key is to consolidate the foundation of Liaodong and be able to withstand the test of a war of attrition.

Of course, at the same time, it would be better to study the feasibility of replenishing the DPRK army by sea.

Fortunately, there are still nine to ten years before the Renchen Rebellion breaks out, and there is still time to deal with it slowly.

As for the top priority of Liaodong, on the one hand, it is to consolidate the foundation of Liaodong that Gao Pragmatic wants to do, and on the other hand, it is the focus of attention of the Ming Dynasty - the Eastern System.

The national policy of the West Huaidong system, which was set by Gao Gong, has now been more than half completed, and now that Tumut is attached, and Chahar's strength is damaged, it is indeed a good opportunity for the Ming Dynasty.

However, due to the successive outbreaks of the Great War of Monan and the Battle of Liaonan, the Ming Imperial Court will definitely not be able to come up with the money to immediately promote the war against Chahar, and this matter will be delayed until at least next autumn.

And the Chahar side should not have the strength to come out and stir up the rain anymore.

Now, both the Ming and Chahar Ministries can only be at peace for a while to see who recovers faster.

However, because the Chahar Department is a little far away, it has the confidence to be peaceful for a period of time, but the Fried Flower Department may not, and Gao Pragmatic is still very interested in recovering the Liaohe Hetao.

Previously, when Qin Deyi was anxious to go to the Liaohe Hetao to grab merit, Gao Pragmatic did not show great interest in the Liaohe Loop, but after all, it was only deliberate, in fact, Gao Pragmatic wanted to recover the Liaohe Loop.

The importance of the Liaohe Hetao area is that once recovered, the eastern Liaodong border wall can be reduced by a V-shaped bend, not only the side wall itself can be reduced by two-thirds (referring to this section), but also can make the connection between Liaoxi and Liaodong more convenient, mutual support also becomes faster, and at the same time, it also greatly reduces the possibility of the Mongols directly threatening Liaoyang, the hinterland of Liaodong, and other places, and the military effect is obvious.

That is to say, once the Liaohe Hetao is recovered, the Mongols still want to be found only north of Dongchangbao like this battle in southern Liao, which is simply impossible, and can greatly improve the strategic depth of the hinterland of Liaodong.

The question now is what the remaining strength of the fried flower department is, and who should be sent to fight.

Especially the latter, it is even more critical - sending Li Chengliang should be the best choice, the probability of winning is very great, but Gao Pragmatic does not want to choose.

The general soldier is not good, but what about the deputy chief soldier? Now that the deputy commander-in-chief is vacant, Li Chengliang has already recommended Zu Chengxun, but the governor of Jiliao and the governor of Liaodong also have the right to recommend, but these two positions have just been replaced, so the imperial court intends to wait a little longer.

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