Since Li Huiyi was reluctant to say, Guo Jia naturally wouldn't ask, and the two continued to discuss the details until it was dark.

A few days later, the new method of training the army began to be sent to all counties, and according to Li Huiyi's request, all departments must strictly enforce it.

At the same time, an order was issued to form a militia in each county, and all men between 16 and 40 were to go to the barracks for two years of training, and those who did not go were to be dealt with as deserters.

Except for the original four counties in Liaodong, the people spontaneously went to serve, and the people of the other newly acquired counties learned the news, and they panicked in their hearts, and they wanted to prepare to flee to the mountains and forests for a while.

But then the notice posted said that after two years of service, the official history would compensate the people for the delayed wages, and let the people feel more at ease, so they decided to stay and see the situation.

When I arrived at the barracks, I learned that it was just training and I didn't need to go to the battlefield, which made the people's hearts relax a lot.

Subsequently, an order was sent to all counties, allowing the soldiers of each county to implement the military cantonment system, and when the farming was busy, all training was suspended and they were joined in the sequence of land reclamation and cultivation.

The generals who received the order carried out it meticulously.

In Liaodong in the distance, at this time, the mountains were full of soldiers, and the three of them were in a group, digging big pits at a distance of thousands of kilometers, just to find what Li Huiyi confessed.

In a pit dozens of meters high, the young soldier waved the hoe in his hand, was struggling to dig the soil under his feet, and asked the commander above:

"Head, is what the lord said true, more than 10,000 of us are about to turn over the mountains near the outside of the city, why haven't we found it yet."

When the elder Wu Chang heard the question, he gently shook the wooden barrel containing the soil, feeling that it was still not full, and scolded him lightly.

"Harpy, what do you know at a young age, if it weren't for the lord, your family has those twenty acres of land, and if you are asked to do some work, you will keep thinking about it."

The young soldier pursed his mouth and said with some displeasure: "Head, I didn't say anything, it's been almost a month, it's not okay to complain." ”

Hearing this, Wu Chang became angry, shook the barrel and hit the young soldier, and said with a scolding grin:

"Harpy, dig if you tell you to dig, that's so much nonsense, or if you go back now, no one will stop you."

Hit by the barrel, the young soldier was unstable, leaning against the wall of the pit and muttering a few words in a low voice.

And Wu Chang then scolded and said: "If you don't want to, come up, Lao Tzu go down, where is there so much nonsense." ”

The young soldier waved his hoe again and replied, "Don't be angry, head, isn't this just a casual remark, I'm digging." ”

"Boom!"

With a loud sound, feeling that the hoe had touched something, the young soldier cursed, stopped and touched it with his hand, found a large stone of several catties, glanced at it with a glimmer of light, and threw it into the wooden barrel containing the earth.

Feeling that the weight was about the same, the captain began to pull the rope, lifted the barrel, and handed it to another soldier who had been waiting for a long time, and then put down an empty barrel again.

The soldiers who were waiting beside him carried the barrels and ran to the place where the earth was piled up in front of them.

"Whoa!"

"Well, why is this stone so weird" Looking at the gray-black stone in front of him, the soldier picked it up and looked at it carefully, and then decided to go to the official history office in charge and give it to him to see.

When he came to a makeshift thatched hut, the soldier handed the stone in his hand to the civil servant's table sitting in the shed, and said with a smile:

"My lord, why is this stone so strange, is it something that the lord is looking for?"

The civil official picked it up and looked at it carefully, but he couldn't see anything, so he said:

"It's not clear, I just let Master Wang melt and try it, anyway, I've tried so many times, and I don't care about one more time."

The civil official picked up the stone, came to the blacksmith Wang, who was sitting and resting dozens of meters away, and said politely: "Master Wang, please melt this stone and take a look." ”

The Wang blacksmith clan has been making iron in Liaodong for three generations, and as long as he handles the iron ore, he can distinguish it, but he really doesn't see anything in front of him.

The blacksmith picked up the stone, weighed it, and although he did not report hope in his heart, he still replied politely: "Okay, my lord, wait a moment." ”

Lighting the fire, pulling up the bellows, and seeing that the temperature was about the same, the blacksmith threw the stone into the furnace, and quickened the speed, pulling the bellows back and forth.

As the sweat slowly appeared on his face, the stone slowly melted, and it became smaller and smaller, and a smile of disbelief began to appear on Blacksmith Wang's face.

When it was completely half the size of a fist, the blacksmith stopped pulling and shouted excitedly: "My lord, there is, there is, I have found it!" ”

When the civil official heard the shouting, he hurriedly ran forward, looking at the small red mass in the furnace, and his heart was also excited.

"Who, then, where did you find this stone, lead us quickly."

The smirking soldiers around him quickly returned to his senses and led everyone in the shed to the excavation place.

And Wu didn't see the earth soldiers come back for a long time, and was sitting on the ground scolding his mother, when he saw so many people coming in front of him, he quickly stood up and greeted him.

"Where are you happy, what's going on, so many people here," the captain asked in a whisper as he approached the soldier.

The soldier replied with a grin, "Head, we found iron ore in that pit. ”

"Really fake" Wu Chang looked incredulous, and followed everyone towards the pit.

The civil official squatted down and looked at the stones in the bucket, and asked excitedly, "There are so many stones, where have the original ones been poured?" ”

Wu Chang hurriedly replied: "No, I just dug it up, and the soil below is getting less and less, almost all of which are stones." ”

"Really!" The civil official looked incredulous, and hurriedly confirmed and asked.

"It's true, there are still a lot of stones below, isn't this the thing the lord said" Wu Chang had already reacted at this time, and he was also excited.

"Yes, hurry up and I'll go and inform the BGA." The civil official left a sentence and strode away.

As soon as the news of the discovery of iron ore broke, the scattered soldiers gathered here one after another and began to speed up the excavation.

When Hua Xin in the city learned the news, he also hurried to check, confirmed that it was an iron mine, and quickly transmitted the news back to Youbeiping, and at the same time ordered people to dig day and night, and recruited blacksmiths from all over the county to start building armor and weapons.

Knowing that the iron ore had been found in Liaodong, Li Huiyi was also excited, and ordered his subordinates to recruit blacksmiths at a high price and go to Liaodong together, and he was ready to let every soldier wear armor as soon as possible.

At the same time, under Li Huiyi's rule, workshops began to emerge one after another, and a large number of idle old and weak women and children were recruited to work in the workshops.

The people who enter the workshop are all in a separate room, and each room has a procedure, and the last step of the procedure is completed by the people sent by the government.

Although the spies of the princes lurking under Li Huiyi's rule wanted to inquire about the secrets, they were also difficult to find out for a while.

And the two states began to slowly recover their economies, and the army began to be reborn, and its combat power continued to rise, and the price paid was that people left the army every day because of training and fighting.