Liang Dahai pinched his waist and looked at the slaves who were being loaded onto the ship. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

These slaves all came from Liaozhou, and after Ye Qingyun occupied Liaozhou, a large number of slaves arrived in Haigucheng.

Because there were more than 200,000 slaves, they dispatched all ships, including warships, to transport them.

And in order to prevent the slave rebellion, a recruit composed of 8,000 people came to Haigucheng to be responsible for escorting.

"Oh, there are so many slaves, the current slave shortage in Dayu is blocked." Li Kaiyuan was also in Haegugu, and his commercial control of Goryeo was still ongoing.

Liang Dahai opened his mouth wide, the scar on his face trembled with his smile, and he said, "No, the emperor may not be happy." ”

"Having said that, but the matter of recruiting laborers in Goryeo cannot be ambiguous, the emperor is now ambitious, and this slave is not afraid of more, but afraid of less."

After that, the two of them looked at the slaves and laughed heartily, in their opinion, with these many slaves, the development of the Great Yu Kingdom will definitely rise by leaps and bounds.

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Shanhaiguan, Lu Fei escorted the slaves of Pingzhou City here while implementing the Kwantung policy.

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

"Your Majesty, this batch of slaves must be given to our railway division, now the railway is in urgent need of manpower, and the few people that Liang Dahai recruited from Goryeo are not enough at all."

In the imperial study, Princess Pingyang relied on the posture of not leaving, and this slave came to Qingzhou like a cat that asked about the smell of fish.

Xiao Ming returned to Qingzhou two days earlier than these slaves, and by this time the news of the victory of the Great Yu army had been widely known in the newspapers.

When he returned to the city, almost the people of Qingzhou welcomed him, allowing him to experience the grandeur and heroism of his triumphant return.

With the power of a great victory, Xiao Ming clearly felt that the officials' attitude towards him was more respectful than before, just as he had expected at the beginning.

Coupled with a reputation for being able to fight well, his status in the Great Chongqing Kingdom is even more unshakable, and there are even articles in the newspapers comparing him to the Holy Monarch of the Ages.

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

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

In addition, the by-product of this victory was the purpose of Princess Pingyang's visit, a large number of slaves from the steppe.

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

The reason why he came back from Shanhaiguan was to deal with the slave problem this time, and for him, the war dividend was very rich.

This slave frenzy would bring a large amount of precious labor to the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and only when the labor force increased could he be able to build large-scale facilities in the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

Princess Pingzhou laughed wildly when she heard this, as the chief officer of the Railway Department, she has experienced a change of mentality from the beginning to the beginning to the original intention of building the railway network of Chongqing.

It's not that she's become noble, it's that the magic of the railroad and the huge profits it can bring make her feel that her position will be more secure.

"When the emperor says this, I feel at ease." Princess Pingyang was relieved, and she said to Xiao Ming: "Your Majesty, now that the Qingzhou-Laiwu railway has been half repaired, give me another 100,000 slaves, and it only takes one year for the Railway Division to connect Qingzhou to Laiwu and Qingzhou to Kaiping." ”

Xiao Ming's eyes lit up, a year is not a long time, not a short time, if this route is opened, it will bring incredible changes to the industry of Liuzhou.

After a deep sigh, he said, "Of course, this slave is close to the railway, but a year is too long, and I will open the train by the end of this year." ”

In fact, it is not very difficult to build a railway on a flat plain like Qingzhou Prefecture, according to the data, on June 9, 1881, the first self-built railway of the Qing Dynasty was built from Tangshan to the Tangxu Railway on the first line of Xugezhuang in only three months.

Although the railway is only 20 miles long, the number of workers involved in its construction is also very small.

And now there are more than 200,000 people who build railways under the command of the railway department, and it is estimated that there will be more than 300,000 slaves this time.

With so many people building a railway of more than 300 kilometers in its entirety, even if it is a kilometer a day, it can be completed in a year.

Of course, now the Railway Division is not only building this route, but also starting the route from Qingzhou to Dengzhou.

The route will pass through Lai Chau, which is rich in gold and silver, and then reach Tengju until the port.

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

The construction of the railroad in the first year was slow because the slaves were inexperienced and the production of the rails could not keep up.

Now they have trained a large number of elite craftsmen to build railways, and these craftsmen can lead the slaves to build railways on their own.

Moreover, after the establishment of Laiwu and Kaiping Iron and Steel Mills, the output of this rail has also followed, and now there is no need to worry about materials at all.

"Well, I promise you." Xiao Ming raised his eyebrows, the railway is a long-term project for the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

In the current situation when transportation is not very developed, railway transportation will be an artifact-like existence, and this is also more conducive to the deployment of the army of the Great Chongqing State.

asked some more about the construction of the railway, and Xiao Ming let Princess Pingyang leave.

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

There were still more than 200,000 slaves left, Xiao Ming allocated 120,000 to the Mineral Division, and the remaining 80,000 were given to slave plantations.

Industry is important, food is also important, and with the development of industry, the need for raw materials has also become more, such as sugar cane, cotton, rubber and the like are now in great demand.

At the same time as distributing slaves, Xiao Ming also sent craftsmen from the Mineral Division and the Iron and Steel Mill to Liaozhou, which is the contemporary Liaoyang, and the famous Anshan and Benxi iron mines are near Liaoyang.

Anshan and Benxi are among the five major open-pit iron mines in contemporary China, and Anshan together with Benxi iron ore has proven reserves of more than 10 billion tons, which can be described as the hegemony of iron ore.

Over the years, the barbarians have used these two mines to get iron ore by picking them up casually to forge artillery.

It is precisely because of this that the capture of Jinzhou will be so important, because once Jinzhou is opened and the three points and one line are connected, these two large iron mines will be under his control, and there will no longer be a shortage of iron ore in the initial development of the Great Chongqing Kingdom.