I did evil in the feudal land, but I was called a virtuous king

Mining in the mine, they can receive a lot of food every day, which can ensure the food and clothing of the family.

For them, that's enough.

As more ore was mined, the mined ore was piled up in the square outside the mine.

When he learned that what was mined was iron ore, the new king of Nanling Guoxin looked surprised and shocked, "This shopkeeper Li is really a god, and this random mining is actually iron ore!"

Princess Le Yao frowned slightly, as if she understood something.

She smiled helplessly, with a little more loneliness in her eyes, but more of admiration.

This time, what she admired was Ang Lee's methods.

But other than that, she didn't have any thoughts in her heart, nor did she feel disgusted or hated towards Li An.

Although they knew that Li An had plans, but Li An did help them resettle the victims and solve the famine.

Everyone is after profit, and she used to be like this, there is nothing wrong with it.

And she also knew very well that even if Li An didn't make so many detours, he could force them to mine for them, but Li An also helped them solve the livelihood of the common people. In a sense, Li An was a good person.

Their Nanling country is small, the national power is weak, and the iron smelting technology is backward, so they can't consume so much iron ore at all.

Princess Le Yao is a smart person, she immediately came to Ping An Bank.

"Shopkeeper Li, may I ask if the lord is still in the bank account?" Princess Le Yao approached Li Wan'er and directly expressed her intention.

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Before Li Wan'er could answer, Liu Yiyi's figure appeared and saluted Princess Le Yao respectfully.

"Your Highness, the prince is here to invite you."

Princess Le Yao knew that Liu Yiyi'er had a close relationship with Li An, so she gave a slight salute and left with Liu Yiyi.

In the room, Li An was sitting at the main seat, holding a book in his hand and flipping through it with little interest.

"Please sit down." Li An waved his hand.

Princess Le Yao saluted, and Shi Shiran sat down.

"Your Highness is a smart man, I know His Highness will come." Li An said indifferently: "I just don't know, His Highness is here to ask questions, or?"

"Le Yao dare not." Princess Le Yao said hastily: "Now Nanling Kingdom is the land of Dahua King, and the resources and people on the land are also Dahua's, which belong to the prince. Le Yao dare not mess up the priority. .”

"Le Yao is here to thank the prince." Princess Le Yao smiled.

"Thank you?" Li An looked at Le Yao, trying to see through her true thoughts.

"Le Yao thanked the prince for selling food to Nanling Kingdom, and gave the people of Nanling Kingdom a way of life. The people are also grateful to the prince from the bottom of their hearts."

Princess Le Yao looked into Li An's eyes.

Li An met Princess Le Yao's gaze and smiled. The last sentence of Princess Le Yao's words is the key point.

Li An nodded in satisfaction.

"My lord, Le Yao wants to ask my lord to do us another favor."

"Oh?" Li An looked at Le Yao, smiled without saying a word.

"My lord, iron ore is piled up like a mountain now, please help me transport it away for us, Le Yao is very grateful."

"Your Highness is indeed a smart man." Li An smiled: "I am willing to buy the iron ore you mined."

"The prince is doing us a favor, how dare Le Yao accept the money from the prince again?" Princess Le Yao quickly refused and began to argue.

Li An waved his hand: "Your Highness is a smart person, so I won't make those detours, and use iron ore to pay for the money and loans that Your Highness owes to the banker."

"Thank you, my lord." Princess Le Yao saluted.

"By the way, my lord, does my lord need to take back the black stone dug out from another mine?" Princess Le Yao looked at Li An pretending to be puzzled.

Some things had to be asked by her, instead of waiting for Li An to speak first, that would be bad.

Li An's people discovered two mines this time, iron mines and coal mines.

Princess Le Yao knew iron mines, but she didn't know coal mines.

In their Nanling country, charcoal is burned, and coal has not been discovered before, or it should be said that no one cares about it, let alone mining and using it.

Belonging is the neglected treasure.

In fact, even in Dahua, coal is not widely used.

It's not because there are few coal resources, but because everyone hasn't realized the benefits of coal.

From the most intuitive point of view, Li An's Qingshui County is now using coal to smelt iron. The temperature of coal combustion is much higher than that of charcoal, and high temperature can better remove impurities in iron ore.

The armors and weapons produced in Qingshui County, Li An, can be regarded as peerless treasures. In addition to the hundreds of years of refining steel made by blacksmiths, the use of coal to smelt iron to remove impurities also has a huge contribution.

This is also the reason why the ironware produced in other places is brittle, but the ironware produced by Li An is tough!

"This king will naturally take it back together." Li An nodded: "Since His Highness mentioned it, this king also said that the king can buy coal at a certain price."

In Li An's view, Nanling Kingdom is his own labor force, but he will not squeeze it desperately, it would be no fun if it was squeezed to death.

Labor is a very precious thing.

Li An proposed the acquisition, but Princess Le Yao shook her head and refused: "My lord helped us solve the Black Stone, Le Yao is very grateful, and dare not ask for silver taels."

Princess Le Yao is very aware of their status. She is very clear that they are already the vassals of Dahua, and their royal family is also the vassals of Dahua. She and Li An are no longer a cooperative relationship of mutual interests.

One has to be self-aware.

Li An thought for a moment, then nodded.

He continued: "Your Highness can use the crushed rocks extracted from the mine to pave roads, which can also solve the problems of a large number of victims. You can only tell me about the food you need, and I will provide you with sufficient food."

It is also good for Li An to pave the road to Yuyi Pass here.

The roads are all paved, which is more conducive to merchants' business and the circulation of goods.

And in the future, if there is someone who dares to be a monster and make trouble, his army can reach the battlefield more quickly!

"Thank you, my lord." Princess Le Yao said gratefully, for them now, food is the most precious thing.

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A few days later, Li An returned to Qingshui County with iron and coal mines.

The iron ore shipped back was immediately sent to the iron smelter.

The scale of the iron smelting plant has expanded again and again, and more and more pig iron is produced every day.

Li An himself has an iron mine in southern Xinjiang, and now that so many iron ore and coal mines have been brought in, is Li An really deficient in iron?

Short, very short, very short!

Now he not only wants to build weapons and equipment to send to the battlefield in the north, he can now command an army of 20, and these soldiers of his own also need to seize the time to arm themselves.

The pressure is huge!

Fortunately, the old emperor gave him the fiefs of eight counties. With the fiefs, there would be a population. The problem of the shortage of workers caused by the continuous expansion of Li An's industry could be easily solved.

Now that Li An wants to transfer workers from other counties, who dares to say no?

Of course, Li An did not engage in militarism, nor did he waste the cultivated land in the counties and counties, and the economy was developing steadily.

The students he sent to various counties and counties brought farming methods to various places, and various commodities from Qingshui County were also circulated in various counties and counties.

……

Under Li Wan'er's arrangement, the transportation line in Nanling Kingdom was running normally, and the useless gravel from the mines was also used to pave the road.

There wasn't enough gravel to pave the road, so Princess Le Yao simply opened a few more quarries.

The people of Nanling Kingdom have all started their lives as workers, but they don't have the slightest awareness of being oppressed by others.

On the contrary, I am so grateful to King Dahuachen in Qingshui County behind Yuyi Pass!

As a benefactor.

……

On this day, Lao Liu finally arrived in Yuping City with the equipment Li An sent to the north.

As soon as the armament delivery team arrived outside Yuping City, they felt the solemn and tense atmosphere.

"Brother Six, there seems to be noise?" The accompanying guards looked at Sixth Brother suspiciously.

"Is there a war?" Lao Liu frowned, and immediately looked at the guards: "Hurry up and enter the city!"

At the same time, on the north wall of Yuping City, Long Xiao was wearing armor, staring coldly at the city.

The densely packed soldiers of the Rong tribe have gathered under the city wall. This is the fourth large-scale attack by the Rong tribe recently!

……

In the first two large-scale sieges, under Long Xiao's command, they fought a beautiful defense battle and defeated the enemy.

However, apart from the large-scale siege battles, the Rong people fought countless small-scale siege battles. As a result, the soldiers defending the city did not have enough rest time, and the soldiers were all in a trance.

So the third time, under the desperate charge of Rong soldiers, they successfully climbed up the city wall.

The city wall almost fell!

Once the city wall is lost and the gate is opened by the enemy, the city is almost lost!

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Seeing that the city wall was about to fall, the two deputy commanders on the left and right did not fight to the death, but were frightened and ran away quietly with their own people without telling Long Xiao.

Fortunately, Long Ningshuang and Long Xiao's father and daughter were extremely brave. They insisted on leading the Long family army to fight fiercely on the city wall for half an hour.

As a result, after retreating from the enemy, the two deputy commanders on the left and right came out like ghosts to ask for credit before they could continue to reorganize the army and change defenses!

The two grandsons just hid not far outside the city, watching the situation in the city at any time. If the city is lost, they will slip away, and if the city is defended, they will come back.

Long Xiao asked why they disobeyed the military order?

The answer they gave was that they planned to go out of the city and take a long way to attack the enemy army of the Rong tribe. They also said that it was because they put huge pressure on the Rong tribe from the side that the Rong tribe was forced to retreat!

Long Ningshuang was so angry that she almost chopped off the two deputy commanders on the left and right. If they hadn't disobeyed the order and escaped, they wouldn't have been beaten so embarrassingly!

If Long Xiao hadn't stopped Long Ningshuang, the heads of these two men would have fallen to the ground long ago.

In the end, not only were they not grateful to Long Xiao for saving their lives, but they also clamored to write a memorial to the old emperor to participate in the memorial to Long Ningshuang!

At that moment, Long Ningshuang realized that these two people were sent by the third and fourth princes to monitor them and make trouble for them.

Although there were 50 troops in the Northern Expedition this time, the only ones who could really fight were their Long Family Army, which was now less than 20!

Perhaps the previous two generals, Song Xi and Ma Yu, also encountered the same predicament!

This is the battle to the death!

At that moment, Long Ningshuang smiled, full of despair and bitterness.

I thought that all I had to do was fight with the enemy when I went to the battlefield, but I didn't expect that the battlefield was also full of intrigue and intrigue!

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After that, the Rong people carried out more than a dozen small-scale sieges. The uninterrupted siege made the defenders have no time to rest.

Long Xiao didn't feel at ease in handing over the city wall to the left and right lieutenants. The Long family army had always been changing defenses, and now their Long family army was very, very tired.

Looking at the Rong soldiers under the city wall, Long Xiao looked back at the soldiers beside him.

They were all so exhausted that they could hardly stand, he didn't know if they could hold on this time!

With the sound of loud horns, Rong soldiers began to charge.

The Long family army on the city wall mechanically raised their bows and arrows to shoot, but they were too tired to draw their bows fully.

Arrows rained down all over the sky, and a large number of Rong soldiers died under the sharp arrows.

However, the charging speed of the Rong cavalry was so fast that they would be able to rush under the city wall in a short time.

At this time, the gate of the city opened, and Long Ningshuang was holding a silver gun, her eyes were piercing, and behind her were a large number of cavalry from the Long Family Army.

"Kill!" Long Ningshuang gave an order, and the cavalry of the Long family army launched a charge, and rushed towards the iron cavalry of the Rong family without fear of death.

The war horse neighed, and the shouts of killing soared into the sky.