Chapter 501 Persecutory paranoia?(1/2)
Mining without authorization, killing people to silence, and plundering people as coolies.
The confession of the secret whistle was summarizing the above sentences. Lin Lang was sure that General Mibo had a desire to rebel.
Purified iron is an iron ore, probably with natural and rare metals. Therefore, the iron tools made are much tougher than ordinary iron tools. It is precisely because of this that they are called Purified iron.
Of course, that was just Lin Lang's guess. Lin Lang had also seen such iron ore. It is said that black iron is the highest level of refined iron.
Fine iron and blacksmiths with excellent craftsmanship can create extraordinary weapons.
However, it is said that refined iron ore is very rare and the yield is usually small.
It is not that the refined iron ore is small, but that the refined iron ore can be screened out in the entire ore body. Most ordinary iron ore.
Lin Lang actually doesn’t have much kindness. It is something that Lin Lang can’t tolerate just for his own ambitions.
He originally wanted to ask clearly, and then he quietly put the secret whistle back to his original place and woke him up. Then he didn't know what to do.
But now, he let the Secret Wave God leave the world without anyone noticing. The people in that village were probably dead. The Secret Wave said that the miners sent to the mine had been replaced twice.
Even if there are still villagers alive, they probably won’t be able to live long.
General Mibo has not decided how to deal with the other party yet. However, the minions in this mine do not want to survive.
The process was not intense at all, nor bloody at all.
All the guards and supervisors in the mine didn't even have the chance to speak, so they were killed quietly.
Then, he faced hundreds of wooden miners. Seeing that most of them were skinny, Lin Lang gritted his teeth and said, "You are free. There is some food here. You can divide it yourself. Go and run away."
Most of the miners did not respond, but a few people burst into light.
But no one spoke.
Lin Lang didn't know how many of them could live, but they could save one: "You eat something here first and keep your energy in mind. But you probably can't escape from the road. It's better to run over the mountains and run away. Don't stay in nearby villages. That will only bring disaster to them."
As he said that, he ordered a few people who looked a little energetic and took out some bottles: "Give everyone a pill. It will help you get some strength back as soon as possible." A threatened. "Don't miss anyone, who has eaten it, who hasn't eaten it. I can tell at a glance. If someone hasn't eaten it..."
He said, and waved his hand casually, and a ditch more than two feet deep appeared on the stone beside him.
The few people knelt down and said they didn't dare.
Lin Lang also pointed out some absenteeism that seemed to have recovered from his sense of excitement and asked them to make porridge.
What he took out was rice. The stomachs of these people could not bear the rice. They used the firewood to protect them.
After arranging these, Lin Lang did not leave immediately. Instead, he went to a row of warehouses by the mountain to take a look. There was some food in those warehouses, but not much. The most was iron ore filled with sacks.
He opened it and was also surprised. Most of this was refined iron ore, and the proportion was almost the same as ordinary iron ore.
This is a highly refined iron ore with high grade.
He went out and came back soon.
After the miners ate the porridge, most of them recovered their energy. They probably knew that they were free and no longer had the appearance of the wooden man just now.
Lin Lang shouted and found someone familiar with the mine to reply to him.
"My benefactor, the veins of the ore are very deep and rich. The ore layer is seven or eight feet thick."
"A lot of branches..."
"...Dig two layers. The ore is very large..."
"We have to pull more than a hundred carts of ore every day."
“…”
I asked these people, and I just went to the outpost in front and saw a large amount of ore temporarily stored in the warehouse. He knew that a lot of the fine iron mined here might have been transported out.
I just don’t know how many weapons General Mibo has made now and how he is preparing for rebellion.
That Mibo should be the military governor of Houmang Province. The northwest of the Great Ligua Kingdom has a mountainous terrain and many ethnic minorities. Naturally, there are many rebellions.
In such an area, transportation is inconvenient and unstable. In order to suppress the rebellion, the local military commanders naturally have greater power. The Houmang Province is such a place.
In terms of area, Houmang Province is the largest in the country with a large population, but there are not too many people.
Lin Lang admires the humid climate of the hilly mountains here in Zhongli, and there are many industries there. For example, tea planting - small-sized tea trees and oil tea trees, such as mulberry silkworms, medicinal materials, grains, etc.; and local sugar fruit trees, wood, and mountain products are produced.
It can be said that this is his main resource supply place.
If war breaks out in Houmang Province, no matter whether Mibo wins or loses, his industry will suffer great losses.
If Mibo wants to rebel, he must stabilize the rear. He must be comforted by the ethnic minorities who were driven to the mountains by the Big Liguaya, and he must be comforted and even besieged under his command.
Whether it is to appease or win over, benefits need to be given. Most of Lin Lang's industries in Houmang Province have almost all ethnic minorities nearby.
The ethnic minorities in the Great Quinoa Kingdom are real barbarians, mostly in slave society. They were oppressed by the Great Quinoa Kingdom before. Their industries will become their targets for looting.
Mibo probably only turns a blind eye.
In Lin Lang's view, the Great Quinoa Kingdom ruled the emperor in a stupid way, but the core of the Great Quinoa Kingdom was not the emperor, but the aristocratic class. Although the ruling class had been corrupt, the essence of the Great Quinoa Kingdom was not chaotic and the economy was relatively developed.
If you rebel alone by relying on the power of the Houmang Province, you will definitely be defeated.
If Mibo was not a stupid person, there was no reason not to see this. When he really started a military campaign, the Great Quinoa Kingdom must have been extremely corrupt and there were fires everywhere. The entire Great Quinoa Kingdom would be trapped in war.
His "investment" in the Great Quinoa Kingdom is about to be ruined.
That was something he could not allow.
He "abandons his wife and daughter" to come to this ghost place. Is it easy to do some business?
He felt a little annoyed when he thought that his hard work might be ruined. When the miners recovered, he said to them: "You guys have a night off and leave here tomorrow."
After saying that, he entered the mine.
No one knew what he did inside. But the next day the miner left, and he didn't come out.
He stayed in the mountains for a month before leaving.
After he left, the mine completely collapsed.
It was only after more than two months that Mi Bo learned that his "big gold mine" was gone, and that the two thousand men arranged to die, and he and hundreds of craftsmen also ran away. He was shocked and angry.
While cleaning up the beginning and end, investigating who took action - he destroyed many bandits, and while sending people to pay attention to whether the imperial army had any troops deployed troops and prepared to quell the rebellion.
Only when I got the empire was not moved or reported to me, did I feel relieved.
At this time, although he had the intention of rebellion, he did not have the courage yet.
He recovered and became more angry the more he thought about it.
Originally, he had a richly produced fine iron ore, which could not only secretly sell and earn military funds, but also equip an elite army. But now it is completely done - he is not afraid of trouble, so he sent people to dig the mine again. But he found that not only the mine cave had collapsed, but he could not find another fine iron ore, and even ordinary iron ore was a residual mine.
It is said that the entire mountain was hollowed out.
In other words, if he wants to have money to recruit soldiers and buy horses in the future, he can only return to exploit ordinary people. But he dare not exploit them too much. Because if he is unpopular or unpopular, the rear will be unstable and he will be able to rebel?
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Lin Lang didn't know that the fine iron ore he had hollowed out would delay Mibo for at least ten years before he could prepare for rebellion.
And that's Mibo's most optimistic estimate.
Ten years later, who knows what the situation is? Even Mibo is not sure if he still has a chance to rebel.
Lin Lang only knew that his industry in the Great Quinoaya Kingdom might suffer losses.
He was also worried that when he was not in this world, Mibo would rebel. His collaborators or "subjects" might not help him save those industries, and he might even sell them in the chaos and then fly away.
Then he is truly beyond reach - across the world.
Houmang Province is mountainous and sparsely populated. Many mountainous areas were originally primeval forests. The land price was also very cheap. Lin Lang bought a lot of land, and it was bought in large areas.
After coming out of Mangling, he came to a forest farm, his forest farm.
It is said to be a forest farm, but now it is already a farm.
This forest farm is more than 20 kilometers in radius. There are a lot of good timbers. Lin Lang asked for those timbers and hired hundreds of lumberjacks to keep logging.
He even had no intention of keeping the original forest. All the good logs were cut and pulled to a place and piled up nearby. Those miscellaneous woods could be cut if they could be cut, and those that could not be cut would be burned with fire.
Such deforestation was extremely fast. The cut wood was dried in the shade for two years, so he collected his bracelets when he came. The mountains burned out of the wasteland were used to plant economic forests, such as mulberry, tea, fruit trees, and medicinal materials.
Plant food on the flat ground.
It has been more than ten years since he bought this forest farm. He was the first to plant mulberry trees, and he was more than ten years old, and he could raise a lot of silkworms every year.
Some tea trees have also grown quite tall. Even oil tea trees have begun to enter the fruit-rich period.
The production of medicinal materials is very high. It can collect thousands of tons of sugar every year.
Although the investment cost has been recovered, this is just the beginning.
He was on the mountain, looking at the pruned sugar bowl fruit tree, and then at the rice with flowers that had already emerged under the valley.
This land will produce more for him in the future. Moreover, he finally built these industries, which took him a lot of effort.
Those who want to be emperor deserve to be ruined?
This farm is his private property and is not a partner with others. So he hired a manager.
The manager saw that the owner's face was calm and he was uneasy. He thought he had not done anything well.
To be continued...