On the second day, after the troops were collected, they immediately sent several troops to the richest counties around Wan County: Jiyang, Jingyang, and Nieyang. This is the hinterland of the Nanyang Plain, with developed agriculture and the most abundant treasury. In this era, most of the essence of the entire Nanyang County was gathered here, which was the important place that Li Zhe wanted to usurp the first.

Li Zhe himself led a large army to directly enter Biyang County and adjust his rest.

Two days later, when the news came back, it was indeed a great harvest. The soldiers sent by Li Zhe successfully entered these counties. The county curriculum alone had more than 4 million kilograms of military ration, which was enough to consume nearly 300,000 people in Runan County in a month. Other livestock, iron, weapons and supplies were also harvested a lot. In a short time, these garrisons did not even need to provide food and grass support in the rear, and they could start the war by themselves.

Nanyang County is a good place. Although it has experienced wars, it is still not as poor as other places. What is important is that the agriculture in the Nanyang Basin is still basically intact. It is located in the Han River Basin between the watershed between the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. It has abundant precipitation and a suitable climate. It is a typical Feng Shui treasure land in the development of ancient agricultural society. Therefore, even in wars, there is no large-scale famine escape phenomenon.

Therefore, the planting situation in Nanyang County was still good at this time. The private ox stock was quite large, and the population was much larger than that of Runan County. The records of the counties occupied by Li Zhe alone had more than 100,000 people, which was almost equal to a county in Runan County. No wonder Cao Cao later obtained Nanyang County and established a southern front as a strategic center based on this, and fought against the two families of Shu Han and Eastern Wu to siege for decades.

Nanyang County is not only rich in resources, but also has a good foundation for talent education. After all, it was the place where Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu rose. Most of the powerful people in the entire Eastern Han Dynasty came from this, leaving a good educational foundation for the countryside of Nanyang County and sufficient talent reserves. Of course, on the other hand, the local clan forces are also extremely powerful, which is to look at both positive and negative aspects.

When they arrived at Biyang County, all the wealthy families came up to pay their respects. Li Zhexu and Wushe passed by, but Biyang County had no major figure worthy of attention. From now on, Biyang County fell into his own hands, and the mining of iron ore and gold mines was no longer allowed.

For the development of Nanyang, Li Zhe needs to make a good strategic plan.

In fact, when it comes to mineral resources, although the Tiaoshan gold and iron ore in Biyang County are easy to mine, they are not large in scale after all. The real large mine belt in Nanyang County is located in the area of ​​Tongbai Mountain, just a hundred miles south of Biyang. It is located in the southeast of the Nanyang Plain. It is a huge metal ore belt in the vast mountains and forests. It is not only rich in gold and silver, but also copper, lead, zinc, tungsten, molybdenum, etc., and there are many ferrous metals and rare metals, but the grade is too low and it is not suitable for mining.

However, in this Three Kingdoms era, even if the reserves are extremely rich, it does not mean that there is a way to come in handy. The mines in this mountainous area are even more of a huge problem. One is that the mining technology is not enough, and the other is that the traffic conditions are too poor. At this time, the entire Tongbai Mountain area is still a real primeval forest, and just building roads is a huge project. But no matter what, pulling things into your own bowl first, Li Zhe will not think that there are too many things in his home.

In Tongbai County, if the transportation problem can be solved, there are still many good things. Not only the minerals mentioned above, but also the treasure of the heaven-level one-level alkaline ore belt with a total reserve of 70 million tons, it is the largest in Asia and the second largest in the world discovered in modern time and space. This is an important raw material in modern industry, with a wide range of uses and huge value, and it can be regarded as a huge treasure house. However, these two alkaline ore belts, one with a depth of 700 meters and the other with a depth of 2080 meters, are currently in the type that cannot be seen and eaten. We can only find another way in the future.

In addition, Nanyang County also has a rock and salt mine belt in Wuyang County, with a reserve of 230 billion tons. The Nanyang Dushan Jade Mine, which is in a virgin state, also has a huge reserve. In this era, there is also a mineral belt with good jade quality, and mining is extremely simple and has great development value.

This is something that can come in handy directly and can immediately exert economic value.

In addition, Nanyang has abundant oil and natural gas resources, but it is too difficult to exploit in this era, so I can only sigh.

Overall, Nanyang County is a good place with extremely rich resources and has extremely high strategic value for Li Zhe. However, for now, what is most affordable for Li Zhe is grain, population, livestock resources and gold and iron ore in Tiaoshan.

In the following days, Xu Shu and all the people from the Trade Department went to various counties under their jurisdiction to visit the local tyrants in their occupied areas, striving to get support to maintain a minimum stability. After all, in Runan, Li Zhe maintained his rule with the believers of the Tianshidao and the militia system, and in this Nanyang County, Li Zhe was far from such a ruling foundation.

Under the current military pressure of absolute superiority, Xu Shu is confident about his diplomatic mission, and everyone else who participated was also very excited. Only a few of them were cautious about this, including Huang Zhong, Wei Yan and Li Zhe himself.

Li Zhe, on the other hand, took a huge guard of honor to inspect the Tiaoshan mining area to see how to find a way to expand the scale of mining.

At this time, the mining technology of the Three Kingdoms was difficult to dig deep mines. They were just simple and stubborn to cut the mountains and get stones, and most of them were open-pit mining areas. Of course, sometimes they would dig deep mining holes, using pickaxes and chisels and other tools to dig deep holes that a person could crawl, and support them with wooden sticks to make people climb in to dig ore. However, such mining was also extremely shallow, at most dozens of meters. The entire ore mining process consumed a lot of iron tools. Because ancient iron tools were expensive, the cost was still very high, and of course the scale was not large.

In addition, in addition to this simplest and most stupid method, the ancients also mastered the simple mining technology that utilizes the law of thermal expansion and contraction, which is the so-called burning method. First burning the mountain to increase the temperature of the mountain, and then pouring water to cool down, causing the mountain to explode under internal stress. This method is very efficient, but it consumes a lot of fuel, which is also a very advanced method.

But now that Li Zhe has arrived here, the situation is naturally different. Just for the precious steel industry, Li Zhe has to work hard to find ways to expand production capacity. This mountain mining area is Li Zhe’s first experimental point!

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