After arranging his confidants to take his adopted son She Baoyun to rest, She Chongming didn't look very good.
His family has been entrenched in Yongning for hundreds of years. When Zhu Yuanzhang was still begging for food, this was the territory of the She family.
Even if he had not yet had the opportunity to change his country, he did not want the imperial court to have a stronger influence on the southwest.
There are not many chieftains who have similar ideas to him, especially Shuixi An, which has been passed down since the Tang Dynasty to this day.
The two She'an families have been heavily armed for a long time, one is more elite and the other is larger.
I heard that the Liaodong court was defeated, and Nurhaci captured Liaoyang and Shenyang. Sichuan soldiers and Shizhu chieftain soldiers suffered heavy losses, and their strong enemies Zhou Dunji and Qin Bangping died in the battle...
She Chongming was determined to cause chaos.
Nurhachi can win Liaoyang and Shenyang.
He She Chongming can naturally win Chongqing, Guiyang and Chengdu.
One is in the northeast and the other is in the southwest. They are both places with high mountains and long roads, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack.
After a while, the eldest son She Yin arrived with others.
This time, She Yin was specially asked to escort She Baoyun back. The first was to monitor She Baoyun all the way to see if there was anything strange about him. The second was to raise troops, and She Yin had an important mission.
When father and son got together, they immediately started making arrangements.
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I remember the She'an Rebellion was only a few months old.
Wang Hongyu doesn’t remember the exact time very clearly, but he is certain that it was this year.
She Chongming used the pretext of sending troops to support Liaodong, but when he arrived in Chongqing, he suddenly broke out and killed people, starting a highly destructive mutiny.
Some civil servants were shameless and concluded that the cause of the She'an Rebellion was that the Ming Dynasty sent them to fight, which aroused dissatisfaction...
Isn’t this nonsense!
She Chongming's various excuses were exactly the same as those used by Nurhachi before he launched his army. How could it possibly be because they were transferred and aroused dissatisfaction?
There have been many such ambitious people in history who brought trouble to the world.
Liu Bao and Liu Yuan in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, An Lushan and Shi Siming in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Guo Yaoshi in the Northern Song Dynasty, Nurhachi in the late Ming Dynasty, She Chongming, An Bangyan...
These are all from the same breed.
Wang Hongyu has no intention of showing mercy to these guys.
Which one of them did not kill tens of millions of people with his own hands? Which one did not interrupt the current situation of economic prosperity and cultural prosperity? Which one did not push this land to the edge of the cliff?
Although there are other internal reasons, they are the biggest destroyers.
That is to say, he started to solve internal problems, eradicated these huge hidden dangers, and took their resources into his own hands.
So he himself was in Yunyang, but he simultaneously asked She Baoyun to follow She Yin back to Yongning.
After Wang Hongyu finished planning the field and layout, he held a Hunhe Army meeting to prepare for the layout.
While Qin Ling led a battalion to be stationed in Junzhou, he also established commercial outlets in Junzhou and Gucheng to expand his intelligence network.
And establish contact with Shizhu and prepare for collaborative training and operations.
Qin Ling introduced that the people currently staying at Shizhu are Ma Xianglin and Qin Fengyi. They are Qin Liangyu’s son and Zhang Quan’s daughter respectively. Although they are both under 30 years old, they are also good at fighting.
Qin Liangyu, Qin Minping and she all wrote letters to those who stayed in Shizhu to discuss the matter, so feel free to worry about everything.
It is of course best to leave it to Qin Ling to communicate with Shi Zhu again and prepare to train troops together and strengthen equipment.
After Qin Minping's troops stationed in Zhushan County, they cooperated with county officials, refugees Liu Fuwen and his party, the Zhou family and friends.
In addition to training, ten propaganda teams were formed and went deep into nearby villages and towns, from Zhushan to Fangxian and then to Zhuxi.
On the one hand, we vigorously promote some of the current propaganda and policies of the Hunhe Army; on the other hand, we call on the refugees to come out of the mountains and forests and join the ranks of the Hunhe Army.
Only a very small number of them plan to join the new army, while the vast majority join the construction of military garrisons.
This batch of construction military camps has three main tasks at this time.
1. Road construction and water transportation.
2. Search for mineral veins in the mountains.
3. Farming and breeding.
These three jobs are suitable for many refugees.
No one knows what is inside the mountain better than them.
As for road construction and expansion of water transportation, the Zhou family and veterans went all out, and county officials also provided support.
Farming and breeding also developed rapidly.
With the tens of thousands of taels of silver invested by Lao Wei, there is no need to worry too much about the start-up capital, and there are abundant supplies in Xiangyang, so there is no need to worry about the money not being able to buy enough tools, livestock and food.
Yunyang has many mountains and luxuriant vegetation. It is not suitable for raising cattle and horses. The vegetation is too luxuriant and the hills are too dense and steep. However, it is very convenient to raise chickens and sheep.
There are also many ponds and streams where crucian carp, river mussels, snails and other aquatic products can be raised.
In half a month, 8,000 people were recruited to build a well-fed army camp, and the Hunhe Army also added 300 people.
Another half month later, when Qin Minping saw Wang Hongyu again, the latter was shocked.
"Did you make these bamboo rafts and wooden boats?"
"That's right, but it's mainly man-made by the construction of military camps. This time, whether it's the Zhushan-Yunxian section or the Fangxian-Gucheng section, there are bamboo rafts and wooden boats for transport. These are not the ones that transport good things.
Yet?"
He pointed with his hand and saw that these bamboo rafts from Zhushan had gray-brown coal on top of a layer of wood and water-proof cloth.
"Not only is it coal, but it's a lot less smoky than any coal we've seen before."
Wang Hongyu quickly called Li Tiezhu over and studied it carefully.
I saw that this kind of carbon is indeed different. The color is not black, but gray-brown. It feels like stone, but there is a layer of gray on it.
This is the stone coal of Zhushan.
Liu Fuwen also came with Qin Minping. He introduced that this charcoal was actually not easy to burn, otherwise the refugees in the mountains would have burned it as fuel.
But after being processed by powerful craftsmen, it can become good coal with less smoke. So I heard that General Wang was good at this business, so he brought this over among the first batch.
Li Tiezhu asked if there were any talents among the refugees who knew something about this. When he asked, there were indeed a few who knew how to burn, but they lacked the tools to screen them.
That's easy.
With a wave of his hand, Wang Hongyu granted Li Tiezhu and the craftsmen 1,000 taels of silver to purchase and prepare for screening stone coal, and opened a coal processing workshop in Jianshejuntun, Zhushan, with the goal of producing high-quality, low-bituminous coal.
In addition, iron ore was discovered while searching for other minerals, and Li Tiezhu cooperated with the construction of Juntun to develop it.
They directly used local iron ore and stone coal to forge tools. They did not mainly make weapons at first, but limited workshop tools such as axes, hammers, saws, chisels, and adzes, as well as agricultural tools such as shovels, hoes, plows, forks, and sickles.
The military settlement in Zhushan was developed into a tool and handicraft factory.
Li Tiezhu had been doing this since he was a child, and he was already familiar with the division of labor and cooperation carried out by his cousin, so he happily accepted the order.
Iron ore and stone coal are pretty basic, but Wang Hongyu is still thinking about more powerful mines.
There is a saying in later generations, "The mines in Zhushan are rich in the northwest of Jia'e."
This sentence also has scientific basis. According to later exploration, the mineral resources in Zhushan account for 90% of northwest Hubei.
The most powerful one is the niobium rare earth mineral, with the second largest reserves in the country.