"The sinking tool is far away and there is nothing else to say?" Li Mingxun asked.

Song Laoqi took out a letter and handed it to Li Mingxun. When Li Mingxun saw that Shen Qiyuan had written it by himself, he opened it and read it, and then burned it on the whale oil lamp on the side.

The content in the letter is very simple, introducing the ins and outs of Bo He Tuo's head. This guy went through a lot of hardships and arrived at the Tumen River. When crossing the river, he provided a seal to the defenders under Shen Qiyuan, but he was unlucky. It was Lin Qingye who received him. Lin Qingye simply ambushed Bo He Tuo on the Tumen River, and everyone killed him. The meaning of Chen Qiyuan is very simple, and I hope the club will take this credit so that Bo He Tuo has never arrived in North Korea.

Li Mingxun naturally understood this meaning and placed this credit on Taktu. Anyway, this young man had just been promoted to the garrison commander, and no one doubted the more credits.

"Bohetuo and other things have nothing to do with the overall situation. What's wrong with Huishan Copper Mine?" Li Mingxun asked.

Song Laoqi said: "The information we found was that the sinker has arranged thousands of people to go into the mountains to mine. We have pre-spent a large amount of pickled fish, whale meat as grain, and the copper mine has been officially mined. It is estimated that after the beginning of spring, a large-scale manpower will be invested, but the sinker is far away and seems to be considering who to sell the copper to!"

Li Mingxun nodded slightly. North Korea is a country with poor gold, silver and copper. The same copper coins in North Korea have far surpassed the Ming Dynasty. It is reasonable to watch the sinking device from afar. However, Li Mingxun knew that around Lord Shen, only the community had the will and ability to support his separatist plan, and in the end most of the copper would fall into his own hands.

"Where is that Bian Shiji and his Suwon elite soldier?" Li Mingxun asked again.

Song Laoqi said: "Shen Qiyuan has promised us to eliminate this Bianshiji for him, but he was hesitating. He probably wanted to win over several capable generals. I think it would be okay to delay for a while. There are more than 3,000 Suwon soldiers, and the club's power in Vladivostok cannot be eaten. It is the freezing period and the squadron cannot move."

Li Mingxun nodded, thought for a while and said, "Leave this matter to Bahai, I will give him six months to train the new military camp. Before thawing next year, I will inform you of the sinking device and rush across the Tumen River and pull out the nail."

"How can you disagree with the sinking utensil at that time?" Song Laoqi asked.

Li Mingxun smiled, "He could not agree. Next year, the Donglu will advance eastward to attack Ningguta. This time, he sent a prince. The next time he will definitely be the prince of the banner. Shen Qi is far from daring to turn against the Donglu. If we don't cooperate with him, he will have to send troops. If he removes Suwon Camp, he will have a reason."

After entering the Chief Executive Office of Vladivostok, Li Mingxun and Song Laoqi sat down one after another, and the talents in the office sat down one after another. Vladivostok was originally a military garrison area, but because of the capture of Ningguta, it quickly became the Chief Executive Officer. Because there was no suitable candidate for the time being, the former Chief Executive Officer Song Luofeng temporarily served as the Chief Executive Officer, but within the structure of the Chief Executive Officer, a group of administrative, trade and other specialists mobilized from the base camp and Yongning City were quickly enriched. When the Yongning Chief Executive Officer elected the appropriate candidate, Song Luofeng still had to hand over his duties and do his job well as the commander of the fleet.

Fortunately, this meeting was about the development of Yongning City. Vladivostok was only part of it. With his own clan brother Song Laoqi, Song Luofeng would not be afraid.

Song Laoqi personally gave a long report, which gave Li Mingxun an in-depth understanding of the development of the entire Yongning Chief Executive District.

Because of the Battle of Ningguta and the subsequent fortress construction and frontier forces, Yongning Chief District, which had just achieved balance of income and expenditure, was once again unable to make ends meet. In this vast area, including slaves, the community directly controlled more than 60,000 people and traded about 250,000 people. The opening of Sanxingtan and Ningguta opened up the road to the plain area, but no profit had been shown yet.

Among the income of Yongning District, fur and ginseng and antlers are the main sources, especially fur. As the club provides a large number of iron weapons and hunting tools, the number of fur has increased greatly. The increase in ginseng and antlers has not been so rapid, but it has also increased with the expansion of trade scope. In addition, the profit sources of Yongning District are mainly fishing and steel smelting. The fishing industry mainly involves whaling and sea cucumbers and king crabs. Steel smelting is an iron smelting plant that migrated to Dongfang Port in the winter of last year.

A year has passed, and the iron smelting plant has been fully put into production. The iron smelting plant has put into production two eight-meter-level blast furnaces, which is already the highest standard under the existing technical conditions. In fact, it is already in a leading position in this era.

In fact, the iron ore produced in Sakhalin Island is of high quality. Because manpower is insufficient to mine coal mines when mining iron ore, the first batch of iron materials in the iron plant was refined with locally produced charcoal, and then quickly entered the Japanese market, and soon achieved the balance of income and expenditure of the iron plant. It is precisely because of this that the iron plant received strong support from the Yongning Chief Executive District. When a large number of slaves arrived, the coal mine was finally reclaimed and large-scale iron smelting began.

The coal mines on Sakhalin Island are not low in sulfur content, and the quality of the iron smelting is not as good as charcoal smelting, but the advantage is that it is large in quantity. It entered Japan as an export product. The iron smelting of charcoal was also transported back to the base camp as a ballast for many ships returning to the base camp. However, with the development of Dongfang Port, more and more wood was cut down, and the cost of charcoal was rising. The iron smelting plant has begun coking operations. Through the long kiln coking technology commonly used in mainland China, although the efficiency and quality are not high, the quality of the iron smelting that has been refined is equal to the raw materials.

The blower is the blower that really restricts the further increase of the blast furnace. The blast furnace of the club uses traditional Chinese piston-type blower box. In addition to enlarging, the improvement of the club is to turn the wooden blower box into a copper blower with higher airtightness and durability. Even so, it still cannot meet the use of the blast furnace. The reason is very simple. The power source of the blower is animal power. Eighteen horses and mules are used to pull huge horse rows to provide power for the blower. One blast furnace has two sets of blowers, while one blower must take three sets of horses and mules in shifts. More than 200 horses and mules are used for two blast furnaces, and the efficiency provided is still unsatisfactory.

Li Mingxun knew that if the blast furnace wanted to continue to increase, he could only use a higher power blower. In addition to steam power, the biggest possibility was hydraulic power, which was also an important consideration for the site selection of the ironworks at the beginning.

Of course, the iron smelting plant only solved the problem of iron supply in Yongning area, but how to turn iron into iron tools requires processing capabilities. The club currently has too few blacksmiths, and for the time being, they can only export a large amount of iron to Japan and North Korea in exchange for finished products to solve the problem.

However, what really concerns Li Mingxun is the food issue in Yongning Chief District.

At present, in several administrative regions of the community, the base camp has achieved self-sufficiency in grain and can also be supplied to the Taipei administrative region, Chongming, Hong Kong, and Nagasaki, not to mention, but the grain in the Yongning administrative region has always relied on Japanese rice, causing a huge financial burden. In fact, the price of Japanese rice is not particularly high. Buying less than seven cents per stone from Nagasaki is less than seven cents per stone. Although it is several times more expensive than Siam and other places, it is much cheaper than Jiangnan. However, Japanese rice requires long-distance transportation to various strongholds, such as Vladivostok, Yongning City, Yuling Island and Oriental Port, which are close to the sea, the cost is still within an acceptable range, but other areas are too expensive.

The farthest Humal cost to transport one stone of grain as high as five taels. If Humal hadn't produced gold, it would have been impossible to afford it. In the battle of Ningguta, there were two more long-distance transportation bases. Sanxingtan and Ningguta, especially Ningguta, the consumption of building the fortress garrison was too great.

In fact, there is no shortage of food in Yongning City. Whether it is freshwater fish or sea fish, there are all kinds of food. The whaling brings countless food, but people cannot always eat fish and meat, especially new immigrants. After the development of Vladivostok, Song Laoqi, who was stationed in the city, tried to plant various crops near the castle. After arriving in Yongning City, the manpower was abundant, and a large-scale experiment was conducted.

From wheat, oats, barley, rye to corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, millet and soybeans, Song Laoqi has a simple mind. Even if the things grown cannot be eaten by people, it can be used to feed the animals.

After two years of experiments, basically the results were obtained. Corn and potatoes are the most suitable for planting on this land in the Far East. Among the grain crops, only oats have good yields, especially around Yongning City, which has the highest development level. It is most suitable for oat production that likes coolness, avoids high temperatures and prefers humid environments. Although the yield is still not high, it still attracts cheers. The oats harvested last year were brewed by cheerful officials, which finally made the sailors of the club have an inferior choice after the inferior rum.

Corn, potatoes, soybeans and barley have become the main grain crops developed in Yongning City Chief Executive District. In the planting area, the climate is warmer and the north side of Xingkai Lake was selected. The later Beidakuang is still a swamp, while the land on the north side of Xingkai Lake is fertile, with a higher terrain, and easier to develop and utilize.

Of course, all this is still under planning. At present, the main planting industry of the club is located around important bases, and the crops that can be used as staple food and vegetables are also grown. What the club really wants to develop is animal husbandry. In the Far East, whether in the mountains, swamps or plains, there are plump grasslands everywhere. Livestock breeding can not only obtain meat products, but also produce fur and dairy products.

After cross-comparison, Li Mingxun found that the Far East is also a good immigration place, at least it will not be as prone to malaria as Taiwan. The biggest danger of Taiwanese immigration comes from various tropical and subtropical diseases, while the biggest obstacle to Far East immigration is cold. Relatively speaking, the former is related to life and the latter is an economic problem. The next focus of the community's immigration comes from the north, and it seems that the Far East is more suitable.

It can be seen from the report of the Yongning Administrative Region that any stronghold in the north is eagerly looking forward to the arrival of new immigrants. All second-level administrative regions have intercepted some of the finances and resources to invest in immigration, such as ordering cotton coats from Jiangnan in advance to store some iron agricultural tools and weapons for development. However, the bitter and cold conditions of the Yongning Chief Executive District are not friendly to immigration work. The winter here is cold, the rivers and harbors are frozen, and the ground is frozen like solid stones, and the land cannot be reclaimed at all. Reclamation activities can only be carried out every year when cleavage in summer and autumn.

"It depends on the season. The community's participation in the war in the Central Plains depends on the attitude of the Ming court. There is no specific constitution for recruiting immigrants. If the season is appropriate, the base camp will never treat the north unfairly." Li Mingxun finally set a tone for the immigration project in the north.

In October of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Shengjing City.

The cold wind blew across the treetops, making a clamor. Boro bent over and buried his face in the horse's hair. However, the snowflakes still hit his side face and neck. Most of his flesh was frozen and he was no longer conscious. Only the scars that were broken by stones in Ningguta were torn and painful.

Noisy sounds began to come from afar. Boro, who was galloping in the cold wind, opened his eyes with great effort. The snow particles forced him to squint. Shengjing City in the distance was covered by fog and snow, but cheers and drum music kept coming, as if celebrating something?

What are people celebrating? Ningguta has been lost and is still celebrating?

Boluo cursed in his heart and whipped his horse hard until he was blocked by the cavalry guarding Shengjing.

"Who are you and where are you from?" the cavalry shouted loudly.

"We are from Ningguta. Prince Anping asked us to come back to report the news. Ningguta has already..." The white-armored soldiers beside him were about to tell the news of Ningguta's loss, but Boluo whipped it in his mouth.

"I am Boluo. What's wrong with Shengjing City? What are you celebrating?" Boluo asked.

The cavalry immediately dismounted, beat Qian, and said, "It turned out to be Lord Boluo. It was the emperor who appointed your father to send twenty-four Gushans to assist the general and lead the army to attack Ming. The emperor is holding a ceremony for the general who ordered him to do so!"

"Didn't Lord Boluo go to Ningguta? Why are you back?" asked another person.

Boluo laughed and said, "Of course I'm back to report the good news. Prince Anping led his army to defeat the Dongfan Island Barbarians in Ningguta, and specially sent me back to report the good news!"

The cavalry laughed and said, "Come with me quickly. Such great news should be widely publicized at the expedition ceremony to inspire my Eight Banners soldiers to win the flag!"

"Don't make noise. Ninggu Tower has not been completely wiped out. Don't talk about victory or defeat. Just take me to see the emperor." Boluo said casually.

Boluo responded to the cavalry in this way, because he knew that everything would go smoothly in the army. If Ningguta's defeat was made public, the morale of the army would inevitably be frustrated. From the overall situation, Boluo would naturally say the opposite.

Chongzheng Hall.

Huang Taiji's fat body trembled on the imperial throne, and beside him, Abatai smiled happily. Today, Huang Taiji gave Abatai a courtesy, allowing him to sit aside, far higher than other banner princes, which really satisfy the vanity of the general who was ordered.
Chapter completed!