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Chapter 911 Jingshan?

Why did the Qi, Jin, Chu and Qin countries become stronger later?In addition to occupying four sides and having room for development, the more important thing is that they all have mastered the bronze mine.

The state of Jin has the copper mines in Zhongtiao Mountain, the state of Qi has the copper mines of the Huaiyi generation, and the state of Chu has the bronze mines in Tonglu Mountain and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

This Lu Rong country is just a small country with thousands of people, and two or three small village-like cities have been built.

Of course, it is impossible to have the strength to break the monopoly, and their army mainly uses stone tools and iron tools.

Facing Zheng Xiaoming, who had been prepared for a long time, he was directly defeated by Zheng Guo's army like a broken bamboo, and rushed to his capital.

That night, Zheng Guo's army surrounded Lu Rongren's capital.In the middle of the night, the wind suddenly picked up.The wind whimpered, looking very abnormal.The wind was even mixed with the sound of ghosts crying and howling wolves, which made people feel uneasy.

There was fog between the mountains and mist, and there were many figures in the fog, as if countless dangers were coming.

Zheng Xiaoming had already prepared for it, so he didn't panic at all.He just held a torch, took a step forward, and walked into the returning soil, and saw countless white bones, or half-rotten corpses crawling out of the mud in this gloomy world. He staggered towards Zheng Guo's army.

This is Lu Rongguo's witchcraft, who performed witchcraft overnight and launched an attack on Zheng Guo's army.

Faced with this kind of scene, Zheng Xiaoming just stretched the torch forward, and with a bang, it was like igniting gasoline, and the flames rushed out, igniting all the corpses and ghosts.

The fire was raging, burning all the way directly into the capital of Lu Rongguo.

In the capital of Lu Rongguo, Wu Zhu, who was doing his hair disheveled on a stone altar, screamed and rolled down from the altar with his whole body on fire.

Under the altar, there are many corpses of pigs, cattle and sheep, and even the corpses of many slaves.

These are sacrifices for spellcasting!
Now, they are all ignited.The fire even ignited some thatched cottages around, and the entire Lu Rongguo was on fire, with thick smoke billowing everywhere and flames blazing.

The entire capital of Lu Rongguo is actually a village that can accommodate thousands of people. Now it is in chaos, and some people are busy trying to save it.Someone was choked by the thick smoke and fled for their lives.

By dawn, Zheng Guo's army had stepped into the village, which was still burning with ashes, and hundreds of prisoners were kneeling around.

There must be more than just such a small number of people in Lu Rongguo. They also have many villages scattered among the mountains and rely on hunting in the mountains.

Most of these people will eventually be captured and become slaves of Zheng Guo, building cities and reclaiming fields for Zheng Xiaoming.

Although Lu Rong is a branch of Xirong, he thought that these people would not know how to farm, but only herd and hunt.

In fact, this is absolutely not the case, the Zhou people themselves are a branch of Xirong.The original intention of Zhou's oracle bone inscriptions is to reclaim the land that has become farmland.

As for the well-known Dog Rong, which people think is a nomadic people, according to archaeological findings, they are also quite developed in animal husbandry and agriculture.

In fact, the level of civilization of Xirong, especially the mastery of agricultural and animal husbandry technology, is much higher than that of the barbarians in the east.

Archeology has found that in fact the earliest civilizations did not develop from places with mild climates, but from semi-arid areas.

Like Xirong in the east, the oasis of two rivers, the Nile and so on.

Probably because there will not be too much flooding in this kind of place?

In short, these Lu Rong people are quite proficient in agriculture and animal husbandry, and are very suitable as slaves.

As for some stupid and uncivilized savage tribes around, even if they are defeated as slaves, they can only do some rough work like building a city.

Of course, because of this, Lu Rong people still accumulated a lot of wealth.After breaking through the capital of Lu Rongguo, they harvested a batch of various treasures.

There are some bronze sacrificial vessels snatched from unknown places, but the most surprising thing is that there are many jade stones.

It was only after interrogating the captives that they found out that jade was actually produced near the mountain.

Jade ware and bronze ware are generally the most important and noble ritual vessels. Nobles need these things no matter they are weddings or funerals.

The best jade is of course Hetian jade, which needs to be transported back from the far west.

It is said that the Emperor Mu of that year, that is, King Mu of Zhou, went on an expedition to the Western Regions in order to open up a channel for jade transportation.

In addition to the best Hetian jade, there are also some jade-producing places in other places.

For example, the Xiuyan jade produced by Yiwulu Mountain, and the Lantian jade that is warm in Lantian.Then there is Dushan Jade.

By the way, Zheng Xiaoming also recorded a kind of jade called Jingshan jade in the history books he read at the end of Han Dynasty.

This kind of jade is not very famous, and the output seems to be small, so there is no record soon.

But it has added a very important saying for later generations, that is, you can't see Jingshan jade with eyes.Well, some people read it as blind to gold inlaid with jade!
But this allusion is related to a very famous encirclement in later generations, that is, the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, Heshibi!
Because He's Bi came from Jingshan Mountain. As the story of He's Bi is so famous, there is no need to repeat the story of Bian He Xianyu.

At this moment, Zheng Xiaoming couldn't help but think: "Could this place be Jingshan? I thought Jingshan was in Danyang!"

It is difficult to say which mountain Jingshan is.

However, the name of the country of Chu originally came from Jing, because Jing and Chu are common, and it is a kind of thorny vine with long thorns.

Therefore, probably those mountains with thorns growing in Chu land can be called Jingshan, right?

This place where Lu Rongguo is located is not the territory of the Chu people for the time being, but at most ten years later, the power of the Chu people will expand to the vicinity and annex the surrounding Luo countries and other small countries.Let this land belong to the Chu people.

Therefore, it is really possible that there is that Jingshan Jade here!

Thinking in his heart, Zheng Xiaoming immediately asked the captive Lu Rong to take him to the jade mine.

All the way into the deep mountains, I saw a village of Lu Rongren.

This stockade is not big, that is, it can accommodate one or two hundred people.But there are five or six hundred slaves!

Here is a stronghold of Lu Rong people in the mountains, and the most important role is to guard the jade mine and dig it.

Like other mines in this era, due to the limitation of technical level, all mines that can be excavated are open-pit mines, or very shallow mines.

This jade mine is no exception, but it is not on the top of a mountain, but in a deep cliff.

The slaves had to hang down from vines in search of jade.

This moved Zheng Xiaoming's heart, and he couldn't help but look up at the sky...

(End of this chapter)