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Chapter 125 Jianzhou Capital?

The autumn in Jianzhou is not hot at all, and it is even a bit cold. The cool breeze blows on the face, and it feels a little painful.

The breeze blows the weeds and bushes, making the branches and leaves sway and rustle with the wind.

In the area of ​​Jianzhou, although since the establishment of the Liaodong Capital, the Ming army and bureaucrats have been active here.

But Daming is actually similar to most of the previous Central Plains dynasties. They still pay more attention to the Central Plains and the Jiangnan area, and they still don't pay much attention to the places outside the Great Wall.

Jianzhou basically maintains a primitive ecology, and there are few traces left by frequent human activities, let alone any infrastructure.

Not even a proper path.

Penke's army can only hold a tomahawk in hand, open the road while advancing, and use their own body to open a smooth road.

Along the way, as long as the army passed by, the originally noisy wild animals and insects would immediately dissipate and quiet down.

The animals instinctively felt that this red army was not easy to mess with.

However, occasionally a few silly roe deer would poke their heads out curiously in the forest, observing this army that was operating in the inaccessible places.

This time, no soldiers stopped to catch them, and everyone was busy on their way.

Pen Ke, who was walking in the center of the army, rode a tall horse, constantly looking around, and kept admiring.

Although it is said that after the Beiman forces shrunk, Jianzhou was a place that grandma didn't care about and uncle didn't love, neither Beiman nor Daming paid much attention to it.

Moreover, the winter here is too cold, and the previous Central Plains dynasty was unwilling to spend too much effort on development.

However, this problem is based on the fact that the productivity of the previous Central Plains dynasty was not good!
The water system in Jianzhou itself is very developed. There are a bunch of tributaries of the Songhua River, and a dense waterway network has been built in Jianzhou.

Furthermore, Jianzhou was originally located in the middle of the Liaohe Plain and the Songnen Plain, a place with suitable land, rich products, and vast forest resources.

As long as the dense forest is cleared, it will be another big granary!

The fact that the Sui and Tang Dynasties were unable to develop this place does not mean that Daming could not develop it.

As long as the waterway is used, all kinds of steam equipment are transported to Jianzhou, and the steam equipment is used for agricultural development, logging and farming, immigration or direct military reclamation.

It will take three to five years to immigrate millions of people and build a land of nearly 100 million square kilometers. In the future, it will become a major grain-producing province comparable to Huguang!
As a visitor from his previous life, Peng Ke knew very well how powerful the agricultural capabilities of the three eastern provinces were.

Although Jianzhou is only a part of the three eastern provinces, the population of Daming at this time is not more than a billion!
If the area of ​​Jianzhou alone can be developed, it will be enough to feed tens of millions of Ming people!
Not to mention, the land of Jianzhou not only has rich black land, but also gold mines!

What Peng Ke learned when he was in school, the first gold mine in New China, the Jiapigou Gold Mine, is located in Jianzhou!
In recent days, relying on his excellent geography grades in school and the current map of Jianzhou, Peng Ke has roughly estimated the location of the Jiapigou gold mine after a long period of comparison in his mind.

The Jiapigou Gold Mine is located [-] to [-] kilometers southeast of the Jihe River where Peng Keta set off!
It is less than [-] kilometers away from Liaodong Dusi!

This is the gold mine with the longest mining history and the deepest shaft in China.

The entire mining area is five kilometers long and tens of meters wide. From the official indigenous gold mining in 1820 until Peng Ke crossed over, there was no gold mined!

During the Tongzhi and Guangxu years, the daily gold output of Jiapigou reached more than 500 taels.

During the heyday of Jiapigou, 6 taels of gold could be mined a year!

And there is not only gold here, but also a lot of copper!

During the Japanese invasion of China, after the establishment of the mining area, the annual output of gold was 300-600 kg, increasing year by year.

Copper has grown from an annual output of 90 tons at the beginning to a stable annual output of 100-[-] tons!
Later, after the founding of New China, the annual gold production in Jiapigou was more than 1 ton!
Although the current Ming Dynasty, the mining level is not that advanced.

But as long as the mining area is established, it will be no problem to produce an annual output of three to five hundred kilograms of gold and seventy to eighty tons of copper!

Daming was already short of copper, on the one hand it was used as a trading equivalent, and on the other hand it was used to make ordnance.

Modern people joke that fighting is spending money, and every second is burning money.

But in Daming, these words are not metaphors, but reality!

Every bullet is made of copper, and what is fired is money!
Now that the currency reform has not yet started, Daming is too short of copper.

Sitting on the horseback, Peng Ke was already thinking about how to report to Emperor Hongwu and let him mobilize the people of the whole country to immigrate after the savage campaign was completed.

The Jiapigou Gold Mine is a very convincing condition!
Such a mining area that can stably produce [-] tons of copper per year, if Emperor Hongwu knows about it, he will definitely spare no effort to mobilize the inland people to immigrate to the fields and start mining!
As long as there are enough interests and beneficial to Daming, there is nothing that Emperor Hongwu is unwilling to do!

And once the large-scale immigration in Jianzhou starts.

Then Daming needs to establish administrative divisions in Jianzhou. Whether it is to establish a capital or directly turn it into a province, it needs to garrison troops.

And it is very likely that the province will not be established directly, but a frontier military-political organization like the Liaodong Capital and the Northern Parallel Capital will be established!

In this way, Peng Ke, the main contributor to the establishment of the Jianzhou Capital, has room to operate.

Although the first commander of the capital of Jianzhou, Peng Ke may not be able to win.

But at the very least, you can also get a second-rank commander and acquaintance!

You must know that the separate capitals in important border defense areas are different from the capitals in inland provinces.

The Dusi Weisuo was originally a military establishment and has nothing to do with administrative divisions. It can be understood as a modern military region.

But the border guards also handle civil affairs, in fact, they have become local administrative divisions.

Therefore, the Dusiwei has the distinction of real soil and non-real soil.

In areas where there are no prefectures, prefectures, or counties, the capital is also in charge of civil affairs, and it is the real Tudu, as is the case with the Liaodong capital.

The Liaodong Metropolitan Command and Envoy Division directly handles the military and administration. All matters in Liaodong are under the control of the Metropolitan Command and Envoy Division. It is an institution that manages both the military and the people.

The commander of the border defense capital is roughly the same status as the commanders of the various guards of the Han Dynasty!

They are all military agencies set up to monitor the ethnic groups on the border.

To put it in a more trendy way, it is similar to the various governors in the West!
Generally, the border defense capital is set up in places where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the emperor is not easy to manage, and it is close to the border.

Although they still do not have the right to declare war, they can independently lead troops to resist, which is considered to have half the right to kill first and then play later.

In terms of civil affairs, it is also in charge.

Although there are various restrictions, the independence of the border capital is much higher than that of any inland place.

This is a very, very good place for Peng Ke, who has all kinds of small things in his heart.

The Liaodong capital has been established for many years, and all forces have stabilized, so it is difficult for Peng Ke to have the opportunity to intervene.

But if a border defense capital can be built in this Jianzhou area, and immigrants from the inland can come to the border.

Then this is a new blank sheet of paper, on which Penke can brand his brand.

Even if he can't become the commander of the capital at the beginning, he will still have the opportunity to go further in the future if he occupies the position of second in command first.

If you can climb up to the position of commander of the Jianzhou capital before Jingnan, and take control of the entire military regime of Jianzhou.

Napenke undoubtedly has more room for mediation in this vortex sweeping the country.

Most importantly, a new administrative division, a brand new land, immigrants from all over the country.

This was enough for Penke to set up a test field to see if some new seeds could be bred in this brand new land.

Some seeds that can bring change to this era.

It takes a long time for a seed to grow into a towering tree.

It should be sooner rather than later.

Otherwise, Peng Ke was afraid that he would not see the era of change he wanted to see appear until the day he died.

"Commander, the scouts have found out the situation, and it is indeed as the prisoner said."

"Ten miles ahead is the gathering place of the Narona tribe!"

"Please also order and arrange a battle plan!"

A report sound interrupted Peng Ke's thoughts that had already flown into the sky.

He came back to his senses, looked at the scout officer kneeling on one knee in front of him, and nodded slightly.

"Wu Xuanshu, Lu Ming!"

"Subordinates are here!"

The two who had been riding beside Penke pulled the reins immediately and stood by with their fists clasped.

"According to the combat plan we formulated before, let's execute it."

"As ordered!"

The two took the order, whipped their horsewhips hard, and galloped out from the central army.

After a while, a few short drums and horns sounded.

The drums and horns of the Ming army have different meanings.

This is the most convenient way to send orders to the army.

After hearing two short and one long horns, and the rapid four-company battle drum, the army began to divide its troops in an orderly manner.

The 3000 army was divided into three small troops of [-] people, two of which, one from the south and the other from the north, detoured towards the Rhona tribe.

The three borrowed steam chariots also broke away from the main force and left alone.

And Peng Ke also led [-] infantry and [-] artillery households, and continued to march forward.

Unhurriedly, it took a full hour before Peng Ke led the army and approached the Rhona tribe.

"General, there are obvious traces of savage activities ahead, and our scouts have captured a few savage sentries!"

As the distance between the troops and the Rhona tribe grew closer, the frequency of scout reports also shortened.

Penke constantly judged the situation of the Rhona tribe through the reports of the scouts.

Ever since he caught those wildling riders, and learned about the combat situation of the wildling tribe from Wu Xuanshu and Lu Ming, Peng Ke probably had an understanding of the combat level of these wildlings all over Jianzhou.

Well, the combat level of the Jianzhou savages is that there is no combat level.

Whether it's military tactics or any military tactics, there are none.

Fighting all depends on one's recklessness, everyone shoulders shoulder to shoulder, if you can beat it, you win, if you can't beat it, you retreat and run away.

This is the core tactic of the Savage Tribe.

Therefore, Penke can't make a judgment based on the normal confrontation between the two armies. He can only adapt to the situation and adapt to the situation. There is no room for the use of advanced tactics.

Even if you use it, there is no guarantee that the brain circuit of the savage can really be correct and step into the so-called tactical trap.
Everything can only be adjusted according to circumstances!
(End of this chapter)