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    "The county has set up Benxi Lake, and built Weining Camp in the city. Kaiyuan has 30,000 guards, and Tiechang Baihu City."

    In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Daming set up 30,000 guards in Kaiyuan, and recruited and resettled a large number of nearby Jurchen people.  Although Kaiyuan's grain output was only enough for its own use, the iron smelting industry prospered rapidly, and the weapons manufacturing tasks assigned by the imperial court became heavier and heavier.

    Kaiyuan's weaponry quickly ran out of raw materials, so an iron factory was set up in Weiningying to provide Kaiyuan with wrought iron materials.

    The iron factory was located next to Weining Yingcheng, and was garrisoned by a hundred households leading troops, and a small town was specially built.

    As for Benxi Lake, it was originally called Cup Rhinoceros Lake, which was named after the cup shaped like a rhinoceros horn.  At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Benxi County was set up, and the county seat was set at the edge of Benxi Lake, about ten miles away from Weining Camp.  .

    Hearing that the Weining camp was besieged, why did Daishan rush to bring his troops back to help?

    Because as early as the Jiajing period, the iron output of Weiningying Iron Works accounted for one-seventh of the entire Liaodong.

    And 150 miles due east of Weining Camp, which is Pingdingshan Town, Xinbin County, is the main gold mine of the Tartars!

    In addition, Xiaosiping Village in Xinbin County has an arsenal established during the Nurhachi period.  "Siping" is a transliteration of Manchu, meaning "arrow shaft", and it is the arrow shaft production base of the Eight Banners Army.

    Once the Weining camp falls, the iron field will definitely be gone.  Gold mines and arsenals will also be threatened by the Datong Army.

    Daishan has enough reasons to return to the teacher, and Dorgon can't stop him at all.

    Li Laixiang came to see Lu Xiangsheng all day long like a douchebag: "General Lu, the iron smelting plant in Weiningying was not built in Baihu City, but in Mingshangou and Antgou on the north bank.  The son moved all the iron smelters to Weiningying City and Baihu City. But none of the miners in the valley were taken away, probably because they were afraid that the Han miners would cause trouble in the city.¡±

    "Are all the miners Han Chinese?" Lu Xiangsheng asked.

    Li Laixiang replied: "Ten years ago, the miners were all Han. But now, 40% are Han and 60% are Korean. Most of those Han miners in the past have died, and the Tartars can only kidnap Koreans to mine."

    When Lu Xiangsheng got the exact news, he immediately ordered his troops to cross the river and go to Mingshangou and Antgou to appease the miners.

    There are the most miners in Mingshangou, and the iron-smelting furnace can illuminate the valley until it is bright at night. This is the source of the place name "Mingshangou".

    Li Kun is a miner in Mingshangou, his father is an officer in Baihu City, and belongs to the resident military household of Weining Battalion dispatched by Kaiyuan 30,000 Guards.  After Li Kun's father was captured, he was thrown into Mingshangou to dig mines, and his family moved to nearby Mingshangou to farm.

    ?Father, eldest brother and second brother died of exhaustion in the mine one after another. Li Kun took over the job at the age of fifteen, and now he has been mining for three years.

    "Brother Li, why did the Tazi overseer leave?" Yan Hong asked early in the morning.

    Li Kun was also very puzzled: "I'm afraid something serious happened."

    There is no sun and moon in the mountains, and they don't even know that the Ming Dynasty has collapsed.

    These miners, the whole family lives in the mine, and even the iron smelting plant in the ravine is not allowed to come in contact with them.  Escape attempts are made every year, but most are caught and left to dry on wooden poles in the mine.

    "How about going to the ravine to see?"

    "Don't go, don't go, if the Tartars find out, it will be at least a whip."

    "Last night, there seemed to be no fire in the ravine. The iron has not been smelted. Something must have happened. Could it be that the emperor (Chongzhen) sent troops to kill him?"

    "If the imperial army could come, it would have already come, so is it still needed?"

    "Calculating the year and month, should it be the eighteenth year of Chongzhen?"

    "It was the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, and I started mining in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen."

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    In the mine, there are also some hillsides that can be cultivated, which are assigned to the families of the earliest miners.  The harvested food is definitely not enough to eat, so there is no need to pay food, and it is purely based on mining to make a living. Regularly, Tatars send supplies such as rice and salt.

    The follow-up miners were even worse, all of them were taken captive from the customs and North Korea.

    Frowning, Li Kun walked to the col and observed the situation of the Shangou Iron Smelter.  There has been no smoke, and the iron smelting furnace is obviously turned off. What happened?

    ? Their information about the outside world comes from the North Korean miners who supplemented it two years ago.

    What are the Tartars fighting with the Datong Army.

    ? Even if asked in detail, the North Korean miners could not understand.  I only know that the Datong Army is a Han Chinese army, and there seems to be a Datong Emperor, but I don't know where it came from.

    "I'll go down the mountain to have a look." Li Kun said to Yan Hong.

    "You don't want to die?" Yan Hong said in shock.

    Li Kun showed a sad smile: "My father and brother are dead.? Miners.  Moreover, regardless of whether the Han miners or the North Korean miners, they will all be given food.

    Li Kun washed his body and got another set of clothes, which I heard belonged to a Datong soldier.

    He soon smelled the aroma of food, couldn't help swallowing, and then heard someone shouting: "Put on your clothes, and go to queue for porridge!"

    Porridge is miscellaneous grain porridge, such as sorghum, which was seized in Phoenix.

    Put some salt in the porridge, and it smells like oil.  It was an animal carrying grain. It was killed after being injured in the mountain, and the fat was thrown into the pot to cook with the porridge.

    There are no vegetables, but there is a bowl of pine needle tea.

    It is to drink water boiled with pine needles, which can supplement vitamins and treat night blindness.

    Li Kun ate very simple food, but was moved to tears.  There are clothes to wear and delicious food here. Unfortunately, my mother died of illness last winter, otherwise my mother could enjoy this kind of good life.

    Those in charge of managing the miners are all peasant and soldier cadres who accompany the army.

    After finishing a bowl of porridge, Li Kun ran over and knelt down to the peasant and soldier commander: "I want to be a soldier, and I want to fight with you!"

    The peasant and soldier officer asked with a smile: "You have just had enough to eat, why do you think about going to war?"

    "The Datong Army treated me well, but the Tatars treated me badly. I will follow the Datong Army to kill the Tartars!" Li Kun already knew the name of this army.  </div&gt
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