Jin Shengnan stood on the top of the mountain and looked down at the gray buildings under his feet. This was Daye City. He, Jin Shengnan, a scholar who was once powerless in Changyang County, came to Shayang County by the Shuntian Army. Shuntian Army was defeated and he was caught here as a coolie and suffered a lot.

However, he was a rare scholar after all. His uniqueness soon stood out among tens of thousands of miners, and gradually got rid of the position of coolie. He began to show his management ability from a small manager. His position was getting higher and higher, and his management was becoming more and more. His excellent organizational ability was the skillful hands of the supreme leader here at that time. When Qin Feng, the Taiping Army, decided to establish Daye City, he became the first city lord.

In a blink of an eye, he had been the city lord for two years, and Daye City, under his command, is becoming the most indispensable and important part of the Ming Dynasty. As the most important strategic material, the steel produced by Daye City crushes other countries in quality and becomes the capital of the Ming Dynasty to respect other countries.

The original green mountains are now full of holes, and the pale pieces are particularly prominent among the larger green, but in Jin Shengnan's eyes, this is his medal.

In two years, Daye City gathered nearly 100,000 people from scratch, and it had the size of a superior county, but the economic value it created was even better than that of a medium-sized county. Daye City, like Taiping City, was directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Court of the Ming Dynasty. Although it was within Shayang County, it was not under his jurisdiction. From this perspective, Jin Shengnan, now the city lord who had just passed his thirties, has become the youngest rank-in-province official in the Ming Dynasty, and his status in the Ming Dynasty is even better than that of ordinary county magistrates.

Daye City is divided into two obvious areas, one is the mining area, the other is iron smelting, steel smelting and various weapon workshops. With the rapid development of Daye City, the Ministry of War has moved more workshops in weapon research and development here.

The real Daye City actually only contains the latter part. The city wall is not made of blue bricks, but built with stones. The masters spent all their efforts. Each stone was almost tightly matched, and then filled with glutinous rice juice inside, making the city wall here stronger than many big city walls. Even the stone bullets bombed by the catapult can only leave a few white marks or dents on the walls, which cannot cause too much damage to it.

Daye City, which has gathered more than 100,000 people, is engaged in iron-related work, mining, mineral processing, mine washing, mine transportation, smelting, and manufacturing. Every man here seems to have iron juice flowing in his hair.

The remaining small part is the family members of these men who cut down big trees, burned weeds, opened up sloping slops and planted chestnut rice on the hillsides. After two years of hard work, the harvest of these slopes can basically meet the needs of these people. In order to gather people, Daye City exempted all taxes from the people who came here to settle.

The occupations of miners are extremely dangerous, so their wages are relatively high. When their families can support themselves or even have a little effort, their wages will be saved. Day by day, many people have saved enough money to build houses around Daye City, and continue to reclaim wasteland around them. Villages are also formed around Daye City.

Jin Shengnan looked at the thick smoke columns soaring upwards in Daye City, and on the road leading to the outside world, the media transported from outside, the iron ingots, steel ingots, or bundles of weapons dragged out from inside, and the energy.

"Brother Yifan, this time Your Majesty comes to inspect, we must be more attentive, so that Your Majesty can see the new atmosphere of our Daye City and the best side of our Daye City." He turned around and looked at the garrison general Lu Yifan, who was standing beside him.

Lu Yifan is also a strange man. Because he had a marriage with Lu Feng, he escaped to join the Shuntian Army. But surprisingly, none of the Shuntian Army generals he had followed had a good ending. Instead, his status was that sesame blossomed and rose one day higher than one day. In the end, after surrendering to the original Taiping Army, he attacked Wu Xin in the Taiping Army and designed to cause internal strife in the Shuntian Army, and took advantage of the opportunity to annihilate the Shuntian Army and seized its old nest Changyang war.

But his character and real ability were really not suitable for leading the army. It happened that Lu Feng brought thousands of miners' soldiers out of the mountain at that time, and the garrison in Daye City was short of garrison. In order to repay his contribution, Qin Feng arranged Lu Yifan to Daye City to serve as the garrison general.

For Lu Yifan, this was the best ending. He did not need to fight for his life on the battlefield, but returning to Daye City was a native of Fengxian, but he could be regarded as a return to his hometown.

Daye City is located deep in the mountains, with Feng County outside. Taiping City is a barrier. It is not a foolproof one, but it can be said to be a carefree person. His work seems extremely relaxed. In addition to defending the safety of Daye City and escorting the weapons transported out, the more important task of the Daye City is to select and train substitute soldiers in the miner's camp.

Lu Yifan and Lu Feng had a holiday, but now the two have become partners, which is an interesting thing. However, Lu Yifan actually doesn't have to worry much about this, because when Lu Feng left, his selection and training had already formed a perfect mechanism, and he did not want to make a new move. For Lu Yifan, who was worried about labor, Xiao Guicao was the most comfortable.

After more than two years in Daye City, compared with Lu Feng's great progress in martial arts and military command, Lu Yifan has grown more than 20 kilograms of meat. Now he is a full fat man. His martial arts cultivation is not advancing but retreating, which is far inferior to before.

But he didn't care. Anyway, he believed that in the first half of his life, he had taken enough risks, and the rewards he received were satisfied, and the second half of his life was all about enjoying it.

Hearing Jin Shengnan's words, he squinted his eyes and enjoyed the mountain wind, and replied with a smile: "Don't worry, Lord, Your Majesty is here. In fact, we are responsible for the security of the outer area. The Eagle Nest and Your Majesty's personal guard camp are in charge. You have also seen how delicate Xu Wangshan from the Eagle Nest is. I see that under his arrangement, the mouse outside can't run in, let alone have an enemy. Besides, Your Majesty himself is a master at level 9. For ordinary assassins, let alone whether he can get close to Your Majesty. Even if he is lucky enough to get close to Your Majesty, what can you do to Your Majesty?"

"Brother Yifan!" Jin Shengnan looked at Lu Yifan with a panting belly, feeling helpless. He didn't know the past of the garrison general in front of him, but only knew that he was a meritorious minister of the Ming Dynasty, so he always respected Lu Yifan very much. "Although that's the case, for us, during His Majesty's inspection, as long as there was a little chaos, not only the outside, but also the inside, it was our dereliction of duty. We did not do our job well, even if Your Majesty was in the inspection, even if Your Majesty inspected, it would be our dereliction of duty.

If we don’t see any blame, then we are shameless. Do you think so? If you are not afraid of ten thousand in any matter, just be afraid of something! My guards have loosened a little. Brother Yifan is better to clean up these days. Last time General Lufeng wrote me a letter saying that the quality of these substitute soldiers sent in is much worse than before, and there is much dissatisfaction in their words. The miners’ camp is a soldier in our Daye City. Everyone comes out from here and is absolutely careless."

Lu Yifan snorted: "If the soldiers sent out are not satisfied, why didn't he contact me directly, but instead wrote a letter to the city lord? I think he was looking for something wrong, which is really annoying. OK, the city lord, don't be too hard. From today on, I will put a confinement curse on the garrison army, tighten their skins, and keep training fast, so don't worry!"

"That's good!" Jin Shengnan nodded with satisfaction.

"Your Majesty often says that our Daye City is the strongest arms of the Ming Dynasty. This time, we want your Majesty to see these arms become stronger day by day." Jin Shengnan clenched his fists hard and waved in the mountain wind. "It is all because of Your Majesty's appreciation. Mr. Jin has no way to repay him, so he can only do everything his Majesty has given me."

"Everyone is the same, they are the same!" Lu Yifan was actually still a little afraid of this city lord who was extremely serious in his heart. Perhaps this was a lazy guy, a little respect for those who never slacked off.

When Jin Shengnan and Lu Yifan came down from the mountain and walked towards Daye City, Xu Wangshan, who came from the Eagle Nest in Lu Yifan's mouth, was frowning, looking at a portrait in his hand and distressed. Xu Wangshan was originally a hero in the world, with a very deep connection in the former Dayue River and Lake. Guo Jiuling invited him several times before he took him into the Eagle Nest.

"Nothing wrong? It's really like this?" He knocked on the table and asked a snoop in front of him.

"Yes, general." The spy nodded affirmatively, "The subordinates found all the people he had contacted, tea shops, restaurants, and inns who had seen this person. "

Listening to the spy's answer, Xu Wangshan touched his cheeks and felt his teeth hurt. This person, in the Ming Dynasty's archives, was a person who should have died, so how could he appear here again?

"Fuck, it's really amazing. After living for a long time, you can encounter anything." Xu Wangshan gritted his teeth and slapped the portrait in his hand on the table.

Although there were a few scars on the face of the person on the portrait, Xu Wangshan could still recognize him at a glance. This person was named Wu Ling, one of the most loyal generals of the Shuntian Army General Wu Xin.

However, this person had been wiped out by the Hanshan Camp in the last round of Changyang bandit suppression. Xu Wangshan never suspected that Dazhu, the general in charge of the Hanshan Camp, would lie about military affairs, but by chance, how could this person survive?

Your Majesty is coming to Daye City to inspect, but this person sneaked into Daye City at this time. What is his intention?

Assassinating Your Majesty? Xu Wangshan felt that this speculation was a bit ridiculous. Wu Ling's martial arts cultivation was good, but he was just trying to reach level 8, which was far inferior to himself. In front of His Majesty, he was as powerless as a baby.

But even though he said that, Xu Wangshan did not dare to relax at all. As Jin Shengnan said, during His Majesty's visit, whenever this guy made a little trouble, he would lose himself and be the face of the Eagle's Nest.
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