Tongbai Mountain is located on the transition zone between the Qinling Mountains and the Dabie Mountains. The area is full of strange peaks, with ridges, dense forests, numerous waterfalls and springs, and a wide range of scenery. Tongbai County is located in the hinterland of Tongbai Mountain. It has many mountains and sparse populations, and has never been paid attention to.

Since the sixth year of Chongzhen, Bao Zhedong and Han Zongyan have planned to mine copper ore. Tongbai has become a little popular, and there are more and more ox carts transporting copper ore every day.

However, the government's organizational capabilities are too poor, and the copper mine production has always been hovering at a low level, which is far from meeting the huge demand of Bangtai. Moreover, due to the excessive exploitation, miners have continued to flee, and even a miner's chaos occurred in the seventh year of Chongzhen. Fortunately, Dou Shiwen led his troops to arrive in time, so the disaster did not lead to a disaster.

Bao Zhedong, who was afraid, intends to convert official procurement into civilian procurement and collects certain monthly taxes. For this reason, he approached Lin Chunhong. Of course, Lin Chunhong was reluctant to seek it. He immediately appointed Xu Yun as the commander and sent a large amount of manpower to Tongbai County to start mining copper mines on a large scale.

Since then, Tongbai County has suffered a disaster. Countless steep peaks with beautiful scenery have been dug up and holes have been built, and countless smelting furnaces have been built, making Tongbai County smoky.

Moreover, the mining industry is a typical man-intensive industry. A large number of people poured into Tongbai County in a short period of time. Public security deteriorated rapidly, stealing, robbery, and murders were everywhere. The simple Tongbai County gradually became a capital of sin, and its reputation spread throughout Huguang and Henan, making Bao Zhedong worried every day.

What made Bao Zhedong even more frightened was that Bangtai also discovered a large-scale open-pit gold mine on Yindongpo. Near the gold mine, a large-scale silver mine was also accompanied by! Bangtai simply picked up a super treasure pot!

With the continuous mining of gold and silver mines, more than 100,000 miners gathered in Tongbai County. The food, clothing, housing and transportation of 100,000 miners is not a small number. Therefore, around 100,000 miners, more than 100,000 people gradually gathered around them, engaged in various service industries. In just two or three years, Tongbai became the most populous county in Nanyang Prefecture, which is a miracle of the Ming Dynasty.

Every day, ox carts from Tongbai to Xinye are endless, transporting copper, gold and silver to Baihe Wharf in Xinye County. After loading on the ship, they go downstream to Xiangyang, then enter the Han River, Jingmen, turn into the Han Zhang Canal, then enter the Juzhang River, finally enter the Yangtze River, transport it to Bailizhou, and then smelting. The waterways along the way are extremely tortuous, more than 1,600 miles long. Fortunately, the cost is not high along the water flow.

After the ore was smelted, gold and silver were stored in Bailizhou as the principal of the bill, while copper was stamped into copper coins and flowed continuously to all parts of the Ming Dynasty. This directly led to the sufficient principal of Bangtai, and Lin Chunhong took the opportunity to increase the principal rate to 40%, reducing the risk of bill operation.

Given that Tongbai County's status in Bangtai is becoming increasingly important, Lin Chunhong ordered Dou Shiwen to give up his business in Nanyang Prefecture and make every effort to recruit archers to protect the safety of Tongbai County.

Of course, miners like ants don’t know about these situations. They only know that they can get about 3,000 cents of wages after working hard for a month. In troubled times, food can fill their stomachs, have a place to live, and get wages every month. If you want to say that these miners should be satisfied. However, human desires are always endless. The gold, silver and copper materials that these miners handle every day far exceed the wages they get. Naturally, they feel resentment. Lack of work and chaos happens in times of trouble.

Especially in March this year, Zhang Xianzhong passed by Biyang County and sent someone to secretly bewitch the miners, which almost caused a huge wave. Fortunately, Dou Shiwen and Xu Yun used thunder to suppress the first batch of rebels and saved the mine area.

More than 100,000 miners are no better than 100,000 farmers. They are organized and disciplined. Once they are provoked by those with ulterior motives, the consequences will be unimaginable. However, with more than 100,000 miners as the base, Dou Shiwen's military source range is very wide, and the quality of new recruits is far greater than that of archers in Jingzhou, Yiling and other places. Dou Shiwen's command expanded rapidly, from less than 1,000 people at the beginning to six or seven thousand now, with the strength exceeding the Tiger Roar Army in Xiangyang. Therefore, Dou Shiwen is often laughed at by his subordinates: he takes the military pay of the battalion commander, leads the troops of the army commander, and does the work of the mining area general manager.

Dou Shiwen didn't mind this. He arranged half of the troops to maintain public order and half of the troops to train every day. Although his combat effectiveness was not as good as the main force in Xiangyang, he was much stronger than the archers in Jingzhou and Yiling.

The training was concentrated in Guanzhuang. The terrain was flat and it was the base camp of the mining camp. Dou Shiwen was under his command, and the Governor's Office did not formally organize it. However, the soldiers used to call it the mining camp, but they accurately pointed out their responsibilities.

At this time, half of the troops in the mining camp were training in the bitter cold wind. I saw sand and stones flying on the training ground, and the shouts of soldiers shouting and killing were rising one after another, and there was a scene of enthusiasm.

Dou Shiwen was patrolling everywhere, and always felt that most soldiers lacked aura. Is it sharpness, murderousness, or arrogance? Dou Shiwen couldn't say it. He stared at a soldier carefully. The soldier held a spear and stabbed hard at the scarecrow in front of him, with good strength and accuracy.

But Dou Shiwen still shook his head, Damn, do you look like you are on the battlefield? It's like slaughtering a big fat pig during the Chinese New Year, and you're smiling!

Dou Shiwen walked up, patted the Bingding on the shoulder, took the spear, and said, "Well, young man, it's not bad, strong and accurate, but it's not enough, look at me!"

After saying that, Dou Shiwen held the spear tightly with both hands, raised his waist, his eyes widened like a copper bell, and his face was extremely ferocious, as if he had great hatred with the scarecrow.

"Ah..." Dou Shiwen suddenly shouted loudly, and like a rabbit, he rushed forward a few steps, stabbing the scarecrow in the heart of the scarecrow, and stabbing the scarecrow thoroughly.

The loud shouts scared the soldiers. The thrust like a whirlwind made the soldiers feel a little chill. It was not until Dou Shiwen put away his gun and stood that the soldiers secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but they did not dare to look at Dou Shiwen's eyes.

Dou Shiwen stroked the gun barrel and said, "Did you see clearly? The thrust is about being steady and accurate. You are doing well in a steady and accurate manner, but this is not enough, do you understand?"

The soldiers remained silent.

Dou Shiwen couldn't help but feel a little annoyed and said angrily: "Think about it, who is your fucking enemy?"

"You! Tell me, who is your enemy?" Dou Shiwen pointed to the soldier just now and asked.

The soldier was so scared that he trembled. After a long time, he stuttered: "My father was killed by the sweeping king. The sweeping king is my enemy!"

Dou Shiwen pointed to the scarecrow and shouted: "Just think it is the sweeper and stab him to death with a gun!"

Bing Ding hesitated to pick up the spear, held it tightly in his hand, and suddenly his eyes turned red, and his eyes were full of hatred. "Ah..." Bing Ding also shouted loudly and stabbed a gun like accusation.

Dou Shiwen clapped his hands with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Well, it's not bad, just practice like this!"

When Dou Shiwen walked far away, the soldiers who had a short rest were still talking, "The commander was scared to death just now. Isn't he going to scare the enemy to death? Li Ergouzi, you were the same just now. After seeing you stabbed the gun, I felt so cold in my heart. It's so scary..."

After Dou Shiwen left, he kept thinking. It seemed that these soldiers would never be able to form a powerful aura without experiencing the tempering of war...

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The archers in Guanzhuang worked hard to train, and more than a thousand archers in Dahezhuang were not idle either.

Dahezhuang is about fifty miles away from Guanzhuang, and is located in Nabangtai's copper mine mining site. There are about 40,000 to 50,000 miners. Among the 40,000 to 50,000 miners, there are also two or three hundred supervisors who are responsible for evaluating the miners' monthly income.

Unlike the image of supervisors imagined by the world, the supervisors here did not carry weapons such as whips, but instead held a booklet in both hands and a hard pen, and kept spinning around the construction site.

A winch was set up next to the bottomless mine cave. A long rope reached into the mine cave and pulled the wooden mine truck. As the miner Cao Laizi pushed the wooden pole, the winch squeaked, and the mine truck slowly exposed the hole along the iron track. Cao Laizi lazi grabbed the wooden pole with a rope, trying to push the mine truck aside. The supervisor just walked to his side and shouted:

"Cao Laizi! The ore transported out today is less than three trucks, and the wages are deducted twenty cents!"

After saying that, the supervisor picked up a hard pen and wrote and painted in the booklet.

Cao Laizi didn't make a fuss, so he sat down on the ground, put his hands beside his mouth and kept warm, and scolded with resentment: "Dogs rely on their power! Damn, try to win three cars for me! Damn..."

The supervisor raised his head, stared at Cao Laizi, and suddenly sneered: "Insult the supervisor, deduct ten cents of wages according to regulations!"

Cao Laizi suddenly bounced up from the ground, his fists clattered and cursed: "I will scold you! If you dare to depress, I will never end with you!"

The conflict between supervisor and Cao Laizi attracted a large number of miners, surrounding the two of them and making noises.

Cao Laizi was unable to get off the horse, so he tried his best to muster up the courage and waved his fists. His fists had almost reached the tip of the supervisor's nose, and the conflict was about to break out.

At this moment, a neat footsteps suddenly came from a distance. Cao Laizi subconsciously put down his fists and looked at the footsteps. He saw a archer lined up in an orderly formation, holding a spear, patrolling the mine cave.

Cao Laizi glared at the supervisor fiercely, "You are lucky!"

The supervisor was furious and was about to teach Cao Laizi a lesson. Suddenly, a sound of gongs came from the north. Everyone stopped to watch, but saw the clear wolf smoke of the five pillars rising slowly.

The supervisor was shocked: "The enemy attacked? More than 5,000 people?"

The supervisor did not care about Cao Laizi, and immediately followed the steps of the archers and ran northward, leaving behind a group of stunned miners.

As he looked at it, Cao Laizi suddenly smiled, "Damn, someone finally came to the door! I want you to be arrogant! Hurry up and hide..."
Chapter completed!