In the afternoon.

This huge caravan and the vendors who had walked along the way soon arrived at the gate of Danyang County.

But the gate of the county town was replaced with a new copper gate, and the entrance of the city gate was newly decorated. However, the mud wall at the top of the city was too short, and it was still obvious that this was once a small county town.

The earthen wall in the county is only three people high, mainly to protect against thieves. It does not have much defense against rebels and large bandits.

Outside the East City Gate, there were a row of ten city guards standing, staring at everyone entering and leaving Danyang City with a fierce look.

The soldiers in the county towns of the Great Chu Dynasty were almost all the same, and they were nowhere better than the yamen runners. Most of them were crooked and the air was flowing.

But these soldiers from Danyang County are completely different.

They were all big and round, with strong figures, wearing iron helmets on their heads, wearing brand new iron armor, protecting them from head to toe, holding treasure knives, stabbing shields, spears, and applying tung oil to the swords and guns, and the cold light was bright.

The monarchs and ministers of this caravan were shocked to see the soldiers in Danyang County so well equipped.

It's actually iron armor!

This power is extraordinary. One armored soldier is enough to cut ten armorless soldiers. Only these ten Danyang soldiers can cut dozens of armorless soldiers as melons. That is no problem.

Hundreds of bandits may change their color when facing them.

This complete set of iron armor does not even have iron armor in the guards of Jinling City, but uses leather armor. Only the imperial guards of the palace have iron armor.

Unexpectedly, even the soldiers guarding the city in Danyang County were all equipped with armor.

Although there are very few soldiers in the county town, usually only one hundred people, if they have one set of them, it will be quite expensive.

"Brother Soldier, you Danyang County Magistrate is so willing to spend money, why do everyone have a set of iron armor?!"

Kong Hanyou asked a captain of the soldiers at the city gate.

"It's a waste of money!

In Danyang County, every family is a man who makes a blacksmith, and these are all done by his own family. He has made a set of hundreds of refining armor in a month. How can he use the money from the county government?

The soldiers in Danyang have to serve half a month of corvee every year, and they bring their own equipment. They don’t wear armor or a sword, so they don’t have the face to stand at the city gate.”

The soldiers guarding the city patted their chests and said proudly.

These Danyang soldiers were not soldiers of the army for generations, but corvee-service soldiers, and were directly affiliated with the soldiers of Princess Danyang, the fief.

They were miners in mines and blacksmiths in iron shops before, so they could make irons and have all the strength of Kong martial arts.

However, this month's turn, they were in labor service and stood guard at the city gate.

Use a knife and a gun, and practice your martial arts temporarily.

Although there are only 100 soldiers in Danyang County, there are nearly 2,000 people who take turns to perform labor service every year. Every family of men must serve military service service.

Fortunately, they only need to guard the gates of the county town, and the task of corvee labor is actually quite easy. If it is for corvee labor to serve in the court, it will be very difficult to go to the north to serve in the army and defend the Huns.

Kong Hanyou's face was stagnant and he was speechless.

Emperor Xiang Yanran couldn't help but sigh when he saw the soldiers guarding the city.

This Danyang County!

It's just a cave of elite soldiers!

Miners and blacksmiths are all strong and capable, they are capable and strong, and they wave their arms all day long, and their arms are full of brute force.

They were born elite soldiers when they joined the army.

"The soldiers guarding the city are so fierce, aren't the merchants entering and leaving the city afraid?"

Xiang Yanran asked at the traveling merchant.

"What are you afraid of? Only thieves are afraid of them!

They were guarding the gate of Danyang County like door gods. They were just standing guard and would not ask for money.

Those foreign thieves came to Danyang County. When they saw the soldiers' attitude, they knew that Danyang County was not easy to mess with and did not dare to cause trouble in the city or cause trouble.

The public security in Danyang County is excellent. I haven’t heard of any thieves committing crimes in the county.

We serious businessmen want them to be gate gods at the city gate."

The traveling businessman shook his head and said.

The emperor was silent.

If the soldiers are strong, there will naturally be fewer thieves.

However, this still cannot explain why the thief and judicial cases were completely cleared in Danyang County's political achievements list.

Even in Jinling Imperial City, there are many thieves and judicial disputes every day.

...

Outside the gate of Danyang County, there is a table with large characters posted on the wall.

It reads: "Recruiting landless refugees. Anyone who has no land enters the mountain to mine iron ore and transports mines for one year. If there is no violation of laws and regulations, he can be a citizen of Danyang County and be included in the county's household registration. Only after that can he be a blacksmith in the county, get a wooden house and make a living by making a blacksmith."

A minor official was holding a pen and ink and registering, and each move was written with a number.

At the table, there was a team of dozens of people waiting for the small officials to choose.

This number alone has been ranked behind tens of thousands.

Prime Minister Kong Hanyou and Censor Wang Su looked at each other.

Danyang County has recruited tens of thousands of refugees!?

Because there is no major disaster at the moment in the Great Chu, the disaster was gritted and it won’t leave the people’s hometown, so there are not many refugees.

Danyang County actually recruits a large number of refugees. What does this mean?

Danyang County lacks people, and it is very short of them.

It is too late to give birth alone, so people need to be recruited from outside.

I almost got it when I came, and went to the mine to work hard work for a year. As long as I could suffer, I could stay for the county people.

As for those who are slick and cannot suffer, they cannot stay in the mine and will naturally leave.

Danyang County has limited arable land and cannot accommodate too many people.

However, mines can accommodate a large number of people. Mining and hardworking can be done with strength, and there is no technology. Tens of thousands or tens of thousands of people can be completely absorbed.

...

The caravan entered the city.

Only then did I find that some of the yamen runners in Danyang County were riding horses, and they kept riding horses to patrol various blocks every day.

If you walk around that street, you can see the yamen runners patrolling.

The thief really dare not be arrogant in Danyang County.

There are two legs of a thief, and there is no horse running fast.

The yamen runners of this hundred counties and thousands of counties in Da Chu were probably the only ones in Danyang County who were so extravagant that they rode horses and patrol.

However, these are just appetizers.

This large caravan truly entered the depths of Danyang County.

Emperor Xiang Yanran, Prime Minister Kong Hanyou, Censor Wang Su, and other senior officials and ministers, they saw clearly the true face of Danyang County and were truly shocked.

In the county town.

Along a long inland river, next to it are towering earth blast furnaces, emitting fireworks. The huge water conservancy blowers are operating under the power of water conservancy.

Many young and strong men smelted iron next to the local blast furnace.

What comes out of these small soil blast furnaces is not ordinary pig iron and cooked iron.

Instead, melt the pig iron, stir it into a paste with iron ore, and then sprinkle some special ore powder to form "fried steel".

As soon as it comes out, it’s fried steel.

The quality of this stir-fried steel is excellent.

Without repeated forging, it is naturally much higher than the iron. It naturally saves a lot of manpower and time to temper iron.

Compared with the Great Chu Dynasty, almost all the other places were still pig iron and cooked iron, and they did not master the method of steelmaking.

There are rows of blacksmith shops along the streets and in the streets and alleys in the county town, almost nowhere to be seen.

"Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding ~!"

In the blacksmith shop, many powerful and capable men were waving iron hammers and hitting various iron tools.

The middle-aged women were using small carts to push the ore from the mountain and transporting it to the county town.

The inns in the county are all living in vendors from all over the country, purchasing a large number of iron tools from Danyang County.

Emperor Xiang Yanran and the ministers of the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers took a inn in the county and put down their luggage.

Then, the emperor and ministers went around the city of Danyang County.

The county government will definitely not go there, and the data is too easy to be faked. The officials of Danyang County said with their necks straight and said that the list of political achievements is true, but there is no way to confirm it.
To be continued...