Feng Yu has not yet felt pain in the lack of iron resources in Zhuyang. But the situation has been changing. With the upgrading of various facilities, arms and farming technology in the city, the demand for copper and iron resources will become increasingly greater.

As for the military armor, not to mention the future heavy infantry, cavalry, and leather and wooden armor, they must transition to iron armor. Even ordinary cavalry must also be equipped with a saber.

In the ground, the time for one slash is enough to assassinate two shots, and the armor that the gun can pierce is not necessarily cut. On the contrary, the armor that the sword can dig, the gun will definitely pierce. But when fighting on the horse's back, with the help of the horse's speed, the sword can have great lethality without a large slash. On the saddle, the saber can be used more flexibly than the gun.

[In the future, in the world of great struggles, basic resources such as copper, iron and salt will sooner or later become self-sufficient. This is a strategic issue. But there is no need to rush for a moment.] Feng Yu was thinking in his mind.

...

The entire Zhuyang City was submerged in a world of black and white, with white clothes and black banners everywhere, and the whole city, including Feng Yu, was wearing mourning for Feng Fang.

On this day, Feng Yu was still guarding Feng Fang in the mourning hall. However, a soldier from the military camp came to report that the two missing scouts came back.

Feng Yu came to the military camp and asked the scout to personally report their experience in the Fangcheng area.

It turned out that when the two scouts were inquiring in Wuyang in the southeast of Fangcheng Wasteland that day, they entered a mountainous area composed of several small peaks. Scouts familiar with Nanyang geography knew that this was the remnant of Funiu Mountain and Wufeng Mountain on the eastern edge of the Nanyang Basin.

Here, they accidentally discovered a camp under construction. Out of scouts' instinct, they approached and observed, but it was a camp for mining iron ore. Almost at the same time, they were also discovered by the patrol guards of the other side.

Based on the principle of trying to avoid conflicts with unknown forces, the two scouts explained to the other party that they were just passing by and had no hostility. However, the other party said that this was a forbidden area, and those who trespassed would kill him, and then they would draw their swords and attack them.

As a result, the two scouts broke out of the encirclement, but the other party pursued them relentlessly and refused to give up, and even sent cavalry to chase them. In this case, the scout's partner, his biological brother, took the initiative to cut off the back and cover him to escape.

After the scout said that, he knelt down in front of Feng Yu with a thud and bowed: "My brother's life and death are uncertain, please make the decision for my brother."

"Can you still find the road to the iron mine?" asked Miao Hua, who was standing beside him.

"I guarantee that I can find it. After the little one escaped, I deliberately turned back a long distance and memorized the direction marks." The scout said confidently.

"Okay. You retreat first, the lord will have a plan to decide on this matter." Miao Hua first asked the scout to retreat, and then bowed and said to Feng Yu:

"Lord, my subordinates think this is a good opportunity. Sooner or later we must have our own iron ore. Wouldn't it be a pleasure to take this iron ore?"

When Feng Yu just heard the scout mentioning the iron ore, he was happy and had the same thoughts as Miao Hua. But now he shook his head and pointed to a map on the big table in the middle of the hall and said:

"This iron ore is located on the mountains on the eastern edge of the Nanyang Basin to the south of Wuyang County. We built Yang in the mountains on the southwest. The entire Nanyang Basin is four hundred miles away."

"Even if we attack it without bloodshed, we will use all the miners and smelters for our own use. We provide supplies and food for the mine personnel across four hundred miles and three rivers, and transport iron ingots back and forth. How much manpower is needed? In addition, since they are mining here, their headquarters camp must be nearby, so how should we defend?"

Wei Feng, who had been silent, spoke, "We can capture the nearby Wuyang and farm in Wuyang..."

Feng Yu still shook his head and interrupted him. According to Wei Feng's idea, at most it is to solve the problem of food and grass supply. The other problems still exist.

Wuyang is already in the territory of Runan County, Yuzhou. With the newly trained 200 tiger and leopard cavalry, Feng Yu only has 1,200 soldiers. How can he divide his troops to garrison the main city and be separated from the main city by a plain with a 400-mile unpreserved plain, without any traffic safety guarantee, and cannot echo the main city?

What's more, at present, Feng Yuruo has a population, his first choice must be to move to Zhuyang City and store it as a system population. There are still large areas of open space around Zhuyang City that have not been developed, so how could he throw these people out to farm outside?

Unless Wuyang is turned into a systematic city and has a huge population, all problems can be solved.

But let alone Feng Yu does not have a city building card and does not have a large population. Even if there is one, Feng Yu cannot build Wuyang, a city with no strategic value and located in the Four Battles, into a systematic city just for a single iron ore.

So it is not the time for Feng Yu to own his own iron ore.

Wei Feng was puzzled: "Lord. Then... then let's forget about it?"

Feng Yu smiled a little and said with a slight coldness: "Of course, we can't forget it. No matter what, we have to meet the owner of this iron ore, and I have to go in person. Our people must meet people alive and corpses when they die."

...

At the entrance of a courtyard just cleaned in Wuyang County, two rows of people wearing blue clothes stood respectfully with their hands down, as if waiting for someone.

Soon, a carriage of four horses came rumbling on the bluestone street where water was sprinkled. After a steady stop, a person came down. Several of the waiting people were stunned. But they immediately came to their senses and followed the others and shouted: "Welcome to the head of the family."

These stunned people had never seen their heads before. They took it for granted that their heads were people who were at least fifty years old. But now they were a young man in his twenties.

Their family is the famous family in Yingchuan - the Xun Family. The head of the family in front of them is Xun, Yu, and the courtesy name is Wenruo.

However, like many local tyrants, the Xun family did not openly seize the country, but simply extended their power and foundation downwards.

On the surface, the local county magistrates are still respected. But in fact, these county magistrates are either their clan members, disciples, or old officials. There are also the Sima family in Wen County, Hanoi.

Nowadays, half of Yuzhou, Yingchuan and Runan counties, seven cities, and more than 80,000 people are actually controlled by the Xun family.

Wuyang was not among these seven cities, but because an iron ore was discovered in nearby Wufeng Mountain half a year ago. The Xun family sent a population to Wuyang, which was originally an abandoned city, and at the same time built mines on the mountain to smelter steel.

Xun Yu came today just for one thing. A few days ago, the garrison in the iron ore arrested a person. According to Xun Yu's order, the person who broke into the mine without the Xun family's order was dead.

However, when they found out that they only arrested one person. In order to find out where the other party's nest was, they captured the other party. Under severe punishment, the other party confessed that it was Feng Yu, the man from Zhuyang Hou, and the mine reported the situation.
Chapter completed!