Chapter 791: There Are Mineral Veins in Qingzhou

At the Shuanghe City Wharf, Huangfu Chaobo's fleet slowly approached under the escort of Pan Feng's army. As a newcomer, Pan Feng attached great importance to Huangfu Chaobo's trip. In addition to a school of navy staying in Liyang Port, he personally led two schools of navy to escort Huangfu Chaobo and his party to Qingzhou.

At this time, the Shuanghe City Wharf was already crowded with people. The news that General An Dong would come to Qingzhou had long been heard by officials from the two counties of Qingzhou. So in the past two days, Kong Rong and important officials from the two counties and several generals of Xu Rong's Qianniu Army rushed to Shuanghe City to greet him.

Seeing Huangfu Chaobo get off the boat, everyone hurried forward to pay homage.

"The subordinate greets the marquis!"

"The general greets the general!"

The people on the wharf, the civil officials headed by Kong Rong, and the military generals headed by Xu Rong stood in two rows, saluting Huangfu Chaobo respectfully.

Huangfu Chaobo took two steps forward, helped Kong Rong up first, and said, "Mr. Wen, please stand up!"

After that, he saluted Xu Rong again and said, "General Xu, you have suffered a lot."

"Everyone, please hurry up!"

"Thank you, Lord!"

"Thank you, General!"

"Everyone, the sea is windy, let's go into the city first." As he said that, he nodded to Jiang Qin.

Jiang Qin understood and stepped forward and said, "General, I have prepared a residence in the city, please follow me."

Under the escort of the guards, Huangfu Chaobo and his party soon arrived at a house next to the county government in Shuanghe City. Now, in addition to the navy and their families, Shuanghe City is mainly composed of shipyard craftsmen and their families. As for other ordinary people, they have moved away.

After entering the house, Jia Jing and his family went to the backyard under the guidance of the servants arranged by Jiang Qin, while Huangfu Chaobo and the civil and military officials came to the hall in the front yard. Along the way, Huangfu Chaobo was chatting with Kong Rong. Huangfu Chaobo was very grateful to Kong Rong. Since he first took over Luoyang, he has been very supportive of him.

It can be said that in the early stage of Luoyang's reconstruction, without the financial support of Kong Rong, Kong Rong and Tao Qian, Huangfu Chaobo would not have been able to complete the reconstruction task so quickly.

It was precisely because of the mutual help and support during the reconstruction of Luoyang that Kong Rong was able to smoothly join Huangfu Chaobo's army when Cao Cao's army invaded Qingzhou, allowing the Andong Army to smoothly control dozens of cities in the two counties of Qingzhou.

Since the two counties of Qingzhou were included in the jurisdiction of Andong, Huangfu Chaobo has made some arrangements. In addition to the construction of the giant dock in Shuanghe City, another important task is to find large iron mines in the two counties of Qingzhou.

Now half a year has passed, and I don't know how the prospecting situation is. Huangfu Chaobo once went offline to check the distribution of mineral resources in reality. The coal and iron resources in Shandong are very rich.

So as soon as he sat down, Huangfu Chaobo couldn't wait to ask Kong Rong: "Master Kong, how is the search for iron ore going?"

Kong Rong stood up and replied immediately after hearing this: "I was just about to report to the Marquis. A few days ago, Cheng Taishou received a report from the prospecting team. They have found two large veins in the south of Duchang and Xia Mi. According to their estimates, the output of these two mines should reach more than one million jin."

"One million jin!" Huangfu Chaobo stood up suddenly after hearing this. You know, there are a lot of iron ore available for mining around the player's territory, but generally, iron ore reaching 10,000 jin is already a large scale. I didn't expect that the prospecting team found two large mines reaching one million jin in Qingzhou within half a year.

And the iron ore around the player's territory is not a vein, but it is artificially arranged there by the game for the development of the territory, so the output is generally not high, but the prospectors under Huangfu Chaobo and the knight are the ones who discover the real veins, so once discovered, the stock is generally very large.

Seeing Huangfu Chaobo's reaction, Kong Rong said again: "But."

"But what?" Huangfu Chaobo was stunned.

"But, these two large mines are already being mined by alien territories,

and the large mine in Xiami is being mined by several territories in partnership. However, the amount they mined is not large. According to the information secretly learned by the Shadow, they have not yet realized that the reserves of these two mines are so large."

After hearing Kong Rong's words, Huangfu Chaobo was stunned at first, and then relieved. It was really strange that no player had discovered the game after so long. It seems that we have to think of a way to control these two iron mines.

But how can we successfully control these two iron mines? If this place is still within Kong Rong's sphere of influence, then without saying anything, just send troops to control it directly. But now that Beihai Kingdom is his territory, once he directly sends troops to control it, it may be used by someone with ulterior motives and cause public outrage among the players.

But if not, if I go to them myself, I guess these guys will raise the price on the spot, and then...

It seems that this matter needs to be carefully considered. Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo said to himself.

"Is there no other place?"

Kong Rong shook his head and said, "There are no good discoveries in other places. The prospecting team started the exploration from Guishan on the south bank of Zishui River. However, they once found several small mineral veins near Guishan, but none of them were worth mining. However, they once inferred that there might be large mineral veins on the north bank of Zishui River."

"However, the area north of Zishui River is now controlled by Cao Cao. Even if there are mines, we cannot mine them. So I ordered them to explore Beihai and Donglai first."

Huangfu Chaobo nodded, approving of Kong Rong's arrangement, and said he would finish the investigation in his own jurisdiction first.

Next, Huangfu Chaobo asked about the spring plowing and military reorganization in the two counties. Cheng Huan and Wang Xiu reported the situation in their respective jurisdictions to Huangfu Chaobo one by one.

Afterwards, Huangfu Chaobo asked Xu Rong about the reorganization and training of the Qianniu Army and the situation of Xiahou Yuan's troops in Leping State.

At this time, Huangfu Chaobo realized that it was getting late, so he immediately ordered Jiang Qin to arrange a dinner party, and he wanted to entertain the people of Qingzhou.

After a banquet, both the host and the guests were happy.

The next morning, after breakfast, Huangfu Chaobo asked everyone to return, and he needed to inspect the dock in Shuanghe City before setting off to inspect the two counties of Qingzhou.

The dock is located outside Shuanghe City, on the seashore not far from the north of the pier, and several miles away from the county town. It is a huge dock covering dozens of acres. The entire dock is surrounded by a wall and is called Shuanghe Dock. The dock wall is two feet high and about one foot wide. On the wall, there is an arrow tower several feet high every dozens of steps. It can be said that its defense capability is much stronger than that of Shuanghe City several miles away.