Chapter 1160: Leaving the Day After Tomorrow

Ever since Sanxin concluded that Chengqie was Baifeng's spy and Baifeng's hand, he did not dare to speak so clearly or directly, and he had to emphasize the interests of Huaxia in every word, otherwise, he might not be able to retire safely.

Of course, Chengqie knew nothing about this, and he had not paid attention to his documents again, because that thing was useless to him now, as he already knew what it was and had already negotiated all the relevant matters.

He did not even know himself that he was Baifeng's spy, so he could not sense Sanxin's worries at all.

He only thought that Sanxin might feel the previously agreed-upon contract chips were not that cost-effective, so he wanted to renegotiate; he had already prepared for a fierce debate with Sanxin, thinking he should start from the spirit of the Huaxia contract, and although they had not signed any documents, what was said verbally was heard by the gods, so it had to be honored.

But unexpectedly, when he arrived at Sanxin's home, several other Nobles were already there; Sanxin straightened his back and coughed: "Ahem, everyone, is there anything you want to discuss by asking me, Chengqie, to come today?"

Sanxin hurriedly and enthusiastically let Chengqie sit down, and after Chengqie sat steadily, they stated the topic of today's discussion: "Chengqie, according to the King's request, our plan has to be moved forward; it is expected that the day after tomorrow, after we gather our men, we must rush to Suirenshi."

These words left Chengqie a bit confused, because this was completely different from the rehearsal he had done for a long time; how did it suddenly become like this, which made him stunned for a moment.

In the eyes of Sanxin and the others, this expression of Chengqie was actually very normal; this was definitely the King's spy, and he must know everything.

"Why so sudden? Wasn't it said we would go next spring?"

Sanxin looked at the feigning-confusion Chengqie and said: "Did the King not tell you? Because Xiao Town is going to move people in, and Huaxia does not have enough people here, so we have to ask for people from Suirenshi; time is urgent now, so we are going in these few days."

"And then, it just so happens that our matters will be put together; the King's meaning is that Huaxia will not actively arrange personnel this time, and wants us Nobles to arrange for people to go to Suirenshi ourselves."

"It is mainly for us to recruit people for our own fiefs, and incidentally send a letter to your father to ask for people, but we must distinguish between the important and the trivial; it is certainly more important to ask for people for Huaxia."

"But since the King has said so, it means he has already allowed our affairs, and the King also said he agrees with our contract; considering you are attending classes now and cannot return to Suirenshi, so look, can you send your guards to us?"

"Incidentally, you can also tell them the requirements so they all know what they should do; as long as they can successfully recruit people, Chengqie, besides what we promised you before, we can give your guards extra rewards, as long as they truly make contributions."

Chengqie's eyes lit up; he thought there was trouble coming this time, but he did not expect it to be such a good thing, and it was something Baifeng had nodded at, so how could he have any reason not to agree, and thus he hurriedly agreed to it.

"Alright, alright, since you said we are leaving the day after tomorrow, I will go find them tomorrow morning; they are currently training in the Battalion, but I don't know what they have trained into now, as I haven't seen them since arriving in Huaxia."

"I think their training should be similar to my classes, and they must have rest times and such, right?"

The Nobles all smiled slowly, especially Sanxin, who while laughing, also felt that this Chengqie was a bit terrifying and very capable, as he did not even change his expression when lying; he probably knew long ago that his guards would finish their training tomorrow.

The Ministry of War also received the order that today was the last day of training, but they had not told those Leaders the news yet; let them spend the last night in tension, and if possible, they could even give them one more emergency assembly.

"Then we will look to you tomorrow; you arrange your guards, and we also have to arrange our people—our own Slaves, tenant farmers, family members, and so on; anyway, every family must provide some people, and then form a huge team to finally go to Suirenshi."

They had also reached an agreement that this time they must bring some food to distribute for free to those people in Suirenshi, telling them that they had food and that following them would ensure they would never go hungry or suffer losses.

Everyone had reached a consensus on this, but there was no fixed amount for how much food to bring; the Nobles themselves were not short of any food at home, but they had to estimate how many people they needed to recruit based on their own food and the area of their fiefs.

And once they arrive, they must arrange accommodation for them; although it would certainly be building Tents or wooden sheds on the fiefs, it was still a troublesome matter, and they had to guarantee food for the last Winter, and provide them with enough tools after the start of Spring.

Because of the population explosion, Huaxia, which had fully entered the Ironware age, was about to partially return to the Stone age; Baifeng's idea was that since Suirenshi had copper mines and skilled Workers, they should build blast furnaces for copper smelting in Suirenshi as quickly as possible.

Then cast them in Suirenshi—of course, only casting farm tools, and casting them in large quantities; if there was excess capacity, they could be made into copper ingots and sent to Huaxia; since this era could extract copper with primitive technology, it showed that the copper mines in Suirenshi were definitely of extremely high quality.

Just like in the later era, although the country had many kinds of mineral resources and the copper and Iron Ore reserves were very large, looking at the world, they were not very good; even in the eyes of a certain country in the Southern Hemisphere, that country known for sitting on mine carts, some of our domestic mines were completely unnecessary to mine—how could something with such low copper content be called a copper mine?

The mines that could be found and developed in this era must be relatively rich mines, otherwise, with the capabilities of this era, they could not be accurately identified; Baifeng was naturally unwilling to give up such a good resource.

Since he knew he might not be able to control it for too long, he would take advantage of the present to develop and consume as much as possible; only in this way could he maximize the benefits, and finally, when the blast furnace exploded, he would just walk away.