After hearing about An Lushan's death, Shi Siming no longer tolerate Cui Ganyou's commander. After a big fight with Cui Ganyou, he led nearly 40,000 elite anti-army troops under his command to leave and return to Changshan, Hebei.

It seemed that Cui Ganyou, Cai Xide, Tian Chengsi and others were defeated to Guo Ziyi in disgrace because of his departure. But in fact, the anti-army and Guo Ziyi's army were already half a dozen. At that time, news of An Lushan's death came, and the morale of the anti-army was already in chaos. Guo Ziyi would not miss such an opportunity. Even if Shi Siming did not leave, he would definitely be defeated to Guo Ziyi in the end, but they might not be defeated so miserably.

As another hero after An Lushan, Shi Siming could suppress An Lushan before he died. After An Lushan died, he might not have no ambitions and plans. In short, he led his subordinates back to Changshan, Hebei first, which allowed him to fully preserve his strength.

Now, after Cui Ganyou, Cai Xide, Tian Chengsi and others suffered a crushing defeat, all the anti-army north of the Yellow River are now the most powerful. Nearly 40,000 people are constantly fighting in Hedong to eliminate the remaining elites in a hundred battles. Other anti-army forces have to rely on him, Shi Siming, and gather under his Shi Siming's command. His Shi Siming's order is more effective than the orders of Anqingxu in Luoyang.

Shi Siming had a very strategic vision. Other anti-army generals in Hebei dared not offend Li Fei because of some refugees, causing Li Fei to attack, but Shi Siming didn't think so.

Those refugees are all the original population of Hebei. What is the war? Apart from the territory, there is a population. Only with the population can there be a continuous source of troops. If the people in Hebei are allowed to flow to Andong, then the population of Hebei will inevitably decrease in a large number. At that time, their "Dayan" occupies such a large area, but there is not much left. What's the use?

Shi Siming went north from Changshan, held troops in Boling, sent people to contact Niutingjie, Youzhou, and other states to fight against the army, and jointly sent troops to prevent the Hebei refugees from continuing to flow to Andong.

When Shi Siming was powerful, the other anti-army generals were not fools. They sent troops to cooperate and pressed against the Andong Iron Cavalry and Andong Mo Dao Army, such as Lutai, Pingzhou, etc.

Li Fei had 10,000 Modao Army stationed in Lutai, 50,000 Andong Iron Cavalry was in Pingzhou, and he sailed in front of Lutai. Although there were 60,000 elite troops in total, the Hebei anti-army added up to 200,000, and Li Fei was still quite afraid of it.

Especially the nearly 40,000 elite soldiers brought back from Hedong were really strong. If the war really started, even if Li Fei could win, the losses would be absolutely huge.

Li Fei's target was only population, and he had no intention of conquering Hebei yet, so after Li Fei accepted the last batch of refugees, he ordered the Modao Army to withdraw from Lutai and retreat to Pingzhou City.

The land route was basically cut off, but the sea route from Dengzhou to Henan Road has not been cut off. There are still a large number of refugees coming across the sea every day.

Although it is still a gap from Li Fei's final goal of 10 million total population, it is now more than 6.6 million, more than three times that of Anton's total population at that time, which is enough for Li Fei to expand the development scale given by Anton.

In the past, there was only one place in the Anton Protectorate, with a total population of less than 2 million. Although Li Fei established a large number of industries, he basically only built a small rack there, which was far from meeting the requirements of large-scale production that Li Fei wanted.

Now that Pinglu Road has been captured, and with the influx of refugees, Li Fei can use more than three times the population as before.

Li Fei has truly begun to build large-scale production bases, and every industry is expanding.

In the past, the scale was limited and the output was limited, so Li Fei only continued the title of "workshop". As the scale continues to expand, Li Fei moved the title of "factory" to the Tang Dynasty for the first time.

Iron ore factory, coal mine factory, iron smelting plant, steel smelting plant, ironware factory, steel smelting plant, garment factory, cement factory, shipyard, porcelain factory, textile factory-----

The meaning of the industrial revolution is to produce large outputs, high efficiency, low cost outputs, and then dump out to earn capital.

Although it is not a real industrial revolution without the assistance of steam engines, internal combustion engines, electric motors and other machinery, Li Fei was able to do the semi-industrial revolution.

Among the refugees, every skilled talent has been reasonably arranged, and many people directly become engineers in the factory, holding high salaries that they would never dare to imagine in their entire lives.

Li Fei completely managed the Andong Protectorate within Shanhaiguan and some places in Pinglu as their own country.

Although Li Fei's large-scale production operations are still pitifully low in the eyes of later generations.

But we must also see what era it is now. Production in the feudal era had no efficiency at all. Even if Li Fei only brought some theories from later generations, and simply applied and transformed, the production efficiency would be ten times or dozens of times.

For example, mining operations, iron ore, and coal mines used to be picked out from the mountains with only a load of manpower and loaded them into a carriage before they could be transported out. Li Fei directly moved the rails out and used the slope to accelerate the slope to transport trucks of ore from the mountain to the outside of the mountain at an extremely fast speed. In this regard, the cost of steel produced was reduced by 40% compared to before.

Not to mention the clothing factory that has a tailoring machine, the cost of a piece of clothing has been reduced by dozens of times after saving a lot of manpower.

Through land and sea transportation, Li Fei exchanged the products produced to the Khitan, Xi people, Uighurs, Bohai countries, Shiwei gradually, Jiangnan, Silla countries, Japan, and even Southeast Asia, as well as the Indian countries, etc., and exchanged them for a large amount of gold, silver, grain, or other specialties, further enhancing the prosperity of the Andong market.

Just talking about being in full swing is not enough to describe Anton's development. It's like riding a rocket.

After several years of precipitation, with the influx of refugees, many craftsmen or young workers with shipbuilding experience have been added. The Andong Shipyard located in Haizhou has been able to build sea ships like the most advanced shipyard in Datang, Jiangnan.

"Haha, our Emperor Suzong actually ordered me to attack Youzhou City and Hebei." Li Fei smiled and threw the imperial edict of Emperor Suzong Li Heng on the table, without caring about it.

"Share it, Wu Sheng, you will take 20,000 Andong Iron Cavalry to Youzhou City and wander around some places in Hebei." Now Li Fei does not intend to pay attention to the war between the Tang Dynasty and the anti-army. Although he will do his best to participate in the war, he will be confident to sweep Hebei, cooperate with Guo Ziyi to recover Chang'an and Luoyang in the future, and completely destroy the anti-army.

But Li Fei would not do that, because with his relationship with Suzong Li Heng, Li Fuguo, Yu Chaoen and others, if the anti-army was completely destroyed, then the tip of Suzong Li Heng's sword should be pointed at him. He would not be gambling with his own and his wife and children's lives.

What's more, he had greater ambitions. After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was in a state of being mudless and unable to get on the wall. Instead of letting the Tang Dynasty follow the history, after the chaos, it was first bullied by the Uighurs and Tubo, and then the warlords of the vassal states fought in the midst of the five generations and ten countries. After more than two hundred years of chaos, Li Fei would find a way to replace the Tang Dynasty, which might create a new situation.

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