Luo Chong's order was quickly delivered by the Personal Guards to every place. After receiving it, Lin Fei and Big Strength in Xingang Commandery immediately began assembling construction and management teams. Fortunately, everything was already in place in Xingang Commandery. The mines there already had teams of miners organized according to their established formations.
Meanwhile, Jing Yan's Dongxin Commandery also received the notification. He was told to send the more than sixteen hundred surrendered soldiers from the Xin Tribe whom they had captured back then to Weishan Commandery, and then from Weishan Commandery to Xingang Commandery. Apparently, there was a road over there that needed these slaves to build.
When Jing Yan heard the news and calculated the date, he knew that the research on the train must be nearly complete. When everyone had gone to the Chieftain's home to pay New Year's greetings on New Year's Day, they had said that the train should be finished around this time.
It seemed they were going to build a railway now. Otherwise, why would they send so many slaves there?
Although transferring more than a thousand slaves away would cause Dongxin Commandery's coal production to drop for a short time, as long as the tribe's train experiments succeeded, would they still be short of workers later?
Thus, Jing Yan sent those people away without the slightest hesitation, loading them onto ships.
These Xin Tribe captives had been in the Han Tribe for more than a full year. Ever since they had been captured by the Han Army outside Kaiyuan City, they had been loaded onto sailing ships and transported from Grassland Hong Lake all the way to Dongxin Commandery, where they had spent an entire year mining coal.
At first, they had not been very cooperative. But after one or two