Boxes of guns were brought down from the ship, and the first alternate officers and the first batch of soldiers who were already familiar with the use of flintlock pistols were responsible for 200 each, checking whether they could fire and whether they could install bayonets.

Heavy cannons and gun wagons were also brought down.

Each cannon looks gorgeous, with patterns carved on it, and different heads are cast at the tail of the cannon according to different pounds.

It can be seen that this time the French also have the intention of courting.

It's just that these cannons don't make Liu Yu very satisfied.

12-pounder cannon, 3,000 pounds, three meters long; The smallest four-pounder gun also has 1,200 pounds.

It is slightly stronger than Dashun's cannon, and it doesn't seem to be much stronger in terms of weight alone, maybe the clearance value can be smaller, and the farther and more accurate shots can be made.

There is a way to buy and return the pearls, and send them for sale together, the cannon is not satisfied, but the gun carriage is still quite satisfied.

As I expected, there is a tiny height adjuster that relies on screw rotation control, and this can be added by yourself.

The main thing is that the structural layout of the gun carriage is very reasonable, and a lot of messy push rod buckets and the like can be hung on it.

There are also a few four-wheeled carriages, which are exactly what Liu Yu needs.

Four-wheeled carriage with bogie...... It may be really useless in the southwest mountains, but if you go to Dzungaria and take the northern steppe, it will be very useful.

He has no interest in recruiting some skilled craftsmen to reproduce these things now, since there are masters who know how to do it, of course, it is more time-saving to learn from them, why should he reverse engineer them himself?

Moreover, his plan was to go directly to various camps to study, and recruit some thirteen or fourteen-year-old children who could not attack the status of good families and were admitted to the camp school inner house but could not enter the upper house as apprentices.

It's just that the craftsmen recruited now are still far away, and at this time, to recruit apprentices, you have to take care of food and housing, and it costs money. Anyway, the camp can't be closed for a while, so there's no need to worry.

It took two days to complete the inventory, and during this time, the people on the ship did not get off the ship, and Liu Yu sent people to send some supplies and drinking water to the ship.

6,000 flintlock pistols, the quality is okay, basically usable. The bayonets are also fully equipped.

5 12-pounder field guns, 14 8-pounder field guns, 25 4-pounder field guns, and some French cavalry swords and the like.

Liu Yu didn't bargain for all these goods, but when he passed the acceptance, he paid a part of the gold, and according to the exchange ratio of 1:12, he actually paid a little less.

The Argo Heroes was also rushing to Canton to load back to India, and did not stay too long and left soon.

Before leaving, Liu Yu placed another set of orders, and the arms were to be set according to half of the quantity, but the guns must be of the 1728 type, and if they could not be delivered next year, that is, in 1731, they could be postponed to 1732.

Liu Yu was not half apprehensive about his request to hire craftsmen.

As long as France is not a bunch of people with brain problems, but if there are a few brains that can still be used, they know that his proposal is very tempting, and why not have an ally that can contain Britain, Holland, and Russia?

Duplex is also a famous figure in history, so he can't even see through this little thing. Unless he is confident enough to think that he can dominate India and defeat the British Royal Navy and the Dutch fleet on his own. This man was confident and resourceful, but he was not arrogant.

After sending the French away, the days after that were spent on training, lecturing, testing artillery, and compiling an angle parameter table for artillery.

As soon as the typhoon passed, Liu Yu stockpiled another wave of grain.

Let the two training ships go around the Korean Peninsula and go to Vladivostok.

I sent a few people who knew how to draw maps to survey the land that could be cultivated near Vladivostok, the route from Vladivostok to the Mudanjiang and Ussuri rivers, and the river valleys that could be reclaimed along the way.

At the same time, to buy a wave of grain along the way, there is no need to buy warehouses, as long as the payment is deposited in each household.

chose a confidant and wrote a handwritten letter to the government soldiers of some villages and communities where he had fought side by side. Instead of taking the waterway, he rode a fast horse to the Songhua River after crossing the Bohai Sea and asked about something.

"If I transport people to you there, give you ten years of long-term labor, you have food and shelter, and after ten years give him ten acres of cultivated land and a year's grain and farm tools, how much can you give each of you?"

"I know that it is not easy for you to sell grain there, the price of grain is the lowest in Kyushu, and this silver money can be converted into grain. If there is a need, you can take advantage of the winter to seal the ice, transport a batch of grain along the Mudanjiang River to hoard into a stack, send people to guard, each stack is enough for thousands of people to eat. ”

"The villages and communities are in contact, and there can be a stack every 30 miles along the way, and the first batch can be sent to 1,000 people first. This is not a state matter, but a private and family matter, so please be sure to contribute. At that time, the settlement will be calculated according to the transportation of grain, the delivery of grain, and the guard. The price of grain is equal to one tael and one stone. ”

"Give me a quote. Women, men, half-grown children, what is the price? Not only the price that you can accept, but also the price that the nearby village community can accept, help me ask. ”

"Another: The last time I fought with the Rakshasas, I shared a sum of silver that was captured. When you were fighting with the Rakshasas, the court also bought food directly from you, and I told you before that I would bring you rich in the future if you saved the money. Now is the time. Send a reliable man with the messenger to discuss in detail. ”

"Say hello."

He had wanted to write this letter for a long time, but today was the time.

Human trafficking is a very taboo thing.

But Liu Yu had to do this, and the official immigration court could not afford to spend that money.

It is morally comfortable not to buy and sell people, but once there is a disaster in Shandong and Henan, hundreds of thousands of victims cannot pretend that they cannot see it and feel that their death has nothing to do with them.

There is no courage to cure the root cause.

Then treat the symptoms.

Move as many people as possible at the lowest possible cost.

The food in the tun is not to help the poor.

Especially in places like Zhaoyuan, gold is produced, and once there is a catastrophe, land annexation is visible to the naked eye.

Those who really dig for gold in a big deal can casually buy a few boatloads of sorghum rice from Liaodong, and when the time comes, they don't need to think about whether they will sell their land to survive or starve to death.

Official immigration, not to mention the cost is too great, there are too many deductions and so on, and it is to immigrate to such a cold place, and the mortality rate is about 50%.

Waiting for time to slowly resettle, not to mention how long it will take for the railway to be built, with the current situation that Liaodong is not filled up and Inner Mongolia can also be cultivated, no one will take the initiative to cross the Songliao watershed.

In recent years, the weather has become warmer, and the grain output in these places of the Songhua River has gradually stabilized.

However, although there is a lot of grain, it cannot be transported, and at this time, the lowest grain price in the whole country is in the group of soldiers in the Songhua River.

In the future, when the Dzungar is pacified and the immigrants are settled, there is no need to consider that the place with the lowest grain price must be the cities of the Western Regions.

In previous years, these frontier soldiers were looking forward to fighting, on the one hand, they could have military merits, and on the other hand, if they fought in the north, the imperial court would choose to buy grain there directly, which was much cheaper than transporting grain from the rear.

The last time there was a war against Russia, a lot of grain was sold along the Songhua River, and a lot of silver was stored.

There is a surplus of food, there are livestock, there are large tracts of land, but there is a lack of population.

It is where the needs of the population are most acute. If the population is large, you don't have to cultivate it yourself, and you can be the owner of the land.

Rather than let the victims starve to death in Shandong and Henan and die of an impossible and unsuccessful resistance, it is better to find a way to get them to the Songhua River and Heilongjiang.

The swampy area and the fertile soil of the Sanjiang Plain are certainly undeveloped now, but the warm land of the river valley along the river can be cultivated.

There are no government soldiers in the world that can be used for a hundred years, and it is time for the government soldiers of Songhuajiang to be converted to civilian nationality and Kaizhou County.

It just so happened that those government soldiers had accumulated a lot of family funds over the years, and the land there was also fertile, there was a lot of wasteland, and there were even more big animals such as cattle and horses.

In that case, it is better to let them transform.

On the one hand, it can provide grain, and on the other hand, it can domesticate horses, and engage in the kind of small-scale peasant economy in the Guannai, which can neither build a grain base nor raise good horses.

As long as the population of the Songhua River reaches 350,000, and it grows in the future, the entire north will be stable.

The more food produced, the lower the cost of migrants and the faster the population will grow.

In this way, what Liu Yu wants to come out of is to put a wave of grain in the harvest year.

When the disaster year comes, pick up the ones who have a better chance of surviving, pick them aboard, sign a contract, and work for ten years.

The British engaged in indentured servitude in the Americas, which proved to be a good means of immigration.

The opening of Dashun to trade led to the fact that the Dutch no longer used Batavia as a transit port, but directly chose to trade in Guangdong. As a result, Chinese maritime merchants were unable to make a profit selling goods in Batavia, and many of them turned to human trafficking, or selling "indentured laborers".

Dashun maritime merchants loaded the poor and disaster victims from Fujian, Guangdong and other places on ships and sold them to Batavia, although the mortality rate was higher, but I did hear that there were more and more Chinese in Batavia and other places in recent years.

If Dashun has the ability to go down to the village, it is most appropriate for the official to do this kind of thing. If you can't afford to go to the village, or even the county is barely able to co-govern with the squire, it is better to follow the trend.

Liu Yu did not choose the normal Penglai - Liaonan - Liaohe - Kaiyuan - Jilin - Songhua River line.

Instead, they chose Weihai - Vladivostok - Mudanjiang, Ussuri River, and Heilongjiang River estuary to bloom and squeeze inward to occupy the estuary - and finally enrich the first line of the Songhua River and Jingqili River.

In the former line, his influence was limited, and in the latter line, he also had a legitimate slave who served as the deputy envoy of Xuanfu, and it was also conducive to the occupation of Hokkaido in the future. Occupation requires a population, not just running up and planting a flag.

Since the emperor approved the idea of strengthening control over Korea, Zuo Pingzhangshi has always been tough, and once Korea is forced to open up trade, the position of Vladivostok will be very crucial.

It is possible to purchase cloth and other daily necessities from North Korea and Japan, and directly transport them to Vladivostok and Heilongjiang estuaries on the east coast of North Korea.

Čaurbutu was now in charge of the trading city of the Chíchiri River, and the Russians had to go there to buy furs if they wanted them. It was useless for the local tribes to ask for money, and they could make a difference with Jiao Lao Butu: they exchanged cloth, iron, and other handicrafts for the furs of the local tribes, and then sold them to the Russians.

Russia wants to trade, and it can only exchange like this. However, the cloth they pulled from distant Europe by small boats and sleds to the Outer Khing'an Mountains was absolutely not as cheap as Liu Yu's imports from Korea and Japan and directly transported to the mouth of the Heilongjiang River and the Jingqili River.

In this way, both the economy and the population have been enlivened.

It is not far from Vladivostok to the Mudanjiang River, and there were some post stations and village communities before that, and there have been many fleeing Koreans who have settled there over the years.

Along Vladivostok to the Mudanjiang River, the Ussuri River, and then to the Songhua River, only a few migrant villages and communities need to be arranged along the way to cultivate and form a migration line where you can not die of hunger and can buy grain.

Then it is to take the route of immigration along the trade route, along Vladivostok to the mouth of the Heilongjiang River and then to the mouth of the Jingqili River, relying on this special fur trade route, and many villages can be settled.

As long as the first step of immigration is completed, subsequent immigration will be much easier, faster and faster, and more and more cost-effective.

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Before the winter froze, two hands-on expedition ships returned safely from Vladivostok, sending away a group of surveyors and mapping, and also bringing news of Vladivostok.

What is now Vladivostok is a small port with a population of about 2,000. There are many fishers and farmers, and half of them are North Koreans who fled from North Korea and grow rice there.

The days of North Korea have always been very hard, and a large number of people have fled since the Ming Dynasty, but at that time the Jurchens were not good at stubble, and the weather in the north was also cold.

In the past few years, it has gradually warmed up, and Liaodong has changed, and more and more people have fled from North Korea in places like Vladivostok, and now they have gathered into small towns.

There is basically no conscription and labor there, it is a state of nominal jurisdiction but in fact basically ignorance, and there is a team of soldiers in the local military cantonment, and basically there is no combat effectiveness.

There are indeed villages along the way to the Mudanjiang River, and the villages are far away, but the villages are self-sufficient in food. Almost every family can not eat all the food to feed the pigs, in the winter to kill the pigs to eat a winter, there is a natural refrigerator is not afraid of spoilage.

In the past, it was a dedicated smuggling route, so the route was fully supported to transport the grain needed by one or two thousand migrants a year, and some of the wealthy local yeoman farmers could fully accommodate some of the population, and were happy to accommodate it.

It's just that most of the people who were accommodated before were fleeing Koreans, so many villages actually spoke Korean.

Although the bitter cold, wild beasts are frequent, and mosquitoes are everywhere, the so-called harsh government is fiercer than tigers, and the number of people fleeing every year is also dozens or hundreds.

The news from Vladivostok has been obtained, but the news from the village community on the Songhua River has not been replied to.

Fast forward to November, and the weather is getting a little wrong.

The news that Kang Buxian brought back from playing outside is very worrying.

This year's winter wheat was planted according to the season, but when the days of frost and cooling came in previous years, this year it was a strange warm winter.

The wheat grows wildly, the tillers are cored, and then the temperature begins to drop. However, although the temperature dropped, there was no snow.

Winter wheat cannot be tillered and jointed before winter, and more energy should be stored for wintering, rather than starting jointing before wintering.

After the winter, it was a strange day, warm before, but cold after winter, and it was dry and cold, and not a single snowflake fell.

The Jiaodong area has known since ancient times that Jiaodong is mountainous and the sea breeze comes from the southeast, so there is more rain in the south and less rain in the north. But this year, there is little rain everywhere.

Not only Wendeng, but also Zhaoyuan, Longkou, Pingdu, and Juzhou, are all such a strange weather.

Some people have already realized that there may be a disaster next year, and the rich households have begun to stock up grain, and the price of grain has increased, but those who can afford to sell grain have seen the problem and do not sell it, so the price of grain is even higher.

The poor can do nothing but pray to God that tomorrow after the beginning of spring will come to the time of grouting, and there will be a heavy rain, and the hot wind will never blow dry.

If so, the disaster brought by this warm winter may be a little smaller, and the wheat that originally yielded 120 catties per mu may be able to harvest 60 catties, and it can always make do with it. But if it doesn't rain, and the hot wind blows...... I'm afraid that there is only one way to sell land and flee to Kanto.