Lord Liu laughed.

Bai Yunhang didn't know if it was a reverse, so he could only laugh first.

"Is Lord Bai afraid that I will learn from Dai Jinxian, who is a Catholic, so he wants to wear small shoes for you? You couldn't be more wrong to think so. Although I am not a Confucian student, I am not a Confucian, but I am not a Catholic, so Lord Bai can rest assured. Besides, I am a garrison, although the military and the people do not disturb each other, but in the future, it is inevitable that there will be times when Lord Bai needs to help, if Lord Bai thinks so, is it possible for me to invite Lord Bai to a meal and explain it in detail? ”

Liu Yu has a good impression of Bai Yunhang, knowing that he is also a gambler who is good at figuring out his intentions, and he can rely on the opportunity to fight for the state pastor, this courage is still worthy of admiration.

Thinking that he would definitely be useful in the future, he didn't have so many politeness, but explained things straightforwardly like a young man.

Bai Yunhang finally put his mind at ease, thinking that this was really a fluster, and he didn't speak in an official tone at all. However, you are neither a believer nor a Confucian student, so could it be that you believe in Buddhism and worship Taoism?

I can't guess for a while, but I think as long as you're not a believer, it doesn't matter what you believe.

"What Lord Liu said is to shame me. However, the lower officials spent the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. Since the adults came, the lower officials should prepare a table of thin wine, and invite the adults to appreciate it. ”

"Excuse me. I don't eat and invite, and I don't accept gifts. Besides, even if I want to receive a gift, thirty or fifty taels is not interesting, if I receive a few thousand taels, I am afraid that you may not be willing to pay. When the time comes, you will go to the capital to sue me, why bother? ”

"Uh...... Hehehehehe. ”

Bai Yunhang didn't know how to answer, thinking that this person was really strange and very different.

"Lord Bai, I went to Wendeng for a walk, and I saw that under your rule, the people's livelihood is rich, and there are many merchants, which is a good scene. In the future, when training and purchasing troops, it is inevitable that we will mention a sentence in the performance. ”

The so-called mention, of course, is not directly talking about the governance of Wendeng Prefecture. Liu Yu is not a person who is not a person who is not disciplined, and he has no right to manage local affairs at all. Weihaiwei was also abolished, and they were all returned to the people's nationality, and he couldn't even control the people in Weihai Acropolis.

Bai Yunhang understands the meaning of this, and only needs to mention it seemingly unintentionally on the top, which often has a miraculous effect.

While I was grateful, I was also full of doubts.

It is said that there is no profit and it is not early, the two are not related, although it is a gesture, but it is of great significance, I am afraid that there will be something to ask for.

Just as he was thinking about what the other party would ask for, Liu Yu arched his hand and said, "Lord Bai, let's leave here, I still have something to do." ”

Bai Yunhang hurriedly returned the salute, feeling more and more that he couldn't see through it, and stood there in a daze and watched Liu Yu enter the barracks, and then came back to his senses.

"Don't you put a long line to catch a big fish? Neither eat but also accept gifts, his ambition is not small. ”

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Weihaiwei abolished the guard system and military fields, turned the army into a civilian citizen, and there were still barracks and coastal batteries.

This is one of the best ports in Bohai Bay, a real ice-free port.

There are mountains on both wings, and in front of the bay is Liugong Island, if a fort is built on Liugong Island, Weihai is perfect as a naval base.

If you want to enter and exit, you can only enter through the waterways on both sides of Liugong Island. The waterway on the north side is less than a kilometer, and the waterway on the south side is slightly wider, and the forts on both sides of the bank are enough to suppress it.

The sea was turbulent, with warships against batteries, and warships were at a great disadvantage.

However, at this time, only Weihai had two stone forts, and there were no forts on Liugong Island. There was one at the pier, and a few boats were parked.

The barracks can accommodate about 1,000 people, and after the camp was moved, the barracks were all vacant, and the people brought by Liu Yu stayed for the time being.

He collected all the flintlock pistols captured in the First Battle of the Rakshasa from the capital, and got a group of Westerners from various nobles, and they collected less than 400 in total.

The group of people who came with Liu Yu were practicing loading on the school field in accordance with the drill code.

There are no instructors in the military school course, everything has to be started from scratch.

With a lot of confusion and I don't know where to start, Liu Yu can only let these people practice loading and shooting first, so as not to make these people idle and have nothing to do.

Kang Buxi, who was assigned the first task by Liu Yu, saw Liu Yu come back, and did not say what Liu Yu arranged for him to do, but asked: "Son, are you going to expand the barracks?" It is necessary not only to organize and train a battalion of soldiers, but also to open the Jinghai Palace official school, and this barracks and school is the first priority. After that, we have to recruit and train soldiers, and the time is very tight. ”

Liu Yu looked at Liugong Island in the distance, the blue sea was clear, and there were several fishing boats on the sea, accompanied by white gulls. There are not many people on Liugong Island, and he wants to move the official school and military camp to Liugong Island.

"It's about expanding the barracks. But not in Weihai, but on Liugong Island. Commerce flourished here, and prostitutes and prostitutes moved their military camps to the island to cut them off. Here in Weihai, it is reserved as a family area, and in the future, the family members will be in Weihai, and soldiers and officers must train on Liugong Island. ”

"Your Majesty has also allocated money for the establishment of official schools, as well as for recruiting soldiers, and there is no shortage of labor here, and it is not difficult to build a few barracks. I'll go up and take a look, plan a rough atlas, and contract it out. ”

Kang Buxian pondered for a while, and also felt that this method was indeed very good. Moving the barracks and schools to the island, although it is not far from the coast, it is not easy to come and go at will.

The family lives in Weihai, and they can see each other during their rest days, but they can't see each other on weekdays.

"Childe, what about recruitment? In my opinion, is it preparing to recruit troops while building barracks? ”

Liu Yu smiled, shook his head and said, "Recruitment? Don't worry, let's talk about it in two or three years. Zhongxian thinks, what is the difficulty in training? ”

"Childe said with a smile, I don't know much about military affairs. But in two or three years, isn't it too late? Childe's future is all in this battalion. Even if the navy rises and there is no war, it is not known whether it can be used or not. However, the army, when the level of Junggar is a test opportunity, if Gongzi's ability to suppress the battalions elsewhere, not to mention the future of Gongzi, the military system reform that Gongzi thinks is more likely. ”

Liu Yu laughed and said, "It's not too late at all." As long as the officers are trained, the Ordnance Bureau is opened, and the military academy system is ready, if the farmer can only become an army in two years, then what is the advantage? Recruit early, spend money early; Recruit late, spend money late. This is enough to train these four or five hundred people first, and it is okay to recruit five hundred and one thousand. Recruit the rest later. ”

"It's hard at the beginning. It's really time to recruit soldiers, but it's the last trembling. It's Zhongxian, how did I ask you to do it? ”

Kang Buxian saw that Liu Yu recognized that it was too late to recruit troops in the future, he knew that he didn't understand military affairs, and what he should say had already been said, so he didn't mention it.

The first thing Liu Yu asked him to do was simple.

To be a soldier, you have to eat food, but in addition to food, you also have to eat meat. In the Jiaodong area, there is not much meat, but there is a lot of fish, Liu Yu asked Kang to inspect the price of fish to see if he can afford to eat it when he trains in the future.

The money given by the imperial court is definitely not enough, Liu Yu wants to engage in smuggling, but even if he smuggles, he can't say that he is rich, and there are still many places to use money.

Especially if you want to let the soldiers eat fish on weekdays, if the price of this fish is not clear, it is also a big expense.

"Childe's business, I've already done it. If you buy fish, it is definitely not cost-effective. I walked around twice and inquired, and there were fishing tyrants in the dock markets along the way, and they couldn't be sold unless they were in their hands, which made the price of fish a few points higher. ”

"Moreover, the imperial court collects Ding Kou silver. The difference between the rich and the poor is getting bigger, and the three cents of silver for the rich are nothing, but the three cents of silver for the poor is a great difficulty. Many poor fishermen do not have boats, and the tidal flats on the shore are occupied by fishermen and landlords, so they cannot fish in the tidal flats, so they can only rent a boat with a few people. ”

"A group of several people, each with a fishing net, rents a boat to go to sea. After coming back, he paid back the charter fee, and was suppressed by the fishing tyrant, and paid Ding Yin every year, served as a servant, and could only be said to be starving to death. ”

After a general introduction to the situation, Kang Buxian said his thoughts.

Buying fish is definitely expensive.

When the recruits went fishing, they were trained to become local garrisons, not field troops at all.

So Kang Bu slackened and wondered if Liu Yu could contribute a sum of money to build a few fishing boats and buy a few sets of fishing nets.

Employing these poor fishermen to fish, on the one hand, they can report to serve as servants, and if they take advantage of a loophole, they will be exempted from servitude; On the other hand, a person's annual three-cent silver is not much.

On weekdays, I can give some rice and wheat, and I can give three or five buckets a month. For a period of three years, during these three years, all the fish caught will return to the barracks. Three or five years later, the boats and fishing nets were all owned by the fishermen, and the Dingkou Silver Army was released, and Liu Yu came forward to find someone to exempt them.

Kang Buxian calculated an account, if it is calculated according to the future recruitment of 7,000 soldiers, there will be fish to eat every day, and if it is bought, the cost will be huge.

But if you use this method to work with poor fishermen, these poor fishermen will be willing, because they will not be able to save a boat in three or five years, and they will save themselves the pain of forced labor.

Seven thousand people would need thirty boats and one hundred and ten fishermen, so that the cost of a year would actually be three taels of silver and thirty or fifty stone of rice and wheat per month.

And now it can be tried temporarily, anyway, there are only a few hundred people in the barracks at this time, so let's get some fishermen to try it first.

As for the tidal flats occupied by the fishermen and landlords, they don't have to worry about it. Near the Weihai barracks, Liugong Island and other places, this is a military area, if any fishing tyrant dares to occupy it, drive it away.

After listening to Kang Buslacken's method, Liu Yu pondered for a while, and it seemed feasible.

"Zhongxian's method is indeed possible. I think they'll be willing, but they won't need much for the time being, so you can go and get this done. Give you a month to calculate how much money you will need for fishing boats, fishing nets, etc., and then come to me to collect them, and I will see the fish within a month. Questions? ”

Kang Bu said that if this thing can be done in a month, then I don't have to be a guest, so he said: "One month is naturally enough, Childe might as well think about what he wants me to do next month, and say it together." When that's done, I'll have a two-month vacation. If you come here and don't visit Penglai, wouldn't it be worthwhile? ”

Liu Yu knows that he is not slacking off, and the idea of this matter is also very feasible, which shows his ability to do things, mainly because his thinking is not so rigid.

As long as the rest of the things are done, Liu Yu doesn't care, so he said: "Okay, I'll give you one more month, you can go around and make friends with rich literati, especially those who open mines, just go under the banner of my staff, eat and drink, compose poems and nonsense, whatever you want, you don't need to ask too much." I'll give you another two hundred taels of silver, and you will always eat someone else's, and you have to ask you back, anyway, it's a task of eating, drinking, and having fun. ”