A few days later, Denglai was the governor of the yamen.

The governor's yamen is located in Penglai, and the current governor of Denglai is Yuan Keli, who took office in the second year of the Apocalypse.

Yuan Keli is a rare doer among today's courtiers, who not only has ideas, but also puts many ideas into practice.

Zhu Youxiao's original idea was that Xiong Tingbi would be in charge of Liao, and Yuan Keli would be Denglai, and now facts have proved that this idea is just right.

After Yuan Keli arrived in Denglai, the imperial court also began to develop the Ordnance Division in Shandong.

So far, Shandong is the area where the Ordnance Division has built the most workshops except for Kifu, and a large part of the new armor and ordnance sent to Jiubian in the second year of the Apocalypse comes from the workshops of the Shandong Ordnance Division.

The Ordnance Division was developed by the imperial court itself, and the success of the reorganization of the Denglai Navy Division was inseparable from the current governor of Denglai.

Although the original Denglai Naval Division nominally had hundreds of warships, the actual situation was the same as that of the Fujian Naval Division in the first year of the Apocalypse, and the main force was Cangshan warships.

To put it bluntly, they are all useless, they seem to be full of flags, but they are all stinky fish and shrimp when they are fighting, and they are not at the same level as the Western fleet.

When Yuan Keli arrived, the battle between the Fujian Navy Division and the Dutch East India Kung Fu Colonial Fleet had not passed long, and many people knew that the battle was won by the Ming Dynasty, but it was a tragic victory.

In this battle, the Ming Dynasty had extremely high-quality admirals, and the morale of the officers and men of the naval division was not low in order to protect their families and defend the country, but there was nothing they could do with the Dutch fleet.

Later, he temporarily recruited the Zheng family, and used the Zheng family's fleet, which was extremely capable of naval warfare, to barely win the Dutch.

It was also at that time that Zheng Yiguan was recruited, so that the Zheng family developed extremely rapidly in the next two years, and now there are some precursors that cannot be lost.

Not to mention the Zheng family, when Yuan Keli took office, he found that the situation of the Denglai Naval Division was slightly stronger than that of the Fujian Naval Division, and there were about three or five small Fu ships in "service", but this was of little use.

There was nothing to be happy about in the victory of the Penghu Naval Battle, and everyone, including Zhu Youxiao, was learning from the pain, what was it that made it so difficult for the Fujian Naval Division, which had an absolute advantage, to win.

The reason is obvious, that is, the gap between ships and artillery, which makes it difficult for the hundreds of warships of the Fujian Navy Division to connect with the fleet close to the Dutch.

After learning from the pain, Zhu Youxiao was determined to vigorously develop the navy from then on, and he always responded to Yuan Keli's requests.

In the second year of the Apocalypse alone, the imperial court gave millions of taels of silver to the Denglai Sailor, and after Yuan Keli took office, he didn't care about any colleague party disputes, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the development of the Sailor and support for Liaodong.

In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, with the complete victory of the Liaodong War and the sudden serious illness of the old slave, Liaodong was easy to attack and defend, and Xiong Tingbi led the Liao army to take the opportunity to counterattack and recover the whole Liao, and the situation was very good.

The development of the Denglai Sailor Division has also achieved initial results, and among the Sailors in various places, Yuan Keli's Denglai Sailor Division has been the most complete and has become a benchmark.

Since the second half of the third year of the Apocalypse, the Denglai Navy has completely eliminated the old Cangshan ships and small boats, and used the small fortune ships and the big fortune ships as the main warships.

This is just a level of improvement, but the importance of naval warfare is self-evident.

The Dutch warships captured in the Battle of Penghu were carefully analyzed by the Ordnance Division, and after large investments and countless failures, they finally imitated the powerful Western-style artillery, the Zhenyu Cannon.

Now, the captive artillery has been fully used as the main artillery among the elite and Yongwei battalions of the Nine Sides, and as for the Denglai Naval Division, it is also equipped with a large number of captive artillery.

If the Battle of Penghu happened again, Yuan Keli dared to boast that the combat effectiveness of the Denglai Naval Division was completely worthy of the incoming Dutch fleet.

With the same ship level and artillery strength, the Denglai Naval Division will crush the Dutch fleet with only a dozen ships with a superior number of ships!

The development of the imperial court for many years has not been in vain, and tens of millions of military expenditures are spent every year, and the Ordnance Department has studied day and night, and now they have seen the effect they should have.

However, Yuan Keli is also a human being and a minister.

As long as he is an official in the court, he will not be able to completely break away from disputes, and this time the new salt law is implemented, he clearly feels that he can no longer stay out of the matter.

Recently, news of unrest in the two prefectures of Denglai has come frequently, and the people in various places seem to be very dissatisfied with the change of the salt law by the imperial court.

Their reason is very simple, why doesn't the imperial court give us a way to live, we just want to sell salt to survive, we can't survive, do you want us to wait for death!

Yuan Keli couldn't figure out what was going on, he didn't know much about salt politics.

However, according to him, the imperial court's new salt law, the construction of new salt factories in various places, and the policy of bringing the coastal people into the salt works to make a living are very good, but why did it arouse their opposition?

Just when he was at a loss, a piece of news finally eased his nerves that had been tense for days, and the imperial court sent the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs to be in charge of Yanzheng, and he still knew the two.

Wenchen is Wen Tiren, who has just been promoted to the rank of servant of the ministry, and the military general is Yang Zhaoji, the general of Shandong.

One was in charge of disaster relief, rehabilitation, and restoration of people's livelihood, while the other was in charge of deploying troops to maintain order in various localities and sending officers and soldiers to exterminate the bandits.

So since then, Wen Tiren and Yang Zhaoji have a very high folk reputation in Shandong.

Sending them down at this time, Yuan Keli was very relieved, because he knew in his heart that the imperial court's policy this time was right.

Since it's right, there's nothing to worry about.

......

On this day, Yuan Keli was in charge of the yamen.

"Futai, there is a commotion over there in Haiyang Salt Farm, the meaning of the imperial court has not come down yet, we... What should I do? ”

"Once the situation expands, I am afraid it will be too late to deal with it."

Looking at several anxious subordinate officials, Yuan Keli sighed, when he came to be this governor, he didn't expect this kind of thing.

People have their strengths and shortcomings.

What Yuan Keli happened to lack was sensitivity to partisan struggles, and he neither understood salt politics nor could see the conflict of interests involved.

"Wait a minute, where is the minister in charge of salt administration?" Yuan Keli didn't answer positively because he didn't know what to do.

This kind of major event, he is also afraid that once a policy is inappropriate, it will cause the following chain reaction, so it is best to keep it as it is before Wen Tiren arrives in Shandong.

The subordinate official said: "Back to Futai, the last time there was news was two days ago, two days ago, Lord Shilang left Jining, according to the distance, it will take two days to get to Penglai at the earliest." ”

Yuan Keli nodded, his expression darkened, and he was about to say something when a scribe walked briskly with joy on his face.

"Futai, ladies and gentlemen, the squire is here! Also with him was a large number of officers and soldiers under the command of Marshal Yang, who have now arrived outside the yamen! ”

Yuan Keli was overjoyed, threw the brush directly, and said as he spoke:

"Invite them in, no! Benfu is going to greet him in person, and it's here, it's finally here! ”

Not long after, Yuan Keli saw Yang Zhaoji and Wen Tiren who were waiting at the door of the Futai Yamen, and the latter both hugged their fists and bowed their hands with a smile.

Although their official positions are not low, the governor is also a feudal official after all, and these courtesies still have to be had.

Wen Tiren was invited into the governor's yamen, and as soon as he sat down, he saw Yuan Keli sitting in the first place, frowning, sighing, and gave a reassuring pill first, saying:

"Futai doesn't have to worry, the matter of Haiyang Salt Field, the official has heard a little bit all the way from the south of Beijing, and when Yang Shuai led the troops into Penglai, there were already soldiers and horses all the way to Haiyang."

Yang Zhaoji has long been famous in the army, and he is one of the few commanders in the general army in various places today, except for the nine sides, he patted his chest and said:

"Lord Shilang is right, with these soldiers and horses, Haiyang can't make any waves."

"Lord Futai just needs to continue to train the sailors and deal with the government affairs of the past, and the marshal and the squire are ordered by the emperor, so they should try their best to ensure the implementation of the new salt law in Denglai!"