The sky was foggy, the clouds were low, and the cold wind was blowing.

"Looks like it's snowing again."

Yang Bo muttered, shook the reins in his hand slightly, laughed at the sky, snorted, stretched his neck suddenly, raised his head high, roared and hissed, and then flew with four hooves, galloping forward, like a meteor, Yang Bo intuitively heard in his ears, whirring only sounded, and people also floated lightly, the sky is no longer a dome, a person and a horse, are flying.

This is the Shenmei Highway, which is the Yangbo Road in the population of Shenjiabao.

Yang Bo Road, the road is straight, all are paved with gravel and quicklime transported from Xishan, there are more than three zhang wide, six luxury carriages of two horses can be paralleled, the road surface is very open, now it is only Shenjiabao to Xishan This section has been passed, Xishan to Meizhen because several bridges need to be erected along the way, and the construction of bridges needs to use cement, the mass production of cement is still far away, it is to Xishan to Meizhen, although some sections can barely pass, but it is far from being completed.

To the south of Yang Bo Road is the southern district, where the reed fields have almost been filled, and in some places there have been rows of houses rising from the ground, and there is a small courtyard in front of each house, and the streets and alleys are planned in an orderly manner, like a chessboard, neatly aligned, and now this is still a construction site, but the neat planning and grand scale naturally form a shocking momentum, and these will be just the residence of ordinary homeless people in the future.

In the future, all the official places of the Stone Temple, the Go Museum, the Library Building, the Painting and Calligraphy Building, the Academy, the Hospital, the so-called companies of Yang Bo and Mei Xian'er, the mansion of Yang Bo, the property of the wealthy from other places in the Stone Temple, and the homestead reserved by Yang Bo for Han Zanzhou, the rows of shops, the urban garden, and the artificial lake, all of which are distributed here.

It is conceivable that in the future, this place will be a place of wealth and luxury, and the momentum is extraordinary.

This area is as much as 2,000 acres, originally owned by Yang Bo privately, wealthy families from all over the country have come to buy land and buy real estate, the land price has risen to the sky, but there are few people in the land, Mei Xian'er was forced to be helpless, come up with a way to pay the deposit, and come to buy land and build houses, there is still an endless stream.

The land reclamation is still in progress, and the new buildings are only showing the sharp corners of the small lotus, and only a clue can be seen.

In recent months, there have been too many people who have come to Shenjiabao to join Shenjiabao, and even if they build temporary cabins, they are far from meeting everyone's needs, and most people can only live temporarily in simple grass huts.

"One, two, three, four..."

The majestic marching horn sounded.

Yang Bo waved the horsewhip in his hand, which was regarded as a greeting, and he smiled and raised his neck to the sky, Herod, roared, and galloped past.

The oncoming team is the pro-soldier team who got up early in the morning and practiced routinely, they have already run to the end and turned back, and the leader is no longer He Qifeng, but a man named Xu Erjiang.

This Xu Erjiang performed well in the last Hushan military exercise, Yang Bo talked to him afterwards, this person is not very old, but he is quite clever, can make good decisions, is a good seedling, He Qifeng went to the Ghost, the pro-soldier team lacked a captain, so Yang Bo transferred him over.

Daming does not have a navy, but follows the past, the armed forces on the water, called the water division, the main range of activities of the water division does not seem to be at sea, even if there is, it is only near the sea, more on the inland rivers and lakes.

Yang Bo plans to establish a navy, because in his opinion, in the future, the battlefield of warships will be at sea.

The navy has very high requirements for sailing experience, Yang Bo has no one available, the ghost can only be handed over to Lei Zhenzi, He Qifeng took some members of the pro-army team on the ship, most of them are landlubbers, they need to start from scratch, He Qifeng can only be Lei Zhenzi's deputy, slowly accumulate experience, this process may take a year and a half, or longer.

The truth is within the range of the cannon, who said that?

No matter who said it, it has long become a creed in Yang Bo's heart.

In the future, I will speak with a cannon at sea, and the Dutch, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, the Britons, these red-haired ghosts, the ghosts, whoever dares to invade the door, will ask me if the cannon in my hand will agree.

Yang Bo thought so, and a sneer appeared on his handsome face, a cool feeling.

He Qifeng took nearly half of the members of the pro-soldier team to the Ghost, and the difference between the pro-soldier team was supplemented from the musket battalion, and the difference from the musket battalion was supplemented by the construction team.

The musket battalion itself should also be expanded, Yang Bo planned to expand to 500 people, and organize five musket teams, each team has five squads, each squad has 20 people, and the members are equipped with a horse and a new type of musket, Fang Lichun was promoted to battalion commander, and Wang Lianying was the deputy battalion commander, and concurrently served as the captain of the first team.

Yang Bo urged the horse to gallop and said secretly: "Reserve forces are still needed." ”

He planned to set up a reserve regiment, draw young and strong people from the construction team, and form five battalions with a scale of 2,500 people, with Ji Shun as the commander and Lu Yinshi, the deputy regiment commander, and the reserve battalion to build roads in ordinary times, and each battalion took turns to go to the barracks of the horse farm for training, during which there was a military salary to be paid, and in wartime, it could provide a steady stream of soldiers for the musket battalion.

All this will be carried out in secret, there is no need to make a big fanfare, especially the reserve regiment, the construction team is also militarized management in peacetime, and now it is just the separation of the young and the old and weak, and the reserve battalion just needs to take turns to participate in military exercises, and the others are no different from the original, and will not attract much attention.

The reserve regiment is a hidden force and Yang Bo's killer weapon, and it will not show its majestic face unless it is absolutely necessary.

In this way, it is an expansion of the army, and the scale is not small. Yang Bo needs the support of Shen Jizhi, Yang Bo has been going to Shen Mansion to have a long talk with Shen Jizhi these days, the two of them are talking while playing chess, Shen Yanqing is accompanying her, and she is also trying her best to advocate that Shen Jiabao must expand the army to meet the challenges from all sides.

Shen Jizhi has relented, and it is foreseeable that in the future, the armed forces of Shenjiabao will slowly fall into the hands of Yang Bo.

After experiencing the war at the Meizhen Horse Farm, as well as at sea, Yang Bo single-handedly snatched the July number of the Dutch, Yang Bo proved his strength, and his feathers gradually plumped, Shen Jizhi no longer had any doubts, and began to consciously and slowly let go of power.

He will do as much as he has money, and he will do everything according to his ability.

Of course, it costs money to expand the army, and now there is a lot of silver in the stone temple, even if it is a hands-off shopkeeper, Yang Bo must be aware of it.

Now the match factory has begun mass production, and the monthly revenue is amazing, enough to support the demand for military expansion.

Mei Xian'er is implementing the deposit system, all in the North District, all the real estate, must pay a certain amount of deposit, the North District homesteads, residences and shops are very popular, the deposit, is a large amount of silver, enough to support the development of the swamp to provide sufficient liquidity.

It's really a horse that is close to each other, but after a few moments, people and horses have come to Shaliu, Ge Sibao is not too exaggerated, Chaotian Xiao is indeed a good horse.

At this time, the sky is falling a large snowflake, like goose feathers, looking at this posture, the snow will fall very heavily.

Snowflakes were flying all over the sky, and soon the streets and houses were like a white veil.

Shenmei Highway arrived here, connecting the relatively narrow streets in Shenjiabao City, smiling at the sky is also through human nature, slowing down, moving forward slowly, the horse's hooves on the stone road, making a crisp sound.

Yang Bo's trip was going to Shen Yanqing's medical hall in Erli Lane, during this time Shen Yanqing was busy cleaning up her medical hall, and the stone temple was missing, Yang Bo had a smile in the sky, and he had to come almost every day to discuss the expansion of the army and the medical hall.

The medical hall was transformed from a pharmacy of the original Shen family, which was temporarily requisitioned, in the north area of the stone temple, Yang Bo planned a hospital, after the completion of the medical hall, Shen Yanqing's medical hall would eventually move there, and the medical hall was named Yizhen Medical Hall, which naturally had the meaning of commemorating Ma Daochang in it.

Under the porch, there are two red lanterns hanging symmetrically, which seem to have been lit, emitting a bewitching red light, under the snow, which is particularly eye-catching, making people feel ambiguous.

Yihong Mansion is the land of fireworks, the hometown of gentleness, Shenjiabao's Yihong Mansion is operated by Su Luoer, these days, Su Luoer rarely shows up, and I don't know what she is busy with?

An old woman braved the wind and snow, leaning in front of the door of the red mansion, the woman was gray-haired, wrinkled, seemed to have been weathered, was staggering forward, the weather was too cold, the woman was about to raise her hand, to cover her ears, but her feet slipped, her body slanted, and fell on the snow.

"Are you alright, old man?" Seeing this, Yang Bo quickly turned over and dismounted, helped the old woman up, and asked with concern.

The old woman grabbed one of Yang Bo's arms, stood up with difficulty, raised her head and squinted her eyes, and looked at Yang Bo, an old face full of folds.

"Damn my God." The old lady looked up, thumped her waist and eyes, and scolded with a pout, her voice was low, giving people a sense of vicissitudes, "Old, it's useless." ”

"Old man, are you going home?" Yang Bo asked.

The old lady muttered, "Uh-huh, go home." As he spoke, he let go of his grip on Yang Bo's hands and was about to turn around and leave.

The snow is getting heavier and heavier, Yang Bo is worried about the old lady, this is the closest to the Yihong Mansion, Yang Bo looked at the direction of the Yihong Mansion, and said: "The snow is too big, I'll find you a place to rest, you rest first, and then leave when the snow stops?" ”

"Nonsense, it's a green building there, how can my old man get in? Hmph.." The old woman saw that Yang Bo wanted her to rest in the Red Mansion, and her tone was not good, "The offspring is nosy, and he is still blind, where can this snow stop for a while?" My family is waiting, I have to hurry back and do more with less. ”

This old woman is not only old, but her temper is not very good, and she is still scolding and scolding, so she insists on leaving despite Yang Bo's persuasion.

Yang Bo was also helpless, but fortunately, although the old woman fell, it didn't seem that there was anything wrong with her body, so she had to go.

Yang Bo turned over and got on the horse, hit the horse and rushed to the front, for some reason, he turned his head and looked, something strange happened, where is the shadow of the old woman?