The seeds of Haiying vegetables can also be used to extract oil. Although the number of seaweed seeds harvested this year is limited, it also provides some valuable oil. Lu Wenyuan's three meals a day are fried with this oil.

The lunch at the farm was eaten by Lu Wenyuan alone, and he said that it was a "special offer", but in fact, the level was really pitiful. The most haode dish on the table is bacon diced and scrambled eggs from the Tianchu Factory, plus a few plates of vegetables - the so-called vegetables are actually dried vegetables and vegetables transported from Lingao, and in Shandong in November, not even a single green can be seen, let alone fresh vegetables. The only thing that can be called fresh vegetables is the local Chinese cabbage in the cellar, and Lu Wenyuan's life secret made a cabbage and shrimp skin soup.

After having lunch at the farm and resting for a while, Lu Wenyuan went to inspect the refugee camp non-stop. The camp is located on the leeward side of the island - and even then, it is still bitterly cold. Because it was a temporary building, it was all a fast-built wooden shack, which was not well insulated, and he did not have much cotton clothes to supply, so he relied on the stone stove with flue arranged in each longhouse for heating, and the daily fuel consumption was very large.

It is difficult to collect enough firewood during the years of the emergency - there is almost no straw in the fields, and the forest cover in the eastern three provinces is not high.

Fortunately, there are still many places to produce coal here in Shandong, and there are quite a few small coal kilns, and the price is not expensive. He took advantage of his connections in the church in Shandong to easily buy coal and transport it to the Longkou port by ship.

As soon as he lifted the thick curtain of the long house, a smell mixed with sweat, body odor and coal smell rushed straight to his nose, and Lu Wenyuan couldn't help frowning.

He looked up at the long windows near the roof, and they were all open—otherwise they would have died. There was also no sign of smoke pouring from the chimney.

The roof is sloping and there are several glass skylights, which surprises many refugees, thinking that this kind deer is extravagant, but in fact, it is just to use more sunlight and less fuel.

The passage is of rammed earth, flanked on either side by a floor raised by dry brick bricks - with a flue underneath that harnesses the heat of the stove - and is covered with thick layers of wheat straw and dried seaweed. The refugees huddled together in groups to keep warm.

The temperature in the house can barely be maintained at about 10 degrees, which can basically ensure that people do not freeze to death.

Lu Wenyuan looked around. There were only old and young women and children in the house, and all the young and strong men were taken out to work. A fortified rampart and trench protected by a fortress is currently being built around the camp. Farms can't engage in agricultural production in winter, so they can only build more infrastructure.

After looking at all the houses, I went to the next room and checked the hygiene and food rations. Specialized relief rations from Hong Kong are used here. Local food prices are high. The quality is again, and Lu Wenyuan has no hope of replenishing food on the spot.

In addition to relief rations, at his request, "milk substitute powder" - rice flour with a small amount of sugar - was also brought from Lingao to ensure that as many children could be saved

Lu Wenyuan inspected the dormitory very carefully, and he had a very clear account in his heart: the Cheka had a table quantified to the gram for each food consumption in the relief, and required each dormitory to strictly follow it.

There is nothing wrong with the accounts and inventory. Zuihou paid special attention to whether the man from the Lower Naturalized People showed signs of gaining weight, and wondered if he should weigh him - Lu Wenyuan, like all the patriarchs, did not believe in moral liliang. When he left the room, he asked his entourage for the hundredth time: "Is there any new news?" ”

"Report chief, not yet."

A cold wind blew, and Lu Wenyuan couldn't help but shrink his neck. Wrapped in the big rain - the winter of the Xiaoice River period, it is really not covered! He found that he had chilblains, and his feet were sore and itchy. I didn't think it had any effect after using the Ministry of Health's chilblain cream.

What worries him more than the cold is that, in his experience, if the temperature is already low in early November. Then at the coldest time, the sea surface of Longkou Bay is likely to freeze.

If it's just thin ice, it's not much of a problem. Lu Wenyuan was very afraid that the surface of the sea would form an ice surface that people could walk on, the water depth was not large, and the relatively closed bay could easily form thick ice. Bohai Bay will freeze in large areas in the winter of the 21st century. In this way, he would lose his role in holding back the enemy on the wicker side of the sand bank, and the farms and refugee camps would be directly exposed to the enemy's edge. It was out of this concern that he was working on the fortifications he was working on.

His eyes were on the beach, and in addition to the women who were working on the beach: fishing for kelp and drying sea vegetables, a group of sturdy men were running along the beach in vests and shouting slogans in the cold wind. One is stout and has a pot lid. The man who was also wearing a vest was beside him, shouting loudly from time to time.

This is the Chen Sigen detachment of the special reconnaissance team that has not long arrived here, and after arriving, it is stepping up its training to resist the cold. With them, Lu Wenyuan felt a little relieved - the machine guns they were equipped with could be called a weapon of great destruction.

Due to the influence of the weather, the Shandong detachment of the northern detachment, which had arrived a week earlier, did not arrive on time, and the main force is still stranded in Taiwan. Only one advance company with four 4-pounder guns landed on the scheduled date, and the construction of gun emplacements was now in full swing.

He looked at his watch, today is November 1, 1631, according to the normal historical trajectory, yesterday, that is, October 31, 1631, Kong Youde, who was sent by Sun Yuanhua to Liaodong to reinforce the Ming army, when the return army passed through Wuqiao, because of the lack of supplies, his soldiers "took food on the spot", and the local gentry clashed, the whole army was in turmoil, Kong Youde was kidnapped, and a mutiny broke out. A Dengzhou Rebellion, which lasted for nearly two years, officially kicked off.

Although the island is quite remote, it belongs to the territory of Huang County, which is the place where the rebels and officers and soldiers repeatedly tug-of-war. Under the high mobility of the rebels, which were mainly cavalry, no one could guarantee that the war would not spread here, and Lu Wenyuan must have sufficient means of self-protection - especially now that the northern detachment is not yet in place.

He looked out to sea, hoping to see the black smoke and sails of the fleet on the horizon, but there was nothing - the sea was empty.

Lu Wenyuan sighed and walked back to the fortress, where the soldiers were in full swing for artillery training, and some of them simply took off their thick tweed coats and only wore single clothes for drills. But the atmosphere didn't infect him. He returned to the conference room of the farm sullenly and once again asked the secretary, "Is there any new news from the Taiwan side?"

"There's no new news." The secretary replied, but she added a new information: ten minutes ago, a telegram had been sent from Yizhou.

The content of the telegram was to inquire about the reception capacity of the camp on the island and, if possible, to transfer some of the refugees to the island.

Zhang Daochang has achieved brilliant results in the direction of Yizhou, using the Liliang of the Dadian Zhuang Zhuang clan, not only has he gained a firm foothold, but also the operation to take in refugees in the name of charity has also been carried out smoothly. Not long ago, he experimentally transported a group of refugees to Jim Island to verify the feasibility of the refugee transportation route he had planned.

"Call back to Yizhou, don't send refugees for the time being, the current situation in Shandong is unclear, and the road may be difficult to keep ...... smooth."

He was dictating the content of the call, and Chen Sigen walked in - this strong man from a fitness coach was well-proportioned, his face was full of red light, and he wiped his sweat with a towel, and said with a smile: "Do you want to follow me to take a sauna every day and then exercise for fitness, so that you can warm up and not be afraid of cold in winter." ”

"Xiexie, I'm not going to steam and freeze it first." Lu Wenyuan said weakly, took out a seal from the inner bag and stamped it in the message, "Send it out." ”

After Chen Sigen arrived at Qimu Island, he actually built a sauna for himself, took the soldiers to take the sauna every day, and then took them to run in the field in vests - according to him, this is the best way to improve the body's resistance to cold: Finns and Russians are keen to take saunas.

Lu Wenyuan sent the secretary away, and then said to Chen Sigen: "Old Chen, if this rebel army comes, do you think we can withstand it?" ”

Chen Sigen was stunned for a moment, and Ma smiled: "It's not whether we can withstand it, it's how we can play more beautifully......"

"It's a bit of a big talk -- Kong Youde also has more than 2,000 elite Liaodong cavalry."

"Did the cavalry hear of machine guns?" Chen Sigen said, "Let's not talk about machine guns. My detachment is full of automatic weapons, and after basically a round of fire, the enemy will definitely collapse, and it is difficult to fight a war of annihilation, and it is not a problem to fight a rout battle. He patted Lu Wenyuan's shoulder—Liliang was so big that he almost fell down, "Not to mention the advance company and those cannons, this alone is enough for Kong Youde to drink a pot." ”

Although Chen Sigen said this, Lu Wenyuan was still a little uneasy. He had already sent a group of spies to operate on the main road leading to Huang County every day in order to detect the arrival of the rebels in time.

Chen Sigen was not interested in Kong Youde, whose fate had already been decided when the Senate decided to intervene. He led the special investigation team to participate in the engine operation, and in addition to providing special operations support for the entire operation, he also had another mission.

The basic attitude of the engine operation command towards the Dengzhou rebellion was "orderly chaos", that is, to expand the turmoil to the entire ground of Dongsanfu, create as many refugees as possible, and then contain them. However, their ability to project and transport troops is limited after all, and the number of people who can rush at any one time is limited, and in order to avoid losing too much population and social wealth, the chaotic situation must be controlled and "rhythmic" at the same time. Make sure that there is chaos where it should be messed up, and that there is absolutely no chaos where it shouldn't. To be continued......