"Childe, there are 7,000 young and strong people in Zhifu Island, thousands of coachmen, and nearly 3,000 large and small vehicles. Tens of thousands of large livestock such as cattle, horses, donkeys, and mules. In the Qishan Thousand Households Office (later Yantai City), Feng Chengshi reported to Zheng Sen the recent achievements of his group.

As Zheng Jun's momentum became louder and louder in the Central Plains, and as Zheng Jun's presence in Denglai became more and more eye-catching, the dominance of Qishan Qianhu had long been transferred from the local officers to Zheng Jun's hands.

Otherwise, on the small Zhifu Island, just the granaries and munitions warehouses will be filled.

-- More than 300,000 stone of grain, 130,000 horses of linen, 200,000 pieces of cotton cloth, and 85,000 stone of cotton. There are tens of thousands of stones of salt, sugar, sauce and vinegar, and 100,000 catties of various medicinal materials ......, which is the people's livelihood.

30,000 spears and swords, 3,000 hard bows, and 200,000 arrows; 15,000 pairs of cotton armor, 2,000 pairs of iron armor, and 1,000 pairs of fine armor. This is a cold weapon.

5,000 flintlock muskets, 1,000 turtledoves, 10,000 bayonets, 60 light and heavy artillery, 200 small cannons (tiger squat guns, Franco machine guns), 3,000 barrels of refined powder (50 catties per barrel), a large number of saltpeter and sulfur thousands of stones, and many more reserves of lead, tin, copper, iron and flint......

Zheng Zhilong passed through two and a half years, the establishment of workshops and technical improvements in Anping City, the expansion of the use of water conservancy, wind and animal power, and the fruits produced, in addition to being used to arm their own water and army, the remaining half were piled up in Zhifu.

Isn't that impressive?

But their reserves need to be closed warehouses and guarded even more strictly, so how can Zhifu Island accommodate the next wave of refugees?

With the outbreak of the epidemic in the capital, the people of Beizhili fled south. Compared with the war-torn Central Plains, Qilu is obviously a better and more appropriate place for them to live.

There are even many people who have set their sights on the Zheng family.

Zheng Zhilong has been transporting refugees to the south in the past two years, and the news has already spread.

The gathering of a large number of refugees and displaced people, and the rise of warehouses one after another, these are not things that can be spread out on the small Zhifu Island. Taking Qishan Qianhu is an unspeakable tacit understanding between them and Denglai.

What's more, the officers of the thousands of households and hundreds of households did not suffer any losses. Although most of these individuals should be killed and beheaded, Zheng Jun still needs the support of Denglai locality, and Zheng Zhilong has not completely raised the flag to rebel, and the rules that should be followed still have to be followed.

The capital has been properly resettled.

Now Zheng Sen is like a different person, his attitude is very different from a few days ago, and he is a hundred attentive to the matters arranged by Zheng Zhilong. Hearing Feng Chengshi's report, his subconscious face showed a touch of dissatisfaction. Because there is still a big gap between this number and what his father wants.

However, Zheng Sen also knew that with the size of Denglai Land, Feng Chengshi and the others had already tried their best to prepare so many people, carriages and horses in a month's time.

This is thanks to the great assistance of Governor Zeng Ying.

Zheng Sen immediately went to Dengzhou after receiving Zheng Zhilong's instructions, and Zeng Ying agreed with Zheng Zhilong's idea of "preparing chariots and horses for emergencies in the future". Because he was also not optimistic about the battle of the Central Plains initiated by Emperor Chongzhen.

The court has no money, and the army has no food and salary, how can it win the war? Even if you win in the early stage, it will not be able to sustain it for a long time.

Of course, Zeng Ying never imagined that the consequences of the First Battle of Ruzhou would be so disastrous - the end of the Ming Dynasty!

As a strong army in Qilu, the Zheng army in Denglai should go out of Qilu to the Central Plains when necessary, and threaten the safety of the soldiers of the People's Army going north from the flank, which is necessary and necessary.

Zheng Zhilong can make such a proposal at this time, it is Lao Cheng to seek the country, and it is a rainy day!

Naturally, I didn't know that Zheng Zhilong asked Zheng Sen to prepare so many chariots and horses in Denglai, purely to facilitate his timely march in the future.

Because it's winter.

Zheng Zhilong can also enter the ice-free port of Zhifu Island by sea by boat, but he can't enter the Bohai Sea and enter Jinmen.

The long winter has made the Bohai Sea a forbidden area. If Zheng Zhilong wants to enter the capital in time, he can only start by land.

However, it was a long and arduous process to rush to Jingshi by land.

First from Zhifu Island (Qishansuo) to Dengzhou, and then take the official road from Dengzhou to Dezhou through Qingzhou and Jinan (no need to go to Dongchangfu to find the canal), and then go straight along the canal to Jinmen, and then rush from Jinmen to Jingshi - the total mileage is almost 2,000 miles!

If you just walk on a pair of feet and bring a lot of military supplies, it will not take less than two months.

Chongzhen was hung on the coal mountain in mid-March in history, that is to say, Zheng Zhilong had to set off from Denglai just after the New Year, so that he could arrive in time to the capital. If the timing of Li Zicheng's march has not changed.

Similarly, Zheng Zhilong also needs to lead the army from Fujian Province to the north in November! In this way, we can rush to Zhifu before the New Year......

He had already sent a letter to Jiang Dejing of Jingshi, and Emperor Chongzhen's edict of King Qin had not yet been completed. The latter still has confidence in Jinxi, not to mention that there are two important towns in Datong and Xuanfu. What's more, there is also Wu Sangui on the side.

Compared with Zheng Zhilonglai, Emperor Chongzhen obviously trusted Zhou Yuji (Jinxi), Jiang Hao (Datong), Wang Chengyun (Xuanfu), Wu Sangui and so on.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong's abacus was wrong. Zheng Sen could only prepare a large number of livestock and vehicles in Denglai privately, as well as a large number of people. The soldiers must have traveled on chariots and horses, which must have been much faster than walking out with a pair of feet, and at the same time, having enough chariots, horses, and civilians could greatly reduce the burden on the military quartermasters.

"There are 2,000 coachmen, tens of thousands of people, 5,000 large and small vehicles, tens of thousands of livestock, and more than 70% of the horses and cattle inside. If you don't finish it before the deadline and delay the national event, you know what the crime should be! ”

Zheng Sen was unceremonious to Feng Chengshi.

The latter and the others didn't dare to defend a word, Feng Chengshi and they felt that they hadn't seen each other for a short time, and Zheng Sen, the eldest prince, seemed to have undergone some changes.

There is a ruthlessness in the whole person, no, sharp? No, it should be said that it is a faint anger.

This made them dare not breathe at this moment.

For example, in the Zheng Group, Xiang Feng Chengshi has no merit in himself, but because he is a fellow villager with the Zheng family and is literate and hyphenated, he has become a white body in clerical affairs within the Zheng Group, which is quite no status.

Just like Chen Ding at the beginning, these are the top 'scribes', and they are still excluded from the decision-making level of the Zheng family. People like Feng Chengshi don't need to say more.

His current status is roughly similar to Zhang Leshu, which is still because he has done his affairs properly recently and has been promoted.

"If my father is not wrong, Li Zicheng is afraid that he will soon be able to pacify the northwest of Guanzhong, and it will be effortless to take Jinxi in the coming year. Will you be able to approach Yanjing in March or April? ”

Zheng Sen can't fully understand Zheng Zhilong's thoughts, but he can also guess from what he has done now that the big move next year will be.

He looked at the pillars above his head, his eyes gradually narrowed, as if he had seen through the void, and saw the scene of his own army fighting Li Zicheng's army under Yanjing City a few months later......