Li Wenhe glanced at Yang Hongzhang, who had a serious face, and said in his heart that this handsome man is really picking the door, but in this way, he Li Wenhe can be regarded as holding the lives of these big families in Cangzhou, and he is not afraid that they will not cooperate, and his affairs in Cangzhou will be much smoother in the future.

After a simple handover, Yang Hongzhang and Tian Hongyu went back to Tianjin first, on the way Tian Hongyu has been unable to keep his mouth shut, in just ten days of hard work, he actually harvested 160,000 taels, plus the unexchanged is more than 300,000 taels, which is more profitable than doing real estate development in Tianjin.

However, he didn't seem to be very excited when he saw Yang Hongzhang and smiled: "Brother Shilin, you and I don't have to pretend with my brother here, with so much grain and silver in the account, Tianjin's construction is completely worry-free, why don't you smile?" ”

"Lord Tian, this victory is expected, Tianjin is our territory, we can use more silver than them, we can also use the power of the government, and also use the army, if the battlefield is in Baoding Mansion or Beijing, what do you say? What will happen if the other party uses a large amount of silver taels and speculates in six counties and one state at the same time? This time they suffered heavy losses, if they were just ordinary merchants, but what if there were enemies of you and me standing behind them, or nobles who were stronger than you and me? ”

"What do you mean?"

"Find them and kill them all, and prevent them from happening, or else the enemy will always be in the shadows. I don't like it! ”

Tian Hongyu was stunned and silent. Obviously, today he has seen another side of Yang Hongzhang again, not the humility shown in the capital.

After Yang Hongzhang returned to Tianjin, he fulfilled his promise, and began to recruit a large number of people Zhuang while the weather was not yet cool. Looking at the steady stream of grain brought back from Cangzhou and the increase in wages, a small number of people who had once thought of earning a little money to return to Baoding also settled down, and more of them pooled money with each other to start renting or buying resettlement houses in Tianjin New Town, preparing to become a new Tianjin person.

The gradual formation of public facilities in Tianjin New Town, such as sewers, such as public toilets, such as fire alarm lookout stations, such as urban management pickets, etc., have allowed new and old Tianjin people to enjoy treatment that even the people of the imperial city can not enjoy, so with the arrival of merchants from all over the world, the charm of Tianjin City has gradually been accepted and spread. And with the successive harvest of wheat fields in autumn, the firepower water lifter of the Tianjin General Military Mansion is also famous, coupled with the spread of Yang Hongzhang's brave and good war capture of the prince of the Qing army and Baylor, Tianjin has undoubtedly become the most suitable place to live in Zhili and even the surrounding provinces, and refugees and businessmen from all over the country continue to flock to Tianjin.

On the third day after Yang Hongzhang returned to Tianjin, the five hundred elites who cast the net also returned to Tianjin one after another, unlike Zhang Hu, Yang Sheng and others, their task was very special, and it was also an attempt by Yang Hongzhang, and the result was that Yang Hongzhang was a little crying and laughing as a result of getting information, for example, some people who went to Baoding Mansion actually found out how many concubines there are in the prefect of Baoding Mansion today, when did each concubine enter the door, who is the most favored, who is the mother's family, and the most favored concubine actually raised a man outside, and it turned out to be a butcher who killed pigs.

For example, the population of Baoding's prefectures and counties and the impact of this year's drought on the people, etc., some people have also stared at those businessmen who come and go, and count the scope and frequency of their business transactions.

Although most of the information of these people is useless, Yang Hongzhang is still very happy, because this is the process that a qualified 007 must go through to grow, and the next step is to train on assigned tasks.

Of course, there is also a surprise to Yang Hongzhang, that is, after the closure of the grain trading market in Cangzhou, someone from Cangzhou Shunteng touched the melon to find out the head of Shanxi businessmen, it is said that this time there is a Fan family in Shanxi who came to Cangzhou to fry grain! This information came faster than Li Wenhe and Zhang Hu's, and it made Yang Hongzhang even more frightened, if he offended people after coming to Zhili, most of them were in the capital, and it was mainly for the noble tax and the revision of the commercial tax.

If the Fan family in Shanxi can easily mobilize a large amount of silver to speculate on food just to disgust themselves, then the other party must hate themselves to the bone marrow, that is to say, there are at least two conditions, one is that his Fan family has a great cause, and the other is that the Fan family should be connected with the nobles of the capital, or even directly obey the orders of a certain person in the capital.

Then this grain speculation is just a test of Shanxi businessmen + Jingcheng Xungui to Yang Hongzhang + Jiangnan Trading Company.

So when all the 500 elites returned, Yang Hongzhang trained them for ten days and then sent the best 50 of them out, 20 of them went to the capital and 30 went to Shanxi. The purpose of going to Shanxi is more clear, which is to investigate the eight great merchants of Shanxi who were once known as the eight imperial merchants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the era of harmony, and the focus of going to the capital is naturally to investigate the collusion between the nobles of the court and the merchants of Shanxi.

Yang Hongzhang believed that the Shanxi merchants unscrupulously sold grain and pig iron to the Manchus and Mongolians, and even betrayed the Ming army's defense intelligence, and that there must have been someone in the court.

Yang Hongzhang is now facing the expansion of the drought in Zhili, the number of refugees in the whole Zhili has begun to increase, because in the spring Tianjin Prefecture successfully resisted the plague, and in the summer there was a water machine to fight the drought, and now the first choice for all refugees to flee is not Beijing but Tianjin.

Although there is enough food and enough place to live in Tianjin, there are always some restless people, and with these people concentrated in Tianjin, the security environment in Tianjin New City is worrying, and Song Yingxing, who is the same knowledge, has the most profound experience.

So he is now looking for Yang Hongzhang as long as he is free, hoping to imitate the picket model of the previous Tianjin Acropolis, Yang Hongzhang is also hesitant about this, after all, it used to be militarized management, and the picket team is equivalent to a reserve, and these people can be directly arranged when the epidemic is over.

After thinking about it, Yang Hongzhang finally decided to expand the existing city management personnel on a small scale. At the same time, Yang Hongzhang was preparing to hold a big military parade in Tianjin New Town, first, to review the training results of more than half a year, and second, to deter the city from having small crumbs.

When the news of the upcoming military parade was conveyed, Xia Dongwei, Zhang Hu, Luo Kedi and others were all excited. In the past six months, they have been scolded a lot, but they have grown rapidly, of course, I hope that all Tianjin people, including Yang Hongzhang, can see the image of their new army.

With the initial completion of the arsenal, the weapons of one of the infantry battalions were finally produced before the parade.

It was a beautiful late autumn, and those who were invited to visit and accompany Yang Hongzhang to inspect the new army included the governors of the six counties and one prefecture, some officials of the local yamen, and the lieutenants of various lifangs in Tianjin New Town.

Notices were posted in the city three days in advance, and the construction site was closed for one day off, so that all workers had the opportunity to witness this fresh and magnificent scene.

Early in the morning, all the yamen soaps in the city, as well as the newly established pickets, urban management teams, and fire brigades, maintained order at the entrances of each street.

All the guests were arranged on a specially built viewing platform in front of the Yamen of the General Military Mansion.

Xia Dongwei was fortunate to be the commander-in-chief of this military parade, and when he appeared under the viewing platform on a vigorous war horse, people were surprised to find that this young general was much darker and more solid than he was half a year ago. Sitting upright on the horse, it was as if it had become the same thing as a war horse.

But what was even more surprising was that when two thousand cavalry appeared in unison in the central square of the city, the surrounding people couldn't help but burst into enthusiastic cheers.

The next cavalry performance made some people who were still at home couldn't help but come out, because from west to east, seven or eight miles, two thousand cavalry swept by, leaving behind a place of smoke and dust, but also creating a tense atmosphere of shaking the ground and shaking the mountains.

Those people who couldn't find a place in the streets along the way climbed the city walls on the east and west sides, so they were lucky to see the whole process of the cavalry charge, some people were excited and enthusiastic, some people were frightened and overwhelmed, and it took a long time to find out that this was Tianjin City under the reminder of others, and those things Yang Dashuai's soldiers!

But when it comes to shocking the people on both sides of the street, it is undoubtedly the infantry battalion of the Rok enemy. The phalanx of 2,000 infantry, lined with swords and guns, kept rehearsing the Gustav phalanx in the huge central square, and with each shout, one, two, three, four, kill, kill, slash, stab, stab, bow and crossbow volley, frightened the people who were close to retreat again and again.

The most proud is naturally Yang Sheng's personal barracks, although there are only 1,000 people, but everyone has a war horse under their crotch and a musket in their hands, and when they perform to the end, thousands of people shoot a salvo into the sky, shaking the sky.

Although the whole military parade ceremony was broken, it was very shocking, not to mention the people in Tianjin, even the officials of six counties and one state and the officials from the capital were shocked, and they finally believed in the legends about Yang Hongzhang last winter. With such elite soldiers, and afraid of the Manchu cavalry?

Of course, when the last 10,000 people were in the arena, singing about serving the country with loyalty, the people of Tianjin City were finally ignited. This is a good soldier trained by Yang Dashuai, and there is Ya Dashuai who has no worries in Tianjin.

After the parade, Yang Hongzhang did not end there, but asked several battalions except for the pro-soldier battalion to train in the city and around the city wall in order. The purpose is to deter the tens of thousands of people on the construction site and the small gangsters in the city who are starting to be restless.