The two forts on the shore at the entrance of Keelung Port have been repaired, made of granite and cement masonry, and they look very strong. Ten 36-pounder cast steel cannons were placed in the rotating gun emplacements. All are 24x diameter cannons. At the end of the narrow harbor, a European-style fortress castle stands majestically. A lookout tower measuring 50 meters high towers into the sky. A huge calcium carbide lamp is installed on it, and the lampshade is red, orange, and white can be adjusted, which is both a lighthouse and a lookout post.

Twenty-seven thousand soldiers and nearly three thousand sailors from the two towns were allowed to go ashore for accommodation and shopping. But the soldiers were very poor, most of the newly paid military salaries were given to their families, they had only a small copper coin, and there were three or four small cement buildings on both sides of the harbor for two miles, with hardened cement floors and complete sewers. This is a planned commercial area. These young men who had just stepped out of the mountains, looking at the dazzling array of goods, were stunned and walked around these labyrinthine streets.

They will be here for three to five days, and they will be given military uniforms, uniforms, guns and ammunition. At noon the officers drove the blind boys back to the barracks, where they first had to shave all their hair, completely remove the parasites from their bodies, and then burn off their tattered clothes. Line up to enter the bathroom, soak in the hot tub for half an hour, and then have a special bath master to thoroughly scrub them clean, and then walk out through another exit, from the inside to the outside to change into military uniforms and backpacks, guns and ammunition and all kinds of equipment.

When recruiting soldiers, it was already stated that loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, and if you want to cut your will to be loyal to the marshal from now on, no one resists. These people are semi-savages who are excluded from mainstream society, and they don't pay much attention to these things in the first place, and survival is their daily concern. However, after shaving their heads, everyone inexplicably developed a sense of community and belonging.

At this time, in the luxurious living room of the ancient castle, Li Jing's fourth uncle Li Chengdao was discussing with Wang Gui, the commander of Kaohsiung Town, and Lin Dong, the commander of Taichung Town, and there have been more than 10,000 immigrants in Kaohsiung recently. Most of them are landless people in the Hangang River Basin. At present, the rice in the Keelung Valley has been developed and the first crop of rice has been planted. However, there were too many aborigines in the vicinity, which affected the development to the Taipei Plain.

"Fourth master, you are the fourth uncle of the marshal, and you are also the actual person in charge of the current Dayuan Island, it is said that you have been sent by the elderly, I have nothing to say, but after all, the small one is the one who leads the troops, and the mobilization of the army requires the authorization of the marshal, and the last general will not dare to take military action privately." After listening to Li Chengdao's words, Wang Gui already understood that Li Erye had been harassed by headhunters and aborigines and couldn't stand it. I want to take advantage of the presence of the army to clean up the nearby mountains.

"Fourth master, this is what the little one means, do you want to ask the big handsome. Moreover, the commander-in-chief is different from other people in administering the army, and although we are in command, we only have the right to command operations, and special organs are responsible for the training and logistical supply of troops, military law, and supervision. Without a warrant or a cheap warrant, I couldn't move the regiments below. Lin Dong said embarrassedly.

Li Chengdao didn't expect his nephew to hold the army so tightly, and knew that these two people must be telling the truth. It seems that it is not possible to send a letter to Li Jing. But Li Jing is in Beijing, and it will take more than ten days to come and go, he is so anxious that he doesn't want to miss the agricultural time, time waits for no one, and he wants to drive into the Taipei Great Plain as soon as possible and plant early rice, and if the immigrants from Liaodong come in the future, he is worried about the food rations of hundreds of thousands of people.

He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, looked at the scenery in the harbor, and suddenly saw a strange sailboat coming at high speed on the sea in the distance, which seemed to be gliding on the water from a distance, and he was immediately overjoyed. It turned out that the Hurricane No. 1 used by the sword has returned.

"Well, I'll send a letter to Zhengyi, you guys are training three-pounder guns, muskets, and military formations these days. A clipper ship has returned, and soon there will be a warrant for the conquest. ”

For the next few days, the barracks were filled with the rumbling of artillery and a volley of muskets like bursting beans. According to the tradition of the general town of Fujian and Guangdong. The recruits first had enough 1,000 musket rounds, threw five grenades, dug a 100-meter trench, trained with wooden guns and leather armor and bayonets for 100 hours, and marched 300 miles in full armor before the recruit camp was calculated. 1,000 rounds, and the barrel is basically scrapped. Then go to the ordnance officer to get a new gun. The old gun was retracted to replace the barrel.

In the square between the drum tower and the bell tower in Beijing, the transaction of cloth tickets is still in full swing, Li Jing looked at today's data, and said to Ma Xianglin and others: "At present, the cloth you bought has tripled, and we will ship it from tomorrow." I did the math, and we buy low and sell high in every price rise and fall band. The price of foreign cloth is pulled down to a certain position, and we buy the protective plate. At a certain height, it will be shipped to bring the price down. It's basically going up in waves, and you don't know why I'm doing it, and now I can tell you. “

"Little brother, say it, say it quickly, I'm in a hurry, why do you grind like this, protect the plate yourself, and smash the plate yourself" Li Wei'er shook Li Jing's arm anxiously.

Zhu Shou and the Ma family brothers and sisters, Zhang Fengyi, Bai Yu, and the four maids were all pleasantly surprised when they heard that their money had tripled. But looking at the price of the cloth ticket, it has more than tripled, how can it make three times. Everyone wondered.

"This technique is called shaking positions, we know according to the trading volume, we protect the disk when the market is new people buy more, we hit the price down, they will be locked in the short term, continuous decline will soon reach a psychological threshold. When most people can't bear it psychologically, so these undetermined people will be afraid of losing too much, so they quickly cut meat at a low price and sell it to us, and we will pull it up when no one sells it anymore, and when the price rises, some people will follow and buy, and we sell the chips we get at a low price to these people, and when there are more people who come in, we sell them again to trap them. ”

Zhu Shou's fingers tapped on the table and thought, and after a while, he finally figured it out, "Brother, this market curve is designed and controlled by your hands." What exactly it will look like is what you consider based on the transaction situation of buying and selling. ”

"Yes, that's it, Zhengyi is manipulating in secret, just like using a bamboo basket to buckle a bird, and when the bird is almost there, he pulls on the rope." Zhang Fengyi said.

"Then why add up a hundred pieces of cloth to one lot, and use the hand as the smallest unit of trade, so as to exclude many small people, whose money simply cannot afford to buy a lot. I can only go to the over-the-counter trade. And the fund you set up is sold at a price of 100 yuan, the purpose is to let retail investors hand over their money to the fund to act as an agent," Ma Xianglin asked puzzled.