That night, Song Youliang left Wu Mengming to eat and drink, and after some talking, Song Youliang felt that Wu Mengming was just a greedy person, and his temperament was not bad. It is true that Wu Mengming in history is like this, greedy for money and good things, but there is no great evil. So Song Youliang sent a thick red envelope, saying that he was filial piety to his eldest brother, and Wu Mengming also took it calmly.

After Wu Mengming left, Ximen Jian and Situ Gong stayed by Song Youliang's side, called auxiliary, and there was no doubt about surveillance. Song Youliang called Ximen Jian and Situ Gong to him, and as soon as he raised his hand, he rewarded each of them with a hundred taels. Although Jinyiwei's Yulu is conservative in drought and flood and never in arrears, his income level is not high. When Ximen Jian and Situ Gong saw this white silver, their eyes were already shining.

"Take it, reward you~" Song Youliang pushed the silver ingot forward

"Xie Qianhu~"

"Xie Qianhu!"

"You're welcome to me!" Song Youliang smiled, "There are also eight hundred taels of silver that are awarded to other brothers in Dengzhou and Laizhou~ It will be withdrawn by the account office in a while!" ”

"Ximen Jian thanked thousands of households on behalf of the brothers~" Ximen Jian was very excited, because there was still some of it that he deducted

"Situ Gong has also thanked thousands of households on behalf of his brothers!" Situ Gong thought to himself that this person was not a man known as the God of Wealth, and other officials and new officials took office with three fires, and the one in front of him was rewarded with hundreds of taels of silver, and he didn't blink an eye, and he really made an extraordinary move. However, with a short hand, you will have to be diligent in doing things for this thousand households in the future

Song Youliang asked Situ Gongdao: "What skills do you Jinyiwei practice on weekdays?" ”

Situ Gong clenched his fists and replied: "Lord Hui Qianhu, our Jinyiwei usually practices mainly snooping, assassination, camouflage, lurking, etc.!" Situ Gong replied

"Is every brocade guard an assassin with a high weapon?" Song Youliang suddenly asked

"Assassins?" Situ Gong obviously didn't like this title, "Every one of our Jinyiwei is a child of a good family, undergoes strict training, and has strong martial arts, our Jinyiwei is the best spy, we are not assassins~"

Song Youliang said apologetically: "Forgive me for my gaffes." Song Youliang smiled: "I know that Jinyiwei is a spy with strong martial arts. Although the outside world has all kinds of bad words about Jinyiwei, but during the Wanli Korean War, the intelligence collected by Jinyiwei helped Li Rusong burn the grain and grass of the Japanese generals, which can be described as a great contribution~"

In the 1593 Wanli Korean War, Li Rusong sent strange soldiers to attack the Japanese army's grain and grass camp Longsan, and its intelligence source was a mountain path provided by Jinyiwei that even the local Koreans were not familiar with. The Battle of Wanli Korea was the first and only time that Jinyiwei participated in a foreign war as an intelligence officer. The surprise attack on Longshan has always been a proud achievement of the Jinyi guards

Song Youliang praised him, and Situ Gong and Ximen Jian's expressions eased a lot. "If there is a task for a thousand households, even if the order is~" Ximen Jian clenched his fists

"There's a task right now, and you need to do it right away!"

"Your Excellency, please command!"

"Situ Gong, you immediately find a group of outstanding shipbuilders for this officer! When you find it, bring it to me immediately. Song Youliang said in a low voice: "Remember, you must act in secret." Dongyu must have laid down a lot of fine work in my Ming Dynasty. ”

"Order!"

"Ximenjian, and your task is to plow Dengzhou and Laizhou like they want to plow the ground, and see if there are any fine works of Dongyu!"

"Order!"

Although Haiyang Qianhu was upgraded to Wei, because the jurisdiction was not expanded, the current scale of the Haiyang Qianhu City was obviously not suitable for the needs of development, so Song Youliang planned to expand the city. As soon as they heard that the castle was going to be built, Heinrich and Ludwig were interested. The concentration of castles in medieval Germany was second to none in Europe. Although Heinrich and Ludwig were mercenaries, they were not brute force bosses.

Heinrich's architectural scheme was a pentagonal fortress common in Italy. Such a fortress is almost completely devoid of dead ends. The castle is divided into two floors, the inner and outer floors, and the mansions, weapons depots, and granaries of officials such as Tongzhi are all in the inner city, and the official mansions such as the experience and the hundred households and the houses of ordinary military households are in the outer city. In this way, the defenders can retreat into a second line of defense. These defenses were built with large granite foundations, which were covered with green bricks, and the outside of the bricks were wrapped in earthen concrete. In order to completely solve the problem of dead ends, Heinrich designed the fortress in a hexagonal shape. Artillery could be placed on the walls of the fortress, and if the enemy attacked the fort, they would be caught in a multi-party attack. Fan Shunbao was in charge of surveying the terrain and digging a moat that ran through the Yellow Sea. This moat is two feet deep and one foot wide, and the current is very fast due to the communication with the Yellow Sea. Song Youliang gathered Heinrich's opinions, combined with Chinese city building techniques, and added facilities such as urn castles and horse face walls. According to preliminary estimates, these projects will require more than 70,000 taels of silver.

He was promoted to the position of commander, and his subordinates should be promoted accordingly. First of all, the Haiyang avant-garde office was set up near Beishishanzi in Wangjiazhuang, with Jiang Huairen, the former deputy of a thousand households, as a thousand households; Set up Haiyang Zhongwei Office near Xujiabu, with Xu Renbiao as a thousand households; Set up the Haiyang Guard Station at the foot of the ** mountain, with Zhang Guishan as a thousand households. These newly appointed thousands of households have each promoted a group of deputy thousand households and 100 households, general banners, and small banners, which are basically 24 old military households surnamed Haiyang, so everyone is happy.

During this period of time, Zuo Anming's management of the craftsmen was well organized, and the Civil Bureau made a lot of money for Haiyang, so Zuo Anming jumped a few levels in a row, and was promoted by Song Youliang to the experience department, and was still responsible for managing the craftsmen of the Civil Bureau, but Song Youliang moved the handicraft workshop of the Civil Bureau to Nanhong Village in the south and turned it into a craftsman village. Sun Hedou and Shen Buqi, who were in charge of the Military Bureau, were also promoted to the experience of the Division, and at the same time moved the manual workshop of the Military Bureau to Beihong Village. The saltworks at Maozuikou and the docks at Nandaozui were also expanded, and eventually even Heinrich, Ludwig and their mercenaries, as well as the craftsman Togos, were incorporated into the military registry, and Heinrich, Ludwig and Togos were appointed as general flags.

On the tenth day of the completion of the expansion of the South Island Mouth Pier, a long-lost guest was ushered in the Portuguese captain Donat's Navik, which came with Navik this time with two galleons from Galen.

"Dear Song, I'm back~" Donat gave a warm hug as soon as he saw Song Youliang. When he saw Song Youliang, it was like seeing a big gold brick, and when he found that the dock in Nandaozui was larger than when he left, he knew that the career of this young local army commander was on the rise

Song Youliang also returned a warm hug, "Dear Donat, have you brought me what I want?" ”

"Of course~" Donat bowed slightly, "two hundred mercenaries who are good at using firearms, thirty-six craftsmen of all kinds, two missionaries, three hundred muskets, three hundred swords, twenty sets of Maximi company armor, ten Koffilin cannons, ten cannons, and a batch of cannonballs!" Donat took out a list and handed it to Song Youliang: "I found these for you from Goa and Batavia, and you need to pay me 25,000 escudo~ In addition, the salaries of those people have to be paid by you!" ”

"Twenty-five thousand? Isn't it too much, twenty-four thousand~" Song Youliang bargained

"I know you are a generous man, twenty-six thousand five hundred~"

"Twenty-three thousand~"

"What? Are you kidding? ”

"Twenty-two thousand five hundred ~~~"

"No, no, no!"

"Twenty-two thousand~"

"God, don't reduce it anymore~twenty-three thousand, deal~" Donat quickly stopped, "You are such a cunning and clever businessman!" Donat crossed his waist and said with a slight teasing

"Thank you for the compliment!" Song Youliang smiled and said to Heinrich and Ludwig: "You go and ask what these craftsmen do, and then assign them to suitable positions." ”

"Your Excellency~"

As he spoke, two black-robed missionaries, one bald and the other bearded, stepped forward. The bearded man said in Chinese with a European accent: "God willing, the Lord will bless you~" and drew a cross on his chest as he spoke

"Are you Jesuit missionaries?" Song Youliang asked in Chinese

"Yes, I am Father Thomas, and this is Father Bergine~" the bearded priest introduced himself, "and we have come to the East in the name of the Lord to spread the Gospel of God." ”