In the early morning of August 6, 1643, the two ships quietly docked at the Yantai Fortress Wharf, where two wooden trestle bridges had been built. Some Ming people in uniform short-sleeved overalls, led by the foreman, began to unload the goods, and their movements were very swift, and it was obvious that they were familiar with this kind of work.

The sailors of the two ships descended to the pier in batches, and several cabins were built on the edge of the pier. The chalet is a place for sailors to relax, and in it you can drink a beer that is very expensive in the Far East. And, with a bit of luck, you can spend a little money and have something to do with the North Korean waitresses, while the chiefs turn a blind eye to it.

On the outskirts of the wharf, along the land to the island of Zhifu, rows of wooden houses have been built on the east coast, which are temporary resettlement houses for the newly arrived displaced people. The houses were now empty, except for a dozen or so children playing a game of hide and seek among the cabins, their little faces flushed, and they no longer looked like they had been when they first arrived, with their bony cheekbones protruding. After months of uninterrupted milk and broth, their bodies recovered quickly, even faster than those adults, and at this moment they are playing games one by one, not at all like the "road down" a few months ago.

Grown-ups are working at the front. They were leveling foundations, building walls, digging ditches, tending to the fields, all busy and orderly, like the industrious worker bees. At this moment, the number of "worker bees" in the entire camp has reached as many as 2,500, and the vast area between the floodplain of the Dagu Jiahe River and Zhifu Island has also changed greatly with their hard work.

First of all, the foundations of the bastions, about several hundred meters long, facing south, have been laid. They were after repeatedly ramming the ground. The large bluestone that was dismantled from Qishan was built underneath. Then the walls were built on these polished bluestones. The thick strips of stone that have been eroded by wind and rain for hundreds of years are still used. These large stones are extremely heavy, many of them were excavated during the Hongwu period, and they have been washed by the years, but they are still as hard as before. It took a lot of effort when Mo Ming organized the demolition by hand, but unfortunately there were no qualified soldiers to garrison the Qishan Institute built with these solid bricks and stones. The morale of the army is so corrupted. Even if Qi Jiguang comes back to life, I'm afraid it will be difficult to clean up this situation.

The design and planning of the fortress were changed again and again, and at the beginning, Mo Ming planned to build a small fortress of about 800 meters around the city; Later, after inspecting the terrain on the spot, he changed the plan and changed the circumference of the fortress to one thousand meters. However, after these days of thinking, he changed his plan again, and the number of protruding corners on the south side of the fortress was increased, so that the actual length of the southern wall was once again lengthened, and the size of the turret was increased accordingly.

The architect was on the verge of a nervous breakdown when the chief changed the design indiscriminately, and continued to change like this. I'm afraid it won't be completed until the second half of next year. But fortunately, Mo Ming also stopped in moderation, after he changed the design. patted his ass again and rushed to Ninghai Prefecture City. The walls of Qishansuo have been almost demolished, and all that remains is to bring back the building materials that are piled up all over the ground, take the usable bricks and stones to repair the city wall, and simply take the unusable construction waste to fill some miniature lagoons on the sand bar connecting Zhifu Island to make waste use.

"These broken bricks were taken to reclaim the sea and repair the trestle bridge." Luo Tiansheng was wearing a big cap that he didn't know where he got it, but he was still wearing a set of Ming Dynasty-style robes, which looked quite weird. Last month, he had been secretly "accompanied" by several East Coast soldiers and picked up his family in rural Texas late at night. Now that the situation is chaotic and local security is lax, it is nothing to sneak away with a few people.

After bringing his family to Yantai, Luo Tiansheng Luo Da Section Chief was even more desperate for the people on the east coast, and now his reputation for leading the way is very loud in Ninghai Prefecture and Fushan County, and even many Ming people in Yantai Fortress are stammering at him in every way on the surface, but they secretly spit on him. It can be said that now his fate is basically tied to the people of the East Coast, and when the people of the East Coast are developed, he will also be developed; If the people of the East Coast were destroyed, then he would not have to jump.

As for whether the people of the East Coast will be destroyed and by whom, this question is too profound, Luo Tiansheng really doesn't know the way, and he is not willing to think deeply about this issue. He could only anesthetize himself over and over again, and although the people of the East Coast had only a thousand soldiers here, they seemed to be well-equipped and well-trained, much more powerful than the imperial army. Moreover, I heard that they will continue to increase troops here at the end of this year, so at least it should not be a problem to hold Yantai, Ninghai Prefecture, and Fushan, right? Even if the worst happens, it's a big deal for me to bring my family and the people on the east coast to wander the sea, and the people on the east coast should bring their own, right?

Several North Koreans nodded and smiled at Luo Tiansheng and his gang, and then shoveled the broken bricks one by one into a cart with a shovel and pulled them to Zhifu Island to reclaim the sea. The trestle bridge built in the plan is different from the wooden trestle currently in use, but a cement trestle that also functions as a breakwater. Even if you can't finish it for a while, you can't cut corners sloppily if you use wood to deal with it first, which makes Luo Tiansheng's heart that has been hanging a little bit down. With such a large construction project and a lot of manpower, it seems that he wants to live for a long time, rather than running away like a rogue like Li Chuang.

Luo Tiansheng continued to walk south, he was now going to meet a special visitor. This visitor came from Penglai County (i.e., Dengzhou City) in the west, and his name was Zhao Zhixiu, who was a staff member of Zeng Hualong, the new governor of Denglai. The original governor Zeng Ying was going to leave at the end of last year, but he didn't expect the Qing soldiers to kill him, and he couldn't get away for a while. However, he was not bad, at least he held on to Dengzhou City, and did not let the capital city of Denglai be attacked by the Tartars. However, many cities have fallen in Deng, Lai, and Qing Prefectures under his rule, and the crime of "losing land" cannot be escaped.

Zhao Zhixiu is in his forties, not tall, his temples are already a little gray, and he is obviously very worried about weekdays. At this time, he was standing next to the camp of the first battalion of the Eight Banners, looking at the black soldiers who were wearing helmets and armor and patrolling in formation, and he was a little distracted. Liu Zhong, the commander of the Eight Banners, stood in front of him surrounded by several soldiers, his Chinese was already very ordinary, and Zhao Zhixiu's accent was also relatively heavy, so there was an obstacle to the communication between the two. As a last resort, Liu Zhong, who temporarily acted as the supreme commander of the camp, called Luo Tiansheng, Luo Tiansheng had walked in Liaodong in his early years, and he spoke Liaodong very well, so he quickly adapted to the language of the people on the east coast, and it was appropriate to come over as a translator at this time.

After Luo Tiansheng arrived, several people began to communicate normally. The information exchanged is normal, and the main thing is to ask the people of the East Coast for their intentions. Zhao Zhixiu was the personal representative of Zeng Hualong, the governor of Denglai, and please note that this status is important because he does not represent the Ming Dynasty official, but Zeng Hualong himself.

Not long after Zeng Hualong became the new governor of Denglai, he has been trying to restore local order a while ago. After the chaos, local displaced people are everywhere, and if they are not properly managed, I am afraid that there will be chaos. Recently, several bandits have arisen in the Jiaomi area, which are very active, and the neighboring squires have no choice but to train to protect themselves, and the public security situation is quite poor. Moreover, the local gentry did not let him worry, and many people took advantage of the local people to flee the famine, and began to wantonly encroach on the fields of the small number of homesteaders, and the food was ugly, causing many disputes, which made Zeng Hualong extremely big for a while.

By the time we cleaned up the mess, it was almost August. At this time, Zeng Hualong had time to take out the documents of "trapping thieves" in Ninghai Prefecture, Qishansuo and other places that had been reported by the local authorities a while ago, but it didn't matter if he didn't look at it, he was surprised when he saw it. Originally, he thought that Ninghai Prefecture had been broken and plundered by the Tartars, and that a few hungry people had taken advantage of the situation to occupy the state capital, and the local officials made a fuss and thought that this place was "trapped by thieves", so they didn't care much.

I didn't expect to be stunned when I read this official document for the first time today, what kind of "rogue thieves" are these people occupying Ninghai Prefecture City, and they are actually a well-armed group of pirates! This group of people demolished the Qishan and Ninghai city walls, built fortresses by the sea, tuntian, set up banners, and practiced every day. And there are many of them who are often accompanied by the "ghost slaves of the Black Domain", which seems to be their slave soldiers, which makes Zeng Futai faintly have some bad thoughts in his mind, this group of people must be some overseas feudal generals, is it not to repeat the old things in Oyster Mirror Ao?

That's not going to work! Denglai is the sea barrier of the Jingshi, how can it be allowed to be occupied by overseas Yi people, this is not possible! Zeng Hualong was uneasy, and soon sent a few henchmen to Zuojin to spy secretly. At that time, the people on the east coast were setting up porridge sheds in the Yantai fortress area to recruit displaced people to build forts in Tuntian, and this situation undoubtedly confirmed the sinister intentions of the people on the east coast to seize Zhifu Island in the eyes of Zeng Hualong. At this time, Zeng Hualong could no longer sit still, how did his predecessor go to work, he knew very well that no one in the Ming Dynasty could afford to be charged with losing the city and land. If someone allowed this gang of Yi people to occupy Zhifu Island and not go, if someone stabbed it, he knew very well what the consequences would be.

I have the intention to send troops to exterminate it, but after checking it, I found that there were only a few hundred soldiers in the city, and these people couldn't move, in case they left and there were thieves who came to attack the city and caused the city to fall, then he had a lot of fun raising Taiwan. But looking at the nearby states and counties, they are all invincible soldiers, which is difficult to do! Forget it, let's send someone to contact us first, so as to give yourself some time to straighten out your troops. (To be continued......)