"Phoenix." This time it was Qin Songwang's turn to be stunned, "This is Yulin Bay, who do you want to tie, and who can you tie?" ”

Blue Phoenix pursed her lips: "Xianggong is still unwilling to let the concubine out." ”

Qin Songwang suddenly became ruthless: "Phoenix, I'll go and ask you tomorrow." But let's talk about it, if people don't agree, I can't do anything. ”

"If the husband goes out, people will agree." Blue Phoenix suddenly pushed Qin Songwang down on the bed, "The concubine will serve the princess well tonight." ”

Qin Songwang sat in Wang Hua's office early the next morning: "Principal Wang, I also know that this matter is difficult for you, but you have to help me." If she doesn't find something to do, she can really go out and kidnap the ticket. ”

"My Commissioner." Wang Hua said with a smile, "You are now the chairman of the Yulin Bay Committee, and you are in charge of more than 100,000 people, why can't you even manage your wife." You can't control me, what can I do? ”

"Lao Wang, don't make fun of me." Qin Songwang sweated in his head, "I thought, except for you, there is really no other place that can manage her, and she also likes your work here." You can just arrange a job for her, anyway, aren't you also short of people? ”

"I can't want anyone in this shortage." Wang Hua said, "What we need is professionally trained, just your family, who can do something." ”

"Hey, Lao Wang, don't really look down on her." Qin Songwang was a little unhappy, "Ge Tao should have told you that inquiring about Yue Tuo in Beijing is the credit of our family Phoenix." ”

Wang Hua tilted his head and looked at Qin Songwang: "I really have something to ask you, doesn't Blue Phoenix still have a few subordinates, did they come to Yulin Bay?" ”

"Here, I don't have anything to do now, Zeng Guangxian is temporarily arranged in the navy."

"We need a bunch of fresh faces right now, and they might fit in."

"What do you want to do, is there any danger, do you need to get out of Yulin Bay." Wang Hua agreed at once, but Qin Songwang became nervous.

"Look at you." Wang Hua said with a smile, "Don't worry, I will definitely guarantee the safety of your phoenix." ”

"That's good, that's good." Qin Songwang nodded again and again.

Jiang Beiming returned to the officer training corps from Wang Chengen: "Zhang Hai, get ready, we may have to go to Yan'an." ”

"What are you doing in Yan'an?" Zhang Hai asked, "Do you want to beat Li Zicheng?" ”

"Yes." Jiang Beiming replied, "I don't know who gave Chongzhen the idea, our fast gun team and Zhou Lei and Wang Qianxiang will all go." ”

"It seems that Chongzhen is still not at ease with us." Pan Xuezhong interjected on the side, "He wants us to fight to the death with Li Zicheng." ”

"Shall we go or not?" Zhang Hai asked.

"My opinion is to go." Jiang Beiming said, "Now that Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng are in Shaanxi, I plan to use this opportunity to get closer to Hong Chengchou." ”

"Why do you want to get closer to Hong Chengchou?"

"Zhang Hai, Xuezhong." Jiang Beiming explained, "Do you feel it now, Chongzhen wants to weaken us on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also wants to isolate us and prevent us from getting too close to the officials of the Ming Dynasty. I don't know if there will be that Songjin War in 5 years, and whether Hong Chengchou will be cleared. But just from the perspective of our Yulin Bay, it will be beneficial for us to get closer to him in the future. ”

"What about Li Zicheng?" Pan Xuezhong asked, "Do you need to beat him hard?" ”

"Let's wait until Shaanxi to see the situation, since the conference has made a plan to suspend the recovery of Yanchang County, then let's take a look at the arrangements of Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng." After Jiang Beiming finished speaking, he lowered his voice again, "I also have an arrangement for Ge Tao to send someone to Qixian in Henan." ”

"What are you doing there?" Zhang Hai didn't feel it and asked.

"Go find someone." Jiang Beiming said, "Go find Li Yan." ”

"What are you looking for him?" Pan Xuezhong asked.

"Li Yan later joined Li Zicheng's army in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, and it was this Li Yan who put forward a series of slogans and policies for Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng established the Dashun regime." Jiang Beiming explained, "But according to Lu Lao, there is controversy in the historiography community about whether this Li Yan is a real person in history, and some historians believe that Li Yan is fictional." ”

Zhang Hai said with a smile: "How do you find the imaginary person, where can you find it?" ”

"I'm not sure." Jiang Beiming also smiled, "So I want to ask the people from the Second General Affairs Department to inquire, if there is really such a person, find a way to get to Yulin Bay, and never let him be used by Li Zicheng." ”

"I remember that in addition to Li Yan, there should be a red lady." Pan Xuezhong asked, "Do you want to get Yulin Bay together?" ”

"The Red Lady should not exist." Jiang Beiming smiled, "You all go and prepare, we may set off in a few days." I have already asked someone to send a letter to Zhou Lei and Wang Qianxiang, let's meet them in Taiyuan. ”

Zhou Lei stood on the head of Yulin Fort and looked into the distance, the 1st Independent Division had withdrawn to Yulin Bay, and now Yulin Fort only had 1,000 troops left. As a precaution, Zhou Lei gave up the newly built fort and gathered all his troops in Yulin Fort.

"Sir, it's time for dinner." The orderly shouted from behind.

Zhou Lei turned around and nodded, went down the city wall and returned to the office. Liu Jun and Fan Qiuming are gone, including Li Muqing was also taken to Yulin Bay, and Zhou Lei felt lonely again, so he usually asked Yang Tao to accompany him to eat.

"Yang Tao." Zhou Lei sat down at the dinner table and asked, "How is this year's tobacco?" ”

"Sir, it's not very good." Yang Tao replied, "When the Tartars came, they were basically destroyed, and now the subordinates are organizing people to re-cultivate, but this year's output will definitely not work." ”

Zhou Lei also knew that there was no way to do it: "What about the fire gun?" ”

"That's okay, our factory hasn't been damaged much, and production is recovering."

"Hmm." Zhou Lei hummed and didn't ask again.

"But sir." Yang Tao said, "Recently, a lot of displaced people have come, and we have also accepted some of them, but the food is a little tight. ”

"Is there not enough food to eat?"

"It's not that there isn't enough to eat." Yang Tao replied, "My subordinates have implemented a quota ration for these victims, which can almost support the new grain next year." However, his subordinates are worried that there will be more and more displaced people, and there is another thing, there are many old, weak, sick and disabled among these displaced people, and there is basically no suitable work arrangement for them. ”

Yang Tao's words reminded Zhou Lei of the troubles of the homeless people in Yulin Bay: "This can't be done, you can't let these people be idle, you have to find something for them to do." ”

"But sir, what can they do?"

Zhou Lei was also worried, what can they do, the work of building firecrackers will definitely not be done, if you want to talk about farming and growing tobacco, these people may not be able to do it, the best way is to let them go to Wang Qianxiang to make cigarettes.

Zhou Lei thought of this: "Yang Tao, I will write a letter to Chief Wang in Datong, you find someone to send it, and send these people to the tobacco factory in Datong to make cigarettes, they can do this job." ”

"Sir." Yang Tao said, "My subordinates have already sent someone to ask Chief Wang what he meant, and his side is also overcrowded, so Chief Wang asked us to solve it ourselves." ”

"How are we going to solve it ourselves?" Zhou Lei said, "This Wang Qianxiang doesn't help with such a small favor." ”

Yang Tao didn't know whether Zhou Lei was really angry or fake, so he didn't dare to answer.

Zhou Lei didn't have a good way: "Yang Tao, after eating, you take me to see these people first, and then I'll think about how to settle them." ”

In addition to 1,000 troops, there are about 2,000 kinds of civilians who grow tobacco and build firearms, plus nearly 1,000 new homeless people, and the population of the entire Yulin Fort is more than 4,000.

After eating, Yang Tao accompanied Zhou Lei to the resettlement site of the displaced people. The homeless people had just finished their meal when they saw the two officers approaching and they all stood up.

"This is the general of the imperial court and the colonel of the Yulin Army." Yang Tao shouted at the top of his voice.

"The grass people knock to the general." The surrounding homeless people fell to their knees.

"All up, all up." Zhou Lei stepped forward to help an old man, "How can my old family live in my Yulin Fort?" ”

"Okay, okay, thank you for taking me in."

Zhou Lei looked around, basically all of them were old people and children, and some women. Zhou Lei said in his heart: "You are good, Lao Tzu has suffered." ”

Zhou Lei took the old man's hand and asked, "The old man's surname is Gao, what did he do at home before?" ”

The old man replied: "The little old man's surname is He, and he knows a few words, and he used to teach the children of the clan when he was at home. It's just that the Tartars were attacked, and Xiao Lao'er's home was also destroyed, thanks to the general's take-in, Xiao Lao'er thanked the general. ”

An idea popped up in Zhou Lei's heart: "The old man has worked hard." ”

Zhou Lei let go of the old man and came to a group of women, who all lowered their heads when they saw Zhou Lei coming.

Zhou Lei clenched his fists and arched his hands: "Everyone, I will give you a salute." ”

Only a few women returned the salute to Zhou Lei: "The women have seen the general. ”

Zhou Lei saw a woman in her forties and a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old standing together, seemingly a mother and daughter, and both of them showed a kind of grace and elegance between their eyebrows.

Zhou Lei gave another salute: "Ben will dare to ask this lady, is your father-in-law also in Yulinbao?" ”

When the woman heard Zhou Lei ask, tears welled up in her eyes: "The general asked, my father-in-law died in the rebellion, and only the folk woman and the little girl were fortunate enough to escape the catastrophe." ”

"Madame has suffered."

Zhou Lei asked a few other people again, and then returned to the office with Yang Tao.

"Yang Tao, you do one thing right away. Go find out all the people who can read and write in Yulin Fort and see how many there are. ”

"Sir, what are you looking for here, we also have instructors in the regiment." Yang Tao was very puzzled.

Zhou Lei explained: "There are more children in Yulin Fort now, and there is nothing to run around all day. Find people who can read and write and set up a school, on the one hand, you can teach them, and on the other hand, you can watch them. ”

"Sir, there may not be many people here who can read, what about the rest?"

"The rest." Zhou Lei smiled bitterly, "I'll think of a way again." ”

There were more than 300 children in Yulin Castle, and Yang Tao searched a lot and found more than 20 people who could barely read and write, including the mother and daughter.

Yang Tao went to Xuanfu Town again, bought some pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and visited Yang Guozhu and Guan Mingke by the way.

Also returning with Yang Tao was the original Lu Qianhu, who has now been promoted to guerrilla general.

Zhou Lei invited Lu Yongmao to a banquet, and Lu Yongmao heard that Zhou Lei was going to run a school this time, so he personally came to ask what was going on.

"Xiaguan respects Lord with a drink." Zhou Lei is now a general, and Lu Yongmao is a guerrilla.

"Brother Lu is promoted, and my brother hasn't congratulated Brother Lu yet." Zhou Lei and Yang Tao raised the wine bowl together.

"The lower officials don't dare." Lu Yongmao became more and more humble in front of Zhou Lei, "It is all thanks to the support of all the adults, and the lower officials can be promoted." ”

A few people drank a few bowls, and Lu Yongmao asked: "The lower officials heard that the adults are going to teach in the school in Yulin Fort, but I don't know if this is true?" ”

"Yes, that's exactly what Ben wanted." Zhou Lei didn't understand why Lu Yongmao asked this, did he want to persuade himself again?

"I wonder if this school can admit children from other places?" Lu Yongmao asked again.

Zhou Lei asked rhetorically: "Are there any children from elsewhere who want to come to the school here?" ”

"Your Excellency." Lu Yongmao hugged his fist at Zhou Lei, "The dog of the lower official wants to come, I don't know if the adult can also take it in?" ”

Zhou Lei was a little strange: "Brother Lu, why did Ling Lang come to my Yulinbao Academy, wouldn't it be better over there in Xuanfu Town?" ”

"Adults don't know." Lu Yongmao said, "The dog has also been here with the lower officials before, and the dog is very envious of your Yulin Army and has always wanted to join you." It's just that the dog is young, only eleven years old this year. So this time, when I heard that the adults were going to build a school, he kept telling me at home that he wanted to come here to go to school, so the next official came to ask the adults. ”

"I see." Zhou Lei said with a smile, "Since Ling Lang is willing to come, let's come, it's just that our school here has not officially opened, and the teaching is also basic literacy, I don't know if it is suitable for Ling Lang." ”

"It's okay, it's okay." Lu Yongmao hurriedly said, "As long as the adult can let him come, this kid is pestering me every day at home, and I don't have much to do." ”

Yang Tao said: "Master Lu, it's good to let Ling Lang read and write, don't be like me, I'm still a belt." ”

Lu Yongmao didn't know the rules of the Yulin Army: "What do you wear a belt?" ”

"It's nothing, Sergeant Yang and Brother Lu are joking." Zhou Lei picked up the wine bowl, "Come, Brother Lu, let's drink." ”

Lu Yongmao wiped his mouth after drinking: "But what Brother Yang said is also right." People like us, even if we do guerrillas, we don't have to bow our heads when we see civilian officials. I don't want that kid of mine to be like me in the future, who can't read a single word. ”

"Brother Lu laughed." Zhou Lei said with a smile, "Ling Lang will definitely come out of the blue in the future." ”