Chapter 241: Salt Works, Sea Bandits, Conscription

In Weihaiwei, which is 200 miles away from Dengzhou, there are also two relatively large salt farms. Because it is very close to Dengzhou, when Jiang Feng controlled the private salt in Shandong, the salt class of this private salt was the fastest to surrender, and even during the period when Jiang Feng was transferred to Jizhen.

The salt class here does not have the slightest other thoughts, of course, this is also related to the geographical location, if there is any reactionary place in this salt field, the soldiers and fleet of the Dengzhou battalion can soon arrive. Therefore, it is better to be obedient to the people.

Because of this good performance, the favorable conditions given to them by Jiang Feng are also much better than those of other salt farms, originally all the salt farms in Shandong Province were to receive shares and salt from Jiangfeng and Huangping, but the quota given to Weihai Salt Farm is more special, in addition to the planned share, there are also some quotas that can be handled by themselves.

Of course, although Jiang Feng's fingers leaked some soup, it was also quite rich, and the salt works in Weihai were becoming more and more loyal.

Jiang Feng did not have any manpower in these two salt farms, because Weihaiwei already had coastal defense personnel stationed here, and Jiang Feng himself was not very manpowered.

In September along the coast of Shandong, although most of the time is high and crisp in autumn, but there is often foggy weather, every time at this time, the salt and households of the salt field have to be nervously busy, because if the salt field is not prepared at this time, I am afraid that a lot of work will be delayed in the future.

After Jiang Feng maintained the private salt market, the life of Yanding and the households who relied on the salt farm to eat was much better, and most of the original profits were taken by the private salt dealers and salt merchants, and the local people who managed the salt farm drank a few sips of soup, and the rest of the people were not much different from the artisan households.

Now life is much better, profits are left at the source, the salt factory directors in order to produce more salt, are to improve the treatment of salt households, and these things of salt production are quite technical needs. It's better to be a skilled worker.

Looking at the peasants who rebelled and wandered outside because of the famine, these Yanding households felt more and more happy, so they were working now and everything, which can be said to be particularly energetic.

Today is September 20, the director of the salt field got up in the morning and walked out of the door, many years of weather experience made him immediately feel that there would be a heavy rain in the afternoon or evening, and hurriedly gathered the entire salt field manpower to clean up. The Yanding households stopped their work one after another and began to get busy.

Now because of the ban on the sea, except for the fishing boats that go to the sea to fish in the salt farm, there are no fishing boats on the sea at all......

At this time, a sharp-eyed man suddenly saw a boat on the sea, and shouted there:

"There are ships on the sea!"

These people were quite surprised, because they saw a dozen small boats rowing towards the beach on this side of the saltworks, a sight that had not been seen for many years, and suddenly, at last, someone reacted, and shouted in horror:

"Pirates, pirates!"

The boat had already reached the beach, and many pirates with knives jumped out of the boat, shouting and rushing towards the shore, and these people in the salt field did not even have a wooden stick in their hands except for the equipment to collect salt, and they dared to confront the fierce pirates who rushed below.

It was all a panicked shout, and it broke out inland......

Jiang Feng has been walking around Rongyang and Jining with his subordinates, and it has been more than ten days since the news of the Weihaiwei Salt Farm reached him, and the Weihaiwei Salt Farm has almost been completely destroyed, and more than 20 Yanding households have died - because the run is still timely.

The two surrounding villages suffered heavy casualties, and there was a village of nearly 200 households, but only three or four families remained, and the local guard post claimed to have several thousand soldiers, and they closed the gates of the city and did not dare to come out, allowing the bandits to show off their might there.

Whether it was a letter from the officials of the salt factory to Jiang Feng in private, or an official notice document, they all called this incident "the Japanese rebellion", because these pirates were indeed shouting the words of the Japanese state, wearing the clothes of the Japanese and holding the same weapons in their hands.

"Wolver, why did Wakako go to touch the salt works?"

Jiang Feng was so angry that he tore up a few handfuls of paperwork in his hand and threw them on the ground. The cronies around him are now recruiting soldiers outside, and he is still the same Liu Twelve who is already regarded as a strategist. If the other party had such a move on weekdays, Jiang Feng would not be so angry.

When the time comes, it will either be calmly resolved, or it will be-for-tat. But now it is Jiang Feng's new official who has taken office. The commanders of the Shandong guerrillas and the guards were different, and most of the commanders of the guards maintained those military households to cultivate the land honestly, which was essentially not much different from the prefects and counties of civilian officials.

However, the Shandong guerrillas were high-ranking officers commanding the soldiers and had the responsibility of defending the territory and ensuring local peace. However, when his new official took office, someone appeared and slapped him severely, the Japanese bandits infested the coastal areas, and Jiang Feng was responsible for the security of Dengzhou, Yanzhou and Jinan, and most of the coastline of Shandong was within his defensive range, and the appearance of this matter was his responsibility no matter what.

Liu Twelve looked at Jiang Feng's thunderous appearance, knowing that although this adult was short-tempered, he was not blindly impulsive, and the current matter did not need to be investigated too deeply, but Liu Twelve just said other things, and said slowly:

"My lord, we only have 2,000 soldiers who can maneuver, how can we take care of such a large territory in Shandong, the other party also expected this, so he shot unscrupulously. But this is also okay, now the coastal fishing villagers have been relocated, don't worry, just those salt farms on the coast, but it is difficult to sneak attack at sea, each salt field is notified to go down to work, someone is sentry, the local people and guards are on guard, and those bandits will not be in vain after seeing it. ”

In his narrative, when the attackers are mentioned, they do not mention the Japanese bandits, but directly use the name pirates. When Jiang Feng once kept in touch with Chen Deaf, he gave Chen Deaf an order, asking him to clear out the pirates in Lunan and send people to Dengzhou. However, at the beginning, he only sent more than 30 shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and then there was the transfer document from the Beijing Division, Jiang Feng had to let the situation in Shandong get out of control, and he had to give up some latent chess pieces.

The pirates are now one of the few forces in Shandong that are not under his control, and now his own ships are basically merchant ships, and he is not able to make any moves at sea. So the pirates attacked the salt works under his control "in time" and "with great propriety".

Jiang Feng slowly calmed down at this time, sat there and took out the wine jug and took a few sips, wiped his lips, and said with a sneer:

"The world comes and goes, to put it bluntly, it is all for the sake of profit, and in Shandong, how many people have blocked the way for others to make a fortune on salt, and it seems that there are many people who are not convinced? Mr. Liu, find some people to keep an eye on me in each salt field to see if there is anything abnormal. ”

In the system of the Dengzhou battalion, there are really a lot of people who can rush and fight, but there are very few people who do these meticulous spy work, and now they are still relying on the eyes and relationships of those people on Liu Twelve Weishan Island when they crisscrossed the green forest, Jiang Feng and Zhang Liang used some knowledge of Jinyi Wei's secret agents to train for a short time, plus the abundance of money.

So it slowly played an effect, but it was just an effect, just to maintain the circulation of information, which was much faster than the transmission of official documents from the government.

Liu Twelve nodded, directly called the Yang family outside, and began to arrange related things.

Jiang Feng made judgments and decisions here in Yanzhou, but in this way, the news transmission had to go down to the various salt farms along the coast of Shandong, and in late October, the salt works and the surrounding guards and villages were considered to be prepared, and during this period, the two salt farms of Ninghai and Aoshan were attacked by bandits.

However, after this, because of the tightening of vigilance in various places, the news came that the people on guard also saw that there were ships preparing to come, and hurriedly beat gongs and drums to warn. Perhaps these people at sea saw that there was no chance, that is, they did not go ashore, and after a few times, the salt pans everywhere calmed down.

The spies who were arranged to monitor various places did not send any news back, and Jiang Feng also suspected that it was just some thieves or robbers who wanted to go ashore and plunder.

The most important thing now is to recruit soldiers, and the Yanzhou garrison and the several soldiers who were transferred over were all rushed by Chen Deaf, and many of the soldiers could not be collected at all after they were dispersed. Jiang Feng was not going to use these straw bales like dregs, so he simply re-recruited.

Wen Dao led hundreds of his men into the mountains and forests, and they disappeared for a while, but after the nearly 10,000 young people gathered by Chen Deaf were dispersed by Jiang Feng's Dengzhou camp, many of them were bandits who had become troubled places, and the places that had just calmed down were chaotic again.

Jiang Feng's method of dealing with this matter was very simple, and soon the gates of various cities in Yanzhou and Dongchang, and the roadsides of various traffic arteries, were full of notices:

"Before November 15 of the ninth year of Jiajing, he joined the Shandong guerrilla battalion as a soldier to eat food, and the previous crime was purchased and sold. Otherwise, you won't be killed! ”