Zhu Jinglun was still too optimistic, Fang Shan went for three days, and only recruited more than 20 young people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

He complained to Zhu Jinglun with a bitter face: "Excuse me, there are really too few literate people, where to find so many scholars, you see if you recruit some other young people, in that case, you can recruit hundreds or thousands." ”

Zhu Jinglun waved his hand and said: "If anyone can do it, I don't need you to tell those people in Kowloon to fight Hong Kong, just walk around the surrounding villages, five taels of silver a month, and you want to recruit people." ”

Fang Shan sighed: "But the scholars are all expensive, and they all point to the imperial examination as officials, where are they willing to be soldiers." ”

Zhu Jinglun also knows this, the twenty or so people recruited this time are also the same as the dozen or so children of the Chen family, the first is all the children of the clan, none of the children of the landlord's family, and the second is not the smartest and most promising good seedlings in the clan.

In the final analysis, those people are not active, the landlord's family does not need to think about it, people have money, even if they are angry that foreigners have taken their land, they are not willing to let their children come out to be big soldiers, the first is that they do not want to take risks, and the second is that they feel ashamed to be soldiers, the more they have the status of the squire family, the more they feel that good men are not soldiers.

Zhu Jinglun sneered: "This is because they haven't been forced to rush yet." Don't be in a hurry to wait for a few days. ”

After only two days of waiting, suddenly the Hong Kong side was bombed, and the British and French forces fought with the imperial court again in Tianjue, and it is said that a defeated battle was fought, the specific situation is not clear, anyway, the Hong Kong government has begun martial law, worried that the Chinese in Hong Kong will take the opportunity to make trouble.

Only then did Zhu Jinglun call Fang Shan again: "You go to Kowloon City again, this time you will say that the foreigners are fighting with the imperial court this time, just to cut the land, I'm afraid this time they will cut the entire Kowloon Peninsula." ”

Fang Shan was stunned: "Really? ”

He really didn't expect the foreigners to cut the land again, but at the same time, he felt that it made sense, is it to fight, isn't it just for money and territory, the foreigners have already cut Hong Kong, and it is not unreasonable to cut Kowloon again.

Zhu Jinglun said: "It doesn't matter if it's true or not, the important thing is to make the squires and clans of Kowloon feel that it's true." You can also tell them that once the foreigners occupy Kowloon, their land may not be saved. As for the rest, you can say it yourself according to the situation, how to scare people. It's good to force those landlords and old wealth, and the big families in the countryside to be anxious. ”

Fang Shan understood that this was Zhu Jinglun's strategy, so he didn't ask any more, and hit the road with a package ticket.

Fang Shan is not a stupid person, on the contrary, he is very smart, he has walked the rivers and lakes for many years, and he has a lot of enthusiasm for figuring out and grasping people's hearts. The reason why Zhu Jinglun couldn't think of some things he couldn't think of was just because Zhu Jinglun relied on the advantage of understanding the general trend of history. But with a little bit of dialing, Fang Shan can not only understand Zhu Jinglun's intentions, but also often play better.

This time he came to the Kowloon Peninsula again, which fully demonstrated his talent in this area.

The Kowloon Peninsula is not the official name, the official name here is the Kowloon Inspection Division, which is the jurisdiction of the Inspection Division in Kowloon City, so it is commonly known as the Kowloon Division, which is the name only after the establishment of the Kowloon Inspection Division after the Raven War.

Fang Shan was already familiar with this place, he knew that there were more than a dozen clan forces in this area, but the largest was only five, the five major families owned most of the fertile land on the peninsula, and the Deng family, which had land in Hong Kong, belonged to the Kam Tin Tang family, one of the five major families, and the other four families were the San Tin Man family, the Sheung Shui Liao family, the Sheung Shui Hou family and the Fanling Peng family. Other small families include the Au and Yu surnames in Sheung Shui, the Su and Lee surnames in Sha Tau Kok, the Seng and Wen surnames in Sai Kung, and the Lin surnames scattered throughout Sai Kung, Kowloon and outlying islands.

In addition, there are some scattered surnames who are mostly tenants, that is, they don't have much power, they don't have much right to speak, and they don't have children to study, so Fang Shan is not interested in them.

More than a dozen families, Fang Shan visited them one by one, told them about the tense situation, at this time these families also learned from the neighboring Hong Kong that the British were at war with the Qing Dynasty again, and they were all somewhat worried, Fang Shan added fuel and vinegar to tell them that this war would start again, the reason was that the foreigners were dissatisfied with the last time the court did not cut the land, they wanted to cut the entire Kowloon Peninsula, and the court did not agree, so the foreigners bombarded Tianjue and started to fight again.

As soon as they heard Fang Shan say this, these families were even more worried, most families were worried that their fields would be ceded to the British, Fang Shan told them that what the imperial court would say now I don't know, in short, even if the imperial court wants to cut the land, we can't agree to it, now we have to twist into a rope and fight with foreigners, anyway, Lord Zhu of the county will not ignore the people under his jurisdiction. When these families heard this, they all expressed their willingness to serve Lord Zhu and were willing to donate money and materials, but Fang Shan said that Lord Zhu was not short of money, only people. In this case, some people can be recruited more or less.

For those who were worried that when they heard that the foreigners were going to fight Tianjue again, and that they were worried that the imperial court would not be able to defeat them, and that they would be beaten into the moral model of Beijing to change the dynasty, Fang Shan told them that Lord Zhu was organizing the village brave, and if the Beijing division was not guaranteed, the emperor would inevitably recruit soldiers from all over the world to capture the king, and Lord Zhu was willing to take them to capture the king to save him. This can also fool some people.

There are also those who are worried that foreigners will hit them and destroy the village and exterminate the clan, Fang Shan still gave them a ticket, telling them that Zhu Xianzun recruited Xiangyong to protect them, as for why there are only scholars, it is because the first scholar knows the righteousness, and the second Lord Zhu intends to cultivate these reading seeds to become officials. Those who have not read a book let the tribes organize themselves to protect themselves. That's what it takes.

In just a few days, Fang Shan had recruited more than two hundred people, and he couldn't help but feel deeply at the power of this rumor. It's just that if these families learn that they are fooling them, will they settle accounts with him.

When Fang Shan was spreading rumors in the Kowloon Division, Zhu Jinglun received the blueprints for the defense of the fort designed by Swedish engineers.

These people worked very conscientiously, and under the guidance of their guides, they went to sea every day in small boats, measured data on various outlying islands and hills, and calculated the firing range according to the range of artillery. At the same time, the old fort was re-examined, and on this basis, a scientific design scheme was finally proposed.

Zhu Jinglun is very satisfied with this design plan, these people are pragmatic, adapt measures to local conditions, and do not plan to push the old fort to start over, they have been tested, think that the old fort foundation is good, they plan to strengthen on it, expand, make full use of the original foundation.

Zhu Jinglun is not afraid that they will waste money, but it is too wasteful of time to rebuild, and he can't afford to waste time now.

"Well, that's good. It's not a big change, what else do you need now, I'll try my best to meet it, I need you to start construction as soon as possible! ”