At the mouth of the Yalu River, the sky is gloomy and the cold wind is howling. There was a fire burning in the house, and it was not cold. Zhishun Wang Shang Kexi was the third rank of the domain, and Mei Lezhang Jing Ban Zhifu only felt depressed.

In his hands, the Manchurian blue flag second-class Meler Zhang Jinglan was embracing two thinly clothed Han girls and was playing wantonly. He didn't even look at the two people kneeling underground, and ordered casually, "Drag these two Nikans down and cut them down, and hang their heads on the gate of the village." ”

Standing on the side was a blue-flag guard in cotton armor, the legendary Bayala who picked up one by one and dragged the person out in a cry. A moment later, two bloody human heads were presented.

Lan Bai glanced at it, didn't speak, just waved his hand. The Baya Raka soldiers carried the heads and walked away. Lan Bai sat up straight at this time, "Old class, you must not be soft-hearted towards Nikan. It takes a human head to get those dogs moving. ”

Ban Zhifu bowed his head and said, "The slave must remember the teachings of the deputy capital lord. ”

Lan Bai stretched out his hand and hugged a Han girl on his lap, "Old class, you still have to keep an eye on those craftsmen, and the speed of shipbuilding should be accelerated, so that your people and fresh people can work harder." Install the 13 masts that were launched early. ”

Ban Zhifu said: "Please give me three more days, and it will be completed in three days." ”

"Tell them that whoever finishes it first will be rewarded with a Han girl." There was something hideous in Lan Bai's laughter, "If anyone can't finish it, go and be with those two Nikans." ”

"Minions understand."

"There's nothing else to do, you go get busy, old class."

Ban Zhifu slowly withdrew from Lan Bai's room, only to hear Lan Bai behind him say to the two Baya Lajia soldiers who came in again, "Lisuo, who is doing the errand, reward you two brothers and a Han girl, don't play to death, I'm still useful." ”

Ban Zhifu exhaled a mouthful of turbidity, and he was in a bad mood. Zhishun Wang Shang Kexi drew some people from his 5 cattle to Ban Zhifu, and asked him to come to the Yalu River estuary with Lan Bai to build a ship, and it was not easy to be a slave to the master of the Eight Banners.

This is no better than fighting, if there is a Manchurian prince in the army, it is a happy thing for everyone, and the combat effectiveness can be doubled. Grab more loot and share it among everyone, that's a beautiful thing. But it is another thing to come out and do hard labor for the Manchurian Taijun.

Up and down in Jianzhou, no one wants to go into the customs to grab the west, so many Han women grab silver and silk at will. I am afraid that I can't hide from the errand of conscription, but whoever lets Jianzhou go up and down, only the people of Shang Fan know how to build ships in water warfare, and Ban Zhifu can't escape.

Yesterday it snowed for the first time of the year, and the temperature was not low enough, and the snowflakes melted into the soil, making the ground in the village a little muddy. Ban Zhifu returned to his residence, and the blue flag belonging to the Han Army in the corner made him a little unaccustomed.

The original banner of Shang Fantian's soldiers was soap-colored with a white circle center. An order has just come from Shengjing, Tiancong Khan issued an order, Shang Fan walked with the Han army's blue banner, and his people were organized into 12 leaders, with 2,300 banners. Ban Zhifu's military flag was also replaced with the logo of the Han Army's blue flag, and the original Tianzhu soldier number and soap-colored flag were no longer used.

The state-building system, the so-called flag is not just these 2,300 men. The flag is more like a tax service unit, under the establishment of the flag ding, each cow has 60 military service vacancies, 30 conscription vacancies. The number of soldiers is not a meaning of how many soldiers there are in battle, the number of soldiers is just a kind of treatment. The soldiers do not pay taxes, do not levy food, do not serve conscription, and a cattle record can only have a maximum of 60 people, and it is also divided into vests, infantry armor, and guard armor. It's not exactly a classification of troops, it's just a kind of treatment, and infantry armor is also cavalry. The guards are not full-time guards, and there are all left-behind guards in Bayala.

Conscription is drudgery such as boiling salt, cutting wood, building roads, grazing horses, and so on. In addition to the armor soldiers and conscription, the rest of the people are idle remnants, and they can also fight in addition to cultivating the land, and they are not treated, so they can only share the spoils. The difference between the frontal soldiers and the remaining soldiers is not that they are armored soldiers and non-armored soldiers, they can all have armor, and the so-called armored people only refer to the official officers and soldiers above the armor.

Ban Zhifu compared what would be the difference between walking with the Han army flag and before. The Three Kings and One Duke were originally a special existence in the state system, and their soldiers were not disrupted and reorganized like other surrendered armies. Except for the fact that the army had to obey the unified command when going out on the expedition, other affairs were relatively independent. Before the flag, the future of the people under the domain was still happy to be decided by one person, and after the flag, it was necessary to report to the newspaper for approval. Of course, there are benefits, is it more formal to follow the various Taijun.

Between gains and losses, Ban Zhifu took off his skin and just sat down.

A slave wearing a small melon skin hat came up to beat Qian'er, "Master, there is a message from Gulmahun from Pyongan Road in North Korea, saying that the ship carrying goods is about to arrive." ”

"You can handle this matter yourself, I don't have time to take care of it."

"Huh."

"You handed over the goods from North Korea in Ping'an Road, and hurry up and ship them to me. When the wind direction is suitable, it will be transported back to Haicheng immediately, and the feudal lord is still waiting for this batch of goods for the New Year. ”

"Minions understand."

"Shangda, this errand is done, I ask the prince to take off your cheap status."

This slave's name is Shen Shangda, and when he heard Ban Zhifu say this, he immediately fell to his knees under great joy.

It is not without benefit that Shang Fan sent people to station in this place near Korea. Due to the geographical convenience, the feudal lord was able to make extra money in addition to the official trade between Jianzhou and North Korea. This smuggling matter, the Eight Banners and the various feudal clans are really eight immortals across the sea to show their magical powers, although Huang Taiji is always angry, but he can't control it.

Since it is an extra fast, it is not too blatant, it is not convenient for North Korea's goods to go through too many land checkpoints, and it is not easy to enter Lushun by sea, and the Taijun stationed in Lushun is a slave who belongs to the Red Flag Gushan Ezhen Yechen. Ye Chen is a pure muscular man who climbed the city with a cannon on his head, a tendon, not from their faction.

Although the prince of Sanshun is now with the flag, the other Manchurian relatives and nobles must live in Shengjing City, and the three kings and one prince do not have to. Shang Fan has 23 contiguous tunzhuang in Haicheng, more than 10,000 acres of land, almost the same as the country. The situation of the Kong, Geng, and Shen domains was the same as that of the Shang domains. Don't always be under the nose of Huang Taiji, this is too convenient, their fief is open to the sea, the master can run both Shengjing and the fief, and can do a lot of things that are difficult to do for the relatives and nobles.

The errand of running a sea ship can't be done by anyone except Shang Fan. The goods shipped from North Korea this time are not only the Shang family. Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners have many relatives and nobles, and the King of Sanshun is involved. The source of goods on the North Korean side was organized by Gulmahun, who was originally a North Korean named Zheng Mingshou, and now he is a disciple of Ying Erdai. Although a minion, Gulmahun was Jianju's interpreter in North Korea. This two devils secretly hold a lot of power in North Korea, and they are more comfortable serving all the masters.

Ban Zhifu is very good at water warfare, but he really has a headache about this smuggling. Fortunately, the prince sent him Shen Shangda, who is an expert and can handle the intricacies of the relationship well.

Ying Ordai is a disciple of Dolgon, the owner of the White Banner, and this Morgen Daiqing was a mess in the decisive battle of Songjin, and was whipped by Huang Taiji in public.

Ban Zhifu shuddered when he thought of this, how could the old feud between the two white flags and Huang Taiji be guessed by a slave of his level. Ban Zhifu shook his head, and asked people to find the head of the craftsmen, and the Manchurian Taijun was in a hurry, he still had to focus on shipbuilding.

On the other side, Lan Bai was finished, and the two bayaras outside were still tossing, and the woman's screams were a little miserable.

"It's better to be young." Lan Bai sighed, he couldn't get up from the Han girl for a long time. Lan Bai scolded secretly, on the night of the decisive battle of Songjin, he met Wu Sangui who broke through in Jianshan. The Wu soldiers could have fought, and the combat effectiveness in the breakthrough was even more explosive, Lan Bai was caught off guard and was hammered to the waist by one of Wu Sangui's soldiers with a three-eyed gun, and the injured muscles and bones have not fully recovered until now.

Lan Bai took a sip, sooner or later he would strip Wu Sangui, a Nikan, of his clothes, cut off his strips, cut off his head and pick it on the flagpole, and take the corpse to feed the dogs, just like he had done countless times in the past.

There was a knock on the door, and Lan Bai quickly straightened up with the help of the Han girl and put on his clothes.

It was Yu Ding who reported the news.

"There are still no ships in the west today?"

"If you go back to the master, the guard on the side of Oshika Island will report that there is no Ming ship on the sea."

"Well, let's go down and get the reward."

"Thank you, master."

Lan Bai sent Yu Ding away and walked to the map. Don't look at him as rude, but after twenty years of fighting, he would have died if he wasn't careful.

It was not that Jianzhou did not have a sailor, Kong, Geng, and Shang all brought boats when they surrendered, because there was no way to arrange a sailor at that time, so Huang Taiji pulled all these boats into the Yalu River to prepare for later use. But he didn't want Zhou Wenyu of Dongjiang Town to select 26 warriors who were skilled in water, and burned all these ships with a fire, and the idea of forming a sailor division for the first time in Jianzhou fell through. Lan Bai had to be careful, and he still didn't dare to underestimate the warships of the Ming army.

The ship brought by King Sanshun was destroyed, resulting in the subsequent conquest of Phi Island, or the sea to Jinzhou, and the operation of watching Denglai, all of which had to rely on the requisitioned Korean ships, which was inconvenient. This is also the reason for Lan Bai's errand, Jianzhou needs its own ship.

Shang Kexi educated Jianzhou, naval warfare is a big ship fighting a small ship, more artillery and less artillery. When encountering a big ship of the Ming army, a small boat is useless, so Jianzhou also has to build a big ship. But if you build a big boat, you can't put it in the Yalu River, you have to put it in Haikou. Nikan and Korean slaves were logging upstream, and large logs floated down the Yalu River, where they stopped and dragged ashore. Jianzhou has been preparing for this shipbuilding for several years, but it takes time for the ship's wood to dry, so it has been delayed until now.

The shipwright consisted of two parts, one of which belonged to the Sangkexi clan and the other half to Koreans. North Korean shipbuilders originally had their own set of shipbuilding, but their ships were too dilapidated to use, and later they learned the Ming style shipbuilding method. If you don't care about the ship, the local ships in the East Asian seas can only run long distances at sea with Ming ships. The ships of Japan and North Korea are all garbage.

Lan Bai didn't know how to build ships at all, so he could only rely on Ban Zhifu. Fortunately, the people of Shang Fan are relatively capable, and the errand is very smooth.

Three days later, the gatehouse of the Jianzhou shipyard. The two armoured soldiers with the blue flag clasped their hands in their sleeves, stomping their feet and chatting.

"Ulden, our errand is finally coming to an end, and there is a letter from the family, saying that the master has been decided, and the master of Abatai will be the commander, and he will lead the troops into the pass to seize the west, and we will have time to catch up if we move quickly."

"Well-informed, Balinga."

"That's right, that's why those Nikans call me Grandpa."

"I said why the master of Lan Bai has been urging those Nikans like he is desperate these days, it turns out that this is because of this."

"To deal with these Nikans, they don't know what to do without cutting off a few heads."

"I said, Grandpa. You have to help me when I go back, I must choose the team to enter the customs this time, and I can't stay any longer. ”

"Cheng, I know that your family is difficult. Has your brother finished his work as a horse herder? ”

Ulledon shook his head and sighed, "It's still early." The burden of our banner people is too heavy, and now there is only Eniang left in the family. If you can't enter the customs and grab a handful of Nikan, you will starve your family next year. ”

Balinga smiled, "Don't worry, it's on me." Enter the customs and grab a few coats for your house, maybe you can also grab a Han girl, and you can also have a warm bed at night. ”

"Han Nu can't think about it, I can't afford it. As long as my brother and I come out to serve, the land in our family can be planted. ”

"What don't you dare to think about, if you can't afford to starve to death with her, it'll be over, and you'll grab it next time you enter the customs."

Ulden looked at his companion with some envy, "I'm no better than your family, the master of Niu Lu is your uncle." ”

"Heh, you don't know that when the price of rice skyrocketed a few years ago, my family didn't starve to death a few dogs. Don't worry, this time, I will definitely get you a few Han girls. ”

Balinga was talking about the benefits of the Han girl, when Ulden suddenly poked him in the arm, "On the sea, what is that?" ”

"What ......," Baringa interrupted, a little unsatisfied.

The visibility was not good, and neither of them had a clairvoyant mirror, so they couldn't see it clearly for half a day. When the shadow of the ship in the distance completely appeared from the sea, Balinga shouted, "The warship of the Ming Kingdom, hurry, Lao Wu, hurry up and report to the master." ”

Balinga quickly sounded the alarm, and Uledon ran down from the gate and rushed to Rambai's dwellings.

"Where did the boat come from?" When Lan Bai heard this, he immediately asked his servants to help him put on his armor, he was used to wearing heavy armor, and a layer of chain mail was covered with iron cotton armor, which was more troublesome to wear.

Ban Zhifu, who came in a hurry, said: "If there is no news from the lookout post on Daludao, then they can only come from the open sea." ”

Lan Bai blinked, "Then what is the use of listening to you and separating people to look along the coast?" ”

Ban Zhifu argued: "Most of the ships of the Ming army could not sail in the open sea. It would also be a good thing if they could be forced to go near the sea with a few lookout posts. ”

Lan Bai rolled his eyes, "Still thinking about what benefits, people are hitting us under the nose." ”

Ban Zhifu: "Do you want to ask Jiulian City for reinforcements?" ”

Lan Bai picked up a heavy sword and sneered, "It's too late to transfer troops now, let your people prepare the guys, if the people of the Ming Kingdom don't land, I can't care about it, I will kill them all if they land." ”

Ban Zhifu: "Lan Bai master, what should I do with the built ship?" ”

"You built the ship, and of course you are responsible."

"I ......"

Lan Bai deducted the pot with a word, Ban Zhifu couldn't get rid of it, he stomped his feet and hurried away. The 13 ships had just been fitted with masts, and the rest of the equipment had not yet been installed, so the draft was relatively shallow. Ban Zhifu had to find someone to pull the ship as far as possible into the Yalu River before the Ming warship arrived.