Sending Sun Hualong away, Huang Yang stepped forward to ask if he wanted to send someone to follow, Wang Zheng waved his hand and said that it was not necessary, Fang Cai's words had already reached that point, if Sun Hualong still didn't understand how to protect himself, then his Dengzhou prefect for so many years would be in vain.

In fact, before Sun Hualong came, Wang Zheng convened the generals, which was to discuss the matter of the Dengzhou Water Battalion, and now although the Navy is still a six-battalion formation, everyone knows that the Dengzhou Water Battalion is an empty shell, and the total number of people is less than the number that a battalion should have.

Moreover, Wang Zheng was very disappointed by the performance of the soldiers of the water battalion that day, and he was beaten by a Portuguese trading ship so that he did not dare to stand in the tower, so it was imperative to dismantle and rebuild.

However, there is no need to worry about the candidates, there are not many others in Dengzhou, there are a lot of people with good water nature, and it should not be a problem to recruit enough people, and now Wang Zheng is concerned about how many people to recruit.

If all six water battalions are filled, plus the large and small ships and silver that need to be purchased, he will not be able to afford so much.

These days, Wang Zheng has carefully understood the current situation of Dengzhou Water Camp, which is worrying.

Although the solid bullet used by the Fran machine gun is powerful, it is not enough to collapse the city tower with one shot, and the reason why it can have such a great effect that day is entirely because Penglai Water City is in disrepair.

The displaced people who had been accepted from Zuo Ying's hands had not long been registered, and most of them had what they had to do, and they were allocated acres of land to plant seeds.

Some ruffians and scoundrels were still thinking that they could get through the customs at first, but now they have been thrown into prison by the salt ding of the inspection department, some of them are seriously beheaded for public display, and the rest are sent to the salt fields in various places to do coolies for "labor reform".

Some of the remaining honest people had done the work of repairing the city wall in the guardhouse, and Wang Zheng ordered those old and experienced craftsmen to take them with them, and prepared to repair and renovate Penglai Water City.

I don't know if I don't check this, but there are too many problems exposed by one check.

It's not just that the city wall is in disrepair, most of the gun mounts on the city wall have become ornaments and need to be dismantled and reloaded, but Wang Zheng doesn't have any good guns in his hand now, and the four small Franc machines will naturally be charged into the Dengzhou battalion, and they may be used in future battles.

The medium-sized Franc cannon was still a bit bulky, so Wang Zheng planned to place this Franc cannon on Penglai Water City.

However, Penglai Water City is so big, and there is no such thing as this Franc machine gun, Wang Zheng immediately asked for a cannon from the Yamen of the Governor of Denglai, and asked Gu Junen from the Staff Office of the Military Council to write it.

Xingwen soon arrived at Denglai Fuzhi in Ye County, but the current governor of Denglai is no longer Yang Wenyue but Xu Renlong, and the general soldier of Denglai is not Wu Weizhong, but Han Dahu.

Yang Wenyue and Wu Weizhong had already left for Henan a few months ago to take up their posts and suppress the Liukou.

Originally, Wang Zheng was worried that the newly arrived governor of Denglai would not be as easy to talk as Yang Wenyue, after all, Yang Wenyue had Wu Weizhong's help, and he also understood that people were naturally easy to talk.

The efficiency of the Denglai Governor's Yamen was surprisingly high this time, and the text was just sent in, and it was sent back in a few days, and in less than half a month, the first batch of large and small copper cannons had been transported to Penglai.

Also transported were the long-overdue Dengzhou Mansion Water Camp Silver and the armor and weapons of the sailors, which made Wang Zheng feel strange, so he immediately sent people to inquire around.

The new governor of Denglai, Xu Renlong, is a native of Shangyu, a Jinshi in Wanli years, and served as the director of the Ministry of Industry in Wanli years, supervising Hunan, and his political performance evaluation was excellent that year, and the imperial court promoted him to Su Song's military preparation and deputy envoy according to the inspection.

In terms of the ability to learn alone, Xu Renlong is no less than Yang Wenyue, he has made many achievements in politics and the evaluation is almost all good, and the world evaluates his "righteousness, faithfulness and bravery", and has successively served as Wuchang Dao to participate in politics, the right of the Inspectorate of the Imperial History, the right of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Industry.

However, there is one thing that Xu Renlong did surprise Wang Zheng, he has only been the governor of Denglai for a few months, and the governor's yamen has almost changed a group of people.

I don't know if the new officials have been acting like this for the three times, and they have been drastically dismissed and replaced with a group of officials who have done nothing.

Yang Wenyue tried his best to maintain it when he was in office, not because he didn't want to do it, because it involved too much to do, and he always wanted to enter Beijing, but Xu Renlong was dedicated to doing practical things when he first arrived, so he obviously didn't take this into account.

It is said that after Xu Renlong dismissed the officials, he immediately took a group of new officials from the governor of the yamen to personally go out to "supervise" and go to various places in Laizhou Prefecture to inspect on the spot.

Xu Renlong is so concerned, but the generals in various places are in trouble, they have always been able to get by, eat and drink together, and it is not a month or even a few months since the military equipment of Laizhou Mansion has been abolished, it has been a matter for many years.

Xu Renlong, the governor of Denglai, went to various places, and suddenly worried the civil and military officials, and the generals hurriedly recruited the displaced people to enlist in the army and sent people to repair the city wall to make a show, while the civil officials were busy running around to clear the way and make some connections.

In short, the current Laizhou Mansion is very busy.

Regarding Xu Renlong's back and forth visits, Wang Zheng didn't panic at all, but became more and more curious about this person.

When the military salary was sent down from Ye County, it was not small, it was more than 3,000 taels, but when it arrived in Penglai, there were only more than 800 taels left.

Those armor weapons are not very good, 300 pairs of old leather armor, more than 300 waist knives, Dong Youyin tried the waist knife, saying that it was hard to hack pigs to death with this broken thing, and it was to find death when he took it into battle.

The quality of these things is poor, and it is impossible for Wang Zheng to send them to the Dengzhou battalion.

However, it was a pity to throw them all away like this, so Wang Zheng instructed Fan Ruohai, the head of the Inspection Division, that there were a lot of tattered armor and weapons in the inner library, and asked him to go out for a walk again, and find other parts of the officers and soldiers to sell the displaced people.

Wang Zheng spoke, and Fan Ruohai had no choice but to agree with a bitter face.

Anyway, he did a lot of this thing, and he was already familiar with the road, and he went to Jining the next day, and then went north after a few days...

The quality of the cannons is not bad, more than 400 large and small copper and iron cannons have been shipped, and although they are a little old, at least seventy percent of them are usable.

There were some unexpected surprises, Xu Renlong actually brought six general cannons to himself!

This is a heavy artillery of Wanli years, although the range power is far less than the famous Hongyi cannon at that time, it is also an old version, and the soldiers in the border town have long been eliminated, but it is enough for Wang Zheng now.

After six general cannons and hundreds of large and small copper and iron cannons were installed on Penglai Water City, the craftsmen began to renovate it.

Wang Zheng's treatment was excellent, and the craftsmen were naturally concerned about the renovation of Penglai Water City, and some of the main craftsmen discussed for a few days, and they were familiar with the structure and then found Wang Zheng.

It is said that if you want to completely renovate the water city, even the inner and outer cities of Penglai have to be started, and some connection points need to be demolished and rebuilt, which is a big project.

However, Wang Zheng did not spare any money in this regard, and sent a message to mobilize the army and the people, and the officers and soldiers and the people worked together.

As for the homeless people and the people who have settled in Dengzhou Prefecture, all the two meals a day to help build the city are full, and the wages are paid daily, and the amount of silver they can get is not the same depending on the degree of complexity.

For example, if you don't know anything, you just help carry the materials, but if you know how to do something, you can get more silver, and the more complicated the work you do, the more silver you will get.

If you do a good job, you are more likely to be favored by the Marshal's Mansion and go to some places under its jurisdiction to work as a helper.

At that time, the treatment will be better, and I heard that not only will the money be paid monthly, but the officials and soldiers will help you build a house, and you will be able to get a share of the surplus land.

Penglai City and outside the city ushered in a big start, inside and outside the city are almost all soldiers and civilians carrying materials back and forth, "ding-dong" a day of changes.

Having said that, those businessmen will naturally not let go of this kind of good opportunity to make money, and they will buy whatever money they make.

Forty percent of the goods transported by the caravans became refurbished materials, and bluestone, jade plates, various timbers, etc., were continuously transported to Penglai City.

In this way, the progress of renovating the new city was much faster, but the silver in Wang Zheng's hand was spent like water.

Fortunately, there is a lot of money to earn and a lot to save, and building a city will not hurt the muscles and bones.