With the second supply fleet from the Xuzhou side, I once again sent me a more unexpected news. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

From overseas, the sixteen wealthy families in Luzon led by the Tang clan of the Shada giant are willing to support and repay the Huai Army's military expenses in Andong through the channels and connections of their in-laws Lu Wuguan;

As long as I agree with a nod of my head, more than a dozen ships loaded with rice, sugar, palm oil, brass, tin ingots, lead, phosphorite, sulfur, and other products will arrive soon, and 220,000 yuan will be transferred to the account of the local Huiyuan sub-cabinet.

And the other party didn't make any specific requests, just claimed that it was just a part of the respect for many years of exchanges, which is really a great thing that falls from the daytime.

After all, military spending is like flowing water, and if it can be supplemented by external channels, the more the better.

However, there are not too many things in this world that have nothing to do, and since there are no specific requirements for this service to help the soldiers, this also means that the other party has a long-term or deeper demand.

Of course, to save me, it can still be vaguely local, because of the imperial court's levy and the bias of the appointees, which led to considerable tension between the local government and the feudal family; Rather than these things being looted and expropriated by the envoys sent by the imperial court, it is better to use them to invest in the Northland, which can be regarded as a potential outlet and channel.

Moreover, their current capital injection and donation did not use indirect means and channels to expand the purpose of the hidden mountain, headed by the economic and strategic envoy Lu Wuguan, to speak and have a sense of existence within Huaizhen.

The analysis and reminders attached to the enigmatic creature opened up a new way of thinking for me.

They may have expected the land of Anton, which had been pacified by conquest; Once order and governance are restored, the local population base and land output are also considered to be a potential emerging market of considerable size;

Moreover, compared with the seventeen states of Huaibei that have been run by me like iron barrels, plus the five states of Henan that are relatively ruined, the land of Andong is obviously a blank place with limited risks but full of business opportunities; Especially after the Boluo Society and its related forces have been uprooted, it is no wonder that they will slightly reach this aspect.

But to me, if they try to do so, it is not unacceptable; After the gradual elimination and banning of the local presence close to the Boluo Society, I also need to have enough new blood and resources from outside to fill the gap in local needs;

It's just that there are entry thresholds and restrictions on specific conditions, and then appropriately introduce multi-faceted competition to ensure that Huai Town will always grasp and occupy the dominant advantage.

After all, whether it is by sea or land, if you want to travel between Anton, you must transfer and relay through the mainland of Huaizhen, not to mention the overwhelming advantage of the political, economic and military proximity to the water, which is enough to make these foreign forces even if they become bigger, it is not so easy to turn around and end up.

However, what is surprising is that among the recent wave of merchant ships that routinely come north, there are actually two sea ships from Xinzhou, which makes the local merchant and shipping departments a little serious.

After all, although the successive dynasties encouraged the development and operation of foreign countries, and relatively freely opened up the non-governmental maritime trade activities to foreign areas, but limited by the technical and cost bottlenecks of the design and manufacture of large ships required for crossing the ocean, in fact, the most and most intensive foreign overseas routes were mainly along the continental edge or the island groups in the seas, and the relay and transshipment type of offshore transportation trade was carried out;

And the technology of building large ocean-going ships that can travel to and from distant places like Xinzhou has always been monopolized by the imperial court and a very small number of authorized top giants through various upstream and downstream channels.

If Huaidong can directly open a super-ocean trade route corresponding to the Xinzhou continent, it will undoubtedly be a financial route and channel that has completely fallen from the sky. After all, there are some resources and specialties that are only available in the north, and even in the trade under the control of the Lingnai court, they are irreplaceable.

After all, being able to pry the corners of the country is undoubtedly a pleasant thing.

And the war in the land of Liaodong is still continuing, with the good news and war news of the three roads that are advancing together, the battle flag is flying and the golden drum is noisy, and the roar of guns and cannons one after another continues to sweep in the battlefield of large and small encounters and fierce battles.

After my army on the middle route had broken through in the same way, and had crossed another important Liaodi town, Yanyuan City, the great paddy fields of the southern Liaoning Plain, which were planted with rice, began to be replaced by the more solid dry lands in the middle reaches of the Liaohe River.

And between these ridges, you can faintly see clumps of beans or wheat straw rotting in the ground, it seems that the predecessors of these crops have not had time to be harvested, they have been completely abandoned and barren and rotted in a disorderly manner.

In addition, it is said that in the past two years, due to continuous disputes and turmoil, the local water conservancy and irrigation systems have been poorly maintained, and the resulting local famine and harvest failures have also been one after another.

So far, Houlu has sheltered and managed the population of local households, reaching about 130,000 people, and this only refers to the population under the direct control of the local takeover and maintenance institutions, not counting the wandering population in the control area who still have a family business and the hidden household registration that has not been counted for the time being;

Although more than half of them are old and weak, women and children, a small number of young and middle-aged people have been drawn out to participate in the military transportation and manpower labor at the front; In any case, the long-awaited spring ploughing production has been in full swing in large areas of the rear along with the cattle and livestock, seeds, and farm tools that cannot be lived.

Of course

After the main points of Tsuruno Castle and Iwabuchi Castle were defeated, the battles that continued to advance in the southern Liaoning region were not completely over, and there were still some places where they continued to resist stubbornly to the end because of unforgivable general orders.

The frequency and number of battles that followed began to become intense. But it was useless, it was more like a dying struggle in a sense, because according to the confessions of the capture, most of the local organized and organized forces had retreated to the side of Liaocheng County.

Those who remained were all those who were reluctant to give up their territory and population, or who were lucky enough to think that they could survive by their own strength, or who thought that they could rely on their strength to get compromises and preferential conditions from the Huai army, but obviously they were all disappointed.

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When the news from the south came back, the big and small forces in other parts of Liaodi who sat back and watched the changes finally changed color and were no longer calm.

"How unreasonable."

"This generation is really a wolf's ambition."

"This is the way to cut us off and cut us off."

"Is this going to kill us all?"

Lamentations and canine wails like these rippled and echoed in the midst of all sorts of local powers, as the messengers rushed to and fro.

Because according to the confessions of the survivors who fled back without their lives, after the Huai army defeated the local resistance, it was the old Luo clan that played the banner of Anton's defense army that began to appear in groups on the place, and there was an exclusive time for all kinds of crazy revenge and settling accounts after the autumn, which could not help but put everyone in danger.

After all, in the process of the decline and demise of the Luo Domain, a large number of careerists and rebellious elements were born and emerged, and most of the remaining people today also played a certain role and position that directly or indirectly contributed to the trouble.

"Quick, come and negotiate."

"I don't want any more territory and no more people."

"I just want to be able to live with my family, so I will go overseas."

This is the choice of some small and medium-sized forces who are lonely and feel pessimistic and disappointed.

"Let's go to Liaodong City,"

And under this trend, more people have made such a choice.

"I don't believe how many of us work together to do one place, and there is nothing we can do against those foreign Huai troops." (To be continued.) )