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If the site is selected according to the requirements of wartime, it must be the first place to be stationed in the barracks, preferably with a condescending view of the nearby river and ready to support the docks.

However, in addition to knowing some military common sense, Li Hongfei did not know how to find strategic places at all, so he could only quietly dump this arduous task to Guo Sheng.

Zhou Furen was also not idle, accompanied by two officials from the Ministry of Commerce, entered Baoshan Town and signed a purchase contract with the mine owners.

Long before the site selection, Zhou Furen had already negotiated the general content with these mine owners, and even the funds were ready, just waiting for Li Hongfei to make a decision.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was no so-called nail household, and there were no more than two kinds of land acquisition by the imperial court, compensation land acquisition and forced expropriation.

Needless to say, forcibly requisitioned, a piece of land is first designated as government land, and then a large number of officers and soldiers go over and drive people out directly, and not a penny will be paid.

However, in order to take care of the interests of the common people, most of the imperial courts will choose to compensate for land acquisition, that is, after some evaluation, give you money equal to the price of the land deed.

Of course, all the land deeds in the mining area are compensated according to the price of the barren land.

Because the mineral mining in the Ming Dynasty has always been undertaken by the government on the surface, but many officials, in the name of mining, filled their own pockets, which eventually led to the imperial court not only being infamous for expropriation, but also not getting a few money.

And the common people were even more miserable, and once rioted because the mining tax was too high.

After tossing back and forth for a long time, the imperial court could not do anything about the mining industry, and even ordered the closure of a large number of mining areas.

The imperial court closed most of the mines, but no one could refute the fact that mining made money, so the local governments cooperated with those big families to secretly open mines, and even rich people like Zhou Furen couldn't stand the huge profits brought by mining.

Mining is indeed profitable, but to put it bluntly, it is illegal to open a mine without permission, and it is already benevolent and righteous to compensate you according to the price of barren land.

If you say that your mine is being mined by the government, then it is easy to say, Li Hongfei is the biggest official in Suzhou, and he wants to expropriate land, do you dare to give it?

What's more, more than 2,000 troops entered the territory of Baoshan Town, which was enough to deter this group of merchants.

As for being secretly scolded by businessmen or scholars, Li Hongfei doesn't care, and don't talk about reasoning, these businessmen can't talk about themselves, even if they can talk about it, in today's era, fists are the last word.

Those literati always like to talk about the use of military force, but throughout history, the rise of no great power is not based on force, and the expansion of the territory of no major country is a group of literati who rely on their words to reason.

Li Hongfei is not a pedantic person, and he also understands the truth that water can carry a boat and can overturn a boat, but he understands even more that this so-called "water" is not the saliva of those literati, as long as the interests of ordinary people are not touched, he will always be invincible.

Guo Sheng and Zhou Furen each led the team to do their own things, and in the fleet, only Li Hongfei and Bi Maokang and other technicians remained.

The equipment on the ship has not yet been unloaded, and Li Hongfei plans to wait for everything to be ready, and then directly transport the equipment to the factory, saving many times of transportation and causing unnecessary losses.

A large group of merchant ships stopped in Baoshan Town, which naturally attracted the attention of the defenders of Chongming Island on the other side of the river.

Not long after, a group of hundreds of warships loaded with artillery sailed towards Li Hongfei's fleet, and a five-story giant warship in the middle fluttered a striking Zhengzi military flag.

"My lord, the leading general on the other side is Zheng Sen, the son of Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian." The sergeant on the merchant ship learned the identity of the opposite fleet through the flag.

"The name Zheng Sen is so familiar, Zheng Zhilong's son........ it! It's Zheng Chenggong! Li Hongfei couldn't help but scream.

"My lord, what's wrong with this Zheng Sen?"

The sergeant thought that the opposite fleet was not good, after all, Zheng Zhilong was not a good stubble.

In his early years, Zheng Zhilong was based on the southeast coast, Taiwan and Japan, and was active in maritime merchants and pirates around the coast (with the change of imperial court policy).

When Zheng Zhilong left Japan to establish a new base in Taiwan, he not only established a powerful private navy, but also followed the example of the Ming Dynasty to set up an official establishment in Taiwan, forming a separatist regime that began to take shape.

In 1628, Zheng Zhilong was appeased by the Ming court, and the official went to the general army of Fujian, which was not so much an official of the imperial court, but a powerful pirate.

Zheng Zhilong is notorious, and his son has not yet emerged, so everyone naturally does not know what the other party's temperament is.

You must know that on these merchant ships, there are more than one million taels of silver, as well as a lot of firearms manufacturing equipment, in case this son has a virtue with Lao Tzu, he directly got on the ship to rob this batch of supplies, and then surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this group of people has no place to reason, so can you not be nervous.

"Quick! Raise the flag and inform the officer that he is on board. "I will be able to meet the national hero soon, can Li Hongfei not be excited.

Well, since the prefect took the initiative to "lure the wolf into the room", the sergeant below is not good to say much.

On the lookout of the Chinese warship opposite, there were three generals in battle armor.

The person in the center is about twenty years old, with long black and vertical hair, and slanted sword eyebrows.

This person is Zheng Sen, Zheng Chenggong, who led the troops for the first time.

There is a person standing on the left side of Zheng Chenggong, who is also heroic, with a sword at his waist and a three-eyed gun in his hand, which is Li Hongfei's old acquaintance, Qi Hongying, the general soldier of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

The person on Zheng Chenggong's right, about forty years old, with a beard, looks uninhibited, dark and dry skin, probably caused by staying at sea all year round, wind and sun.

"It's not a merchant ship on the other side, it's the official ship of Li Hongfei, the prefect of Suzhou, and the other party invited me to board the ship, what does the second uncle think?" Zheng Chenggong put down the clairvoyance in his hand, turned his head and said to the beard.

It turned out that this person was Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Zhihu.

"Fu Song (Zheng Chenggong's young name) This is your first time leading troops, you are the commander of the fleet, you can decide for yourself." Zheng Zhihu reminded.

"In this way, the nephew will be the king of Suzhou for a while!" Zheng Chenggong decided.

Li Hongfei's prestige has spread with the holy decree, and the title of "King of Suzhou" is even more well-known.

"This official will go with you." Qi Hongying said.

During the time she came to Chongming Island, she had been dealing with Zheng Zhihu, in order to have a good relationship with Zheng Zhihu's sailors, so that in the event of a battle, the other party could be reinforced in time.

However, Zheng Zhihu, an old fox, after receiving a lot of benefits, directly shook his hand and handed over the fleet to Zheng Chenggong, who had just turned twenty, and Qi Hongying's previous efforts were in vain.

Now in order to win over Zheng Chenggong, Qi Hongying has to often run to the side of the sailor, today happened to talk with Zheng Chenggong, just heard that a large number of merchant ships came upstream, in order to get closer, Qi Hongying took the initiative to ask to go on the ship to observe Zheng Chenggong commanding the sailor.

At this time, I heard that it was Li Hongfei sitting on the merchant ship opposite, and Qi Hongying was curious, so she also wanted to follow her to have a look.