It's September, and although the weather has become colder, it has not yet frozen outside Qinhuangdao.

Han Er held the bowl and ate all the porridge in the bowl, sighing with satisfaction.

The sweetness of sweet potatoes is still swirling on the tip of the tongue, and this newly introduced food to the north has now become an important staple food for daily consumption. With two meals a day, sweet potatoes can be used as both rice and vegetables, which is really a treasure for poor families.

"Sweet potatoes taste good, right?" Guo Si next to him came over, he was not tall, and described as thin: "This is thanks to the southern thief, I heard that Yu Guozhen strongly asked to plant in the east of the mountain, which came to us, as well as potatoes and corn cobs...... Tsk, you said that Yu Guozhen has such skills, why didn't we vote for him, but went over there. ”

After entering the customs, Wu Sangui handed over the guards of Shanhaiguan to Jianyu, in order to show his sincerity in taking refuge, and rebuilt Yuguan in the southwest of Shanhaiguan, but now it is only a sentry post, and it would be good to set off beacon fire in an emergency. Han Er and Guo Si are the defenders sent here, both of them are leftovers, naturally they are not the kind of big men, and they are really inconspicuous above this Guancheng.

"Over there, I am willing to spend gold and silver, and I voted for the lord over there, I can be a marquis, and I voted for Yu Guozhen, Yu Guozhen has a general in his hand, what way out can the general have, go back to his hometown and become a rich man, a quick catch and a rope can tie him away."

"Also, the general is a generation of famous generals, if he goes back to his hometown to be a rich man, what does it mean, and now the rich man has nothing to offer. I can't even hold a tenant! ”

Guo Si was talking about the economic impact that Xinxiang had brought to the whole of China, and even in Shandong's and Liangguang, which Yu Guozhen controlled, he could not help but annex land by the people—the agrarian revolution was certainly a good medicine for the revolution, but he now had better means at his disposal, and he did not need to adopt such drastic methods.

From the point of view of future large-scale agriculture, land concentration is inevitable. However, it is important to note the question of how to resettle the landless yeoman farmers, which is fundamental. Yu Guozhen saw this, he needed a lot of manpower. Farmers who lost their land due to land changes were sent to factories and mines, and to the South China Sea and the East China Sea. There are jobs there.

In this way, the landlords who annexed the land suddenly found that the tenants' waists were suddenly stiffened, and they wanted to reduce rents and interest rates, and even the long-term workers were clamoring for money, and if they did not agree, they went to the Huaxia Industry Bureau, a large organization under the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee, which arranged all the training and employment matters in a unified manner. Originally, the landlords could use their own thugs to deal with these dishonest people, but the militia immediately intervened, and gradually, even most of the thugs found out. To help the landlord carry the work, it is better to persuade the industry bureau to obey the arrangement.

As a result, the landlord could only watch the land he bought by taking advantage of the famine to be abandoned and barren, holding tens of millions of acres of land deeds in his hands, but he could not mention artificial help. This situation made the landlord very confused and changed the past. These poor mud-legged people have no way out but to obediently accept their exploitation, but they are overwhelmed by the fact that this situation has not been encountered in thousands of years.

Yu Guozhen doesn't want to touch them for the time being, and it will be two to three years later. When these landlords are accustomed to having a large amount of land in their hands but have nothing to gain, at that time, the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee can come forward and adopt the method of acquisition to buy the abandoned land from their hands. In fact, this method is also a kind of deprivation of landlords who take advantage of the famine years to destroy other people's land, but this kind of deprivation is more hidden.

"Shhhhhhh......h Depending on the situation, is it a caravan? ”

"It must be selling southern goods, the Qing nobles in Liaodi, the most like Di Gong wine in the south, and all kinds of glassware. It's a pity that we are guarding the beacon tower, and the brothers below can reap some benefits. ”

"Don't worry, we can't do it, otherwise who else wants to go to the beacon?"

While the two were talking, from the southwest, a group of vendors came slowly, this group of vendors walked slowly, the camels on horseback looked quite heavy, and there was no shortage of goods to sell. Guo Si calculated, a total of forty-five camels, which is a considerable caravan.

The camel team soon arrived under the city pass, and its own guards stepped forward to negotiate, Guo Si looked at the negotiating companion with envy, and then realized that the person who came had given his companion a slap in the face.

"It's the other way around, it's the other way around, these businessmen dare to do the same!" Guo Siwei shouted.

"Shhhh

Immediately afterwards, they heard the quarrel over there, some people in the caravan stepped forward to help, some people walked away as if nothing happened, and those porters were even more smiling and watching the excitement, they heard the caravan report on the beacon tower, it was a person sent by the Qing Emperor's merchant Fan family, no wonder it was so arrogant and domineering.

So the military attache above them had to be careful to laugh, the imperial merchant Fan family was extraordinary, and they were in the list of traitors announced by the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee, and their ranking was slightly lower than Wu Sangui and others. When it comes to their status in the hearts of the Manchu nobles, I'm afraid that Wu Sangui can't compare to them.

"Looks like it's been a failure...... Hey, why did you come here, go down, go down, this is a beacon tower, idle people, etc., you can't ...... Yes! ”

Guo Si was about to drive down the porter who had gone to the beacon tower in chaos, but saw one of them grinning, showing his white teeth: "I'm sorry, please move the two of you." ”

"Bold, don't think you are the Fan family...... Fan Jia......"

Guo Si saw the short gun in front of him, his voice began to tremble, Han Er was ruthless, he turned over and wanted to pounce on the fire pond to get the fire, but he was kicked over.

Immediately afterwards, the bottom also moved.

In the blink of an eye, the Wu Sangui soldiers guarding Xinyu Pass were all restrained, and then stripped naked, and Guo Si and Han Er were tied together naked.

"You two want to be happy, together." One of the vendors came up and laughed when he saw the two men tied up naked.

Immediately afterwards, Han Er saw a person he knew, this person was really the shopkeeper of the Imperial Merchant Fan family, and Fang Cai was looking at him, so everyone didn't have any suspicions. He nodded and looked at the person who was ridiculing them: "General Wang, is today's incident considered my Fan family's meritorious service?" ”

"Naturally, the Fan family knows how to practice, this is very good, our commander has always been overly successful, the Fan family can rest assured, as long as the main force of Jianyu can be left in the pass this time, then the legal property of the Fan family in the future can be guaranteed!"

This General Wang was thought by Wu Sangui and Jianyu to be Wang Haoran, who was still guarding Yanzhou and Xuzhou.

"Mr. Shi Min, Wu Sangui definitely didn't expect that we would appear here." Seeing that the entire Yuguan was already under control, Wang Haoran sent a messenger, and after about ten minutes, ships began to appear on the sea. From the first small boat on the shore, Mao Yuanyi walked down, although he was over half a hundred years old, he was still full of energy, and the spirit of the whole person was no different from that of a person in his thirties and forties.

Even his skills are extremely agile.

Hearing Wang Haoran's words, Mao Yuanyi stepped on his feet hard: "That's natural, Wu Sangui and Jianyu all thought that we would attack Liaodong directly and take Shenyang as the target, but they didn't want to think about it, the commander's appetite was bigger than they imagined, or that sentence, people and land are lost, people and land are saved, people and land are destroyed, as long as all the elites of Jianyu who enter the pass are killed, the land of Liaodong is not at your fingertips!" ”

"However, there is still a flaw in the commander's plan, fighting with Jianyu, Mr. Shi Min, you didn't come north, this is the biggest flaw." Wang Haoran laughed: "If it were me, I would definitely know that the goal of our army is Liaodong after all." ”

"So in the newspapers these days, haven't you noticed that I appear more often, observing military exercises and meeting with outstanding soldiers."

When Mao Yuanyi said this, he opened his arms and made a hugging gesture towards the northeast: "How many years, ten years?" Twenty years? The old man is finally back here today, with a male soldier! ”

He followed Sun Chengzong to guard Liaodong, Qinhuangdao and Shanhaiguan very early, and never less. In the east, the water and sky are vast, and the Huaxia Army of the brigade is landing, and in order to facilitate the transportation of heavy equipment, the Huaxia Army that has gone ashore under the command of the engineering corps has begun to build a simple wharf. Looking at this scene, Mao Yuanyi couldn't help but think of Cao Cao's famous poem: "The east is adjacent to the Jieshi to watch the sea...... Fortunately, even ah, the song is a song! ”

His lifelong ambition was to eliminate Jianyu, and he was originally exiled to Fujian, and he thought that there was no chance to realize his ambition in this life, until he was recommended and came to Yu Guozhen's side.

By Yu Guozhen's side, he realized that many of the things he thought were right were ridiculous. In less than ten years, he returned to Shanhaiguan, and further, Liaodong.

"The next thing is to recover Shanhaiguan, this is only the first step of victory, we can't stop yet." Wang Haoran saluted Mao Yuanyi: "Chief of Staff, please give an order, I will go to capture Shanhaiguan!" ”

"Go ahead, I'll lead the team to pick you up." Mao Yuanyi returned the military salute.

As the two of them said, Yu Guozhen never set his goal only on defeating Wu Sangui and Dolgon from the beginning. His goal is the whole of Liaodong, but he is not willing to drill a ravine with Jianyu in the ice and snow, the best way is naturally to lure Jianyu into North China, and then intercept his retreat, and completely eliminate it in the vast North China Plain.

The more troops Dolgon mobilized and the more resources he had, the more he wanted it.

Dolgon always thought that Yu Guozhen would attack Huanglong, leaving troops to guard the coast of Liaodong, and concentrating his forces to support Wu Sangui, and fighting a decisive battle with Yu Guozhen in the area from Tianjin to Shandong. Yu Guozhen ordered Wang Haoran to go to Tamluo Island alone to meet with Jiangan and Mao Yuanyi, and led the third batch of elite soldiers to the north, and chose to land in the area of Qinhuangdao and Guangningwei on the north and south sides of Shanhaiguan, and he did not expect that Fan Yongdou, the imperial merchant Fan Yongdou, who brought him the news of the mobilization of the militia in the east of Shandong, also reached a secret contact with Yu Guozhen!