Yu Guozhen stepped on the muddy ground with one shallow foot, and there was no joy or anger on his face.

"It's raining at this time, it's really cheap!"

Ji Yan, who was following him, muttered, but Zhang Zheng was still expressionless, and Mao Yuanyi smiled a little.

Originally, Yu Guozhen's plan was to rest for four days, wait for supplies to follow, and then continue to pursue Jianyu's right-wing army. His plan was to delay the construction of the captives as much as possible in the area from Weixian to Jiaozhou, forcing the captives to consume a large amount of grain and grass. Then in the mountainous areas around Qingzhou, he kept attacking and harassing Jianlu, dragging the fat and thin Jianyu to death. However, the town of Tingkou did not achieve the expected campaign goal, and Huwei had to turn to rest, and the rest was not over, and the sky was not beautiful, and winter rain began.

If it snows, it's fine, but rain is really not a good thing for the tiger guards, who rely mainly on firearms. Although the flintlock pistol could not be affected by ordinary rain when firing, the storage and transportation of gunpowder became a major problem, and Yu Guozhen finally abandoned the original plan, considering the possible loss caused by the slightest carelessness.

But he was not idle for a few days.

In the places where Jianyu passed, the government almost completely collapsed, and a large number of refugees had nothing to rely on. In the past few days, Yu Guozhen has sent people to spread rumors everywhere, only saying that there is food to be put in Qingdao, and at the same time organizing people to meet along the way, and a large number of people have dragged their children and daughters to Qingdao with their only property on their backs. The winter rain lasted only two days, and by today it had cleared, but the ground had become muddy. At noon, the ground thaws under the sun, making it even more difficult to walk. It added a bit of difficulty to the people and the tiger guard.

The people who were rescued in Tingkou Town and Gaomi City took the lead, and the total number was about 30,000 people.

The action of these 30,000 people. It is not an easy task, the people help the old and the young to move forward, its speed and the tiger guard advance is completely different things, if the tiger guard is in a state of rapid marching, it is normal to run a hundred miles a day and night, but the people can walk ten miles a day is amazing. Naturally, this refers to letting the people go on their own, and Huwei has sheltered more people over the years. Naturally, they have their own way of organizing.

“…… Not afraid of wind, not afraid of rain, when you arrive in Xinxiang, you have your own rice, and you don't donate. Pay less food, and everyone in Hoi An will be happy. Old hen, stew pot soup, big fat pig, fat sausage. The man who eats is oily, and the girl's heart is hot......"

Almost every mile, a tiger guard could be seen standing a little higher, waving a tin horn. With a hoarse voice, he made up limericks out of tune. There are even those who knock on the allegro and sing the Tao. Tiger Guard is a professional soldier, but a professional soldier also needs to have a colorful spare time. Yu Guozhen also attaches great importance to the cultivation of this aspect. Therefore, these poets and actors who are not in the mainstream can use the most simple words to encourage the morale of the people at the bottom, so that people who can only walk three or five steps can walk seven or eight steps.

Of course, there are some old and difficult ones, that is, those women with small feet.

This is not difficult for the tiger guards, although under the influence of Yu Guozhen, the women who arrived in Xinxiang were forced to put their feet, but the tiger guards have also accumulated enough methods to deal with women with small feet. Large animals, such as horses and mules, were organized to pull carts, which were filled with small-footed women. Although the special transport vehicle of Xinxiang has not been completely replaced with rubber tires at this time, its structure is more flexible than that of ordinary large cars, its own lightweight, large load capacity, and it is not a problem to stuff more than 20 women and children into a car.

In addition, it is pushed by the men of the family with a wheelbarrow, which is almost available in every family.

"When I arrived in Xinxiang, I really ...... Have food to eat and meat to eat? ”

A woman sitting on one side of a wheelbarrow held a baby in a swaddling bag and muttered to her husband in the cart.

"Nanhai Bo said yes, then there is!" The black and thin man reluctantly laughed: "Moreover, there is no Jianyu over there!" ”

Yes, as long as there are no prisoners, they will always be able to earn food by virtue of their hard work!

These words reached Qi Niu's ears, Qi Niu didn't hum, and glanced back at Yu Guozhen.

"If you want help, go ahead, there won't be any safety problems here." Yu Guozhen said.

Qi Niu smiled, and then went to help the people. There are many tiger guards who help the people like him, and along the way, many people can call out the familiar name of the tiger guard.

And the people's trust in Yu Guozhen is built up bit by bit in such details.

"The lord is still not at ease, he wants to run in person?" Mao Yuanyi couldn't help but say: "No matter how big or small, it's not the way to go." ”

"That's true, but where I am in charge of some specific things, I am now a drum, where to beat it, and then the morale of the tiger guard is greatly boosted." Yu Guozhen teased himself.

He knew his role, and as long as he showed up along the way, encouraging and praising those tiger guards who did specific things would play a very big role in boosting morale. Sometimes, the person who does the work doesn't even need your praise, as long as you show up and show that your hard work is seen by you, then they are very satisfied.

The sound of horses' hooves came head-on, and in order to avoid traffic jams, the tiger guards had already guided the people to the right side of the road, so the oncoming tiger guards ran unaffected. He ran to Yu Guozhen, dismounted and saluted, and handed a letter to Yu Guozhen.

"Mr. Zhang's letter says that it is fully prepared, let us rest assured." Yu Guozhen took it apart and looked at it, then said to Mao Yuanyi with a smile.

Zhang Chi's letter briefly described his preparations at the mouth of Qingdao, and although it was concise, the content was very detailed, which was the style of writing that Yu Guozhen had always advocated. At the time of the Ming Dynasty, although the population of Shandong'dong was not as good as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huguang, Jiangxi'xi, and Fu'jian, it was also a large population of the political secretary, and the total registered population of Shandong'dong in Chongzhen for three years was about 10.66 million people, although natural disasters continued in the past nine years, and the population showed negative growth, but Yu Guozhen and Mao Yuanyi and others estimated after discussion that after this war, the entire Shandong's east will produce about 2 million victims. The population of Beizhili was 10.79 million in the third year of Chongzhen, and now there should be seven or eight million, and the suffering is heavier than that of Shandong, and there are only three million refugees.

These valuable populations. For Yu Guozhen, it is a wealth that is difficult to buy, and even more so for the future of the whole of China.

Therefore, Yu Guozhen decided to take advantage of the opportunity to go south this time. If the plan to recruit 200,000 to 300,000 refugees to the south in Beizhili and Shandong'dong can be realized, Yu Guozhen estimates that in another year, the population under the Xinxiang system will exceed one million!

One million is a threshold, and after this threshold, Yu Guozhen can guarantee that the influence of Xinxiang can set off the entire Ming Dynasty.

"The ship thing. It's still a big trouble, and it's not easy to go to Xinxiang from here. Mao Yuanyi said.

"Two more years will be fine...... Even next year will be fine, and now the expansion of the Longmen Shipyard should be completed, increasing the capacity to build eight warships of more than 1,500 tons and two large ships of more than 3,000 tons. ”

Yu Guozhen replied casually. The key factor in this step is that Xinxiang solves the forging problem of steel keel. Previously, hydraulic forging was too restricted, especially the limited weight of hydraulic forging hammers, so when the steam forging hammer appeared, the length of the steel keel began to multiply.

And. The test of the steam turbine has also begun, and how to use steam to power the ship is a problem that Song Yingxing is now trying to solve, and Yu Guozhen has experience as a seafarer. Therefore, the dark wheel was directly proposed, skipping the paddle wheel era of the original steamship. This also places new demands on the hull design.

"Do you want to ask the Zheng family for help?"

"The Zheng family won't make a move, even if they do. Nor are the conditions put forward to be acceptable to us. Yu Guozhen shook his head: "I got the news that they are already desperately building ships, and even began to contact the Dutch, hoping that the Dutch can provide warships." ”

"What do they want to do?" Mao Yuanyi was taken aback.

Zheng Zhilong has always regarded the East China Sea as his own source of wealth, and the route to the Japanese country is regarded as a forbidden twin, although we are very careful not to directly touch his interests, but he will not sit back and watch us grow."

The support of Amakusa Shiro Shizhen came from a chance encounter with Shogishi, and in the despair of not getting the support of Europeans who also believed in evil gods, Amakusa Shiro looked forward to the warship of the Shinxiang Fishery Administration, which made him grateful to Shinxiang and believed that Shinxiang was sent by his evil god, so he tried his best to flatter some of Shogishi's requests, such as the abduction of local women. With this stronghold, all kinds of products of Xinxiang were dumped towards the Wa State, which made the Wa State handicraft industry generally bankrupt, and those samurai feudal lords were also shy in their pockets.

This has indirectly affected Zheng Zhilong's earnings.

"He's ambitious, and he doesn't look at his own abilities." Mao Yuanyi sneered.

"It is best to delay until the year after tomorrow to solve the problem of the Zheng family, I estimate that the Zheng family will really turn its face, and it will also be a matter of the year after tomorrow." Yu Guozhen said.

The two were silent for a while, and Mao Yuanyi said with a smile: "Let's continue to talk about how to settle these people, 200,000 people, do you think Tamluo can be settled?" ”

"Tamna is just a base, you didn't go with me to see it last time, the house over there is enough for 200,000 people. The key is fuel, whether it is cooking or heating, it requires a lot of coal, which has to be transported from Qingdao to that side. ”

After the Battle of Phi Dao at the end of the ninth year of Chongzhen and the beginning of the tenth year, tens of thousands of adobe houses were erected on Tamna Island in the shortest possible time for the evacuated people from Dongjiang Town to live. Now that half of these houses are vacant, as long as a few more are built, they can be used as temporary homes for the people from Shandong. Yu Guozhen's plan was to transport these people to Tamna, where they would stay for about three months to half a year, receive MLM-style training in later generations, and familiarize them with the political and economic order of Xinxiang, and then go to Xinxiang for about three months to visit and practice, and then they could be resettled in Xinhang, Hoi An and other places after strengthening.

While discussing the specific steps of the placement, suddenly there was the sound of horses' hooves behind him, this time the sound of horses' hooves was much more urgent, obviously something important. Yu Guozhen looked at the sky and said with a smile: "It's rare to have half a day of leisure, it seems that ......"

Before he finished speaking, the Tiger Guard messenger had already arrived, dismounted, saluted, and handed over two copies of emergency military information with chicken feathers. Yu Guozhen opened the first one and looked at it, and his face suddenly changed: "Dolgon...... What a cunning! ”