It seems that a large number of people will be needed, and the dock will have to be built first, and we will be able to transport iron ore by rail by May next year. ”

Yu Guozhen's place of speech is Shilu, his initial idea was to directly use the ship to transport iron ore, but after learning more here, he found that although the precipitation here is abundant, it is concentrated in the rainy season, and in the dry season, the local Li people even have difficulty drinking water, and there is a sigh of "one person drinking water and three people". At the beginning, Su Shi was belittled here, and he recorded in the article: "The northeast of Changyi, near Liqi, is high and dry, and the people take slash-and-burn farming as their business. The southwest floating sand overflows, reclamation for the field, must accumulate the power of cattle, trample for a long time, make it solid, can inject water into farming. Riding on a windmill to get water for irrigation, or dropping out of work will not succeed......"

Therefore, it is unrealistic to transport the ore directly from Shilu by ship, and the ore must first be transported to the Fork River by rail car, and then loaded on the ship in the Fork River, to the old city of Haiwei in the north of the mouth of the Changhua River, where it will be reloaded into a sea ship and then transferred to Xinxiang. This means that at least two wharves should be built, one is at the intersection of the Fork River and the Changhua River, a small wharf for river boats to carry goods, and the other is a large seaport in Haiwei Old City.

Fortunately, the number of infrastructure construction corps in Xinxiang has swelled unprecedentedly, and those who have just come to Xinxiang have not yet learned other skills, and it is always possible to dig roads and pave stones on infrastructure construction sites, so Yu Guozhen can draw enough manpower. As long as the health and epidemic prevention work can keep up and the accidental mortality rate of labor is controlled within a certain limit, there is no need to worry about their mood swings.

If chaos is born today, it is not easy to find a job that can eat enough to get enough money and allow the family to live a decent life, and the more separated people go by, the more they cherish this.

"Yes."

"The railroad is not in a hurry, first pave the stone road leading to the fork river wharf in the mining area, and deal with the local Li people, we are not short of money, Hugh wants to save a few pennies to make the local Li people make trouble."

"Nanhai Bo just rest assured, I will do this!"

Wan Shihua almost patted his chest to set up a military order, Yu Guozhen said with a smile: "Although Zhang Tianru is asking for you on the surface, in fact, I just borrowed his name, if I am not bad, in February of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, you can take office, then before that, get the dirt road out, I will let Xinxiang prepare the railroad for you, and after you take office, you can promote the track auxiliary." ”

"Twenty miles, and with so much preparation and plenty of manpower, I can do it!"

Yu Guozhen's slightly nagging instructions did not make Wan Shihua unhappy, on the contrary, he felt a great responsibility on his body. In addition to Hu Jingshui, the governor of Hoi An, the general an of Yicheng, and Zhang Zheng, the governor of Xinhang, he is the fourth person under the Xinxiang system to get the opportunity to take charge alone!

Moreover, Yu Guozhen repeatedly emphasized the significance of steel to Xinxiang, especially after seeing the steam engine and other things that require a lot of steel consumption, Wan Shihua understands that this is where the future skeleton of Xinxiang lies. Yu Guozhen handed this place over to him, not because there was no one in Xinxiang, but because everything he did after his concept changed fell into Yu Guozhen's eyes.

The two discussed some issues of treating the Li people in the future, Changhua County is close to the sea, the Han people have long lived here, and there are many Li people, and the two sides have some contradictions, but they are generally harmonious. Handle the relationship with them, Wan Shihua has long understood Yu Guozhen's policy, that is, to appease the older generation, naturalize the new generation, and assimilate the next generation.

"I expect that within two to three years the steam engine that can be used for transportation will be available, and then the problem of transportation will be convenient......"

As he was talking, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and then a tiger guard ran along the road.

"Childe, there is an urgent military report!" The tiger guard arrived in front of Yu Guozhen and handed over a folded secret letter in his hand.

Yu Guozhen frowned slightly, opened it and looked at it, and his expression suddenly became solemn.

Wan Shihua knew that he didn't belong to the army system and shouldn't have asked what was going on, but judging from Yu Guozhen's expression, it seemed that something big had happened.

"Jianyu went south again." Yu Guozhen accepted the secret letter, and when he saw Wan Shihua's curiosity, he opened his mouth to explain.

He was a little annoyed in his heart, the secret letter came directly from Liaodong, and Gao Erzhu is now in North Korea, which is the news of Liaodong. Originally, Huwei's intelligence network was only concentrated in the area of Nanzhili and Huguang, and there were only some strongholds near Gyeonggi, Chongzhen captured Shang Kexi at the beginning of the tenth year, and Gao Erzhu got a lot of useful information from him, and then corroborated with the news from North Korea, so he asked Qin Sheng to personally select the Japanese people, pretending to trade with Jianyu, thus establishing an intelligence system in Liaodong. It's just that all this has just begun, and the news is too late.

Not long after Yu Guozhen went south, the Japanese people heard the news that Jianyu was preparing to go on an expedition, but at the beginning all the news said that they were going to conquer the Har barbarians again, but the final result was to divide the troops into two ways to attack the Ming Dynasty.

After receiving the exact news, it was already the first day of September, and the army of the great general of the right wing army of Jianyu, Dorobelle Yuetuo, had already set out for several days, but the secret agents could not spread the news for a long time, and it was not until the fourth day of September that the left wing army led by the general Prince Rui Dolgon also set out, and the news reached Korea, and then spread from the north to the south of Xianguo. When Gao Erzhu got the news, he immediately sent three clippers south, and by the north wind, it took only four days to reach Shanghai, and then it took another twenty-six days to reach Xinxiang.

In other words, the news that Yu Guozhen has received now is already a month ago, and Jianyu is afraid that he has already crossed Gyeonggi.

"Damn...... After the battle of Gyeonggi in Chongzhen's ninth year and the battle of Phi Dao in Chongzhen's tenth year, I thought that Jianyu would take a little rest, but I never thought that they would attack Daming as soon as they were relieved. Yu Guozhen sighed: "But it is also inevitable, when the robbers are hungry, they will naturally be captured." ”

"Inside and outside the court, there are wine bags and rice bags, and the lord really wants to serve the court to the death?" Wan Shihua heard Yu Guozhen talk about military affairs, his heart was agitated, and he couldn't help it, and said angrily: "Your Majesty thinks it must not be!" ”

In his excitement, he changed his title to "lord", and his self-title became "subordinate". After saying that, both of them realized this, but they both felt natural.

Around them, there were either tiger guards or surveyors, all of them were their own people, and there was nothing to hide. Yu Guozhen smiled: "Why did Mr. Maosheng say this? ”

"I'm not the only one who has this question, now there are forty-seven researchers in Xinxiang, and half of them are generally willing to serve the Lord and the public. But the subordinates still have a concern, if the lord only wants to be a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, he will have to hide the bow in the future, and the lord's hard work will be ruined in one fell swoop, and the subordinates will not have to do more. ”

"I look ...... Is it like a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty? ”

"More like anyone else." Wan Shihua was once depressed, the angry middle-aged temper at the beginning, has changed a lot over the years, but after all, he still retains some, when it comes to this, he can't care about anything else, and his words are intense: "Over the years, where has there been any disaster in the Ming Dynasty, and which time has it not been the lord who has stepped forward?" The lord consumed countless blood and financial resources, broke the Liukou in the south Zhili and Huguang, defeated the prisoner in the north Zhili and Phi Dao, and the famous king Shan Yu, who died in the hands of the tiger guard, is Gao Yingxiang, Yangguli and other giant chiefs, and it is also the lord who has won the battle! In the court, the evil is in charge, I don't know how to reuse the lord, and I trust it with military affairs, but I just got a nominal earl, the lord just wants to do something practical for the people of the Ming Dynasty, but I have to worry about someone slandering him, so I have to borrow Zhang Tianru's hand. ”

Speaking of this, Wan Shihua suddenly knelt down: "Lord, the Ming Dynasty will die, and the new Xiang will prosper, why should the lord go to work for the court that is bound to die?" ”

Yu Guozhen was very emotional in his heart.

Wan Shihua is not without loyalty, at the beginning of his arrival in Xinxiang, he was quite loyal to the Ming court. But only in this way will the situation of Xinxiang and Daming be compared, and then from expectation to despair, and then from despair to resentment.

Among Yu Guozhen's subordinates, whether it is the people he cultivated single-handedly, or the Zhang Chi and Song Yingxing who followed later, they actually have a certain vision for the future of Xinxiang, but only Wan Shihua dares to say this longing and dare to say not to die for the Ming Dynasty in front of Yu Guozhen.

pulled Wan Shihua up: "Mr. Maosheng, what you said before makes sense, but the last kneeling becomes unreasonable." ”

"Lord!"

"Your kneeling reminds me of one thing, you once said in "Xinxiang Academic" that the Ming Dynasty is now infected from the court to the people. Although the public dyes of the court are corrupt, they can change the clear stream and the people to their position, and they are also quickly corrupt, and the white sand is in Nirvana, and it is black. So that's what you're talking about today, so let me ask you, how many people are there in my new Xiang at this time? ”

"If you add up all the lands, there will be sixty-nineteen thousand five hundred and one!"

Wan Shihua knew that Yu Guozhen was extremely sensitive to numbers and liked to cite data, so he worked hard, heard Yu Guozhen ask, and blurted out.

"Yes, there are a total of 619,000 people, of which only 2440,000 have truly accepted the concept of Xinxiang, not even half, and the remaining more than 300,000 have just been incorporated into us, as long as they leave the territory of Xinxiang, they will immediately be no different from the rest of the Ming Dynasty, the people you said 'sick'."

"What we are doing is not an overnight cause, but a century-old foundation, which is first and foremost in Shuren. I want everyone in Xinxiang to become a seed in the future, and when they grow into a big tree and have enough resistance power, I will scatter it to the entire Ming Dynasty. It's not like now, this mere 2440,000 people, put in the entire Ming Dynasty, it is like a drop of clean water falling into a pool of ink, and it will only be blackened by ink! ”

When Wan Shihua heard this, he completely understood what Yu Guozhen meant.

This meaning is even more clever than Emperor Taizu Zhu Chongba's "building a high wall, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming the king".

He read and read history thoroughly, so although Yu Guozhen did not explain directly, he still understood the reason why Yu Guozhen repeatedly sent troops to help the imperial court. Yu Guozhen did not save the imperial court, but the people who could be won over to get rid of the disease and turn it into seeds!

How can the people accept the new Xiang in the shortest possible time? There is no more convincing way to rescue them in a desperate situation.

(To be continued)