Riding on the horse, Yu Guozhen looked at the roadbed extending to the southeast in front of him, and his heart was full of joy.

Next to him, Wang Qinian was bored with a slingshot, aiming at the finches in the grass, and occasionally tilting his head to look at Yu Guozhen. He didn't understand why the officials stood here and looked at this road and giggled for a long time.

Then, Wang Qinian's eyes lit up, and he smirked at a fiery red woman who was urging the horse over.

It's the red lady who came, and now she's lost a lot of weight, and her eyes are still wild and hot, but there is a faint layer of worry. It's just that when I saw Yu Guozhen, that worry turned into another emotion.

Admiration, admiration.

The red lady has really never seen such a person in her life, the kind of Qingguan who loves the people like a son, and the great benevolent person who is known as the living Bodhisattva, seems to exist only in the book commentary, she has never seen it. But what Yu Guozhen has done in the past few months has made her realize that in this era when everyone is a thief, there really are such characters.

And it became something for him......

Thinking that Yu Guozhen has saved at least two or three million lives in the past few months, the red lady feels incredible.

This is not a boast from the mouth of the court officials, if according to the Tang report of the imperial court, today to eliminate tens of thousands of prisoners, tomorrow to defeat 100,000 thieves, the total number of enemies eliminated is enough for a quarter of the Ming Dynasty to die once. The red lady specially checked the reported data, and then was stunned by Huwei's terrible organizational ability and Yu Guozhen's material expenditure at any cost.

"Nanhai Hou!"

A group of workers dragging sleepers passed by Yu Guozhen and greeted Yu Guozhen one after another. It's a heartfelt greeting. The red lady could hear that their tone was respectful, loving, and cordial, but they were not afraid.

These people were rescued by Yu Guozhen from the line of death, and they are also willing to repay Yu Guozhen with their death. For example, when building this railway, most of them didn't understand what a train was, and they hadn't even seen a train, but Yu Guozhen gave the order. So they joined the so-called "railroad soldiers" and became paid soldiers - every five days of work, they also received one day of military training.

Ma Dabao was among the group. When Yu Guozhen saw him, he laughed and said, "Ma Dabao, can you still move sleepers alone today?" ”

"Naturally!" Ma Dabao stretched out his arm triumphantly: "The villain has nothing else." is powerful, it is General Lao Niu, and his strength is not as good as that of a villain! ”

"You just blow nonsense, General Qi just isn't used to it, if you are used to it, you are not an opponent!" A companion teased.

"Hehe, I haven't been to fight with General Niu." Martha Bao Road.

This is an allusion, Qi Niu is very famous for his strength, and Ma Dabao's strength is not small, once Yu Guozhen took people to inspect the construction of the railway. Seeing Ma Dabao still walking like flying with a load of sleepers, he was shocked at that time. And Qi Niu was not convinced, so he had to compete with Ma Dabao, and the result of the competition was that Qi Niu lost, but Yu Guozhen remembered Ma Dabao's name.

After more than three months of construction by Ma Dabao and others, it was finally in the middle of summer. The railway from Qingdao Kou to Jiaozhou was built, with a total length of 130 miles, and a total of 200,000 manpower was used!

And that's not even counting logistical support personnel, just road construction workers.

Ma Dabao and the others said a few words to Yu Guozhen and left, they still have a lot of work to do. There are additional bounties for completing the specified tasks every day, and these days, Ma Dabao and the others, who were poor and almost empty-handed, are no longer poor.

Like Ma Dabao, he even began to think about buying a plush dog from the newly opened warehouse he saw last time after returning to Qingdaokou, and gave it as a gift to Duan Qing.

"Young Master Yu, I'm leaving. I thought I could help here, but now I find that Yu Gongzi's arrangement is better than I thought, and I often help here. After these workers left, the red lady suddenly said to Yu Guozhen.

During this time, Yu Guozhen did not restrict her movements, let her run around by herself, and the red lady heard, saw and thought a lot. Yu Guozhen glanced at her and quipped, "But go back to find Li Yan again?" ”

The red lady's face was slightly red, and Wang Qinian next to her obviously showed a look of taste, and Yu Guozhen looked interesting.

"I'm going south, I'm going to Xinxiang to see!" The Red Lady said.

"You can go by boat, we have regular flights to Xinxiang."

"I'm going to go by myself!" The Red Lady said.

Wang Qinian finally couldn't help it anymore and muttered: "The road is far away, dangerous." ”

"Except for a stupid thief like you, who can help me, when you are still dragging your nose by Yu Gongzi's side, I will already walk the rivers and lakes!"

The red lady gave him an almond eye, and Wang Qinian suddenly shrank his neck with a depressed look. Yu Guozhen secretly said that it was interesting in his heart, and he didn't know when this stupid boy fell in love with the red lady, and he was afraid of him like a tiger. I remember that when the Red Lady came to assassinate herself, she was obviously almost killed by Wang Qinian.

"Master Yu, take your leave." The red lady said again.

"Take care." Yu Guozhen nodded lightly, he didn't like the character of the red lady very much, it was too bluffing, listening to the wind was rain, but he was straightforward, and he couldn't say badly, so Yu Guozhen was really afraid of dealing with her.

The red lady turned around, the rouge horse moved forward slowly, Wang Qinian looked at her back, and there was distress in his eyes. Yu Guozhen snorted: "What hasn't grown up, I've taught you for so long, and I haven't seen you learn a little oily tone, it seems that I want to transfer you to Tian Boguang's side to have a good life and temper it again." ”

"No, no."

"Fool, take it." Yu Guozhen took out a bag and handed it to Wang Qinian.

The bag is a number of gold dollars and silver dollars, Xinxiang's currency reform has been initially completed, "yuan" has become the main currency under the Xinxiang system, divided into three types: gold dollars, silver dollars and copper dollars, and in Xinxiang and other actual control areas, gold and silver themselves are no longer in circulation. With the economic penetration of Xinxiang into the Ming Dynasty, these three "yuans" can be used in some slightly developed ports within the Ming Dynasty.

The reason is simple. Anyone who uses these "yuan" to buy new commodities from the wholesaler does not need to deduct the fire consumption, exchange rate and fineness, on the contrary, if you directly use gold and silver, the fire consumption, fineness and exchange rate are added to it, at least half of the things should be bought less.

As for someone trying to forge these three elements, it is purely more than worth the loss. Without Xinxiang's stamping technology, it would have been impossible to make exactly the same money.

"Huh?"

Wang Qinian, who took the money clip, was stunned, and didn't know why Yu Guozhen gave him money.

"Call you stupid. Hurry up and catch up and give this to her, do you still want her to sell along the way to earn money for the journey? ”

Wang Qinian scratched his head. Finally understood, and tapped the horse's belly, and the war horse quickly rushed out, but then he turned back again: "I can't leave your side!" ”

"If you want to go, you will go, is there no one else around me?" Yu Guozhen snorted.

Wang Qinian just left, Yu Guozhen looked at his cheerful back, shook his head, with this kid's temper, it is not easy to take the red lady into his hands.

But time flies. In the blink of an eye, it was time for Wang Qinian to want a daughter-in-law - whether he came to Huwei in the seventh or eighth years of Chongzhen, it's been almost ten years.

It has been thirteen years since Yu Guozhen began to prepare for Chongzhen's three years, and he has officially expanded outward in Chongzhen's fifth year. It was eleven years, and it was nine years since he started to develop in Xinxiang.

In nine years, there are such achievements as now.

Yu Guozhen's memories were interrupted in a short time, because Gao Erzhu appeared in his sight.

"Something?"

"There is news from Jinling that there seems to be something wrong with Donglin and a group of people from the Fushe Society." Gao Erzhu said in a low voice: "Also." The troop movement of the four towns in Jiangbei is a bit strange, and Jinling has a lot of grain and grass for them, as if they are preparing for some military action. ”

Jinling City is a sieve, and it won't take long for Yu Guozhen to know. Strategically, he despises the moths entrenched in the city, but tactically, he can't ignore them. That group of officials and gentry who have no lower limit, who knows what they will do!

Because of Yu Guozhen's strong intervention and because of the plague, Li Chuang and Jianyu did not completely separate the winners and losers in Shanhaiguan. After Li Chuang evacuated, he still began to use Niu Jinxing's strategy to consolidate his control over Shaanxi, Jin, and Henan, and began to plot against Hanzhong and Shu. Jianlu once entered the Beijing Division, but under the threat of the plague, he plundered the Beijing Division and retreated outside the Shanhai Pass, leaving only Wu Sangui's traitor army to guard the Beijing Division. In this case, the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty in Jinling also got a precious respite, and more importantly, Yu Guozhen prevented the plague from expanding to the south, and the great plague that would have broken out in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen did not occur for the time being. Therefore, the current situation has completely left the original history.

"What actions can they make, didn't they say last time that Zuo Liangyu of Huguang intends to go down the river east?" Yu Guozhen frowned: "Are you going to deal with Zuo Liangyu?" ”

"It shouldn't be, Zuo Liangyu has not gone east since Xiangyang moved to Wuchang, but just ordered someone to build a boat division."

"So what about Li Chuang's side, is there any movement, and there is still the north, the Jingshi side?"

Li Chuang sent Liu Zongmin to take Hanzhong, and he himself built a large number of buildings in Luoyang...... Speaking of this, Li Chuang also recognized an ancestor, saying that he was a descendant of Li Yuanhao in Western Xia. ”

"Party members?" This statement made Yu Guozhen disdainful: "I want to find my ancestors, but also Li Yuan, Li Shimin, Li Yuanhao, ......"

"There is not much movement in Beijing, Wu Sangui is training every day, and now there are ten rooms and nine empty rooms in the Beijing Division, and some people already want to go back."

This is a headache for Yu Guozhen, the so-called homeland is difficult to leave, the people who fled to the east of the mountain, seeing that the plague has not been a big deal, many people want to go back. Even if you already have a job here, you just want to make enough money and leave, Yu Guozhen has made statistics, and those who have such thoughts account for two-thirds of the victims, which is still the result of some people who are still afraid of Huwei and are unwilling to tell the truth!

"Over there in the four towns of Jiangbei, pay more attention and see if you can send a group of tiger guards over, so as not to make rash moves." Yu Guozhen also had no way to deal with this problem, so he could only make arrangements for the four towns in Jiangbei first. While he was pondering what to do next, he suddenly heard a loud shout in the distance: "Nanhai Hou! Nanhai Hou! ”

Yu Guozhen turned his face in astonishment and looked over there, but it was a man who looked like a Confucian scholar in his forties and fifties. (To be continued)