Chapter 68 The Three Great Generals of the Ponytail

It seems that the war is moving in a different direction than history, but he did not pay attention to the South China Sea patrol of the Nanyang Naval Division, and now there are too many things to arrange, and with the return of the convoy sent to Hue, Haiphong and Ha Cypress to carry goods, he brought news from the Vietnamese side.

The situation in Hue City is the most stable, Xue Chao is integrating the Chinese Mutual Masonic Association in an orderly manner, and the number of Chinese young people who have been registered has reached more than 3,500, of which nearly 1,000 people have been selected for paramilitary training, and the letter Xue Chao brought back is to ask Qin Kai to send more officers, because the number of trained soldiers is too large, and the shortage of manpower has reached the extreme

Qin Kai shook his head secretly, this Xue Chao always wants to become a fat man in one bite, obviously the erosion of the situation in Vietnam has prompted Xue Chao's crazy moves, which is this military training, the whole mass movement But judging from the feedback from the information back, the operation of the Chinese Mutual Masonic Association and the Chinese Business Association is very good, with the support of guns, and the power of the local Chinese has quickly gathered.

Zhou Ruidong and Wu Jingui's plan to acquire the mines in Haiphong encountered some resistance, and Zhou Ruidong's letter judged that the reason was the hands of the local French consulate, apparently the French only thought that these Chinese were here to buy these xiǎo mines, and the French interest network had already covered some of the xiǎo mines, and mainly concentrated in coal and copper mines, so they tried to obstruct the jiāo of these mines.

However, it was obviously impossible to stop Qin Kai's plan, the original acquisition of xiǎo type minerals in the Zhiling area of Quang Ninh Province, the main purpose was also to maximize the recruitment of local miners and prospecting talents, these aspects of Qin Kai is also scarce, Wu Jingui completed the acquisition of part of the mining area, directly skipped those mines that were handed by the French, and drove upstream into the hinterland of Quang Ninh.

Zhou Ruidong set up camp in Chi Linh County, and according to the Hue model, established a mutual masonic association and a business alliance among the local Chinese, and now he has the right to raise the affairs of Quang Ninh counties, and the levy of husband and wife is within the scope of the right. However, he soon discovered some peculiar circumstances in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam.

There are many ethnic groups in Quang Ninh's counties, almost a few thousand households in a county, and the Yue people account for about half of the population, while other Daiyi, Tai, Chinese, Khmer and miscellaneous ethnic groups scattered in the surrounding villages and mountainous areas account for half of the population, which quickly gave him a new idea.

The Vietnamese government is exploiting and oppressing the people of the Yue people, not to mention these surrounding Xiǎo ethnic groups, especially when the domestic situation is stable, even more so, the corruption of the Vietnamese court in this era is even worse than that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zhou Ruidong watched coldly all the way, and he only saw the scene of the end times.

Whether it is the Yue nationality or the people of other nationalities who are excluded from the circle of power and wealth, even in the most prosperous county town he sees, they are all expressionless and confused, but the restaurants and green buildings in the county town are full of friends. He saw with his own eyes that the county officials of several counties didn't know how long they hadn't paid attention to things, and the indifference of those people at the top for the life and death of the bottom made him feel a chill from the bottom of his heart.

After traveling more than 100 miles from the northeast of Zhiling County, it is the mining area marked by Qin Kai on the map, because further north is a mountain road leading to Langshan, so there is still a not wide road along the way, this side is by the river is a village called Shishan Pass, seeing this large number of vehicles and troops coming, they are busy avoiding guests.

Zhou Ruidong was not surprised by this, there were many such situations along the way, most of these villages were some strange ethnic groups, and generally there should be several other villages of the same nationality near this village, after observing around the village for a while, he took a fancy to a piece of high ground more than a mile away from the river bank in the west.

The distance from the river is moderate, and the terrain is also high, so there is no need to worry about big water, and there are several good commanding heights around, which is convenient for the control of the entire area.

The contents of the accompanying cart were quickly unloaded, all of which were various construction tools, and the people recruited along the way immediately devoted themselves to the construction of the new base.

The next day, the villagers in Shishan Pass found that there were a number of Chinese at the entrance of the village early in the morning, and there were also those officers and soldiers with black sè bird guns that they saw yesterday were responsible for maintaining order, at this time there were already seven or eight villagers lined up at the entrance of the village, and Zhou Ruidong, who was standing not far away to observe, only inquired clearly at this time, this is a Vietnamese Dai village, and the guide explained on the side that the Vietnamese Dai and the Dai people in Yunnan in the Qing Dynasty are close relatives, and most of them are migrated. ,

"Uncle De, what are those Chinese doing at the entrance of the village?" A young man asked loudly an old man who had just walked back, the old man was not actually surnamed Yan, and the Dai people were a nominal and nameless people. Yan (Ai) is the name of an ordinary man, if you call nv, then add yù (yi) in front, if this old man is Han, he will be called Uncle De at most.

"Yankang, that official said that he came from the Qing Dynasty and came to us to build a big house, and now he is distributing food at the entrance of the village, and a family will receive a Xiǎo bag, and also send a farm tool, you hurry up and get it, I will go home and call all the babies in the family to come and receive it" The old man explained happily and hurried to the village.

Free food, but also farm tools, such a good thing can be missed, after a while, there is already a long queue at the entrance of the village, men and women, young and old, all come out, and the expressions on their faces are much kinder to these soldiers, for those who send things when they meet, no one will see outside, this is also human nature.

After receiving the food, there were a few Chinese from the Mutual Masonic Association holding paper and pencils, and introduced the charter of participating in the "Chinese Mutual Masonic Association" to those villagers, which was obviously an expanded version of Zhou Ruidong's Mutual Masonic Association, and there were naturally various benefits attached to joining the association, such as the young people in the family could go to the factory built in the future to earn silver, and if they were willing to endure hardships and their heads were not stupid, they would have an income of one or two silver a month. In addition, the children in the family can go to the school run by the Mutual Masonic Association to study, which is completely free......

In fact, most of the young people in the village were directly defeated in front of the reward of one or two silver, and as for the baby reading in the back, they completely forgot to listen, you know, next to this poor ravine, relying on the grain produced on the land for a year, the hard-working farmers are still guaranteed to eat, but in addition, even the salt they eat needs to be exchanged for grain, and they also have to pay government taxes, how can there be rich silver.

If the young people in the family can work in the factory opened by this adult, they can earn 12 taels of silver a year, and they can save half of it, which is already a huge amount of money that has never been used in rural areas.

The villagers are giggling and waiting to receive food, which is actually not worth a few dollars, but the free farm tools, that is the farmer's favorite thing, at this time a few middle-aged people came out of the village, surrounded by a half-old man, and the Dai people on both sides saw that they took the initiative to get out of the way, and there were people saluting along the way.

The guide on the side had already reminded Zhou Ruidong, "My lord, this should be Pa Zhaohu (elder) of the Dai clan in this village."

The old man chatted with a few villagers who had received things on the side, and then went straight to Zhou Ruidong, and from a distance he started the Vietnamese official salute of the Dai people, and muttered in his mouth: "Xu Kangduo, a grass man in Shishan Pass, to meet the adult", this Vietnamese official salute is to bow his head and kowtow three times, but as soon as the old man finished knocking one, he was helped up by Zhou Ruidong, who walked a few steps closely.

Zhou Ruidong said a few words about the thought next to him, and the guide relayed: "Yan Kang Duogong, this is Lord Zhou, the minister of the Qin Mission, Lord Zhou said that he would open a big factory on the wasteland outside the village, and the men in the Dai village can work wherever they want, and the salary given is absolutely reasonable."

The old man was a little stunned after hearing this, it turned out that this official master did not come to pay taxes, in the past, there were many officials in the county, none of them regarded these Dai villagers as people, and those who urged rent and donations did not let go at all, and every year in order to complete the tax donations sent by the county in the village, the village was not less nerve-wracking, and the two thousand catties of rice that had just been apportioned in the last few days accounted for more than half of the rice harvest at once...... The village is full of commotion.

I didn't expect such a big official to come now, this Lord Qincha, the old man still understands, that is a big official like the king of heaven and Laozi, which officials in the county are not even counted as shrimp compared to him. And although this Qincha looks very majestic, he speaks and behaves very amicably.

The old man hurriedly bowed and saluted, and said loudly, "Lord Qincha Zhou, the old man Xiǎo asks Lord Qingtian to be the master of our Dai villages."

Zhou Ruidong was also stunned, he only came today to collect the hearts of the people, and the superintendent Jiāo was very clear, now there are few people stationed in the country, and when he arrives at the ground, he must find a way to capture all the local military and civil affairs, and integrate the local people into his own people, so that he can gain a firm foothold. ,

And the first step is undoubtedly to collect the hearts of the people, now with the holy decree of the king of Vietnam, no matter what you do, you definitely occupy the commanding heights in this place, I don't know if the old man can let himself borrow some strength, he smiled slightly, let people move over two stools, and said confidently: "Uncle, sit down and let's talk slowly, as long as Quang Ninh Mansion is not fair, I will definitely take care of it"

The old man Xu Kangduo was not polite at all, and immediately sat down, this sat and chatted face-to-face with Lord Qincha, what a big face, the old man spoke a little bit more thoughtfully, "Lord Qincha, you don't know, the tax has been increased every year in the past two years, the year before last, the tax on one acre of rice in our village was still 130 catties, and this year it has risen to 250 catties, which is half of the yield per mu of land, and the rice is planted, in addition to eating at home, it is also very cheap to sell it in the county, and we Dai people can't afford to hurt it."

This harsh government is fiercer than the tiger, sure enough, the farmers who farm and produce rice are not satisfied with their own rice bowls, this is how sad, Zhou Ruidong is very sober, to integrate the hearts of these Vietnamese low-level people, then we must first solve their food problems, "Yan Kang Duogong, I know about this, you can rest assured, after you join the Chinese Mutual Masonic Association, this kind of tax will no longer have to be apportioned, anything, I Zhou Ruidong will take care of it, in addition, you can rest assured, it is the King of Vietnam, our ship master Qin is also the same"

As soon as these words came out, these low-level xiǎo people were directly shocked, and the old man's mouth opened the boss, what is the origin of this Qincha, the background is even harder than the emperor Lao Tzu, it seems that our village is saved......

The old man turned around and relayed Zhou Ruidong's words to a few middle-aged people, and these people were all shocked, looking at the eyes of the adult in front of him, who looked like he was only 20 years old, which could be compared to the shrine of worshipping Buddha in his own home

After some discussion, he turned around and came to Zhou Ruidong together, Old Man Xu took the lead and knelt down and kowtowed, and said loudly: "Lord Qincha Zhou is above, there are 227 Dai households in Shishan, thank Lord Qincha for his kindness, if the Lord allows us, we are willing to pass the word to the Dai villages in Liuling Mountain for the adults."

Zhou Ruidong naturally wanted to ask and understand, only then did he know that the locals in this area are called Liuling Mountain, because there are six peaks around it, and in addition to the Dai people, there are also Chinese, Khmer, and Mang.

While wooing the local mountain people, he thought of one thing, these mountain people are all local living maps, and they may not be familiar with every place in the mountainous area, but they know the situation near their place of residence very well. When the instructor Jiāo was on a prospecting mission, he also considered the difficulty of prospecting, so he first recruited a large number of skilled miners in Zhiling County.

But look down, those xiǎo mines really have some prospecting skills of the miners really don't much, after Zhou Ruidong and Wu Jingui personally asked, there are only about ten old miners who know more about ores and can play a role in prospecting, while most of the other miners only know a few kinds of ores, and even some miners recognize the black coal mines.

That night, Zhou Ruidong immediately summoned a few old miners who knew the ore, these old miners had seen the county officials at most on weekdays, and they were already majestic officials.

Zhou Ruidong was also stunned when he saw this situation, and let people serve tea, and first put a burden on these people, "A few old men, they all know me, my name is Zhou Ruidong, you can call me Lord Zhou, this time I came to Guangning Mansion naturally have something to use you don't have to panic, you have done this thing, you just need to listen to my arrangement, this is done, I dare not say that you are prosperous and rich, but you must not worry about food and clothing"

After the local guide relayed it, he heard that the Lord was very polite, and promised such a great benefit when he came, and these old miners were a little more active, and they all gave up their hands in the local dialect to express words of thanks.

"You have to do two things, one is to bring out 10 apprentices for each of me, the ore you know, each of these apprentices learns, and the other is to collect samples of the ore on this mountain, I will arrange for people to send it to the villages near Liuling Mountain, and ask the villagers here, if there is news, you will go to the scene to check, and try your best to find out the iron mines, coal mines, and copper mines in the vicinity" Zhou Ruidong gave an order strictly, since it was an order, there was no room for bargaining. ,

But at this time, the old miners were stunned, you know, this era is definitely a society of knowledge closure, even the insignificant skills of the old miners are also their survival dependence, Zhou Ruidong's order is not to be disobeyed, several old miners looked at each other.

"Any questions?" Zhou Ruidong looked at these old miners with black faces, like high-quality coal mines

Finally, a miner mustered up the courage and said, "My lord, according to the rules, this apprentice is to be formally apprenticed......

Damn, Zhou Ruidong suddenly realized, the more ignorant people are, the more conservative they are, how capable our instructor is, those senior technical workers in Mawei Shipbuilding, that is not the five-body throwing that is admired, which Germans, John Bull, and Gaul Jī, who think very highly of themselves, saw a few machines of the instructor nòng, and one by one they were surprised and didn't even dare to put a fart, so the university asked these old miners to worry about this thing

"No problem, apprentice, you go and pick it yourself, go out to prospect, subsidize 1 tael of silver in the factory a month, distribute it in the dry food factory, find minerals, and calculate the reward" Zhou Ruidong was very speechless, but he was not interested in correcting this, and waved his hand to let these old miners, who were excited after hearing the subsidies and rewards, go down immediately.

On the fifth day after arriving outside the stone mountain pass, a large number of goods were transported by inland river cargo ships leased from Haiphong downstream, but these were all sail cargo ships, not to mention the cargo capacity, and the thieves who ran slowly against the current, this was a key issue, and he mentioned it to the omnipotent instructor in the letter.

And Zhang Kui, who was originally self-made, is now the most comfortable of the three, the congenital geographical conditions of Hehui have an advantage over Xian'an, so his base camp was selected in Hehui, after he took over the power of the two counties, the officials on the Xian'an side were too corrupt, and he was almost cleaned up, and he had to transfer the county Cheng Wang Tang and the main book Ma Tong from Hehui to Xian'an to be responsible for the management there.

On the eleventh day after landing on Hejuni, Mawei Shipping sent the first batch of support - 100 security team members, hundreds of AK02 rifles imitating Máo Se 98, countless bullets, and even xiǎo caliber mountain artillery

Zhang Kui has indeed made a drastic move, the Chinese battalion and the non-Chinese reserve battalion that have long been recruited and trained have already recruited 380 Chinese and 210 non-Chinese soldiers, so when the backup came, the 130 student soldiers and security regiments were expanded to 400 in a few days.

Under the management of these three capable students, Qin Kai unknowingly already has three armies with their own characteristics overseas, and among the core personnel of the horsetail who know the inside story, they unconsciously call these three people the "three major generals of the horsetail", but Qin Kai disagrees with this, his mantra is - these three xiǎo sons can also be regarded as generals have never done it When he said this, he didn't notice the disdainful gaze of others, we are still innocent virgins in this era, and the words of the previous life......

Zhang Kui definitely didn't hear Qin Kai's evaluation, otherwise he would definitely think that this would finally catch the instructor's language disease, and now such a force in his hands is already an amazing force in these two lands that add up to only four thousand households, after a slight adjustment of training, in the way of a veteran leading a new soldier, Zhang Kui began the first battle, the goal is directly aimed at the Vietnamese customs post near Fangcheng County and the junction of Hehui Jiāo (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )