Chapter 1o6 The purpose of stationing in Chiling County

As the first large county in Vietnam after Haiphong, although there is no direct river here, it can also reach a newly built wharf 2o miles away, and Zhiling's biggest benefit comes from a large number of local Xiao-type mines, but a month ago, all kinds of news were brought by the French who preached in Haiphong and Chi Ling - it is said that the capital has been controlled by the French!!

This news obviously caused a burst of officialdom, but soon an army of nearly 5oo people came from the north, led by a young but serious officer all day long.

This is naturally Zhou Ruidong's two battalions that came out for long-distance training after accepting the task, Zhou Ruidong took out the edict of the king of Vietnam and went around the yamen, Li Rui of Zhilingzhi County is also a person who understands, the army sent by Shangguo Qin is coming, this is a Dinghai Shen Needle, I'm afraid I'm afraid it's not good to serve.

Xiao inquired a few words about Zhou Ruidong, Zhou Ruidong naturally understood what the other party meant, he didn't have such a roundabout temper, but he didn't break it, so he told him bluntly, "Li County Order, we will definitely be stationed in this Zhiling, but we don't care about the local levy of supplies, and we don't care about your local taxes, but we want to recruit workers working in the mines here!" There are also locals who work for our army, and it is better not to interfere in the yamen! ”

Li Rui heard it, this financial power is not wanted, and there is no local supply, this kind of Qing ** team is very rare, but since the other party has spoken, the army of the suzerainty country is lawless in the local area, and now he is still making an agreement with himself in three chapters, this condition has greatly surprised him, and he naturally agreed, and before leaving, he also sent 3oo taels of filial piety, Zhou Ruidong looked at it, and unceremoniously accepted it, don't be a fool if you have money, go back as a military expense.

The next day, there was a strangely dressed Qing ** team standing at the gate of the city around Zhiling, and Zhou Ruidong came out of the list of conscription, but this time there was some difference from the previous conscription in the yamen, the workers settled their wages every three days, thirty wen a day, as long as they worked honestly, they could get this money, this is the list of the people sent by Shangguo Qin to Qin.

But obviously, all the Vietnamese migrant workers don't know who Lord Qin is, that name sounds intimidating enough, and they don't know how many levels of senior officials are higher than the Chiling County Order, which naturally has a great increase in credibility, and the salary of this thirty Wen is a very good errand.

The work was very simple, but it surprised Li Rui, the county commander -- repairing barracks and roads, this is clearly a matter of throwing money, everyone in this official knows, what can be the benefits of building roads, except for an official road, other roads are dispensable for the county, because that kind of road will not bring any benefits.

Vietnam's land income for three seasons a year only needs to be sent to the surrounding villages to collect it at that time, and the local squire and chief of the county dare to owe a grain of grain? These rich people in the countryside have a little bit of huahua belly, and the officials who watch the door in the yamen are all clear, what is underreporting the land, underreporting the people, etc., that is the norm, but just by checking this, you can toss these soil buns to death.

So Li Rui has been in office for almost three years, and he thinks of ways to raise taxes every year, but he doesn't always accept it smoothly, anyway, after another year, he has already found a way to prepare for another governor! The silver that has been tossed in the past few years has been taken to honor Huang Zuoyan, the concubine of Hanoi Mansion.

Li Rui was very strange to pay attention to this new Qing ** team, he naturally had no interest in following all day long, so he filmed one of his masters, Hu Jinke, this Master Hu is also from Chinese origin, but thirty-one or twelve years old, but because his grandfather was in the Vietnamese family, as a result, when he was born, he was a Yue person, but in the family, everyone treats him as an outsider, which makes him very unhappy.

Master Hu brought a servant to inspect in the name of inspection, often wandering around the construction site, this naturally someone reported to Zhou Ruidong, Zhou Ruidong pondered for a while, but did not interfere with them, just let the local mutual aid members carefully inquire about the situation of the officials in the yamen here, the instructor's big strategy is very obvious, this Vietnam is a vassal country, it is a place for instructors to establish meritorious deeds, naturally to take care of it solidly!

Master Hu observed coldly here, and the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, this group of temporarily recruited farmers quickly built the first avenue leading to the wharf, and the strong men registered in Zhiling County were only 3,000, but this time he saw at least 800 laborers appearing on the construction site of this avenue, and the organization of these workers was very orderly, and that army absolutely did not use troops to participate in the management. ,

The work involving money on the construction site is managed by the shopkeeper brought by the army, and those migrant workers are arranged into a pattern of ten people and a team, and every two xiao groups set up a team leader and a deputy team leader, which are elected by these local workers themselves, and then there are no two groups by a member of the Mutual Masonic Association as the captain of xiao, responsible for the distribution of the work, and several xiao captains are responsible for the captain of the superior, and the final progress and quality of each section of the road, the final chief shopkeeper and the following captains participate in the evaluation.

Among them, there are only six or seven people in charge of the management of the road project, but the whole construction site is in good order, and what is even more surprising is that the efficiency is surprisingly high, in just over half a month, a hard dirt road leading to the wharf has been constructed, and the gravel has been poured to reinforce the road.

And what is even more surprising is that all the workers on this errand have been paid in full, and the workers who served as the leader of the xiao team have also received additional rewards, and what makes him feel even more incredible is that even some of the workers who have done a good job have also received a bonus, he sent the official to find a worker who has been rewarded, and the farmer-born man took out a piece of paper, which was a certificate, issued by an agency signed by the Mawei Ship Administration, confirming the hard work of this worker, allowing him to obtain the priority right to work, and at the same time, It was also graced with the handprints of the workers.

There have been a few errand servants in this county, naturally the kind that does not give money, at most after the labor can support two buckets of old rice, this management, every time the yamen in the yamen is dispatched, but also to work in the next door Lao Meikou Qian Zong sent some soldiers to maintain order. The same farmers make completely different efficiency, which makes it surprising.

When he saw a large number of materials and manpower transported by several steam ships every day on the dock, he was even more surprised and almost dropped his jaw, and some of the things unloaded on it were something he knew, it should be some Western machines, but I don't know what it does.

In addition, these people also unloaded very huge things from the ship, these things, Master Hu had seen on the French battleship in Haiphong City, it was definitely a Western cannon.

Now he suddenly understood why these soldiers from the Shangguo Qin Dispatch appeared in Zhiling, and why this dock appeared here, these Qing ** teams clearly did one thing - to control the important place of the waterway jiao hui in Zhiling Vietnam.

Zhou Ruidong was busy counting the artillery at this time, this time a total of 12 254mm heavy guns were transported, with a rotating base and a gun carriage with an elevation angle of 1o, in addition to 2o 12omm guns, and 3otǐng of Makqin machine guns.

This ferry to the north is the Qiujiang River directly to the Shishan Pass Coal and Iron Industrial Base, to the south is the Qingjiang River, the Qingjiang River goes all the way to the south here, the channel is deep and can go to the Xiao-type sea vessels, and when it reaches the downstream, it is obliquely to the southwest, which can go directly to the coastal town of Da Lu in Vietnam, along the way are important production areas in the north of Vietnam, and Da Lu to the above Hai Phong City is only 1oo nautical miles.

The river to the west cuts off from the mountainous area to the east of Haiphong, but there is still the Xiao River that leads directly to Haiphong, and most importantly, here to the east, through the Guò Mai River into Hanoi, an important town in northern Vietnam, but only 12o miles of the river, the Mai River in Hanoi Province into the main artery of Vietnam, the Red River, the castle erected here, has become a bridgehead in the huge triangular area formed by Chi Linh, Bac Ninh, Lang Son three places, how to try to cross the enemy here, must face the fortress to give him a huge pressure on the logistics line.

When he first got this plan, Zhou Ruidong had carefully studied the terrain of this generation, but he still admired the plan proposed by the instructor, but to build such a fortress, to be honest, it was completely impossible without the guidance of the instructor.

A nearby hillside was the location of the fortress, where the heavy artillery produced in Mawei could easily cover the nearby river, and any ship wishing to cross the river would need to be tested by 12 cannons and more guns at a minimum distance of 15oom, something that even the craziest captain could not do......

And what gave him nothing to fear was the new building material that was transported in large quantities from the mining industry machine in the upper reaches of the Qiujiang River - Mawei Grade Cement, which took advantage of the huge advantages of limestone and clay in the mountainous areas to start the manufacture of soil cement very early, and recently with the production of two cement converters, the output of cement has increased greatly, and a large number of finished cement has been sent to the construction site of the fortress for the first time.

A large number of migrant workers who built the road, under the guidance of Mutual Freemasons with construction experience, quickly completed the task of building the foundation, and the addition of cement, although it could not make the construction of the fortress a thousand miles in a day, compared with the original building materials, the construction degree has been increased by at least five times. ,

Master Hu was very puzzled by the fact that this Qing ** team wanted to build a fortress next to the riverbank, you must know that building such a large building in this place where birds don't is definitely an amazing project! In this regard, he also smacked the officials behind him a few times about Zhou Ruidong's IQ.

However, after visiting the fortress a few times, he was completely shocked to see that the initial construction of the fortress had been completed to an astonishing extent, and even several heavy guns had been hoisted into gun positions by steam-powered winches mounted on the ground. After returning to the county town and pondering for two days, he made a decision.

Zhou Ruidong stood on a newly capped gun emplacement in the fortress, holding a telescope to observe the perspective of this side, the outer wall is a one-meter-thick boulder and cement hún, the artillery mount can rotate left and right 15o degrees, up and down pitch 1o degrees, he smiled with satisfaction! Such fortresses with local fleets...... What kind of warships can there be in such a river?! The instructor is really 1ang fee, that kind of xiao, as long as he is close to missing, he can completely overturn Luo.

On the other side, the positions that may be attacked by the enemy 6 are lined up with artillery cannons and Makqin machine guns, plus the huge ammunition warehouse, material warehouse, and water source built at the bottom of the fortress, so to speak, as long as the ammunition and food are enough, with the defensive strength of 5oo people, it is enough to deal with the attack of tens of thousands of people, and it can also cause huge damage to the opponent, this whole is a gun tower! It's just that the French are really going to fight here? For this question, he couldn't help but have some urgent expectations......

Just when Zhou Ruidong was thinking about Pianpian, a personal soldier came up to say, "Commander Zhou, Master Hu from the Zhiling County Ya came to see you?" ”

Zhou Ruidong felt that this name was familiar, and immediately thought about it, and asked, "Is that the Vietnamese who followed us all day long ago?" ”

"Yes, Commander, if you're not happy to see him, I'll go out and let him go?"

Zhou Ruidong waved his hand, "No! I met him to see what these Vietnamese people think of our army! ”

Master Hu entered the house, saw Zhou Ruidong, and hurriedly stepped forward to bow down to the ground, "Hu Jinke, a remnant of the Celestial Empire, greets the general!" ”

To be honest, Zhou Ruidong was taken aback by this guy's pretentiousness, it turned out that this guy was not here to inquire about the news, but to take refuge, and even his identity has become a remnant of the kingdom......

Zhou Ruidong put his face on the board, there are bound to be many people in this world who want to join the instructor in the future, and this guy doesn't weigh the weight, "Master Hu, I don't know what you're doing today?" ”

"General, Xiao people have lived in Vietnam for a long time, and today they have only seen the power of the army of Shangguo, and they are willing to join the army and serve the dogs and horses!"

Zhou Ruidong glanced at this guy with a mocking look, "Master Hu! I don't know if you are good at marching and arranging, or good at giving advice, or can you pick up a gun and get on a horse to kill the enemy? ”

Hu Jinke naturally heard the meaning of this, this general didn't look down on himself at all, he raised his head, his expression was not at all out of his temper after being ridiculed by Zhou Ruidong, and said with a slight smile: "General, Xiao people really don't have those abilities, to be honest, when the imperial examination was held, they didn't succeed in high school, so they had to bend to the yamen and do this chore. ”

Seeing that Hu Jinke's attitude was neither arrogant nor humble, Zhou Ruidong had a little meaning, what he was most annoying about was the entertainment in the officialdom, but this matter could not be saved, and now he had the mind to take the school examination, "Oh, then talk about your experience in the yamen!" ”

"I wonder what the general wants to hear? Civil or legal? ”

Civil affairs, Zhou Ruidong boasted that the method he learned from Qin Kai and paid equal attention to industry and commerce was still very effective, so he said: "Then let's talk about the laws of Vietnam!" ”

Talking about his law, Hu Jinke immediately poured beans into a bamboo tube, and said endlessly, from the three major laws of Vietnam, the twelve articles of beheading, to the twenty xiao laws of the people who were punished with canes for criminal punishment, he actually said it for a quarter of an hour, although Zhou Ruidong couldn't judge whether this guy was talking about Vietnamese law, but he didn't be stunned when he spoke fluently, and it could be seen that this guy was indeed some capable!

He tapped his fingers on the table and thought about it for a moment, "Master Hu, what are you doing in the yamen?" ”