It's late at night.

In the west wing of the Chu family's new house, Chu Fan opened his eyes wide and couldn't sleep.

For some reason, he was inexplicably irritable in his heart.

Looking at the bright moonlight on the white window paper, Chu Fan hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't help but gently move the jade arm that Xian Cha rested on his chest, got up and began to get dressed-since he couldn't sleep, he decided to go to the courtyard for a walk.

After getting dressed, Chu Fan turned his head to look at Xiancha curled up on the bed like a kitten, the little girl's round goose egg face had a faint smile, and she was sleeping soundly - these days, Xiancha followed the Japanese pigeon trainer brought back by Chu Fan every day while learning the Japanese language, and at the same time learning to serve the carrier pigeon, so that one day he could complete the task of raising pigeons and training pigeons independently, and completely control the matter of information transmission.

When he gently closed the door, Chu Fan thought of the old spy leader of the Japanese country, Abe Tadamoto, from the pigeon trainer, and his irritable mood was slightly soothed - Abe Tadamoto sent these pigeon trainers, in addition to inquiring about the situation on Chu Fan's side, there was also a task to copy the more important letters in Chu Fan's internal correspondence and send them to Abe Tadamoto.

Abe Tadamoto's abacus was very fine, but unfortunately he met Chu Fan, a traverser who knew about encrypted letters!

As early as when Ushijima and Chengshanwei were arranged, Chu Fan had already explained the simple encryption method for the left-behind personnel: using a "Commentary on the Four Books" that can be found everywhere as a script, each Chinese character of all letters is encoded into a string of Arabic numerals with the corresponding page number, number of lines, and number of words - even if Abe Zhong could instinctively get a letter full of numbers, he could only be at a loss as if he were reading a book from heaven!

In the second half of the year, I will change a copy of "Golden Vase Plum", hum, spare you like a ghost, and you have to eat my footwashing water!

A small trick could only slightly alleviate the boredom in Chu Fan's heart, but it couldn't make him completely relieved.

Took a deep breath. Chu Fan looked up at the sky and saw that the moon in the night sky at the end of summer was already more than half round, and through the clear air that seemed to be non-existent, he could really see the sea of moons.

Walking slowly across the corridor with his hands behind his back, and opening the corner door, Chu Fan came to his small back garden. The sound of frogs and insects filling the courtyard makes the gravel path deeper in the moonlight.

Where do your boredoms come from?

Is it the Ushijima base?

No, no! Definitely not!

Since the carrier pigeon contact has stabilized, Chen Shangren will report the situation of the base every ten years, and yesterday received the third letter, and everything in the base is advancing in an orderly manner:

The 50,000 cigarettes promised to Kato's family had been prepared 20 days in advance, and they had been loaded and shipped to Nagasaki one after another, and according to Fan Zhenglong's letter, the copper ingots had already been prepared in Nagasaki, and the cigarettes could be shipped to Tianjin after delivery; The largest dockyard is almost finished. The winch and the pump were being installed, and Ming Ye asked Chu Fan to make a better trip when the construction started-although the appearance of the streamlined bow and hydrofoil had already been drawn to them, he still hoped that Chu Fan would give them some guidance on the spot.

The transformation of Lu Mi Gong has been tested twice, and the effect is not good, according to Sun Hedou's analysis, it is still because the tolerance is too large, so the air tightness problem cannot be guaranteed, Chu Fan told him in his reply. It is necessary to increase the intensity of rewards and punishments; The implementation of the steel filling method has advanced by leaps and bounds, and Wang Denghai and a few blacksmiths have explored a lot of experience in speeding up efficiency and increasing output. At the same time, the smelting process of steel with different carbon content has also been explored, and now the leader of the steel team complains that the original estimate is low, and the raw and cooked raw materials are almost exhausted, and they need to be supplemented urgently.

The walled city is almost ready. Except for the one facing the South Mountain, the other three sides have wooden walls and gates; The three six-pounder guns on the Nanshan Fort have been replaced with iron bases and bearings, and the north battery at the dock has also been piled up, and a six-pounder gun has been transferred over to prepare for installation, and Ling Ming's request is to increase the number of Franc guns. It would be even better if he could get a nine-pounder cannon or even a twelve-pounder cannon, which reminded Chu Fan of that Franco-machine profiteer Alfonso.

The primary school has also taken shape, with two wooden sheds built in close proximity to each other, and during the day, Chen Shangrensun and Dou take time to teach the children, and at night to train the craftsmen.

In the letter, Chen Shangren asked for instructions that other major infrastructure projects were almost completed, and asked Chu Fan if the construction of his house could start - this was what Chu Fan had told him when he was in Niudao, and that the construction of his house would be started at the end.

All in all, Chu Fan is very satisfied with the construction of the Niudao base, at this rate, the base will soon be on the right track, and while continuously creating wealth, it will also become a science and technology research and development center in this era.

Following the gravel path, Chu Fan walked to the small pond in the center of the small garden. In the moonlight, a few lotus stems are ready to bloom, gently swaying in the summer night breeze.

So, is it because of the affairs here in Dengzhou? It doesn't look like it either!

Through the IPO, Chu Fan had already tied most of the official gentry in Dengzhou and its vicinity to his ship.

Thanks to their fabulous experience of making a fortune, the shareholders who bought shares ran to the construction site of the tobacco factory twice in three days, looking at the factories, warehouses, and flue-cured tobacco sheds that were jumping up and laughing -- the overall construction of the tobacco factory was managed by Lu, and the accounts were in the hands of a distant nephew of Cai Zhifu, and they could know the progress and general financial situation of the tobacco factory with a little inquiry.

During this period of time, although the tobacco factory spent money like water, these shareholders had a lot of complaints, but they were blocked back by Lu Du one by one: to sell a tofu, you have to grind and buy a donkey, we have such a big business, how can we do it for a long time without spending money to build these factory tools?

In addition to the infrastructure, the process is also basically complete: a few days ago, Chu Fan took the flue-cured tobacco apprentices carefully selected by Lu Du, and was busy for a day and a night in the roasting shed that was repaired with all his might, and finally figured out the process of roasting and re-roasting tobacco leaves, although it was still a little worse than the taste of flue-cured tobacco in later generations, but it was enough to sell silver in this era.

What's more, the key to cigarettes - the composition of spices and the process of adding them - is clear to Chu Fan, and it is also the key to Chu Fan's control of cigarette production, so the cigarette factory can be said to be smooth sailing.

As for recruiting Chu Fan, there is no need to worry about it - tens of thousands of displaced people on both sides of the Shahe River have always been the biggest hidden danger in Dengzhou Mansion, and they can help digest it and give these desperate people a way to live, and the officials of Dengzhou are grateful that they are too late, how can they complain about Chu Fan? What's more, Chu Fan recruited these people to earn money for the Dengzhou gentry!

So in the past few days, whether it is the expansion of the escort team to more than 300 people again, or the recruitment of the second batch of personnel from Niu Island, the pillars have been extremely smooth, and Chu Fan doesn't have to worry about it at all.

Looking at the delicate lotus petals under the moonlight, Chu Fan asked himself vigorously.

What is it that upsets you? (To be continued.) )