Chapter 236: Overstretched
After Ye Liangchen and Feng Shengtai finished admiring the large iron box, they were allowed to follow Zhu Daolin into the heavily guarded high wall, and saw dozens of old containers of different colors neatly stacked in the high courtyard wall, and they were speechless for a while.
As early as the early hours of the morning, Zhu Daolin had already placed the 20 empty boxes with all the muskets and artillery guns taken out behind the gate, and the officers and men of the guard battalion were using triangular brackets and chain hoists to lift the empty boxes that had been transported away, and a total of 77 containers on the two floors neatly stacked around the courtyard wall were brought back last time, and they still contained grain.
Most of the other goods that Zhu Daolin brought back this time have been stored in the B-shaped warehouse in the middle of the courtyard and the A-shaped warehouse in the south, and the remaining swords, valuables, medical supplies, important books, and 139 containers full of grain and salt are still in the King Kong Qiankun on Zhu Daolin's left wrist.
This fortified warehouse with the largest capacity and the highest dome is the special munitions warehouse that Zhu Daolin attaches the most importance to, and now it contains more than 300 forged guns and cast steel cannons of five calibers that Zhu Daolin brought back last time and equipped with two artillery battalions, as well as 4,000 flintlock pistols and a large number of accessories left after equipping the officers and soldiers of the New Army, the personal guard battalion, and the Shangyuan Water Division.
Zhu Daolin led Ye Liangchen and Feng Shengtai to bypass the north side of the B-shaped warehouse, turned south, and did not invite the two to visit the C-shaped warehouse in the north, the two immediately understood the importance and high secrecy of the C-shaped warehouse, looked at each other and smiled tacitly, and followed Zhu Daolin back to the front of the B-shaped warehouse facing the courtyard gate.
Feng Shengtai felt very strange in the face of the B-shaped warehouse full of various cardboard boxes and wooden boxes, plus the tens of thousands of boxes of porcelain, countless silks, teas and various handicrafts that he had just seen in the A-shaped warehouse, adding up to at least ten 500-ton Galen cargo ships to load......
However, during this time, no cargo ships of more than 300 tons were docked, so where did these beautifully crafted and valuable export goods come from?
If the legendary Tianshu Pavilion fleet that traveled 500 miles a day arrived, he should have known about it as soon as possible. But silently, the two large warehouses were all filled, and there were two piles of small mountains of steel branches and precious strip steel in the open space in front of the warehouse.
Could it be that the adults of their own family are really like the folk rumors, and they are the martial arts stars in the sky?
The doubts in the eyes of Ye Liangchen and Feng Shengtai were well concealed, but they couldn't hide from Zhu Daolin, who was sharp-eyed and thoughtful. Since the two didn't ask, Zhu Daolin was too happy not to say it, after all, it was still quite tiring to lie, so he simply turned the attention of the two to the barren place in Longtan: "Over there in Longtan, are we going to people?" ”
"There is no time to arrange, and there is no way to allocate manpower, and now the victims gathered at the three-way intersection from Jinchuan Qiaotou to the south of the manor, if not 100,000, but 80,000." Ye Liangchen replied a little helplessly.
Zhu Daolin looked at Feng Shengtai: "Brother Pengfei, who do you think is the most appropriate person to be responsible for the resettlement of the victims in Longtan and preside over the cash-for-work relief?" ”
Feng Shengtai hurriedly gathered his scattered thoughts: "I feel it below." The ironwork workshop technology is the most suitable for Brother Zhu and Qi Neng...... Brother Qi Neng was born in a person, he was originally an artillery supervisor of Nanjing Baoyuan Bureau, and he was dismissed because of Wei Zhongxian's case, which is very wronged, and he has the same illness as Brother Mengshan! ”
"He has a generous personality, is diligent and erudite, and is good at mechanical, construction and arithmetic, and has a good relationship with Brother Mengshan, the head of Zhao. Deeply respected by colleagues and craftsmen, he is at the helm. Equipped with more than 10 directors, more than 10 healers and hundreds of guards, it will be able to properly resettle about 50,000 victims. ”
"Brother Qi Neng does have a talent for coordination, just look at the thriving ironwork workshop to know that he is extraordinary...... However, Longtan has a vast area and has to resettle at least 300,000 victims. Hundreds of guards are not enough! Ye Liangchen added.
Feng Shengtai felt very embarrassed: "Now that the number of victims gathered on the outskirts of Ziyangguan and Hushan Manor is increasing, the 1,500 soldiers of the escort team and the personal guard battalion need to defend our old nest, and there is no more manpower to call on, unless the adults transfer two battalions of new troops from the city. ”
"The Forces nouvelles are in the most critical period of training. It can't be easily transferred! Zhu Daolin refused, he must ensure the quality and continuity of the training of the new army.
Ye Liangchen thought for a while and suggested, "If there is a capable military general to suppress the formation, it is completely possible to transfer more than 35,000 people from the 17,000 young people on the sailor shooting range in the north to serve as the Longtan escort. ”
"What is lacking is a military general who can control the scene, if it weren't for the fact that the task of the sailor is too heavy, Xu Wentao would be the most suitable, but the sailor can't do without him now."
Zhu Daolin has always been plagued by the shortage of talents, and this time is even more prominent.
Ye Liangchen and Feng Shengtai pondered again, and Zhu Daolin suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "I remember that when I watched the victims disembark at the dock just now, the two of them seemed to have mentioned that among the 17,000 young men who arrived at the earliest, there were deserters from the guards in Huaibei and southern Henan? ”
Ye Liangchen and Feng Shengtai were in high spirits, and they immediately understood what Zhu Daolin wanted to do.
Zhu Daolin began to tidy up the Dao robe on his body and the Qin Wang Sword on his waist, and asked the two of them to go to the shooting range on the north side of the artillery together.
Ye Liangchen and Feng Shengtai happily followed, came to the rear of the fort, and happened to meet Xu Wentao who came down from the checkpoint, and after a few words, Xu Wentao immediately beckoned more than a dozen veterans who were taking turns to rest, escorting Zhu Daolin and the three of them to the crowded shooting range.
"It's too open here!"
Zhu Daolin stopped and glanced at the audience, and pointed to the small stone hill raised in the depths: "That place is good, the mountain behind can reflect the sound of speech in all directions, you don't have to shout hard to speak in that place, let's go." ”
Everyone followed behind Zhu Daolin and strode towards the stone hill at the foot of the mountain, feeling that what Master Zhu said was indeed very right, and he had such an experience, but why didn't he keep it in his mind?
The young people who were sitting or sleeping all over the shooting range quickly got up, looked at Zhu Daolin and his party who walked up the stone hill on the side of the mountain, and discussed a lot, asking each other who was the tall and mighty Taoist who walked in front? Could it be the legendary little Zhu Daochang?
Zhu Daolin stood high on the uneven stone hill, scanning the black pressure and chaos of the victims below, until the noise gradually stopped, he announced his name loudly: "Brothers, my name is Zhu Daolin, and I am ......."
"Boom-"
The audience erupted in earth-shattering exclamations, followed by various cheers and shouts, and countless people chanted "Sure enough, it's Xiao Zhu Daochang" and "We have hope", Xu Wentao and Feng Shengtai behind Zhu Daolin were dumbfounded, and sincerely admired Zhu Daolin's influence and personality charm, while Ye Liangchen kept nodding his head with a happy face.
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