Lu Xiangrong turned over and dismounted, quickly came to Zhu Daolin, and with the solemn courtesy of his subordinates to meet his boss, he knelt down on one leg and saluted.

Zhu Daolin was slightly surprised, stepped forward to help Lu Xiangrong, who was tall and tall, listened to his whispered report and request, and immediately walked with him to talk in a low voice more than ten steps away.

The generals realized that something must have happened, and they gathered together in small groups and whispered guesses.

Ten minutes later, Lu Xiangrong, who was in high spirits, respectfully bid farewell to Zhu Daolin and rode away with 15 of his confidants.

Zhu Daolin didn't say anything, and returned to the Fushansuo wharf 7 kilometers east of the coast with more than ten generals and more than 100 guards, and halfway through, more than 60 guards who stayed at the wharf rushed towards each other with one person and three horses.

Zhu Daolin took the reins handed by Li Yuming, the deputy captain of the guard, affectionately stroked the head of his beloved horse Xiaobai, combed its flowing mane a few times, took turns to pick up its two front legs, and checked the custom alloy horseshoes on the nails before departure, and then patted its strong neck with satisfaction.

Zhu Daolin raised his legs and stepped on the silver stirrups, turned over and sat on the saddle of the German cavalry purchased for more than 40,000 yuan, and rode back to the temporary camp surrounded by more than 100 soldiers.

The large-scale camp already looks like this now.

More than 800 military tents were neatly arranged in the four areas of the camp, and the fireheads of each battalion set up stoves on their own turf to cook and cook, and Xu Wentao, the commander of Weihaiwei, led more than 5,000 recruits to cut snow on all sides of the camp, dig defensive trenches three meters wide and two meters deep, and build eight watchtowers.

The dark green camp tent in the center of the camp is quite conspicuous, the back of the camp tent is full of sacks of packed grain, horse feed, frozen meat, salted fish and other things in bamboo baskets, two rows of camp tents for storing food and materials are still being built intensively, and more than 100 standard carriages go back and forth between the camp and the wharf. The mountains of food and material resources piled up on the wharf were continuously transported into the camp.

The 420 officers and men of Jiang Yulong's garrison battalion, the new deputy general of Jinzhou Guard, were divided into four teams and took on the task of guarding the camp.

This well-equipped garrison battalion was originally Zhu Daolin's personal guard battalion.

During the arduous training that lasted for more than half a year, only this garrison battalion with a special status received Zhu Daolin's 20-day personal training, and they were not only proficient in the use of fire-fired muskets and various combat methods, but also under the special care of various instructor groups. The intensity of the training was astonishing, and their number gradually decreased from 650 at the beginning to 420 at the end, and more than 200 people who withdrew were either wounded, sick or disabled, and 17 of them died in the gunpowder explosion accident that occurred during the artillery live-fire training.

Because of this, the officers and men of the personal guard battalion with the number of the Jinzhou Guard Garrison Battalion on their heads have become the object of envy and admiration of all the officers and soldiers, and they will follow the first battalion commander Jiang Yulong to Jinzhou Wei to fight to the death with the Manchu army.

A year later. The surviving officers and men of the garrison battalion will return to Zhu Daolin's side to receive a six-month study of military theory; the best of them will join the army as the command center of the whole army and receive a higher level of training, and most of them will be transferred to the armies under Zhu Daolin's command to serve as captains of 100 troops, battalion commanders, and suppressors.

As night fell, a roaring bonfire lit up the two-kilometre-long camp.

In the wide tent in the center of the camp, more than 60 generals and colonels gathered together. Sitting around the six pots of warm charcoal fire, listening to coach Zhu Daolin's briefing:

"Lu Xiangrong, deputy of the Fushan Thousand Households, complained to me that when we arrived here at noon. Jiang Xiaokun, the supreme governor of the Fushan Thousand Households, was in the walled fort to the north......"

Jiang Xiaokun is a hereditary thousand households, living in Jimo City, 37 kilometers to the north, the Jiang family is the head of the three major families in Jimo, Jiang Xiaoheng, who served as a person in Jimo County for 13 years, is Jiang Xiaokun's compatriot brother, Jimo Jiang family has 250,000 acres of land, 3 pawn shops, 6 shops, 2 mines and more than 2,000 acres of salt in Aoshanwei in the east. He also controlled the grain business within a radius of 100 miles. ”

It is common for generals to proofread this kind of thing, but they were still taken aback by the strong strength of the Jiang family in Jimo, and they thought that the gate valves in Jiangnan were ruthless enough, but they didn't expect that the local heroes in Shandong were more ruthless than those in Jiangnan.

Zhu Daolin, who was expressionless, continued: "As a thousand households in Fushan, Jiang Xiaokun usually only comes to Fushan after the summer harvest and autumn harvest all year round. He did not come to inspect Haiphong to comfort the soldiers, but to collect rent, collect accounts, and collect interest. ”

"The original military land of the Fushan Institute was more than 65,000 acres, and on the ground of our camp 12 kilometers from east to west and 7 kilometers from north to south, except for the hills, beaches, and ponds, all the fields were originally the military fields of the Fushan Institute, but now most of them have become the land of the Jiang family, and the 423 officers and soldiers of the Fushan Institute only have more than 1,700 acres of saline-alkali land south of the walled fort, except for Lu Xiangrong and 7 hundred households who each have more than 10 acres of paddy fields, all the officers and soldiers, including more than 2,000 family members, have become tenants of the Jiang family."

"This place is close to the sea, and 1 kilometer along the coast is incompatible with many saline-alkali lands, and there are large and small hills all over the place, the soil layer is very thin, and the harvest is not good, and the officers and soldiers of the Fushan Institute and their families work hard all year round, and almost all the grain and beans grown are rented and taken away by Jiang Xiaokun."

"What annoys me even more is that Jiang Xiaokun clearly knew that we were here to quell the rebellion, so he left without saying hello, and before leaving, he also issued an order that no one was allowed to sell grain to us, and wanted to force us to leave his territory as soon as possible and go north to Dengzhou."

The generals couldn't sit still, and asked Zhu Daolin not to wait for the arrival of the holy decree, but to take back all the Fushan and all the military fields first, and then talk about it, Li Yiliang, who had already seen it, also sighed that this Jiang Xiaokun was too much.

Zhu Daolin motioned for everyone to be quiet: "I don't know if you have noticed that there are more than 2,700 officers and soldiers and their families in Fushan, plus the Jiang family's manor in the north, which is twice as large as the fort in Fushan, and rows of thatched houses by the river, nearly 3,000 tenants living in a radius of 30 miles all year round, plus more than 5,000 military dependents in Fushan, why didn't we see a few after we went ashore?" ”

The generals reacted suddenly, and they really didn't see a few poor people, not even the families of the officers and soldiers of the Fushan Institute, so there must be something strange in this.

The look on Zhu Daolin's face became colder and colder: "When Lu Xiangrong complained to me, this Jiaodong man with a big cow and a big face and a big face was so red that he almost shed tears, he said that he and a few hundred households were still alive, but the vast majority of the brothers were too tired, and they were getting harder and harder ......every year."

"From last autumn to this year's spring and summer Jiaodong drought, it only began to rain in June, the grain harvested in the autumn is not enough to pay off the rent owed last year, but Jiang Xiaokun still collects rent according to the good year, not a pound of rice can be missing, the officers and soldiers who originally owed debts have made profits, forcing more than a dozen brothers to sell their sons and daughters, this is not enough, yesterday Jiang Xiaokun brought his family to rob the woman again, and also robbed the 14-year-old daughter of Lu Xiangrong's sworn brother Zhang Zongqi who was about to marry!"

"The reason why the families of the brothers in Fushan did not come out to greet us, and the children did not come out to see the excitement, was because it was too cold, and most of the brothers' parents and families were too thin to go out. (To be continued.) )