As the orders issued by Zhu Daolin were quickly passed on, the garrisons from Jinling to Baoshanwei, the mouth of the Yangtze River, were mobilized.

The first batch of 4,900 new officers and soldiers led by Wu Jicheng, chief artillery instructor of the New Army, finished their training, packed up their backpacks, and left the Nanda Camp at the foot of the Lion Rock with all their weapons and equipment, and stationed in the Shangyuan Water Division Barracks to begin their pre-war rest and ideological mobilization.

On October 17 of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the second batch of recruits in the Longtan Beishan Battalion underwent three rounds of selection, and 3,800 recruits were officially incorporated into the garrison battalions of the Longtan Army, and began to undertake patrol tasks in the defense area and carry out high-intensity military skills training.

The 1,172 unsuccessful recruits went to the Shangyuan Naval Division Barracks to form the baggage battalion and supplementary battalion attached to the Jinzhou Guard, and immediately received weapons and equipment after completing their registration and received training from the new commanders.

On the morning of 19 October, Xu Wentao, acting commander of the New Army, and 120 instructors of various sections of the New Army formed a temporary officer corps, and led the third batch of 7,230 recruits who had only been trained for three months to leave Nanda Camp for a seven-day field march.

The originally deserted Shangyuan Water Division barracks became lively again.

The Jinzhou Guard under Wu Jicheng has been replenished one after another, and the total number of officers and men has reached the full strength of 5,600, all officers and men have received standard steel helmets inlaid with unique military insignia, put on sturdy and warm military cotton coats and high-top cotton shoes, officers at the rank and deputy captain and above have taken the lead in obtaining new chain mail with amazing defensive power, officers below the battalion level have uniformly replaced the embroidered spring knives made by Tianshu Pavilion, and Zhu Daolin has recently brought back 2,000 flintlock pistols, all of which are equipped with this new army, which has been pinned on by all sides.

In order to facilitate command, Zhu Daolin set up a temporary office in the independent warehouse compound deep in the wharf, and the No. B warehouse facing the courtyard gate became the busiest core place.

Three months ago. The 200 elites secretly selected from the more than 20,000 trained new troops, under the careful teaching of the Ziyang Martial Arts Museum, after 80 days of military skills training and basic theoretical study, officially stationed in the warehouse compound to undertake patrol and guard tasks, and became a member of Zhu Daolin's direct personal guard battalion.

Zhu Daolin, surrounded by more than a dozen general managers such as Zhao Xunting and Feng Shengtai, came to the door of the No. A warehouse where people and cars came and went. Patiently explain to everyone:

"Let the major workshops move back all kinds of materials stored here, not only for the needs of the army, but also for you to clean up your family through this material relocation......"

"The end of the year is approaching, you have to fill out the year-end report, right? You should always know how much you have earned, how much you have lost, and how much inventory you have in the past year, right? ”

"You complain that the warehouse is not enough, in my opinion, it is all a trivial matter, a large number of factories and reservoir areas in Longtan New District have been completed one after another, and nearly half of the workshops, branches, and workshops of Hushan Manor will be moved over next month, and a lot of things are waiting for you to do. Why are you bothering with me about this little thing? ”

Zhu Qineng, the director of Longtan Machinery Factory, who was in full swing of preparations, hurriedly explained: "Don't misunderstand, general, my subordinates just think that more than 50 valuable machines will not be used for a while when they are moved to the old workshop, and no one will use them, so it is worrying to put them there!" ”

Zhu Daolin immediately pointed out his mistake: "Who asked you to move back as a baby?" Let you move back is to let the craftsmen familiarize themselves with all kinds of machinery and equipment in advance, take these machines and equipment apart to see what is going on, and be familiar with its working principle, otherwise how will these machines be used to make various processing equipment, spare parts and weapons and equipment needed by the army in the future? ”

"Don't ramble with me. Hurry up and move all the machines back with accessories and special maintenance tools, and organize the craftsmen to disassemble them and think about it. The flintlock pistol research team and more than 100 craftsmen were also called to work together, thoroughly understand the design and efficacy of each machine, learn how to disassemble and how to assemble, and if it doesn't work once, come several times, and you will soon become familiar with it after repeated pondering. ”

"Just let it go, it's okay if it's broken. I'll buy you a new one back! ”

Everyone was stunned, no one expected that Zhu Daolin would let them use such a valuable machine to practice.

Zhu Daolin didn't have time to explain more to this group of honest and fearful managers, and instructed the chief manager Zhao Xunting to take charge of the relocation, and pulled the commercial manager Feng Shengtai to the B-shaped warehouse that was being cleaned:

"At the end of this month or the beginning of next month, Sa'id's Arab fleet will definitely arrive. After this transaction, our trade with the Spaniards, the Portuguese and Saïd will be transferred to the Tamsui port, so before the end of the year, you need to complete the operating statements of Tiangong Trading Company, announce the company's results, and pay dividends to shareholders, even if the dividends are not much, so that the people who buy our shares can see hope. ”

"No problem, the company's business is two major blocks of sea trade and domestic trade, and the southern development zone is an independent project, although it is managed and accounted for by the company, and belongs to the company's industry, but it is not included in the company's business scope, and the issued shares have nothing to do with it, and the accounts are very easy to calculate." Feng Shengtai replied confidently.

Zhu Daolin nodded: "Five days later, I will lead the five musket battalions of Wu Jicheng's department to Baoshanwei on two modified transport ships and the 500-ton battleship. ”

"In the next two years, most of our maritime trade will be carried out in Tamsui Port, so you need to stay in Yingzhou for a period of time, the three sulfur mines near Keelung Port at the northern foot of Moon Mountain, and the 10,000 mu salt pans north of the Tamsui estuary have been put into operation one after another, and the timber company set up by Wang Daguan has cut down thousands of shipbuilding trees and sent them to the Tamsui estuary yard through several small rivers and Tamsui rivers."

"The above three materials must be firmly controlled in our hands, you and General Manager Wang discuss to see how to do better between the two companies, I need to sit in the northern battlefield for a long time in the next half a year, I'm afraid there are not many opportunities for us to meet."

Feng Shengtai nodded heavily: "Please rest assured, the general's subordinates will complete everything here before the end of the year, and lead the team to Tamsui Port after the Spring Festival." ”

Zhu Daolin patted Feng Shengtai's arm and took him to the front of the C-shaped warehouse in the north: "The 12 containers placed against the wall have been cleaned up in the past few days, and they contain dozens of crop seeds such as high-yield rice and corn bought from Tianshu Pavilion, half of which are sent to Baguazhou and handed over to Lao Fang, the head of Tuntian, and the other half You want to transport it to Baoshan and send it to Yingzhou together with the 20,000 immigrants in the middle of next month. ”

"The 2,000 tonnes of steel under the courtyard wall are all for construction, and in the past two days, you have organized people to send them to Baguazhou and handed them over to Diao, who is in charge of the construction of the new shipyard.

"My subordinates will contact the sailor transport ship and transport the seeds needed by Bagua Continent first." Feng Shengtai went to do it immediately after speaking.

Zhu Daolin was very satisfied with the conscientious Feng Shengtai, and instructed his guards to find Wu Jicheng to give an explanation, and immediately rushed to Zhanyuan in the city by carriage, and had a secret conversation with Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, Zhang Gongwei, the Marquis of Longping, and Wu Jingxian, the eunuch of the town, until the evening, he hurriedly went out of the city and returned home. (To be continued.) )