This military meeting did not have any results at all, first of all, the commanders of each battalion poured bitter water, the arquebus battalion has not yet begun to change guns, the pike battalion is still arranging the production of full-coverage helmets, the special forces battalion has only a hundred short guns, in addition to the equipment, the personnel are also incomplete, the criminal battalion needs to be replenished with at least two companies of personnel, the Liaodong battalion is still an empty shelf, except for the arquebus battalion and the special forces battalion can currently maintain the seven sincere and benevolent personnel, the other battalions are still actively recruiting manpower, and even the basic training plan has not yet been formulated. This year's summer salary has not been paid, and with the 9,000 displaced people who have flocked to Lushun, Lushun's economy will collapse if there is another war.

Yang Bo had a sad face on his back hands, he thought that he lacked nothing in the five elements, except gold......

"How about the Golden State deduction that you asked you to do yesterday?" Yang Bo asked Wang Xiaoyu of the General Staff.

Wang Xiaoyu shook his head and said embarrassedly: "No matter how you deduce, Jinzhou is impossible to conquer, and the balance of power is too great." ”

Yang Bo interrupted Wang Xiaoyu's words and said, "I don't want Jinzhou, I only need three hundred Zhenyi heads."

Wang Xiaoyu still hung his head and replied: "The Jinzhou Tartars have suffered our losses, and the plan to lure the enemy will definitely not work."

Yang Bo thought for a while and said, "We don't need to just stare at the Jinfu line, what is the situation in the area from Xiuyan to Tieshan, such as the Tunbao guarded by the Tartars. ”

He Jiu interjected with some worry, "My lord, there are a few Tartar forts in the Xiuyan area, and there are about more than 100 people, but the problem is that first, our transportation capacity is not enough, and secondly, if we can't conquer it for a long time, Jinzhou, Xiuyan, and Fengcheng will all come out with Tartar soldiers and horses, and we can't retreat back from the three sides." ”

Yang Bo looked at Gao Yuanxiang, Gao Yuanxiang knew that Yang Bo asked him about the ship, so he replied: "There are eight large ships and twenty-seven small warships under the name of the water camp, plus the ships under the name of the little lady, it is not a problem to transport three or five thousand people at a time, but Lord Li took two battalions to call nearly half of the ships, plus the ships that various departments called to transport supplies, and the water camp now has not many ships available in its hands." ”

Hu Mazi lamented: "Speaking of which, there is still a shortage of people!" ”

Yang Bo nodded: "I'm not in a hurry to use it now, I just have a number in my heart." ”

Seeing that everyone had nothing to do, Yang Bo could only tell He Jiu to pay attention to intelligence gathering, sending troops was a big deal, and it was better to live up to Wen Tiren's expectations than to be hasty.

After two days, there are warships to Lushun report, saying that several of Gao Hongzhong's ships have finally returned, and are now moored in Jiaodong Bay in Jimo, the first to report is Chen Bilian put on the ship of the gold shopkeeper, Yang Bo was overjoyed, took the gold shopkeeper's current accounts and purchase list to see, in addition to the three ships of copper, the remaining two ships also brought back some nitrate and lead, the price is indeed much cheaper than the local purchase, take three ships of copper is four or five times the profit, which to the dilemma of Yang Bo to solve the urgent need.

"Have you notified the Yao family?" Yang Bo asked the shopkeeper Jin

The golden shopkeeper nodded: "The Yao family has already boarded the boat and is coming to Lushun with Boss Gao, and the little one will go first to inform the adults." ”

"Is it smooth to buy copper in the Japanese country? Have you found a force to work with for a long time? Yang Bo is still concerned about the next trade.

The golden shopkeeper took a sip of tea and said: "Most of the copper materials of the Wa Kingdom come from the Iwami Silver Mountain, and the copper materials still contain silver, but there has been too much outflow recently, and the shogunate has issued strict restrictions, plus the decree of locking the country was issued last year, and it is thanks to the Yao family's agents that some face can be obtained at a time, but the most cost-effective is sulfur, which is much cheaper than Daming, as for saltpeter, there is not much advantage over the price of Daming, and the only thing is to ensure production." ”

Yang Bo asked with some curiosity: "What is the lockdown order?" Wasn't the Wa Kingdom ready to engage in maritime trade with the Ming Dynasty? ”

The golden shopkeeper shook his head and said: "That's not it, this shogunate's lockdown order is mainly for Christians, in order to prevent the spread of paganism, the Wa country even broke off diplomatic relations with Franco, etc., the lockdown order can be roughly divided into two trade situations, the first is directly controlled by the shogunate, in Nagasaki is responsible for the trade between Hongyi Holland and the Ming Dynasty." The second type of trade between the feudal lords and the Wakoku was the foreign trade between the Tsushima clan and Korea, and the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma clan and the Ryukyu kingdom. ”

Hearing that the sea trade could continue, Yang Bo relieved his heart and asked again: "It seems that there has been a lot of delay in the Wa Kingdom this time?" ”

The golden shopkeeper nodded and said, "This time it's mainly to explore the path, and the next trip will be familiar."

At that moment, the golden shopkeeper told all the things he had seen and heard about this sea trade.

Yang Bo pondered for a moment, at present, most of the saltpeter used by the Thunder Brigade was provoked by Andongwei and Dengzhou, and the other part was not enough to spend silver to buy the nitrate smuggled from Henan and Hebei, because the production process is complex and the production cost is high, so the price is quite expensive, about two dollars and five silver per catty, and the smoothbore artillery battalion is reluctant to train with live ammunition once a month, which is too much silver.

With these few things, the firearms of the Thunder Brigade can be supported for a long time in a short period of time, if you don't put on the heavy artillery, the inventory of iron to make flintlock pistols is enough, and the armor tinkering does not require much expenditure, this year's summer grain harvest, the output of private salt has increased greatly, according to the proportion of 30% per mu, he is estimated to be able to earn tens of thousands of accounts this year, Xiao Yulan is still reconciling, but in addition to the cost of the next trip to the sea trade, there is also the account of Gonggong Cao of the Beijing Division has to be repaid as soon as possible, and after calculation, this year is still extremely embarrassing, The only hope is that the watch factory will be able to produce and sell smoothly.

Do you want to send Han Qiaoshan and them out to sea to plunder? Yang Bo fell into hesitation......

The next day, I didn't wait for Mrs. Yao, Tie Niu they came back, and there were a large number of displaced people who came back with the boat, all of them were crowded like sardines on the boat, and the people from the Intelligence Department said that it happened in Lushun in July, and the two vicious battles in Jinzhou had made the prestige of the Jimo battalion far and wide, and all the departments of the Dongjiang River near Lushun were spread, so the advance team sent by the teaching battalion and the special forces battalion arrived everywhere to publicize it a little, and there were a large number of displaced people who migrated to Lushun in groups, and the purpose of these refugees was very simple, I heard that Lushun could eat well, Even if you don't have enough to eat, you have a sense of security, even if you don't have a sense of security, isn't Lushun close to Dengzhou?

However, the people brought back by the Iron Bull looked terrifying, but in fact the number was less than two thousand.

"Brother, there is really no way, Shen Zhixiang, the guard of Shicheng Island, suddenly changed his mind and asked Lushun to exchange food for people, Tie Niu didn't dare to agree indiscriminately, so he had to bring some old and weak back first." Tie Niu saw Yang Bo's eyes flickering and explained.

"Did you tell him that Shen Shikui personally nodded and agreed to this matter?" Yang Bo asked with anger in his temper.

Tie Niu nodded and said: "Naturally, I said it, but that Shen Zhixiang is the son of Shen Shikui, the chief soldier of the Dongjiang River, and he is not inferior in his mouth, and he doesn't sell our accounts, so he almost got angry."

Yang Bo was furious and asked, "How much grain does he want?" ”

Before Tie Niu could speak, Li Dali hurriedly said: "That birdman said that a stone of rice grain will be given to one person, grass him. Damn it! Lao Tzu wanted to slaughter the turtle grandson on the spot. ”

Tie Niu added: "Later, Tie Niu did not stay when he saw that he could not talk, and only when he sailed back to the Great and Small Changsheng Islands and Guanglu Island did he transport some hungry people over. ”

He Jiu, who was silent on the side, suddenly spoke: "The islands of the Dongjiang River are full of hungry people, and those generals are all rich, and the Dongjiang River will be controlled in our hands sooner or later. ”

"Good!" Li Dali and others agreed.

"My lord, as long as you give the order, one battalion of Lao Tzu's pikemen can destroy him!" Liu Manzi also shouted.

Yang Bo snorted and ignored them, these people under his command have all seen the five-year plan, as long as they control more territory, the value of their old subordinates will naturally rise, although the ideas are good, but unfortunately the time is far from coming......

It is fair to say that the joint Mongolia, the Korean ministries to encircle and suppress the Tatar slaves is from Xiong Tingbi's strategy, and in the Dongjiang area to open up the battlefield behind the enemy is Wang Huazhen's idea, at this time, Mao Wenlong began to shine, the Dongjiang troops frequently attacked the Tartars, the Liao people rebelled against the Tatar slaves everywhere, a large number of Mongolians fought desperately for ten taels of silver and a Tatar slave head reward, for a time, the old slaves were terrified, and Liaodong was full of smoke.

However, after the fall of Wang Zaijin, Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan and others who succeeded him came to power, and all this changed. The real is that in fact, these people also know the important surnames of the Dongjiang strategy, but for their own selfishness, they desperately advocate "moving the town", running off food, and finally killed Mao Wenlong, so Yuan Chonghuan wrote a book, and did not mention "moving the town", nor did he engage in a blockade, on the contrary, he also asked the court to pay money and materials to strengthen Dongjiang Town, Dongjiang Town's military expenditure did not decrease but increased, as for how much he embezzled from it, I don't know, and the most vicious point is to use his cronies to take over Dongjiang Town, and also divide Dongjiang into several associations, so that it cannot form a unified command ......

After several twists and turns, Shen Shikui took over the position of the Dongjiang commander-in-chief as he wished, but he was not even a dog guarding the city, and the scattered Dongjiang troops had no idea except for huddle on the island and waiting for the judgment to come, which was the most fatal.

The most failed part of Mao Wenlong is, first, there is no unified slogan, no organization, and no grassroots structure, except for inciting and dispatching annihilation, most of the people who resist the Liao are fighting on their own, and it is normal for them to fail under the purging of superior Tatar slaves. Second, after Mao Wenlong's death, no one could inherit his strategic policy, which directly led to the death of the people.

"Shen Shikui!"

Yang Bo silently recited a sentence, since he was stationed in Lushun, he had not had the opportunity to deal with the surrounding Dongjiang departments, and it seemed that it was time to think about it.

Obviously, the various departments of the Dongjiang River must hate him, an outsider, Lushun not only separated from the Dongjiang River, but also paid the full amount from the Liao, how can all this not make them blush? It is not surprising that Shen Shikui and his son have a white face and a ** face.

But it is very difficult to deal with Shen Shikui, this person has been the deputy general of Dongjiang for a long time, with old qualifications, and he is also Mao Wenlong's father-in-law, and his seniority is also high.

Yang Bo looked at the hungry people who were sitting or lying on the dock, they all had no strength to stand up, at a glance they were mostly old and weak, Shicheng Island was nearly 600 miles away from Lushun, and only more than 1,200 people lived to Lushun, and those homeless people left more than 300 corpses on it after getting off the boat, which is not counting, I heard Tie Niu say that although there was food, but because of the bumps on the road, almost every day there were thin hungry people who could not hold on and died on the road, because they were afraid of contracting the plague, those corpses were thrown into the sea along the way.

"Let them be stationed on the spot, first mix two days with rice soup, clean up before they are allowed to enter the city, eat, drink and Lazar must strictly follow the rules, and let the people of the Logistics Department pay attention to preventing the plague" Yang Bo was unhappy, and returned to the deputy general's mansion sullenly with his hands behind his back.

Listening to the feedback from the Intelligence Department, a large number of hungry people want to come to Lushun to find a way to survive, but if the obstacles are not broken, he still can't recruit enough people!

The most urgent thing is that if the soldiers of each battalion are not replenished, he will be trapped in the city and will not be able to do anything.

In the evening, Mrs. Yao and Gao Hongzhong finally arrived in Lushun......

Old lady Yao made a full three times the profit from this trip to the sea trade, and it was heartbreaking to think that he would hand over 20,000 silver to him, and after thinking about it, Yang Bo decided to keep this silver no matter what.

"I've seen Master Bi" Old Lady Yao took John Tang as Bi Fangji and saluted respectfully, Yang Bo knew that in the eyes of Old Lady Yao, these Xiyi looked the same, and he couldn't cry or laugh in his heart, but he didn't explain.

"Old lady Yao, how about you take a look at this grandfather clock?" Yang Bo smiled and pointed to a table clock in a tray and asked Mrs. Yao, in order to show caution, it was covered with a red cloth.

Old lady Yao didn't know what to do, so she stepped forward to take it and open it and take a look.

"Isn't this Xiyi's timer?" Mrs. Yao is well-informed and has seen this kind of grandfather clock.

Yang Bo smiled: "According to Old Lady Yao's opinion, if this grandfather clock is transported to the Jiangnan area, how much can it be sold?" ”

After taking a closer look, Mrs. Yao said, "The workmanship of things is good, but it's a pity that the old man can't understand this hour." ”

Seeing Yang Bo's insistence, Old Lady Yao pondered for a moment and said, "The old man doesn't dare to say anything, about forty taels, right?" It's not very common in the Northlands. ”

Yang Bo nodded: "Old man, are you interested in doing this business?" I produce this bell here. ”

Old Lady Yao opened her mouth wide and was stunned for a long time before she said, "Could it be?" Could it be that this Xiyi timer is made by Zhixian? ”

Seeing that Mrs. Yao was interested, Yang Bo silently rolled up his sleeves.

"Don't hide it from Master Yao, this is a freshly baked sample, and there are still a few processes that have not been solved, according to my news, the same table clock is sold for fifty taels of silver in Nanjing Mansion, and the price of sixty in Huguang is not yet available, now Master Yao understands?"

Old Lady Yao glanced at Yang Bo suspiciously, and asked, "What does Zhixian want?" Let's just say it. ”

"I want a middleman to sell the clock to the Jiangnan area" Yang Bo simply said: "Originally, I planned to sell it myself, but I haven't been able to open it recently, and there is no other channel." ”

Mrs. Yao has been in business all his life, so he naturally understands people, he stood up and looked at the grandfather clock carefully, and a mechanic explained some knowledge of the grandfather clock to him under the instruction of Yang Bo.

"Northland?" Old Lady Yao suddenly turned around and asked.

Yang Bo shook his head.

"What about the Wa Kingdom?" Old lady Yao held on to the last glimmer of hope.

Yang Bo continued to shake his head.

"Can only sell Jiangnan?" Old Lady Yao sighed, very regretful.

Yang Bo laughed and said, "Isn't Jiangnan enough? ”

Old Lady Yao nodded, sat down again, and said with a serious face: "Say, what conditions?" Zhixian has always been calculating, and the old man needs to think about it. ”

After sending off Mrs. Yao, Gao Hongzhong looked at Yang Bo with admiration on his face, just now the adult was clever and tongue-in-cheek, not only kept all the profits of Mrs. Yao's sea trade this time, but the key thing was that the adult only gave a verbal promise, and nothing was taken away by Mrs. Yao!

Being able to do business to this extent made Gao Hongzhong sigh with emotion......

Yang Bo is smiling bitterly in his heart, this table clock is a defective product in the later generations, not only the glass is not inlaid, the gears inside, the shrapnel because of the tolerance, completely using the method of manual grinding to barely install, the last spin can only go half an hour before it is stuck, Tang Ruowang's factory only produced a total of two, the quality of the last time the grinding was slightly better, so that Yang Bo gave Wen Tiren a favor, but anyway, this business was finally done.

Speaking of which, the Yao family and him have cooperated seamlessly from enemies to today, and it is not easy to go all the way, thanks to the old lady Yao's discernment, of course, Yang Bo will not treat him badly, but it will take time......

Yang Bo has always been wary of the merchants of this era, he knows how the eight "Jin merchants" advocated by later generations made a fortune, and he also knows that the loss of Tieling, Kaiyuan, Fushun, Liaoyang and other places has a lot to do with the merchant's purchase and fine work, after several contacts, the Yao family is willing to follow him to earn proper silver, Mrs. Yao not only helped him through several difficulties, but also took the initiative to give up several business routes in the north, I can't help but say, Yang Bo is still very satisfied with the courage of Mrs. Yao.

"Uncle Gao, I'm going to work hard for you!" Yang Bo said to Gao Hongzhong apologetically, this time he will go to sea again after a few days of rest, and he will have to wait until next year when he comes back.

"My lord has seen the outside" Gao Hongzhong's legs and feet were inconvenient, so he could only bow slightly and said: "Ah Lian was brought up by me, and now that I have a good home, it is too late for me to rejoice, besides, when the bandits finally lose their wind, now everyone is on the right path and earns proper silver, Yuanxiang's kid also became the general manager of the water camp, although I am a rough person, I also know that it is the blessing of the Lord that the Gao family is today, and it is too late for Lord Wei to be happy in my heart?" It's not hard, I'm used to running at sea! ”

"When they can take charge of themselves, Uncle Gao will stay in Lushun and enjoy Qingfu" Yang Bo nodded, but he was thinking in his heart, should he put a few more boats to run away this time? Zheng Yiguan didn't dare to tear his face with Xiong Wencan's face, what was there to worry about?

"When Wen Fang arrives, I have to sum up this matter with him" Yang Bo sent Gao Hongzhong out, thinking in his heart.

"Adult, villain, villain still waiting to hold grandchild?" Gao Hongzhong's last sentence made Yang Bo very stressed...... (To be continued.) )