East Courtyard of Hushan Manor.

Zhu Daolin stood straight on the high platform directly north of the playground, silently watching the children who had gradually gotten used to it, and none of them vomited and fell behind, and what surged in his heart was not pride, but a burst of sadness, and his mind was full of admiration and longing when the children looked at him.

For eight days, as long as he stood on this high platform every day, the children were extremely excited and worked hard, and Zhu Daolin also deeply realized that his image in the children's minds was no longer just as simple as a master.

The morning before yesterday, 7 children were sent back to the academy east of the Taoist Temple because they were found to be sick or unfit for martial arts.

Therefore, Zhu Daolin secretly made up his mind that after the expiration of the 45-day basic training period, no matter how opposed and angry the masters and uncles were, he would leave all the children who had persevered in the Ziyang Martial Arts Hall, at most find a "preparatory student" for the children in the excess to prevaricate in the past, and also leave as many of the first batch of children as possible to gradually teach the children the various knowledge, skills, ideological concepts, and patriotic spirit he had mastered.

Whether these children are in the army or business in the future, they will all be his disciples of Zhu Daolin, and they will all be his most loyal students and most effective assistants.

After breakfast, the chief manager Zhao Xunting quietly came to the big dining room of the martial arts hall, grabbed two big meat buns and walked to Zhu Daolin to report while eating: "Wei Guogong suddenly came by boat, and also sent four boats of hundred-year-old elm and rosewood. ”

Zhu Daolin immediately called his junior disciples Yulong and Yuhu, instructed them to preside over today's training and test, and then walked to the pier with Zhao Xunting to meet Xu Hongji.

Yang Dading, the junior brother who was promoted to a personal bodyguard, immediately threw down the big bowl. He rushed to the front yard next door and told the new coachman to get into the carriage and hurry to the dock to the west.

Hundreds of coolies at the wharf and more than 300 craftsmen from the shipbuilding workshop have been busy, using two steel crane towers that have not been installed for a long time, to unload the huge logs on the ship, and the thick hemp rope is carefully hoisted down heavy logs with a diameter of more than 1.5 meters and a length of more than 20 meters under the action of the pulley block. Several foremen used brass whistles and red and yellow signal flags.

The curious officers and men of the sailor division stood on the periphery, watching and discussing, and they couldn't figure out why the coolies could save so much effort by adding several sets of connected iron wheels.

Wei Guogong and seven or eight henchmen and generals under his command gathered at the north corner of the wharf, looking at the newly built military wharf and fort in front of them, and discussed in a low voice.

They clearly remember that half a month ago, the newly built wharf along the river, which is about 180 meters long and about 350 meters deep, began to be filled with mud and rock. Layer by layer tamping, I didn't expect that half a month later, all the flat and solid triple ground was laid.

The huge hill in the north, which protrudes more than ten meters from the river, is even more surprising, the original rugged hill has already shown the rudiments of the fort, and hundreds of craftsmen are piling up stone parapets layer by layer, and the hidden steps on both sides have been repaired.

Zhu Daolin nodded to the familiar general Cheng Jizu, stood beside Xu Hongji and asked with a low smile: "Grandpa Guo is still satisfied with this special dock for sailors, right?" ”

Xu Hongji heard Zhu Daolin's voice and hurriedly turned around: "Why are you satisfied?" I want to move the Sailor Base Camp here! ”

The generals laughed and said that this place was good. Brother Daolin simply let it out.

Where was Zhu Daolin willing to agree, he smiled and asked: "The Shuishi Dazhai at the mouth of the Longjiang River is ten times wider than mine. I heard that the five-mile-long wharf was built by the Taizu of this dynasty, why did it be thrown there for many years and no one maintained it? I saw a lot of merchant ships coming from upstream docked there, and I wonder if they have been sold to private individuals. ”

Now the generals stopped talking.

Xu Hongji patted Zhu Daolin's shoulder and patiently explained: "That place is still my sailor's territory, and since the last time the eunuch of Sanbao returned from his trip to the West, the imperial court has not allocated a penny. The two guards of the naval division stationed there, as well as the Jiangyin guard, Zhenhaiwei, and Langshan guard downstream, were all abolished. ”

Most of the officers and men of the naval division were transferred to the banks of the canal and Tianjin Port to work as coolies, and the smaller half moved to Fujian to build a new Zhenhaiwei, resulting in the Yangtze River Naval Division, which had 120,000 troops. In fact, there are only two guards in Jiujiang and Longjiang and 6,000 households, and the number of people on the military register is still 120,000, but in fact, only three-tenths are left, and two percent of them are still old, weak, sick and disabled! ”

"Since that time, the Jiangnan Navy Division has existed in name only, and the base camp of the Longjiang Estuary has been abandoned for a hundred years, the sediment has been silted up year by year, and the wharf has continued to collapse, and now the big ships of more than 2,000 stone can not be easily docked, and the naval warships have also been reduced from 650 800 to 4,000 stone warships at the beginning, to 4 old warships of 2,000 stones, 8 500 stone to 2,000 stone sand ships and more than 70 dilapidated boats."

"This kind of scale can't even compare to a guard in the Chengzu period, and we don't feel good about it!"

Zhu Daolin looked at the gloomy generals around him, hesitated slightly, and asked tentatively: "If you rely on your own strength to restore the base camp of the Longjiang Naval Division, will the imperial court and the Nanjing Military Department interfere?" ”

The eyes of all the generals and schools lit up, and they all came to the spirit.

Cheng Jizu preemptively answered Zhu Daolin's question: "I'm afraid that the imperial court and the military department will not agree, there is no problem in repairing the wharf, removing silt and rebuilding the barracks, and there is no problem in rebuilding the originally abolished naval division Nanjing Wei, also known as Longjiangwei, because the entire naval division battalion and all the soldiers are still on the military register of the Governor's Mansion and have never been canceled." ”

"However, the manufacture of warships, the recruitment of soldiers, daily training, military salaries and supplies, etc., will be a huge amount of money for many years, even if the imperial court and the Liangjing Military Department are willing, there is not so much silver to allocate it, unless the rich Daolin brother comes to pay this money, no one can afford it."

Zhu Daolin despised Wei Guogong and a group of generals in his heart, thinking that you bastards have drunk the blood of soldiers over the years, and the silver accumulated by Wei Guogong for several generations is not 8 million taels but also 5 million taels, and only half of them can be taken out, and all the problems can be solved, but they are only fucking in, and they still have the cheekiness to pay attention to Lao Tzu?

Seeing that Zhu Daolin didn't take the conversation, everyone couldn't help but be secretly disappointed.

Xu Hongji smiled when he saw this, and ordered his subordinates to take a casual look, and then pulled Zhu Daolin to his side, and walked into the special dock for the sailor who had just tamped the Sanhe soil and was being watered and maintained, and told Zhu Daolin one by one about the emergencies reported by the Yan family, a large number of pirates and big grain merchants, found outside the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Zhu Daolin was so angry that his eyebrows were about to stand up.

He can not care about the bandits outside the mouth of the Yangtze River, but the conspiracy of the Southeast Haoqiang to strike the market and the class strike happened to be chosen on the third day of the second month of the second month when he Zhu Daolin and Xia Yuying got married, and there are only two days left from today.

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