After Li Yonghua left, Liu Min said to Chen Xin with some concern: "How did this Dongjiang Town become like this?" ”

Song Wenxian said with a smile: "Seven years after the Apocalypse, the North Korean tuntian of the Dongjiang River was lost, and there was not enough food for the Dongjiang River on that island and a small coastal area, as long as Dengzhou did not transport grain, more than half of it would have to starve to death." ”

Liu Minyou glanced at Song Wenxian with dissatisfaction, this person said that there was no mercy for the dead, and he couldn't help but say: "That's a living person, how can those adults in Dengzhou be so cold-blooded." ”

Song Wenxian smiled slightly, and when he heard that Liu Min's tone was not good, he no longer answered, and Chen Xin did not explain the matter, he said to Liu Minyou: "Brother Liu is afraid that he has to be prepared, in a few days, there may be more people who escape, and some fishing boats will be arranged to patrol outside on weekdays, and those who flee will be taken here, don't let them be caught by Yang Guodong and others to work as coolies." ”

Speaking of this Yang Guodong, he asked Song Wenxian more, "What is this Yang Guodong doing?" His general soldier has already been occupied by Zhang Keda, is it difficult for him to get it back? ”

Song Wenxian said with a smile: "He is running around for officials, and he already has some eyebrows. I heard that he fell in love with the general army of Tongzhou, or the heads of several battalions on Caoyun, and everywhere in Tongzhou, the actual position is fat. This person has some brains, he is very good at looking at the direction of the wind, and last year he wrote a book to impeach Mao Wenlong for the ten major crimes to please some adults, and he is afraid that the silver will not be used less. ”

Tongzhou General Soldier, Chen Xin meditated for a while, he couldn't control himself, but the officials on the canal were always useful, so he still continued to maintain it.

Song Wenxian continued: "He always wanted to eat the Dongjiang River when he was in charge of Denglai's general army, and because of the affairs of the Liao people, he and Mao Wenlong had a lot of time to participate in each other, and the relationship between the two was very bad. ”

Liu Minyou didn't know anything about Yang Guodong, and said to the two: "How to arrange the people from Dongjiang, the two adults give a letter." Whether to recruit soldiers or to be farmers. ”

Chen Xin thought about it and said: "Select qualified people to be village warriors, and those who are not qualified to be farmers. ”

Liu Minyou said dissatisfiedly: "How many soldiers do you want, the strong labor on the Wendeng camp has been taken away by you, and spring ploughing will not be done in the end." How many soldiers do we need to raise here? ”

As soon as Chen Xin heard it, he knew that Xu Yuanhua had come to complain, and said with a smile: "It's all done by farming, and Brother Liu's spring plowing will never be delayed." ”

Song Wenxian knew that Chen Xin was engaged in Xiangyong, in his opinion, these Xiangyong were stronger than the soldiers in Dengzhou, and they were not noticeable, they were also part of the force, who in the local area dared not take the Wendeng camp seriously, the dungeon of the Wendeng camp did not even have a wall, and no bandits had ever dared to rob it.

So he was supportive, he didn't understand the things in the field, and he never felt that it was important. persuaded Liu Minyou: "There is only some farm work in the field, and the old man and woman do it, even if it is ......"

Liu Minyou took it and said, "Even if it's a child, it's fine." ”

Of course Song Wenxian will not continue to say that the hero sees the same thing, this Liu Min has taken gun medicine today, he coughed, changed the tone of his words, and looked at Chen Xindao: "Could it be that Lord Chen still lets the children work, it is really too much, I think it is better to let Mr. Liu teach them to read." ”

Chen Xin nodded and said: "What Mr. Song said is very true, but Mr. Liu is also suffering from a lack of teaching, after Mr. Song comes back this time, let's see if I can invite some gentlemen to come over in Dengzhou to make up for the shortcomings." ”

The two sang and harmonized, Liu Minyou was very dissatisfied with Chen Xin's use of child labor, Xu Yuanhua reacted to him that seven or eight-year-old children were also hoeing, and Wendeng Camp used strong labor as a village warrior to pull child labor to farm, and now even ordinary farmers have to practice muskets. All of these have a direct impact on the manpower of civil administration.

Ignoring the two of them at the moment, he got up and walked out the door.

Song Wenxian shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Your cousin is too kind, a household is just one laborer, if the children don't do anything, how many people will be raised for nothing." ”

Chen Xin said with a smile: "He is looking long-term, but now is an extraordinary time, and he can't care about so much." ”

Song Wenxian said: "But I also think that there are really more soldiers raised, there are more than 1,000 people in your Wendeng camp, and there are still people around here who dare to make trouble." ”

Chen Xin used Song Wenxian in more places, and planned to blow the wind to Song Wenxian first, and said in a low voice: "After last year, the Jiannu forces have arrived in Karaqin Mongolia, I estimate that they are afraid that they will enter the Kou from Jizhen, if that is the case, this is an opportunity." ”

Song Wenxian was a little unconvinced: "I heard people talk about this in Dengzhou, and there was a play in October last year, when it came to the emptiness of Jizhen, it seems that Lord Yuan also played a song." ”

Chen Xin shook his head and said: "Liao pay him is not to guard Liaoxi, since he is the superintendent of Ji Liao, plus Tianjin Denglai, it includes fighting in all directions of Houjin, since he can manage the soldiers of Jizhen and the food and salary of the Dongjiang River, why is he not responsible for the defense of Jizhen." Where it should be strengthened, it should be strengthened, what is the use of the last note. ”

Song Wenxian agreed: "I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to recover Liao in five years, I don't think he can trap Jiannu in Liaodong." ”

"Mr. Song has a high opinion, so I have to prepare for this matter, I have planned two thousand people, if this thing can be done well, we can go one step further......"

Song Wenxian's head turned sharply, he was very sensitive to this kind of interest, Chen Xin's current position was too low, and he was not the number one in the guard post and the battalion system, as long as he could take another step, the road ahead would be wide. He couldn't think about it for a while, and he was also suspicious that Houjin dared to enter Kou from Jizhen, after all, it was thousands of miles away from Shenyang, and it had never happened.

He thought for a while and said: "I'll think about it on the road, if you really want to benefit, that Lord Wen still has to work hard, Yang Weiyuan was dismissed last year, except for Qian Yuanke, we only have Wen Tiren." ”

As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper with some small characters from his sleeve and handed it to Chen Xin, saying: "In the Jingshi, the reverse case has been decided, and the old men made a list in January this year, but the emperor did not agree, and he had to add someone to it." In March, it was decided, and twenty of them were cut, and the others were dismissed and discussed, and those we dealt with saved their lives, Li Song, Sun Guozhen, and Yang Weiyuan were all cut and idle. The strange thing is that Yan Mingtai, who went to the Shuxiu Ancestral Hall with Lord Yuan, had nothing to do. ”

Chen Xin glanced at it slightly, he hadn't heard of most of the people in it, and the blow surface was wider, but after all, there were only twenty beheadings, and these people were temporarily withdrawn from the political stage, and he said to Song Wenxian: "Mr. Song, I thought that Jiannu would definitely come, and this year we will have to surround this trunk, and the others are all trivial." ”

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Liu Minyou came to the port after going out, the sea breeze blew, and his spirit was better, there were some fishing boats floating in the bay outside the port, which were the fishermen of their dunker and Mazidun, the fish profits in this bay and the open sea were good, and they could solve part of the meat supply, they boiled salt by themselves, salted the fish, and could supply part of it to the Wendeng camp.

The people of Weihaiwei now call this place Mazi Erdun, although it is not good, but they all know that this place is thriving, and many other people in the dungeon even want to escape.

In a blink of an eye, he saw Lao Cai walking around the port, and now he even looked at Lao Cai more pleasing to the eye than Song Wenxian, and went over to greet Lao Cai, "What does Cai's account room think of here?" ”

When Lao Cai saw that it was the owner, he hurriedly said: "Mr. Liu is in charge, naturally it is very good, just look at Mr. Liu's clothing store, you can know that it is not comparable to ordinary people." ”

Liu Minyou paused for a moment and asked, "Cai Shufang is going to sea again this time, can the clothing store be busy?" ”

Lao Cai rolled his eyes, knowing what Liu Min wanted to ask, and replied cautiously: "The lady of the Shen family will also settle accounts, so she won't get in the way." is the Shen Lou of his family, and now he is stained with bad habits, and he goes to the game every day, and spoils all the money that Shen Niangzi earns. ”

Liu Min sighed and didn't continue to ask, Lao Cai said again: "There are no other major events, and Shopkeeper Zhou is now familiar with it." Our orchid clothing store has an excellent reputation in Tianjin Wei, and the rich and noble families are reluctant to go to other houses, and they are embarrassed to go out without the orchid mark. ”

Liu Minyou smiled, this clothing store was also made by him with one hand and one foot, and he had deep feelings, Lao Cai saw his happy expression, and said with a smile: "A few days ago, Mr. Song came over and asked the clothing store to recruit more young account offices, saying that it was the meaning of Lord Chen." After practice, they will be sent to other ports of the canal. In the future, the orchid clothing store will definitely be famous all over the world. ”

Liu Minyou knows about this, it is a talent reserve to prepare for other products in the future, but according to the current situation, at least there is no drama this year, Chen Xin's energy is in the army, and his energy is all in Tuntian and the workshop, the workshop is fully engaged in the production of ordnance, and there are nearly 100 people who turn the barrel, and even their families are rushing to the army's clothing and bedding, the spring and autumn clothes have just been completed, and the winter clothes are about to start again, and a soldier's equipment is so diverse, such as water bottles, bullet bags, weapon carrying tools, rods, medicine pots, belts, short boots, flints, fire ropes, velvet, There are a lot of wrapping and so on, not including weapons and armor helmets, the iron scale armor has to be divided into multiple components, as well as the gunpowder used in the training of the firearms team, the wear and tear of muskets and cold weapons, the saddle and horse material of the cavalry, his eyes jump every time he sees the list that Dong Yu brought. Only now did he truly understand that the army was a gold-eating beast.

I hope that this year's Haimao silver will come back and I can breathe a sigh of relief.

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In March, Song Wenxian and others went to sea for Japan, and at the end of March, more and more people fled to the Dongjiang River, and before Chen Xinmai's boat set off, more than 200 people had already landed in Weihai, and Liu Minyou set up a simple shack outside the dungeon to contain them.

The people who came were all like withered trees, they all came out of the island stealing boats, some of them were even tied rafts, some of them were already dying when they arrived, even if they poured soup and medicine, they could not be saved, and some of them were red-faced, according to some of the people who came first, they just ate rotten human flesh, and most of them did not live long. Liu Minyou felt pity for these people, but also felt a burst of nausea. As the number of people increased, Chen Xin specially transferred back the two killer flag teams to maintain order in Mazidun.

Chen Xin's several cargo ships also went to sea to Guanglu, the size of Changshan and other nearby places, Lushun they dare not go for the time being, there are often Dengzhou sailors haunted, Zhu Daichun with some training team of people set off on the same ship, when the grain ship arrived, the islands were crowded with people to receive grain, the islands of the guards for a long time, did not dare to rob the grain, had to agree to use some people for exchange, the islanders were hungry and wanted to leave the Dongjiang River, plus Zhu Daichun and others depicted a beautiful blueprint, have enthusiastically signed up for the audition.

In April, there was still no grain ship sent by Ningyuan to Dongjiang Town, since October of the first year of Chongzhen, Dongjiang has not received grain and grass in July, but since March of the second year of Chongzhen, the tribe that is not bound can buy a large amount of grain in Ningyuan.

In a Tang newspaper in April, Mao Wenlong reviewed the amount of grain and salary received in the eight years since the opening of Dongjiang Town, but the true color was 1.28 million yuan, and the color was 1.22 million.

Since the loss of the Dongjiang Tuntian in Korea, most of the grain consumed by the Dongjiang River has been transported by sea from Dengzhou and Tianjin, and under the sudden cut-off, starvation has spread all over the wilderness, and it has become customary for the islands to eat people. After learning of the shortage of grain on the Dongjiang River in February, Houjin sent several groups of troops to attack the coastal strongholds of the Dongjiang River, and the shape of the Dongjiang River deteriorated even more.

Chen Xin's several boats ran two or three times, and picked up more than 700 people, more than 500 men, most of these veterans have fought for a few years, although those islands will not exchange their families, but these ordinary veterans are also what Chen Xin desires. The island generals also sent their own ships, and they did not dare to enter the harbor during the day, so they stayed in the open sea, and quietly entered the harbor at night or early in the morning to exchange people for food.

Zhu Daichun made a special trip to Wendeng Camp to report to Chen Xin, among the island generals they said, Chen Xin had only heard of Shang Kexi, and now he is the deputy general of Guanglu, Chen Xin knew that he later did the Guangzhou Massacre, but now, he is still a hardcore anti-Houjin person.

Many of the people who received it knew how to shoot arrows, and the cold weapons were also improvised, in terms of their current weakness, they didn't dare to engage in the set of soldiers in Weihaiwei at all, and Zhu Daichun and others also deliberately selected some honest and honest ones when selecting soldiers, but now they are too weak, and they are slowly replenishing their bodies in Mazidun, Chen Xin plans to break them all up and train with Xiang Yong, and the military stick will also work on them.

In mid-April, the first batch of more than 100 Dongjiang soldiers arrived at the Wendeng camp and began basic training with Xiang Yong. Chen Xin himself, on the other hand, put aside his chores and concentrated on training with the army, and at the same time began to practice his physical fitness and weapons.