Outside the school field on the east side of Dengzhou Shuicheng, Chen Xin had just returned from Deng's inspection, and now Liaohai was frozen, Dai Zhenggang was transferred back to Dengzhou and transferred to the third battalion officer, Zheng Sanhu was transferred to the second battalion officer, and the soldiers and horses of the second battalion in southern Liaoning returned to Deng, Chen Xin made a special trip to appease the army and help Zheng Sanhu take over. Along the way, I looked at a few more tunpu forts and checked the situation of spring ploughing.

Southern Liaoning has carried out enthusiastic construction, from Jinzhou to Nanguan densely covered with forts and fortifications, a large number of auxiliaries who participated in the Battle of Lushun have been armed with cold weapons, plus the Houjin army has just completed the Xuanda Raid, at least in the first half of this year, they do not have the strength to launch an offensive in southern Liaoning, Chen Xin even felt that they would not dare to come to southern Liaoning again in a few years.

Last year, the income of the trading company increased to 2.3 million taels, although most of it still needs to be used to expand the scale, but Chen Xin has become the richest military town, plus last year's Zijin Liang robbery, the imperial court's military expenses have also arrived on time, Dengzhou's expenses have exceeded the Guanning army, the Guanning army has more than 3 million Liao salary share, but they have to intercept nearly half of the troops in Beijing like Chen Xin.

After the beginning of spring, the cotton cloth in Dengzhou flocked to Qingzhou and Jinan Mansion like a tide, relying on the fine texture and the price of one percent cheaper, quickly defeated the cotton cloth, and even Xu Congzhi, the governor of Shandong, opened a cotton cloth shop in Jinan, specializing in buying goods from the four seas trading company to sell, Chen Xin of course gave him a low price.

Cotton-related industries have also sprung up in various parts of Denglai, many of which are organized in the form of tunpu, mainly engaged in dyeing, transportation, small shipyards, and loom manufacturing, and low-interest loans are provided by the money village, and Denglai's industry and commerce are developing under the drive of the two major industries of cotton spinning and tobacco.

The three shipyards in the area began to build sand boats and fishing boats, all of which were jointly run by the coastal tunpu, and the fishing boats sold well, but the sales of cargo ships were low.

Liu Min has given the policy. The same can be loans, as long as it is a tunhu people, can buy boats to participate in the transportation of goods, Liu Min needs to solve the problem of cotton spinning industry transportation, there are many fishermen in the coastal tunpu, some are unwilling to continue fishing, and see that the transportation is profitable, to the shipyard to order a lot, but willing to loan not much. The base is pooled together by each family.

Coupled with the beginning of spring ploughing, Dengzhou's huge civil system is in operation, more than a million residents are busy, and the entire Denglai has woken up.

Chen Xin thought about it when he arrived at the military gate, and gave a few words to the adjutant. Then he turned around and went to the civil affairs side, and the civil officials came and went along the way, and they seemed very busy. The subordinates are busy, the leaders are happy, and Chen Xin hummed all the way to Liu Minyou's office.

After entering the house, Liu Minyou was talking to Wang Daixi about the shipyard, and when Wang Daixi saw that Chen Xin was coming, he hurriedly got up to say goodbye.

Chen Xin said with a smile. "I'm not the Bull Demon King, why do you have to leave every time I come."

Wang Daixi blushed and said, "I'm afraid that Lord Chen, you have something important, and I don't dare to delay you." ”

"It's nothing, I'm just here to see if there's anything I need help with. There is also the situation of spring ploughing, you continue to talk, I am not in a hurry. ”

Chen Xin took off his hat and hung it on the hanger, and really went to find a cup to pour tea by himself. Wang Daixi had no choice but to sit down again.

Liu Minyou looked at Chen Xin, and then said to Wang Daixi: "The shipyard's ship output. To correspond to the output of the cotton mills, but it is necessary to catch up, the money village gives loans, but there are not many people willing to borrow money, those tun households are a little afraid of loans, and the number of ships purchased is not much. That's why I'd like to develop another system from the Financial Secretary's side, called insurance. ”

"Insurance?" Wang Daixi looked dazed.

Chen Xin couldn't help but stand up when he heard this, and he didn't hear Liu Minyou say anything about insurance.

"Yes, it is insurance, the seaside tun households are reluctant to transport, but also afraid of the risk of shipping, once there is an accident to the trading company to lose money, that is, each ship pays a fee, if one of the ships has a problem, by the insurance premium to compensate, you can also give the crew in distress a pension, but only limited to the delivery of goods from the four seas trading company, the financial secretary will temporarily handle this matter."

Wang Daixi blinked, "What about the ships of other merchants?" ”

"Then we don't care, we can only protect the boat we bought in the tunhu, otherwise if those people cheat the insurance, we will spend too much energy, you take someone to formulate a charter first."

Wang Daixi said softly: "I understand, then I'll go first." ”

Wang Daixi stood up and made a blessing to Chen Xin, and went out of the door.

Chen Xin immediately leaned over and said, "Is it not the right time for me to come?" ”

Liu Minyou glanced at him, "What's wrong, I only talk about business with her in the official room." ”

"Then you ...... privately"

Liu Minyou hurriedly interrupted: "Don't you know, you are the matchmaker in this matter, anyway, I told her, I have to wait a few years." ”

Chen Xin sighed: "It's really happy, why am I just like these two, and each official will send me a daughter as a concubine." ”

Liu Minyou shook his head and smiled: "If you have something, just say that I'm very busy here." ”

"What's the deal with insurance?"

"I want to control the resources of shipping in my own hands, and the merchants outside may also have enough ships, but the silver is earned by others, and once something happens, we need to transport troops or something, and we can't requisition people's money, and our tunhu earns transportation money, and the money is used in Denglai, how much GDP has to be pulled." Therefore, I want the Tunpu in a suitable place along the coast to organize a shipping company, which can not only help the trading company transport goods, but also accept the employment of foreign merchants to transport goods, which is our potential navy. But at the moment, many tunpu are worried about the risk of shipping,"

Chen Xin nodded again and again, "Brother Liu, this is really a good idea, but I estimate that it will not be too quick to accept, but it is indeed a good thing, our sailors are like this, there is no Jiannu on the other side, and you don't need a too professional navy to fight them, just these fishermen are good at opening sand boats to transport troops." ”

Liu Minyou looked up at Chen Xin, "What's the matter?" ”

"As I said last time, I want to expand the fourth battalion in southern Liaoning to the southern Liaoning brigade, and expand the fifth battalion to the Central Plains brigade, and ask you about the military ......."

Liu Minyou interrupted: "It's not that it's only enough to add five thousand people, including your Young Guards, as you want." Rest, don't think about it in the first half of the year, our silver is used to buy cotton, including the silver you grabbed last year, only the first few battalions of this year's expenses are left, and if the cotton spinning is smooth in the second half of the year, you still need to expand production, and then I will give you a share of 5,000 people at most. ”

"Then gold will do."

"Seventy percent of the gold coins are to be issued, unless you don't want the three-cent interest."

"This ......" Chen Xin scratched his head, 10,000 felt a bit less, but for the time being, it could only be like this, "Then you better come over for a meeting first, today is just talking about the expansion of the army." ”

"Hmm." Liu Minyou looked at the Macau self-striking clock in the corner of the house, nodded and said, "Yes, but at most half an hour." ”……

The two arrived at the medium-sized conference room of the General Military Mansion, which was already full of smoke and miasma, a group of officers were swallowing clouds and spitting fog, and Chen Xin's adjutant was waiting at the door.

"The chief soldier has arrived!"

The officers in the room stood up in unison, and the legs of their chairs rattled.

The two walked to the top and stood up, those officers saluted together, Chen Xin returned the salute and waved everyone to sit down, there are military orders, military affairs, quartermasters, and the directors or deputy directors of the departments of training, today is to discuss the distribution of troops in the two brigade-level units, so Zhu Guobin also deliberately rushed back from Lushun, leaving only Liu Pojun to preside over the overall situation in southern Liaoning in Jinzhou.

Chen Xin sat down and said to Dong Yu: "Lord Liu said, there are 5,000 troops in the first half of the year, and the fourth guard battalion has accounted for 1,000 people, leaving the Liaonan Brigade and the Central Plains Brigade. ”

Dong Yu cleared his throat and was just about to speak, when the deputy chief of the Military Orders Department suddenly said to Chen Xin: "I just reported to the Military Orders Division, it was a big victory for the dragoons of the fifth battalion, and a total of one Golden Banner Lord was killed, and two people from Gushan Ezhen were killed, it was a big victory!" ”

The conference room suddenly became lively, Chen Xin laughed and said: "It's a good Zhong Laosi, even the flag owner has it, if there is good news, take it out and read it aloud, here are all people with a level of secrecy above the first level, you can listen to it, you read it." ”

Everyone in the conference room whispered, waiting for the good news.

The deputy commander stood up and opened the good news and read it aloud: "The commander of the Guards Battalion and the chief officer of the Qinwang Battle Group, Wang Changfubao, the chief officer of the Commander Chen, the commander of the Fifth Battalion Dragoon Thousand Headquarters, received the military order of the Military Order Division to rescue Xuanda on the sixth day of the first month of February, and under the leadership of Zhong Caisheng, the deputy battalion officer of the Fifth Battalion, entered the battlefield through Wu'an, Zhending, and Baomaguan, and after the Matouguan was broken, the soldiers and horses with the yellow flag were gold-inlaid with yellow flags, and the three hundred and twenty-three people under Zhendarha were killed, and the Abatai Department with the yellow flag was heavily damaged......"

There was an immediate sound of inhalation in the conference room, Chen Xin squinted his eyes with satisfaction and nodded again and again, and commented loudly: "This Zhong Laosi has a set of battles, and he is also very good at choosing opponents, the key is to attack Huang Taiji's lineage, so is the flag master who killed Haoge?" ”

The chief continued excitedly: "Immediately the dragoon thousand headquarters found the whereabouts of the Zhenglan Banner, and pursued all the way to the Cigou camp, when the Zhenglan Banner was blocked by the thousand general Zhang Xiu in the bamboo silk mouth, my dragoon continued to attack, and wiped out the main force of the Zhenglan Banner outside the bamboo silk mouth......"

As soon as Chen Xin heard the words Zhenglan Flag, his mouth opened slightly.

"Array Slash Blue Banner Banner Lord Mang Gurtai ......"

"Sizzle......" Chen Xin gasped, stood up abruptly and said, "Who do you say to behead?" ”

"O Manggultai, O Great Belle, my lord."

A room of officers thought that Chen Xin was surprised that it was a big Baylor, and they all applauded together, "The fifth battalion is good, even Big Baylor has been killed." ”

"The dragoons are mighty!"

"This Zhong Laosi is good, he is quite good at playing in Fuzhou."

Liu Minyou saw that Chen Xin was still standing in a daze, and asked him curiously, "Are you unhappy?" ”

"Happy, happy." Chen Xin sat down and smiled a little uncomfortably.

That long voice trembled and continued, "Another battle slashed and captured 673 Zhenyi under Zhenglan Banner Gushan Ezhen Tuo Bohui, more than 700 coats, rescued more than 7,300 captives in two battles, and captured ......"

Chen Xin nodded lightly with a smile on his face, with a praising expression, and said in a mosquito-like voice from between his teeth: "Zhong Lao Si of the dog day is really capable. ”