When dawn came the next day, the flotilla regained its energy, laughter and frolic filled the people, the flotilla came back to life, the speed of the ships increased accordingly, and everything was getting better.

Zhao Lie didn't have such a good mood, even more so when he heard about Qi Wei's report. Six sailors were missing, eleven were wounded, Huo Quai, the newly captured Dihan was seriously flooded, and all other ships were more or less flooded, especially Dihan, which was seriously damaged during the battle, although it was repaired, it was just repaired, the big hole near the waterline was flooded too much in the storm, and half of the boat was soaked in the seawater.

Although the Dihan only has a tonnage of nearly 200 tons, after all, it is a warship, and Zhao Lie only has nine warships in his hands, so he really can't afford to lose, and of course he is depressed.

The old way, Zhao Lie issued a reward, if the battleship was rescued, the repair personnel on the Dihan would each have ten taels of silver. When he arrived, the soldiers who were already tired were busy like chickens, fighting with all their might for ten taels of silver.

Zhao Lie was forced to work hard in the South China Sea, Zhao Meng, Wan Ji, and Tang Xianwen were also very troubled in Shidao, and the refugees in Liaodong were constantly transported to Shidao by land and water by businessmen who were close to Shidao, especially Luo Changshan, who contributed the most and brought the most refugees, due to the influx of refugees, Shidao, which was already on the right track, was busy again, Tang Xianwen secretly scolded, can the special Luo Fat not be so capable, and you can die if you send fewer people.

Luo Changshan used Zhao Lie to allocate more than 10 large and small fortune ships and two Galen merchant ships with great transport capacity, as well as dozens of sand birds, to purchase goods in various places at the same time, to collect refugees. At this time, the officials and people in all parts of the Liaodong refugees were very disgusted, and the fights between the Liao people and the local people occurred frequently, the reason was very simple, many Liao people in order to survive, as high as sixty percent of the tenants also agreed to rent, and the workshop also went to work with a small amount of money, and smashed the rice bowls of many local tenants and craftsmen.

It is said that it should be very easy for businessmen to recruit Liao people, this is to solve problems for local governments, if you think like this, it is to think about things in such a strange land as the Ming Dynasty, and nothing is taken for granted here. When Luo Changshan recruited refugees, the local official appeared with righteousness, well, what are you recruiting refugees for, well, it's hard to say whether you are deducting their food, well, it's hard to say whether you are buying and selling slaves for the Yi people, well, it's hard to say...... The appearance of a faction of people being the masters of the country and the parents and officials has completely forgotten their disgust and disregard for the Liao people's past.

But if you haven't understood, then his staff will appear, Luo Changshan will not know, the banquet is served, the gift money is offered, this is Luo Fatzi's specialty, the silver is spent, and no one asks where the refugees are working, just kidding, hurry away, and return me to a pure land.

During this time, nearly 100,000 Liao people have been pouring into Shidao from the water and land routes, these Liao people have to rely on Li Meng and Wanji to arrange food and clothing, and the refugees alone have to be more than 20,000 stone of grain every month, even if sorghum rice and other miscellaneous grains also have more than 10,000 taels of silver, and the refugees are still arriving, clothing, daily miscellaneous, work, lonely and old, orphans, things are very mixed, these people are as big as a fight, Even Zhao Meng secretly hated this younger brother for leaving a mess, patted his ass and left, but he didn't expect Zhao Lie to be fighting for his life in the ocean full of risks at this time.

Alexandra is also fully committed to helping refugee children. She understands that she helps refugees is to help Zhao Lie, and the tragic situation of refugees makes her unable to stand idly by, thousands of children in the refugee camp occupy all her time every day, every day to check whether the food is sufficient, whether the clothes are sheltered from the cold, whether the children have a place to go to school, the current Zhao Lie's free school is also a headache, as a last resort, Alexandra took the lead, set up dozens of temporary schools in the refugee camp to teach children literacy, part-time literacy for adults, the food here is also better than the adults, this is Alexandra proposed, Nothing can be said to make a child hungry. Since refugees arrive almost every day, things are constantly changing, and the caretakers who stay in Shidao are busy, and even Li Mingyu's daughter Li Lin is borrowed to help assist Alexandra.

"This month, the resettlement of refugees cost 34,527 taels of silver, the artisan battalion spent a total of 53,000 taels of iron ore, charcoal, and silver, the shipyard purchased wood, hemp, raw silk, iron, tung oil, bamboo, cotton cloth, and more than 18,270 taels of silver, 224 horses and more than 13,000 taels of silver, more than 24,000 taels of horses, food, and silver, 2,600 taels of silver for forts, 2,600 taels of silver, 2,000 taels of silver for the renovation of the fishing fleet, and 3,900 ......taels of silver for food for schools in various places. The total amount of silver is more than 135,000 taels," Guo Tao put out this month's flow account. "In addition, this year's solar terms are not good, I am afraid that the grain harvest will fail, and the current grain price has risen by five cents of silver."

Everyone was grinning when they heard it, and others just paid it back, Shidao bought tens of thousands of stone grains every month, and one stone rose by five cents of silver, which was an extra few hundred taels of silver per month. Tsk, it's really a house leak that happened to rain overnight.

"Lord Wan," Guo Tao said. "The fort has been completed this month, and it will not be spent in the future, but the shipyard will start construction of five Galen ships in one go next month, as well as four flying clippers, fortunately, they have also received orders for five lucky ships, and half of their own expenses can be solved, in addition, Lord Huang Han said that the guns, artillery, and armor are only half equipped, and I hope to be complete next month."

"Bastard, let him come to me." Wanji was furious. "Damn, Huang Lao Er is now leading an army alone, and the scenery is infinite, is it possible that the fire guns and artillery here are blowing in the wind. I'm waiting here to save money every month to feed the army, the shipyards, and the refugees, and the bastard is embarrassed to set a deadline. ”

Wan Ji is the big brother of Zhao Lie's army, and Huang Han has to be deflated when he comes.

Tang Xianwen laughed when he heard this, "Brother Wan, drink tea and dissipate the anger." ”

Everyone drinks tea and rests,

"Although over the years, the adults and the sailors have brought hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and there will be more in the future," Tang Xianwen sighed, "Alas, refugees are like bottomless pits, and I don't know when they will bottom out." However, I have to wait until the adults return. ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, and at this time, they felt more and more that Zhao Lie seemed empty in the outside house. When Zhao Lie was there, he felt that the backbone of the main body was there, everyone was not panicking, Zhao Lie was not there, he felt confused as if he didn't know the future, and now he didn't know if the adult's trip was going well, whether he was on the way back.

Huang Han, who was scolded by Wanji, was training the army hard in the barracks at this time, so far, the swords and guns are complete, the fire has reached 3,000, the armor is only 1,000 pairs due to the production of wrought iron, and the marching cannon has reached ten nine-pounder cannons and ten six-pounder cannons. There were only more than 1,200 war horses, and the distribution among the scouts of the cavalry and infantry teams was insufficient, which gave Huang Han and the various commanders a headache, but fortunately, the 7,000 people of the whole army used the firecrackers that had arrived to master the launch of the firearms.

Huang Han has already begun to practice the formation of firearms and spears, according to Zhao Lie's explanation, he continues to practice solid formations, hollow formations, pursuit formations, retreat formations, and the formation is easy to open, and the basic formation is formed in less than half a month, however, the pursuit formation, the retreat formation is not so easy, this is what he has practiced every day for the past ten days, Huang Han knows that there will be a big battle this year, and the adults will start when they come back, so the time is pressing, but the armor is not even, the cavalry is in short supply, and the formation is not familiar, Huang Han's lips are all big bubbles.

Of course, at the same time as the drill formation, the literacy in the army has not fallen, a group of soldiers are painfully gnawing books every night, practicing fonts, for the general coarse, would rather run ten miles a day, than suffer this sin, however, the practice of words is directly related to whether they can receive the silver, for the silver of the white flowers they grinning their teeth to learn the word. The ambassador also evaluates their progress every day and records the results for them.

The only fun in the hardships is the football game, where the boys forget their troubles for a while in laughter and cheering, and have a good time.

If Huang Han heard Wan Ji's scolding, he would also have to smoke in seven senses, would it be easy for him. This is a few thousand troops, and it is the cornerstone of the adult's future conquest, and he is conscientious here, lest he not be able to catch up with the progress required by the adult, and delay the adult's major affairs.

ps The most terrible thing in the sea is the storm, and the same is true of life, cheer for the protagonist.