As time went on, the construction of the new Weihai base progressed, and a fairly modern city gradually took shape at the end of the Shandong Peninsula in the 17th century. Although the Qiong Navy had already made a name for himself when he was quelling the rebellion in Dengzhou before, it was on the battlefield after all, and the ordinary people fled how far and how far they fled, and they really saw their abilities, except for those Ming troops who were quickly transferred back to various places, that is, the unlucky rebels knew them the most, but the rebels would definitely not say good things about them, and most of them did not have that opportunity.

Of course, when the Qiong Navy recruited the displaced people later, the recruited refugees from all walks of life also tasted their sweetness, but these people were soon transported to the south...... "So when the Qiong Navy landed on Weihaiwei's side, most of the local people and officials and gentry still did not know much about them, and they were still quite cautious and vigilant.

Although Xie Xi has the documents issued by the Ming Dynasty in his hands, as well as the title of "Weihaiwei General", but in the eyes of those gentry, those who have armed forces in these years are not good birds, even if the army of the imperial court is in the right place, it is inevitable to loot and harass in the locality, not to mention that this green-skinned army is completely different from the Ming army. God, the more capable the army is in these years, the more unreasonable it is!

After that, Ao Sayan stayed up honestly here for a winter, but he lowered their vigilance a lot in a certain way, and this short-haired army was quite well-behaved and had a good conscience. Even in the coldest time, he did not hit the idea of grain storage in the surrounding prefectures and counties, but instead gathered many refugees"...... However, after the defenders were replaced, and the general Xie Da took office in person with his "Jiading" troops, several surrounding prefectures and counties began to get nervous again~ Because this short-haired army began to toss.

Qiong Haijun needs a lot of stone to build houses, burn cement, and build roads and level the ground. Where do the stones come from? In this era, in addition to relying on manual slow chiseling, it is to pile up firewood and burn it with a large fire, and pour cold water on the stone after it is hot, "use the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction to make the stone crack, and then pry it down and slowly break it...... which is very inefficient. But the green-skinned quarrying materials are all made of gunpowder"...... Dig a hole in the mountain, stuff a whole bag of explosives, and pull the fuse...... Boom, sometimes even half a mountain can blow up!

This series of big actions really made the surrounding prefectures and counties, especially the nearest Wendeng, Jinshan, Baiqiya and other counties or health offices worried, what do these short-haired people want to do? In recent years, the feudal superstition of the people is very strong, and the Qiong Navy has opened mountains and blown up rocks on such a large scale, and there are even rumors among the local people that they are going to engage in some large-scale witchcraft here? Or is it here to move feng shui and build a mausoleum for some of the short-haired leaders?

With the cognition of those people in the Ming Dynasty, such a large-scale civil engineering can only be compared with the construction of imperial tombs in their minds. Some local officials even wrote a special report book, saying that since the Qiongzhou Ningjun moved to this place, work has been started day and night, and the hustle and bustle has been endless, "often see the sky red from afar, I don't know what to do, what to do with my intentions......... The Jingshi cabinet can't cry or laugh after receiving such a report, there are Chen Tao "Qian Qianyi and a group of other people in the center, and the Ming court today knows more about shorthair than in the locality." What's more, since Dengzhou has cooperated, they know that this group of short-haired people is the best toss, and all kinds of novel methods emerge in an endless stream, which is rare and strange in the local area, but it is inevitable.

It's just that when it comes to the theory of imperial power feng shui, the next is in front of the eight classics, and the eight classics are reported up, "It's not good to ignore it." And there is another point, according to the results of the negotiation between Shorthair and Daming, the Qiong Navy cannot garrison more than 600 troops here in Weihaiwei. At the moment, these shorthairs are making a big move there, and it is said that even the mountains have blown up several of you, and you have only 600 soldiers stationed there, so you don't need to blow up a few small hills to quarry, right?

So the Ministry of War specially sent a squire to inquire and inspect, but it involved this specific technical problem, "There are too many means to deal with him on the side of the Qiong Navy~ After the squire came by boat, Xie Xi and Pang Yu personally took him around the base, and named the uses one by one: This is the barracks, there is a nursing home for the wounded and sick, and then there is a material warehouse..."There are subdivisions in terms of the purpose of the warehouse: the grain depot and the cloth warehouse can be arbitrary, and the weapons depot must be placed in a critical place...... In addition, all the supplies of our army come from the sea, and a harbor with sufficient transportation capacity near the barracks is indispensable.

The harbor itself must also be built, barracks for the sailors to stay and rest, workshops for the ship's edges, and warehouses for the storage of goods. And in order to ensure the safety of the port transport ships, there must be a few more forts nearby, "......, such a point, I only heard that the squire's head was as big as a ...... Don't look at him, he is serving in the Ming Army. It belongs to the kind of nerd who is in the cold window of ten years and is talking about the cheap name, and he doesn't know more about the military than other readers of this era. At best, I occasionally went to the three major battalions next to the Beijing Division, which had long been in disuse, and I didn't know what facilities a real army needed. A new-style army like the Qiong Navy, which is fully equipped with firearms, is even darker, and what people say is what they say.

Of course, no matter what, this guy has also been on the list, and his IQ is not low, after being fooled, he finally found the most critical question: How can you take care of so many facilities with only 600 people?

Xie Xi flipped through the roster, and then solemnly told him: At present, there are a total of 427 soldiers registered in Weihaiwei, divided into two companies, and the quota of 600 has not yet been reached, and most of them have gone out to suppress bandits. As for the people you see working here, it's just our engineering team, the seamen, and the peasant refugees who have been taken in, and these people are certainly not counted among the six hundred.

The squire thought for a long time, and then looked through the documents signed by the Qiong Navy and the Ming Dynasty at the beginning, and these contents were all based on the documents, written down in black and white, which really strictly stated: The Qiong Navy shall not have more than 600 troops stationed in Weihai, but there is no mention of restrictions on ordinary people.

Since it is not written, it is no limit, and the armed forces like Qiongjun, who hold guns, money baskets, rice bags, and even vegetable baskets in their own hands, and at the same time don't care about the official position of the Ming Dynasty, are meaningless whether they put on an official tone or show off their official authority. Xie Xi also said frankly in his conversation with him, we didn't ask you for the military salary of the Ming Dynasty, but helped you collect so many refugees, and the construction work here is also our own money, neither asking for money from the imperial court nor apportioning to the surrounding prefectures and counties, it should be a good thing for you who can't ask for it, what is there to worry about.

It makes sense for that squire to think about it, it's their business for these short-haired people to toss, as long as they don't harass the place and don't make trouble for the court, why bother with things? Besides, this time, I did see that Shorthair was really engaged in local construction, although the scale was a little larger, but after all, there was a difference of 108,000 miles from the official who wrote the letter, saying that Shorthair was "moving feng shui to build a mausoleum". And that's all the bigwigs in the center care about the most, they don't want to give people a handle.

So after a "comprehensive, complete, and objective" inspection of the construction of the new Weihai base of the Qiong Navy, the squire of the military department went back with a relatively detailed report to report to his boss in the capital. After going around in a big circle, the officials of several surrounding prefectures and counties finally got the official statement of their next-door neighbor, His Excellency General Xie from Beijing, about their own construction: "We are just building barracks for the garrison!" ”

When this answer was conveyed to the surrounding prefectures and counties, those officials secretly scolded in their hearts that they would build a barracks and make such a big move, blowing up the hill and building a house? Grandma's are all giant spirit gods, huh? However, since the officials have confessed, they are not qualified to be wordy, these bandits are not even birds of the court, and they are really angry, and they will definitely have no good fruit to eat.

Soon after, Xie Xi sent a letter to the surrounding prefectures and counties, saying that the local law and order were not quiet, the roads were restless, and since the general was assigned by the imperial court to guard this place, he naturally had the responsibility of exterminating the bandits, and it was the responsibility of maintaining the local area......

It is conceivable that after receiving this document, the place was suddenly in chaos, and they all thought that those green skins were finally going to make a move, what to do? Scrape the ground! His Chinese Dengxian order was even more frightened, because it was he who hit the short hair on the head and possibly engaged in "feng shui activities", could people want to take revenge? Those who are soldiers have no reason to talk about, and when the time comes, they will kill people, and they will be labeled as bandits, and there will be nowhere to redress their grievances.

Not to mention how nervous this group of officials and the local gentry were, some of them had already prepared money, grain, rice and wheat, and waited for the short-haired army to come to the door to eliminate the disaster, "but they waited, waited, waited, But I kept hearing that a cottage somewhere had been breached, and that an old bandit had been caught...... "It was all done by the Greenskins." And the people didn't even ask for food supplies from the local government, and they all solved it themselves.

Are they really just here to suppress bandits? The fear in the hearts of many officials and gentry began to loosen a little. Soon after, what happened in a certain town quickly spread all over Shandong......