More than a dozen Qing soldiers who were carried away by anger desperately rode their horses to catch up with the footprints of the Ming army, and they did not pity the horsepower at all along the way, and it took less than two hours to run dozens of miles, and finally caught up with the night Bushu who was retreating in the direction of Jinzhou with the booty.

On the flat and wide plain, hundreds of livestock and dozens of war horses are a big target, which can be seen from a few miles away, just as the so-called enemies are very red when they meet, and the whole village is wiped out, Nelehe is the first to run in the front, and behind him is followed by more than a dozen companions with white flags, at this time he has been carried away by hatred, naturally did not notice the surrounding environment. Among these Qing soldiers, the only one who still had a comparative situation in his mind was the one who was assigned to Paishku, but he looked at the more than ten or twenty Ming soldiers in front of him, and then looked at the large herd of cattle and sheep, and felt that he could still rely on the fast horses and strong bows under his crotch to keep these Ming troops, and in the end he did not make any dissuasive moves.

"Bang ......"

A dull shot rang out, and one of the Qing soldiers who was following Neleh fell from his horse and fell to the ground.

"Not good, there is an ambush!"

After so many dealings with the Xuan army, there are countless Qing soldiers who died under the guns of the Xuan army, and now the Qing soldiers have a great sense of fear of the guns of the Xuan army, as soon as they heard the sound of the guns, everyone's hearts immediately jumped wildly, and many people began to bend down to prepare to dodge lead bullets, but it was too late at this time.

A series of gunshots rang out one after another, and these Qing soldiers who were riding horses and galloping wildly fell one by one like kites with broken strings, although there were also many Qing soldiers who boasted of their riding skills played the trick of hiding in the horse, and the whole person was hidden under the horse's belly, but what they didn't expect was that those despicable Ming people were ambushed, and they even opened fire on the horses. The sound of gunshots was accompanied by splashes of blood, and the war horses let out a mournful roar and fell to the ground helplessly.

In less than three minutes, the already dense gunfire stopped. More than a dozen pursuing Qing soldiers also fell in a pool of blood.

"Let's go...... Check it out! ”

The Ye Bu Collectors, who had reloaded their lead bullets, slowly walked towards the Qing soldiers who were lying on the ground, each with a bayonet on their firearms, and the muzzles of their guns flashed with cold light at the Qing soldiers lying on the ground.

Suddenly, a voice sounded: "Boss Lin, there is a Tartar alive here, what should I do?"

"You are stupid, come and ask me about this kind of thing, if you want to capture him, you can take him back, if you don't want to, just give him a good time, don't waste the fucking time."

"Oh......" The voice looked very aggrieved, and soon a low scream rang out.

Two quarters of an hour later. The more than twenty people who had finished cleaning the battlefield returned to the retreating team, only this time there were six or seven more horses and a bunch of weapons and armor in the team. For the weapons and armor of the Qing army, it stands to reason that the Xuan army is not rare, but they are not rare, but some are rare, and they can still be sold for a sum of money after taking them back, after all, no one will get along with the silver, so that the general Ming army will collect these things and sell them to the quartermaster camp at a discount after returning.

The death of more than a dozen Qing soldiers was just a small thing for Bai Kai and dozens of other people who didn't collect it at night, and it was estimated that they could quickly forget about it, but the impact on those Manchurian women who were taken away was huge. Seeing that these brave and good fighters in their eyes in the past were all killed without even reaching the face of the Ming army in the burst of fire, and the eyes of some women who were still holding the hope of being rescued also dimmed.

After eliminating these Qing troops, Bai Kai and his party did not stay long. Soon left here with the booty, and when the Qing army arrived here a few hours later, they saw only more than a dozen corpses of Qing soldiers and war horses that had been stripped of their armor.

Such things continued to happen in the Manchu-ruled areas, and the Ming army's extremely aggressive behavior of fighting grass valleys caused great anger and panic among the Qing army. In order to return the color to the Ming army, the Manchu Qing also organized many counterattacks, both sides were damaged, and many Ming settlements outside the Guanxi were also attacked by the Qing army. But what the Qing army did not expect was that the Qing army's attack on the settlements was frustrated at the beginning, because the Qing army was surprised to find that the inhabitants of these settlements were all equipped with firearms.

Yes. Everyone heard it right, it's the fire gun. Since the end of last year, Yueyang has begun to distribute firecrackers to the residents of Liaodong, the purpose of which is to enhance the self-protection ability of the Han people in the settlement. Of course, these firecrackers are not the long-range and powerful Mini-style firecrackers equipped by the Xuanda army, but front-loading smoothbore firecrackers with a range of only about 100 paces, but even this smoothbore firecrackers brought great casualties to the Qing soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. A settlement is less than one or two hundred people, more than five or six hundred people, at least half or so of the people are equipped with firearms, the Qing army will not be able to gnaw at all if there are fewer people, and these people will ignite the wolf smoke for help, once the wolf smoke is lit in the plain area of Liaodong, it will be clear that the places around the wolf smoke will be seen clearly, and it will not take a few hours for the nearby garrison to come to the rescue, which also makes the Qing army quickly fall into a dilemma, there are fewer people to attack these settlements, and there are more people and they are afraid of being heard of the Ming army. It is to fall into a great passivity......

Time in the blink of an eye to May, after more than two months, Weihaiwei has undergone great changes, the original small wharf has become a large construction site, the wharf can almost be described as a sea of people, countless workers carrying stones, wood and cement continue to pass, from the height down to see a circular wharf is gradually taking shape.

Yue Yang was walking on the dock with his hands behind his back, followed by Fang Yizhi and Mao Xiang, watching the dock gradually take shape, Yue Yang was very happy in his heart, he turned his head and said to the two people around him: "Mizhi, Bijiang, this dock can reach this progress in just over two months, you two have made a lot of contributions, it seems that you have grown a lot in the past two years." ”

Fang Yizhi and Mao Xiang said modestly: "Hou Ye has won the award, and the humble rank can have such a small achievement thanks to Hou Ye's cultivation." ”

Hearing this, Yue Yang smiled slightly, but was silent, in another time and space, Mao Xiang and Fang Yizhi, one is a writer, the other is a scientist and a philosopher, but in this time and space, after they were put into Yueyang's command, Yue Yang did not let these two continue to dance and write, but threw them to the local grassroots level for exercise, first working on the farm in Wulizhai, Yingzhou Capital, and then to study in the military workshop, after nearly two years of training, they have grown a lot in terms of experience, knowledge and ability. At least they are no longer the white-faced scholars who were powerless in the past, the original weak body has become strong and fair-skinned, and the white face has also become a healthy wheat color, and more importantly, they are no longer the nerds who only know how to bury their heads in dead books before, the energy that comes out after the combination of practice and knowledge is extremely amazing, and now the two have become talents who can take charge of themselves, in Yue Yang's opinion, it is no problem for these two people to be delegated to the local government to serve as a prefect or even a prefect.

After the three of them walked around the dock, Yue Yang asked the two, "When will this dock be completed?" ”

Fang Yizhi replied: "If you go back to the Hou Ye, if the construction continues at this rate, it will be completed at the beginning of next year, but now the cement is a little unable to keep up, and we must let Shanxi increase the supply quantity." ”

"Not enough cement?" Yue Yang's brows furrowed slightly, after all these years. Cement, a new architectural upstart with high strength, good frost resistance, dry shrinkage and can be shaped at will, soon became popular in Daming. And the manufacturing technology of cement is not complicated, it is nothing more than using loess, gypsum, and some minerals containing iron powder to stir and fire, and a few masters can be set up to set up a cement factory by gathering hundreds of people, but the output is not high in this era when most of them rely on manpower. But cement this new thing in Shanxi and other northern provinces has begun to become popular, but in Shandong is still a new thing, these days the construction of the wharf required for the cement is nominally from Shanxi, but in fact, most of it is Yueyang from the modern time and space to get, otherwise with the current road conditions just the freight is enough.

"It looks like we're going to build a cement plant here." Yue Yang pondered in his heart for a while, and was about to talk about this idea to the two of them. But Mao Xiang then said: "My lord, we don't have much wood, and we have to step up the purchase of wood." ”

"What, there's not enough wood?"

Hearing this, Yue Yang's felt upset. During this time, Yueyang built a total of twelve docks in the Weihaiwei area, and hired a large number of shipbuilders to let them copy the ships they got from them, but although Yueyang had already obtained detailed construction drawings and models, after all, the construction speed was still not fast at the beginning. Corresponding to this is the consumption of a large amount of wood, so that the wood for shipbuilding is somewhat unable to keep up.

"Alas......" Yue Yang let out a long sigh and fell silent for a while. And Fang Yizhi and Mao Xiang, who were following him, glanced at each other, with a look of shame in their eyes. After all, as subordinates, they can't share their worries for their superiors, and they don't feel good in their hearts.

When he arrived here, Yueyang was not in the mood to continue the inspection, so he immediately ordered: "Mizhi, you immediately write a letter in my name, and ask Wulizhai to send dozens of masters from the cement plant here to choose a good place to build at least three cement plants, and the construction of the wharf must not be stopped within three months, understand?" ”

"Yes, I understand!" Fang Yizhi immediately agreed, anyway, the cement plant in this year has no technical content, and it can be completed in two or three months.

"As for the wood used for shipbuilding......

Speaking of this, Yue Yang groaned, most of the timber used for shipbuilding in these years came to aid Nanyang and North Korea, Liaodong and other places, and now Nanyang is still Zheng Zhilong's territory, and it is not suitable for him to conflict with him when the fleet is not built and forms combat effectiveness, then the rest is Liaodong and North Korea, but now North Korea is the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the only remaining place is Liaodong. With his head full of thoughts, Yue Yang slowly returned to his residence......

Just when Yueyang was busy with the construction of Shandong, Weihaiwei also came with a group of people. At first glance, this group of people looks like a group of businessmen, but if you are experienced, you will find that except for a few people, the remaining dozens of people are all strong men, their palms are all thick calluses, and their eyes are sharper than ordinary people, it is clear that these people are not some people who can only bluff people.

"My lord, should we find a place to settle down first?" A man walked up to a middle-aged man led by him and whispered in his ear.

"Don't worry, let's go to the dock first!"

The middle-aged man led by him had a thin face, wearing a gray gown, a sideburn on his head, a hosta in the middle of his sideburns, and a kind smile on his face.

After Fan Wencheng received Dolgon's order, he rushed towards Daming with his entourage. He first rushed to Jinan but pounced, and then learned that Yueyang had arrived in Weihaiwei to inspect the situation of the harbor, and the group rushed to Weihaiwei in the dust.

When Fan Wencheng and his party rushed to the dock by the sea, they did not find that there was another group of people who were passing by them only half a mile away, and among these people was the main owner he was looking for.

Looking at the endless stream of workers on the dock, Fan Wencheng, who came here for the first time, was very curious, and he stopped a young man who was passing by in a hurry and asked curiously: "This little brother, please ask about something." ”

The young man looked at Fan Wencheng, then at his companions standing beside him and nodded: "You asked, but hurry up." I still have something to do. ”

Fan Wencheng said: "This little brother, there are so many people gathered at this dock, I don't know why it's so rushed?" ”

The young man looked at Fan Wencheng and said curiously: "This guest, this is the first time you have come to Shandong, right?" ”

"Exactly!" Fan Wencheng smiled kindly, he took out a piece of broken silver from his pocket and handed it to him and said with a smile: "We are all merchants who have just come from the north, and we have come to Shandong to see what kind of business can be done, but I heard that Weihai Wei is cold in the past, but now it seems that it does not match the rumors?" ”

The young man shook the ingot of broken silver in his hand and smiled with satisfaction, and at the same time said with some smugness: "This guest officer, you said that it was last year's old yellow calendar." We Weihaiwei used to be really deserted, after all, since the Jiajing period caused a disturbance in the Japanese court, the imperial court began to ban the sea again, and most of the military households here began to flee, and it naturally became deserted here. But last year, after Marquis Yue entered Shandong, he vigorously collected commercial taxes, implemented new policies and reopened the sea ban. We're slowly gaining popularity here. But if you want to say that it is really prosperous, it has to be that Marquis Yue wants to build a wharf here to start, you see that there are not so many people here who all work here, and they never default on a hundred yuan a day. People from nearby prefectures and counties are here! ”

"It's all docks in a place this big?" Looking at the prototype of the dock like a long dragon, Rao is Fan Wencheng boasted that he was well-informed, and he couldn't help but jump.

"That's it!" The young man's face was proud, "If you want to say that the Marquis of Yue, God sent it to benefit the people of Shandong." Originally, the people of Weihaiwei had a hard time, often eating the last meal without the next meal, and every year of famine, there were many people who had to flee the famine and ask for food until the next year before they could come back, but now that the Marquis of Yue is here, the days are much better. Not only did he order the government to pay for the repair of the canal and dig the well, but also gave us seeds and farm tools. Now that the farm is slack, we are still rewarded with food, you see, even if the girls have a salary of 50 yuan a day, and the men are all 100 yuan, such a good thing I didn't dare to dream of before. It is difficult to find one of the capable people who can fight the Tartars and govern the country for five hundred years, do you say that the Marquis Yue is not an immortal sent by God to save the suffering? ”

"Humph!"

Hearing this, a meat-faced entourage standing behind Fan Wencheng snorted coldly, and was about to say something, but the companion who accompanied him quickly stopped him. On the other hand, Fan Wencheng's face did not change, and he still smiled kindly: "Yes...... Marquis Yue is indeed a capable minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the old man is also admired for this. ”

"yes, that's what you think." The young man triumphantly pointed to the bustling crowd around him and said, "Look, when this dock is built, we can at least berth hundreds of big ships here at the same time." Boy...... At that point, we won't have to worry about running out of work anymore. ”

Regarding the young man's words, Fan Wencheng smiled and was silent, and pointed to the place where the sergeant held the handle in the distance and asked, "Young man, what are the group of people doing over there?" ”

The young man looked at it and said casually, "Oh...... It's all docks, used for shipbuilding, and our Marquis Yue wants to rebuild the Weihai Guardian Naval Division. ”

"Rebuild the Marine?" As soon as Fan Wencheng heard this, his face, which had always been smiling kindly, changed color slightly.

"yes...... What's wrong with that? Naturally, the reopening of the sea ban will also have to rebuild the sailors, otherwise what if you encounter pirates? As if sensing that something was wrong with the businessman in front of him, the young man couldn't help but be curious.

"Oh...... It's nothing, the old man just didn't expect Marquis Yue's steps to be so big. Sensing the young man's curiosity, Fan Wencheng's face squeezed out a smile again, but this smile was extraordinarily reluctant.

"Okay, this little brother is bothering you, we still have to look around, please take care of yourself."

After beating the young man away, Fan Wencheng took a few more steps and his face began to look ugly. At this time, a person who looked like a retinue stepped forward and whispered to him: "Master Fan, this Yueyang is too dangerous, in my opinion, we might as well find a chance to give him the result, as long as he dies, the Ming Kingdom will be in the pocket of our Qing Dynasty!" ”

"Idiot!" Fan Wencheng's eyes widened: "If Yue Yang is so easy to kill, he won't be able to kill us, don't forget the purpose of our coming, if you delay the emperor's major events, it is not a pity that you will die ten times!" (To be continued......)