Liu Yongfu, born in Daoguang 17 years to the fifth year of the Republic of China, Ziyuanting, Hakka people in Qinzhou, Guangdong (now Fangcheng, Guangxi). \ Leader of the Black Flag Army, a famous general in the late Qing Dynasty, and a national hero.

Liu Xian knows him very well. After all, in Guangxi at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was only one Liu Yongfu and one Feng Zicai, which could impress Liu Xian in his previous life. In the years after the crossing, Liu Yongfu did not have any intersection with Liu Yongfu, but in Liu Xian's future prospects, Liu Yongfu has a very important position.

He had the important task of leading the Black Flag Army to contain France and block French expansion in Vietnam before the Qin army's power expanded into Vietnam.

At the end of the ninth year of Tongzhi, Liu Xian was raising New Year's goods for the Qin army system, Liuzhou was no better than him for many years, and Hanzhong, where the military and government were integrated, needed something, as long as there was something in the territory, he couldn't get rid of it. It's a place where you have to prepare well in advance. At the same time, Liu Xian also had to send a salute to his relatives and friends, and to the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces, the Emperor and Prince Gong in Beijing and other court bigwigs. However, this kind of great god who needs to be taken into account by Liu Xian is only a few in Liangguang.

-- Li Futai, governor of Guangxi, Kang Guoqi, political envoy of Guangxi, and Fuer Guochun, envoy of Guangxi.

Zhang Zhaodong, governor of Guangdong, Deng Tingxiang, political envoy of Guangdong, and Sun Guan, envoy of Guangdong

Ruilin, the governor of Liangguang, and Changshan, the general of Guangzhou

Liu Songshan, the land governor of Guangdong, and Zhai Guoyan, the water governor

Ten people in total. Of course, Ruilin, Chang Shanshan, Li Futai, and Zhang Zhaodong are above the official to greet them, and the other six people are just polite.

And among the four people treated by Shangguan. Ruilin, the governor of Liangguang, and Changshan, the general of Guangzhou, and Liu Xian were purely used as tablets to offer. Li Futai and Zhang Zhaodong can't do this, it's all Zhang Shouyan who came to visit him in person. Because these two people are all from Shandong.

At this time, news came from Vietnam, and Xie Jigui wrote a book. Yan said that the Vietnamese official army was defeated by the Black Flag Army due to the lax garrison near the New Year, and the governor of Ping, Wu Zhongping, fled, and part of the newly purchased guns was also lost and fell into the hands of Liu Yongfu. Liu Yongfu led the Black Flag Army to sweep across both sides of the Red River, during which he pulled out the French. Dubouil is home to three trading posts along the Red River. Nearly 100 legal people were killed, and nearly 1,000 people were killed. Du Buyi was killed in the river. There are no bones left.

Liu Xian was fooled by Xie Jigui. There is no doubt that this is a play co-starred by Vietnamese and Xie Jigui and Liu Yongfu. Because in Liu Xian's heart, Liu Yongfu can still fight a few battles. Didn't the halo of a national hero on his head be earned by the French? So it was not strange to hear that Liu Yongfu had killed a French merchant and hundreds of French people under him. It did not defeat the Vietnamese officers and soldiers, and lost some guns. Linked to Liu Yongfu's victory. And as for why let. A small merchant in Dubouil would have hundreds of French men under his command. Liu Xian can also come up with his toes to let. Dubouil's identity is not simple, he should be a pawn for the French army.

And let. Du Buyi's identity also made Liu Xian even more disinterested in his death. This kind of guy who died and deserved it was wiped out by Liu Yongfu. The French don't say that they are in a hurry now, but after two years, they will slow down, and if they want to find trouble, then go to Liu Yongfu to find the Black Flag Army.

After Xie Jigui sent out the document, he was very worried in his heart for half a month. It wasn't until the Chinese New Year that a batch of wine and meat was sent from Zhennanguan to Xie Junzhong in Langshan, and Xie Jigui was relieved. I am sure that Liu Xian didn't notice anything, and he can celebrate the New Year with peace of mind.

At this time, Xie Jigui looked at the silver ticket he received at the beginning. Isn't it easy to get 10,000 taels of silver?

It seems that this defeat made the Vietnamese court less and less confident in its own troops. During the Chinese New Year, a Vietnamese official came to Liu Siam's mansion to pay a visit and asked the Qin army to send out instructors to help them train the new army. This new army of the Vietnamese court will always be honed in the Beiqi territory, although the name is the forbidden army.

Liu Xian ignored it. Even sending people to train is not at this time. In his opinion, this reaction of the Vietnamese court was purely stimulated. Just like the Manchu Qing in history, every time a battle is defeated, it will rise for a year or two. And then return to normalcy.

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The Chinese New Year is all about being happy and happy, and Liu Xian doesn't want to be tired of Vietnam's worries. He could ignore it for the time being, even if the Vietnamese dynasty sent him an absolute gift.

But some people in the Qin army system are so comfortable.

The newly established Mining Bureau, Hongji Branch, was specially set up by Liu Xian for the better unified planning of iron and steel and minerals. The person in charge is Huo Guangzheng.

Huo Guangzheng is now in this part of Hongji, Vietnam. Now the Qinjun Mining Bureau has no hair except for the Hongji Coal Mine and the Shilu Iron Mine in Hainan. The Shiroku Iron Mine does not need to wait for development now, and the top priority of the Mining Bureau is the Hongji Coal Mine.

Only when this large coal mine is developed, can Hongji Port continue to operate smoothly, and the Qin army will naturally have the reason to buy steamships and run a shipping bureau.

Since the matter was finalized by Xie Jigui, Huo Guangzheng took thousands of people, and then requisitioned 1,000 remaining laborers who did not return to Hanzhong after they went south with the army, and supplied 2,000 people to this place. Liu Yucheng was stationed here with thousands of Qing soldiers, completely to be a bodyguard.

Relying on China's current outdated mining methods to develop Hongji will not only be time-consuming and labor-intensive, but will also destroy local resources. Liu Xian doesn't know much about prospecting and development, but he has explosives. For its manual mining, the most suitable method is to use blasting in an open-pit coal field near the surface of the Hongji Coal Mine.

Two thousand laborers who worked absolutely hard turned the Qing army's camp into a small city in one month. They also need to continue to build houses in the city, and the laying of water diversion and drainage pipes is also a major project, and there are also problems with the construction of roads. In short, 2,000 laborers seems to be a lot and a large scale, but for Hongji Coal Mine, it is completely insufficient. By next year, it will be necessary to bring in labor on a large scale. Liu Xian is not prepared to recruit too many local Vietnamese, and there are Chinese people who have nothing but strength in the two vast territories separated by a river.

When the small city named Hongji was being built little by little, the mining bureau's exploration and pilot excavation of the coal field were also carried out in an orderly manner. These miners wore uniform overalls made of thick homespun cloth and rattan helmets, and their housing, food, and money were better than those of the laborers who worked in the city. Because the work they perform is much more dangerous than the labor that works in the city.

The development department of this Hongji branch was personally led by Huo Guangzheng and personally responsible for recruiting employees. It can be seen how much Huo Guangzheng attaches importance to him.

There are several small coal yards in Hongji Coal Mine, all of which are congenitally exposed on the surface, or the topsoil depth is very shallow, less than one zhang deep, and the ore body is also regular, which is very convenient for mining.

One of the tasks that the development department has to do now is to strip these small coalfields of the surface soil as much as possible and expand the area of the coalfields so that large-scale open-pit mining can be carried out directly in the future.

The second is to develop a new mine near Hongji City to facilitate the nearby mining of workers in the city, and the necessity of considering safety and protection issues.

The quickest and most labor-saving way to strip topsoil is blasting. Many of the people recruited by Huo Guangzheng were veterans of the army. Gunpowder, fuses, and sappers should all be alive.

The blasting work has been underway for more than half a month. Under normal circumstances, Huo Guangzheng would not have been there, but today's work is a bit special, which is to lift the lid between the two coalfields and melt the two coalfields into one coalfield. Sixty or seventy barrels of black powder alone were prepared, and that barrel was a hundred catties, and there were several kilometers of fuse.

The blasting work has been going on for more than half a month, and Huo Guangzheng has never had such a big battle. Therefore, today he is personally present to 'supervise'.

Of course, the blasting of the safety point is to fire small cannons section by section, and clear the surface soil and rocks section by section. But this took too long, and after each blasting, the earth and rocks had to be cleared section by section. The distance of 100 meters is not long, but it cannot be done in three or five days. Huo Guangzheng wanted to carry out a large-scale blasting of the top uncovering, and the second and third artillery guns stripped off the topsoil of the interval section, and then quickly cleaned it up. Do not delay the opening of Hongji Coal Mine on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month!

The meaning of the above is the action of the people below. Although the big explosion is a little dangerous, Huo Guangzheng's meaning comes first. A group of people from the engineering team repeatedly searched the lot to see how the blast hole should be hit.

It took a whole day, Huo Guangzheng was drinking with Liu Yucheng and others in Hongji City, when a loud noise came from outside the city in the distance, followed by several explosions in a row. Huo Guangzheng, Liu Yucheng and the others could all feel the obvious shaking under their feet, and when they came out to look, the black smoke in the direction of the coalfield outside the city went straight into the sky.

The Qing soldiers guarding the city wall were frightened for a while, and some good people slipped outside to look. Good guy, a large piece of the hundred-meter-long ground has been removed, revealing a large pit that is half-filled in the empty soil, not too deep, and it can't hide a person. But when you think about it, it's definitely enough.

The explosion was so loud that the people of Hongji City panicked, and they thought it was an earthquake.

But after this successful blasting, the two coalfields near Hongji City were completely connected, and an open-pit mining area that could accommodate at least two or three thousand people was exposed, and the subsequent ground clean-up work did not need Huo Guangzheng to keep an eye on it himself. What he needs to be concerned about now is the labor required to mine the coal fields.

In the era of completely manual mining, the amount of labor required to operate a super-large coal field is immeasurable. As far as the current Hongji Coal Mine is concerned, 10,000 people can fully digest it. After all, Hongji Port and road construction require a lot of labor. And Liu Xian had instructed in advance to use Chinese people as much as possible and use less Vietnamese.

Before Huo Guangzheng came to Vietnam, he sent capable people to Guangzhou to recruit laborers, but now more than a month has passed, and the total number of people recruited is only 1,000...... (To be continued......) R527