The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and seeing that it has entered the fourth year of Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian is wearing a linen cardigan with a very simple cut, sitting in the study, shaking a big pu fan in his hand, fanning the cold, and a bowl of sour plum soup with ice cubes in front of him, while dealing with the official business at hand, he suddenly opened his mouth and asked Lin Yiyang, who was sitting opposite:

"By the way, Mr. Lin, what I arranged for you to do at the beginning of the year is now any feedback from there?"

Lin Yiyang was stunned for a moment, and didn't remember for a while what Yu Xiaotian asked, anyway, Yu Xiaotian didn't arrange things for him, and he couldn't remember what Yu Xiaotian asked about today.

So he hesitated for a moment, and cautiously asked Xiaotian, "I don't know what the lord is asking?" ”

Yu Xiaotian put down the pu fan with some displeasure, and said to Lin Yiyang: "It's the matter of Shandong Denglai!" Now I don't know if there is any progress in the road! ”

Lin Yiyang patted his head, and then hurriedly replied: "It turns out that the lord is asking about this matter!" The students didn't dare to forget each other, but there were too many things arranged by the master, and the students didn't understand what the lord asked for a while!

At the beginning of the year, the students had sent a total of more than 30 capable personnel to Denglai and Shandong in accordance with the instructions of the lord.

Now more than half of these people have settled down and integrated into the local area, and they have been sending back messages on a regular basis since April.

One of them had already purchased a piece of land in Xishan Village, on the seaside of Ninghai Prefecture, about 400 acres, and acquired the big house of the family in Xishan Village, which was on the seashore and across the water from Yangma Island.

In addition, according to the orders of the lord, several of them also bought a piece of land near Ningjin Town in the coastal area of the Jiaodong Peninsula, which was on the shore of Shidao Bay.

According to the news from these people, the sea surface around Yangma Island will freeze in early December after the winter of these years, and after the end of November, it will be basically impassable for ships, and only large ships with exceptionally strong hulls can venture to pass.

But on the side of Shidao Bay, although there is sea ice after winter, the sea surface will not be completely frozen, and you can still sail if you are careful, and then go to the north Weihaiwei side after winter, the sea surface will also be frozen, and you can't sail.

Moreover, as the lord expected, in May this year, the imperial court promoted Sun Yuanhua, who had just been promoted to the envoy of Shandong in January, to the governor of Denglai! The lord is really a man of God, and such things can be guessed, and the students are really ashamed of themselves!

It's just that I don't know why the lord is so concerned about the situation in the Denglai area recently, and the students are really puzzled! ”

Yu Xiaotian smiled shamelessly, and said in his heart, you know that Lu Dao is a fart, Lao Tzu is coming back from the future, how can you not know that Lu Dao At this time, Sun Yuanhua was appointed as the governor of Denglai, how can you not know that Lu Dao will soon have the famous Wuqiao Mutiny in history, Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng and others launched a mutiny because of something, and it took almost two years to make the entire Jiaodong Peninsula a mess.

Of course, he knew about such a major event, so since last winter, he has arranged manpower to closely monitor the situation on the entire Denglai side.

He couldn't tell anyone about this matter, he just mentioned it to Lin Yiyang, the imperial court might arrange for Sun Yuanhua to be the governor of Denglai, Lin Yiyang didn't believe it at that time, and felt that how could Yu Xiaotian guess this kind of thing, but the actual situation was that the imperial court really transferred Sun Yuanhua to Shandong this year and became the governor of Denglai, which shocked Lin Yiyang a little bit.

Now after several years of hibernation, Yu Xiaotian's strength has reached an unprecedented level, and the north has now shown a chaotic scene, but at present, it seems that he wants to immediately rebel, and it is obvious that it is not yet time.

Yu Xiaotian has been pondering for more than a year, how to reach out to the north first, find a foothold, and lay a wedge for the future north.

After thinking about it for a long time, he felt that it was not ripe to go to Shanshan, Henan and other places to set up points, the most important thing was that the situation over there had been eroded, if he sent people to lay out there, he had to go overland, this section of the road could be said to be a long way, and it was difficult for the people sent to get support from the rear of the Seawolf Group, and it was impossible to send too many people, so it was really risky.

So in the end, he thought of the Denglai Rebellion provoked by Kong Youde, and it seems that if he wants to extend his hand to Denglai in the near future, only this Denglai Rebellion can provide him with an opportunity to send troops to Denglai in a bright and bright way, and stretch out his hand to the Jiaodong Peninsula in Shandong Province first.

In addition, there is another very important reason why Yu Xiaotian thinks so, that is, although his strength is already very strong, whether it is the navy or the army, he has strong combat effectiveness, but the key to the problem is that the soldiers and generals he has at hand are mostly southerners, once there is a northern expedition one day, it will definitely be a protracted war, and the southern soldiers are difficult to adapt to the northern climate in the north of the Xiaoice era today, especially in winter.

You must know that in most parts of the north now, the temperature is very low in winter, like Henan, the lowest limit temperature in winter can even reach the level of dripping into ice, after a large number of southern soldiers go north, it is better to say something in summer, but in winter, there will definitely be a large area of frostbite attrition.

Relatively speaking, people living in the north are more likely to adapt to the climate there, and relatively speaking, in the case of insufficient logistical supplies, the situation of attrition due to frostbite is much better than that of the southern soldiers, and they are more suitable for fighting in extreme cold, but the southern soldiers are certainly unable to do this.

This is also the reason why Yu Xiaotian has been deliberately recruiting northerners over the years, over the years, Yu Xiaotian has also absorbed tens of thousands of people in the north through various channels, and selected more than 2,000 strong men from them and incorporated them into the army.

Moreover, some of these people with flexible brains and loyalty were selected by Yu Xiaotian and sent back to various places in the north to lay an intelligence network for him, ready to respond to Yu Xiaotian's army to the north and participate in the battle for the Central Plains.

In the past two years, the intelligence network in the north has gradually taken shape under the investment of Xiaotian who spared no effort, and many of the larger prefectures and even county towns in the north have been planted with personnel of sea wolves, lurking in various capacities, and with the support of strong funds, most of these people are mixed well in various places, although they cannot enter the upper class, but they can find out the news of the upper class through various means, and may even affect the decision of some local officials.

But this did not make Yu Xiaotian feel satisfied, after all, there were still too few northern soldiers available to him now, and two or three thousand people were thrown to the north, which was simply a drop in the ocean, even if they were strong in combat, it would be difficult to achieve great things.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to extend his hand to the north first, establish a bridgehead under his control, and use this bridgehead to absorb a large number of northerners to join his command, so as to make personnel reserves in advance for the future north, and create a fierce army.

This is also the reason why Yu Xiaotian has been thinking about how to meddle in the affairs of the north under legal circumstances during this time, and the Wuqiao Mutiny that will occur in the future will undoubtedly become an important opportunity for him to intervene in the north.

As long as he can legally lead the army into the Jiaozhou Peninsula, then he can legally leave a group of men there, and encircle a large amount of land, as a base for him to absorb the hungry people in the north, or transfer them back to the south, or resettle them on the spot, waiting for the next opportunity.

After listening to Lin Yiyang's report, Yu Xiaotian nodded slightly and said, "It's basically okay!" But that's not enough!

You didn't mention the overall situation on Denglai's side now, but I don't know what Lord Sun is doing over there now! In addition, I am also concerned about the composition of his soldiers and horses and the relationship between them, these things are my concerns! ”

Lin Yiyang hurriedly said after hearing this: "The students have also paid attention to these things, judging from the news sent back by the people over there, after Lord Sun arrived as the governor of Denglai, he is vigorously rectifying the local military affairs!"

Especially since Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Shuai, Dongjiang Town can no longer be united, and the entire Dongjiang Town is in turmoil, and even Mao Shuai's successor, Chen Jisheng and Chen Zongbing, were killed by rebel generals in April last year.

Now the entire Dongjiang Army can be said to have long since fallen apart from civil strife, and Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Shuai at the beginning, but now it seems that it is indeed a big failure! It's really a stupid thing for relatives to be bitter and enemies to be happy!

In recent years, a large number of Dongjiang generals or people in Liaodong, because of the instability of the people in Dongjiang Town, have fled from Liaodong and fled to Denglai and Shandong across the sea.

According to the detective report, after Lord Sun arrived, he tried his best to gather the old army of Dongjiang during this period of time, reorganized it into an army, and treated some of the old generals of Dongjiang Town with courtesy and entrusted them with important tasks!

As far as the students know, now Master Sun has incorporated more than 10,000 people from the old Dongjiang Army, and has incorporated such as Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng, Li Yingyuan, Geng Zhongming, and Chen Guangfu, who served in the Dongjiang Army before...... and other generals, each entrusted with important tasks, and in the land of Denglai, many refugees from Liaodong were collected.

It's a pity that the Liaodong soldiers were at odds with the local Shandong soldiers because of Mao Shuai, and although the Liao people fled to Denglai and were treated leniently by Sun Daren, the local Shandong people and Shandong generals did not want to see these Dongjiang soldiers and the Liao people, and the two sides became one, and friction continued all day long.

Those Shandong people are even more of these refugees who fled back from Liaodong, as bandits, strict vigilance, for this reason Denglai and other places are now not peaceful, all day outside the city of weapons fighting, Sun Daren is said to be quite a headache for this! ”