Chapter 38: Meet Zhao Min again

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In the spring of 1343, after the end of a new round of expansion, Cheng Pan once again focused his attention on the industrial exhibition in the territory. After this military advance, Cheng Pan's sphere of influence has greatly increased, and the entire territory is basically distributed along the north of the Yangtze River, with its northeast reaching the east of Chaohu Lake in today's Hanshan County and the first generation of the county, the southwest to Wuwei County, the whole territory of Tongling, and the northwest occupying half of today's Shucheng County. In the south of the Yangtze River, Cheng Pan did not dare to go further, but firmly grasped the Ma'anshan mining area. The Battle of Hudong not only knocked out the courage of the Jianghuai Yuan army, but also emptied Cheng Pan's hoarded ammunition reserves. After provoking one province, Cheng Pan didn't dare to provoke another province. Moreover, the strongest military force in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces was too close to Cheng Pan's main base. The reason why Henan Jiangbei Province did not use all its strength to kill Cheng Pan was that Cheng Pan's sphere of influence was on the edge of the province. If Cheng Pan dares to make any moves in the south of the Yangtze River, a large number of elite cavalry in Hangzhou will let Cheng Pan know what it means to not die if he doesn't die.

In addition to the harvest of the territory, there is also the population. Cheng Pan's expansion this time completely increased the population under his rule to 700,000. It takes a while for these populations to digest. At this time, Cheng Pan had thoroughly mastered the coal mines in Wuwei County, and the miners began to have enthusiasm for work under Cheng Pan's scientific management. At the same time, with the use of steam engines, the scale of coal mining increased, and a large number of coal mines went down the river. It supports the steel industry on the other side of Ma'anshan. At the same time, iron ore mines also appeared in Wuwei County, and a large number of steelworkers and technicians were mobilized by Cheng Pan to prepare for the establishment of a second steel plant.

But getting this qiē is not without a price, Cheng Pan knows that his current strength has almost touched the bottom line of the Yuan Dynasty, if there are no other changes. If Cheng Pan makes any more irregular moves, waiting for Cheng Pan is an all-out war. Thinking that before the battle, Cheng Pan formed a firearms corps of 5,000 people, as well as a powerful artillery in the Napoleonic period, at that time, Cheng Pan was high-spirited, and felt that if he wanted, half of the country was already in his hands, and a battle was fought, Cheng Pan knew how big the consumption of the semi-industrialized army was, and his army was indeed terrifying, but the heritage of his own territory made this army terrifying two or three times at most, if the Yuan Dynasty ignored the conscription of cannon fodder. I'm really sad.

In order to ease the atmosphere between himself and the Yuan Dynasty, Cheng Pan accepted the Yuan Dynasty's recruitment. Promised to go to the field to work. Although it took more than a year for this series of officialdom procedures to come down, it gave Cheng Pan a buffer time. But Cheng Pan had to prepare early. At present, the construction of the 6 local legions is basically unchanged, and a large number of laborers are inclined into the shipbuilding industry, which is about to be developed in large quantities. At the same time, in order to establish the seaside industry a year later, Cheng Pan began to hoard a large number of various materials.

It is not for nothing that Cheng Pan chose Rugao County, which is located by the sea, due to the vigorous development of the chemical industry. Sodium chloride is a material that is completely incompatible with industrial consumption. According to the salt production technology of the current time and space, the salt with such a high production cost is used for industrial production, and the loss is to death. Fortunately, Cheng Pan has the bug of stealing money, which can be supported for the time being. However, it is completely impossible to expand the import of salt. It is imperative to obtain salt production areas and carry out industrial salt production.

In response to this, the cement industry has been expanded in order to build a new salt drying plant in the future. And a large number of shipbuilders by the sea, as well as shipbuilding technical materials. Recruited by high salaries and bought at high prices. It's not the 21st century, and the seaside is far less than the Inner 6, except for a few large external ports. A large part of the reason why the rest of the seaside people came to the beach to beg for food in this era was because the older generations lost their land and were forced to come to the sea to fish. After the foreign trade group issued the conditions of housing, high salary, and free education for children, the shipbuilders were not hindered by the weak sense of locality at all and came to work in the territory. Of course, it is not completely devoid of local consciousness, and a considerable number of people have land by the sea. However, Cheng Pan proposed a general connection of part-time work, that is, to take over the shipwright and his family at the same time, as an employer to provide free accommodation and basic food for the shipwright's family, if the shipwright is uncomfortable in the territory, he can take his family away at any time. At the same time, the territory pays the severance pay when the shipwright wants to leave.

Therefore, when the spring warmed up, several large pits appeared on the side of the Yangtze River in Hezhou, and steel keels had begun to be erected in the pits under the command of the shipwrights.

When Cheng Pan was showing his potential for future chaos, an unlucky guest visited Cheng Pan again. Since Cheng Pan mastered the Wuwei Coal Mine, a businessman kept inquiring about Cheng Pan's whereabouts and wanted to visit Cheng Pan. This is the shopkeeper Huang that Cheng Pan dealt with when he first went to Wuwei to buy coal. After Cheng Pan got the news, he thought about the one behind the shopkeeper Huang. Decided to meet him.

In the hall, the shopkeeper Huang bowed deeply after seeing Cheng Pan, and Cheng Pan arched his hand in return. The shopkeeper Huang said: "Mr. Cheng has not seen his demeanor for many days." Cheng Pan took a sip of tea and pretended to be impatient and said, "Don't talk nonsense, I'm very busy, what did your hostess ask you to say." The shopkeeper Huang was so unceremoniously straight to the point that Cheng Pan held his breath in his throat, and all the drafts of the negotiation that were originally contained in his stomach were invalidated. Thinking of the supernatural power in front of him, and he was killed from the elite cavalry of a thousand people, he didn't dare to say respectfully with any resentment: "My master wants to meet with Mr." Cheng Pan said: "You can set the time and place, but it should be arranged in the next few days and not too far from Liben County, I am very busy." The shopkeeper Huang said: "Three days later, at noon, Shucheng County, Yuyue Inn." Cheng Pan said: "I know" Huang shopkeeper said: "Then I will say goodbye" Cheng Pan: "Don't send it".

Three days later, Cheng Pan was dressed in white and came to the agreed place, the entire inn was surrounded by guards, Zhao Min had already been waiting here, compared to two years ago, Xiao Lori had already begun to give birth, Cheng Pan looked at it appreciatively, and then walked over as if ignoring the many guards around. Some guards saw Cheng Pan walking straight like this and wanted to stop him, just approaching Cheng Pan's body and involuntarily retreated, at this time the guards next to him pulled out their weapons one after another, and then the guards next to Zhao Min said, "Stand down, it's the guests coming", and then the guards got out of the way. Zhao Min saw Cheng Pan's eyes showing a burst of surprise. Tsai stared at Cheng Pan's face carefully. Cheng Pan felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by a little sister-in-law, so he said, "Zhao girl, what are you looking for me today." Zhao Min retracted his eyes and said: "Cheng Daochang said goodbye last time, Your Excellency's wound was not left at all, I heard Xiao Huang's description yesterday, and I didn't believe it, but when I saw it today, Your Excellency was amazing." Cheng Pan swept his eyes over the group of guards behind Zhao Min, the two elders of Xuan Ming, as well as Toutuo and several others whose faces were burned. The second elder of Xuan Ming dodged his eyes when facing Cheng Pan. At this time, the two elders of Xuan Ming were extremely surprised at this time, compared to two years ago, although Cheng Pan's martial arts were higher than the two of them, but with the cold true qi attribute of the two of them, they could still pass two moves in Cheng Pan's hands, but now when the two of them faced Cheng Pan, they seemed to have encountered natural enemies, and Cheng Pan felt like a piece of hot iron to them. Connecting the short range can seem like a lot of pressure.

In fact, due to the yin attribute physique of the two elders of Xuan Ming, their sensitivity to the power of the sun is much higher than that of ordinary people. That's right, Cheng Pan is their natural enemy now, and the power attribute of the sun is one level higher than the true qi. This is the suppression of the superior forces.

Cheng Pan fixed his eyes on the chest of the second elder Xuan Ming and said: "The black jade intermittent ointment is also worthy of the elixir of bone grafting, and such a serious injury with a collapsed sternum can be recovered as before." Zhao Min's face suddenly stiffened, and he originally wanted to ask Cheng Panhui about the secret technique of the scar on his face, but Cheng Pan pointed out the heel of the famous medicine in the family. The black-bellied girl quickly adjusted her mentality and said: "Sir's eyes are like torches, what I came here to do today, I hope Mr. agrees." Cheng Pan replied: "Say it first." Your requests have always been difficult, and it is difficult for me to say yes." Zhao Min put on a cute smile and said: "Mr. is strong in martial arts, Zhao Min is willing to worship Mr. as a teacher." Cheng Pan was already ready for Zhao Min's strange request, and his heart was shocked when he heard this. After a second, he replied: "I inherited the way of pure yang under the teacher, and I can't pass on my inheritance." Zhao Min said: "Mr. looks down on women? Cheng Pan felt that he would be taken to the ditch if he continued to talk, so he said: "I don't want to, no one can force you to try it with your men." Zhao Min's face did not change, and she made a hidden movement behind her with her feet, which was the guard behind her who shouted, and "arrogant" moved together. Originally, in Cheng Pan's sense, she didn't know what Zhao Min's feet were doing, but now that the people behind her swept it with their afterglow, Cheng Pan was sure that this was a code.

In the middle of the oncoming punches and kicks, he climbed through the first-class reflexes of the guò people with his hands, and gently stroked the palms of these guards' attacking fists, and specially maintained the chic movements. Instantly dismantle the offensive of several people. The golden power of the sun flashed with a luxurious aura, and it followed the hands of the guards, sinking into their bodies like arrows, destroying the true qi in their bodies all the way. Pierced into their meridians like red-hot iron thorns. Among them, the two elders of Xuan Ming are the worst, and their absolute yin physique is simply the greatest torture in the face of the power of the sun that comes to the yang. The Xuanming True Qi in the whole body steamed within a few breaths before half of the power of the sun was weakened, and the remaining power of the sun scalded through one-third of their meridians like boiling water before dissipating. The second elder of Xuan Ming must recuperate for at least three months, and cannot use his true qi.

One couldn't breathe, from Zhao Min's small movements to several people screaming on the ground. Zhao Min's face was completely stiff, and it was a row of archers rushing out from the second floor of the inn and pointing arrows at Cheng Pan. Cheng Pan didn't care about this, even if Cheng Pan didn't use the same reflexes to avoid the bow and arrows, these arrows couldn't shoot through Cheng Pan, which was comparable to the rubber skin and flesh of the wheel, and at most scratched a little skin. Cheng Pan looked at Zhao Min and said teasingly: "Girl, you can't still use your feet to command the arrows." Cheng Pan's words completely dispelled Zhao Min's clever thoughts, and she was a little angry and shouted to the archers, "Go back, go back, who wants you to come out." The archers retreated. Zhao Min looked at the guards who were moaning underground and said, "Someone will carry them down." ”

After a few minutes, the scene returned to its original state, Cheng Pan took a leisurely sip of tea and said: "Good tea, sandalwood is also good, these two tricks can kill many martial arts masters" After speaking, the palm holding the teacup rose with golden sun true qi, and the tea was boiling. Then stop the exercise and place the teacup on the table.

Zhao Min, whose trick was exposed, couldn't help but show a frustrated look in his eyes. Cheng Pan said: "Lord Zhao, if you have anything, just say it." Zhao Min Zhengse said: "Mr. Cheng, you are making a lot of iron, right" Cheng Pan: "Not bad." Zhao Min then said: "You are training" Cheng Pan said, "You can think so" Zhao Min said in a louder voice: "You want to rebel". Cheng Pan glanced at Zhao Min and said: "It's not about rebellion, it's just for self-preservation, you won't know that the village I just came to a few years ago was slaughtered by the official army." Zhao Min said: "Your force has passed the standard of self-protection now," Cheng Pan said: "That's right." Zhao Min said: "Belong to the imperial court and ensure that you are rich and prosperous all your life, otherwise my father will kill you at any cost." Cheng Pan said with a smile: "Girl, send you a sentence that Genghis Khan said, if you want to fight, you will fight." Don't rush me, or I will turn the whole of Jiangnan into a battlefield, and even if I lose, I will die a million Mongols. Zhao Min seemed to be calmed by Cheng Pan's domineering words, and said after a while: "Then what do you want." Cheng Pan said: "In a year, I will be the county magistrate of Rugao County, where I will build a ship and go to sea, go to Ryukyu Island to play, except for the territory where I control the zhì on 6 lands now, I will not continue to expand, you are satisfied." Zhao Min said: "This is true." Cheng Pan said: "Pass my words to your father, and the provincial high-level, I don't want to have any misunderstanding."

After a while, Cheng Pan walked out of the inn leisurely. Zhao Min watched Cheng Pan leave, and at this time, an officer next to him made a clicking gesture and said, "County Lord, do you want to send someone to kill him." Zhao Min glanced at him and said, "If you want to die, you can go." A year ago, a thousand-strong cavalry team couldn't stop it, but instead killed a hundred people, and now he is one step closer, and you, a few hundred people, want to kill him." The officer bowed his head and said, "The subordinates are stupid." Zhao Min looked at Cheng Pan's back and said, "Mr. Cheng, I hope you keep your word."