Li Xingzhi's last stop in choosing Laizhou still had certain considerations, because the news from Ma Sande said that Liu Lishun, the governor of Shandong, Xue Guoguan, the second assistant of the cabinet, Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, and a eunuch selected by Emperor Chongzhen to return to Laiden this time.

In addition, Ma Sande also lived up to his trust, bringing John Tang and a Portuguese officer named Lu Ruohan back to Leiden, accompanied by a group of firearms craftsmen from the staff making bureau.

Among these people, Xue Guoguan is his political ally, and the matter of colluding with Zheng Zhilong has to fall on Xue Guoguan, since Liu Lishun is a student of Xue Guoguan, he can also be regarded as his own person, as for Wang Chengen, Chongzhen's confidant, so Li Xingzhi has to receive it in person.

On March 19 of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Xue Guoguan and his entourage came to Laizhou, at this time Laizhou had nearly 300,000 soldiers and civilians, which was more vigorous than the dilapidated Gyeonggi and Shandong.

This feeling is more and more obvious after crossing the Jiaolai River, and in the plains from the Jiaolai River to Ye County, a lot of land that has been reclaimed has grown wheat seedlings, and it looks green and full of hope from a distance.

More people are busy in the soil, these people who have delayed spring ploughing, mainly planting vegetables and cotton, although it is a little late, but there are cattle and seeds brought back by Confucius, the efficiency is improved a lot.

"Plough more land, starve less!"

"Catch one more fish, eat one more piece of meat!"

The military marshal's office does not expect how much grain can be collected in the summer harvest, but only hopes that the people can be self-sufficient, even if there are still shortcomings, the pressure on the military marshal's office will be reduced accordingly.

Along the coast, the fishermen of the former Laizhou are also catching fish day and day, because it has just started spring, the amount of fish caught is not much, but something is better than nothing.

The people are very simple, they ate Li Dashuai's and used Li Dashuai's, so let's catch some fish to replenish the soldiers' bodies, shouldn't we? Moreover, if there was no Jingbei Army, we would have died under the butcher's knife of the Tartars.

Near Liujiazhai in Daze Mountain, nearly 10,000 people are also digging the Ziyang River Reservoir.

Eggs cannot be put in one basket, and the construction of a reservoir in Mt. Osawa is to make full use of the mountain stones of Mt. Osawa to polish limestone powder.

According to the principle of proximity, Qian Anning also organized many people who had finished spring ploughing to dig dozens of kilns in Chashan near the Ziyang Reservoir to prepare for firing bricks and cement.

In order to facilitate transportation, the official road from Laizhou City to Daze Mountain is also being renovated, relying on the cement produced by Tianqi Mountain, Qian Tianxi organized nearly 1,000 masons and more than 3,000 people to level the official road, and then lay cement on the official road.

Because there is no modern machinery, it all relies on manpower and animal power, and when Xue Guoguan arrived in Laizhou, this road was only about ten miles long, and the section where it was really solidified was only three or four miles.

However, this smooth and wide cement road obviously shocked Xue Guoguan, Liu Lishun, Wang Chengen and Tang Ruowang, especially Tang Ruowang, because at this time Europe was also widely used Roman mortar, but from the perspective of the formation of cement roads, it was much better than Roman mortar.

The internal minister of the Ming Dynasty, the elder of the imperial court, arrived in Laizhou, and the prefect of Laizhou, Qian Tianxi, and the soldier of Laiden, Lu Liangzhi, naturally did not dare to slack off, and had already been waiting for about three miles outside the city, and also specially sent scouts to explore Xue Gelao's itinerary.

Li Xingzhi is no exception, in his opinion, this face-saving thing always has to be done, in order to welcome Xue Guoguan and Wang Chengen, Li Xingzhi deliberately removed the internal and external ministers of the Manchurian Green Banner soldiers and the iron soldiers of the headquarters of the 600 iron soldiers in Laizhou City.

Soon, Xue Guoguan and Wang Chengen, who were in the honor guard of the imperial court, had arrived near the south gate of Laizhou City.

Li Xingzhi hurriedly took Laizhou officials to greet him.

"The last general, Li Xingzhi of Leyden Town has seen Xue Ge Lao, Wang Gonggong, and Liu Buyuan, please forgive the last general for wearing armor and not being able to pay full salutes!"

The Ming Dynasty was noble and martial, according to the system, Li Xingzhi, the second-grade general soldier, was not as good as the prefect of a prefecture, and when he saw the elders of the court and the ministers of the ministry, he had to kneel and salute.

Li Xingzhi didn't want to offend people, and he didn't want to bow down to these court ministers, so he deliberately put on armor.

"Li Shuai, you don't have to be polite, the emperor's holy decree will come down later, and our family will salute you."

Wang Chengen looked at the young commander in front of him with a smile and was full of good feelings, after all, in the life creed of the prince, who can make Chongzhen happy, then this person must be a great loyal minister.

"Ugh!"

Ma Sande obviously forgot about the emperor's conferral of Li Xingzhi as Penglaibo, in his opinion, a mere earl is nothing at all, there is no need to report to Li Dashuai, didn't you see that King De and Yan Shenggong are not even as good as chickens in front of Dashuai?

"Leyden's chief soldier Li Xingzhi listens to orders!"

Wang Chengen's face turned pale.

"Right here?"

Li Xingzhi was stunned, how to receive this holy decree? He's a complete layman.

"Hurry up and prepare the incense case, you go and prepare hot water, bathe and change clothes for the handsome, is the prince going to the palace to read the holy decree again?"

Qian Tianxi's reaction was very fast, and he hurriedly ordered his entourage to prepare, while he stepped forward to ask Wang Chengen and others for instructions.

Xue Guoguan, Liu Lishun and others were also stunned, they thought that Ma Sande's ramming goods would definitely inform Li Xingzhi of such a major event as conferring the title of earl, so they read it at the gate of this city, mainly to show the people that the court rewards and punishments were clear.

"No need, let's take the order!"

Wang Chengen has been in charge of the inner court for twelve years, and he has never seen any kind of scene.

"The last general will take the order!"

Li Xingzhi is also helpless, so many soldiers and civilians are looking at it, just kneel, just kneel, the right is to worship God.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: Since I bowed to the emperor, the law has been punished, and I am anxious to seek treatment, but the world is slumped, and the internal thieves and foreign thieves are inexhaustible, and the killing is endless...... Li Xingzhi, the chief soldier of Leiden Town, has made great achievements since he was ordered, and he fought in Gaoyang last year, and a group of murderers were killed; This spring, Laizhou's victory, the puppet king tied his hands, between the ten months, the plan to kill more than 10,000 true and false captives, I followed the Taizu and ruled the merits, awarded the Qing as Penglaibo, hereditary replacement, Qing can pacify Liaodong, why should I be stingy with the road to the marquis? Chin this! ”

After Wang Chengen finished reciting the holy decree, he waited for Li Xingzhi to bow, but Li Xingzhi did not react, he really didn't know the etiquette of receiving the decree.

Qian Tianxi saw Wang Chengen's reluctance, knelt down and moved a few steps, and came to Li Xingzhi's side.

"Respectfully Tian'an, long live, long live, long live!"

With Qian Tianxi's suggestion, Li Xingzhi obviously reacted.

"St. Bow."

Hearing this, Li Xingzhi stood up and knelt straight, paused for two breaths, and bowed again: "Thank you for God's grace, long live, long live, long live." ”

"Heavenly grace."

After repeating the actions of kneeling and bowing again, Li Xingzhi bowed his head and responded: "Eternal resignation, long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

"It's good to be sincere."

After the third mountain call, the ceremony was completed, and Li Xingzhi stood up.

"Penglaibo, this title was won by the emperor against the influence of the people, you must not live up to the emperor's grace!"

Wang Chengen handed the holy decree to Li Xingzhi with a smile on his face.

"But please rest assured, there will be 3,000 elite soldiers at the end, and more than 1,000 Manchurian soldiers to help, after the completion of the rectification of the water division, the last general will go to Liaodong, although it is not enough to enter Shenyang, but there is no problem in laying down Gaizhou and Haizhou, so the east captives must not take care of each other."