In October, it is already a light snow season in the north, and Changguang County, which is located on the peninsula, has a strong sea breeze, constantly blowing the dry yellow earth.

In the morning, when people breathe, they can clearly see a white breath exhaling from their mouths and noses, and at this time of year there is no one on the beach except fishermen.

Today is an exception, because Xiaolang Jun Wang Ze is going to sea to Jeju Island again, this time in addition to the thousands of militia and more than 20,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry on Jeju Island who followed Wang Ze back, there are also a large number of new immigrants who accompanied Wang Ze.

On the dock in the north of Weihai Daying, Gongxi Wenyan took Wang Ze's hand and was a little reluctant, in the past year, Li Wangze basically spent in the 'wave' campaign, and the mother and son rarely got along together.

Seeing that Wang Ze was going to go on an expedition again this time, Gongxi Wenzhen came to the dock to see him off, because the weather was already winter, and Wang Ze's two younger brothers did not let them go out.

Gongxi Wenying was reluctant to say to her eldest son who was going to travel far away: "Ze'er's expedition this time is all about safety, and now the Central Plains is full of flames, your Cheng family sister and Zhu family sister will go to Jeju Island with you, you have to take care of them!" ”

Wang Ze looked at his mother in front of him and asked, "Why don't mother and two younger brothers go to Jeju Island with their children!" ”

Gongxi Wenqi shook his head and said: "Right now, the land of Sanqi is all owned by us, your father is still in Qizhou to resist the attack of the Qi army, and the rear Lu Junshi has not yet recovered and cannot give him advice, I still need to fill in the gaps for him in the rear!" ”

Since the great change in June, several important leaders such as Lu Wen, Cheng Chong, and Zhu Rui have all been injured, and Cheng Chong has basically recovered because of his strong body, and now he has gone to Qizhou to find Wang Yong.

Lu Wen and Zhu Rui have not recovered because of their injuries, so they can only help with some logistical coordination.

After listening to his mother's words Xiwen, Wang Ze comforted: "There is no need to worry in my mother's heart, I left Mr. Pu Yangxun to assist my father in Qizhou, and Hu Bingchang has always been resourceful, enough to serve my father!" Moreover, the land of Sanqi has always had many brave and heroic people, which is enough to resist the Qi army! ”

Gongxi Wenyang wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said with a smile: "You kid still came to persuade me, how can these mothers not know that even if your father can't resist the attack of the Qi army, he can leave safely from the water on Liulang's warship!" It's just that now the family is scattered, and the mother is reluctant! ”

At this time, Yang Ku came to Wang Ze's side, he was going to Jeju Island with Wang Ze this time, and just now he and Zhuo Ran and Fan Wenzhong had arranged the ships and materials for this trip in an orderly manner, and then he came to inform Wang Ze when the time was almost there.

"Mr. Sheep! I will ask you to take care of Da Lang this time," Gong Xi Wen Yan said to Yang Ku, "Although Da Lang is smart, he is young after all, if there is any offense, I hope to forgive me!" ”

I don't dare to agree with Gongxi's evaluation of Yang Ku, according to the contact with Yang Ku for several months, I feel that Wang Ze is simply an adult man, where is there any child's appearance.

However, Yang Ku still politely said to Gongxi Wenyu: "Don't worry, the eldest lady, Lang Jun has the grace of knowing the wither, and the dry will definitely do his best to serve Lang Jun!" ”

Seeing that the hour was almost up, Gongxi Wenqi didn't dare to delay any longer, waved Wang Ze and the others to get on the boat and leave, and left from the dock until the shadow of the ship was gone.

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Wang Ze watched the shadow of the land disappear in front of him from a distance, and he was quite reluctant to leave his family again, patting the side of the boat in front of him and not knowing what to say.

The ship under him is one of the five 5,000-stone level sea ships just built by the cottage this year, because the water battle with the Northern Qi is mainly on the Jishui River, and the water surface is relatively small, which is not suitable for large sea ships to participate in the war, so the five large sea ships made by the cottage are all led by Qu Liulang, who followed Wang Ze back to Jeju Island.

Sun Xing led the rest of the naval army to stay with Wang Yong, assisting Wang Yong to block the Yellow River and Jishui River with all his might, and prevent the Qi army from crossing the river below Ande County to attack Qizhou and Qingzhou.

This time, there were 30 warships of all sizes that followed Wang Ze to Jeju Island, but there were as many as 100 merchant ships loaded with various materials and people, and these ships were basically 'handed over' to Shanzhai by Nanchen.

Looking at the fleet full of sea, Wang Ze felt a sense of satisfaction from the bottom of his heart, and he asked Yang Ku: "Mr. Yang is on this voyage, is there a shortage of soldiers, horses, materials and weapons in various departments?" ”

Yang Ku held a thermos in his hand, and was holding the side of the boat to Wang Ze to look at the water and sky of the sea, he was a native of Taishan, Dongping County, and it was the first time he saw the sea and felt fresh.

As soon as he heard Wang Ze's question, Yang Ku smiled unhurriedly and said: "Lang Jun, this time we are strong and strong, and there are 10,000 people in the Blue Wolf Battalion led by the few commanders of the Blue Wolf Battalion alone. In addition, the infantry tiger battalion led by Jiang Chuan Jiang is 10,000 people, the militia led by Zheng Kui and Zheng is 5,000 people, and the cavalry of the White Wolf Battalion is more than 3,000 people, plus our navy has more than 30,000 horses! ”

Taking a sip of the hot water in the kettle, Yang Ku replied, "In addition to these soldiers and horses, more than 20,000 people are going to Jeju Island with us!" ”

Wang Ze worried: "Sir, there were more than 60,000 people on the island before, plus 40,000 or 50,000 people were transported to the island in the past few months, and this time there are more than 50,000 people, I'm afraid that the food on the island is a little difficult!" ”

Yang Ku glanced at Fan Wenzhong beside him, and Fan Wenzhong immediately understood: "Back to Langjun, the 100,000 mu of grain on Jeju Island was also harvested before, and the harvest grain was 150,000 stones. In September, 4,000 war horses were exchanged for Nam Chen, and all the 100,000 stone grain they paid was transported to Jeju Island for storage. This time, there were a total of 152 ships, loaded with a total of 50,000 stone of grain, enough to feed 150,000 people for a year! ”

Wang Ze was frightened by this data, and he couldn't imagine that there were so many food supplies on Jeju Island now, and he was now a big landlord.

Fan Wenzhong came up and continued: "Lang Jun, these 50,000 stone grain is just our own grain storage in the cottage, and now Gwangju, Qingzhou, and Qizhou are all anointed lands, and the local governments have no less than one million stone of grain in stock, and in the future, they can also transport 70,000 or 80,000 stone of grain from these places to Jeju Island every month." ”

Hearing the data reported by Fan Wenzhong at the end, Wang Ze only felt that he had been hit by a huge pie, and winning tens of millions of prizes in later generations could not compare to this feeling.

Just when Wang Ze was thinking about how many people could be fed with so much food, a loud voice came over: "Oh, Xiao Langjun, why did you 'get' my old Cao to that broken island!" There's no iron ore on that island! "It's the blacksmith Cao of the cottage.

Wang Ze was looking over, and Blacksmith Cao was chattering while swaying over from the deck, and behind him was Cao Blacksmith's eldest son, Cao Lei.

Soon after Wang Ze annihilated Duan Yining, the demand for weapons on the Shanzhai side expanded dramatically, so prisoners of war, slaves, and recruited civilians were mobilized to build hundreds of small blast furnaces in Changguang County.

In the past, when Cao blacksmith first came to the cottage, he built two small blast furnaces, with a daily output of 1,000 catties, and these 100 small blast furnaces had a sufficient iron output of 50,000 catties, that is, 25 tons in later generations.

Although a lot of iron is needed for weapon making, with the seizure of iron-producing areas such as Changbai Mountain and Linzi Qingzhou, the original iron-making of the cottage is no longer so urgent.

Originally, Cao Blacksmith wanted to reduce the scale, but Gongxi Wenqi stopped Cao Blacksmith's plan, after all, iron is a strategic material is not so easy to obtain, and now that Shanzhai and Nanchen have reached a strategic alliance, these irons are all good quality iron, which can be exchanged for a large number of materials for Shanzhai.

By October, the cottage had a surplus of two million catties of iron, which was still the rest of the 'exchange' with the Southern Dynasty.

Wang Ze was about to return to Jeju Island at this time, and he was pleasantly surprised to hear that there was still so much iron in the cottage, and Jeju Island was very short of iron.

So two million catties of iron replaced the ship's ballast stone and was placed at the bottom of the ship's hold, which was enough to supply Jeju Island for two or three years, if the population of Jeju Island was only the current size.

Wang Ze looked at Blacksmith Cao and smiled: "The little nephew is tired and Uncle Cao rushed to Jeju Island with me, but there is a great wealth to send off!" ”

Blacksmith Cao snorted: "What kind of background can I have as an ironworker!" He's just a blacksmith anyway! ”

"Uncle Cao doesn't know, in the future, this land of the East China Sea will be our own territory, if the time comes to open the country, Uncle Cao, how can you also be a founding father!" Wang Ze said with a smile.

"What? Founding fathers of a nation!? Blacksmith Cao suddenly widened his bull's eyes, and his eyes almost popped out, but then he lowered his head and muttered: "Just that broken island is not as big as the territory before the cottage, what kind of 'door' sub-country can be established?!" ”

Cao Blacksmith muttered there, but Cao Lei behind him said more honestly: "Xiao Langjun, now the iron in the fleet is only enough for our own use, and in order to achieve a long-term plan, we need to transport a batch of good iron from the cottage every month!" ”

Wang Ze agreed: "What the eldest brother said is right, I have asked the cottage to train at least 10,000 catties of good iron for me every day, and the fleet that transports people's materials every month will transport these irons in the future!" ”

This time, Wang Ze only brought Jiang Chuan, Cao An, Zhang Hang, Meng Xian, Chu Honghang, and a few generals, as well as 3,000 cavalry from the White Wolf Battalion, and some heroes such as Zhao Kun and Shen Sanshui, who had newly surrendered.

Changguang County's Han and Zhou's two strong families who defected to Wang Yong respectively sent their own descendants Han Wen and Zhou Qiang to accompany Wang Ze on the expedition.

As for Hu Bingchang, Pu Yangxun and Ge Wei, they were all left by Wang Ze to his father Wang Yong, after all, Qizhou was directly facing the attack of the Qi army, and the more power in his hand, the better.

Wang Ze even left Zhou Tong's ironclad battalion to his father Wang Yong, but Wang Ze himself still brought a squad of twenty people from the ironclad battalion, led by Liu Wancheng, a fruit captain under Zhou Tong, plus hundreds of blacksmiths such as Cao Blacksmith, and it only took a few months for another ironclad battalion to be built.

Because most of the ships in the fleet were sea ships provided by the Southern Dynasties, and each ship was full of supplies and population, Wang Ze's trip was slow, and it took more than 20 days to see the shadow of Jeju Island.

During this period, Wang Ze took advantage of the rest time to go to various ships to comfort and comfort him, and followed the people on the boat to eat the bean sprouts and chew raw carrot slices, which not only appeased the hearts of the people on the boat, but also won more praise from the people.

To say that the Chinese still have an advantage in sailing, there are so many islands around, the ships are not bad, and there are a lot of vitamin supplements, such as tea, bean sprouts, oranges and so on.

It can be said that as long as the Chinese carry forward Zheng He's navigation career, then there will be nothing to do with Europeans in this world for a long time.

Looking at Jeju Island, where a black line could already be seen in the distance, Wang Ze shouted in his heart: "I, Hu Hansan, are back again!" ”