On the tenth day of the first month of March, the day before Qingming, the Cold Food Festival.

A chaotic day.

In the morning, Zhu Yuan was in the west of the city to check the site of the preliminarily selected Mingzhou Maritime Academy, and someone came to report that the Wenzhou grain loading fleet had also arrived.

Hurried to the docks.

Here, Zhu Yuan had not finished inspecting the grain ship, and another mighty fleet came from the south, which was Zhang Cundao's department, which was long behind Wu Zhen.

So I arranged to answer again.

Zhang Cundao brought nearly 21,000 people, much more than the 15,000 originally said, however, after seeing the people, Zhu Yuan wanted to jump to his feet.

Among them, only 3,000 are elite villagers who have been under the command of Zhang Cundao for a long time.

The others were either dressed in tatters or numb, which was inferior to the lowest-class Zhedong folk that Wu Zhen originally brought back. These are the so-called surrendered Fujian Chen Youding's old troops, and there are obviously a large number of local people who have been arrested.

With the spirit of these people, in a short period of time, they will not be used at all.

That's it, Zhang Cundao also came to discuss with Hua Gao, he would stay, looking like he was going to righteousness, but his own 3,000 township soldiers still had to let them return to their hometowns as agreed.

Zhu Yuan was also next to him at the time, and he wanted to beat someone before he finished listening, but fortunately, Hua Gao didn't hold back in advance, and grabbed Zhang Cundao to see those depressed criminals. Without discussion, he asked Zhang Cundao when these people could be used so that the three thousand people could leave.

Zhang Cundao was strangled by Hua Gao, and he was also wronged.

poured some bitter water, only then did I understand that Chen Youding's old department was not without something that could still fight, and even elite, but with a little combat power, was divided between Tang He and Liao Yongzhong and taken to the northern and southern battlefields.

Of course, you will be given what you want.

In this way, Zhu Yuan and Hua Gao also reacted, and they had already expected something. Not counting Zhang Cundao's 3,000 descendants, he can bring another 18,000 people, which is already very capable.

Looking at Zhang Cundao, he also brought 346 sea ships that were not much less than Wu Zhen, although the quality is obviously incomparable, just like the big ships with more than 2,000 materials, Wu Zhen originally had 29 ships, and Zhang Cundao only brought 3 ships this time, but, a positive four products, can you expect it to be higher?

However, the three thousand elites still can't go.

There are a lot of things here, and what is missing is the elite that can be used immediately.

Zhang Cundao is obviously not unprepared, after all, his father Zhang Yi has already had a very unpleasant quarrel with His Majesty the Emperor in Jinling because of this incident, and it is impossible for all the 15,000 elite villagers to be returned.

Since everyone has come, they can only receive.

Hua Gao personally went to watch and arrange the camp, and Zhu Yuan also quickly made a decision, 18,000 Fujian criminals, in the next three days, there is no need to do anything, just one word, eat!

I let go of my belly to eat, and I recovered my physical state first.

Today is the Cold Food Festival, it stands to reason that you can't make a fire, and it's expedient, where can you take care of so much.

For this reason, it was inevitable that there would be objections, and Zhu Yuan rejected them all.

Moreover, even the limit of two liters per day is no longer enforced, as long as these people can eat, there is enough supply.

Speaking of which, whether it is a soldier or a citizen, there is a quota for food supply.

The highest is the guard sergeant, who provides two liters of rice per day. Ordinary people, every day is one liter of five he. As for the prisoners, according to the rules, there is only one liter per day, and not only do the hardest and most tiring work, but this liter is often the worst coarse grain, to put it bluntly, it is actually used in death.

In addition, there are women, which is not clearly defined, after all, women who can be brought in to serve are usually not from normal backgrounds, or do not starve to death.

Zhu Yuan learned about this at the beginning, and despite the objections of all parties, all of them were changed to two liters per day. In fact, it means that there is no clear limit, and you can eat as much as you can.

The effect is also obvious.

The fact that a series of arrangements for transporting grain to the north could be completed in just one month was inseparable from the substantial increase in the labor enthusiasm of the soldiers and soldiers after the sufficient supply of meals.

As for the cost?

According to the calculation of the 60,000 soldiers and soldiers who erased the odds around Dinghai after the arrival of Zhang Cundao's department, two liters of grain per person per day will cost 1,200 stone a day, which does not seem to be much at first glance, converted into catties and taels, one stone in this era is about 150 catties, and a day is 180,000 catties of grain.

Calculate a month, that's more.

This is also a problem that Zhu Yuan must pay attention to.

In the first month, the number of people increased gradually, and only 16,000 stone of grain was consumed in a month, and then, it is expected that more than 70,000 people will gather here at most, and 42,000 stone of grain will be needed in a month, equivalent to 6.3 million catties.

If Zhu Yuan continues to supply in sufficient quantities, Lao Zhu over there in Jinling will not agree.

Fortunately, Zhu Yuan already has other methods.

Leave it at ease.

In the afternoon, among the three navies that went to sea to hunt down the 'Zhendongyang' Zhao Dingxi's department, the two navies under the command of Mingzhouwei and Tianxingwei under the command of Tongzhi Changduan and Tianxingwei under the command of Tongzhi Xiahai returned one after another.

Bringing back the news, the three people once surrounded Zhao Dingxi's troops near Shengshan Island, a naval battle, Zhao Dingxi's troops were almost wiped out, 73 ships were destroyed or captured, and more than 900 enemies were killed.

There were no prisoners this time.

With a little regret, Zhao Dingxi led a small number of remnants to escape from the encirclement.

Wu Zhen, the deputy governor of the navy, sent two groups of men and horses to return first, and he still led the army to patrol the open sea to deter the surrounding area.

Haikou Zhao Dingxi was basically destroyed, which is a good thing.

The question is, so many people are hanging on the masts of so many ships, are you planning to dry them and take them home as dry food?!

It's warm!

If the corpses are not disposed of immediately, tens of thousands of people will gather here, and in case of an epidemic, who will be responsible?

Zhu Yuan was standing on the pier and scolding the two commanders and acquaintances, he has a really bad temper recently, there are too many things, and the pressure is too great.

And then it blew up!

Flying stones.

Zhu Yuan is fine.

The moment he heard the movement, the sack girl next to him and Hua Gao next to him rushed over together, followed by Zhao Xu, and the two commanders who were being scolded and the surrounding soldiers also blocked over.

Hua Gao confessed to everyone, so everyone understood that this was a little ancestor, and they couldn't do anything if Zhu Yuan died.

Zhu Yuan was not smashed, but he was almost crushed.

Things also quickly figured out.

In order to build a lighthouse on an offshore island, and in addition, the military camp here should also be expanded, so Zhu Yuan simply decided to shovel out the Zhushan Mountain on the south bank of the Yongjiang River, in which the stone can be used to build a wharf camp or be transported to the outer island to build a lighthouse.

Even if it was a small hill, it was a big project purely by manpower, so Zhu Yuan thought of blasting it with gunpowder.

Today is not the first time that the explosion has been fired, however, a medicine eye in the afternoon, on the one hand, was shallow to chisel, and on the other hand, there was also more charge, which caused a small accident. According to the statistics, only one unlucky guy was hit in the head and passed out, and the others were all skin injuries, nothing serious.

However, Hua Gao, who was in a hurry, still ran in person, and whipped the team of soldiers in charge of the demolition one by one, and did not do any errands, and all of them were punished to carry stones.

After tossing for a day and returning to the inner house in the evening, Zhu Yuan really had no energy, and wanted to skip today's log again.

In the end, it is still to let the freehand carry the pen.

Thinking of those people brought by Zhang Cundao in the morning, Zhu Yuan didn't vomit or be unhappy, however, after brewing for a long time, it was only a short period in the end.

The reason why the Han and Tang dynasties were strong, destroyed the Xiongnu, and drove the Turks away, so that China had no patients from the northern border for hundreds of years, and it was only three words, called 'good family son'; I hope Your Majesty will think carefully!