Chongzhen six years have passed quietly, for the Ming court, this is the first year of the dawn of the Ming Dynasty. For the people, this year's winter seems to be much milder than in previous years, and according to this momentum, I am afraid that next year there will not be another famine for several consecutive years.

In Shandong, especially in Ludong, there is rarely a peaceful year. Although Kong Youde's rebels left a devastated mess, the people of Ludong were satisfied compared to other disaster-stricken state capitals during the Spring Festival. In troubled times, doesn't it say that if there is a great traitor, there will be a great good? Kong Youde is a big traitor, but there is also a great kindness on the ground in Ludong--- that is Mr. Lingshan Yu.

Seeing that the refugees were struggling to make a living, Mr. Yu felt compassion and did not hesitate to take out his family property, work for relief, and recruit a large number of laborers to build a large number of people. Even the government is unable to organize such a large relief, and if Yu Feng does not do this, it is really difficult to say what will be the outcome of these displaced refugees this winter. It is said that many of the families who spent this winter because of Yu Feng's actions took the initiative to erect immortal tablets for Yu Feng and pray for him.

The chain reaction brought about by this incident is that in this Ludong area, those who sell illicit salt without the inspection department are spurned and disgusted by the ordinary people. These main sales objects are the people's private salt, even if they escape the detection of the inspection department and enter the Ludong market, they are also in a state of unsalable for a long time.

For those families who have a male in their family as the inspector of salt, these smugglers are their enemies, especially those who are killed or injured during the smuggling of salt. For the hundreds of laborers and thousands of families behind them who were recruited by the inspection department and the thousands of families behind them, the money earned by the inspection department was donated to them, and the work done by these smugglers was tantamount to grabbing food in their mouths.

If the inspectors make less money, won't there be fewer people invited to work? Then those of us who have nothing to eat, drink, or do will we go back and wait for death? Their concept is very simple: the inspector is a good person, and he makes money, so that we can have something to do, and the whole family will not starve to death. Then those who oppose the inspectors must be some heinous guys, so their perception of illegal salt dealers can be imagined.

In February, Shandong Lingshanwei commanded Tongshan, to fight against the Japanese invaders, and after Shandong Yousi verified and reported to the Ministry of War, the imperial court was happy, and Lingshanwei commanded the Lingshan guard to garrison Lingshan. When the letter arrived at Lingshanwei, the commander made Tong Shan discuss meritorious deeds, and many of his subordinates were promoted, and they were reported to the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War approved them one by one.

Yu Feng's name is also on the list of promotions, and it is still the first few, directly promoted from 100 households to 1,000 households, which can be regarded as skipping two levels in a row, omitting the word "deputy" in the middle! It's a pity that this is still a fictitious position, and at present, the guard is a turnip and a pit, and there is no place for him at all. However, the garrison Tongshan, it is expected that Yu Feng no longer cares about the position of a thousand households, no matter how you look at it, the position of the inspection department is much more oil and water than this poor thousand households, and Yu Feng's current situation, is it a thousand households, it is better than a thousand households. When it comes to money, food, and people, I am afraid that there is no one in Shandong who is comparable to a thousand households.

Tong Shoubei This is also the meaning of repaying the peach, since Yu Feng shared such a big credit for him, he can't forget that Yu Feng's benefits are not. It's a pity that when the soldiers arrived at Zhaojiazhuang, they found that hundreds of households were nowhere to be found. When I found the Yamen of the Inspection Division, I learned that Yu Patrol had gone to various places to inspect the salt matter, and I was afraid that I would not be able to come back in this month and a half, which made Tong Shoubei, who was eager to share the joy with Yu Feng, couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

Where did Yu Feng go, did he really go to inspect and detect salt?

The answer is:!

At this moment, Yu Feng was sitting on a large and comfortable red sandalwood carved Taishi chair, and in front of him were several plates of exquisite preserved fruit dim sum from Suzhou Mansion. At his feet was the blue sea, and above him was an endless blue sky.

Yes, he was on a sea ship, a rather huge sea ship.

And at this moment, he is on the bow deck of this sea ship, drinking tea, eating snacks, and enjoying this beautiful sea view. He was dressed in a cyan Confucian shirt, and a slight sea breeze came out, blowing the hem of his Confucian shirt slightly, like a fairy man.

The private port of Lingshan has begun to take shape, Fujian's sea ships in and out, there is not much of a problem, in the first month, although because of the Chinese New Year, there are fewer ships going to sea, but there are more than ten sea ships into the port to load salt and transport to Fujian. Those refugees recruited to build the port, Yu Feng did not dismiss them immediately, except for some of them who stayed on the dock to sit on the dock to carry loading and unloading and other jobs, the rest of the people, he settled them in Xuejia Island, plus the families of these people or something, now Xuejia Island has formed a large village with a population of thousands of people, of course, the main job of this village is to dry salt.

With the money sent by the Fujian people to sell salt, Yu Feng really felt a little more generous in his hands in the past year, according to his meaning, he wanted to wait until the end of the year, immediately recruit troops and horses, and expand his salt team, but unexpectedly, neither Zhao Zongqi nor Wu Yanran supported his approach.

At present, Yu Feng's salt ding, not counting the two hundred soldiers in the Lingshan Wei roster, is also more than a thousand, in the world, there are so many salt Ding to inspect private salt, don't think too much, there is no other semicolon. Two hundred soldiers are hung in Yu Feng's hundred households, which can be regarded as the sky, and the quota of this salt is also to the extreme, if the manpower is expanded, not to mention the Shandong bigwigs who are far away in Jinan are not allowed, even those colleagues who are officials in the same city, I am afraid that they will also be afraid.

This thousand salt ding, is not a random gathering of the township scoundrels, but a real daily drill with weapons soldiers, although not hung up on the name of the soldiers, but, you have all seen the appearance of the officers and soldiers of the guard, this more than 1,000 people, I am afraid that the officers and soldiers of the two guards in Lingshan will not be enough to fight.

It's taboo for you to raise so many soldiers! Okay, you say it's salt, everyone should treat it as salt, this thousand people say a lot less, more is not too much, even if there is chaos, as soon as the court army arrives, it may be pacified. However, if you still want to recruit troops, this is not forcing us local officials, then you can no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb, and now the world is about to be decided, why are you doing this, is it a disobedient heart?

Of course, this is for the more than 100 households, for the more than 1,000 households, it is different, you have one or two thousand soldiers raised by the 1,000 households, that is the blessing of the court, as long as you have money, you can afford to raise it, and it is about these large and small local officials. To put it bluntly, the size of the official position determines the tolerance of these officials.

Yu Feng can't be unpredictable, naturally he doesn't know, as soon as he walks on the front foot, the order to be promoted on the back foot comes. Although he was a little stupid about everyone's rejection of his proposal, he still accepted it very humbly. After all, any game has its own rules of the game, and the result of violating the rules is that either the big boss will directly come forward to kill you in seconds, or all the gamers will directly kick you out, even if you open the plug-in, it is useless.

Since you can't recruit troops for the time being, let's get some equipment first!

The blacksmith workshop in his manor is also working day and night, and since Liu Shengmin's fire gun killed the enemy's meritorious service, this newly created fire gun can be regarded as qualified in actual combat. Now that Yu Feng is satisfied, then he will definitely not be satisfied with the petty fight of three or five firearms. Liu Shengmin and the other blacksmiths were ordered to make as many new firearms as they could, except for the necessary repairs to the weapons.

This firecracker, just made, due to the high scrap rate, large consumption, the cost has been high, about ten taels of silver, however, later everyone made it cooked, Yu Feng put forward a new concept of assembly line operation, suddenly greatly improved the work efficiency, the cost has gradually decreased, to the later, it is almost only about five taels.

A few years ago, Yu Feng recruited people to open a private port in Yantian, and the blacksmiths also found some clever and well-behaved teenagers from these refugees to be apprentices, and the number of people in this blacksmith workshop increased dramatically to forty or fifty people, according to the output of three to five guns per day, Yu Feng actually had nearly three hundred firearms in his hands in the past few months.

Of course, Yu Feng didn't have the idea of equipping everyone under his command right now, which was too unrealistic. Although he doesn't have many people now, even if he is fully equipped, he can barely be equipped, but the firearm is not as good as a sword, gun and spear, in addition to the production cost, the usual training and actual combat, it is a lot of consumption, which is the same as your net worth of 100,000 yuan and buying a car of 80,000 yuan, although you can afford it, but you may not be able to afford it.

Yu Feng's direct subordinates who have been around him for a long time are about more than a hundred people, and these people can be regarded as his personal guards! Yu Feng's idea is to equip them first and familiarize them with training, after all, these people are the backbone of their future expansion, so that they can master the knowledge of these firearms, and once their manpower is expanded in the future, these people are ready-made grassroots instructors, and they can quickly pull up a team that is familiar with firearms.

Of course, the construction of firearms is a long way to go, and it is not something that can be accomplished overnight. The equipment of cold weapons, naturally, can't be left behind, there was no money before, so he could only make ideas on those simple and cheap weapons, of course, he doesn't have much money now, but, at least he can be a little extravagant on his own guards, I heard, that sword is pretty good? ?