At dawn, when the sky was just bright and the wind by the river was still very cold, people lying by the half-breaking bonfire heard the sound of footsteps.

Li Fang sat up all of a sudden, and the long training made him wake up immediately. His hand immediately touched his waist... There was a short gun with a pill on it.

"Don't panic." Chen Yan sat up, his eyes were only confused for a while, and then he quickly became clear again.

"Is it my own?"

"Of course, silly boy." Chen Yan smiled and said, "We have posts on the periphery, and you can sleep like you."

Li Fang's face turned red. Thinking about it, he was too relaxed. Although he was with Chen Jian and the others, he should have arranged a rotation of the post. Otherwise, a few Jianlu armored soldiers would come over in the middle of the night, and these dozens of people were all inexplicably explained?

"Your armor must not be brought out." Chen Yan handed Li Fang a tie of mail. This was obviously produced by Hutchison. It was not a prisoner in Liaodong or the Ming Dynasty. It was very exquisite in work, with a circle of equal size and space, and it was not too heavy in the hand, but it seemed quite thick. In terms of protection, at least knife and arrow shooting can offset most of the damage. As for the close-range piercing and heavy weapons, of course it cannot be prevented, but in terms of defense, the tie armor in front of you has done the best.

"Put it on." Chen Jian stood up, and five or six people rushed over not far away, sledding in the sled. Chen Jian said to Li Fang: "We have to go north, there is our sentry there, which is different from you. Put on armor and be on guard. You can enter our core defense zone after walking for three days, which is not a problem. In the evening, you arrange for men to take turns, cut some pointed sticks for them, and treat them as recruits... Liao men under forty, who are not disabled, must join the army when they arrive in our camp, and at least they must be a peasant soldier."

"Yes, I understand." Li Fang looked solemn. He was a Liao citizen. He was now a fleeing Liao citizen. He went to the Tieshan area of ​​Xuanchuan to serve as a garrison. He farmed, hunted, peeled, collected ginseng, and picked beads for Dongjiang Town. In addition, he was a miscellaneous person. Dongjiang Town has been franchised. The trade route is from Pi Island as the core. It summarizes the local products of Dongjiang territory. With the trade goods from North Korea, it was transported to Denglai and Tianjin. The profit was not small. Hundreds of thousands of Liao citizens in the town had their own responsibilities. It is normal to endure hunger. The territory controlled by the 12th Regiment is not small. Those who have qualified men will first add the peasant soldiers, then pick them out to be baggage soldiers, and those who are qualified will be war soldiers. After a series of processes, it is

The 12th Regiment is not in a hurry to expand its army slowly in Liaodong. Strategically, it must wait until Liaodong counterattacks, the 12th Regiment will only play a role. Tactically speaking, the military department is facing financial difficulties. The 12th Regiment has to consume a lot of materials and money in Kuandian. In terms of the subjectivity of the military personnel, even if the military department has money, it will think of reducing the burden on the military department as much as possible. Military farming is the first step. The war soldiers generally do not bear any farm work. They only need to be dispatched when opening a base. Usually, they mainly focus on sentries and establish defense circles, and at most they are dispatched to hunt and gather ginseng. The military farming is mainly done by farmers and soldiers mainly composed of Liao people. The system is also based on three-level forms such as peasant soldiers, baggage soldiers, and combat soldiers, which slowly replenish the baggage soldiers and the manpower of the war soldiers.

What caused some headaches for Wen Zhongfa and others was that there was a military and political department recruitment bureau on Pidao. Once the number of soldiers was enough, the recruitment bureau would transfer warships to transport people away, either to Taiwan or to Tianjin... The insurance industry was launched before the New Year, and a large number of soldiers were needed to protect the convoys from the capital to Jiangnan. As a result, two new recruits from two companies were trained here, and they were transported to the mainland by the recruitment bureau before they could be heated up.

The number of peasant soldiers is growing slowly, but the number is still in short supply. The mountains and forests in Kuandian once accommodated 60,000 to 70,000 Han people who were cultivated and cultivated here. Now the population controlled by the 12th Regiment is less than 6,000, and the potential is quite huge.

Of course, Wen Zhongfa also has the ambition to make a career here. People are always the scarce resource. Compared with Dongjiang Town’s perspective of escaping people as a burden, Yusheng’s side has relatively abundant financial resources, but on the contrary, they regard manpower as a precious wealth.

"Let's go." The sled arrived quickly, and six horses led six people to fly to the mountains and ridges. There were still snow in the depths of the sledges, and there were obvious traces of ice and snow on the sled.

Dozens of people moved the wood to the sledge and tied it up. Chen Yan nodded to Li Fang. More than a dozen people pushed and pulled each other, and worked hard with six horses, pulling the big wood away like flying.

"Is this a brain problem with Yusheng's people?" said a Liaodong man with short beards: "There are wood everywhere here, why do they want to drag one away?"

"I guess this one is particularly big?" a leopard-eyed man guessed.

"Where is it big?" said a yellow-faced man: "There is such a big wood everywhere on the mountain. Not to mention Kuandian, even we are all over the mountain pass."

"I can't explain it." The short-bearded man shook his head and said, "Let's not do such a chore. I can't stand cutting wood everywhere in the snow and ice, and I have to transport the wood back from the ice."

"I guess it's not our turn to work." The man with leopard eyes said, "I didn't see that those who were their soldiers before were their soldiers. We heard that they were also farming, either burning charcoal, feeding horses, raising cattle, feeding chickens and catching chickens. Anyway, they have work to do. They can learn from carpenters and blacksmiths, either."

"If a craftsman is beaten to death, we were originally a military household. If we ran out to become a craftsman, we would be a loss."

"What do you think?" The man with leopard eyes glared and said, "I heard from Brother Li that the craftsmen here are very popular. Their salary is more than twice as much as that of farmers. But what kind of assessment should be done? You must be skillful and quick to learn to be an apprentice. It is really not accurate for us to be qualified."

"I don't want to do this job," said the short-bearded man: "It's better to keep farming."

At this time, Li Fang came over and gathered everyone together, saying, "There is still three days away from the core control area of ​​the 12th Regiment of our Merchant Army. The premise is to walk forty miles a day. If you can't walk, you have to walk for five or six days. Our food is quite limited, and now it is difficult to fight wild animals. There are no wild vegetables and fruits. If anyone does not walk quickly, it will drag down the whole team. No one is allowed to stay. Those who fall behind will follow slowly. You cannot delay the lives of the whole team because of one or two people. If anyone resists, I will implement military discipline and kill him with my own hands."

Everyone was a little awesome, but there was no response for a while, only a few bachelors agreed.

Li Fang said again: "A man should try to help women and children. He should be able to walk forty miles a day. Just remember one, just like crossing the river just now, if he can't walk, he will die."

Everyone agreed and everyone just cleaned up. There were more than 40 people, more than a dozen men, fifty or six old men in their sixties, and the rest were women and children.

Fortunately, these people have experienced many hardships and come to Kuandian. Those with poor physical fitness and poor will have been eliminated long ago. At this time, it is only a few days before they can completely escape from suffering. Everyone encouraged each other. The man supported the elderly, while the woman supported the children. The crowd began to walk along the river beach towards the towering mountains.

...

"Medical Officer Huang, I'm here to Pi Island."

Feeling the hull shaking, Huang Yucheng suddenly woke up from his sleep.

He was riding on the Zhenlu Wei. The captive Dutch ship was almost not on trade routes and had been responsible for the extermination of pirates and collection of safety letters on the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang. Recently, due to the increasing number of Dutch warships, the Dutch retreated from Penghu first, and then the heavy ships gathered on the sea surface of the Daren area. They had often had friction with the Hutchison fleet. In the situation of increasingly tight winds, the transportation of holiday personnel such as Huang Yucheng could only be done by large ships. The Tiancheng Wei and Zhenlu Wei were both responsible for transportation. The newly launched Datong Wei was also active in the sea surface near Zhejiang. The Hutchison navy on the sea surface of Fujian was mostly left with merchant ships and would not have naval battles with the Dutch when it was near possible.

In this case, the benefits of Ping Anzhi also declined sharply. Although Ping Anzhi has been collected for half a year, merchant ships from Fujian, Zhejiang to the south to the north and south are used to it, but this is the case for those who run the sea. In this era, whether in Europe or China, they always fight with their heads. The ship owners are facing the threat of plague and shipwrecks like sailors. Since they go to sea, of course they want to maximize their interests. When Hutchison is strong, everyone can only grit their teeth. Hutchison is now squeezed back by the Dutch. Of course, the owners of the ship will re-consider whether Hutchison's strength is enough to master the routes from Fujian, Zhejiang to Japan and South China Sea... Many ships can hide, and Fujian ships that cannot hide are even cooperating with the Dutch, hoping to break through the Hutchison's blockade line at a smaller price and run to Japan to trade on their own.

There are more piracy everywhere. Without strong suppression, the desires of people's hearts are the most difficult to satisfy...

Huang Yucheng and others got off the hammock. The ship was also a typical Western-style construction method. The cabin was divided into several layers. The space of the ship was quite small. People could only sleep in a low space where they could not stand straight... I also had to admire these sailors in Europe. They drank rotten water and ate vitamin-free food. More than half of the people who arrived in the Americas or Asia suffered from sepsis and almost all their teeth fell out because they would not spawn bean sprouts on the boat. The place where they slept was worse than the pigpen.
Chapter completed!