When Xu Changqing received the news from Beijing, it was already November 20, and at this time, Xu Changqing's main force had already arrived at the mouth of the floating river and joined up with Uncle Zhong and their fleet.

The effect of killing chickens and monkeys was still very good before, and these days, no bandits dared to come to Xu Changqing's trouble.

However, Xu Changqing was still furious when he heard the news from Jingli.

It's not because of his reputation that he is stinking, but because the merchants who should kill a thousand knives used his Xu Changqing's portrait rights, but they didn't give him patent fees!

It's all white money.

There may not be more, but, there must be 1,800 taels, no matter how small the mosquito meat is, it's meat, isn't it?

It's a pity that Xu Changqing hasn't had time to settle accounts with the profiteers in Beijing, and the myriad of migration affairs have already made Xu Changqing unable to get away.

At this time, Uncle Zhong and the others had already found a suitable bay between the estuary of the Shang River and the estuary of the Tuhe River in Zhanhua, and set up camp first.

However, the situation was completely different from what Xu Changqing expected.

At this time, this area of Zhanhua has not been transformed by the diversion of the Yellow River, the land is very alkalized, and the desertification of the coastal sea is very serious, mostly swamp quagmire, not to mention farming, it is difficult to survive.

The number of people is indeed thin, and many unnecessary conflicts can be avoided, but they can't see a village for dozens of miles, which is a bit excessive.

"Shuai, the situation is a little bad. We are not well prepared, and the survey of the terrain is not enough, and at this time, things are not easy to do......"

Uncle Zhong was much older than before, his hair was a lot grayer, and he looked at Xu Changqing with a lot of guilt.

The young master trusted him so much and gave him so much power, but he couldn't help the young master do this little thing.

Xu Changqing had calmed down at this time, pointed to the map and said, "Aren't there a few small towns here?" What is the geography like? ”

Uncle Zhong said: "There are basically no villages and towns in the Shang River Basin, and the Tuhe River Basin is stronger, but the situation is not too good. ”

"Fengguo Town on this side of the Daqing River, have you seen it on the side of Tiemen Pass? I see that there are a lot of villages and towns on the map. ”

"Not yet. However, I heard that many places here seem to belong to King Heng...... Commander, let's ......"

"King Heng's?"

Xu Changqing's eyes narrowed slightly.

The Daqing River Basin, this is the land of Jinan Mansion, and the salty pig hand of King Heng is really not ordinarily long!

On the other hand, however, this is not a bad thing.

Since King Heng has stretched out his hand, it means that the land here should be good, at least the problem of ensuring people's survival should not be big.

"Uncle Zhong, don't worry about this, I'll figure it out! The camp side is up to you! ”

"Yes, Sir."

……

Leaving Uncle Zhong to deal with the follow-up migration affairs, Xu Changqing took his mother, Li Youwei, Wu Sanmei and other daughters, and cooperated with the hundreds of artisan households who had already boarded the ship, and went to Zhidi by sea first.

Now, the offshore area has been frozen, although the freeze is not too strong, only two or three hundred meters, but this does not bode well.

Xu Changqing knew that in later generations, the deep winter here would often freeze for several miles.

Xu Changqing had to find a suitable camping site before a large-scale freeze off the coast, and then store enough food and fuel, including establishing a good fishing spot.

After a few days of relief, Yang, Li Youwei, and Wu Sanmei have come out of the shadow of the battle of Qijiawa, and they are all in a good mood.

However, even if they did not suffer any substantial damage, the shadow of the scale of the war was not very easy for them to eliminate.

There are not too many other important things on the ship, Xu Changqing wrote a few letters on the ship, urging Wang Chengen to let the prison army come over as soon as possible to help him carry the pot, and wrote a letter to Tang Ruowang, so that the foreign monk could also come over early.

Although he didn't want Catholic things to infiltrate the team so quickly, the situation was very serious at this time, and Xu Changqing needed John Tang to help him do things.

It's a big deal, take those bandits to him, and let this old man educate them.

Moreover, he used Shen Tingyang's connections to try to buy some grain from Denglai.

Before the specific situation is unclear and the framework is not complete, Xu Changqing will definitely come up with this part of the advance.

The rest of the time, Xu Changqing spent all his time with his mother and several wives, and soon, their mood gradually brightened.

Sea boats are much faster than river boats.

More than two days later, Xu Changqing and his party had arrived at the temporary camp that Uncle Zhong had set up between the estuaries of the Shang River and the Tuhe River.

Sure enough, as Uncle Zhong said, the bay is very good, but the surrounding land is too vegetable to accept.

Soon, Xu Changqing and his party continued to go south and came to the Daqing River Valley, and the situation changed instantly.

The land here is indeed a little worse than the fertile fields in the interior, but it is not so unacceptable.

Xu Changqing deliberately got off the boat and inspected the surroundings and had an in-depth understanding of the surrounding terrain and landforms, which was very good.

Especially in Tiemen Pass, this area of Fengguo Town, there is still a lot of room for development, as long as the operation is done properly, there is not much trouble to feed the manpower under Xu Changqing at this time.

And soon, Xu Changqing also learned a news from the local people that shocked him!

Kenley Island!

In later generations, Xu Changqing had a classmate who was from Kenli, and he had been there several times, which was the core hinterland of the oil field, and there were kowtow machines everywhere.

However, in later generations, most of the land was washed out by the Yellow River.

At this time, there was no Yellow River flowing through Shandong at all, and Kenli was just an isolated island!

A day later, when Xu Changqing and his party arrived on Kenli Island, their spirits were suddenly lifted!

Although Kenli Island is not large, it is estimated that it is only a dozen square miles when it is full, however, there are several natural oil wells on the island!

You can even use it directly without refining!

In addition, the surrounding fish resources are also very good, and there are many places suitable for setting up fishing spots!

Xu Changqing immediately made a decision, and began to plan a new camp in the coastal area near Tiemen Pass, so that the main force could move here one after another.

As for Kenli Island, Xu Changqing naturally won't let it go!

At this time, although there is no internal combustion engine, and the strategic attributes of oil are not prominent, this thing can be used as a 'biological weapon' with a little refining!

Not to mention this natural oil well!

Although the conditions in the bay here are a little worse, it can be made up for with a little more manpower, and for Xu Changqing, this is not a problem at all.

In the future, if you suppress more bandits, you will have these manpower.

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Ten days later, on the third day of the lunar month, the camp along the coast of Tiemenguan already had a look.

Although they are all shantytowns, Xu Changqing has accumulated some of the money he has accumulated under the condition of sprinkling a lot of silver, whether it is grain, firewood, or coal from the central Luzhong region, and it is no longer a big problem to survive this cold winter.

The setting of Kenley Island and fishing spots is also starting to get on track.

Xu Changqing finally had room and began to plan for the land.

The eunuch army sent down by Wang Chengen had arrived in Zhanhua County at this time, and this eunuch was none other than the great eunuch surnamed Li who had led Xu Changqing into the palace and had been serving Emperor Chongzhen.

It can also be seen from this that Emperor Chongzhen's attention to Xu Changqing was released, and the big eunuchs around him were released.

However, Xu Changqing didn't rush to find him, but just wrote him a letter and asked him to help deal with some suspicious official affairs.

For example, the Iron Gate Pass and the Fengguo Town area were all turned into military tuns.

Those who don't want to join the military tun can only leave, after all, this is already Xu Changqing's rule of law.

Of course, although Xu Changqing did not come in person, the benefits had already been sent to this Gonggong Li.

The fifth day of the lunar month.

After arranging the camp defense, Xu Changqing took a fast boat, took Zhao Zengjin, Mao Tiehammer and dozens of personal soldiers, went south along the coast, and quietly came to the territory of Qingzhou Mansion.

At this time, Xu Changqing is going to pay a good visit to King Heng, the head snake of the earth.

According to the custom of the dynasty, it is strictly forbidden for the vassal king to have intercourse with the magistrate, and it must be a serious crime to find out!

Therefore, Xu Changqing did not wear an official robe, but changed to the outfit of a wealthy businessman, and Zhao Zengjin and them were the same, dressed as a fierce thug.

After getting off the boat, he rode his horse into the territory of Qingzhou, and the environment soon became different.

Not only is the surrounding terrain flat and there are many fields, but also, everywhere you look, the quality of these fields is very good, far higher than the fields that Xu Changqing saw in the Tiemenguan area.

When entering the territory of Shouguang, many fields made Xu Changqing drool.

These fields are really wonderful, flat and fertile, and the water is extremely abundant, and the slightly blackened color is intoxicating, no wonder it is the hometown of vegetables in later generations.

Moreover, although it is the depths of winter, it can still be seen that these fields are well cared for, and as long as it is not a catastrophe next year, it is certain that the harvest will be abundant.

There are fireworks everywhere in the village, even if the people's clothes are not very good, but they are very stable, and Liaodi, Jizhen, including many places Xu Changqing passed along the road, it is completely different!

But ~, this is still under the rule of King Heng's ultra-high rent......

One can imagine what the effect will be once the shackles of these people are liberated!

The tenth day of the lunar month.

Xu Changqing and his entourage arrived in Qingzhou smoothly.

The main reason is that Xu Changqing deliberately slowed down and kept checking the surrounding terrain and landforms, otherwise, he would be able to arrive in three days.

As for the fields near Qingzhou, Xu Changqing was already powerless to vomit.

The descendants of the Zhu family really swallowed the essence of the Ming Dynasty to the point that there was not even a bit of scum left.

Not to mention the hypothesis, if Emperor Chongzhen can give Qingzhou to Xu Changqing, with the power of Qingzhou alone, Xu Changqing dares to directly harden the main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty!

Unfortunately, this is clearly unrealistic, at least at this stage.

With the identities of Xu Changqing and Hengwang Zhu Youdi, it is definitely impossible to meet directly.

However, at this time, the high-pressure situation of the imperial court towards the vassal king has eased a lot, such as Zhu Youdi, the king of Heng, in addition to not being able to leave Qingzhou City, in this water, he is a big catfish, a king-level figure.

When Xu Changqing came, he had already paved the way in advance, and Zhu Youdi was also very interested in Xu Changqing, and it was not difficult to meet.

On the evening of the same day, Xu Changqing set up the most luxurious courtyard in the famous Taibai Restaurant in Qingzhou and quietly waited for Zhu Youdi's arrival.

It's not that Xu Changqing has to be wronged, there is a box and he has to set a courtyard, but it is really Hengwang's Mansion who replied, their prince is different from ordinary people, and he can't go upstairs at all......

Xu Changqing was also a little speechless about this.

What the hell is this, what kind of people does the old Zhu family raise......

While waiting, the sky had begun to darken, and Xu Changqing was bored drinking tea, while carefully thinking about how to communicate with this prince later.

At this time, Zhao Zengjin, who was on duty outside the hospital, walked over quickly, leaned against Xu Changqing's ear with a grim face, and whispered a few words in a low voice.

Xu Changqing's brows suddenly frowned!

looked at Zhao Zengjin's eyes: "Sure?" ”

Zhao Zengjin hurriedly said in a respectful and low voice: "There shouldn't be a mistake, Master Zhang, they have been staring over there for more than half a month, and the horse harrier's nest is in Liujiabao, twenty miles away from Zhanhua County!" ”

Xu Changqing nodded slowly!

No wonder, no wonder this horse harrier can gather four or five thousand people to scold him Xu Changqing with a stroke of his hand!

This is a hell of a whitewash!

And the horse harriers are like this, you can imagine, what scale should the ghost Hades be?

Just as he was thinking about it, there was a sudden noise outside, and the title of 'prince' faintly came.

Xu Changqing and Zhao Zengjin glanced at each other, Zhao Zengjin knew himself, and was busy following behind Xu Changqing and walking out quickly.