A ps: There is something going on in my hometown, I drove back to my hometown from the unit in the afternoon, the journey was rushing, I was physically and mentally exhausted, and I barely coded a chapter, so much for today. I'm sorry!

Since these businessmen were so uninteresting, Chen Yue was no longer polite to them. The right battalion of the Iron Lion, which was left behind, stuck the canal and intercepted a passing merchant ship in the name of strictly investigating the intruders and spies. With the iron lion's hateful attitude towards the gentry and wealthy businessmen, I believe that these people will be stripped of more than a layer of skin.

As for Chen Yue himself, he took Yang Zhengping's left battalion to Dagukou, where he wanted to check the sailors of the Haiphong battalion to see how the sea ships left by Feng Yuanyang were, and decided to firmly control these sea ships in his own hands, and Yang Zhengping's left camp was responsible for controlling the sea ships.

Since he received Chongzhen's secret order, the rectification of sea ships should be the first responsibility, and Chen Yue must do everything under control.

From Tianjin Wei out of the east gate, to the east to a hundred miles, to reach the mouth of Dagu. Chen Yue himself called three official ships and took 200 guards down the Haihe River, and Yang Zhengping led more than 1,000 people from Zuoying to advance along the riverbank, and arrived at Dagu on the third day.

The water village of the Haiphong camp is on the south bank of the Haihe River, in memory, there is the famous Dagu Fort site here in later generations, at the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the imperialist powers attacked the Dagu mouth many times, and landed and invaded from here.

During the Jiajing period, in order to prevent the invasion of the Japanese invaders, a fort was also set up at the mouth of Dagu, on which more than ten large cannons were installed, and a coastal defense battalion was set up at the same time, which was responsible for guarding the mouth of the Haihe River as the first line of defense of the Gongwei Beijing Division.

However, with the elimination of the Japanese pirates, the coastal defense has become increasingly relaxed, the lack of maintenance of the artillery has been insufficient for a long time, and the soldiers of the coastal defense battalion have long been reduced to military households in Tuntian, and there is not much combat power.

Until the end of Wanli, with the rise of Jiannu in Liaodong, in order to prevent Jiannu from entering the Kou, the coastal defense battalion was re-established to be responsible for maritime defense tasks.

The official ship went down the river and soon arrived at the water village of the Haiphong camp, and the generals of the Haiphong camp had already heard the news and were waiting at the wharf of the water village.

Chen Yue, wearing the governor's red official robe, was the first to get off the official ship, and the generals of the coastal defense battalion knelt down to meet the new governor.

The commander of the coastal defense battalion was the guerrilla general Lu Tai, a middle-aged man in his forties, whose face was covered with wind and frost, and the wrinkles on his face were stacked one after another. This man was very honest, he didn't say a word, and he didn't know how he became a guerrilla, and he became the general of more than 2,000 coastal defense soldiers.

Behind Lu Tai were the two thousand generals of the coastal defense battalion, a dozen or so generals, the thousand generals were better, at least they wore leather armor, and the generals were wearing shabby military uniforms, and many of them had patches on their clothes, as for the soldiers of the coastal defense battalion in the distance, it was even more impossible to see, maybe only the spears in their hands could show their military identity.

More than 200 guards in bright armor followed Chen Yue and got off the official ship, the neat queue, the sound of footsteps in unison, and the murderous aura that they had experienced several bloody battles, deeply shocked these coastal defense battalion soldiers, not to mention the long spears and hundreds of crossbows and firearms, this is an army armed to the teeth.

Looking at other people's attire, and then looking at the shabby appearance on their bodies, many soldiers in the coastal defense battalion couldn't help but feel ashamed of themselves, and their bodies couldn't help but retreat.

At the same time, Yang Zhengping led the Zuo Battalion to Dagukou by land. Seeing that the new governor had brought so many troops, Lu Tai and the others couldn't help muttering in their hearts.

"General Lu, this official is here to check the situation of the sea vessels, Dagukou is the gateway to the Beijing division from the sea, it is impossible to ignore it, General Lu might as well take this official to check first, how about it?" Chen Yue said to Lu Tai.

"Of course you can, of course you can, Lord Zhongcheng, please!" Lu Taicheng bowed in fear and led the way.

"Brother Zhengping, you take the brothers to settle down first, so you don't have to go with me. By the way, General Lu, you have to send someone to lead me and set up a camp for these brothers I brought. Chen Yue said to Lu Tai.

"Lord Zhongcheng, you have also seen that this water village is small and narrow, and there are not so many vacant houses at all." Lu Tai said with a bitter face. There are only a few hundred houses in Dagu Koushui Village, and the soldiers of the 2,000 coastal defense battalion are just enough to live, where are the empty houses, is it possible to bring the soldiers to the governor's house and drive his brothers to live outside? Lu Tai couldn't do such a thing.

"You don't need a house, just a large open space, and they'll set up camp on their own." Chen Yue said with a smile.

"That's good, that's good," Lu Tai put his mind at ease, called out to his subordinates, and gave him an order, so that he could lead Yang Zhengping away.

"Lord Zhongcheng, how did you bring so many troops?" Lu Tai finally asked the doubts in his heart.

"Well...... Chen Yue pretended to hesitate for a while, "It's okay to tell you, you also know that now the thieves have risen up and occupied most of Henan, which seriously threatens the transportation of the south, and most of the grain and rice of the Beijing division depend on the south of the Yangtze River, and the canal transportation has been threatened, so the imperial court plans to open the sea and use sea ships to transport the grain and rice from the south of the Yangtze River to the Beijing Division." The Dagu mouth is the entrance of the Haihe River, and the sea ships can go directly to Tianjin Wei from here, which is really the best end point of sea transportation.

Since this is the end point of the sea ships, coastal defense should be the top priority, so this official was ordered by the imperial court to rebuild the coastal defense battalion, rest the forts, and build a large number of warships in the future, and strive to expand the scale of the coastal defense battalion to more than 10,000 people. ”

Chongzhen's plan to take the sea route from Tianjin to Nanjing naturally could not be leaked, so Chen Yue had no choice but to make up a lie at will.

"Ahh Lu Tai's mouth grew all of a sudden, and he couldn't close it for a long time. This is the first time he has heard of this kind of thing, if all the boats take the sea route, this Dagukou will definitely prosper rapidly, the coastal defense battalion will be expanded by five times, and his official position will be promoted again? Lu Tai's heart quickly calculated.

"General Lu, you are familiar with coastal defense things, and after the expansion of the coastal defense battalion, it is unknown whether you may be able to become a general and deputy general." Chen Yue's grinning words made Lu Tai's heart thump.

"Please also ask Lord Zhongcheng to cultivate!" Lu Tai's face was full of smiles, and he secretly thought in his heart, after he went back, he would take stock of the family's belongings and give the governor a generous profit, at his age, if he could rise to another level, I am afraid this is the best opportunity.

"It's easy to say, General Yang just now is the guerrilla of my standard battalion, and the battalion he brought will be incorporated into the coastal defense battalion, and in the days to come, General Lu, you have to give them more guidance, although they have killed countless Tartars, but for manipulating sea ships, they are completely amateurs." Chen Yue said.

"Lord Zhongcheng, rest assured, everything is wrapped up in the last general's body!" Lu Tai patted his chest and reassured.

It seems that General Yang is the confidant of the governor, maybe the position of the chief soldier of coastal defense will be his in the future, and he will take this opportunity to have a good relationship and strive to leave a good impression on his future boss. As for being the chief soldier of this new coastal defense battalion, Lu Tai didn't even dare to think about it, because it was absolutely impossible!