440 Haizhou Port, more roads

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"How's your navy preparing? Can you go on the expedition? ”

At this time, Li Zixiao looked at Lu Yuan and Hong Sheng with a smile and asked.

As soon as Li Zixiao asked this, Lu Yuan and Hong Sheng confirmed the speculation in their hearts that Li Zixiao was going to seize this Tamna Island.

"General, all the officers and men of our navy have been waiting impatiently for a long time, so please ask the general to give an order!" Lu Yuan and Hong Sheng knelt down on one knee excitedly and asked for battle.

"Okay, since you have all guessed, then I will order the two of you, from now on, lead the naval army to attack Tamna Island and take Tamna Island to the general.

Even if there are people on Tamna Island at this time, there will not be too many, and North Korea does not have much power to manage this island.

It will not be difficult for you to take Tamna Island, but I ask that you do not let anyone leave the island, and do not spread the news that we occupy Tamna Island.

Do you understand? Li Zixiao put forward his request to Lu Yuan and the others.

"Yes, General, I will live up to the General's expectations."

"Okay, I'm waiting for your good news in Xuzhou."

Li Zixiao then left the Hongze Lake Naval Army Camp, with the strength of the White Dragon Army's naval army, it was basically not much difficulty to take Tamna Island at this time.

He explained this matter to Lu Yuan and Hong Sheng, believing that they could do it well, if they couldn't even do such a simple thing.

Li Zixiao really didn't dare to continue to hand over the navy to the two of them, and at the same time, Lu Yuan and Hong Sheng were also eager to establish meritorious deeds and increase the status of the navy in Li Zixiao's heart.

Every time I saw the generals of the White Dragon Army, one by one following Li Zixiao to make meritorious contributions to kill the enemy, and getting Li Zixiao's reuse, Lu Yuan and Hong Sheng both saw it in their eyes and were anxious in their hearts.

As for this time, whether Tamna Island belongs to the Ming Dynasty or North Korea, it doesn't matter at all in their eyes, they only listen to Li Zixiao.

After Li Zixiao left the naval camp at Hongze Lake, he did not go to Yangzhou, but went to inspect the Qingjiang Shipyard.

This time he came to Qingjiang Shipyard again, and what he saw was no longer the bleak and desolate scene last time, but a busy scene in full swing.

I have to say that Li Yan successfully transformed the Qingjiang Shipyard and re-injected firepower into the Qingjiang Shipyard.

In fact, Li Yan's method of transforming the Qingjiang Shipyard was very simple and rude.

He relied on Li Zixiao's support, took Li Zixiao's warrant, and withdrew a large amount of silver from Old Master Wei, 'Li Zixiao's money bag'.

With silver, it is easy to do, Li Yan first restructured the Qingjiang Shipyard, formulated a new management system and salary and reward system, and the new system made the craftsmen of the shipyard see hope.

Subsequently, Li Yan spent a huge amount of money to renovate and renovate the Qingjiang Shipyard, eliminate the old equipment, dredge the shipyard, and then 'dig the corner' to other shipyards in Daming.

He used Li Zixiao's name to spend a lot of silver to dig up a group of top shipbuilders from several other government-owned and even private shipyards in the Ming Dynasty.

The arrival of these top shipbuilders has made up for the loss of top shipbuilders in Qingjiang Shipyard and brought about the loss of technology.

These 'digging' top shipbuilders all have the experience and craftsmanship to build large seagoing ships.

This solves the dilemma that Qingjiang Shipyard cannot manufacture large sea ships, and injects new vitality into Qingjiang Shipyard.

In the end, Li Yanji needs to get orders for the shipyard, so that the shipyard can officially start construction, so that the shipyard can manufacture its own benefits and enter a virtuous circle.

At this point, it's even simpler.

Li Zixiao's navy was short of warships at this time, and the Li family's fleet, which was being prepared by Zhou Qing, was also lacking that kind of large sea ships at this time.

Therefore, in the next few years, Qingjiang Shipyard will not worry about no orders, and for every ship built, the craftsmen in charge will have a commission.

This greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the craftsmen, and in this way, Li Yan only took four months to let a large abandoned shipyard restore firepower and officially start construction.

Subsequently, Li Zixiao went to Haizhou, Huai'an Prefecture, which later became Lianyungang, because a seaport was being built here.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, because the Yellow River had not been diverted and entered the Yellow Sea through Jiangbei, a large amount of sediment brought by the Yellow River and silted up the coast of Jiangbei made it difficult to have a suitable place to be a seaport.

If you look at the map of later generations, you will find that the coastal areas of Jiangsu in later generations expanded a large area of land to the east than in the late Ming Dynasty.

Especially at the entrance of the ancient Yellow River, there is a large alluvial plain, so don't look at Li Zixiao occupying such a large area of territory in Jiangbei.

However, he was very embarrassed to find that he couldn't find a few places suitable for building a seaport, Yangzhou was counted as one, and the vicinity of the entrance of the Yangtze River at this time was not at all the appearance of later generations.

Li Zixiao is sending people to investigate to see if it can be suitable for building a port, and in the entire Jiangbei coast, the only one Li Zixiao has found a suitable one to build a seaport is Haizhou.

In fact, at this time in the late Ming Dynasty, Shandong, Liaodong coastal and southeast coastal borders, as well as Guangzhou, were the most suitable areas for the construction of seaports.

For example, at this time, the famous Dengzhou in Shandong is one of the excellent seaports, and Li Zixiao has been coveting it for a long time.

However, each of these four territories that was in the hands of Li Zixiao at this time, and even the land of Liaodong had fallen into the hands of the Tartars.

It's just that fortunately, the Tartars are land tigers, and the Tartars are even more desirable in field battles, but they can't go to the sea.

If the Tartars want to develop a naval army, you have to ask the savage Tartars who have just escaped from the deep mountains and old forests, do they have the skills to build ships?

Shipbuilding technology is a technical work, which is passed down from generation to generation, and it is not something that can be learned by fighting wild beasts in the deep mountains and old forests.

If it weren't for the fact that at this time, he didn't have any name, and he could lead troops into Shandong and actually control Jiangbei, he would already be ugly.

If he waved his army north and occupied Shandong, it is estimated that Chongzhen would directly issue an edict and beat him as a rebel.

At this time, the time was not yet right, and Li Zixiao could only wait patiently first.

Once Li Zicheng broke through the capital and the Ming Dynasty died, Li Zixiao would pass through Shandong in the name of King Qin, and occupy Shandong easily.

When Lao Zixiao arrived in Haizhou, the construction of the harbor here was in full swing.

A young official who was sent by Qian Guangyuan to be in charge of the construction of Haizhou Port ran over with an excited and nervous face when he saw Li Zixiao coming.

"Xiaguan Haizhou supervised Liu Jingfa and visited the general, but he didn't know that the general arrived, and he couldn't go out to greet him, and he hoped that the general would atone for his sins."

The young official saluted respectfully to Li Zixiao.

"It's okay, get up. I also came quietly, without notifying the Haizhou Prefecture Government, and went directly to you, tell me about your situation here. ”

Li Zixiao waved his hand casually and asked.

"Yes, General, since two months ago, the teacher sent me to Haizhou to take charge of the construction of Haizhou Port.

So far, with the great assistance of Lord Tan, the governor of Haizhou, we have recruited more than 20,000 migrant workers and have completed the construction of most of the seaports.

According to the current progress, as long as we are given another half a month, the seaport will be fully completed, and it will be ready for use at that time. ”

This young official named Liu Jingfa was a student of Qian Guangyuan, and at this time he carefully introduced the construction progress of Haizhou Port to Li Zixiao.

"Well, the progress is okay, let these migrant workers work again when they are full, three meals a day, and their wages must be paid on time."

Li Zixiao walked in the port, inspected the migrant workers who were working, and admonished Liu Jingfa, who was following Li Zixiao.

Anyway, at this time, what Li Zixiao has in his hands is grain, of course, most of them are sweet potatoes, and they can't be dried and moldy in the cellar!

Three meals were provided to these migrant workers, most of whom were poor peasants, who came to work for three meals a day, so as to reduce the burden on their families.

can also get a meager salary, subsidize the family, and the people are all active, so the migrant workers recruited for the construction of Haizhou Port only took a few days.

There was no appearance at all, as in the past, when the imperial court recruited young and strong men to serve in labor, the young and strong men in every household were all grinding, and they were unwilling to work until the government brought people to the door to urge.

Sometimes, when the imperial court organizes the construction of an official road or water conservancy, it can take half a month, or even a month, to recruit enough migrant workers.

I had to let the officials lead the officers and soldiers to urge them from house to house, and in the end they had to come out.

"Yes, the general can rest assured that the migrant workers will not be allowed to work on an empty stomach with three meals a day, and they will also like corn porridge or sweet potato porridge in the morning.

For lunch, we usually don't cook dinner, and most of the migrant workers choose to take the sweet potatoes home with their wives and children.

Those migrant workers all thought of the general's goodness, and it was the first time they had seen such a general who was so considerate of the people. ”

Listening to Liu Jingfa's words, Li Zixiao was actually quite ashamed in his heart, such a meal would be put in the future generations, and it is estimated that no one will eat it.

But in this era, in the eyes of those poor peasants, it is a very generous treatment.

Li Zixiao had a lot of money and food in his hand at this time.

Just now, Li Zixiao also got more than two million taels of silver from Li Zicheng's hands, but in the same way, Li Zixiao's subordinates have to spend money at this time.

He had to be careful with his calculations, but he still followed his bottom line, did not conscript these peasants for free labor, and provided them with at least three meals a day and a meager salary.

The Chinese people in this era are more kind, and Li Zixiao just provides such a stumbling treatment, which is enough, but in the eyes of the people, he is still grateful to Dade.

"See the general, Xiaguan Tan Yuan just received a report from his subordinates, saying that the general came to the harbor construction site, so he hurried here."

A middle-aged official, who also arrived in a hurry at this time, met Li Zixiao and said, at this time, it was Tan Yuan, the governor of Haizhou.

In Li Zixiao's memory, Tan Yuan was an official of the old imperial court, and when he first entered Huai'an, he basically didn't make a big change in Huai'an.

In addition to the dismissal of a few local officials with a particularly bad reputation, basically two-thirds of the officials in Huai'an at this time were still the officials appointed by the imperial court.

Tan Yuan is still relatively capable, and he is also very knowledgeable about current affairs, and he also actively cooperated with Li Zixiao to build a seaport in Haizhou.

You must know that Liu Jingfa was able to recruit enough migrant workers in Haizhou so smoothly and build Haizhou Port smoothly and quickly, which is absolutely inseparable from Tan Yuan's assistance.

"Master Tan, I came by Lianhe River before, and after getting off the boat from Xinba, I went to your Haizhou this section, but it was not very easy to walk!

That official road hasn't been repaired for some years, don't you plan to rebuild it in Haizhou Yamen? ”

Li Zixiao didn't go to see Tan Yuan, but found a location with high terrain to watch the situation of the entire Haizhou Port.

But Li Zixiao's words made Tan Yuan, who was already very nervous, even more frightened.

Tan Yuan is not a descendant official under Li Zixiao, and he doesn't know much about Li Zixiao's temperament, but everyone knows that Li Zixiao is a shrewd and strong general who is not easy to fool.

Moreover, Tan Yuan continued to be able to continue to sit in the position of Haizhou Zhizhou, which means that he was on the right side at the beginning and recognized the fact that Li Zixiao actually controlled Huai'an.

If it weren't for the fact that he had turned into an ordinary second-rank general of the imperial court, Tan Yuan would not have been so respectful and had the posture of a subordinate.

Because, under normal circumstances, Li Zixiao, as a general of the Ming Dynasty, belongs to the military attaché, and is not qualified to take care of the affairs of these civilian officials at all.

But Li Zixiao is different, at this time, Tan Yuan wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, and thought in his heart, how to answer Li Zixiao's question, this is related to his official career in the future!

At this time, Tan Yuan didn't dare to die, you Li Zixiao is a military general of the imperial court, why do you care about my Haizhou civil affairs, it is completely death, Tan Yuan will not be so stupid.

"General, it's not that the lower officials don't want to repair, but there is no money in the state office!" Tan Yuan thought about it for a long time, and he could only use the method of crying poor.

It's just that Tan Yuan is also right, his state government is indeed out of money.

After Li Zixiao became the ruler of Huai'an, why he was able to gain the support of all farmers, on the one hand, was that the 'land reform' policy was too in line with the minds of the people of the Ming Dynasty at this time.

On the other hand, Li Zixiao also canceled all the harsh taxes imposed on the peasants by the Ming Dynasty in the past, and it is no wonder that the people did not support him.

But in this way, the largest tax collection in various states and counties is equivalent to disappearing.

In order to take over Huai'an peacefully, Li Zixiao promised to implement the 'commercial tax' in Huai'an for half a year, giving local businessmen a time to prepare.

But in fact, Li Zixiao's subordinates have limited manpower, and they have to eat the rice in one bite, and it is impossible for any policy to be rolled out at once.

In accordance with the orders given by Li Zixiao to the civil affairs chiefs of various prefectures and counties, the taxes just collected by Haizhou also purchased sweet potatoes from the people, purchased ploughing cattle and farm tools, and rented them to the people.

At this time, Tan Yuan really had no money in his hands, and unless he applied for silver from Li Zixiao, he had no money to build roads at all.

Moreover, Li Zixiao expressly forbade it at this time, and officials from all over the country were not allowed to conscript the people to serve in labor at will, increasing the burden on the people.

Then it means that if Tan Yuan doesn't have any money in his hand, he won't be able to do much now.

Li Zixiao's order is actually a disguised division of power among civil affairs officials in various places, and the officials in charge of money and silver in various prefectures and counties have all their strength in disguise.

(End of chapter)