Dongjiang Town only had more than 1,000 soldiers left on the books of the imperial court, and it had long lost the glory of the Mao Wenlong era.

The salary of the imperial court is embarrassing to maintain the status quo of the military towns, and the reconstruction of Dongjiang Town has not yet waited until the Year of the Monkey, so few people care whether the chief military officer of Dongjiang Town, who has only more than 1,000 people left, is on sick leave to do private work.

At this time, no one will transfer the people of Dongjiang Town to the task, because more than 1,000 people stationed on several islands are powerless, how can there be people and horses, and the chief military officer is not in Dongjiang Town, as long as the governor of Denglai, who is in charge of his true colors, does not report the situation, I am afraid that no one cares about it.

Huang Sheng stayed in Dongjiang Town and had 4,000 regular soldiers and auxiliaries, and he could only receive a seven-fold discount on the military salary and true colors of more than 1,000 people in the imperial court.

Huang Shengdai Ming stationed on the islands of Dongjiang Town, and the annual cost of military salaries, equipment, grain and grass had to be subsidized to more than 100,000 taels of snowflake silver.

Huang Sheng led everyone to pay tribute to the martyrs at the Shuangding Mountain Martyrs' Shrine, and awarded medals to the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to the "Jinzhou Great Victory" under the gaze of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians under the solemn ceremony.

There were too many warriors wearing gold, silver, and bronze medals on their chests in the Huang family, and these people undoubtedly became the most popular people in the Huang family, and the school often invited them to tell battle stories.

After listening to the hero's report, the students wondered how many children were determined to join the army and strive to become combat heroes who defended their families and the country when they grew up.

The hero's sense of honor made every soldier rush to emulate, and everyone longed for a medal to prove their exploits. The vigorous development of the Huang family system is concentric, and no one is afraid to go to the battlefield.

The common people don't mind breaking new ground at all, and soon thousands of Han Chinese will cross the ocean to follow their family heads to seize Sumatra.

Hexiang took her son to Hainan Island with her master, and she will continue to serve as the secretary general and follow the army to Malacca to grab territory.

The management of logistics on Huangjiawan Island was handed over to Zhen Li, Le'er and Li Juan.

There are many Huang family horses in Zhongming Fort, and there are Huang family warriors stationed on the island of Dongjiang Town, and there is no need to leave too many regular soldiers to garrison Huangjiawan Island, there are tens of thousands of Han people who carry weapons and advocate force, and Huang Sheng just left a total of people.

At the beginning of November, the naval formation and merchant ships went south, Huang Sheng still took the flagship "Huaxia Duke", and Zhao Shimin's newly built "Huaxia Junwang" was larger and more powerful, and it was already in the trial stage, and it would definitely be able to catch up with the naval battle in Malacca.

The southward fleet had a smooth journey, and seven days later came to Haizhou Port in Huai'an Prefecture, which was the Lianyungang of the later generations, and was directly under the jurisdiction of Nanzhili in Daming.

In order to avoid too much irritation of the imperial court, Huang Sheng did not fully control Haizhou, but only purchased a large area of land around the port through redemption, and now it has been in operation for five or six years, and Haizhou Port has formed a city without walls.

The prosperity of Haizhou Port has surpassed that of Haizhou City, the Huang family has hired too many people to work in the port area, and many large warehouses have been built here, and the grain depot built has nearly 200 cylindrical granaries, which can store about 1.5 million stones of grain.

The geographical location of Haizhou Port is quite important, and the ships going south and north all take this as a major supply place, which also forms a cargo distribution center in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Haizhou Port does not have a tall city wall, there is a heavily guarded private storage area of the Huang family, and the dock workers are all village warriors, with a full 3,000 people, who work at the dock and have a stable income enough to support the family, so the sense of identity with the Huang family is comparable to that of the people in the system.

More than 10,000 dock workers live and work in Haizhou, and of course most of these job opportunities come from the Huang family's investment.

There are more than 1,000 managers of the Huang family system working in Haizhou, some of them are staff members of the Haizhou branch of "Huaxia Daqian Village", some are engineering and technical personnel, some are factory managers and post office workers, and there are also Bao, Jia, Li, and Pavilion Chiefs.

There are not many Huangjia tuntian fields in Haizhou, only 100,000 mu, and there are more than 3,000 tun households.

Haizhou Port has no city walls and is not afraid of who will attack, when it is really attacked, the staff of the Huang family and the Xiangyong armed forces can immediately make up six or seven thousand, and there will be thirty percent of smoothbore gunners and more than eight hundred rifled gunners.

The buildings of the entire port area are radially expanded around the port warehouse. It was easier for the townsmen to defend the place, relying on the brick walls of the houses, and the enemy would suffer heavy losses from the cavalry under the musket fire.

The top officer in charge of defense here was Zhu Rongguo, an instructor who had trained the first coachmen with Huang Sheng for more than nine years, and his loyalty was impeccable and his ability was remarkable.

About 100,000 refugees from Henan have gathered in Haizhou, and they have just been withdrawn from the construction site of the official road from Haizhou to Xuzhou.

Not far from the reservoir area, there is a specially built refugee camp with accommodation for refugees in the form of two-story bunks.

Each room can accommodate 80 people without feeling cramped, of course there will be a heated honeycomb coal stove, everyone is not allowed to drink raw water, everyone has their own cup and towels issued by the Huang family.

Ma Yue, chief officer of the Henan Military Intelligence Department, specially rushed to Haizhou Port to report on the development of Guide Mansion in the past six months.

He, Xu Sijiu, and Sun Zhenhuai rushed to Suizhou with 50 people accompanied by Gao Jian at the end of May. Gao Zhiyong was overjoyed and immediately felt that he had a backbone.

At this time, it was a time when the green and yellow were scarce, the entire Central Plains was starving, and too many state capitals were closed and helpless, and Gao Zhiyong was the same.

The autumn grain was not yet ripe, and because of the severe drought, even the harvest was not enough for the people to survive, and at this time the land was full of refugees in need of help, and the government was simply unable to take on the responsibilities because they did not have enough food in their hands.

Xu Sijiu started work that day, and the first thing he did was to set up a porridge factory to provide the refugees with two meals a day, each with a bowl of sticky porridge and a cooking cake, although not enough to feed the refugees, but also to make most people feel full.

This is entirely because of the unconditional trust of Gao Zhiyong, the Lord of Zhizhou, Huang Sheng, the Huang family's grain has not yet arrived, and he relied on his courage to lend the grain from the official warehouse to Xu Sijiu for porridge.

If the Huang family can't transport grain, the entire Suizhou army and civilians, and officials will be unable to hold the city because there is no grain in stock, and if the officials abandon the city and go to flee the famine, Gao Zhiyong should be cut by the imperial court.

The news of the porridge release in Suizhou soon spread, and more displaced people gathered in the two counties of Suizhou.