At dawn, when the sky was just dawning and the wind by the river was still very cold, the people lying by the half-broken campfire heard the sound of small footsteps. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Fang sat up suddenly, and after a long period of training, he immediately woke up, and his hand immediately touched his waist...... There's a short stalk with a medicine on it.

"Don't panic." Chen Badger also sat up, his eyes were only foggy for a moment, and he quickly became clear again.

"Is it your own person?"

"Of course, silly boy." Chen Badger smiled: "We have posts on the periphery, and we can know how to sleep with our heads covered just like you." ”

Li Fang's face was blushing, thinking about it, he was too relaxed, although he was with Chen Badger and them, he should also arrange a rotating sentry, otherwise, a few Jianyu armor soldiers came over in the middle of the night, aren't these dozens of people all inexplicably explained?

"You definitely didn't bring out your armor." Chen Badger handed Li Fang a collar chain mail, this is obviously a product of Hutchison, not the Jurchen or Ming side of the captured in Liaodong, the workmanship is quite exquisite, the size of the ring is the same and the diameter is equal, it is not too heavy to carry in the hand, but it seems quite thick, in terms of protection, the least knife slash and arrow shot can offset most of the damage, as for the close-range stabbing and heavy weapon slashing, of course, it can't be prevented, but as far as the defense of the chain mail is concerned, the collar armor in front of you has done its best.

"Put it on." Chen Badger stood up, not far away, there were five or six people driving horses and plows had galloped over, Chen Badger said to Li Fang: "We still have to go to the north, there is our sentry post, and you are different, you put on armor, always be on guard, and enter our core defense area after walking for three days, then it will not be in the way." In the evening you arrange for men to take turns and sharpen some sticks for them and treat them as new recruits...... Liao men under the age of 40, as long as they are not disabled, will definitely enlist in the army when they arrive in our camp, or at least they must be peasant soldiers. ”

"Yes, I see." Li Fang's expression was solemn, he himself is a Liao people, now the fugitive Liao people, to the Xuanchuan Tieshan area is to be a tun people, to Dongjiang Town farming, hunting, peeling, ginseng, pearl diving, the other is to do miscellaneous, Dongjiang Town has been licensed to do business, the trade route is from the Phi Island as the core, summarize the local products of the Dongjiang territory, plus the trade goods from North Korea, transported to Denglai and Tianjin ashore, the profit is not small, hundreds of thousands of taels a year can definitely be earned, hundreds of thousands of Liao people in the town have their own errands, starvation is a normal thing, The territory controlled by the 12th regiment is not small, there are qualified men who are first added to the peasant soldiers, and then picked out as a soldier, and then qualified as a soldier, a series of processes down anyway to slowly expand the army in Liaodong, the 12th regiment is not in a hurry, strategically it will play a role when the 12th regiment will play a role when the Liaodong counteroffensive is in place, tactically speaking, the military division is now facing financial difficulties, the 12th regiment will consume a lot of materials and money in Kuandian, in terms of the subjectivity of the merchant soldiers, the military division will try to reduce the burden of the military division even if it is rich, Tuntian is the first step, the soldiers generally do not bear any farm work, but when opening up the base, they have to dispatch it, and in peacetime it is mainly to sentry and establish a defensive circle, at most it is to go out to hunt and collect ginseng, Tuntian is mainly done by the peasants and soldiers of the Liaomin, and the system is also based on the three-level form of peasants, soldiers, and soldiers, and slowly replenishes the manpower of the soldiers and soldiers.

Wen Zhongfa and they have a bit of a headache is that there is also a military recruitment bureau of the military and political department on Phi Dao, once the number of soldiers is enough, the conscription bureau will transfer warships to transport people away, either to Taiwan, or to Tianjin...... A few years ago, the insurance industry was launched, and a large number of soldiers were needed to protect the convoy from Beijing to Jiangnan, and as a result, two companies of recruits were trained here, and they were transported to the mainland by the conscription bureau before they could cover the heat.

The number of peasant soldiers is growing slowly, but the number is still very short, and the Kuandian Mountains once housed 60,000 or 70,000 Han people to cultivate here, and now the population controlled by the 12th Regiment is less than 6,000 people, and the potential is quite huge.

Of course, Wen Zhongfa also has the ambition to make a career here, people, always the most scarce resource, compared to Dongjiang Town's perspective of treating fugitives as a burden, and Yusheng's side is relatively rich in financial resources, on the contrary, it regards manpower as a valuable asset.

"Gone." The plough soon arrived, and six horses led six people rushed to the plow, and there was still snow in the depths of the mountains, and there were obvious traces of ice and snow on the plow.

Dozens of people moved the wood to the climbing plow, tied it firmly, Chen Badger nodded to Li Fang, and more than a dozen people pushed and pulled, and together with the six horses, they pulled the big wood and flew away.

"Is there something wrong with this and Yusheng's brains?" A Liaodong man with a short beard said: "There is wood everywhere here, why do they drag one away?" ”

"Presumably this one is bigger?" A leopard-eyed man guessed.

"What's the big deal?" A yellow-faced man said: "Such a big wood, the mountains are everywhere, not to mention Kuandian here, even we are full of mountains and passes." ”

"I don't understand." The short-bearded man shook his head and said, "Let's not do this kind of drudgery, I can't stand cutting wood everywhere in the ice and snow, and I have to transport the wood back from the glacier." ”

"I guess it's not our turn to do this job." The leopard-eyed man said: "I didn't see that the previous few were all their soldiers, we heard in the past that they were also farming, either burning charcoal to feed horses, raising cattle and feeding chickens, and catching chickens, anyway, there is work to do." You can also learn carpentry and blacksmithing, you can. ”

"If the artisan household is killed and doesn't do it, we were originally a military household, and if we ran out to be a craftsman, it wasn't a loss."

"What do you want?" The leopard-eyed man glared and said: "I heard that little brother Li said, the craftsmen here are very popular, and they get more than twice as much silver as the farmers, but what kind of assessment you have to do, you have to be clever and learn quickly to be an apprentice, and it's really uncertain who of us is qualified." ”

"Then I don't want to do this errand." The short-bearded man said: "It's better to farm all the time." ”

At this time, Li Fang came over, gathered everyone together, and said: "There are still three days away from the core control area of the 12th Regiment of our merchant regiment, the premise is to walk forty miles a day, if you can't walk the distance, you have to walk for five or six days, our food is quite limited, and now the beasts are also very difficult to fight, there are no wild vegetables and wild fruits, if anyone can't go fast, the whole team will be dragged down, no one is allowed to stay, and the one who falls behind will follow slowly, and the life of the whole team cannot be delayed because of one or two people, if anyone resists, I will enforce military discipline and kill him with my own hands." ”

Everyone was a little awe-inspiring, but there was no response for a while, only a few bachelors agreed to come down.

Li Fang said again: "Men try to help women and children as much as possible, and they should be able to walk down forty miles a day, and they should remember one, just like just crossing a river, if they can't go down, they will die." ”

Everyone agreed to come down, and everyone simply cleaned up, and there were more than a dozen men in more than forty people, fifty or six old people in their sixties, and the rest were women and children.

Fortunately, these people have gone through a lot of hardships and run to Kuandian's side, those who are not physically strong, have not strong will, and have long been eliminated, and at this time, they are only a few days away from being completely out of suffering, everyone encourages each other, men support the elderly, women hold children, and the crowd begins to walk along the river beach towards the majestic mountains.

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"Doctor Huang, I've arrived at Phi Dao."

Feeling a shock to the hull of the ship, Huang Yucheng suddenly woke up from his sleep.

Recently, due to the increasing number of Dutch warships, the Dutch first withdrew from Penghu, and then the heavy ships gathered in the sea around the Dayuan, and there has been frequent friction with the Hutchison fleet. In addition, the newly launched Datongwei also operated in the vicinity of Zhejiang, and most of the Hutchison sailors in the waters around Fujian were left behind merchant ships and did not engage in naval battles with the Dutch in the near future.

In this case, the benefits received by the Ping An are also declining sharply. Although the peace has been received for half a year, the merchant ships from the south of Fujian and Zhejiang to the north are used to it, but the people who run the sea are like this, whether it is Europe or China, the sea is to fight with their heads, and the shipowner and the sailor are facing the same threat of plague and shipwreck, since the sea is of course to maximize the benefits, when Hutchison is strong, thousands of taels of peace can only grit their teeth to buy, and Hutchison is now squeezed by the Dutch to retreat, Of course, the shipowners will also re-weigh whether Hutchison's strength is enough to master the route from Fujian and Zhejiang to Japan and the South Seas...... Many ships were able to hide, and the Fujian ships that could not hide were even cooperating with the Dutch, hoping to break through Hutchison's blockade line at a relatively small cost and run to Japan on their own to trade.

Piracy is on the rise everywhere, and without strong suppression, the desires of the human heart are the most difficult to be satisfied......

Huang Yucheng and others got down from the hammock, the ship is also built in a typical Western way, the cabin is divided into several layers, the space of the ship is quite narrow, and people can only sleep in this kind of rickety hammock in the low space where they cannot straighten their waists...... I also have to admire these sailors in Europe, drinking rancid water and eating food without vitamins, more than half of the people who arrived in the Americas or Asia got sepsis, and almost all their teeth fell out, because they would not sprout beans on the ship, and the sleeping place was also this kind of place worse than the pigsty, but it was these guys who sailed the sea, crisscrossed the sea, and in the fifteenth century they used small boats to trade in the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea, and in the sixteenth century they began global trade, and by the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, there was almost no land that they had not stepped on. The people of Hutchison also gradually got used to sleeping in such beds, saving more space for ammunition, artillery and ballast, and when they walked out of the cabin, breathed in the fresh air, and thought that their feet were about to set foot on real land, everyone felt tired and refreshed.