Chapter 336: Denglai
After the CMC's Shandong action plan was made, it was immediately submitted to the board of directors, and Gao Jianguo and Wang He organized a meeting to study the operational plan submitted by the CMC. After deliberation by the Board of Directors, the vote was supported by an overwhelming majority of members.
At present, many departments of the Far Eastern Company are facing a severe labor shortage. Although in the past year or so, Song Shiping from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Song has successively sent nearly 10,000 displaced people from the northwest, but the company's current employment needs can only be said to be a drop in the bucket.
This year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry began preparations for the large-scale development of the southern plain of Xingkai Lake and the establishment of large-scale farms and livestock pastures. In addition to Highway No. 1, there have also been large-scale construction projects such as Bac Ninh Iron and Steel Complex, Bac Ninh Coal Mine, Bac Ninh Thermal Power Plant, Sakhalin Petrochemical Base Expansion Project, Dongfang Port Iron Mine Expansion, and Bac Ninh Port Construction. In the future, there will be the development of the Shuangcheng sub-area, the construction of Port Arthur, and the large-scale development and construction of the Luzon area.
In addition to these two large employers, other departments must continue to expand after more than two years of development, which requires a large number of migrant workers to support. The two bottlenecks that the company once faced with large-scale immigration, because of sufficient food and enough management talents, after more than two years of development, these two bottlenecks no longer exist.
The company's agriculture and forestry department has developed a large area of cultivated land in the plains around Biquge www.biquge.info Town and Bac Ninh Town, and the grain output has doubled year after year. Every year, the Luzon Management Committee also buys large quantities of rice from Siam and other Southeast Asian countries and sends it to Vladivostok in a steady stream.
The grain reserves in the company's storage center are very sufficient, and the company attaches great importance to grain reserves since the last time there was a grain shortage. A large number of modern grain storage warehouses have been built in the storage center, which is enough to meet the food needs of large-scale migration in the future.
Various departments have accumulated a wealth of experience in the process of working through two large-scale migrations. After more than two years of hard work, a large number of industrial workers and management personnel have been trained. Large-scale migration for the future. A deep foundation has been laid.
After the final vote of the board of directors and management committee, the Shandong operational plan of the Central Military Commission won the support of the overwhelming majority of the members. But there are also demands on the Military Commission. The purpose of this operation should be to focus on immigrants and try not to have a large-scale conflict with the Ming army in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.
The Shandong battle plan has just been obtained. The various departments of the Military Commission immediately took action. All the troops participating in the battle were actively prepared, and a large amount of supplies were loaded onto Jeju Island and transported to Jeju Island.
Jeju Island will be used as a forward base, where the troops and supplies participating in the battle will be assembled. The Ethnic Affairs Committee will also deploy personnel to establish a large-scale resettlement transit base on Jeju Island to ensure the smooth progress of the resettlement work.
In order to prevent the Houjin from going south by sea, in the first year of the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse (1621), the governor of Shandong separated the governor of Denglai, and the two prefectures of Dengzhou and Laizhou were subordinate. The full name of the governor of Denglai is "Governor Denglai local zanli military affairs". Or called the governor of Shandong coastal defense, the number of the defense of the military gate, the rank of the four products, the governor of Shandong and the commander of military affairs, the general army of Dengzhou Town at that time returned to the governor of Denglai.
In principle, the jurisdiction of the governor of Denglai is mainly the two places of Dengzhou and Laizhou, but in fact, especially from the perspective of military defense, the coastal islands of Liaodong are also under the jurisdiction of the governor of Denglai. In the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), Ningyuan, an important place in eastern Liaodong, was lost, and Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, was defeated. The coastal islands of Liaodong under its jurisdiction belonged to the governor of Denglai. In the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627), the Qingzhou Mansion under the jurisdiction of the governor of Shandong was assigned to the governor of Denglai.
In a private house in Dengzhou Mansion, Zhou Weifan sat and drank with two stout sergeants wearing Ming army jackets. They are the three-person team sent to Dengzhou by the company's intelligence department. I've been here for a few months, and my work is relatively smooth.
The other two were Li Hu and Zhao Wei, both of whom had been veterans of Dongjiang Town before, and the old Yuan was taken in by the Far East when he was cut off. The company has long had a plan for Shandong, and in order to grasp the situation in Shandong, the Intelligence Department specially selected two people from among the soldiers in Dongjiang Town.
Li Hu and Zhao Wei have been in Dongjiang for many years, both of them are from the general background, and after they arrived in Dengzhou, they contacted old acquaintances in Dongjiang everywhere. The old slave occupied Liaoshen. There are many Liao people who fled to Denglai. After Mao Wenlong's death, many soldiers and ruffians in Dongjiang Town also crossed the sea and came here.
is also a Liao person, and it was an old acquaintance. Li Hu and Zhao Wei quickly hooked up with some of their colleagues back then. After using a lot of silver, the two of them also put on the robes of the Ming army. blended into Geng Zhongming's team.
"Lao Zhou, recently, our brothers and sisters have contacted a lot of colleagues back then, and now the Liao soldiers are all dissatisfied. Shandong locals often look for our stubble, we and Shandong soldiers have fought a few battles, but the board on the top of the down, all fell on the head of our Liaodong soldiers, really fucking breathless. ”
"But isn't it, now Lao Geng is on fire, if it weren't for the governor's pressure, it would have been chaotic a long time ago."
Zhou Weifan took a sip of wine and said lightly: "Just fan the flames, don't come out." Have you two inquired about Kong Youde? ”
Li Hu nodded and said: "It is said that Lao Kong is not going well, last year Liu Xingzhi of Phi Island led the Tartars to trouble the Dongjiang River, and Governor Sun ordered him to cross the sea to rescue, who would have thought that he had encountered a windy day, it is said that he lost a lot of people." ”
Zhou Weifan has always wondered in his heart, when the company sent him, he asserted that Denglai would be chaotic, and the source of the disaster was these Liao soldiers in Dongjiang Town. At first, he didn't believe it, but when he came, he realized that it was really like what the company said, and Denglai was afraid that it would be chaotic.
The company gave him the task of truthfully reporting the situation of Denglai to the company, and also intensifying the contradictions between the two sides as much as possible. Although Li Hu and Zhao Wei blended into Geng Zhongming's team, they were only a boss, and they couldn't even see Geng Zhongming's face, let alone create contradictions. Lao Geng didn't speak, and it was useless for the soldiers under him to make trouble.
Zhao Wei next to him seemed to remember something, and he said with a smile: "By the way, I heard that Lao Kong is going to take troops to Dengzhou recently, as if he is escorting something." I know a lot of his soldiers, so I'll talk to them when he comes. ”
Zhou Weifan nodded and said, "Well, you go and take a look, don't be afraid to spend money, and inquire about some more news." The days we have been here for a long time have not been short, not to mention an inch, and we have spent a lot of silver, even if the company does not say it, everyone's face is not good-looking. ”
A few days later, a group of cavalry escorted a group of baggage to the city of Dengzhou, led by a general, tall and mighty, with a fierce face. This person is Kong Youde, the general of Dengzhou.
Kong Youde, the word Ruitu. Originally from Shandong, he was born as a miner in Tieling, and served as a guerrilla in the Guangning Army. In the first year of the Apocalypse (1621), after the Later Jin occupied Liaoyang, he and his brother Kong Youxing, Geng Zhongming, Geng Zhongyu brothers, and Liu Aita (Liu Xingzuo), the chief military officer of the Fourth Guard of Later Jinnan, were secretly sent to Mao Wenlong of the Dongjiang River, and Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi was called "Shandong Three Mine Disciples".
There were already a few people waiting at the gate of Dengzhou, and when they saw Kong Youde's team coming, they immediately greeted them.
"Brother, I haven't seen you in a few days."
As soon as Kong Youde saw the person, he hurriedly got off the horse, walked a few steps and laughed: "Old Geng, I miss my brother to death." Ha ha...... Since calling Dengzhou, our brothers haven't seen each other a few times, and now a brother is the east, and our brothers are not drunk and don't return. ”
Geng Zhongming also laughed and said: "Brother, you scold me, how can you let my brother break the bank and leave...... Brothers are all arranged, just waiting for you to come. ”
They exchanged pleasantries, and the two of them walked into Dengzhou City with a group of Liao soldiers and generals.
In a restaurant in Dengzhou City, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were sitting around a sumptuous banquet with a group of Liao generals. The generals on the table include Li Jiucheng and Li Yingyuan father and son, Chen Guangfu, Wang Bingzhong, and Gao Chengyou, all of whom are old generals in Dongjiang Town.
They hadn't seen each other for many days, and they naturally chatted happily. Li Yingyuan, who was next to him, raised his head and drank all the wine in the wine glass, and complained angrily: "We used to live happily in Dongjiang, but now that we have arrived in Denglai, what kind of day is this day?" Damn, if we get in a hurry, we'll turn against the fuck. ”
Li Jiucheng made a blank face and reprimanded: "What kind of are you talking about, drink your bar." ”
Geng Zhongming next to him said with a smile: "Lao Li, they are all his own people, what he wants to say, let this kid say it." Are you happy, anyway, Lao Tzu is holding his breath. In their eyes, our Liao soldiers are raised by their stepmothers, and if Mao Shuai is here, we still need to suffer from this. ”
Kong Youde also sighed: "Mao Shuai, his old man died unjustly, we were in Dongjiang back then, and there was no credit and hard work." At that time, who of us didn't go ashore and fight with the Tartars, but what happened in the end? ”
A group of people couldn't stop it after they started. They are all Dongjiang veterans, and since Mao Wenlong's death, they have not had a good time. It turned out that the Dongjiang River was run by Mao Wenlong like an iron bucket, like a free kingdom, and the imperial court did not even send a supervising army. This also made these soldiers in Dongjiang Town scattered.
It is indeed quite difficult to integrate them into the army of the Ming Dynasty. Although Sun Yuanhua took good care of them, he was a literati after all, and he couldn't pee in the same pot with them at all. Coming to Denglai is bound to be incompatible with the civil and military generals in Shandong.
Just when they were complaining, in a wine shop in Dengzhou City, Li Hu and Zhao Wei were also drinking with a group of soldiers from Dongjiang. These people are now Kong Youde's subordinates, and they once knew the two, Li Hu and Zhao Wei were warmly invited, and of course they would happily go.
A group of soldiers and ruffians got together and drank very happily, and Li Hu began to complain as he drank. This is good, and the people at the table began to scold the soldiers and civilians in Shandong.
Suddenly, a soldier ruffian ran in from outside and shouted: "Lao Hei was beaten by those Shandong people......
When Li Hu heard this, he stood up violently and scolded: "It's against them, fuck the guys, fuck the fuck ......" A group of soldiers and ruffians were almost drunk, and they were so stimulated by Li Hu and Zhao Wei that they scolded and walked out of the wine shop. (To be continued)
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