"Master Mao can rest assured. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Xu Xiaoqi smiled and said: "Our people will never find any trouble, in fact, our people have not stayed in Liaoxi, they have already left." ”

"Turned to Kuandian?" Mao Yuanyi said very vigilantly: "What big moves do you want to make in Kuandian?" ”

"Not either." Xu Xiaoqi said: "We won't do anything, please rest assured that Lord Mao is." ”

"Impossible." Mao Yuanyi said categorically: "All the elites you transferred should be the elites in the mountains, and they were sent to Kuandian with all the twists and turns, just to do nothing?" ”

"Alas......" Xu Xiaoqi scratched his head and said, "I know that Master Mao won't believe it." Mr. Li said that if you really don't believe it, you can only tell your lord that our people have nothing else to do when they go to Kuandian, that is, they have selected some people who are good at living in the mountains for a long time, are good at walking mountain roads, and are familiar with the conditions of the mountains and forests. ”

Mao Yuanyi said calmly: "In that place in Kuandian, the people who picked it are just right." ”

"It's not for the sake of fighting...... Xu Xiaoqi said helplessly: "Let's go find wood." ”

"What?" Mao Yuanyi was puzzled at first, and then said with some anger: "Such a lie, when I Mao is a three-year-old child? ”

"It's really not a lie." Xu Xiaoqi said seriously: "Finding wood is already the first priority of our military division, not only in the Kuandian area, the entire Liaodong is looking for, five people hold a foot high oak wood, although Liaodong is wide, the number of oak wood is not much, and the amount of wood required is huge, the military department has made the greatest determination, the temporary allocation is 600,000 taels, the manpower transferred from the grassland to Liaoxi, from Liaoxi to Liaodong, and then to Liaonan, in short, as long as there are mountains, rivers and wood, we will send people to find, not only oak, We also need a lot of qualified wood, pine and beech wood, the fifth year of the Apocalypse, it is estimated that we will be consumed with wood. ”

Xu Xiaoqi said it in such detail, Mao Yuanyi finally believed it.

It is no wonder that the Thirteen Mountains have changed one after another, and there has been no decent battle report in Kuandian in the past two or three months...... Mao Yuanyi has long studied thoroughly, and Yusheng will always give up his exploits to other forces, and it is not a secret that Hutchison's people are stationed in Phi Dao and Kuandian, since they entered, the military exploits on the side of Dongjiang Town have been rising steadily, and the head of Zhenyi has increased several times compared to before, if it has nothing to do with Hutchison, it will really be a hell of a life. In the past two or three months, the war reports are almost less than 30% of the previous ones, although they are related to the Chinese New Year, but Hutchison definitely did not continue to shoot, and these new war reports are just pure Dongjiang war reports, which is also undoubted.

Mao Yuanyi and Sun Chengzong have been suspecting what big move Heji is brewing, and the dispatch of the Thirteen Mountains has confirmed this suspicion, but the result is such a ridiculous result, making such a big move and mobilizing so many people, just to go to the deep mountains and old forests to find wood?

"What about the Chahars?" Mao Yuanyi lost his voice and said: "You easily blocked them last year, and if you reorganize your army a little this year, it won't be difficult to kill Chahanhot, right?" ”

"It's not hard." Xu Xiaoqi said with a smile: "This is a big deal, I shouldn't have said it originally, but since the adults have such deep knowledge, I might as well say it, we don't beat them, it's not because we can't beat them, but just put it aside for the time being, and ask them to block the Jurchens." Now the higher-ups don't think it's time for us to really fight the Jurchens......"

"When will that be time?"

As Sun Chengzong's staff counselor, Mao Yuanyi is of course very concerned about this issue.

Today is also a very rare opportunity, in the past, there was no such channel for information exchange with Yusheng, everyone relied on various analyses and speculations, but with Mao Yuanyi's understanding of Hutchison, I am afraid that his side has long been infiltrated into a sieve.

"This, I don't know." Xu Xiaoqi said frankly: "Of course, even if you know, you can't say it." ”

"You're being honest." Mao Yuanyi smiled helplessly.

Mao Yuanyi is also the top smart person in this era, and many major events are closely related to him later, but at this time, this top smart and military expert of the Ming Dynasty, because of his experience, has no concept of the battle for hegemony on the ocean, at this moment, even if Mao Yuanyi wants to break his head, he can't imagine why he is doing all this with Yusheng now.

The investment of 600,000 taels is only an emergency investment, in order to buy a large amount of timber required manpower and material resources and transportation costs, many projects on the grassland have been directly cut, and the income of the newly opened up markets such as the insurance industry is also fully prepared to tilt on the Taiwan side, because last year, the high income after the Taiwan Military Division controlled the sea, the high-level military directors of Qingcheng also agreed with Zhang Han's decision, in this kind of matter of fighting for territory with the enemy, the senior management of Hutchison has been quite skilled and clear-minded, simply put, If Taiwan has no foreign enemies, it will have to spend a lot of money to develop, and there will certainly be many dissatisfied people. However, Taiwan is now being bullied by Hongmaoyi, and this matter is that someone wants to ride on Hutchison's neck to show off his might, which Hutchison can't bear.

It's also funny to say that such a group of businessmen who were originally the most cautious and cautious businessmen in the Ming class, and even cautious and cautious to the point of being afraid of things, are now surrounded by Zhang Han, and their thinking and temperament have become the most martial and aggressive group of people.

Now to put it simply, it is to see if there is a benefit to the matter, and if there is a benefit to fight, that is, roll up your sleeves and go up, there is nothing to negotiate, and then talk about it, and the benefits of fighting, everyone has a share, just like with the Beiyu, if you have endured it all the time, and did not fight such a battle with the Tumut Department back then, who will give you millions of acres of land on the grassland now? Who gave you the benefits of monopolizing trade with the North and trade with Russia?

The situation in Taiwan is the same, originally the strength was enough to collect the peace situation, and more than 600,000 taels of silver were collected in half a year. Now the strength is not enough, although it has not been pressed to the ground by the Dutch, but has been forced to give up the control of a large area of the sea, now can only guarantee the trade route from the Fujian Sea to Japan, in addition to the supply route from Penghu to Taiwan is also unblocked, if this situation continues, the entire Taiwan to Japan and the South China Sea, including their own control over the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, will slowly disappear...... The current situation is different from history, in history, the Fujian Navy Division has just defeated the Dutch, the Dutch began to colonize Taiwan, and Zheng Zhilong began to rise, inheriting all the inheritance of Li Dan and Yan Siqi in a few years, after fighting Xu Xinsu and Liu Xiang and others, the strength swelled rapidly, and defeated the Fujian Navy Division, becoming a strong force that can compete with the Dutch East India Company.

And now that Li Dan is dead, Li Guozhu chose to cooperate with He Yusheng in all aspects, Yan Siqi's fleet was taken over by Hutchison, and the power was swept away, and Xu Xinsu also chose to cooperate with Hutchison after being threatened by Zheng Guochang, at least in business. The Zheng family brothers, including Zheng Zhilong, as well as Yang Tiansheng, Li De, He Bin and Gan Hui and others have all invested in Hutchison and have become the backbone of Taiwan's marching division.

The result of this development is that the most powerful surface force in the whole of China, except for the Fujian Naval Division, is now the Hutchison Naval Division controlled by the Taiwan Marching Division...... The Fujian Navy Division is definitely getting weaker and weaker, because the Ming Dynasty is no longer the national strength of the year, more and more resources are used in the western Liaoning and northern defense lines, the Ming Dynasty has gone bankrupt, and now it is only a historical inertia that is maintained, the Navy has no capital investment, and it is only a matter of time before the Shixing scattered ships are scrapped.

The white skin of this era is not a useless waste in later generations, these people have a keen sense of smell, ambition, cruel and efficient means, once they find the opportunity, the Dutch are impossible to stay in Taiwan to colonize and do business honestly, their ambitions will definitely swell, and will further threaten Fujian and other coastal areas, not only Taiwan has no way to take it back, there may be more coastal territory in the future to be bitten down by them.

If this is the case, Zhang Han feels that he is a national sinner, and now Hutchison's strength should be able to withstand the great changes in the late Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but there is no way to pack a ticket for anything, in case Hutchison does not carry it in the north, the south has attracted the Dutch, with the virtue of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, if it is not for the anti-Qing forces entrenched in the coast, they will not be out of sight and out of mind at most if they get a forbidden sea, and if they don't get China's coastal islands will lose their essence, this result is unacceptable to Zhang Han.

The big move of the high-level military department is also under Zhang Han's extreme worry, and he quickly went out and stepped forward, and the grassland is mainly quiet for a while, and some border friction with the Chahar people will be handed over to the chasers to deal with, if there is no large-scale invasion, Hutchison will not have any action on the grassland this year.

I didn't understand, Mao Yuanyi didn't force me to ask, but he felt that he was a little depressed about something outside his comprehension, he thought about it for a while, and said: "If it is possible, I hope you will make some reports to our side about the affairs in Kuandian and Phi Dao, otherwise, similar incidents in the Thirteen Mountains this time will always cause misunderstandings, and it will not be good to always misunderstand." ”

Xu Xiaoqi smiled slightly and agreed.

"Looking for wood...... Looking at the Hutchison member dressed as a servant bowed and left, Mao Yuanyi smiled to himself, Rao is he is well-informed, and he is a staff member next to the most powerful superintendent and auxiliary minister in the Ming Dynasty, and there is still no way to understand what is happening now, he shook his head, and paced back with a heavy heart, in the superintendent yamen, there are still quite a lot of affairs waiting for him to manage, at least, there is a copy of Sun Chengzong's resignation to the emperor in front of him, and Mao Yuanyi is also needed to embellish, check, and then transcribe it.

Compared with the matter of Yusheng, and the trouble faced by Sun Chengzong and his staff themselves, it is still insignificant, and it is no wonder that Sun Chengzong decisively gave up the inspection, after all, did he care about it or not? Mao Yuanyi only felt that he was naïve and ridiculous at this time, but deep down, he had a strong desire, and he couldn't wait to run to Kuandian, in the end, he wanted to see with his own eyes, what was he doing over there, and what Yusheng was doing, the more he was interested, but unfortunately everything in front of him had restrained him, even if the temptation in his heart was extremely strong, Mao Yuanyi could only forcibly hold it, he sighed slightly, and walked towards the yamen, compared to giving up his achievements and finding wood, and Yusheng, who was bent on finding wood, Where the Liaodong Governor is stationed, what he is thinking about now is to fight a battle that can be explained to both the upper and lower levels.