Since entering the lunar month, the rain and snow in Chongzhou have been drenched, and the agricultural affairs are very good, but the industrial construction is a big trouble.

The avenue between Jiangmen and Hecheng has long been trampled into mud.

The shiny riding boots that were polished when they set off were no longer visible in their original shape, and the toe toe was still cracked, muddy water mixed in, and the feet were numb from the cold. Lin Jian walked back to the side of the road, sat on the wood in front of the carriage, took off his boots and socks, wrapped his feet with a dry cloth, sat cross-legged, and talked to Han Caizhi and the others: "I didn't expect it to be so bitter, right?" ”

"I don't think it's bitter, but this rain and snow don't stop, the ground is rotten, the road is rotten, the weather is cold, and the ice is solid, the soil is difficult to dig, difficult to luck, things are done slowly, I am afraid of living up to the trust of adults!" Han Caizhi said.

The forces of all sides continued to stalemate, and no one was able to break the situation for a while, and the scale and intensity of the war were much more moderate than those in spring and summer. Defending the sea embankment is the top priority of Chongzhou, and for this reason, Lin Jian only transferred the five battalions of the infantry division to the south to strengthen the combat strength of the Shengsi defense line, but he was not in a hurry to launch an offensive against Daishan and Changguo in the waters south of the Shengsi Islands.

From Jiangmen to Hecheng, four sections were divided into four sections to build the Hanhai embankment at the same time, Sun Jingtang, Ge Siyu, and Wang Chengfu were in charge of their specific affairs, and Lin Mengde, Qin Chengzu and others were also responsible for the coordination of materials and human resources in Chongcheng on a larger scale.

There is also a section chief below, Han Caizhi is also one of them, Zhang Gou is his deputy, and another engineering officer is also set up as the technical director. This engineer is none other than Zhu Ai, a Xinjin man who came to Chongzhou from Yandu to offer the plan to build an embankment in the northern section.

Lin Tie also walked to the embankment when he had time, and the entire Hanhai Levee would involve the root of Huaidong, how could Lin Tie not pay attention to it.

"We have to overcome difficulties, compete with the sky, and compete with the land for profit, but we can't be too anxious, we can't consume manpower too much, and we must be sympathetic to everyone's hard work," Lin Jian smiled, "Now there are seven or eight thousand people pressing here, and every day everyone opens their mouths to eat is one or two hundred thousand catties of rice grain, and the burden on your shoulders is very heavy, so you must learn to adapt." It's normal to start out a little messy, but as long as you can see improvement, it's a good thing. Get through this time, and by the beginning of spring, you will get better......"

Chen Hanzhi was a general under the Red Jacket Girl before, and there were only four or five hundred soldiers and horses under his hands, and he didn't have to worry about the supply of rations. When I first started the construction section, I supervised the construction of the embankment, and I had to take care of everything for seven or eight thousand people to dress and eat, and I was in a hurry for a while. In the past two months, it cannot be said that I have completely adapted to it, but it is not as embarrassing as it was at the beginning. People always have to work hard to adapt in order to grow.

Lin Jian looked at Zhang Gou, a subordinate under the command of Sun Zhuang, the vanguard of the original Liumin Army, and asked, "Are you still used to coming to Chongzhou?" ”

"Don't be displaced anymore, it's always not bad, and thank you for your success." Zhang Gou replied.

It has been two months since he went south, and after arriving in Chongzhou, he entered the camp here, separated from Chen Yan, and did not contact him again; is also afraid that Chongzhou will be suspicious, so he refrains from contacting.

In the camp here, there are not many good things, but the food is full, and there are families to settle nearby, and an extra ration is also issued at the beginning of the month and in the middle of the month.

The military attachés above the rank of commander are not paid much, three or five hundred yuan a month, and they do not have too many privileges in other aspects, and they eat and live together with ordinary soldiers.

Although about eight of the nearly 8,000 people in this section are soldiers of the Wandering Army, most of these military attaches are drawn from various departments of the Huaidong Military Division.

Although the salary of the military attaches is not much, they are all those who have made military merits and promoted people, and they are rewarded with meritorious fields, and during their service, they can be exempted from land taxes, but they do not have to worry about the livelihood of their families; If you have money, you can help your family even more.

These military attaches were loyal to the Huaidong Military Division. Of course, there are also a small number of people below who have performed well and have been promoted to become military attachés. Although the number of people in this part is small, it gives everyone some hope.

Zhang Gou, as the deputy commander of the section, said that he was paid according to the battalion commander, and he could get two taels of silver a month. His family settled in Chongcheng, and he didn't go to see it once. When he gets the money every month, he asks someone to bring it over, and he has no money here. He could read, and his wife could read, so she could read letters.

His family and Chen Yan's family settled in the same courtyard, and Zhang Gou knew that Chen Yan's situation in Hecheng was similar to his.

At home, in addition to him taking back the silver, the Huaidong Military Division also sent grain noodles and fish and meat during the festival, and also sent money and cloth during the Great Cold Festival, and the days were not bad. If you want, you can also send the dog baby to the school, but you don't force it.

If he could, Zhang Gou didn't want to toss anymore, but he knew what the pole master had in mind when he surrendered to the Huaidong Army, and in the future, when the pole master and the Huaidong army would fight, he couldn't be sorry for the pole master's affection.

People are determined, even if they are driven to the battlefield by the Huaidong Military Division, their families can settle down and have a future to run. The vast majority of people raised the banner to rebel, isn't this the picture?

Those who are ambitious and want to come up with someone to throw themselves into the land, the Huai'an Military Division is not without opportunities, Han Caizhi and Chen Kuili, the turtle sons, followed the Huaidong Military Division with an iron heart.

Even if there are not so many military attaches from the Huaidong Military Division, just relying on the fact that he can eat and eat as a soldier here, Zhang Gou does not have the confidence to pull out many people to cast the pole master.

Of the seven or eight thousand people here, how many of them are born to eat well?

Zhang Gou didn't know how capable the Huaidong Military Division was, how thick his family background was, and how good japonica rice could make everyone eat with an open stomach, and he could eat a meal of meat every once in a while.

There are 60,000 people in the workers' camp, and then they will distribute rations to their families, and their families will go to the embankment, or participate in the reclamation of wasteland, and pay for food and clothing. Not to mention the others, the Huaidong Army's 60,000-strong labor battalion consumes an astonishing amount of rice and grain alone.

When he was in Huaisi, he fought with the Jiangdong Left Army, and he only knew that the Jiangdong Left Army could fight and was very strong, but why the Jiangdong Left Army was so capable and strong was blind and did not know the reason.

After coming to Chongzhou for two months, Zhang Gou had a vague understanding, that is, the shovels and shovels in everyone's hands were all good iron that they didn't dare to hope for before.

This kind of shovel commonly used in the labor camp is wear-resistant, the edge is hard, and the shovel body is not easy to break when digging hard soil, and the amount of iron used in two or three shovels can hit a good horse chopping knife, Chongzhou is so extravagant that it uses this good iron to hit the shovel.

Zhang Gou was still thinking about the words of the pole master before entering Huaisi, thinking about laying down Xuzhou, opening the furnace to smelt iron, hitting two thousand good horse chopping knives, and weaving a horse chopping elite pawn to come out, killing gods and ghosts when encountering gods, and killing ghosts when encountering ghosts.

Xuzhou was not defeated, An Shuai was killed by Chen Hansan's dog thieves, and the dream of 2,000 horse swords and horse slashers was naturally shattered.

The previous extravagant hopes and dreams are so easy and easy to obtain in Chongzhou.

Zhang Gou was full of emotion in his heart, except for a few people who still remembered the past feelings, others were afraid that they wouldn't even have the heart to resist the Huaidong Military Division in the end, right?

Lin Tie ignored Zhang Gou's distraction, and the girl in the red jacket was at odds with Luo Xiancheng in Huaixi, fighting against the Changhuai army and Liang Chengchong in the north, and Sun Zhuang was in Suining for two or three months, and he was quite peaceful. As long as there is no chaos on the Suining side, and this side is stable, the vast majority of the homeless army generals can still be co-opted, and the embankment repair is also a transformation.

Lin Jian looked at Zhu Ai, an industrial official from a cowherd, and asked him to come to the front to speak: "The prefect of Liu Tingzhou also appreciates your talent, and he ......will do a good job for me in Chongzhou."

"The villain knows it, and it will live up to the expectations of the adults." Zhu Ai replied excitedly.

When Zhu Ai was a teenager, he fought with others, half of his face was scarred, and he looked a little hideous, and the other half of his face was delicate. She herds cattle for a living, and she is twenty-eight years old, and she has not even married a daughter-in-law.

There are sages in the countryside, but this can be used on Zhu Ai. Zhu Ai herded cattle for a living when he was young, but he secretly learned to read and write, practiced writing on the sand with willow branches, and also wrote well.

Zhu Ai's insight into building a sea pond is far from simple experience and superficial understanding. After receiving praise for his advice to Liu Tingzhou, Zhu Ai dreamed of promoting Liu Tingzhou to the county as a clerk, and even put his heart into repairing the seawall.

In the past few years, Zhu Ai has taken the opportunity of herding cattle, almost all over the seashores of Yandu and Sheyang, surveying and producing quite accurate topographic maps and tide maps of the coastal areas of Yandu and Sheyang, obtaining a large number of first-hand information from fishermen and salt households, and writing a large number of manuscripts - but his behavior will only cause more ridicule in the township, and he can't fill his stomach, but he wants to be an official, so poor that he sleeps in a cowshed, and no girl will allow him, and Liu Tingzhou has never promoted him as an official.

In order to build a seawall in Chongzhou, Zhang Bang selected talents from the coastal counties, Zhu Ai stole the owner's cattle in exchange for entanglement, and came to Chongzhou to offer advice, in order to seek his background, to be a clerk, and sent over to be a construction official.

For Zhu Ai's stealing and selling of cattle, Hu Dahai of Yanzhi County also sent a sea fishing document and sent officials to Chongzhou to detain people, or Lin Jian wrote a letter to Liu Tingzhou to smooth out the matter.

After talking to Han Caizhi, Zhang Gou, Zhu Ai and others, Lin Jian continued to walk south to Jiangmen; He planned to go out to sea from Jiangmen to Shengsi to inspect this time.

In rainy and snowy weather, this section of the road is also rotten, there is not enough charcoal slag, and the hardening of the road is a big problem.

Starting from Hecheng to the south, a car broke its axle on the way, and there was only one carriage left in the horse team, Lin Jian lifted the curtain and got in, Song Jia just gave way to the side, and didn't mind sitting in the same car with Lin Lian.

When it was getting late, less than ten miles away from Jiangmen, there were sentinels chasing after him from behind, but it was an urgent report from Ge Changgen from Danluo Island across the sea.

Ge Changgen was ordered to build a Jeju port fortress on the west coast of Danluo Island, and use it as Jeju to trade military horses, copper and iron ore with Danluo Island and Kyushu in the southeast of Danluo.

Since August and September, the Goryeo Kingdom has put pressure on Danluo to directly station troops on Danluo Island. Ge Changgen had already reported this situation to Chongzhou. However, after November, the situation became more serious, and the Goryeo direct naval forces came around the west coast to harass them, and there have been three clashes, the latest of which occurred five days earlier.

Although the Goryeo naval army was repulsed, Ge Changgen organized a larger-scale offensive in charge of the Goryeo Congress, which was beyond the existing strength of the Jeju military fortress to deal with, and sent a boat to Chongju to come to the rescue.

"Back to Chongcheng!" Lin Jian had to give up his plan to go to Shengsi to inspect and reroute back to Chongzhou, and the Jeju military fortress on Danluo Island was an extremely important move and could not be diverged.