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Chapter 446 Li Dingguo Enters Lantian
Everyone listened to Li Chaosheng's thoughts, and finally felt that it was a good idea to arrange these ladies in the spinning mill to work as female textile workers. This would not only prevent secret spies from spying on Lantian secret reports, but also contribute to Lantian's textile industry. This is definitely a double win.

Everyone thought, the charter was basically finalized, and with the arrangement, everyone felt relieved. At this time, Guo Bao looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Master, with so many court ladies, are you really going to let them die of old age in the factory?" ?”

Li Chaosheng looked at Guo Bao like this and said: "Let them work for two years first. First, these maids are too young, some of them are only thirteen or fourteen years old. Let them grow up longer, and second, let them gradually understand Take a look at Lantian, cultivate some feelings for Lantian in the past two years, and finally, and most importantly, during this period, screen out the secret spies among them, we have a lot of secrets in Lantian, we can't let them spy out."

"After two years, the secret spies have been eliminated, and these court ladies can be free citizens. At that time, whether it is weddings or funerals, they will all be free, and we will not interfere. Even if they don't want to continue to be textile workers, That's up to them too."

After hearing this, everyone nodded in unison, this is a surefire solution.

There were many rules for the meeting, and everyone kept talking until noon. When it was close to lunch, Bai Shoumin provided the second information to Li Chaosheng.

"County Honor, just now a secret spy came to report that Li Dingguo and Wang Jiadong have entered our Lantian territory."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at the people sitting there and said with a smile, "Oh, it's been so long, I thought he wouldn't come."

After hearing this, Bai Shoumin said: "Li Dingguo and the others took a detour to Henan and entered our Lantian from Tongguan, and they were also mixed among the Henan Mace, planning to pass the customs in a false way. Now the county lord knows his whereabouts. Shall we control him? what?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng waved his hands and said, "Let him go, there are some things he won't believe unless he sees them with his own eyes."

Li Chaosheng got up and said, "Okay, it's noon, let's eat."

Speaking of which, Li Chaosheng took the lead and walked towards the cafeteria, followed by everyone.

Tongguan.

The gateway of Shaanxi, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, the three provinces are the key points and dangerous places.

At this moment, a group of mikes wearing straw hats, sickles, and sacks on their backs walked slowly towards Tongguan. They were mikes from Henan. The autumn harvest was coming, and the mikes were also in the season of making a fortune.

However, the way for them to get rich is not in their own province, but in Shaanxi. Since Shaanxi returned to Lantian these years, it has been completely turned upside down.

It's not like they are still living a tight life, and there are bandits everywhere, and the government is also exploiting. They really want to come to Lantian to settle down, but the elderly in the family have always been reluctant to leave their hometown because of the idea that their homeland is hard to leave.

Moreover, in order to prevent the loss of population, the local government is also very strict with the guide policy. You must know that since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Ming has attached great importance to guide. .

But now it is even more serious, if there is no guide, then not only a refugee, but also may be regarded as a rogue.

Therefore, countless people yearn for the life in Lantian but cannot come, because they can't break through the interception of the government. Of course, although the government prevents the population from losing to Lantian, there are exceptions, such as Mai Ke.

This is the population that the government is willing to flow into Lantian. Why?

Because it is not that simple to become a Mace. First of all, the first condition for becoming a Mace is that you have family members in Henan, and you can’t just have parents, you must have a wife and children.

Those whose wives, children and parents are all in Henan can go to Lantian to be a wheat customer. The reason is very simple. Unless you are cold-blooded, how can you ignore your wife and children and just stay in Lantian? You have to come back. When you have money, the government will be able to exploit you. That's why the government agrees to the locals as MCs.

Mai Ke is actually a part-time worker. Now that Lantian is rich, some people have surplus food in their families, especially some large grain merchants. They have too much land and need people to harvest it. Because the local people are too rich, the price of employment is too expensive. So there is a market for these out-of-town Macs.

There were a lot of Mackers. At this time, Li Dingguo in the crowd looked up at the Tongguan Pass, which had obviously been rebuilt and strengthened later, and couldn't help feeling: "One man guards the pass, and ten thousand men cannot open it."

At this time, I saw that the city wall of Tongguan had been raised by four or five meters, and the overall height could be more than 30 meters.

The city gate is very high and wide, and it doesn't look crowded when two large cars run side by side, and there is a huge sign above the city gate with the words Tongguan written on it.

Li Dingguo couldn't help but sigh with emotion, Lantian is a big hand, and Wang Jiadong, who was following Li Dingguo, was also a little excited when he saw the word Tongguan. After passing Tongguan, he was home.

Wang Jiadong was thinking, at this time Li Dingguo leaned beside Wang Jiadong and said: "Jiadong."

"Ok?"

Wang Jiadong looked at Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo said: "Jiadong, if you lead an army here alone, how do you plan to capture this city?"

Wang Jiadong was stunned when he heard this, looked at Li Dingguo and said, "Attack Tongguan?"

"Yes."

Wang Jiadong looked at the high and thick Tongguan of the city and said: "This city wall was obviously reinforced later, and it may be difficult for the artillery to blast away. If the artillery fails, it may only be piled up with human lives, but this is higher than the copper coin pass." There are too many, and with the strong defense of Lantian, I am afraid it will be impossible to break through."

Hearing this, Li Dingguo shook his head and said: "Jiadong, it's okay for you to set up logistics, or charge into the battle, but this brain is not smart. If the city is high, let's use tunnels to fight. We can dig tunnels under the city wall. Siege, this should be the best way."

After Wang Jiadong heard this, he looked at Li Dingguo and said, "Dingguo, this Tongguan is an ancient pass, and the foundation must be at least two feet deep. I'm afraid it's not easy to dig."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo said: "This is true, and because of this, the other party will never think that we will use this method to dig into the city, but it has become the best way."

After hearing this, Wang Jiadong said, "It's true what you said."

Li Dingguo said: "Since ancient times, the art of war has been false and true, and the true and false are common sense. But what you said is a deep foundation, which is not a problem. The foundation is very deep for ordinary people, but it is not a problem for professionals. .”

"professional?"

Wang Jiadong looked at Li Dingguo puzzled, and Li Dingguo smiled and said, "You know that Cao Cao formed Mojin Xiaowei back then."

"Tomb robbers?"

Wang Jiadong frowned slightly, followed closely by Wang Jiadong and felt that what Li Dingguo said was very reasonable, at this moment Li Dingguo said: "Don't underestimate these guys, these guys are all talented and learned, I am righteous, cough cough, Zhang Xianzhong has raised a group of such people, including what Mojin Xiaowei, and the Tufuzi from Hunan, anyway, there are hundreds of them.”

"The last time we dug Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral tomb in Fengyang, the ancestral tomb was built very solidly, surrounded by piles of chaotic stones. It was a difficult task for our soldiers to dig, but let these people take action, and the tomb was quickly dug up. Yes, that was the time when I felt that there was something about this group of guys."

After hearing this, Wang Jiadong nodded and said: "There is a specialization in art, and they have to come to dig graves."

The two of them were talking, and suddenly Mai Ke behind said: "Hey, can you enter the city or not? Don't block us if you don't enter the city."

Hearing this, Li Dingguo was a little annoyed, the door is so big, why did we block you, but Wang Jiadong smiled and said at this time: "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, let's get out of the way."

Soon, the army of Mai Ke entered the city, and Li Dingguo and Wang Jiadong mixed in the crowd, holding guides in their hands.

The guide was real, but the method was not glorious. Li Dingguo and Wang Jiadong tied up a local Lizheng, and then forced the other party to issue a guide.

Li Dingguo and the others took the road guide, and the guards in Lantian took it over and looked at it, and then stamped an official seal on the road guide: Tongguan!

This means that they came in from Tongguan. With this guide, they can find a job in Lantian. Otherwise, they are considered smuggled immigrants, and there are not all smuggled immigrants.

After all, Lantian is very big, and it is backed by the Qinling Mountains. The mountains are steep and the terrain is complicated. Although the Lantian Sentinels have also set up checkpoints at Dayukou, this can prevent large troops, but one or two people sneak into Lantian and walk a little less traveled. Even Lantian couldn't detect the woods.

At that time, this group of people could not do whatever they wanted in Lantian. First of all, when looking for a job, they had to look at the road guide or the identity documents presented by the local area.

Secondly, if you want to go from this village to another village, you also need to show the road guide. Finally, the most important thing is the masses of Lantian.

After a stranger enters a village, the people in the village will immediately notify the local security team, that is, the militia. The chief will review again and finally confirm that this person is a smuggled person.

Then you have to accept the punishment of Lantian, and the punishment of Lantian is also very simple, treat the illegal immigrants as refugees, and send them all to nearby large-scale construction projects as coolies.

Make due contributions to the development and construction of Lantian.

Li Dingguo and Wang Jiadong handed in the road guide, stamped it, and entered the city. As soon as they entered the city, they saw many businessmen in the city, who looked like housekeepers and a few young men shouting.

"Recruitment, recruitment, Wangjiazhuang recruitment, [-] cash a day, take care of the food."

"Recruiting workers, Zhangjia Town recruiting workers, 210 Wen a day, food and housing."

……

A group of people were making noise and recruiting workers. Hearing the noise around him, Li Dingguo looked at Wang Jiadong and said, "Let's follow and do long-term work for two days."

Wang Jiadong smiled and said, "Let's go."

After talking, the two joined a team of mikes, and then signed up to Zhangjia Town, which is a village under Dali County. Li Dingguo and others signed up, and they went to Zhangjia Town in a bullock cart I rushed to the place and didn't work, so I took care of them to have a full meal first.

What's even more precious is that there are several big pieces of fat meat in the meals provided by the host, which immediately provoked the cheers of these Mikes. If you know that you can eat meat, it's almost like Chinese New Year, and the corn sticks provided by the host , the portion is very large, and my hungry stomach will feel more at ease after eating, which is really comfortable.

At this time in Lantian, Li Chaosheng was eating while listening to the latest information sent by Bai Shoumin: "Master Li, Li Dingguo has joined the team recruiting mikes in Zhangjia Town. Now he has arrived in Zhangjia Town. Our secret agent has followed The local militia got in touch and reported his whereabouts at any time."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng gnawed a mouthful of steamed buns and said, "Well, let the militiamen stop watching all the time, and mainly guard the checkpoint, as long as they know his whereabouts."

"Yes."

Bai Shoumin nodded, and then retreated, while Li Chaosheng continued to eat steamed buns. Li Dingguo is coming, and it seems that his plan to manage the Northwest can be put on the agenda.

Northwest Li Chaosheng is salivating. In fact, Daming has very weak control over the Northwest. First of all, it is Uzang, which is independent and does not belong to Daming.

Then there is Gansu, which is also out of the control of the Ming Dynasty, but mostly controlled by local indigenous minorities, such as Huihui, who took root on that land.

Although that piece of land is not fertile, there are many places with precious wealth, such as the silver factory. Daming lacks silver, so copper coins are used as the main currency. Fusang's shipping is monopolized by Zheng Zhilong and his gang of pirates.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong has made a lot of money these years, but Daming is very empty, and Lantian is also short of money. Because of the lack of money, Lantian's banking industry is not thorough. depositors, but they dare not borrow on a large scale.

The reason is very simple. Lantian lacks money and has no money to cover. Li Chaosheng dare not be too presumptuous. Once someone finds out his flaws and draws his salary from the bottom of the pot, the banking industry in Lantian may collapse.

This has a great impact, so Lantian has been actively seeking silver production areas, but Fusang is still too far away from Lantian, and Li Chaosheng's fleet is not enough to affect Japan. If you don't get it, you can only get materials.

So after searching, Li Chaosheng found the silver factory in Gansu. The silver mines here are very rich. With the support here, the banking industry in Lantian can definitely develop rapidly. However, the forces in Gansu are complicated, and Li Chaosheng needs to cultivate a Li Dingguo is the right man. At this time, Li Dingguo finally threw himself into the trap, and Li Chaosheng was still very happy.

After eating, Li Chaosheng got up, when a guard came over and said, "Master, something happened, Mr. Lu fainted."

"what?"

Li Chaosheng was taken aback when he heard this, Lu Gong is Lu Xiangsheng, how could this strong man faint for no reason?I haven't heard that he has any disease?

"what happened?"

The guard said: "It seems that Mr. Lu received a letter at the inn, and after reading it, he burst into tears and finally fainted."

"A letter?"

(End of this chapter)