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Liu Sheng's main purpose of coming to Dachu this time is to explore Tianmu Mountain in Henan to see if there is a space-time gate.

Therefore, he does not necessarily occupy the entire Dachu.

But it was impossible for him to lead the expeditionary force and go directly to Tianmu Mountain after landing - that would be equivalent to cutting off communication with North America and Dawei.

Therefore, his plan was to at least carve out and occupy a piece of coastal territory in Da Chu, and then attack inland until he captured the area where Tianmu Mountain is located.

The Jiaodong Peninsula was chosen because it is closer to Da'ei's overseas bases and transportation channels.

In the past few years, especially when the expeditionary force arrived here this year, in addition to occupying Ezo, Oki also occupied Japan's Sado Island, Oki Islands, Tsushima Island, and Korea's Jeju Island, as a gateway to The waterway transfer station in Dachu.

In the offshore area of ​​​​Dachu, several islands around the Jiaodong Peninsula are occupied as material transfer stations.

Today, the Da'ei Expeditionary Force and fleet are actually staying around the Jiaodong Peninsula, waiting for his orders at any time.

This is one of the reasons why he dared to appear in Jiaoxi County with more than 3,000 people disguised as maritime merchants.

When the overall situation of Jiaoxi County was settled, Liu Sheng sat down in the county magistrate's seat in the county government hall and said to the accompanying guards: "Send a telegram to the fleet and ask them to act according to plan A tomorrow and divide their forces to capture the Jiaodong Peninsula."

"Yes!"

The guard left in response.

In the past few years, although Damei still cannot produce all the parts of the telegraph machine, it has been able to hand-make some parts by a few masters and master-level craftsmen with superb craftsmanship. It is even expected to be able to produce telegraph machines in a few years!
Therefore, this time Liu Sheng came to Dachu with a total of three telegraph machines and established three telecommunications groups.

A telecommunications team is always with him, so that he can command the expeditionary force at any time and keep in touch with the North American side.

A telecommunications team remained on the expeditionary force's flagship.

The last telecommunications team remained in Ezochi.

Today, Ezoji has been operated by the exploration fleet for several years and has become an important base for the expeditionary force here.

Not only have many warehouses been built above to store various important materials shipped from North America, but many fields have also been cultivated to supply part of the food needed by the expeditionary force.

At the end of the 14th century and the beginning of the 15th century (equivalent to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty), it was a period of slight warming in the climate. Although Ezo was located in the north, it was not a problem to grow food such as winter wheat.

In addition, if there is really insufficient food, the expeditionary force can also "purchase" it from Japan and Korea.

This was also one of the reasons why Liu Sheng prepared to relocate the victims of Dachu.

Of course, now that he has launched Plan A in advance because of the greed of the Jiaoxi magistrate, the food problem will be easier to solve.

Although the Chu Dynasty is still decades away from the real end of the dynasty, corrupt officials are rampant and evil gentry are everywhere.

He only needs to act as he did in the late Ming Dynasty more than ten years ago, conquering cities and territories, and publicly interrogating the bad people among the landlords and gentry, and then he can plunder enough food.

After all, although there are also natural disasters during this period of mild climate warming, they are nothing compared to those in the late Ming Dynasty.

Even though agricultural technology was inferior to that of the late Ming Dynasty, it was not far behind. Landowners must have saved a lot of food.

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Dengzhou Prefecture governs Penglai.

Of course, this Penglai is not the legendary Penglai Fairy Mountain, but people changed its name after Penglai Fairy Mountain.

Penglai was the largest seaport in Shandong at this time and the most prosperous city on the Jiaodong Peninsula, with a population of more than 300,000.

After the founding of the Chu State, out of the importance to this place, not only three guards were set up, namely Changdao Guard, Huangcheng Guard and Penglai Guard.

The Dengzhou Naval Staff General was also appointed, leading more than 3,000 naval forces affiliated with the border army to be stationed here.

The Dengzhou camp was also set up to lead more than 3,000 recruited soldiers (border troops) to station in Fucheng.

Each guard of Da Chu theoretically has more than 3,000 soldiers, so the garrison strength of Da Chu's capital city is theoretically more than 15,000.

Even though the guard army is now severely underpaid, and there are also frontier troops, the total garrison strength of Dengzhou Prefecture remains at more than 10,000 people, which is still a major military town in Dachu in Shandong.

Da Chu even established the post of governor of Denglai, just like the Ming Dynasty, to be responsible for the military affairs of Denglai and Denglai. The Denglai Governor's Yamen is naturally located in the city.

Because pirates have become increasingly rampant in recent decades, especially in the past decade or so, Dachu's sea frontier has become restless, and there are even large pirates attacking coastal cities.

Although Emperor Jiahua was mediocre and addicted to cultivating immortals, he still knew how to cooperate with the cabinet and appointed an official as the governor of Denglai, hoping to ensure stability and peace along the Shandong coast and even quell the dangers of pirates.

It was against this background that Wang Huaxi took up the post of governor of Denglai half a year ago.

He came here under the emperor's order, and he originally had ambitions to achieve more political achievements in the Jiaodong Peninsula so that he could become a real frontier official.

But when we got there, we discovered that the water in the Jiaodong Peninsula was really deep.

Dengzhou is one of Dachu's foreign trade ports in the north (the other is Tianjin).

The imperial court established the Municipal Shipping Department.

In the early years, he naturally obtained a lot of customs duties for the Chu court, but now there are many corrupt officials. The eunuchs sent by the inner court collude with the officials of the shipping department and the local powerful and evil gentry. He, the governor, has no way to get involved.

It is simply a dream to rectify the military affairs of Denglai with only the small amount of taxes withheld from the Second Prefecture of Denglai.

What's more, there are many problems with local tax revenues now. They either don't collect enough, or they can't collect it.

In half a year, although Wang Huaxi had a general understanding of the situation in Denglai and Denglai, nothing was accomplished under heavy constraints.

Recently, he has been considering whether to integrate into the local gentry group and collude with these wolves, tigers and leopards to obtain money to rectify Denglai's military affairs.

But even if his purpose is for Da Chu, if things are exposed in the future, he may not be able to escape legal punishment.

So I have been hesitating.

On this day, Wang Huaxi was staying in the study room in the backyard of the Yamen, frowning and sorting out some of the connections between the gentry in Denglai and Denglai mansions, trying to find other ways to break the situation.

Suddenly the sound of drums was heard.

The sound is not loud, but very clear.

'Could it be coming from the city gate tower? ! '

Wang Huaxi was startled when this idea came to him. He hurriedly walked out of the study and said to the servant waiting outside: "Go to the place where the drum sound came from and see what happened!"

In fact, after walking out of the courtyard, Wang Huaxi saw the smoke rising into the sky from the city gate tower.

It is certain that a powerful enemy is coming.

What he needs to know is how many enemies are coming, whether they are pirates or who they are.

Not long after, before his servant came back, Li Chenggong, the general of the Dengzhou camp, hurried over.

"Futai, according to the smoke warning from Changdao Guard, Huangcheng Guard is probably attacked by large pirates and has probably fallen."

"Since this large group of pirates dared to capture Huangcheng Guards, they probably planned to rob Dengzhou Mansion. They also asked Futai to come forward and take charge of the overall situation!"

Although he had some speculations, Wang Huaxi was still surprised when he heard the news and asked: "Did you know that these pirates are coming? How strong are they?"

Li Chenggong shook his head, "It's not clear yet."

Wang Huaxi knew that the military situation was urgent and could not delay, so he immediately took Li Chenggong with you to the naval camp to meet with the Dengzhou naval commander.

If we say that Li Chenggong, the general of the Dengzhou Battalion, can be regarded as a military commander with some bottom line and some ability. Then Dengzhou Navy Commander Tian Wei is a waste who only knows how to harm the public and enrich his own interests, and does not have much military strategy.

When Wang Huaxi and Li Chenggong arrived, the naval camp was still in chaos and had not yet completed gathering troops.

Seeing this scene, Wang Huaxi's face became extremely gloomy.

He has decided that if there is a chance this time, Tian Wei will be punished and this silverfish will be removed from the position of Dengzhou Navy Commander! (End of chapter)