Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1024 Before the Storm
Lin Baiguang has read the entire war game deduction and simulated artillery damage test report, just as a person with a good hand will not care about the opponent's delay for a few minutes.

The Zheng family's delay was nothing more than trying to get some points back and gain more benefits in the following private salt negotiations.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help snorting leisurely: "...I was originally a casual person in Wollongong..."

In another time and space, there was a county leader in the county where Lin Baiguang worked who loved Peking opera, so Lin Baiguang learned a few passages to cooperate with the leader—the singing was not bad.

After three or four days, Lin Baiguang was finally invited to "talk in detail".

The commercial cooperation progressed relatively smoothly after the two parties had an intention. The two parties conducted a series of negotiations on the price, payment method and ship navigation safety.

In terms of supply price, Lin Baiguang is relatively loose - the cost of salt in the Senate is very low, and it doesn't matter if the quotation is slightly lower, but in terms of payment, he refuses the method of supplying all year round and paying in three quarters.

"This won't work." Lin Baiguang shook his head, "Not to mention, the Zheng family's An Hai ship went to Japan, but they went to collect the money in the next year? Didn't the local Japanese merchants pay on the spot?"

You sell to the Japanese for cash, and I naturally have to collect cash for selling to you.Lin Baiguang refused to budge.

The Japanese are willing to pay in cash because the goods shipped by the Chinese businessman are all sought-after goods, and the private salt he masters is also a sought-after commodity in Fujian.

However, he made a small concession as a concession: the Zheng family could pay half of the salt price with local indigo, medicinal materials, wood, porcelain and tea produced in Fujian.These goods can either be used for foreign trade, or can be directly used by the Senate. Compared with silver, they are also quite useful commodities.

The two sides quickly reached an agreement that Senate ships flying the flags of the Dabo Shipping Company and the Morning Star could enter Weitou Bay, with a limit of three ships at a time and a maximum of fifteen ships per month.Regardless of the size of the ship, as for the cargo to be transported, there are no restrictions except that half of the space of each ship must be salt.Zheng Hongkui said that they also had a great demand for grain, and if the Senate was willing to ship it for sale, the price could be favorable—Fujian was also a province that was short of grain at that time.Lin Baiguang immediately said, "It can be considered."

The ships of the Senate entering Weitou Bay must block the fire gates of the cannons according to the rules, and put away the gunpowder magazines and weapons, seal them up, hang the Zheng Jialing flag, etc.—this was also the practice at the time, and it was not considered a loss of power and humiliation of the country, Lin Baiguang one by one promise.

As long as ships are allowed to enter Weitou Bay continuously, it is very convenient to monitor the deployment of the entire Weitou Bay and the hydrological and tidal conditions, and collect enough data for the "final solution".

Lu Wenyuan wore a big cloak and rode a not-so-good Mongolian horse, patrolling along the "wicker side".Beside him are a group of servants on foot, holding sticks, knives and guns.

In Shandong in November, it is already chilly.The wind rattled the wicker fence.The frost from last night has not completely melted away.

The planted willow has survived, but now, the leaves have fallen, leaving only the bare willow.

"Wicker edge" is what he called the wicker fence set up on Qimu Island--the servants, tenants, and servants under his command also called it this way without knowing it.

It is already his regular schedule to inspect the wicker edge every day.As long as there is a damaged place, it must be repaired immediately.Half of the recruited tenants, no matter they are brave or not, patrolled the edge of the willow every day, repairing and strengthening it.The wicker edge has changed from a single fence to a double fence.Since a month ago, they have planted antlers and repelling horses between the two fence walls.

The people under his command only thought that this was the cautiousness of the senior official Lu—after all, soldiers, bandits, and refugees are rampant here in Shandong, and if the big families either live in the city or form a village to protect themselves.However, he didn't take it seriously when he built the wicker edge - because the deer officials on Qimu Island had already built a very strong brick and stone village, which the general bandits and rebels couldn't chew down.Not to mention running to this deserted island by the sea.

Only Huang Ande knew that what they were about to deal with was the Liaodong cavalry as the main force, and the rebels were very mobile and not weak in combat effectiveness, so they had to take considerable defensive measures.

A group of people patrolled the gate by the wicker in the bitter sea breeze. This is a simple wooden gate. Compared with the simple wicker gate, this gate is much more complicated. hole.It is covered and guarded by Xiangyong day and night.

Lu Wenyuan went up to the gate tower himself, and checked whether the quilts and charcoal used by Xiangyong to keep out the cold at night, whether the torches used for lighting were adequate, and whether the rockets used for alarming were guaranteed to be dry and usable. If you pay enough attention to yourself, your subordinates will pay attention to it.

Although Lu Wenyuan sits on Qimu Island and is engaged in construction projects and agricultural development every day, through the radio, he knows the steps of the entire operation clearly.A month ago, the Oceanic Fleet officially landed in Taiwan, which opened the prelude to the engine operation.

Three weeks later, he received a telegram: Taiwan's decontamination camp had reached the standard of decontaminating 2000 people.Let him pay attention to receiving refugees from the southern Shandong area-Zhang Daochang is starting to collect refugees, and the first batch will be transferred to Qimu Island soon.

On Qimu Island, the necessary facilities are generally complete. The temporary sheds on the island have been completed and can accommodate 3000 people.There is also a considerable amount of food, medicine and necessary supplies to keep out the cold.

Due to limited conditions, Qimu Island is only a transit station, and no more complicated "purification" is done, but the refugees are given basic food and clothing, and then quickly transferred out.The main destination of the transshipment at this stage is Taiwan - the transshipment to Jeju will have to wait for the spring of the next year. On the one hand, the schedule is too late, and on the other hand, it is also to avoid the winter in Jeju.Shipping to Taiwan can at least save a lot of cotton clothes and quilts and fuel.

Looking out from the gate tower, the land of Shandong is vast and desolate-this year is a barren year, and the originally barren and mountainous Dongsan Prefecture is becoming more and more barren.Although it was almost noon, there was no smoke as far as the eyes could see.There are not many ships in Longkou Bay.

The sound of mule bells sounded in the distance, that was the return of the "people picking team" organized by Lu Wenyuan.In fact, it is a patrol team that takes in refugees.Each team consisted of several two-wheeled mule carts and a team of village warriors, who went to nearby villages and main roads to take in refugees, and every time they took in quite a few people.Women, children, old and young, and those who were too hungry to walk took the car, and those who could walk walked by themselves, and they were accommodated in batches of temporary refugee camps on the island.

In less than half a month, more than 500 people were taken in here, and many of them were dying of hunger when they were picked up.Among them are many infants and young children who were abandoned on the side of the road or in empty houses.Due to the lack of food, clothing and care, many of them would not survive even if they were retrieved.

Every day, many corpses were moved out from the gate beside the wicker and sent to the wasteland far away for burial.

"It's too miserable." Lu Wenyuan murmured.Since his expatriation, he has seen many scenes that can shake his nerves.Even so, he often feels uncomfortable with it all.Especially when the village braves carry out the bodies of the refugees who died at night from the shanty town every morning.He always avoids it.Lest I can't stand it.

Death, famine, and destruction are always just a topic and a set of numbers for those who have not experienced it personally, and they will feel terrible when they really face it.

The village braves quickly opened the gate to let the convoys and people come in. The people were sparse, and finally all of them came in. The village braves had to yell to drive them away, and at the same time distributed a piece of millet pancake to the refugees. Relay - I dare not give more, for fear that they will be exhausted.

Lu Wenyuan went down the gate, and asked Wang Qisuo, who led the team out, "How many people have you accepted?"

"Returning to the master," Wang Qisuo said, even though he was wearing a thick padded jacket and a hat, his face was flushed from the cold, and his nose was running with clear water. And women, and some old men and women. Some of them are dying of hunger, and I don't know if they can make it through the night."

"Thank you for your hard work. After sending people to the camp, you and your brothers should rest first."

"Thank you sir!"

Lu Wenyuan then returned to the farm. On the leveled ground in front of the farm, the women were kneading Haiying vegetables on the reed mat.The young leaves of Haiyingcai picked from the barren beach grassland by the sea are grouped into balls after being exposed to the sun, and then vigorously kneaded to remove the bitter juice, and then dried for an afternoon, and kneaded again, it becomes pliable and strong.The wisps are like tea leaves, and when they are dried in the sun the next day, the water will completely evaporate, and the dried Hai Yingcai will be dried, and they can be eaten at any time when they are packed in bags.

After Lu Wenyuan introduced the species on the tidal flats, this kind of seaside weed with strong vitality immediately grew vigorously--haiyingcai has strong vitality and is extremely resistant to salt and alkali.Where there is less salinity, the green ones grow, and where there is more salinity, the red ones grow. The thicker the salinity, the heavier the red, but it does not affect its growth.

He ordered the women of the tenant households to pick them, and then taught them how to process them.No one knew what the master was doing with so many wild vegetables. It wasn't until the first batch of refugees came back that these dried sea vegetables came in handy.

Dried Haiying vegetables do not have the dry and strange smell that wild vegetables often have, and the taste is light.Nutrients are also quite rich. During the **** period, many people lived by it.In the old days, some people used it mixed with lard dregs to make buns or eat it with cold salad.Lu Wenyuan is not so particular here. He uses dried Haiying vegetables as fillers for refugees to mix in relief rations and cook them into a paste.

As for the fuel used for the fire, it is the straw of Hai Yingcai.

(End of this chapter)