Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 965

Zhao Yingong returned to the lower place, quite satisfied.With Sun Yuanhua's support, things will be much easier.But there are many things about him, especially the collection of refugees in Zhejiang is about to start, and he must arrange things as soon as possible and rush back to Hangzhou to sit in town.

There were so many things at hand, he sat behind the desk and was busy for almost half the night.While he was busy, the accompanying doctor came to report that the rescued young man had regained consciousness and had the strength to speak.

Xie Yao is a naturalized general practitioner trained by the Ministry of Health.Speaking Shaanxi dialect, it is very special among the naturalized people in Lingao.Whether it was language or living habits, Xie Yao felt a little out of place, so this time he was going to send someone to Shandong and he took the initiative to sign up.

"Oh? Did he say anything?" Zhao Yingong continued to write letters without leaving his pen.

"He asked who we were, and then asked how his partner was doing." Xie Yao said.

"Who is he and what is his name?"

"This person claims to be Wang Qisuo, a local military household, and a small flag." Xie Yao said enthusiastically, "There are two stab wounds on his body, they are not serious, but his body is a little weak."

"Since he's fine, let him raise him." Although Zhao Yingong saved this man on a whim, he hasn't thought about how to deal with it—maybe he can be used as a channel to contact the local salt dealers and military households?For the time being, he has no detailed plan—there are too many things, "Watch closely, don't let him move around."

"Yes." Just as Xie Yao was about to leave, Zhao Yingong stopped him: "By the way, call me the yellow bear."

Huang Xiong had already been transferred to the Northward Detachment. In the Northward Detachment, he also met Huang Ande, a member of his distant family -- they were all preparing to participate in the engine operation.This time Zhao Yingong wanted to go north to Shandong, so he took Huang Xiong as one of his entourage.

Huang Xiong's job as the captain of the mine protection team at Jiazi Coal Mine was insipid. He heard that many people made contributions in the Chengmai Battle and were promoted.When he was a platoon leader, he was just a soldier. After the war, he became a second lieutenant, but he stayed in the coal mine and practiced the militia. his wish.

He came to Zhao Yingong excitedly, and saluted: "Chief! Second Lieutenant Huang Xiong is ordered to report!" He was wearing the clothes of a servant and a wig, but he was full of energy and looked capable and modern. Soldiers look like.

"Relax!" Zhao Yingong said, and then raised his head to look at him carefully, "You can't do this. From now on, you have to put this set away temporarily. If you want to call me and Mr. Lu Shou, you have to call me thousands of times to meet each other." Please."

"Yes! Chief!" Huang Xiong hurriedly corrected, "Master!" He smiled a little embarrassedly, "I'm not used to it for a while."

"You have to get used to it." Zhao Yingong said, "I will leave here soon. We will build a fort here. You are from the Shandong battalion. From now on, you will be the military commander of the fort."

The yellow bear quickly stood at attention and saluted again.Zhao Yingong then explained his specific tasks: in addition to leading some soldiers to defend fortresses or farms, he was also responsible for training the recruited refugees and arming them to ensure that the base could protect itself during the Dengzhou Rebellion .

"Of course, here for a long time, you are just a leader of the servants, a village teacher, etc. If you have to adapt to such a disguise, this is still Daming's territory for the time being, understand?"

"Yes, I understand!"

"You have to know that we don't have cannons for you. I'll give you a class. You have to use them as seeds to train the recruited refugees into qualified militiamen—at least qualified village warriors."

"It's easy. I do this all day long at Jiazi Coal Mine—" Huang Xiong said, feeling frustrated. This is the mine team leader again, but this time it's a farm.

Zhao Yingong saw that his face was different, and he probably knew what he was thinking—the Political Security Bureau gave him all the latest thoughts on the personnel who were going to be assigned to work in Shandong before leaving.

"You have to know that the engine operation is a national policy-level action of the Senate, and everyone involved in the operation must do their best to contribute all their strength to this task!" He said with a slight smile, "Do you understand?"

"Yes, I understand!" Huang Xiong lifted his spirits and immediately understood the meaning of the words of "chief": After the operation is successful, as the person in charge of a project, he must be promoted and rewarded.He said loudly: "Serve the Senate and the people!"

"Well, you go down first, sort out the idea of ​​​​organizing the village brave, and report to me tomorrow, how many weapons and equipment you need. Come up with a list."

After Huang Xiong left, Zhao Yingong immediately sent someone to find Lu Wenyuan.Lu Wenyuan is a young man who used to be engaged in water conservancy engineering and also has some civil engineering skills. After D-Day, he has been in charge of the agricultural infrastructure work of the Council of Agriculture in the construction head office.This time he came to Shandong, his professional counterpart, young and strong, was selected as the person in charge of the Shandong base.

Because he was too young, he was afraid that it would be difficult to deal with the local aborigines—after all, Zhao Yingong made the start—Lu Wenyuan was even Zhao Yingong's cousin.In order to facilitate the work, before departure, Lu Wenyuan was baptized in the Lingao Church, and then led by Zhao Yingong for a tour of Hangzhou, gaining the trust of the Hangzhou Church.

Lu Wenyuan's grand plan is to open a large harem, but it has not succeeded yet - the maid reluctantly bought one, at least someone does laundry and cooking.When he was sent to Shandong for a mission, Lu Wenyuan's hormones were secreted in large quantities: the so-called closeness to the water is the first to get the moon, if you don't take this opportunity to get a vote of Shandong girls to enrich the harem, your trip will be in vain.

"Little Deer—"

"Call me by name, I'm not a pure child." Lu Wenyuan said dissatisfied.

"Okay, Chunzi——no, Wen Yuan," Zhao Yingong said, "I'm going to explore suitable land with you recently, buy it as a base for our Shandong operation, and then it's your job."

"I'm good at farmland and water conservancy construction." Lu Wenyuan boasted, "There is a lack of farming."

"Hey, you can just plant whatever you want. There will be a fight in Shandong soon. First, build the wall, repair the pier, and wait for people to be installed."

Lu Wenyuan expressed his understanding.

"In a few days, I will take you to meet Sun Yuanhua and prepare the way for you—you are a Catholic now, don't forget to participate in the religious activities of the local church, especially the weekly worship!" Zhao Yingong urged, "Don't expose yourself Already!"

"Okay, I understand." Lu Wenyuan nodded helplessly, "Dean Wu has given me enough religious lessons."

Zhao Yingong knew from historical materials that the Shandong Church in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties had more than 17 believers in the middle of the 3000th century.This is after experiencing the turmoil in the late Ming Dynasty. When Sun Yuanhua was the governor of Denglai, the size of the church would at least not be lower than this figure.

Although more than 3000 people are not many, but believers involve all social levels, and their internal cohesion is relatively good.Trying to use the power of the local church as a reliance for local activities is the best way Zhao Yingong planned to quickly open up the situation in Shandong.

As for where to choose the base in Shandong, there are many different opinions.The list of candidates includes Dongying, Yangkou, Longkou, Huangqibao, Jimo and even Qingdao.All the ports along the coast of the Shandong Peninsula have been proposed.Among them, Rizhao and Qingdao had the most proposers.

However, the General Staff Headquarters studied the data and found that although Kong Youde’s rebels were powerful in Shandong, their scope of influence was very small. The rebels basically only operated along the coast of Bohai Bay on the Shandong Peninsula. Under the traffic conditions, neither refugees nor rebels can go too far.The base is too far away from the Denglei area, so it is difficult to play a role in accommodating refugees.Therefore, the various ports along the Jiaozhou Bay were first cancelled.

As for Dongying and Yangkou, although they are also along the Bohai Bay, they are too far away from the Denglai area, and the land distance is more than [-] kilometers. In contrast, it is closer and more convenient to Cangzhou, Hebei.

It seems that in order to effectively collect and transfer refugees, I am afraid that the only way is to occupy a base along the Bohai Bay.The final choice was Longkou, which is not only a good port, but also very close to Zhaoyuan, which is the main gold producing area in China.The unfavorable factor is that Longkou is located in Huang County, which is the place where Kong Youde's rebels fought against the Ming army. There is a lot of military pressure to maintain existence in the chaos.

"However, there are advantages. Longkou is not a rich place now, at best it is just a small fishing port. Kong Youde may not be interested in going to Longkou to attack us. As long as we can get the support of the navy, occupying the population of Longkou is not a problem."

"Longkou is Longkou." Lu Wenyuan said, "If you talk about building fortresses, no one in this time and space can match us. I don't believe that Kong Youde has the ability to take down our fortress?"

"Don't talk too much, Kong Youde is very good at playing red barbarian cannons. There are Portuguese in Dengzhou and many Western cannons. Didn't he shoot them down anyway?" Zhao Yingong said, "If we don't have cannons in our hands, how can we use them?" It’s really impossible to keep it.”

"Won't the Beishang detachment come by then? They may not always be the opponents of the Beishang detachment." Lu Wenyuan said, "I want to do this—"

Specifically, with the support of the government, construction was first carried out in the Longkou enclosure, and armed stores and farms were set up.At the same time, people were sent to Yizhou and other places to recruit refugees to Longkou first, and these people were first organized as the basic armed and construction forces of the Longkou base.When the war broke out, as long as they showed enough strength to stabilize the place, the refugees would naturally flow to the trading posts guarded by armed forces.After the war, quickly occupied or supported agents to completely control Longkou and Zhaoyuan.

(End of this chapter)