customs clearance base

Chapter 1361 Rogue
Although I am not an extremely talented person, and these personal guards I have trained are not particularly powerful now, but anyway, with their current abilities, they can already help me manage the territory for Mr. Zhao Hu. When top talent emerges, it is unpredictable.

Due to the addition of nearly a thousand captives in Zhao Hu's territory, the speed of construction has been accelerated. When Odie came back with a large number of goods, the original Muzha camp had completely become almost like a town. If the ground is not still muddy and the city walls are still wood, it will be equivalent to a town.

The guards of that squadron were rewarded with a gold coin by Odie and drove them away before they got close to the territory. Odie didn't want to spread the news of the change of Zhao Hu's territory so quickly.

In the lord's mansion that had become a bit grand, Odie reported to Zhao Hu about going to the provincial capital, and finally said: "My lord, do you think this is okay?"

Leaving the internal affairs to the personal guards, Zhao Hu, who took the captives and servants to work with himself, smiled and said: "Well, you did a very good job. As for the pier, after you set off, Liu Bin has already led people to start building it. Didn't go to see it, but estimated that two days would be enough to restore the original state."

"Oh, I didn't expect Liu Bin to have something like this..." Odie said this, and suddenly his eyes lit up and said: "My lord, is Liu Bin very good at port construction?"

"Well, since he dared to ask to be responsible for the construction of the wharf, he should have some ability in this, right?" Zhao Hu was a little uncertain.

"My lord, please invite Liu Bin here, my subordinates want to ask him a few questions." Odie said hastily.

Although Zhao Hu was puzzled by this request, he still waved his hand and asked the guards to find someone.

Soon, Liu Bin and Zhou Wen walked into the lord's mansion together. Just as Liu Bin greeted Zhao Hu, Zhou Wen yelled: "My lord, Liu Bin is too powerful. The pier was built very beautifully for him! I never thought that I could Build such a pier out of wood!"

Both Zhao Hu and Ou Di didn't take it seriously. Where can a wooden pier be so beautiful? Isn't it just a few pillars and a few planks?
But even though he thought so, after seeing a shyness flashing in Liu Bin's eyes, Odie hurriedly said: "Then you have to appreciate Mr. Liu Bin's masterpiece, don't you think so, my lord?"

Zhao Hu also nodded in agreement, after all, he is not an unreasonable person.

"Liu Bin, I don't know if you are good at shipbuilding and navigation?" Odie didn't wait for Liu Bin to ask what he was called to do, and asked directly.

"Shipbuilding? Navigation?" Liu Bin shook his head in doubt: "I only have some experience in drawing and architecture, and I have never touched shipbuilding or navigation."

Speaking of this, Zhou Wen suddenly interrupted: "Does Uncle Odie want to build his own ship for smuggling?"

Odie stared and said: "Isn't it possible? As long as we have our own boat and occupy a good place, are we afraid we won't be able to make money?
"Besides, we have a lot of trees here, and there are also many big trees that neither of us can hug. It's a pity not to build a boat by ourselves. I believe that as long as those carpenters do a little work, they will definitely be able to build a boat."

Zhou Wen tilted his head and said in doubt: "Is it that simple? I heard that there must be a special shipyard. If we rely on carpenters, I'm afraid they can only build small boats that can only fish in small rivers. After all, they are just A carpenter, not a shipwright."

"We can go recruit shipwrights!" Sun Jie who heard the news and ran over immediately interjected.

Zhou Wen treated him differently from others, and reached out and knocked Sun Jie on the head: "Idiot! These shipwrights are the treasures of every port, what do we use to recruit them here!"

Liu Bin pondered for a while, and said, "We don't necessarily need to build a shipyard, we just need some repairing shipwrights. Such shipwrights should be able to be hired. After all, building a ship is better than buying a ship now."

Speaking of this, Liu Bin found that Zhao Hu was listening with great interest, and continued a little excitedly: "However, if you really want a senior shipwright, it is not very difficult. There are many shipwrights in the coastal areas of the southeast peninsula. In the war, there will definitely be many shipwrights who will become prisoners of war, can't we just buy them?"

When everyone was applauding this opinion, Odie suddenly slapped his forehead and shouted annoyedly: "I'm such an ass! I came here twice from the provincial capital, why didn't I think of recruiting peasants! "

Except for Zhao Hu, everyone else was stunned for a moment, then lowered their heads in the same annoyance and shook.

Zhao Hu smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, as long as the defense facilities are built, the people will definitely be attracted."

Odie said anxiously: "Why don't I go to the provincial capital again and release the news about the recruitment of civilian husbands? The sooner this matter is done, the better."

Zhou Wen was a little hesitant, and reminded: "Uncle, we don't have farmland, lumber mills, or fishing boats here. It can be said that there is nothing but this militarized town. Are those folks willing to come? You must know that apart from His Majesty the Emperor or Except for the orders of the imperial council, no one can force the freedmen to relocate!"

Hearing Zhou Wen's words, Ou Di and Zhao Hu were stunned. They thought that as long as they said hello, civilian husbands would come, but they didn't expect that their place was so remote and poor, how could those civilian husbands come?
When everyone present was thinking hard about what to do, Liu Bin said aloud again: "I don't know if we can buy some prisoners of war from the southeast peninsula to be civilian husbands?
"The habit on the Eastern Continent is that prisoners of war are either executed or sold as slaves. I believe the custom on the Western Continent is similar, right?"

"The prisoners of war on our side have a habit of paying ransom to be free." Odi just said this, slapped his thigh and shouted: "Yes! The southeast peninsula is relatively poor, and most of the captured soldiers cannot Redeem ourselves, we can start from here."

Everyone agreed with this approach, "What about the funds?" Zhou Wen asked with a frown.

A prisoner of war can be sold for at least two gold coins, and these prisoners of war need food, tools, camps and other things to buy back, which will cost a lot of money.Although there are hundreds of thousands of gold coins in stock, money is needed everywhere, and if you are not careful, it will be spent like running water.

Odie said confidently: "Don't worry, if the smuggling goes well, we can use the profits from the smuggling to exchange prisoners from the southeast peninsula."

Speaking of this, Ou Di immediately said to Zhao Hu: "My lord, I think we should divide the development plan of the entire territory now. Although [-] square kilometers is huge, we still need to determine how many acres of land and how many factories need to be built. and workshop..."

Just when Zhao Hu was about to wave his hand and leave everything to Odie, he heard a rush of horseshoes outside.

Hearing this voice, everyone's expressions changed. Without important military information, no one would gallop around the town on horseback.

Just as Zhao Hu stood up, the servant centurion Elder Dao rushed in and shouted: "Master! A large number of rogues have come ashore!"

"Rogue!" Everyone was shocked.

Zhao Hu immediately ordered: "Ring the alarm immediately, and the servants are on standby! The guards are watching the prisoners! Lao Dao, explain the situation."

Lao Dao hurriedly followed Zhao Hu who grabbed his saber and walked out, and said as he walked, "My lord, just now, we found dozens of small boats in the distance by the sea. At first, we thought they were smuggling fleets. But when they landed, we found that there were soldiers on board!
"Besides, those soldiers were yelling aggressively and driving towards our pier. A prisoner said that they looked like the rumored rogues, so his subordinates came back immediately to report."

"Have all the people who built the pier returned?" Zhao Hu asked.

"Yes, except for a few cavalrymen left behind to watch from a distance, the others have come back with the subordinate."

Lao Dao felt warm in his heart, and quickly replied.

"Do you know the exact number of ships and the number of people?" Zhao Hu asked again.

Lao Dao thought for a while and said: "I heard from the captive that it looks like forty or fifty small fishing boats. Master, since the distance is a bit far, the captive estimated according to the size of the hull, saying that each boat carried about four or fifty fishing boats. people."

"That's about 2000 people? Well, well done, now you take your centurion cavalry to meet the monitoring brother, by the way, after the battle is over, bring the prisoner who found the enemy to me to see, he It's talent."

Zhao Hu's words gave Odie a vague idea in his heart.

"Yes!" Lao Dao immediately took the order and retreated.

"Ou Di, how many people are usually dispatched at a time when the bandits invade?" Zhao Hu asked.

Odie, who didn't catch the inspiration, hurriedly said: "My lord, there is no definite number, sometimes three to 40 people, sometimes three to 400 people, but there are definitely not thousands of people, this time it doesn't look like an ordinary bandit invasion. "

"How?" Zhao Hu frowned.

"Our place used to be a barren land, and the rogues would never choose this place as their looting target. Usually, they sneaked ashore from other places, ransacked some villages, and then left. How can there be so many troops as openly as now?" Odie sighed.

He couldn't understand why Mr. Zhao Hu's territory was so popular. It was attacked by the security division because it cut off the smuggling route at the beginning, and now it has been favored by about 2000 rogues. Could there be any treasure hidden here?Otherwise, it wouldn't be so eye-catching.

Odie didn't rely on the smugglers to the smuggling gang. After all, he had just established a good relationship with the smuggling gang and was about to join the gang. How could those money-oriented guys cause such troubles?
(End of this chapter)