open sea

Chapter 1019 Long Island
The Dongyang Military Mansion handles Asian affairs efficiently and professionally, which is the most intuitive feeling of Makino magistrate Yang Zhaolong.

When Yang Zhaolong brought more than [-] entourages, including Nanyang Banner Army, Miao warriors, Duzhangman, and Maori, who traveled across the ocean with him, to follow the map and arrive at Muye County, which was planned by the Dongyang Army Mansion, the original place where he lived Residents can already speak Chinese.

Hei Yunlong said: This is our credit, uncle, don't forget to make a note of it when you look back.

But Yang Zhaolong was not happy.

"I told my brother-in-law a long time ago, how can I decide on the important matter of demarcating a county without seeing it with my own eyes? There are so many places along the way that are suitable for county government, and my brother-in-law insists on marking here, which is too easy to get beaten .”

In addition to enjoying and traveling, Yang Zhaolong, yes, although all he does is the work of an explorer, but he is not called an adventure, at most it is a tour.

Apart from having fun and traveling, he thinks he has nothing to show for it, but these two points are very useful for the current Muye county government.

From the perspective of hydrology and terrain, the first magistrate of Muye County can easily judge that the county seat area designated by the Eastern Military Government is easy to be attacked by enemies from overseas.

"Beating? Hahaha!"

Sitting in Mazha, oh no, it was Hei Yunlong who was sitting on the top chair, raised his head and laughed, raised his whip and pointed to the distance, and said to Yang Zhaolong: "Uncle, I don't know. In the northwest, the French call it New France. Occupying the mouth of the river for more than [-] years; on the big island across the sea to the east, there are also Europeans who call it New Angoulême, and it has also been decades."

"But my heavenly army has always been the only one who beats others, so why should others beat me?" Hei Yunlong said, waving his hands, and said, "It depends on the battle of New France, and his 50 years of achievements will be destroyed; New Angoulême is even more What's the use of being burnt down by Li Yuxi and working so hard?"

In the past, Hei Yunlong had always looked down on merchants, but Li Yuxi really impressed him, he looked quite polite, he found Yiren Township on the big island, and he went in with a smile the first day as a guest. The crowd attacked the walled city, murdered and set fire to none of them.

Not to mention the burning of the city wall, even the French warships parked in the port sent watermen to chisel through the plank of the ship and sank.

At this time, Hei Yunlong suddenly realized that Li Yuxi was a Quanzhou merchant, a Fujian merchant, and a famous big merchant who had become famous before the imperial court opened the sea... But the imperial court did not open the sea, how did this big merchant get mixed up? What about famous ones?

They are different from the good babies who are willing to go to sea after sailing.

"He is a merchant, why did he attack the city? And he succeeded."

Yang Zhaolong blinked, is this a serious merchant?Why does it sound like the fighting power is stronger than that of the Beiyang Army?

"He said the local people are too simple."

Hei Yunlong curled his lips, and said helplessly: "I didn't think clearly about what he meant at the beginning. I realized later that simplicity is easy to obey, and ugly is stupid. It is easy to trust others and easy to be deceived."

"There is also a cavalry general called Hulan in the north, and you will see him when you look back at the county magistrate. From Jincheng to Quebec, Hulan sent horse breeds from tribe to tribe, and taught people to raise horses to repair roads; Li Yuxi traveled from Quebec to Florida. and cotton, he taught people how to grow tobacco.”

"I also made good deals with all the tribes, saying that next year the tobacco can only be sold to him, and he will exchange tools, clothes, pens, ink, paper and inkstones. The ones in Xiaolou and the north of Weigang belong to Li Yuxi, and he wants to be the biggest tobacconist."

Hei Yunlong explained to Yang Zhaolong: "At the end of the day, he was afraid that the French barbarians would rush to buy his goods, and chasing and intercepting them would not work in the vast sea, so he simply uprooted the barbarians and taught them not to come here in the future! "

As he spoke, Hei Yunlong waved his hands and said: "But this is also useful against the early barbarians. They are different from us. They are neither serious merchants nor the army. They are just idlers. The news will spread in the future." , Ou Luoyi will either not come, or it will be a big battle."

The news made Yang Zhaolong restless.

Yang Zhaolong looked around. They were sitting on a small hillside, very close to the coastline, but they couldn't see the sea because of the woods on the edge of the beach, but they could see the narrow Long Island farther away.

At the edge of sight, the setting sun and the aborigine tribe lit up smoke and stamped on one place, and the military music and the symphony of the general order's war drum and suona came from the foot of the mountain, and the cavalry stationed here practiced with the drums and music.

He could see beside the cavalrymen, there were aboriginal warriors wearing hand-woven blankets forming a square formation, training with stone spears.

"It's not easy for a hundred cavalrymen to lead four square formations." Hei Yunlong followed Yang Zhaolong's eyes and looked at the camp that had been trained in the queue after dinner, with a tired look on his face, and said: "The commander-in-chief ordered from Changsheng A county was set up on the east coast, and Hei organized the people here, and according to the system of the nine borders, organized each department into Lijia."

"The Algonquin tribes born here have more than [-] people, and they are called the society; but none of them are good at fighting, so another [-] brave and Huron prisoners were recruited from the northwest longhouse and the southern Qi tribe. , Disperse the various ministries and call them Tun, and gather here to prepare for coastal defense and the establishment of county government for corvee use."

"Since the commander-in-chief ordered Hei to stay on the east coast, I don't have to worry about being on guard. I have more than a thousand elite cavalry. Listen to this general's order. Those Ou Luoyi who like to worship will come again, and call them the next week after landing Burn the first seven."

Hei Yunlong's fighting spirit is very strong.

But what Yang Zhaolong is worried about is not war and population. On the contrary, he also hopes that there will be fewer people here.

Because he can't afford it.

He pursed his lips and asked, "2 people, what do they eat and where do they live?"

"Don't worry, all the 48th Li have already elected their chiefs. They have set up settlements around them, and they will find their own food. In each of the two months, six chiefs will lead their troops to the county government for training, for March, and the rest will not practice. Li sent food to the county to feed them and the cavalry."

"But we don't have blunderbusses or armor. The local people don't know how to smelt iron. They are still practicing with stone spears. It's too far away from Jincheng and Changsheng. We need weapons this year and can't deliver them next year."

Hei Yunlong's worries made Yang Zhaolong overjoyed, and said anxiously: "There are iron mines here? No weapons? This is so easy to handle!"

The riding general on the top chair just nodded, when the magistrate said happily: "Nothing else, black general, you don't know what Yang is doing in Xinmingzhou, looking for mines, no one in the world knows these things better than me!"

"Tomorrow we will go to see the mine. My followers are those who know how to mine, some who know how to burn iron, and some who know how to forge steel. The armor will be hard to get together for a while, but the weapons are easy to say. This is the goal of Makino Next year, at this time next year, we will have a port where we can build some lucky boats; we will open an iron factory, and everyone will use iron spearheads; Practice it all."

(End of this chapter)