Lu Ming

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As the boat continued to shuttle between the open sea and the shore, when the sun rose, the number of people and supplies that landed on the shore gradually became sufficient.

While transporting the corpses, the newly arrived troops replaced the brothers who had been on duty all night.

After a night of war heroes, the current situation must be miserable at this moment.

The survivors lay pale and weak in the fortifications.Most of them had wounds on their bodies, and blood seeped out of the hastily tied bandages.

However, except for transporting some seriously wounded to a transport ship in the open sea for in-depth treatment, the rest of the lightly wounded who were able to move actually stood firm and did not evacuate with the ship.

Could it be that the great spirit of internationalism is supporting their belief that they can't get out of the line of fire with minor injuries?

Obviously not.

The reason for supporting these gangsters, reform-through-labor prisoners, bullies, and bandits to continue to stay is that they received a notice: later, a big boss will come ashore to celebrate and award everyone on the spot.

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao.

At the moment when the sun was rising, several big brothers headed by Commander Wang boarded the beach on the same boat.

After the bosses landed, they first inspected the battlefield.

Although the corpses had been cleaned up, the broken weapons and light-colored plaques all over the place still told the tragic battle of last night.

Next, in front of the beachhead, the boss officially received the remaining combat team members.

The total number of people remaining on the beachhead yesterday was 80.And this morning, there were only 36 people who could stand in the queue leaning on their guns.

Among them, 6 seriously injured people were transported away, that is to say, a total of 38 people died in the battle last night, and this does not include the seriously wounded who cannot be rescued in the future.

Standing in front of these little people who have been baptized in battle, seeing their blood-stained wounds and their murderous aura after the bloody battle, Wang Bo was still very touched.

After all, this is not the same as what you see in the IPAD.

"Heroes, all heroes!"

Walking past the team members one by one, he patted the shoulders of those who worked hard to straighten their chests. Finally, Wang Bo stood in front of the team and said loudly: "From today onwards, you will be completely reborn. In addition to my admiration, I decided to give you a New title; 'Warrior!'”

The 38 people who were recognized as fighters by Commander Wang then received benefits.

First of all, Commander Wang announced that in order to commemorate the battle last night, the colonial fort built on the platform in the future will be named "Cone Fort".

Wu Meng, the deputy commander of the landing, was appointed on the spot as the first fortress of Fort Licone.

The 38 fighters who fought hard for the rest of their lives last night will all be promoted this time as key training.In the next step, two brand-new honor pioneer squadrons will be formed with these 38 core officers.

Half of them will return to Saigon with the ship from now on, waiting for the arrival of follow-up recruits, and they will be trained on the spot to form an army.

Of course, the unlucky Mr. Wu still has to stick to his post until the new squadron is formed and then changed.

Once you get promoted, you should get a raise.

The pioneer army is different from the regular army.This kind of loosely organized military unit has a strong sense of quackery among its members, and when it comes to salary increases, they are all cashed out on the spot, in the style of the Golden Triangle, not playing tricks.

The next moment, stacks of banknotes of the new version of Dayan Kingdom were handed out to the smiling new version of the soldiers by the bosses.

A kind of banknote, as long as all the materials in daily life can be purchased at any time, and can be freely exchanged with precious metals, then it will definitely become a hard currency and be accepted by the people.

TravelZone has never rigidly promoted banknotes.The treasury began by phasing out banknotes only within the civil service and the military.However, with the passage of time, the "domestic" people who felt the constant value of paper money and the convenience of use, finally accepted the "treasure banknotes" issued by the Cao family.

To this day, the banknotes of the Great Yan Kingdom have already become real hard currency.Its scope of use has covered the Guangdong New District and the surrounding areas of Guangzhou City.In addition, in port cities such as Shanghai and Tianjin, there are also a large number of large and medium-level businessmen who have become loyal users of banknotes.

Don't look at the small amount of circulation, in fact, in terms of hard currency, the banknotes of Dayan Kingdom can undoubtedly be called "golden coins".

The biggest feature of the so-called gold circle is that it can be exchanged for precious metals from the market at any time.Before 1971 in the U.S., U.S. banknotes could also be exchanged for precious metals, so they were honored as "U.S. dollars."

And when the Bretton Woods monetary system collapsed in 1971, the so-called U.S. dollar was reduced to the U.S. dollar and decoupled from precious metals.

Later on, the descendants of Anglo-Saxons were lazy, playing dollar hegemony and financial games every day, printing money at full speed, and finally turned the dollar into toilet paper.

Empires rise and fall, in light of this.

After placating the meritorious people, the big brothers joined hands to board the strategic seaside platform in high spirits.

Put your hands on your hips and wave your fingers to point to the mountains and rivers, and make a plan for the vast world, mountains and dense forests.The travellers finally vowed to clear the land and plant rubber seedlings as soon as possible, and then dreamed of the beautiful scene where everyone is an old driver...with a car (bicycle).

After that, Mr. Wu, who was able to have Xin to accompany the boss on an outing, was called to the top of the platform alone, "keep secret".

Pointing to the Nanyang map spread out on the scene, Wang Bo solemnly told the third master that the battle last night was of great significance.This victory even prompted the hesitant cabinet to make up its mind to adjust the Nanyang strategy.

Just this morning, the chief minister of the cabinet, who learned that the beachhead was being defended, held an emergency meeting and made the following strategic adjustments.

One: Immediately dispatch a reinforced battalion of regular troops, with a heavy artillery company attached, to sail to Nanyang on naval ships.In the future, this reinforced battalion will be located in Saigon, facing Chenla in the north, Siam in the west, Annan in the east, and become the rear of Zhenghe Island's development base.

Second: Increase investment in the Zheng He Island Cone Fort Base.A large fleet will set off in the near future, bringing a large number of infrastructure materials and construction workers to Fort Licone.

Third: The Vietnam No. [-] plan was officially implemented.

Wu Meng didn't understand the third "confidentiality" and dared not ask.But he understood the first two: after Zheng He's battle last night, the pioneering team led by Mr. Wu proved that his family could stand firm.

In other words, the importance of Wu Meng and Lizhuobao has greatly increased in the system.

After talking about the changes in the strategy, Wang Bo carefully compared the map and arranged for Wu Meng the next development steps.

Here Wang Bo points out: Based on the battle last night, it seems that in addition to building rain-proof fortifications, the landing personnel still have to cut down the rainforest.

Once enough isolation zones are cut, the troops will find a day with the right wind direction, use gasoline to set fire to the forest as much as possible, and leave ample safe area for platooning guns for possible future engagements.

The third master nodded when he heard this: he thought so too, and the old man really didn't want to have another hand-to-hand fight with the natives.

Arranged here, after Wang Bo thought about it, he bent down again, and whispered the next thing to the third master: After the future has gained a firm foothold, don't be afraid of casualties, go around more, and "invite" some aborigines to come" Help" engage in infrastructure construction.

The third master can understand this as soon as he hears it. He is an old infrastructure from the Yangmingshan Second Construction Group.

Seeing the understanding look in the third master's eyes, Wang Bo nodded, turned his hands behind his back, and said after a long silence: "Wu Meng, after unloading the cargo in a few days, I will take the fleet away. All the supplies will be left for you at that time." Next, try to leave as many people as possible for you, and then you will take care of everything by yourself."

"Wu Meng knows."

"Wu Meng, you have great leadership skills. This time you have a great responsibility, you have to work hard and do things well."

"General, please rest assured that you will live up to the delay!"

Facing the blue sea below the cliff, Wang Bo was silent for a while, and finally said: "Wu Meng, do you know that at 6 o'clock in the morning today, even General Cao and Xia Shoufu knew your name?"

The third master had known for a long time that there was a treasure in the hands of the high-level Cao family that could send messages across thousands of miles. After hearing the news, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed and clasped his fists, and said in a loud voice: "Thank you, General Wu Meng, for your support!"

At this moment, Wang Bo turned around abruptly: "Do you know that General Cao is about to become emperor and fight for the world with the Ming emperor in less than ten years?"

Seeing Mr. Wu who was stunned by a single sentence, Wang Bo finally smiled slightly, and at the same time when he turned around and went down the mountain, he floated the last sentence leisurely: "Do things well, and you Wu Meng will be the hero of Conglong when the time comes. Where to go, think for yourself. "

Five days later, when all the supplies of the fleet were transferred, Wang Bo led the fleet to hoist the sails and anchor, and return to Saigon.

And Wu Meng, the owner of Lizhuo Fortress, started a arduous entrepreneurial journey on Zhenghe Island with 300 armed personnel.

Volume VII Rewind

Chapter 642

1635年2月10日，农历乙亥年12月23日。

No matter from which point of view, the development process of Nanyang, which is slowly advancing through hardships, is an extremely important event for the country and the nation.

However, for the subjects of the Ming Dynasty who were far away in Guangdong, they had absolutely no idea what happened in a distant land.The public lacks both information channels and lack of awareness of pioneering.

What the public pays attention to is always the most basic and most living things such as firewood, rice, oil and salt.

Time flies by.The brutal battle that took place on Zheng He Island was inadvertently two months ago.In a blink of an eye, it was early 2.

It was the New Year's Eve, and the people of Daming who lived in the ancient city of Guangzhou walked hurriedly with happy faces.Neighbors in the street congratulate the New Year loudly when they meet, and every household is preparing for the New Year.

This year's Guangzhou City, because the days are getting better, the New Year's atmosphere is much stronger than before.

Memories are hard to erase.All the "middle- and lower-class people" in Guangzhou who are over 30 years old have a deep feeling and understanding of the term "year-end".

As early as the time of Emperor Tianqi, the New Year's Day in the city of Guangzhou was roughly as old as one year old.Including the early years of Emperor Chongzhen, the term "Nianguan" has never been a good word in the memory of neighbors.

At that time, the government's taxation was repeated year after year, and various Liao shang exercises were assigned by the court one after another.In addition, officials and subordinates from all walks of life took the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to share money and make money to wipe out the deficit. The majestic No. 1 city in Nantian, the whole city, young and old, was oppressed by the imperial court.

In those years, all industries withered and people's livelihood was difficult.Except for those rich and powerful families, ordinary people's Chinese New Year is really a disaster.

At the end of the new year, the creditors came to the door. I don’t know how many old households in Guangzhou city became naked and run-down because they couldn’t pay their debts.

What's more, they hanged themselves, and they don't know how many of their families were ruined.

Chinese New Year is to pass through the gate of hell.

It's strange to say.Since then, everyone's life has gradually improved after Emperor Chongzhen came to power.

First, business is flourishing.

Overnight, a lot of well-made groceries came from the unknown Yizhou inexplicably.

The wealthy businessmen in Guangzhou city heard the news and went out to sea one after another to find sources of goods and contact sellers.

From then on, it gradually got out of hand.First of all, the laborers and porters at various land and water wharfs grew up: after they went to work, they had unloaded goods, and the wages they earned became more and more.

With the spread of Yizhou goods in the Pearl River Delta, a large number of people and local resources subsequently participated in the trade exchange: wealthy businessmen began to spend money to recruit workers to go to Yizhou to do work for others.Later, there were those masters with a "kindhearted heart" who even sent their slaves to the streets to "pick up" people, or directly served porridge on the streets, and those who drank the porridge were stuffed into the bilge and pulled to Yizhou to exchange goods.

After that, the chain effect, the whole city was mobilized.Countless small and medium-sized businessmen have benefited from the arrival of Yizhou goods, and primitive industrial clusters have begun to appear... The dicks and pua who beat sacks at the head of the stinking ditch can grow up, hire small workers and take the whole family day and night Weaving sacks for foreign trade...the supply is still in short supply.

In this way, Guangdong's primitive economy, which had previously fallen into stagflation and difficulties, gradually became a vassal of industrialization and was forcibly transformed.Although the public participated passively, they actually benefited from it.

Afterwards, it is a well-known story-a general Cao fell from the sky with a bang, and with his elite soldiers, he began to fight against the pirates, and the weather in one year wiped out the Fujian, Guangdong and Hai that had been infested for many years. bandit.

After the people were amazed, they gradually realized that the properties in Yizhou belonged to Mr. Cao! ?

After a long time of trouble, all the young and old are doing work for Cao Zongbing?

People's eyes are sharp.When everyone found out that the person who brought him the life-saving money and saved his family was not the Emperor Chongzhen but the village general, someone Cao from Yizhou quickly became close to the subjects of Guangzhou.

After that, life got better year after year.The land of the Pearl River is changing with each passing day, as if everyone is busy overnight, and the fast pace of life makes the ancients who are used to the slow pace overwhelmed.

An extremely shocking thing is yet to come: In just a few years, a new city has sprung up, completely overturning Ming people's cognition.

The clean and tidy hardened ground, the spacious and luxurious red brick sewer system, the straight and beautiful main road, and the brick houses rising from the ground.

Although the city didn't even have the most basic walls, the new residents who flocked in voted with their feet: the people believed that the city was safer than the old city.

Those mountain-like gunboats running rampant on the Pearl River, as well as the elite soldiers who have never been defeated in daily conquests, provide an endorsement for this cognition.

Now, another year is approaching.

At the end of the year of Yihai, the ancient city of Guangzhou is filled with joyful atmosphere.Accompanied by the sporadic sound of firecrackers from urchins at the door of the house, blessings written on red paper and couplets are pasted in front of the shops in the city, and a variety of New Year's goods are piled up on the shelves.

There are especially many neighbors who come to buy various new year goods this year.Wearing brand-new robes, everyone had rosy complexions and was full of energy. They took out various silver coins and banknotes from their pockets, and exchanged them for new year's necessities in large and small packages.When meeting acquaintances, it is difficult to hold things in hand to salute, and say a few homely words loudly to congratulate them on the new year.

At the same time, many flowers brought from outside the city were piled up on both sides of the street.Usually at this time of year, it is customary for Guangzhou to bring a large number of flowers into the city for sale.

In fact, the "flower street shopping" activity that later generations are accustomed to first appeared in the Ming Dynasty.In the past two years, as the "world" has improved and the "official expenses" have been abundant, the scale of the traditional flower street shopping activities organized by Futai Yamen in Guangzhou has also increased a lot.

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"Baked potatoes...sugar potatoes, salt potatoes...baked potatoes..."

In the small year when businesses are competing, hard-working hawkers naturally have to stick to their front-line positions.

Yang Liushui stretched out his hand, and with a pair of bright white electroplated iron tongs, he gently picked out a baked potato with its skin ripped apart from the stove.

At the same time, Yang Liushui's mouth was not idle, he was still yelling about his business, attracting passers-by to buy baked potatoes.

If a person of later generations came to Yang Liushui's mobile shelf truck at this moment, he would show a familiar smile: there was a blue iron oil drum that is common in later generations, with a square damper pulled out from the bottom, and cooking smoke was rising from the top .

In this day and age, there is no doubt that the blue tin bucket is a tall novelty.I don't know where Yang Liushui got such a scrapped oil barrel... This stuff is undoubtedly a controlled product, unless it is scrapped, it is impossible to reveal it to the people.

Using electroplated clips to clamp the potatoes into an equally bright white electroplated iron plate, Yang Liushui raised his face and asked with a smile, "Guest, do you want sugar or salt?"

The guests were two women wearing beautiful long skirts and carrying rouge and powder in their hands. They looked like they were out shopping.

The two women bowed their heads and whispered a few times, asking Hu Liushui: "Half everything."

"Okay!" Hearing this, Yang Liushui quickly cut the potatoes in half with a knife, then picked up a fine wire mesh sieve, sifted the salt shaker and the sugar shaker separately, and sprinkled the seasoning on the two halves of the potatoes...the whole process was done without using hands. Touched potatoes.

Finally, after putting the potatoes into two exquisite straw baskets, the guest took out a bright fifty-cent coin with satisfaction and threw it into Hu Liushui's hands.

Seeing the anti-counterfeiting profile of Mr. Cao with clear lines on the silver coin, Liu Shui put the silver coin into his pocket with a smile on his face, and then glared at his son who looked at the beautiful woman stupidly: "What are you looking at, hurry up and find silver for the customer!"

The half-sized boy has the same round face as Yang Liushui.The young man was just growing up, and his body was thin. He was wearing a short coat and homemade shoes, and he had short hair that is common among poor people nowadays.

Hearing my father's complaint, the boy came back to his senses and quickly took out a few loose coins from the money jar, and handed them to the guest with a blushing face.

In this way, accompanied by a few chuckles from the woman, Yang Liushui took care of it alone.

Novelty things always attract attention.Nowadays, in the city of Guangzhou, there are very few mobile street vendors with tin buckets like Yang Liushui.So as soon as he set up his stall, the business continued to flow.