Beiyang new warlord

In the cold winter in the north, even Japanese people who are hardy to the cold have to hurry to roast in front of the fire. Jeju Island here is not like a Japanese country, with a small area and limited firewood. He can't die, but it's not so easy to keep warm. Seeing these quilts, more than a dozen leaders of Li Chao's army almost burst into tears.

"The kindness of General Mao of the Dongjiang River, we will remember it in our hearts, and there will be rewards!"

The North Koreans of the Lee family in tatters were carrying back the same tattered winter clothes and quilts, while the Pu Adas on the other knelt down and kowtowed their heads gratefully.

Everyone can say cheap words, let alone Song Xiance, the leader among them. He was originally full of anger and wanted to hurt these guys who made trouble for his general, but watching this scene, his funny big head suddenly revealed There was a smile on his face, and he waved his hand amiably there.

"A little heart is not enough respect. My general wanted to supply your army with some new ones, but Mr. Li and Mr. Jin are also very embarrassed. You understand!"

"The last general understands! Lord Song, don't need to say too much! It's only my fault that the last general is blessed and not born under General Mao's command!"

By the way, the Li family's North Korea affairs are wicked enough, and Song Xiance's vague words made a group of low-level soldiers who returned home happily, but were immediately involved in political struggles, and their minds were frozen in the snow. Immediately, a lot of conspiracies and transactions, and Mao Jue's helpless compromise scenes appeared.

The icing on the cake is easy, but it is difficult to send charcoal in the snow. Such a small piece of rags moved these untouchables who were born in the Korean Changjun of the Lee family. At the same time, they hated the mother country that called them together to fight for them. More than a dozen military leaders were very grateful. answered.

Regardless of the so-called eastern Hawaii, Jeju Island’s winter is only colder than the Japanese people. Even if they resist the frost like those Japanese people, they are still shivering around the firepit in the house. The snow that falls is half a foot thick. The standing army of the Li Dynasty who returned with relief goods also made big footprints step by step, and gradually disappeared in the snowy sky, but looking at the black footprints, Song Xiance, who had complained about the messy army when he came, stared at them. Those footprints remained silent for a long time.

It took a long time until the accompanying sergeants were rubbing their hands with the cold, and then Song Xiance raised his funny head, spit out a puff of white smoke, and shook his head loudly.

"The gentleman of the monarchy treats him with respect, and the scholar pays for it with all his heart and brain. It is like Yu letting the lacquer paint swallow carbon fire. The monarch treats him as a slave, and the scholar despises him and leaves sideways. Just like Wei Gong is good at cranes and despises people. Counting, Pindao is really lucky!"

"Master Zanhua, what else do you want to say?"

He was confused when he heard it, and the soldiers around him asked in astonishment, who knew that Song's big head suddenly turned dark, and he hummed with a straight face.

"My official said, you must work hard for the general! Are you dissatisfied?"

"Ah! The little one doesn't dare, how dare the little one not work hard for the general?"

Seeing that the guard chief beside him was trembling in fear, Shorty Song showed a smile like a plot was successful, and waved a feigned feather fan in his hand in the cold weather.

"That's it, lead the horse, let's go back to camp!"

"As ordered!"

Heaving a sigh of relief, the personal guard hurriedly pulled the horse from the snowy path, stepping on the palm of a guard before going up, looking back at the direction where the regular army disappeared, Song Xiance suddenly sighed again.

"The Li Dynasty is about to cause chaos! I hope Dongjiang will not be involved this time!"

Song Xiance has begun to think long-term, but Mao Jue is still looking forward to the near-term worries. The more than 3 Lee's Korean standing army troops are not on his mind at all. It is still Xihaibao. Instead, he stares at his own fleet and frowns even more. .

After the last meeting, Adelaine was "sick" again, and she didn't even board the Black Pearl, so she huddled on the Storm and stayed behind closed doors. Although Mao Jue was not extremely smart, and sometimes he was rough, but he absolutely Not a fool, he could say he didn't pay attention before, but if he didn't find out now, he could really bang his head against the wall.

Adelaine was scruples, fear, fear of those Dutch people! And the root of the scruples and fear, as expected, was related to her life experience.

Not all foreign monks can chant scriptures. Adelaine is a strange woman. She is not only meticulous, but also proficient in mathematics, history, etiquette, dance and other traditional knowledge of Western ladies. No small research, this is not something that can be cultivated by ordinary families, even if it is an aristocratic family, it stands out from the crowd. It is unreasonable for such a baby bump to live as a slave in the east.

Mao Jue didn't ask about it before. On the one hand, he and Adelaine were using each other and didn't care about it. On the other hand, he also hoped that the time would be ripe for this chick to speak for herself. But now, the foreign girl has become his pillow. The sidemen plus the chief staff officer are now extremely important morale, which can explain that in the battle of Qing Dynasty, the winners and losers are all in the past few years. Mao Jue really doesn't want anything to happen to the core members around him.

But, how to talk to this foreign girl?

Although Adelaine is the most independent and assertive among several women, she also inherited the rationality and suspicion of Western women. If you want to assign her a comparable role, Mao Jue can only think of " Miledy in The Three Musketeers, the villainous woman who manipulates the kingdom behind her back, can easily alienate her if she doesn't speak well.

What a mind-boggling puzzle!

The door behind him was pushed open with a creak, and the scent of tea was strong and tangy, but it was Su Yi who was serving tea in. The knowing husband, Mo Ruo's wife, watched Mao Jue with his hands behind his back and looked at the fleet below without saying a word. The tea cup was placed on the table, hesitating Su Yi asked cautiously.

"Master, how about Su Yi go talk to Sister Hong!"

Mao Jue was really moved, but when he turned his head to look at Su Yi's big watery eyes, he suddenly waved his hand again.

"never mind!"

Turning around to see a few crooked Dutchmen crawling back to the boat like a woodchuck holding a barrel, a challenge-like look suddenly emerged from his eyes.

"Ben will be able to conquer her the first time! I will be able to conquer her the second time! I will settle this matter myself!"

Mao Jue has been successful for more than half a year, but now it is really time for him to be in trouble. With the attitude of Lee's North Korea, if such an unstable army is placed on Jeju Island for one day, his plan to develop Jeju Island will have to be delayed by one day, and the construction is difficult. Destruction is easy, but once the insane Lee's North Korean standing army mutinied once and ruined his reputation, it would be difficult to gather businessmen from various countries in Southeast Asia on the Dongjiang side next time. Therefore, Mao Jue had no choice but to Here is a short-term transfer station, taking high risks, once again gathering all the people in the Dongjiang River, and taking the East India Company people to continue northward.

But who knew that Dongjiang, which he was proud of and regarded as his strong backing, had problems these days.

At the end of October, more than 2 Dongjiang troops and [-] Shandong soldiers returned to Tieshan City. Every time Mao Jue returned to Tieshan, there seemed to be a lot of changes here. It can be positive before, but this time It is negative.

Tieshan Port, which is busy on weekdays, is also covered by snow at this time. In the coldest months, few merchants will come to trade, and it is also a few months when Dongjiang is closed. But now, half a foot of snow The field is still overcrowded, the market is crowded with ragged refugees, the courtyard, the fishing pier, and the busy fishing port are also full of broken boats, small sampans, and Dongjiang warships. not going.

In the ice and snow, many people were even buried in the school, and only the head was left to see that it was a person. On the beach of the port, the dead bodies were piled up in a thick layer, like ice sculptures. Seeing a large crowd, Mao Jue couldn't help but turn pale with fright. Tieyi is his foundation, a source of soldiers, money, and food. He really can't afford to lose here.

Adelaine's affairs could only be put aside, Mao Jue ordered impatiently.

"Wear my military order, blow the horn, and land!"

Amid the desolate sound of the horn, the huge fleet rushed over regardless. The sampans stuck in the military port were crackling like popcorn and smashed to pieces by the huge and sharp hull. Suddenly, the crowd in the snowdrift on the shore suddenly stood up, as if there were countless more people.

Mao Jue was really startled. He hadn't seen any kind of enemy in these years, but it was the first time he saw this kind of crowd with hollow eyes, skinny bones, and rushing towards them like zombies. The Dongjiang army who went down the ship ladder immediately Surrounded, they could only use guns to form a defensive net, just like the police in later generations, Wen Meng knocked down a large area with his fists, but those people still stood up numbly and crowded again.

Fortunately, the news of Mao Jue's return was a big deal to Dongjiang. Suddenly there was a commotion on the bank, and hundreds of guards also tried their best to squeeze into the crowd, pushing and pushing to open a passage.

"General, it's Master Fan!"

Putting down the binoculars, Mao Li suddenly stretched out his hand forward.When he focused the telescope, Mao Jue's voice became a little hurried.

"Come on, bring Mr. Fan up!"

It wasn't until he saw Fan Wenju that Mao Jue breathed a sigh of relief. At least it wasn't the economic crisis in Dongjiang that he was most worried about, but immediately, he was still hammering his head with a headache.

On the other side, the two wings of the seven-pin black gauze hat were shaking tremblingly, while Fan Wenju knocked his head heavily on the ground, pleading guilty in shame.

I don't blame him for this matter. The crowd just now, who looked like zombies, were all refugees from the Shandong Peninsula!

Just as Mao Jue expected before, Chongzhen's seven years, 13 years, and 15 years were the three major winners and losers of the fate of the Ming Dynasty. In July, Huang Taiji, who unified the Mongolian grasslands, invaded the three sides of Datong, Shanxi, all the way to the edge of the Yellow River and the border of Henan.

The battlefield in Shaanxi, Chexiang Gorge, the opportunity given to Ming Dynasty. As always, Chexiang Gorge was let go by Emperor Chongzhen. Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and more than a dozen troops who pretended to surrender escaped from the Chariot Gorge and re-attacked in Shaanxi. The backbone turned into an army of more than [-] in a blink of an eye, and the locusts once again swept across Shanshan, while Chen Qiyu's army was basically collapsed by the attack, and the tent army once again became out of control.

Moreover, this year is another year of unprecedented severe drought. The combination of natural disasters and man-made disasters has displaced tens of millions of people throughout the north, forming a terrible powder keg under the Ming Dynasty's buttocks, slowly emitting black smoke.

"is it serious?"

Seeing Mao Jue frowning and asking, Fan Wenju kowtowed in fear.

"Almost all the outside of Tieshan City is occupied by refugees! More than a dozen army villages have been destroyed! The officials and officials are not able to suppress the repression, please punish me!"

The cause of the matter can be traced back to the last time Mao Jue Mao Jue recalled refugees from Liaodong. The news of Dongjiang’s good life spread on the ground in Shandong. This time there was a severe drought, and more than 20 refugees from Shanxi and Henan rushed into Shandong. There is no place to live in the local area. After hearing these rumors, the refugee group, under the connivance of the local government, snatched a boat and went to the Dongjiang River to eat. These are the messy people in the port in front of them.

It really is success, Xiao He is also failure, Xiao He, Fan Wenju is definitely a good hand to appease the local government and manage government affairs, but let him deal with the refugees.

When the first group of refugees arrived, Fan Wenju ordered to appease them and try to resettle the refugees in the newly developed territory of Hamgyong Road. After the resettlement, tens of thousands of people came in the second batch, and then came the third batch. The land in Hamgyong Road was also limited, and a large number of refugees were stuck here. Under the instigation of some interested people, these people began to loot the pier, and gradually Spread to estates south of Iron Mountain.