Fenghou

An hour later, the carriage arrived in Xianyang. Instead of entering the city, they went directly to the piece of land they were looking for.

The land is just to the west of Xianyang City, less than two miles away from the county seat, and close to the Weihe Freight Wharf in Xianyang.

At this time, this vast land is still covered with thick white snow, and it doesn't look like farmland.

"What was this place used for?" Zheng Tongquan couldn't remember whether it was farmland or not.

Yu Qingfeng smiled slightly and said: "If the ice and snow melt, you will know that this place has always been a wasteland, overgrown with weeds, and the county government has always wanted to use it to build a warehouse. Later, the warehouse was built on the east side, and this land was vacated. "

"Is this land in demand?" Zheng Tongquan asked again.

Yu Qingfeng nodded, "Several big merchants wanted to buy it. The Luo family wanted to build a leather tanning workshop here, but the county government was reluctant because the smell of tanning was too strong. In addition, the "Beijing News" also wanted to buy it. Get down here."

"The Beijing News also wants to buy it?"

"They want to buy it as a warehouse, but they have looked at several pieces of land, and Guangyuntan is also looking at it, so they can't make a decision. It seems that there are still several commercial firms that are also in contact, and they all want to buy it as a warehouse. .”

Zheng Tongquan nodded and said: "This piece of land is not bad. It is rare that it is close to the county seat and the wharf. It is not farmland. In fact, [-] mu of land is enough to build a steam engine. The Taixue side only has [-] mu of land. Here At the same time, it can be used as a warehouse and build a dock by itself.”

Yu Qingfeng reminded with a smile: "Don't forget, the big clock will also migrate here."

Zheng Tongquan frowned, "Don't move the big clock! These two families have nothing to do with each other, and clock making needs to be quiet, and the steam engine is very noisy."

Wang Zhenbang also said: "Considering confidentiality, I also think that the two should not be put together."

Seeing that neither of them agreed to relocate the clock factory, Yu Qingfeng nodded, "Okay! We won't move for now, but let's finalize the land first."

"The asking price is [-] guan, [-] guan per mu. Is it possible for the government to give you a little more discount?"

Yu Qingfeng said with a smile: "To tell you the truth, Yu's Commercial Company originally wanted to take this piece of land to build a warehouse. I have negotiated with the county government for several rounds, because there are many people who want to buy it, and they don't worry about selling it. As for the price, I am very stubborn, and I will not lower the price. I have already paid [-] guan in advance, and the "Beijing News" and another firm have also paid [-] guan. If we want it, we must settle it immediately. The Beijing News has not yet made up its mind, otherwise once the "Beijing News" decides to buy here, our hope is not great, Xianyang County has always wanted to bring the "Beijing News" over."

"Then go directly to the county government. I agree to buy this place. Where's Brother Wang?"

Zheng Tongquan and Yu Qingfeng looked at Wang Zhenbang together, and Wang Zhenbang took a closer look at the land, nodded and said: "This land is not bad, as long as the craftsman does not agree to build a workshop here, you can also do other things, you can buy it !"

The three of them immediately got into the car and headed towards the county seat. The three of them finalized the purchase agreement at the county government office and bought the land at a price of [-] guan. He bought ten acres of land, and planned to build a dormitory here for the recruited foreign craftsmen to live in.

The next day, they established Jiutian Heavy Industry and Commerce Co., Ltd. in a two-story shop on Jingzhaocheng West Street, opened an account in Yongjing Cabinet Square in the name of the business company, and deposited [-] guan. Submitted an application to the craftsman for the manufacture of steam engines.

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On Tamla Island, the Yong army has occupied this big island for almost a year. Currently, there are three thousand naval troops stationed on Tamla Island, including twenty large ships of ten thousand stone and dozens of warships of three thousand stone.

The main general is Tang Ting'an, the eldest son of Tang Huai, and he is the commander of the army. Tang Ting'an is about 30 years old and has been in the army for 13 years. He has been fighting with his father and has made countless achievements. When he came from the Yue family army, he was already a young commander. make.

Tang Tingan was very similar to his father, he was conscientious and responsible and meticulous in his work. It was because of his seriousness and responsibility that Chen Qing approved him to be stationed on Tamna Island.

It was the end of December at this time, and the New Year was coming soon, and the officers and soldiers on the island were also immersed in the atmosphere of preparing for the New Year.

In the morning, Tang Ting'an brought dozens of soldiers to a fjord in the northeast corner. He had just received a report from patrol soldiers that a body was found in the rocks of the fjord.

"General, that's the one!"

A soldier pointed to the pile of rocks under the cliff.

Tang Tingan looked over and saw a dead body, stuck in the crevices of the pile of rocks. It didn't rot, and it should have died within two days.

Tang Tingan looked around, it was impossible to rush up from the sea, there was still a little distance from the sea, and it was impossible to get stuck in the crevice of the rock inexplicably, there was only one possibility, falling off the cliff.

"Go down, two brothers, and pull up the corpse!"

The two soldiers went down slowly with long ropes tied around their waists.

The first thousand and 540 chapters and five sneak attacks

After a while, the soldiers dragged up the corpse from the cliff. The corpse was wearing a black water tank. At first glance, it was not an ordinary fisherman. The tiger's mouth was covered with calluses, and there was a sharp water thorn stuck in the water tank. This person should be a Goryeo soldiers.

"General, found this!"

The soldiers found an oiled paper bag from him and tied it tightly with cloth strips.

Tang Tingan opened the oiled paper bag, which contained flint and flint, a few charcoal pens in the bamboo tube, and a folded piece of paper. When he opened the paper, Tang Tingan looked carefully and was stunned. It turned out to be a map with harbors, Ships and their barracks.

It turned out that this person was a spy, so he asked the farmer who first discovered the corpse, "When did you find it?"

"About five o'clock, we heard the dog barking fiercely. The dog found something and chased it out. It was not yet dawn, so we didn't dare to go out. After dawn, we came to check and found the body below."

Tang Ting'an said again: "See if there are any ships around?"

"Reporting to the general, we looked at it just now. The patrolling soldiers searched around, but found nothing abnormal, and there was no sign of rope climbing. It must have accidentally slipped last night."

Tang Ting'an nodded and said: "This kind of spy can't be alone. Such an important map has not been taken away, which means that his accomplice is on the island. Send an order to search the entire island, and investigate any suspicious clues!"

Yong Jun immediately dispatched two thousand soldiers and began to search the whole island.

The pier near the harbor is the key search target. Dozens of ships are moored in a natural bay. There is only one way to go down the bay. There are soldiers standing guard below this road, but if you are just collecting information, you don’t have to go down to the bay. You can also learn about the number and types of ships nearby.

A search team was walking down the cliff, at this moment, a soldier suddenly pointed at the cliff and shouted: "What is that?"

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and saw two people squatting on the cliff. They hid behind a stone, but the stone was too small to cover their figures, so they were discovered by the soldiers.

Everyone turned around and ran up immediately. They also panicked and grabbed the rope to climb up. One climbed to the top of the cliff, but was thrown to the ground by the soldiers who rushed to him and tied him up. The other climbed halfway, scared He had to yell, and the soldiers directly pulled the rope up with the people.

……

Tang Ting'an immediately interrogated the two spies. Under the intimidation of the Yong army, they had to confess honestly. They were all Koryo army spies, and they were ordered to investigate the situation of the Yong army and the warship.

They went to the island the day before yesterday and wanted to go to the village to kidnap a farmer last night, but they were chased by a few hounds raised by the people, and a companion fell off the cliff. They were afraid of being discovered, so they hid on the side of the harbor without caring about collecting the corpse of their companion , but also to detect the situation of ships and garrisons in the harbor.

"Ask them, where is the receiving ship?"

The interrogating soldier questioned him again, and said to Tang Ting'an, "They made an appointment in three days to meet up later, that is tonight, and the place to pick up is in the fjord where the man fell to his death."

The soldiers continued to interrogate, but the three of them couldn't say anything about the other cases. They were just spies and knew nothing about the army's mobilization.

A general whispered: "The ships that respond to them should know the situation on the other side!"

Tang Ting'an nodded, "We're going to arrest the respondent again tonight!"

……

In the middle of the night, under the cover of night, a five-hundred-stone ship sailed into the fjord silently. This fjord is very long, and it looks like a fish when viewed from the sky.

But as soon as the ship entered the fjord, more than a dozen warships immediately blocked the exit, blocking the ship in the fjord. Soon, several warships came forward and forced the five hundred stone ship into the fjord. The soldiers jumped on board one after another.

There were three people in the boat, one resisted and was killed on the spot, the other two dared not resist and were arrested obediently.

Yong Jun continued to interrogate overnight, and soon got detailed information.

The 300 stone ship was a military ship, and it came to pick up the three spies on the island. These were not important. The important thing was that the Koryo army had assembled more than [-] ships and [-] soldiers on the other side.

In the barracks, Tang Ting'an discussed countermeasures with several commanders.

"I remember when Li Dutong came to inspect last time, he said that the Koreans wanted to return tens of thousands of miners. They would probably attack us on Tamna Island and capture us as prisoners of war in exchange for miners. They should be making this wishful thinking now. Very soon. Obviously, the other side is planning to seize Tamna Island."

"When does the general think the opponent will attack?"

Tang Ting'an thought for a while and said, "There are still six days before the New Year, and I think the other party will most likely cross the strait and go to the island on New Year's Eve."

A commander suggested: "General, the opponent has 5000 people, but we only have 3000 people. Even if we keep the big island, we will inevitably suffer heavy losses. I feel that the best way is to take the initiative and kill the enemy directly." Military ships destroyed in the harbour."

Tang Ting'an pondered for a moment and said: "From the interrogation information, the opponent's ships are almost between [-] shi and [-] shi, which are a bit small and can easily hide in narrow waterways. Our ships are large and easy to be found , vulnerable to enemy attack from the shore."

"What if we use a sneak attack?" Another general said.

Tang Tingan nodded, "We have to be prepared. If the sneak attack fails, we will fight the enemy at sea. We must never let the Koryo army land on Tamna Island."

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In the middle of the next night, the Yong Army's two Wanshi ships and ten Three Thousand Stone ships appeared on the sea more than ten miles away. If it was daytime, they might be seen, but at night, the sentry towers on the shore could not see them.

Tang Ting'an stared at the shore with clairvoyant eyes for a moment, and he saw the two watchtowers mentioned in the interrogation statement, which entered from the fjord in the middle of the watchtowers.

"The target is confirmed, let the water ghost go!"

Three small sampans set off. On the small sampans, fifteen water ghosts in black water tanks and oil bags on their backs were staring at the bay with serious expressions.

The entrance to the bay was only one mile away, and three small sampans passed by, which were still easy to spot. Three miles from the mouth of the bay, fifteen soldiers launched into the water.

Each of them carried a kerosene bag weighing twenty kilograms, so a sheepskin bag was tied in front of them, so that they could sneak into the bay silently.

The 15 people dived into the shallow sea and continued to swim forward. After diving for about seven or eight miles, a large number of ships appeared in front of them, moored densely by the pier.

The information from the interrogation is correct, all of them are ships of [-] to [-] shi, and they are all new ships. There are hundreds of them. Looking at the shore, there are torches on the shore in the distance, and there is a patrolling soldier back and forth patrol.

The soldiers of the Yong army carefully inspected the ships. All the ships were chained to each other so that they would not leave with the rising and falling tides. This saved a lot of effort. Maybe they never thought that the Yong army would come quietly .

Fifteen soldiers of the Yong army worked together and sprayed the fierce oil on the ships. In just a moment, all fifteen bags of fierce oil were sprayed.

The soldiers took out the barrels of fireboxes, ignited them one by one, and threw them at the ships, saying, 'Boom! 'A dozen ships were ablaze at the same time.

The soldiers immediately dived into the water and dived out of the bay.

The patrolling soldiers on the shore found the fire and immediately sounded the alarm, 'Dang!when!when!when! The sleeping soldiers were awakened one after another, put on their clothes in a hurry, and rushed to the pier.

Thousands of soldiers yelled and tried desperately to put out the fire, but where they could not be saved, the fire grew bigger and bigger, and gradually engulfed all the ships.

Fifteen soldiers dived out of the bay and climbed onto the sampan in a short time, and the sampan then sailed towards the big ship more than ten miles away.

Although the Yong army defeated the opponent's plan to attack Tamna Island, the Korean people's plan to attack Tamna Island was a major event in itself, and the Goryeo State was planning to use war to provoke the Yong Dynasty.

In the morning of the next day, the flying eagle left Tanluo Island and flew to Penglai County, Dengzhou. Ten days later, this eagle letter would appear on the desk of Emperor Chen Qing.

The first thousand and 540 chapters and six teachings

With the ringing of the Taiping Bell above the Taiji Palace, a new year is coming, and the reign name will continue to be Yongtai, and the second year of Yongtai will come.

During the New Year, Chen Qing mostly engages in ceremonial activities, such as the New Year's court meeting, condolences to the army, meeting the elderly and so on.

In fact, every year is similar, and it was the same when he was King Yong. However, as the emperor celebrates the New Year, it is more or less different. The biggest difference is not in the content, but in the ceremony.

Take interviewing senior citizens as an example. Chen Qinglei’s unstoppable New Year program is to interview hundreds of elderly people over the age of 70 every year. It is usually arranged on the second day of the first lunar month. Unless he is not in Jingzhao, the concubine and the prince will interview him for him.

The reception ceremony in the past was very simple, just say a few words, give every old man a gift, a catty of icing sugar, a catty of good tea, and a walking stick, every year.

But this time the reception ceremony is at Chengtianmen. Every old man has to bathe and change clothes, put on a new cotton padded coat, and sit neatly on the square with carpets on the ground. Chen Qing also wears a crown robe and addresses the old people. , In the end, the old people had to leave the stage collectively to thank each other. Each person was given ten catties of meat, ten catties of flour, one catty of fine sugar, one catty of good tea, and the crutches were changed into new cotton clothes.

It used to only take half an hour to complete the ceremony, but now it takes half a day.

After all the work is done, it is already the fifth day of the first lunar month, and I can only rest for two days, and I will go to court the day after tomorrow.

In the study, Chen Qing was carefully reading the policy theory written by his son. After staying in Taixue for a year, Chen Ji grew up a lot and his body became stronger.

"The handwriting is good, and the progress is great!"

Chen Qing smiled and asked again: "You wrote this theory?"

"To be precise, it was written by Haier and two old friends. Haier was the lead writer. We went to Fengxiang to investigate for a month, and found that the animal husbandry along the river was a little out of control."

The title of the countermeasure is "The Severe Situation of Animal Husbandry Along the River". The policy theory mentioned that overgrazing has caused no grass to grow along the river, and the riverbed collapsed, so that the river flooded in summer, and the farmland around the river suffered serious losses.

Chen Qing nodded, "I'm very glad that you can see this problem. In fact, officials from Sinong Temple have already rushed to various places to investigate, but as a prince, you can't just point out the problem. You have to observe it from a higher level. Why does river sheep farming appear? What benefits does it bring? What harm does it bring? How should we solve it?

You can't say that if you ban it, it will cause heavy losses to many sheep farmers. You are a prince, and you are not a scholar who can only be angry. "

Chen Ji lowered his head and did not dare to speak, while the Empress Lu Xiu smiled and said, "Your Majesty will use this incident to educate Ji'er and let him know how to think about problems."

Chen Qing said slowly: "At that time, this method was introduced. On the one hand, it was to improve the combat effectiveness of the army. The soldiers of the Song Dynasty were generally unable to defeat the Jurchen soldiers. One Jurchen soldier could single out three Song soldiers. One important reason was that the soldiers of the Song Dynasty were not strong enough. Strong, lack of strength, almost no meat intake in meals, batter and pickles all day long, on the contrary, Jurchen soldiers have to eat meat mainly, so to change the physique of Western soldiers, we must take out a lot of meat, But we don’t have enough food to raise pigs, so we have to raise sheep, but the pastures are far from enough. In this way, the riverside animal husbandry plan was proposed. Facts have proved that this plan is very successful, and our soldiers can eat it every day. With two catties of mutton, his physique and strength have been greatly enhanced, and he can completely compete with Jurchen soldiers one-on-one, or even surpass them.

Including Jingzhao people can also eat a lot of mutton, and the people's physique has also been improved. We should all have experience. In the past, we interviewed hundreds of elderly people who were basically in their early 70s, but now they are generally close to 80 years old, 70 years old The head is gone, this is the benefit of eating meat, the body will improve, the ability to resist diseases will be enhanced, and the life will naturally be longer.

Moreover, the income of farmers has also increased. In addition, there is a hidden benefit. Many of our riverside plants are wild peas. There were three severe droughts on Hebei Road that year, and there were countless hungry people. Hebei Road was still occupied by the Kingdom of Jin at that time. Secretly contacted, 300 million stone wild peas were transported one after another, how many people were saved by three severe droughts, and why the occupation of Hebei was so smooth and the people's hearts were attached to it was the credit of the wild peas. "

"My child is short-sighted, I didn't think of this!"

Chen Qing nodded, "Because when these things happened, you were still young and naturally you didn't know, but your investigation is also correct. It is true that excessive grazing along the river has caused great damage to the river bed. Officials said that the sheep raised will Even the grass roots are eaten together, so Sinong Temple is also investigating in various places, and come up with a governance plan, tell me, do you have any good solutions?"

Chen Ji thought for a while and said, "I went to Fengtian County with my father to investigate when I was a child. At that time, captivity was mentioned. I think captivity is a good way, and then I will transport pasture from the grassland."

"Captive breeding is indeed a good way. It can restore the vegetation along the river without harming the interests of farmers, but what is the key here?"

"Supervision!" Chen Ji blurted out.

Chen Qing laughed, "My son can see accurately!"

Lu Xiu was also very happy. Ji'er followed the court for half a year, but it was not in vain.

Chen Qing continued: "Actually, some ministers have advised me that since we have won Liaodong and Anxi, and we are going to send troops to the grasslands, the source of meat is already sufficient, so there is no need to carry out animal husbandry along the river. Can we take this opportunity to let them Complete the historical mission?"

"What's your father's attitude?"

Chen Qing shook his head, "What kind of attitude can I have? I'm definitely vetoing it, because it involves the interests of thousands of farmers. If it is simply banned, some people will rise up to rebel. I don't feel strongly in Guanzhong. Xihe On the road and northern Shaanxi, most farmers rely on raising sheep to earn some money to support their families, and we can only improve the method, not ban it, so captive breeding is a good way!"

Lu Xiu asked from the side: "Will that cause a surplus of sheep?"