Lu Ming

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"How is everything coordinated?" After returning to the camp, Ding Liqiu went straight to the battalion headquarters of the first battalion commander Wei Yuan: it is actually a side hall in the middle of Tianhou Palace, which has been transformed into a In the wooden barracks, a strong smell of disinfectant filled the room.

"It's done. Migrant workers will come to the county to report from tomorrow. Let's repair the pier first. I said, did you ask, can those people who work on infrastructure arrive tomorrow?"

Wei Yuan nodded: "I have contacted Jinshan Town, those people will arrive with the rifle tomorrow."

"Then what should we do tonight? This poor country is full of bandits. I feel panicked when I look at it. Soldiers can't keep vigil with three-eyed guns, right?" Ding Liqiu lived in the 17th century for the first time after time travel. I always feel unsafe outside the city.

"Don't worry, automatic rifle + night vision goggles, tonight I will personally go to watchtower to keep you safe."

Having said this, Wei Yuan reached out and took out an AK from the cloth cover on the wall, and threw it to the smiling soldier Yang Er; then he took out a custom-made local tyrant gold version MK17, a master-student set After putting on the night vision goggles, he went out in a big way.

Chapter 282 Longyan Battle ([-])

At noon the next day, the string of small boats arrived at the South Gate Wharf of Longyan from Jinshan Town downstream.

More than 30 infrastructure personnel assigned by the senior officials got off the ship, and the core of this team was two traversers engaged in engineering.

The two of them have a division of labor.

One of them will lead his men and migrant workers to build a pier outside the south gate.Considering that a large number of machinery, personnel and bulk cargo will be loaded and unloaded from here in the future, the terminal will be greatly expanded: not only a wooden pile passenger terminal, but also at least one rock and steel cargo terminal.

And another man who had dug river sand was in charge of leading the migrant workers to dredge the river. At the same time they boarded the Longyan Wharf, Haidilao had already started operations on the downstream Jiulong River.

Water conservancy is a big subject.

In a corner like Longyan, if the water conservancy could not be done well in the 17th century, there was no need to dig any mines.In this era, there are no national roads or expressways to transport ore, and everything must be transported by water.

The waterways in the Middle Ages have a characteristic: they have a large amount of water, but the navigation conditions are poor.Whenever there are some bends where the flow rate slows down, whether it is a river or a stream, there will always be some disgusting terrain such as shoals and sandbars.

In addition, the nail household reefs in some rivers are also the enemy of boats.

In later generations, this situation is rare.The waterways of a certain infrastructure-mad country are filled with all kinds of sand mining ships. The waterways have been dug to bottomless depths, and the government is cracking down on private excavation and excessive mining every day.

But Longyan in the 17th century was not so lucky.It will take a lot of time for Haidilao to dig all the way up from the Jiulong River, so the upstream Longyan also needs to start working at the same time to remove obstacles by manpower.

This project is still very urgent. The larger ships can only stop at Jinshan Town downstream. All materials have to be transported to Longyan by small ships, and the transportation efficiency is too low.

Dredging the waterway is only a preliminary task, and then there is a more difficult task: the reservoir.

In this place in Fujian, there is constant rain all year round, so there is no time to rest.This is especially true in the mountainous areas of western Fujian, where rainfall is quite heavy.

Under such climatic conditions, the original intermountain waterways are naturally plagued by disasters and torrents and mudslides.Therefore, it is necessary to build reservoirs, even if it is purely for the purpose of regulating water volume, reducing disasters, and ensuring the transportation of ore ships throughout the year.

Subsequent reservoir works will begin after the wharf and dredging works are completed.At that time, a large number of migrant workers who have been trained in the early stage can come in handy.

Later generations have Bingxi Reservoir in Longyan, and no one knows how much the terrain of the mountains and rivers has changed in the 17th century, so the exploration work will be carried out after the work of suppressing bandits is completed-there are no way for the bandits to repair the reservoir.

In short, the coming year 1629 is the "Year of Reservoir Construction" across the country.The time-travelers with infrastructure madness genes in their bones not only want to build reservoirs in the foothills of western Fujian, but also build reservoirs in the upper reaches of the Tainan Plain.

The former guarantees industry, the latter agriculture.

There were also many camphorwood boxes and sacks on the same boat.The box contained the original handicraft mahogany Erba cover that Cao Chuan brought from later generations, and the sack contained rice and salt.

The camphor wood box was quickly sent to the Tianhou Temple, while the sack was left at the pier.Today there will be a row of sheds erected on the pier, and these goods will soon be paid as wages in the future.

After getting the firearms they were familiar with, the soldiers quickly picked up the old buddies.Of course, according to the plan, these guns cannot be revealed in front of Ming people.And wait until the day they appear, that is, the day the bandit dog leads.

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Lin Dajin squatted under a tree not far from the gate of Tianhou Palace, scratching the lice on his head while staring at the gate of Tianhou Palace intently.

At the gate, there were 4 soldiers holding swords, spears and blunderbusses. They were upright, powerful and murderous.

This group of officers and soldiers who came suddenly yesterday brought endless talk to the ancient and peaceful Longyan County.In fact, many people don't think they are officers and soldiers: green double-breasted short coats, trousers, and big-toed leather boots. This strange attire does not look like Ming officers and soldiers wearing fat jackets.

It wasn't until after the county yamen's servants and petty officials were released from the yamen that people knew through their mouths that this group of people was under the command of a general Zhao'an in Shanghai and was sent to Longyan to suppress the bandits.

That night, the story of "Water Margin" began to spread in the mouths of the old masters, and the storytellers in the county naturally kept up with the market trend, and each of them began to urgently review the jokes between Fang La and Song Jiang.

Lin Dajin came to the gate of Tianhou Temple today, aiming at the old hen beside him.

In the basket woven with thin bamboo strips, a fat old hen was resting in it with its eyes closed.After Lin Dajin stared under the tree for half an hour, he gritted his teeth and stood up, carrying the bamboo basket, and walked towards the gate step by step.

The sentry guarding the gate quickly noticed this tattered, short, dark and thin man with a simple and honest face.

"What are you doing!?"

After hearing the question, Lin Dajin stopped instinctively, and after a fierce ideological struggle, he timidly took a few steps forward, then stretched out the bamboo basket in his hand, and pointed to the old hen.

"Huh? Supporting the army?"

Lin Dajin continued to stand there hesitantly.

"A chicken seller?"

Lin Dajin nodded.

"Not bad, it seems that the people in Longyan still have discernment." After joking with a smile, the monitor on duty ordered a sentry to take Lin Dajin to the side gate.

Lin Dajin, a member of Tianhou Palace, naturally knew about it: all the residents of Longyan County, regardless of gender, old or young, had been to Tianhou Palace, and the terrain was familiar to them.

There are also sentries at the side gate.After entering the side door, there is a row of wing rooms opposite the aisle.Now this row of wing rooms has been transformed into a kitchen and dining hall. When Lin Dajin came to the door of the kitchen, several people came out after hearing the sound.

These people include a cook wearing a white apron with a kitchen knife in his hand, and Wei Yuan who is holding a chicken leg and eating it deliciously.

Although Wei Yuan had already been seen on the pier yesterday, Lin Dajin, who was only 1 meters tall, was terrified when he came into close contact with this giant spirit god.

"Don't be afraid, you are here to sell chickens? Hehe, this is the first one, fellow, what's your name?"

"Master, my name is Lin Dajin."

"Well, the name is good, and it's real. Don't be afraid, we buy things here for money."

After Wei Yuan finished speaking, he signaled to the cook to take the chicken, and then sent someone to call the chief steward to come over and give the money.

...Take out the mobile phone and call out the "Price Guide for Ming Country's Regions" issued by the Logistics Department. After looking at it, Wei Yuan instructed the director who came to give Lin Dajin 5 cents of silver.

The "Guide" is used as a reference for troops like Wei Yuan who go deep into the enemy's rear and have no local price information.The above benchmark price is written with reference to some historical materials, such as old hens, it is recorded in the "Wanshu Miscellaneous Notes" in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty: the price of live fat chickens is 4 cents in silver.

Considering that Longyan is a mountainous area, the price of an old hen will definitely not be higher than the 4 cents in the city, so Wei Yuan counted 5 cents for this chicken.

Facts have proved that 5 cents of silver must be higher than the price of the local old hen, because when Lin Dajin took a bite of the piece of white broken silver, he suddenly turned around and ran away...

But Wei Yuan and the others looked at Lin Dajin running out of the door in astonishment, and couldn't help laughing out loud.

It's not over yet.

Not long after, Lin Dajin came back out of breath again—this time he was carrying a basket with five old hens inside.

"Look, look, what kind of situation this society has forced farmers into. To sell a chicken, you have to try it out first." Wei Yuan watched with relief as the chief secretary settled Lin Dajin's account, and at the same time, he did not forget to watch the excitement Doing ideological work with his subordinates: "You said, are ordinary people so afraid of soldiers?"

"No one is afraid, but there are quite a few who cheat us of money." Upon hearing this topic, the soldiers immediately began to complain.

"That's right, at noon every month, the screwdriver shop on Chikan Avenue will have a discount again."

"Is it better to increase the price first and then discount it? Boss Shuma's shop is the worst. It seems that there are many activities, but there are actually no discounts."

"One pass operation is as fierce as a tiger, and the discount is [-] cents in the end."

... Lin Dajin happily got the money for 5 chickens while listening to these deputy masters talking incomprehensible words.After getting the money this time, not only did he not run away, he even knelt down and kowtowed to Wei Yuan.

Wei Yuan looked at this honest farmer with a simple and honest face who couldn't even speak, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.Then he told Lin Dajin that in the future, he could go to nearby villages to collect more vegetables and live poultry, and then sell them here.

Lin Dajin gratefully carried the bamboo basket and left.

And after that day, Lin Dajin really started the way of a vegetable dealer—collecting some chickens, ducks, live poultry and vegetables from the surrounding villages every day, and then sold them all to Tianhou Palace.

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Lin Dajin's fate is just a small wave, not many people pay attention to it.But with the arrival of the Red Gun Camp, Longyan, a peaceful small county, can no longer return to its former tranquility: a series of unprecedented incidents have continuously expanded the minds of Ming people, and the ancient city on the road to industrialization, It is also getting busier and busier day by day.

On the fifth day when Wei Yuan and his group came to Longyan, hundreds of migrant workers from Jinshan Town opened the eyes of the locals again.

A boiler was carried from Jinshan to Longyan by these migrant workers.

The migrant workers used wooden piles as pads and manpower to lift and pull it. It took hundreds of people three days to carry the "big iron box" to Longyan County on a mountain road less than [-] miles away.

The moment the boiler was carried to the gate of Tianhou Palace, most of the people in the county rushed out to watch the excitement. There was a huge crowd of people in front of the gate of Tianhou Palace for a while. In the end, Wei Yuan had to send a large number of soldiers with knives and guns to maintain order...

Chapter 283 Longyan Battle ([-])

After the main body of the boiler was carried back, the accessories delivered by boats in the past few days came in handy.Then within two days, thick smoke billowed from the backyard of Tianhou Palace.

With this big gimmick, the number of people carrying chickens, ducks, meat and eggs to the Tianhou Palace to sell suddenly increased... Everyone wanted to go to the backyard to see if the big iron stove emitting black smoke was cooking for children.

So Ding Liqiu hurriedly ordered the backyard to be isolated separately, no matter who came, they could get a chance to visit, and they could also drink a bowl of hot tea from the boiler for free—unexpectedly, this move won great favor among the locals appreciation.

At the same time, small boats transported a large number of "supervisors" from downstream.These people are all used to doing engineering work in Dayuan. As soon as they came, they held whips and short sticks, pencils in their ears, and work booklets under their armpits. Migrant workers build the pier.

A new trade also spread among the crowd: anyone who can carry a basket of charcoal can use the charcoal to go to the wharf in exchange for salt rice or silver.

Most of the people don't believe it, these people who have been frightened by the government don't believe that there is a pie in the sky.However, under the pressure of a difficult life, there are always a few people who are willing to eat crabs once.

So, a wrinkled old farmer came from twelve miles away from the county seat. He bowed his waist and carried a basket of charcoal dug from the Heipi ditch behind the village.Then, under the watchful eyes of many people eating melons, he exchanged for a wooden spoon of white salt — people in mountainous areas usually eat yellow and black salt sand.

Sometimes it doesn't cost a thousand dollars to buy a horse bone, a spoonful of salt is enough.

From this day on, a continuous stream of "carbon workers" appeared, and there were even women and children in the team.

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Things are always changing.When a few big clan families near the coal production area figured out the situation, they sent people to seal the place overnight... Some began to set up cards to collect taxes, and some simply prohibited outsiders from digging coal and only allowed their own families to make money.

The snow-white rice and salt grains just disappeared?Can the dark-skinned mountain people bear it?As a result, several large-scale fights quickly broke out around the coal mining rights that were worthless a few days ago, killing [-] to [-] people and countless casualties.

Such a rapid evolution left Magistrate Yu da dumbfounded—in fact, he hadn't even figured out the cause, effect, and subsequent impact of the "salt for coal" incident, and the matter developed to this point in the end.

Master Yu was inexplicably agitated.

There are too many things that cannot be dealt with these days.This group of short-haired people kept making troubles. The large iron furnace could be moved to live in the barracks, and the salt could be exchanged for coal for repairing the pier. All these made him overwhelmed, who was used to the slow pace of the Middle Ages.

Master Yu now feels that things are a little out of control.

So when Ding Liqiu came to ask the county government to send out manpower to suppress the civil unrest together with the Red Spear Battalion, County Magistrate Yu was quite displeased: You guys did this, and now you want me to wipe my ass?

In the end, under Ding Liqiu's rhetoric, Master Yu reluctantly agreed, but there were still three rules: the yamen servants are only responsible for maintaining order, not responsible for opening the film, and there must be benefits afterwards...

Early the next morning, the mighty army set off.The team included not only the main force of the Red Spear Battalion, but also hundreds of yamen servants, as well as several businessmen headed by Dong Daxing and their entourage.

The time to show strength came soon: in front of a mine, the 200-member Red Gun Battalion confronted nearly 800 indigenous people.The yamen servants and businessmen ran to a safe place in the distance early to watch the show.

The play is very beautiful.

160 soldiers with red and white wooden spears first formed a square formation and slowly approached.When the two sides approached to a distance of 20 meters, the pikemen were all kneeling and shooting under the command of the electric horn, and then the 40 bird gunners in the center of the phalanx fired 4 rows of bursts.

Although the Spanish phalanx produced by many cosplayers is not an anti-dog, it is enough to deal with these clan forces that can only fight with weapons.

Forty rounds of blunderbuss knocked over more than 40 people on the spot, followed by a charge of spears - under the pressure of the slowly pressing queue in the same dress and at the same pace, the aborigines began to retreat hastily without any surprise.

The next moment, two US-style shock grenades were thrown out of the phalanx by someone at a very high altitude, and then the aborigines collapsed... With the two grenade landing points as the center of the circle, densely packed earthquakes knocked down a large group of mountain people. There are many outsiders covering their ears, drooling, and being shaken like idiots playing walking corpses.

The collapsed team was the best solution, and the soldiers of the Red Gun Battalion began to knock down all the natives who fell behind with the backs of their knives and guns.

The next step is to attack the tulou battle.

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At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, millions of well-dressed gentry started from the Central Plains and took the first step to move south due to the chaos of war.During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were several large-scale southward migrations, into southern Jiangxi, eastern Jiangxi, and western and northern Fujian.

The Changting area to the north of Longyan is also known as the "Hakka capital" of Fujian. The ancestors moved south from here, including Longyan, Sanming, Zhangzhou and other places, which are important starting points and important gathering places for the formation of the Hakka ethnic group.

At this point in the 17th century, more than 80% of the local aborigines in Longyan were Hakkas.And what is the most famous Hakka left to later generations: Hakka Tulou.

The Hakka Tulou listed on the World Heritage List, the lower floor is made of rammed clay and sandstone, and the upper floor is a plywood wooden house.

These tulou are usually huge concentric circles and squares.A so-called tulou is actually a small fortified city with a strong defensive function, in which dozens of households and hundreds of people of the same clan live.

The landmarks of a large clan in southwestern Fujian are usually earth buildings.Three to five, seven or eight perfectly circular earthen buildings are gathered in the mountains, looking from a distance like a bunch of alien flying saucers...the symbol of Hakka culture.

The next step for the Red Gun Battalion to deal with is the nearby Chen Family Tulou Group.

Tulou, which was very effective against bandits in the past, is useless against a certain army.Before the young men who fled back to the earth building organized an effective defense... In fact, those stone and gray bottles could not be called effective, and the attack here began.

The simple and effective attack is divided into two steps: the first step is to use the bird gun made by industrial machine tools to suppress the wall, and the second step is to charge the blaster.

Back then, so many machine guns + rifles could not stop the assault of the local Communist bombers, let alone the natives in the 17th century.

Only a few of the people who were huddled behind the wall saw the figure rushing over. The two gray bottles thrown out in a hurry were like melon rinds thrown from the partition wall, and they were useless except to scare people.

The next moment, the wooden gate of the village was torn apart by explosives, and when officers and soldiers in short coats rushed into the earth building, the Chen family had no choice but to surrender.

This Tulou battle was the first battle of a company of soldiers in Ming mainland.