Lu Ming

The manager of the human resources department with a goatee and gray hair opened the file of Wu Sanye not long after.

The staged comments on the file read: Wu Meng was able to abide by the laws and regulations during his sentence, be positive, and put his heart into reforming through labor.Seeing this sentence, the manager didn't make any troubles, saying that Wu Meng passed the review, so the third master got the letter of introduction with a red stamp.

Several others also passed the level smoothly.

Next, those who pass the review have two days to settle down.

Mr. Wu and his bachelors have nothing to settle for. In the past two days, apart from handing over the work, they also spend money to set up wine, invite their former colleagues to practice, and celebrate their escape from the sea of ​​suffering.

Yusheng is a bit more troublesome, he still has his mother and younger sister to settle down.

But speaking of it, Yusheng and his mother have nothing to worry about except for some sorrows and worries.

Traveling through the territory under the rule of the masses, the basic life and dignity of the people have been well resolved. There is no problem for a mother and daughter to maintain the grocery store, and there will be no nonsense things in the Ming society.

In particular, Taipei is a place where criminals are exiled, and the control of law and order is extremely strict.Anyone who commits a crime here for the second time, no matter how big or small, will be sent to the depths of the forest as a slave if he steals a penny.Therefore, although Huanggang Town is a place of exile, the law and order can be said to be closed at night.

As for Yusheng's mother, this middle-aged woman is still adhering to the traditional three obediences and four virtues, "obedience to son when husband dies", so it is impossible for her to interfere with Yusheng's choice.

What's more, Master Yusheng also made it clear to his mother that this time is a good opportunity. As soon as he returns from the army or makes some achievements, he can bring his mother and younger sister to live in the bustling Tainan, where there are many Hospitals and streets, everything.

In the end, Yusheng also promised that he would write a family letter to his mother in time.Anyway, now that the postal service is well-developed, letters are sent by regular boats within the general's mansion, so there will be no delay.

In this way, after two days of mourning in the face of two crying women, Master Yusheng, one head and two elders, and carrying a heavy luggage, met Wu Sanye and his group at the pier.

At Huanggang Wharf, today a team of almost 200 people boarded a passenger ship specially to pick up people.

After waving goodbye to the family who came to see him off, the passenger ship set sail, and Mr. Wu hurriedly left the place where he was imprisoned, and went straight to Tainan, a symbol of freedom.

Two days later, the 200 or so people who came with the ship have been placed in an empty military camp in Tainan.

There was a lot of noise in the chaotic barracks.There are not only heroes from Taipei, but in fact there are applicants from all over the world, and the total number has reached as many as 500.

Still a long queue.Holding the letter of introduction and personal information, Mr. Wu and the others stood in line patiently on the playground until a middle-aged civilian man sitting behind a wooden table, wearing tortoiseshell-legged myopia glasses and an olive green military uniform took the documents from Mr. Wu.

After asking about the registration process, the third master finally got the little "temporary pass" he had been thinking about day and night.

It will take some time before the formal military status can be obtained, but now with this small certificate, the third master can freely enter and leave the military camp, "restore political rights", and act as a normal person in the establishment created by the cross-travelers. activities in society.

A group of people who received the documents quickly left the barracks - the military discipline here is not strict, after all, the Pioneer Army is not a regular army, but a land reclamation regiment that is half army, half civilian.

As soon as the younger brothers went out, they happily ganged up and went to Chikan Street to play.But Sanye and Yusheng didn't have that much time to spare: there were still important things to do.

In the next two days, Yusheng accompanied the third master in and out of several yamen in Chikan and Dayuan Island, including but not limited to the Chikan District Government, the Port Authority, the Land Resources Bureau, and even a fearful street. No. 76 made a trip.

There is no way, the matter that Mr. Wu personally advocated about Zhang Su's private Hong Kong demolition funds is really too troublesome.One is that a long time has passed, and the other is that there are many twists and turns. At first, he went to Taihu Lake and became a hostile person. Now he has no skin and no face to come back to ask for money, and all departments love to ignore him.

In addition, this matter also involved Mr. Xiong in Shanghai, as well as the intelligence department and the port construction department, so it was very troublesome in itself, and it could not be explained clearly in one or two yamen and a few words.

Fortunately, the government system of Chuanzhong was first established, and it was a prosperous and prosperous sunrise moment, and the public affairs system has not yet shown any negligent behavior.So trouble is trouble, after all things are still moving slowly.

So a week after Wu Sanye came to Tainan, a clerk from the Land Resources Bureau came to the barracks and found him.

The clerk's surname is Zhang, and he is not very old.What he brought was good news: Master Xiong in Shanghai had already replied to the telegram, and he did not deny that Wu Meng actually owned Zhang Su's private port before, and reported the actual area of ​​that private port.

Although this area is not large, only four acres of land in total, and the nearby Zhangsu Beach is not included, but this is the four acres of land in the core area of ​​Shanghai Port!

When Clerk Zhang said this, he told the third master in an envious tone: In the end, 3 to 5 taels of commercial real estate demolition funds should be returned to the third master.But this process will be very long, because everything has to wait for the written documents to go back and forth between Tainan and Shanghai by boat, and then go through multi-departmental review, which will take about two to three months.

After hearing this sentence, there was a burst of crazy booing in the temporary dormitory of the third master and the others.A few younger brothers excitedly picked up the washbasin and jars and began to knock on them: "Brother, we have money, and being a boss, it's just a hard life!"

"Thank you, Officer Zhang, for letting me know!" Naturally, the veteran Wu Sanye would not lose his footing at this time.

He knew that under the rule of Marshal Cao, there were many civil servants exiled after corruption in Taipei, so Mr. Wu did not dare to bribe Officer Zhang at this time.

While sending Officer Zhang out, he was full of good things, and he took out the high-end black Lanzhou used to do business and asked Officer Zhang to smoke. When he was done, he asked Officer Zhang to pay close attention to this matter: "When you have money in the future, you have to invest in it after all." Yes, at that time, I have to ask Director Zhang to point out the maze, there is a good way, and everyone can make money together."

In this way, after making a little hidden promise, Wu Sanye sent Officer Zhang out of the barracks with a smile.

After returning to the camp, the third master, Yusheng and his group first expressed their feelings for Cao Dashuai's benevolence, righteousness and attention: he is such a shameless person, replaced by Daming, who dared to ask the government to demolish after becoming a traitor payment?For the sale of tens of thousands of taels of silver, not to mention the money for a rebel like him, he has already had his head chopped off and wiped away by the officials.

I don't want to be here with Marshal Cao, but Ding is Dingmao and Mao, and one size fits one size. It's really amazing!

There is nothing more to say next, and you can work in the pioneering army with peace of mind, and wait for the money to be distributed.

Wu Sanye knew very well that the so-called being a boss with money did not show this - the reason why those yamen could talk to him was because he signed a five-year contract with the Pioneer Army, which was regarded as a crime and meritorious service.

Once he takes money to be the boss and fails to fulfill the contract, he will be prosecuted in minutes and return to Taipei to be an exile.

Wu Sanye now has a good understanding of the operation rules of the time-traveling regime, and the same sentence: Ding is Ding Mao is Mao.

In any case, he had to earn his life in the Pioneer Army and live for five years.

Chapter 507 PPT

The chaotic scene in the pioneering army camp lasted for almost a week before it settled down and started to get on the right track.

By this time, the personnel procedures have been cleared up, and people from all walks of life who are visiting relatives and friends to go out and go shopping on the street have passed the novelty, so a wave of closed training finally started in the camp.

It is said to be closed training, but in fact it means walking in line, familiar with the password, and not even going forward. It is a shrunken version of military training for college students.

In addition, while training the team, a lot of time was also set aside for these people to get acquainted with each other and form gangs.

In short, although the pioneering army has the word "army" in its name, its behavior has nothing to do with the regular army, and in many places it is even the opposite.

This is also the standard way of organizing a colony reclamation group.

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The government will not spend huge military expenditures to train these people. If that is the case, just mobilize the regular army to raid Nanyang. What do you need these people for?

It's a pity that so far, the cross-country has only formed a regular army with less than 5 battalions.With this little force, we are responsible for suppressing multiple strategic points from Guangzhou in the south to Tianjin in the north. There is no extra force to fight in the Nanyang rainforest.

Raising the army is an extremely expensive project.

The regular army that passed through the hands of the crowd was based on the idea of ​​​​building an army in later generations, and it followed the path of piling up resources to produce elite soldiers.

This approach is extremely resource-intensive.In later generations, compared to military expenditures, the well-known two horses are really nothing: for a standard Class A infantry division, the purchase amount of light weapons and equipment is 160 billion yuan, which is not counting 4-20 The construction of barracks cost about [-] million yuan, and there were also huge training costs and labor wages.

Note that this is only the cost of one division. How many divisions and armies does Rabbit have?In front of the country, individuals are really not enough.

The same is true here through time travel.Regardless of the regular military strength of only a few battalions, just a few thousand people have already eaten up most of the army's military expenditure.

And even though the time-traveling people are now making a lot of money, the total wealth of society in the seventeenth century itself was very low, and it still takes time to cultivate and increase the value.

As a matter of fact, the Army plus the Gold Swallowing Beast Navy, just such a small plate, the chicken crossing people who have never held even a county-level city government, have already been pitted by military expenses, and finally understand the difficulty of governing .

Therefore, the Pioneer Army is destined to not get too many resources, and is a wild child.

In addition, the combat mode of the pioneer army is also different from that of the regular army.

In the vast Southeast Asia and the natives vying for territory to establish mines and plantations, this battle mode is characterized by low intensity, routine, and a long time span.Referring to the North American Indian conquest process, this time span may even last for decades.

This mode of conducting long-term "security warfare" and "guerrilla warfare" centered on small strongholds is not suitable for the regular army. Only plantation owners who occupy the land will have to protect their property year after year.

Therefore, the initial investment was insufficient, and the pioneering army that started with a grass-roots team was destined to be a miscellaneous army that "responsible for its own profits and losses," "sloppy military discipline," and "filling people's lives like grass."

In addition, at the beginning, this motley army planned to use small groups to develop.A small group, after a few years or decades, is likely to evolve into several adjacent plantations, neighbors for generations, intermarriage of children, and mutual support.Therefore, the Pioneering Army does not restrict internal gang formation, and the organization is relatively random.

In this situation, Mr. Wu and the others devoted themselves to basic training.

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Of course, since this miscellaneous army that went to Nanyang to fill lives, since it was shot through the crowd, it still has some advantages of crossing the age.

No, after training the team for a week, the team members who had achieved initial results participated in the novel PPT lectures collectively.

In the large classroom with the curtains drawn, the indigenous people were amazed to see the lecture subjects typed out with slides.

The instructors in regular military uniforms changed the content of the projection one by one and explained.

This strange "shadow painting" first marked the geographical relationship between the mainland, Taiwan Island and Southeast Asia.

By this time, most of the aborigines in the room, for the first time in their lives, figured out the location and size of Daming, figured out their current location in Tainan, and figured out where Nanyang they will fight in the future .

Next, the instructor used rich pictures and vivid language to give the audience some basic knowledge about the customs, geography, climate, diseases, and aborigines in the Nanyang area.

These common senses are common knowledge in the eyes of later generations, but in this era, they are truly untold secrets.What the Europeans took hundreds of years to sum up, is now mixed with some scientific principles by the transversal people, and it is explained to the subordinates in a simple way.

By this time, the gap between people will appear.

Old thieves like Wu Sanye not only listened attentively to the lecture, but also signaled the more educated Yusheng to write down all these things. In Taipei before, the reason why they and their gang can survive to this day is that Because some seemingly inconspicuous small regulations of the company have been put in place.

PPT lectures will not leave written text.After the instructor finished the lecture, he packed up his things and left, and did not give the group any chance to answer questions.So how much you can learn from these seemingly novel but actually life-and-death knowledge points depends entirely on the individual.

Wu Sanye and the others were different from those who had heard about it afterwards. They hurried back to the dormitory, talked with each other, shared memories, and Yusheng recorded it. In this way, a "Secret Nanyang Handbook" was released.

Next is another half a month of basic training time.When this group of chaotic people learned the basics of marching silently and obeying various orders, they were transferred to the war zone and prepared to "use battle instead of training".

Where is the war zone?Guangdong bandit suppression front.

On August 1630, 8, Wu Sanye and his group arrived at Huangpu Military Port by boat, preparing to participate in the upcoming war against bandits.

After Wu Sanye and the others set off from Taijiang on the transport ship, they first crossed the strait and came to Xiamen Port for repairs.After spending 2 days in Xiamen Port, a southward fleet appeared from the direction of Fuzhou in the outer sea. At this time, Wu Sanye's transport fleet also hurried up and joined the formation.

The first ship in the fleet is the Fuyuan battleship with the largest tonnage in the Far East.

With the Fuyuan in the lead, the fleet will naturally run rampant and unimpeded.On August 8th, the fleet entered the Pearl River.

After passing through Huangpu, the fleet parted ways, and Wu Sanye and the others went straight to Huangpu Naval Port.The four-ship fleet headed by the Fuyuan continued to trace back, all the way to Baietan outside Guangzhou.

The official wharf next to the White Swan Lake was already crowded with bigwigs. Guangzhou officials in official robes of various ranks had already lined up at the wharf, waiting for the Fuyuan to dock.

At this moment, on the mainmast of Fuyuan, two long flags are flying.On one side is written a big "Xiong" character, and on the other side is written: Daitian Xunshou, Minister of the Ministry of War, Inspectorate Youdu Yushi, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and other local admirals to supervise military affairs, food and governor.

The old bear has arrived.

Chapter 508 Xiong Wencan's Choice

For thousands of years, officials who went to Guangdong from the Central Dynasty would start from Zhangzhou, Fujian, and then follow the ancient post road, pass Fenshui Pass at the border between Fujian and Guangdong to Chaozhou, Guangdong, and then pass through other places.

This slow, but relatively safe way of traveling, accompanied by the rise and fall of one dynasty after another, has not changed since the Tang and Song Dynasties.

Then, in the plane of crossing the public, the newly appointed governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Xiong Wencan, broke this convention intentionally or unintentionally, and the trajectory of history deviated slightly from the original direction here.

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Turning back the time to a month ago, Wang Zunde, the former governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, finally died of illness in the government office of Zhaoqing.After that, the urgent documents passed through Guangzhou, Fuzhou, and even went north to the capital without stopping.

However, a certain force with the advantage of telegrams had already made all political preparations before the urgent documents entered the capital.

Then, when the court began to discuss the candidate for the new Cantonese governor, Xiong Wencan, who had done a lot more than in the same period in history, got the approval of Emperor Chongzhen, who had a good impression of him, with the acquiescence and recommendation of the leaders of all parties, earlier than in history. For nearly 2 years, he sat on the position of Governor of Guangdong.

This time, Lao Xiong's official position was not only transferred from the governor of Fujian to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, but also because of the military merits of sending troops to serve the king by "scraping the ground three feet", the old Xiong's official was directly promoted from Qiandu Yushi to Youdu Yu Shi, who has stepped into the ranks of first-rank officials, can be said to be proud of the spring breeze, and he is working hard.

In this plane, since the pirates along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong have long been wiped out, the situation where Xiong Wencan was dragged back in history has not happened.Old Xiong directly took over as the governor of Guangdong, and Wang Yegao, who was acting as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi for a short period of time, did not appear.

However, the development of things is always interrelated.It is also for this reason that after Lao Xiong took over as Governor of Guangdong, there is no need to concurrently serve as Governor of Fujian to unify the forces of Fujian and Guangdong to eliminate pirates.In this plane, the moment Old Xiong took over as governor of Guangdong, he also resigned from the position of governor of Fujian.

The successor of the governor of Fujian, as expected, was Zou Weilian, the imperial censor of Youqian capital who was the minister of Nanjing Taipusi at that time.

For the final result of the appointment of personnel, the people across time still agree.

As a "heavy treasure" in his hands, Comrade Xiong's transfer to the governor of Guangdong has achieved the most important goal of crossing the crowd, making official preparations for the next stage of deepening Guangdong.

As for Zou Weilian... In terms of the current situation in Fujian, changing the governor will not cause any big waves.If they cooperate, everyone will feel better. If they don't cooperate, Zou Weilian was dismissed for the second time in history because of his disagreement with the old artist Wen Tiren.

Ever since, Lao Xiong, the new governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was full of enthusiasm and made a special trip to pick him up on a battleship. Cao Dashuai, who took office, was persuaded, half-pushed, and willingly brought his family and servants, with golden wind in his sleeves, bid farewell to his Fujian colleagues, and boarded the The majestic Fuyuan ship traveled from Fuzhou to Guangzhou with ease, reciting poems and making wine, and it only took three days for the whole journey.

Xiong Wencan also had his own considerations for so obviously colluding with someone Cao in public.

If it is said that when the old Xiong first came into contact, the old Xiong still didn't know the details of the time-traversing people, then after several years of cooperation with each other, if he still can't see clearly Cao's ambition and ability, then he is really mentally handicapped up.

Is the old bear mentally handicapped?Obviously not.

As the governor of Fujian, Xiong Wencan, who has many sources of information, can be said to be the person who knows the weirdest Cao family most deeply among Ming people.

However, it was too late.

The ability of industrial society to spew wealth is beyond the comprehension of ancient thinking.

Although Xiong Wencan, as an elite of the traditional landlord class, has a good situation and vision, the great changes brought about by the steel production line to a power still caught him by surprise, who was full of traditional feudal thinking.

Originally, in Xiong Wencan's view, a small frontier force like Cao's was just a pawn in his own hands.

Even if the Cao family is not going to lose its tail in the future, it will at best be an undisciplined feudal town/Jimi prefecture or the like. This kind of border area's moss and mustard troubles, for the boss of the Central Plains Dynasty, there is no more, no less, no less... At the end The important thing is that by that time, his old bear will no longer know where to work, and who will care about that much.

However, in just two or three years, Cao's power has developed at a speed that Xiong Wencan was dumbfounded.This speed is so frightening, so fast that Xiong Wencan has no ability to deal with it correctly and can only accept it passively.

You must know that even the rebels at the level of An Lushan gathered together after laying the groundwork, and only after 20 years at the foot of the imperial court did they have all the conditions for rebellion.

However, it only took three years for the Cao family to grow from a group of pirates to a country with enough soldiers and food to be able to rebel at any time.

When Xiong Wencan finally found out that this huge force was brought about by those steel furnaces splashing molten steel and the icy assembly line, it was too late.