Shang Yi only locked up in Muling for one night, and immediately led his army to set off and drove to Dengzhou. This time, Tang Zhen also went with him, and brought 300,000 taels of silver to prepare for the fleet to send back to Zhejiang.

Support the silk-raw war over there.

Zeng Hualong, who is now in Dengzhou, was promoted from Governor Denglai to Governor of Shandong. He was Shang Yi, who was promoted to the beginning, and could also be regarded as Shang Yi's benefactor. When he learned that Shang Yi had come to Dengzhou, he hurried to come in person.

Outside the city, Shang Yi and his team were welcomed into the city. Together with Zeng Hualong, Shandong governor Meng Honggong. Before Shang Yi went south, Meng Honggong's daughter got married with Yang Wucheng, the leader of the Shangjia Army Cavalry Regiment.

, so he is also considered half a member of the merchant army.

It turned out that the situation in the north is in chaos and Beijing is in danger. Zeng Hualong knew that it was a slight and two Chushu. Although Li Zicheng did not attack Shandong, Zeng Hualong knew in his heart that if the Dashun army captured Beijing, the next target would be

It must be Shandong. Although Zeng Hualong has 20,000 to 30,000 local garrison forces, they are all scattered in Shandong, shaped like a pile of scattered sand. The new Shandong general Liu Zeqing squatted in Zeqing, and Zeng Hualong urged him.

He refused to come to Dengzhou several times, so Zeng Hualong was anxious and sighed every day.

At this time, Shang Yi suddenly came to Dengzhou, which naturally made Zeng Hualong overjoyed, because Zeng Hualong, the position of the governor of Shandong, was originally obtained by Shang Yi's defeat of the Qing army, and Shang Yi went south to the south

After that, he defeated Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in a row and quelled the Zhejiang rebellion, which was a great achievement. Yanran was a young general of the new generation of Ming Dynasty. When he arrived in Dengzhou, Zeng Hualong felt much more confident.

When Shang Yi had just returned to Muling Pass from Beijing, he was also named the governor of Dengzhou and the commander of Shandong Metropolitan Commander. Although he had not been to Dengzhou for a day, he led his army south to quell the rebellion.

After all, this position is still there. Now that Shang Yi is promoted to Zhejiang General, the previous Shandong positions will be cancelled, but now the world is in chaos. The court has neither sent new officials to take office nor has it officially issued a formal statement to cancel Shang Yi's Shandong.

Everyone can pass by the official position in a vague way.

Therefore, after Shang Yi and Zeng Hualong met, they just said a few simple words, and then Zeng Hualong immediately brought the topic to the main topic.

What Shang Yi said was the set of words at Muling Pass, of course, it was more tactful. The general idea was: Beijing is difficult to protect now, and he did not receive the order from the court, so he did not dare to lead his army into Beijing easily.

To serve the king, we can only come to Shandong first to prepare. On one side, we are waiting for the imperial court to issue an edict, and on the other side, if Beijing is broken, Nanjing will definitely form a new regime. Therefore, Dengzhou is established in Shandong.

The front line that echoes Muling Pass, defends some areas of Shandong, prepares for the new regime to recover lost territory, etc.

Zeng Hualong also highly praised Shang Yi's opinions, so he immediately agreed that Shang Yi would be fully responsible for presiding over the military affairs of Dengzhou, and he would do all his efforts to cooperate with and support Shang Yi's actions. The two discussed again

After a night, many details were formed into a consistent way.

After obtaining Zeng Hualong's support, Shang Yi was not polite and immediately began to arrange Dengzhou. In fact, when he was still in Zhejiang, Shang Yi had already considered a few points:

The first thing is to establish a maritime route connection between Dengzhou and Zhejiang, which is the basis for defending Dengzhou. Maritime routes must have ports and docks in order to be parked warships and load imperial supplies. There were a total of four in Dengzhou Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty. The guards were Dasongwei, Jinghaiwei, Weihaiwei and Dengzhouwei. They were all established along the coast, and only Weihaiwei and Jinghaiwei all had some of the navy. But at the beginning, Shang Yi only prepared A city in Dengzhou is retained on the Shandong Peninsula, so a dock, port and coastal defense must be established in Dengzhou City. This will ensure that Zhejiang's material resources are continuously delivered to Dengzhou to supply the war needs in Shandong, and at the same time, it must also be necessary to A fleet is retained in Dengzhou to protect the sea line safety in the coastal areas of Shandong Peninsula.

Although there are also wharfs and ports in Dengzhou City, the scale is too small to transport and moor large ships. Moreover, there is a lack of a place for crew members and sailors to rest on the shore, and a simple dock for simple maintenance of warships, so it also needs to be expanded.

Secondly, most of the residents, craftsmen and materials in Muling Pass were transferred to Dengzhou, and a complete military logistics system was established in Dengzhou, because the war in Shandong could not always rely on Zhejiang to supply it. Zhejiang is safe and sound. Once there is war in Zhejiang, I am afraid it will not be able to support the operations on both sides. As it is food and basic weapons, Shandong must be self-sufficient within one or two years. .In the future, Zhejiang will only provide financial assistance and some necessary materials and cutting-edge weapons support. From now on, we will start preparing for the future military logistics system.

The third is recruiting troops. Currently, Shang Yi arranged a division to guard Dengzhou, with about 10,000 soldiers. Such troops can be avoided to defend Dengzhou, but he wants to expand the control area and make Shandong truly a A war zone must expand its army, and the source of troops can only be found locally. Of course, at present, it will mainly transform and reorganize the troops stationed in Shandong, which are the garrisons in Dengzhou area, and strictly train them to become merchants. The army's reserve forces must also annex the naval forces of Jinghaiwei and Weihaiwei, and obtain as many ships as possible, although the warships of these garrisons will then slowly expand their recruitment among the residents of Shandong.

The fourth is to strengthen the civil affairs construction in controlled areas, promote the pilot and land allocation of people's communes, establish a fully effective tax system and agricultural production, form a grassroots rural regime, and ensure the public support and control foundation of the merchant army in Shandong. .

Of course, Shang Yi could not mention Zeng Hualong the last point, so he could only wait for a while before talking about it. However, the first three points basically meet the current Dengzhou defense needs, so Zeng Hualong also agreed.

On the second day, the fleet departing from Zhejiang also arrived in Dengzhou. This time the vanguard was the vanguard, with a total of twenty-one ships, led by Huang Zhen himself, and the fleet included twelve. Western-style warships, eight 400-four-quality ships, and one is a fly-scissor ship named "Flying Fish One". Among them, the fleet belongs to Alisandra has four ships, but there are more than a thousand tons of ships. Only the Galaxy is here, which is the flagship of this advance fleet, and the Alisandra's ship, the Sea Rose, will be the flagship of the next fleet.

Shang Yi was also very happy to know that the fleet had arrived. Although the port in Dengzhou City was not big, there were still places to stop these twenty warships. Therefore, Shang Yi and Zeng Hualong also rushed to the dock to welcome the ship.

The team entered Hong Kong.

After the fleet arrived at the port, Zeng Hualong was shocked because Dengzhou was the first to be an official in Dengzhou for five or six years. He had seen many ships, but they were all Chinese lucky ships and broad ships.

Occasionally I have seen several large ships with about a thousand materials. At that time, I thought that such large ships were very rare. But in Shang Yi's fleet, more than half of them were ships with a large ships with a capacity of over a thousand materials.

After seeing the Galaxy, Zeng Hualong was also amazed, and then he realized that there were such a large ship in the world, and the style was so strange that it looked like a ship of a overseas Folang Jiren.

After Shang Yi introduced it, he realized that this ship was seized by Shang Yi from the hands of the stakeholders, which was even more amazing. Because the Spanish expeditionary army invaded the coast of Zhejiang not long, it was only four or five of them in total.

Therefore, except for the southeast coastal areas, no other places can believe it. Zeng Hualong heard of it for the first time and admired Shang Yi a little more. At the same time, he also had a plan to support Dengzhou from Zhejiang.

I also have a little more confidence. I am afraid that I can carry thousands of stones of goods at a time to such a large ship, so it is naturally more than enough to transport supplies.

After Huang Zhen and others got off the ship, they came to meet Shang Yi and also told Shang Yi two good news. One is that the Dutch in Taiwan has sent a reply and promised to send a ship to Ningbo to purchase it before 4 days and 15 days.

Raw silk. The first batch of raw silk purchased by Suzhou has been shipped to Hangzhou for preservation, and the first batch of raw silk sold to the Dutch are ready. The second good news is that Shang Yi is in the shipyard in Hu Jiangbin

The three orders of the kilometer ships have been successfully launched and tried and are undergoing final commissioning and preparations. If nothing unexpected happens, they should be able to come to Dengzhou with the second fleet. The 2,000 built by Shang Yi at Haiyan Shipyard

There are four fly-scissors in the Liufu ship, and they can also be launched into the water for trial sailing at the end of March.

After hearing this, Shang Yi was very happy that his first batch of ships built by himself could finally be officially launched. This was an important moment of naval construction. It was a pity that he could not attend the launch trial ceremony of the new ship.

So Shang Yi asked Huang Zhen to drive all the ships into the alley first, and then go ashore to arrange a place for them to rest. Then Shang Yi immediately asked Tang Town to rush back to Muling Pass, leaving only one battalion and one

The new recruits were guarding Muling Pass, and transferred all the other people to Dengzhou. At the same time, they also brought out the residents of Muling Pass and placed them in Dengzhou. The craftsmen only left fifty people in Muling Pass, and the others were

All the people were also transferred to Dengzhou, causing half of the materials to be left in military supplies, while all the muskets and artillery were brought, and they were redistributed in Dengzhou. Later, Shang Yi asked Wu Quanfu, the captain of Feiyu No. 1, to

I immediately brought the 300,000 taels of silver transported from Muling Pass and returned to Hangzhou, handed the silver to the Administration Department, and then brought the second fleet over.

Today is March 12th. Although it brought 300,000 taels of silver at the speed of Feiyu One, it only took four or five days to return to Hangzhou. The second fleet arrived in Dengzhou, probably in

Fifteen days later. At that time, Shang Yi will have an amazing action plan to be implemented.

At this moment, a prisoner hurried to Zeng Hualong and whispered a few words. After hearing this, Zeng Hualong's face changed drastically and said, "Shang Yi, come back to the yamen with me quickly and go back to the yamen.
Chapter completed!