Lüshun Port, customs entry.
Yuan Qingying and Ye Na also applied for ID cards. After all, they were official Jinyi Guards. After learning a lesson in Fushun last year, they understood that fighting and killing was not the only way to gain a foothold in society. Yuan Qingying was just arrogant, but as long as she understood the reason, she was willing to accept other people's suggestions.
Fan Wan'er took it for granted that the Revolutionary Army was a group of messy rebels. She came with a guard because of her habit of wandering in Jianghu. However, Yuan Qingying had all kinds of reports from the Ming Dynasty's local officials after they contacted the Revolutionary Army. After being beaten many times, the officials no longer dared to write carelessly in their reports. The Revolutionary Army was a group of rebels that could be easily dealt with.
If they continued to write like this, they would be slapping their own faces.
The Revolutionary Army opened Lüshun as the only port for foreign trade. Xu Bing set up a perfect business, administrative, and responsibility inspection system to ensure the relative integrity and efficiency of civil servants at all levels. The traders who went to Lüshun to do business brought back these situations. If Jinyi Guards didn't even know these situations, then they wouldn't be the secret service that terrified the world.
Lüshun was also the best place for the Ming Army to attack by sea. One-third of the Revolutionary Army's forces were stationed here. The Second Infantry Battalion of Wudaemun and Chai Jie's Fire Battalion were both here. Jinyi Guards also knew about these things and knew that they were not easy to deal with.
The ID card of the Revolutionary Army was equivalent to the road pass issued by the Ming Dynasty's government. It was a tool used to limit the flow of people and strengthen management. It was like Rabbit needed a letter of introduction from the unit for a long time after the founding of the country. Without this thing, one couldn't buy a ticket or stay in a hotel. One could only wait to be caught by the police as a thief.
With the ID card issued by the Revolutionary Army, it meant that outsiders could carry out restricted actions in the Liaodong Peninsula. For example, in Lüshun, as long as one didn't go to the military camp or other important places, there would be no obstruction.
Li Shuwei ran to Jinzhou to report that two groups of women had arrived. He wanted Zhou Qingfeng to help him get Fan Wan'er. Zhou Qingfeng naturally would not refuse. He returned to Lüshun without stopping and decided to make Fan Wan'er into his pocket. In any case, men had two hobbies — one was to drag women from good families down with them, and the other was to persuade prostitutes to change their ways.
After Yuan Qingying and Ye Na had completed their documents at the immigration office, the two women sat across from Fan Wan'er, who had just caused trouble. They knew Fan Wan'er's true identity, and Fan Wan'er also knew the origins of the two women. As soon as they met, they didn't like each other. Yuan Qingying despised Fan Wan'er's reputation for beauty, while Fan Wan'er didn't like women who were prettier than her. She was even more worried that the two girls would tear her down.
When they learned that Zhou Qingfeng was going to meet them in Jinzhou, the two groups of women had already spent the night in the guest house in Lushun. The next day, accompanied by Li Shuwei, they took a carriage from Lushun to Jinzhou. The scenery along the way made them speechless.
In October, the north had basically completed the autumn harvest and began to hide for the winter. But under the rule of the Revolutionary Army, they were working in full swing. Li Shuwei couldn't get a guarantee from Zhou Qingfeng, so he came back to accompany Fan Wan'er in the same carriage and proudly introduced his agricultural development plan.
"A lot of farmland in the Liaodong Peninsula is abandoned, but there are also a lot of landless farmers. We are now recruiting people from other places to come and farm. Seeds, farm tools, and houses are all on credit without interest. We also work for relief, refurbishing water conservancy and reclaiming farmland. These things are all done by me, and it's really hard to say. "
Speaking of pride, Li Shuwei naturally had a heroic spirit. He intended to show off in front of the beautiful woman, but as he spoke, his words were not specifically for Fan Wan'er to hear, but more to talk about his own ambitions. "When we first occupied this place in September, there was only excitement. But in the subsequent settlement of the continuous influx of people, our Ministry of Agriculture was almost exhausted.
When the Ministry of Agriculture was just established, I had less than 20 people under my command, nothing else, and no one had any experience. In order to survey the land, I spent a month running all over the Liaodong Peninsula, and several horses died. The weeds in the wasteland were taller than people, and poisonous snakes and fierce beasts were hidden among them. We swept the entire peninsula's gentry, and a large number of saboteurs also fled into the wilderness to fight against us.
But even so, we didn't give up our plan. I worked during the day and trained at night. All the teaching materials were written by me under the oil lamp, one word at a time. My cadres are all my students, and I am very happy to see them grow every day.
In order to start a business, I expanded the Ministry of Agriculture to more than 3,000 people, and organized 20,000 militia to start a large-scale clean-up. I ordered to replan the water source, burn the wasteland to open up fertile land, and build villages and fortresses to protect ourselves. Right now, those saboteurs are being beaten back by me, and they will soon be finished.
After this winter repair is finished, next year we can get tens of thousands of hectares of land. I guarantee that next year there will be more food than we can eat, and hundreds of thousands of farmers can get basic rations. As long as we have food in our hands, we are not afraid of anyone. Right now is our most difficult time. But as long as one year, I guarantee that after one year, we will become stronger and stronger. "
Li Shuwei was beaming with joy as he spoke. Occasionally, he would exaggerate a little, but most of the work was done by him. To be able to do such a business, he felt that his life was very valuable, and he felt very gratified.
In the carriage, Fan Wan 'er listened with her mouth agape. She had never seen a man so confident and so bold in front of her. Every word he said was different from the others, but it had a spirit that shook people's hearts.
Fan Wan 'er's first reaction was that Li Shuwei was lying to her. Speaking arrogantly to seduce good women was the specialty of many of the White Lotus School's disciples. But most of the deceitful words were made up of the identity of a rich family's son or a genius scholar, and also said that his family was extremely wealthy or talented.
When other men showed themselves to Fan Wan 'er, they would recite poems and talk about elegant things. Who would talk to her about farming and opening up wastelands? But this man in front of her made this most ordinary and lowly thing sound high-end and elegant, as if farming could make him a noble.
But looking at the fields on both sides of the carriage, there were indeed groups of farmers who were building canals. The irrigation network that had not been repaired for many years was being dug anew, and many places where the land was frozen stiff would be softened by fire, or even directly blasted with explosives.
"Look, that's Zhou Qingfeng's combat engineers building a reservoir. Those guys need to learn how to dig earth and how to build houses and dams. They have been training repeatedly recently, and many graduates from the intermediate class in the Revolutionary Army's school have been assigned to them. We have been doing some major breakthroughs recently, specifically to cultivate talents and improve ourselves. "
Li Shuwei pointed at a group of people in the distance, and after a while, there was a violent explosion. A large amount of earth was blown up into the sky, shaking heaven and earth, it was extremely spectacular — Fan Wan 'er was dumbfounded, she had never seen this before. The biggest scene in the past was when her master Xu Hongru encouraged thousands of refugees to attack the county town, but they were chased by dozens of yamen runners in the county town.
A few seconds after the explosion, the sound was heard, rumbling like thunder, completely beyond Fan Wan 'er's imagination. She looked at Li Shuwei who was smiling indifferently, and her brain had already turned into a block of wood, with a deep sense of powerlessness — she had never felt such emotions in her life, today was the first time.
The White Lotus Society still wants to cause trouble in the Revolutionary Army's territory? You don't even know what they are playing, you are not on the same level at all. There's no comparison, okay?!
"What are they doing over there?" Fan Wan 'er's momentum weakened a little, and she asked.
"Blasting. They are digging earth and blowing up the ground with explosives. Now there are not enough explosives, so we have to use them sparingly. When we build a gunpowder factory, blasting will be as easy as playing firecrackers during the New Year. "
Li Shuwei introduced, but Fan Wan 'er was crying in her heart — you are lying to me, who sets off firecrackers like this during the New Year? Even people and their homes will be blown up into the sky.
"How much money do you spend like this?" Fan Wan 'er finally thought of a question that she could understand.
Li Shuwei was silent for a while, "Last month, our Ministry of Agriculture spent 80,000 taels, mainly to purchase cattle from Shandong. Didn't you notice that recently all the ships from Shandong are carrying cattle? I am running a livestock school, and I plan to recruit a group of students majoring in veterinary medicine. At that time, I won't be able to run around, and I will have to teach the students. "
There had never been a peasant who was so arrogant in front of Fan Wan 'er. The farmers she had seen before were all dull, ignorant, stupid, and numb, and they would not struggle even if they were to die, and could only accept their fate. But the head of the farmers in front of her was tall and strong, and his speech was clear and simple. As for his appearance, he was also quite good-looking.
Fan Wan 'er suddenly had a strong sense of crisis, and she thought to herself, What can I do here? Can I really deceive the leader of the Revolutionary Army to believe my nonsense? Zhou Qingfeng was a smart person, and he was especially ruthless. In Onizuka, he deceived a large number of people at that time. The big man in front of me is also the leader of the Revolutionary Army, but he is shrewd and capable in another way.
"You just said that you have 20,000 soldiers under your command?" Fan Wan 'er actually couldn't understand Li Shuwei's vernacular, and she could only guess. 20,000 soldiers, just kidding. Daming, a military officer, didn't have so many soldiers under his command. How could this peasant lead so many soldiers? Then wouldn't he hold great power?
"It's 20,000 militias." Li Shuwei pointed to a group of people outside the carriage and said, "Look, that's the kind. At present, we have set up 500 model villages, and our minister Xu of the Ministry of Administration is particularly good at this.
There will be 40 to 50 militias in each village. They are responsible for maintaining the order in the village. In theory, they are under my control, and I can mobilize the militias of a dozen villages to carry out some large-scale operations. For example, to eliminate bandits, repair projects, and so on. "
After Li Shuwei finished speaking, he still felt a little guilty, because the militias had just begun to be formed. The number of 20,000 was only a theoretical value. In fact, it was good to have 2,000 at present. However, these words were like a bolt from the blue in Fan Wan 'er's ears. If her master Xu Hongru had 20,000 soldiers, he would have happily raised the flag to attack the various counties. Why would he hide like a mouse?
"You … How can you have 20,000 soldiers?" Fan Wan 'er looked at Li Shuwei's appearance. Where did he have the temperament of commanding 20,000 soldiers? "How can you afford it? How can you command? "
Hahaha …
Li Shuwei grinned happily, full of a sense of superiority in IQ. He felt that the woman in front of him was more and more to his liking. This surprised and unbelievable expression made him very happy. This was more comfortable than flattering him ten thousand times.
"This involves the organization and mobilization ability. Our Revolutionary Army is completely different from other forces in terms of system structure. We have eradicated the gentry, which prevents us from being hindered and disturbed in the process of governance. We delegate power to the grass-roots personnel, and at the same time, supervise them. We will also guide and supervise them … "
Li Shuwei began to give Fan Wan 'er a lecture on management and organization, but Fan Wan' er was in a daze from the beginning to the end. She didn't understand, she didn't understand, she didn't understand, she really didn't understand at all. Our White Lotus Society only draws some talismans, cheats people of their money, kidnaps, and extorts. We do all kinds of shady things that can't be seen in public. But you guys …
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