"The Jiannu may have invaded in May and June next year, and it is nearly half a year away, and it is not our main battlefield next year. Our main battlefield next year is in Liaodong. Now our second-line troops have been established and we will have enough troops to restore Liao in less than three years." Zhao Yan said to the generals: "And before we can restore Liao with all our strength, there must be a safe place in Liaodong."

"We Denglai are separated from Liaodong by a sea. The best place to log in is in the Liaodong Peninsula, namely Lushun and Jinzhou. According to the investigation, Jiannu's defense in Lushun was very empty, with only more than 500 soldiers in the city. Jiannu's defense against the Liaodong Peninsula was very empty, and it was the best time to attack." Zhao Yan asked, pointing to the Liaodong Peninsula on the map.

"It should not be too difficult to conquer Lushun. After the capture, if you adopt a safe method, build a fort and defend it, then move forward year by year, slowly erode the land of Liaodong. It will take at most ten years, and Liaodong can be restored." Liu Heng said.

"Too slow." Zhao Yan shook his head and said, "Liaodong is our current goal, but it is not our ultimate goal. The world is so big that there are fertile places waiting for us to expand our territory. How can Liaodong be restrained for ten years?" Zhao Yan rejected this method.

"If we want to shorten the time to restore Liao, the lord can build a fort and defend it, and then gradually increase troops to Liaodong, launch an offensive against Jiannu every year, and quickly and slowly to help each other. If you win, you can recover and lose. As long as our finances are still as prosperous as in recent years, we can continue to invest manpower and material resources into the Liaodong battlefield." Liu Heng was obviously well aware of Zhao Yan's strategy.

Zhao Yan has now created a war machine that is generally used in the assembly line. From training to combat, he first trains in the township, then goes to the recruit battalion to train, and then is incorporated into the combat sequence. In theory, as long as there is enough money, the energy will be continuously created.

And making money is what he is best at.

In terms of details, everyone discussed for nearly a morning and finally planned to launch an offensive against the Liaodong Peninsula in May next year. Before April next year, an infantry battalion and a cavalry battalion will be transferred from Handan and Yingzhou. In May, these second-line troops will be transferred from Shuangdao bend by boat, and then attack the three places of Lushun, Nanguan and Jinzhou. After the capture, they will build three forts and defend.

The reason why the attack on Lushun was done by the second-line troops was because the front-line troops would go north to serve the king next year, which was difficult, and undoubtedly it was even more difficult to serve the king.

The defensive power of Lushun, Nanguan and Jinzhou is not strong, and with the sharpness of the artillery in Zhao Yan's hand, it is not difficult to attack. In terms of castle defense, an effective defensive mode has been formed.

...At this time, the personnel sent by Batavia Company had also arrived in Denglai and brought a letter of protest from the governor of Taiwan.

In the letter, Taiwan Governor Putman said that the company could not accept unreasonable blackmail from Denlei and threatened the Denlei authorities that if they did not immediately release and return their soldiers and ships, they would retaliate against the actions of the Light Empire.

This reminded Zhao Yan that the coastal defense of Denglai was still very fragile and needed to strengthen the defense to avoid being attacked by the Dutch.

After knocking away the communication sent by the Dutch, Zhao Yan immediately began to strengthen the port's defense. Longkou Port is relatively simple to defend. There is a piece of land extending out of Longkou Port, like a V-shaped pocket. The turret can be placed on the peninsula that extends into the sea and can be kept airtight.

Longkou Port is a very important place for Zhao Yan, because the shipyard and dock are here. If it is attacked, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses.

Qingdao's defense is more complicated, and the turret is not as simple as Longkou Port. The artillery laboratory has determined that the largest cannon in the standard is a 2,000-kilogram 185mm heavy cannon with an effective range of 2,000 meters. This kind of cannon cannon cannon cannon cannon cannons cannons only for city defense and shore defense. There is no need for the navy to equip such heavy cannons.

Any possible danger must be eliminated in time, and you must not be lucky. The project of setting up a fort is launched immediately.

Ten shore defense guns were built in Longkou Port, twenty-two gates were built in Qingdao Port, and nineteen gates were built in Shanghai Port. Each fortress had to build a building to protect the artillery. The tower was used as a bunker, and the quality requirements were stricter than the city walls, so they were all poured with three-mix soil and glutinous rice juice. The roofs of the bunkers in the Republic of China were also built in this way.

The 185mm cannon has more than 30 kilograms of shells. No matter what ship is shot, it will be so cool that it will be dying of ecstasy.

The northern part of the Ming Dynasty was under a state of maritime ban. Although there was constant smuggling, there was no large number of maritime forces rising, so there was no threat of maritime forces before.

Now it is different. Zhao Yan has already worked with the Dutch, and the shore defense system is in urgent need of establishment.

In addition to the fort, Zhao Yan gathered the warships from various coastal defense stations and established a shore defense fleet. The task of the shore defense fleet was to patrol the sea so that it could detect enemy ships in time.

The enemy that these coastal defense centers originally defended was Japanese pirates, but the Japanese pirates had been pacified for a long time, and the coastal defense became in name only, and no officers and soldiers went to patrol the sea at all.

...After setting up the offensive plan and coastal defense system for Liaodong next year, Zhao Yan began to deal with the matters of salt administration. As soon as the documentary of Shandong's Salt Transportation Envoy arrived, Zhao Yan's private salt finally became a regular.

Last year, I made four million taels of salt profit and paid three million taels, which was only one million taels of salt profit and one million escort dividend earned by the employment camp.

However, these three million taels are worth spending. After taking office as the Shandong salt transport commander, he could sell salt rightfully and legitimately attack the salt merchants in Lianghuai. Who asked them to sell private salt?

The mudflats in Laizhou Bay have been completely renovated, and the salt production will reach 30 million dan, but they have not recruited so many salt workers. 30 million dan of salt is really produced, so they have to be poured back into the sea. There is more than 100 million people and there is no industrial demand, so how can they consume so much salt?

Regarding how to reform the salt administration, Zhao Yan gave a plan to submit a memorial to Zhu Youjian on the sixth day of October.

The plan is to open up private salt sales. All businessmen in the world can sell salt. The government only cares about the salt production and sells it after pricing. This is not only convenient for management, but also benefits the people after competition in the market.

In terms of pricing, Zhao Yan felt that it was most appropriate to price two or five cents per tumble. In terms of salt prices, Zhao Yan mentioned the prices in various places. In retail, a tumble of salt can generally be sold for six to eight cents in the market. If the number of merchants sellers and competition is more, the price of salt can be at least half, which is beneficial to the people and the income of the salt administration can also increase.

At the same time, Zhu Youjian reported that the Shandong Salt Transportation Department distributed salt ditches to various provinces in order to arrest those who trafficked sting in slander salt.

After reading Zhao Yan's convincing memorial, Zhu Youjian immediately approved it. He had some concerns before, and was worried that Zhao Yan would squeeze the people after serving as the Shandong salt transport envoy, so he would feel relieved.

Data is something that is easy to deceive people. For unprofessional people, it is easy to be deceived by data. Just like the inflation data in later generations, in fact, when calculating data, many ugly sectors are eliminated, such as food prices are rising steadily, and this is the ugly one. When calculating, it is not counted in this area. If other ugly sectors are eliminated, the data produced will look good.

Zhu Youjian was obviously not an expert, so he was naturally deceived by the data listed by Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan only said that the annual salt tax revenue can reach 5 million taels, but in fact, after adding extra operations, the income will definitely be more than 5 million taels.

The annual demand for salt in the Ming Dynasty should be around 15 million dan, even if it accounts for one-third. If 5 million dans of salt are sold every year, it will have a turnover of 12.5 million dan per dan, and a dan of salt is 2 taels and 5 cents per dan, and each dan will have a profit of 2 taels. It is easy to earn 10 million dan per year.

In other words, Zhao Yan was almost half of the corruption. If his share increased, he would pay 5 million taels, so the investment of 3 million taels is worth it. It is convenient for a whitewashed identity to do anything.

After receiving Zhu Youjian's approval, Zhao Yan immediately went to Jinan to rectify the Shandong Salt Transportation Department and entered Jinan City. Zhao Yan first visited Shandong Governor Yan Jizu.

It is said that since Yan Jizu took office as the governor of Shandong, Zhao Yan has not visited him, so he has given him some filial piety. This time, I just visited this immediate boss.

Yan Jizu heard Zhao Yan pay homage in his residence in the backyard of the government office, but said to his servants: "I am busy with government affairs, let him wait."

Since Yan Jizu took office, Zhao Yan has been the least 'sensible' and has ever met him in the future. In Yan Jizu's opinion, he is simply a supreme official.

It would be fine if you don’t come. Since you are here today, it’s better to show him. Yan Jizu was very proud when he thought about this. Who made me a civil servant and a military general, and his status was very different.

"Sir, Zhao Yan is deeply trusted by the emperor. If you neglect..." The servant also understood the current affairs. Pingyueli Yan Jizu would also report the residence to these servants and express some of his own opinions to make him very insightful.

As for the salt administration, the storm has been storms in the past, and it has been known to everyone in the world. As the governor of Shandong, Yan Jizu knew very well. He waved his hand and said, "It's okay."

Yan Jizu looked down on the warrior from the bottom of his heart. Since this son is so arrogant, he must at least take the appearance of Shangguan to cure him this time.

Zhao Yan waited in the governor's yamen for twenty minutes. Seeing that Yan Jizu had not come out yet, he couldn't help but feel depressed. It seemed that the new governor was about to be an air again.

After another twenty minutes, Zhao Yan was so angry that he got up and left. He had no time to waste time here.

As soon as I took a few personal guards out of the governor's yamen, I saw a sedan chair parked outside the yamen and pressed down when a white figure walked out of the sedan chair.

Zhao Yan glanced at the corner of his eyes and looked over with a reflection. He saw that he was a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, with a very graceful figure and a veil covering her face. Through the veil, you could vaguely see her delicate facial features.

Before he could take a closer look, the servant who was receiving Zhao Yan was just now looking at Zhao Yan strangely and asked with a smile: "General Zhao, why are you out?"

"Hmph, the military lord is so arrogant, his stinky face is everywhere, I will not accompany you." Zhao Yan snorted coldly, and directly burst into dissatisfaction in his heart.

He is not a little shrimp, so he doesn't need to swallow his anger.

"The general misunderstood, misunderstanding! The military gate is dealing with government affairs and cannot be pulled away for a while." The servant quickly explained.

"Can you cheat a three-year-old child?" Zhao Yan turned a rough face and left with a straight sleeve.

The woman looked up at Zhao Yan leaving. It was not until Zhao Yan turned around the corner of the street outside the governor's yamen that she withdrew her gaze and asked strangely: "Who is that person?"

"Miss, that's Zhao Yan, the general of Denglai. He just came to the yamen to pay a visit to the master, but the master wanted to show his face, but he got angry. This is a bad thing. He is a local king in Shandong. If he really fights with the master, the master will have to suffer a loss." The servant said anxiously.

"Oh! He is that Zhao Yan!" the woman said in surprise, and then asked strangely: "I came to Shandong for some time. People everywhere praise him as a great charity and spread porridge in various parts of Shandong every year. How could he be a local tyrant?"

"Why aren't a local tyrant? He has a lot of followers in Shandong! If the master really fights with him, he will probably be unable to move forward."
Chapter completed!