534 We are just building barracks...that's all

As time went by, the construction scale of Weihai's new base continued to advance, and a rather modern town gradually took shape at the end of the Shandong Peninsula in the 17th century. Although Qiong Haijun had already made a name for himself when he was fighting the rebellion in Dengzhou,

After all, it was on the battlefield, and ordinary civilians would flee as far as they could. Those who had truly seen their capabilities, except for those Ming troops who were quickly transferred back to various places, were the unlucky rebels who knew them best.

——But the rebels will definitely not say anything good about them, and most people won't have the chance.

Of course, when the Qiong Navy later recruited refugees, the refugees recruited from all sides had also tasted their benefits, but these people were quickly transported to the south... So when the Qiong Navy landed at Weihaiwei, most of the local people

The officials and gentry still don't know much about them, and they still adopt a very cautious and wary attitude.

Although Jie Xi had a document issued by the Ming Dynasty court and the title of "Weihai Guards General", in the eyes of those gentry, those who have armed forces these days are not good birds, even if they have serious court records.

The army of the Ming Dynasty is inevitably raided and harassed in the local area. What's more, this green-skinned army is completely different from the Ming army. I heard that they are rebels who are here to recruit people, and their military discipline is even more worrying - I heard that they are in the process of landing.

Is the state capital good at fighting? God, the more capable the army is these days, the more unreasonable it is.

After that, Osayan stayed here for a whole winter, which lowered their wariness to a certain extent - this short-haired army was quite disciplined and had a good conscience. Even in the coldest time, they did not

The idea was to focus on the grain reserves of surrounding counties, but it attracted many refugees... However, after the defenders were replaced, and the real Chief Counselor General took office in person with his "household" troops, several surrounding counties

I started to get nervous again - because this short-haired army started to make a big fuss.

Qiong Haijun needed a lot of stones to build houses, burn cement, and build roads and flat areas. Where did the stones come from? In this era, in addition to slowly hammering and chiseling manually, they also piled firewood and burned them with fire to heat the stones.

Pour cold water on it, use the principle of thermal expansion and contraction to crack the stone, and then pry it off and slowly break it into pieces... The efficiency is very low. But those greenskin quarries all use gunpowder... First, dig a hole in the mountain,

Stuff a whole bag of ** bags, and then pull the fuse... with a bang, sometimes even half of the mountain can collapse.

This series of big actions has really worried several surrounding counties, especially the nearest counties and health offices such as Wendeng, Jinshan, and Baichiya. What do these short-haired people want to do? These days, the folk

Feudal superstition is very strong. Qiong Haijun is digging mountains and blasting rocks on such a large scale. There are even rumors among the local people that they are going to do some large-scale witchcraft here? Or maybe they are here to do something for some big short-haired man?

The leader changed the feng shui and built the tomb?

——According to the understanding of those in the Ming Dynasty, such a large-scale civil construction project can only be compared with the construction of the imperial mausoleum. Some local officials even wrote a special memorial title book, saying that since the Qiongzhou Kun Army moved

Ever since we settled here, we have been working day and night with endless noise. We often see the red sky in the distance, and we don’t know what we are doing or what our intentions are...

The capital cabinet was dumbfounded after receiving such a report. With Chen Tao, Qian Qianyi and other people in the center, the Ming court today knows more about shorthair than the local government. What's more, since they have cooperated with Dengzhou

From now on, they will know that this group of short-haired men are the best to deal with. There are all kinds of novel methods emerging one after another. It is rare to find many strange things in this place, but it is inevitable.

It's just that when it comes to the theory of imperial power and Feng Shui, the Eight Classics have come up from below, and it's hard to ignore it from above. And there's another point - according to the original negotiation results between Short Hair and Ming Dynasty, Qiong Haijun cannot station troops here in Weihaiwei.

More than 600. Now these short-haired guys are going to war there, and it is said that they have blown up several mountains. If you only station 600 soldiers, you don't need to blow up a few hills to quarry stone, right?

So the Ministry of War specially sent a minister to inquire and check. However, when it came to such specific technical issues, Qiong Haijun had too many ways to deal with him. After the minister came over by boat, Jie Xi and Pang Yu personally

I took him around the base and named the uses one by one: here is the barracks, over there is the nursing home for the sick and injured, and over there is the material warehouse... There are also subdivisions in terms of the purpose of the warehouse: the grain depot and the warehouse can be more casual.

, the weapons depot must be placed in critical places, and the gunpowder depot must be hidden in a mountain col because it is too dangerous... In addition, all the supplies for our army come from the sea, and a harbor with sufficient transportation capacity near the military camp is essential.

The harbor itself must also be built with barracks for sailors to stay and rest, workshops for repairing ships, and warehouses for storing goods. And in order to ensure the safety of the port transport ships, several forts must be built nearby...

After all these instructions, the assistant minister's head was as big as a bucket - even though he was serving in the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, he was still the kind of nerd who became famous in ten years of hard work, and his understanding of the army was no better than other people of this era.

There are more scholars. At best, they occasionally go to the three major battalions next to the capital, which have long been exhausted. They don’t know what facilities a real army needs. A new army like the Qiong Navy that is fully equipped with firearms is even more difficult.

When your eyes are dark, you will do whatever people say.

Of course, no matter what, this guy has passed the examination and been on the list, and his IQ is not low. After being deceived for a long time, he finally found the most critical question: you have so many facilities, how can you only arrange 600 people?

Can you take care of it?

Jie Xi flipped through the roster, and then told him righteously: There are currently a total of 427 Weihai Guard soldiers on the roster, divided into two companies, which has not yet reached the 600 quota, and most of them have gone out to suppress bandits. As for you

The people we see working here are just our engineering team, sailors, and the farmers and refugees we have taken in. These people certainly cannot be counted among the six hundred.

The servant thought for a long time, and then looked through the documents that Qiong Haijun signed with the Ming Dynasty court - these contents are all backed by documents, written down in black and white, and it does strictly state that: Qiong Haijun's troops stationed in Weihai must not exceed 600

people, but there is no mention of restrictions on ordinary people.

Since it is not written, there is no limit. With an armed force like Qiong Haijun who holds the gun barrel, money basket, rice bag, and even the vegetable basket in his own hands, and at the same time does not care about the official position of the Ming Dynasty, regardless of

It's meaningless to show off official prestige. Xie Xi also said frankly in the conversation with him - we didn't ask for your military salary, but we helped you recruit so many refugees. The construction work here

We all paid for it ourselves, neither asking for money from the court nor asking for apportionment from surrounding prefectures and counties. It should be a good thing that you can't even ask for, so there is nothing to worry about.

The waiter made sense when he thought about it. These short-haired people are their business. As long as they don't disturb the place and don't cause trouble for the court, why should they meddle in other people's business? Besides, when I came here this time, I did see that the short-haired people were really doing it.

It is engaged in local construction. Although the scale is a bit larger, it is completely different from the statement of the official who wrote the letter that the short hair is "changing the feng shui to build a mausoleum". And what the big guys in the central center are most concerned about

It's just that, they don't want to give people any excuses.

So after the Minister of War made a "comprehensive, complete and objective" inspection of the construction of the Qiong Navy's new base in Weihai, he went back with a relatively detailed report to his superiors in the capital. Officials from several surrounding prefectures and counties were there.

After going around in circles, they finally got from Beijing the official statement from their next-door neighbor, General Lieutenant General Jie, about the construction of his home:

"We are just building barracks for the garrison."

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When this answer was conveyed to the surrounding prefectures and counties, those officials all cursed in their hearts - To build a barracks, you have to go to such great lengths to build a barracks and blow up the mountain to build a house? ***You are all giant spirits? But in official terms, people

Now that they have been explained, they have no right to be wordy. These bandits are not even worthy of the imperial court. If they really make them angry, they will definitely not get any good results.

And not long after, Jie Xi wrote to the surrounding prefectures and counties, saying that the local security was unstable and the roads were unsafe. Since our general was assigned by the imperial court to guard this place, he was naturally responsible for exterminating the bandits and maintaining the local area. Our General Qiong Haijun

We will send troops to exterminate the surrounding bandits in the near future. Please provide assistance from everyone...

As you can imagine, after receiving this document, the whole place was in chaos. Everyone thought that the greenskins were finally going to take action - what action? Scraping the land. The Wendeng County Magistrate was even more frightened, because it was he who had gone up to the top.

The report that the short-haired man might be engaged in "Feng Shui activities" was reported on the head. Could it be that he wanted to take revenge? Those soldiers have no reason to explain. When the time comes, they will kill people and get a pass.

He is labeled as a bandit and has nowhere to redress his grievances.

Not to mention how nervous this group of officials and the local gentry were, some of them had already prepared money, rice and wheat, waiting for the short-haired men to spend money to eliminate disasters... But they waited, and waited, and waited.

When I waited, the short-haired army never came. But I kept hearing that a stronghold somewhere had been breached, and an old bandit was caught... It was all done by the green-skinned army. And they didn't even have food supplies.

No one asked the local government for help, everything was solved by oneself.

Are they really just here to suppress bandits? The fear in the hearts of many officials and gentry began to loosen. Not long after, what happened in a certain town quickly spread throughout Shandong... {Piaotian Literature
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