"Hey, hey! Commander Zuo, Commander Zuo, why are you here in our little place again?"
As soon as they met, Lin Mao, the prefect of Changhe Prefecture, rushed to accuse him.
However, Zuo Hui ignored all his nonsense and simply waved his hand and said, "County Magistrate Lin, I believe you have already received the order from the court.
Now that our army has been stationed outside your mansion, we also ask Prefect Lin to send the military supplies our army needs outside the city as soon as possible for us to sign for them! "
After hearing what Zuo Hui said, Lin Mao didn't panic at all.
He had already heard about what happened in Gaodong County. In order to prevent himself from falling into the same fate as those unlucky prefects and county magistrates in Gaodong County, after learning that the Ping Japanese Army was about to pass by, he immediately arranged for people to prepare. .
Now everything is ready, and as long as he gives an order, the military supplies that should be given to the Japanese army can be delivered at any time.
Therefore, after Zuo Hui said these words, Lin Maodang nodded and agreed.
That attitude left everyone stunned.
Why are you, the little prefect, so excited about something that others avoid?
But since everyone was ready, there would be no delay. Soon various military supplies from Changhe Mansion had arrived outside Li Dingguo's military camp.
Meeting such a prefect for the first time really opened Li Dingguo's eyes.
When Zuo Hui received the news that the garrison had received the supplies, Zuo Hui's eyes changed when he looked at Lin Mao.
Good guy, this is the real deal!
He would give it away as soon as he said it would be given. He would not find any excuses to delay like other prefects or county magistrates. In the end, they would only force us to measure the knife with him before they would honestly give us what we should have. All to us.
And not only was the one in front of me not deducted, but according to the intelligence received, more was given back!
He glanced at Lin Mao who was cautious with a complicated expression, and said loudly, "Prefect Lin, don't worry, now all your supplies have arrived at our army station.
We will leave immediately after our army has replenished enough supplies in the market.
It won't cause any trouble to your yamen. "
For others, Li Dingguo and others have always followed the policies issued by the prince.
That is, people respect me one foot, and I respect others one foot.
If others give me a good look, I will also give others a good look.
But if others don’t treat me well, then we don’t need to be polite to them at all.
This is why Zuo Hui is so polite.
This time, the Ping Japanese Army and the local government got along very happily.
It took about three days for the Ping Japanese Army to finally purchase the prepared materials. The Ping Japanese Army, which had stayed in Changhe Mansion for more than three days, set off again to their destination the next day. .
After leaving Changhe Mansion, the Ping Japanese Army would no longer be able to enter the city in order to avoid alerting the enemy, and the supplies they had on them were enough for them to reach the next supply point.
The army marched again for about seven days, and finally arrived near a county town in northern Jiangsu near the Bohai Bay.
"Report!"
While the army was marching, the sentries sent out to explore the road suddenly came to report.
"Report to the general, according to investigation, there is a flag of Feiyun Trading Company flying in Haicun, thirty miles ahead!"
Li Dingguo's face suddenly became overjoyed when he heard what he said. The flag of Feiyun Trading Company was hanging, which meant that Feiyun Trading Company was stationed here.
If they want to get supplies for the next journey, they need to find Feiyun Trading Company.
Immediately, Li Dingguo ordered the entire army to speed up.
Due to the large number of cavalry, just as the sun was about to set, the Taira-Japanese army finally arrived at the Hae Village that the spies mentioned.
Haicun was once the poorest village in the area.
In order to survive, the people in the village are so poor that they go to the sea to fish for fish, shrimps and crabs all day long. The villagers are all sallow and thin, and wear rags.
But everything has changed since Feiyun Trading Company set up an outlet to the sea here.
Due to the terrain here, it is extremely suitable for setting up a port. The Feiyun Chamber of Commerce, which was eager to find an independent outlet to the sea, immediately took a fancy to Haicun.
Immediately afterwards, large sums of money were invested. In the original Haicun, every household had a thatched house and the land was all mud.
The people couldn't even afford food.
But since the arrival of Feiyun Trading Company, the road has turned into a stone road, and the houses of the people in the village have also turned into large tile-roofed houses. The people finally got rid of the pain of continuing to eat fish, shrimps and crabs, and had enough money to buy food. , I have enough money to buy a few feet of cloth and make myself a new set of clothes.
The land near the sea in the village was bought by Feiyun Trading Company. The trading company spent a lot of money to compensate the village. At the same time, in order to build the port, Feiyun Trading Company recruited almost the entire village to work.
After the port was established, ships from Feiyun Trading Company began to come and go frequently.
The arrival of the ship also means that people need to unload the cargo, and sailors who have been on the ship for a long time need to find a place to rest.
So the smart people in the village, who had saved some money by working in the past, started to use their money to start the business of these sailors.
For accommodation, food, etc., we actually found a man from the village.
And Lifu, who regularly needs to move goods at the port every day, also allows the young people in the village to always have work to do.
The original seafaring people relied on fishing in the sea for a living. Because the nearby land was saline-alkali land and could not grow food, they could only fish.
Now they can do business with Feiyun Trading Company and do work for Feiyun Trading Company in exchange for rewards, and can use these rewards to buy food and daily necessities.
Gradually, the originally small Haicun began to expand, and the similarly poor people in other villages also discovered the changes in Haicun, and naturally gathered in Haicun in order to live a better life.
Slowly, the original small village is now no worse than a town in a group.
When Li Dingguo led the Japanese-defeating army to Haicun, he was also stunned. Wasn't it said that it was a village?
Does it look like a small town?
But before he could think about it, their arrival caused panic among the people in Hai Village.
This was the army, and the reputation of the army during this period was not very good. Everyone looked at Li Dingguo's troops outside the town with horrified eyes.
It wasn't until a chubby man ran over sweating profusely and came all the way to Li Dingguo that the scene was resolved.
"Hoo Chi! Hoo Chi! Hoo Chi! Li...General Li! The villain is Wang Dahai, the port director in charge of Haicun Port!"
Wang Dahai was breathing heavily. He was obviously in a bad mood and couldn't speak clearly.
After Li Dingguo signaled him to slow down, it took him a while before he finally calmed down and continued: "General Li, your matters have been explained before.
Please stay stationed around Haicun for two more days.
In just the next two days, the supplies collected by the trading company for you will arrive. In addition, Yunzhou has also transported some things to you via merchant ships.
It is said that the prince personally ordered it to be sent, and it must be delivered to you! "
"What? Something that the prince himself told you?"
Li Dingguo was surprised. He didn't expect that the prince would actually have something to give him, so he nodded and agreed.
Li Dahai quickly promised that he would arrange all the food for the Japanese troops stationed in Haicun in Santianping.
In this way, the Ping Japanese army waited in Haicun.
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(End of chapter)
