Goryeo Jeolla Province, an unnamed island off the coast of Jindo County.
Therefore, the food drawn from various lottery draws has become a very powerful supplement! Next, in order to fill the stomachs of all the soldiers and civilians under their rule, and even have more people from Xu Tu join their team, Chiyang's senior officials would either use their brains on the Goryeo aborigines and increase their exploitation and plunder; or they would build a large-scale transportation project. Ships and merchant ships traveled thousands of miles to buy food from the mainland of Goryeo to help the emergency! In short, there are still more than four long months between now and the wheat harvest season. If Chiyang wants to survive this period safely, he must do everything he can to get precious food!
On this trip to Gimpo for trade, in addition to meeting with Lee Seong-hyun and Lee Nam-ho, the envoy of Choi Myeong-gil, the right-hand government, to exchange information, Mr. Kang Rim Kang, the envoy of Tamna Town and the temperance envoy of Yousuiyeong in Jeolla Province, also needed to contact the Jinpo. A large amount of purchased grain, wood, minerals, ginseng, coal, wine and other materials were shipped back to the mainland! Yes, in order to frequently do business with the Korean people, Kanglin not only built a temporary trading station on Gyodongdo Island, but also established a Tamna Chamber of Commerce in Gimpo County, Gyeonggi Province, specializing in purchasing grain, timber, and minerals from Gimpo. Ginseng, coal and wine are shipped back to the mainland for sale!
Their contact person was Cui Sanshu, a relative of Lord Cui Mingji. In order to win over Kang Lin, a powerful soldier, the latter not only gave the Tamna Chamber of Commerce the most favorable treatment in terms of grain, wood, coal, and ginseng prices, but also Sparing no effort, he searched everywhere for the commodities Chiyang needed, such as iron, copper, lead, tin and other minerals. The Jinpu area originally did not produce them, but Cui Sanshu, through the relationship between his clan eldest brother Cui Mingji, traveled hundreds of miles from Huanghai Road. A large amount of high-quality iron ore, copper ore, and lead and tin finished products were transported by waterway for Chiyang merchant ships to transport back to Jeju to develop local industry!
Therefore, in order to maintain this purchase channel for a long time, Kanglin not only brought five medium-sized mirrors, twenty small mirrors, fifty glass cups, twenty five-jin jars of Gao Yangzui, and one hundred and twenty Bottles of Coke, fifty bottles of Harbin beer, five bottles of Huoxiang Zhengqi water, ten bottles of medical alcohol, and a bottle of twenty sulfonamide tablets were traded with Cui Sanshu's Quanzhou Chamber of Commerce, and he also brought two large, two small, and four sailboats, as well as Four hundred fully armed soldiers from the Hunan Army, Huai Army, and Taiping Army came to act as white gloves for Mr. Cui Mingji, the leader of the Goryeo Dynasty, and did some dirty work that was inconvenient for the latter!
For example, during this time, the latter was seeking the position of Zuo Yijing of the Uijeong government in the court. Although he had opened up the links in the palace by donating money, there were always some young people jumping up and down, trying to stop the King of Goryeo, Li Jie. Enable the latter to serve as the left councilor of the Uijeong government! Therefore, the latter, in a rage, sent his confidant Li Chengxuan and Li Nanhu to send a message to Kang Lin in Jeju, hoping to borrow an elite force from him to directly physically eliminate those bastards that hindered his rise to power! Kang Lin was also very considerate to the other party. After receiving Li Chengxuan's letter, he not only personally commanded the fleet to arrive, but also brought over all 400 newly acquired elite soldiers from the Hunan Army, Huai Army, and Taiping Army to prepare for Li Chengxuan's death. My partner, the Goryeo government leader Zuo Yizheng, and the official Cao Yanshu Cui Mingji stood up to cheer!
"Okay, that's it for today! System, please realize all the samurai cards and bow and arrow ashigaru cards that I drew earlier, and also all the katana swords, bamboo spears and Japanese longbows in my inventory. And take it out! Since Mr. Cui Mingji wants to borrow Chiyang’s men and horses, how can I make him happy with just the hundreds of Hunan, Huai, and Taiping soldiers I have on hand! It’s better to show more Some cards come out so that he can have some fun with his old man..."
Seeing that his luck seemed to have been exhausted today, Kang Lin immediately called a halt to the experience point lottery! At the same time, he also ordered the system to manifest all the samurai cards and bow and arrow ashigaru cards that he had drawn previously onto the two old lock ships! In his view, since he came to support Cui Mingji and Cui Zuoxiang, it would be more appropriate for the personnel sent to act like pirates. Otherwise, a group of white-skinned ghosts with blond hair and blue eyes would suddenly appear in the remote Goryeo hinterland. , there is a problem at first glance! In fact, he also wanted to bring a group of new Korean auxiliary troops to Gimpo, but those bastard things were too bad, and after training for a long time, none of them were usable! Therefore, we can only send the Japanese to take action. Anyway, the samurai and bow and arrow ashigaru drawn by these cards will turn into white light and disappear when the maintenance time is up, so before that, it is better to use all their remaining value!
"Sergeant Peng, where are you now?"
Now that he had a plan in mind, Kang Lin did not hesitate immediately. After leaving the captain's room, he immediately ordered Peng Yushu to command four ships to sail away, aiming directly at Jinpo County next to the Han River! He wants to get there as quickly as possible, and then meet with Cui Mingji's special envoy Li Chengxuan to see who his first target is!
It’s only a few hundred nautical miles from Jindo County in Jeolla Province to Ganghwa Island, where the Ganghwa Remaining Division is located. With the speed of old lock ships and military rice boats, we can get there in six or seven days! Therefore, when the sun rose from the sea on the seventh day, four red sun warships with their sails spread out, covered with dust, appeared on Qiaodong Island at the entrance of Ganghwa Strait! There was an official trading station set up by Chiyang there, and Kang Lin and others just took the opportunity to go ashore to make some repairs. By the way, the craftsmen there would inspect the ship to see if there was any damage or leakage that required replacement of the ship's planks! Read the book
"The villain Zhang Shuanggui and his brothers have met the leader!"
"Vice Commander Zhang, please don't be polite. Brothers, please stand up and talk! You have worked hard stationed on the deserted island. I will personally lead the fleet north this time. In addition to transporting goods and trading with the Koreans, I also want to come and see Look at you warriors who have made great contributions to the team while stationed abroad! Because without your efforts and persistence, our Chiyang would not have been able to develop so fast and so steadily! Don’t worry, your contributions are obvious to all the adults and I. , half a year, as long as you stay on duty for another half year, other brothers will come to replace you! At that time, whatever I have in terms of money, rice, fields, women, you can take it for yourself..."
Stepping on the solid wooden trestle, Kang Lin, guarded by a group of officers and soldiers, soon saw Chiyang's temporary trading station on Qiaotong Island, as well as the person in charge of the trading station, the deputy of the Second Reserve Division. Zhang Shuanggui, the commander-in-chief and the officer in charge of the fourth team, is the right-hand man of the Iron Man Army Captain Wan Hong. After a series of red-yang foreign wars such as the Jeju Offensive and Defense War, the Jeju Public Security Cleanup War, and the Mongchon Ancient City Defense War, he finally Gaining the true trust of Chiyang's senior management, he was assigned to the reserve force as the captain of the Iron Man Army, serving as deputy general and team officer! This is not a demotion appointment, but a decision made by Chiyang’s senior management after careful consideration!
You must know that the Chiyang Reserves followed the rules of the regular flag army and also established a fifth-level establishment of the Battalion Division Sentinel A. The deputy commander is the deputy chief officer of the Division One establishment. He can manage more than 200 brave and capable reserve soldiers. Among Chiyang, whose main force is less than a thousand people, Tuoduo is already a powerful mid- to high-level officer! Moreover, the relationship between the Chiyang regular army and the reserve soldiers is not static. If the regular army does not do well in combat or training, it may be replaced by reserve soldiers who perform well; conversely, if the reserve soldiers do not perform well in combat or training, If they perform well in training, they may also replace those regular flag troops who perform poorly! Therefore, as long as Zhang Shuanggui, the deputy commander-in-chief of the reserve forces, has enough officers and soldiers, he may be able to sit in the position of deputy commander-in-chief of the regular flag army in the near future! By then, the salary and allowances he can receive will be twice what they are now!
"Deputy General Zhang, how long has it taken for you to build a temporary trading station of this scale? The speed is really beyond my expectation! To be honest, during this period of time, as long as you can move the ground It has been leveled and several wooden houses have been built, which in my opinion has reached the standard! But now you have not only built rows of wooden houses, but also leveled and hardened a huge cargo yard! Not bad, good, really good! I think if I could have allocated more manpower to you, maybe even the wooden protective wall outside the trading station would have been built by now! By the way, in addition to the unfinished protective wall and the completed sentry tower at our trading station, Are there any other fortifications?"
Looking at the neat wooden buildings, the towering watchtower, the flat and hardened cargo yard, and the unfinished rammed earth retaining wall on the outer circle, Kang Lin couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction! To be able to lead his reserve troops and build such a large trading station with the naturalized citizens of Goryeo in such a short period of time is enough to show that Zhang Shuanggui is flexible and capable. It seems that he and other Chiyang senior officials have seen the right person... …
Upon thinking of this, Kang Lin immediately took out a cigar rewarded by the system from his pocket, and then threw it to the frightened Zhang Shuanggui! You know, his boss at Kangda is a very particular person. Since he thinks that the latter has done a good job, he still needs to give him the reward he deserves! But after throwing out the cigar to show his approval, the guy turned his attention again.
Invested in the mountaintop building under construction! Let’s think that the building on the top of the hill is a fort. After all, apart from setting up a fort or a watchtower, it is actually quite inconvenient to live there!
"Yes, Sir! The building on the top of the mountain you see is actually the fort of our trading station. It has not been completed yet. When it is completely completed, we only need to add a few twelve-pound or ten-pound cannons on it. An eight-pound long-barreled cannon can successfully control the entrance to the Ganghwa Strait! Of course, if we can find a suitable location to build a fort on the opposite Ganghwa Island, the effect will be even greater good!"
"Oh, you said that a group of outsiders like you wanted to build a fort on Qiaodong Island and control the outlet of the Han River. Can those Koreans on Ganghwa Island agree, so they didn't come out to try to stop you? Besides, Even if they agree, how can the government and the royal family behind them just sit back and watch you build forts at their outlets to obstruct navigation?"
