With more than 10,000 men in hand, Yinglong felt much more at ease now. However, a discerning eye could see that these 10,000 people were not necessarily as good as the 3,000 Eight Banners infantrymen before.
On the other side, the more than a thousand Eight Banners soldiers who surrendered expected to be mistreated by the bandits.
But they didn't expect that the biggest leader of this group of bandits came to visit them in person and said a lot of things they couldn't understand.
"We are all brothers abandoned by the Kingdom of Heaven and suffering in the human world."
"It's all because of monsters and monsters that make everyone suffer and not be able to live the life they want."
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But there is one sentence that everyone understands, that is, you must not mistreat these brothers who have taken refuge in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Except that they were not allowed to move freely, the food, drink and treatment of these Eight Banners prisoners were the same as those of the Taiping Army. This made the surrendered Eight Banners soldiers gradually calm down.
At the same time, Lin Fengxiang also sent the most capable missionaries in his army to brainwash and educate these Eight Banners soldiers.
They presented facts, told stories, and reasoned. Poor these stubborn Eight Banners soldiers, they were quickly brainwashed.
They will become Lin Fengxiang's leading party outside the Pass. With these people leading the way, more Manchus, Mongols, and Liaodong Han people will join the Taiping Army.
It laid a harmonious and harmonious foundation for Lin Fengxiang to gain a firm foothold in Liaodong.
While Lin Fengxiang was marching to Jinzhou, Dong Shuheng had already disembarked from Haimen.
The telegraph line from Haimen to Yangzhou has been connected. He learned about the situation during this period through telegrams.
When he heard that the "Three Horizontal and One Vertical" project was about to be completed, he decided to go north along the Seawall Avenue to inspect the status of the project and the resettlement of the refugees.
When he arrived at Haimen, there happened to be a fleet transporting supplies preparing to set off for Temple Street in the Far East.
This fleet brought a large amount of arms, which were supplied to the Fourth Division and the militiamen in the Far East.
In addition, there are some agricultural technicians and a large amount of seeds. Among them are high-quality rye, oat seeds, as well as some soybean and corn seeds imported by Huaihai Group from Northern Europe.
After the ice and snow melt, Huai Haijun's farms will open farms near Sakhalin Island, Temple Street, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk to try to grow these crops.
As long as crops can be grown in the Northeast, more people can be fed, and people will be willing to move there.
It is because there has never been much planting in the Far East, and people's lives rely heavily on fishing and hunting activities, which has led to the current situation of vast land and sparsely populated areas.
Dong Shuheng has always believed that population is the most important factor in occupying land.
To occupy a piece of land, it is not enough to just declare sovereignty. The residents of the country must live on it for generations to be able to occupy it effectively and stably.
The Huaihai Navy has not stopped its immigration activities. It can be said that the Huaihai Navy's immigration speed depends entirely on the mobility of the Huaihai ocean-going fleet.
As for the source of immigrants, Dong Shuheng is not worried at all. Huai Haijun's perfect farm system continues to absorb refugees from all over the country every day.
Through various propaganda methods, now when the entire inland region encounters a famine or war, people know to run to Jiangsu. Those who are really uneducated can just remember to run east.
The Huaihai Company's commercial wars in various places will provide some relief to the refugees they see and guide them to move to the Huaihai Navy's controlled areas. The Huaihai Company's inland river fleet sometimes takes the refugees to the Huaihai Navy's controlled areas when they see them.
The Taihang base area will also divert the refugees it cannot absorb to the Huaihai Navy control area.
In terms of absorbing refugees, the Huaihai Navy was the only force. The Qing court, the Taiping Army, and the local gentry all failed to realize the huge role of people.
The second fleet to North and South America has already set sail. Since they have established a foothold on the other side, the immigrants sent this time are much more than the last time, reaching several thousand people.
These two groups of people also included some private goods. Dong Shuheng sent some intelligence personnel and military officers to the two places, and the North American and South American stations of the Intelligence Department needed to be established.
Officers were sent to farms in North America to train militiamen and to South America to help Dong Shutong build an army.
Hearing that his nephew or niece was about to be born, Dong Shuheng even gave him a big gift.
Thinking of the next generation, Dong Shuheng remembered that it seemed that his wedding was coming soon. Hui'er had already been brought in by her mother, and all she had to do was have tea with Yuzhen.
I believe that with the current relationship between the two girls, it shouldn't be difficult to get along with each other.
The key is Lu Feiyan, this woman has to go to Taihang Mountain, and her status as a Jianghu person is indeed suitable to be this "mountain king".
I didn't feel anything about it before. Anyway, Lu Feiyan chose her own path, and it's what she likes to do.
But now that I think about it, I feel like I owe her a little.
It is said that I have sown seeds on two pieces of land, why has there been no movement yet? Could it be that there is something wrong with this body? That would be a tragedy.
As a quasi-virgin in his previous life, Dong Shuheng was extremely lacking in knowledge in this area.
A seawall is not only a dam, but also a road. The dam is far above the ground and has good drainage. The upper part of the dam can be flattened and compacted to make a simple road.
"Teacher, is this a seawall?" King Shang Tai followed Dong Shuheng every day like a follower, asking a question from time to time.
After arriving at Haimen, the moment he set foot on this land, he was full of curiosity about everything here, asking this and that.
This made Dong Shuheng very upset. Dong Shuheng hated the kind of naughty kid who liked to break the casserole and ask the questions to the end.
"It seems like I have to send this kid to the academy this time when I go back." Dong Shuheng thought to himself.
This time when I went on an inspection trip, there was another person who was a dragster, and that was Duji.
The two often chatted together on the boat, and Dong Shuheng and Du Ji gradually became familiar with each other. After arriving in Haimen, Du Ji, who had always had to take care of her father, for some reason insisted on pestering Dong Shuheng to take her with him for inspection.
Her little maid Xingzi went to Huaihai Academy in Gaoyou with Qi Bin first. Dong Shuheng found a good place for Qi Bin - the academy library.
The internal guards were initially worried that this Japanese woman would always appear next to Dong Shuheng. Later, they specially set up many tests. Basically, they were sure that this woman had no ill intentions towards Dong Shuheng.
"Shangtai, this seawall is probably more than 600 kilometers long."
"Master, why do we need to build this seawall? We in Ryukyu are close to the sea and there is no seawall."
"Well, that's because you are an island, and the sea water will not pour back into the land. And the coast here is all tidal flats, and the land under our feet was originally the sea. The current land is formed by the alluvial sediment entering the sea. So.
The sea level is very low. If we don’t build sea walls, when the tide rises, the sea water will pour in through the rivers, and the fields will be soaked by sea water and it will be impossible to cultivate.”
"Okay, that's it. If you want to learn more knowledge, you can go to the Water Conservancy College to study after you go to the academy." Dong Shuheng said impatiently.
Dong Shuheng's motorcade headed all the way towards Dongtai.
Looking at it all the way, one word can be used to describe the seawall as being very "solid".
Dong Shuheng got out of his car and shoveled across the five-meter-high earth embankment. It was made using local techniques, and white lime was mixed into the soil.
Both sides of the embankment have been reinforced with stones and cement to prevent rainwater from eroding the embankment. Saline-alkali resistant shrubs have also been planted on both sides of the embankment.
A cement avenue was built on the top of the embankment, with straight drainage channels on both sides. It can divert rainwater from the embankment.
On the inner side of the embankment is a windbreak forest belt about 500 meters wide. Metasequoia and poplar trees will grow into straight and tall trees, but they are still small saplings now.
You can also see a small brick house every one kilometer, which is the hut where the forest ranger lives.
All these trees are owned by the forest farm, and there is a forest ranger every one kilometer who is responsible for guarding and caring for these trees.
Du Ji followed and looked over, and was shocked by such a large project.
Japan is such a large land, but there are hundreds of daimyo. The population and land under the jurisdiction of each daimyo are very small. There is no condition to carry out any large projects.
What's more, these daimyo only knew how to collect taxes from farmers to meet their own needs, and then handed a share to the shogunate.
The shogunate was able to concentrate a large amount of manpower, material and financial resources, but apart from building palaces in Edo, the shogunate would not help the daimyo and people below to build roads, water conservancy facilities or anything like that.
Because Shang Tai, a naughty kid, was there along the way, Du Ji had no chance to talk to Dong Shuheng alone.
Because of King Shangtai's hatred for the Shimazu family, he had a bad expression every time he saw her. So she could only follow him from a distance.
After arriving at Dongtai, Dong Shuheng did not return to the city, but followed the seawall to Dongtai Gate.
Dongtai Gate is not the largest gate along the seawall, it can only be regarded as a medium gate.
Dong Shuheng took out the fishing tools he had previously asked the guard company to prepare and hoisted the fish on the cement embankment at the gate.
Because of the organic matter brought by the river, a large number of fish gather at the mouth of the river. Most of the fish here in Dongtai are sea bass and mullet, which are very easy to take the bait. A lot of them were caught in a short time.
Li Cunxun was very puzzled as to why the president would think of fishing. In the past, he basically would not do such time-consuming things as fishing.
However, Dong Shuheng seems to be very skilled at fishing and does not look like a novice. He can even find a suitable place to fish according to the small whirlpools on the water.
Shang Tai went to see the steam pump, so Du Ji finally had the opportunity to be by Dong Shuheng's side.
"Duke Ji, I heard that you Japanese women all like to eat fish, right?" Dong Shuheng looked at the fish float and asked.
"Yes, sir, we Japanese generally cannot eat meat. Only the nobles can eat fish. But we usually eat fish raw or grilled." Atsuki replied.
"Du Ji, I heard that you were planning to enter Da'ao before, so do you know why women in Da'ao like to keep cats?" Dong Shuheng suddenly asked confusedly.
"Uh, I don't know about this Du Ji. Why did you suddenly ask this question?" Du Ji was also confused.
"Haha, there's it again!" Dong Shuheng laughed and said without saying anything else, he pulled out another fish with both hands.
The guard next to him quickly ran over and unhooked the fish from the hook, then put the bait back on the hook.
Although Dong Shuheng likes fishing, he doesn't like getting his hands dirty every time he catches a fish.
In fact, the reason why Dong Shuheng wants to fish here is because he often followed the veteran police officers from his unit to drive to Dongtai Gate to fish on weekends in his previous life.
Sitting in a similar position again today reminded him of many things from the past.
People are like this sometimes. When they don't have time to recall the past, they will feel a sense of emptiness. After recalling the past, it will only increase the sadness.
However, although sadness is a bit bitter, it is better than being boring!
In the evening, under Dong Shuheng's personal guidance, the cook made a steamed seabass dinner.
He caught a total of seventy or eighty fish in one afternoon, which completely broke the record in his previous life. In this way, every two or three people in the accompanying team could get one fish.
Seeing Dong Shuheng carefully instructing the cooks in cooking, Du Ji seemed to have met a different Dong Shuheng.