Chapter 120

The road from Jinzhou Port to Jinzhou City has been expanded three times by Zhang Huaize and is now a road similar to a highway.

It is similar, because this road was originally planned to be a two-way four-lane road, but after the construction was completed, it was found that this road, which is more than 6,800 meters long, is too busy. A large number of people from Shandong, Beizhili, and even Jiangnan

The purchased supplies, as well as Ning Haijun's belongings in Ninghai Prefecture, were transported to Jinzhou by sea. Among them, there were a large number of merchants transporting various supplies.

The two-way four-lane road is extremely crowded. Just on the left and right of this road, one lane is widened to form a two-way six-lane. But the problem is that this only alleviates but cannot completely solve the problem of difficult road transportation. Especially

The large-scale development in southern Liaoning has attracted many refugees from coastal areas.

Just like the invasion of Guandong at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, some people pooled together some money, rented a boat or worked as a porter on the dock to earn a ship ticket, and more and more immigrants came.

As a result, this road, known as Jinggang Road, was expanded for the third time. The only thing that is more trouble-free is that most of the land in Jinzhou is collectively owned, and only a very small part belongs to Ning Haijun and martyrs.

, the families of meritorious soldiers do not need to acquire land or argue when expanding roads.

After the third expansion, Jingang Road has formed a road with six lanes on each side, and a total of 12 lanes. In the middle is a road with original road protection forests, green belts, and drainage ditches. There are also road protection forests on both sides.

And drainage ditches. Moreover, traffic is one-way and no mixed traffic is allowed. In this way, the problem of transportation difficulties has been greatly alleviated.

Chen Zilong and his party traveled with a total of 350 box-type two-wheeled carriages (carrying passengers), more than 600 flat-bed transport carriages, more than 100 technical personnel, and more than 100 wealthy young masters or ladies, plus them

His servants, maids, and retinues numbered nearly three thousand people.

On the way north, although Chen Zilong, the sixth son of Jishe, was not as famous as the seventh son, he was more famous than the fourth son of Fushe.

Although Chen Zilong was young, he soon became the leader of several societies with his outstanding poetry and prose talents. Together with Xia Yunyi, he was collectively known as "Chen Xia" by the world. Chen Zilong was also good at poetry, poetry, prose, and fu. In terms of poetry, he was known as the "Chen Xia".

The last great poet of the Ming Dynasty.

For later generations, Chen Zilong himself is an Internet celebrity with his own traffic, so when they originally traveled, there were more than a thousand people, and a large number of fans and followers joined them along the way.

In this way, this huge team set foot on the land of southern Liaoning. Ever since they came out of the dock and along this twelve-lane road, the young men and young ladies began to exclaim in surprise.

Of course, there are also people who act like monsters.

What are you talking about? Why didn't Cheng Shijie and Cheng Zhenglu greet Chen Zilong? This clearly showed that he didn't give Chen Zilong face.

When Chen Zilong heard this sound, he immediately thought they farted.

Cheng Shijie was a disciple of his senior brother Sun Yuanhua, and he rushed over to curry favor with him. What did Sun Yuanhua think? Did he think that Cheng Shijie wanted to change his family?

Besides, Sun Yuanhua is the governor of Denglai, and he is just a white man. Even if Cheng Shijie fawns over him, what can he give him?

No one is willing to do things that are not profitable.

Some people are like this. Originally, Chen Zilong was not interested in Cheng Shijie and his feelings should have been very bad. However, when the news of Haizhou's victory spread, Chen Zilong already looked at Cheng Shijie with admiration.

You must know that the only person who can behead someone above the level of 4,000 for Jiannu is Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong. With his eight thousand soldiers, he crushed Jiannu to death. If the imperial court had not been afraid of Li Chengliang, Jiannu might not have been able to kill him.

Opportunity arises…

In the carriage, Chen Zilong lifted the curtain and looked at the surging wheat seedlings outside the carriage window. On the way back up, he saw crops that had been tortured by insects and drought.

Chen Zilong nodded and shook his head for a while. Chen Zilong's valet named Chen Honggui, who was riding with him, pointed to the crops that were growing well and said: "I have walked along the way and the crops here are growing best."

Chen Zilong nodded and said: "Teacher has always admired Cheng Shijie, but I didn't expect...Cheng Zhenglu is really capable."

Unlike the rhetoricians of Fushe and the Donglin Party, Chen Zilong is a down-to-earth person who is willing to do practical things. He does not want to study agriculture like the experts of later generations who roll out red carpets to the fields to take a few photos and say a few words without nutrition.

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Nowadays, the drought is severe, refugees have sprung up, and food harvests have failed year after year. Chen Zilong is also anxious, trying every means to appease the refugees and organize production, but the results are not very effective, because he has just helped the refugees, and in the blink of an eye he will become a tenant of the landlords and gentry.

And God doesn't help. If it doesn't rain, it won't rain. What can he do?

"parking!"

Behind Chen Zilong, a thin man in his forties hurriedly got out of the car.

"Chang Geng!"

Chen Zilong watched Song Yingxing get out of the car, and he also hurriedly got off the car.

Song Yingxing got off the carriage, trotted all the way, crossed a strong wooden bridge, and came to the river. He reached out and grabbed the soil on the edge of the wheat field and carefully analyzed the composition of the soil.

Chen Zilong followed, and a group of young men also followed. Hundreds of people rushed to the edge of the field. Here, several traffic control officers holding wooden sticks and wearing black clothes blocked the roadside and shouted: "No trampling is allowed."

Wheat fields, stop moving forward, you stop moving forward!"

Traffic management, due to the heavy traffic pressure in southern Liaoning, people were transferred from the original 100 households of the project. After simple training, they were responsible for directing traffic. Like the urban management, they were not soldiers, but were managed by the Civil Affairs Bureau.

Chen Zilong was also disgusted with trampling on the wheat fields. His high prestige did not cause any conflict. In fact, when these young men went to the wheat fields, military households working in the distance had already rushed over with hoes and sickles (for cutting sweet potato seedlings).

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Song Yingxing could easily tell why the military fields in southern Liaoning grew well. The dense waterwheels could irrigate the farmland in a timely manner. A large amount of plant ash and silt in the ditches were natural organic fertilizers, as well as the prevention and control of pests and diseases.

Improved varieties...

Let’s talk about irrigation. The drought is severe now and many ditches have dried up. Farmers can only carry water on their shoulders and transport it in vehicles. They work so hard that they can’t even irrigate a few acres of fields. The little water they just allocated

There is no trace!

As for insect pests, it’s even more troublesome. The most typical one is locusts. The locust plague spreads thousands of miles of bare ground and there is no way to resist it. Other pests are not to be left behind. They all show their own special powers and the damage to crops is not complete! As for fertilizers...

Not to mention this, it would make me cry if I talk about it too much.

Cheng Shijie actually didn't have enough fertilizer, but he used precious silk cloth, tea and salt to buy the bones left over from the slave herders. Although this kind of stuff was not valuable, the problem was that the bones contained

A large amount of phosphorus can be broken into pieces and sprinkled on the ground to act as phosphate fertilizer.

These things are not complicated to say, just like Cheng Shijie training Ning Haijun. As long as there is sufficient food and grass, clear rewards and punishments, and fairness and justice, the army will quickly form combat effectiveness.

The Ming Dynasty's army is not incapable of fighting. No matter how long it has not been trained, as long as they are given adequate military pay and fed, their combat effectiveness will scare even themselves.

Song Yingxing pointed to the bone powder and plant ash in the soil and said, "How did this Cheng Zhenglu do it among people?"

Chen Zilong smiled and said: "When we meet Cheng Zhenglu, we will naturally find out!"

When Chen Zilong and his party arrived outside Jinzhou City, Jinzhou City was already ten times larger than the original Jinzhou City, and the expanded part did not have a city wall.

This made the young masters present feel very puzzled.

"There is no city wall here. What will happen if the slaves come?"

Not far away, a carpenter who was working rushed over with an axe: "Jiannu is here, where is Jiannu?"

Chen Zilong could clearly see that as soon as the scholar mentioned Jian Nu, the eyes of the surrounding Liaonan soldiers and civilians all glowed green, as if Jian Nu was the fat in their eyes.

In fact, Chen Zilong's guess was good.

As the saying goes, man dies for money, and bird dies for food. Because the reward for Ning Haijun's military merit is fifty taels of silver, or fifty acres of land, and one head. Even the elite of Guan Ning's army refused to take them in at night, and they were lucky enough to behead Jian Nu.

They would not report the head of the slave to the superiors. They took the head of the slave and ran hundreds of miles to southern Liaoning.

I asked Cheng Shijie if he could also exchange land for them.

In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the soldiers and civilians in southern Liaoning, Cheng Shijie announced: "No matter who they are, men, women, old or young, as long as they get the head of a slave, they can exchange it for fifty acres of military merit or fifty taels of silver."

Even a group of tomb robbers from the customs formed a gang and went to Liaodong to rob the tomb. They found a new grave. It was like this grave had been dug. This was a noble cemetery. There was not only a corpse that had just been buried, but also four people who had been buried.

They not only robbed all the funerary objects in the tomb, but also took five heads to southern Liaoning.

After inspection, Ning Haijun eliminated the heads of the four buried girls. This slave, who was about forty years old, was regarded as a military merit and rewarded to these tomb robbers.

Of course, Cheng Shijie would not use these slave heads as military honors. Military honors have no meaning to Cheng Shijie. Now two months have passed, the capital is still quarreling, and Ning Haijun's reward has not yet come.

When they arrived at Jinzhou City, Chen Zilong was pleasantly surprised by Jinzhou's wide and flat roads, endless fields, water canals extending in all directions, and numerous waterwheels. When they saw the densely populated city and the dazzling array of goods in the shops, they were amazed.

After the novel-looking buildings sprouted up like mushrooms after the rain, I was surprised again. Such a prosperous place is rare in the north!

What surprised them most was that there was not a single beggar to be seen here!

Song Yingxing said: "I didn't expect that in the Central Plains, which is full of disasters, there is such a prosperous and stable place in southern Liaoning. It is really a paradise! No wonder so many refugees are rushing to settle here! Brother among people, Na Ning

Navy Chief Cheng Shijie, it’s really not that simple.”

Chen Zilong nodded and said, "No wonder the teacher values ​​him so much. He is indeed talented. Brother Chang Geng, what do you think that is?"

At this time, at the intersection of the street, on a platform about one foot high, stood a young man wearing a Confucian shirt. At this time, the young man was reading something with excitement, and everyone was listening to it with great interest.

Chen Zilong squeezed past and saw several newspapers taped to the wall. The four big characters "Liaonan Weekly" were printed on the masthead of the newspapers. Chen Zilong still recognized these characters. They were actually Sun Yuanhua's characters.

After listening for a long time, Chen Zilong finally understood that this young man was telling the story of the Yang family general.

"The Liao army held a Hongmen banquet at Jinshatan Beach. The seven men and eight tigers of the Yang family went to the banquet on behalf of the Song lord. Dalang died on behalf of the Song lord. Erlang raised the thousand-jin gate to let his brothers escape. He was shot to death by random arrows from the Liao army. Sanlang's horse fell to death.

The Liao army's cavalry was trampled to pieces, Shiro was made a prisoner, Wulang was wounded and became a monk, Liulang escaped from the siege only after narrowly escaping death, and Qilang was tied to a hundred-foot-high pole by Pan Renmei and shot one hundred and three arrows...

As the young man narrated, a tragic and tragic battle slowly unfolded in front of everyone. It seemed that everyone could hear the screams of the dying soldiers of the two armies, the unyielding roars of the Yang family soldiers, and smell the splashing blood.

The disgusting smell of blood came out.

The military households and civilians who were listening to the reading of the newspaper in the audience began to wipe their tears: "The Yang family is so pitiful!"

"Damn corrupt officials!"

"Pan Renmei is so stupid..."

Now Pan Renmei took the blame again.

There was no way, at this time, the story of the Yang Family General was already mature. In order to increase the circulation of the newspaper, Cheng Shijie not only published some famous novels such as "The Yang Family General" and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in the weekly newspaper, but also focused on
To be continued...