Of course, not everyone can appreciate and understand Yang Zhen's good intentions.

The earliest batch of people who followed Yang Zhen, such as Zhang Degui, Zhang Chen, Li Lu, Yang Shen, Pan Wenmao and others. After learning that Yang Zhen would be quarantined, the first batch of thousands of immigrants who crossed the sea and headed north were all assigned to

After seeing the others, they all went to the main town house to pay homage to Yang Zhen.

As the output of the Lushun Beicheng Gun Factory increased, the musketry battalion commanded by Zhang Chen, Zhang Guogan and others could already equip more musketeers.

However, unlike the growing number of flintlock muskets, it has always been difficult to expand the number of musketeers they hoped to obtain in large quantities.

Whether it was Zhang Chen or Zhang Guogan, they did not want to choose people from the Eight Banners Han Army and the second Tatar soldiers, nor did they want to choose people from the captured Manchu Tatars to wrap up Aha.

For them, the flintlock muskets and other equipment of Jinhaizhen and the advance army for the Eastern Expedition were very precious, and they did not want to equip them for those who had surrendered to the Manchu Tatars.

They even hoped to select a group of completely trustworthy soldiers from among the Han immigrants from the Pass with clean family backgrounds and no criminal records, and then train them from scratch.

As for Li Lu, Yang Shen, Pan Wenmao and others, they also have the same idea.

Yang Zhen asked them to expand their team and strength. They themselves hoped to do this as soon as possible. However, the only places where they could choose soldiers were the few prison camps.

They knew very well who the people in the prison camp were, and it was impossible to say whether those people were reliable, or under what circumstances they were reliable.

Therefore, since they returned to Lushunkou and were stationed there, the generals of the Musket Battalion, Artillery Battalion and Grenadier Battalion faced Yang Zhen’s order to expand their army. Although they had enough guns and equipment and solved the problem of equipment shortage, they

found it difficult to assemble the qualified soldiers they needed.

After the recruitment of immigrants has come to an end, they all expect that the immigrants recruited from Denglai, Shandong and other places across the sea can be allocated to them first, and then they can recruit a new batch of soldiers from them as soon as possible.

But what surprised them was that Yang Zhen assigned the first batch of immigrants, as many as 1,200 households, to the navy.

According to the land distribution order issued by Yang Zhen before, the 1,200 new immigrants will mean 1,200 soldiers who do not need to be paid!

However, greed is greedy. As Yang Zhen's original team, they have always understood Yang Zhen's arrangements and must implement them resolutely, and those who do not understand must also resolutely implement them.

It was the same this time. Although they approached Yang Zhen and used various roundabout ways to propose that they would give priority to the immigrants, they could only accept Yang Zhen's noncommittal.

Fortunately, the news coming from the South Road Naval Camp is very exciting.

This group of immigrants is not the only one who boarded boats from the coast of Dengzhou Prefecture to go to the camps on Tuoji Island and North and South Chenghuang Islands. On the contrary, there are thousands of hungry refugees in the pass who are constantly embarking on the migration "without knowing where they are".

journey.

If it weren't for the limited carrying capacity of Yuan Jin's fleet heading north from Dengzhou, if it weren't for the limited isolation camps on Chenghuang Island in the north and south of Tuoji Island, and if it weren't for the limited carrying capacity of Qiu Zhenhai's fleet heading north from Tuoji Island and other places, then the arrival at Jinhai Town

The number of immigrants within the customs will be tens of thousands.

Therefore, just after the Qingming Festival, with the arrival of the second batch of 1,500 households, Zhang Chen, Zhang Guogan, Yang Shen, Li Lu and others were completely relieved.

They finally realized that the scale of immigration this time was by no means comparable to the last time Yang Zhen recruited soldiers from the Pass in Songshan.

At the same time, I also understood that with the importance Yang Zhen attached to the battalions of the advance army for the Eastern Expedition, which were directly under General Zhengdong, their soldier issues would be fully guaranteed sooner or later.

Since Yang Zhen would not treat Yuan Jin, Hu Changhai, Gao Chengyou and Hu Dabao badly, he would not treat them badly either.

Of course, the second batch of 1,500 households, totaling nearly 7,000 men, women, and children, who crossed the sea and headed north after the quarantine ended, were still unable to enter the port and land after receiving Yang Zhen's maritime review and supplies off the coast of Lushunkou.

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They headed west again, bypassing the west corner of Laotieshan Mountain, and headed along the coast, following the monsoon wind, towards Jinzhou Bay and Fuzhou Bay.

The second batch of 1,500 immigrants was organized into five villages, namely Mayangdao Village, which is affiliated with the Yuanjin West Road Navy, and Fuzhou Heqian Village, which is affiliated with the North Road Xieshou General Military Mansion.

Houtun of Zhouhe is affiliated to Bolanpu Tun and Shihebao Tun of the General Military Mansion of Jinhai Middle Road.

Fuzhou River Front Village is located in the south of Fuzhou City, along the river bank in the north of Fuzhou River, and Fuzhou River Houtun is located along the river bank in the south bank of Fuzhou River.

The land along the river is generally fertile, relatively flat, and has no shortage of water. It is very suitable for reclamation and farming, and is one of the first choices for immigrants.

As for the two camps assigned to the Central Road Co-defense General Military Mansion, namely Bolanpu Tun and Shihebao Tun, it is because of the strategic location of these two places that they are at the outpost of the Jinhai Middle Road defense line.

There are two choke points that suddenly shrink on the Liaodong Peninsula, one is Jinzhou City, and the other is Bolanpu in the north of Jinzhou City.

This so-called Bolanpu, also called Bolan Fort, or Bolan Station, was the location of Bolan Station before the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and was also the location of the old town of Pulandian in later generations.

Pulan is a misreading or transliteration of Bolan.

As for Shihe Fort, near the coast not far to the west of Bolanpu, it is also a must-go place for northern troops heading south from Fuzhou City via Bolanpu.

At present, there are not so many elite soldiers and horses to be stationed on Jinhai Middle Road, so we have to first assign immigrants from two villages to go to reclaim wasteland and plant crops.

Of course, there were actually other reasons why Yang Zhen agreed to this arrangement.

There are quite a few islands in the sea near the west coast of the Liaodong Peninsula. However, except for Changxing Island, Xizhong Island, Tea River Island, and Mayang Island, other islands such as Pig Island and Snake Island are smaller in area and the land on the islands is barren.

It is not suitable for reclamation and settlement.

According to Yang Zhen's order on household registration and settlement, a village must have 300 households, and priority must be given to those hungry people with elders and children to raise their families.

In this way, a settlement with 300 households could have a total population of as little as a thousand or as many as 2,000. An island with a small area and less cultivated land cannot carry such a large population.

Therefore, after Fang Guangchen and the others followed Yang Zhen's intention and set up five sea islands one after another off the west coast, they had to turn their attention to the coastline of Jinhai North Road and Jinhai Middle Road, so there were four subsequent coastal islands.

Lutun.

However, as the second batch of 1,500 immigrants crossed the sea and headed north, a series of subsequent problems followed.

On the afternoon of the seventh day of April in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Yang Zhen met Zhang Degui, the general soldier of the South Road Assistant Guards and the general manager of the assistant camp affairs office of the general town government, Qiu Zhenhai, the deputy general of the South Road Navy, and Qiu Zhenhai, the deputy general of the South Road Navy, at the Jinhai General Town in the south city of Lushun.

Yu Liangtai, who led the new fleet and Qiu Zhenhai, headed south to Lushunkou.

Yu Liangtai's fleet has been stationed in Jinzhou Bay for more than half a month. During the period of stationing, the newly built Donglu Naval Battalion under his command completed the reception of new ships, completed the recruitment of troops, and completed the personnel and equipment of the new ships.

Boarding and sea trial.

After completing all this, Yu Liangtai's fleet has transformed from the smallest force among all the naval forces in the past to a large fleet that can rival other naval forces.

The original Yu Liangtai's fleet was not large in size, with only about thirty large and small ships in total, and they were mainly small and medium-sized ships. There were only a handful of large ships with a material of 100 materials, and there was not a single large ship with a material of 200 materials.

Later, after following Yang Zhen to Songshan City, in order to reward his contribution, Yang Zhen allocated a batch of old ships that Qiu Zhenhai had brought to the sea off Songshan that were still usable, and gave them to him to take charge of, and asked him to sail along the small river.

Linghe, traveling between Hongluo Mountain and Songshan City.

It was also at that time that the fleet of their uncle and nephew managed to gather more than a hundred ships and two or three outposts, and gradually gained some scale.

However, compared with the fleet commanded by Yuan Jin and compared with the fleet commanded by Qiu Zhenhai, Yu Liangtai's uncle and nephew's naval team was still relatively weak.

However, after this large-scale replenishment, the situation is completely different.

With the addition of twenty warships worth one hundred materials and ten warships worth two hundred materials, the Jinhai East Road Naval Battalion commanded by uncle and nephew Yu Liangtai far surpassed the teams of former colleagues Gao Chengyou and Hu Dabao.

The team of former eldest brother Hu Changhai has become the third most powerful naval battalion among all the naval forces in Jinhai Town.

Uncle and nephew Yu Liangtai was grateful for Yang Zhen's reward. He had been ups and downs in various associations in Dongjiang Town for so many years, following one boss after another. However, the number of ships in the tribe became less and less, and there were almost no ships.

when being replenished.

Now he has only followed Yang Zhen for about a year, and the number of ships and men under his command has increased several times. How can he not be grateful and filled with emotion?

Especially this time, Qiu Zhenhai's fleet transported boatloads of immigrants to Jinzhou Bay and Fuzhou Bay, and then, according to Yang Zhen's order, distributed the immigrants who had been divided into villages and households into hundreds and thousands of them.

Yu Liangtai and other generals watched and took pleasure in the arrangement of the troops.

Hu Changhai, Gao Chengyou and others, who were originally coveting Yu Liangtai's exclusive acquisition of a large number of new ships from the Jinzhou Shipyard, overjoyed one by one and accepted the immigrant households they were allocated, and happily went to allocate their fields to them.

In their view, the immigrants who came to settle down in the villages were their tribesmen, a population that they could recruit as soldiers and collect grain as wages.
Chapter completed!