kvmb Chapter 153 A Breeze in the Heart Creates Waves
Chapter 153 A Breeze in the Heart Creates Waves
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After Yuan Yingtai was killed, Liaodong was temporarily leaderless, but because it was winter and not suitable for fighting, the Later Jin did not invade Liaodong.
The imperial court has not yet sent a new governor to Liaodong, and the entire Liaodong is in a state of regional autonomy.
Many censors came forward to impeach Yuan Yingtai, believing that he deserved to die. Many Donglin Party members also came forward to defend Yuan Yingtai, after all, they were the ones who pushed him out.
But Zhu Youxiao didn't care about all this. He just wanted to select someone as soon as possible to take the position of Liaodong governor again and stabilize the situation in Liaodong.
After this incident, Zhu Youxiao became unhappy with the Donglin Party and began to use Wei Zhongxian more.
After Wei Zhongxian seized power, he began to gradually control the East and West Factories and the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and launched an attack on the Donglin Party.
The Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party argued endlessly, but no one dared to step forward and go to Liaodong to serve as the governor.
In the end, after the Jinyiwei conducted in-depth investigations and visits to Liaodong, they believed that Xiong Tingbi had made great achievements in Liaodong, stabilized the situation in the entire Liaodong, and saved thousands of people in Liaodong.
Finally, Xiong Tingbi was re-employed and rushed to Liaodong again.
Lu Cheng focused on recruiting soldiers, training soldiers, and promoting development.
Through more than a year of development, the economy of the entire Haizhou Wei has thoroughly prospered. Merchants from all over the country gather here, transporting silk, porcelain, grain, tea and other materials from the south to here, and then reselling them on the grassland.
Cattle, sheep, horses, furs and other goods on the grassland also gathered from the north to Haizhou Wei and then transported to the south.
Haizhou Wei continued to expand its warehouses and stockpile large amounts of food, cotton and other supplies, greatly increasing its war potential.
At the same time, starting from October, all the workshops under Haizhou Wei have been expanded, especially the blacksmith workshop, which has attracted blacksmiths from all over Liaodong to come and work.
Lu Cheng improved the steelmaking method, greatly improving the efficiency and quality of steelmaking. He also guided craftsmen in the production of molds, drills and other tools, improving the efficiency and quality of gun muzzle manufacturing, and so on.
Of course, if we want to develop and use modern technology, the most important thing is not only these, but also the cultivation of basic scientific talents.
To this end, Lu Cheng specially compiled some basic mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology books, and began to teach among the orphans in the welfare home.
As early as when he first took over Haizhouwei, Lu Cheng attached great importance to talent training. He established a welfare home and adopted orphans from all over Liaodong for the purpose of talent reserve plan.
If you want to build an industrial base by yourself, even if Lu Cheng doesn't sleep 24 hours a day, he can't do it. Only by cultivating talents, teaching them basic knowledge, imparting scientific thinking methods to them, and then formulating standard measurement units, everything can gradually develop.
Of course, this is easier said than done, but it takes a lot of energy and time.
If you want an adult to learn modern scientific knowledge, you must break his inherent concepts and original thinking patterns.
In comparison, young children are like a blank slate. They can learn whatever you teach them, are more receptive to new knowledge, and are more able to develop complete logical thinking.
Today, the school of this welfare home has only been established for one year, and everything has just begun.
In order to handle various affairs well, Lu Cheng, in addition to being busy every day, also pays attention to the cultivation of talents, especially those who can complete various tasks according to his requirements.
Throughout the winter, the development of southern Liaoning was in full swing.
After this period of training, in addition to the main troops of Haizhou Wei, the troops of Gaizhou Wei, Fuzhou Wei and Jinzhou Wei are gradually approaching full strength.
By this calculation, the total number of troops that Lu Cheng can command and mobilize has exceeded 2.
Of course, the troops of the other three guards in southern Liaoning are still much inferior to those of the Haizhou Guard.
At the same time, Lu Cheng also attached great importance to the ideological construction of the army. By organizing officer training classes, he brought together all the middle and senior officers in the army. While training them in military skills, he also strengthened their ideological education, gradually brainwashing them and making them loyal to him.
Lu Cheng naturally gave the best treatment to those who were loyal to him. He had to pay attention to both ideological education and interest association.
After opening up trade channels in all aspects, Haizhouwei's commercial workshops not only had glass and soap manufacturing workshops, but also added leather processing, meat processing, and wool processing factories.
The workers in these factories are basically the families of the soldiers.
It can be said that many soldiers and their families depend on Lu Cheng for their livelihood, and their lives are getting better and better.
Once a large interest group is established, everyone who benefits from it will try their best to maintain the entire group, thus achieving a stable structure.
Just imagine, an adult man is serving as a soldier under Lu Cheng, his wife works in Lu Cheng's workshop, his son studies in the school established by Lu Cheng, and his parents are also farming food and raising livestock for Lu Cheng. The family's life, food, clothing, housing and transportation are all inseparable from Lu Cheng.
Once the soldier dies on the battlefield, he doesn't have to worry about his family at all.
In this case, how could a soldier easily betray? How could he afford the cost of betrayal?
Just when Lu Cheng was busy developing the company, Ding Baiying in Yanjing City also received a letter from his apprentice Ding Xian.
In the letter, Ding Xian asked about their well-being and greeted his master, and then they talked about how Lu Cheng led them to victory and fooled the Later Jin.
When Ding Baiying saw the contents of the letter, he couldn't help but smile.
Although they had not seen each other for more than a year, Ding Baiying had been keeping in touch with Lu Cheng through letters and was familiar with the situation there. The relationship between the two did not become alienated due to the long separation, but became more intimate.
Of course, the situation we learned from Lu Chengxin and Ding Xianxin are naturally different.
Reading the letter from his apprentice and looking at the content between the lines, Ding Baiying could already imagine how Lu Cheng had developed step by step with great difficulty and had achieved his current situation in Liaodong.
Somehow, when I think of the days when I talked about the world with Lu Cheng in the capital, it seems like it was just yesterday.
Today, all the ambitious words Lu Cheng said at the beginning are being realized step by step.
On the other hand, although my senior brother has been trying to curry favor and make progress in the capital, the water in Kyoto is too turbid and it is not so easy to mix in.
Thinking of this, Ding Baiying wanted to persuade his senior brother to leave the capital and go to Liaodong, where he might be able to achieve great things.
But then, Ding Baiying shook his head again. His senior brother was a very stubborn person and it would be difficult for him to listen to his advice.
When Ding Baiying turned to the last page of the letter and saw the contents, his heart beat suddenly faster.
There were a few words written on the letter: "Master, I know that Uncle Lu is thinking of you. As for whether you are thinking of Uncle Lu, only you know. But I want to remind you that Uncle Lu has a beautiful girl by his side. If you are really interested in Uncle Lu, you should hurry up and come to Liaodong..."
After reading these contents, Ding Baiying felt confused.
After spending several months together and exchanging letters for more than a year, it is impossible to say that Ding Baiying did not have any romantic feelings for Lu Cheng.
If they were just ordinary friends, why did he let his two apprentices follow Lu Cheng? And why did he write letters back to his hometown to recommend talents to Lu Cheng?
If they were really just ordinary friends, why would they exchange letters so frequently?
However, before Lu Cheng appeared, Ding Baiying had grown up with his senior brother Lu Wenzhao since childhood, and was somewhat dependent on him. This dependence may not have developed into a love between a man and a woman, but it has somewhat surpassed the friendship between fellow disciples.
After Lu Cheng appeared, Ding Baiying was gradually attracted to Lu Cheng, and her heart began to be moved.
Before this, Ding Baiying was not clear about his own heart and didn't know what choices he should make in the future.
But after seeing this letter and seeing another woman next to Lu Cheng, Ding Baiying couldn't help wanting to go to Liaodong to see what kind of woman that little girl was. Was she inferior to herself?
With a confused mind, Ding Baiying picked up the knife and went to the yard to practice. But the more he practiced, the more he remembered the scene of practicing knife with Lu Cheng last year.
This made Ding Baiying more and more confused, and the sword skills in his hand became completely chaotic and without any rules.
When Ding Chong and Ding Tai saw their master like this, they stayed away from him for fear of being implicated.
After practicing for a while, Ding Baiying's breathing became a little disordered. He stopped his movements, put the knife back into the sheath, placed it against the wall, walked back into the house, picked up the mirror and looked at it for a few seconds.
Afterwards, Ding Baiying left home and went to meet Lu Wenzhao.
"Brother, after the Chinese New Year I want to...I want to go to Liaodong..."
Hearing this, Lu Wenzhao looked up at his junior sister and seemed to understand something in his heart: "Junior sister, if you want to go, go ahead."
"Brother, I...I'm just going to take a look, I will be back."
Lu Wenzhao smiled and said, "It doesn't matter whether you come back or not. Senior Brother doesn't need your help here now."
"Then I'll go back first, brother."
After Ding Baiying finished speaking, he turned and left.
Lu Wenzhao looked at his junior sister's back as she walked away. He raised his right hand and opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he said nothing. He just withdrew his hand and sighed...