choke element

Chapter 303 Friends and Foes

Zhou Keshan insisted that he was a sea merchant from Mingzhou in the Song Dynasty, so Guo Yaoer only regarded him as a sea merchant from the Song Dynasty.Even if this Song Guohai merchant keeps saying "My Jieshuai", he still has to be a Song Guohai merchant.

As long as everyone understands it in their hearts, there is no need to inquire too much about other trivial matters.

After taking out a batch of cheap weapons as bribes, with Guo Yaoer's consent, Zhang Kai and his party got the right to settle down in Banqiao Town, which in fact occupied the hometown of Jiaoxi Township.

This place is at the junction of Laizhou and Mizhou, it seems very dangerous, but in fact the situation is very delicate.And the upper reaches of Gushui outside Banqiao Town, about eighty miles away, is Banqiao Town that Zhao Bin worked so hard to manage.Taking this as a foothold is enough to echo the Zhang family's operations in Mingzhou for several generations and form a reliable business route.

As for how to deal with Zhang Kai's deadly rival in the process of doing business, the third master Shi, who is said to be very powerful in the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, is another matter.

According to Zhao Bin, he has at least a dozen ways to make the Third Master Shi die in Sanshan Port, Laizhou. However, the business of transferring the judge should not be ruined right now, so let's be merciful.

Moreover, Zhang Kai also understood that the next important thing was not to seek revenge, but to quickly replenish the caravan's manpower and repair the ship.Everything is about business.

For the repair of the ship, Zhou Keshan recruited several familiar craftsmen from Fushan Island and gave them enough benefits to ask them to rush to work day and night.

As for the manpower to operate the three ships on the sea, there was really nowhere to search for them.In the end, because Wang Erbai tried his best to recommend his companions in Wandu Village, Haizhou, the group had to figure out how to go to Haizhou once.It would be difficult to cross Yang An'er's control area from north to south.

Originally, the relationship between Guo Ning and Yang An'er's family was not completely hostile, and some people could do things, as long as they didn't make it public, it wouldn't be so difficult.

However, it was Guo Ning himself who did this last time.The person who did this last time was King Sui Wanyan Shouxu and his party.

Wanyan Shouxu and his party took advantage of the cover of Yan Ning, Gao Xin and others in Ding Haijun, and relied on the Quanzhen Sect to play a role in secret, so they walked upright all the way.

It wasn't until he arrived in Kaifeng that he dispatched people to seize the military and government positions in Kaifeng mansion, that Yang An'er knew about such a thing.They came down twice, and each time it was their own side who suffered a big loss. No matter how hard Yang An'er could bear it, she would inevitably become enraged, and killed several dereliction of duty people one after another.

So the guards everywhere have become more vigilant since then.Zhang Kai and others discussed several times, but they couldn't find a proper solution. Finally, they felt that instead of going by land, it is better to repair a fast boat first, barely control the boat, and go south by sea.

Of course, before that, Zhao Bin also sent a reliable companion to send the letter Guo Yaoer brought to Gengge to Dengzhou.

A few days later, when Geng Ge received this letter, he immediately knew that it was obviously not for him alone.He can sway among the court, Yang An'er, and Guo Ning in this world, and he can always be the governor of Dengzhou, which naturally has his advantages.Immediately took the letter and came to Ye County.

When he arrived at Jieshuai's Mansion in Ye County, he found out that Guo Ning was investigating an iron yard north of Jiaoshui County. Geng Ge went out without delay and rushed towards the iron yard.

The iron field is a subordinate of the Laiyang Mine Supervisor, and it belongs to the Secretary of Government Affairs, and the Ordnance General Administration is under the jurisdiction.This part of the work is generally coordinated by the transfer of Chucai, and officials he trusts are in charge of it. In addition, representatives sent by Jing'anmin are always there to supervise the output of ordnance.But Guo Ning also came to inspect from time to time and gave direct instructions.

In this regard, Guo Ning is not superstitious about the role of the system.The so-called system, in the final analysis, is a collection of many people. So many people were originally under the Dajin system, and none of them made any achievements. Are they really reborn under the rule of Ding Haijun, and they are rejuvenated and rejuvenated?

You can talk about it, but you can't actually do it.

Because of some special expectations for the future, it is true that Ding Hai's atmosphere is more upbeat.It is also true that Yila Chucai has outstanding talents in government affairs.

But the book of war says that the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the law of survival must be investigated.The army is the foundation of Guo Ning, and victory is the guarantee for Guo Ning to gather people's hearts. Therefore, when it comes to the specific military affairs in front of Guo Ning, he still believes in his own vision and judgment, and is willing to see the pros and cons of everything with his own eyes.

In the past few days, as the weather has warmed up, the mining of iron mines, and even gold and silver mines has been fully rolled out.Outsiders can't help but focus on gold and silver, thinking that it is the most direct wealth.And Guo Ning pays more attention to the output of iron and steel.

He has to go to the several iron mines under the Laiyang Mine Superintendent every now and then.

"Look, Jieshuai, there is the Xiaogu River that flows from Nanshan Mountain. We built several pontoon bridges on the river to fetch water and wash the iron ore. Well, as Jieshuai said a few days ago, the ore is ground with a pestle. We are also trying the method, Jieshuai, the place where the river bank is built ahead is the place where the water reel is scheduled to be placed."

Most of the craftsmen in this iron mine are old people from Laiwu Iron Smelter, so the supervisor is also from Laiwu.The middle-aged man didn't know what to worry about before, so he pretended to be a farmer and plowed the land for a month.A few days ago, he was found out by his old companions, and then he was frightened by the salary given by Guo Ning, so he started to work like a spinning top.

He hadn't seen Guo Ning several times before and after, so he was extra attentive at the moment.

In the mine, the miners who passed by Guo Ning would also look at Guo Ning curiously.

Guo Ning also looked at the miners.Most of these people have dark complexions, and their bodies and heads are in a mess.However, most of them are lean and lean, with muscles in their exposed arms and shoulders, which have been tempered through years of hard work.

Because it was time to go to work at noon, some miners were eating pancakes while walking.The pancakes were obviously too dry. Some people left the team suddenly after eating, ran to the river to scoop water to drink, and were scolded severely by the foreman.

Guo Ning waved to some of the miners and continued to listen to the supervisor:
"Jie Shuai, look at this side again. From here to the west, five miles away, there are mine veins. There are three mine veins that have been opened... It should be the remains of the mine supervisor on Song Guojing East Road in the Southern Dynasty. Two places have collapsed and are completely unusable. So this time, we are going to open another mine vein, and then put the new furnace site here..."

The supervisor stomped his feet and signaled: "This place is right between the mine lode and the Xiaogu River, bypassing the earth slope, there is a depression, just to build two more warehouses. The refined iron produced is transferred to the workshop directly under the Ordnance Department in the south. Very convenient."

Guo Ning has no special knowledge in this regard.When he came to inspect last time, he came up with a little idea, not sure if it would be useful, let alone if it would cause trouble to the mine.This time when he came, he was determined to just listen and not talk, and not to say much except to supervise the progress.

But seeing the overseer's face full of joy, and his gesticulating gestures in a large range, he was inevitably infected, and laughed a few times from time to time.

At this moment, there was a notification from Jue that Geng Ge came.

"Huh?" Guo Ning said with a smile: "Geng Inspector Geng has a lot of free time, so he wants to join in the fun with me?"

Guo Ning is a pure warrior, not good at red tape, nor hypocritical.Although he didn't try to win over Geng Ge, he didn't take special precautions or treat Geng Ge poorly, he just regarded him as a capable subordinate.Over the past few months, Geng Ge and Wen Wenwu of the military government got along really well.

Listening to Guo Ning's jokes from a distance, Geng Ge responded with a smile, walked closer, and handed the letter directly to Guo Ning: "Jie Shuai, signed by Yang An'er, a letter from Mizhou Dutong Guobai'er."

Guo Ning had known about this for a long time.Yila Chucai's promising partner was hunted down and fled. As a result, he bypassed more than half of the Shandong Peninsula, but reunited with the originally intended partner. This is really a coincidence and lucky enough.

And the newly formed caravan reached out to Yang An'er's control area so quickly, which is really bold.

As for this letter...

Guo Ning opened the letter, before he read it carefully, he sighed first.

"What? Jie Shuai, is there something wrong?" Geng Ge was a little nervous.

"This should be Guo Yao'er's own handwriting, that's right, this guy's handwriting is ten times uglier than mine, it's like a dog crawling."

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