Beiyang new warlord

In the disappointment of the girls from the two "big places", the fleet still docked slowly. The port of Xidaying, where Mao Jue started, seemed to be a bit dilapidated. Seeing the return of the army, there were only two patrol teams. The sea guards greeted them.

"What? The governor is not in Phi Island Mansion? Neither are the eldest lady and Mrs. Shen?"

The purpose of docking at Phi Island was to meet Mao Wenlong, so he wasted no time, and when he heard the news, Mao Jue's head grew a little bit, and he screamed sadly.

"Could it be that you went to Lushunwei?"

"General, don't you know?"

Speaking of this, that Xunhai Qianhu also had a strange expression on his face.

"At the beginning of the year, didn't you invite the governor to Tieyi Town?"

The corner of Mao Jue's mouth couldn't help twitching twice.

"Is this Dongjiang Town?"

This time even Shen Guangzuo came out of the cabin in surprise and looked towards the shore.

It is indeed incredible. Shen Guangzuo has never been to Liaodong in his life, but in the impression of those insiders, Liaodong will always be a wild and alien land, sparsely populated, and economically backward. Just now Pidao fits this image very well, but here

Mao Jue's Tieshan Port, at this time, is quite reminiscent of those large coastal ports in the West during the Renaissance. The port, which was only a few hundred meters long, has been expanded to several thousand meters, and the edges are all piled up with sunken stones and concrete and steel bars. It is neat and tidy, just like a whole stone, and on the edge of the port, a wooden arm giant with a triangle of more than ten meters stands there.

This thing is alive. Under the surprised eyes of these "hillies" from the south, a few workers below shouted and pulled it, and the hook and lock hanging from the thing docked from the side, and the huge fishing boat was pulled down one by one. The box was immediately placed on a cart with eight small wheels and pushed to the back of the house.

Those boxes are full of water, and huge sea fish swim densely in the water.

This year is not the future. Everyone goes to the sea to fish for food. For the right to fish, the British and Icelandic warships collided with each other for decades. The southern country dared to shoot heavy machine guns at Chinese fishing boats. The entire sea in Northeast Asia, Mao Jue's family was the one who fished on a large scale in the ocean, and relying on the sea, they provided Dongjiang with a lot of valuable protein.

On the port near the lower half, the warehouse is full of large tuna that can only be seen in the Japanese market in later generations. Workers in white clothes and masks are nervously breaking down the fish with knives and wrapping them in bamboo jars. make up.

"This! Is this almost as good as beef?"

Seeing a bluefin tuna weighing more than three meters and weighing more than a thousand kilograms, Shen Guangzuo, who was "rare but more strange", screamed in surprise.

On the other end, Chen Jiaoer and Yang Le were also a little dazzled.

Indeed, the economy of the entire Northeast Asia in this era is indeed underdeveloped, but it can't stand the free port of Mao Jue Tieshan. Although Mao Jue robbed the Japanese country, there are still Japanese businessmen chasing interests, taking copper, mercury, boxes, and sulfur. and other popular commodities such as silk, tea, local cigarettes, mirrors, glassware, and wine that Mao Jue bought from Jiangnan were sold back to the country of Japan, and other merchants of Lee's North Korea brought goods from the peninsula. specialty.

The colorful silks of the peninsula are very famous nowadays. In the shops at the port, those colorful and bright colored silks hang down. The streets are full of busy people coming and going, and the two women who just got off the boat are watching the fireworks.

However, in this era, the military power of the government is still reflected.

"The army crosses the border, and the merchants avoid it!"

As the two red-feathered knights yelled loudly, the crowd on the street panicked and fled to the shops on both sides. Get off the boat and complete the assembly at the northern port. The neat Dongjiang army, carrying flintlock guns, lined up like tofu cubes, shouted and ran forward, swaggering through the city quickly.

In other places in the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers were quite contemptuous. On the one hand, the thought of being noble and military was low, and on the other hand, the soldiers were indeed not up to date. The frontier army was composed of convicts and death row prisoners. They are vicious when fighting, and they are also vicious when they plunder the common people. Those guard soldiers who carry their heads to farm the fields are always thieves and petty, and they are as rotten as water when they fight.

But Dongjiang is different, Mao Jue's population is too small, and there are even relatives of people like Gang Gang in the pro-corps. Unexpectedly, fierce cheers erupted from time to time.

Mao Jue did not bring his family with him. The rewards from the imperial court had already disappointed the Dongjiang army. Naturally, he could not let down his own soldiers. He rode on the horse and hurried on the road. He was the first to lead the army to the Tieshan barracks. I didn't like Mao Jue at first, but I didn't like Mao Jue at first, but in such a prosperous state, watching him walk through the streets and alleys with a black horse, not to mention the star-studded plain clothes, even The beautiful eyes of Chen Jiaoer and Yu Le also shone with splendor.

As the captain of the personal guard, Mao Li was left here. On the other side, Mao Jue led an army of tens of thousands to cross the border, and he was not idle on this side. When the army was almost gone, five four-wheeled carriages were taken by him and others. Several soldiers were pulled over.

"My lord, girl in plain clothes, please!"

Everything is really new, even the carriages are different from those in Guannei. In amazement, Shen Guangzuo, Chen Jiaoer, Yu Le and other close friends climbed into the carriage with novelty under the greeting of Su Yi. As for the others The members of the Shen family and the Chen family were placed in the rear carriage, with luggage placed on the roof of the carriage. With a shout, the five carriages rushed out of the port together in the direction behind Mao Jue.

I don't know how obsessed Mao Jue, a car-less man, was with cars in later generations. The front wheel control handle of the four-wheeled carriage is also a prototype steering wheel. The driver has two, one pulling the reins of the two horses in front, and one Turning the steering wheel, the two of them cooperated closely, and before the crowd closed, the carriage ran out of the port area in a hurry.

Far away from here, the bustling bustle is finally left behind, but it is quite different from Shandong, which has experienced famine and war, and a piece of loess. On both sides of the road, there are dense green crops everywhere. The corn stalk that Shen Guangzuo has never seen has grown to the height of a person and a half, and the heavy corn stalks are hanging there firmly in the waist. In one and a half months, another wave of winter corn will be harvested, and occasionally there will be farmers Sitting on the edge of the field, carrying a hoe and blowing smoke rings leisurely, the road is also a cement concrete avenue like the port, straight and tidy, and from time to time, similar four-wheeled carriages gallop past me, and the car is not bumpy at all. No, it's not like Guannei, it can bump and fall apart along the way.

It should be around [-]:[-] noon, and I ate a Dongjiang-style meal in Tieshan City. At [-]:[-] in the afternoon, Mao Jue had almost finished rewarding and instructing the army. Not much, after all, the biggest battle, the Battle of Weihai, was mostly bombarded by cannonballs, and those with first-level merits were like lottery draws, but double pay during wartime, the least amount of money for a group of soldiers was eight taels of silver, and some of them had merit Pang Hai's third regiment is all on vacation, and the rest of the soldiers are also satisfied with their money, and return to the station with their officers.

Although I can't take a break immediately and return my money back home, but according to Dongjiang's rotation system, I will eventually have a time to rest, so don't worry.

And with the general's salary as a reward, even those southern soldiers recruited by Yiwu began to take it for granted that the court's status was gradually alienated. After this time, Dongjiang took another step on the road of becoming a warlord.

It is worth mentioning that, coming from the era of developed transportation in the later generations, they exchanged a lot of flattery with the border market of the post-Golden Mongolia. He paid two hundred coins, and got on the 36-seat large carriage that set out from Tieshan to Yizhou. Mao Jue didn't care about the feudal order here. The emperor had sixteen horses, and the princes had eight horses. The treatment of the princes, eight tall horses pulled a large carriage in two rows, and went straight to the north.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Mao Jue, the great warlord of the Dongjiang River, also joined the ranks of his family with dozens of his own soldiers.

"Isn't the little boy here?"

In the entire Ming Dynasty, only Shen Guangzuo dared to call Mao Wenlong that way.This Iron Mountain City has undergone two renovations, and its scale is no longer comparable to that of the small border towns in the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the Li Dynasty in the past. Now even the Jinan Mansion, which is taller and thicker than the city, is not far behind.Thought this was the capital of Dongjiang, Shen Guangzuo couldn't help asking curiously when he saw Mao Jue got into the car and yelled that the team would continue to go north, and watched the bustling market gradually go away.

Sitting down with his arms around Su Yi, Mao Jue's face was also relaxed and excited, but when he mentioned this, he couldn't help showing a little weirdness.

"Father"

Chapter 221. One thing down one thing

The commercial prosperity of Dongjiang Tieyi Town is concentrated in Tieshan Port and Yizhou Border City. After all, it is a military town. After passing Tieshan City, the solemnity of the garrison is revealed. There are many villages along the way, but in front of each village, there are There is a bunker with a length and width of tens of meters, four walls, and a solid roof. All the grain reserves of the whole village are stored here, and the protruding muzzle can still be seen.

Although I despise the little devils, the defense system of the little devils in later generations has brought a lot of trouble with the defense system of one blockhouse at the entrance of a village. Once the war starts, the population of a village can quickly shrink into this blockhouse and block the door. , there is no opening on the top, just a few windows on the second floor, even if there are thousands of slaves, they can't do anything to this turtle shell for a few days.

And after finishing the farm work in the morning, a large group of strong men from the village gathered together, humming and stabbing with a firecracker.

All Tieyi towns, no matter the newcomers or later ones, are all military members. To manage these military settlements, Mao Jue used the same method as the commune system and the small peasant system in later generations. The small households and hundreds of households are the production captains, although the land is separated. At most, when the labor force is strong, the strong men from dozens of miles under the jurisdiction of the Thousand Households Organization will come to work together, and the rest will be their own family.

But the tax rate is two draw one.

If the training time reaches fifteen days per month, the tax rate can be reduced to two out of ten. There are also rewards such as sea fish, live chicken, and pork in the training elite guards.

This tax seems quite heavy, but the land was given by Mao Jue, the cattle belonged to the guard, and the house was built with cement production materials provided by the guard. Moreover, corn, sweet potato and potatoes are high-yield crops, and the yield per mu is even higher than [-] catties. , It is more than twice as high as the traditional seven or eight hundred catties of rice and wheat, and even higher than sorghum. Even half of it is enough to feed a family of three for a year.

But who dislikes having a lot of food at home?Even if the rest of the food is not eaten, it can be purchased by the guard again, in exchange for some fine grains such as rice from Li Chaolai, and local flour brought from the mainland, so for training, the men in the whole guard are still very active. If it weren't for the age limit, kids in their early teens with runny noses and old men over fifty would all want to join in.

I went to Yizhou again to inspect the border defense, and looked at the left-behind Shen Rong Corps. Amidst the sound of humming and haha ​​training, the carriage finally turned back to the current military center of Tieyi Town, Baima Mountain City.

Although it is a mountain castle, there are quite a lot of carriages parked here. The carriages of Kong Youde's family and Geng Zhongming's family who were separated from Mao Jue in Tieshan, anyway, the carriages of several officers and regiment leaders who are on vacation are all parked here. The corners of Mao Jue's mouth couldn't help twitching.

The scenery of this place is absolutely different from that of the mainland. There is a strong wind of war. The gray city wall is one piece. There is no sign of bricks at all. It is all tough reinforced concrete. The second regiment of guards on the top of the city patrols back and forth. There is also a special gun mount with the muzzle facing the sky every ten meters, and soldiers are constantly wiping it with a rag from time to time.

Many of the cannons at the head of the Ming Dynasty had accumulated ashes in their holes, which shows how lazy these magistrates are except for plundering the common people. Therefore, in Dongjiang, it must be the opposite. Each cannon should be wiped at least on both sides every day. Mao Jue Random raids, if there is rust on the muzzle of the city, then the military chief of this place will have to hehe.

A hundred times the meticulousness before the war, these big guys can give you ten times the return during the war!

Although this four-wheeled carriage is absolutely luxurious, it is covered with bearskin, and it is not bumpy, but it is tiring to sit and not move. When getting off the carriage, the old man Shen Guangzuo couldn't help but stretch his waist and looked up. Taking a look at the fierce Baima Mountain City, he couldn't help admiring again.

"When the old man was in the government and the opposition, he often heard the news that your father Mao Wenlong was sloppy and useless. Sometimes he couldn't help but hesitate. After so many years, he has changed, but now he is targeting this city. Those rumors The censor is all farting!"

"If one-tenth of the thousands of counties in the mainland can do this, why worry about building slaves and looting by bandits?"

It's really rare to satisfy this old man. The old man is very familiar and is about to go out. While walking, he mutters: "You boy didn't tell your father the news of the old man's arrival, did you? Otherwise, he will definitely come out to meet me !Okay, the county magistrate should take care of it now, the old man will go see it in person.”

"Oops! What the hell?"