Lu Ming

Countless people stood on the pier looking forward to it, and children ran wildly along the shore. The news was spreading at lightning speed.Merchants from the surrounding areas will come over in the next few days and eat up the seafood shipped from afar like ants.

In previous years, every summer and autumn, there would also be the Southern Fleet coming to Tianjin with the south wind, so the locals are no strangers to the fleet.

The reason why the aborigines are so excited about the fleet from Yizhou is that apart from ignoring the wind direction and out of season, profit is the biggest driving force.

The goods pulled by ordinary open ships are nothing more than some local products in the south of the Yangtze River. The most valuable are all kinds of silk goods, in addition to many daily necessities and grains.

However, the Yizhou ship warehouse contained high-value commodities such as kerosene lamps, kerosene, glass mirrors, canned lychees, thermos bottles, tinplate, wheel bearings, and brick machines.

This is equivalent to condensing wealth. It looks like a fleet of ten ships, but the total price of goods far exceeds the traditional caravan composed of dozens of sand ships.

Yizhou goods are not only of high value, but also never worry about sales. No matter where they are shipped, they will be swept away and will always be out of stock.This is also the driving force behind the rush of merchants: every Yizhou fleet arrives at the port, which can give birth to a group of rich people, and can make a lot of money for merchants from all over the place.

So when the fleet went up to Dazhigu, the banks of the river were already full of people, and the wharf was full of merchants who were waiting for their wealth to dock.

The fleet arriving in Tianjin this time is still composed of the same 800-ton new lock ship.However, with the passage of time, the shipyard has successively launched new ships, so the number of the fleet has increased to twelve ships this time.

With a total of more than 5000 tons of goods, many indigenous laborers unloaded them day and night, and within two days they were all diverted to the warehouses of wealthy merchants in various places.

In the Beijing-Tianjin area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, capital was in circulation. 5000 tons of goods may seem like a lot, but with the support of Jingcheng Capital, they were all bought by the natives, and no slow sales occurred.

The direct consequence of this is a huge amount of payment for goods.But the time travelers from later generations would definitely not bury the silver in the cellar.These funds will be used on the spot and re-participated in the economic cycle.

As before, the largest expenditure item in the payment is always people.

The current relationship between Taiwan and Ming Dynasty is, to put it bluntly, the relationship between the colony and the suzerain country.Of course, this only refers to the economic aspect - through the public output of industrial products, Ming Dynasty provides the market, raw materials and population.

During this process, Daming had a huge trade deficit.But at this point, Daming is not worried about paying, because there is an almost unlimited currency: people.

The fleets brought in so much cargo that most of the proceeds ended up being exchanged for people.

It is expensive to raise a person.

Collecting refugees seems to be free of money, but the crossing people need to spend a lot of money to buy food and clothing locally in Tianjin.

Not only that, but also to provide them with materials to build camps and medicines to treat diseases.In the frigid north, provide fuel, equipment, and hot water... blah blah blah.

In short, after the money is in hand, it flows into various channels of society again.In the end, what they got in return was a shaved head, wearing coarse work clothes, and a vast number of northerners were stuffed into the cabin, both men and women, women first.

This fleet, because there are many other people on board, only half of the ships are filled with refugees, and the rest of the ships are reserved.A few days after the unloading of the cargo, the fleet was ready to sail back and began to board people.

The first ones to board the boat were, of course, the refugees.

The ruddy-faced refugees dragged their families along and lined up on the springboard silently, without crying or crying to say goodbye to life or death.

Fear stems from the unknown - some locals who have been to Yizhou before now come back as preachers, so people already know that Yizhou is a good place.In addition, everyone has been fed and clothed under Cao Dashuai's hands, and they are not bullied and paid for work, so people's resistance has been resolved.

The next ones to board the boat were land buyers who organized a delegation to Yizhou for inspection.Most of these people are the masters and housekeepers in charge of the family, and they belong to the wealthy class, so they generally live in the upper class with their entourage, and the living conditions are relatively good.

Those who boarded the boat afterwards were businessmen who went to Yizhou to do business and look for opportunities.

The same businessman has different financial resources and different treatment.Some people carry parcels to squeeze the steerage, and some people live in private rooms with their concubines and maids. There is a big difference.

The last ones to board the boat were naturally the soldiers under Chuan Zhonghe.

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On the morning of May 1630, 5, Zhang Dongdong and his party stood on the bow of the flagship ship, bidding farewell to the two left behind.

Those left behind are Zhang Zhongqi and Yao Jianshe.Zhang Zhongqi is on the surface. He is responsible for the management of Feihu Camp and the construction of Tianjin Outer Port.Yao Jianshe, the head of the Tianjin station, is in charge of commerce and the secret front.

These two people, together with Xue Haiyuan from the capital city, will be the Big Three who will be placed in the north by the crossing crowd for a period of time to come.

In addition, the Big Three also have a common task: to work on Dongjiang Town.

Since Mao Wenlong's death, Dongjiang Town has fallen into extreme chaos.During this period of time, the imperial court not only did not make up for it, but intensified and began to dismember Dongjiang Town. The Donglin Party also tried their best to help Houjin solve this flank threat.

During this period, the core method of the imperial court was to cut off food and salaries.

Since Yuan Chonghuan took office, the method of reducing the supply of Dongjiang Town was implemented, and the imperial court not only inherited it in its entirety, but also intensified it, causing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town to freeze and starve to death.

Liang Tingdong, the newly appointed minister of the Ministry of War, also expressed his complete distrust of the ability of the Pidao Army to contain the troops. He once said that he planned to withdraw the main force of the Pidao Army to Guanning by water.

As a result, Chen Jisheng, Liu Xingzuo, Mao Chenglu and other high-level officials in Dongjiang Town left after Mao Wenlong's death became completely disorganized when rumors of domestic and foreign troubles arose.

Today's Dongjiang Town is full of desperate officers and soldiers.The original ending of these people was either to starve to death, or to be forced to rebel and then killed by the court, just like those peasant troops.

In the end, this group was completely blackened, from the generals down to the soldiers, all of them were full of deep hatred for Daming.So Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming and others appeared among them who went to Houjin with advanced artillery technology and subordinates.

In the end, the gates of Ming Dynasty were smashed open by these rebels, Guozuo collapsed, and the country turned to ashes—the Ming Dynasty’s death began from Mao Wenlong to the end of Sanshun King. up.

Because of this, one of the important tasks of the time travelers staying in the north is to absorb the officers and soldiers of Dongjiang Town.

Instead of letting these excellent soldiers who have been fighting against the Tartars in the ice and snow all year round freeze to death and starve to death, it is better to get them here, train after feeding, and become good fighters in the future.

But this work must be done leisurely, otherwise it will easily cause the army to backlash, and it will be bad if it is troubled in the court.So this is still a technical job, and it requires close cooperation between Tianjin and the capital to see success.

After several time travelers standing at the bow talked about this matter for a long time, a loud brass horn sounded from the ship tower—it was time to set sail.

So they cherished each other, and everyone parted ways.

At the same time, Mei Fuxi waved her hands vigorously on the side of the boat, saying goodbye to her family members who came to see her off.As the first batch of military cadets to go to the South for training, Mei Fuxi had the honor to also be on the flagship.

This time, the Mei family has already been honored by Mei Fuxi.Not long ago, Mei's father, as a member of the military, spent 5000 taels to buy a stake in the newly opened Tianjin Tannery Factory.So the Mei family is now tied to Marshal Cao, and they are hardcore followers.

After discovering the flagship's trumpet and flag, the fleet pulled anchor and hoisted their sails one after another, and slowly left the berth, followed the flagship, and slowly sailed along the Haihe River to the estuary.

The speed of the fleet was very slow along the way, so Mei Fuxi, who stayed at the stern to watch the scenery, was able to see both sides of the Haihe River from a strange angle.

Although Tianjin is considered a coastal city, the main city is 80 miles away from the sea, so most Tianjin people have never been to sea.After all, this is the north, and most of the transportation depends on mules and horses, and there are not many people who go to sea to make a living.

May Fuxi has never been out at sea, so he tried to find opportunities to stay on the deck today.In this way, it was not until the evening that the fleet finally completed the 80-mile river course and rushed out of Dagukou.

After entering the Bohai Sea, the fleet adjusted its formation, hoisted its full sails, and began heading south at full speed.

At this moment, Mei Fuxi took advantage of the golden light of the setting sun to see a large construction site not far south of the mouth of the sea.

Dense workers are working like ants on the saline-alkali land at the mouth of the Haihe River. There are piles of excavated soil everywhere, and there is still black smoke rising in the distance. I don’t know what they are doing.

What Mei Fuxi saw was the Tianjin Outer Port construction site selected by the cross-travelers.The documents from the imperial court had already been issued, assigning this barren beach to Marshal Cao for him to build a logistics base.

It is now mid-May, and the fleet could have taken advantage of the last north wind of this year to head south.

However, with the successive establishment of bases along the coast of the continent, the fleet's fuel has been fully supplied, so shortly after setting out to sea, faint smoke began to rise from the chimney of the ship, and the gas system was activated.

In this way, the speed of the downwind boat quickly increased to seven knots.After the non-stop fleet set off from Tianjin, it pulled a straight line in Bohai Bay.So at a certain time during the day the next day, Mei Fuxi, who was lying on the side of the boat, saw a big city on the coast——Dengzhou.

Chapter 484

Dengzhou was born in Penglai, Shandong.Just this month, Sun Yuanhua, a Western expert, just took office in Dengzhou City as the governor of Denglai.

The Shandong site that the cross-traversing crowd had taken a fancy to before was naturally in Dengzhou.As for the reason, of course it is still human.

By the time of 1630, more than [-] people had gone from Liaodong to Shandong to beg for a living, most of them were soldiers and military family members after the collapse of Dongjiang Town.

Naturally, this huge human resource cannot be wasted.Otherwise, Sun Yuanhua would send Kong Youde to Liaodong to die when the ogre was trapped in the Daling River by the Tartars in the year after next.Then Kong Youde rebelled again halfway. In the end, these people either died in the tug-of-war, or voted for the Tartars, and even lost the lives of the locals in Dengzhou.

Therefore, Travelers planned to set up a branch in Dengzhou early in the morning.

The reason why no one has been sent over right now is that the imperial court has not yet completed the land use approval, and the other is that Tianjin has not yet vacated their hands.So what Mei Fuxi saw on the ship's side today was just a standard Ming-style city, and there was no iconic boiler smoke column passing through the sites near the city.

After sailing from Tianjin, the fleet drew a straight line in Bohai Bay, passed Dengzhou, and traveled eastward along the coastline for more than 300 miles, and saw the easternmost landmark of Shandong Peninsula: Chengshanjiao.

After bypassing Chengshanjiao, the fleet did not follow the coastline to detour, but sailed directly on the Yellow Sea without reference, taking the shortest distance to Shanghai.

Thanks to gas engines, sonar, and navigation equipment, the fleet was able to maintain an average speed of 7 knots with a tailwind, and it was able to travel around the clock.

This advantage surpassed all ships of the seventeenth century.

The fleet can run an average of 300 kilometers per day, and Shanghai is 1400 kilometers away from Chengshanjiao. Therefore, after sailing on the Yellow Sea for 5 days, in the evening, Mei Fuxi, who was dazed, first saw the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then saw it. Shanghai Port with plumes of smoke.

Although Mei Fuxi has adapted to the bumps by riding a horse all year round, it was his first time to go to sea, so he still suffered from mild seasickness.

But the mood of the young people is still very excited.In the past few days, he has seen unprecedented scenes of heaven and earth, including distant islands and cities, a vast sea with no land in sight, tumbling waves, huge and dense schools of fish...

And this time, he saw the legendary Yangtze River and the land in the south of the Yangtze River, and truly felt the vastness of the mountains and rivers, the boundless world, and gained a lot of knowledge.

Before the night came, the fleet all docked at the berths in Shanghai Port.Early the next morning, Meifuxi and the others had the opportunity to disembark for a rest.

Today's Shanghai Port is already extremely prosperous.After Cao Dashuai bombarded Xu's house to frighten Xiaoxiao, it ushered in a wave of rapid development.

Unlike Tianjin, Shanghai Port has already installed a lot of large-scale port equipment such as gas cranes.Whenever people from other places come here, they are always surprised to see that the big iron arms emitting black smoke are hoisting tens of thousands of catties of goods up and down, and the scene is very shocking.

After docking, the soldiers and passengers obtained permission to disembark, and the refugees could only move about on the deck.After Mei Fuxi and the other young people disembarked, they wandered happily around the port.First I saw the big crane, and then I went shopping in the business district.

Young Master Mei's family is well-off, and he has made a name for himself among the younger generation, so he has no shortage of followers wherever he goes.At this time, Young Master Mei was leading two of his peers, walking around among the bustling crowd, feeling the wide concrete road, and going shopping in the shops with beautiful glass windows beside the road from time to time.

After shopping around, Master Mei bought a lot of local products for his family, such as mahjong tiles and clean tissues.

I went to the consignment department of the port, asked for a pen and ink and wrote a letter to my family, and then paid and packed it together with the local products.Don't worry about the rest of the matter, he will take the package away when the fleet passes by.

After that, the young master took his servants to the restaurant to have a good meal, and ate several local Shanghai dishes, such as sweet and sour luncheon meat, anchovies in tomato sauce and crab meat buns.It tastes good, and the boys said it was good after eating it.

Take a walk to digest food after eating.Neat, beautiful, and weird, the big cement pier is completely beyond Ming people's imagination, and you will not get bored no matter how you walk.While taking a walk, the boys felt the strange place full of industrialization and geometric lines, and they were all amazed.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when the electric bell on the customs building rang, Mei Fuxi had already returned to the deck-he received an order this morning to return to the team before 17:[-], and he was not allowed to go out of the concrete area of ​​the port.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, the fleet was replenished and began to pull anchor again and set sail.Shanghai Port has complete facilities, including cranes and gas lamps, so even at night, after the ships are replenished, they can go out to sea under the guidance of a bright beam of light.

For the rest of the journey, the fleet sailed along the middle line of the strait. Except for other fleets passing by, they could see nothing but the vast sea.

It was not until nightfall four days later that Mei Fuxi was yelled up from her hammock that she knew Taijiang had arrived.

The young man who jumped out of the deck was stunned to see the Milky Way on the ground approaching.The bright river of lights, like a colorful dragon, shocked every outsider standing on the deck.

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Due to the connection of wires, the lighting of Taijiang Wharf is not comparable to that of Shanghai Port.After the fleet docked at the port, the lights on the trestle were turned on, and it suddenly became as bright as day.

Mei Fuxi carried her luggage like this, lined up under the command of the officer on duty, raised her head, kept looking back at Denghe, and walked in line, and was finally driven into the barracks.

The excited young people looked at the colorful light in the distant sky through the glass windows, and their faces were full of longing. With those good eyesight, they swore that they saw a woman with her thighs exposed at the bow of the boat just now... …the lads didn't sleep well that night.

Fortunately, people who travel through time have seen this kind of situation a lot.So the next day, after going through a series of health and quarantine procedures, the young people were told: three days off.

Before they had time to cheer, the bad news came: recite the travel instructions first, and whoever memorizes them by heart can go out of the camp.

So anxious people began to frantically recite the travel instructions written on the wall.This has suffered more than half of the illiterate people, so they had to ask someone to read it out.

Young Master Mei's skills are good right now, and his writing skills are not weak: he has also been taught cultural lessons by teachers since he was a child.The young master was standing under the wall at the moment, and it didn't take long for him to memorize these lacking "instructions".

At this moment, the young master was convinced of one thing: there really is a woman with her thighs out there!

Because the third item in the notice is "It is a local custom for female comrades to wear short clothes and shorts. It is strictly forbidden to comment on this, and it is strictly forbidden to molest women. Violators will go to jail."

Seeing this, Mei Fuxi was terrified, turned around and ran to the door and shouted: "...Report to the monitor, I have memorized the regulations!"

Chapter 485 Female Heroes

"Quick, look at this, look at this!"

"Hey, look at that, look at that!"

Chikan Avenue, at the intersection, Mei Fuxi is leading two attendants, standing there like other country bumpkins who have just arrived in Guizhou, looking left and right, dazzled by the cool dresses of young women all over the street.

No wonder the young people's jaws dropped.In the past in Tianjin, they mostly saw muddy calves of rural women, and forearms that were accidentally exposed in summer. Have they ever seen such an exotic style in Yizhou?

Although they had changed into olive green thin military uniforms suitable for Tainan’s climate before they left the camp, they were no different from other soldiers walking on the street, but just looking at the three drooling pig statues immediately exposed their country bumpkin attributes.

"Hey, the girls in this handsome man's land are too...comfortable, aren't they?"

"I'm afraid it's the legacy of the islanders?"

Young Master Mei, who claims to be well-informed, is not sure about the situation now.He couldn't deduce whether the coolness of the street was inherited from the customs of the aborigines on this island or brought by Marshal Cao.

"Okay, don't look at evil! Look at you two, what's the matter?"

After looking at the beauties for a long time, Young Master Mei had drunk ink anyway, and finally remembered not to see evil, and hurried away with his servants.

But leave and leave, the girl still has to see.

Today's task is to go shopping on the street, so they continued to look around happily while walking around the various high-end shops on Chikan Avenue.

After shopping all morning, Meifuxi returned with a full load of bags.But this time he felt cheated - many of the local products he bought in Shanghai Port before were from Yizhou, or they were knockoffs here.

Still the old way, hand over all the goods to the consignment department.This time, he described in detail the origin of these goods in the letter, and then suggested that if the old man was free, he should come to Yizhou to have a look for himself, there are many business opportunities here.

After completing the procurement task, Master Mei took his attendants to the toothbrush festival.This time I chose a hot pot restaurant with a novel way of eating. On the recommendation of the waiter, the young master ordered tomato, red oil, three delicacies, mushroom soup, and then ordered a bunch of shabu-shabu dishes.

Travelers are not yet able to use chemical fertilizers to ripen vegetables, nor are they able to make various chemical seasonings, so the tomato soup has a natural sour taste, and the three delicacies soup base is also made from natural ingredients.

Most of the shabu-shabu is seafood, because seafood is the cheapest here.Guests from the north ate a variety of seafood including lobster grouper and large yellow croaker.

The fresh and spicy taste makes diners who eat hot pot for the first time very addicted, sweating and appetizing.Young people can eat it, so staples such as venison, noodles and sesame biscuits were added later.