Lu Ming

In fact, Professor Luo just came back from Madou Club a few days ago.During the days when he was sitting in Madou, Professor Luo Latin Love, beat old elders, abducted children, and robbed civilian women. In short, he committed all kinds of evil.

After returning to the senior staff, the senior office promoted Professor Luo to be the director of the newly established Port Authority in view of the fact that during his stay in Madou, Professor Luo provided many young adults, students and women of childbearing age for Yao District, Chikan Primary School and the New District. , also in charge of domestic trade specifically for Ming merchants.

When Professor Luo came to Chikan Wharf in a small sampan, the Xing'an Ping had already entered the berth, stopped the ship and dropped anchor... The Lin brothers are directing the unloading of the ship at the moment.

Until now, the two brothers have not been able to wake up from the shock brought to them by the senior officials.The difference is that Lin Baoan is a little younger, and his attention is still focused on the salvage boat at the moment, standing at the bow of the boat and still looking back.

But Lin Baoquan is well-informed, mature and steady, what makes him more concerned at the moment is the Chikan New District behind the wharf.

The east bank of the Taijiang River has been planned.The Chikan City/Chikan District Government Square, which is under construction, is located in the middle of the Taijiang River, facing the Dayuan Commercial Hall on the opposite bank.With the Chikan grid as the boundary, there are several high-end sea-view residential blocks to the north, and then to the corner of the Taijiang River to the north, where the shipyard and the shipyard dormitory area are planned.

To the south of Chikan City is the wharf and storage area.The Xing'an Ping is parked at the newly built wharf area at the lower right corner of the Taijiang River. The construction of other planned wood gas cold storages has already begun, and the storage area including various large warehouses will continue to extend southward.

As a high-end sea-view residential area with a priority second only to Chikan Primary School, the first square has been completed: long red brick walls, beautiful black basalt paths, and camphor wood huts full of tropical style, seemingly messy , in fact, all kinds of ornamental plants that can just block the eyes of friends and neighbors...

This is not a rigid staff dormitory. These huts for the traveler to live in are standard configurations in seaside tourist areas in later generations, with sophisticated materials and complete equipment.The owner can sit on the porch and watch the sea view and drink iced tea, or eat kebabs at the back of the house. When you are interested, you can even have sex with your sister in various dark corners. It can be said that the design is reasonable, the style is coquettish, and there is no formaldehyde. ...there is a lack of girls.

The girls are not far away—after the construction of the community was completed, the fleet carrying many new and acquainted girls began to rush to Dayuan immediately.The familiar girls haven't seen their master for half a year, and the raw girls still don't know who their master is.But it doesn't matter, the purchasing agent has already sent the selfie back to the senior, so the gentlemen know who is who.

Volume IV Operations Research

Chapter 150 Chikan's Experience

The construction of Chikan City, which symbolizes the majesty of the Transit regime, has once again been shamefully postponed.

There will always be more important buildings at the top: Needless to say, primary schools, this is called political correctness, and children cannot be allowed to attend classes in dilapidated buildings... The township government building waits for a while!

The next thing is naturally all the time-traveling people are staring at, ahem, Jingshifang community.The brothers cannot be allowed to keep watch over the widows... the township government building should wait for a while!

In this way, until the first batch of affordable housing was completed, and until the girls left, the government building in Chikan District was still not completed, and only a few workers were busy every day, looking lifeless, and people believed that it was unfinished—Second District of Economical Housing The construction has already started, and the resources have been drawn away again.

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Comrade Lin Baoquan, who is standing on the Xing'an Ping, naturally does not know that the government building, which is already very magnificent in his eyes, is actually so difficult to build.Looking in from the gap in the unfinished wall, it has been built to the second floor. The red brick building with a "tong" structure is indeed very grand, um, in the eyes of Ming people.

What surprised him even more was the rows of red-brick residential quarters, neat wooden houses, straight avenues, tidy environment, bustling piers and construction sites...all of these reminded Lin Baoquan: The owner of the place is not a simple pirate, these people have a big ambition and a big picture.

Before this, the Lin brothers had already learned some public information about the crossing crowd from the pilot.The two brothers wondered before that there was not a single red-haired person in the territory of the red-haired people. If you look at the past, there are short-haired people with stubble all over Dayuangang. Are all the red-haired people dead?At this time, they suddenly realized what happened to that Mr. Xiong Daoxiong in Hangzhou City, whenever he talked about "a man of great officials", the inexplicable smile appeared on his face...

Whether they are Kun people or red-haired people, Zuo is just some foreigners from overseas. Even if this place is Liangshan outside the territory, the Lin brothers don't have the feeling of worrying about the country and the people.Although I saw a lot of wonderful sights today, the real thing is to pay for both goods and money, so when Lin Baoquan learned that a local official was visiting, he hurriedly called his clan brothers to disembark to meet the guests.

As expected by Brother Lin, Professor Luo, who was waiting to meet them on the pier, was also a handsome man.In the eyes of the two of them, the jacket, slacks, and black leather shoes are a bit used to it, but Professor Luo's middle-aged greasy man aroused Lin Baoan's imagination a little: Could it be that this group of hunks decide their seats based on their hair short or long? ?

"Haha, Xian Kunzhong is really a trustworthy person, he has traveled thousands of miles, kept his promises and kept his promises, brothers admire him!"

Seeing Professor Luo's saluting posture combined with Mandarin, the Lin brothers understood at this moment: Mr. Hangzhou Xiong's strange accent mixed with five percent of Hangzhou dialect, so he came from here...

"Where there, the country people have no experience, and only when they entered the door did they learn that the masters have changed their masters. The great kings have built a great foundation here. Lin is an eye-opener today. It's amazing!"

... The business bragging started right away, and everyone was bragging as they walked, and they didn't stop until they entered the office.The office is a small blue steel cabin, which is regarded as the temporary headquarters of the Port Authority.

After Professor Luo entered the room, he deliberately didn't call his assistant to come in to make tea, but did it himself - to give Ming a time to adapt.

Not surprisingly, the Lin brothers studied the blue color steel plate and the bright white LED light bulb above their heads. Lin Baoan was a little younger, and within 2 minutes he couldn't hold back anymore. He began to ask Professor Luo, how did the light bulb turn on?Sell ​​or not?

Professor Luo shook his head with a smile, and pointed to the top of his head mysteriously... You can guess the reason yourself, I just didn't tell you that there is a photovoltaic panel on the roof.

After everyone sat down, Professor Luo began to cross-examine, no, in the form of chatting, asking the Lin brothers about the detailed experience of this sea trade.

As the first Ming Merchant Ship to formally trade with Da Yuan, the information on the Xing’an Ping and the Lin Brothers are very important commercial samples. Professor Luo must know more information in order to formulate future plans for the Ming Merchant Ship. trade program.

The Lin brothers had just started to speak, when they were taken aback again: a silver plate on the table was suddenly pushed away by someone... Because there was a piece of fruit with a bite drawn on the silver plate, they thought it was a fruit plate.

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Professor Luo kindly asked questions while typing a few words in the notebook from time to time. The Lin brothers were surprised and didn't want to ask more questions. This kind of questioning chat lasted for a full hour before it came to an end.

Afterwards, the two parties quickly settled the accounts, and then Professor Luo took out two heaven and earth coupons from the drawer and handed them to Lin Baoquan to make up the difference.

"Precious note?" Lin Baoquan immediately realized the nature of this piece of paper.

Lin Baoquan's face turned pale in an instant, and when he saw that Lin Baoquan's face was flushed with anger, Professor Luo couldn't help laughing, and then quickly took out a catalog and handed them to them: "Don't be surprised, this thing is silver. Everything on the invoice can be redeemed, and besides..." Professor Luo said here, with a mysterious smile: "You two might as well visit Chikan for a few days first, and after I figure it out here, I have to prepare some other places. If there is no benefit, Xian Kunzhong must always be satisfied."

At this time, Lin Baoquan glanced at the inventory, and knew that his family was a bit abrupt, so he quickly apologized, saying that it was the fault of being frightened by the Daming treasure. Professor Luo shook his head with a smile, understood, understood...

In this way, the Xing'an Ping settled down in the dock area.The sailors stayed at the special hotel in the dock area that night. The so-called hotel is only a few rows of bamboo houses for the time being, and it is still a Datong shop.Only the brothers of the Lin family were assigned to a double room. The room was plain and clean, except for a plate of wrought iron flowers, there were no other decorations.

The novelty is that there is a shower-style public bathhouse in the hotel, which provides warm water at fixed points and showers with bamboo tubes. The sailors took a good bath that day.

Early the next morning, the doctor came.Dressed in moon-white cloth robes, they looked more like Bai Wuchang than Langzhong, and as soon as these people entered the door, they took a strange-looking thing and shook everyone's necks one by one.During this period, the Hokkien-speaking interpreter told everyone loudly: In order to prevent the epidemic, anyone who finds that they have a headache or brain fever must go to the medical center on Weidao Island in the North Line to recuperate, and they can only go out after they recover.

Fortunately, this trip to Xing'an Ping was not long, and the sailors were still healthy. After a lot of trouble, the doctors turned around and went out without any consultation fees.

Doing as the Romans do, the Lin brothers naturally couldn't say anything at this time.These Kunfa people who claimed to be from "Kunlun" seemed to speak official language, but in fact they behaved like outsiders, without the style of Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the Lin family brothers now simply regard the time travelers as foreigners. Since these weirdos have a lot of tricks and tricks, they probably have a lot of taboos.

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After the goods were delivered the next day, the Lin family brothers wandered around in this alien place.

This time they looked more carefully: the boiler room emitting green smoke, the thick sewer, the endless red bricks, the extremely hard plaster after drying...

The more they watched, the more frightened they became, and the more they watched, the more energetic they became. At noon, after chatting with a few fellow brick-movers who were resting on the construction site after dinner, they had a creepy feeling: all this happened in the small It was built in half a year!

Lin Baoquan really didn't believe in this speed. In the afternoon, he dragged his brother to do nothing, and wasted with Chikan's sewer: he watched the workers digging the soil, watched the workers stir the plaster, watched the workers People lay bricks, and in the end, he jumped into the sewer that was completed before and felt it...

Standing in the so-called "gutter" that was too wide and unreasonably wide to reach the top of his head, stroking the smooth earth and cement on the wall, looking up at the blue sky above his head... Lin Baoquan was silent for a long time.After that, no one knew what he and his brother sat by the sewer and said, but when Professor Luo met the two again a few days later, Lin Baoquan's first request was to go to the kiln district base to see lock up.

Naturally, Luo would not refuse this request: In the early days of the reform, many conservative cadres took pictures in the Empire State Building, and they no longer resisted the reform after returning to China—there is no need to arrest and brainwash them, the buildings in Manhattan, The line of defense of these people was defeated in silence.

The kiln area base now also bears the same role: industrial tourism, soul tourism.A strong regime is self-confident, and there is no need to discuss anything with Ming people, and there is no need to argue with Ming gentry in the future.

The so-called gentry's right to speak is most effective only in peacetime, and in troubled times, even after Li Zicheng became a big man in the later period, it doesn't work.

The butcher's knife of Shangjiannu is even more useless. The gentry class has no ability to incite the resistance of the people who will sacrifice their lives.

Now that the more powerful traversing crowds are on the stage, even if the gentry can incite theoretically the largest number of low-level people to come out to resist, these are completely vulnerable to the traversing regime with sewers, fertilizers, sulfonamides, and seamless steel pipes.

Whether it is resistance or obedience, the super gear will not mind at all, just swallow it steadily.During this process, some gentry will see that this power is irresistible and make changes accordingly, while those who cling to that set of decadent theories will be ruthlessly crushed and eventually become scumbags in the gutter. mud.

This is the theory method of the Transcendents: those brain-dead people who want to compete with the industrialized groups for dominance will die in the first wave;

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With this mentality, Professor Luo happily agreed to Lin's request to visit the kiln base.

The visit is just an additional project. Professor Luo came this time with a decision made after a meeting with his colleagues. To some extent, this is a promotional activity similar to "buy three get one free".

Chapter 151 Double Gift Package

Among the invoices received by the Lin brothers, there was one commodity that had to be purchased in bulk: salt.

The land of Fujian has always been short of salt, especially the four states of northern Fujian, where the foothills stretch, the transportation is inconvenient, and the local production is insufficient.

Ironically, Fujian, which lacks salt, has evolved from cutting (boiling) salt technology to advanced drying salt technology in the middle of Ming Dynasty.However, this is of no use. Fujian, where you can go to see the rain at any time in spring, summer, autumn and winter, depends on the weather to eat salt.

There are also huge conservative groups hindering this: Lianghuai salt merchants, salt government yamen, Haoqiang, salt farms, salt workers... and so on.Vested interest groups are not willing to overthrow the extremely huge salt distribution rules and start over. Even if a fierce man like Xu Guangqi tried to promote sun-dried salt in Shandong a few years later, he would still fail.Until the demise of the Ming Dynasty, the Lianghuai Salt Fields were still using the ancient method of boiling salt to produce salt.

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Funing Prefecture, where the Lin family is located, is a remote prefecture and county in northern Fujian, and it has never been easy to eat salt.Fortunately, now that the law of salt has collapsed, it seems that local tyrants like the Lin family have lost sight of the law of kings. Every time the Lin Baoquan brothers go to Hangzhou by sea, they always threaten to bring some salt goods back.Whether it is official salt or private salt, whether there is salt or not, the Lin family will never refuse anyone who comes—as long as the boat returns to Funing Prefecture and says it is official salt, it is official salt.

From the first sight of the salt on the manifest, Lin Baoquan determined the main cargo for the return journey in the future.What Lin was most afraid of before leaving was that the red hair of the senior officer was the same as the Franji in Taipei, with only silver and no goods.

Now that Hongmao has been replaced by a Chinese-speaking Kunren, and there is more salt on the invoice, Lin Baoquan is quite satisfied with this.

What made him more satisfied was yet to come: Professor Luo had turned into a robot cat today, and as soon as Pu met him, he took out a bunch of gift bags aimed at the Xing'an Ping, or a friendly merchant ship.

The first package is the nautical spree: First, the Xing'an Ping can return in advance.

Doraemon said: "Right now, there is a fleet in Dayuan that is going back to Hangzhou soon. The Xing'an Ping can drop by and go home, instead of waiting until May or June to return."

If the Fuchuan can set off from northern Fujian and take advantage of the north wind in winter to cross the strait; then the Xing'anping will never be able to return to the other side of the strait against the wind.When the wind is headed, the ship needs to make twists and turns at various angles on the sea surface. If you play this trick in the strait, the Fuchuan will lose its direction in the first hour after the night comes.

The Xing'an Ping arrives in March. According to the usual practice, the Fuchuan will not return to cross the strait until the southeast monsoon is strong in May and June.And Professor Luo made it very clear today: through the fleet of the public, the lucky boat can be carried to the coast of Zhejiang, so that the Xing'anping can quickly return to northern Fujian according to the landmark.

This plan really surprised the Lin family.When the two brothers learned that the Kun people's fleet actually had the ability to observe the sky and measure their positions, they couldn't help but be overjoyed—in this case, the Xing'an Ping can definitely catch up with the tail of the north wind season and make another trip.

The sailing packs are not over yet.

From Brother Lin’s previous statements about sea routes, Professor Luo has already heard the helplessness of Ming maritime merchants in this era for unfamiliar sea routes.

As early as the early Ming Dynasty, maritime merchants could still use crude nautical surveying tools such as star boards and compasses to support their business.However, under the brain-dead policy of the Zhu family emperors who banned the sea and sealed the boat wave after wave, over the past few hundred years, Westerners have invented various measuring tools that do not need to look directly at the sun, while Ming merchants have degenerated to using the naked eye. The realm of radar, which is ironic.

For this point, Professor Luo launched a survey package: including a chart, a quadrant, and an electronic watch.

The nautical chart was revised, with a rough depiction of the southeast coastline and several key cities along the way, and then marking the latitude and longitude numbers above the heads of these cities.People who use this chart can calculate the azimuth relationship between their ships and several big cities on the sea.

Of course, the chart is to be used with the quadrant.The quadrant is self-produced in the kiln area - a mold brought by later generations, and the kiln area is cast with copper water.

The quadrant was invented by the British navigator, and it is the greatest invention of this era. It was the era when various quadrants flourished in the hands of the colonists in the early 17th century.

The quadrant, which can measure latitude relatively accurately without looking directly at the sun, not only saved the Cyclops captains around the world, but also drove all previous latitude-measuring nautical instruments into the garbage dump, just like matchlock guns eliminated knives and axes.

Crossing Zhong's own fleet doesn't use this. Crossing Zhong has Minigun-level sextants and machine-gun-level electronic sextants.The sextant was not invented until the 18th century in history, and it is standard equipment for ordinary sand ships. The pilot ship is equipped with an electronic sextant, which can output data in seconds.

In this way, the Xing'an Ping can improve the level of latitude measurement to the same level as the European colonists. In addition, in the measurement of longitude, the technology of the Xing'an Ping surpasses the colonists: the electronic watch.

Using an electronic watch is well thought out, because the electronic watch is not afraid of losing it.

Every six months or so, this waterproof electronic watch with only the simplest dual timekeeping function will experience a power outage and must return to the staff to replace the battery.In this case, even if hostile forces or colonists get it, it will be fine. The natives in the 17th century could not understand the circuit board. This step is too big, which is already a split... Instead, the mechanical watch needs to control the amount of outflow. Aborigines can understand gears and mechanical structures.

"I don't know how much is the price of these sacred items?" After listening to Professor Luo's description, Lin Baoquan asked this question immediately.At the same time, Lin Baoan, whose excitement was beyond words, asked another question: "Is there a master teaching the Dharma?"

Professor Luo laughed and stretched out five fingers: "Policy support price, 500 taels a set."

When Lin Baoquan heard this number, he didn't blink: "Yes."

At this time, Professor Luo turned to Lin Baoan again and said, "In the afternoon, we will arrange a lecture to go overseas to teach the Fa, including teaching and meetings."

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After all the first gift packs are opened, the next is the second gift pack: weapons.

The two brothers were taken to a remote warehouse, where all the weapons of the Dutch captured in the War of the Commercial Hall were piled up in this warehouse.

Professor Luo first recommended the Dutch arquebus to the brothers.For the Lin brothers, there is no reason to refuse a matchlock gun with the same style and good workmanship: whether this thing is used to resist pirates on the ocean, or used by the clan to resist bandits, pirates and She people in the mountains, it can be used Useful.

Professor Luo smiled and sold 30 matchlock guns to them.Next is the artillery. What is left in the warehouse is only a dozen or so iron cannons of different sizes. The larger copper cannons have been pulled away by the kiln area and melted away.

The performance of the bronze cannon is perfect in all aspects, but there is only one unbearable shortcoming: the price.At the beginning of the 17th century, the cost of a bronze cannon was at least four times that of an iron cannon. In a few decades, with the development of iron and steel smelting technology, the cost of a bronze cannon would be as high as seven times that of an iron cannon.

The ascendant era of the Great Discovery and the 30-year war in Europe are in full swing, making all war weapons evolve at the fastest speed.In this era, Europeans are replacing bronze cannons with increasingly mature cast iron cannons.

These loot cannons in the warehouse have already reflected this trend: among the Dutch cannons obtained from merchants and naval training ships after traveling through the public, the 8-pound and 10-pound cannons that are more difficult to smelt are bronze cannons, which are the so-called The "half-snake gun", and the remaining iron cannons, the "little snake gun" that is not even qualified as a "half-snake gun", all have a caliber of less than 6 pounds.

Most of these guns are produced in the UK, and the production process has been quite perfect: the gun barrel is smooth, the gun lugs, the gun mount, the reinforcement hoop, the raised post at the gun tail, these parts are all missing, and the gun body has inscriptions, patterns and crosses. Flag pattern, the product is quite exquisite.

The progress of European weapons brought about by the great voyage and the 30-year war is clearly reflected in these artillery.

"They are all good things, and the workmanship is very good." Professor Luo is stroking the smooth cast iron barrel at this moment, and he almost said that this thing travels at home, kills, kills and sets fire...

"It's not easy to handle on the boat, so it's cheaper to invite one or two of you back to the town house." Lin Baoquan said with a smile, stroking his long beard lightly.

My family knows their own affairs. Fuchuan's "V"-shaped bottom and no ribs are not designed for firing guns.Lin Baoquan had seen the local cannons firing on Fuchuan, which had no aim and range, and the gun positions could only be placed on the centerline of the bow—using the keel to offset the recoil.

Professor Luo can understand the meaning of Boss Lin: it is difficult for artillery to exert its power without professional operation.For the sailors on the Fuchuan, it is a bit difficult to complete a series of steps from ranging to launching when facing the enemy, with the wind and waves and the constantly shaking bow.

"It's easy to say, if Boss Lin is willing to give up his subordinates, he might as well send a few over. Hehe, go to Dayuan Island to practice with the army for a few days, and be whipped for a few days. In the future, they will be good at keeping cannons and shooting guns."

When Lin Baoquan heard that there was actually a commissioning business, he hurriedly responded, ordered two small four-pound cannons, and prepared to take them back to the town house.

After opening the double gift package, the customer was very satisfied: the gift package solved the biggest risk after going to sea—the problem of positioning, and the second-level problem of pirates was also greatly alleviated by the arrival of dozens of matchlock guns.

Lin Baoquan made a rough calculation, and found that the money he earned during this trip had been filled back unconsciously...

Although table salt and iron materials are crude goods, the price of table salt is much higher.In Jianghuai, you can buy a catty of coarse salt for one or two cents of silver. Even in the coastal areas of Funing Prefecture, it has never been less than eight cents per catty.

As for the She people in the inland mountains who want to eat salt...it is delusional to take out a mountain product of ten cents, which is one coin and silver, and exchange it for a catty of coarse salt in the hands of local tyrants like the Lin family. It is not a legend in northern Fujian , but the norm.

The ship of iron and raw silk that Lin Baoquan brought was offset by the salt and guns of the crossing crowd. The Lin brothers, who were originally worried that they could only bring some money home, now had to worry about the goods. Insufficient value problem.

Chapter 152 Points

Double rewards for shopping, bonus points.In the plane of Professor Luo, points are standard in shopping malls, and people have more point cards in their wallets than bank cards.The Lin brothers' shopping trip in Dayuan naturally inevitably involved the process of card issuance.

Later that day, in the stilted building where the brothers lived alone, Professor Luo came to visit the guests again with gifts.It is said to be a gift, but it is actually just a sample, which can only be seen, not taken away.While placing samples on the table, Professor Luo explained the point system to the two, and left after explaining.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, kerosene lamps, zippo lighters, and glass mirrors were on the tabletop, and the bright light reflected the surprised faces of the two Lin brothers.