The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 644 Come, Uncle Hug
In mid-February, both Nangang and Beigang of Dengzhou are busy.

Under Ding Yi's management, Dengzhou Port has become one of the busiest commercial ports in Ming Dynasty, and merchant ships from all over the country, including North Korea and Japan, will run here.

There are sugar and deerskin from Daguan, fruits, seafood and sheep and horses from Jeju, fur and ginseng from North Korea, samurai swords and handicrafts from Japan, silk, raw silk and tea from Ming Dynasty.

As long as you think of the goods, here are all.

The best sellers in the past two years are Jeju horses and sheep.

Ding Yi raised more than 5 horses and hundreds of thousands of sheep in Jeju.

In addition to the qualified war horses for their own use, nearly two to three thousand unqualified horses are transported to Dongjiang and Dengzhou every year.

Jeju Island currently produces stable military horses, and there are three to four thousand unqualified war horses. Of these unqualified war horses, one thousand will be given to North Korea, and the remaining two to three thousand will be used as mules for Ding Yi's battalions. Pull goods.

Sometimes when Ding Yi sees that the market price is high, he will transport thousands of unqualified war horses to Dengzhou for sale. Although these horses are unqualified in Ding Yi's eyes, they are good for other places in Ming Dynasty. horse.

Because of the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, Mongolian horses are no longer available for purchase. The domestic war horses of the Ming Dynasty are concentrated in Ningxia, and the Ming Dynasty has too many soldiers and horses, and the production of war horses is limited, so now there is a shortage of war horses, and the price of horses is getting higher and higher. high.

Ding Yi's unqualified horses are now sold for 100 taels, and the supply exceeds demand.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the average price of horses in the capital was around 20 taels. Up to now, domestic war horses have reached 50-60 taels a horse, and they have not been selected yet. This means that when purchasing a hundred horses, they will randomly buy a hundred horses. More than half of them must be unusable.

Although Ding Yi's horses are unqualified in Ding Yi's eyes, they are better than domestic horses in Daming. Therefore, even though there are 100 taels of horses, they are still very popular and the supply exceeds demand.

Last year, Wei Jiye suggested that by selling a large number of unqualified war horses, he could earn at least several 10 taels a year.

Ding Yi didn't want to sell it before, mainly because his artillery and carts were short of mules and transport horses.

But this time they robbed 10,000+ livestock and poultry from the Qing soldiers, and there were tens of thousands of horse mules. There was no shortage of horse mules for transportation, so Ding Yi decided to sell the horses.

Now the two ports of Dengzhou are clearly separated, the southern port is mostly merchants, and the northern port is Ding Yi's private port.

There are many warships and crowds here. Today, a large number of people and supplies are being transported to Jeju Island and the officials.

When Ding Yi fled from the Qing soldiers, he intercepted about 18 people and objects, a total of 20 people and more than [-] livestock.

He divided the people into two parts, about [-] were transported to Jeju Island, and about [-] were transported to Dayuan. For this reason, a large number of naval ships were mobilized. Almost the entire Dongjiang Town was helping to transport, and some of them worked with Dengzhou Dongjiang all the year round. Ming merchant merchant ships for business also help with transportation.

He didn't resettle in Dengzhou, one reason is that this place will be used to resettle the refugees who come from all over the country every day, and there are not many fields here.

The second is that it is too close to their hometown, and some people may want to go back to their hometown, so Ding Yi sent all of them overseas.

This is not a small project, and it will take more than half a year from mobilization to organization to the final shipment just from Dengzhou.

Because he doesn't have so many boats, he has to send a batch of them away, and then send them back when he comes back.

In the early stage, Ding Yi's people would select the important talents of craftsmen, teachers, doctors and doctors, take them away first, and then classify them according to the prefectures and cities, and try to disrupt the distribution of people in each prefecture and city. Only these few steps will take about a month.

At the beginning, some people were unwilling to leave, but Ding Yi’s people kept bluffing and lying, saying that the Qing soldiers had entered Shandong, broke through Jinan, massacred 10,000+ people in Jinan, and heavy troops are coming here to oppress Dengzhou. If we can't hold it, our officers and troops may retreat overseas immediately.

Many of the people in this wave were captured by the Qing soldiers from Jinan, and everyone rushed to spread rumors about how cruel the Qing soldiers were.

Soon the people panicked and rushed to board the ship and leave.

At this time, Ding Yi was following the generals, watching the scene when the people left at the port. The Ming army maintained order on both sides. The people lined up in long lines and boarded the boat in an orderly manner. Many people couldn't help but look back after boarding the boat. Land, reluctant to part.

The port is full of young men and women in uniform.

They wear light blue cotton skirts and usually stand on high places, and some of them hold small flags of various colors in their hands.

This is a propaganda team temporarily formed in Dengzhou.

Students from Lushun University came to help.

Whenever people lined up to board the boat, members of the propaganda team would jump and shout to cheer them up, shouting slogans.

"Divide the fields and land for a new life, and the whole family will have boundless fun from now on."

"There are fields, land, houses, meat, wine, cattle and sheep"

"Folks, a beautiful new life is about to begin."

"There are fields, land, houses, meat, wine, cattle and sheep"

These propaganda teams yelled and yelled, and they never got tired of it, and they didn't know if the people could understand it. The scene was actually a bit funny.

The generals following Ding Yi looked at each other in blank dismay. It was the first time they saw it, and they all felt very funny.

Yan Xiong was the first to bear it, and turned around to ask Du Ruhai: "Who thought of these words?"

Ba, Lu Chao kicked him behind him.

Yan Xiong blushed immediately, and hurriedly said: "It's really good, even I can feel it when I hear it."

The generals quickly nodded in agreement.

A group of sycophants, Ding Yi glanced at them unhappily.

"The lady from the propaganda team is so beautiful." Yang Duan suddenly expressed his feelings.

It turned out that there were two waves of propaganda teams over there, one was young boys and the other was young girls.

The girls are about sixteen or seventeen years old, and it will be the winter vacation of the university, and all the students from the school will come to help.

They wore uniform padded jackets and yelled hard.

Because of the cold weather, every time they opened their mouths, a cloud of mist came out, and their faces were flushed from the cold, but they were all in high spirits and their voices were loud.

The spirit of the publicity team infected the people at the scene, making the crowd very lively and the atmosphere good.

"Look over there, will there be Master Ding?" The boys and girls in the propaganda team also looked at Ding Yi at this time.

Many generals of the Ming army stood together, and they felt that there must be high-ranking officials inside.

"I don't know Master Ding."

"I've seen it from a distance, but I didn't see it clearly."

"Graduated as a senior last year, didn't he come to the school to attend the graduation ceremony?"

"Who can see it if you stand so far away?"

"He Fatty, He Kui Niu, Master Ding has been to your house, can you come and see if he is there?"

The students shouted loudly, a tall and fat boy, about seventeen or eighteen years old, his fat face was flushed by the cold wind.

He squeezed over with great effort, and called out twice: "Divide the fields and land for a new life, and the whole family will have endless fun from now on."

He is obviously very fat, and he screams weakly, which attracts everyone's contempt.

"He Kui Niu, you are not full." The most beautiful girl in the crowd said unhappy.

He Yanniu saw that the little beauty was angry, so he straightened his chest quickly: "Where is Master Ding? Let me see."

"Is there any over there?" Everyone pointed to where Ding Yi was standing.

He Kui Niu was a little short, and there were people in front of him. He stood on tiptoe and looked around, as if he vaguely saw Ding Yi.

"It's a bit like Master Ding, it seems to be."

"What does it mean to be like, isn't it?" The beautiful girl gave him a blank look.

"Yes, yes, it must be." He Kuiniu actually didn't see clearly, and said yes directly.

The pretty lady bit her lower lip lightly, and said loudly, "Let's go together to wish Mr. Ding a new year."

At this time, just a few days after the new year, a group of students heard the words and immediately shouted: "Okay, okay." They were all very excited.

After all, in Lushun, Ding Yi is like a god in their eyes.

Students of this age who are in Lushun University are basically people who have been in Lushun at the age of five or six, have lived in Lushun for about ten years, and grew up in Lushun since childhood.

They and their families are the most trustworthy ordinary people and old subordinates around Ding Yi.

Ah, He Kui Niu was in a hurry at this moment, because he didn't see it clearly, and it would be miserable if he wasn't there.

"Master Ding is so busy, don't disturb me."

"What's the matter with paying New Year's greetings? Let's go."

The beautiful girl waved her hand, and the students ran towards Ding Yi one after another.

There were soldiers and horses guarding in front of them, and when they suddenly saw them running over, they immediately stopped them and asked them what they were doing.

The students explained their purpose, and the guard asked them to wait a moment, and someone trotted over to report to Ding Yi immediately.

Ding Yi laughed, and turned to look at the people around him: "Who is carrying the money?"

The generals and officers looked at each other in blank dismay, but immediately began to gather together, you one tael I five money, gathered a pile of broken silver for Ding Yi.

"Let them come over." Ding Yi said loudly.

There was cheering on the opposite side, and more than [-] men and women ran over excitedly.

Ding Yi's soldiers wanted to stop them a few meters away, but Ding Yi waved his hand to indicate that it was okay.

Those who can be selected to help in publicity in Dengzhou are all clean and carefully selected. Basically, the family members are officials, generals, craftsmen, etc. in Lushun.

"Master Ding, Master Ding."

"Happy New Year, Lord Ding."

"We wish you New Year's greetings."

The students cheered and rushed to be the first to threaten Ding Yi with New Year's greetings.

It was the first time for many people to see Ding Yi up close, and the faces of the girls turned even redder.

The most beautiful girl stared at Ding Yi with joy in her eyes.

"Happy New Year everyone, no preparations, just a little meaning, you have worked hard, happy new year, and everything goes well." Ding Yi handed out money one by one.

The students giggled and expressed their thanks one after another.

Zhou Yougen rolled his eyes on the sidelines, feeling that Mr. Ding is too imposing and should be more aggressive.

"Go, go, go." Suddenly a few students encouraged someone.

It was the most beautiful girl, her eyes were big and bright, and she was petite and exquisite. Although she was wearing a cotton jacket, she could still feel that her figure was well developed.

He Kui looked at her eagerly, with saliva dripping from the corner of his mouth. Obviously, he should like this little girl.

But Xiaoniang's eyes are all about Ding Yi.

"Uncle Ding, I'm Xu Manyun." Xiao Niang said shyly.

"..." Ding Yi almost blurted out when he heard the word uncle, come on, uncle hugs.

Fortunately, he still remembered that this was in ancient times, and he was not watching TV, so he quickly braked.

He stared at the beautiful Xu Manyun for a while, but didn't recognize who it was.

(End of this chapter)