I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 121 Zhenhai Commercial City with Southern Liaoning Characteristics

Chapter 120

The road from Jinzhou Port to Jinzhou City has been expanded three times by Zhang Huaize, and now it has become a road similar to a highway.

It is similar, because this road was originally planned to be a two-way four-lane road, but after the repair was completed, it was found that this road, which is more than [-] meters long, is really too busy.A large number of materials purchased from Shandong, North Zhili, and even Jiangnan, as well as the belongings of the Ning Navy in Ninghai Prefecture, were transported to Jinzhou by sea.Among them, there are also a large number of merchants transporting various materials.

The two-way four-lane road is extremely congested. On the left and right sides of this road, one lane is widened each to form a two-way six-lane road. The problem is that this only alleviates, but cannot completely solve the problem of road transportation difficulties.In particular, the large-scale development of southern Liaoning has attracted many refugees from coastal areas.

Just like breaking through the Guandong in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, some people pooled some money to rent a boat or work as a porter on the wharf to earn a boat ticket, and more and more immigrants.

As a result, this road, known as Jingang Road, was expanded for the third time.The only thing that is relatively easy is that most of the land in Jinzhou is collectively owned, and only a very small part belongs to the families of Ning Navy soldiers, martyrs, and meritorious soldiers. When expanding roads, there is no need for land acquisition or wrangling.

Jingang Road after the third expansion has formed a road with six lanes on the left and right, a total of twelve lanes, and one in the middle. The original road protection forest, green belt, and drainage ditches.There are also road protection forests and drainage ditches on both sides.Moreover, one-way traffic is not allowed, so that the problem of transportation difficulties has been greatly alleviated.

Chen Zilong and his party drove a total of 350 box-type two-wheeled carriages (carrying passengers), and more than 600 flat-bed carriages, more than 100 technicians, more than 100 wealthy young masters or eldest ladies, plus their servants, maidservants, retinues, etc. , a group of nearly 3000 people.

On the way to the north, Chen Zilong, the sixth son of the few societies, although not as famous as the last seven sons, was bigger than the fourth son of the Fushe.

Although Chen Zilong is young, he soon became the leader of several societies with his outstanding poetry and prose ability, and was collectively called "Chen Xia" together with Xia Yunyi.Chen Zilong is known as the last great poet of the Ming Dynasty in poetry, ci, prose and fu.

For later generations, Chen Zilong himself is an Internet celebrity with his own traffic, so when they originally traveled, more than a thousand people joined a large number of fans and their entourage along the way.

In this way, this huge team set foot on the land of southern Liaoning.Since coming out of the pier, along this [-]-lane road, the young masters and young ladies began to exclaim.

Of course, there are also people who act as demons.

What did you say, why didn't Cheng Shijie and Cheng Zhenglu welcome Chen Zilong? This clearly didn't give Chen Zilong any face.

When Chen Zilong heard this sound, he directly regarded them as farting.

Cheng Shijie is a disciple of his senior brother Sun Yuanhua, and he rushed to curry favor with him, what does Sun Yuanhua think of this?Would he think that Cheng Shijie wanted to change his family?
Besides, Sun Yuanhua is the governor of Denglai, and he is just a white body. Even if Cheng Shijie flatters him, what can he give him?
No one is willing to do things that are not beneficial.

Some people are like this. Originally, Chen Zilong didn't like Cheng Shijie, and his feelings should be very bad, but when the news of Haizhou's great victory spread, Chen Zilong had already taken Cheng Shijie with admiration.

You know, the only person who can behead Jiannu above [-] levels is Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong. He relied on his own [-] soldiers to crush Jiannu to death. Opportunity rises...

In the carriage, Chen Zilong lifted the curtain and looked at the tumbling wheat seedlings outside the car window. On the way up again, he saw the crops that were tortured by insects and drought.

Chen Zilong nodded for a while and shook his head for a while.The commander of Chen Zilong who was in the car with him was called Chen Honggui. He pointed to the well-growing crops and said, "The crops here are the best growing along the way."

Chen Zilong nodded and said, "The teacher has always admired Cheng Shijie, but I didn't expect... Cheng Zhenglu really has some skills."

Different from Fushe and Donglin Party's boastful people, Chen Zilong is a down-to-earth person who is willing to do practical things. If he wants to study agriculture, he is not like the experts of later generations. if.

Now that the drought is severe, the refugees are thronging, and the grain harvests have been failing year after year. Chen Zilong is also very anxious, trying every means to appease the refugees and organize production, but the results are not very effective, because he has just helped the refugees, and in a blink of an eye he will become a landlord and a tenant of the gentry.

And God doesn't help, if it doesn't rain, it won't rain, what can he do?
"parking!"

Behind Chen Zilong, a thin man in his forties got out of the car in a hurry.

"Chang Geng!"

Chen Zilong watched Song Yingxing get off the car, and he also hurriedly got off.

Song Yingxing got out of the carriage, trotted all the way, crossed a solid wooden bridge, and came to the river. He reached out and grabbed the soil on the edge of the wheat field, carefully analyzing the ingredients in the soil.

Chen Zilong followed, and so did a group of young masters. Hundreds of people flocked to the edge of the field. Right here, several traffic controllers in black clothes holding wooden sticks stood on the side of the road and shouted: "Don't step on it!" Wheat fields, stop going, you stop going!"

Traffic control, this is due to the heavy traffic pressure in southern Liaoning. People transferred from the original project's [-] households have undergone simple training and are responsible for directing traffic. Like urban management, they are not soldiers, but they are managed by the Civil Affairs Bureau.

Chen Zilong also disliked stepping on the wheat field. His prestige was high, but he did not cause conflicts. In fact, when the group of sons went to the wheat field, the military households who were working in the distance rushed over with hoes and sickles (for cutting sweet potato seedlings). .

Song Yingxing can easily figure out why the military fields in southern Liaoning are growing well. The densely packed waterwheels can irrigate the farmland in a timely manner. A large amount of plant ash and silt in the ditches are natural organic fertilizers and pest control. Thoroughbred...

Let’s just talk about irrigation. The drought is severe now, and many ditches have dried up. Farmers can only carry water on their shoulders and trucks to the fields. disappeared!

As for insect pests, it is even more troublesome. The most typical one is locusts. The plague of locusts spreads across thousands of miles, and there is no way to resist them. Other pests are not far behind.As for the fertilizer... Let alone this, if you talk too much, you will be in tears.

Cheng Shijie actually didn't have enough fertilizer, but he used precious silk cloth, tea and salt to buy the leftover bones from the herdsmen who built slaves. Although this kind of thing is worthless, the problem is that the bones contain A large amount of phosphorus, broken up and sprinkled on the ground, can act as a phosphorus fertilizer.

These things are not complicated to say, just like Cheng Shijie training Ning Haijun, as long as there is sufficient food and grass, clear rewards and punishments, fairness and justice, the army will quickly form combat effectiveness.

It's not that Ming's army is incapable of fighting. No matter how long the army has not been trained, as long as they are given enough military pay and fed, their combat effectiveness will even scare them.

Song Yingxing pointed to the bone meal and plant ashes in the soil and said, "Among the people, how did this Cheng Zhenglu do it?"

Chen Zilong smiled and said: "When we meet Cheng Zhenglu, we will see the result naturally!"

When Chen Zilong and his party arrived outside the Jinzhou City, the Jinzhou City was already ten times larger than the original Jinzhou City, and the expanded part did not have a city wall.

This made the young masters present feel very puzzled.

"There is no city wall here, what should we do when Jiannu comes?"

Not far away, a carpenter who was working rushed over with an axe: "Jianu is here, where is Jianu?"

Chen Zilong could see it clearly. As soon as the scholar said Jiannu, the surrounding Liaonan soldiers and civilians all had green lights in their eyes, as if Jiannu was the fat in their eyes.

In fact, Chen Zilong guessed right.

As the saying goes, people die for money, and birds die for food.Because Ning Haijun's military reward is 50 taels of silver, or a head of [-] acres of land.Even the elite of the Guanning Army did not accept them at night, and they were lucky enough to cut off Jiannu's head, but they would not report to the superiors. They took Jiannu's head and ran hundreds of miles away to southern Liaoning.

Ask Cheng Shijie if he can also exchange the land for them.

In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the soldiers and civilians in southern Liaoning, Cheng Shijie announced: "No matter who you are, men, women, old or young, as long as you get the head of a slave, you can exchange it for 50 acres of military land, or [-] taels of silver."

Even a group of tomb robbers in the pass went to Liaodong to rob tombs. They found a new tomb, as if this tomb had been dug. They not only snatched all the funerary objects in the tomb, but also brought five heads to southern Liaoning.

After Ning Haijun inspected, the heads of the four buried girls were excluded, and this [-]-year-old slave was regarded as a military meritorious service and rewarded to the group of tomb robbers.

Of course, Cheng Shijie would not use these Jiannu heads as military merits. Military merits have no meaning to Cheng Shijie. Now that two months have passed, the capital is still quarreling, and Ning Haijun's reward has not yet come down.

When they came to Jinzhou City, Chen Zilong was surprised by the wide and flat roads, the endless fields, the canals extending in all directions and the waterwheels in Jinzhou. After seeing the dense crowds in the city and the dazzling array of goods in the shops, look After the novel buildings sprung up like mushrooms after the rain, I was surprised again. Such a prosperous place is rare in the north!

What surprised them the most was that there was not a single beggar here!

Song Yingxing said: "I didn't expect that the Central Plains is so full of disasters, and the land in the south of Liaoning has such a prosperous and stable place. Cheng Shijie, Chief of the Navy, is really not easy."

Chen Zilong nodded and said: "No wonder the teacher values ​​him so much, he is indeed talented. Brother Chang Geng, what do you think is that?"

At the intersection of the street, on a platform about one foot high, stood a young boy wearing Confucian shirt.At this time, the young man was reading something happily, and everyone listened with great interest.

Chen Zilong squeezed over, and saw several newspapers stuck on the wall. On the mastheads of the newspapers were printed four large characters of "Liaonan Weekly". Chen Zilong still knew this character, but it was Sun Yuanhua's character.

After listening for a long time, Chen Zilong finally understood that what this young man was telling was the story of the general of the Yang family.
"The Liao Army held a Hongmen Banquet on the Golden Beach. Yang Qilang and Eight Tigers attended the banquet in place of the Song Lord. Dalang died in place of the Song Lord. Erlang raised a thousand-jin gate to let his younger brothers escape. He was shot to death by the Liao Army's random arrows. The cavalry of the Liao Army stepped into mud, Shiro became a prisoner, Goro was wounded and became a monk, Liulang escaped from the siege, and Qilang was tied to a [-]-foot-high pole by Pan Renmei and shot [-] arrows...

Following the young man's narration, a tragic and tragic battle unfolded in front of everyone. Everyone seemed to be able to hear the screams of the dying soldiers of the two armies, and the unyielding roar of the soldiers of the Yang family, and smell the splashing blood radiating from the blood. The disgusting smell of blood came out.

The military households and civilians who were listening to the newspaper reading in the audience began to wipe away their tears: "The Yang family is so pitiful!"

"Damn corrupt officials!"

"Pan Renmei, the dog day..."

Now Pan Renmei has been blamed again.

There is no way, at this time, the storybook of Yang Jiajiang has matured. In order to increase the circulation of the newspaper, Cheng Shijie not only published some famous novels such as "Yang Jiajiang" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in the weekly newspaper, but also focused on publishing Cotton planting techniques, alfalfa planting techniques, and soybean planting techniques were all in vernacular without any literary talent, which made Chen Zilong frown greatly.

These sons and brothers can be regarded as an eye-opener. It is rare to see the scene of thousands of people working together in the Central Plains, even during the spring plowing and busy farming seasons.The Central Plains is densely populated, within ten miles, there will definitely be villages.

The Central Plains is not like southern Liaoning. There are no villages in southern Liaoning. The smallest settlements are towns, where a thousand households or more live together.

Cheng Shijie encouraged military households to raise chickens and ducks. These poultry, because locusts are terrible, and chickens and ducks can eat locusts and fly maggots, which can better prevent diseases.

The huge flock of tens of thousands of chickens amazed these sons and brothers. They were used to the small-scale farming economy with an old cow and a few acres of land.

The farm is Cheng Shijie's favorite. The farm outside Jinzhou City is divided into four parts: chicken farm, duck farm, fish farm and cattle farm. There are as many chickens and ducks in the chicken farm and duck farm. There are tens of thousands of them, and a large number of eggs and duck eggs are produced every day. For military households who can't even eat enough, this is a rare delicacy, and chicken manure and duck manure are the best fertilizers.

The scale of the fish farm is not large now, only seven or eight hundred acres of fish ponds, but there are quite a lot of fish fry in it. These young masters and buddies saw that the fish farmers were feeding in the pond with small boats, and every handful of fish food was thrown into the pond. Going down, there will be a lot of fish coming out of the water to compete.Fish food is mainly fermented chicken and duck droppings and fly maggots. Fish grow very fast after eating them, especially fly maggots, which are high-nutrition food. Fish will not be finished until they grow into balls.

Seeing that chickens, ducks and fish all eat fly maggots, these boys and buddies said that they would never eat chickens, ducks and fish in southern Liaoning, they would rather eat pickles...

Although Cheng Shijie was very busy, he rushed back to Jinzhou from Fuzhou after learning that Chen Zilong and his party had arrived in Jinzhou.

"Mr. Chen, Mr. Song, I'm very sorry, Mr. Cheng is busy with military affairs, so he couldn't meet you far away. I hope you will forgive me!"

"Cheng Zheng is polite!"

While Chen Zilong was exchanging greetings with Cheng Shijie, Mardina at the back looked at Cheng Shijie seriously. For Mardina, Xu Guangqi had never strongly praised anyone they were not familiar with in his letters home, talking about Sun Yuanhua or What happened to Chen Zilong was normal.

But Cheng Shijie was too unfamiliar to the Xu family.More importantly, Mardina received her own private message.

The meaning of this, as the fourth miss of the Xu family, she quickly understood.

This is intentionally choosing a husband for her.

Mardina looked at Cheng Shijie seriously. Cheng Shijie had a dignified body and a dignified appearance.A pair of eyes shot cold stars, and two eyebrows were like paint.The chest is wide and broad, and there is a majesty that is invincible.

In fact, every fat person is a potential stock, especially when he loses weight. Half a year ago, Cheng Shijie was indeed a fat person. Although he was 1.8 meters five, he weighed more than 240 catties.Although the eyes are not small, but because of the big face, the eyes are not big.

However, the problem is that the current Cheng Shijie, due to his busy schedule and high physical exertion, his weight has dropped below two hundred catties. Although he is still a fat man, judging by his height, he is considered a little fat.

At least his big belly, which was comparable to a pregnant woman's eight-month pregnancy, has basically disappeared now.

Cheng Shijie spoke clearly and spoke well. Even Chen Zilong felt that Cheng Shijie was different from ordinary martial arts. He must have gone to school and read books.

"Mr. Chen, Mr. Song, please move!"

"Move!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Master Sun Futai once told Cheng that Mr. Chen will come to southern Liaoning to use the climate in southern Liaoning to develop seeds that are resistant to drought and cold. In order to facilitate your research and life, Cheng specially prepared a place! But now, some evenings, please go to the city, and Cheng prepares some thin wine, and please show your respect."

After a banquet, the next morning was early.

Chen Zilong, including these sons, started to get up, wash up, and after breakfast, they also started to go out of the city. There was some trouble when they went out of the city.Because more civilians and military households were carrying hoes, talking and laughing, they drove to the military field outside the city, and a considerable number of foreign civilian husbands followed suit, and the day's work began like this.

Since there are a lot of fields to be reclaimed, they will delay the car back and forth to eat in the city, so when they go to work outside the city, they need to cook some food outside the city temporarily, of course, they can only make do with it.

Cheng Shijie took Chen Zilong and his party to Zhenhai City. Zhenhai City is roughly located in the south-central part of Lanpudian District of Dalian City in later generations. It belongs to the coastal plain area, where rivers are dense and the climate is humid. Safety.

Just after leaving, Cheng Shijie's guard of honor and guards moved forward. Wherever Cheng Shijie passed, military households and common people were very enthusiastic.

"Cheng Shuai, Cheng Shuai..."

Many people flocked to the side of the road, and some even waded over.

Seeing this scene, Chen Zilong frowned secretly.

Cheng Shijie said: "You don't think that these people are organized by this commander, do you?"

"Is not it?"

"Really not!"

Cheng Shijie smiled wryly and said: "No, this commander is most afraid of trouble. These people are so fanatical, it's really not a good thing!"

The common people are of course fanatical, most of them moved from other places, they belong to the hard-working family who are still in the self-made stage, they are simple and kind, and they are extremely grateful to Cheng Shijie who gave them food and land for them.

More people migrated from the coastal islands. They are all survivors among the more than [-] million people in Liaodong. Many of them, like Kong Youde and Shang Kexi, had their entire families killed by Jiannu.

They saw that Cheng Shijie killed Jiannu in Jinshishan, blood flowed into rivers, and tens of thousands of corpses were buried in Haizhou. Although the victory in Haizhou was originally picked up by Cheng Shijie, many soldiers in the Ning Navy also knew how this was a great victory. thing.

But the problem is that no one is willing to believe the truth. Whoever dares to mention Jiannu to his family members is taken in by God and froze to death.

"It's all right for those local tyrants and evil gentry to slander Marshal Cheng. Their buttocks are different from ours, and you also follow suit. The conscience is eaten by dogs..."

The family is not a reasonable place, and all the people in Liaodong are willing to believe that Cheng Shijie beheaded more than ten thousand people, killing Jiannu and fleeing in embarrassment...

Cheng Shijie recovered the four prefectures in southern Liaoning, allowing countless surviving people in Liaodong to return to their hometowns. Although Cheng Shijie did not return their own fields, he did not give them any tangible benefits.But they trusted Cheng Shijie very much.

Especially the passbooks in the hands of Ning Haijun, in the eyes of many people, it means that Marshal Cheng has no money and has borrowed from the Liaoning Bank. They eat Marshal Cheng's meal and want money.

The people in the late Ming Dynasty were so simple.

When Cheng Shijie built the Jinzhou Academy, he also gave each of the common people and military households participating in the construction a bucket of grain every day as usual. However, these common people had no one to collect the grain, and they would rather not have this salary.

Although Cheng Shijie has a special road construction team, there are also many ordinary people who finish the work in the field during the day and go to help at night...

When Cheng Shijie brought Chen Zilong and his party to Zhenhai City, these Jiangnan sons were dumbfounded. They looked at the shops that had been prepared in the city, from all kinds of furs, to rouge and gouache, and even the high-end products that Cheng Shijie bought from later generations. Cosmetics, perfume, and all kinds of gold and silver jewelry seized from pirates and bandits, antique calligraphy and paintings, and antiques.

There are all kinds of goods, food, drink, and play. After learning that Cheng Shijie was going to collect wool, Huang Long waved his hand and sent more than [-] Korean beauties and more than [-] Japanese women. Zhenhai City is Liao It is the only city in the south that has a brothel.

A street of gourmet snacks.

Beauty Street.

A street of clothing, shoes and hats.

Fur Street.

Wenwan Antique Street.

There is also a street of erotic services...

Cheng Shijie looked at those sons and said, I'm sorry if I don't make them bald.

Cheng Shijie also provided bank loan services very considerately. It doesn’t matter if you run out of money. You can borrow money. The interest is not high, 20.00%, is it considerate?relative……

PS: The update is not fast in the past two days. The author’s second grandfather passed away. The second grandfather is 97 years old this year. Since the second grandfather’s son went early, the author’s father needs to help with the funeral. But the father has just had an operation and his right lung Resection, unable to walk, and unable to be emotional, this matter can only be handled by the author.Yesterday I was busy reporting the funeral and handling some chores, but today I need to treat the cook, invite the spirit, and guard the spirit as a filial son. It would be outrageous for Lao Cheng to type with a notebook.Lao Cheng didn’t rest on the first day of the Lunar New Year. If it was not a last resort, he would not drop the update. I hope everyone will understand and keep books. The worse the follow-up, the less recommended it is.

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