The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 611
The passenger ship put into operation by Huang's family is not low in construction costs due to full consideration of safety and the avoidance of marine accidents as much as possible.

Even so, when calculating the value of the ticket, the input cost is not calculated, and it is enough to make a meager profit after throwing away the cost of maintaining the passenger ship during operation.

There is another new thing on the Huangjia passenger ship. Passengers who buy subsidized class tickets must go to the drive cabin to manually drive the propeller for two hours every day under the organization of the crew.

Every ferry ticket for the subsidized class will be sold out first, because it is [-]% cheaper after all, and passengers have nothing to do on board, so why not work twice a day for an hour each time to benefit others and yourself?
This is undoubtedly a win-win situation. The sailors on a passenger ship are mainly responsible for sailing and sailing. You only need to arrange one or two sailors to direct the passengers to use human power. On the premise that the speed of the ship does not decrease, less sailors are used on passenger ships, of course, the efficiency will be reduced. Operating costs.

The long road from Tianjinwei to Yazhou, Hainan Island, when there is no Huang's passenger ship, travel is simply a dream for Shengdou Xiaomin.

It may take several months to walk all the way, and it will cost at least 20 taels of silver per person. We must also beware of uneven roads. Whether we can reach the destination alive depends on God's will.

It only takes about half a month for the Huang family’s flying scissors to reach the destination. It’s convenient and fast, and the fees are not high. The ticket for the subsidized class is one or four taels of silver, the ticket for the ordinary class is two taels of silver, and the first class is a bit more expensive. The price is 38 taels Each person, the economy class sells nine taels of silver.

This is the price of ordinary cabins, and there are preferential treatment for soldiers, of course, soldiers are free, and military members can enjoy a [-]% discount by virtue of their badges to prove their identity.

The Huang family's preferential treatment of soldiers is reflected everywhere. In such an atmosphere, every family is eager to have relatives join the army.

Soldiers and military families are not only honored, but also get too many benefits and privileges. No one in the Huang family system is jealous, but they are eager to follow suit. The slogan of the Huang family is "Soldiers bleed for the country, and the country seeks happiness for the soldiers!"

The Spring Festival transportation of the Huang family system has also become popular year by year. People have saved up and travel north and south to celebrate the reunion year everywhere. Of course, there are too many merchants from the Ming Dynasty who choose to travel by the Huang family's safe and secure passenger ships.

Xu Guangqi, who was full of curiosity about the Huang family system, was not at ease waiting to be reunited with his family in Yazhou. He asked Sun Yuanhua to take a leave of absence to accompany him to the hometown of Jiaozhi.

The two scientists only heard that Jiaozhi had been completely taken over by the Huang family, but they didn't know that it had become a paradise.

When Xu Guangqi is old, he is prone to emotional agitation. When he came to "New Suzhou", he saw the fluttering Hanfu all over the city, and saw the fiery red flag embroidered with the word "Ming" flying high above the city.

This is the patriotic complex of an intellectual, and his perception of Huang Sheng is too high.

Because he discovered that all the territory that King Qiongya seized by himself obeyed the Ming system and played under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, the scientist Lao Huai Dawei strengthened his determination to contribute to Yazhou.

Not only that, he also wrote to his disciples and old officials, asking them to visit Hainan Island and Cochin Province, telling them that there are too many talents here, and there are opportunities everywhere.

The low-key Xu Guangqi has never fought for fame and fortune in the Donglin Party, but his character is talked about by other party members, and his appeal is also unparalleled.

As a result, many scholars and bureaucrats who were not very keen on party struggles and were marginalized within the Donglin Party boarded the Huang's passenger ship traveling north and south. Many educated readers despise it.

On New Year's Eve, Huang Sheng still celebrated New Year's Eve with civil officials and military generals. Everyone gathered in the Yazhou Grand Theater to drink and watch the show. water.

Huang Sheng did not have a family reunion, because Lan Caier went to the capital for business, Zhao Rui had too many things to do and had to stay in 'Huaxia Island', and as expected, she became pregnant again.

This year, the women who celebrate the New Year with her are the big wife Chu Er, the concubines He Xiang and Gu Linger.

When the New Year's firecrackers sounded, it meant that Huang Sheng had been in Ming Dynasty for a full ten years. In the blink of an eye during the extraordinary ten years, all the past was vividly remembered, and Huang Sheng was not only full of emotion.

I am already 28 years old in this era, four years older than Emperor Chongzhen, and with the age of later generations, I should be an old man in his seventies.

Huang Sheng looked at his muscular body and at a group of energetic young civil servants and military generals, full of vigor.

After ten years of hard work, those children who followed me have now become indomitable men. Most of the Ming soldiers who followed me first are now senior officers. , The age of independent career.

These newly educated young and middle-aged officers are full of enthusiasm, and they all look forward to the imminent large-scale land expansion and conquest.

The military officers of the Huang family are definitely more educated and younger, as are the civil servants. There is no doubt about their ability to accept new things. Everyone is studying a reference book just published by the Huang family that introduces Malacca, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra.

Huang Sheng was absolutely unambiguous in plotting and then moving. Now the soldiers have a general understanding of Sumatra Island, what diseases they should pay attention to and prevent, how many enemies are about to attack, and how their combat effectiveness is.

They even know that the island with a long coastline has few good natural harbors, because the waves rolled up high in the Indian Ocean push the shore in one long row, two rows, or three rows. Top, then flip upside down underwater.

Just after the end of the new year, on the sixth day of the first month, the King of Qiongya County issued a mobilization order, and large-scale military exercises in Cochin Province and Hainan Island kicked off vigorously.

This time, the Patriarch will lead [-] total armies totaling more than [-] regular and auxiliary soldiers to Malacca to capture Sumatra.

These thousands of cavalry were used intensively, and all the vacant troops were filled immediately, because the quality of the Huang family's auxiliary soldiers and high-level township soldiers is getting higher and higher, and the number is doubling every year, looking forward to becoming regular soldiers too many.

The horses of Li Dagang and Gu Yicang with a total of [-] cavalry are already in place, and adaptive training has already begun.

Officers at all levels saw the sand table of Sumatra Island in the Zanhua Department. Lin Chaoping sent more than a dozen Han people from Sumatra Island who had become intelligence officers of the Malacca Military Intelligence Department to explain the customs, terrain, and climate to all senior officers above the General Banner.

The navy is also gathering. This battle will dispatch more than [-] new warships and about [-] merchant ships. The number of naval participants will not be less than [-].

(End of this chapter)