At the same time that Mei Fuxi received the order, a fleet of ships stopped outside the mouth of Dagu. After regrouping the formation, the fleet began to slowly trace along the Haihe River, avoiding the light and dark reef sand marked by buoys along the way, and sailing towards Dazhigu, dozens of miles away.

Naturally, the traversers, who had military wireless telegraphies, would not tell the locals that the fleet had arrived. However, in the face of interests, indigenous merchant groups have long had countermeasures.

The old men arranged fast horses and lookouts at the mouth of the Haihe River, and as soon as the fleet arrived, the bustling Dazhigu commercial port was busy.

Countless people stood on the pier in anticipation, children ran along the shore, and the news was spreading at lightning speed. Merchants from the surrounding area would arrive in the next few days and eat up the seafood from afar like ants.

In previous years, in summer and autumn, there would also be a steady stream of southern fleets coming to Tianjin on the south wind, so the locals are no strangers to the fleet.

The reason why the natives are so excited about the fleet from Yizhou is that in addition to ignoring the fact that the wind is out of season, profit is the biggest driving force.

The goods pulled by ordinary Ming boats are nothing more than some Jiangnan native products, and the highest value is all kinds of silk goods, in addition to many daily necessities and grains.

The Yizhou shiphold is loaded with high-value commodities such as kerosene lamps, kerosene, glass mirrors, canned lychees, thermoses, tinplate, wheel bearings, and brick machines.

This is equivalent to condensing the wealth, which seems to be only a fleet of ten ships, but the total price of goods far exceeds that of a traditional caravan 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 arrival of the Yizhou fleet can give birth to a group of wealthy people, and can make merchants from all over the world make a lot of money.

Therefore, when the fleet was traced back to Dazhigu, both sides of the river were already crowded, and the wharf was full of merchants who picked up the station, waiting for the fortune to come to the shore.

The fleet that arrived in Tianjin this time was still composed of the same 800-ton new lock ships. However, as time went on, new ships were launched at the shipyard, so the number of ships increased this time to twelve.

The total amount of more than 5,000 tons of goods, under the unloading of many indigenous laborers day and night, all of them flowed into the warehouses of wealthy merchants in various places in less than two days.

In the Beijing-Tianjin region of the Ming Dynasty, capital was circulated. 5,000 tons of goods seems to be a lot, but with the support of Beijing Capital, it is still fully bought by the natives, and there is no unsalable situation.

The direct consequence of this is the huge amount of money paid. However, the time-travelers from the afterlife would not have buried the silver in the cellar. These payments will be used locally and re-involved in the economic cycle.

As before, the biggest expense item in the payment is always people.

At present, the relationship between Taiwan and the Ming Dynasty is, to put it bluntly, the relationship between the colony and the suzerain. Of course, this only refers to the economic aspect of the export of industrial goods, and the Ming Dynasty providing markets, raw materials and population.

In this process, Daming has produced a huge trade deficit. However, at this point, Da Ming is not worried about paying, because there is an almost infinite currency: people.

The fleet brought in so much cargo that, in the end, most of the proceeds were exchanged for people.

It is expensive to raise someone.

It seems that it doesn't cost money to collect the homeless, but it costs a lot of money to buy food and clothing in Tianjin.

Not only that, but they were also provided with materials to build camps and medicines to treat diseases. In the cold north, fuel, equipment and hot water are provided...... And so on and so forth.

In short, after the silver arrived, it flowed back into all channels of society. In the end, in exchange, he was shaved bald, wearing coarse cloth overalls, and most of them were stuffed into the cabin of the northerners, both men and women, and women were preferred.

This time, because there were many other people on board, only half of the ships were loaded with displaced people, and the rest of the cabins were reserved. After a few days of unloading, the fleet was ready to return and began to get on board.

Naturally, the first to get on board were the homeless.

The ruddy-faced homeless people dragged their families and walked in a silent line to step on the springboard, and there was no scene of crying and parting with life and death.

The fear stems from the fact that some of the locals who had been to Yizhou before have now come back to be preachers, so people already know that Yizhou is a good place. In addition, everyone has been well fed and warmly clothed under Cao Dashuai, and they have not been bullied and have worked and paid silver, so people's resistance has been resolved.

The next to board the ship were the land buyers who organized a delegation to Yizhou to investigate. Most of these people are the master and Qingke housekeeper in 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.

After that, the merchants who went to Yizhou to do business and look for opportunities were on board.

The same businessman, with different financial resources, has different treatment. Some people carry packages and squeeze the cabin, and some people take concubines to live in a private room with a small maid, and the gap is very large.

The last to get on the boat was naturally the soldiers who crossed the crowd and his men.

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On the morning of May 10, 1630, Zhang Dongdong and his entourage stood at the bow of the flagship ship and were bidding farewell to the two people who stayed behind.

The people left behind were Zhang Zhongqi and Yao Jianjian. Zhang Zhongqi is on the surface, he is responsible for the management of the Flying Tiger Camp and the construction of the Tianjin Outer Port. Yao Jianjian, the head of the Tianjin station, was in charge of commerce and the secret front.

These two people, plus a capital Xue Haiyuan, are the three giants who will be placed in the north through the crowd for a period of time in the future.

In addition, the Big Three also have a joint task: 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 the loss, but instead began to dismember Dongjiang Town, and the Donglin Party also fought hard to help Houjin solve this flank threat.

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

The means of reducing the supply of Dongjiang Town, which had been implemented since Yuan Chonghuan took office, not only inherited the whole thing, but also intensified it, causing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town to die of starvation in large numbers.

Liang Tingdong, the newly appointed secretary of the Ministry of War, also expressed his complete distrust of the Phi Dao Army's containment ability, and once made a statement that he was preparing to withdraw the main force of the Phi Dao Army to Guanning by water.

As a result, Chen Jisheng, Liu Xingzuo, Mao Chenglu and other high-level officials in Dongjiang Town, who were left behind after Mao Wenlong's death, completely became a plate of scattered sand when rumors of internal and external difficulties spread.

Today's Dongjiang Town is full of desperate officers and soldiers. The original outcome of these people was either starvation to death, or they were forced to rebel and then killed by the imperial court, just like those peasant armies.

In the end, this group was completely blackened, from the generals to the small soldiers, all of whom were full of deep hatred for the Ming Dynasty. So among them, Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming and others voted to defect to Houjin with advanced artillery technology and subordinates.

In the end, the pass of the Ming Dynasty was smashed open by these rebels, the national Zuo collapsed, and the society turned to ashes and died, starting from Mao Wenlong and ending with King Sanshun, which can be described as the biggest irony of the Donglin Party and Chongzhen who destroyed Dongjiang Town.

Because of this, an important task for the traversers who stayed in the north in the future was to absorb the officers and soldiers of Dongjiang Town.

Instead of letting these excellent soldiers who fought with the Tartars in the ice and snow all year round freeze to death and starve to death, it is better to get them, train and train after being fed, and they will be good hands in the future.

However, this work must be done leisurely, otherwise it will easily cause a backlash from the military leaders, and it will not be good to make trouble in the court. Therefore, this is still a technical job, and it requires close cooperation between Tianjin and Beijing to achieve success.

After a few traversers standing at the bow of the ship had talked about it for a long time, a loud brass horn sounded on the ship's floor, and the time had come.

So they cherished each other, and everyone went their separate ways.

At the same time, Mei Fuxi also waved her hand vigorously on the side of the boat to say goodbye to the family members who came to see her off. As the first batch of military cadets to go to the south for training, Mei Fuxi was fortunate to also be on the flagship.

The Mei family has already been stained with Mei Fuxi's light this time. Not long ago, as a military dependent, Mei's father spent 5,000 taels to invest in the newly opened Tianjin Leather Factory. Therefore, the Mei family is now tied to Cao Dashuai and belongs to the hardcore followers.

After discovering the flagship's horn and flag, the fleet pulled anchors and hoisted their sails, slowly sailed away from the berth, followed the flagship, and slowly sailed along the Haihe River to the sea.

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

Although Tianjin is also a coastal city, the main city is as much as 80 miles away from the sea, so most Tianjin people have never been to the 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 earn a living.

Mei Fuxi had also never been to sea, so he tried to find an opportunity to stay on deck today. In this way, it was not until evening that the fleet finally completed the 80-mile river and rushed out of the Dagu Pass.

After entering the Bohai Sea, the fleet adjusted its formation, raised its full sails, and began to sail south at full speed.

At this moment, Mei Fuxi took advantage of the golden light of the setting sun and saw a large construction site not far south of the estuary.

Dense workers toiled like ants on the saline ground of the mouth of the Haihe River, with dug mounds everywhere and black smoke rising in the distance, not knowing what they were doing.

What Mei Fuxi saw was the construction site of Tianjin Outer Harbor that had been selected by the public. Previously, the documents of the imperial court had been issued, and this barren beach was assigned to Cao Dashuai for him to establish a logistics base.

It's mid-May, and the fleet could have taken advantage of the last northerly wind of the year to move south.

However, with the establishment of bases along the coast of the mainland, the fuel for the fleet was now fully supplied, so soon after going to sea, a faint smoke began to rise from the ship's chimney and the gas system was activated.

As a result, the speed of the downwind boat was quickly increased to seven knots. After setting off from Tianjin, the flotilla set off day and night and pulled a straight line in Bohai Bay. So at some point in the daytime of the next day, Mei Fuxi, who was lying on the side of the ship, saw Dengzhou, a large city on the coast.