Chapter 922: Entering the Port
Many of Ang Lee's fleets are tall and large steamships, so they can be seen from a long distance, even if the earth is round, but because the flag of the fleet is very high, it can be seen from a long distance, especially after the invention of the telescope, it is easier to find.
After determining the identity of the fleet, the soldiers excitedly reported the news to the leaders, and then in the first-level report, it reached the ears of the highest officials in the port, and finally even the history of the assassination in Guangzhou was known.
And because this is very good news, and there is no problem of secrecy, the soldiers who reported also told the ordinary people in the port by the way, which can be regarded as sharing this rare good news with everyone.
Knowing that Datang's huge fleet was about to return to Guangzhou Port, many people who liked to watch the excitement went to the port to join in the fun, wanting to see the majestic posture of Datang's fleet.
Among them, naturally including Li Hanlu and Li Ya'er, after hearing the good news, they hurriedly took the telescope to the vantage point of the port, and carefully observed the Tang fleet that only exposed the mast in the distance.
"Sister, that's right, this is the steamboat that my husband is on, the chimney is too obvious, and the flag of the Tang Dynasty is fluttering on the ship, I can see it too clearly."
Li Ya'er said while observing with a telescope.
Li Hanlu snatched the binoculars and observed it himself for a while, a very excited smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he nodded: "That's right, it's my husband's steamship, but it's a pity that it's too far away, and I can't see the people on board." ”
After all, the earth is round, and the body of the ship is blocked by the sea, so the first thing you see when you look at a ship in the distance must be the mast at the highest point of the ship, and it will take a while to see the main body of the ship.
Since the escort team of the port discovered Li An's boat, the observer on Li An's boat naturally also discovered the port in the distance and reported to Li An.
"It's close, I can already see the port, haha!"
Li An personally climbed to the conning tower and looked at the port in the distance, but for the time being, he could not see the whole picture of the port, only part of it, and he still needed to walk a little longer to see the entire port of Guangzhou.
After a while, Li Ang could already see the whole scene of Guangzhou Port, this huge port is much larger than when he left more than a year ago, and the various facilities inside have also changed a lot, and it can be seen that the progress of development is very gratifying.
"It's only been a little over a year, and the port of Guangzhou has grown several times bigger, and the number of merchant ships is increasing, which is really good, great!"
Li An was very happy to see the continuous expansion of the scale of Guangzhou Port, all of which were his achievements, if he had not opened up the Maritime Silk Road and set Guangzhou as the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, this port would not have developed so rapidly.
The reason why Ang Lee set the starting point of the Silk Road in Guangzhou is entirely because the geographical location of Guangzhou is very good, and this superior location is most suitable as the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, and other places really can't compare to here.
Of course, like Jiangsu and Zhejiang in Suzhou and Hangzhou, it is also the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, and the development is also very good, but in terms of geographical location, Guangzhou's advantages are very obvious, and the merchants of Datang needless to say, do business in which port is the same, and merchants from overseas, the favorite foothold must be the nearest Guangzhou to them, and Guangzhou has been connected to the railway, the transportation is very convenient, a large number of goods in the port of Guangzhou after landing, It can be immediately transported by train to most of the main places in Datang, and there will be no possibility of backlogs.
In addition, there is a very important reason, because foreigners have the habit of holding together, businessmen from overseas, come to Datang, who is not familiar with life, naturally like to gather together to do business, so that everyone can take care of each other and not be bullied by local businessmen in Datang.
Even in later generations, there were many foreigners who came to China, but there were more people in Guangzhou in the south than in other places, especially people from the African continent, which were incomparable to other regions.
Ang Lee doesn't care how many people from overseas there are in Guangzhou, after all, even if there are more people overseas, Guangzhou will not be able to be stripped from the territory of the Tang Empire, and the more people there are, the more people can promote the economic development of Guangzhou, so that the development of the whole Guangzhou will be better and better, more and more high-end, and a metropolis with a population of millions or even tens of millions will be formed in the future.
Of course, since ancient times, all dynasties have taken the capital as the largest, if the city of Guangzhou develops to a population of millions of millions, then, Chang'an City, as the capital, will definitely develop more population.
After continuing to approach the port, Li An walked down from the conning tower and stood on the deck to admire the distant port, which was more stable, and there were so many onlookers in the port, if Li An had been standing on the conning tower, it would be very troublesome to get off the ship after docking.
And because there are too many people in the port, although Li An has a telescope in his hand and observes from time to time, he has never found any trace of Li Hanlu and Li Ya'er, and Li An does not know that the two of them came to pick him up.
In addition, because the exact date of Li An's return is uncertain, the imperial court did not deliberately send people to greet him, and it was enough for the local assassin in Guangzhou to come out to greet him.
Although Ang Lee didn't find his wife, Li Hanlu and Li Ya'er found Ang Lee standing on the deck soon after, which made them very excited.
"Ya'er, you have better eyes than me, take a closer look, is it our husband who is standing at the front of the deck?"
Li Hanlu gently lowered the telescope and handed it into Li Ya'er's hands.
"I'll see."
Li Ya'er took the binoculars, observed them carefully for a long time, and kept nodding her head while recruiting Li An: "Yes, sister, this is indeed our husband, I recognize it at a glance." ”
After saying that, it was difficult to suppress the excitement in their hearts, and after waiting for more than a year, they finally waited for their husbands, and the joy was not the party concerned, and it was really not easy for people to understand.
"Husband is finally back, let's go, let's go to the dock and wait."
Li Hanlu and Li Ya'er walked to the dock where Li An was about to moorth, although they encountered obstacles in the middle, but the guards who accompanied them quickly revealed their identities, so they went in smoothly, and they could also stand in front of the Guangzhou Thorn History, and the face should not be too big.
There were many people just now, and it was indeed difficult for Li An to find his wife, but at this moment, the two of them walked to the front at this time, so, it was too conspicuous, and it was difficult to find out, besides, many of Li An's henchmen knew Li Hanlu.
"Li Shilang, your wife is here, just ahead."
A subordinate saw Li Hanlu through a telescope, if he found it directly in the crowd, he wouldn't dare to say that, after all, from such a distance, no one can be sure that it is her, but at this moment Li Hanlu is standing in front of the assassin Shi, if it weren't for Li An's wife, who would have such courage.
Li An raised the binoculars and saw that it was really his wife, Li Hanlu and Li Ya'er were here, and they stood on the dock waiting for him, which made his heart quite excited.
"How much you miss me! Run so far to meet it. ”
Li An said very generously, not minding that his subordinates were by his side, let alone the secret smile of his subordinates.
Now that he has discovered his wife, Ang Lee can't be indifferent, keeps greetings, and looks at each other's gestures through the binoculars.
However, as the five Yun'er appeared behind Ang Lee, Li Hanlu's expression looked a little bad.
"Ya'er, take a closer look, why are there so many more women behind the husband, who are they?"
Li Hanlu said unhappily.
Li Ya'er also saw it, and said softly: "Looking at their clothes, they are the same as Yun'er, as if they are subordinates." ”
"That's right, it's a subordinate, but it's really beautiful."
Li Hanlu's mouth was full of sourness, and he looked a little jealous.
Li Ya'er didn't care, and continued to wave happily to Li An, like a child.
As it approached the port, the speed of the ship slowed down again and again, and finally docked smoothly at the dock.
"Hanlu, Ya'er, you want to kill me."
As soon as Li An got off the boat, he held the two in his arms very rudely, not caring at all that there were officials from the Tang Dynasty and groups of people next to him.
Li Hanlu didn't dodge, and after hugging Li An tightly, he said with a strong sense of jealousy in his ear: "Husband is really a blessing, he has received a lot of maids along the way!" ”
"The journey is hard, Yun'er and the beauty are too busy, so, when I saw a few suitable ones, I accepted them, what's the matter, Hanlu are not happy."
Ang Lee said with a smile.
Li Hanlu opened his mouth and said: "What's the matter, I just think that my husband is very blessed, and he accepts a few maids at will, and they are all so beautiful, so beautiful." ”
Obviously, there was still a sour smell in the tone.
"Little baby, I still said that I was not angry, I smelled sour, hahaha!"
Li An said with a smile, and let go of Li Hanlu, there were too many people at the scene, and it was not good to hold his wife all the time.
After a polite exchange with the official in charge of greeting him, Li Ang went to the accommodation that had been prepared to rest, of course, to bring his wife with him.
"Hanlu, Ya'er, why did you come so far to pick me up, this is too far, you must have suffered a lot along the way!"
After arriving at the residence, Li An took the hands of the two and asked with great concern.
"Suffering? How so? Along the way, I came by train, not to mention how comfortable it was, and you can also see all kinds of scenery along the way, haha! ”
Li Yaer said with a heartless smile.
Li Han glanced at Li Ya'er and said, "Husband, we heard in the capital that you are coming back, so we proposed to come to Guangzhou to pick you up. ”
Ang Lee was very happy and laughed: "Hahaha! I know that you miss me, and this walk is more than a year! I miss you too, I miss you every day looking at the moon! ”
Although there are some exaggerated ingredients, it is basically a fact, Ang Lee does miss his wife often along the way, but he is accompanied by a beautiful woman, so the range of missing is not large, far less than the strength of several ladies missing him.
The two of them listened to Ang Lee's sensual language, and they were all happy.
"Husband, you must not know that in the days when you left, almost everyone in the capital missed you very much, and when you encountered difficulties that could not be solved, the first thing that came to mind was Husband."
Li Ya'er said happily.
Li Hanlu continued: "Husband, since you left, the R&D center in the capital has not launched too surprising products, everyone says that they are just a bunch of waste, as long as there is no husband in the capital, they can't make new things, and the small number of rare objects they created are also the drawings given to them when the husband is leaving, and they study according to the drawings, which cannot be regarded as their own credit, but must be counted on the head of the husband." ”
Li An heard this, the corner of his mouth smiled faintly, all this was in his expectation, the talents of the R&D center, although they have been trained, Li An has also focused on cultivating a group of talents, but after all, they are people in the Tang Dynasty, and their thinking has great limitations, so there is not much pressure on them to paint a scoop according to the gourd, but if they are allowed to take charge of themselves and design an epoch-making new product, they will never have this ability.
Many scientific products in later generations are created by countless scientific and technological talents, and they are definitely not easy to make, and only the researchers themselves know that every small progress is the crystallization of the sweat of scientists.
And the reason why Ang Lee is so awesome is because he has already seen these things, so he only needs to draw the drawings to allow these R&D talents to slowly experiment, so as to manufacture the product.
In other words, Ang Lee is plagiarizing, plagiarizing the results of later generations of scientists, and then saying that these are their own research, if later generations of scientists know, they will probably jump out of the coffin and beat themselves up.
The magnates in the capital, after adapting to the novelty created by Ang Lee, have become addicted, and hope that Ang Lee can provide more and better things to meet their needs in life, but it is a pity that Ang Lee went south to open up the Maritime Silk Road, and it will take a year or two to go, this abrupt surprise really makes these magnates quite uncomfortable, and they are very eager for Ang Lee to return to the capital as soon as possible, and then continue to develop more interesting and practical objects to improve their living standards.
"Haha! I know that these unsuccessful guys can't make too novel things, your husband is back, and there will be more and more new things to be made in the future, so you just wait for the surprise! ”
Li An smiled very happily.