Meng Cong kept talking about his nephew, but he was a businessman.

Shen Rui couldn't help but wonder, in fact, this is better, he didn't deliberately refute the word uncle, only asked: "What kind of deal is it?" ”

"At present, the sea is in such chaos, and your merchant ships will not be able to get to the shore of the Japanese Kingdom, and they must be feeding the fish." Meng Cong said loudly.

He pointed to the blue waves outside the window, "I know you are water practitioners, but your water masters, hmph, either I look down on people, or I take advantage of the unpreparedness of fighting giant sharks. ”

Shen Rui still smiled and listened.

Meng Cong leaned forward, and his voice was lowered, "Your people want to train the army, and they want to try new guys, just right, come and help me clean up the girls surnamed Tu and Meng Zhaoqing's little cubs, and in the future, I will ensure that the merchant ships in Dengzhou will travel safely between the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty." I will draw 20% when I land in the Japanese country, and I will not draw the gold and silver or goods that are transported away. ”

Shen Rui raised his eyebrows and couldn't help laughing: "You want the soldiers raised by the imperial court to be your sword envoys?" Don't say that I can't be the master, even if I can do it, how can I agree? ”

Meng Cong leaned back, "Don't mention anything that doesn't have a knife, it's mutually beneficial." You want to train here, how can you train if you don't really fight?

"What kind of thing is the Giant Shark Gang, you find a storyteller to talk about the sky, that is a dead loach, poke like a wooden target, and you throw two cans of fire oil, and your sailors will be invincible in the world? Hahahaha. ”

He burst out laughing, as if he had told the funniest joke in the world.

Shen Rui's face remained unchanged, but he also sighed in his heart, Shandong Sea has been peaceful for a long time, and the naval division lacks combat experience, although there are people from the Nanjing naval division to help with the drill, but there is still a certain gap from the actual combat.

Fighting the giant shark is a good training experience, but the giant shark is too weak, it is indeed like a little loach, the one-sided slaughter of the sailor, although the morale is high, but it will inevitably see the opponent too simply, and give birth to the heart of the enemy.

"Let's just say that you went out to stop the giant shark's official ship, 400 materials, 500 materials, it is very big, and when you really get to the sea, before you turn around, the shadow of the fast sentry ship is gone.

"A ship of five hundred materials, not counting the ordnance configuration, costs one thousand taels of silver.

A sentry ship, a ten-oared spaceship, and a high-handle sentry ship are only a few dozen taels of silver, and each ship is equipped with twenty catties of gunpowder, which is to ignite the ship and let it crash, how many hundreds of large ships can the imperial court afford to lose? ”

Meng Cong is a qualified businessman, and when it comes to money, everything is on the idea.

There are not many ships now, the shipbuilding cycle is quite long, and the supply of raw wood is insufficient, so the imperial court cannot afford to consume many ships.

Shen Rui lowered his eyelids and said, "That's right, since the sailors of the imperial court are so useless, how can they dare to pull out the deep sea to fight against the nine-headed Jiao's Lady Tu?" ”

Meng Cong choked, but put himself in.

He couldn't help glaring at Shen Rui, scolded the stinky boy in his heart, and said: "You don't have to go too far, I will force Meng Zhaoqing's little rabbit cub to come to the sea off Wendeng, and your people will go up and fight two battles with real knives and guns, and they will be practiced."

"Eat Meng Zhaoqing, I don't want one of his boats. If it's not enough to compensate you for the loss of ships, plus the soldiers' pensions, it's all mine. ”

He waved his hand quite arrogantly, completely in the posture of a rich man, "You don't lose money, you have captures, and you have military merits, isn't it good?" ”

"Aunt Tu, if you eat it, you will generally dispose of it - the boat, it's all yours." Meng Cong's eyes flashed with a sly light, "If you want to build a sailor, the more boats the better." ”

Shen Rui took a deep breath.

This is a great temptation.

Boats, Dengzhou sailors need it too much.

He also wanted to sweep the seas.

But, not now.

The Dengzhou Naval Division has just been established, and it still lacks experience, and there are many variables and great risks in the vast sea, who knows if it will be wiped out with one mistake!

Then he Shen Rui will die and will not be able to atone for his sins!

Shen Rui flipped through his mind a few times, stared at Meng Cong's eyes, and asked, "You know everything about the water master, so why did you come to the imperial court water master." How can a sailor help you? ”

Meng Cong closed his eyes and said, "I said it, I won't go around in circles with you, so I'll just say it." I need gunpowder, I need oil, I need your guns, my arrows......

You can't sell me these things, so then your people will use them, and I'll buy you for the money. ”

"The current situation of the nine-headed Jiao, if it drags on, it's really hard to say who will kill the deer. Aunt Tu still has some tops, if Aunt Tu wins, Donghai will not be the stable face that Meng Hongtong was in at the beginning.

As I said, opening the sea is not good for us, and Aunt Tu is a cannibal who does not spit out bones, and will bite to death all the ships that go to sea in the imperial court, and then continue to monopolize this business. This is not what the imperial court wants to see.

There will be a battle between the court and Aunt Tu. Now cooperating with me, the odds are quite good, if you wait for Aunt Tu to eat Meng Zhaoqing and eat me to unify the nine-headed Jiao, the court will have no chance of winning at all.

Meng Cong looked at Shen Rui and said, "I'm also afraid that after the imperial court cleans up Aunt Tu, it will turn around and eat me." If someone else was in this position, I wouldn't have made this trip. Just because it's you, you won't help me, and you won't harm me. ”

"Moreover, Wang Shilang's sailor is also famous, and if he can be encircled and suppressed in many ways, no matter how cunning Aunt Tu is, she will not be able to escape."

Meng Cong said, and added the last weight, "Shandong has been dry for several years, and Dengzhou is not a place with good water and soil."

"I heard that last year you came back from Liaodong to get frozen dried cattle and sheep to relieve the famine, but the result is not that more and more people came to Dengzhou to flee, and they are waiting for food with their mouths open.

"Food is always in short supply. After the flood in the three prefectures of Susong Lake, Suzhou Prefecture exchanged 250,000 stone of military rations and invited another 200,000 stones. If you want to go south to help Shandong, I'm afraid it won't work.

"Food, I have." Meng Cong showed a big smile and said, "The court of the Japanese Kingdom is also in chaos, and the people are miserable. In the first few years, I got the Japanese to open up the wasteland and grow grain in my own territory. They are all fertile fields, the weather is warm, and they are harvested twice a year, and a lot of grain has been hoarded. Not to mention raising the people in Dengzhou Prefecture, it is no problem to relieve difficulties. ”

Shen Rui took a deep breath.

Boat. Grain. Maritime trade routes. Overseas markets.

All of them are needed in Dengzhou.

But will the young sailor in Dengzhou be able to complete the task perfectly in exchange for this?

"What you said is too big for me to bear. I have to, report to God. Shen Rui said slowly.

Meng Cong stretched out three fingers and said, "Three months at most." Meng Zhaoqing couldn't hold on that long. Now that he is not dead, it is someone waiting for him to consume Aunt Tu. But he can't do it himself. In another three months, the sea was stormy, and it was not easy to go to sea. ”

He paused, and said to Shen Rui seriously: "Also, after this matter is settled, I will not be recruited." Maybe those of you who go through the imperial examination and follow the career path of official think that recruiting an official is the best way out, but for us, entering the officialdom is a dead end. ”

Shen Rui also breathed a sigh of relief, sighed lowly, and said, "I'm still worried that you want to recruit An." Even if you are so transparent, I don't need to say more. ”

Meng Cong laughed, high-fived, and said, "Good boy! It's not the elm-headed. ”

After a pause, he said, "But I also know that you are a solid child, and you are loyal to the king." But listen to the old man, don't be blindly loyal. Don't tell the emperor about the relationship between you and me, now I believe that you are loyal, and I will use this to cut off your head in the future. ”

Shen Rui nodded silently.

Of course he wouldn't be foolish.

If he said that there was such an uncle, he didn't know about it before, but what about the third master?

The third master knows everything, but he doesn't report it, and he spends the money of Haikou's own brother to pave the way in the officialdom, and he is still in such a high position as an official residence and political envoy, which is a big crime of bullying the king.

When this article is investigated, the Shen family is guilty from top to bottom.

Meng Cong saw Shen Rui nodding in response, his gaze softened, and added: "Don't worry, when your father-in-law was in the nine-headed Jiao, his name was Meng Xing." Everyone else only guessed that his original surname was Xing, and he changed his surname to Meng because of my father's life-saving grace.

"Actually, no, Xing, it's the name of his deceased eldest brother.

"Their three brothers are Shen Xing, Shen Ye, and Shen Bang.

Sun Mengsheng is also a pseudonym, and no one can connect with Meng Xing.

"The father-in-law has been washed clean, and he can't find out at all.

"As for this face......"

Meng Cong laughed at himself, "You don't have to worry, I have had a beard since I was an adult, and the people who have seen my appearance when I was young are basically dead, and I shaved my beard only because of my appearance this time, and no one has seen it except Ah Shan."

"When I go back to sea, I have a big beard and two scars, who can see anything.

"There are many people who know that I have a sister-in-law, but there are no more who know that my sister-in-law is dead, and one day I will take a woman's family to be my sister-in-law's brother-in-law and nephew, and raise them in the country of Wa, and I will never think about it again."

He straightened his waist, regained a little bit of the domineering spirit of the sea lord, and said: "You tell the emperor Xiao'er, I want to join forces with the imperial court except for Aunt Tu, not to ask for peace, not to be rewarded by the court, but to ask him to flutter a holy decree."

"I have a piece of land in the Wa Kingdom, but I grabbed it myself, and since the Wa State is a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, I asked the Ming Emperor to issue a decree and order the Wa State to give me a big name, well, it is a general, and the name justifies this land to me as a fief.

"Don't worry, I will give a name to the country, and it won't make it difficult for the imperial court."

His eyes were blazing, and he said: "You tell the emperor that if I become this general, I can control the sea as much as possible and prevent the Japanese from disturbing the Ming coast."

"If the imperial court wants to trade with the Japanese kingdom by sea, I can also contribute to it, and I can also secretly provide the imperial court with the grain, swords, and even ships it wants.

"And all I want is the land of the Wa Kingdom, the taxes of the Wa Kingdom, and the court does not need to spend a cent of silver. How is it? ”

Is this another form of overseas colony?

Shen Rui smiled dumbly.

He thought that in the future, when the Ming Sailor would become stronger, he could go to Southeast Asia to build plantations, and it was not that he had never fought the idea of North Korea, but he really didn't think about the Japanese country.

"Then you will stay in Fucheng first?" Shen Rui asked with a smile.

Meng Cong shook his head and said, "I'm going to take a look at your island and take a walk along the coast." I will return to Fucheng in a month at the latest. The imperial court post said that it would be possible for the horse to reach all parts of the world within eight days, and one month is enough for you to come to the news once you go. ”

*

Back in the mansion, Shen Ruite specially invited Xu into the secret room, and only then did he tell her about Meng Cong's arrival and the past years.

Hearing that Mrs. Sun was the second master, Xu couldn't help but shed tears, talking about everything back then, and it was really tight, and he couldn't help sighing again and again, "It's our family that made your uncle and grandfather suffer." ”

The third old lady has become ancient, and the Qiao family, who was planning for marriage, did not end well, Shen Zhou had ups and downs, and he had lost his son several times, and now, it is not very good.

The past can only be let go with the wind.

"Then Meng Cong is right, you know this matter, I know, don't let your daughter-in-law know first, she is young, so she doesn't have to be afraid." Xu sighed.

"When the sea affairs are stable, I will slowly talk to her, but I also want her to keep this secret, even her mother's side should not say it."

"Mother rest assured." Shen Rui nodded in response, and said, "My son is going to send a secret letter to the emperor, according to the name of the Emperor of the Imperial Kingdom, I think about it, the emperor heard that there is sea trade and grain, and it doesn't cost the court anything, and nine times out of ten he will respond." I don't know if the elders of the cabinet will stop the war. ”

Xu pondered for a moment and said, "How are you going to send troops?" ”

Shen Rui said: "The agreement with Haikou can only be known to the emperor alone, otherwise if someone detains me as a bandit in the future, I will not be able to argue."

I just wanted to send troops on the pretext of training and going to sea to exterminate the gang and pirates. Waiting for Meng Zhaoqing to come over there, it was our chance encounter at sea, and all the bandits and thieves were annihilated.

Then he pursued the victory and killed Aunt Tu. The nine-headed Jiao is afraid of the water master of the imperial court and lives in the kingdom of Wa.

They don't mess with the imperial court, and there is no need for the imperial court to mobilize people across the sea to suppress bandits.

As for the imperial court's request for the Japanese to appoint a Japanese person named Takahashi Scottaro as a general, it was to reward him for his assistance in controlling and exterminating the Japanese bandits, and it had nothing to do with the bandits. ”

Xu Shi thought for a while and sighed lightly: "I don't understand this, I think you should let Changshou go to Nanjing and talk to your teacher." The princes of the imperial court look at the overall situation of the world, and your teacher is the one who sees the battle situation. ”

Shen Rui hurriedly responded.

The mother and son talked about the details of the letters sent to Wang Hua, Yang Tinghe and other places in Beijing.

The next day, Changshou rode all the way to Nanjing, and Zhang Chenglin took the secret letter by sea to Tianjin Port and then entered Beijing.

*

In late March of the fifth year of Zhengde, Shi Wenyi, the newly appointed commander of Jinyiwei, reported that the robbers had repeatedly looted in various places recently, and the impeachment of the patrol officers and the garrison commanders could not fulfill their duties.

The little emperor was furious, and all the officials who were impeached by him were demoted to one level and made meritorious contributions.

He also invented the purpose of ordering the Nanjing Navy Division to go out of Chongming, go all the way north, clean up the coastal bandits in Nanzhili, and order the water division of the Zhuwei Institute in Dengzhou, Shandong Province to go south to cooperate with the Nanjing Navy Division.

A large amount of ordnance from the Ordnance Department was immediately transported to Shandong, and another 100,000 taels of silver was allocated from the internal treasury to pay the military salary of the sailors.

At the same time, 100,000 taels of silver were allocated to Shaanxi to prepare military salaries.

I don't know if Liaodong saw that Shaanxi and Shandong had silver, and Han Xi, who had just been promoted to the chief military officer of Liaodong, also reached out to the imperial court to ask for silver.

The result was dismissed, it seemed that the act of begging for silver offended the little emperor, and the little emperor found a reason for the rotten grain in the tuntian warehouse, and demoted Sun Tang, who relied on Han Xi to climb to the position of the general of Liaodong, and took the money for half a year, as a beating.

Then, the little emperor simply sent Zhang Hui, who had been promoted to command the affairs, to Liaodong and further promoted him to the commander of Jinzhouwei.

Although Zhang Hui's promotion was faster, the promotion of military generals did not matter to civilian officials.

And behind Zhang Hui stood the British Mansion and the Wujing Bo Mansion, who grew up with the emperor since childhood, and they themselves are also capable - this time, the Jingwei Wuxue Ordnance Division improved the firearms and won the emperor's heavy reward.

So no one said anything cool.

More people think that the emperor is still preparing for the smooth landing of the Liaohai Road after the opening of the sea in Shandong.

After all, Shen Rui and Zhang Hui are close, and everyone in Beijing knows about it.

At the beginning of April, the rebellion of King Anhua in Shen Rui's previous life did not take place.

I don't know if it's because of the replacement of Ningxia Qingcha Tuntian - the imperial court transferred Cong Lan from Yansui to Ningxia to replace Zhou Dongqingcha Tuntian, Cong Lan is upright, and there is no corruption for the time being, or the 100,000 taels of military salaries appeased the hearts of the border soldiers.

However, Shen Rui had no intention of doing more research, because the Dengzhou Sailors with Pan Jiayu and Qi Jingtong as the pioneers had already set off.

Later, several of the most active commanders, including Zhao Sheng, Wang Zhang, and Feng You, would also lead the fleet to the sea to assist the Nanjing Naval Division, and the north and south would work together to quell the coastal bandits in Nanzhili.

Shen Rui sat in the rear, constantly raising grain, rice, vegetables, medicinal herbs, and even weapons and gunpowder, and ordered light ships to come and go to replenish.

At the same time, I also have to worry about all aspects of Dengzhou, which is very busy.

On the May Festival, the little emperor ate the salted eggs of Dengzhou Sea Duck Eggs, praised them, and gave them to the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, and set them as tributes.

Dengzhou duck eggs created a reputation in one fell swoop, and when they were popular, they swept the capital and then sold all over the world.

It is the maritime merchants in the north of Fujian and Zhejiang, and they do not hesitate to vacate the place on the ship to store some salted eggs to bring back, this thing can be stored for a long time without being bad, it is really a good product.

Dengzhou cocoon silk is rougher than Jiangnan silk, the texture is slightly thicker, and it is disliked by Nanshang, but it is also because of this thick and not wrinkled, strong and durable and sweaty, it is very popular with Liaodong women and Mongolian nobles.

A high-quality cocoon silk can be exchanged for three or five mink skins in the Liaodong horse market, and even a ploughing cow.

There is also Dengzhou cotton cloth, which is not as good as the texture of Songjiang cotton cloth, but because Laizhou is rich in safflower, blue and other dyes, the cotton cloth is dyed extremely bright and gorgeous, and it is deeply liked by the female straight and Mongolian people.

Since last year, Dengzhou has purchased a large number of livestock and poultry in Liaodong, and the price is quite fair, and with the help of Zhang Yong's godson, Cen Zhang, the eunuch who guards Liaodong, the tribes in Liaodong are very happy to do business with Dengzhou people.

Especially before winter, the people of Dengzhou came to buy the livestock they wanted to slaughter - in order to ensure the fodder for wintering, the tribe would often slaughter a group of weak livestock.

In previous years, it was a waste to kill and eat meat, but this year, the people of Dengzhou did not deliberately lower the price, and exchanged the iron pot, salt, cotton boots and cotton clothes they urgently needed, which is really a great kindness.

I heard that the people of Dengzhou would always collect livestock, and the tribes unconsciously expanded their breeding.

This year, I am even more happy to exchange these livestock and poultry for cocoons, silk, cotton cloth and other good things in Dengzhou.

The Dengzhou government built pastures on the north and south islands of Huangcheng, and those who could pull plows were sent back to the city, and the surplus livestock were raised in captivity.

There are also meat products workshops such as braised meat, sauce meat, bacon, bacon and so on.

Shen Rui found Gao Wenhu and asked his father-in-law to invest in the bacon workshop with the "formula", not only to get dividends every year, but also to call this workshop Li Ji, playing the signboard of the Dengzhou branch of Li Ji bacon in the capital, and he was so happy that Li Zhangren praised his son-in-law for making benevolent and righteous friends.

But I don't know that this signboard is marked with the word "capital", and I don't know how much it will sell in Dengzhou.

Later, there were many shrewd merchants who followed suit, and Dengzhou was full of semicolons opened by shops in the capital.

Not to mention the taste of these meat products, the meat alone makes the entire Dengzhou Mansion New Year Festival filled with a joyful atmosphere.

When there was a shortage of grain in winter and spring, this batch of meat also stabilized the market price very well, and went to Qingzhou and Laizhou to exchange grain and rice, bringing more vitality to the people of Dengzhou.

After Zhang Huigo took over as the commander and arrived in Jinzhou, the Dengliao Sea Road was indeed much smoother, and ships continued to come and go.

Zhang Hui frequently learned from Shen Rui, and planted and bred Jinzhou Juntun according to the Dengzhou model.

Shen Rui is extremely optimistic about the output of the black soil in eastern Liaodong, and specially sent "experts" to guide him.

In the midst of the busyness, May passed, and the first good news came from the sea, Meng Zhaoqing was killed, the captured ships and ordnance were divided between the two naval divisions of Dengzhou and Nanjing, and the captives and surrendered gangs were swallowed by Meng Cong.

Defeating Meng Zhaoqing is basically no suspense.

Meng Zhaoqing's strength itself was weak, and he was introduced into the encirclement by Meng Cong, and was attacked by the imperial court sailors on three sides.

The battle lasted less than a day before it ended.

The Ming army had excellent firearms such as bowls and barrels, and long-range attacks were very dominant, but in the broadside battle, the weakness of the Dengzhou Sailors was also revealed.

Whether it is Qi Jingtong or Pan Jiayu, they are more traditional drill military formations, and once the soldiers and soldiers form a formation, they are extremely sharp.

However, on the ship, the bandits don't pay attention to any formations, they are basically fighting alone, and the guys in their hands have no rules, and they are ruthless moves to kill, and they suddenly disperse the positions of the Dengzhou army.

On the contrary, the Nanjing Navy Division dealt more with bandits, with a team of three or five people, and the formation was more flexible.

The casualties this time were mainly concentrated in the Dengzhou Naval Division, with more than 40 soldiers killed and more than 100 wounded.

The loss of the ships was not large, because Meng Zhaoqing only said that Meng Cong's family was at the beginning, and he inevitably underestimated the enemy, and the firearms and gunpowder he prepared were very limited.

After this battle, Pan Jiayu and Qi Jingtong also benefited a lot, and they developed a lot of flexible combat formations when they went back.

Later, when Shen Rui heard about it, he couldn't help muttering in his heart, was Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Array about to be invented by his father Qi Jingtong first.

In June and July, the sea wind and waves became stronger, and it was inconvenient to suppress the powerful and cunning Tu Da Niang, so the two sailors went home separately and agreed to find an opportunity to act.

In addition to giving up Meng Zhaoqing's ships and ordnance, Meng Cong also gave compensation to the casualties of the imperial court.

In addition, a large amount of grain and rice transported by the Japanese State was brought back by the Nanjing Navy Division, and was put into Susongchang Town, which was seriously flooded in spring and summer.

The news of Meng Zhaoqing's fall came back to Jiutoujiao, and when she heard that there were imperial court sailors involved in the strangulation, Aunt Tu also had to temporarily avoid the limelight and lead her group to hide in the Ryukyu area.

Meng Cong took the opportunity to control the route from Shandong and Nanzhili to the Wa Kingdom.

And when Qi Jingtong and Pan Jiayu returned, they also wiped out several small gangs on the North Korean route.

So far, the waters around Shandong have cleared the obstacles.

In September, the merchant ships of Dengju were loaded with goods and headed for Korea and the Japanese Kingdom.

The Dengzhou Navy Division and Meng Cong's fleet each escorted half the way, and the journey was safe.

When returning before the New Year's Festival, the sea of gold and silver rolls and pulls.

*

In this year, more and more people poured into Dengzhou, so they could not settle down, and it was good to work.

More and more students are coming to Dengzhou to study, and a number of colleges have settled in Penglai, and the university town outside the city has begun to take shape.

The streets of Dengzhou are getting wider and wider, the cars and horses are scattered, the villages and towns are connected, and there is no clear boundary between the county and the countryside.

Luxi's cotton was no longer sold to the south, but was shipped directly to Dengzhou, and gradually, weaving mills were built in the western three prefectures.

The safflower and blue planting in Laizhou has also been repeatedly expanded, and there are many dyeing mills.

The most beautiful red is named Laizhou red, which has become a new fashion for wedding dresses pursued by brides in the Ming Dynasty.

After Laizhou became famous, the old dye planting areas such as madder, indigo, glazed branches in Licheng, and rouge in Jining also made their own reputations.

After the glazed workshop with the best craftsmanship in Yanshenzhen moved to Dengzhou, there was no gorgeous shape, but the flat glaze produced became larger and larger, and became more and more clear.

Dengzhou uses the glazed greenhouse to breed, and there are winter days to grow vegetables and vegetables, and to Caozhou, which is famous for peony and peony, the glazed greenhouse has become a place to raise famous flowers.

Its famous peony, Luoyang, Jiangnan are not as good, very sought after by scholars.

The large-scale cultivation of cash crops will of course affect food output.

On the one hand, the local government strictly limited the minimum area for grain planting, and on the other hand, vigorously promoted the Zhuzi Shecang, providing farming cattle and farm tools to farmers who planted excess grains.

The planting experts in Dengzhou Prefecture have also begun to frequently "go out of tolerance" and have been invited to various places to give lectures and guidance, such as the interplanting method of beans and cotton, the planting method of spring wheat, beans, cotton, sesame, and winter wheat in two years and three croppings, as well as the promotion of high-yield seeds imported from Fujian Province through Dengzhou......

This year, in April, the king of Anhua did not rebel.

In October, Liu 6 and Liu Qi did not revolt.

At the end of December, Liu Jin, who should have been cut by a thousand cuts, sat in the ceremonial supervisor in a dignified manner, still paying close attention to corruption and clearing the fields.

Shen Rui didn't know what kind of results such a change would lead to.

Leaving Liu Jin in the court will cause greater disaster.

However, this year, from Dengzhou Mansion to the entire Shandong Province, it is thriving.

Born to the sea, strong to the sea!