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Shen Yourong vaguely heard the word ointment, and quickly remembered it after He Qiaoyuan reminded him from the side.

Fujian folk worship ghosts and gods, it is said that in the old days, the inland land Lianxi Cave, the folk customs are used to barbarism, every leap year will be entangled with the fierce fools, lie in the grass, slaughter travelers, and then do the painting of evil ghosts, buy the sorcerer to perform the sacrificial thing, called Caisheng.

Originally, this was just a means of sacrificing evil gods in barbarian places, but in modern times there has been development, gangsters often mutilate people's lives, and then cut off the limbs of the living, take their ears, eyes, viscera and the like and 'medicine', it is said that this kind of medicine has different effects and magic, some are good for things in the room, some can help people to bear the punishment, and some can even say that they can imprison the soul and turn into a rampant ghost to drive the master.

This incident often occurs in the south, and now it is often heard in the market, and most of them are committed by treacherous people in Huguang, Jiangxi and Fujian. Because of the viciousness and cruelty of harvesting and cutting, it is a heinous crime in all dynasties, and there is even a special article for this in the "Da Ming Law": "Whoever picks and cuts people will be executed in Lingchi, and the property will be cut off to the deceased's home." Although his wife, sons, and family members did not know about it, they were resettled for 2,000 miles. Slash for the Servant. ’

And the ointment is also a kind of harvesting and cutting, probably this kind of behavior is the target of severe crackdown in the Ming Dynasty, but the medicine of harvesting is a thing that is difficult to buy in some wealthy families, and it is because some of the evildoers in Fujian have hit the idea on the Dongfan people. Crossing the sea to hunt the natives, boiling their flesh and bones into gelatin, called the paste, people in the mainland think it is a miracle, and often buy it at a high price. In fact, in the eyes of the Senate, it was just a manifestation of ignorance, just as it was ridiculous that later Europeans used mummy powder to drugged medicine.

However, since this matter is already murderous, and the means are extremely cruel, once such people are caught, they do not need to be sent to labor reform, and they are directly hung on the bunker, and it is said that after hanging for seven days, they will be crushed and ashes will be taken to the fertile field, and the reason why they dare not hang longer is entirely because the senate is worried that the weather is too hot and cause an epidemic.

On the other hand, in contrast to the severe punishment of harvesting and cutting, it is also strictly forbidden to give birth to a head hunting, the Senate has always believed that this so-called traditional custom is both stupid and bad, on the one hand, it will cause the confrontation of the people of the Han Dynasty, and will reduce the population, the elders even feel that Taiwan's raw head hunting is not to knock the bone and suck the marrow, and there are many wild boar and deer herds in the local mountains, and there is no reason to supplement protein, which is really puzzling.

Anyway, no one has the time to explore the history of Aboriginal customs, so it is still a one-size-fits-all approach.

Once the headhunting ban is violated, the same main offender will be hanged, and the whole village will be flattened, and all the villagers except for the head will be used as hard labor. After these months of hard work, thanks to the joint 'work' of the medical team and the military, the people of southern Taiwan have indeed reluctantly given up this bad habit, and only the real people in the mountains in the north have yet to 'change customs'.

Soon, the bunker with the corpses was thrown at the end of the road to the south, and Shen Yourong gradually stopped thinking about those dead people, after all, if the lighting stone said that these people were indeed not a pity to die, judging from his actions to the Australians in just two days, he believed this statement.

The arrangement in the afternoon was to go to the Zuoying Firearms Workshop to meet with the Australians' so-called 'Taiwan Road Envoy', and the Australians seemed to be really sincere in showing some strength there, which also made Master Shen have more expectations.

The road to Zuoying was as smooth as a stone, and as far as the eye could see, it was all paved with black debris, and it was extremely tight. The vehicles he saw along the way were smooth and fast, which made Shen Yourong, who had been in a mule and horse saddle cart in the north, secretly sigh - this road is so well repaired that even the heavenly streets of Jingshi are not so smooth.

As in the city, the roads in the countryside are still marked with white lines, and there are many arrows marking the direction every twenty or so cuts. There are signs set up everywhere on the side of the road, some are words, some are arrows and symbols, and some are directly written with the names of some places that look like they are beautiful, which makes Master Shen dizzy.

And on each fork in the road, there is an obvious huge wooden sign, telling the travel where the road leads, and there is not only the name of the destination on it, but also the township along the way and the distance, which is really clear and clear.

"These signs are all for the purpose of showing the way?" Shen Yourong finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked.

"Exactly."

"What do those pictures on the ground and on the sign mean?"

"Just like in the city, it's all traffic signs."

Seeing that Shen Yourong was curious, Akashi Daoyou explained the meaning of various symbols one by one, including the requirements for obtaining a driver's license for horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts, and Shen Yourong's doubts were finally slowly resolved.

"It's really nuanced." He touched his beard, commented sincerely, and then said, "These are all Australians who came up with them?" ”

"Yes, this road is also built according to the Australian style, and it takes countless manpower and material resources." Akashi saw these roads stretching into the distance one by one, and he saw with his own eyes how the chiefs turned stones into gold in Taiwan, so he naturally felt melancholy, and he was also glad that he was able to follow the old man Ping to the south.

Although I don't know what the black material used for the road surface is, and how it is paved so closely, the drainage ditches covered with stone grates on both sides of the roadbed, as well as the flowers and trees planted on the side of the road, are all adding footnotes to the huge cost. Those trees are only the thickness of the tea cup, but the key is to be neatly arranged, the maintenance can be seen to be very careful, the lower end of the trunk of each tree has a fixed bracket support, obviously it is done by manpower, it seems that the cost of building the road alone is several times that of the Ming Dynasty.

Akashi Daoyou also said to Shen Yourong that these street trees and the forests farther away are planted with rubber trees, which are overseas alien species, and the sap from cutting the bark can be condensed into the so-called rubber after they become adults, and the wheels of this carriage are wrapped in a layer, which makes Master Shen very interested.

As he spoke, the carriage whirled forward, and every three or five miles along the way, you could see a pavilion for pedestrians and livestock to rest, and there was a well next to the pavilion, and there were many Han vendors who were engaged in trading. And there must be a bunker not far from each pavilion, which reminds Shen Yourong of those piers in Yanbian of the Ming Dynasty, but these bunkers are more solid, and the shadow of cannons can be faintly seen on some tops, if it is as the number of signs marked at the station before, the road leading to each township is of such a standard, then the scale of this project alone is really breathtaking.

"With such a large construction project, the people of Dongfan are afraid that they will have a hard time."

In fact, He Qiaoyuan himself was not sure when he interjected this, after all, the Australians gave him too many 'surprises' in this area.

Sure enough, Akashi immediately retorted.

"That's not true, the people are eager to do things for the Senate, but there are fewer people." As he spoke, he pointed to the large pile of gravel and gray sand on the right side of the road, "There are thousands of people working on the treatment project of the Dagou River channel alone, and it all depends on immigrants from all over the world.

"Immigrants from Fujian may not all be willing to come to work." He Qiaoyuan, as a native of Quanzhou, naturally understands the mercantile customs of the Fujian people, although there are many craftsmen living overseas, but they still do more small business, in order to be less restrictive.

Indeed, among them are not only immigrants from Fujian, but also some refugees bought from Liangguang, and Chezhitan from Japan. When those people arrived, they didn't look like people, ghosts didn't look like ghosts, and they had to live in a large camp outside the harbor for a month or two before they could do things. Akashi said that he seemed to recall some unforgettable and warm memories when he talked about this, and he smiled again, "The people say, this is not like hiring people, but like doing good deeds." ”

He Qiaoyuan stopped talking after hearing this, and he didn't know if he was touched or for some other reason.

Although the construction site in the river is not visible from the road, the construction seems to be huge from the continuous rocks, yellow sand, and dug mounds along the roadside.

Ox carts laden with masonry, timber, bamboo and sacks lined up on the roadside waiting to be unloaded, some of them with broken edges and spilling gray powder.

There are also more machines that can lift objects in the port, and unlike the mixed use of manpower and machines in the port, the machines used here are all used here, and now they can be seen clearly when they get closer.

The wheels of the iron machine, one large and one small, rotated and made a clattering sound like metal colliding. Next to it appeared to be a stove, around which several so-called workers in rattan shell hats were busy, seemingly adding coal to the furnace with shovels.

From time to time, people walked by with carts full of tools, covered in dirt and dust, but they all looked bright, and they were sturdy, dark-skinned, and humming a passionate tune. Shen Yourong is a martial artist, and it can be clearly seen that the coolies of the people here are not similar to those of the Ming Dynasty, and I don't know how much meat it takes to pile it up just because of this horizontal practice, it seems that the Australians are really good to these people.

The people were very disciplined, there were only people on the construction site with small red and green flags to and fro, but there were no whip-wielding overseers, everyone seemed to know what they had to do, and the whole construction site looked orderly, so that it was comparable to a capable elite soldier.

And originally thought that the Australians were just operating one or two ports for maritime trade, but they didn't want them to go so far inland, coupled with the manpower and material resources invested, it really looked like they were going to take root here, Shen Yourong didn't realize that the vigilance in his heart was even worse.

He looked at the construction site along the river again and couldn't help but smack his tongue. For a water control project of this scale, how much manpower and material resources do Australians need to invest? Not to mention building roads and houses...... Australians have really made a bloody investment in Dongfan! But then a trace of doubt rose in his heart, what are these short-haired water treatment for? River management is not a money-making routine, they spend their own money, and they can't be greedy for ink, and this matter is obviously inconsistent with the previous image of Australians who value business.

But before this seemingly ridiculous thought could make Master Shen chuckle, a green seedling field came into view.

"What is this place?" Looking at the farmland in front of him, Shen Yourong was in a trance, all kinds of vegetables in this field seemed to be growing very well, and it was rare to see that they were well cared for, and the surrounding area of this farmland was also quite regular and prosperous.

"In front is the factory area, under the west col is the concrete (cement) soil factory, and in front of the smoke is the artillery factory." Akashi looked around again, "As for this place, it is a manor specially opened up by the chiefs, which is called a test field. ”

"Do Australians really farm?" Shen Yourong was surprised when he heard this, when he was in Fujian, he only heard that the 'thieves' were good at skills and skills, and many exquisite things made by them also flowed into the mainland, but what he never expected was that they were really still farming, which was a big miracle. In the past, I had only heard that there was a salt merchant in the belly to open a grange on the border land, but that was to grow grain in exchange for salt to induce arbitrage, but now the Australian himself is selling illegal salt, but he can see it clearly, and why is farming.

"Exactly." Akashi didn't pay attention to Master Shen's surprise, and explained while pointing, "This area was originally a wasteland that didn't harvest one out of ten, and the people didn't do anything about crops, and they always set fire to it and sprinkled some seeds casually. The military gate didn't know that when the chiefs first opened up this manor, it took a lot of effort. ”

As he spoke, he explained with great interest how the elders turned over the fields and prepared the land, how they dug ditches, how they used iron frames dragged by a dozen oxen to plough the fields and plough the ridges, and how they brought truckloads of black charcoal and lime to sprinkle in the fields to 'fertilize the fields'. Shen Yourong listened carefully, and felt more and more that the Australians' intentions were different from those of Hongyi and Wakou.

He Qiaoyuan was short of words for a while, but when he saw this situation, he became interested again, "What kind of crops are those green seedlings?" ”

Akashi Daoyou looked at Master He suspiciously, "Don't you recognize Xianggong?" It's all rice. ”

"Is it really rice? Why are they all seedlings? It is necessary to know that even the two crops of rice should have matured at this time, at least it will not be so tender and green, so although he recognized the seedlings at first, he was not sure, so he took the liberty of asking.

"It's indeed rice, but the second crop of rice has already been harvested, and now it is the third season that has just emerged and transplanted, and it can mature before October in the Han calendar according to this growth."

"What? It's actually three crops of rice? He had vaguely heard people mention the three-crop rice, and there was some cultivation in Quang Nam, but the yield did not seem to be high. He suddenly realized that this Australian had not been able to catch up with the original spring ploughing for a long time, so he remedied it, but his idea was immediately denied by Akashi.

"It's indeed three crops of rice, speaking of which the chiefs are really good at it, this year, one acre of land can actually get nearly 1,000 catties of grain, if this is in Nagasaki's hometown, no one dares to believe it."

No one dared to believe it in Daming. He Qiao was disgusted, but he was already shocked in his heart, no wonder the Australians want to build water conservancy, if it is such a yield, even growing grain is profitable, but he didn't realize that he forgot his suspicions in shock.

Fortunately, the road was smooth, and the carriage soon crossed the manor to the factory area, and it took less than an hour to travel nearly twenty miles.

In the following time, Shen and He visited several factories in the factory area in constant shock, what concrete soil condensed when encountering water, clairvoyant mirrors that looked far and near, and white and flawless bone china all opened the eyes of the two masters and their families.

After spending more than an hour touring the factories, the carriage finally dragged everyone to the most important factory of the time - the thick black smoke of the Australian firearms workshop.

"The military gate, please, the permanent chief is waiting inside."

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