Chapter 29: Trawling and the Shipwrecked (Part II)
Yesterday everyone was very supportive, today I hope to be more powerful, if we can rush to 5,000, we are on the line of this old life, but also thank you more. Gossip is less, more than 5,000 words are offered.
"My lord, this group of thieves and birds is the shipwrecked people we fished up on the sea" Back at the port, Xu Huanshan tied up those brocade guards, and then handed over the people dressed as criminals to Li Shouhan.
"These are the items and documents on the body that were found on those brocade guards."
Fortunately, the documents were wrapped in a layer of tung oil brushed cloth, and although there were some traces of water in several documents, the contents were also clear.
"Li Peilin? Li Peiting? ”
"The grandchildren of Li Chengliang, the former Liaodong Ning Yuanbo?"
Shouhan then remembered that today is the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month of the forty-eighth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. In a sense, the Battle of Sarhu, which decided the fate of the Chinese nation for 300 years, has come to an end. The Ming army, in the afterglow of the victory of the three major expeditions, helplessly ushered in an unprecedented fiasco. Although the initiator, Yang Hao, who is ambitious and talented, has been killed, there are still countless officials involved. Di Bao said that at that time, the household branch impeached Li Qizhen and Li Chengliang and Li Rubai father and son, "open the door to thieves, and raise tigers for self-defeat,...... Let's ask Liaodong is corrupt, who is the warrior, Chengliang cut the land and flatters,... but he doesn't want to, but today, his son and nephew are sent here?
This Li Peilin and Li Peiting must be members of Li's family, who were implicated and sent to Qiongzhou, and when they crossed the strait, they encountered wind and waves before they became shipwrecked, right? !
Shouhan thought to himself in his heart.
To be honest, Li Shouhan has no good impression of these literati and officials in the late Ming Dynasty, but the two people in front of him can let him know some inside stories about the core of the Ming Dynasty government.
"Let Mr. Wang come over and show these people, those who can be saved will definitely be saved!" Also, this," Shouhan pointed to Li Peilin who was lying on the soft bed, "He must be cured!" Also, sink those brocade guards into the sea! ”
The fifth day of the first month of the first year of the Apocalypse. Opened.
People are reluctant to come out of the New Year situation and devote themselves to the beginning of the new year.
"I didn't think of it, I thought that Qiongzhou was the end of the world, but I didn't want to, but the end of the world is a paradise."
Holding the green bamboo cane, Li Peilin, who was a little staggering, and Li Peiting, who had recovered five or six points of vitality, greedily watched the people coming and going on the street. "Brother, be careful" The one who spoke was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, with skin like snow, eyes like autumn water, and picturesque eyebrows, wearing a new pale yellow skirt, while supporting Li Peiting.
After lying in the hospital for a few days, under Wang Tingqi's careful treatment, the people of the Li family were quickly recovered. He was soon able to recover. Today is the first time that Li Peilin and Li Peiting have walked out of the door of the hospital and come to the street of Ha Jing.
Compared with the big cities and big cities they saw in the hinterland of the Central Plains, Ha Jing was not a big city. The residents of Ha Tinh also admit that they are accustomed to referring to Ha Tinh as the town. However, there are some things in such a small town that you can't see anywhere else.
Li Peilin narrowed his eyes, avoiding the glare of the sun, while observing the people and scenery on the street as much as possible.
The streets are paved with the so-called cement, hard, neat, and exceptionally clean, there are big trees planted on both sides of the road, the shade of the trees blocks the warm sun, and it is cooler, these big trees are transplanted from the jungle outside, and the roads have drainage ditches, which are covered by cement slabs, and everything flows into the drainage ditches, and at every distance, there is a pool of red bricks, and the people have poured their garbage into the pool. From time to time, people carrying burdens and dwarf horses or docile buffaloes pull carts past them. There is no cow dung and horse manure on the clean cement pavement, and some people are using shovels to collect cow and horse manure, which is voluntarily collected by farmers so that it can be used to apply manure to the farmland. However, most cattle and horses have dung pockets behind their buttocks.
A few errand servants wearing round iron helmets, red clothes on their upper bodies, and black pants on their lower bodies, lined up to patrol the streets, shouting from time to time. Hearing the whispers of people on the side of the street, Li Peilin knew that this was the so-called patrol battalion. Probably the duties are similar to those of the inland servants.
On both sides of the street, large and small shops have opened their doors, such as the North and South Dry Goods Shops selling salted fish, pickled meat and dried fruits, the new tailor shops selling ready-to-wear clothes, and the fabric shops selling silk and cotton cloth. The bustling flow of people, greeted by the shop guys, is shopping for items for the new year's life.
From time to time, there was a loud rumbling noise outside the city, and the people in the streets did not raise their heads, but were busy with their own affairs.
Li Peilin and Li Peiting were a little surprised, the rumbling sound was clearly the sound of cannons, and it was either at sea or not far from the city, why were the people in the city so leisurely?
"Sir, don't be surprised," Wu Cunjie, who was accompanying him on the street, looked surprised. "The sound of artillery on the sea is the sons and daughters of the sailors who are practicing artillery and gunboats. The sound of artillery outside the city is probably the test artillery of the arsenal. ”
Oh! The two of them seemed to understand something.
On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, he manipulated people and horses to make firearms, and it seems that the rulers here have no small ambitions!
There was a faint commotion at one end of the street, and with a sharp whistle, a group of people approached from the other end of the street.
That's a bunch of strong men who have been recruited into the camp for training! From seventeen or eighteen to twenty or thirty years old, there is a large age range, but there is a look of excitement and glory on everyone's face.
They wore uniforms of uniform style, with narrow sleeves, breasts, and leggings on their legs. The bamboo basket behind him contains a homemade bamboo armor. After the second batch of strong men were recruited into the battalion for training, Shouhan decided that the bamboo armor needed by every soldier in the future would be made by the soldiers themselves. It is subsidized by the government.
"Every parent and wife will put all their mind into making armor for their husbands and sons that can protect life on the battlefield."
After the soldiers enter the camp, they can get a salt ticket with a denomination of ten catties of refined salt after the bamboo armor has been inspected. His family could use the ticket to exchange for refined salt, or sell it to those who needed it. After arriving at the army, each person will be divided into a pair of plate armor, bamboo armor also has 3 kilograms, soldiers like to put the plate armor on the outside of the bamboo armor, heat insulation and ventilation also improve the protection, in this regard, Li Shouhan also shook his head, in this era, there is no bow and arrow knife gun to penetrate the plate armor, unless it is a close-range smoothbore gun iron bullet, however, the iron bullet can not penetrate the bamboo armor, in other words, as long as the soldier is hit by a solid bullet, generally will not be injured, well, of course, the flower bullet can also blow up the soldier to the sky.
"It's unimaginable! Cang Liao is full and knows etiquette, and knows honor and disgrace when he has enough food and clothing. I thought that the saint was just talking about an ideal state, but I didn't want to see it in this extremely remote and remote place. Li Peiting muttered to himself, in his memory, almost no one wanted to join the camp as a soldier, not even those with hereditary military status. Li Peilin was even more surprised, he had been immersed in officialdom for many years, and he knew Daming very well, and these people in front of him did not look like soldiers of Daming in that respect. And in terms of morale, it is even more heaven and earth. Li Peilin's eyes flashed, Li Shouhan's intentions were not small.
"Brother Cunjie, I don't know if there is a clean place nearby? I have a few things to ask you about. ”
"There are a few restaurants nearby, and it's time for dinner in front of you, why don't I invite the two brothers to have a few drinks?" Wu Cunjie's interest is also good. "And me!" The girl who helped Li Peiting said, she is Li Peiting's sister, the daughter of the Li family, born to the concubine Liu, the Liu family is a famous prostitute in Jiangnan, Li Xiuxiu inherited her mother's excellent genes, she is good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and her appearance is more beautiful than her mother.
Looking all the way to the past, Wanghailou, which specializes in seafood, the drunken spring breeze that takes into account both the north and the south, the Liangyue Chun that operates the two Cantonese flavors, and the Wuyi Chun with Fujian flavor, the seafood roast meat of the Cantonese people, and the fish balls of the Fujian people, the taste is intertwined on the street, stimulating people's stomach. It's a pity, it's not a coincidence, I walked a little way, and several restaurants in the city had a gold-sprinkled clay note at the door of the drunken spring breeze, "Han Yuan firm chartered". Wanghailou is a Yuhetai chartered field, while Liangyuechun is a Tonghe dyeing workshop chartered field.
"Brother Li, it seems that you can only be wronged and take a seat in the tavern on the street." Wu Cunjie smiled bitterly twice. No way, today is the day when the market opens. Several businesses and businesses in the house should invite each other to eat New Year's tea and drink spring wine, and contact the feelings between business partners, so as to make the business better and bigger this year. Moreover, among the several businesses in this chartered venue, which one is not the cornucopia of the general? Which one of his in-house gentlemen can afford to mess with?
"It doesn't matter! Picking up life in the lower waves has put these things behind. ”
The four of them found a small shop on the street and sat down, ordered a few dishes, but some conch, scallops, yellow croaker, lobster, etc., and asked for a boiled beef, Wu Cunjie specially explained, "Don't be reluctant to put chili peppers!" Chili money can be counted separately! ”
Li Peiting and Li Peilin didn't notice Wu Cun's dish, and their eyes were attracted by a few people squatting at the door and munching.
Looking at the appearance of those people, they don't look like Han Chinese, and they have broken hair, tattoos, dark skin, knotted muscles on the upper body peeking out from between the collars of their clothes, a huge sea bowl, half a cooked chicken, and a hoof that has been gnawed to the point that only bones remain, and several people are still eating hard there.
"Brother Cunjie, what is this?" Li Peilin gestured to Wu Cunjie with his eyes.
"Brother Peilin, do you know, these people, either the natives of the nearby villages that have just been annexed, go to the town to look for some men, or sell the local products, and want to buy some refined salt, ironware, cotton, silk and other items to go back. Or," he lowered, "it could be a native prisoner of war in several mines, shipyards, etc. After taking the wages and resting, he went out into the streets to make a big tooth sacrifice. ”
"Native prisoners of war, that is an official slave? Why do we need to be paid? And rest? Li Xiuxiu felt very fresh, even incredible.
"I don't know much about this matter, but there is a sentence that I think is a wise saying."
"I want to hear about it."
On that day, a large number of native prisoners of war were captured and distributed to various places for labor and hard labor. After the distribution, the general set the standard for the treatment of these natives. The Prisoner of War Act was promulgated. For example, to give food and water, to have some oil and water. In addition, there is a monthly salary. Everyone was puzzled, and the general said, 'Have you ever seen a farmer raising cattle?!' Raising cattle is to use him to contribute, you don't have to exhaust the cattle to death, right?! Think about it. So, I said, these people probably came out in a gang to fight tooth sacrifices. They are tired and tired of doing all the stupid guys that the Han people are not willing to do, but they take a lot less money than the Han people, and with their character of not being good at accumulating, they naturally eat and drink after receiving the money. The general's salary will be returned to the general in the same way, and he will stay in this town. ”
"Then they won't run away?" Xiuxiu asked puzzled with blinking her beautiful eyes.
"Escape?!" The shopkeeper on the side served the dish on a red lacquered wooden plate and took over the topic.
"Miss is probably not our local, is she? Twenty miles out of the city, there is a place name, which was originally called Sanchakou, but now it has been changed. ”
"What's your name?"
"Hey, hey! Don't say I'm trying to scare you, girl. Today's name is the Human Head Tower. It was built with the barbarian heads cut off by the general during the first battle and when General Wang Bao conquered the west. Isn't that barbarian afraid to see it?! ”
Xiao Er made a grimace, deliberately scaring this beautiful little girl.
After arranging a few seafood dishes and taking another bottle of wine, Xiao Er nodded and retreated.
Li Xiuxiu is still discolored, thinking about hundreds or even thousands of human heads piled together in broad daylight, some of which makes her feel creepy.
"What this guy is talking about is not daring to escape. I went on to say that there was no escape. ”
After the Shouhan succeeded to the throne, he would order the communication to all the nearby barbarian villages, and if there was a fugitive slave, if one person was accepted, the trade with the villages of the tribe would be stopped, and the embargo of Han goods such as salt, iron, and cloth would be imposed, and at the same time, the Han merchants would not accept their various local products. If two or more people are accepted, they will break through the village and turn the men, women, and children in the village into official slaves. Let's ask, with such a powerful means, which barbarian dares to touch the tiger's whiskers? What's more, there are too many good things for the Han people, and the benefits of several attached villages have been the envy of the neighbors: you can divide the fields according to the standards of the Han people, open up wasteland, and buy the blessings of the gods at the price of the Han people, which the Han people call refined salt; The children can participate in the conscription according to the standard of one soldier and one soldier, and they can divide the rewards for fighting in the future.
"Third, they don't want to escape."
"Hubble? Still unwilling to escape? Li Xiuxiu opened her mouth wide, expressing her surprise.
"As I said, these people do hard labor everywhere, although they are a little tired, but they can ensure that they are fed, and they still have some hard money. If he had fled, he would not have found even the day's food. ”
The three siblings listened to Wu Cunjie's explanation, and looked at the local slaves on the street who were buying cooked food in front of a roast meat stall, and seemed to be thoughtful.
"Oh! I know!" The little girl clapped her hands and screamed! "It's like the parrot in my mother's house, it won't fly away even if you open the foot lock! Mother's parrot is beautiful! It's the whole city of Beijing where the relatives are ......"
The little girl suddenly stopped talking, A-Niang was dead, and the beautiful parrot didn't know that it was now in the golden house of the dignitary.
"Turn around slowly! Serving! Rub the oil on you!" Xiao Er's shouting broke the embarrassment in time. "Your boiled beef. Slow to use! ”
The three brothers and sisters looked fixedly, but saw that in the oily sea bowl, the green was the vegetable, the red was the meat, and the white was minced garlic.
"Wow! It's spicy! It's spicy! The little girl took a bite impatiently, and immediately screamed.
"Look at you, what's the panic?" Li Peilin doted on this little sister very much, picked up a cup of tea and handed it to Xiuxiu, "Drink some water, it will be better." ”
"This is a dish made by my family, which is made with red peppers found and grown from abroad and served with beef, which is the most appetizing. The place in Annam is humid, so eating some chili peppers is good for people to get rid of moisture. ”
"Oh, it seems that General Li is an all-rounder."
"Isn't it just an all-rounder?! My general is the chosen figure of the Emperor of Heaven! The talkative shopkeeper took over the topic again and handed Xiuxiu a bowl of rice, "Who doesn't know this Hejing?" The general is the person chosen by the Emperor of Heaven, so he will divide the fields, build big ships, and refine steel......"
"Alright, you go and get busy with yours first!" Wu Cunjie felt that this little second, although he admired Li Shouhan, was also a talker.
If it weren't for the favor of heaven and earth and the favor of the Buddha, how could the lodging rice stand up again and continue to fill the grain? And a good harvest? ”
Xiao Er is obviously an ardent supporter of Shouhan. It is no wonder that a series of events have convinced the people of Ha Jing that Li Shouhan is a god.
However, the speaker has no intention, and the listener has the intention. He didn't notice that a glimmer of light suddenly flashed in Li Peiting's eyes.
Several people who ate a meal also talked about it, especially the little girl Cui Xiuxiu, who kept shouting spicy, but kept eating with beef.
After the wine and dinner, the three of them went to the dock and the barracks under the guidance of Wu Cunjie.
On the wharf, the warship that could travel thousands of miles in one day, the artillery fire that opened the mountain and cracked the rocks, the trawler that could catch tens of thousands of catties of fish and shrimp with one net, and the whaling fork that hunted the giant whale in the sea, all of them were jaw-dropping.
In the barracks, the training intensity of those soldiers and the amount of training content surprised the Li family brothers, who were accustomed to seeing the officers and soldiers of the Jiubian Border Army and the Beijing Camp. What amazed the two even more was the enthusiasm of the soldiers for training. It is very strange in the eyes of the two brothers, the soldiers are trained, and there is still enthusiasm. However, the high-pitched shouts and singing of the soldiers illustrate a qiē.
"Brother, have you thought about it?" That night, in Li Peilin's room, the secret conversation between the two brothers had already come to an end.
"Of course. Not to mention the deep hatred of the sea of blood that seems to be pouring into the sky, just these dozens of people, how to make a living in Annan is a problem. What you see and hear on the streets today, in the land of the small area of Ha Tinh District, the people are singing, the market is prosperous, and the armor is sharp. These are all ordinary. In the eyes of my brother, the most surprising thing for me is the establishment of the political affairs hall. With this organization, General Lee's decrees and military orders can reach all the villages, like an arm and a finger, unimpeded, and there will be no hindrance. The disadvantages of the inland government decree but the county are absolutely impossible in Ha Jing. It can be seen from this that this General Li, his people and his aspirations, are they in a quiet corner of the Annan River? ”
Li Peilin walked to the bookcase and wrote a few lines on a piece of letterhead.
"The war in Annam has been in turmoil for a long time! The general intends to quell the chaos? Siam Khmer has no owner, the general cares? ”
"Students Li Peilin and Li Peiting worshipped."
"Big brother, why do you write like this?"
Li Peilin said meaningfully: "If the general is interested in the Central Plains, he will definitely unify Annam, Siam and Khmer, so that he has the capital to compete in the Central Plains, and his various measures against the Turks are based on this." ”
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