"What a group of fools...... the reader was not convinced, but seeing that Huang Laifu and the others were all men with big shoulders and round waists, they didn't dare to fight anymore, but just muttered unconvinced.

Huang Laifu and others will not fight with him anymore, scholars are precious, and ordinary people have more respect for literate people, which is a code of conduct that is not questioned in Dawei.

From the river beach through a small road, to the embankment, Huang Laifu and others saw the wharf not far away.

The wharf only relies on the big boats, there are more than a dozen Dafu boats parked on the trestle bridge along the river, and there are several foreign soft sailing boats, these big ships are dozens of meters long, and they don't feel how to do it when they are at sea, they see these big ships on the bank of the Min River, and there are workers who come and go to carry goods, which gives people a very strong sense of shock.

The little merchant was in a hurry to cross the checkpoint and go to Fuzhou, so he left in a hurry, and rolled his eyes a few times when he left.

The Nan'an tax card exempts small merchants under 50 yuan from taxation, and levies heavy taxes on large merchants, especially those who are lustful, which makes many small businessmen happy, full of gratitude to Xu Zixian, and a sense of pleasure that comes out of a bad breath.

Of course, this small merchant was very dissatisfied with the scholars' questioning of Nan'an Hou Xu Zixian, if it weren't for the tradition of respecting scholars in Dawei, I am afraid that he would have to do something with this sour ding.

Huang Laifu looked at the port and the trestle, and then looked at the large storage area, and had a rough idea in his heart.

Such a place, in addition to Quanzhou Port, Zhangzhou Port, is Jiangling, Mingzhou has such a port, of course, the scale is larger, there are hundreds of ships berthed in a port of Quanzhou every day, exaggerated to say, Quanzhou ships and ships departing from Quanzhou Port, can be on the sea all the way to Luzon!

This port on the Minjiang River, of course, cannot be compared with the port of Quanzhou in terms of scale, but from this point of view, the Hou Shizi of Nan'an attaches great importance to maritime trade, and the wharf port in front of him is proof.

On the eastern side, there are roads carved out of the dense green grassy beach, as well as some shacks and other buildings.

The river is full of free-range ducks, and the shacks and boats are owned by the duck herders.

Farther afield, there are repaired small trestles and harbors, where a few boats and boats are moored along the river, and more than 100 large and small sentinel ships are also moored, where dozens of craftsmen tinker, and there is a smell of lacquer, which is evident that someone is repainting these ships and waterproofing.

Huang Laifu nodded, knowing that what his brother said was not bad, this is indeed a big water camp, and an old sailor like himself is indeed useful.

Those large and small sentinel boats, small sentinel ships with four pulp without mast and no sails, large sentinel ships with four pulp or eight pulp sloops and single sails, these boats are not very interested, this kind of small boats are the most river patrols, fishing or patrolling near the shore, and if you want to go to the sea, at least you have to be qualified by those lucky boats.

Of course, what he liked were the few blessed boats that had been repaired and were quietly moored on the shore.

Fu 1, Fu 2, Fu 3, Water 1, Water 2, Ling 1, Ling 2, as they got closer, Huang Laiyong saw flags fluttering above the ships, and these names should be the names of each ship.

On the official road not far away, a large number of carriages and horses gathered, and all kinds of merchants paid a large amount of silver money with sad faces, their profits were heavy, and it was still very cost-effective to pay the money, accounting for only a small part of their profits, but from the unimpeded passage to the present, they had to take out a part of the money to pay it, and the mood of these people was not very happy.

Huang Laifu also glanced at these colorful businessmen with disgust, in fact, it is the norm for businessmen to love money, there are not only maritime merchants but also pirates on the sea, and the Great Wei people also have pirates, who have robbed and killed people. But there are still some bottom lines in the bones of the Great Wei people, and some ideas of benevolence, virtue and loyalty are seared in their bones, and these heavenly people, black eyeballs can't see silver seeds, and they do all kinds of crazy things for silver, and they have no psychological burden!

Huang Laifu later learned that in the Heavenly Doctrine, robbing the property of the foreign sect and killing the foreign sect were not restrained, not punished by their God, and even rewarded!

This kind of connivance of teachings, coupled with the fact that the Tianfang people originally looked down on people outside their own country, so they acted more unscrupulously and unrestrained overseas, and many murders and arsons were done without psychological scruples, such as the Zhangzhou Massacre more than ten years ago, and the main force was the Tianfang Pu Xingfeng and his subordinates.

Huang Laifu has been overseas for a long time, and he knows the affairs of the Tianfang people very clearly, and when he looked at those Tianfang people who were unhappy to pay the money and pass the tax customs, he was also happy for no reason!

A number of houses were also built at the wharf where the warships were moored, about 100 rooms, forming a huge courtyard.

There were more than a dozen ploughing oxen and dozens of peasants using thousands of catties of stone grinders to tamp the loose soil back and forth, and Huang Laifu knew that it was a small school yard for training water camp soldiers.

In addition to operating the boat, the bed crossbow on the ship, you also have to use the god arm bow on the boat, archery, shoot moving straw man targets on the boat, and practice hand-to-hand combat on the shore, physical fitness, etc.

Of course, the most basic queue training, physical training, housekeeping training, etc., are integrated with the soldiers on the shore, and there will be no difference in this.

No matter how good the ability is, the first thing is to be loyal, this is Xu Zixian's first article when he accepted the new martial arts.

In the literacy course, the first thing is to speak a loyal word.

What Huang Laifu saw was the training camp, and the new soldiers still generally ate and lived in the camp on the side of the courtyard, and after the recruit course was completed, the training base on the shore was also completed, and special water battalion training would be carried out here.

It is mainly training such as swimming, operating the boat, fiddling with the sails, knotting the rope, and fighting on the boat.

Huang Laifu glanced at it, he was not very interested in these things, after all, he was here to recruit sailors, and he was not going to be a soldier to eat food.

However, when he went ashore, he glanced at the camp of the warriors not far away, which was already quite famous, and thinking that his brother was also in it, Huang Laifu shook his head slightly.

A good man is not a soldier, this is not too marketable in Dawei, after all, the treatment of the forbidden army is not bad, and the Xiang army can also feed the family and not be starved to death, but no matter what, after experiencing the disaster of martial artists at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huaxia has a kind of vigilance and contempt for martial artists in their bones, if it is not a last resort, there are still not many people who take the initiative to serve as soldiers and eat food after all.

In Shuiying Wharf, a wooden fence has been built, and there is an official hall built of brick houses, which does not have too many carvings and decorations, and looks simple and unpretentious.

Several people in official robes sat on both sides of the main hall, Huang Laifu and a group of people received the number plate, and when he called his number plate, he hurriedly walked into the hall and saluted the officials who called the number.

"No need to be polite." The clerk smiled very gently, which was considered a courtesy, and made a hand gesture to make Huang Defu sit down and speak.

Huang Defu thanked him, and felt strange in his heart, this Nan'an is really different, in other places, ordinary people are of course afraid when they see officials, and even officials are not easy to deal with.

"What's your surname, what's your name?" The clerk had already taken a short pen in his hand, dipped it in the inkwell in front of Huang Laifu's eyes, and waited for Huang Laifu to speak.

"The surname is Huang, and his name is Huang Laifu." Huang Laifu was a little restrained, but he was literate, he went to Mengxue when he was a child, and after reporting his resume one by one, he was relieved to see that the clerks wrote the same.

"Wait a minute." After the clerk finished writing, when the ink dried some, he asked Huang Laifu to wait, he took the line he had just memorized, and walked to the back hall.

Huang Laifu was slightly uneasy in his heart, and he didn't know if he was suitable, but after listening to it for a while, he found that most of the sailors who came to recruit were not as good as his own, and he settled down a lot.

"You come with me." The official in the account turned out of the back hall and beckoned to Huang Laifu.

Huang Laifu looked ignorant, and walked into the back hall with the clerk.

After coming in, I realized that after turning around, I entered a larger courtyard, and the wings on both sides were lined up, and many officials walked around the rooms in a hurry, and there were also people who were similar to Huang Laifu who followed in and out.

"This is Shi Liyi, the head of the regiment, Li Yi and Li Gong." The official pointed to a middle-aged official with big ears and a serious expression, and said, "Li Changshi, this is that Huang Laifu." ”

Li Yi is sitting in the water camp for a while, there are Qin Dongyang and Liu Yi, Zhang Huchen and other military officials in charge of the group practice, the daily expenses are Kong He is responsible, and the equipment is Fu Qian is responsible, this day Xu Zi first took people to see the water spinning wheel, on the side of the Nan'an River, Li Yi did not follow the past, there are many things in the water camp here, especially the repair of ships and the recruitment of hand water at the same time, when the summer comes, it is necessary to train sailors day and night, load crossbow machines, so the time is quite urgent, and it is not to be neglected.

Now everyone is thinking that if you want to successfully develop the Eastern Domain, the start-up capital will be at least more than one million.

It is a great thing to develop it, everyone is happy to see it, and now the group training, the wharf, and even the spinning wheel and labor income of the Hou Mansion are already a lot, but it is impossible to invest all of them in the Eastern Domain, not to mention these ships under repair, but also need to build real large warships, each of which has a budget of more than 100,000 yuan, with Li Yi's understanding of Xu Zixian, the construction of the ship is urgent, as long as there is a slight surplus in finance, I am afraid that I will immediately talk to Lin Dingyi, whether to raise money and start construction again, or to build a part of the advance payment, According to Li Yi's understanding of Xu Zixian, I am afraid that if there is a part of the money, it will be built first.

The shipbuilding is to develop the Eastern Domain, protect the waterway, guard against the Qishan Road, and extinguish Chen Yutai's hope is also on this water camp, so Li Yi can't ignore it.

Now there are rumors floating again, after Xu Zixian returned to Fuzhou, he has not yet taken over in Qizhou, although there is a time buffer for officials to take over, but Xu Zixian's attitude of not being in a hurry or slow, only caring about the operation of Nan'an and even the Eastern Domain, and not caring very much about the official position in Qizhou, has also caused all kinds of rumors.

Several newspapers in Fuzhou, most of them hold Xu Zixian very high, do not forget his father's hatred, and Chen Yutai is not in the same day, determined to take revenge, there is a battle of the river bridge, and the battle of the river beach shows the ability of the soldiers.

There are also a few two families who contradict each other, thinking that Xu Zixian is for himself, and there is no filial piety at all, if it is true filial piety, he should go to Qizhou as soon as possible after taking over, avenge his father, kill Chen Yutai, and return the people of Fujian Road to a peaceful world.

Now Xu Zixian has no such intention, which shows that the mind of this clan prince is measured, but that's it.

This kind of argument made Li Yi and others very angry, but this kind of thing is also unable to fight back, this kind of criticism has no market in Nan'an, people who have experienced it know the difficulty of doing things, and the most annoying thing is those who read everywhere, they like to read newspapers, make discussions, and disagree with the natural disdain of the powerful, this kind of integrity is originally a good thing, but if public opinion has been so critical of Xu Zixian, I am afraid that it will really have an impact on Xu Zixian's reputation.

The pressure of floating, shipbuilding, recruitment, group training, and the development of the Eastern Domain made Li Yi and others eager to split themselves every day, and they had no other way but to reduce some of the pressure on Xu Zixian.