119. The turbulent dark tide of the Hanhai Sea
(Modified and added: The goal of 252 monthly tickets set in the morning is almost close, and the ranking official voted for an auspicious number of "two hundred and fifty", or add a change, but if there are no thirty-four tomorrow, I will not add one less:
Li Yilao gently patted the cannon on the fort of the upper dry port, and turned back and said: "These explosive battles will be handed over to you, you must be cautious, do not slack off, if something happens, I will not spare you when I come back!" ”
"Senior brother, just rest assured, I have followed you for so many years, but have you ever made a mistake?"
The young man who spoke to him was thin and short, with thin arms and legs, but knotted muscles on his hands and a rough neck, which made it clear that he was not the kind of useless person who had no power to restrain the chicken. He is not big, but his voice is not small: "You can rest assured to return to beg, that is the foundation of my family, as for this Tamluo, with Senior Brother Wang Donglu and me, there will be no accidents." ”
It has been nearly a year since the last large-scale invasion of the Koreans, and after the Goryeo people had eaten a big suffocation, they actually swallowed their anger and swallowed their anger, for no other reason, the Jurchens and Khitans who were far away from Liaodong began to invade the northern part of Goryeo again. Naturally, the Goryeo people did not know that the Jurchens and the Khitans were so rampant, and they had a lot to do with Shima Guangyan, who sent them some money, food, and weapons, and only said that they wanted Goryeo to be captured as slaves, and they were naturally very willing to plunder Goryeo.
As for the money, food, and armor, they were originally inferior goods that had been eliminated by Liuqiu, and there were also captured Korean equipment, which were sent from Tamna. made this sale place, and it was Meng Xisheng again. When they returned to the ship, they were full of Goryeo youth. Whether it is Chen Zhaohua's road construction camp or Zhao Zishuo's Keelung City, they need a lot of labor, and these Koreans only need to feed them and distribute some wine and meat from time to time.
Because of Pu Kaizong's arrival in Liuqiu and the opening of the port in Tamsui Province. In order to prevent possible accidents, Li Yilao, who was the most proficient in artillery among the Yixue boys, had to be transferred back to Liuqiu and command the fort guards. And his position on Tamna Island was taken over by Jiang Ye, who was born in the fifth phase of Yixue and is eighteen years old this year.
There was a bell ringing in the harbor, urging the people on board to assemble. Li Yilao sighed, he didn't understand it before, but he had stayed on Tamna Island for a long time, and he felt a great sense of accomplishment when he saw this originally deserted island changing day by day. Now I am leaving, but I am reluctant.
"Hurry up, hurry up, Hugh has to make this appearance, I want to vomit when I see it!" Jiang Ye laughed and pushed him.
"You guy, you can't wait to get rid of me, it's better than having an artillery team!" Li Yilao laughed and scolded: "Boy, be careful, I'll say it again, if there is the slightest mistake, I will stuff you in the cannon and release you when I come back!" ”
"Senior brother. I learned to blow up the battle with you, so you can't believe me? Jiang Ye pushed him again: "When I was in Zhuangzi, the officials praised me, but they always said that I was calmer than you!" ”
The two of them walked down from the fort as they spoke, and the members of the artillery team on the road stood up and saluted one by one. Say goodbye to Li Yilao.
After nearly a year of construction. The Shanghai Landing Port is no longer what it used to be, sealed barrels filled with cement, and then used this cement to build a road, connecting the wharf with the city. Trees were planted about 10 meters away from the city wall, because the last time the Goryeo people attacked, it was fully proved that the low wall was not very useful for the Liuqiu guards.
The city was mainly fortified. It is divided into two parts, left and right. On the left is the quarters of the convoys, which are very neatly kept. On the right is the temporary residence of immigrants who have been transferred from Tamna to Liuqiu. It's a bit more messy. In addition to the 1,500 guards who live in the city today, there are more than 500 accompanying personnel, who are responsible for the logistics of the city, and also grow some vegetables outside the city. As for the grain, it mainly depends on artesian transportation, and then cattle and sheep grazing locally.
A large fence is built outside the city for horses, young and pregnant horses, where they are fed legume concentrate and sick horses are treated. The big eating horses that Meng Xisheng spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get were also raised here, but their role was to breed.
Today, there are more than 600 horses on Tamna Island, all of which Shima Guangyan tried to get from the Hu people, Jurchens and Khitans. The horses were herded by a group of Hu herdsmen, who, after being taught several times by the guards, were now very convinced, and under the double pressure of whips and wine and meat, they all began to learn Chinese. Today, there are more than 100 such Hu herdsmen on the island, and more than 30 graduates of the Tamsui Primary School, who learn to herd horses from them, and record all their skills and experience on paper.
Meng Xisheng was probably the most familiar with Zhao Youju's plan among all the righteous teenagers, and he knew that Zhao Youju was going to use Tamna Island as a pasture, and he was originally preparing horses for the future, and in the future, it would be a breeding place for good breeds. Therefore, these young people were specially transferred from Tamsui in order to plan for the future. He even thought that after he could get in touch with Zhao and Ju, he would open a branch of the elementary school here.
These teenagers came here, in addition to learning to herd with the Hu people, there is also one thing, to prepare for the opening of the primary school branch here in the future. The young Tamna people on the island have been organized to live next to the barracks of the convoy, this is to strengthen the control of the islanders, so that as in the last time, as soon as the Goryeo people land, a large number of islanders will take refuge, and the second is to teach them to read Chinese characters and speak Chinese, and to be familiar with the Liuqiu system, so that they can serve Liuqiu in the future. ^^Starting. Jun - Zi - Tang ^^ naturally did not come to them casually, but with free food and clothing plus half persecution, and sought them from the Tamluo family. The Tanna people were persecuted by Goryeo very much, and now not only are they free of the old shackles, but they also have free food and clothing, and they can learn the Chinese language. There are also a few who don't come, and the escort team doesn't care too much, but if you want to bring other children not to come, then you have to try the means that the escort team inherited from Li Ye.
When Li Yilao passed by the barracks of the escort team, he glanced in again, this barracks was built by their novices, and he was familiar with every brick and stone. He didn't know what he was going to do when he went back this time. When will I be able to return to Tamna.
"Hugh is nostalgic, I still want to go back to beg, look at you like this, like a divorced wife and children!"
Wang Qinian also came to see him off, the two have worked together for a long time, and their friendship has become deeper and deeper.
Li Yilao smiled. He touched his head again---- because of the embarrassment of the last war, he handed his family a monk-like bald head. Although the body is affected by his parents, for people like him, the thought of relatives has long faded. If it weren't for Zhao and Ju to take him in, he would have been beaten to death by his uncle or set fire to death by his own house. Therefore, Zhao and Ju told them that short hair and bald heads are good for hygiene, and some of them have shortened their hair. At the time of the begging, there were also some people who criticized this behavior. But they neither quarreled nor argued, and the power was in the hands of the righteous boys, and those who criticized them soon did not dare to meddle in their affairs. Anyway, they didn't force them to get a haircut, they could only pretend they didn't see it.
The sea breeze blew in the face, and everyone passed by the stable of the horse breeding ground, Li Yilao stopped and looked at the horses in the stable, the five big food horses were raised here, and there was a special person to serve them every day, and they pulled out to walk the horses. However, their main job is to breed.
"If you envy these big horses, then you stay, and I will go back for you." Wang Qinian saw Li Yilao's appearance, and laughed again.
", you guys deal with these horses all day. Who knows if you have a long-lasting relationship with these horses! Li Yilao is also welcome. But as soon as he had said this, he quickened his pace, and his belongings had already been loaded onto the ship, so he was only empty-handed. After stepping on the deck, he turned around and waved his hand, shouting to Wang Qinian and Jiang Ye: "Guard, let's meet again!" ”
The bell rang again on the pier, and the ship lowered its anchor and hoisted its sails. Gradually break the waves and go away.
Li Yilao left Tamna in September of the fifteenth year of Jiading. On October 2, I returned to Liuqiu and had a smooth journey. I didn't get into any trouble. When he arrived in Tamsui, his eyes lit up again, he had gone directly from Hanging Island to Tamna, so he had not returned to Liuqiu for at least a year and a half, and he could see that the current Tamsui was extremely fresh.
However, when he arrived in Tamsui, Meng Xisheng returned to Hanging Island, Yang Miaozhen went to Keelung, and Li Ye was in Yilan. Because he was frightened by Zhao Zi's words, Fang Youcai now began to work hard again, taking advantage of the coming of winter, he took the freshwater infrastructure team to clear the ditch and dig the ditch to build a bridge and repair the road, one to solve the flood of freshwater, and the other to build a bridge on the Tamsui River, so that the north and south banks can be connected, and you can go back and forth without taking a boat.
And now the south bank of Tamsui has also been reclaimed, and the native tribes on the south bank have all entered the naturalization bureau, and the younger local people can now speak Han official dialect and dress well, which is no different from the Song people. A considerable number of them even moved out of the village and lived in Tamsui City, where they worked in the infrastructure team or workshops every day, especially the native women, who married many immigrants. For the customs of the two families, there have been a lot of disputes, but Fang Youcai is good at dealing with this kind of thing, luring and intimidating, sloppy and muddy, in short, he can drag big things into small things. Just for this, Yang Miaozhen felt that he was indeed of some use, and he was quite capable as a housekeeper.
"You came just in time, some time ago, that Pu Kaizong came again, saying that some pirates have bad intentions towards our freshwater." Seeing Li Yilao, Fang Youcai ordered with his head covered: "Now we are all over the key points, with fresh water as the foundation, Yilan as the granary, Keelung as the mine, and Budai as the salt field. Everywhere has to be guarded by reliable people, so it is stretched, if you don't come, we will ...... freshwater"
As he was talking, he suddenly heard a voice say lazily: "Isn't this freshwater still with me?" ”
It was Li Yunrui who spoke, Fang Youcai glanced at him, and his expression was a little stiff: "You have a lot of things to do, and the things of this fort are ......."
"In the future, the fort will naturally be under my control, and when Laos comes, although the fort will be handed over to Laos, the security of the dock will still be in my charge." Li Yunrui spread his hands: "Steward Fang, you just need to repair the bridge and pave the road, you can't control these things." ”
Li Yilao touched his bald head and smiled slightly, Fang Youcai and Li Yunrui were not on the right path, he had already seen it. In fact, the relationship between the Yixue boy and Fang Youcai is not very good, because Fang Youcai is quite dependent on the old and selling the old, and when everyone is talking behind his back, they all feel that Fang Youcai is a little selfish, and his vision is shorter when doing things, so he is not as good as Ou Bama's father Ou Laogen. It's just that Ou Laogen is as simple as an anvil on the surface, but in fact he is also extremely cunning, he doesn't come out of anything, and he is a turtle in case of trouble, so he let Fang Youcai take the position.
He still had a doubt in his heart, if the situation in Tamsui was really as serious as Fang Youcai said, why did Yang Miaozhen and Li Ye still have the leisure to go to Yilan and Keelung. In fact, Yilan has Chen Ren and Keelung has Zhao Ziyue, both of whom are extremely reliable, and there is no need for Yang Miaozhen and Li Ye to go to the town.
Sure enough, after Fang Youcai left, Li Yunrui shook his head and said to Li Yilao: "Anyway, this old Fang is a little confused, don't pay attention to him." ”
"Why?" Li Yilao held back his smile, his expression was a little solemn, after the battle of Tamluo Island, he thought about things, but he was already rough and detailed: "As a big housekeeper, if he violates the family rules, the fourth lady can be punished, why is he so confused?" ”
"It's not all his fault for this, let's beg for the opening of the port, and people's hearts everywhere are a little fluctuating, looking back to the land." Li Yunrui smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The Budai Salt Farm is full of escorts, and it is tightly restrained, but there are already some people in Keelung and Yilan who are unwilling to work and want to come to Tamsui and return to land by the merchant ships of the Song Kingdom." The opening of the port, we discussed it in a bit of a hurry at the time, so there was a trouble, the four ladies and the Han Domain, had to go to Keelung, Yilan, this is for this matter. ”
"But it's an immature wolf!" When Li Yilao heard this, he was furious, Zhao and Ju worked hard to keep the secret, if they were ruined by these plans, they would be able to get rid of everything. Li Yilao glanced at Fang Youcai's back again, and said in a low voice: "Could it be that Butler Fang ......"
"The old man feels that the rich and noble do not return to their hometown is like a brocade at night, so he wants to go back to Shaoxing to show off, not that Zhen Geer remembered something, these days he has calmed down a lot of such disputes for us, but others have a lot of old words, and sometimes they can't wipe their faces, so I don't believe him." Li Yunrui said: "Now the vicinity of the wharf is managed by the escort team, and there are people on duty day and night. ”
Li Yilao nodded again and again, this is the proper meaning, if it is a big island, if you want to guard everything well, it is obviously impossible, but this wharf port is the key place, as long as it is guarded tightly, no one will flee from Liuqiu.
Li Yunrui sighed, took Li Yilao's hand, and walked on the road to Tamsui City, the two of them did not take the carriage, they just walked: "Some time ago, the trial spread a secret letter from the big officials, asking us to be patient for the time being, presumably the big officials expected this to happen...... These people, completely forgetting what they were like when they first came to Liuqiu, only have some food and furniture, and they want to go to the land to suffer, and they really don't understand their ......"
He said that he really didn't understand them, but there was a bit of sadness in his eyes, these people who wanted to go back to the land were mostly old immigrants who had been granted land and property a few years ago, that is, the Red Jacket Army and the Lianghuai immigrants, they had some property, so they wanted to go back to their hometowns to find their relatives, and it was best to return to their roots. Li Yunrui is extremely sympathetic to this, like him, even if he wants to find his relatives, he can't find it.
"Jingwen, you're soft-hearted." Li Yilao glanced at him and said lightly.