Although it was August, the wind on the sea was still cold, and there was a slight chill on people's faces, but standing on the deck, no one wanted to go down.

The other regiments are okay, but they have been away for two or three months, but they can follow Mao Jue's huge third regiment of the sea, and there are more than 1,100 sailors and miscellaneous soldiers, but they have walked for more than half a year, the well water is still the sweetness of their hometown, and they have seen the spring warmth in the south of the Yangtze River and the darkness in the prosperity.

Even Mao Jue is no exception, she has been separated for more than half a year, and she thinks that Adriana is a foreign girl, carrying plain clothes, the two are handsome men and beautiful women, leaning on the ship's tower gracefully, facing the warm sunshine, constantly looking north.

It's just that not everyone is full of joy, on the second floor of the cabin, Shen Guangzuo, who lectures to the juniors, will occasionally wander, and from time to time look out of the window spliced together by small mosaics, and the two women, Yu Le and Chen Jiaoer, are also lying on the side of the ship, both women were married to this remote frontier for political reasons, and they are worried about the future.

Finally, I don't know who shouted excitedly.

"It's almost there! Almost there! ”

Seeing the black island gradually come into view, the two women couldn't help but stare curiously, but immediately, a wave of disappointment spread in their eyes.

Everywhere you look is a dilapidated look, the fishing village has not been used for a long time, the roofs have collapsed, and there are rotten fishing boats on the beach, the decay is obvious, not to mention compared with the prosperous Jiangnan, even Jinan can't compare.

In the disappointment of the two "big places", the fleet still slowly docked, and the West Daying Port, where Mao Jue started, seemed to be a little broken here, and seeing the return of the army, only two teams of patrol guards greeted them.

"What? Is the governor not in Phi Koh Province? The eldest lady and Mrs. Shen are not there either? ”

Docked at Phi Island, just to meet Mao Wenlong, he pounced, and when he heard such news, Mao Jue's head was a little bigger, and he shouted sadly.

"Did you go to Lushunwei?"

"Don't you know, General?"

Speaking of this, the face of the patrol Qianhu was also full of weirdness.

"At the beginning of the year, didn't you invite the Governor to Tieyi Town?"

The corners of Mao Jue's mouth couldn't help twitching twice.

…………

"This is Dongjiang Town?"

This time, even Shen Guangzuo was a little surprised and walked out of the cabin and looked at the place where he landed.

It is indeed incredible, Shen Guangzuo has never been to Liaodong in his life, but in the impression of these people in the Guan, Liaodong will always be a wild and alien land, sparsely populated, economically backward, just now Phi Dao is very much in line with this image, but here......

Mao Jue's Iron Mountain Port, at this time has been quite Renaissance, the style of those coastal ports in the West, the original only a few hundred meters of the harbor has been expanded to thousands of meters, and the edges are all stacked neatly with sunken stones and cement steel bars, just like a whole stone, and on the edge of the port, more than ten meters of triangular wooden arm giants stand there.

This thing is alive, and in the astonished eyes of these "hillbillies" from the south, a few workers below shouted and pulled, and the hook and lock of the thing hung down from the side docked from the side, and the huge fishing boat dragged down heavy boxes, and then placed on a cart with eight small wheels, and was pushed into the house behind.

The boxes were full of water, and the water was densely packed with huge sea fish.

For the sake of fishing rights, Britain and Iceland can be used as bumper cars for decades, and the South Bang country dares to shoot heavy machine guns at Chinese fishing boats, and the Mao Jue family is the one who fishes on a large scale in the ocean in the entire Northeast Asian sea, and they provide a lot of valuable protein for the Dongjiang River by relying on the sea.

Near the second half of the port, the large tuna, which could only be found in the Japanese market in later generations, is hung in the warehouse, and workers dressed in white and wearing masks nervously break down the fish with knives and wrap it in bamboo jars to marinate.

"This! That's about to catch up with beef, right? ”

Looking at a bluefin tuna that was more than three meters and thousands of pounds, Shen Guangzuo, who was "rare and strange", was stunned and screamed.

On the other end, Chen Jiaoer and Yang Le were also a little dazzled.

Indeed, the economy of Northeast Asia in this era is indeed underdeveloped, but it is impossible to stand on the free port of Mao Jue Tieshan, although Mao Jue robbed the Japanese country, but there are still Japanese merchants chasing profits, trafficking copper, mercury, boxes, sulfur and other commodities to the Dongjiang River, and then Mao Jue bought silk from the south of the Yangtze River, tea, local cigarettes, mirrors, glassware, wine and other popular commodities trafficked back to the Japanese country, and other Li Korean merchants brought special products from the peninsula.

The peninsula is now very famous, and in the shops in the harbor, the colorful and colorful silks hang down, and the streets are full of busy people, watching the fireworks of two women who have just disembarked from the boat.

However, the military power of the government in this era is still reflected.

"The army crosses, and the merchants and people avoid!"

In the loud shouting of the two red knights, the crowd on the street was panicked and took refuge in the shops on both sides, and the restaurants were stuffed to the brim, and then, the sound of close footsteps came hurriedly with neat charm, disembarking from the ship, and completing the assembly in the north port, the neat Dongjiang army carried flintlock pistols on their backs, lined up like tofu blocks, shouted and ran forward, and quickly swaggered through the market.

In other places in the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers are quite contemptuous of not to be seen, the idea of being noble and cheap is on the one hand, on the other hand, the soldiers are indeed not angry, the border army composed of prisoners and condemned prisoners fights fiercely, and the people are also fierce when they rob the common people.

But the Dongjiang River is different, Mao Jue's population is too small, and even there are relatives of these people in the pro-corps, this is a real soldier, and it is they who have defended the stability of the Dongjiang River.

Mao Jue did not take his family with him, the reward of the imperial court has disappointed the Dongjiang Army, he naturally can't let his own pro-soldier team down, riding a horse and marching quickly on the road, he is the first to lead the corps to the Iron Mountain Barracks, where he first completed the reward and batch vacation, originally had no good impression of Mao Jue, but in such a prosperous look, watching him a black horse dashing and freehand through the streets and alleys, not to mention the plain clothes with stars in his eyes, even if Chen Jiaoer and Yu Le, those beautiful eyes are also flashing with a hint of brilliance.

Mao Jue, as the captain of the guard, was left here, and Mao Jue led tens of thousands of troops to cross the border, and he was not idle at this end, and when the army was almost gone, five four-wheeled carriages were pulled over by him and several other personal soldiers.

"Boss, plain girl, please!"

It's really fresh, even the carriage and the customs are different, in surprise, Shen Guangzuo, Chen Jiaoer, Yu Le and several close people waited under the greeting of Su Yi, and climbed into the car with novelty, as for the other Shen family members and the Chen family, they were placed on the back car, and the luggage was placed on the roof of the carriage, and with a shout, the five carriages followed the direction behind Mao Jue, and they also rushed out of the port.

I don't know how much Mao Jue had an obsession with the car in later generations, the front wheel control handle of the four-wheeled carriage is also a prototype steering wheel, the coachman is equipped with two, one pulls the reins of the two horses in front, and the other turns the steering wheel.

Far away from here, the kind of prosperity that is shoulder to shoulder is finally left behind, but it is also quite different from Shandong, which has experienced famine and war, a piece of loess, on both sides of the road, there are dense and green crops, the corn stalks that Shen Guangzuo has never seen have grown to a person and a half high, and in the waist, the heavy corn cobs are hanging there firmly, and in another month and a half, you can harvest a wave of winter corn, and occasionally you can see farmers carrying hoes and sitting on the edge of the ridge leisurely spitting smoke rings, The road is also the same cement concrete avenue as the port, straight and neat, from time to time there are similar four-wheeled carriages galloping away from their side, the car goes without any bumps, not like the Guannai, all can be bumpy and fall apart.

It should be about twelve o'clock at noon on the shore, in Tieshan City to eat a meal of Dongjiang flavor, at three o'clock in the afternoon, Mao Jue also almost completed the reward and instruction of the army, to be honest, this war is actually not much, after all, the biggest war, the battle of Weihai, most of them are bombarded by artillery, there is a first-class merit is like a lottery, but the wartime double salary, a group of soldiers is the least eight taels of silver, part of the meritorious priority vacation, the third regiment of the huge sea is all vacation, and the rest is also satisfied with the silver, and followed his commander back to the station.

With the general's salary and silver reward, even those southern soldiers recruited by Yiwu began to take it for granted in their hearts, and after this experience, Dongjiang took another step on the road of warlordization.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Mao Jue, the great warlord of the Dongjiang River, also brought dozens of his personal soldiers into the ranks of his family.

"Isn't Little Maozi here?"

Tieshan City has been renovated twice, and the scale is no longer comparable to the small border city of the Sui and Tang dynasties of the Li Dynasty in the past, even if the Jinan Mansion with thicker walls than the city is not much, I thought that this was the capital of the Dongjiang River, watching Mao Jue get into the car, shouting that the team would continue to go north, looking at the lively street market, Shen Guangzuo couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Father's ......"

But at the mention of this, Mao Jue's face couldn't help but show a hint of strangeness......

(End of chapter)