After another half of the ring, Zhou Huai'an, who had passed through the entire fishing village, was able to walk in the messy port area; Then, under the guidance of the volunteer soldiers who were cleaning and cleaning the battlefield, they came to a complex of buildings with black tiles and mud walls, which was the storage house and storage area of the port city.

Although there were some traces of smoke and fire, it was obvious that they had not been able to burn before the rebel soldiers who had already been killed were extinguished; Then there were still small patches of blood in some corners, and the corpses that were being dragged out and loaded into trucks to be sent out for landfill, which were the traces left by the remnants of the officers and soldiers who had hid in the previous period, and some lawbreakers who tried to take advantage of the chaos to rob.

There were also some young men who were obviously locals, cowering or grim-faced, under the supervision and urging of the volunteer soldiers, with various tools to clean up the discarded debris and garbage on the streets, and then relay buckets of water from the ditches, sprinkled and washed along the main aisles and grounds.

In some of the houses along the street that had been temporarily requisitioned, smoke from burning firewood and charcoal was already coming out; The former is cooking hot soup for the sentry team to replenish their strength, while the latter is boiling water for use to provide simple hygiene and cleaning.

In front of some buildings, a plain white cloth strip belonging to the field life-saving team belonging to the second baggage brigade was hung up, so that the wounded or sick soldiers could see it and go to the nearest place for treatment and recuperation.

Several teams of craftsmen and subordinate groups of the first heavy brigade also began to work in the requisitioned courtyard; There are constantly all kinds of collected materials, which are constantly being transported along the temporary dividing line between the left and right on the side of the street.

Cleaning up the remnants of the enemy, cleaning up the battlefield, sealing warehouses and stocks, levying labor on the spot and controlling the majority of the young and strong in disguise; This set of processes has been explored and run-in quite skillfully in the previous battles.

Then, looking at the warehouses that were opened and freshly sealed in front of him, Zhou Huaian couldn't help but sigh deeply. It was piled up with boxes and boxes, baskets, loulou, urns, and jars; It seems that all the goods that were originally waiting to be transshipped and sold, but because of the war, there was a large backlog here.

Among them, the largest splash warehouse, which is packed with rattan boxes and then stuffed with straw, is a large and small porcelain object stacked on top of each other, and there are tens of thousands of pieces just by visual inspection; Although most of the samples are plain-bottomed porcelain and monochrome porcelain with no flower heads and fine textures, some of them are crude benzene wares with local characteristics of red pottery; But the accumulation of such a large amount is also a lot of valuable wealth.

Zhou Huai'an then remembered some of the information he had obtained from his previous investigations along the way, because the output of the land in the coastal area was limited, and almost most of the mountain villages along the Rongjiang River were engaged in pottery making and porcelain as a sideline. Therefore, Fengling Port here is also a regional porcelain export port.

In other low barns, bamboo baskets and baskets are filled with coarse linen paper as containers, and there are large particles of dark gray coarse sea salt with many visible impurities such as gravel, oyster shells, and mussel clippings; As a coastal area of Lingnan, the local area naturally has a tradition of intercepting seawater to boil salt and cutting reed grass for firewood.

Although in terms of output and scale, it cannot be compared with the traditional sea salt fields such as Changlu in Beidi and Haisi in Lianghuai; However, it also satisfies a large part of the needs of Lingnan coastal to inland areas. And this Fengling Port is one of the transit places for coastal transshipment and distribution, so the imperial court specially set up salt transportation judges and court inspectors in this state city to focus on its interests.

According to the amount of marks on the salt basket and basket, it is divided into two types: twenty catties and half a stone, and there are about more than 3,000 stones in quantity and weight, which is enough for the whole city of the state to use for several years, or to marinate dozens of whales.

Along with these sea salts were many jarry plates in large urns and enclosed with oiled paper wax edges; Each piece is heavy and gray like a brick, and when you break a little and put it in your mouth to taste it, you can immediately feel the burnt bitterness including other impurities such as plant ash and sand.

After a long period of fighting, Zhou Huai'an has discovered the benefits and convenience of these jaggery sugars; For example, in the process of marching, it is directly eaten or turned into water, as a quick means of replenishing energy and physical strength; When you are tired, cooking soup with dried ginger, tea, dried oranges, plums, etc., can not only relieve fatigue and eliminate sleepiness, but also treat and regulate some gastrointestinal diseases caused by long-term consumption of wild vegetables and bran, including impurities and coarse food.

It can also be used as an ingredient and ration for nutritious meals for the wounded, and it is also widely acclaimed. In the words of many righteous soldiers, since following the monk Guan Tou, even if he opened meat, he tasted the sweet taste that he had never used in his life.

After all, with the development of sugar technology in this era, it was possible to concentrate the cane juice squeezed from the cow pull stone stone by heating it into a syrup (syrup) as a drink, and then further boil the syrup to make a semi-viscous syrup, which was used as an added ingredient in various foods. It is only because of the inconvenience of circulation and the shelf life that most of the ordinary people living inland in this era may not know what sugar is for generations.

In addition, in smaller jars, stone honey (coarse sugar that has been precipitated with impurities) and a little special icing (rock sugar) made from slate exposure to the sun and a little special icing (rock sugar).

According to Zhou Huai'an's knowledge, in this era, there was already a method of making icing (rock sugar) invented by monk Zou, through the process of steaming, kettle boiling, decoction, urn connection and frosting, and finally dripping and condensing into the original frosting;

Among them, the delicate top grade is called "amber frosting", and in addition to the yellowish color, it is very close to modern rock sugar. However, the corresponding effort and cost make this thing a luxury item for upper-class consumption and a tribute with the characteristics of the other party in a sense;

However, it is not too much of a problem for Zhou Huai'an; With these thousands of urns of coarse sugar as the basis, after waiting for the rough steps to settle down, it is completely possible to teach people to use the yellow mud cake decolorization method to concoct more high-quality and inexpensive high-quality sugar, and then earn the difference.

In the last smaller warehouse, there were even a lot of copper coins and cloth that were obviously used as taxes and prices, and there were about a few dozen taels of goods after they were sorted and packed. Copper coins can be said to be used to spend military expenses and pay for purchases, reward soldiers, cloth can be said to be used to buy clothes, shoes, and socks, compared with those other things that cannot be eaten and used for a while, this is undoubtedly the most valuable and meaningful harvest of this southward trip.

When he had assigned the purpose and came out again, he saw a whine in the sky, and it sounded three times in a row, but it was a temporary cry for help.

"The remnants of the stubborn enemy still need reinforcements?"

Zhou Huaian couldn't help but be surprised, after so much time, he hadn't solved the other party.

A moment later, when he rushed to the scene with his mobile direct team and apprentice team; But the murder was committed, and this battle is still stubbornly resisting, but he was born on the beach at the northeast end of the outer edge of the port city, on the headland;

Mangrove forests and other tropical trees such as camphor, kapok, and dwarf banyan, as well as rocks protruding from the sea, somewhat cover up this inconspicuous but large space sand bank tidal flat.

Because this remote corner is surrounded by the sea on one side and the steep hills of the fjord headland on the other, the view on land is obscured by ridges and vegetation, and can only be observed on the sea side; And although this corner is connected to the port city by the shores of the fjord, it is only accessible by a narrow road between the mangrove forest and the rocky beach, which is often eroded by high tides.

Therefore, it was not discovered or detected in the first time when the rebels invaded Hong Kong City; Later, a group of volunteer soldiers and pursuers fled sporadically, and the Tutuan soldiers who were not seen were ambushed and blocked in the dense forest and on the cliffs. Then he summoned backup to attack and kill step by step and advance through it, only to discover where this unique way is.

When Zhou Huai'an and his team walked out of the shade of this dense forest, they saw a large sandy beach with rocks, a somewhat messy pier and trestle bridge built on the beach, and the outline of a huge sea ship faintly clustered among the edges of the trees.

A black-edged and green-bottomed banner with the word "Qin" is fluttering in the sky, surrounded by at least hundreds of officers and soldiers scattered in this haphazard building.

Standing under it stood an officer and army general, who had thick eyebrows and tiger eyes, a wide face and a square mouth; Wearing a flying wing helmet, wearing silver-scale scarlet armor, and a silver-backed broadsword in his hand, it is not an idle identity at first glance;

I saw that he was majestic and calmly supported his subordinates, who were also very courageous, relying on the terrain to form a formation to fight in front, although he was outnumbered, he did not fall behind at all; Not far from his feet, there were already a number of corpses of the rebels who had been cut off or cut diagonally, showing liver and intestines on the ground.

"Did you catch a big fish with a lot of history?"

Zhou Huai'an said to himself in his heart.

Then I heard several deafening roars erupt behind me

"You dog thief... Ann dares to show up here. ”

"Qin Chou. Qin Datou. Take your life."

But when he saw the other party's banner and characters, Cheng Da Bite, who was originally calm and abnormally calm, or Lao Guan, who was bold and prepared, all had red eyes, and the angry leaders rushed forward with their weapons and swooped forward.

Ha, what kind of rhythm and style of painting is this, this opens the berserk mode; Zhou Huai'an was taken aback.

(End of chapter)