Shandong.

Dalaoshan Bay, because of the advantage of not freezing in winter, has become a new port.

Build a port along the bay, because of the port city.

The new city is called Qingdao.

In the past, Dagang Donglai Port was closed for several months because of the frozen ice every winter. Luo Chengzhen, guarding Liaodong, relied heavily on the route between Liaodong and Shandong, and could not bear the inability to navigate for several months.

The two ports of Lushun and Dalian are ice-free ports, so Luo Cheng asked Luo Gui to develop Qingdao Port.

After the construction of this new port, in the winter and spring, the fleet of Donglai Port moved here to continue shipping with Liaodong. Cattle, sheep, horses, fur herbs, and slaves from Liaodong continued to move south.

Then the immigrants from the Central Plains, as well as various handicraft goods, were continuously transported to Liaodong.

The Bohai Bay route is extremely busy, and the port of Qingdao has also prospered because of it.

Originally, there were only a few fishermen in Dalaoshan Bay, the land here is barren, the population is sparse, and there are no special products. But in recent years, Luo Cheng has been prosperous in Liaodong because of the tea and horse trade, so people have also begun to grow tea in Qingdao, which has excellent sunshine.

The quality of the tea here is not bad, although it cannot be compared with Wuyi Mountain and other famous tea producing areas in Jianghuai, but it also has a great advantage, that is, it is close to the seaport, and it can be quickly transported to Liaodong, which is an important place to sell tea.

Not only is the tender tea sold well before the Ming Dynasty, even if it is the tea of the Ming Dynasty, or even the leaves of the big tea tree, it can also be picked down to make tea cakes and tea bricks, and it is still easy to sell in the border city of eastern Liaoning.

Because of this tea, in the past two years, tea trees have been planted everywhere in the mountains around Qingdao, tea gardens have been built, various tea workshops have been built, and countless people have become tea farmers.

Many of these tea farmers were originally people from the plains along the canal, but now they have moved here to grow tea and make tea, and their lives have begun to be stable.

Others were slaves from Liaodong and other places.

Qingdao Port also has a major pillar industry, which is now the slave trade.

It was no longer only the Goguryeo and Turkic slaves captured by the Zhongwu army from the Liaodong war, but also many Tatar slaves, Silla slaves, Baekje slaves, and even Dongying slaves.

Because of the large volume of slave trade in Qingdao, a large number of merchants gathered here.

When there is demand, it will naturally facilitate buying and selling.

Many merchants began to form slave hunting teams and went to the coast of Baekje Silla and other places to capture people as slaves, but some merchants were very clever and directly took the goods of the Central Plains to trade there, but mainly only traded slaves.

In the face of huge interests, many merchants from Baekje, Dongying, Silla, and Intar, or some robbers, or some officials and strongmen, took the initiative to cooperate with the slave merchants in the Central Plains.

They find ways to sell criminals to merchants as slaves, or simply rob them.

In order to get some good things such as swords, armor or porcelain and silk sent by the Central Plains, some tribes began to attack the hostile tribes, arresting people as slaves and selling them to merchants in the Central Plains.

Originally, although some of the Ya tribes were feuding, although there were contradictions, they were not desperate every day. But since the slave traders had gone, the wars between the tribes were no longer for glory or enmity, but only for profit.

Even tribes that were not enemies in the past began to take people captive from each other.

The slave trade was extremely profitable.

Every day, the slaves traded in Qingdao Port are all recorded in a thousand times.

The Great Sui was a dynasty that supported the slave trade, and now in the era of war, the slave trade is even more popular.

Wealthy people bought slaves to train as guards, or used them as industrial workers and farmers.

Especially in Shandong, there are many shipyards here, as well as a lot of gold mines, shipyards, mines need a large number of workers, in addition to a lot of fishing factories, tea farms, also need a lot of manpower.

The prosperity of the shipbuilding industry has brought about the expansion of these industrial chains, such as lumber yards, lumber yards, and iron workshops.

A few years ago.

In the cold winter months like this, this Dalaoshan Bay will only be quiet, and fishermen will be at home baking fires and weaving nets, or repairing boats.

But right now, it's busy.

Lumber mills, shipyards, iron works, and sail mills are all working at full speed, and countless workers are busy.

And because of the large number of factories and workers gathered here, there are also many shops, restaurants, restaurants and restaurants in the surrounding area, and even in the official registration of Qingdao City, there are more than 1,000 women engaged in the Qinglou industry in the entire port city, and these people are all required to register, hold a license to make a living, and are required to pay rouge money.

"The ship is coming, the ship is coming!"

A young child trotted to a green building and shouted to the turtle man.

"How many boats have come, big boats and small boats?" Gui Gong asked, according to the requirements of the government, he wore a green hat on his head and a green sweat towel around his waist.

"It's a fleet, a big fleet, a lot of fleets, hundreds of them, and they're about to enter port."

Hundreds?

The eyes of the cuckold turtle widened, in this kind of ghost weather, although the port still does not stop, but there are not as many ships as in the past.

Therefore, everyone is looking forward to the ship, and as soon as the ship comes, everyone is vying to grab the guests who come off the ship.

Ship owners, captains, and sailors, these people often run in the storms of the sea, so they are also the ones who make more money and are willing to spend money.

In order to compete for guests, the turtles even bought information from those children, as long as they came to report the news of the ship's entry into the port, they could get a reward of a few Kaiyuan Tongbao.

Most of these children are the children of port workshop workers, and they usually do some things in the port, such as selling newspapers, selling snacks, or running errands and so on.

Gui Gong took out two copper Kaiyuan and gave them to the child.

But the young man still stretched out his hand, "Hundreds of boats, this is a big business, and the whole port city can make a lot of money." ”

The turtle prince reluctantly gave him three more, "Take it, little cub." ”

The young man who got the five-piece bronze Kaiyuan laughed and ran away.

While hurting the five pennies, the turtle man hurriedly went in to report the good news to the landlord.

"Then hurry up and let the girls put on their makeup, and take the carriage to the port to greet them, if you can pull a few generous gold owners, it will be cool." The landlord is a woman who used to be an old bustard in Luoyang City, not too old, and the charm still exists.

At first, she was also a beauty in a green building, but later when she was older, she washed her hands and turned into an old bustard, and then came here to open this green building, recruiting a large number of girls from the Central Plains, and the business was very prosperous.

This old bustard has even been to Lushun and Dalian several times to investigate, and is planning to open a branch there as well.

When the old bustard came to the dock with the girls dressed in flowers, he happened to see countless ships entering the port with white sails.

On that side of the sail, there was a tiger roaring.

"Ouch, it turned out that the loyal army crossed the sea to Hainan, and the brothers of the loyal army are the richest and most generous, never hurt the girls, and never give money after playing, girls, they all laughed for a while." The old bustard was overjoyed.

Turtle Gong was sent down to find out the news.

After a while, the turtle man returned.

"It took two silver tigers."

A silver tiger is one or two silver Kaiyuan coins, five copper coins, and two silver tigers are ten dollars, which are enough to buy two good-looking little girls to slowly recuperate.

"What's the matter?" The old bustard didn't feel sorry for the two silver tigers, after all, the news that he could spend two silver tigers would definitely be worth the price.

"It is the Left Army of the Loyal Army, and it is also the first army of the original Loyal Army, which is led by the sixth brother of His Royal Highness the King of Qin, Zhao Guogong, a full 24,000 men and horses, a whole army, and Li Jing, Shan Xiongxin, Cheng Yanjin, Xue Wanche and other generals of the Loyal Army."