The town is not yet comparable to the starting point, most of the towns are bungalows, with only a few two- or three-story buildings, but they are quite popular.

More than 80,000 people gathered in Dagukou to carry out construction in the starting point city in Tianjin, and the impact on the local area was huge.

The deepest victim is the Changlu Salt Farm, so many stove households have run away, and the output of the Changlu Salt Farm is shrinking day by day, which is still a problem.

Stove households are similar to military households and artisan households, which are registered, and can only be stove households for generations. Although the imperial court of this Changlu Salt Farm has set up a salt patrol imperial history here, in fact, the salt affairs have been replaced by salt merchants.

Changlu Yanchang sent people to the Tianjin port area to arrest the stove households, but they were driven away by the marines.

So this lawsuit went to He Shishou, the governor of Tianjin, and He Shishou sent a piece of impeachment to Beijing, but it was sunk in the sea. At that time, the imperial court was planning to eradicate the starting point city, so this kind of thing should not be used to startle the snake. It wasn't until the imperial army broke and sank in the sand under the starting point city that He Shishou knew that the starting point city was not easy to mess with, and the matter was over.

It is precisely because these stove households have no worries that they are more courageous, the wind of stove households fleeing is more intense, and the salt merchants have suffered heavy losses.

In fact, the starting point city has been a saline-alkali land near Dagang, according to the drawings provided by Wang Yue to build an evaporation pond, a crystallization pond, etc., the salt field of the starting point city is about to be completed, in addition to the salt field, there is also a salt processing plant.

The salt drying method has existed since the Song Dynasty, and the salt production areas of the Ming Dynasty do not all use boiled salt, and there are a large number of salt drying fields in the coastal areas of Guangdong and Hainan Island. The main reason why the Changlu salt field adopts the boiling salt method is actually because of profits.

However, these salt drying plants in the south do not have machinery such as cement and pumping machines, so the efficiency is low, and the scale is not large. The salt field in the starting point city not only has a large output, but also has to purify the sea salt, so once the salt field is completed, it will inevitably defeat the Changlu salt field.

The gradual prosperity of the commerce of Tianjin Port was driven by the workers who worked for the starting point city, and now the commerce of Tianjin Port is no longer just to serve these workers, because foreign trade has improved.

At present, more than a dozen cargo ships from other places have been berthed at the civil wharf, the largest of which is the Daifuku ship, most of which come from the south. Wang Yue's trip to Hirado, Japan last year was to attract foreign merchants, and while selling goods in Hirado, it was also intended to attract merchants to trade in Tianjin.

Most of the maritime merchants in Japan were merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and they came to Tianjin for the goods of the starting city.

The trading company set up a branch in Tianjin, and also built more than a dozen exchanges for the trading of bulk goods, and the warehouses near the wharf were used to store goods.

In the past few days, a wealthy businessman has come to Tianjin Port, and he has almost seen everything he buys, not only in large quantities, but also in cash and silver transactions.

"His grandmother's, I thought that the 500,000 taels of silver I brought was enough to purchase, but I didn't think that the good things here were not just cloth!" This man was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, dressed in brocade clothes, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, dark skin, and a strong figure, but there was a scar on his left forehead, which looked hideous and terrifying, and he was not a good person at first glance.

Next to this person was a young man, dressed in green clothes, wearing a square scarf, dressed as a writer, and looked to be fourteen or fifteen years old.

"Third uncle, we've bought almost everything in the past few days, so let's go to Beijing early."

It turned out that the young man was Zheng Zhilong's third brother Zheng Zhibao, and this young man was Zheng Chenggong in the future, and now his name is Zheng Sen.

The situation of the battle between Zheng Lian and the Tiance army navy in Hirado has reached Nan'an, Fujian.

The Zheng family suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Hirado and had a heavy responsibility. After repeated consideration, Zheng Lian, who knew that he couldn't drag it on, had to go back to Nan'an in person to ask Zheng Zhilong for his guilt.

The Zheng family started by the sea, and the interests of the sea are the core interests, and in the waters near the Ming Dynasty, any force that threatens its own maritime security is the target of attack. In particular, the Japanese route, which occupies the majority of the Zheng family's financial resources, cannot be missed.

The Tiance Army and Navy did not take the Zheng family seriously, and almost completely annihilated the Zheng family's left-behind fleet in Japan, which Zheng Zhilong could not tolerate.

However, Zheng Lian described how huge the steel giant ships of the Tiance Army Navy were, not only windless and automatic, but also extremely fast. He also described the long range and fierce firepower of the artillery fire of the Tiance Army and Navy. Zheng Zhilong can't fully believe it, because there are too many things beyond cognition, and once there is too much information that cannot be understood, the credibility of what Zheng Lian said is greatly reduced, and it basically becomes an exculpation.

Although Fujian and Jingshi are separated by thousands of miles, Zheng Zhilong also knows sporadically about the situation of the Tiance Army, which is a newly rising force, and it is said that Jiannu is not an opponent.

The Tiance Army has a navy, and its combat power is extraordinary, but Zheng Zhilong does not think that the Tiance Army Navy can withstand his own blow. Even if it is the Ming Dynasty now, it is not as exaggerated as the hundred-year navy, but the ten-year navy still needs it.

In Zheng Zhilong's cognition, the Tiance Army Navy has been in force for a short time, and it is definitely not his opponent. With only a few large ships, this navy defeated dozens of large and small warships of its own Japanese fleet, and if it was allowed to develop, it would inevitably threaten the maritime interests of the Zheng family.

However, both the Tiance Army and the Zheng family were nominally vassals of the Ming Dynasty, so the Zheng family could not crusade against the Tiance Army Navy with great fanfare, so they could only pretend to be pirates.

Zheng Zhilong was planning how to avoid people's eyes and ears and eliminate the Tiance Army Navy in one fell swoop, when the news of the Tiance Army's war to aid Korea came one after another.

The victory of the Tiance army in the battle to aid Korea made Zheng Zhilong more cautious. The war to aid Korea was a cross-sea expedition, which means that the Tiance Army already had the ability to project troops across the sea over long distances.

The land combat ability of the Tiance Army has been proven from Jiannu, so it is estimated that his own army is not the opponent of the Tiance Army on land, and the Zheng family's current base camp is in Fujian. If the Zheng family and the Tiance army tear their faces, Nan'an, Fujian Province may be attacked by the Tiance army on land, do they still have to move the base camp to the desert island of Dayuan?

Zheng Lian returned from Japan and brought a lot of goods from the starting city. Although the Zheng family's main source of income comes from collecting protection fees, the side business of sea trade is also doing it.

Anyone with some business vision can see the huge business potential of the goods in the starting point. In order to find out the reality of the Tiance Army, and in order to purchase novel goods from the starting point city, Zheng Zhilong sent his third brother Zheng Zhibao to Tianjin.

Zheng Sen, who was studying, had long longed to go to Beijing to see the world, so he begged his father to go north with his third uncle. Zheng Zhilong thought that now that he was an official in the same dynasty as Wang Yue, there would be no danger if he didn't tear his face, so he agreed.

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