Just when Yang Qing was wondering where the Datong Society would transport the Japanese people he bought, in a reed bush on the south side of the Haihe River, Chen Tai, a professional snakehead, was looking at the river in the distance suspiciously......

There, a huge ship was riding the tide.

"Red-haired ghost?"

He muttered to himself.

At this time, Dengzhou has also opened a port, after all, the north also needs a port, under the unanimous request of those Shandong representatives of the four people, Dengzhou officially opened a port as a treaty port half a year ago, followed by a number of Dutch merchant ships arrived. However, there are too few materials suitable for them in Shandong, there is no tea, no sugar, only very little silk, but porcelain is more popular with the Dutch, although it is not as good as a few ports in the south, but it is also considered that Shandong has entered the world trade circle.

Chen Tai had seen this kind of European-style sailing ship flying the tricolor flag in Dengzhou.

But he didn't think much of it.

Although the Beiyang Navy forbade foreign merchant ships to enter the Bohai Sea and the slave trade, it was impossible to really prohibit this kind of thing, although the latter also did not have all kinds of goods that the Dutch wanted, but they had a large number of things that the wealthy dignitaries of the Jiangnan family liked.

Like ginseng, deer antler velvet and the like.

Dolgon's thirst for food also made them extremely cheap.

Where is profitable, there is risky.

In particular, to do this kind of trade, it was necessary to break through the blockade line of the Ming army on the Changshan Islands, and it was necessary to have fast ships and crews who were very good at navigation, and the Dutch who went out of the island undoubtedly met both of these conditions. There are always a few successful ships a year, carrying grain to break through the line of the Changshan Islands and enter the Bohai Sea, and then go straight to the mouth of Dagu and enter the Haihe River under the response of Jiannu's sailors. They used the cheap rice they purchased in the Japanese country to trade in the military grain city for ginseng and deer antler velvet, rushed across the Changshan Islands at full speed with light loads and returned to Nagasaki, and then traded to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to exchange for cane sugar. If it is intercepted by the Ming army, it is better to say that the trek will go to Dengzhou instead, anyway, it is nothing more than to make less money, which is that the generals of the Beiyang Naval Division actually understand it.

But the Dutch are not ignorant either.

In fact, not only the Dutch, but also the Ming Dynasty's own merchant ships also did this, and it is impossible to say that the generals of the Beiyang Naval Division are all honest and honest.

In fact, even Yang Qing knows.

No one can guarantee in front of interests, he still understands the truth that when the water is clear, there is no fish, this kind of trade is not enough to worry about, the sailor generals have extra money, the price of these things in the southern market is stable, and the little grain that Dolgon gets is not even a hanging, at most it is better than nothing, in short, it will not affect his strategy at all.

So he doesn't care.

Of course, Chen Tai didn't know that much, but he didn't have any interest in it, he watched the merchant ship go away in the summer reeds, and soon the already low sun in the distance completely disappeared into the horizon.

Twilight finally covered the land.

"Let's go!"

He beckoned back and whispered.

In the reeds behind him, ten young men and more than twenty old and weak women and children came out of their hiding places like hares after an eagle had flown over, and with a frightened expression on their faces, they followed him quietly among the reeds, accompanied by the mosquitoes around him, and soon came to a water's edge. But they did not dare to go out, and all of them hid in the reeds, looking with wary eyes at the other side of the water, where a black streak lay horizontally, and protrusions were evenly arranged on this black, and on each protrusion there was a flicker of fire......

It was a great wall.

A Great Wall stretches south from Shanhaiguan to the mouth of the Daqing River.

This is Dolgon's version of the relocation.

Just like the thirty-mile uninhabited area of Kang Mazi in the original history, in order to block the continuous flight of the common people, Dolgon built such a great wall ten miles from the coast, using earthen walls, piers, and even internal water surfaces to block the inland and coastal areas. It's just that an arc is turned out in the north to be used for drying salt in the Changlu Salt Field, but coastal fishing is strictly prohibited, except for the two naval battalion warships in Dagukou and Beitang, other sails are not allowed to go to sea.

After all, such a population loss is also shocking!

Chen Tai continued to wait.

Soon it was completely dark, but the water ahead was still evident in the starlight.

"Quick, tie it around your waist with a rope, string it one by one, follow me, don't go the wrong way, this water is full of silt, you can't get out if you sink in, no one can talk on the road, even if there is a snake in the water, don't talk if you step on anything under your feet!"

He instructed carefully.

The people behind were chaotic and busy, and several women couldn't hold back their fear and sobbed.

But no one escaped.

At this time, Beizhili had completely realized slavery, and the slave owners who were transformed into gentry had absolute power over the peasants, and the power of life and death became a common phenomenon. Those gentry who are full of benevolence and morality are holding the Four Books and Five Classics, and are comfortably enjoying the good life of being a groom every night. Below them, the robes resembled the samurai class of the Wa Kingdom, although they were also domestic slaves, but as professional soldiers, they did not produce and were completely supported by the peasants.

It's a tough fight.

After all, they don't do anything but fight, their equipment is the best, they don't have to worry about starvation, and many of them are even equipped with war horses.

They maintained the right to rule for the slave owners.

So if any of them has a crush on a certain peasant woman, it would be harmless to have to sleep, anyway, it is impossible for the master to punish them for this little thing, so these wrappers live a very leisurely life.

In a sense, the Qing Dynasty has begun to transition from slavery to feudalism, and the slave owners only bear the prescribed amount of taxes, and the tax is handed over to Dolgon, and all the power in the tax area is up to them. If Dorgon is similar to the monarchs of Europe, the gentry who paid taxes were the knights, and the garments were their servants. However, the standing army still existed, the Eight Banners still maintained a strength of 200,000, and the Mongols, as vassals of the Qing Dynasty, controlled the Xuanda and Rehe pastoral areas, and sent 20,000 cavalry every year to defend the border, and the Yanmen Pass was its core pastoral area. In short, the current composition of our Qing Dynasty is nominally a small Fulin, in fact, Dolgon's Eight Banners slave owner group, the Mongolian vassals are actually a small slave owner group, and the Han gentry are also a combination of a bunch of slave owner groups.

Eight Flags Group provides protection.

The Han Gentry Group is responsible for providing the salary.

The Mongol princely group was responsible for providing war horses and assisting in the defense.

Then the common people are really in dire straits.

At the slightest chance, those ordinary peasants would escape from this hell, and the earthen wall in front of them, which was less than two feet high, could not stop them at all. Soon everyone was ready, Chen Tai was the first to walk into the water, this artificially retained water area outsiders did not know the depth at all, only a professional guide like him knew how to pass. As for the places where there is no water, there are also them, but all the roads have gentry-clothed patrols, once caught, the men are sent to the coal mines to dig to death, and the women are sent to the barracks to serve as soldiers, and if they want to escape, they can only take the waterway.

Chen Tai led this small team and slowly moved forward in waist-deep water.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of reeds and cattails around.

They walked in the water for most of an hour before they re-landed on land, but by this time they were so close to the wall that they could even see people walking around with torches.

Chen Tai's hand pressed back.

Then he lay down like a demonstration, crawling in the not too tall wild grass, and everyone behind him followed him, crawling carefully, even the children who followed, were gagged by their parents, and followed by the rope to drag and crawl in the dark. Chen Tai, who was at the front, had just climbed out a few steps, and in the darkness he held down a snake, and the latter bit him on the hand, he endured the pain and grabbed it and threw it out, and then continued to move forward regardless of the wound.

It's just a water snake here.

Half an hour later they climbed to the base of a city wall, and Chen Tai groped in the dark, quickly touching the mark he had made, and then pulled a shovel from his waist to dig out the buried rope ladder.

The next thing is to wait.

I don't know how long he waited, but the overhead patrol was estimated to have gone to sleep, so he untied the rope around his waist and called those young men, who attached themselves to the somewhat inclined city wall, and set up two human ladders on the six downs and two up, and lifted the lightest one up to climb the city wall less than five meters. The latter walked to the other side with the rope, dragged it slowly from this side, found the fixed stake reserved by Chen Tai on the other side, and then dragged the rope ladder up, and tied the tow rope there. This side began to climb up, and soon everyone climbed up, Chen Tai took back the rope ladder, and on the other side, he was dragged by the young man, and the old and weak women and children climbed down one by one. After finishing the work, he and the last three young men threw the rope ladder outward, climbed the city wall one by one and fell directly, and the people below set up the human ladder again, and in this way they finally climbed over the city wall.

Then he led them to run wildly towards a tidal gully in the distance, and it was not until they burrowed into the reeds near the tidal gully that they finally stopped breathing.

Then a little fire came slowly.

"Quick, get up!"

Chen Tai said as he kicked the exhausted fugitives.

Then he lit a small torch.

The light of the fire immediately came closer, and a small rowboat appeared in the full tide of the water, and the small boat with a very shallow draft soon came to the shore, and everyone waded into the water to board the boat as fast as they could.

"What's wrong with your hand?"

The boat boss looked at Chen Tai's hand and said.

"Mada, I caught a snake when I was crawling, but fortunately it wasn't dust!"

Chen Tai said with a depressed face.

"Haha, be happy, there are more than 30 people, and one person will be awarded 20 taels!"

The boat boss patted him on the shoulder and said.

Their main income is not these fugitives, and they are happy to take the latter even if they don't pay the money, because there is a twenty yuan bonus for picking up one person, and Chen Tai gets one-third as the guide, which is the reward for his life. At that moment, the oarsmen rowed their oars, and the boat, carrying more than thirty fugitives, quickly turned its bow and sailed down the tide of the water, which had just begun to recede, to the end of the ravine, and threw itself into the vast expanse of the angry sea in the distance.