Chapter 228: Ignore it

Since Jiang Feng returned to Dengzhou, the Xia family's fleet had not entered the private port of Yantai Mountain Qianhusuo for more than a month, and Monk Li's fleet was naturally happy to see the situation in front of them. A piece of meat is eaten more by one person and two people or by one person.

There are not many ships that can berth in the private port of Yantai Mountain, and the small wharf can provide two medium-sized ships to load and unload at the same time.

The soldiers who used to be slaves in the Thousand Households of Yantai Mountain are now under Jiang Feng's men. Not to mention that you are full, and you eat very well, and the products in the sea are naturally abundant.

Therefore, although Jiang Feng also drove them to work, it was compared to the time when these people were tossed into slavery by Dong Hu compared to the heavens and the earth before. The situation of the officers and soldiers in other guard houses is also quite clear, as long as they are in the military households of the guard posts, in many places they are not even as good as the long-term workers in the landlord's house.

If the landlord at least kept his long-term workers fed when he was busy with farm work, most of the military households in the guard post would be in a state of semi-serfs, and he would not think about training and other things. Every day, he was driven to work hard in the fields, and most of the income was paid to officers at all levels in addition to paying taxes.

This is such an endless busyness all year round, such a military household has to take a piece of food from each family when they are fighting, and go to the battlefield to work hard, which is not as good as serfs, food and clothing may not be guaranteed, and there is still the danger of selling their lives at any time. The situation is so difficult, so don't expect such a person to have combat effectiveness or anything like that.

In the current situation, Jiang Feng has plenty of money in his hands, and after all, the private port is a shady thing, so I still hope that all the people who come into contact with him will try to keep it as secret as possible. Zhao Xiucai has always allocated a sufficient amount of grain, and as for non-staple food, these military families grow vegetables on the mountains themselves.

There are also some people who know how to go out to sea to fish in the sea to make some fresh fish, this day is a good life, so it is also quite energetic, the so-called grace and power, eat well, live well, Jiangfeng Mountain down the mountain to kill countless people, this kind of famous murder has frightened the military household on the mountain.

There are ships transporting ordnance between Tianjin Wei and Laizhou on a regular basis, and various materials for Denglai are also transported to various guard posts in Liaodong, so there are military ports of considerable scale in Laizhou and Dengzhou. Speaking of which, although these military ports have no direct jurisdiction with Jiang Feng.

But after all, he is an official in one place, and there is some connection. Jiang Feng inquired about the old craftsmen in charge of repairing the port through the door, and hired them at a great cost.

After the current Yantaishan private port snatched the Spanish ship, he didn't dare or worry about letting the ship leave the port, the difference between this ship and the lucky ship was too great, if it was seen by the official ship after it came out, it would immediately be a sensation in the government and the opposition, this was the appearance of a military ship in the hinterland of the Beijing Division, and the matter was not ordinary.

The old craftsman who knew how to build the port was a fisherman in the past, and later learned something from his elders, that is, he ate this bowl of rice, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, you have a craft in your hands, and there is no use for anything, at most you can earn some wages and spend it, and you are still shouted by the officials.

When he was pulled from home by Jiang Feng this time, the old master lived in Laizhou, and naturally he had heard of Jiang Feng's murderous name, and he came over to plan with trembling in his heart, and he didn't dare to have the idea of asking for money, and the family was crying and crying and seeing him off there, all of them felt that the old man might not be able to come back alive when he went to Yantai Mountain Qianhu this time.

As a result, Jiang Feng's Tie Ding adhered to the principle that if he invited someone to bring all of the other party's family, he was not polite, and directly hired a few big carts nearby, and in the midst of the crying and shouting of the master's family, he tied up the cart. The officials of that county town basically watched these actions with a smile on the sidelines.

Now in Denglai and the two mansions, who would dare to offend Jiang Feng, it is a tiger that has become a human!

As a result, when the master arrived in Dengzhou, he first saw a large mansion with a few entrances and exits in the city, and prepared it for them, Zhao Xiucai smiled and first gave them the silver to settle down, and then reprimanded Tie Ding. The master's children are arranged to work in various shops in the capital city of Dengzhou.

I thought that after I came, what was waiting for me was a bloody business, but no one thought that he would live a life of a human being all of a sudden. The master is also a real person, since the other party treats himself so well. Naturally, it is to work hard, Jiang Feng's requirements are not complicated, expand the port.

At the very least, it is necessary to open up a dock in the private harbor where the brigs can berth, and try not to delay the loading and unloading of ships on the docks.

Yantai Mountain is full of stones, there is no shortage of materials, but the earthwork is quite huge, and hundreds of military households on the mountain have been completely mobilized, working in shifts under the guidance of the master.

Tie Ding's family and the families of more than 1,000 recruits from the Tianjin Guard Station in the Dengzhou Battalion are mostly experienced craftsmen, and now the barracks in front of Yantai Mountain in Jiangfeng are surrounded by various blacksmith shops, but now those craftsmen who are skilled in making firearms are learning the structure of artillery and shells on the Spanish brig armed merchant ship that was snatched back. There are also authentic arquebuses held by the sailors on board.

After reading it, these skilled and enthusiastic craftsmen all followed Jiang Feng and said, whether these cannons or arquebuses, they are indeed excellent in casting and cannon shape compared to the Ming artillery, and the others are not too different. However, all those who saw this ship were surprised, one six-pounder gun, two three-pounder guns, and six Franco-engines, such firepower had never been seen in the Ming Dynasty's Fu ship.

Now in the sea battles of the Ming Dynasty, it is still a set of fire boats, jumping and slashing each other after getting close to each other, colliding and so on. But the firepower of this ship can basically send the other to the bottom of the sea when the two ships are not close, and it is obvious that the firepower of this two-masted armed merchant ship may not be on the table in the West.

The captain of this Spanish brig merchant ship, Achaia, was extremely depressed at this time, and the people who begged for a living at sea naturally did not care too much about life and death. When Jiang Feng and these vicious people forcibly seized the sailboat and ordered them to go north, Aguya also thought that after arriving at the destination, he would be cut off by someone.

But when he came to the north of the Ming Dynasty, he and his forty sailors were locked up in the mountains, and during the day there would be ordinary sailors anchored in the small port, and the brigs at anchor would give lectures under the interpreters, sometimes to some old craftsmen.

More often than not, it was given to young men who looked like soldiers, or how to handle the gun, and how to steer the ship.

However, these crew members are quite happy, although these people take more money every year than to go to the colony to serve as soldiers and stay in their country to farm, but they are also some hard-working guys, when they were caught in Yantai Mountain, they did not have any expectations for their fate at first, and they were also disgraced waiting to be hanged or cut off their heads, no one thought that they had not been attacked.

Although the food of the Ming Dynasty is not used to eating every day, it is also a lot of oil and water, and there is occasional wine, this kind of comfortable life is much more comfortable than sleeping on the ship, and only when you arrive at the port, you will overeat and gamble.

After two months in the harbor, the captain and crew were generally much whiter, and the dark complexion of the sea had disappeared, and they had truly changed back to their Caucasian appearance.

Two months after Jiang Feng returned to Dengzhou, the Xia family's fleet finally showed up in shame, although there were some storms and waves on the Bohai Sea around October, but the Xia family's fleet was still moored outside, and did not dare to enter the port to berth, so they sent a small boat into the port to see the wind.

Of course, the words are still beautiful, what to say, because Monk Li's fleet is also here to load and unload, so as not to load and unload the two families together, the actual situation, as long as the people on the ship do not dazzle, they can see that there is only one ship moored there in the private port.

Naturally, the iron-born officers guarding the port did not dare to be the masters at will, but fortunately, they had already had a plan to deal with it, and the gunners halfway up the mountain sorted out the artillery on the mountain there, and turned the plank turntable to aim at the port.

Now that it is almost the end of the year, Jiang Feng is soaking with Su Guanyue every day in Dengzhou Mansion, but it is not a boudoir matter, but Su Guanyue will sort out the accounts for the year. Coming to Dengzhou, the financial resources have been from a single restaurant at the beginning, to private salt, sea trade, looting a lot, of course, the cost is also extremely large.

Even if Zhao Xiucai led a few cronies to do the accounts together, they were a little incomprehensible, and Su Guanyue had to straighten out the bus.

The Xia family's fleet had to re-enter the port for such a long time, and the officers stationed in the port couldn't be the master at all, but the people on the small boat who followed ashore there said to wait a little longer, and then send someone to report to Jiang Feng in Dengzhou City, and it was up to him to decide.

In addition to the forts on the hill, there were always learning soldiers in the brigs, and they also received orders to be on guard, and the ten guns on the ship were all moving slowly in the direction of the entrance to the private port.

The person who went ashore to inquire about the Xia family used to often deal with the soldiers on the shore, and both sides were extremely friendly in the past, but after what happened last time, this time they all exchanged with a smile. But this person's mind is not on this, and he is always looking around.

He only pouted when he saw the guns halfway up the mountain, but his face turned pale when he saw the brigs parked in the harbor, especially the guns on board.

The sea near Denglai was in late autumn and early winter, the wind and waves were very strong, and Monk Li was in the private harbor of the Qianhu House in Yantai Mountain, and his fleet was moored twice, which made him quite satisfied, and now the ships of Li Guangtou's family are anchored in some familiar private ports in Shandong and northern Jiangsu.

Monk Li is quite content, and now he has purchased an industry in Dengzhou, and he is leisurely preparing for next year's big job, and now he is happily preparing for the people from his hometown in Fujian.

Jiang Feng received the news in the evening, at this time Zhang Liang's parents came from Jingshi to see their son, although Jiang Feng's generation and Zhang Liang's father Zhang Zhenping had a relationship, but after all, he had made friends in Jingshi's Jinyi Guard. simply did it himself, feasting Zhang Zhen and his wife.

Dengzhou Jiangfeng's mansion has its own high-level cook, Wang Qinian wrote to Jiang Feng and said that Bao Fatzi said several times that he would not make money in the restaurant, and would rather go to Jiangfeng's mansion to be a domestic cook, so he was happy in his heart.

Zhang Zhen hasn't seen his son for three years, but there is no story about his children who haven't seen him for a long time, and he looks haggard. Zhang Zhen is the home of generations of military officers. Knowing how amazing it is for Jiang Feng to make such a scene in Dengzhou now, he originally thought that he was a small hundred, but Jiang Feng was already a third-grade commander, and the status of the two sides was very far apart, and there was definitely no politeness as before.

Who would have thought that Jiang Feng would actually set up a family banquet, which is a great glory in the Ming Dynasty, where the concept of hierarchy is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Zhang Zhen was naturally grateful.

Zhao Xiucai, Yang Da, Yang Shishi, and the Liu brothers were all present, and Zhang Liang's mother was accompanied by Liu Fangrui and the Su sisters in the inner hall. Jiang Feng has been working hard for so long, there are few such lively scenes at home, and Jiang Feng's subordinates are also usually practicing and busy, and everyone rarely has such a happy time to get together.

Jiang Feng also rose, and cooked the best sea fish raw and thinly sliced, blanched them in boiling water, and then prepared a flavor sauce and stirred it on the table, which was not a fresh way to eat, but won a burst of applause because of the excellent sauce. The atmosphere is really good.

The soldier who delivered the letter was worried in his heart, for fear that he would disturb the family banquet of the commander. However, Jiang Feng didn't lose his temper, but smiled and arranged for the housekeeper to entertain the soldier who came overnight, and as for the matter of entering the port, he didn't pay attention to it.

The Xia family must have known how long it would take to go back and forth to Fucheng in Yantai Mountain, and after the night came down, Jiang Feng was so drunk that Jiang Feng heard the report that there were guests from the Jade Building outside who asked to see him. Jiang Feng raised his eyebrows, then turned his head and whispered:

"Ignore it, let them wait there!"