The fifth volume destroys the barbarians and sweeps the world

In the land of Liaodong, the two once fought side by side, and they not only shared honor and disgrace, but even entrusted their lives.

Yin Yuang didn't think about Li Xiang's recommendation, and said directly: "Boss, come to two." ”

"You're in for a treat?" Yin Yuang's personality is still a good young man who is relatively sunny and cheerful, and he is joking with Li Xiang with a smile at the moment.

Li Xiang said with a smile: "Two snacks are also worth saying, I'll invite as many as you want." ”

Soon the oysters were fried in two, and on a small silver plate were fried golden oysters, and the leeks were cut into knuckle sizes.

Fried with oysters, sweet potato flour, and eggs, the taste is very soft and delicious, and most importantly, it has a particularly tender feeling.

"Sweet potato flour?"

"We came here in Fujian and sweet potatoes much earlier than in the north." Li Xiang smiled and said, "This thing is not only high, but also sweet!"

The weather here is hot, there is a lot of rain, and the sweet potatoes grow much better than in the north. ”

"It's really sweet." Yin Yuang felt the freshness and tenderness on his tongue, and there was indeed a feeling of sweetness.

Even if people in this era are well-off, they don't necessarily have much sugar to eat, the grain is not enough to eat, and the salt is a controlled product, not to mention a higher level of white sugar?

Sweet potatoes can be eaten sweetly, no wonder they have become very popular in places like Fujian, and many people take the initiative to plant them, without the need to desperately persuade the people like in the north, and it took decades to become popular.

continued to taste the food in his hand, and after he finished eating, he put down the small disc and praised: "You Fujian people are really generous, and you use a silver plate to eat a snack." ”

"When it comes to local wealth, Fuzhou is okay, especially after the Marquis of Qin came."

Li Xiang said indifferently: "But of course this kind of small shop is to be fake and good-looking, this plate is just silver-plated." ”

"What other great snacks?" Yin Yuang smiled: "Hurry up and take me to try it, we have limited time." ”

"And." Yin Yuang said again: "When you kid comes to Datong in the future, I should tell you to take a good look in the mirror." ”

"Why?" Li Xiang was stunned when he heard this, and then understood what Yin Yuang meant.

"It's been less than three years." Li Xiang smiled smugly and grinned, "I feel like I've changed, I've become very powerful." ”

"Turn into a bird." Yin Yuang laughed and said: "It's still like that bird, but I've seen more and become introverted." ”

"Then you say that people like me are good or bad?"

"Of course." Yin Yuang said categorically: "Fame and fortune, who doesn't want it?"

I want it too! In the words of adults, this must be a turbulent era, isn't it a good thing for everyone to be a little aggressive? ”

Li Xiang smiled slightly when he listened, his demeanor returned to calm, and said: "While there is still some time, I will take you to eat a few more things, and when I go to Taiwan, it is very desolate over there, and it is not easy to eat good things!" ”

Ahead of the narrow road, the city gate, which was more than three feet high, was not far away, and a small group of soldiers was guarding the city gate, making a vigilant appearance, and the stalls and pedestrians near the city gate were driven away.

The people at the city gate kept talking and discussing, although they were all Fuzhou dialects, fortunately, Li Xiang could understand them.

Fuzhou dialect belongs to the eastern Fujian dialect, affecting more than ten prefectures and dozens of counties, and belongs to the mainstream dialect of Fujian.

Then there are various dialects such as Hokkien, and the dialect system is very complex.

In contrast, the dialect of Shanxi is almost the same throughout the province, and even if there are some differences, it is not big and does not affect communication.

In the area of Fujian and Zhejiang, there may be a dialect in a county, and it is really difficult to fully understand everyone's speech.

Of course, this situation will bring inconvenience to communication, and those who can speak and write will become the local elite, generally the official gentry class.

If an outside official wants to gain a successful foothold, not only must he not offend these people, but on the contrary, he must rely on them very much.

This is also the best reason and opportunity for the gentry and the officials to collude and set up their hands to override the chief officials to control the localities.

Li wanted to act as a translator, eating and stopping along the way, and it was time for Yin Yuang to act.

Mawei Port, now the largest naval base of the Dingnan Army.

Yin Yuang and the others were on five warships of the Dingnan Army, which were used to protect their merchant ships on the route to Japan.

The sea in these years was a hundred times more dangerous than the Somali waters in later generations, and there was not much danger in navigating the route to Japan, but the danger came from pirates at sea.

Even ordinary merchant ships that seem harmless to humans and animals often become pirates once they find out that they have no power to protect themselves.

A merchant ship carries at least about 100,000 cargo, and grabbing it is the full profit.

Coupled with the cost of a ship as little as 20,000 or 30,000 taels of silver, and as much as 50,000 or 60,000 taels, snatching down ships and goods is worth the profits of running at sea for a year.

The warships were all Chinese-style warships, with very little artillery loading, mainly relying on the infantry and a small number of artillery to fight, and the tonnage of each ship was only about 100 tons.

The warships are based on the level of place names, the Ningde is less than 100 tons, the Fuzhou is more than 100 tons, and the merchant ships are named A, B, C and D as the naming standard.

"Did we build this boat ourselves, or did we buy it?"

Yin Yuang asked curiously.

The captain was a middle-aged man in his forties, typical of a southerner, with small eyes, a flat nose, a darker complexion, and a shorter stature.

People in coastal areas are also located in a warm place, and their height has always been less than that of northerners, and even in later generations, when everyone is almost nourished, the average height of southerners is worse than that of northerners.

But on the sea boat, Yin Yuang and other tall northerners were obviously not adaptable, standing on the side of the ship, staggering, and feeling cramped everywhere they walked.

The captain and a dozen sailors were nimble, and they loaded the docks, and the large bags of porcelain and tea were packed in chests and baskets, and soon filled the ships.

The sailors and coolies on the docks were constantly carrying goods, their clothes soaked with sweat, while the captain and a few lieutenants climbed up and down to inspect the cables and urge them to replenish fresh water and food.

The captain's name is Chen Qigui, and he looks like a shrewd and outgoing character, and after hearing Yin Yuang's question, he proudly replied in an official dialect with a thick southern accent:

"I built it myself, and I went into the water at the end of last year."

"This ship isn't big, and it's taken so long?"

"The wood needs to be dried." The captain had a smiling face from a layman, but of course his attitude was still very good:

"Build it yourself, although you invite veterans who are used to building ships, but the wood has to be dried, and then slowly built according to the drawings, from the keel to the cabin to the deck mast cable, it is not easy to build a ship."

Yin Yuang was indeed a little surprised, and only then did he realize that he had broken into a completely new realm.

Not to mention anything else, just when Li Xiang and the others were helping, the knots tied by the sailors and others, he couldn't even understand them, those tricks, the speed of the hands, the blink of the eyelids, dozens of knots were tied.

Li Xiang saw Yin Yuang's face and said with a smile: "What's the matter, it's novel, right?"

This knotting alone is not good in a few years. Sailors not only had to tie knots, but also had to climb the mast to raise and lower the sails.

The captain has more to know, sailing, steering, judging the weather and wind according to the hydrology, remembering the course, beware of pirates, as well as the ship's plagues and fresh water.

Sailors who slashed each other with knives were crammed into such a small boat for dozens of days, eating spoiled food and drinking water that had been stored for dozens of days.

Don't think that sailors don't get dizzy when they shake every day, they will be dizzy when the waves are big, and they will vomit.

It's that they are used to it, they don't feel the wind and waves, but when they get off the boat, they step on the solid ground, but they feel dizzy for a while, and they have to adapt for a while to be normal. ”

"It's not easy!" Yin Yuang didn't raise his tone, but everyone could hear his solemnity.

Chen Qigui's impression of Yin Yuang improved, and he said at the moment: "Good to teach General Yin to know that we have stored a large amount of big wood.

It's all wood from Guangdong, and I'm afraid there are already tens of thousands, enough to build a whole fleet.

Our Fujian, even if the mountains are bald, there is no way, we have been building ships for hundreds of years. ”

Li Xiang smiled: "Lao Chen is chattering when he speaks, I saw him in my early years, and he is like this." ”

Chen Qigui smiled: "This can't be done, villains are used to it."

Unfortunately, most of the wood is pine and birch, and the wood is generally used for shipbuilding, and teak or nanmu is used for more particular.

If Hongmaoyi ships ships, ninety percent of them are made of oak, and the ships are much better than ours. ”

Chen Qigui said: "We have used the drying room to dry wood, which costs a lot, but it is really worth it."

If you don't dry the wood and air dry it naturally, in fact, the wood will be used for at least two years.

If you are in a hurry, the wood is not dry, and it will fall apart after soaking in the sea water for a long time, and a boat will not be used for a year, which is really a waste. ”

Yin Yuang said thoughtfully: "If you don't come here in Fujian and listen to it in person, you really don't know this." ”

Li Xiang said at this time: "Why don't you load iron tools and Zheng family's goods?" ”

"Didn't we be ordered to pick you up and take you to Taiwan?" Chen Qigui said with a smile:

"If you want to go to Xiamen or Dengzhou to load goods, the delay will be too long, and you have to maintain and get off the ship.

Come directly from Taiwan to pick up people, or pretend to be the goods here, and send you to Bengang, and we will go directly to Hirado. ”

"I heard that now the ship is also going to Luzon and Batavia?"

"Also to Malacca." Chen Qigui said: "It's to try the cabin line and bring newcomers." ”

Yin Yuang's face was contemplative, and he said, "It seems that if there is no massive amount of funds, this navy really can't afford to play, right?" ”

"Yes." Chen Qigui said: "Our main profit is all kinds of materials, but there are more in Japan, the price has dropped some, and the shipment is not as fast as before."

Therefore, if you want to run to the South Seas, the silver will definitely be earned.

Eighteen merchant ships carry at least one million iron objects a year, as well as more than one million other goods to Japan, and the profit must be more than several hundred thousand.

But apart from the return of some principal, the rest of the silver was spent.

Shipbuilding, drying wood, recruiting sailors, recruiting shipbuilders, navy officers and sailors of Hongmaoyi, opening schools, reclamation, silver, flowing out like seawater......"

This Chen Qigui was really verbose, Yin Yu smiled when he heard it, and then looked around him, all the soldiers who came from Datong had already vomited.

Yin Yuang also felt dizzy for a while, in fact, he felt fine at first, but he was a little shaky and trembling.

He felt much better when he held the side of the boat, but it had been more than half an hour since the boat had been in place, and he couldn't see the shore clearly.

At this time, my feet began to go limp, my hair was dizzy, and a feeling of nausea came up from my stomach.

Looking at Li Xiang and the others again, they were still chatting and laughing, and they looked like they had nothing to do.

"It's always difficult to sail today, no less than the ice and snow in Liaodong......" Yin Yuang only thought of this, and then began to vomit.

……

"I've seen Marquis Qin! They have already set off. ”

In the Governor's Palace, the guards bowed to the ground and kowtowed to Qin Haoming to say goodbye.

"Well, that's good."

A smile crossed the corner of Qin Haoming's mouth, nodded, walked to the map of coastal defense, and began to ponder.