After all this is settled, there is still a rather important problem, which is to deal with the magistrates directly under Hong Kong. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The old saying that the info county magistrate is not as good as the current management has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the people who travel through it are also very familiar with the true meaning of this sentence. It's nothing to just get rid of Wang Zunde, the governor of Liangguang, but even if you get the emperor of the Wu Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen, as long as Hong Kong doesn't get any benefits from the Xin'an County Order, Hong Kong will definitely be in a lot of trouble. People casually say that you are an fornicating pirate - needless to say, the crossing forces have already been identified as pirates, even if the northbound detachment arrives in Beijing, it may not necessarily be able to clear this identity, so the attitude of the Xin'an County Decree towards the Crossing is the most important, as long as the Xin'an County Decree is completed, the Senate can develop steadily in Hong Kong for a long time.

So this is today's trip to send money, Zeng Zhigang sat on the side of the ship, watching the boatmen running back and forth on the boat, nervously operating the Guangzhou ship to prepare for docking.

There was already a team of officials waiting on the wharf, and these officials came to the Qianhai wharf to wait for this wave of wealth according to the requirements of the county order. The officials came a little early, they thought that the fleet would come the next day, so they were already waiting at the dock in the afternoon of the next day, but because Chen Li's cargo ship was still waiting to be unloaded, there was no way to go north, and it was not until yesterday that the ship was completely unloaded. Chen Li originally thought that the boatman would be unwilling to go to Qianhai, but he didn't expect people to nod and agree without saying a word, and it turned out that the main port office promised him a fee for the use of the boat, although it was not much, but it was still a lot better than going north with an empty boat.

There were not many people escorting this silver, that is, a platoon of marines, and although the silver carried was claimed to be 14,400 taels, it was only more than 500 kilograms when converted into metric units. This Guangzhou ship is fully loaded with about 400 materials, which is equivalent to about 260 tons in metric units, at this time the Wu Dynasty government allowed the largest of the private construction ships is 400 materials, although these ships can not carry much cargo, but there is no problem with loading people, after loading more than 30 marines and four or five hundred kilograms of silver, this Guangzhou ship can also go upriver at a speed of about four knots, which makes the boatman has been slightly showing off and Zeng Zhigang boasting about their ship.

Zeng Zhigang since he transferred to the Marine Corps, but also on the navy's sail frigate several times, he knows very well that these ships have congenital shortcomings, the aspect ratio is too large, the steering is not flexible, etc., the slow speed is simply a hard injury, not to mention the hard sail, whether it is very cumbersome and very difficult, usually the wind is stronger, it can also press the mast squeak, listening to Zeng Zhigang's scalp numb, fortunately from Hong Kong to Qianhai Port is only a morning, if the time is longer, He even wondered if he would just break down. He had suggested to the boatmen that they replace the hard sails on the masts with soft canvas sails. But the boatman just smiled noncommittally, and besides, people just understated that shipbuilding has been like this for hundreds of years, and the ancestral system should not be changed casually, so Zeng Zhigang had nothing to say at all, so he had to give up, except for secretly scolding two sentences of food and antiquity, he had no choice at all, after all, the ship belongs to others.

The boat approached the dock, and several workers on the dock hooked the side of the boat with hooks in their hands and pulled them to the dock, and the guys on the boat threw down the cables, while the workers below carefully tied them and set up the gangplank. The officials waiting on the dock stepped forward one after another, probing their brains into the boat, they had been waiting for more than two days, and then they finally saw Lao Chen walking down from the boat, and they all breathed a sigh of relief, there was no need to wait any longer.

The Marines did not carry rifles, but each carried two pistols and a bayonet, both tucked under their clothes and covered by the long hem of their clothes, so that no trace could be seen from the outside. Originally, Zeng Zhigang meant to let them directly carry a rifle with a bayonet poked on it, which was even more terrifying, but in the discussion, they were hit mercilessly -- if you go to Xin'an County so domineering and openly, you may give people the feeling of going to the county government to demonstrate, and you may inadvertently offend the county order. But it can't be without weapons, this is tens of thousands of taels of silver, without the protection of people with guns, the enemy will be able to snatch these silver if there is a little more, so in the end it was decided to carry only pistols and bayonets, in order to prevent the occurrence of a pistol fire continuity is poor, each Marine carries two pistols, so that everyone can fire twelve bullets before the bullets are fired, this number is very terrifying for the firearms troops of this time and space. Even in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, European firearms units carried only 60 rounds of ammunition per person, and they used single-shot breech rifles, but the marines' bullets were loaded in wheels, and when needed, they could fire directly with the safety triggered, which was enough to suppress any enemy who rushed to the vicinity in a short time, and potentially turn the tide.

The servants surrounded them, but the Marines did not let them come closer, but only kept them out. "What are you doing? Didn't we send it to the yamen to be counted? "What do you mean to stand in our way?" Can you still send your valuables to the yamen in peace and security on this Xin'an Street? The officials were very upset that the blue-clad soldiers had kept themselves out, and they all shouted at each other.

Zeng Zhigang jumped onto the dock in three steps and two steps, and shouted at the crowd, "Who of you has the final say here?" "Zeng Zhigang is from the old time and space, and he doesn't have the feeling of being afraid of officials like a tiger when he sees an official in this time and space, not to mention that his old time and space itself is a powerful department, and the voice shouting out directly covers the voices of these officials.

"Me!" A sturdy official walked out and arched his hand at Zeng Zhigang, "Down there is the head of Xin'an County." ”

"It's okay, it's okay!" Zeng Zhigang waved his hand indifferently and said, "The county magistrate said at that time that we should send it to the yamen, so this time we have to send things to the yamen to be considered respectful to the county magistrate, don't you say?" ”

"Well," the leader of the official obviously had nothing to say, so he had to nod, Zeng Zhigang's "you" just now made him very useful, even if he knew that the group of people in front of him were known as pirates, but people respected him so much, naturally he had nothing to say, thinking of this, he said, "Then how many of these valuable goods were personally sent to the Nantou County Ya?" ”

"Of course," Zeng Zhigang smiled and nodded, and at the same time waved his hand to let his subordinates take out some small souvenirs from their backpacks and hand them to these officials one after another.

At first, the officials were very unhappy to prevent themselves from taking over the escort of the silver, but this feeling soon disappeared as the souvenirs were handed out, which, in the eyes of the elders, were worthless gadgets, nothing more than a towel and a small bag of refined salt. But these things are valuable things in front of the officials, these snow-white towels are about a foot long, half a foot wide, but the workmanship of these terry towels is unprecedentedly fine, many of the officials just took their hands and didn't know what they were used for, the marines spoke to them for a long time in the pseudo-official language of the Annan accent before someone exclaimed, "This thing is actually to wipe sweat?" ”

Compared with towels, salt brings them a greater impact, to talk about salt, it is impossible for those present not to have touched it, but they have never seen salt as fine as snow, so that some people do not know that this is salt, and lick it so hard that it is so salty that their eyes are black. Despite this, those who have tried the salt taste still feel that this salt is different from the mineral salt or sea salt they have eaten on weekdays, this snow salt can have a little sweetness after the saltiness has passed, and the salt in the past, whether it is private salt or official salt, when the saltiness has passed, there will always be a trace of bitterness in the mouth, such a feeling has never been felt.

After getting these things, the officials smiled on their faces, and they couldn't be happier, although these pirates in front of them had just swept their face, but just with this bag of salt, it was at least eight dollars of silver, not to mention this good towel that could not be bought, and even if it was given as a gift, it could be taken to save face. The catcher was even happier, because Zeng Zhigang stuffed him with an extra small bag, and he didn't know what it contained, but the small bag was heavy, and there should be good things.

Zeng Zhigang exchanged pleasantries with the catcher for a while, and the Marines had already carried the silver box to the dock and pushed up a few more ** wheeled carts -- yes, it was the chicken bus that became popular among the towns and villages in China in the fifties and sixties. The soldiers next to him quickly carried these silver boxes onto these chicken carts and set them up, these wheelbarrows can generally transport one or two hundred kilograms of goods, and those who are good at using them can even transport three or four hundred kilograms, the only drawback is that this kind of cart consumes a lot of manpower.

The concept of a wheelbarrow was provided by the northbound detachment, and on the way north, they found that the condition of the official roads along the way was very bad, and even a light reconnaissance vehicle had to take a lot of trouble to drive normally on the official road, not to mention the heavy trucks, and many times the people in the trucks had to get out of the car to repair the roads with tools such as shovels and hoes carried on the vehicles to ensure normal driving. Therefore, Liu Yeqiang pointed out that if Hong Kong is to develop, it is necessary to provide a large number of wheelbarrows to ensure the transport capacity - the road conditions in Hong Kong are absolutely incomparable with the road conditions in the Oriental Port, and the places where the unicycles can best exert their driving ability are often those ridges and roads that other vehicles are afraid of, and they can easily navigate the road less than a foot wide.

The officials naturally noticed these chicken buses, they had not seen them before, but the appearance of these cars in front of them was very different. The wheels of these vehicles are made of hardwood, cut very round, and there seems to be something shining with metallic luster between the axles and the wheels, unlike the chicken carts pushed by ordinary people, the people pushing this car obviously do not have too much effort, and the body of the car is also wrapped with canvas straps, which should be used by people in front of the tow when it is inconvenient to drive. In order to reduce the ground resistance of the vehicle in use, the wheels have been added to the unique technology of crossing the public - bearings, and the brakes have been added to the car to ensure that the braking effect is provided when climbing or going downhill, reducing the possibility of accidents.

Zeng Zhigang walked slowly in front of him, he had begun to have a little idea of this place - this place is definitely the Shenzhen of the old time and space, this place is the former port of Shenzhen, and the place more than ten kilometers northwest is Bao'an International Airport, but now it is purely a barren mountain, and he still looks in the direction of the airport from time to time, but from this height, he can see three or four kilometers at most, and the place where he sees is all woods, barren grasses, hills and mass graves.

They walked along the road to the east, and when they saw this road, Zeng Zhigang was already glad that he had brought a wheelbarrow according to the requirements of the Hong Kong Headquarters, which was no more than four feet wide, probably because it had just rained not long ago, and there were many puddles on the road, and there was water in it. The road is lined with deep thatch, almost waist-deep.

Zeng Zhigang secretly said in his heart, this place is a good environment for ambushes, if someone wants to attack this team, such a place is very suitable, in line with the idea of taking precautions, he issued an order in Mandarin loudly, "All personnel, prepare for battle!" ”

The accompanying Marines took their pistols out from under their clothes and stuck them in their belts, while they also prepared the wheels in the ammunition boxes around their waists. With a large number of carbines equipped with troops, this replaceable cartridge wheel has been sought after by combat troops, and even the police are calling for the pistol in their hands to be replaced with this replaceable cartridge wheel, but the revolver used by the police is mainly the earliest batch, the tolerance is very large, often the parts are not very interchangeable, and the air leakage when firing is also more obvious, so it cannot be replaced by the kit, and the police usually use the pistol not for war, so let them settle; However, the needs of the combat troops must be met as much as possible, and the revolvers produced by the firearms factory in the later period have relatively small tolerances, and some of the magazines have been changed to ones that can be turned forward, and it is relatively easy to load or directly replace the wheels, so the pistols of the combat units, especially the Hong Kong garrison troops, have been replaced with this kind of pistol.

It seems that Zeng Zhigang's worries are at the right time, just after most of the marines have checked their weapons and are sure that they can be put into use soon, there is an arrow in the air, and I saw almost hundreds of bandits pouring out from the side of the road in front, blocking the road, and at the back of the road, there are three or four hundred bandits, holding knives, guns and sticks in their hands, dressed in tatters, holding an equally tattered flag with a black character on a white background written on it, and the first person is a woman, holding an obviously polished sharp blade in her hand, shouted at the people who came, "The old lady is Liu Xiang, if you know each other, put down the silver for me, and the old lady can also leave a whole corpse for you, if you dare to do it, you will be chopped up one by one and thrown into the back sea to feed the fish!" ”

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