The wind and sand in the northwest cannot affect the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the south of the Yangtze River in May, it is as thin as a smoke willow, and the dense rain seems to be the green silk she falls, swaying and dancing in the cool wind. The bluestone slabs that have been washed and cleaned, the black tile eaves that seem to be hung with strings of pearls, and the willow bank ...... that the swifts rush by, and the silver curtains hanging from the sky weave the entire streets and alleys and streets of the south of the Yangtze River in the dream of the gentle rain.

Chen Ming is a hundred people who can't look down on the 'literati atmosphere' of Jiangnan, but Jiangnan in the rain, with black eaves and white walls, a breeze and drizzle, and a girl standing on the small bridge holding an oil-paper umbrella is really a beautiful ink painting.

On May 10, the rain suddenly became heavier. "Heavy rain falls on Youyan, white waves are surging, fishing boats outside Qinhuangdao ......"

On the five-masted boat, looking at the mouth of the Yangtze River where the rain obscured his vision, Chen Ming actually thought of the poem of the Taizu of the Red Dynasty in his mind. Except for a few different domain names, this "Langtaosha Beidaihe" is really similar to the scene in front of you.

"Your Highness, don't worry. Those who dare to come out to fish at this time are veterans on the water. Even if the boat really capsizes, no one can die. Yue Wenhai saw Chen Ming's eyes fall on a few small fishing boats not far away, thinking that Chen Ming was worried about the danger of those small boats, and further thought that those fishermen braved the heavy rain to come out of the heavy rain because they were forced by life, so he hurriedly persuaded him. As a result, as soon as I blurted out the last sentence, I immediately knew that I had said it wrong.

Fortunately, Chen Ming didn't care. But the conversation has shifted to fishermen and fisheries. Yue Wenhai replied without thinking about it: "This time should be the flood season of big yellow croaker, and every year around the Dragon Boat Festival is the best time to catch big yellow croaker in the mouth of the Yangtze River." ”

"In previous years, when the fish could not be sold, it stinked, and the fishermen worked in vain. But since three canneries in Shanghai went into production last year, this phenomenon has become much less. No matter how cheap it is, you can get some money at the cannery's receiving office. This year, two more canning factories in Shanghai have been put into operation, and the amount of fresh seafood required is more and larger. "In previous years, fishermen caught small fish and shrimp, at most they made a little shrimp paste, but this year, even small fish and shrimp have been transported into the canning factory in large quantities, and the latter has even started to make shrimp paste.

The first three canneries in Shanghai were all part of the logistics department's military supply system, and most of the canned food they produced was sent to the army and loaded in stoneware jars. Up to now, there are six kilns in Shanghai that specialize in firing stoneware pots. In addition, the owners of the first three canneries also set up a joint venture to set up a fish paste factory, which produced not only solid fish paste, but also liquid fish oil and fish gelatin.

Yue Wenhai reported to Chen Ming with a little nervousness, but he didn't know that Chen Ming didn't care much about this. There is a price report in his hand, which shows that the price of grain in Shanghai this year has dropped by 15 percent compared with last year, the price of cloth has dropped by 7 percent, and the price of iron has plunged by 20 percent again.

The price of oil has been reduced by 15%, the price of salt has also dropped to 10 wen a catty, and the price of medicinal materials has been reduced by 25%......

Compared with how many canneries and pottery factories there are in Shanghai, Chen Ming is more concerned about this. This price list shows that Yue Wenhai's work is qualified, and he is doing a good job. That's enough!

As for the exact livelihood of the people and the livelihood of the poor people, the rabbit in the 21st century cannot solve it comprehensively, and Chen Ming will be a little nitpicky if he cares about Yue Wenhai. What he needs to see now is the restoration of the livelihoods, economic recovery and industrial development of the entire population in Chen Han's ruling area, and then he will not delay his move to the north. That's the point!

Today, he traveled in the heavy rain on a five-masted ship, not to investigate the fishermen's conditions, but to see the 'quality' of the five-masted ship. This is an absolute dragon ship.

"The boat is very nice and smooth." Chen Ming was very satisfied. The five-masted ship can still behave like this at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and after entering the 'calm' Yangtze River, it will be more stable like a house.

"All this bells and whistles are gone, it's just a pure ship, how long will it take for a five-masted ship like this?" Chen Ming had the impression in his mind, which post he read said that although the speed of Chinese sailing ships is relatively slow, the seaworthiness, safety and cargo loading ratio are much better than those of Western-style sailing ships. Coupled with the small number of crew members used, it is fast and safe to collect and lower the sails in the event of wind and rain, and it will be a very high merchant ship in general.

Chinese sailing ships are not suitable for combat wear, but they are very suitable for merchant ships.

Chen Ming doesn't know how much this impression is, but the current situation, the Western-style sailing ship in China is just showing a small head, and if he wants it to grow into a big tree, he doesn't know that he will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey. And the national pride also made Chen Ming not want to give up Chinese sailing.

Militarily put aside, civilianly also completely defeated?

Chen Ming was unwilling to do so. So he was very concerned about the manufacture of large Chinese-style sea vessels.

Son-in-law Chen Jigong took over Yue Wenhai's baton, and Yue Wenhai stepped aside. He has just become mayor of Shanghai this year -- Shanghai is the only city on the mainland, and it is not under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu, and Songjiang Prefecture cannot even cover Shanghai's head, and Shanghai is directly subordinate to the central government, and Yue Wenhai's administrative level has been raised to the prefect level, and according to the information revealed to him by his son-in-law, when will Shanghai's transaction volume surpass that of Ningbo and catch up with Guangzhou, Shanghai's administrative level will continue to rise. Yue Wenhai is not seventy or eighty, he is very precious about the current black gauze hat on his head, and his heart is still big.

"There is not enough capacity for ships."

"Now everyone knows that I am busy with the relocation of the capital, and once the capital is moved, it will not be restored in a few months. The Manchus must now think that I was too busy to be overwhelmed. If we have enough big ships at this time, loaded with the strength of a division, and land in Shandong fiercely, we will definitely be able to catch the Manchus by surprise. ”

It is now the harvest period of wheat in the north, and if the Fu Han army harvests part of the government and Haoqiang in Shandong, it will be fun.

Now there is nothing to care about the strength of the Fu Han army and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Chen Han is mainly because the foundation is still unstable, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty has replenished a lot of blood after eating a stick with bones and meat, but it still can't save too much confidence. Because they are always losing on the battlefield!

They successively moved the bannermen of Beijing back to Guanwai, co-opted the Han people outside the Guan, and captured Koreans as slaves, which was obviously in preparation for the post-Beijing era after the loss of the Central Plains, and also made many northern gentry secretly discouraged. The northern secret camp also successively sent a lot of people to the northeast, including lurkers and rioters, such as Wang Zhanqing, Zheng Lehe, Zhang Ke and others, and the results were quite average.

So far, the only one who can still pull up the locks is Wang Zhanqing. But Wang Zhanqing, who was originally active in the north of Shengjing, was also beaten by the Qing army and had to run to Jilin, and his face was sprayed by the earthen cannon, and he fell into a pit with a numb face, and got the nickname of Wang Mazi.

The bannermen outside the Guanxi were not ordinarily harsh on Korean serfs, but the strength of the Fu Han army there was too weak to even expand. Take Wang Zhanqing as an example, his men and horses smashed open two villages, and the Korean serfs who were 'liberated' were not 1,000 but 800, but the result?

So far, there are less than 10 North Koreans under Wang Zhanqing, and the language barrier between the two sides is the biggest obstacle.

The heavy rain poured on the vast water surface of the Yangtze River estuary, and Baoyun wiped the rain from his face fiercely, and scolded the five-masted ship that turned around and returned surrounded by four escort warships. "Niang Xipi, I still love the people like a son, ****, I can't blow it." It hurt him to be drenched in the rain for an hour in vain, and he was covered with a coat and a hat, which was useful for a fart.

An old man in his forties and fifties in the cabin was already leaning against the wall of the ship in frustration. A very thin old man, his exposed chest was full of fine flesh. A pair of hands with thick joints, clenched into fists at the moment, and the green tendons on the back of the hands were exposed.

In the four small boats, there were eleven people, three old people, and eight young boys. At this moment, there are not a few people who point to the five-masted ship in the distance and scold, hate. This opportunity is gone again. Although this opportunity itself was stunned and broken, it was their luck to really bump into it. But for this day, they have been preparing for a long time......

Chen Ming would never know until he died that when he inspected the five-masted boat, the fishermen on the four small fishing boats he saw were not ordinary people who really fished for a living, but masters who were carefully prepared at the sticky pole. If Chen Ming really had the style of benevolence and cared about the people's livelihood, even if it was a 'political show', he would probably have sent someone to bring the fishermen on four small fishing boats to him. Of course, eleven people will not be all brought, but even if only one comes to Chen Ming's face, he will take a dangerous fight and splash blood in five steps, and the dead soldiers of Baihong Guanri are not only to leave and Jing Ke, but also to have Da Qingguo. It's a pity that Chen Ming doesn't have that leisure......

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It was also at this time that the envoys sent by Chen Han to Siam sailed into the Gulf of Bangkok under the escort of a naval ship of the South Seas Division.

The capital of the Thonburi Dynasty, founded by Cheng Sin, was separated from the city of Bangkok by a water, on both sides of the Chao Phraya River. Now Zheng Xin's Wang Tu hegemony has only just been established, but in the four or five years of his reign, he has vigorously encouraged the Chaoshan people to pour into Siam, and has already achieved initial results. These people relied on their connections and hard work, some of them were in business, some were in the army, some were engaged in farming, and some were engaged in cultivating sugar cane and pepper for export. On the east bank of the Chao Phraya River, near the present-day Intraura, where Bangkok later became located, a new large Chinese settlement was established.

The establishment of any dynasty is not a single person's achievement, Zheng Xin, as a Chinese, was born to attract a large number of Chinese in Siam. Zheng Xin's subordinates had Chinese figures very early, and there were many Chinese troops, and some famous generals like Chen Lian emerged in the wars. They contributed greatly to the establishment of the Thonburi dynasty. Therefore, after Zheng Xin ascended the throne, many Chinese were appointed as military chiefs, local officials, and some became government tax collectors. They were given all sorts of privileges to deal with politics, military, trade, etc. In the southern coastal zone of Siam, the position of the Chinese is particularly prominent.

The arrival of Chen Han's envoys made the Chinese in Siam boiling. This era is not Chen Ming's previous life, and overseas Chinese and Chinese have very strong feelings for China. It's just that the happiness of the Chinese people didn't make Zheng Xin happy, as a king, his brain is not stupid at all. Why did Chen Han send envoys to Thonburi at this time? And with the arrival of the same group of people from the port country Mo Tianci, if Zheng Xin still can't think of Chen Han's plan, he will be blind.

Zheng Xin received the envoy with formal etiquette half a month after his arrival in Thonburi. And the person who came to Thonburi as an envoy this time was none other than Chen Jiqing. The meeting took place at the royal palace in Thonburi City, and several important civil and military ministers of the Thonburi Dynasty attended the ceremony.

Siam was a vassal state of China in the early days, but Zheng Xin looked at the dishes and set himself up as the king of Siam, and did not pay tribute to Chen Han or the Manchu Qing. When Chen Jiqing met Zheng Xin, he directly bowed his hand, which was directly claiming to be the envoy of the suzerain. After saluting, Chen Jiqing carefully looked at Zheng Xin on the throne in front of him with a gaze that was not rude. It has been half a month since he arrived in Siam, and he has a deeper understanding of the foreign king in front of him, who is not yet forty years old.

And Zheng Xin, who is in the prime of life, is indeed good, although the dragon robe of the king of Siam makes him ridiculous, and the corners of the horse coat on his shoulders look a bit like the clothes of ghosts when acting in China, but Zheng Xin's waist is straight, his eyes are sharp, and he has a long sword on his leg, and the whole person looks very majestic and solemn.

Submitting the credentials, Chen Jiqing handed it over to Wen, the copy had already been transferred through others, and there were no words that would cause disputes or misunderstandings. Except for a brief mention of Ha Xian, the others are more about the economic and trade and traditional friendship between the two sides.

Zheng Xin took the letter of state handed by Wen Mo and looked at it a few times, the letter of state was written in two languages, Chinese and Siam.

"Ha Xian is a part of Quang Nam Kingdom, and it doesn't seem right for the Shang Kingdom to cross the ...... Quang Nam Kingdom like this?"

"Although Ha Tien is nominally subordinate to the Quang Nam Kingdom, in essence he has long since established himself as a country. The traffic of the Mo clan is reclaimed by the Mo clan's calloused hands and feet, and the Mo clan's body has the blood of the Celestial Empire flowing in its body, how can my lord sit back and watch the Mo family wander away, and there is no place to live? ”

"The king also has the blood of the Celestial Empire flowing in his body, and he is in a foreign land in Nanyang, so why bother fighting in the same room and fratricidal?"

"The previous incident was really the fault of the Mo family, Mo Tianci was willing to abdicate to atone for his sins, and the Mo family also repented, saying that they would be friendly and close to Thonburi in the future, and they would never dare to repeat the mistakes of the past. And Siam itself has the great enemy of Burma that has not been eliminated, the king has to spare people and spare people, raise his noble hand, and leave a beautiful story to talk about, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds, and everyone will be happy? (To be continued.) )