Facing the sturdy man in front of him, He Tengjiao was a little surprised, he never thought that a person who got up recklessly and was able to become an official by virtue of the gift of the Son of Heaven would have such an opinion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At this moment, He Tengjiao also understood the reason why the Holy Lord attached so much importance to such a reckless person.

"Are you willing to go back to Beijing with this official as an official?"

However, when He Tengjiao sent an invitation to Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng hesitated at that moment, but after a while, Li Zicheng refused.

Faced with Li Zicheng's refusal, He Tengjiao was not reluctant, but just smiled.

"Do you really regret it?"

"As a subject of the empire, open up land for the empire, and have no regrets!"

"Haha! A good one has no regrets, if you go to Beijing in the future, look for me He Tengjiao, and you will have a drink! ”

"Then thank you, sir!"

Leaving Shunyi Station, the train turned to Tianjin Wei, all the way, because anyone who wants to go to the Dongjiang River must go to sea from this Tianjin Wei and leave by boat.

However, it is said that since the second year of Chongzhen, the Imperial Royal Machinery Bureau developed the [Qiming] steam engine, in addition to the locomotive, the use of coal-fired steamers through Tianjin Shipyard and Dengzhou Shipyard has also been developed.

Therefore, the empire opened a commercial port in Tianjin Port and set up the Tianjin Steamship Bureau, which mainly operated shipping business from the mainland to the Dongjiang River and North Korea.

At the same time, although Tianjin Port is only used as a commercial port, it is also a berthing point for the Dengzhou Navy, so Tianjin Wei has built a Dagu Fort, which has more than ten red-coated cannons, and is garrisoned by a battalion of Tianjin Wei Patrol Army.

"Uncle, the previous lord invited you to be an official in the imperial court, why didn't Uncle want to go?"

At Tianjin Wei Ferry, Li Zicheng, who was waiting for the ferry, was silent about his nephew's words, and after a while, it was only a few words.

"Your uncle has your uncle's thoughts, what do you know about this baby!"

Although there is some scolding in his mouth, as for the real reason, only Li Zicheng understands it in his heart.

He was just a post boy who had studied private school for a few days, not to mention the stain of mutiny, although the current saint is magnanimous, regardless of previous suspicions, but in Li Zicheng's opinion, if he really arrived in Beijing, it would be impossible for him to gain a foothold in Beijing, which is full of scholars.

Although he has heard that Song Xiance, the minister of the Imperial Propaganda Department of the empire, also got up in the people, and was just a fortune teller before, Li Zicheng understands that Song Xiance has real knowledge, not to mention that it is the emperor who pulls it out, and he has nothing, although He Tengjiao values him, but in Li Zicheng's opinion, no matter how prominent He Tengjiao is, it is not as good as the emperor.

Therefore, for Li Zicheng, there is only one way to truly gain a foothold in Beijing.

Outside the famous earthquake! Even if it's just to grow grain, you have to plant it to let the world know!

"The ship is coming! The ship is coming! ”

I don't know who shouted, but it woke Li Zicheng from his thoughts, but at this moment, Li Zicheng, who was standing on the dock to maintain the security of a bunch of people, found that a dark shadow not far away was getting closer and closer.

And as time passed, what appeared in front of Li Zicheng was a behemoth emitting black smoke.

Tianjin!

The largest steamship in the Imperial Tianjin Port, a large steam ship with steel and iron sheets, is 60 meters long and 20 meters wide, with a displacement of 2,000 tons and can accommodate more than 1,000 people.

Although it was a civilian steamer, the Tianjin was still loaded with more than a dozen Furlong cannons, but it could be used as a corvette ironclad ship.

The Tianjin was followed by several large wooden sailboats, with a three-deck structure that was quite different from traditional Chinese ships.

And when facing the arrival of the Tianjin, at that moment for Li Zicheng, who grew up in Shaanxi, he was stunned.

"What a fetish!"

As the fleet led by the Tianjin sailed out of port, a day and a night of sailing followed.

Although there were some bumps, but along the way, it was also calm, and there was not much chaos, of course, all of this lies in the establishment of the Dengzhou Naval Division.

Since Yuan Keli supervised Dengzhou and the Dongjiang River, he has vigorously purged the Haikou in the Bohai Sea, and with the delivery of the 'Jinghai' ironclad battleship to the Dengzhou Naval Division, Dengzhou's coastal defense force has become more and more powerful.

At the same time, in order to eliminate pirates, Yuan Keli even formed a Bohai Sea patrol team directly under the Dengzhou Maritime Division, although they are all small boats, but because of their agility and appropriate light and heavy firepower, these small boats are not out of the way, and once they come out, they are an astonishing number.

Therefore, in the mouths of the pirates in the Bohai Sea area, this patrol team has won the title of 'wolf pack'!

And this 'wolf's nest' is Port Arthur, one of the three major bases of the Dengzhou Maritime Division.

However, it is said that the Tianjin finally anchored near Shuangdao, which was the closest to the Lushun base and was occupied by Liu Xingzuo, a doctor from Yazhong, so it was the terminus of the Dongjiang section of the Imperial Steamship Route.

With the temporary peace between the empire and the Later Jin, and adhering to the emperor's immigration policy, as the imperial port, the trade between the two islands, which was originally just a small fishing village, developed rapidly.

Not only do a large number of immigrants dock here every year, but also a large number of leather merchants and medicinal herb merchants gather here, so in a short period of time, the small fishing village has developed rapidly and has become a pearl on the Liaodong Peninsula!

But after saying that after the Tianjin, Li Zicheng took people to the Dongjiang Branch of the Imperial Reclamation Bureau on Phi Island to report, and on the other hand, he instructed the deputy steward Yuan Zongdi to take a group of people from the former Hanzhong Branch Finance Office to the city to buy some tools and food used in reclamation.

For Li Zicheng here, in addition to the 50,000 silver dollars left in the Hanzhong farm before, plus the 10,000 silver dollars in response to the reclamation supply, there are also 60,000 silver dollars in Li Zicheng's hands at this time, but to feed the farm of 3,000 people who have migrated, 60,000 silver dollars are also a little stretched, and the plan for now is to re-establish a new farm as soon as possible.

However, it is said that the Ming Empire set up farms, but there is a unique system, and there is no direct subordinate relationship with the locality, but directly under the Imperial Agricultural Reclamation Department, and the Dongjiang Reclamation Branch here is one of the direct branches of the Imperial Agricultural Reclamation Department in the Dongjiang River, and in addition to the Dongjiang Reclamation Bureau, there is also a Phi Island Reclamation Bureau located in the subject country of Uiju, North Korea.

Because it also belongs to the agricultural reclamation system, and Li Ziwei is a court official, and has the certificate of joint development of Shaanxi Farm and the Imperial Reclamation Department, it is extremely convenient to go to the Reclamation Bureau to go through the relevant procedures, of course, some officialdom clichés are inevitable.

It's just that when Li Zicheng took the map of the Wood City in his hand, he wanted to cry without tears, where the Wood City was, Li Zicheng didn't know too well, but the red danger area marked on the map, Li Zicheng could see it clearly.

In fact, it is not that the officials of this wasteland bureau deliberately make things difficult, but the Dongjiang region is really so big, since the battle of Liaoshen began, the empire has shrunk a corner, and if it were not for Zhu Jian's defense of Beijing in the second year of Chongzhen, I am afraid that this only little land will not be retained.

Of course, with Zhu Jian's implementation of the 'bunker policy' outside the Guan, that is, near the agricultural reclamation area, cement and steel were used to cast blockhouses, with artillery inside, and barbed wire fences were built, and mines were planted (there were mines in the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial arsenal made further improvements to iron mines), and marked minefields were established.

Since the Jin raid before the battle, after the cavalry of several hundred people stormed the bunker and annihilated, the Jin people have been much more stable after that.

In addition, after the battle of Jingshi in the second year of Chongzhen, the Houjin was divided into three parts, one headed by Huang Taiji, which occupied the area of Shengjing, and the other occupied the area of Yizhou with the Zhengbai flag of Dolgon and the two flags of Zhenghong and inlaid red, controlling the Mongolian Han and Duoyan tribes, and the third force was headed by Bel Amin, occupying Hetuara (Xingjing).