After a total of 28 days of sailing, the fleet finally entered the Longmen Seaway.

Now Longmen Haidao is completely different from when Yu Guozhen first came, not only has a heavily guarded shipyard been built on Longmen Island, but also a large area that originally belonged to the people of Longmen Island has been circled by Yu Guozhen, and a small town has also been built to serve as a logistics supply base and residential area for Longmen Island. After four or five years of hard work, now Luo Dong and Xinxiang are almost one, and the lord of the mountain is still the chief official of the people in name, but in fact he can no longer control the land of the people of Dong.

What impressed Zhang Pu the most was the high fort. The forts raised on both sides of the Longmen waterway have at least hundreds of artillery pieces on them, and there are also many hidden forts and corner towers.

"The only way to break the defense is to bypass it by land...... But Yu Guozhen's Tiger Guard is the strongest in the world, and he wants to break through his Tiger Guard defense line on land......"

Not long after such a thought was born in his heart, Zhang Pu was dumbfounded, he and Yu Guozhen were at least friendly on the surface, and the little bit of the plot against Yu Guozhen's printing technology also disappeared with his later apology. How could he think of attacking Yu Guozhen's foundation, he is a literati, and the elder has never been in martial arts.

"It's really a big deal, so many cannons...... No wonder it's so domineering. Tian Chang's reaction when he saw this scene was half excited, and the other half was cold.

Although this person is arrogant, his tone is tight, at least along the way, Zhang Pu did not find out what his purpose was to go south.

After a short stop on Longmen Island, Yu Guozhen and others also moved to the Penglai, while the three warships entered the shipyard for maintenance. This time, Zhang Pu couldn't avoid it anymore, so he could only come up to salute: "Jimin is running all the way, is it because he is bullying the imperial history of the dynasty and not daring to enter the sea?" ”

"The imperial history of the DPRK and the central government did not dare to enter the sea, but the imperial history of the opposition like Brother Tianru dared...... Brother Tianru came to Qin' Prefecture to visit friends? ”

"One is to visit friends, and the other is to take refuge under the rule of Jimin." Zhang Pu smiled bitterly: "The villain in the court is in charge, and the foolish brother is afraid of death, so he has to come here to avoid trouble." ”

He said that this was a confession, and Yu Guozhen did not refuse: "Brother Tianru came from afar, so he walked more and saw more, as for the things in the court, it is expected that those imperial historians not only did not dare to go to the sea, but also did not dare to come to this southern miasma land." ”

Speaking of this, the two did not continue to talk deeply, Zhang Pu thought about it, but after all, he did not say Tian Chang.

He can guess what the purpose of Tian Chang's southward journey is, for the Ming Dynasty, Xinxiang has become an open secret, people who have a little knowledge in the world know that there is a Xinxiang in Qin' Prefecture, which is the city built by the people of Nanhai Boyu Guozhenqian Nanzhili and other places, it is said that this city is beautiful and beautiful, and it is a famous city and a prosperous place in the world.

The speaker is always exaggerated, and the listener is yearning. Especially the Tian family, now it is a big family, relying on Tian Guo's relatives to eat and drink, there are always tens of thousands, so many people together, every year there is always a feeling of not making ends meet, since there is such a big cake as Xinxiang, where can Nanhaibo eat so much, the Tian family, as a relative of the emperor, came to help Nanhaibo and share some of the burden, it is also a matter of course.

It's just that Zhang Pu knows that Yu Guozhen is the head of the tiger, and he has never heard of anything that can be eaten from the tiger's mouth. Crossing the river dragon against the tiger occupying the ...... The dragon fights, and he is happy to watch the result.

So he asked about some customs, especially some customs of Miao, and Yu Guozhen didn't bother to deal with him, so he sent Xu Zhong to talk to Zhang Pu. As a result, only a quarter of an hour later, Zhang Pu said that he still had something to pack up and left in a panic - he really couldn't stand this guy who was full of nonsense.

But not long after entering the cabin, the cheers outside made him run out again.

Xinxiang is finally in sight.

In Zhang Pu's eyes, Xinxiang, which is gradually getting bigger and clearer, is a city full of exotic customs. The whitewashed port building, dazzling in the setting sun, the huge lighthouse taller than any stupa Zhang Pu has ever seen, the eighteen-story building made of reinforced concrete, is the new symbol of Xinxiang, the spire is built into a hollowed-out spherical roof, full of exoticism, but also reflects the traditional idea of a round sky - although this idea is now known to Xinxiang's eight-year-old children to be wrong.

As the ship got closer and closer to the new port, Zhang Pu saw tall houses with white walls and red tiles, most of which had huge doors. He didn't know that it was the warehouse of the wharf, and he thought it was the people's house, so he couldn't help but sigh twice: "The place where the people of Xinxiang live is different." ”

"This is just Xingang, not Xinxiang residential area." Someone responded.

Zhang Pu looked at the person, it was a businessman, they had been on the same boat for nearly a month, and they knew each other, he remembered that this person's surname was Xu Minglin, the word Zhongyuan, and it was said that he had made a name for himself, but now he has become a complete businessman. He was standing beside Yu Guozhen at this time, and it seemed that the two were very close, and on the other side of Yu Guozhen, it was the Taoist who rode the bear, but the Taoist bear now didn't know where it was.

In addition, Xu Zhongzhong, who made Zhang Pu find it difficult to deal with, was not here.

"Brother Tianru, these are warehouses, and the goods that come and wait to enter Xinxiang, as well as the goods shipped out of Xinxiang, generally have to be stored here for sorting and inspection before they are shipped. Naturally, some goods that pay attention to freshness can be sampled to shorten the inspection time. Yu Guozhen explained with a smile.

"I see, I see!"

Zhang Pu looked at the warehouses with mixed feelings, and in some open doors, he saw coal and ore that he couldn't name, and others were obviously grain bags.

The goods stored in these warehouses are worth only a million taels. Tian Chang, who was eavesdropping on the side of everyone, smacked his lips, these goods are constantly being transported in and out, so ...... The flowing water in Nanhaibo's hands in a year is at least 10 million taels, tsk, what a living God of Wealth!

"Hey, the wheels...... So what's going on with the wheels? Although Xu Lin was very familiar with Xinxiang, he hadn't come back for half a year, so when he saw something interesting to him, he couldn't help asking.

"If Zhong Yuan hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have noticed it - it was actually made for them, Zhang Daochang, this thing is called rubber, this should be one of the masterpieces of Daoist Guiquanzi!"

"Rubber ......"

For the vulcanization application of rubber, Yu Guozhen has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in research, and he knows very well that rubber plays an important role in people's lives, which is first manifested in the wheels -- with rubber wheels, board cars, tricycles, horse-drawn carriages and even bicycles, will become lightweight, and the problem of ruts that originally plagued urban road construction can be fundamentally solved.

In the early spring of Chongzhen's tenth year, Louis? Garcia brought the first shipload of raw rubber, and now it has been a year and a half, and the Spaniard has even sent two more ships of rubber, so in addition to the test consumption, Xinxiang currently has 1,200 tons of rubber in reserve.

Of course, this was before Yu Guozhen went north, and seeing the wheelbarrow with rubber wheels spinning around, Yu Guozhen could be sure that the bicycle and other things had also been made. In order to study the application of steam engines, the working group led by Song Yingxing has studied gears and chains to the extreme, especially ball bearings have been studied - it is not too difficult for Xinxiang to use the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction to embed small steel balls in the middle of the inner and outer rings. After the ball bearings came out, the design of the bicycle was thrown out by Yu Guozhen.

Sure enough, they soon saw people on bicycles.

"What kind of car is that, two wheels can gallop like flying, not inferior to a horse!"

"Could it be the Hot Wheels—but you don't see the wind or the fire?"

"Really...... Really...... God! ”

Except for Yu Guozhen, the vast majority of people have seen a bicycle for the first time, and for them, it is already a miracle that such a strange bike can maintain balance, and it is even more miraculous to be able to run fast.

Yu Guozhen was also in high spirits when he saw it, and the bicycle with rubber tires was faster than the horse-drawn carriage! From Xinxiangcheng District to Xingang, it is about fifteen miles away, and it takes an hour for a horse-drawn rail car, and it only takes twenty minutes for a bicycle.

Everyone's attention was attracted by the bicycle, but Yu Guozhen looked at the person riding on the bicycle, and then smiled.

It turned out to be Jiang Youzhong. Come to think of it, this bike may be the first one, and he rode it out to show off, and secondly, to verify it.

Jiang Youzhong is no longer a **-year-old child, from Chongzhen's five years to now, six years have passed, he has grown into a fifteen-year-old sturdy boy, and his talent in mechanics and mathematics has been fully exerted, even if Song Yingxing is in front of him, he has to bow down.

He had triumphantly ridden from one end of the dock to the other, and everywhere he went, the stewards and workers of the dock laughed and cursed, and then looked envious.

In Xinxiang, it is a fact that everyone has a high income, but ...... Xinxiang always has new products to launch, and everyone's money is taken back. Of course, everyone can also consider completely saving money, but other people's homes are glass windows, so you can't still use window paper; Everyone else has a biogas stove on it, so you can't go back to burning wood. Other people's flushing urinals are clean and convenient, and you can't just go outside and find a random place to squat in the pit - there is a heavy penalty for defecating in Xinxiang!

So, money, ah, is always not enough.

But soon everyone's attention was not on him and the bicycle, and everyone's eyes turned to the Penglai docking.

Because a huge flag was raised on the Penglai, it was the tiger flag with wings, and in Xinxiang, the only one who could use this flag was Yu Guozhen.

Raising this flag means that Yu Guozhen arrived with the Penglai.

Jiang Youzhong suddenly rejoiced, during the period of Yu Guozhen's absence, he had accumulated a lot of questions and wanted to ask, although he also had Lei Da and Lei Faxuan brothers to learn from, but now he can teach him again in practice, only Yu Guozhen!

(To be continued)