"Taylor, don't think too far, the road is all step by step, let's find Xingkai Lake first!"

Xingkai Lake. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Acton was naked, wielding an iron axe, and under his heavy chopping, the beautiful birch tree debris flew in front of him, and soon a deep depression appeared in the trunk of the tree, all the way to the center of the tree. He raised his head, put his finger in his mouth and whistled sharply, and the people around him hurriedly got out of the way, and then he walked to the other side of the birch, pressed the back of his axe against the trunk, pressed the weight of his whole body, and pushed forward with all his might. The trunk made a dull noise, slowly tilting to the other side, and with a sharp cracking sound, the birch tree fell heavily, splashing the sky with dust.

"Come here, cut off the branches, and drag them to the lake!" Acton shouted, and at the sound of his shout, a dozen beggars came running, skillfully chopping the branches, then lassing the trunk with ropes, and dragging them by horses to the lake, where the wood would be woven into rafts and floated to the camp, where they would be used as materials for the construction of the camp.

"Come, take a sip of birch sap and quench your thirst!" A wooden cup stretched out next to him, Acton took the cup, drank the birch sap in the cup, a cool and sweet feeling immediately filled his body, swept away the fatigue, he put down the wooden cup, picked up the axe, and was about to continue cutting down the tree, but was pulled by the hand that sent the birch sap: "Brother Acton, you sit down and talk to me about the Central Plains first!" ”

"Something about the Central Plains?" Acton frowned and said with a smile: "Actually, I haven't been in the Central Plains for long, but the houses are taller, more and more people!" ”

"Really?" The birch sap was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, long hands and feet, her hair combed into two braids and coiled on her head, and she was looking at the lake with longing eyes and said: "I heard that there are dozens of villages where the emperor of the Ming Kingdom lives, just like the palace where the heavenly gods live, and they eat with bowls and chopsticks made of gold all day long, and even use a golden axe to chop wood!" ”

"Haha!" Acton laughed: "I don't know anything else, the emperor of the Ming Kingdom will definitely not use a golden axe, and the rough work of chopping wood is done by his subordinates." ”

"Really? He must have hundreds of followers around him, right? ”

Acton smiled and didn't speak, as far as he knew, there were hundreds of servants around Emperor Taiji in Shengjing, and the eunuchs and servants around Emperor Daming were only ten times more than ten times more, just looking at the simple appearance of this girl, he was embarrassed to point out the mistake. He patted the sawdust on his thigh and stood up: "Bul He (Manchu means crane), if you want, I will take you to Beijing City in the future to see what the Ming Emperor's residence looks like?" ”

"Really?" The girl was surprised and delighted when she heard this, and subconsciously grabbed Acton's arm.

"Nature is true!" Acton said with a smile: "When the adults send troops, we will get up and drive away the Jianzhou Haixi Jurchens, and then the adults will definitely reward me, I said that I want to see the residence of the Son of Heaven, and I must have agreed!" ”

"It would be great if I could do this, if I could drive away the Jianzhou Haixi Jurchens, I would be willing not to look at the palace of the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom!" Speaking of this, Bul He suddenly looked worried: "But can the reinforcements of the adult you mentioned really arrive?" There are large areas of old forests here, if outsiders can't even find the way here, how can they come? ”

"Don't worry about this, if it's someone else, my family can come from heaven, let alone here!" Acton lifted the axe: "I bet that at the most, reinforcements from adults will arrive, and all we have to do is fix the camp." ”

"A month? So fast! ”

"That's right, a month! You can't go wrong! ”

Nilukhan (Nikolaevsk, Russia, known as Temple Street in the Qing Dynasty).

"It seems that this is the hometown of Nuer Gandusi, where the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty is located!" Lin Heshui looked at a stone tablet in front of him and said in a gloomy tone. The edge of the stele has long been covered with moss, but a line of strong characters can still be vaguely seen on the mottled surface - "Xuande Eight Years of Rebuilding Yongning Temple".

Taylor looked at the stele, of course he couldn't understand what was written on the stele, but he could still feel the excitement contained in Lin Heshui's words, he hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Nu'er Gandusi?" This is also the territory of your Ming Kingdom? ”

"Huh?" Lin Heshui nodded, searched around for a while, found a stone tablet that had fallen to the ground, scraped off the moss on the surface of the tablet, and recited to the inscription on it: "The virtue of Fuwentian is high, so it can cover the floor; The virtue of the earth is broad, so it can be carried; The virtue of the saint is sacred, so he can be near and serve far, and give to the people. Since the reunification of our dynasty, the world has been peaceful for 50 years. Nine barbarisms, ladder mountains and navigation, shoulder to shoulder, and those who are under the court of the court, the people are not enumerated. However, the Northeast Nuer Gan Country, the Tao is on the table of the three translations, and its people are called Gillette fans and all kinds of savages live together. They all heard the wind and admired it, but they couldn't come to it. Moreover, the land does not produce grain, nor cloth, but dogs. or wild □□□, or fishing as a profession, eating meat and clothing, and being good with a bow and arrows. The difficulties of food and clothing are beyond words. It is the emperor's envoy to his country to appease and comfort □□. In the spring of the ninth year of Yongle, the special internal officials also led more than 1,000 officers and 25 huge ships to return to his country and set up the Nuer Gandu Division. The former business of Xiliao and Jin Chou Min'an all celebrated and said: "□□ see you again today and obey it!" Then he went to the □ Dynasty to □□□ the capital, and the rest of the people were awarded official seals, clothes, cloth, banknotes, and returned. According to the soil to build a health center, collect the people of the old department, and make it self-subordinate.

In the winter of the tenth year, the Son of Heaven reinstated the internal officials and sent them to his country. From Haixi to Nuergan and the people who suffered abroad, they gave men and women clothes and utensils, gave grain and rice, and feasted on wine and food. Shangfu built a temple with gold and silver and other things as the choice of land, softened the people, and made the □ of knowing and respecting the □□□ □. In the autumn of 11 years, there is a full path of standing in the west of Bunuer, the left mountain of the station is high and beautiful, first the Guanyin Hall has been built on it, now the temple is built to sculpt the Buddha, the situation is elegant, and it is considerable. The old and young of the country, from far and near, strive to □□ high □□□□□ well, and never have a strong epidemic and be peaceful. He said: "Since ancient times, I have not heard of Ruosi, and the □□□ of the holy Chaotian □ the people has been up and down, and my children and grandchildren will be surrendered from generation to generation, and there will be no dissenting meaning!" "From the perspective of Is, outside of all directions, the people of the land are not hungry or cold, and they are happy and difficult. The rule of Yao Shun, the sky rate of the people, but within Kyushu. Today, I □□□□□□□□□, barbarian Rong Di, not fake soldiers, do not pay tribute. "The Mean" said: "The sky is covered, the earth is contained, the sun and the moon shine, the frost and dew fall, all those who have flesh and blood, do not respect their relatives, so it is said to be worthy of the sky." "It is said that I am extremely virtuous, sincere, and the same body as the sky. Si Wushang also! No Sheng also! Therefore, it is a text to remember, and it is immortal for thousands of years. (The square is the place where the inscription is obliterated, these two stone tablets are located on the stone rock near the Nuer Gandu Magistrate's Office in the Ming Dynasty, located in the city of Telin in today's Nikolaevsk, Russia, about 150 kilometers from the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, due to the plot of the novel, they were transferred to the vicinity of the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, please forgive me.) The original stele has been transferred to the museum in Vladivostok, Russia, and book lovers who have the opportunity can go and see it. ）

Lin Heshui recited the words on the stele, looked at the surrounding grass and trees, the appearance of the ruins and broken walls, and recalled the scene of the Ming Dynasty more than two hundred years ago, building a monument and building a temple, and appeasing the barbarians, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. After about half a sound, he summoned a thousand general managers and ordered: "You go find a few craftsmen and erect another stone tablet here!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Mr. Qian replied and asked, "What is engraved on the stele?" ”

Lin Heshui pondered for a moment and replied: "Then engrave 'Daming Tiju Dayuan City Bo Si Lin River Water in Chongzhen 8th June 7th', and leave the name of the official on the boat behind it!" ”

"Yes!"

Lin Heshui looked at Taylor on the side, and said with a self-deprecating wry smile: "I am a businessman, I can't write good articles, I can only carve a few words casually, and future generations are afraid that they will laugh at us as a group of vulgar martial artists!" ”

"Lord Lin, in our Europe, the greatest people are not those who have made meritorious deeds in writing, but those who have made meritorious deeds!" Taylor laughed, "If you can succeed in this voyage, there will be hundreds of literati in the future to praise your great deeds, otherwise you don't have to worry about this!" ”

Hearing Taylor's consolation, Lin Heshui smiled and said, "You're right, it's true that now is not the time to worry about this!" Say, what do you think should be done next? ”

"I think it's imperative to build a campsite here, and I think it's a good place!" Taylor stomped his foot: "This is a peninsula jutting out of the river, and it only takes digging a trench and erecting a row of wooden fences to separate this place from the land; Artillery is deployed on the high ground, and the docks, barracks, and warehouses can be built on the other side of the high ground to avoid enemy shelling; And the view of the highlands is very good, and most of the ships entering the estuary in good weather cannot escape the sight of the lookout post. Moreover, the land here has been leveled, and there are many bricks and stones in the ruins, which can be used to build forts and fortifications, as well as houses. The water depth is more than five meters, just a few trestle bridges are enough to moor large ships, and using this as a base can control not only the estuary of the river, but also the entire Tatar Strait, your ancestors chose a very good base"

Lin Heshui looked at the terrain, and sure enough, as Taylor said, this ruin was in a position that was very conducive to controlling the mouth of the river, and the high ground where the ruins were located was a cliff on the side facing the mainland, and the defenders could condescendingly defend against enemy attacks in the land direction, while the side facing the river was gentle, there was a large area of land for building barracks and warehouses, and the whole peninsula was in a huge harbor, the water depth and waves were small, which was very suitable for ships to moor. The ancients chose to build their city here apparently after careful selection. In ancient times, the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, where Nuerganduji is located, was a trading center in the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Hokkaido, and the Heilongjiang River basin of Northeast Asia.

"Then choose here!" Lin Heshui nodded: "Taylor, you take a boat and go up the river to find the Songatsa River, the Ussuri River and Xingkai Lake!" ”

"I think it's better to change someone!" Taylor shook his head and said, "The Oak has too deep a draft to go into the river, and I'm not good at flying those flats!" ”

"Yes! It's better for me to go on my own! Lin Heshui pondered for a while, and said to Taylor: "I have one more thing I want you to do, if it is done, your salary will be added to two hundred gold ducats!" ”

"What's the matter?" Hearing that he was going to get a salary increase, Taylor's eyes lit up and he hurriedly asked.

"You help me send someone to Dengzhou, and then bring things and people back!"

"Dengzhou?"

"That's right!" Lin Heshui nodded: "I want to tell you about the situation here and the next step, it is the coastal defense of the northern Ming Dynasty, you have to be careful!" ”

When Taylor heard the words "important coastal defense", he couldn't help but feel empty, but when he thought of the two hundred yellow and shiny Ducat, his heart suddenly became strong again, and he patted his chest and said: "Well, at most, I can get a black robe and pretend to be a missionary, I heard that your Ming officials are very good to missionaries!" ”

"That's a good idea, I'll open you a paperwork, and I guess I won't embarrass you! You don't have to go ashore anyway, just send people in. ”

"Hmm!"

When Lin Heshui saw that Taylor had agreed, he hurried back to the boat and wrote a letter first, indicating that he had arrived at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River and was ready to go up the river to Xingkai Lake; He also explained the situation at the mouth of the river and his intention to build a port and a walled city here, so as to make it clear as a long-term plan; Then he asked for craftsmen, iron, and reinforcements to be brought back by the Oak, and finally attached a chart of the voyage and a map of the situation at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River. After everything was done, Lin Heshui wrapped it in an oilcloth and called a personal attendant: "Lin Min, you will take Taylor's boat tomorrow and return to Dengzhou." After you go ashore, you will rush to Datong as soon as possible and hand this over to Liu Cheng Liu! ”

"Yes!" Lin Min is a young man in his early twenties, a distant nephew of Lin Heshui, and after he gained power, he returned to his hometown and recruited several nephews from the clan to be his personal men. He took the oil paper bag from Lin He's sailor, put it away closely, and asked, "Uncle, I heard that the whole north is rampant with thieves—"

"It's okay!" Lin Heshui said with a smile: "Dengzhou is an important border town, so there should be nothing to do." If you take this waist card, you will say that it is a person who is preparing for the road in Yangzhou, and then go to the account room to receive fifty taels of silver, there should be no problem! (To be continued.) )