[The third bullet on the second day of the Lunar New Year, the crab has always been a talker :) continue to ask for votes, Sanjiang tickets, recommendation votes, evaluation votes, just smash them on the crab! 】

The sun in the spring has been quite hot, and the sun makes people sweat slightly, but the sweat has not had time to come out, and it is dried by the gentle sea breeze.

It's the best season of the year, and today is the best day of the best of seasons - the clear sky is cloudless, the sea breeze is like nothing, and the sea is so calm that you can't even see the little waves.

Standing on the bow of the "Dawn" and looking north, the verdant hills rise from the sea, and even from such a distance, you can see colorful flowers dotted in a field of emerald green; At a few o'clock, the white gulls flew up and down, and the vigorous figure of the gray-white petrel passed from time to time.

At the foot of the mountain, there are several small fishing boats floating on the sea, and from a distance, you can see the fishermen standing on the bow of the boats, seemingly casually, and the huge fishing nets are opened, falling into the sea and causing ripples.

This beautiful fairyland-like picture could not change Chu Fan's bad mood, and when the "Dawn" sailed past the hill that would later be called Lao Tie Mountain, the miserable scene on the coastline made his mood even worse.

I saw that on the remaining veins of Lao Tie Mountain, the layers were full of the impressive ground nests that Chu Fan had seen on both sides of the Sand River; In the clairvoyant mirror, many of the ground nests don't even have a curtain to cover them, so they are so open with their backs facing the sky, and it is estimated that it will become a mud pond in the rain; The skinny Liaodong refugees were even more miserable, Chu Fan looked at it for a long time, and was stunned to find a well-dressed one, almost everyone was wearing clothes with a few rags on their bodies; Women are no exception, and some of them can't even cover the shriveled milk room!

What's even more terrifying is their mental state, looking through the clairvoyant mirror, Chu Fan was shocked by the pair of eyes that were like dead people without any brilliance - empty! Numbness!

Even as the two great ships passed by, when they turned their heads, their eyes were glazed and they seemed to lose focus—there seemed to be nothing in the world that could arouse their attention and interest.

A bunch of people waiting to die!

This is the deepest impression that these Liaodong refugees at the foot of Lao Tie Mountain gave Chu Fan - unlike those refugees on both sides of the Shahe River, they have lost even hope of survival!

Turning around, Chu Fan let out a long sigh, his mood extremely heavy.

Chu Fan was in a bad mood before because Liu Zhiyang described to him the changes in Dengzhou officialdom.

Wang Tingtry left Dengzhou, but he was not dismissed, but he was promoted, sat in Jinan's Yamen, and became an envoy in Shandong, and became a third-grade member steadily!

This was greatly unexpected by Chu Fan, he had seen Wang Tingqian's ancestral hall for Wei Zhongxian's cultivation with his own eyes, and he also knew that Wang Tingqian's original backstage was Wei Guangwei, a hardcore eunuch!

He originally thought that now the whole dynasty is cracking down on the eunuchs, even if Wang Tingtry is not cleaned up, it is estimated that he can only stand still and continue to be his deputy envoy of Dengzhou's military garrison, how can it be possible to climb up.

"Fan'er, it seems that you still don't understand officialdom...... In the past, it didn't matter who hugged the thighs, the key was to tear it clearly, turn your face when you should turn your face, and fall into the well when you should fall into the well...... Also, the thighs that are hugged now must be held tightly...... This time, Wang Ting tried to get out of the difficulty, in addition to falling into the well for Wei Guangwei, he hugged the thigh of Wen Tiren, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites...... I heard that Yangzhou thin horses have sent several into Wenfu! ”

Liu Zhiyang's words were like a basin of cold water poured on Chu Fan's head, Wang Ting tried to get rid of the difficulty, not to mention, but also next to the big tree of Wen Tiren, he couldn't help Chu Fan not be anxious - he remembered very clearly, Wen Tiren was an outlier in the Chongzhen Dynasty, and in the tide of changing ministers, he was stunned to sit firmly in the position of the first assistant for seven or eight years!

Chu Fan is still full of hope that Wang Tingtry will suffer, so that he can get rid of his control, and even take revenge on this black-hearted old bureaucrat, this is no drama - since he is in the future Shoufu, then his future eunuch journey in the future will definitely be smooth sailing, and he can't kill the official and rebel.

Another piece of news also upset Chu Fan.

After Wang Ting stepped down as the prefect of Dengzhou, the position of prefect has been vacant, and Chu Fan had not been settled before he went to sea, but now he finally came, but it was a big trouble that made people extremely headache.

This person's surname is Cai, and he is a fellow villager of Yuan Chonghuan, the new governor of Jiliao, and he was mixed with the foundation of a person, and he was mixed into Nanjing Honglu Temple when he was in his sixties and became a Shaoqing who did not hurt or itch and had no oil and water; This time, taking the opportunity of Yuan Chonghuan's recovery, he was actually placed by Yuan Chonghuan as the prefect of Dengzhou, not to mention the official promotion, but also got such a fat real shortage.

You must know that after Governor Yuan came to power, he removed the governor of Denglai in one book, not to say that he participated in the overthrow of the governor of Denglai, but directly canceled this official position! As a result, now in Dengzhou City, the Dengzhou prefect, which was originally the third in the civil ranks, has now become the second, second only to Dengzhou Bingbeidao, and the real power and oil and water are full.

There is no need for Liu Zhiyang to remind him, Chu Fan knows that he has found this fat difference at the age of more than sixty, how greedy this Cai Zhifu should be - there is no need to think about it if you climb up, it is only serious to get a vote.

According to Liu Zhiyang, at the beginning of this Cai Governor's office, the fire consumption silver was increased by three points, no more, no less, and a penny; This is not counting, not long after this Cai Governor arrived in Dengzhou, he found clues, and probably learned some of the inside story of recruiting ships to run to the sea in Denglai officialdom, and discussed with the new Dengzhou battalion guerrillas every day during this time - this guerrilla was originally a land battalion garrison on the Guanning side, and I don't know what Governor Yuan thought, so he was drawn to the dry water division guerrilla with a stroke of the pen.

Now Chu Fan is facing such a troublesome and chaotic situation: Wang Tingqian can't offend himself, and Dengzhou Mansion can be returned to Shandong! This Cai Zhifu still has to entertain, what if he finds out that he and Wang Ting are trying to cooperate with him to run the Japanese Maritime Trade, what can he do?

When he broke up with Liu Zhiyang in the southeast sea of Jinzhou Wei, Chu Fan was already in anxiety, and he still didn't come up with any good way until the two ships "Dawn" and "Jinfeng" arrived at the mouth of Weidagu in Tianjin.

He came to Dagukou to deal with the copper ingots on the "Golden Phoenix" - Chu Fan had already seen Wang Ting's black-hearted hot hands, and it was impossible to let so many copper ingots pass in front of him, so he went to Dagukou to dispose of them first.

After sending Ge Bi and Zhu Zi to Zhangjiawan to find his brother-in-law Ding Yimo, Chu Fan took the old shipwright Ming Ye to the Tianjin shipyard south of Dagukou to see if there was any suitable wood, and second, Chu Fan also wanted to recruit another group of skilled shipbuilders for the old shipwright - he had already discussed with Ming Ye that the first batch of construction would build two large ships of 600 materials, and at the same time, he would have to renovate the old ships for the six masters, and it would not be possible to have enough manpower.

Originally, he only planned to recruit ordinary shipwrights, but Chu Fan would never have thought that he would have such a big harvest in Tianjin Shipyard.