Chapter 97: Sailor's Wharf
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Dengzhou Naval Division, is the only naval army of the Great Song Dynasty in the north, the main responsibility is to patrol the river and the entire Bohai Bay, in fact, it has long been abandoned, under the jurisdiction of only 3,000 soldiers, there is only a quota of 3,000 soldiers, there are 2,000 sea ships, 1,000 sea ships, the rest of the large and small inland river warships about 20 or so, compared to the Jiangnan Naval Division stationed in Jiankang Mansion, the scale is only 20% of the latter, it is really embarrassing.
Because of this, Wang Jie, the commander of the Dengzhou Naval Division, is only the rank of regimental training envoy, while Liu Menglong, the commander of the Jiangnan Naval Division, is the commander of the forbidden army."
It stands to reason that Ximenqing is just the deputy envoy of the sailor regiment, and the grade is only the lieutenant of the imperial military from the eighth grade, and Wang Jie is the chief officer of the sailor Zhengyin, so it shouldn't be Wang Jie who took the initiative to pay homage to Ximenqing, but when Ximenqing walked into the main hall, Wang Jie quickly got up from his chair and bowed very respectfully: "The young general Wang Jie has seen the deputy envoy!" ”
"Wang Tuanlian, please hurry up, you and I belong to colleagues, so much courtesy, how to deal with it in the future!"
Ximenqing stepped forward to help him up, but Wang Jie refused to sit opposite, but just stained half of his butt in the position of the lower hand, which made Ximenqing very helpless.
This great Song Dynasty Wengui Wu is already carved into the bone marrow, even if Ximen Qing, who is not a deputy envoy of the logistics institute who is not from a serious background, was cited by the scholar as his own family because of two new words, so that Wang Jie and other positive eight-grade regiment practitioners bowed their heads, but it was really too much.
The two have met more than once at a banquet these days, but it is the first time that they have met in private like this now.
Ximen Qing saw that this royal festival was a little restrained, so he chatted casually about some family life, and when the atmosphere in the hall was relaxed, he turned the topic to the water master.
Wang Jie was summoned to the yamen of the logistics institute today, and he had really made some preparations before, and he also answered very smoothly in response to the affairs of the sailor, and the truth about the shortage of wages during the period was not concealed. In fact, it is because of this money and food, Ximenqing wants to take a big head, such a military convention, even the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee understand in their hearts, it is not a crime, and there is no need to hide it from "their own family".
"In other words, there are only about a thousand soldiers in the sailors today, and I don't know how many can sail to sea?"
For such a situation, Ximen Qing had already prepared before coming to Dengzhou, so he gently uncovered it, and did not find out the root cause, which made Wang Jie's heart suddenly settle down a lot, knowing that this person knew the rules, and it was not like some big turbans.
"Every time the sailor goes to sea, it is all a transaction that costs money, unless there is accurate news of private boats, and some local fishermen are temporarily recruited, that is, they will not go to sea casually when they are idle, and they will not delay the livelihood of many generals......
Wang Jie babbled on and on the other seven or eight percent of the soldiers and soldiers of the sailors, they all worked hard in the shops of each family, but they were landlubbers who couldn't even swim.
This Great Song Army, except for a Western Army in Ganshan, is really not the worst, only worse. It is no wonder that the Chao Gai gang of Shuibo Liangshan dared to pat their chests and assure their own that the logistics office would never make a mistake in water transportation.
After noon, he led a group of subordinates out of Dengzhou City, but he went to the Sailor Wharf, which was almost four or five miles away from the city and close to Bohai Bay.
By the wharf, there was a large area of low, dilapidated huts, some of which were ragged and shaped like beggars. Although it is early spring at this time, it is located in Dengzhou in the north, and the outdoors is still cold, look at those houses, there are **-year-old children naked, and even the eleven or twelve-year-old girls are unclothed, hiding under the eaves, and the fear is infinite.
The warships and ships that were supposed to gallop on the sea were piled up in a remote water area of the wharf, no one cared about them, and there were only two 3,000-material Goryeo ships parked alone in the serious berths of the wharf, and I don't know what they were doing for a living.
Seeing Ximenqing's line of freshly dressed and angry horses parked on the dock, an old man immediately stepped forward, squeezed into one place with all the wrinkles on his face, pulled a bit of a stiff smile, and said with a shy face: "A few uncles, but the house wants to add population?" ”
When Ximen Qing heard this, he was slightly stunned, although he was from later generations, he also knew that the servants hired by the rich and noble family of the Great Song Dynasty, whether it was a life contract or a death contract, had to go through the government's tooth line, otherwise, it would be a black household, and once it was confiscated by the government, the family would be severely punished. Nowadays, in my own house, except for the death deed signed by all the maids in the back house, the stewards in the outer house and various sales are either temporary hires or have signed a life deed for five years and ten years, but there is no black household.
It seems that such black households, or those who have a large amount of land, have the most large number of eunuchs, I don't know how many people are hidden, and their living conditions are extremely bad, so they are slightly better than those homeless people.
Ximenqing waved his hand to stop the Zhu family brothers who wanted to come forward to drive the old man, dismounted and walked in front of the old man, and said in a gentle tone: "The old man is the tooth man of the government?" How do you make such a living here? ”
"What kind of business? It's just to find a way for juniors to live! ”
The old man rubbed a pair of cloudy teary eyes, his arm trembled slightly, pointed to the two big ships on the dock not far away, and sighed, "Uncle, look over there, it is the Goryeo nobles who came here to buy and sell people, if there is no way to live in this Great Song Dynasty, I can't say that I will be sold across the sea to an unknown place!" ”
"What! These Goryeo ships came to our Great Song Dynasty to sell people! ”
Ximenqing could never have imagined that the people of the Great Song Dynasty, who claimed to be the superior country, had been reduced to the point of selling themselves into slavery, and they were still bullied by the widows of small countries such as Goryeo.
Just as Ximen Qingtong was gossiping with this old man, a large Goryeo ship came down and several merchants dressed in Goryeo costumes, as soon as these people came ashore, the low thatched hut shacks on the opposite side of the wharf were like boiling water, and suddenly they became noisy, and those beggar-like Song people came out of their respective residences, took their children and daughters in their hands, and poured onto the wharf.
"Stand up,, lean back!"
Several short-clothed servants on duty on the dock were holding whips, and in front of them, the poor people retreated and dodged, embarrassed, while the Koreans pointed and laughed as if they were watching a monkey show.
Seeing this situation, all the subordinates around Ximenqing were filled with righteous indignation, if they had been fighting in the green forest in the past, they would have stepped forward to do it a long time ago.
"Whoever holds the whip in his hand will unload it for me!"
Ximen Qing opened his mouth coldly, and the Zhu family brothers around him, who were already eager to try, immediately rushed over, and the rest of Bian Xiang said that although he was not ashamed of the villains who aided and abused, he was self-respecting and did not want to be outnumbered, so he just looked at it coldly.