Three days later, in the early hours of the morning, on the north bank of the Tamsui River.

The melodious sound of military trumpets sounded in the barracks, and the 1,200 officers and men of the garrison battalion gathered in the open space in front of the container barracks, and began to run around the 300-meter-long and wide earthen playground with the sound of the command.

The hundred-man team running in front made a half-circle, ran to the top of the dock and suddenly stopped, and the few hundred-man teams behind were blocked from the road, and soon became a mess.

Garrison commander Yang Dading and several instructors heard the exclamations and hurriedly rushed to the front, and were quickly frightened by the spectacular scene in front of them:

In the hazy morning light, the two-mile-long riverbank was densely stacked with cardboard boxes, as well as shovels, steel picks, large saws, hammers and other tools tightly bound with hemp rope!

Yang Dading immediately guessed that the senior brother was back, and immediately ordered to stop the training, lined up on standby, and then called 24 captains and deputy captains to give the task of transporting materials by category, and then took two guards to look for Zhu Daolin everywhere, but found that Zhu Daolin was still missing at dawn.

In the end, Yang Dading had no choice but to cross the south bank in a small boat and continue to search.

The civil and military officials on the south bank were quickly alarmed, and they were about to send the remaining 200 craftsmen to search for them separately, when they heard shouts from the other side, Zhu Daolin stood in a small boat rowed from the river, slowly approached the dock, and made the garrison commander Yang Dading's face flushed.

Zhu Daolin went ashore to greet the civil and military officers, patted Yang Dading's shoulder, and comforted: "Don't blame the sentry for this, there was a lot of fog in the middle of the night last night, and after unloading the goods, I got into the container at the edge of the camp and slept ...... I was also tired from the journey, so I knew that everyone was tired. The brothers in the garrison battalion trained in the morning and worked in the afternoon, and they have not had a day off since they were stationed. It is very rare to be able to hold on until now without collapsing, and it would have been down long ago if it was replaced by other troops. ”

Yang Dading was quite excited: "General, the garrison battalion is your personal guard battalion, and all the officers and soldiers are heroes who are one in a thousand, even if they are tired to death, they will never lie down!" ”

"Good spirits, but you can't be brutal! After the distribution and transportation of materials was completed, the garrison battalion rested for three days. I can't stand it anymore...... Listen to me, rest for three days, eat and sleep well. When I have time, I will tidy up the housekeeping, clean the camp, and winter is coming, so I should seize the time to improve the barracks. Not a single officer or soldier should be allowed to suffer from the cold. Zhu Daolin took the opportunity to instruct.

"Yes! The subordinates then returned to the North Shore Barracks. Convey the general's orders. Yang Dading didn't say a word, and resolutely implemented.

Jiang Zhaohuan, Fan Sanmin and other civil officials immediately surrounded Zhu Daolin and asked if the winter clothes were transported by shoes and tools?

After receiving Zhu Daolin's affirmative reply, more than a dozen civil and military officials dispersed in a hurry, leaving only Jiang Zhaohuan, the chief manager, and Simeno, the acting chief of staff of the navy, to stay by Zhu Daolin's side.

The three of them walked and talked as they entered the temporary headquarters.

Several attendants quickly put on a plate of delicious seafood such as pan-fried fish roe and boiled prawns, as well as Zhu Daolin's favorite boiled wild yams.

Zhu Daolin grabbed a piece of fragrant wild yamsa and began to peel it: "It seems that the fishing team has achieved good results!" ”

Jiang Zhaohuan said with a smile: "These things on the table were picked up from the beach early in the morning, and the fishing team doesn't care about these small things at all...... Returning home the evening the day before yesterday, five fishing boats of all sizes unloaded more than 150,000 catties of various large fish. The longest tuna, which was a man's height, immediately startled me when it was placed on the scale. It's 73 pounds, haha! ”

Zhu Daolin recalled for a moment before he knew that tuna was tuna: "Is the salt enough?" ”

Jiang Zhaohuan replied: "It can be used for half a month, mainly because of the large consumption of pickled sea fish, not enough to boil seawater, before the construction of the large freshwater wharf, there is no way to open a salt field, fortunately, this sea has a high salt content, and there is firewood and grass everywhere on the shore, you bring thousands of marching pots this time, and it is very convenient to boil salt." ”

Simeno asked, "General, how long can you stay this time?" ”

"For three days, the traffic ship of Tianshu Pavilion is in the small Liuqiu Islands in the northeast, and it will come to pick me up and return to Baoshan in three days, I must rush to Baoshan Port as soon as possible, and then take two 300-ton inland river warships to Tianjin Port to report to His Majesty the Emperor, and I will not be able to come back for at least two months."

"The construction of the Tamsui Fortress and the jurisdiction of the fleet require you to worry a lot, and you and the naval tactical instructor team must return to Baoshan Port before the end of the year......"

"On January 1 next year, the Ming Imperial Navy Command will be officially established, and you will be officially promoted to Chief of Staff of the Ming Imperial Navy and promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel."

Zhu Daolin briefly told Simeno about his itinerary and arrangements for the next three months.

Simeno stood up excitedly: "Please rest assured that your subordinates will not live up to your trust and promotion, and will definitely become a qualified chief of naval staff!" ”

Zhu Daolin motioned for Simeno to sit down and began to discuss the construction of the freshwater fleet and the fortress.

Jiang Zhaohuan on the side sighed secretly, he knew very well in his heart that after Zhu Daolin walked out with this step, I am afraid that this big tomorrow will slowly change.

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Zhu Daolin finally left Tamsui Port three days later, but did not return to Baoshan Port as he told Simeno and Jiang Zhaohuan, but risked delaying his entry into Beijing to offend Emperor Chongzhen, and returned to the Heshan Villa in Qixia District again to carefully count the many gifts that were about to be given to the emperor.

For this batch of "tributes", Zhu Daolin can be said to be very nervous.

Because he was unwilling to send real money, he could only spend time on the strange skills and tricks that the Ming literati said, and the five copies of the "Territory Map of the Ming Empire" and the astronomical telescope that he and Chu Mei jointly created were decisions made after careful consideration and repeated considerations.

One of the five copies of the "Territory Map of the Ming Empire" was to be given to Emperor Chongzhen, and Zhu Daolin wanted the young emperor to see the glory that his ancestors and the ancestors of the Han nation once had.

The purpose of sending the astronomical telescope is to let the young emperor look at the moon and stars, look at the clouds of different thicknesses, let the young emperor experience the relationship between heaven and nature, and finally understand that the natural and man-made disasters of the Ming Dynasty are not the emperor's immorality as the ministers say, but the immorality of officials at all levels who govern the country.

As for the 200 high-grade dragon and phoenix silk and 300 jacquard silk of various colors that only the royal family can enjoy, as well as 12 pieces of gemstone jewelry, 30 precious antique clocks, 5 pedal sewing machines, 5 tons of white sugar as white as snow, 500 embroidered spring knives that cut gold and iron, 3 wooden models of sail warships and other items, in Zhu Daolin's eyes, they are far less than the value of the Ming Empire's territory map and astronomical telescope.

If the young emperor could understand from these two significant tributes, perhaps the people of the Ming Dynasty, who had suffered a lot of disasters, would have died less, he might be able to sit more comfortably on his throne, and the apology in Zhu Daolin's heart would have diminished a lot. (To be continued.) )