The cool wind in the north blew away the sorrow on the corners of Shen Yujun's eyebrows, pulling at the placket of her clothes.

Small flowers swaying in the wind, exhaling the fragrance of the land and dispelling the saltiness of the ocean. She used to think that the smell of the sea was the best, but now she felt that the fragrance of flowers and plants on the land was also refreshing. She once believed that the boat was her home, but now she felt that land was probably safer than a boat and a sandbar.

Shen Yujun wanted to follow Xu Yuanzuo over, but his feet did not move. She stood on the side of the boat, watched Xu Yuanzuo run across the dock, ran up the hill, stood on the hill and let out a strange cry like a night owl, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously raised.

Xu Yuanzuo looked at the villages in the depression under the hill, as well as the small fields scattered outside the village, and even saw the twisted ridges. The seeds of this year can't help but toss, if the Champa rice in the south of the Yangtze River is planted here, I am afraid that I will not even be able to recover the capital. He had imagined that the black soil was still farther north, and he was afraid that the low temperatures would make it harder for the crops to survive.

Without food, there will be no enough people to support a large enough population, and without a population, there will be no market, and without enough labor, there will naturally be no economy and commerce to speak of.

Xu Yuanzuo took a deep breath. The cool air filled his alveoli one by one, swapping out the exhaust gases in his blood, and spitting them out.

When Li Teng came up, he seemed to be free from the torment of seasickness, but he was still a little sluggish. At a glance, he saw a lonely building outside the village at the foot of the mountain, and was surprised: "There is even a temple in this place." ”

"People always need to believe something." Xu Yuanzuo said as a matter of course.

Li Teng asked, "Do you want to make a world here?" ”

Xu Yuanzuo nodded: "It may be slower than I expected, there is not enough food." ”

Li Teng walked from south to north, and saw at a glance the mismatch between the farmland and the scale of the village. It seems that the villagers still rely on fishing and hunting for their livelihood. He sighed: "I don't know far away, anyway, from the early years of Jiajing to the present, the weather is colder than a year." When the weather is colder, the fields will have to retreat a lot south. It is even more difficult to grow food in the north. ”

Xu Yuanzuo turned his head to look for Shi Tie and called him over in a loud voice.

Shi Tiezheng plucked a dogtail grass from the ground, gritted his teeth in his mouth, and ran up happily: "Brother Zuo, you call me." ”

Xu Yuanzuo patted him on the shoulder, pointed to the farmland below and said, "There is not enough grain in Liaodong. What did the people eat? ”

Shi Tiedao: "Grain, buy it from Guannai and Liaonan." You can't starve to death. He laughed as he spoke, feeling that Zo Ge'er had been blown up so much, but he asked such a ridiculous question.

What the two said was not on the same level at all, and Xu Yuanzuo couldn't explain it, and said: "Outside the side wall, are there still people farming?" ”

"Very little." Shi Tiedao: "Sometimes the harvest is not too much, so it is better to eat the seeds directly." ”

Li Teng also said: "During the Yongle period, in order to allow the 25th Guard of the Liaodong Capital Division to be stationed in Tun, the imperial court had to transport hundreds of thousands of stone grains every year. It wasn't until after Xuande that there was less. ”

"I really can't wait to leave for Liaoyang today." Xu Yuanzuo said to Shi Tie again: "Come." Tell me how to walk on the road in Liaodong. ”

Speaking of Liaodong Traffic, Shi Tie's eyes burst out with brilliance. He recalled the various routes he had taken with his parents, counted with his fingers, and said, "There are four land routes and one water route in Liaodong. The first is from Liaoyang to Lushunkou, that is, to southern Liaoning. ”

He rolled his eyes to the left and recited the post stations along the way: "The first stop when Liaoyang comes out, feed the horses and mules in the Anshan Station; Go straight south to Haizhou Station. There are many people in Chenggao, and it is easy to sell goods; The Acropolis came out sixty miles, and the Gaizhou Post was in front; After Gaizhou is Xiong Yue. to stop at the head of the fifty villages; People eat horses and chew away from Fuzhou, big cities and big stores, big girls; Sixty and five miles south of the city, Luangu Pass in Luangu Mountain; Shihe, Jinzhou Tongmu Field, and then Lushunkou. ”

Xu Yuanzuo smiled: "There is a mantra here." ”

"How can I remember without a formula." Shi Tie kept snapping his fingers: "Thirteen stations, not one is missing." The second one is from Liaoyang to Kaiyuan City, and I forgot that mantra. But go familiar, a total of six stations, out of Liaoyang to the north is the tiger skin station, Shenyang station, Yilu station, Huanzhou station, and then to Kaiyuan City. ”

"Kaiyuan is also from the Liaodong Metropolitan Division?" Xu Yuanzuo asked.

"Liao Haiwei and 30,000 Wei are all there. It's a big town, tens of thousands of people! Shi Tiedao: "The side goods from Zhenbei Pass." You have to go to Kaiyuan first. ”

Xu Yuanzuo said: "This road may be walkable, but the two roads you said have little to do with us, how can we go to Liaoyang?" ”

Shi Tie thought for a while and said, "It's very convenient for us to go to Liaoyang." Go to Yaozhou Station, to the north is Tashanpu, and then to the north is Haizhou Wei, followed by Anshan. When I arrived in Anshan, I also arrived in Liaoyang. ”

Xu Yuanzuo listened: "That is, five stations?" ”

"Yes, it's close." Stone Railway.

The distance between Liaodong post stations varies from sixty to seventy miles, which is basically a one-day journey for a business trip.

Xu Yuanzuo said: "Then you have to go for five or six days." Is there any other way? ”

"And then there's the waterway." Shi Tie was much more indifferent: "From the mouth of the Liaohe River, go up to Dongchang Fort, go ashore at Changding Fort, and then walk for another day to Liaoyang." It's just going upstream, and it's not very easy to walk. Small boats can't carry much either, so few people take the waterway. ”

The map of Liaodong in Xu Yuanzuo's mind has been enriched a lot, and several transportation routes have been outlined.

Shi Tie saw that Xu Yuanzuo was silent, and said: "Brother Zuo'er, actually, it's really not as good as Lushun here." ”

"Oh?"

"Lushun is a big place, with a lot of people and a lot of commercial goods. You see, there's nothing. Shi Tiedao: "If you transport more goods, you can't even find a porter to carry it." And I've heard people say that if you want to do business across the sea, you have to go to Lushun. ”

"Why?"

"Because the waterways are not easy to walk." Shi Tie said vaguely: "I just heard about it." ”

The hydrological conditions of Liaodong Bay are quite good, but in the end it is the so-called Yellow Water Ocean. However, from Liangfangkou to Lushun, there are many islands, reefs and dark sands along the way, and the risk of stranding is too high. If you want to take the blue water ocean, you must turn into the offshore sea on Tieshan Island, otherwise you will either take the risk of taking the old Tieshan waterway, or you will simply go to Dengzhou.

In this way, it will take about six or seven days to leave the Bohai Sea from Liangfangkou.

"From Lushun to us. How many days are you going to go? ”

"If it's fast, it's ten days, and it's hard to say if it's slow, and when it rains, the road is not easy to walk, and it's common to walk for half a month." Stone Railway.

Xu Yuanzuo closed his eyes slightly and calculated the distance. Or is it faster by sea. However, the land route is stable, and even in extreme situations, there is no danger of destruction. As long as you don't get robbed along the way, you can always reach Lushun safely. However, the cost of overland is also high, not only are the days traveled, but the number of transporters required is much higher than the number of sailors.

Not to mention the cost of PR.

"We still have to build the beams." Xu Yuanzuo made a decision.

Seeing that Xu Yuanzuo was so resolute, Shi Tie could only say: "Brother Zuo has the final say." He added: "Zuo Ge'er plans to repair the house in the ditch?" ”

Xu Yuanzuo looked at the village at the low place, then at the small hill at his feet, and said, "I plan to build a village on the high place." ”

"Then it's not convenient to get water." Shi Tie licked his lips.

It is said to be a hill, but it is only about ten meters high. It stretches all the way from Pingshan and gradually gets shorter and shorter. Until the edge of the Liao River, follow the Liao River to make a small bay and turn into Liaodong Bay. From the perspective of life, it is certainly not as convenient as low-lying places. There is no way to cultivate farmland, there is no capillary river to draw water, and even digging a well is not as convenient as digging a ditch.

However, as the mouth of the Liao River, its strategic value is immeasurable. Xu Yuanzuo's roots are in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is like a bridgehead. As the first step into Liaodong. It has to be on a solid footing.

"There is a lot of wood in Liaodong." Shi Tie grinned.

Xu Yuanzuo also smiled, he didn't want to build a wooden village.

There is Zhang Juzheng's endorsement. A fortress could be built here.

"Everything will be detailed when it comes to Liaoyang." Xu Yuanzuo likes this big stout man, and he is not as reckless as his body.

Li Teng vaguely guessed what Xu Yuanzuo meant. As a Taoist priest, he had to be proficient in the three classics of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, the scriptures of this sect, literature and history, astronomical geography, and the art of war...... Born in a peaceful and prosperous era, he will refine the pill and cultivate the truth; In the event of military disasters and wars, he will assist the master. This is also the reason why he can see at a glance why Xu Yuanzuo chose the camp.

"If you put a bubble here, you can hit the north shore." Li Teng said tentatively.

Xu Yuanzuo said without any guilt: "Can you fight so far?" ”

"Jack Furlong machine. It should be fine. Li Teng said.

"If you want to guard this place and control the port and the mouth of the Liao River, the Furlong machine is not as good as the Hongyi cannon." Xu Yuanzuo saw that Li Teng's face was different, and he only thought that this Taoist priest couldn't tell the difference between the two types of artillery, and explained: "The Furlong machine has a fast rate of fire. It's a pity that the range is short, and the power is not as great as the Hongyi cannon. ”

Li Teng didn't say much because there were outsiders, and followed Xu Yuanzuo to continue to measure the distance on the hill slowly. According to the Ming Dynasty's construction method, a tunbao with a circumference of three miles is enough to garrison thousands of people. At the moment, Xu Yuanzuo's way of walking seems to want to make full use of every inch of land here.

Xu Yuanzuo walked around silently, raised his head and saw that there was already a team of people behind him, and he was too involved just now to find out. He opened his mouth and said, "It's a total of 1,278 steps." In the midst of everyone's stunnedness, he reported another number: "The circumference is three miles and another seventy-eight steps, and a large fort can be built." ”

"How much money does it cost to build a fort?" Luo Zhenquan said with a little heartache: "Now that the sea is too peaceful, there are no pirates, it's enough to build a wooden village, right?" ”

Xu Yuanzuo raised his head, looked around, and said, "In the future, there will be goods stored here, and the store will definitely be indispensable." Maybe you will have to collect a lot of money, which will inevitably attract people's peeps. "Just because there are fewer pirates doesn't mean you can't let your guard down. It must be known that the cost of falling into the grass is too low in these years, and you have to be on guard against full-time bandits in the mountains and robbers who make cameos in the military.

Luo Zhenquan grinned and asked, "Do you plan to build like the county seat?" ”

Xu Yuanzuo said: "First use rammed earth to build a one-zhang high earthen wall, and then consider covering bricks later." ”

For a city, a foot tall is a little short, but for a stockade, it is tall enough to stand up to most robbers.

"The wall is two and a half feet thick, and the inside is extended two and a half feet, and a compartment is built so that it can be used as a warehouse." Xu Yuanzuo is not worried that the enemy has heavy weapons, if this thickness is covered with bricks, the idle artillery will not collapse.

Everyone secretly said in their hearts: Isn't this equivalent to half of the house being repaired? It's rare to save money.

"Now we can find someone to start clearing the land and taking the soil." Xu Yuanzuo clapped his hands: "Who wants to stay as an overseer?" ”

I finally arrived in Liaodong, of course, I had to go to Liaoyang to take a walk and open my eyes. How boring is it to stay here as an overseer?

Xu Yuanzuo's eyes swept over everyone, and finally saw someone take the initiative to take a step forward.

Shen Yujun stroked the hair with his sideburns blown up, and said, "I'll stay, I just want to watch the boat." ”

Xu Yuanzuo saw Shen Yujun's indifferent expression, and knew in his heart that it was because he had subdued, so he smiled and said, "That's right." It's also a lot of trouble for you to recruit people. ”

"Don't worry." Shen Yujun replied decisively with two words.

Xu Yuanzuo said curiously: "Don't you ask where this silver comes from?" ”

"Naturally, it is from the Jiangnan Boat Company." Shen Yujun's eyelids were strained, and his whole person tensed, like a lioness who would pounce at any time. She said seriously: "In the future, the rent of the shop here and the fee of the wharf should be regarded as Jiangnan Boat Company!" ”

Xu Yuanzuo laughed: "Okay, as long as you're happy." "Anyway, after the redistribution of Jiangnan Shipyard's shares, he must be the majority shareholder, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is his industry. If it can really develop in the future, this piece can still be spun off, and it will be an independent legal person, and the capital will be injected without delay.

Only then did Shen Yujun relax and began to plan how many people to find and how much land to level first. Xu Yuanzuo came up with some ideas on the side, and everyone also made suggestions, but Shen Yujun was dizzy, and finally decided to ignore those mouthfuls who pointed fingers according to his own understanding.

It seems that it is dark in the north much earlier than in the capital, and the goods have not been unloaded yet, and the sky is already dark. Despite the poor conditions in the village, a few people who suffered from seasickness still preferred the land and refused to return to the ship for the night.

Xu Yuanzuo wanted to experience the life of the grass shed, but who knew that he would be woken up in the middle of the night by lice, fleas and all kinds of little guys. He scratched the lumps on his body and wondered, the bedding was all brought by himself, where did the lice and fleas come from? When I got out of bed, I found that someone was afraid that he would not be able to sleep on a too hard soil kang, so he put a layer of hay on him, and I don't know if it was used by others, and these little guys were mixed in it.

Qi Miao didn't enjoy this hay mat, but he was unharmed.

Xu Yuanzuo couldn't wait to run back to the boat naked, and called Qi Miao to boil water to bathe him overnight. As for intimate clothes and bedding, they must be steamed and cooked, otherwise they will never be worn again.

After taking a shower and changing into clean clothes and pants, Xu Yuanzuo didn't dare to experience such a down-to-earth life anymore, so he fled back to the boat and went to sleep.

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Sorry for that.:There's a small bug in the last chapter.,Changed it didn't succeed.,Maybe the starting point doesn't allow you to change the paid chapter.。 It basically doesn't affect reading, that is, Li Teng was not deceived by Xu Yuanzuo into getting on the boat, but he reacted more because of seasickness. This is a technical mistake that Hosetuna didn't keep up with, and I'm really sorry. Today, a reader gave away a reading bag, just as Xiaotang's apology, thank you for your support.

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