Of course, the main child should have been Julie, but due to the imminent delivery of pregnancy, she entrusted her deputy Anna to be responsible for the unveiling of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Market.

A.D. 1634, at the beginning of January, at the end of the sixth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the princess cruise ship and its fleet, which had been drifting slowly on the sea for more than a month, finally arrived at their destination and came to the port of Tianjin.

Naturally, the port of Tianjin has long been hung with red cloaks, and many officials have made a special trip from Beijing to prepare to greet them. However, most of the officials came from the military department, and the original object of greeting was the first first-class battleship of the Ming Dynasty, the "Shenwei Dingyuan General", but suddenly received a telegram saying that due to the Lushun war, the General temporarily increased a live-fire training, so it was going to the Liaodong Peninsula to go around and could not arrive at the same time as the main fleet.

This makes those military officials who have been waiting here for a long time quite dissatisfied-there are so many bosses waiting to pick you up and wash the dust, and how dare you go to training? Even if there is a war ahead, you can't be so faceless to Shangguan, you don't know the rules so much! Who taught these officers and soldiers of the Sailors?

――Completely trained by shorthair? Nima, then there is no need to talk about anything, at the moment, even Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, himself is thinking about how to have a good relationship with Shorthair, of course, these subordinate officials of the Ministry of War have no courage to show their teeth with Shorthair, at most they say some strange things in private, but they dare not show it on their faces.

Therefore, although the telegram made it very clear that this time it was only the envoy ship from Qionghai Town to Beijing that docked, and those that had nothing to do with it could be ignored, but on the day the Princess docked, these officials still ran to the dock one by one to greet them - more I am afraid it was for the sake of watching the excitement, after all, the Princess had been stopping and delaying between the coastal cities for so long, and the exquisite and gorgeous Western ship was as majestic as the Great General, and it had long been widely spread by those who arrived in Beijing in advance, and they could not see Daming's own super battleship. Let's take a look at the western scenery of this cruise ship first.

So when the group of people waiting for the northbound delegation to leave the cabin, they found themselves receiving far more attention and welcome than they had expected - the gongs and drums on the pier were not to be discussed. What's the matter with that row of well-dressed beasts in crimson or cyan collared shirts and black veils on their heads?

"Is our relationship with Daming so good? There are so many Ming Dynasty officials who came just to greet us? Is the status of our delegation so high? ”

After this training along the way, Guo Yi, the head of the delegation, has also adapted a little. Even when facing such a governor and governor, he can calmly deal with it. But at this moment, he still showed a trace of timidity, and he looked back at Hu Wen and Lin Hanlong. These two deputy heads are older than him and have much more experience.

"Maybe you're here to pick up the boat?"

Hu Wen's guess is closer to the truth, but Guo Yi is still confused:

"Didn't they already telegraph them that the General was going north? Why are you still here? ”

"Maybe it's because Chen Tao's goodwill work is doing better, and people give face. Isn't he here too, and you can ask him yourself when you go back. ”

Lin Hanlong said casually, he doesn't care about the number of people, he doesn't know each other anyway...... No, there is still an acquaintance, who is standing next to the gangway of the dock and is the first one. Dressed in five-grade official uniforms, with dark skin, and looking at them with a smile on his face, it was none other than Wang Pu, an old friend of the Qiong Navy, and Wang Pu Wang Jieshan, the former governor of Qiongzhou Prefecture.

Wang Pu, as a "talent in economic practice" who is extremely favored by Qian Qianyi and the entire Donglin Party faction, has just been transferred back to the mainland from Qiongzhou Mansion not long ago. He left even later than the Princess, but he didn't delay along the way and went directly to Beijing to report on his work. Then it was put on the Tianjin side to take charge of the port operations - because in the past few months, a large number of southern goods have been loaded and unloaded from here and sent to Beijing, and the port of Tianjin has begun to show rapid development. Coupled with the formation of the Jinmen fleet, anyone with a little insight in the Ming Dynasty can see that this place will soon prosper, and it will be a matter of time before the state is expanded and built in the future. No matter who is in charge here, it will naturally be promoted to the Sipin Huangtang as a matter of course. Become a prefect who is qualified to wear a scarlet robe.

For this doomed fat shortage, there were really many people who coveted it in the DPRK before, but when Qian Qianyi introduced Wang Pu as a competitor representing the Donglin faction, others no longer had the intention of competing with him - no way, Wang Pu's advantage was too great: he had a very good relationship with Qionghai Town; I am very familiar with the short-haired set; And with the status of Qian Ge Lao, there was a shortage of manpower in the bag in the past. Basically, he didn't stretch out his hand to the place, and now that he wants to occupy a position, even the emperor is embarrassed to call his return ticket.

And Wang Pu himself is also full of confidence, and wants to show his strength and do a good job here - you must know that he entered the Qiongzhou Mansion almost at the same time as the Qiongzhou Navy, and he has also seen what the Qiongzhou Mansion was like at the beginning. In the next few years, he not only watched it with his own eyes, but also joined in, cooperating with Xie Xi Pang Yu and others to start from scratch, and developed the dilapidated Qiongzhou Mansion, which was actually not qualified to be called a "state city" at all, and the Baisha Water Village next door, which was originally almost a white land, completely surpassing the old trade ports such as Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Yuegang, and developing into the largest and richest trade in South China and even the entire Southeast Asia.

At that time, what Wang Pu thought about every day was that one day, he would do the same in the Ming Dynasty! In today's Ming court, except for those old stubborns who want to save face and are so ignorant that they refuse to accept reality at all, most people of insight have to admit that the group of short hairs in Qionghai Town has surpassed the Ming Dynasty in many places. But others often pay attention to their technical advantages, thinking that as long as they have the advanced firecrackers, powerful artillery, and the mysterious big iron ship, they can also dominate the world and be invincible. And the things they took out looked nothing more than very delicate and small, and with a little effort, it should not be difficult to master.

But Wang Pu doesn't think so, in the process of long-term contact and cooperation with Shorthair, he found that the other party is not very confidential in this kind of technology, as long as it does not involve the direct military industry, and even takes the initiative to teach, but also lest others learn not enough and not be good enough. During that time, Wang Pu also really worked hard to study, but unfortunately, although he can understand some of the many techniques shown by Short Hair, he is really unable to delve deeper - not that he is not smart enough, but the education system he has received since he was a child, and the way of thinking he has cultivated are completely different. Among other things, just one advanced mathematics made him fully aware of his own shortcomings. Unless you completely abandon what you have learned in the past and completely change your course, you will not be able to learn at all.

But even that little bit of fur is enough to make Wang Pu realize that the technical advantage of short hair is by no means a "strange skill", but it really takes several generations and hundreds of years of accumulation to be established, and it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to surpass it in the short term. On the contrary, in terms of business development and layout planning, that is, the so-called "economics" category of Shorthair, it seems to be more dazzling, as if making money empty-handed, picking cakes on the flat ground, and forcibly turning the remote and wild land of Qiongzhou into a cornucopia of the south - but it is easier to imitate. Because in this regard, it is more important to ponder people's hearts. As a Ming official, he still has an advantage in this regard.

In the past few years, he has cooperated with Pang Yu, Zhao Lide, Ao Sayan, Julie and others in Qiongzhou Mansion, which made Wang Pu feel that he has learned a lot. Sometimes, when he dreams back at midnight, he even thinks: If he goes back in time and returns to the state when he first entered Qiongzhou Mansion, and there is no such short hair falling from the sky, can Qiongzhou Mansion develop almost the same as it is now?

-- I definitely can't reach it, but, more or less, it will be a little different from the "normal" Daming Prefecture.

This kind of thought only appeared occasionally at first, but then it gradually became more frequent, and this desire, or dream, became stronger and stronger, almost making Wang Pu crazy about it!

So, when he learned that the imperial court intended to transfer him back, and heard from private channels that the imperial court intended to hand over Tianjin Port to him to take care of, although at that time he had already taken his family to Qiongzhou Mansion and owned a very good double-storey single-family villa in the newly opened residential area, several short-haired friends also clearly told him: as long as he didn't want to, no one could force him to return to Daming. Wang Pu and Wang Jieshan still resolutely accepted the order, only brought a scholar Xiaoshi, and as he did back then, he came to Tianjin Port to take office.

As in the past, he had just arrived on his front foot, and his back foot had short hair. But this time, Wang Pu didn't do anything stupid to turn people away, but came to the dock early, and welcomed them with a smile on his face.

"Ha, Wang! You seemed to be on the dock when we set off, why did you come here to meet us again in the blink of an eye? ”

Guo Yi and Wang Pu didn't have much contact, and only stepped forward to say hello, but Lin Hanlong, who was in charge of the infrastructure construction of Qiongzhou Mansion for a while, often dealt with Wang Pu, and the relationship between the two became more familiar.

"I've also been to Beijing once, and you're slow enough on the way, so people can't wait for it."

Wang Pu smiled and shook hands with Lin Hanlong, and he is now very accustomed to the handshake ceremony of modern people. Including the words and expressions, there is no longer the sour restraint of the literati at the beginning.

Lin Hanlong was stunned:

"Wait for us? What do you have to wait for us? ”

"Of course it's a good thing, a big thing!"

Wang Pu suddenly stretched out his hand, grabbed Lin Hanlong, who was about to continue walking, and waved his other arm, pointing to the still cramped Tianjin Port Area in front of him:

"I want to build this place into a second Baisha Port, Brother Lin is a great talent, and I hope to give you some advice." (To be continued.) )xh118

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