Chapter 241: Freshwater City in Peter's Eyes

After thinking about this, Peter had nothing to be dissatisfied with, so Shi Shiran boarded the trestle, ordered the sailors and soldiers who accompanied the ship, to carry the boxes he brought off the rowboat, and then communicated with the sea wolf people who were in charge of receiving him, and then he was escorted by the sea wolf's soldiers and walked towards Tamsui City.

After entering Tamsui City, Peter also felt a kind of shock, not that the buildings here are majestic, on the contrary, the buildings here can even be said to be a little shabby, and they are not as beautiful as those luxurious buildings in some cities of the Ming Dynasty on land.

The buildings here are very simple, but they are very practical, from the beginning of entering the city, he saw that the buildings here are very neatly planned, the streets are very wide, all the buildings are built in strict accordance with the plan, and the various buildings along the street are as if measured with a ruler, without a sense of messiness.

The streets are also bustling with people, although not as prosperous as some of the big cities in the Ming Dynasty on land, but compared to the city of Geranza, which the Dutch have not yet fully built, it seems to be very prosperous.

It wasn't that that struck Peter and his men the most, but what they saw here was the orderliness and the unbelievably clean nature of the place.

After entering the city, there are teams of neatly dressed and clean sea wolf tribes on the streets from time to time, holding various weapons, patrolling the streets, these sea wolf soldiers are like carved out of a mold, although each team is only about ten people, but they are lined up in this very neat queue, and the breath is moving exactly the same pace, calm and strong, so that people can see at a glance that these soldiers have undergone extremely strict training, and have extremely strict discipline.

There was a kind of vigilance in their eyes, and none of them looked idlely, and even when they saw them enter the city, they only glanced at them slightly, and saw that there were sea wolves leading the Dutchmen, so they immediately turned their heads and continued their patrol.

Those pedestrians on the street, although the clothes are not luxurious, but most of them are clean, everyone has a ruddy luster on their faces, and it is rare to see people with vegetables, it is obvious that the people who live here, although they are not very rich, but they are not lacking in nutrition, which is very rare, because even in the land towns of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how rich the place, only some people will have this kind of performance, and most people are still obviously with a malnourished demeanor.

Based on this alone, it can be judged that the people living here, even if they are not rich, can eat well, and in this era, not to mention the Ming Dynasty, even the people in the richest cities in Europe, I am afraid it is not easy to do this.

In addition, the neatness and cleanliness of this place give everyone who enters here for the first time a kind of shock, on the huge street, they do not see a single mess of garbage, along the street, erected wooden pillars, wooden stakes are equipped with a glass cover.

Seeing this kind of thing, Peter's eyes shrank slightly, and he immediately saw what it was, this kind of thing is actually some street lights, and these street lamps also exist in some prosperous big cities, but they only exist, and there will never be anywhere where so many glass street lamps are installed.

Because in this era, glass is still an absolute luxury, even in the palace, I am afraid it is difficult to be extravagant enough to light this kind of glass street lamp everywhere.

So even in the big cities of the Netherlands, there are no glass street lamps in this era, but here, in the small Freshwater City of the Sea Wolf, so many glass street lamps are installed in one street or two rows.

Now Peter feels that the exquisite glass products that have been sold on land should indeed be made by the sea wolf himself, although glass is luxurious, but now it is not a very scarce thing, craftsmen in many places in Europe can also produce glass, but can produce glass mirrors, but only Tunisia and Britain, even they Dutch do not have this kind of thing, can only be purchased from Tunisian merchants, and then resold to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the price of the glass mirror they shipped is extremely high, and the glass is easy to be damaged during the transportation for a long time on the sea, especially the large glassware, which is easy to break, so even if they ship glass products from Europe, it is generally not too big, and the glass mirror is something very small.

However, in the past two years, they found that the merchants of the Ming Dynasty were obviously not very interested in the glass products they shipped, and later they checked and found that the shops in many places in the Ming Dynasty actually appeared to be of better quality than the glass products they shipped from Europe.

These new glass products on the market are not only pure in texture, crystal beautiful, but also more in line with the aesthetics of the Ming people, and more importantly, there are large glass mirrors on the market, and the largest area can even be used as a dressing mirror.

Such a large glass mirror, even a Tunisian glass craftsman, can not be made, and it is impossible to transport it to be comparable to these glass mirrors that appear in the Ming world.

Therefore, the glass products that could still be sold as a valuable commodity by the Dutch, Portuguese and Spaniards have shrunk to the extreme under the blow of this kind of glass products that have appeared on the market in the past two years, and have basically been driven out of the Ming market.

After inquiring, they heard that these glass products came from the sea wolf, and they were suspicious before, but when they saw the glass street lamps here today, Peter was completely convinced that this must be made by the sea wolf, and it was made on the spot, otherwise the sea wolf would not dare to take these glass lamps and install them on the side of the road as street lamps, even if the sea wolf had money.

And if the security situation here is not good, the roadside is equipped with such expensive glass products, I am afraid that it will be remembered by thieves, and if it is not installed in a few days, it will be stolen completely, but the glass street lamps here, this way to see, is very complete, so it can be seen that the security situation here is also very good, and no one dares to easily fight the idea of these things here.

Then there is the sanitary condition here, Peter boasts that in the past half of his life, he has walked a lot of places, but there is no place that can make him feel like this.

Before entering Tamsui City, he had already felt that the area around the dock was very tidy, but he didn't pay too much attention to it at the time, he thought that it was the sea wolf who sent someone to clean it in order to welcome him, and he was a little secretly happy at that time.

But after entering Tamsui City, he found that things were not what he thought, the streets in the entire Tamsui City, as far as the eye could see, were very clean and tidy, along the street and even some side alleys, every few dozen steps on the side of the road, there would be a kind of rattan basket.

If you are a first-time visitor, you don't know what these rattan baskets do, but when you get closer, you will find that these rattan baskets are full of all kinds of garbage collected.

To the surprise of Peter and his party, the people walking here would consciously send some garbage to the rattan basket and throw the garbage into the rattan basket, instead of throwing it on the road like in other places.

Even if there is the occasional piece of garbage scattered on the street, some people in red shoulders with brooms and trash hoppers will immediately run over to sweep it up and dump it into those garbage baskets.

As they walked down the street, they also saw that there would be some patrol officers on the road, and instead of knives and guns, they were holding a hardwood stick about two feet long, carrying a square rattan plaque on their backs and wearing a rattan helmet on their heads, and they were patrolling the streets in small groups.

There happened to be an eyeless fellow, walking down the street, holding a roasted sweet potato in his hand, eating it as he went, and after eating, he casually threw the sweet potato skin on the street, only to be caught by these patrol officers with rattan sticks.

So the people with rattan sticks immediately shouted loudly, surrounded the guy who threw sweet potato skins in his hands, and shouted at him.

The guy who threw the sweet potato skin was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he quickly practiced nodding and apologizing, but he was still fined a few big bucks, which made his flesh hurt, and in addition, he was taken to the side of the road, and was pressed to the ground on the spot and smoked three rattan sticks, and he grinned and screamed when he was beaten.

Peter's eyelids jumped a few times, and he said in his heart, the sea wolf is really strict here! If you throw some peels around, you will be fined and you will be beaten with rattan sticks, so I was so frightened that I hurriedly whispered to my subordinates, be careful here, don't be beaten because of this.

When they walked into a compound, Peter knew that the road had arrived at the place, this compound covers a considerable area, should be the new headquarters of the sea wolf, around the compound, everywhere there are sea wolf people, in the vigilant duty, everyone with a vigilant gaze, observing the surrounding situation, many people passing by, are far away with a look of awe, hurriedly walked through the periphery, there are few idlers, dare to stay here idle.

The first time they met, Peter was also deeply impressed by Yu Xiaotian who was sitting in the top position, even if the other party did not have such a tall figure, but just the kind of strong temperament revealed on his body made people have to be in awe of him.

"Your Excellency, I am the Dutch East India Company, Governor of Formosa. Nuiz! It's an honor to meet Your Excellency the Leader here! When Peter arrived here, he didn't dare to put on a score, so after entering the hall, he took the initiative to bow down to Yu Xiaotian, who was sitting at the top of the seat.