Chapter 0291 - Pier Sights
After being locked up for five full days, Wu Baoer was released. As a sailor who has been trapped on the ship all year round, he has nothing to do with this, except that his attitude is more respectful, his spine is softer, his smile is more, and he has gained a little weight by the way.
After being released, Wu Bao'er and his twelve sailors were officially appointed to the Guards Water Transport Squad. Even the two-hundred-material flat-ground transport ship was named 'Yingkou'. Wu Baoer and others also received two sets of formal military uniforms, including underwear and jackets. He himself was even awarded the rank of corporal, with a monthly salary of two or five cents, which was the same level as Gao Daniu and others.
"Snort, buy people's hearts. It's only two taels of silver, is it called Huazi when Wu Ye? I'm not fooled. After Wu Bao'er took the uniform and rank from the quartermaster of the Guards, she had a smile on her face, but she was scolding in her heart. For the old pirates who disobeyed on the sea, he felt that there were too many rules in the guards—talking, eating, walking, saluting, everything was annoying.
There are so many rules, but it is very stingy to give money.
"Corporal Wu, your current mission is to train two hundred sailors for the Guards in a hurry. I don't want them to be able to gallop on the sea, as long as they can hold the raft from the Hunhe River outside Fushun City all the way to the mouth of the Liao River. It can stop, it can walk, it can dock. It's okay to have these abilities. I don't have much time to give you, the first twenty people will finish the training in three days. ”
Zhou Qingfeng personally went to the military camp of the Thousand Households to give an order. In his opinion, this Wu Baoer has too many vices, and he still has a lot of blood debts on his hands, just like Mao Ada's original - to use, but to control the use.
Wu Bao'er naturally swore an oath, saying that the fact of supporting the raft was too simple. Not to mention three days, one day can be a church. Before leaving, he asked what to do with his ship. Zhou Qingfeng said with a smile: "There are some local fishermen in Fushun, and it is okay to control that flat-bottomed boat, the 'Yingkou' has carried the first batch of construction personnel down the river, and now it is building a camp in Yingkou." ”
Five days ago, after Zhou Qingfeng built an airplane for Guo Jiao, Guo Budo also conducted a test flight on the same day. Except for the improvement of some minor defects, it is considered to be accepted. Due to the reasonable design, the aircraft can reach a maximum speed of 200 kilometers per hour, and it is no problem to fly at a speed of 150 kilometers per hour when cruising. It's really ten times faster than the original slow flying boat.
Guo Budo took his daughter to the capital by plane, and arrived in four hours. Guo Jiao drove back and went back and forth on the same day. After that, Guo Jiao took Zhou Qingfeng to Yingkou for a field investigation and determined to build a wharf and camp on the flat area on the west bank of the mouth of the Da Liao River.
The first batch of construction workers set off on the 'Yingkou' with building materials. The sailors used the local fishermen to smooth - in short, 'Yingkou' would no longer let Wu Bao'er and others control it. The latter honestly trained sailors as instructors in Fushun.
Hearing that the 'Yingkou' had left, Wu Baoer was disappointed. He could only obediently go to the bank of the Hunhe River designated by Zhou Qingfeng to be an instructor for training. When he arrived at the training dock, he was immediately startled by the piles of wood on the dock. A few days ago, he was dismounted by Zhou Qingfeng at this pier, and he didn't see any wood at that time.
The two or three hundred meters of the river bank of the entire wharf has been transformed into an open-air workshop, and horse-drawn wagons are constantly bringing in large quantities of cheap pine. Wu Bao'er stood on the side of the road and watched the coachman waving a horsewhip to drive the carriage to deliver goods. He asked in a low voice, and listened to what the coachman said, 'The project of making money treasure, transporting Fushun's timber raft down the river'.
"What do you do on a raft down the river?"
"Make money. Zhou Baihu said that the raft can carry horses, cattle and sheep and other goods to the south, and it can easily be transported hundreds of miles. When you arrive at Yingkou and then change to a big ship to Tianjin, the value of the goods can be increased several times. Wood can make money, cattle, sheep and horses can also make money, this Liaodong local production is particularly easy to sell in the south, a good financial road. It's only been half a month since I ran a trip, which is too profitable. ”
The goods produced in Liaodong are easy to sell in the south, and Wu Baoer still has a little understanding of the price of goods in business. But this business was done by Zhou Qingfeng, which always made him feel that something was wrong.
The horseman who drove the car continued: "Now the people of Liaodong know that Zhou Baihu is capable, and the rich Wang Yuanwai and the extremely powerful Guo Monk in Fushun have all joined the shares. In addition, the way to make money is so clear nowadays, and there are many people who want to invest money and mix in a share. Not long ago, the general army of Kaiyuan Ma wanted to make an obstacle from it, but the chief military officer of Liaodong, Lord Zhang, sent someone to scold him.
I heard that the third phase of this money-making treasure has begun to be sold, and many people are crazy to invest money in it. Zhou Baihu has now opened up an unknown number of ways, and this money is making a lot of money. The general soldiers of Ma who wanted to block the road before obediently threw money, and sent people to send all the 5,000 horses delivered by Ye Hebu.
A full 5,000 horses, all of which are said to be excellent Mongolian horses, are worth 150,000 taels when they are transported to Tianjin. And Zhou Baihu had a good relationship with Ye Hebu, and he only spent 50,000 taels to buy it. And that's just the first batch, and there's more to come. Think about it, how profitable this is, how many people are red-eyed!
Alas, it's a pity that the share of Money-making Treasure costs five hundred taels, otherwise we ordinary people want to buy it. That's a lot quicker than when I work in a horse-drawn cart every day. We poor people are really miserable, and we can't take the turn of good things! ”
The Ming Dynasty failed to control the Hetao region, nor did it control Mongolia. For more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there has always been a shortage of horses, and it is still the kind that is in short supply. In order to obtain horses, he even had to engage in horse politics that harmed hundreds of people. If you can really get a large number of horses from Liaodong, it will definitely be a big business. And this can't be done by others, not everyone can have a good relationship with Ye Hebu's and Zhuo Gege.
The coachman sighed, flicked his whip and continued to deliver the timber to the workshop at the docks. After Wu Bao'er listened to the few numbers that the groom said, the whole person was dumbfounded. He used his ten fingers to figure out how much Zhou Qingfeng could earn, the only thing that was clear was that this sheep was too fat!
"Lao Tzu was abducted and deceived at sea, killed people and sold goods, and he didn't save a thousand taels for more than ten years. This week, Baihu looks young, how can he make so much money? After Wu Bao'er sighed, what she was thinking about was not how to take refuge, but how to get benefits from Zhou Qingfeng, a fat sheep. He is a pirate and has never had the idea of 'cooperation is mutually beneficial'.
Entering the dock, Wu Baoer knew better.
The timber brought in from around Fushun was bought by Zhou Qingfeng at his expense, and the blacksmith and carpenter workshops in Fushun are now desperately recruiting people to build axes and saws in large quantities. More people joined Zhou Qingfeng's command and went into the mountains to cut wood with tools. The felled wood was loaded into a wagon, and the horses that pulled it happened to be sent by Yehebe.
Today, one or two thousand pieces of wood are brought to the wharf every day, and the carpenters on the wharf tie the pine wood firmly with iron nails and vines to make a two-story raft. These rafts are loaded with a ton or two of building materials or manpower, and they go down the Hunhe River. They only stayed at the rest points set up along the way for two or three days before they arrived at the camp entrance and joined the construction of the camp downstream.
Fishermen in Fushun and even Shenyang have been recruited, and there is a shortage of people who can prop boats and operate rafts. Wu Bao'er's group of people originally had to stay in the confinement room for seven days before they could come out, but now they could only be released for emergency training.
Looking at the lively work scene on the bank of the Hunhe River, Wu Baoer and the others looked stupid. They had never seen such a large-scale labor scene, hundreds of people worked together, and every half hour a raft would be launched. Goods that are waiting to be loaded on board are hoisted up and securely tied.
Even the pulley set that lifted the raft from the shore caused Wu Bao'er to marvel. What kind of standard transport box is the wooden box, which is built by the carpenters in the city according to Zhou Qingfeng's requirements, with a height and width of one meter and a length of two meters. Each one looks very bulky, it is easy to transport, and it is really terrible to move. But with the pulley, two or three people pulled the box up with a hemp rope.
"It's so convenient." Wu Bao'er stood and looked strange, and she didn't even want to leave. The huge bulky wooden box can be loaded onto the raft in a quarter of an hour by only three people, which is too efficient. There are also special personnel to dispatch the entire wharf, when to enter a few carriages, when to move a few wooden boxes, who should be in what position, these have commands. There were many people on the scene, but it was orderly.
Wu Baoer is really convinced of this work efficiency. He had seen Dengzhouwei's big parade once every few years, and hundreds of people were crowded together for half a day to form a line, and they couldn't form a column. It was a mess like a headless fly. It is completely incomparable to the tacit work cooperation at the moment.
"This hellish place is really evil." Wu Bao'er didn't understand, so she regarded all the weirdness she saw as an 'evil door'. He couldn't help but feel stupid in his heart, feeling that he should really not be Zhou Qingfeng's opponent on land. But he quickly regained his confidence, "As long as we get to the sea, Wu Ye and I still have a thousand means." ”
Wu Bao'er led his men to the dock, and the twenty selected sailor cadets had already finished lining up, and several rafts for teaching were also ready. He subconsciously wanted to be a prestige and give all the sailor cadets a dismount, and it was indispensable to pay homage or something. But Zhou Qingfeng, who knew the habits of these bandits, could not let them spread bad habits among his team.
Zhou Qingfeng had something else to do, Xu Bing specially rushed to the dock to keep an eye on the teaching situation of the sailor cadets. Wu Baoer saw that a woman dared to come and criticize her, and she was about to do it immediately. As a result, she was tamed by Xu Bing with a cold snort - Xu Bing's spiritual power attribute is 'sound', her cold snort sounded like thunder to Wu Bao'er's ears, and her ears were buzzing, and she almost wanted to fall.
"Amazing, amazing, how can this Fushun be so powerful?" Wu Bao'er got up from the ground after being cleaned up, he looked at Xu Bing, who was sneering coldly, and then looked at a spear squad specially transferred to monitor, he could only bow his head again and give in.
"Work hard to have a future, otherwise you are useless. For useless people, Zhou Baihu is absolutely too lazy to waste food. After Xu Bing knocked it, he dropped such a sentence before turning around and leaving.
Seeing that a woman was so difficult to deal with, Wu Bao'er completely dispelled the idea of playing tricks. He looked back at his twelve men, and could only vent his anger on them, "Why are you still stunned?" Teach those landlubbers to hold the boat. Don't you always say that Wu Ye, I'm too ruthless? Now you see more ruthless, right?! ”
A group of pirates followed the wild wolves with their claws chopped off, and began the teaching task with their heads bowed. But these guys only did it for a while, and suddenly fled from the Hunhe River like a camp, and shouted in surprise: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, the people of the Jianzhou Department have killed from the water!" ”