Liu Yifeng walked to the side of the ship and watched the people coming and going in the port without speaking. The crew said that this was the city of Zhushan, the first city established by the Ming Dynasty in Dongshan Prefecture.

The city is also a typical port city, and the overall layout is built around the port of Caoshan.

Unlike most people from the Ming Dynasty who think of the city, the city has no walls, so the city is spread out and expands outward in an almost pathological way. Ordinary people in the city can easily own a manor, and they don't need money anyway.

This made the people all curious to discuss the sparse but endless buildings in the city, and the wide roads, they had never seen such a city.

Liu Yifeng is quite accustomed to it, and many counties in later generations are laid out in this way, but he has a sense of familiarity.

"Big Boss, can't we get off the ship?"

"I can't." Liu Yifeng looked at the restless crew members in the distance who were gathering together to discuss something, and turned back to the leaders of the people who came over and said, "Not only can't we get off the boat, but neither can those crews. ”

After arriving at the city, Feng Shuo, who had tasted the sweetness on the 27th Island, and other leaders of the people were ready to repeat their old tricks, but after the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau went directly to the ship to register, they directly removed the planks that got off the bed, and bluntly said that no one on this ship was allowed to get off the ship.

"Why? Obviously, you can move around freely on the previous island. ”

"Liu Yifeng, you can apply again."

"Apply for your sister, you can't get off the ship if you don't see the crew."

Feng Shuo looked at Liu Yifeng, who was a little angry, left after leaving this sentence, touched his head with some puzzlement, and asked the people around him: "I don't have a sister, why does he always mention my sister?" ”

Liu Yifeng walked to the cabin where the kitchen was, and Lao Wang was still diligently handling the salted fish. These salted fish are the oldest batch, and they stink unbearably, but he just can't stand the loneliness and boredom, and deal with it silently.

"Lao Wang, the rest of the crew are spreading the news that the Maritime Safety Bureau wants to take back this treasure ship, aren't you worried?"

Lao Wang raised his head blankly, glanced at Liu Yifeng, and then lowered his head blankly and continued to process the salted fish, scraping off the gray crystal layer on the surface of the salted fish, which no longer knew whether it was salted or dirty.

"I can only cook salted fish soup, hot cakes, and I won't do anything else."

"Lao Wang, if the boat is really confiscated, do you have the money to go back to Daming?"

"I just got hired this year, and the captain hasn't paid me yet."

Liu Yifeng secretly scolded the former captain for slamming the door, it was obvious that he saw that Lao Wang was honest, and he had lost his settling-in allowance before going to sea.

He was about to say something when he heard the commotion on the deck outside. When he went out, he found that the crew was surrounded by officials and captains of the five maritime bureaus, begging for explanations.

"According to the contract, you will sail the ship to the city of Mt. Goushan!"

"My lord, what should we do when we arrive at the mountain city?"

"I don't know, I'm only responsible for urging you to set sail, and the rest has nothing to do with me!"

The obvious attitude of the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau made the crew very unhappy, and the acting captain also looked helpless, he knew very well that the current mood of the crew was like a powder keg, but he couldn't help it.

This situation is really the first time that the Maritime Safety Bureau has encountered it, so the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau along the way basically use procrastination to shake the pot in the face of the increasingly fierce attitude of the crew.

The ghost town was thrown to the captain, and the captain was thrown to the castle, and now the castle is thrown to the castle.

The crew members are not stupid, they know very well that when they arrive at the city, their only reliance will be gone, and when the people get off the ship, the maritime safety bureau will forcibly confiscate the ship with weapons, and they will not fulfill the contract they signed with the captain, they have no way at all.

So now while the people and the boat are still in their hands, they must have an explanation!

After watching for a while, no matter how angry the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau reprimanded and how the captain persuaded him, the crew was a game of non-violence and non-cooperation, and Liu Yifeng was taken away by Wu Sangui, who suddenly appeared.

"Lord Xiao Wu, I can't get off the boat."

"It's okay, you just follow me, no one dares to stop me."

"Where are we going?"

"Lord Song wants to see you."

On the way to the Maritime Safety Bureau with Wu Sangui and Liu Yifeng, Song Yingxing, who had already entered the working state and began to deal with official business, once again picked up the list of five commercial houses that had been raided because of the bird gun smuggling case.

After looking at it, he put it down again.

How to deal with more than 260 people in 5 commercial banks has not yet been discussed.

Some of the officials meant to distribute it directly to other trading houses, some officials meant to confiscate it and send it to Jinshan City, and some officials meant to sell it openly.

The shortest time that the officials of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau have been to Dongshan Prefecture for more than 5 years, and they have to deal with the affairs of the people every year, and over time they have developed the concept of not treating the people as people, but completely as goods. This made Song Yingxing, who had just arrived in Dongshan Prefecture, very uncomfortable, so he temporarily pressed the treatment of this group of people.

"Lord Song, Sangui brought that folk chef here."

"Well, Changbai, bring him in."

"Yes, sir."

After Liu Yifeng was brought into Song Yingxing's office, he sincerely gave Song Xinxin a big gift.

When Liu Yifeng faced other officials of the Maritime Safety Administration, his attitude was very hypocritical, and the respect on his face was all superficial, but in fact, if you look closely, you can see his true attitude of neither humility nor arrogance.

But after knowing Song Yingxing's true identity, Liu Yifeng really revered this scientist in the late Ming Dynasty.

After digging to the end, Liu Yifeng said, "See Lord Song." ”

"Liu Yifeng, what I said in the Flowing Ghost City is still valid."

"The villain thanked Lord Song for his love, but the villain really wants to make a career in Dongshan Prefecture."

"Liu Yifeng, do you know your current situation?"

"Lord Song, what happened?"

The moment he arrived at Yushan City but was not allowed to get off the boat, Liu Yifeng had a premonition that something had happened. For this reason, he also deliberately asked Aobai, Ni Kantu and Kim Seungwoo to stay in the bilge to take care of those handcuffs.

"You are now ownerless."

Ownerless?

Song Yingxing saw Liu Yifeng's confused face, so he opened his mouth to explain: "The ghost city discovered the smuggling case of the previous captain, and bought all your 5 commercial houses, and the Maritime Safety Bureau cooperated with the Dengzhou government to arrest the shopkeepers of the 5 commercial banks, and the commercial banks were also copied. ”

Liu Yifeng understood.

He hesitated for a few seconds and asked tentatively, "Lord Song, does this mean that we are already free people?" ”

Logically so.

However, the MSA has to pay a certain fee for each of the people transported by the commercial bank, so it is unrealistic for the MSA to directly give Liu Yifeng the status of more than 260 free people.

Song Yingxing didn't answer Liu Yifeng's question directly, but lowered his head and pretended to be watching the twists, and said: "The solution given by the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau is to sell you to other trading firms, and start to implement it when you arrive in Yushan City. ”

Then, he raised his head: "Liu Yifeng, I don't lie to you, the new people who came this year are basically sent to Jinshan City to dig mountains and open mines." ”

Song Yingxing roughly introduced Liu Yifeng to the crazy gold mining in Jinshan City and Dongshan Prefecture Commercial Bank, originally intending to scare Liu Yifeng with the hardships of mining.

I don't know if Liu Yifeng's cooking is really delicious, Song Yingxing has a good impression of this young man, and he still wants to help him. But what is his identity, and what is Liu Yifeng's identity, it is impossible to go to the pole and dig out his heart and lungs to help him, if Liu Yifeng refuses, he will definitely not insist.

Telling him about Jinshan City was Song Yingxing's last persuasion.

It's a pity that it backfired, and when he heard the gold mine, Liu Yifeng's eyes lit up.

There are really world-class gold mines in the western part of North America, and the West Coast of the United States was developed by the gold rush.

"Lord Song, where is this Jinshan City in Dongshan Prefecture?"

Song Yingxing didn't expect Liu Yifeng to be more interested in Jinshan City, and his evaluation of him in his heart was lowered, and it is estimated that Liu Yifeng is also a person who loses his ability to think when he hears that there is a gold mine.

"See for yourself."

Song Yingxing ran out of patience and took out a map and put it on the table.

Liu Yifeng saluted and hurriedly walked to the map, he had long been curious about the extent to which the Ming Dynasty had developed North America.

What catches the eye is a somewhat distorted but barely recognizable map of the west coast of North America.

Liu Yifeng recognized the Aleutian Islands, the Bering Strait, most of Alaska, the west coast of Maple Leaf Country, and the small half of the West Coast of the United States.

"My lord, are we here?"

Song Yingxing took a deep look at Liu Yifeng, and then nodded after his eyes moved to the Alaska plate with Liu Yifeng's fingers.

After receiving the reply, Liu Yifeng began to suspect that the so-called Jieshan City was the capital of Alaska: Anchorage. He still remembered that the Nanyang class sailed into a long and narrow bay and sailed for a day to reach the castle. One day in the bay, the land could be seen from a distance on both sides, and Anchorage was at the end of Cook Bay, and Liu Yifeng suspected that the bay was Cook Bay.

He continued to look down the coast, and saw another city at the junction of the West Coast of the Maple Leaf Country and the United States: the city of Mt. Ussan.

Because of the distortion of the map, he did not know whether the city was built in Vancouver, in the Maple Leaf Country, or Seattle, USA. Either way, the location is really livable.

Liu Yifeng was completely immersed in the map, not noticing that Song Yingxing was silently observing him.

Maps, in ancient times, were strategic resources that ordinary people could not reach at all. Many people are influenced by later film and television dramas, thinking that maps can be bought casually. But the real situation is that the map of any area is under the control of the local government.

Whether it is a march or a caravan freight, there will be situations where you must rely on the locals to guide the way, and there is even a special profession similar to that of a guide.

The reason for all this is that maps are very valuable strategic resources and cannot be easily revealed.

This leads to a problem, many people you give him a map that he can't read, and some caravans even need to have a person who specializes in reading maps.

But who in later generations can't understand the map, the quality education after industrialization and informatization allows most people to easily understand the map, not to mention that Liu Yifeng is still a boy with a strong sense of direction.

After getting the map, he didn't hesitate to find the Jishan area of Dongshan Prefecture, which means that he has either seen a map of Dongshan Prefecture before, or has been educated on how to read and understand maps. No matter which one it is, this culinary leader is not simple.

"Lord Song, where is Jinshan City?"