Chapter 198

The Eight Princesses are sailing slowly. God seems to be very kind to Cheng Shijie's face, the wind and waves are not too big, except that the ship sails slower, there are no other shortcomings.

slept in the cabin, and when Cheng Shijie woke up, he found that it was already slightly bright, and Cheng Shijie did not have the habit of lying in bed, he got up, washed, and came to the deck.

The sailors who were controlling the Eight Princesses saluted Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie took a turn on the deck and was about to go back, when he suddenly found Zhu Weiyuan lying on the fence on the deck, quietly looking down.

Cheng Shijie walked over to Zhu Weiyuan, the sound of wind and waves covered up Cheng Shijie's footsteps, Zhu Weijie didn't notice it, until Cheng Shijie walked behind Zhu Weiyuan and asked in a low voice, "Princess, what are you looking at?" ”

"Ahh

Where would Zhu Weiyuan think that someone suddenly came out from behind, screaming in fright, the person subconsciously dodged to the side, turned her head and saw that it was Cheng Shijie, but her foot was stuck in the leaky tank on the deck, and her foot was broken, and her body lost its center of gravity and was about to fall to the deck.

Cheng Shijie was quick-eyed, hurriedly grabbed her hand, and held her by the waist, but Zhu Weiyuan was overly frightened, grabbed Cheng Shijie's hands and stuck them to his chest like grasping a life-saving straw, and said with horror: "Scared to death, scared me to death?" ”

Zhu Weiyuan gasped, and instantly realized that it was Cheng Shijie's hand that was grabbed and attached to her chest, her face suddenly froze there, and she screamed again, hurriedly threw Cheng Shijie's hand away, turned around and was about to escape from the cabin, just took two steps, there was a sharp pain in her ankle that seemed to be broken, and she couldn't stand and was about to fall.

Cheng Shijie looked at her as if she had broken her foot and held her up.

Hearing Zhu Weiyuan's scream, Gu Ziyi hurriedly came out and said, "Princess, princess, what happened?" ”

"It's fine!"

Zhu Weiyuan struggled and stood up straight, but the sea was not on land, the ship was shaking, and one foot was not stable at all, fortunately, Cheng Shijie was on the side, maybe it was blown by the sea breeze in the middle of the night, Zhu Weiyuan was a little cold at this time, and she suddenly felt that Cheng Shijie's shoulders were a little warm.

Zhu Weiyuan and Cheng Shijie have been married for nearly three months, but they have never had substantial contact, but their relationship is very special, during this time in the capital, whether it is breakfast, lunch, or dinner, Cheng Shijie will accompany Zhu Weiyuan to eat, and will accommodate the preferences and tastes.

Zhu Weiyuan also knew that Cheng Shijie was unwilling to accept her for some reason, which made Zhu Weiyuan hate her status as a princess a little, if she was the daughter of ordinary people, how good would it be?

In fact, Zhu Weiyuan has not thought about the crux of the problem, if she is really the daughter of ordinary people, it is estimated that she and Cheng Shijie are two parallel lines, and there is no communication in her life.

"Uh, you sit down for a while, and don't move your feet......"

Cheng Shijie unconsciously glanced at Zhu Weiyuan's bulging chest, although he could still feel the upheaval and fullness inside through the cold clothes, and when his hand copied her waist, he could also feel that it was full of tenacity and elasticity.

Zhu Weiyuan thought about holding on to the railing on the deck and jumping back into the cabin, but the idea was very good, but in fact it was difficult to do, although the Eighth Princess had more than 800 tons and belonged to a big ship in the Ming Dynasty, but it was still very bumpy, and Zhu Weiyuan inevitably shook the injured leg and frowned in pain.

Cheng Shijie couldn't bear it, and said: "You don't know how heavy your feet are, if you are not careful, it is easy to be lame......"

Zhu Weiyuan bit her lip and wanted to move forward.

"It's rude......"

Cheng Shijie confessed, copied Zhu Weiyuan's waist and legs and picked her up.

"Ahh

Where did Zhu Weiyuan think that Cheng Shijie would suddenly pick her up and struggle to come down: "Let me go quickly." ”

"I don't want to find a lame mother-in-law,"

Cheng Shijie only hugged Zhu Weiyuan, and said with a smile: "Princess, I am a Langzhong, and I don't avoid Langzhong's ...... in healing."

Zhu Weiyuan didn't take the opportunity, she pressed her body tightly into Cheng Shijie's arms, and was afraid that she would fall down if she struggled again, so she only turned her face sideways, and shyly asked Cheng Shijie to carry herself back to the room, her heart was beating more and more, and her body was slightly hot.

Back in the cabin, Cheng Shijie directly put Zhu Weiyuan on the bed, took off her shoes and socks to check the injury.

Although Cheng Shijie is not a doctor, it is just that he has been a doctor for a long time, and in the training of the Ning Navy, he has lost too many bruises, and he knows a little bit of medical theory, he looked at Zhu Weiyuan's ankle, which was only slightly swollen, and it seemed that he did not hurt the bones.

"You wait first, I'll get you the medicine!"

Cheng Shijie got up and left directly, Zhu Weiyuan thought about the way Cheng Shijie hugged her just now, and her face became even hotter.

Gu Ziyi came in from the outside room at this time, she knew the severity, and lowered her voice and said, "Princess, I see ......"

"Shut up!"

Gu Ziyi also wanted to explain, Zhu Weiyi raised her hand to scare Gu Ziyi, but her scare had no deterrent effect.

While speaking, Cheng Shijie returned from the cabin with a bottle of wound medicine.

"You lie down first, I'll give you a dressing......"

But at this time, Cheng Shijie saw Gu Ziyi and gave the medicine to Gu Ziren: "Who is the ......?"

"Slave Gu Ziyi!"

"You're going to put medicine on the princess!"

"Good!"

Zhu Weiyuan felt that Gu Ziyi was a little redundant.

Watching Cheng Shijie leave, Zhu Weiyuan began to count Gu Ziyi: "I usually see how sharp you are, why are you stupid today......

"Princess ......"

Gu Ziyi gently gave Zhu Weiyuan the medicine.

Zhu Weiyuan was lying on the bed, her eyes slightly closed, but her heart was full of thoughts.

Being held by your own man is a kind of happiness, a kind of thoughtfulness, and a kind of comfort that penetrates into the bones.

Cheng Shijie treats people really gently......

Zhu Weiyuan sighed slightly, pulled the quilt to cover her body, and didn't care about hurting her feet, thinking that women in the world are nothing more than asking for a wishful husband, thinking about it like this, she felt that her experience was really miserable, and unconsciously a tear slipped through the corner of her eyes, and it was cold when she slipped through her ears......

Unconsciously, Zhu Weiyuan was thinking wildly and fell asleep in a daze.

When I woke up, the sky was bright.

Zhu Weiyuan was startled in her heart, she still had to prepare a meal for Cheng Shijie, where did she expect to sleep so solidly?

Zhu Weiyuan sat up hurriedly, looked at the ankle injury, the swelling had subsided, and there was still some redness, she felt strange in her heart, pinched it, only a little pain, and she could bear it.

Zhu Weiyuan put on her shirt and socks to get up and prepare to cook: "Ziyi, what time is it?" ”

"It's not a minute!"

Zhu Weiyuan unconsciously slept for more than two hours, and she suddenly felt a little anxious: "Have you eaten?" ”

Before Gu Ziyi could speak, Cheng Shijie's voice came from outside the cabin door: "Has the princess woken up?" ”

"It doesn't seem to be!"

A palace lady outside the door didn't know if Zhu Weiyuan had woken up, and then said, "Don't you, do you want a slave to ask?" ”

"No need!"

"I brought the princess a bowl of seafood porridge and waited for her to get up and drink it...... Ask her if she still needs to be smeared with medicine? ”

Zhu Weiyuan wanted to stop Cheng Shijie, but she didn't speak.

There are some things that cannot be rushed.

……

The long winter has finally come to an end, the ice in the rivers of southern Liaoning has melted, the bare branches have spit out wisps of new green, and the earth has come to life again.

Unlike the Central Plains, Henan and Shandong and Beizhili did not have much snow this winter, which means that Chongzhen has been six years old, and the drought will continue, and this deadly Xiaoice climate can really drive farmers who rely on the sky to eat crazy.

However, there is no such concern in southern Liaoning, because since November last year, there have been several heavy snowfalls, and even at the end of February, the snow is still 50 or 60 centimeters, and it is basically certain that there will be no shortage of rain in southern Liaoning.

In all fairness, the Liaodong Peninsula is a treasure land, whether it is for the development of industry, or for tuntian, it is too convenient, it belongs to the temperate monsoon climate, and the natural conditions are superior. The Liaodong Peninsula is too convenient for transportation, because the draft of ships at the end of the Ming Dynasty is shallow, unlike the 10,000-ton giant ships in later generations, the draft is more than 10 meters at every turn, such a situation, the construction of the port, really needs a certain natural geographical environment.

However, the problem is that the draft of ships is at most three or four meters, and a large ship of 2,500 materials like the Eighth Princess, with a displacement of more than 800 tons, has a draft of less than one zhang when fully loaded, only nine feet and six inches, and all the coastal areas of the entire Liaodong Peninsula can basically dock.

Even further north, there are dozens of rivers such as the Liao River and the Taizi River that can be used for water transportation.

When Cheng Shijie arrived in Jinzhou, southern Liaoning, he did not stop at the southernmost Port of Arthur, but was close to the west port of Jingang, and there was an east port in Jinzhou, and the land distance between the two ports was less than 300 li, in fact, most of the area of the Liaodong Peninsula was within 150 miles of the coastal port.

In this way, the grain produced in Liaodong can be easily transported.

When the Eight Princesses approached the West Port of Jinzhou, there were a sea of people on the wharf, from the generals and officials to the craftsmen and farmers, all who could come came, and when they saw the majestic entry of the fleet, the wharf suddenly resounded with deafening cheers.

"Cheng Shuai, Cheng Shuai!"

No matter what official position Cheng Shijie is promoted, ordinary people don't really care, in their eyes, Cheng Shijie is still their handsome.

"Meet the handsome, meet the lady!"

Song Xiance finally squeezed people in, and at this time, the members of the Liaodong Management Committee also squeezed over one after another.

"Song Xiance, what the hell are you doing!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the crowd and said: "How much manpower and material resources do you have to waste to make such a play?" ”

"Guogong, you have wronged your subordinates!"

For Cheng Shijie and Zhu Weiyuan to get married, the happiest thing is not Cheng Shijie, nor Emperor Chongzhen, but Song Xiance, just like the development strategy proposed by Zhu Sheng to Zhu Yuanzhang back then, "Build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become king." ”

Under the auspices of Cheng Shijie, southern Liaoning has developed very rapidly, in fact, the development of southern Liaoning has been very rapid, even if the Ning Navy fought with Jiannu in Baliwan at the beginning, but southern Liaoning is still developing rapidly.

"Guogong doesn't know, these people are not organized by his subordinates, they came to greet Guogong spontaneously!"

Cheng Shijie didn't believe Song Xiance's words: "It's really not your organization?" ”

Song Xiance said: "It's really not! ”

It wasn't until Chen Guodong gave Cheng Shijie a look in the crowd that Cheng Shijie understood that this was indeed the people who spontaneously came to greet Cheng Shijie.

There is a reason why these people are very fanatical about Cheng Shijie, most of these people are people from Liaodong, they have an unforgettable blood feud with Jiannu, Cheng Shijie not only led the Ning Navy to defeat Jiannu, but also caused serious casualties to Jiannu.

What's more critical is that they migrated to southern Liaoning, Cheng Shijie gave them food, gave them land to plant, and gave them work, these people have survived the most difficult period through their own efforts, and now they basically have no problem eating. Of course, there is still a long way to go before they are truly rich, but these people are simple and kind.

The most important thing is that Cheng Shijie has been crowned the Duke of the Kingdom, which is a grand event that has not happened for more than 200 years since the Ming Dynasty became the ancestor of Jingnan and the six dukes of Jingnan.

The people under Cheng Shijie's rule were naturally ecstatic. The common people, of course, hope that those capable officials who are kind to the people can rise step by step, become stronger and stronger, provide better protection for themselves, and seek more benefits.

Ecstatic people came to Cheng Shijie's return, where Cheng Shijie passed, the people cheered and applauded warmly, at this moment, everyone's hearts were filled with pride.

Let Zhu Weiyuan feel that there are more people in Jinzhou than in the capital, of course, this is Zhu Weiyuan's illusion, not to mention Jinzhou, even if it is the entire Liaodong, there are not as many people as in Shuntianfu.

The entire Shuntian Prefecture has jurisdiction over five prefectures and 22 counties, with more than 47 million people, of course, there is one thing, Jinzhou can be compared with the capital, the entire capital has a total of more than 57,000 large and small merchants, equivalent to 1.24 million people in Beijing, one out of every five people is a businessman.

However, the proportion in Golden State is as high as one-third, and the number of people engaged in business exceeds 70,000.

Southern Liaoning is very busy now, of course, they have been busy, with the spring ploughing in the both, every day there are a large number of young and strong men, pushing chicken carts, or driving carts to Jinzhou, and then loaded with potatoes, sweet potatoes and other seeds, transported to the surrounding towns in the four states of southern Liaoning.

With the production of a large number of sweet potatoes and potatoes last year, the people of southern Liaoning took the lead in getting used to eating potatoes and sweet potatoes, which are very popular because of their rich nutrition and low price. In particular, a large number of businessmen saw business opportunities in it, and invented countless ways to eat and use sweet potatoes and potatoes.

The military and martyrs of the Ning Navy in southern Liaoning were the first people in southern Liaoning to become rich, and they more or less sold some potatoes, which can be regarded as making a fortune.

If people have money, after filling their stomachs, they will begin to have a new pursuit, that is, for food, clothing, housing and transportation, of course, in this case, the military and martyrs in southern Liaoning, almost every household has a horse or cattle, when Zhu Weiyuan set foot on the land of southern Liaoning, the first feeling is that there are many cars.

Big carts, chicken carts, deer carts, two-wheeled carriages, four-wheeled carriages, the wheels on the road are rolling, dense, if these carriages are replaced by cars, the current scene is almost equivalent to a county town in later generations, and the traffic jam has begun.

The development of southern Liaoning is inseparable from Cheng Shijie's planning, and he wanted to build southern Liaoning into an industrial base from the beginning, which can also be said to be an industrial empire. In order to make the common people appreciate the convenience of an industrial empire.

One of the great things about industrial empires is that industrial products are very cheap.

For example, when Poussin was just made in China, it was sold at a sky-high price of 180,000 yuan, how much was the per capita salary at that time? The author did not work at the time, but at that time he remembered that he earned more than 200 yuan a month, which meant that if a working-class person wanted to buy a Santana, he would need to go without food or drink for 900 months.

In the same year, a relative spent 34,500 yuan in the city to buy a three-bedroom, two-living room, more than 130 square meters, of course, not a small high-rise, because there was no high-rise building in the city at that time.

If the current housing prices are followed, the author's city is between 9,000 and 13,000, and even if the lowest average price is 9,000, five houses are worth more than 5 million. But the question is, what now? Even if the income is not high, without eating or drinking for a year, it is not a problem to buy a Poussin, which is the advantage of industrialization.

Cheng Shijie also adopted this method, as early as after the victory in Liaoyang, the danger of Jiannu has been greatly reduced, so the factories under the Gun Bureau, Ordnance Bureau, and Equipment Bureau of the Ning Navy have all been converted from military items to civilian items.

Then the problem arises, the quality of military products is very good, especially the civilian quilt products produced by military uniform clothing factories, although the dyeing is not black, and ordinary people are very fond of this kind of good quality and durable shoes, socks, clothes, bedding, and bed sheets.

In this way, the military factories have been converted to civilian use, which is simply a weft reduction blow for similar civilian factories in southern Liaoning, but fortunately, it is not easy to sell in southern Liaoning, these factories can be sold to the Central Plains, and there is a huge market gap.

Of course, it is also a weft reduction blow to the small-scale peasant economy in the Central Plains.

In addition to the traditional textile industry, the biggest blow to military products is actually the steel industry, with a one-pound of stainless steel made of kitchen knives, the original, each ordinary iron kitchen knife, also needed six or seven dollars of silver, but now, only two dollars of silver. This made the days when ordinary people could not afford to use kitchen knives have become a thing of the past.

Especially the displaced people who arrived in southern Liaoning before winter and spring ploughing, they found that life was not difficult, and there were job opportunities everywhere.

For example, they can burn bricks and tiles in kilns, work on construction sites where factories are built, build houses for ordinary people, and do odd jobs in factories that have not yet been put into production, and pick coal.

With the large-scale application of coal, many emerging industries have been derived along the coal in southern Liaoning, such as briquettes, briquette factories, briquette mold factories, especially the transportation of coal.

Coal is not only used to make fires for heating, but also for coking, in fact, coal cannot be used to make steel directly, the sulfur content of coal is quite high, and it has to be burned into coke first, which requires a lot of manpower.

The hottest business in southern Liaoning is not actually the steel or coal industry, but the wood industry, which requires a lot of wood to build houses, a lot of wood to build horse-drawn carriages, and of course, drought-resistant waterwheels and furniture.

Displaced people can cut timber to sell, but this matter was quickly stopped, if the timber is cut unlimitedly, the damage to the forest is too great, but once the forest is destroyed, the impact is huge.

For this reason, Cheng Shijie forbade displaced people to cut down forests without permission, but planned felling, and a felling permit was required before cutting, so as to avoid waste.

Another booming industry, is the deep processing of potatoes and sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes and potatoes are not stored for a long time, in the climate of southern Liaoning, there is no big problem in the cellar for more than half a year, but after half a year, it is inevitable to be destroyed.

In this case, in addition to leaving potatoes and sweet potatoes ready for breeding, they can only be processed into sweet potatoes or potato flour, vermicelli, and hundreds of millions of potato or sweet potato processing factories of various sizes have sprung up in southern Liaoning, which process sweet potatoes or potato flour day and night.

Comparatively speaking, the output of potato flour and sweet potato flour is high, the price is low, more and more grain shops in Beizhili, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang and other places have this kind of flour with a relatively low price, and the people are scrambling to buy, and the sales scene is called a hot.

I can't help but be hot, food prices are rising, how to choose wheat for more than one or two silver and one stone and potato noodles for more than five dollars and one stone?

If you have money, you can choose, and if you don't have money, you will naturally fill your stomach.

The potato residue is also not wasted, it is processed into feed and transported to the farm, where the pigs, horses, cattle and sheep are fed to the fat side.

Cheng Shijie returned to the Ning Navy General Mansion, that is, the Cheng Mansion.

Before he had time to rest, Song Xiance told him a serious problem.

There was no government in southern Liaoning before, and although there is no one now, the imperial court has sent fifteen guards and eight independent thousand households here in one go, which means that these fifteen guards and eight thousand households have become the most unstable factor in southern Liaoning.

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said, "Have they all arrived?" ”

"It's already here!"

"This is easy to do, inform them that Ben Shuai will see them tomorrow, and let them get ready!"

Song Xiance conveyed Cheng Shijie's meaning to these fifteen health centers.

The guards and envoys of the fifteen guards gathered together and began to discuss countermeasures.

Although these Wei commanders and commanders are under the jurisdiction of the Yamen, the problem is that the commanders and envoys do not have much authority to manage them, because they are hereditary commanders or commanders, as long as they do not make big mistakes, they can stay in this position honestly until they die, and after death, the imperial court will let their sons continue to hold their official positions.

There are also marriages and other relationships between the commanders of the guards and the commanders of the guards, which have long been deeply rooted and formed a huge alliance of interests.

The problem now is that they are now in charge of Cheng Shijie.

Although Cheng Shijie can't dismiss their officials, he can make them flutter with one thought, and let them go to hell with one thought. The military fields in each guard station are assigned by Cheng Shijie, and Cheng Shijie can let them live a very nourishing life, or let them call the sky undesirable and the earth ineffective.

The 15 guards and 8,000 households in southern Liaoning are now nervous, how to face Cheng Shijie, the new boss?

Just like when Cheng Shijie got married, they discussed it, and the congratulatory gifts given to Cheng Shijie were, Wei commanded 5,000 taels of silver, commanded Tongzhi 3,000 taels, commanded 2,000 taels, and commanded 1,000 taels for each person in a thousand households.

These fifteen guards and eight thousand households sent Cheng Shijie more than 300,000 taels of silver.

(End of chapter)