Chapter 486: Prelude to the Coming Storm
Chapter 486
Australia, not this is the Ming Dynasty's Zhanzhou, the only facility with the atmosphere of modern civilization, in fact, is this simple wharf, this wharf, in fact, has just been established, the wooden trestle, even the bark has not been treated, let alone dry, so that the wood that has just been cut down can not be used as wood for the wharf.
The problem, however, is that the conditions are so rudimentary that even improvised timber has to be transported from woods more than a dozen miles away.
Wang Yangxi looked into the distance, and there was a newly established camp, with wooden stakes and barbed wire to form a barrier around them, and from the barbed wire fence hung all kinds of strange animals, which showed that this place was not peaceful.
Wang Yangxi's heart was cold, and he dared to love the court with such a lot of effort, just to throw them into this ghost place where rabbits don't poop and birds don't lay eggs!
With a glimmer of hope, Wang Yangxi ran over and asked the officer who could get along well: "What kind of place is this, why is it so desolate?" ”
The officer glanced at him and said, "Here? I don't know what the hell this place is, but it's the first time I've come here, and I said that it was Zhanzhou, and that was Zhanzhou. ”
"Zhan Zhou?"
Wang Yangxi's heart was even colder: "How come I have never heard of this place?" Zhanzhou, Zhanzhou...... I remember, in the first year of Hongwu, the Nanning Army in Guangxi, in the third year of Hongwu, the Nanning Army was abolished, and Danzhou was reestablished, which still belonged to Qiongzhou Mansion, and in the nineteenth year of Hongwu, Danzhou was changed to Yazhou, is this Qiongzhou Mansion? ”
"What do you think? Also Qiongzhou Mansion? We stopped in Qiongzhou Mansion two months ago! ”
The officer explained: "This does not belong to the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, this is the newly opened territory of the Ming Dynasty, understand?" Our navy has opened up a territory as vast overseas as the Ming Dynasty! ”
Wang Yangxi roared: "This ghost place is so desolate, I want it to have a ghost use!" ”
The officer laughed rarely, and the smile was a little gloating no matter how you looked at it: "Desolation? Of course desolate, if it's not desolate, what do you want you to do? ”
Wang Yangxi was like a mourner at this time. Of course, it is not like a mourning, in fact, his father Wang Yingxiong and mother Zhao are already dead.
Wang Yangxi sat on the ground, and there was nothing to love.
The officer stepped forward and patted Wang Yangxi on the shoulder, pointing to a raised mountain range in the distance: "Do you see that mountain range?" According to the information given above, there is a good iron ore vein, the iron ore produced there is of good grade, and an ore is almost a piece of natural pig iron, which is many times stronger than the domestic iron ore of Daming! ”
Wang Yangxi said incredulously: "How is this possible? ”
"Otherwise, how could the upper authorities spend so much effort to develop this place?"
The officer smiled: "Do you think you don't need money to transport you here?" Let's take this trip, just the freight, food and drink, it cost more than a dozen taels of silver, counting the medicine, without twenty or thirty taels of silver. Naturally, it is impossible to make a loss-making transaction! ”
Speaking of this, the officer pointed to the mountain that continued to smoke: "There is abundant sulfur, according to the preliminary investigation, as long as there are enough manpower, at least 100,000 catties of sulfur can be collected there in a month, this is a good thing!" ”
The sense of foreboding in Wang Yangxi's heart became stronger and stronger.
"Look at this land, it's the dry season, it looks very barren, but it's not like that, as soon as the rainy season arrives, the area will immediately become lush and vibrant, and we will reclaim the land here to grow wheat, cotton, sugar cane and other crops!"
The officer probably thought that Wang Yangxi was quite pleasing to the eye, and pointed to the coastal plain with great interest: "Wait until we are self-sufficient, and then continue to expand inland, and finally turn this continent into the territory of the Ming Dynasty!" There is also an island over there, don't look at it very inconspicuous, in fact, there is a thick layer of seabird droppings stored underneath, as long as these island dung are dug out to make phosphate fertilizer, in a few years this place will become a rich farm! ”
The officer became happier the more he talked, and seemed unaware that the people who were in charge of supervising the work of the exiles were in fact similar to the exiles.
There's no way, people are just willing, the superiors said, if you are willing to serve overseas, you can get double the salary, and you can also get the opportunity to be promoted, for those officers who have not caught up with the war and are very ambitious, this is very attractive, you can get the opportunity to be promoted first after a few years, who is not impressed?
As for the difficult conditions...... As the Ming Royal Army, being a soldier has always been the nineteenth layer of hell, and being a soldier is not going on vacation, so how comfortable do you want to live?
If you want to live comfortably, don't be a soldier.
Wang Yangxi asked, "I don't know your Excellency's surname?" ”
The officer smiled and said, "Your surname is Chen, my name is Dachun, I can tell you that I came out of Dengzhou Wei!" ”
Wang Yangxi stared at the collar badge on Chen Dachun's collar: "The officer who came out of Dengzhou Wei can still be one bar and three?" ”
"You don't know that, do you?"
Chen Dachun said: "When the regent of the prison country just arrived in Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu to take office, I saw the door of the Qianhu Office, and I also opened the door for Cheng Dashuai!" ”
"How did you mess up, so miserable?"
Wang Yangxi couldn't figure it out, Chen Dachun is also Cheng Shijie's descendant, as the so-called one person attains the Tao, the chicken dog ascends to heaven, how can there be such a low-level descendant?
Chen Dachun lifted his collar, revealing the wound on his body and said, "See, right?" I was shot when the bandit King Qin attacked the Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu Office, and the bullet hit the heart, only an inch. Fortunately, the marshal asked the military doctor to treat me, and it took me more than two years to recover, but for more than two years, I missed several battles in the Ning Navy to build slaves, and when I recovered and returned to the army, Cheng Dashuai married my daughter-in-law......"
Chen Dachun seemed to open the conversation box and told him all about his experience with Cheng Shijie over the years, this Chen Dachun can be regarded as unlucky, he is already considered three up and three down, if he doesn't make mistakes, at least he is a colonel-level brigade commander.
The crux of the problem is his mother, Chen Dachun's mother Qin has been biased towards his eldest brother's son since he was a child, and he is also his nephew Chen Fugui, during his mother's illness, his body was very weak, and there was no food at home, it was his sister-in-law Lin, who fed his mother with milk, and his mother ate her sister-in-law's milk for more than half a month.
It's because he owes his sister-in-law a life, Chen Fugui's bastard thing, his father died early, he can't pit his father, he specializes in pit his uncle.
When Chen Dachun finally survived until he was promoted to the commander-in-chief, Chen Fugui made the neighbor's girl belly bigger, and this thing relied on Chen Dachun as the commander-in-chief, and threatened and intimidated the other party, so Chen Dachun was reported, and then fell to the bottom and became the big soldier.
He was transferred to Guangning as a garrison soldier of the Guangning Garrison Bureau, from a soldier to a general, Chen Fugui was a moth again, and actually relied on being a child of the Dengzhou Department, during the school period, he formed a gang, collected protection money at school, and stole his own left gun pistol to threaten his classmates.
This nature is more serious, Chen Dachun was locked up for three days, and then went from the general to the 100 households in Tuntian, and took the 100 households in Tuntian to do a good job, and was promoted again, and came to the capital, he was finally promoted to the commander of the baggage battalion, but he accidentally encountered an explosion in the arsenal.
Of course, it was not his responsibility at that time, but he was injured by the explosion, and he recuperated for more than six months, and finally entered the military academy for further study, but his nephew actually provoked Cheng Shaoshuai, fortunately, Cheng Dashuai was a reasonable person and did not pursue it, otherwise, in the previous dynasty, his head would have been cut off several times.
"It's a great fate that you've survived so far!"
"Who's to say it isn't!"
Wang Yangxi asked, "Is your mother still protecting your nephew?" ”
"I can't protect it!"
Chen Dachun smiled innocently: "That idiot was coaxed by me to be a soldier, hehe, I didn't expect this bastard to mix well in the army, marksmanship, and stabbing are all ...... It's very powerful, it is said that becoming the gun captain on a naval battleship is the team level, which is considered a bar, and it will not take a few years to surpass me! ”
After Chen Dachun finished talking about his own affairs, he pointed to this vast continent and talked endlessly about the development plan, that optimistic and enthusiastic look, and the cold and irritable before the shore were completely judged by the two people, Chen Dachun should not regard himself as the master of this continent!
Wang Yangxi grunted in his throat and asked cautiously, "We were exiled here...... That's what you do? ”
Chen Dachun looked at this guy and sincerely showed a caring look for the mentally retarded: "Of course! Do you think that we have sent you here thousands of miles to invite you to come for a vacation? ”
Wang Yangxi said desperately: "Don't do it!" Even being Ling Chi is better than being thrown in this hellish place! ”
Chen Dachun pointed to the vast sea: "If you have the ability, you can swim back, and we promise not to stop you." ”
Wang Yangxi looked at the boundless sea, and the whole person was even more desperate. It seems that the supervisors of the labor camp in Zhanzhou are the most worry-free, and they don't have to worry about the prisoners escaping at all, because no prisoner has the ability to swim back to Daming.
Even if they escape from the labor camp, there is nowhere to go, and they can stay in the labor camp and have a care for their compatriots, and they don't know how they will die when they flee to the wasteland......
So, let's honestly work and transform!
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Jinzhou is located in the dormitory of the Quang Binh Palace.
Xiang Hui slowly opened her eyes, and she found that she was in an antique open house at this time, with carved beams and paintings, luxuriously decorated, and vermilion curtains, which seemed to be an ancient building in a TV series?
Xiang Hui's eyes moved, and at this moment, he suddenly heard a girl's voice sound: "The princess is awake, the princess is awake......"
Xiang Hui was even more puzzled: "Princess? Did I cross over? ”
Xiang Hui remembered clearly, it was Cheng Jiayue's death day again, her mood was very bad, and when she dreamed at night, she dreamed of Cheng Jiayue, and her tears wet the pillow.
Cheng Jialong is very sensible, he made a table full of dishes at home, and persuaded himself to drink from time to time, saying that getting drunk would relieve a thousand sorrows, but as a result, Xiang Hui drank a broken piece for the first time.
When she woke up, she appeared in a completely unfamiliar environment.
It's full of strangers.
Just as she was thinking about it, she heard the sound of messy footsteps.
Then Xiang Hui saw a large group of women in ancient costumes walking into the bedroom, the woman led by her was dressed very gorgeously, she had a goose egg face, and she wore light makeup, which looked very good.
The age of the other party is about twenty-one or twelve years old, and the woman will judge more accurately by looking at the age of the woman, and behind this woman who is wearing a dingdong, is a woman wearing a cyan robe, combing her hair and the sideburns of the man in the costume TV series.
The woman at the head is none other than Zhu Weiyuan, the men's clothes are Yang Yunniang, followed by Gu Ziyi, Jin Qiao'er, Yang Wan'er, and Cheng Shijie's nominal concubine, and even the palace ladies and eunuchs in the palace.
Zhu Weiyuan stepped forward to help Xiang Hui sit up, and said softly: "Sister, you woke up, how do you feel?" What's uncomfortable? Do you want to send the Imperial Doctor over and take a look......
Speaking of this, Zhu Weiyuan hurriedly said: "Ziyi, send someone to ask Dean Yang to come over and treat the princess......
Without waiting for Zhu Weiyuan to finish speaking, Xiang Hui covered her head and asked, "Wait, I'm fine, who are you?" ”
Xiang Hui looked at the person in front of her, especially feeling the temperature from Zhu Weiyuan's hand, she pinched herself even more, it really hurt, obviously this is not a dream.
Could it be that you have crossed by yourself?
Xiang Hui traveled to a palace?
And became a princess?
Zhu Weiyuan bowed and said: "Sister, I am Zhu Weiyuan, you can do eight, you can call me Weiyuan, you can also call me Ba Niang, I am the side princess, this is Yun Niang!" ”
"My sister is on top, and I will be worshiped by Yun Niang!"
Yang Yunniang knelt on the ground and said, "I am now a concubine!" ”
Then, Jin Qiaoer, Yang Wan'er and others greeted each other and told their identities.
Xiang Hui is also a businessman, she remembers the identity of every beauty at a glance, she feels that something is not right, how is it messy?
You must know that the harem of the vassal king is much simpler than that of the emperor, and there can only be four levels, namely the princess, the second concubine, the lady, and the palace man.
The concubines below the second concubine of the vassal king are not sealed, and they are only called palace people. Palace people who have children can be promoted to Mrs. after their children are entitled, but without the corresponding edict and crown, it can be said that they are in name only.
If you want to be promoted to the second concubine, it is even more difficult, generally only the biological mother of the concubine who is the prince of the king, and the concubine who is favored by the vassal king can be promoted.
But although Cheng Shijie is the regent, Cheng Shijie's surname is Cheng, not Zhu, so it is impossible for him to be a vassal king, and the ministers of the Dingxin Dynasty have been worried that Cheng Shijie will live Cao Cao for the sake of fame, and he will not want to live or die, so it will be troublesome.
You must know that when Cao Cao was the prince of Wei, he was already dying, but Cheng Shijie is now in the prime of life, if he is not the emperor, then he will have to wait.
As a result, the cabinet members of the Dingxin Dynasty led by Sun Zhili began to save the country, and Cheng Shijie's road did not work, so he began to take Zhu Weiyuan's route.
Although the princess is not called the queen, she starts from the concubine, Yang Yunniang is the concubine, Jin Qiaoer is the concubine, Yang Waner is the concubine, and the other daughters are also on Zhaoyi, Zhaorong, Zhaoyuan, Xiuyi, Xiurong, Xiuyuan, Chongyi, etc.
After everyone saw the salute, Xiang Hui was even more confused.
Until this time, a girl in palace clothes walked towards Xiang Hui, this girl was dressed in gorgeous clothes, followed by four palace laves, and rushed towards Xiang Hui.
Xiang Hui looked at this girl, how did she feel like Cheng Jiayue who had died?
Maybe she was too excited, when the girl entered the gate, she fell to the ground, and the surrounding Gong'e hurriedly stepped forward to help, but the girl was full of tears and couldn't cry.
Xiang Hui couldn't care about everything, and stepped forward to hug the girl, for fear that the girl would fly away.
After a long time, Cheng Jiayue muttered: "Mom, you hurt me!" ”
Xiang Hui was stunned, why did the girl's voice be the same as Cheng Jiayue?
Outside the dormitory, Cheng Shijie was smoking cigarettes one after another.
Cheng Jialong looked at the worried Cheng Shijie and said: "Dad, you still have to face what you should face, and your son can't help you, but I can prove that you are worthy of your mother and have guarded her like a jade for so many years!" ”
Cheng Shijie looked at the dormitory, and he felt that this was the prelude to the storm.
Sure enough, a roaring voice came from inside: "Cheng Shijie, you come out for me!" ”
(End of chapter)