In the noisy Bohai Bay, on the sea that is even more crowded than the first phase of the Beiyang voyage, the majestic fleet is ready to go.

On the tall Liujia ship, the young martial champion Yuan Zizhang was wearing the armor of a general, his eyes swept over the huge ship with the hunting flag fluttering on the sea, and focused on the civilian ship that was tearing the ground in the distance.

He was the first in the martial arts examination in the second year of Wanli, and he studied martial arts since he was a child, and hoped to get a martial arts champion when he was a child, but in this turbulent environment of military technology, it was indeed not such a wise decision to take the martial arts examination.

From the examinee to the examiner, there is embarrassment both openly and secretly.

After 20 years of concentrating on martial arts, let alone being a general, even if he is a small soldier, how can he be reasonable to kill someone?

The family is used to dancing with a hundred-pound heavy knife, a hundred-pound giant bow, and a martial arts scholar, I thought I could be a general, but I didn't want to be sent away by Tan Lun, the secretary of the Ministry of War, so I rolled up my bags and went to Xuanfu to lecture on martial arts, and it was two and a half years.

Although the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty were not so reliable, and the candidates learned a dragon slaying technique only to find out that the exam question was to kill chickens in the examination room, the selection process of the imperial examination itself was very scientific.

Whether it is Wu Jinshi or Wen Jinshi, through layers of selection, they are undoubtedly the best people among all the candidates in those three years, with close to perfect diligence and hard work, as well as excellent learning ability, which can solve most of the problems they encounter in the future life path.

In Xuanfu Lecture Martial Arts Hall, people often compare him with Yang Tingxiang of Guangzhou Lecture Martial Arts Hall, but there is no more praise in words, people praise Yang Tingxiang as the second Yu Dayou, but no one will think that Yuan Zizhang is the second who who is who.

In any case, he was like a sponge, absorbing all the knowledge about the new military, but he was not so lucky, after he came out of the martial arts, he only landed in the Zhongtun of Yao'an Mansion in Yunnan Province without much real power.

But fortunately, the prefect Li Zhen appreciated him very much, not only often exchanged experiences with him in military affairs, but also often informed him of the latest news on the general situation in the world in the letters sent by friends from all over the world.

Li Zhen often encouraged him, believing that his talent could make a great contribution in a changing world.

Finally, he made up his mind to find a new future, and entrusted by the bend relationship, he was recommended by Yu Dayou to the second phase of the Beiyang Army, and began to walk in the world as a Beiyang general.

He spent almost the first half of his life training and studying, which led him to name the Liujia battleship built in Nanyangwei under his feet the Chuiyun, and the infantry under his command also ordered the Chuiyun battalion.

This battleship with 32 guns and 1,100 Beiyang Army troops under his command are Kunpeng's wings, which can help him soar.

The adjutant on the ship stood at his side, followed Yuan Zizhang's gaze, and said with emotion: "The second phase of Beiyang departed two months later than originally scheduled, but the scale is more than three times larger than the first phase, I really don't know what Chen Shuai would think in the past." ”

"Don't you feel proud?"

Yuan Zizhang glanced back at the adjutant, pointed to the sea and said, "There are 1,400 sea ships, I'm afraid there is no place in this world where such a huge fleet can be assembled." ”

The adjutant took the bird gun on the deck, holding the upper end of the bird gun with his hand, and the delicately made spur inserted in his waist, and slowly shook his head and said: "I don't want to go with them, if only I could go with the people of Shandong." ”

The adjutant was not talking about the Mongol Jurchen army, but about the people from all over the world who responded to the emperor's call and went to the East in search of wealth.

Yuan Zizhang shook his head and said: "Over the years, the changes have been too fast, no one would have thought that it would be like this today, and ten years ago, who would have thought that the fields in the Gyeonggi area would not even be able to find tenants, and the horse meat shops would close one after another?" ”

It sounds like a bit of a jump, and the fields don't seem to have anything to do with the eating habits of Kita Naoli, but the adjutant can understand it, and everyone who lives in this place in this era can understand it.

There is only one reason for this – industrialization.

With the support of officials and the profit-seeking of merchants, the industrialization of the north and the south developed rapidly, and the large factories of all walks of life entered the era of collective labor.

Guarding the coastal routes, the factories around the country have the boundless market dividends of the Ming Dynasty, so that each of them wants to expand their production capacity, and the vigorous development of the shipbuilding industry triggered by the Beiyang expedition last year alone has led to many chain industries, and those businessmen who manufacture ship wood, iron parts, and canvas have chosen to introduce steam engines in the difficult situation of recruiting workers.

It's easy to set up a factory in Daming, but if you want to build a large-scale factory, let's say there are more than 1,000 workers? Don't even think about it!

Because of the existence of parents and officials, they will never allow a large number of people in a county to leave their farming work and cause the fields to be wasted, which is related to the tax revenue and their political achievements.

Officials can limit, but cannot stand firm in the face of the need to expand production capacity, especially in Beizhili, near Beiyang, where a large number of iron ore in the Zunhua area has been discovered, and large-scale mining is carried out in conjunction with the "Complete Book of Mining and Metallurgy" translated from the West by combining China and France; The backstage of various factories in Beiyang is even tougher than that of officials, and this is not something that local officials can stop if they want to.

Unable to recruit suitable workers, some merchants began to train workers on their own, and the easiest to become workers were the homeless and tenant farmers, whose relatively higher incomes made them more willing to become workers, which further increased the remuneration handed over by the landlords to the tenant farmers, and then the factories offered higher prices, and the two sides engaged in manpower grabbing.

In the meantime, Wanli Ye made a decree to Huangzhuang, not allowing Huangzhuang to participate in the robbery of tenant farmers, to encourage industrial development, Huangzhuang was the first to use horses to plough, and the horses that cultivated the land were drawn from the horse meat restaurants in various places, and then the landlords followed the example, almost from the source to take all the ingredients of the horse meat restaurant.

People can't eat horse meat anymore.

The vigorous development of industry has increased the mobility of the population in the north and south, and the law and order have also deteriorated, and the number of unemployed people wandering in the cities has increased.

Just as the Wanli Emperor was willing to share his overseas exploration with Alta, Jurchen, Korea, and Japan, the imperial court allowed the homeless people to work as artisans and to find new ways overseas.

In Zhang Juzheng's view, the fact that the East is fighting is not important, he doesn't think that the Asian economy will lose to anyone, any army, especially the Spaniards who were once defeated by his subordinates, but that land makes the god feel very big in his middle age - how can there be no Ming people in the land of the Ming Dynasty?

It was precisely because of this subjectivity that Zhang Juzheng consulted with the emperor, and the cabinet voted for the secretary of the household department to approve the order called 'moving the homeless people from the four provinces into Yashu'.

At this moment, no one knew what this order meant, but Yuan Zizhang, the general of the Beiyang Chuiyun Battalion, and everyone on the more than 1,400 ships that set sail in Bohai Bay knew that their new life had begun!