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On the "Yangming", Yang Youji said to Xia Nan: "Master, I see that the few people around Murong Gongzi are not like ordinary maritime merchants and sailors, but like characters who have killed people and seen blood. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Xia Nan said with a smile: "Hehe, there are a few people who can go to sea to eat this bowl of rice this year, and a few of them are obedient and honest in business, I'm afraid they have all become a dry bone at the bottom of the sea."

He repeatedly played with the name Murong Longcheng, and suddenly it occurred to him, wasn't Murong the surname of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period? Master Jin Yong also has a Gusu Murong family in his pen, I don't know what the relationship between this Murong and Bi Murong is, could it be that he is also the heir of a certain family that is burdened with the great cause of restoring the country?

But these are all made up, what are the descendants of the dynasty, in the current bad situation such as the death of the Ming Dynasty, the snooping of the Houjin, and the chaos of the Liukou, how easy is it to restore the country? It seems that he has seen too much martial arts and has too much imagination. This chance encounter with Murong Gongzi is just a hurried passer-by in life, no matter what he does.

Xia Nan shook his head laughingly, throwing these wonderful ideas out of his head.

After stopping overnight in Quanzhou, the "Yangming" followed the coastline, passing through Fujian and Zhejiang all the way to the north.

At this time, Shanghai is still a remote county belonging to Songjiang Prefecture, but Ningbo Mansion has opened the eyes of the summer south, and the commercial development and population density are more than Guangzhou, and this is not the most prosperous city in the south of the Yangtze River, Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Nanjing in the south of the Yangtze River are the most developed cities in the Ming Dynasty and even the world. Xia Nan secretly made up his mind that he would definitely find a chance to visit these places, especially the Qinhuai River written by the literati, which made him fascinated.

Relying on the unparalleled sailing speed of the clipper ship, it took only six days for Xia Nan and his entourage to enter the Yellow Sea, passing through the two guards of Andongwei and Lingshanwei on the way, and Weihaiwei in front.

After calculating the time, it was the end of September 22, and it was now the end of September, even if it was delayed in Dengzhou for a month, it should not encounter the famous Dengzhou Mutiny in history, and Xia Nan finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although he boasted in front of Lin Weiye that Haikou would change the course of history and prevent such a sharp weapon as the Hongyi cannon from falling into the hands of Huang Taiji, when he really arrived in Dengzhou, he was still uneasy, and after all, it was important to save his life first. In the midst of the rebellion, go deep into the rebels and change the minds of the rebel leaders, how can it be as light as you say, and it would be good to be able to find the coal mine smoothly.

It's just that after finding the coal mine, how to mine smoothly without being hindered by the local government, and how to ensure that the coal is transported back to Lingao on the battlefield where the official army and the rebels are tugging at each other after the mutiny, is also an extremely headache, so I have to take one step at a time.

Dengzhou was actually a military town, where the imperial court set up a governor of Denglai, trained sailors, guarded against pirates, and was also responsible for the transfer of food and salaries to the northern front. Sun Yuanhua, the current governor of Denglai, also set up an advanced firearms unit in Dengzhou at that time, and the people responsible for teaching artillery shooting were all Portuguese.

After docking at Dengzhou Port and entering the city, I found that Dengzhou was like a large barracks, and inside and outside the city, there were soldiers with various accents, many of whom had Liaodong accents. I inquired with passers-by and learned that most of the Liaodong soldiers in Dengzhou were the original Dongjiang Town's men and horses Chongzhen in the second year of Yuan Chonghuan's edict to kill Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, the dragons had no leader, and the new general soldier Huang Long was stubborn and self-serving, unable to subdue the people and horses of the Dongjiang Islands, and the people and horses of various departments mutinied, Kong Youde and other generals led their troops to defect to Sun Yuanhua and awarded the cavalry generals.

Xia Nan looked at these Liao soldiers, with mixed feelings, they were the main force of the upcoming mutiny, they were supposed to fight against Houjin on the battlefield in Liaodong, but for various reasons, they became a scourge in Dengzhou, resulting in the destruction of life in the Denglai area, and he knew it, but he couldn't resolve it, and his personal strength was too weak to stop the wheel of history from advancing.

After everyone entered the city, they found a number of inns, most of which were full, and in desperation, they could only find a local temple, gave ten taels of silver, and lived in the inner courtyard.

Xia Nan had already thought about it on the way here, and tried to communicate with the government first, so that coal mining could be recognized by the local government.

After all, Dengzhou is different from Qiongzhou, Longkou is different from Tiandu, and the development of iron ore in Qiongzhou, which is sparsely populated and has very poor control by the government, can bypass the government, but it will not work at all here, Longkou Town is under the nose of Dengzhou Mansion, and it is impossible to hide such a big movement from the government when digging coal.

As for communicating with which level of government and which official, based on the current reality and historical knowledge, Xia Nan decided to try his luck with Sun Yuanhua.

At this time, the rebellion had not yet happened, Sun Yuanhua was not a down-and-out official waiting for the traverser to save him, but also the governor of Denglai, the commander of Denglai's local military affairs, and the political and military affairs of Dengzhou and Laizhou were taken care of by him, and there was no thicker thigh than him in Dengzhou. The key point is that Sun Yuanhua was influenced by his mentor Xu Guangqi to be baptized and join the Catholic Church, and if he pretended to be a Catholic, the chances of holding his thigh were far greater than that of ordinary officials.

For Xia Nan, who dared to go straight to the county government at the beginning of the crossing, it is not a big deal to ask to see the governor, but it is a provincial and ministerial-level high-ranking official, and he has also known and befriended many officials of this level in the old time and space, although the governor at this time is not the same as the provincial and ministerial-level officials in the old time and space, and the governor is a local official second only to the governor, and his status and power are much higher than the traditional three divisions, that is, the political envoy department, the press envoy department, and the command envoy department, which integrates administrative power and military power, and is equivalent to the secretary of the provincial party committee and the commander of the military region.

And they came to the governor's yamen. Dengzhou Governor's Yamen is newly set up during the Apocalypse, and the style is really not small: the green tweed sedan chair is placed in front of the door, there are several vermilion "tall cards" under the wall, the official title and honor are written in the mud gold imitation Song style, and the various flags hung are even more numerous, which makes people dazzled. Looking further into the yamen, two lines of personal soldiers with knives stood from the gate to the front of the hall, and there were several military attachés of the third or fourth grade.

Seeing this scene in the summer, Nan knew that he was afraid that he would not even be able to say anything if he rushed up, so he immediately avoided the side, took out the name card and asked someone to go up to the post, and handed over one or two door bags with the name of the post "Guangdong church member Xia Nan kowtow", he does not have any religious beliefs, this church member is naturally fake, and it is not convenient to write directly from Lingao, too remote place I am afraid that the governor has not heard of it, anyway, Qiongzhou Mansion is also under the rule of Guangdong. To be continued.

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