The hardening and reinforcement of Dengzhou Port has achieved initial results, but the military camp outside the city has not yet taken shape, and Xia Nan has to prepare to leave. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since Xia Nan promised to marry in front of Xie Sanbin, Xie Sanbin has automatically entered the marriage urging mode. Every once in a while, under the pretext of inspecting the new military camp or exchanging views on port construction, he couldn't talk to Xia Nan for a few words, so he slowly moved on to the topic of the big wedding, and hinted that he should go back to Guangdong to prepare for the marriage. With such a future father-in-law next to him, Xia Nan really couldn't stay any longer, so he could only flee in the wilderness.

On the wharf, Xia Nan put his arm around Lin Weiye's shoulders and said, "Lao Lin, work hard, when the port and military camp are done, Dengzhou will basically be our world." In the future, this will be our bridgehead to deal with the imperial court and the Houjin......"

"I know, I know, these are all things that have been done...... It's back to Lingao, you help me keep an eye on the progress of the railroad carriage, and when I leave, I will hand over this matter to the students of Baicao Garden, led by Second Brother Su. ”

On the other side, Dong Xiaowan and Li Xiangjun were also saying goodbye.

Dong Xiaowan said enviously: "Sister Xiangjun, you are fine, Master Lin will stay in Shandong with you, you don't have to go back to Qiongzhou to face the eldest woman, you can ......be at ease."

Li Xiangjun sighed: "What's the good?" The ugly daughter-in-law wants to see her in-laws after all, and I just left a few days later than my sister. I heard that the one in his family is a Li person, and he is very strict with precautions, and he is not even allowed to touch the maid, so I am afraid that there will be no good life in the future...... But Ping Nanbo hasn't married a wife yet, and there are only a few concubines in the family, so neither you nor them can help anyone......"

A trace of worry flashed in Dong Xiaowan's eyes: "That's my sister, you didn't hear what he said to Lord Xie, the governor of Denglai, this time he is going to get married when he returns to Qiongzhou, and it is Lord Xie's daughter." Miss of the eunuch family, I don't know if I can tolerate a woman from a low background like me? ”

Li Xiangjun soothed: "As long as Ping Nanbo values you and takes care of you, even the young lady of the official eunuch family can't touch you at all." ”

Dong Xiaowan smiled bitterly and did not answer. Until now, Nan has never given her a clear name in the summer, so how can she value and care for her? Calling herself a concubine at the banquet was more like a perfunctory remark to Xie Sanbin, and he never mentioned it since.

After saying goodbye to Lin Weiye, Xia Nan boarded the ship again, this time to the base camp Lingao.

After a series of operations, such as the Battle of Liuluo Bay, the surprise attack on Zhongzuo, and the bombardment of Manila, all the enemies who were qualified to become opponents were eliminated or subdued, and from Bohai Bay to the South Sea, the entire East Asian sea became almost an inland lake for the Qiong Navy. Even if Nan sits on a small sampan in the summer, as long as he hangs the flag of the Qiong Navy, he can return to Lingao safely, let alone escort the battleship. After more than a month of sailing, Xia Nan finally returned to his base camp after a long absence.

Due to the existence of customs and the fact that the Qiong Navy vigorously supported maritime trade and opened up the port, Bofu Port has now become the most prosperous port in Guangdong and even the Far East: merchant ships from Nanyang, Guangdong, Fujian, and Japan are densely packed with ports, sails cover the sky and the sun, and there is a long queue in front of the customs customs, all of which are maritime merchants waiting to pay taxes offshore.

When the fleet headed by the "Lingao" entered the port, the merchant ships that were entering and leaving the port saw the big flag with the word "Xia" hoisting, and they were busy avoiding it and making room for the sea overlord to berth the ship - in Lingao, offending the king of heaven Lao Tzu could not offend Xia Nan, this is the consensus of all maritime merchants. Some maritime merchants didn't realize this before, and they didn't want to go to Tainan or Bofu to pay taxes, but this lord took the fleet directly to Nagasaki, and in front of the office, in front of the Nabeshima family, he broke the legs of the tax evaders and confiscated the cargo, and the Nabeshima family, who was coaxed by cowhide on weekdays, didn't even dare to let out a fart.

Dong Xiaowan got off the boat after Xia Nan and looked at everything on the dock with great interest. She has seen large and small ports and wharves, and Nanjing's wharves are also connected to the sea through the Yangtze River, but they are far less lively than Bofu: Cantonese snacks, Nanyang shops, Fujian tea merchants...... The streets are filled with shops of all kinds, making it a sight to behold. There is even a brothel between the grocery store and the Japanese goods store, and the sailors who come in and out are covered in the smell of the sea, but they don't seem to be disobedient.

Xia Nan looked at Dong Xiaowan's curious gaze, and also saw the brothel, and said with a smile: "Don't think that only scholars can be in the snow, the men who run the sea also know the romance, but the things they want are simpler and pure." Proper decompression is a kind of adjustment and venting for the boring ocean voyage. ”

Dong Xiaowan blushed, although she said it tactfully, but isn't this just prostitution?

Walking out of the dock, Xia Nan saw the two railroad tracks on the ground at a glance, and his eyes lit up, could it be that the railroad carriage had already been built?

After a while, the bell sounded "jingling", and a car pulled by a horse came along the track, and Xia Nan hurried over to see that it was the railcar that Lin Weiye said.

The carriage stopped at the door of a hotel, and the coachman sitting in front of the carriage shouted in a neutral tone: "The drunken immortal building at Bofu Wharf has arrived, and you are about to get off the train in a hurry." With the shouting of the driver, several people got out of the car one after another and walked to different shops.

This familiar wording made Xia Nan smile, and he came to the long carriage and stood outside the window to look in. There were two or three passenger-like people in the carriage, and a young man sat in the front of the car, holding a pen and a small notebook and constantly jotting down something.

He asked, "Master, do you need money to ride in this car?" ”

The driver replied skillfully: "Ten cents for getting on the bus, stop at the station, and get on and off at any time." ”

Xia Nan asked, "Who designed this shouting at the station?" ”

The teenager who was burying his head in "taking notes" raised his head, and the driver replied: "This is the proposal of our school teacher Lin, he suggested choosing the 'landmark' buildings along the way instead of the station name, and all the stores named after them must pay advertising fees......

Xia Nan smiled heartily, isn't this the bus of the old time and space?

The coachman didn't recognize Xia Nan, and he asked, "Is the guest officer in the car?" ”

Xia Nan smiled and took Dong Xiaowan and Shimazu Chiyo into the car.

Once seated, the coachman flicked his whip and the carriage started steadily. Xia Nan asked the young man, "Little guy, what's your name?" What do you do when you write and draw in the car? ”

The teenager had some dissatisfaction: "I'm seventeen years old, and I'm not a little guy anymore." My name is Second Brother Su, and I am completing the homework given to me by Mr. Lin: walking back and forth with the car several times a day, recording the problems in operation and the opinions of passengers in order to improve. At present, the carriage is only in trial operation, only two cars in both directions opposite each other, and when it is officially operational, ten carriages will be put into operation. ”