Chapter 372: The Sea Meets Occasionally

With a slight spring cold, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's team went on the road, not by land, it was not a place where people could walk, and they went to the northeast.

Xiaobei and a group of little guys followed, this time they could see the sea, they had no impression of the sea, even if they were born in Luzhou, it was impossible to stand on the beach and watch it in a few months.

Old man Bi didn't go with him this time, they really couldn't afford to toss, and more importantly, they also knew that the population of Jili Prefecture was small, and there were naturally few people who farmed the land, so it was likely that they would have to struggle to even eat there.

The fleet took the Cao Canal, entered the Weishui, crossed the Yellow River, and rushed out from the Bohai Bay.

"This is the sea? Why don't you remember? Becky stood on the deck at the bow of the ship, looking at the vastness of the sea.

"I was young, not like I grew up now." Xiaoyuan found the reason.

"Now you're not big, it's convenient to eat seafood now." Xiaobei likes to eat seafood, and usually eats it by other people by boat, and the cost is relatively high.

"I don't eat fish, fishy." Xiao Yuan wanted to poke his head out to see where the side of the boat was touching the water, and the guards would pull it mercilessly.

Xiaobei was much more stable, let the sea breeze blow his hair flying, and said: "The river fish is fishy, and the smell of the earth is fishy." ”

"Fishy in the sea."

"Fishy in the river."

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan didn't have the heart to see the sea, the two achieved their goal, and finally were arranged to Dalian, but Dalian at this time is not called Dalian, and it is not as prosperous as it will be in the future.

The only road that is considered a good point is the marching road when the *** was destroyed at the beginning, but it has nothing to do with Jili State, and no one will send troops from Jili State.

"Xiaobao, since the population statistics over there are incomplete, look at a state, there are only 400 households and more than 1,100 people recorded in the booklet, even if there are fewer people, this cannot be done."

Wang Juan put aside the information needed there, pointed to a piece of data and complained to Zhang Xiaobao.

"It's not easy to do this, let alone here, even if we take it, who can say that we can control the population." Zhang Xiaobao compared the drawings on a map, Dalian now wants to develop, it is impossible to build a good road, and if it can't be repaired, then it can only take sea transportation, and it is necessary to find a suitable place to build a wharf.

Wang Juan put away the same information that he had seen and had not read, "It's also oh, then let's talk about it then, the population problem is really a trouble, transport people from other places?" ”

"It is estimated that it is difficult to transport people from other places, and there are not many people in Shandong Bench Prefecture from Shandong, and a large piece of land is placed there, who wants to come over? Later, the population of the Northeast was large, in fact, most of them were immigrants from Shandong, but not now, there are many people south of the Yellow River, but people don't come. ”

Zhang Xiaobao didn't have a good way to deal with the population, there were a lot of slaves bought in Tubo, but they couldn't be transported here, and if they wanted to become an army there, they would become an army, and when they arrived in Jili Prefecture, they would be ordinary people, not to mention that when they left, they would be handed over to the next one.

Wang Juan thought deeply and said: "Indeed, people in the south grow grain, can be two crops a year, and even more south is three crops a year, who wants to come to the Northeast this year, the population is still less, but there are many resources here, it has not yet been developed, I think before and after the reform and opening up, Northeast Heavy Industry supports the industrial system of most of the country." ”

"Yes, especially in Daxingcheng, which is not too far from our Jili Prefecture, that is, Dandong, where it is better to build cars and provide support to the front line, but now it is not possible."

Zhang Xiaobao also recalled, and then said: "The primary problem now is how to develop Dalian's specialties and how to sell them, the tourist area is estimated to be no, people would rather go to Luzhou, than come here, we can't find so many service personnel, let's build one ourselves, enjoy it ourselves." ”

"Then it's called heaven and earth." Wang Juan gave it a name.

"No, that's somewhere, it's not good." Zhang Xiaobao objected.

"Why is it not good, everyone Xiaobai has said, heaven and earth will meet, and the unlucky emperor, the one who writes very good words, corresponds to the dream of not knowing that he is a guest, and he is greedy for joy for a while. The flowing water falls and the flowers go in spring, heaven and earth. It is called heaven and earth. ”

Wang Juan refused to veto a good name because someone else used this name and something happened.

"Then it's called heaven and earth." Zhang Xiaobao really didn't know that this was how the heavens and the earth came, and when he saw Wang Juan insisting, he agreed, and then said: "Did you see Xiao Li's expression when he arranged for us to be an official, just like Xiaobei and they took advantage, hey~!" The emperor made him be. ”

"See, he thought that this time he finally calculated us, in fact, I think he is pitiful, didn't he deceive him into a good ranch in the first place, as for being so concerned."

Wang Juan covered his mouth and smiled.

The fleet continued to move forward, and when they were about to arrive at the place, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan took out new clothes for their younger brothers and sisters, which were thicker than those worn in the capital, and it was still relatively cold here, and the spring breeze was bone-chilling.

In a few days, when it was time to dock, trouble came, although a very good port could be built here, but now there is no ready-made one.

Zhang Xiaobao began to look for Deep Water Bay according to his memory, the fleet that came out was a sea boat, Repulse Bay could not be landed, and the ship also brought a lot of supplies, which had to be transported, Zhang Xiaobao didn't want his younger brothers and sisters to live in a shack like the locals.

At this time, there were also a few fishing boats that were flying there to catch fish on the sea, and they all stopped their movements, and covered their pergolas with their hands to watch, they had never seen such a large team, even if there were occasional cargo ships passing by, or there were warships earlier, they were not as good as what they saw today.

I saw more than a dozen boats like Xiaoshan with wheels on both sides, and the sails on the boats stood like a forest, approaching them in an oblique line, and they looked majestic.

"Daddy, where did this ship come from?" A young man in his twenties on a small fishing boat was frightened, and asked in a trembling voice the person standing at the stern of the boat who was about to cast his net out and stop there.

"Don't be afraid, the ship from Datang must be Datang." The person who was asked was also secretly worried.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's fleet did not display the banner of the Tang Dynasty, only the Daomiao flag on it, and the communication here was not as good as that of the places around the capital, so the local people did not know which side the messy flag represented.

"Send a small boat to check the reliable shore, hit anchor, and lower the sails." Seeing that he could not continue to move forward, Xiaobao on the ship gave an order, and immediately someone began to release the boat, and the anchor on the ship was also lowered into the water, and the sails fell one by one, leaving only the mast standing there.

Becky hurried back to the cabin, and after a while ran to the deck again, with an extra telescope in hand, and looked towards the fishing boat.

"Send someone over to appease the people, remember to speak well, this is no more than the places around the capital, let alone the banks of the Yangtze River, maybe the people don't know who we are."

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan already understood the situation here when they came over, not all the original Tang people, very miscellaneous, there are people from Silla, and people from Khitan, but they may not be as obedient as they used to be in various places, maybe they listen on the surface, and they will make trouble in secret.

Wang Juan stood next to Zhang Xiaobao, also looked at the fishermen fishing there with a telescope, and asked Zhang Xiaobao, "What can you see when they look at it?" ”

"What? I didn't see it, I saw only curiosity and a little worry, and I didn't see any hostility towards us. ”

Zhang Xiaobao understood what Wang Juan meant by asking this, just to see the other party's attitude.

Wang Juan took a closer look and said: "Now they are curious, it is because they don't know who we are, they are worried that we will beat them, our ships are coming, they are still big, but once they find out that we are their magistrates, they may not be like this, will they fight or not?" ”

"How can it be as scary as you say, they didn't rebel when they took office, can they still rebel now? This place has the advantage of not having to pay any taxes to the imperial court, and even the tugong is saved. ”

Zhang Xiaobao doesn't plan to use force to solve the problem as soon as he comes over, force is just a guarantee, people still need to communicate with each other, and when there is force to support, it is convenient to communicate.

"Brother, Uncle Emperor really said that he didn't want to pay taxes, but Uncle Emperor didn't mention this matter when he came." Xiao Hai, who was standing next to him, raised his head and asked Zhang Xiaobao.

Zhang Xiaobao reacted at this time, patted his head with his hand, and said: "Yes, he didn't say this, usually it doesn't need to be paid, even if it is handed over, it will only be handed over to the governors here, the number is still very small, no one forcibly requisitioned, hey, if he has to wait for us to develop and send things to the imperial court, it will be troublesome, no, I have to think about it." ”

"I guess Li Longji hit this idea, he wanted to use us as the tip of the knife to break through, no wonder we should bring more people when we came out, it turned out that he was afraid that someone would be unfavorable to us."

Wang Juan also figured it out, sighed and said: "Li Longji is not stupid, the little abacus is good, good, this is Li Longji, he didn't disappoint me." ”

Zhang Xiaobao was also stunned and thought, and said after a while: "How many people are coming this time?" The six hundred seedling protection teams of the two teams, no, not enough, I guess Li Longji will let us find a way to get the transportation route from here to the capital when we are waiting for us to stabilize.

It must be, it is estimated that we will also be asked to help build a good road to facilitate the transportation of troops, which is done, immediately send a letter to Sanshui County and Huayuan County, and temporarily transfer five hundred good officials to this side, and they will replenish themselves. ”

Zhang Xiaobao thought about the international situation, and finally found that there were a lot of things to be done in the future, and it seemed that not only to govern the local government well, but also to have a secret war with those who were ready to move.

"Transfer Zhang Ying and Zhang Hu over, they are needed here." Wang Juan added.

The pigeon with the letter flew hard towards Sanshui County, and wanted to send the order there as soon as possible.

To see where to dock, the suitable boats were scattered, and another small boat carrying a maid from the inner courtyard was sent to the fishermen, and a woman was sent to talk.

The fishermen were very vigilant when they saw the boat coming, and when they saw a fairy-like girl on it, they let go of their burdens slightly.

"This old man, this eldest brother, may I ask where Jili Prefecture is located?" The maid asked.

As soon as she spoke, the young man was immediately embarrassed, and did not know where to put his hands, and clung vigorously at his own trousers, nodding but not speaking.

When the old man saw his son like this, he immediately understood what was going on, he couldn't see such a beautiful girl here, and his son was shy at this time, so he had to come forward and replied: "It's Jili Prefecture, where does the girl come from?" ”

"Beijing, accompany my little son and little lady to take office, my little son and little lady will be officials in Jili Prefecture in the future, and the old man will have a lot of support at that time." The maid said with a smile.

The fishermen next to him also heard it, but they couldn't understand what you have to do with us, whoever wants to be an official can be whom, and how can we support it, is it possible that you want us to send something?

The maid was also afraid that others would misunderstand, so she immediately said: "If there is anything at that time, don't object, help do it together." ”

"Did you do it for nothing?" There is a fisherman who doesn't care whether the maid is beautiful or not, the more beautiful the woman is, the more she can't get close to herself, and she doesn't care what she does.

"Naturally, it's not for nothing, how can anyone work for nothing, I wonder if this big brother can talk about how much money he makes from fishing in a day?"

The maid wanted to ask about the income of the fishermen here.

The fishermen in a few small boats didn't understand how they could make money, and the fish they caught were all changed, and those that couldn't be changed were eaten by themselves.

The old man said to the maid: "Where is there any money, fishing can still make money, just change some rice and noodles, sometimes no one is willing to change." ”

The maid understood after thinking about it, the population here is small, so she can't eat so much fish, and there are not so many kinds of seasonings when eating fish, so naturally no one wants to eat it.

So he began to draw cakes to the fishermen, "Don't worry, as long as my little son and little lady take office, even if they are fishing, they can make money, and the family can do other things if they have spare money." ”

When the fishermen heard the maid's words, they did not react violently, or even felt anything, because they did not believe that they could make any money from fishing, and they would be content if they could eat enough.

In order to prove the credibility of what she said, the maid took out a string of copper coins from her sleeve and said to the fishermen: "Okay, my little boy and little lady want to eat fish, why don't you sell fish to me, a copper coin and two catties of fish, you will have as much as you want today, here is the deposit." ”

As she spoke, the maid threw the string of copper coins at the feet of the young man, who had been very shy just now, and made a slight movement when it touched the plank.

The fishermen's eyes lit up now, it was a real copper coin, to buy fish.

"Do you really want to buy fish? Two catties of copper coins? Don't regret it? The fisherman just now was sure in disbelief.

"Naturally, I want to buy it, the money has been given, how can I regret it, everyone will fight first, I will send someone to get it in a while, my little son and little lady have always been good to the people, I don't believe you are looking for someone to inquire, the Zhang family in Sanshui County."

The maid said affirmatively, and mentioned Sanshui County again, but the fishermen were at a loss, they hadn't heard of Sanshui County, and they didn't know which Zhang family was.

The fishermen don't know and don't think about it anymore, now the most important thing is that the fish can be sold directly for money, which is really not easy, and they all promised to fish more, and then they watched the maid leave by boat.

Waiting for the maid's boat to go away, the fishermen looked at the shy young man just now picked up the copper coin, and felt like a dream, suddenly came a lot of big boats, and then came down a fairy, and then the fairy wanted to buy fish, with Kaiyuan Tongbao to buy, what happened today?

"Daddy, money." The young man did not dare to take the money himself, and handed it to his father.

The old man took the money and said to the other people with hot eyes: "Put the money here first, go fishing, and then count it after the fight, this is just a fixed money, and there is a big head." ”

The others listened to what the old man said, and began to disperse, and went to their respective positions to fish hard, hoping to catch more, this is money, it is hard to exchange fish for things, but it is not difficult to buy it with money.

Rich people are stupid.

After a while, one of the people in the boat seemed to be lucky, and went down several nets, each of which brought up a lot of fish, as was rarely the case before.

Fishing was happy, and the people on the boat rocked the boat to the old man's side, and said to the old man: "Third master, you said they really came to be officials?" The maid is so good-looking, I don't know how the little lady in it is. ”

"Go, go, catch your fish, you still want to hit other people's ideas? A hundred heads are not enough to cut off, whether it is or not will be known when they come. ”

The old man had little fishing here, and he waved impatiently to drive people away.

The person who was driven out laughed, and while moving slowly to the side, he said: "Third master, they are here, what about the original official?" The original official always came to us to collect things, and if he didn't give it, he would grab something else, I heard that Master Li had ten thousand family fortunes in his family, ten thousand yuan. ”

This person may not know how much the ships in the fleet in front of him are worth, let alone how much money the people on board have, and one thousand yuan already makes him feel that it is a lot.

The old man glared at him, "Where is Wanguan, can you grab Wanguan by grabbing that little thing?" What else can I do? The new one arrives, the original one will go down, go quickly, if you don't leave, I'll go to your side to fish, and I'll give it to you. ”

"Don't don't, I'll go back, I'm just worried that the newcomer will rob more ruthlessly than the original, the original subordinates are only about 100 people, you see the newcomer, a group of big boats, can't beat it, but they are also stupid, they actually use cash to buy fish."

As he spoke, he was afraid that his position would really be robbed, so he said no more, and went back with the boat in his mouth, humming an ugly tune and looking very happy.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also released more small boats and went to the sea to fish, unlike the fishermen here, who cast a net and a net, but two boats together, dragged with a large net and a pendant, and the net used was a mixture of cotton and linen.

Two boats in a group, after a while of dragging a net of fish on the boat, immediately someone began to clean up, very quickly, the hand of the person with a knife to remove the internal organs, iron thorn brush two or three times to remove the scales, throw it aside in the bucket when some of the fish can still move.

It's all because Becky wants to eat a whole fish feast.