It is now the end of the first month, and it is not long before the day of the opening of Caoyun, if the imperial court and Xuzhou continue to fight to the death, the grain and the northern transportation of the south and the north will be delayed, and everyone's income this year will also be greatly affected.

All parties in the south of the Yangtze River have no good impression of Zhao Jin, they can't wait for Xuzhou to be killed by the imperial court, and Zhao Jin is cramped and skinned, but once Caoyun is cut off, Xuzhou is actually the largest buyer, and now the huge north, after Caoyun is cut off, only his family can eat up a large number of goods, and then distribute them through various channels, and he has two ports in his hands, and there are two controllable fleets, if you want to send goods to the north, there are many places to borrow this port and fleet.

Even if you want to use your own fleet to transport goods, you have to consider whether you will be intercepted by these two fleets, and you also have to consider anchoring and replenishing at Clam Bay and Haizhou Port.

After Qingjiangpu settled down, merchants from all walks of life poured over, many people were inextricably linked with those wealthy businessmen who were arrested by raiding their homes, and even married relatives, but who cares about this grudge, what everyone thinks is very simple, what does Xuzhou need? What kind of shops can grain and goods be sold in Qingjiangpu? Qingjiang City has already vacated seats, how much money can be paid for what conditions can be taken.

According to the news of the internal guard, the deputy general of Langshan, who has resigned, has taken a large amount of silver and invested it in Qingjiangpu, and he sees the profits brought by the new river of Yunyan River, because there are several private ports on the side of Langshan Daying, and maritime merchants often moor and unload goods there, and now they can be transported directly to Qingjiangpu by transporting the salt river.

In Huaiyang and the Jiangnan area, the internal guard eyeline, as well as those wealthy merchant families who are interested in stammering, passed on all kinds of news, several of which were extremely important, and the fast horse was passed to Zhao Jin in Xuzhou, and the news was a little vague, saying that the border armies of Shaanxi and Shanxi would not move for a while, the road was far away, and the local defense was also very heavy, and they would definitely not set off immediately after receiving the order.

No matter how the officials and troops will react, the Zhao Ziying camp has now been fully mobilized, but it is not seen much on the side of Qingjiangpu and Yangzhou, and a team of patrolmen organized by Li Dajin began to escort the team of Yunshan Xing to open a branch into the city along the canal, and then recruited suitable Ding Zhuang everywhere to enter the patrol team.

Everyone will not be deceived by such calm, they all understand that as long as they do it, the Third Brigade and the Patrol Ding and the Qingjiangpu various names of the armed forces are all armies that can fight, the reason why it is so concealed is just to let everyone still do business with peace of mind, thinking of this local and foreign businessmen are interesting, what do these Xuzhou Haoqiang think, they have already been killed and killed, and they are afraid of affecting business, and they are also so disciplined in doing business.

Compared with the maintenance of Qingjiangpu, Huai'an North District is fully mobilized, this area of Zhao Ziying is completely set up as a military town, he has no real sense of the people, all are Zhao Ziying's Zhuang Ding people, most of the manor Ding Zhuang usually lives a militarized life, there is discipline, hard training, strict organization, can be organized at any time to form a series of regiments to practice.

After a Spring Festival that was not completely relaxed, the Huai'an North District organized 40 companies for regimental training, guarding various key points in the Huai'an North District, of which 15 companies were on standby near the left side of Yutou Town, while protecting the node of Yutou Town, while being ready to support the Zhao Ziying team at any time, although this group was for the overall situation, Li He of the Pizhou Regiment and Qi Erkui and their independent brigade were very dissatisfied, and the Jiang family and the Cheng family also complained, saying that we people have not yet gone into battle, and what to do with so many regimental training.

Today's Huai'an North District is actually the safest place, because it is bordered by the sea in the east, and the other three sides are garrisoned by other main forces of the Zhao Zi battalion, so this most important place has become the port of Haizhou, and Shi Manqiang's first regiment of the second brigade and five regimental training companies are stationed on the west side of Haizhou City.

In addition to the port and Huaiyan, now the Zhao Ziying also placed an iron yard and a firearms workshop here, and the weapons and firearms supplied to the maritime forces are manufactured here, and there is also the task of casting artillery, and the artillery shipped here is mainly for the supply of the second and third brigades.

The iron yard and the firearms workshop are important enough, not to mention that there is also a shipyard here to repair ships going to and from the sea, and at the same time to build ships for Zhao Ziying, and the guns produced by the firearms workshop will also be sent to the shipyard to see how to place them on the ship, but neither Fuchuan nor Guangchuan can place the guns on the plywood side, so they can only be placed on the deck.

The craftsmen of the shipyard feel that the income and life here are very comfortable, and it is rare to have such a place where craftsmen and laborers are respected, but it is too troublesome here, and the owner has too many whimsical ideas, so he always asks everyone to try this and that, which delays the work of serious work, and the shipwrights discuss privately, saying that the owner has not been to places like the South Seas, and has seen the big ship of the ghost, and those whimsical ideas are related to the ship of the ghost.

Fan ghost and Daming shipbuilding is not a way at all, even if you can figure it out a little, it is difficult to apply, so it has been troublesome, but there is an advantage here, there is no shortage of good wood, there is no shortage of big wood, there is no shortage of big wood, there are these two, you can build a big ship, and there are a lot of Fu ships and wide ships launched.

Port trade, Huai salt trade, iron casting, shipbuilding and wood yards, but also to collect the Liao people, but also as a caravan transit supply station, such an important port, Shi Manqiang personally led soldiers and horses to sit in the town.

Zhao Ziying also invested a lot of money in this Haizhou port, not only materials and guards, manpower and material resources are not sparing, a large number of recruited Ding Zhuang, the local grange of Zhuang Ding, are busy around this port, many sea ships in Clam Bay after unloading, but also to load the materials transported by water and water to unload the North Haizhou Port, which costs a lot of money.

Although the construction time is not long, in the eyes of any sea person, this Haizhou port is very complete, the berth wharf is neat, and it is convenient to unload and load, and then there is no need to worry about pirates and foreign enemies here, because this Haizhou port has been armed to the teeth.

There are batteries on the high points of the port wharf, the heavy stones are tightly covered, the artillery is powerful, and the movement is flexible, whether it is the ships in the port berth, or the ships that want to enter the port, they are all within the range of the artillery, when the battery is built, the artillery has been tested more than once, each time the owners and sailors feel safe, everyone is here to do business, such a place can sleep and make money with peace of mind.

And the shipowners and sailors were respected here, and no one despised or despised what opinions they put forward, and if they were right, they were immediately executed, and they were rewarded, such as the two new towers that were erected high up in the harbor, and which always burned out when the sky was dark, to guide the way to those who had not yet entered the harbor, and which were usually watchtowers for looking out over the surrounding sea.

Later, a layer of wrought iron and timber shelves were added to this tower, with a lampshade with a hood on the top, and a large bell hanging below, which was used to tell the time and send letters.

After the completion of Haizhou Port, although the Li family and the Yu family kept it strictly secret, the news still spread intentionally or unintentionally, and foreign ships began to dock here for supplies and even trade.

With the defense of Haizhou Port and the strength of the Second Brigade, there is really no need to worry about any pirate attacks, and they are all open to the outside world under the condition of ensuring the priority of the Li family and the Yu family, but they are required to act in strict accordance with the rules here.

Most of the shipwrights and sailors at sea are lawless, and after some people go ashore, they forget to warn them, make trouble, and then erect a row of shelves near the port, and the troublesome sailors are caught and hanged on them, and then let the seabirds peck, where they warn the ships coming and going, and some people make trouble and hurt people and then flee quickly, get on the ship and set sail, even the boats of the Li family and the Yu family have not had time to block it.

However, if you set sail in the port, you can't get up quickly, and you will be sunk directly by the artillery on the battery, and after a few times, the port of Haizhou and its surroundings will become the rule of sages who are untouched and courteous.

Foreign ships will be frightened twice after they first arrive at this Haizhou port, one is that there is such a complete and good harbor here, and the other is that this port is so close to the East China Sea Qianhu, the thousand households are located on the big island outside the Haizhou port, the island and the land are in a semi-connected state, when the tide is low, people can walk from the island to the land, this Qianhu also has its own sailors, although the maritime merchants are not afraid of the official army, but it is always uncomfortable to be so close.

After going ashore, I went to the wine shop and restaurant, or went to the gambling house and the prostitution nest to be happy, and found that many of them were actually the businesses of the thousand households, so I was relieved, it turned out to be such a place of collusion between officials and businessmen, so what are you worried about?

Foreign maritime merchants stopped for a few days and left, and they didn't bother to have an in-depth understanding of this side, so they didn't know that the Qianhu Office and the Yamen in Haizhou were all doing business with the permission of Zhao Ziying, not collusion, but relying on people's snorts to make a fortune, and the officials and soldiers of the Qianhu Office in the East China Sea knew very well in their hearts that if they wanted to suppress thieves or do something else, the officials in Haizhou would be the first to turn their faces and bring out all the old things of smuggling and selling salt, and cut off people's wealth and money, that is, a great enmity of life and death.

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