Lu Ming

When I came, it was difficult and wasted, and when I returned, I was full of vents.

The oceanic storm that had blocked the pioneers for a long time finally disappeared completely when the big fleet returned.After leaving the reef-shoal dense area, the empty large fleet took advantage of the wind and hurried on at an average speed of eight knots.

The whole process only took seven days.

On June 1636, 6, Fu Youdi returned to the residence of the Nanyang Governor's Mansion of Dayan Kingdom: Saigon Port with the large fleet.

Although he had only been away for more than a month, when he saw the majestic masts, majestic forts, and gunmen all over the Saigon Pier, Fu Youdi finally had a sense of security in returning to his homeland.

Saigon, snatched from the Kingdom of Lower Kampuchea, is the starting point for Dayan Kingdom to attack the Indochina Peninsula.

From the perspective of the overall situation, the current Saigon is surrounded by enemies on all sides, and the life of the Nanyang Governor's Mansion is actually not easy.

Needless to say, in the south, facing Nanyang, the Governor's Mansion has to allocate a large part of its resources and energy to support the fortress.

To the east is Annan Kingdom, which needs to be resolved urgently.Only by opening up the connection between Annan and the mainland, and the vast new development area with Saigon as the core, can we have a solid support.

To the north, is Upper Cambodia.Although the Kingdom of Cambodia is already very weak today, it still needs to be prepared.As for sending troops to destroy it, that's unnecessary. It's too late to occupy the fertile plains. Who has the time to go to the Savage Mountain.

Such rumors are mainly due to the underdeveloped communication in the Middle Ages.After a long distance and time, the information spread Hangzhou to Bianzhou.

Commercial transport ships like Xing'an Ping usually sail economically.Sailing with the wind and burning coal against the wind, the speed is roughly constant at around six knots.Compared with traditional sailing ships, steam ships are not only faster, but more importantly, steam ships have a stable speed.

However, the laborer himself gritted his teeth and kept silent. Instead, he lowered his head and accelerated the speed of the cart: Any behavior that resisted the discipline, or was judged by the guards as a resistance to discipline, would be shot and killed immediately.

Hue is the southern capital of Annan, which was previously ruled by the Nguyen family for more than a hundred years.

As the whip was pulled down, a red mark oozing blood suddenly appeared on the bare back of the beaten laborer, blatantly accusing the atrocities of Yan imperialism.

Hitting him was not because of laziness, but because of the rules.

As the only passenger on the ship, Fu Youdi waited for the ship to leave the port and run smoothly, then went to find the owner of the ship.

After the sound of "pa", a coolie who was pushing a small cart was whipped on the back: "Give me some energy!"

Seeing the passengers on the boat coming to pay a visit and wearing the uniform of civil servants, the old man happily poured out the best tea produced in Fujian and invited Professor Fu to drink tea.

Many of the hard laborers carrying rice sacks today are former farmland owners who once resisted "land intensification".

In later generations, transport ships under 80 tons were usually classified as inland river type.Those who dare to carry cargo across the ocean are ashamed to say hello if they don't have [-] tons. The world's largest oil tanker, [-] tons, has a deck longer than an aircraft carrier.

But in the seventeenth century, the [-]-ton Xing'an Ping was a world-class ocean transport ship.Due to the light weight of the iron-ribbed wooden shell, although the tonnage is not the largest, the actual cargo capacity is more than [-] tons of old-fashioned sailing ships.

In the early morning of the second day, Fu Youdi packed up and saluted, and as a passenger on the ship boarded a grain transport ship Xing'anping back to Guangzhou.At the same time, a large fleet of ten ships hoisted their sails and sailed out of the port to the south.

After entering the camp, I found the deputy director in charge of Wailian, and Fu Youdi handed over the paperwork first.Next, the deputy director told him: the ship to Guangzhou is still preparing goods, and it will take a few days before departure.

Originally, Fu Youdi didn't intend to go into details, but shipowner Lin saw his concerns, so he took out his identity document: Vice President of Fujian Shipbuilding Chamber of Commerce.

So, on the fifth day after departure, the Xing'anping fleet, which was traveling all the way north, appeared in the sea off Hue Port, a thousand kilometers away.

Today, the hard labor carries a local specialty: rice.

But it's useless to know.Fu Youdi is a poor ghost and can't afford to get involved in this kind of business.So he could only use what he had seen and heard in Fort Lipcone as a topic of conversation, and talk about it every day after sipping tea.

The rules of Qiongzhou No. [-] Kan: Newcomers enter the ranks, no matter how obedient they are, they must at least be whipped and disciplined, and there is no upper limit.

Grain is the bulk of goods that Dayan Kingdom attaches the most importance to in the occupied areas of South Asia.

Today is undoubtedly a busy day.Just as Fuyoudi was waiting for the Xing'an Ping to set sail, another large fleet sailed in from outside the port.

Dock work is boring, that is, to supervise the hard labor to transport goods to the warehouse, and then transport the goods to the hold of the cargo ship.

Fu Guanjiao's character is a bit flattering, but correspondingly a bit harsh.Therefore, he implemented all the methods of dealing with prisoners in the regulations.

After two days of rest like this, Fu Youdi originally planned to go to Saigon City for another tour, but the deputy director ran to say that the construction schedule at the pier was tight and there was a shortage of people, so he asked him to help out tomorrow morning.

On the morning of June 28, Fu Youdi set sail on a boat to Guangzhou.

As the leading flagship of the fleet, the Xing'anping transport ship is the latest steam engine sailing ship launched last year.The iron-ribbed wooden shell has a displacement of [-] tons and a full load displacement of more than [-] tons.

So even if it is in Saigon today, even if it is a temporary help, in the view of Fu Guanjiao, since he has started working, the rules must be enforced.As a result, everyone in the team of laborers guarded by Instructor Fu received more or less whippings.

After Lin Chuanowner listened very carefully, he didn't ask any more questions, but very politely sent Disciplinary Fu out of the cabin, and said that he would invite Disciplinary Fu to drink tea later.

As the fleet drifted away, the immigrants pouring out from more and more docked ships, like gray colonies of ants, gradually disappeared from Fu Youdi's field of vision.

In this way, the approximate daily voyage of the Xing'anping fleet can be calculated: 6 knots by 1.8 kilometers by 24 hours ≈ 260 kilometers.

The number of this fleet is also quite large, with as many as eight ships.

Seeing the familiar certificates in the system, Fu definitely knew that this was a big shot.He was relieved, and then he talked about the situation of Lizhuobao.

Then on the second day, the shipowner sent someone to invite the officer Fu to drink tea, and he was still asking about the situation of Lizhuobao.

In today's Great Yan Kingdom, there must be prison administration institutions that forcefully "format" the aborigines in all ports, metropolises, newly developed areas, and nothing else.

Even if according to the tradition, several shipowners jointly invested in this ship, any one of them, to Fu Youdi, would be a big local tycoon with astronomical net worth.So he went to visit the shipowner immediately.

After disembarking, Fu Youdi returned to the labor camp near the port with ease.

If there is not enough commodity grain to cover the bottom line, it will not be able to support the increasing number of domestic industrial workers.The industrialization and population migration that people across the Ming Dynasty were committed to promoting became a joke.

From the current situation in Saigon, it can be seen that the so-called rumors in the northern capital that the Cao family destroyed Siam are actually rumors.The Champa area is still uncertain, how can it be the turn of Siam further west.

The transport ship that Fu Youdi took was the seventh of the large fleet to enter Saigon Port.Compared with a month ago, there is actually one more completed trestle bridge in the Shanggang District.

If you help, you can help, the world's discipline is one family.

To the west is the Champa area with ulterior motives.This semi-independent former city-state, with its fertile plains and hydrothermal conditions, can provide the strategic material Champa Rice.The Nanyang Governor's Mansion covets this place, and solving the threat from Annan's direction is the highest priority strategy, so Champa's direction can only be Huairou at present.

It doesn't matter if Fu has the land, after receiving the number plate, he goes to the assigned dormitory to rest without mentioning it.

Later that day, Fu Youdi finished the last job of the day: driving all the laborers under his jurisdiction into the cabin.

It is different from the "state-owned enterprise" transport ship with a numerical hull number.A traditional ship name like Xing An Ping usually means that the ship is privately owned.

Early the next morning, with the black leather whip handed down from his ancestor Qiongzhou Erkan hanging on his waist, Fu Youdi went out, stepped on the assembly point, went to the playground to meet the local guards and guards with guns, and led a team of hard labor. Escorted to the pier.

The engineering ship emitting black smoke, the huge hammer smashed on the bottom pile, and hundreds of construction workers with naked bodies soaking in the water. I watched with gusto.

I didn't want to drink this, it took a long time. After learning that Fu Youdi had been to Fort Lizhui on business, Lin Shipowner was shocked and asked in detail.

Since the channel from Saigon to Guangzhou is already familiar, the fleet raised its full sails after leaving the port, and with the help of the rare favorable wind, began to head north at full speed along the Annan coastline.

However, although Siam can still maintain its independence at the moment, it has become neighbors with Saigon. How can it be better?With the pissing nature of time-traveling hooligans, I can imagine that gunboat diplomacy, rice for scissors for pots, port lease and other routines have already been imposed on the Siamese people.

Therefore, from the first moment of the occupation of Saigon, following the flames of guns and guns, was the large-scale reform of grain planting in the surrounding land.

These institutions are similar, the difference is only the "outlet" of customers is different.There are labor camps for "purification", and there are labor camps for hard labor.

In this way, Guanjiao Fu helped out at the pier for another two days.On the third day, he finally received the news: the ship will depart tomorrow.

The shipowner's surname is Lin, and his name is Lin Baoquan. He is from Funing Prefecture, Fujian Province.Lin Chuandong, with short hair, is in his 50s, dressed simply, and is a kind old man.

Fu Youdi, who has had an experience once, knows that this is the fleet that is going to set sail again for Fort Ridge.In the past few days, he has observed clearly on the pier: a large amount of construction materials and mechanical equipment have been loaded on the ship, and today's laborers are the last "cargo".

Of course Fu Youdi knew what the rich man was up to.Now in Cao's territory, the topic of development and investment has long been a "scholar" of public discussion.

Although Fu Youdi didn't know the specific price of this ship, he, who often works as a dock supervisor, knew that this new type of transport ship with a steam power system would cost at least 15 taels of silver to buy, and it would cost more than [-] taels of silver. The commander-in-chief's relationship is quite proper.

At this moment, the boilers of the three-ship formation where the Xing'an Ping was located rose to full pressure, and the fleet set sail amidst slow vibrations.

Out of the cabin of the first boat that docked were people in overalls with satchels on their backs.Looking at the attire, Fu Youdi knew who these people were: immigrants from the mainland.

Due to the advent of the Little Ice Age in the traditional grain-producing areas of the Ming Dynasty at a higher latitude, grain production has been greatly reduced year after year.The Mekong Plain, located in the tropics, is also affected by the climate, but the loss is not high.

Two years ago, with the assistance of the crossing forces, Annan's northern power minister Zheng Bing sent his army south to Hue for a decisive battle with the southern Ruan clan. He finally won, occupied Hue, exiled the Ruan clan, and nominally unified the entire Annan area. .

Now, more than two years have passed.During this period, Hue invested heavily in infrastructure with the support of the crossing forces, and has become an important transit port in central Annan.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, after the Xing'anping fleet arrived in Hue, it had to enter the port to replenish coal and water, and then go for repairs.

However, Fu Youdi and Lin the owner of the ship knew that they would not be able to enter the port this time after inquiring about going out of the cabin to watch. On the coast about [-] miles south of Hue, guns roared, fireworks were everywhere, and soldiers and horses were fighting.

"It's the internal disability of the Yue people." Lin Chuandong, who didn't know when he took out a telescope, observed it carefully for a while, put down the telescope with a gloomy face, and said to the first officer beside him: "Shangfan, go to Shenglong Mansion .”