Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 790

"Old Lin, your handwriting is really good. I usually see you holding a knife and a gun to be powerful, but you can't think of picking up a pen but you can also fly like a snake. It's amazing."

"It's average. I started to learn calligraphy in the sand table when I was three years old, and I've been writing for almost 40 years. Any Jinshi master is much better than me."

Wang Chaoxiang stood on the Vladivostok Peninsula, watching the sailing boats on the sea, and the pier was bustling, and couldn't help sighing that in just over a year, this place has changed a lot.

When they came last year, they first settled in Mokuowei in the west, and built the Mokuowei West Port Camp there. Later, after meeting with the leaders of the Haidong Jurchen tribe, they came to Vladivostok to set up a camp and build a gate.

Yuewumu Temple, Guandi Temple, Confucian Temple, and even the new Taoist temple built here by Tianshidao.

Lin Xuewu is one of the three leaders of the Pioneer Fleet. He is also from Juren. He has put a lot of effort into his handwriting. He wrote an inscription recording China's rule over the Vladivostok area since ancient times, and then wrote that they came here last year Re-opened the port and built the city, recruited the Jurchens, redeemed the captive Han people, and resettled households here. Now that the city of Vladivostok has been established, the imperial court officially established the Vladivostok Mansion here, and the prefecture town Tongzhi City.

It is also the home port station of the Pioneer Fleet, as well as the post station and border city of Vladivostok.

"Who would have thought that there are tens of thousands of people here."

"really."

The Vladivostok monument stands at the port, and you can see it as soon as you enter the port and board the pier.

Vladivostok was originally just a small fishing village with not many people.

Weizi is a common place name used to describe the curvature of mountains and rivers. Vladivostok is naturally a bay rich in sea cucumbers.

It is true that sea cucumbers are abundant there, but the size is small, but the small ones are small, but because of the high water temperature outside, the sea cucumbers produced grow fast, but the taste is excellent.

The small coastal mountains extend into the sea, forming the Vladivostok Peninsula and Lefou Islands. The pioneer fleet took a fancy to the natural harbor and built a city and dock at the top of the peninsula.

The east, south and west sides of the port city are surrounded by bays.

The temperature outside is relatively comfortable, with seven distinct seasons and a large temperature difference between day and night. Although it is in the Far East, because there are no small mountains to isolate the inland, the climate there is very different from that in the north of the mountain.

Spring comes early, summer is warm with moderate rainfall, autumn is gloomy, and winter is relatively humid.

Because Xiao Ming defeated the Manchu Qing Dynasty and recruited the savage Nanzhen, he only conferred official titles, traded with each other, gave rewards, and used goods and money to redeem Han slaves in various tribes. Nanzhen also gave face to the emperor's friendly actions, anyway. The slaves are also given back for nothing, and we can get back the good things we want.

A small number of Han Chinese slaves were sent back.

Xiao Ming also keeps his word, he pays as much money as he wants to give, and it is okay to exchange it for materials and goods, all of which are small and angry.

At the beginning, some wild men were really conquered by the former Jin, moved south and retreated west, and were also conscripted to fight in Liaodong and Guan. Naturally, they were assigned and robbed many people, livestock, money, etc. We brought those Han people back to the tribe as slaves, The quantity is many.

In less than a year, the Ming army in Bohai has redeemed tens of thousands of people. Xiao Shao was placed in various strongholds, and Vladivostok was the least settled, because it was an important place for future development appointed by Emperor Xiao Ming, so there was no place for them to go. Set up there.

It is also because it is a seaport, and various materials such as food and clothing can be shipped from the mainland by sea. If there is such a small population, there is no way to supply and maintain it in the mainland.

Nothing is nothing.

The arrival of batches of Han people made the place more and more vibrant, and before the beginning of spring, merchant ships kept coming, bringing all kinds of supplies, and then transporting the real goods back to Xu Shaonan.

Some merchants came with the boats, set up shops and workshops there, and even went deep into the Nanzhen tribe to do business.

The imperial court also sent officials and garrisons.

Those Han people who were redeemed were selected as young and strong as post soldiers and garrison soldiers, and assigned to post fields and garrison fields to reclaim wasteland and reclaim land, and set up fishing factories to catch fish and process seafood.

The Duofu Supervisor also sent stewards and craftsmen to set up shipyards and ship repair yards there.

Now a new city has sprung up, and the city is built in Xiaobailong in the south. The bay is very good, about seventeen miles long, seven miles narrow, and the water depth is one to forty feet.

Even in the cold winter season, the sea water in Xiaobailong is still rippling. Outside of the eight-month icing period in Liwan, the small amount of ice in Xiaobailong is large and scattered. As long as ships are sent to clear it regularly, it will be able to is the affected navigation.

The key to such a miracle is that the low mountains in the north block the cold current, and the second is that the peninsula is deep into the small sea, and there are no freshwater rivers flowing in the surrounding area, so the salinity of the sea water is low.

The strange thing is that on the east and west sides of the peninsula, the two smaller bays will freeze before retreating into the midwinter, only the narrow and long Mengjiejie in the south remains normal.

But during the hottest period, although Xiaobailong was frozen, he was restricted from retreating into the Caspian Sea, and was frozen for a certain period of time.

But for such a seaport in the northeast, its navigable time is much weaker than that of the ports in Bohai Sea, and it is almost as poor as Lushun Port.

The eight ports of Vladivostok, Qingdao, and Lushun are open to navigation for less than ten months a year, which also ensures the prosperity of that emerging port city. Otherwise, tens of thousands of people suddenly come here, and it will be difficult to survive the winter.

And relying on the supplies under the sea, last winter, one person froze to death, and another person died of starvation.

Up to now, Xiaobailong harbor is silent, with fewer ships.

The long and narrow Mengjiejie is surrounded by the top of the Vladivostok Peninsula and the islands to the south, under which fortresses and smoke piers were built, and there are no mountains to the north of Vladivostok, only a long and narrow corridor to the west, where the Ming army also built A northern pass makes Vladivostok one man guards the pass, and ten thousand men cannot open it.

Today, the tens of thousands of redeemed Han Chinese have no new garrisons, soldiers, sailors, postmen, and our family members. They have established a number of villages along the coast of Haicuwan Bay, reclaiming wasteland and farming, and also engaged in fishing. There is no such thing as hunting or logging.

The resources there are still very rich, forest resources are very rich, all kinds of cedar, hot fir, spruce, larch, birch, linden, maple, elm, etc. The forest is also rich in ginseng, Schisandra, rowan, etc. herbs.

There are also very few sables, moose, bobcats, brown bears, lynxes, tigers, leopards, wild boars and sika deer in the forest.

Sea cucumbers outside the bay are very unknown. There are scallops, oysters, various shrimps, crabs, octopus, etc., and there are few algae such as kelp.

Those new residents settled down there very slowly.

Even if it is wasteland or newly reclaimed land, you can still get some harvest by spreading seeds. Although the yield is still low, there is little land. If it is more complicated to burn wasteland, and then rough tillage, even if one mu of land only yields [-] to [-] catties, it can be harvested. A family planted hundreds of acres, which is worth ten thousand catties.

What kind of corn, potatoes, beans, even barley and rice can be grown there, very fertile white land.

During the slack season, you can also help build cities, repair roads, load and unload ships at the port, or go to work in shipyards, or go logging, or go fishing under the boat, or even go hunting and collecting herbs by yourself. The income is not bad.

Now the land tax is exempted, and it collects some medicine and sells some wood to sell some fish. As long as it is a large personal business, it is taxed.

Except that the city walls of Vladivostok Port City are now a little more luxurious, and the houses are a little more luxurious, the rest is really something to say, and the popularity is very good.

It is not only the center of the sea cucumber bay, but also a small market where the Xu Shaonanzhen tribe often comes to trade. If you want pots and bowls of Chinese pots, tea, salt and other good things, you can come here with your own purse and medicinal materials.

Rowing our canoe, or walking over the mountains will do.

Wang Chaoxiang and the Golden Horn Bay We look at the port city that was developed by us, and we are also full of pride.

"Everything is ready, when are you leaving?"

"Leave tomorrow."

There is nothing to give up in the Golden Horn, "There is nothing to give up, so we have to separate."

Wang Chaoxiang smiled, "No matter what you give up, you've got it. Wang Qi has been learning dance in Wulin recently, and there have been many success stories. There is a lot of news here, and you can be ahead of me."

Once the eight leaders of the vanguard fleet, Meng Jiejie is now arranged by the emperor to be stationed in Vladivostok Port, to patrol the sea east road, and to admiral Vladivostok Port military supplies and so on.

And Wang Qi, Iron Hooker, led some old brothers of the vanguard fleet to Shuangcheng from Suifen River in Haicuwan Bay, and then retreated into Lefu River by land, and then went straight to Xingkai Lake along the river.

Meng Jie built the Dragon King Temple at the mouth of the Song'acha River in the northeast of Xingkai Lake, built a shipyard, and built ships outside here, because many parts and materials were directly shipped from the shipyards in Fujian and Zhejiang, and the new ships were also riverboats. , using slow crab oar sailboats, so the construction is very slow.

Before the completion of the construction, it will directly flow into Wulin along the Song Acha River to learn dancing. After visiting the Huerka and other tribes of the savage Nanzhen tribe in the Wumengjiejie River Basin, they will recruit and confer on behalf of the imperial court, confer official positions, make alliances and make oaths. Maps were drawn along the way, steles were erected, and steles were engraved to declare sovereignty.

At the same time, it also trades with various tribes, and the development is very smooth.

"This is the big white dragon I worship. I have to be blessed by the big white dragon." Jinjiaowan joked. There is no legend there. It is said that the Bailongjiang was called Bailongjiang a long time ago. That's why it's called the Great White Dragon.Not a year ago, a white dragon with a thick body but no half tail came swimming from Shandong in the Central Plains.

I saw that the Bailong River was deep and flowing, and I had a home to return to, so I sneaked into the river and competed with Dabailong for the throne. After more than a dozen days and nights of fighting, Dabailong was the enemy and escaped. From then on, Bailongjiang became Bailongjiang.

Before Dabailong was defeated, he fled to Xingkai Lake along Wulin and learned how to dance. He defeated the old turtle spirit outside the lake and took it as his new home. Everyone is very grateful to the big white dragon, so all the tribes outside worship the big white dragon.

When Wang Qi went to Xingkai Lake to build a shipyard, he also specially built a Dragon King Temple to worship the big white dragon in Xingkai Lake. Not to mention, since the big white dragon temple was built, my vanguard fleet has been going smoothly, and Wulin has learned to dance. The tribes from all over the world have joined us one after another, trading with us and making a lot of money.

From Xingkai Lake to Wumengjiejie, and then into the Bailong River, I jogged all over the Bajiang Plain, and I got the nickname of Pioneer Dabailong here.

Prime Minister Wang Chao is now the leader of the new fleet development fleet. I also used Vladivostok as the base this year and traveled several times, mainly along the coast to appease the various ministries, but from Vladivostok to the mouth of the Bailong River, including this huge warehouse opposite the mouth. Page islands are relatively desolate, basically covered with continuous mountains, and there are not many tribes beside the rivers that flow into the sea, but they are very backward and easy to appease.

The few small tribes under Sakhalin Island are even more barbaric and backward. They even encountered a cannibal tribe countless times. A male guide was lucky enough to be taken captive. , Only the head was left.

In that half a year, I sailed thousands of miles, but the harvest was very different.

Before I came back to rest that time, I also replaced the shotgun with a new ship, the clipper ship.That was a treasure. Afterwards, the Royal Governor cooperated with the Spaniards, Portuguese and Dutch to build a ship. They came to dig out many craftsmen, invested a lot of money, and jointly developed a new slow boat.

The load is about [-] tons, and the speed is extremely slow against the wind and the wind. It can travel against the monsoon. During a monsoon period, it can travel eight round trips from Ningbo to the British East India Trading Station in Mumbai, India.

Last year, there were no seven flying shears to transport tea. It took only 44 days to sail north from Fuzhou, through the South China Sea, through the Strait of Malacca, across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, and to London.

A new record was set.

Another fleet of clippers was also loaded with tea, departing from Guangzhou Port, and then headed for the New Amsterdam Dutch Trading Station in New Xiaolu North America.

That trading post was bought by the Dutch colonial governor Peter from the locals for [-] Dutch guilders. At this time, it was an important fur trading point for the Dutch in North America. During the tea season, in order to ensure the quality of tea and buy time ,

It took only 44 days for the clipper fleet to travel from Guangzhou to Manhattan.

Those undersea racing parties have become the first choice for tea trafficking in various countries. The main origin of tea is in China, and the quality of tea has no weak timeliness. Especially long-distance sea transportation is more likely to cause tea to deteriorate due to moisture, and on the same voyage, The shorter the voyage time, the lower the shipping cost. Generally, when the new tea is on the market, in order to seize the market, the more competition for time.

The flying shear ship produced by Xiaoming Royal Shipyard cost a lot of money to research and build, and gathered excellent craftsmen from small nautical countries, which is a heavy expectation.

With its heavy, slow and fast speed, it has now become the first choice for various countries to compete for the tea market, and it has also been found by many businessmen that it is very suitable for smuggling and has won many orders.

Afterwards, the imperial court transported supplies to Vladivostok. It also used clipper ships with a speed of [-] to [-] knots, allowing them to fly to and from the small ports of Qingdao, Dengzhou, Lushun, and Tianjin. Other ships made a trip. , we can run two or eight times.

Although compared with traditional merchant ships or armed merchant ships, we carry more load and have little firepower, but there are not many advantages in transporting heavier cargo.

Now the imperial court has allocated the clippers for the prime minister’s development fleet, just to consider the sea from Vladivostok to the mouth of the Bailongjiang River. Wait, this goes further.

In order to be able to expel the invasion of Tsarist Russia and take back those northern lands, especially the areas north of the sea, the emperor specially ordered a batch of flying shear ships for the dynasty, so that we can slowly patrol the north to the sea, or even patrol The old place of Liugui and Yasha.

The Prime Minister of the Dynasty has successfully received those ships and is still getting used to them.

"Lv Yicheng is in the Jilin Shipyard, so he should set sail and head south, right?" Wang Chao said.

The imperial court now attaches great importance to the Northeast. Before it declared war on the Golden Palace of Tsarist Russia, the emperor may have only verbally reprimanded it. Since war has already been declared, no action must be taken.

Lu Yicheng built a ship in Jilin and formed a white water fleet to cruise the Songhua River, Nen River and the lower reaches of the Bailong River in Fuyuan, as well as supporting Qiwai River and Ergun River.

Wang Qi built a shipyard in Xingkai Lake. The fleet is still called Pioneer. It is responsible for cruising Xingkai Lake, Wulinxuewu, and the upper reaches of Fuyuan to the mouth of the Bailong River, as well as the tributary Hengu River.

The dynasties unify the development of the fleet, from Vladivostok to the sea at the mouth of the Bailong River, as well as Sakhalin Island, and the Liugui and Yasha peninsulas in the north of the sea, until the Yasha Strait.

The eight fleets have a clear division of labor, the Whitewater and Pioneer fleets are inland river fleets, and the pioneering fleets are subsea fleets.

It is our task to appease the Nanzhen tribe, trade with each other, declare sovereignty, and wipe out the Tsarist Russian bandits.

We are affiliated to the Xiaoming Navy, and we are also affiliated to the Governor's Mansion of the Seventh Army, but we are affiliated to the Xiaoming Royal Duofu Supervisor. We have disclosed our identity as the Royal Merchant Fleet and a trading firm, but in fact everyone understands our nature. It's the Royal Fleet, the Emperor's representative.

"The further north you go, the better the quality of the leather, especially the dog and deer department on the Liugui Peninsula and the Yasha Peninsula. We can hunt fur seals, otters, seals, sea lions and walruses. We ride dog sleds or deer pull The sleighs of the Chinese people roamed around hunting, not only those seals overseas, but even the huge whale oil was also hunted and killed.

The brown bear, moose, elk, reindeer, snow sheep, mink, ermine, blue fox, silver fox, muskrat, beaver, mountain eagle, hazel pheasant, etc. are also very abundant in the land.

His boat runs slowly, so you should seldom bring heavy and light goods, usually iron utensils such as knives, axes, iron pans, etc., which are absolutely welcome. "

The Prime Minister of the Dynasty has been to the mouth of the Bailong River, and also to Sakhalin Island. He has no understanding of the peninsula such as Liugui Yasha in the north of the Lixinganling Mountains. The ice and snow here, riding reindeer sleds or dog sleds, those people are very powerful hunters, fishing and hunting for a living.

quite primitive.

"That trip to the north, the trade was just passing by. Your task is to find the weak thieves of Tsarist Russia. First remove our strongholds along the coast, and capture all the weak thieves back as slaves."

"He doesn't need to bring some guns, these Tsarist Russians don't have guns, and even we have equipped flintlocks."

Wang Chao smiled and said, "That time when His Majesty developed a fleet for you, he only pulled out the clippers, and also pulled out a lot of flintlocks."

Shao Tianchao's research on flintlocks was also ahead of others. Although there are still a small number of troops deployed, it adds a small amount of equipment to reconnaissance troops such as Ye Shishou. What kind of power is there, mainly because the speed is as slow as a matchlock bird.

The bird gun fires eight shots, and the flintlock may only fire one shot, but that kind of flintlock has no advantage, that is, it shoots farther, is more accurate, and is even more concealed. After all, it is fired directly with a matchlock.

For large-scale night collection, or bodyguards, etc., that kind of flintlock is very wrong.

For a large team like the pioneering fleet, the emperor specially gave us flintlock guns, but it is still difficult to expose them because they are afraid of being blown out by the wind.

"The Tsarist Russian robbers traveled all the way from Moscow to Liugui Peninsula. It is said that it takes eight or seven years to walk down the road. Even if we now cross the Lena River with 7000 people a year, it is only a few thousand people, and we have less time in a year. Tens of thousands of people have already gathered in Vladivostok, and our eight small fleet retreats eastward, mighty and mighty, and the Tsarist Russian bandits are definitely ours."

The Prime Minister of the dynasty is very confident, and in a direct confrontation, he would be afraid of twice as few Tsarist Russians. The key to the problem is to find those people.

"Yes, he first cleared the Tsarist Russian strongholds along the coast of the sea. Our eight small fleet wiped out all the weak Tsarist Russian bandits in the Bailong River Basin south of the Lixing'an Mountains, and then we will study how to cross the mountain to the north to attack the thief Chaoya. Kuzke is late."

The sea and the river are Xiao Ming's advantages, and the guns are also Xiao Ming's advantages, and the number of people is even more advantageous.

Golden Horn smiled and said, "You first build him a prisoner camp for the Russian Cossack bandits outside there, and prepare it for him."

"Okay, come back with less work!" Wang Chao also laughed.

The two brothers laughed together. Although the number of the pioneering fleet is not small, and it is also Xiaoming's regular army, we are very confident.

(End of this chapter)