Capital Datang

An emerging port in the northeast of Cangzhou, it was originally just a small fishing port, but a few years ago, Cangzhou, Youzhou and other places became Datang’s cotton textile bases, and now it is officially named Hebei Road Textile Base. Cotton from various places is shipped in, and then various cotton cloths are produced by the textile mills here, which are sold to various places after printing and dyeing.

The Hebei Road Textile Base was the earliest established in Datang, and it is also the largest textile base in the country. At the beginning, half of the cotton cloth production of the entire Datang was produced here, and the cotton cloth here even had a special name called Hebei Cloth.However, in the past few years, textile factories have been built all over the country. These textile factories have less transportation costs and higher prices, so they quickly squeezed Hebei cloth from the local market, which greatly affected the sales of Hebei cloth. .

However, the officials in charge of the textile base in Hebei Province quickly found a new way out, which was to increase the share of overseas sales. They even built a port in the northeast of Cangzhou to facilitate the transportation of cotton cloth. Tax relief.With this kind of encouragement, this port, known as Miangang, developed very quickly. Although it cannot compare with the development speed of Dengzhou or Shanghai, it can also be described as a rapid development.

Today's cotton port is the same as in the past. Under the supervision of the supervisors, the slaves on the pier are constantly loading and unloading goods. Generally speaking, cotton cloth is loaded onto the ship, and grain shipped from the south is unloaded. Then these grains were transported to Guanzhong and other regions through the commercial roads in the north.

But today's Miangang is also a little different. On the best berth of the pier, there are more than a dozen huge sea-going ships parked.Under the bow of one of the largest ships, there are three large characters "Qi Wang Hao" written in red paint.Anyone who lives on the sea knows that this is His Royal Highness King Qi's ship.It's just that Li Yin is not on this ship, and King Qi is here to pick him up.Capital Datang 519

"Brother Nine, tell them to be careful, these are gifts I want to give to Chou Chou and they, if they are damaged, you will have to pay me!" Qi Wang was next to the ship's side of the pier, Sizi looked down The person sent his things to the boat, holding Li Zhi's hand and shouting.

However, Li Zhi looked at the presents that Sizi brought out from Chang'an, and he couldn't help laughing and said: "Sizi, aren't these toys of yours given to you by Brother Six? And they are all used by you. How can these be taken out as gifts?"

"Why not? These are gifts from my sixth brother, and they are also my favorite toys. Look at that big doll. It was sent to Chang'an by my sixth brother on my fifth birthday. I usually like it the most. I like to hug it to sleep, if I give it to Chouchou, I believe she will like it very much!" Sizi said a little dissatisfied.In her little head, the gifts for Chouchou and the others are naturally the best, so Sizi took out all her favorite things, but many of them were given to her by Li Yin.Now she wants to give it to Chou Chou and Li Qi.

Li Zhi also knew that there was no way to reason with a little girl like Sizi, so he could only shake his head with a wry smile after hearing this, but at this moment Cai'er came over and said with a smile: "I think Sizi's words are right. Chouchou also likes it the most." There are rag dolls, her small room is full of rag dolls. But none of them are as beautiful as the one Sizi sent, so I believe she will love it after seeing it!"

"Sister Cai'er has the vision. I said Chou Chou and the others will definitely like these things!" Seeing Cai'er supporting her, Sizi immediately clapped her hands happily and laughed, her red face was like an apple, which made her feel ashamed. People have the urge to lie down and take a bite.

Li Zhi shook his head helplessly again. In fact, he was very happy in his heart. This was mainly because Cai'er and Sizi got along very happily. After three months, Sizi had completely accepted Cai'er as a sister-in-law. They also became friends who talked about everything, and they lived together at night, and they were noisy until late every night. I really don't know where the two of them talked so much.

"Hey, my stroller!" At this moment, Sizi suddenly excitedly pointed at the pier under the boat, jumping and laughing and shouting.Looking along her fingers, a young guard was carrying a baby carriage. Although it was an old baby carriage, it was well maintained and the wood used was good, so it looked like new now.

The guards below also heard Sizi's screaming above their heads, and looked up at Sizi with some doubts, while Sizi jumped excitedly and said to the guards below: "Quick! Get my baby carriage Bring it up, I'm going to ride it now!"

Seeing Sizi's excited look, Cai'er was a little puzzled. In her opinion, there was nothing unusual about the stroller below. It was even very old in style and looked a bit cumbersome. The stroller sold in some stores now It is much lighter and more beautiful than this stroller.

Seeing the puzzlement in Cai'er's eyes, Li Zhi leaned down next to Cai'er's ear and whispered, "This baby carriage was specially made for Sizi when Sixth Brother invented the bicycle. It can be said to be the first one in our Tang Dynasty The stroller was also one of Sizi's favorite toys before, and I wouldn't even let me touch it!"

After hearing Li Zhi's explanation, Cai'er finally understood, but she looked at Sizi with envy. When she met Li Yin, she was already ten years old. If it could have been a few years earlier, then she would have Like Sizi, I can ask my cousin Li Yin to give me these fun toys.

At this time, the guard had already carried the baby carriage onto the boat, and Sizi ran over with the corner of her skirt, asking the guard to put down the baby carriage, and then she jumped on it and wanted to ride it like she was a child, but when Li Yin sent the baby carriage, she was just three years old. Now my son is 11 years old, his hands and feet are much longer than when he was a child, so he couldn't sit down at all, and finally got out of the car with his mouth pouting.

Seeing how angry Sizi was because he couldn't ride a bike, Cai'er walked up to comfort him with a smile, "Don't be angry anymore, when we get to Taiwan, I'll ask my cousin to make you a bigger bike." Already!"

"Cai'er is right. The sixth brother has such a smart mind. Let him help Sizi design a few more toys. Besides, our next stop is going to Dengzhou. Sizi, aren't you the kind who always wants to sit down?" The charcoal-eating train? Brother Nine will take you there to have a full ride!" Li Zhi also hurriedly diverted Sizi's attention.

It was still Li Zhi who knew Sizi well. As soon as he talked about taking the train, Sizi immediately diverted his attention, hugged Cai'er excitedly and said, "Sister Cai'er, can you tell me that the train is fun? People say that after a train eats coal, it spews out white clouds, and then the train runs on top of the clouds, is this true?"

Although the train has been invented for several years, and it has begun to be popularized in coastal areas such as Dengzhou and Shanghai, but due to the huge cost of building railway tracks, few cities have built large-scale railways, only Dengzhou and Shanghai. Among the two cities of Shanghai, there are only a few railway networks that run through the whole city.

The railways outside Dengzhou and Shanghai are generally built where necessary, such a short railway is built, and they are all in coastal cities not far from Dengzhou and Shanghai.As for inland areas such as Guanzhong, firstly, they don’t know much about trains, and secondly, the construction cost of railways is too high. In addition, the cement roads in Guanzhong and other places are also well-connected, so the demand for railways is not too great. Now, Chang'an and other inland areas have not yet built railways, so it is not surprising that Sizi has never seen a train.As for what she said just now, it was all heard by the maids in the palace, so it was not accurate at all.

Hearing Sizi's strange descriptions of the train, Cai'er laughed and said, "It's true that the train eats coal, but it's not white clouds, but a choking black smoke, and it's not Baiyun is on the road, but on a special railway track, the speed is not fast, and it can be caught up by riding a horse, but it does not need to rest like a horse, as long as there is coal and water, and there are no problems. , the train can keep running!"

Hearing that the train didn't run on the white clouds, Sizi couldn't help but let out a disappointed 'ah', but hearing that the train could run forever without rest, Sizi couldn't help becoming more interested in trains, and now pestered Cai'er asked east and west, but Cai'er told Sizi about steam boats, and some customs and customs of Dengzhou, such as whaling, which made Sizi yearn for Dengzhou even more, and urged Li Zhi Hurry up and set sail, she wants to personally catch a whale and give it to her father and queen mother, but Li Zhi and Caier burst out laughing.Capital Datang 519

After Li Zhi loaded all the things they brought on board, he immediately ordered the boat to sail. After all, it was getting late, and if it was later, he would not be able to reach Dengzhou at night.

It was the first time for Li Zhi and Sizi to go to sea, so when they saw the land behind them getting farther and farther, and the endless blue sea in front of them, they were very excited, and Sizi was running around on the deck Go, hold the binoculars from the captain in your hand, look around the sea excitedly, especially when you see a whale spraying water on the sea, it makes Sizi very happy, and runs to the bed on the top of the boat Next to the crossbow, and then asked the soldiers to load the crossbow arrows, she was going to "shoot" the whale with her own hands, but Sizi's "feat" still failed to complete, because their ship hadn't brought the whale into their shooting range, and the opponent Already dived into the water.

However, Sizi did not give up because of one failure. Along the way, they encountered whales coming out of the water several times, but these whales are very smart, especially in the past few years when whaling ships have been active, they have learned not to let human ships So close to himself, so Sizi's whaling operations have not been able to do so.

Cangzhou is not far from Dengzhou. After a day's voyage, the King of Qi finally arrived in Dengzhou with Li Zhen, Cai'er, and Sizi. When their ship docked, a black smoke The train, amidst the crisp whistle, slowly drove into the pier! (to be continued...)