Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 412 A Guest Comes from Macau
In the second half of October, the weak had to put on cotton coats and leather gowns, and the number of boats coming to Tianjin Wei gradually decreased, but the warehouses of various businesses entered the busiest time of the year.

The waterway between Tianjinwei and Jingshi is no longer available for boats. In half a month, it will be difficult for sea ships to enter the port. However, the demand for goods in Jingshi and nearby provinces during the twelfth lunar month is extremely alarming. A bottomless pit is like a bottomless pit, inside the palace, relatives of the emperor, high-ranking officials, rich and powerful families, during festivals, eating at home, receiving and sending, I don’t know how many things will be used up.

Not to mention the prefectures of Northern Zhili, Jinan, Dongchang, and even Guide of Kaifeng in Henan, and a large number of goods have already been transported to Liao Town outside the pass.

The needs of these rich places are filled with high-quality and cheap Tianjin Wei goods. Countless goods go out and large sums of money come in. The sea merchants from the south and overseas, and the merchants outside the city of Tianjin Weicheng are all big. Make a fortune.

After more than half a year of operation, the reputation of Tianjin Wei's prosperity and wealth began to spread across the country, mainland China and abroad. Many skeptics began to be convinced, and many people planned to go to Tianjin Wei to have a look.

The commercial warehouses began to stockpile goods, and some Jingshi merchants set up a semicolon shop in Tianjinwei and began to send a large number of goods to the capital. This sum of money in and out, plus the fleet to Liaozhen, Wang Tong gave a one-time payment in October. The palace sent 20 taels of silver.

Tianjin Wei is now a goose that lays golden eggs. All parties related to Tianjin Wei's interests are carefully looked after, lest something goes wrong, and everyone will lose their fortune.

So when Chen Lin's small fleet passed Shandong, someone noticed this strange team. There were cannon boats like the Fanren's, but there were also a few Guangzhou ships flying the flag of the Ming Navy. Banners, vaguely those Guangzhou boats seem to be gunboats guarding the Fanren. What are they here for? No matter how you look at it, you feel weird.

There was the merchant ship who was familiar with the waterway, sailed quickly with full sail, entered Tianjin Weigang early, and hurriedly told Wang Tong the news.

These ghosts are very unclean. Sometimes, seeing that you are weak and weak, you would dare to rob them at sea. If King Sanshui hadn't played a few times with cruel hands, this group of people would not know the extent of their misconduct at sea. .

Hearing that a gunboat was coming, Wang Tong was also surprised. According to his limited historical knowledge, the appearance of foreign warships in the sea outside Tianjin Wei seemed to be something that happened during the Opium War.

But now that you are here, you have to deal with it carefully. Tianjin Wei is the sea gateway of Gyeonggi. Since the matter was serious, Sun Zhibin didn't dare to neglect. While mobilizing troops and horses, he went to the fire organ workshop to get six general cannons, and pulled them to the seaside.

Anyway, there are only a few places where you can approach the shore, and they are all barren beaches. The artillery is set up, and the cavalry is ready. You just need to come up.

The preparations for the frantic preparations on the shore, the fleet sent by Chen Lin seemed to know that it would cause a commotion, and did not rush to dock first, but sent someone to come in a small boat first. The customs defense documents came ashore to inform, which made the people on the shore heave a sigh of relief.

But Tang Shan, the "Haihe patrol inspector" who has not been officially recognized so far, showed more vigilance than others. He has always been very cautious in Wang Tong's system, and he made an exception and personally asked Wang Tong, saying that he must not be careless.

When the Hongmao Fan people went ashore in Macau, they said they would take a place the size of a cowhide to rest. After landing, they cut the cowhide into thin strips, and then expanded a large area.

Those people sent by Chen Lin didn't care, they just lamented that if the whole world was as cautious as Tianjin Wei, would there be any Japanese pirates to worry about?
The Huwei army dispatched soldiers from the third battalion. Each ship in Chen Lin's fleet was hung with arson boats on both sides. Foolproof.

After doing all this, Tang Shan agreed to these ships entering the port. Others felt that Tang Shan was too cautious, but Wang Tong raised a small flag for Tang Shan immediately.

Now there are quite a few people under his command, but many of them are still guards in Jinyi. Pan Ming, who is in charge of the bow of the boat, and Tangshan by the Haihe River, Tangshan has gone up a step.

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Tianjin Wei sent a boat to the sea to explain the rules to the fleet of Chen Lin, but when they returned, they still took a man with them, a blacksmith with a beard.

Among the Portuguese on board, there were non-commissioned officers and workshop owners, and their status and status were much higher than that of the blacksmith. However, along the way, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty on board were very polite to the bearded blacksmith. The treatment is also much better, but it is bad words for others.

Everyone didn't quite understand why this happened. Looking at it from a distance, it seemed that the blacksmith didn't know why he was treated so well.

Observing the course and experiencing the gradually cooling temperature, everyone knows that this time he came to the north of the Ming Dynasty, but this blacksmith is just an ordinary person who came to the east from the mainland to pan for gold. Why was he treated so specially.

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"Master Balmond, long time no see, how are you?"

Wang Tong smiled and clasped his fists and said, in front of him was a bearded blacksmith with a face full of astonishment. The blacksmith who taught him blacksmithing in Macau was his first teacher.

Balmond rubbed his eyes vigorously with his hands, looked at Wang Tong who had matured a lot in disbelief, and asked in a trembling voice:
"You are Xiao Wang Tong, the little Wang Tong who pestered me to learn blacksmithing?"

He spoke Mandarin with a Cantonese accent, and his Mandarin with Cantonese and Portuguese accents was rather blunt. The soldiers following Wang Tong couldn't help laughing, but Sun Dahai turned his head and gave him a vicious look. They stared and covered their mouths.

Wang Tong nodded with a smile, reached out and took out the short gun from the holster beside him. When he saw the short gun, Balmond lost all doubts, took a few steps forward, and hugged Wang Tong fiercely. Tong, said loudly:
"Little Wang Tong has grown up, little Wang Tong has grown up."

The sudden movement of the white man, Balmond, frightened the guards behind Wang Tong. The people in the front row had already drawn out their knives. Only then did he stop the movement of his men.

"I've been thinking along the way, why did you bring me here, and I didn't understand until I saw you."

Wang Tong had a smile on his face. The blacksmith Balmond was a person he felt kind to. The time when he went to Macau with his father was the best day in this era. Balmond helped him a lot in Macau. Being busy is an important part of that good time.

After a hug, his big hands patted Wang Tong's back and shoulders several times. Balmond took a step back, looked Wang Tong up and down carefully, and said in admiration:

"Little Wang Tong is also a big man now. How about Mr. Wang? Have you been promoted? Judging by your appearance, you should be bigger than the county magistrate."

Few people mentioned Wang Li’s name in front of Wang Tong now, because Wang Li’s status was low back then, no one remembered his existence, and there was no way to talk about him. Hearing Balmond’s mention, Wang Tong’s face darkened. Solemnly said:
"My father has passed away..."

Hearing this statement, Balmond was stunned for a moment, then reached out to pat Wang Tong's shoulder, sighed and said:
"Don't be too sad, Mr. Wang will be happy to see you now."

"Master Balmond, in order to welcome you, I have already prepared a banquet here, let's go together!!"

Seeing Wang Tong and Balmond getting into the carriage talking and laughing, the trusted leaders behind them all looked at each other in blank dismay. It was really rare for them to see Wang Tong like this for the first time.

On the one hand, I feel strange, on the other hand, I feel that this young master is a little more friendly.

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"Don't walk around, go to the tent over there and take off your clothes, then rinse them with water, there will be someone to change your clothes for you!"

The fleet from Guangdong stopped further west of Muchang, and all the people on board came ashore. There was an interpreter shouting loudly there. Under the cold eyes of the soldiers, these Portuguese from Macau walked in nervously. Tent to change clothes.

Walking out naked, someone handed over a bucket. There was water with a strange smell in the bucket. Rinse it with this water, then rinse it with warm water, and then find a dry cloth to wipe your body. There are clean clothes prepared there. After wearing it , was taken to a temporarily enclosed yard.

"If you go back to your lord, the doctor has already been invited. After these fans are finished washing, they will be diagnosed and treated one by one. If they are sick, they will immediately arrange a separate residence."

Listening to the report from his own soldiers, Wang Tong nodded. This method was suggested by Tang Shan. He was afraid that these foreigners would bring evil. With a healthy body, there is no need to worry about any problems.

The weather was a bit cold, and the foreigners who were changing clothes and taking a bath on the shore jumped up and down in the cold. Wang Tong helped Yu Dayou to the Portuguese gunboat on the shore. Mr. Qian, the Guangdong navy commander of the team, introduced aloud:

"The appearance of this gunboat is similar to that of our Canton Boat. Fans call it Galen, but they don't know what it means."

The shape of this ship is not as square as the Fuchuan. The ship is pointed, with three masts, and the sails are densely covered with sails. It looks like a spider's web. The Cantonese ship not far away does not have so many cables.

This three-masted Galen ship is the largest, but what attracts Wang Tong and Yu Dayou's attention most is the dozen or so windows on the side of the ship on the shore. The window panels are all open, revealing the dark muzzle inside. The number of guns on a ship is about the same as the number of forts on the bank of the Haihe River——
thank you all
(End of this chapter)