Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1878, Ice City

Liaodong Ice City, probably in the same location as Harbin in later generations, is the northernmost city in the Liaodong Province of the Ming Dynasty, standing on the banks of the Songhua River.

Ice City is the northernmost area developed by Daming in Liaodong. At present, no one has developed the Songnen Plain area, and it is still a vast swampy land that no one knows about.

As a new type of immigrant city, although the population of Bingcheng is only about 30, but relying on Bingcheng, there are huge immigrant towns around Bingcheng.

The population of each immigrant town is about 1 people. After calculation, with Bingcheng as the center, more than 300 million immigrants gathered around it, forming Liaodong Bingcheng Mansion.

At Bingcheng Railway Station, accompanied by bursts of sirens, a train slowly entered Bingcheng Railway Station and slowly parked. Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jinna, who had been on the train for two days, couldn't wait to get off the train.

Although taking a train is much more comfortable than taking a horse-drawn carriage, after taking the train for two days in a row, you will get tired of sitting all at once.

"This is the ice city!"

Emperor Hongzhi got off the train, walked out of the station, and looked at the ice layer in front of him. At this moment, people on the street were shoveling snow, a scene full of enthusiasm.

The cities here in Bingcheng are quite different from the cities in other parts of Ming Dynasty. There are not many high-rise buildings here, and there are not many reinforced concrete buildings. Most of the buildings are made of wood.

The planning is neat and orderly, row by row, piece by piece, which is a typical immigrant town planning of the Ming Dynasty. In terms of building materials, the advantages of rich forest resources in the Liaodong area are also fully utilized.

"This is the first time I have come to this ice city. The last time I came to Liaodong was when the Jurchen tribe was wiped out, but there was no such ice city at that time."

Liu Jin also looked at the ice city in front of him with great interest.

This future Harbin, a super metropolis with a population of more than 30 million, is now only a small city with a population of [-], and there is still no trace of a super metropolis, just an ordinary, slightly larger immigrant City.

"Is there still Jurchen harassment here in Liaodong?"

When mentioning the Jurchens, Emperor Hongzhi also hurriedly asked.

Jurchen is not a good person. Although they said they belonged to the Ming Empire in the past, they were capricious. They often plundered the border towns of the Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, which seriously affected the development of the Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty.

Later, it was also Liu Jin who led the army to wipe out the Jurchen tribes in Liaodong. Liu Jin learned the lessons of later generations and started killing them without any intention of letting these Jurchens go.

That raid and killing played a very crucial role, directly killing all the Jurchens in the Liaodong area, and the remaining few Jurchens escaped to the deep mountains and old forests or went north to the deserted people. Outside Xing'an Mountains and other areas.

"Occasionally, I can receive relevant memorials from Liaodong Province. There are a few cases of Jurchen tribes coming out of the mountains to cause disasters. The garrison and government in Liaodong have also carried out continuous suppression of them, and now they are becoming less and less."

Liu Jin also quickly replied.

For these Jurchens, Liu Jin has no intention of letting them go. Later generations have misunderstood China for three hundred years, which directly caused us to fall behind the world and be bullied for a hundred years. This crime must be blamed on them.

In order to consolidate their rule, they adopted a policy of ignoring the people, strictly restricting education, strictly prohibiting the dissemination of knowledge, and closed the country to themselves, and missed the most golden period of development.

The century-old history of humiliation has broken the backbone of the nation, so that the Chinese characters handed down from the ancestors were almost abolished in later generations.

Now that they have crossed over, they will naturally not let this kind of history happen again, and will never give these wild boar skins any chance.

Therefore, Liaodong has always maintained a high-pressure situation. The garrison in Liaodong has only one mission, which is to wipe out these Jurchen tribes and kill them clean, so as not to leave any future troubles. business activities.

Salt, iron, medicine, clothing, cloth, etc. are strictly prohibited from flowing into the hands of these wild boar skins, and they are not given any chance to grow and develop.

Even if you hide in the deep mountains and old forests, it doesn't matter if we can't find you, as long as they don't contact the outside civilization, they will never be able to grow.

Coupled with the fact that muskets are getting stronger and stronger, their powerful force no longer has any advantage. Now, there are fewer and fewer Jurchen tribes in Liaodong.

Some savage Jurchen tribes can be found only in the Outer Xing'an Mountains, but they no longer dare to invade the immigrant towns of the Ming people.

"Well, that's good, these Jurchens here in Liaodong are not worrying."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded in satisfaction. The Jurchen matter was a lot of worry in the past, but it calmed down after being suppressed, which gave the Liaodong region a good opportunity for stable development.

Otherwise, a large number of people would immigrate to Liaodong. If they were often harassed and robbed by these Jurchens, who would dare to immigrate here?
"Let's go. I read in the newspaper that people here in Ice City like ice fishing in winter, and I don't know how ice fishing is done. Since I'm here this time, I must try it."

Emperor Hongzhi remembered something mentioned in the newspaper, that is, ice fishing is very popular in the ice city in winter.

“Ice fishing is really worth experiencing.”

"I haven't tried it, but this time I can experience it."

When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately became interested.

Ice fishing is also quite popular in later generations, and it is something that countless fishermen want to try.

When Emperor Hongzhi came out to play this time, he really let go of everything, and even talked about going ice fishing. It can be seen that Emperor Hongzhi is living for himself now.

In the past, Emperor Hongzhi put everything on national affairs, and worked hard every day, earnestly, for fear that he would lose the country of the Ming Dynasty and the foundation of his ancestors.

Those days were really tiring, how could I look like an emperor.

There is only one woman, and there is only one child. They are frugal, and the palace is not willing to repair it. The key is that the Ming Dynasty did not live a good life because of his diligence and frugality.

In Liu Jin's view, this is obviously an extremely uneconomical thing.

To be honest, such a huge empire will lack the food and clothing of you, the emperor?

Those were just fooled by the civil servants. These civil servants went to court one by one. They ate better than your emperor. There were a lot of women in the family, and their small lives were much more comfortable than yours.

So, you should enjoy it or you should enjoy it, you should be happy or you should be happy, don't wrong yourself.

Now Emperor Hongzhi is gradually seeing it. He can leave the state affairs behind and play for almost a year. When he arrived at Ice City, he still remembered the ice fishing reported in the newspaper.

Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin first rested in the ice city for one night. The next day they were refreshed and found a famous local ice fishing expert as a tour guide.

Then I brought tents, small stoves, ice drilling tools, etc. to the top of the Songhua River.

At this moment, the Songhua River has already been frozen, and the ice layer is very thick. There are ice fishing tents everywhere on the ice.

"Haha, the newspapers really didn't lie. This ice fishing is really popular here. How many people are ice fishing on this river."

Emperor Hongzhi smiled happily as he looked at the tents everywhere.

Here, the entourage has already started to get busy, choosing a site, drilling an ice hole, setting up a tent, swinging the small stove, and even getting the bait and so on.

Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin were holding a small ice fishing rod, drinking tea, eating barbecue, and playing ice fishing.

It was cold and windy outside the tent, whistling, and warm inside the tent. It was a very pleasant and comfortable day.

"It's a fish, it's a fish!"

After fishing for a while, Emperor Hongzhi actually caught the fish, and it was so heavy that Emperor Hongzhi struggled to pull it up. The little yellow gate and guards beside him hurried forward to help. It took a lot of effort and effort. It was also finally pulling up a big fish weighing several kilograms.

"It's such a big fish, hurry up and cook with it for wine."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the big fish lying on the ice, and he was very happy. The taste of ice fishing seems to be really good.

"Yes~"

When Xiao Huangmen heard this, he hurried to get busy, and there was an accompanying cook waiting beside him, skillfully disemboweling the fish, scraping off the scales, etc. Soon, a dish of steamed cold water pike was served.

"Well, it's really good, this taste is extremely delicious."

Liu Jin took a sip and couldn't help nodding immediately. The fish is very fresh and tastes great, and the steaming method brings out its freshness to the extreme.

Of course, the most important thing is that the cold water pike tastes quite good, without a trace of earthy smell, and there are few bone spurs, which is very good.

"It's a fish, it's a fish!"

At this time, Liu Jin's fishing rod also felt a pulling force, which was very strong, and it was estimated to be another big fish.

"The resources here are really good!"

Liu Jin pulled it hard, and sighed in his heart, as expected, resources are king.

PS: Has anyone tried ice fishing?how do you feel?
(End of this chapter)