Lu Ming

Chapter 566 The reception of local characters

After ceremonially issuing/receiving the official document, the sand general who came across the sea is considered to have completed the formalities with the local officials of Qiongzhou.Next, Adenophora will warmly invite the host to board the battleship together and inspect the "Baisha New Village" under construction.

It was the first time for the indigenous officials to board a warship with white sails.Sand Ginseng will take the guests around the boat enthusiastically during the start-up of the fleet, and also said that he will take everyone out to sea to shoot guns and fish when he has time.
Shenying Port in the [-]th century is a beach composed of a series of natural bays.The Ming people did not have machinery to make large-scale transformations like later generations, so the Shenying Port complex is more of a primitive seaport based on the terrain.

Sha Shenjiang and Shao Qiang drove all the way, and what they saw were the wooden piers lined up on the shore and the warehouse houses on the shore.Among them, there are both official and private wharves, fishing boats keep coming in and out, and the shore is crowded with people, bustling and lively.

In addition, there are beacon towers and piers all over the road, and the defense system is very sound.Obviously, this area of ​​Qiongzhou is facing a very serious banditry.

Five ships from afar sailed south along the coast for about three or four miles, and soon, covered by white fine sand, a harbor surrounded by wooden piles and watchtowers appeared on the shore: Baisha Water Village .

Although the latitude of Hainan is still a bit higher compared to Thailand, Malaysia and other places further south, the climate here is already considered a tropical area compared to the mainland.

Since it is in the tropics, the unique white sea sand of the tropical coast appears in front of us: this is also the origin of the name Baisha Water Village.

Sha Zhengming stood at the bow of the boat, and after staring at the studio-style water village in front of him for a few moments, his thoughts turned. Then he asked Shao Qiang in a low voice: "I suddenly remembered that the sand in Hainan is Is it a resource?"

"See what you're going to do."

Shao Qiang smiled: "It would be good if you dig sand to decorate your private beach in the north. After all, the white sea sand these days is non-polluting and natural, suitable for petty bourgeoisie like you."

"If it's about burning CPU glass." Seeing that the tall and strong Sha Zhengming looked unhappy, Shao Qiang gave a dry laugh and then turned to the topic: "It can also be operated, but it needs to be scaled up."

As Shao Qiang talked, he automatically switched to the district chief mode: "Well, the transportation efficiency is too low these days, so the best way is to build a factory on the spot, so as to make use of the local sea sand resources."

"However, I personally don't recommend doing this. Wouldn't it be good to keep the original scenery like Hainan as a scenic spot in the future to build hotels and speculate in real estate? Why bother to destroy the environment. As for sand, the purity of quartz in other places is nothing more than low purity quartz, which is transported to glass factories Later, there will be an additional sorting process, which is what we do in the kiln area."

"Oh, that's it!" Sha Zhengming nodded, as if he had figured it out.

Just as the two were muttering about this in private, the officials also returned to the bow, because everyone heard the sound of the cannon from the water village: "General Sha, this is General Tang from the water village coming to welcome you."

"Hahaha!" Sha Zhengming laughed boldly when he heard the words: "Head the order and fire the salute."

Accompanied by the salute of the bow of the ship, the gate of Baisha Shuizhai opened wide, and several Ming-style hard sailing ships sailed out from inside.

According to the rules of meeting for the first time, Tang Yunwen, the general of Baisha Water Village who came out of the village to meet him, was wearing the official uniform of a third-rank military general. He seemed to be standing firmly on the bow of the boat at the moment, but in fact his mood was very complicated.

First of all, unlike the joyful Qiongzhou civil service system, Tang Shenjiang has a lot of resistance to the arrival of Guohai Qianglong.This is understandable: no matter how you say it, if a general with a strong army squeezes in on his own territory, the master will not be happy, after all, he is a soldier.

It's a pity that no one cares what Tang Shenjiang thinks.

Although Tang Yunwen was the highest ranking military general in Qiongzhou, including the surrounding waters, there seemed to be two or three thousand "heroic soldiers" under his command, but it was useless.To put it bluntly, in the huge military and political system of Ming Dynasty, he was actually just the head of the frontier defense regiment.

Commander Tang, the chief officer of the remote defense zone, was powerless to resist the order to move the defense issued by the military region headquarters.Not to mention that Commander Sha's move to Qiongzhou was promoted by Deputy Commander Cao of the military region, which was in full swing, and the military order was signed by Commander He and Governor Xiong of Guangdong and Guangxi.

As a matter of fact, no one has ever consulted Chief Tang for his opinion on the matter of moving the defense.

Poor Captain Tang was the last senior official in Qiongshan to learn about this.

So Tang Yunwen's mood today is very complicated.

However, from another perspective, that is, Tang Yunwen's original intention, this traditional soldier actually had such unclear expectations for the arrival of Sha Zhengming's fleet.

At the same time as the financial collapse in the late Ming Dynasty, external pressure became stronger and stronger.The field frontier defense regiment like Baisha Water Village has to suffer under the internal environment of financial austerity, and at the same time, it has to face the increasing number of pirate groups and colonial hooligans. how hard.

But in the past two years, the situation has suddenly changed.

Accompanied by the crossing forces step by step from a corner of Tainan to the mainland, there are waves of pirates going south.

When crossing the Zhongshui Strait, the pirates went south, when crossing the Fujian Sea, the pirates went south, and when crossing the Guangdong Sea, the last group of passionate pirates in South China who didn't want to be dogs also ran to the Beibu Gulf to eat Annan rice too.

During the two or three years mentioned above, General Tang, who was stuck in the Qiongzhou Strait, the throat passage to the south, tortured groups of runners, and his understanding of the traversers was actually far beyond the latter's imagination.

Not to mention that Cao Zongbing's name frequently appeared in Tang newspapers afterwards.

This is the root cause of Tang Yunwen's complicated mood today.He knew that the comers were not good, he knew that the comers were feudal towns, but he also knew that the comers were rich and powerful, and those "Western warships" had cannons that could break gold and rocks, and "officers and soldiers" who were fed with money.

Still the same sentence, Tang Yunwen is a soldier after all, he still hopes to see peace in the jurisdiction.

After a while, the ships of both sides approached, and Tang Yunwen climbed onto the big ship Xifa along the rope ladder.

Considering that the other party is a confidant of the big boss in the provincial capital, and his own family lacks face and face, before he can figure out Guo Jiang Qianglong's temper, Tang Yunwen, who is sophisticated in the world, decides to lower his posture: "Tang Yunwen sees the general!"

"Master Tang, where do you start when you come out?"

After several years of traveling through time, the time-traveling forces have already established a set of routines for dealing with various classes and occupations of the aborigines.For a powerful military leader like Tang Yunwen, without clearly showing hostility, the traversers must focus on infiltrating.

So Sha Zhengming hurriedly took a step forward at this time, stretched out his arms to hold the hands of Tuanzhang Tang, and said with a look of reproach: "You and I are brothers and colleagues, and we have to stir the ladle in a pot from now on, how can you be so unreasonable?"

Tang Yunwen raised his head when he heard the words, and found that the other party's eyes were clear, and his expression was absolutely innocent, so he felt relieved a lot. Since he was able to defeat Zheng Zhilong and Li Kuiqi, he should have a heroic attitude.

"Not a difficult one to deal with."

After making up his mind, Tang Shen stretched out his sallow skin a lot: "So, I invite General Sha to enter the village to rest for a while."

"It's easy to say, I'm going to the old brother's village to have a look."

The next moment, a group of civil and military officials moved to the shore again, and dutifully completed the complicated procedures of the officialdom.

Unlike those civil servants whose heads were in the sky, Sha Zhengming took a good look at it after entering Baisha Water Village.However, what makes people sigh is that the Baisha water village under Tang Yunwen's jurisdiction is no different from the Ming army camps he has seen in Fujian and Guangdong provinces.

Although the preparations were made in advance, the officers and soldiers who caught the eye seemed to be very energetic, but the dilapidated barracks, old ships, and the strong atmosphere of decay in the air could not be concealed.

After hastily entering the village, everyone has completed another procedure.After that, it was finally the last inspection project: Baisha Xinzhai.

Baisha Xinzhai is not far from the old village, just in another harbor a few miles away.

When the soldiers sent the adults to Xinzhai with poles, it was just in time for the construction scene in full swing.

The originally desolate bay, full of rocks and weeds, has changed its appearance.A few rows of simple houses have been built on the bank, and a traditional wooden trestle bridge has also been built.At this moment, Ming people are surrounded by workers along the coast.The brigade is shirtless and holding wooden tools, picking soil and rocks through the river, and is repairing the bay.

"There is no one here. The Qiongzhou government received the paper from the chief envoy a few days ago, but they didn't dare to delay for a moment. They immediately sent the people from the surrounding counties. They worked hard day and night to get this appearance."

Jia Tongzhi from the Qiongzhou Prefecture had an expression of asking for credit at this moment: "General Sha, are you satisfied?"

"Satisfied, satisfied! Sha thanked all the adults here. Sha will definitely report this matter to my commander-in-chief. A heart is indispensable!"

According to the infrastructure standards of the traversers, this construction site under construction must not meet the requirements.Fortunately, at the beginning, Sha Zhengming's requirements are not high. The fleet can berth and personnel can go to and from the dock.So he hastened to encourage the native officials.

There are still joints in this matter.Qiongzhou is isolated overseas, and now it is under the jurisdiction of the crossing forces, and it can't reach that far.In other words, if the cross-travelers want to garrison troops in Qiongzhou to build a new military port, they must go through the local civil service system, instead of recruiting people to build it themselves, at least at the beginning, like the Guangzhou New District.

That's why there was this scene just now: at the same time as the Qiongzhou civil official group received the official document, it also received the actual 2 taels of Cao Datou cash from the Guangdong Chief Political Commissioner.

The 2 taels of silver was the most fundamental motivation for Jia Tongzhi and his civil servants to quickly mobilize the people to build the harbor.It would be ridiculous to rely solely on an official document, not to mention Xiong Wencan, even if the emperor issued an imperial decree, without money, it would be impossible for the extremely poor Qiongzhou government to make such a big move to dig a harbor for someone.

In fact, the exquisite Cao Datou wrapped in [-] pieces of red paper is the first real silver that Qiongzhou Prefecture has obtained from the superior yamen for the first time since the Ming Dynasty.This time, the entire Qiongzhou Mansion, including the subordinate officials of the prefect, was really shocked!
You must know that in the past years, apart from urging taxes and food, the yamen in Guangzhou have never allocated a penny to the Qiongzhou government.Hehe, I think too much.

Of course, everyone in the world knows who paid the 2 taels of silver.Jia Tongzhi and the others knew exactly who to give credit for.

(End of this chapter)