Lord: Start with a book of Water Margin

Chapter 608 Patrol
The remaining nearly 200 warships, except for the large and small sea eel boats donated by Ye Chun, include fighting ships, walking boats, warships, yachts, boats, spear boats, trough boats, Huanglong boats, Heilong boats, Shuangli boats, Pingcheng boats, Desheng boats, large flying boats, Qijie boats, anti-sand boats, flat-bottomed boats, Flying Tiger warships, Tiebi Plow-mouthed boats, horse boats, water patrol horse boats, water Pegasus boats, Fuyang boats, foot boats, seat boats, car-head boats, Feijie boats, paddle boats, plank boats, iron-head boats, Luoframe boats, foot boats, iron kite boats, firewood boats, bilge boats, ladder boats, lion boats, Louzi boats, leather boats, canoes, Huntuo, etc., all of which are available in Daoyu Village.

Some, such as the Zou Ge, Shuishao Machuan, and Shui Fei Machuan, have 30 to 50 ships each, while some, such as Caochuan and Hun Tuo, have only one ship. I only found out after asking the navy of the Central Plains Navy.

This type of ship looks more like one placed here by the imperial court.

After staying for several days, Zhao Zhen discussed with Zhu Wu and others and restored the navy of Daoyu Village to 5,000 people. He appointed Ruan Xiaoer and Zhang Heng as the chief and deputy military commanders of Daoyu Village, and Guifu, Shelu, Yushou and Bixi as captains, commanding 150 large and small sea vessels.

Liu Lin moved to Yangma Island and served as the military commander. He selected "Sea Ghost" Hu Yong and "Oil Stick" Wang Er to assist him. He also commanded 150 large and small ships and 5,000 naval officers and soldiers.

The soldiers recruited young and strong men from the fishermen's families in Dengzhou and the previously disbanded Chenghai Navy crossbowmen and Pinghai Navy, two imperial naval forces.

Ye Chun, who was accompanying him, stayed in Dengzhou and built another dock. He recruited 2,000 shipbuilding craftsmen from Penglai and set up a battalion of "shipping troops" to build large and small sea vessels and manage other types of ships. He also had 500 soldiers in charge of the gate guards to guard the wood and iron warehouses and the dock.

The Goryeo entourage made a lot of money, according to calculations by Jiang Jing, Du Xing and others. Even if the silk, tea, porcelain and other items they robbed were included, the profit from this trip was at least 50,000 strings of cash.

The goods they sold were all the silk, tea, and porcelain that they had robbed from the imperial court. The goods that were brought back were from Goryeo, and they were very mixed. In addition to silver and copperware, the rest were mostly produced in the mountains, such as ginseng, musk, safflower, poria, wax, pine nuts, chestnuts, jujube meat, almonds, cornel, white aconite, white atractylodes, polygala, sesame oil, laver, lacquer, tiger skins, and other beast furs.

As for the wood Zhao Zhen had ordered, they were also tied into rafts and towed back with the ship, more than a thousand pieces, mainly fir, white pine and cypress, many of which were so thick that they could be hugged.

However, Zhao Zhen never saw it. When he came back, he ordered people to tow it along the river to Liangshan Lake.

Most of these goods are ordinary mountain products, but there are also some good items for entry-level customers.

There were five third-level 5-year-old ginsengs, seven second-level 7-year-old ginsengs, and 18 first-level ginsengs that were over years old. There was also three taels of first-level musk.

Then there were fifty-six tiger skins of various sizes, one of the third level, one of the second level, and five of the first level. There were eighty-seven black bear skins, two of which were of the third level, four of the second level, and six of the first level.

Not only that, because Xu Guanzhong and others carried forged letters of credence with them, a great noble of the Goryeo Kingdom presented as tribute two dragon and phoenix saddles woven with gold thread, and two fine horses.

The saddle is second order, and the horse is also second order.

Zhao Zhen originally thought that Goryeo was still a tribal country, but after this trip he realized that in addition to the tribes in the mountains, there were also city-states in the plains and rivers.

When Xu Guanzhong, Du Xing and others were in Goryeo, they had estimated the profits. Seeing that there was profit to be made, they also ordered a lot of mountain products from various Goryeo tribes and agreed to trade again.

After hearing about it, Zhao Zhen also thought it was feasible, and ordered the transfer of large quantities of silk and satin from various treasuries, as well as porcelain confiscated during previous expeditions. In addition, Zibo was in turmoil because of Zhang Xian and others' resistance to taxation. Among the people in Zibo who fled to Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Yizhou, there were many porcelain craftsmen, and their porcelain was also added to the list.

After staying in Dengzhou for ten days, Zhao Zhen went south, passed Mouping and Wendeng, and then turned back west, passing through Laiyang, Jimo, Gaomi and other cities, entered Yizhou, crossed the mountains, and returned to Liangshan from Yanzhou.

It took nearly two months to travel through most of the prefectures and counties in Jingdong Road. After this round, Zhao Zhen learned a lot about the conditions of each prefecture and county.

For example, Dengzhou has a gentle terrain, a typical hilly area with wide valleys and gentle slopes, fertile land, but a small population. Large tracts of land have never been cultivated, and the population is distributed in dots around Penglai, Wendeng, Huangxian, and Muping.

In Laizhou, there are 97,427 registered households and 218,908 people. In neighboring Mizhou, the land area is not much different, but there are 144,567 households and 427,340 people, second only to Liangshan Prefecture, and even less than Qingzhou Prefecture.

Of course, it was much better than Puzhou, Xingrenfu, and the newly captured Bozhou. At this stage, reducing taxes and levies and encouraging childbirth were still the top priorities.

Zhao Zhen learned this principle from a history teacher in the county school.

I still remember that the teacher asked everyone: Do you know why the practice of burial with the dead evolved from human sacrifice to burial with clay figurines?

The answers given by the crowd were varied. Some quoted from classics saying that the Yin people respected gods and led the people to serve gods, putting ghosts first and rituals second. As for the Zhou Dynasty, people matched virtue with heaven, respected rituals and valued charity, and worshipped ghosts but kept a distance from them.

After everyone finished speaking, the teacher curled his lips and said, "It's superficial."

"No matter what, it's just that the rulers found that, in comparison, talents are the most important assets. This is the fundamental reason for abolishing human sacrifice for selfish purposes. Think about it, if there are no people, who will cultivate the fields, who will make exquisite tools, and who can protect the monarch?"

"I won't say much about this. Just keep it in mind and ponder it. Maybe one day you will understand it."

At that time, Zhao Zhen, like many of his classmates, did not agree with this statement. Later, as he grew older, especially after taking control of the fantasy world, he came to agree with this statement more and more.

Because of this, when sentencing people in Liangshan nowadays, the death penalty is not easily used. Most people are sentenced to hard labor in mines or prisons.

After Zhao Zhen returned to Baishi Manor, he had to arrange for the soldiers to rest and deal with some official documents that were difficult to handle on the way.

The first thing was that his father-in-law Tong Guan sent thirty ships of wood and rare stones from along the canal along the south of the Yangtze River for Zhao Zhen to build a new mansion.

These things were originally going to be sent to Genyue, but after being robbed by Fang La's gang, Tong Guan seized the provincial government, searched them out from the treasury, and sent them here.

Of course, it was not easy for Zhao Zhen to show up, after all, he had announced to the public that he was still ill.

Following Zhao Zhen's instructions, Tong Jiaoxiu took Foshou and Meigui and summoned the two escort officers. She rewarded them and took out a letter that she had prepared long ago and asked them to take it to Tong Guan.

After sending the visitor away, Tong Jiaoxiu went to Zhao Zhen with a proud face to take credit.

(End of this chapter)