Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 180 The Trip to Tamra
After Zhang Yingniang arrived in Dengzhou, she was first arranged in an inn.Standing at the door and looking around curiously, she could see that most of the people in the inn were sailors.She was thinking about whether to go out for a walk, when suddenly a joyful shout sounded from her right: "Sister Yingniang?"

She turned her head to the right, and saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy staring at her with wide-eyed eyes, and saw her turn her face and jumped up excitedly: "Sister Yingniang, it's really you!"

Zhang Yingniang also recognized the young man as a member of the Rebel Army, and happily went up to him, "Ah, it's a kite! Why are you here?"

The boy named Yaozi said: "Sister Yingniang, I am a sailor on the ship. I am waiting to sail to Tamna. Are you going to Tamna too? Are you going to stay in Tamna from now on? We are all fine." Miss you."

Zhang Yingniang said: "How old are you, you just want to be a sailor? How can Aunt Wu be willing to deal with the wind and waves?"

The kite said, "You have to rely on a boat to get in and out of Tamla. I'm so old, so I naturally have to learn how to steer a boat. Brother Luo said that from now on, all the good men on the island will learn how to steer a boat and learn how to sail."

"Oh, that's it." Zhang Yingniang suddenly remembered that Li Buqi had told her more than once not to look at the lives of people at sea with the eyes of mainlanders, each has its own way of life.

Yaozi happily pulled Zhang Yingniang and said, "Sister Yingniang, come with me, there are several people in the back yard."

On the third morning, the wind direction was suitable, and before dawn, someone called everyone to get up and board the ship.Zhang Yingniang and the others got up early and followed the manager of the firm to the pier. Yaozi was already waiting there. As soon as they met, they called out, "Sister Yingniang, come aboard with me, and the barn has been packed for you."

It was the first time for Zhang Yingniang and the others to take a boat, and everything they saw was new.Yaozi followed him and introduced to them: "Sister Yingniang, you can see that there are seven ships going to sea this time. Two ships are going to Tamna to send people, and the other five are going to trade with Liaodong and Japan. In the past, they went to the Liaodong capital. It is going around the coast of Koryo, but it is difficult to have a place to stop. It must be back and forth for a year, and it is really difficult to catch the trade wind. This year, I will go to Japan, go to Oshima in the north of Japan, and then go all the way from there to Kuye, all the way Go to Liaodong, complete the trade and then go back to Dadao for the winter, and come back when the trade winds are right, thus avoiding Korea."

Zhang Yingniang saw that a smaller boat was being towed behind the boat pointed by Yaozi, and asked, "Why is that boat being towed away?"

"Ah, that boat is used to catch sharks. Last year, Director Zhou caught a small shark from near Kunye Island. It boiled a lot of oil. It is best to light up the lamp. So this year, we will build a shark fishing boat and recruit people. Fishing sharks. It can also be used to catch seals."

The cargo had been loaded on the ship a long time ago. After the crew boarded the ship and filled it with supplies, the ship pulled anchor and set sail. The six large ships left the port in a single column, and anchored again not far from the seaside.Then I saw many small boats rowing out from the sea to lean against the big boat. The big boat immediately dropped the rope net and lowered the cage to pull the men, women, old and children on board.

Zhang Yingniang asked, "What is this for?"

Yaozi said: "They are all suffering people. They can't live here anymore and want to live overseas. The population is the performance appraisal of the local officials. Naturally, they don't allow the population to flow out, so in order to avoid trouble, we can't let these people go to the dock. The boat, so we had to get on the boat at this place."

He stretched out three fingers and said: "I heard that 300 people will be transported there this time. The head of the gang said that if they are so blatantly transporting people abroad, they will not be able to hide it, and they will change to Mizhou in the future. Mizhou. Bianhai Bay is so big that the government can’t take care of it.”

There are more than 300 people, including women, old and young, but most of them are strong and strong, and the sailors on the ship are well-trained, and they closely cooperate with the pulley crane to hoist the old and weak on board. It only took less than an hour for all of them. Everyone got on board.The ship weighed anchor again and headed north, turning south around a few islands.Soon a boat sailed out from behind the island to catch up with the convoy.Seven ships towed a whaling ship and sailed to Tamna through wind and waves.

It was already three days later when we arrived at Tamna.Because Tamna does not have a good port, it is difficult for large ships to dock, so it is still necessary to use small boats to connect.Zhang Yingniang was given preferential treatment. She was hoisted to the boat with a cage, and landed in a boat.And the kite had already boarded a small boat and went ashore to report the news.So when Zhang Yingniang, whose feet were weak from the waves, was helped ashore, a large group of people led by Luo Tong and Shi Feng greeted her.

After telling her about her parting thoughts, what Zhang Yingniang cared most about was how the rebel army and the old people lived.In order to reassure her, after Zhang Yingniang rested for two days, Luo Tong and Shi Feng prepared a few horses and took Zhang Yingniang to enjoy the scenery on the island.

Zhang Yingniang frowned when she saw the horses.This is also called a horse?I'm afraid it's smaller than donkeys in the Central Plains.But Luo Tong said that the local horses are only this big, and the Khitan horses brought in by boat are reluctant to ride, and they are used for breeding.

Luo Tong took Zhang Yingniang to visit their newly cultivated fields, the canals under construction, and the well-planned villages and towns.He told Zhang Yingniang that although food is scarce now, but fortunately there are plenty of fish and shrimp.In the past, the natives of Tamna could only catch small fish and shrimps on the seashore with small boats not much bigger than a bathtub, and they could not eat with golden rice bowls. Now the Han people row big boats to fish farther away, and they return with a full load every time.Now people on the island pick up the big ones when they eat fish, and the small fish and shrimps don't like it, so they throw it in the compost heap to accumulate manure.Therefore, the Han people still have surplus fish, shrimps, spices and cloth to hire local people to dig canals.

It is precisely because of the sufficient supply of fertilizers and sufficient irrigation that the yield per mu of the Han people on the island is higher than that in the Central Plains.The natives of Tamla learned advanced farming methods from the Han people, dug ditches for irrigation, obtained high-quality agricultural tools, and greatly increased grain production.So in fact, the food on the island is now close to self-sufficiency, and the pressure mainly comes from the new immigrants every year.However, as the number of Han people on the island increases and more land is reclaimed, the ability to accept immigrants will become stronger and stronger.

Zhang Yingniang also saw a large flock of chickens and ducks lingering near the pier, waiting for the fishing boats to come back and throw them small fish and shrimps, cattle and sheep grazing on the grass, pigs humming and hunting for food, and Khitan horses in the mountains. Chase neighing.This is a rare scene of prosperity in the Central Plains.

But few Han people on the island are leisurely. The laborers are not working in the fields, repairing ditches, or carrying fish and shrimps from the sea every day to be processed into dried fish. In some spare time, they also conduct military training.The old people take care of their children and herd livestock.Every night in the meeting hall in the center of the town, Big Brother Luo and Big Brother Shi would sit there like county magistrates and assign tasks. This was something that only existed in imagination before.

The children are not idle either.In addition to helping adults do some work within their ability, they also have to go to school.Full-time!Learn to read and count in the morning, learn martial arts and archery in the afternoon, and Luo Tong said that when the weather warms up, the children will still need to learn to swim and sail a boat. These are Li Buqi's requests.Zhang Yingniang looked at the textbooks used by the children, and found that they were the same as those used by Li Jiayi in Bianliang.It seems that Li Buqi really put his heart into it.

What makes Zhang Yingniang feel that Li Buqi has put his heart into Tamna Island is the newly planted saplings on the mountain.In addition to common fruit trees such as peaches and pears, there is also a kind of citrus that Zhang Yingniang has never seen. Luo Tong said that it is a citrus that grows in the south.

Judging from Zhang Yingniang and the others' simple thoughts, although life on Tamna Island is still a bit rough, but without the government's raids and oppression by the powerful, it can already be regarded as a life in a paradise.And Zhang Yingniang stayed by Li Buqi's side for so long, so she naturally knew that the happy life on the island actually came from Li Buqi's careful planning.At this moment, I have a deeper understanding of Li Buqi.When Luo Tong and Shi Feng asked her what to do with their marriage, she just hinted that they don't have to worry about it, and said that she would go back to Bianliang after staying for a few days. Li Buqi had a lot of things to do without her. .

When the liner returned to the voyage, Zhang Yingniang embarked on the voyage with a heart full of longing.This trip to Tamra Island made her see a prospect that she could not have imagined in the past. He and she wanted to go back to Bianliang to see if that different man could realize his dream.

(End of this chapter)