Chapter 839 Next stop Mingzhou

"Hey, it's easier said than done." Li Er sighed.

Li Feng nodded and said: "Everything is difficult at the beginning, but it is not difficult once you get started. Now Li Tai is researching steam plowing vehicles. As long as the research is successful, plowing the land will be very simple.

The court can force some people to study, develop some children from poor families, or give some preferential treatment to children from poor families, etc.

Let’s think about this after we go back. Since we have come to the sea, we must enjoy the sea life and not let this trip down.”

Li Er nodded and said: "You are right, it is rare for me to be in court, so I should cherish this time.

How is our route? Where is our next stop?”

Li Feng immediately summoned Liu Rengui. Liu Rengui was very young at this time, about sixteen or seventeen years old. However, when he was in Tang High School, he led the navy to defeat Fusang.

It was in the late Zhenguan period when he wanted to make a fortune. Now his reputation is not obvious at all, but it does not prevent Li Feng from cultivating him.

So on the first day of the establishment of the navy, Liu Rengui was recruited by Li Feng. As long as he could persist in daily naval training, Li Feng gave him the books he wanted to read and taught him how to read charts, read the weather, and deal with

Some emergencies at sea, etc.

Li Feng not only trained Liu Rengui, but also trained nine other people, but none of them were as outstanding as Liu Rengui, so Liu Rengui became the captain of the nine people.

The other nine people managed ninety-nine people respectively. In other words, the nine of them became centurions of the navy. In addition to managing ninety-nine people, Liu Rengui also commanded the entire navy.

For this reason, many people were dissatisfied with the young leader, so they selected two people to compete with Liu Rengui. The two competed in a civil and military competition respectively, and both lost to Liu Rengui.

From then on, they no longer resisted Liu Rengui's orders.

Liu Rengui took the chart to Li Er and said: "Your Majesty, the next destination on this trip is Mingzhou. It is the closest to Yangzhou and is known as the coast of the East China Sea."

Li Er frowned slightly and said, "How long does it take to reach Mingzhou?"

"Your Majesty, if things go smoothly, we only need three days," Liu Rengui said.

"So what happens after Mingzhou? We are in

Where to disembark?”

"I plan to skip the Jiaozhou port and go directly to the Guangzhou port. The Marquis said that Guangzhou is in Lingnan, and we can look for rubber trees in Lingnan." Liu Rengui said.

Li Er nodded and said: "I see, then why do we have to stop the ship in Mingzhou? Do we need to buy something?"

Li Feng replied: "No, I was worried that my father-in-law would be a little uncomfortable as he just went to sea, so I wanted to give him a buffer in Mingzhou.

Another thing is that with so many caravans, you can sell some of the goods in Chang'an and then buy some."

"I don't need a buffer. I'll go directly to Guangzhou. I want to see if there are many people in Guangzhou?" Li Er said.

"But there are so many merchant ships behind us, we can't let them refuse to make any profit at all?" Li Feng said.

Li Feng thought for a while and said: "In that case, I will stay in Mingzhou for three days."

"My father-in-law (Your Majesty) is wise." Li Feng and Liu Rengui clapped at the same time.

Li Er smiled and said: "Stop flattering me."

Li Feng nodded and said: "Your Majesty, you don't know. Although Guangzhou belongs to Lingnan and is located in a remote area, it inherits Hainan Island, as well as East Asia and other countries.

Therefore, Guangzhou was the first port of the Tang Dynasty. However, they had everything in Lingnan, so they did not pay much attention to Lingnan. Therefore, Lingnan has always been considered a barbaric land, and everyone talks about Lingnan.

One of the reasons why I brought many businessmen this time is to improve and develop Lingnan and turn Lingnan into one of the richest places in the Tang Dynasty."

Li Er nodded and said: "It seems that you are bound to win the development of Lingnan."

Li Feng nodded and said: "Once Lingnan is developed, it can support countless refugees for the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, after Lingnan is developed, there will be a lot of land that can be used to grow rice.

There are also various fruits, rare birds and animals, etc. There is an amphibious king, the crocodile, whose mouth is very similar to the legendary dragon's mouth."

"You want to say that crocodiles are descendants of dragons?" Li Er said dissatisfied.

He is the real Dragon Emperor, how could he allow the descendants of dragons to appear.

Li Feng shook his head and said: "No, I just said that he resembles. If he is a descendant of a dragon, then the antlers on the deer's head are also very similar to dragon antlers. Does that mean that the deer is also a descendant of the dragon?"

"Smelly little

Son, I just said one thing, but you actually have so many things to say to refute me. Are you looking for a beating?" Li Er said.

At this moment, Cheng Yaojin came over and shouted: "Your Majesty, Li Feng, it's getting late, when will we have dinner?"

Li Xiaogong and Li Wan also came over. Their purpose was the same. Even if they could skip meals, the soldiers could not, especially if they were starving just after going to sea. This would be even worse and unlucky.

Li Er looked at Li Feng and said, "Then let the kitchen prepare and start dinner."

Li Feng said: "Yes."

As a result, everyone had their first meal at sea. The first dinner was because it was getting dark, so Cheng Yaojin and the others came to Li Er to ask about the meal.

The delicacy of the day is a meal of seafood, and the seafood is sea fish and crabs. There are two types of crabs, one is blue crab and the other is white crab.

Two types of crabs, two ways to cook them. Blue crabs and potatoes are made into a delicious soup. Putting the two ingredients together instantly elevates the blue crabs and potatoes to a higher level.

White crabs are much simpler, just steamed. Because the number of white crabs is limited, the chef doesn't make white crabs for everyone, only Li Er and the others have them.

But the Scylla City soup was cut into fine pieces and all the soldiers ate it. As for the sea fish, everyone ate it.

In order to be able to eat delicious ingredients every day, there is a fishing boat and a cargo ship next to the sailing battleship. It is said to be a cargo ship, but in fact it is filled with ingredients. Most of them are icehouses with dry ice made of saltpeter.

It's about preserving ingredients.

So all the seafood they ate today was the freshest, just-caught seafood.

Therefore, even if the soldiers did not eat white crabs, they were not dissatisfied at all. What they ate today was thousands of times better than what they had eaten before.

After we had had enough wine and food, it was getting dark. Although the battleship had a power generation system, it could save a little bit, so everyone except the soldiers on guard went to bed early.

Three days later, the fleet of ships entered Mingzhou Port, where many officials were already waiting.

The incident in Yangzhou has actually spread. Because it is very close to Yangzhou, they got the news early, so they sent others to wait at the port very early. However, whether Li Er would come or not, there were people waiting.
Chapter completed!