At Tanggu Pier, more than a dozen large fortune ships docked one after another.
Qin Liangyu was wearing a custom-made black matte fitted plate armor and a bright red cloak. She walked from the deck onto the gangplank and was the first to go ashore. Behind her, seven thousand soldiers with white poles disembarked one after another.
Zhang Fengyi's face turned pale and she was very seasick.
"Mom, this broken boat is far from a clipper boat. It doesn't even have a stabilizer fin. I vomited out all the food I ate last night." Zhang Fengyi complained, holding her waist with her hands.
"Okay, okay, isn't it time to go ashore? Just have a good sleep. Clipper boats are so expensive. The price difference is ten times. Save this money and buy more equipment for the boys. Buy more.
I need some food. After I’m full and clothed, I can go and fight Jiannu to the death and avenge the brothers who died in Hunhe.” Qin Liangyu got on his horse and looked into the distance.
These horses were Zhang Fengyi's dowry. The Ming Dynasty was short of horses. Last time Zhang Wudian and Huo took Zhang Fengyi to escort grain and grass to Jiuyuan City. Yang Fan specially opened the horse farm in Henan and let the Zhang family choose 500 horses. When Zhang Fengyi got married,
Fifty horses were specially given as a dowry.
Ming Dynasty war horses are extremely expensive, let alone the best Mongolian war horses.
The white-pole soldiers had strict military discipline and organized their teams quickly after landing ashore. The mules were also unloaded from the ship. The white-pole soldiers at this time were no longer the white-pole soldiers of the past. In this year, after Chongqing opened Fu, the Ma family and
The Qin family has made a lot of money as agents and suppliers.
Yang Fan's tentacles could not reach the southwest, and it was difficult for him to operate there. So he wisely chose the local powerful as a partner. Qin Liangyu was a very good choice.
Qin Liangyu had just put down the She'an Rebellion, and his prestige was unparalleled for a while, and he frightened all the chieftains in the southwest. Yang Yinglong's rebellion was suppressed, She Chongming's rebellion was suppressed, and the Shuixi chieftains who occupied half of Guizhou were also finished.
Now in the southwest, no one dares to twitch his beard.
Among them, the most profitable business is salt and iron. Yang Fan developed a giant salt field in Luzon Prefecture. It is a tropical area with good sunshine conditions, and salt can be dried all year round. The salt processing plant processes sea salt into refined salt.
The taste of these snowflake salts is not much different from that of modern refined salts, and they are simply delicious.
Moreover, the price of these refined salts in retail stores is only one-fifth of local salt. If sea salt is industrially produced, the price is about the same as sand.
I'm afraid it's not as valuable as river sand. River sand is not cheap, and you can't just pick it casually.
Salt became cheaper, and more people could afford it. This in turn promoted the development of the market. Caravans from the three southwestern provinces also came in droves. Even the caravans from Wuszang came. They used short Sichuan horses.
, one on the left and one on the right each carry fifty kilograms of refined salt. They are transported across mountains and ridges to various places.
Yang Fan's large ship transports more than a thousand tons every month, and all of them are sold out.
Another business is steel, cast iron products, wrought iron, and steel ingots, which are also in short supply. Pig iron and wrought iron are open to supply, and you can get as much as you want. It’s just that the steel needs approval. Not everyone can sell it.
In the past year, Qin Liangyu has been able to support 20,000 white soldiers. This was unimaginable before. He can only maintain a standing army of three to four thousand people. He cannot support any more.
Qin Liangyu even organized two battalions of Thousand Bird Guns, using the Japanese iron cannons that Yang Fan sold to her at a preferential price. These sophisticated matchlocks had much better performance than those used by the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, thirty leather cannons were lifted from the ship using pulleys. They were parked in rows on the pier.
This directly made the officers and soldiers of the Japanese camp in Tanggu look stupid.
A chieftain army in the southwest actually had thirty cannons. The caliber was quite large. What was even more surprising was that these cannons could be pulled away by a mule. There were also mule-drawn carriages behind them carrying various baggage.
The sides of these carriages also have wooden walls.
This is actually a sidecar. The outside of the wooden board is covered with iron sheets. They have limited financial resources, so they all make simplified versions.
At this time, three cavalrymen wearing the uniforms of Xinghe regiment trainers ran over. They came to Qin Liangyu and gave Qin Liangyu a military salute first.
Qin Liangyu had seen Yang Fan's subordinates give Yang Fan a military salute and knew that this was a form of respect for the superior officer.
"General Qin, I am Fan Shoufan, deputy battalion commander of Dingyuanhou's family. My master, Dingyuanhou, has a letter for you." He said and handed an envelope to Qin Liangyu. Inside was the translated telegram.
Qin Liangyu looked at it and found out that Yang Fan had bought 300,000 tons of rice in Luzon and sent it to the capital to be handed over to the emperor as rations for King Qin's troops. However, Yang Fan was currently overseas and could not go back for a while, so he wanted to send the militiamen who escorted the rations to the capital.
The team followed Qin Liangyu to the capital. There was also someone to take care of him. After all, there were slaves outside the capital.
Yang Fan is really good to them and is an important partner, so this little busyness is nothing to worry about.
"How many people, how many carriages and horses do you have?" Qin Liangyu knew Yang Fan's conversion method in his heart. This is 18,000 tons of rice. It is not easy to transport, and it will definitely require a lot of manpower.
"General Qin, we have opened the river now. We have small steamers towing canal boats. One small steamer can tow thirty canal boats. One canal boat can transport 200 tons of rice, and it can transport 6,000 tons at a time. Three boats are needed.
The team can complete the shipment."
"Your white soldiers can take our boat to the capital. It will save you walking. They will also take care of us on the way."
When Qin Liangyu heard this, she thought it was a good thing. She was anxious to get to Beijing as soon as possible. If she walked to Beijing, it would probably take three or four days.
It’s hard to say.
Qin Liangyu readily agreed. So seven thousand soldiers with white poles boarded the canal. There were seventy or eighty people sitting on the rice bags of the ninety canal boats. They all chatted happily. They had never
I have never made a steamship. I have only heard of it.
Woohoo! As the whistle blew, the first small steamer set off. A passenger ship was added behind this small steamer. This ship was also converted from a canoe ship. It is divided into two floors, one floor, and a bottom floor.
The warehouse has three floors. It is used for living. There is one such ship at the head of each fleet.
Its meaning is similar to the caboose of a freight train. It is a temporary residence for the escort. At the same time, it keeps an eye on the goods one by one to prevent theft.
Because they landed in Tanggu, the small steamer went up the Haihe River. Due to the invasion of Jiannu, the train from Tanggu to the capital was temporarily suspended. Because the ship was in the water, Jiannu had no choice, so it remained
With smooth flow.
The steamer was fast, and it had already passed the Tianjin Acropolis at noon and arrived near Yujiujia Village.
Suddenly there was the sound of a gun being set off in front of him. Qin Liangyu was shocked. He had just left Tianjin not far away. Could it be that Jian Nu had already reached here?
