Dengzhou passed away in Penglai, Shandong for generations to come. Just this month, Sun Yuanhua, a Western expert, just took office in Dengzhou City as governor of Denglai.

The Shandong territory that Chuanzhong had set his sights on before was naturally located in Dengzhou. As for the reason, of course it was the people.

By this time in 1630, the number of people who had fled from Liaodong to Shandong to seek life had exceeded 100,000, most of whom were soldiers and military dependents after the collapse of Dongjiang Town.

Naturally, this huge human resource cannot be wasted. Otherwise, when the ogres are trapped by the Tatars in the Daling River the next year, Sun Yuanhua will force Kong Youde to die in Liaodong. Then Kong Youde rebels halfway, and in the end these

People either died in the tug-of-war, or they surrendered to the Tatars, and they had to pay the lives of the natives in Dengzhou. It was a lose-lose situation and there was no utilization rate at all.

So Chuanchuanzhong planned to set up a base in Dengzhou early in the morning.

The reason why they haven't sent anyone over now is that the imperial court has not yet completed the land use approval, and the Tianjin side has not yet freed up its hands. So what Mei Fuxi saw on the ship's side today was just a standard Ming-style city.

, the iconic boiler smoke column of Chuanzhong Territory did not appear near the city.

After the fleet set sail from Tianjin, it drew a straight line in the Bohai Bay. After passing Dengzhou, it then traveled east along the coastline for more than 300 miles, and saw the easternmost landmark of the Shandong Peninsula: Chengshanjiao.

After rounding Chengshanjiao, the fleet did not follow the coastline, but sailed directly on the Yellow Sea without reference objects, taking the shortest distance to Shanghai.

Thanks to the gas engines, sonar, and navigation equipment, the fleet was able to maintain an average speed of 7 knots downwind and was able to travel day and night.

This advantage exceeded that of all ships of the seventeenth century.

The fleet can run an average of 300 kilometers a day, and the straight line distance between Shanghai and Chengshanjiao is 1,400 kilometers. Therefore, after sailing on the Yellow Sea for five days, in the evening, Mei Fuxi, who looked dazed, first saw the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then saw the Yangtze River Estuary.

Shanghai Port with plumes of smoke.

Although Mei Fuxi had been riding horses all year round and was used to the bumps, it was his first time to go to sea, so he still suffered from mild seasickness.

However, the young man is still very excited. In the past few days, he has seen unprecedented scenes of heaven and earth, including distant islands and cities, the vast sea with no land in sight, rolling huge waves, huge and dense

schools of fish...

And this time, he saw the legendary Yangtze River and the land south of the Yangtze River. He truly felt the vastness of the country and the boundless world, and gained a lot of knowledge.

Before nightfall, the fleet all docked at the berth in Shanghai Port. Early the next morning, Mei Fuxi and the others got the opportunity to disembark and repair.

Today's Shanghai Port is already extremely prosperous. After Marshal Cao bombarded Xu Zhai to scare Xiao Xiao, it has ushered in a wave of rapid development.

Different from Tianjin, Shanghai Port has installed a lot of large-scale port equipment such as gas cranes. Whenever outsiders come here, they are always surprised to see the big iron arms emitting black smoke.

Tens of thousands of kilograms of goods were hoisted up and down, and the scene was very shocking.

After docking, the soldiers and passengers obtained permission to disembark, and the refugees could only move on the deck. After Mei Fuxi and other young people disembarked, they happily wandered around the port. First they looked at the big crane, and then went to

shopping in the business district.

Master Mei's family is wealthy, and he has established a high-profile business among the younger generation, so he has no shortage of followers wherever he goes. At this moment, Master Mei is walking around with two peers in the bustling crowd.

Go there, feel the wide cement pavement, and go shopping from time to time in the shops with beautiful glass windows along the road.

After shopping around, Master Mei bought a lot of local products for his family, such as mahjong tiles and Jierou paper towels.

I went to the shipping department at the port and asked for pen and ink to write a letter to my family. Then I paid the money to pack it together with the local products. He didn't need to worry about the rest of the matter. The fleet would take away the package when it passed by.

After that, the young master took his followers to the restaurant for a good meal, and ate several local Shanghainese dishes, such as sweet and sour luncheon meat, anchovies in tomato sauce and crab meat buns. They tasted good, and the boys agreed after finishing them.

After eating, we took a walk to eat. The neat, beautiful, and weird cement pier was completely beyond the imagination of Ming Dynasty. No matter how we walked, we never got tired of it. While walking, the young men carefully felt the strangeness of this place full of industrialization and geometric lines.

The whole place is astonishing.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when the bell on the customs building rang, Mei Fuxi had already returned to the deck - he had received an order this morning to return to the team before 17 o'clock and was not allowed to leave the port's cement area.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, the fleet was replenished and began to set sail again. The Shanghai Port has complete facilities, including cranes and gas lights, so even at night, after the ships are replenished, they can go out to sea under the guidance of a bright light beam.

For the next journey, the fleet kept sailing in the middle line of the strait. Apart from other fleets passing by, nothing could be seen, only the vast sea.

It was not until nightfall four days later that Mei Fuxi learned that Taijiang had arrived when someone called her from her hammock.

The young people who jumped out of the deck were stunned to see the approaching Milky Way on the ground. The bright river of lights, like a colorful dragon, shocked every outsider standing on the deck.

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Due to the wires, the lighting at Taijiang Wharf is not comparable to that of Shanghai Port. After the fleet docked, the lights on the trestle were turned on, and it suddenly became as bright as day.

Mei Fuxi carried her luggage like this, and under the command of the officer on duty, she lined up, raised her head, kept looking back at the Denghe River, and walked in line, and was finally driven into the military camp.

The excited young people looked through the glass windows at the colorful lights on the horizon in the distance, their faces full of longing. There were those with good eyesight who swore that they had just seen a woman with her thighs exposed on the bow of the ship.

.....The boys didn't sleep well that night.

Fortunately, the public has seen this situation many times. So after going through a series of health quarantine procedures the next day, the young people were told: three days off.

Before I could cheer, the bad news came: memorize the travel instructions first, and whoever memorizes them well can leave the camp.

So the anxious people began to frantically recite the travel instructions written on the wall. This caused more than half of the illiterate people to suffer, so they had to ask someone to read it out.

Master Mei is very good at martial arts and his writing is not weak: he has also been taught cultural classes by teachers since he was a child. The young master is standing under the wall now, and it didn't take long for him to memorize these "instructions" for missing pens and strokes.

At this moment, the young master was convinced of one thing: there were really women out there with their legs exposed!

Because the third item in the notice is: "It is a local custom for gay women to wear short clothes and shorts. It is strictly forbidden to comment on this, and it is strictly forbidden to molest women. Violators will be jailed."
Chapter completed!