Chapter 156 Various Shocks
After seeing these two Cangshan ships, He Qiang seemed to have thought of something and said to Li Nai: "The ship leading us in front seems to be a warship of our Ming Navy..."
The "Sea Training 01" ship was the naval warship captured after the Crossing Group landed in Victory Port. When Luo Shengdong was returned to Yazhou, he argued that the ship was seriously damaged and needed to be repaired ashore in Victory Port. As a result, the ship was hacked by the Crossing Group for no apparent reason, and the ship was renamed and given a new ship number. Luo Shengdong was a bachelor. Even though he could see each other entering and leaving the harbor, he actually turned a blind eye to the ship, as if he didn't know the origin of the ship at all.
But Luo Shengdong pretended not to recognize it, but that didn't mean that others couldn't tell the difference between the civilian ship and the warship. This Haicang ship has a battlement structure similar to a city wall on the side of the ship, so that naval officers and soldiers can use firearms on the ship. This alone is very different from the civilian Fu ship. Although the sailors on the "Sea Training 01" set up a lot of fishing nets on the side of the ship, a section of the battlements was still exposed and was seen by the sharp-eyed steward He.
Li Naiqiang smiled and said: "Uncle He, let me tell you that you are worrying too much! This place is under the rule of our Ming Navy. How can there be any talk of privately building forts by maritime merchants?"
He Qiang felt extremely confused at this time. It seemed that this was the only way to explain the situations he saw before him, but why did he always feel that something was wrong?
At this time, the fleet had sailed into the Victory Harbor. Li Nai excitedly raised his finger and pointed ahead and said: "Uncle He, look, that's the legendary Haihan Iron Ship!"
Anyone in this time and space will inevitably be greatly shocked and shocked when they see a steel behemoth like the "New World", even the well-informed He Qiang is no exception. At that time, when everyone listened to Shopkeeper Li describing the majesty of the Haihan Iron Ship, they almost all took it as a joke - how could anyone in the world be stupid enough to use tens or millions of kilograms of iron to build a ship like that? Wouldn't the ship sink directly into the sea?
But when he really saw this behemoth appearing in front of his eyes, all the doubts he had at the beginning were thrown away, and He Qiang couldn't help but have a thought in his heart - who is the fool? Are they the Haihan people who built these big iron ships? Or did you secretly laugh at me when Shopkeeper Li boasted about not drafting?
The Haihan people had more than one iron ship. When they saw a row of smaller iron ships docked behind the "New World", they were completely speechless. Almost every one of these small iron ships is larger than the 400-material sea-going ships in their fleet, with slender hulls and graceful lines. The only thing that they didn't quite understand was that there were no masts or sails on these large and small iron ships. It seemed that the Haihan people did not intend to use these iron ships to go to sea, or there was something wrong with these iron ships that prevented them from going to sea - —This seems to be a good explanation for why they still need to spend money to buy second-hand ships from the mainland.
The pier of Victory Port is not small. It stretches along the coastline and is a hundred feet wide. The westernmost part has not yet been completed, and there are still nearly a hundred workers working hard in the sun. However, Li Nai and He Qiang noticed that there were not many sailboats docked at this pier, only two or three, and they did not know where the ships they had bought for the Haihan people had gone.
The "Hai Xun 01" ship leading the way has already docked. The sailors on the ship threw several cables from the bow and stern to the pier. Some migrant workers tied the cables to the stone cable piles on the shore to fix the ship.
He Qiang suddenly slapped his head and said: "I know something is wrong! Although this ship belongs to the Navy, the people on the ship are not from the Navy!"
Li Nai took a closer look, and it was not as He Qiang said. The sailors who were landing on the dock through the springboard from "Sea Training 01" were not dressed as navy soldiers at all, but were wearing blue shorts. Clothes. Only the two people walking at the end were wearing colorful clothes, and their hair was like monks, with only a short section sticking out of the scalp.
"They are from Haihan, and the last two are from Haihan!" Li Nai clearly remembered that his cousin mentioned that men in Haihan generally have short hair, the length of which is almost below the shoulders, and they do not wear buns. Green flower shorts - don't the two people you see in front of you look exactly like this?
He Qiang did not feel as excited as Li Nai at this time. Not only were these Haihan people very familiar with the Ming Navy, they had even occupied the Navy's warships. What kind of situation was this?
The two of them went ashore with their own thoughts. What greeted them on the pier was Schneider, the head of the Department of Commerce. Because Schneider's work requires dealing with the outside world, he is currently stationed at Base No. 1 in Victory Port. When foreign businessmen visit, it will be more convenient for him to receive them.
The two parties introduced each other's identities, and there were inevitably exchanges of greetings such as "I have seen you for a long time" and "You are very polite". Regarding the handover of goods and ships, Schneider's own staff from the Ministry of Commerce contacted the managers of "Furuifeng", while the two distinguished guests Li Nai and He Qiang were accompanied by Schneider and went to Base No. 1 first. Rest inside.
At present, as the first phase of the Victory Port Wharf project is coming to an end, the 300-meter-long "landscape avenue" from the wharf to the gate of Base No. 1 has been basically completed as a supporting project and the "external publicity model project" designated by the executive committee. . The width of this avenue reaches six meters, and the entire road surface is hardened with cement concrete. Compared with the loess roads or stone roads of the same era, the smoothness is much higher. Li Nai and He Qiang were both secretly surprised when they stepped on this road. They didn't understand how this solid road could be so smooth and uniform.
A large number of street trees, mainly coconut trees, are planted on both sides of the road at intervals of three meters. There are strip flower beds and simple benches made of logs cut in half and brushed with tung oil at intervals along the road. If the domestic power supply at Base No. 1 was not already in a relatively tight state, the executive committee even planned to install a few LED street lights here, but for now it seems that they can only replace them with oil lamps with poor visibility. But even so, this elegant environment also made Li He, who had just arrived, feel extremely novel.
Even in Guangzhou, which is more than ten times more prosperous than here, they have never seen any road that can be built so neatly. Li Nai couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Shi, with all due respect, why can this road remain so clean?"
Schneider smiled and said: "This is to educate the local people in place, so that they know that they cannot abandon waste on the road, and if there is livestock manure, they must clean it up themselves. Violators will be fined, so now almost all livestock They all have dung cages hanging on them. The second thing is to hire someone to clean it. Every half an hour, a cleaner will patrol the road and clean up the debris on the road. "Li Nai said in surprise: "It's so simple. ? It’s okay to hire people to clean it, but how can the people be convinced if they are fined? ”
Schneider said sternly: "Every road and every house here was built by our people. Taking care of the environment here is the responsibility and obligation of every person living here! If you feel that the management system here is If it’s too strict, then you can leave here and live somewhere else.”
Schneider said it quite seriously, but the more sophisticated He Qiang still heard the trick of avoiding the important and taking the easy. He Qiang interjected: "Then if you come out to punish people who violate the rules, will the local government turn a blind eye? Or is it that the Yazhou government has not established a governance center here at all?"
"A government office? Yes, of course there is a government office." Schneider smiled and pointed forward: "Have you two seen the small courtyard in front? That is the official government office of Victory Port."
As he spoke, Li Nai could already clearly see the plaque hanging at the door of the small courtyard. He couldn't help but read it softly: "Yulin Inspection Department...Mr. Shi, is this someone sent by Yazhou?"
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Schneider nodded and said: "It's true. I think you two don't believe what I say, so let me go with you to have a look."
Li Nai thought to himself, even if you don't say this, I still have to go and see if it's true or not. Whenever this businessman goes to a place, the first thing he needs to take care of is the inspection department, government officials, tax collectors and the like. If "Fu Ruifeng" wants to do long-term business with the Haihan people, of course the inspection department stationed here will also Objects that need to be dealt with. Of course, what is more important is to take a look at the situation of the inspection department here to determine whether this place is really as weird as He Qiang thinks.
"Inspector Wei! A visitor is coming to visit you!" Schneider stood outside the courtyard without knocking on the door, and just let out a loud voice to inform the people inside.
Soon someone ran over and opened the door, nodding and bowing and inviting the three of them into the courtyard: "Mr. Shi, wait a moment. Inspector Wei hasn't gotten up yet, and someone has already gone to wake him up."
He Qiang couldn't help but frown. It was almost noon, and Inspector Wei was still sleeping soundly. He was living a comfortable life. Looking around the small courtyard again, I saw that the buildings here were all wooden huts. I couldn't help but smile in my heart. The inspection department didn't even have a brick house. It seemed that the conditions were very limited. The Haihan people seemed to have no regard for the inspection department. The attention is not high enough...
Before this thought was finished, the sneer on the corner of He Qiang's mouth had already froze because he saw something incredible.
He Qiang quickly walked to the window of one of the wooden houses and reached out to touch the window. The cold touch told him that this thing was really glass! If it weren't for the reflection of this thing in the sun, he would even think that the windows here were all open and not even covered with paper.
Although this window is made of more than 20 pieces of palm-sized glass, in He Qiang's view, this is an extremely shocking thing, even no less than the big iron ship he just saw in the port - —It’s just a window made of small pieces of glass. Such high-end products are actually used in such a small dilapidated wooden house. Is this luxury or crazy?
(End of chapter)