The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1874

[1874. Chapter 1784 Chapter One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty: The Land Watered by Honey]

Fang Wenjing arrived at Pier C as usual. After handing over to others, he started boring work.

These days, all the people coming in and out of here are small merchant ships, mostly from nearby ports, and he is only responsible for guiding them.

Therefore, the work is quite easy.

But at noon, his companion Fang Laoliu suddenly shouted: “Wenjing, Wenjing, look, look.”

Fang Wenjing was startled, and subconsciously took the telescope hanging around his neck and looked up.

Then he saw on the sea, what was slowly entering the harbor was one… no, many large ships.

The scale of this large ship is much larger than the large ships that I usually lead. The huge hull pushes through the water waves, and in the telescope, it looks like a big mountain, coming slowly.

Fortunately… he saw the flag on the ship and felt relieved.

This is the Ming Dynasty’s ship, of course…it’s not just a flag.

The structure of this hull is also somewhat similar to that of the Ming Dynasty’s ships.

So, he hurriedly said: “Take them to this pier, but the hull is too wide, I will pick them up.”

Fang Wenjing is still very experienced.

With great difficulty, he maneuvered the ship closer to the dock.

This is a natural harbor with sufficient water depth and almost no reefs, allowing large ships to berth.

Immediately afterwards, someone got off the boat.

Zhu Houzhao and Fang Jifan came down first.

As soon as he landed at the pier, Zhu Houzhao said: “Come here, come here, prepare to erect a monument. Here it should be written: Wen Cheng Wude Emperor, Zhu Houzhao is here!”

Liu Jin took a bamboo fragment and took a charcoal pen to write it down.

Fang Jifan was quite excited.

He was used to treating Zhu Houzhao as nothing.

When the Scum of the World King Bushi entered the harbor, Fang Jifan looked at the harbor from a distance and found that the scale here was much larger than he had imagined. There were more than a hundred ships of various sizes in the harbor, mostly merchant ships. , which also shows the prosperity here.

Fang Wenjing trotted over and saluted: “I don’t know how to honor you…”

Fang Jifan said: “I’m blind, this is the emperor, and I am Fang Jifan, the Duke of Zhenguo. Didn’t you see the flag? But you still come to ask more, that is My temper has improved recently, and I have been eating meat and chanting Buddha’s name. If it were the same as before, I wouldn’t be able to kill you.”

When Fang Wenjing heard this, he was stunned. He glanced at Zhu Houzhao first, then trembled and trembled, and bowed quickly: “I have seen your majesty .

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Turning to look at Fang Jifan, he was even more surprised. He said cautiously: “I’ve seen… I’ve met my uncle.”

At this time, Zhu Houzhao turned around and looked at Fang Jifan with a strange look.

Fang Jifan was also stunned.

It’s really like all the shit comes here to get relatives.

Fang Wenjing said hurriedly: “Uncle, I am the Fang clan of Nanzong. My name is Fang Wenjing. Speaking of seniority…”

“Okay, okay, I understand. Your Majesty is here, why are you blabbering about this?”

Fang Jifan waved his hand impatiently. , looked at Fang Wenjing up and down, and said in his heart that we, Fang Jifan, have upright views and are upright, so we barely recognize you as a relative. If not, are you worthy of the surname Fang?

Zhu Houzhao said: “You lead the way. I am very easy-going. There is no need for people to pick me up with great fanfare. Let’s enter the city first. This place is called New Qingdao. I don’t know why?”

Fang Wenjing felt that his uncle was here, and he suddenly felt upright. After a while, I thought that my uncle was here, and for the sake of being a family five hundred years ago, even if I said something wrong, he would definitely correct it for me.

My uncle is a good man, the elders in various clan branches all say so.

He then hurriedly said: “Your Majesty, this is the seat of the feudal state of Qilu, so… they all named it after the prefectures and counties of the Shandong Chief Envoy. In this way, the immigrants felt friendly and felt like they had returned to their hometown. Average.”

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and then said: “The climate here is very pleasant, are there any thieves here?”

When he said this, Zhu Houzhao’s face was full of expectation.

Fang Wenjing was stunned for a moment, and then said: “In the beginning, there were some. In the past, there were many natives who attacked our people who were opening up wasteland. The old prince and General Zhengqing raided it several times, and gradually things became peaceful. Before that, the Spanish The people were in serious trouble, but now, it was becoming less and less popular. The old prince had conquered several of their cities and expanded hundreds of miles of land, but… outside of Qilu, there were quite a few horse thieves and locals. There are a lot of people, and it is often said that Spanish thieves will seek wealth and kill people. It is different here in Qilu. Not only is General Zhengqing diligent in suppressing thieves, but the most important thing is… there are many people here. Well, our Fang family alone has 100,000 households and hundreds of thousands of people. There are tens of thousands of new members added every year. There are also millions of other immigrants and criminals. The number of people in this Golden Continent is amazing. There are villages all over the place. In the villages, the men have blunderbuss, bows and arrows, and bred horses. As soon as a thief is discovered, a man from the village will pick up a gun. Get on your horse, and the nearby villages will rush to protect each other after hearing the news. They are all members of the same family, and will protect them if they come back.”

He then added: “Because of this, everyone says that Qilu is very safe. They can live in peace, so many people who moved to Golden Continent came with their families and families.”

As he spoke, he raised his finger and pointed to the southeast of the port: “That place is called Wangye Town. Your Majesty, don’t you mind. You know, there are hundreds of clan princes living there, and there are other clan clans in Xinlinzi. These princes felt unsafe in their own fiefdoms, so they came here with a large group of their family members. They purchased land and settled down, and their ostentation was very grand. The salary paid to them by the court and the income from the fiefdom were all spent here. The people who relied on these hundreds of clansmen to support them, just this alone There are tens of thousands of people in New Qingdao, and the best silks, the latest clothing materials, and the best porcelain are all sent there.”

Zhu Houzhao first heard that there were not many thieves here, and his energy suddenly dropped, and his mood sank directly. He seemed to feel that he hated the local natives for not living up to their expectations.

But then I heard that my relatives were so unsatisfactory. When my father granted them a fiefdom, he was essentially hoping that these clansmen would be able to defend the new continent. But who would have thought that these dogs came to the Golden Continent and were still messing around? It was fine to eat and wait to die and ignore the fiefdom. He actually came to someone else’s fiefdom and became an apartment, and he was still intoxicated.

Zhu Houzhao wanted to curse.

Fang Jifan looked worried and said: “Your Majesty, in the long run, this will not be a blessing to the country. These fiefdoms, regardless of the clan members, will sooner or later be occupied by bandits and natives, which will cause disaster sooner or later in the future.”

Zhu Houzhao said casually .

: “Wait, I will go back and take care of them then.”

The group of people had crossed the trestle and entered the port.

The people at the Port Affairs Department noticed the big commotion and had been waiting here for a long time.

When they heard that the emperor was coming, everyone was shocked, and when they heard that their relative Fang Jifan was coming, they were all overjoyed.

Speaking of which, except for the one surnamed Liu, everyone is related. Anyone with the surname Fang in Qilu has gradually developed a mentality that I am also the protagonist of Qilu. Anyone who brags must mention Fang Jifan. This has long been the case. I forgot that they were stuffed into the boat like cans, and the whole family cried, or hid in the cabin and gnashed their teeth and cursed that piece of shit.

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand: “I can walk as I please, and you will step back later.”

Even though the Port Affairs Department had stepped down, they dared not neglect it. They were so busy that they rushed to report to the superior officer.

Zhu Houzhao still asked Fang Wenjing to lead the way. He hated the large number of people around him and always felt uncomfortable. He only called seven or eight carriages and took Fang Jifan, Liu Jin, and dozens of retinues with him, eager to enter the city first.

So Fang Wenjing led the way.

After leaving the port, you will see a railway track.

On the railway tracks, small steam cars are running, which are specially connected to the city to transport goods, and there is no passenger transport.

The land here is flat, so there are very few roads repaired. Most of the people who come in and out use horse-drawn carriages.

There are houses one after another along the road. Along the road, there are fenced yards, one after another. Some houses have signs hanging outside, most of them are grocery stores or doctors opening clinics.

There’s a lot of land here.

It can even be said that… with a population of one million, the Ming Dynasty might only be the size of a state capital with fertile land. However, in such a state capital, most of the land is often occupied by mountains and forests, and there are very few plains that can actually be used for habitat.

But here, the land occupied by a million people is not only dozens of times that of the state capital, but also thousands of miles of fertile wilderness, and the land is neatly arranged, just like the Fang family.

It was also the first time for Fang Jifan to land here. He looked left and right, and his eyes were dazed. Although the mansions were messy and disorderly, and most of them were just wooden houses, and there were even some houses, it was obvious at a glance that the owner’s family was not well off, but the people he lived in were The conditions are far from comparable to those of the wealthy Jiangnan people.

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