Chapter 222: Light the fire and serve the roasted Japanese pig

Author: tx Cheng Zhi

Chapter 222: Light the fire and serve the roasted Japanese pig

Chapter 221

In Chongming Island, all development is on the right track.

Cheng Shijie positioned Chongming Island as a military base and, of course, a cargo transfer station. Shen Boyun was a very capable person. Cheng Shijie left the construction of the defense line to him and a group of staff, while he left Zhu Weiti to wander around, looking for Have fun and enjoy life.

For some people, life is just living, but for Cheng Shijie now, that’s just living.

Cheng Shijie first stayed in the old house of the Shen family in Chongming Island. Later, Shen Boyun gave the Shen family's villa to Cheng Shijie. It was a small house. This house was small because it was smaller than the ancestral house of the Shen family. .

It is more than a dozen rooms wide, with a front yard, a main yard and a back yard. There are two houses next to each other. After being opened up, a medium-sized yard was formed.

Originally this courtyard was called Shen Garden, but now it is naturally called Cheng Mansion.

While enjoying life, Cheng Shijie also valued education. With the joining of the Shachuan Gang, at least the teaching staff had been significantly improved. Cheng Shijie focused on cultivating the second generation from Liaodong, but did not give up on the generation of immigrants from Liaodong.

The second generation of immigrants can sit and study in spacious and bright classrooms. The education they receive is such that the first generation in Liaodong can only take time to improve themselves after work. In the main areas of Liaodong, such as Jinzhou and Fuzhou There are night schools in Gaizhou, Haizhou, and Lushun.

The official, that is, the Liaodong Management Committee does not require adults to attend night classes in principle. However, the official has requirements for the educational level of public officials. Even officers of the Ning Navy must go to the Liaodong Army Academy or Naval Academy to attend a short-term training course. Otherwise, he would not even be qualified to serve as an officer at the rank of Chief Hundred or above in the army.

However, on Chongming Island, Cheng Shijie effortlessly established four new schools. This was the reason why Jiangnan easily recruited poor scholars.

However, not everyone was happy when Cheng Shijie came to Chongming Island. At least most people, including the common people, did not like it. Cheng Shijie knew that Chongming Island was a sand island and was getting bigger all the time. However, due to the erosion of water and soil, the island Not stable.

For this reason, Cheng Shijie issued an order in March that everyone must plant trees, and there should be twenty trees, including all children born.

It goes without saying that planting trees is important to the environment, but the problem is that the people on Chongming Island do not buy it because their lives are too poor and miserable.

“Being poor actually makes sense!”

Cheng Shijie had to be convinced by the poverty of these people, because the land for each person to plant trees was planned along Chongming Island and along the two main east-west arterial roads.

As long as trees are planted, the land and trees belong to the individual people. If poplars or tung trees are planted, they will become useful in three to five years, which will be a considerable income.

Of course, Cheng Shijie also knew that these people were actually deceived by loan sharks. Even if Liaodong Bank gave them loans, they were unwilling to plant trees.

Shen Boyun looked at Cheng Shijie and said: "Commander, otherwise, our Shen family will take care of all the trees in Chongming. There are now a total of 135,654 residents on the island, a total of 2.71 million." More than three thousand!"

"What a beautiful thought you have! You Shen family are already rich enough, don't take advantage of all the benefits!"

"But if their people are willing to live with their own money, what can they do?"

Cheng Shijie said: "They don't have money, so let them work hard. Shen will be responsible for cultivating or purchasing a batch of saplings. Ninghai Haijun Agricultural Reclamation Company will be responsible for purchasing, and let the people plant trees. One hundred trees of each type will be given to them twenty

A sapling, these saplings are their personal property!”

In fact, these islanders, like the nomads, do not have much environmental awareness. If they cannot survive on this island, they will go to another place. They do not have a deep dependence on the land like the farming people.

Even if many places are not suitable for survival, especially in Liaodong, many grasslands are not suitable for human survival. The wasteland that has been reclaimed through hard work will grow more weeds than crops. If it were an African or a white person, there would be no such thing.

Be patient and hold on.

However, people in the Ming Dynasty are different. They just pull out the weeds that grow. If it doesn't work in one year, it will take two years. As long as you persist, the desolate grassland will sooner or later turn into a prosperous farm.

To be fair, the situation in Chongming Island is pretty good. Although the output of sandy land is limited, the problem is that sweet potatoes, potatoes, and peanuts particularly like sandy land, and there is enough rain. Soon the big label of poverty will be removed here.

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Not only Chongming Island, but also the fishermen living on the Yangtze River are actually very hard-working. Hairy crabs weighing nearly a kilogram will be the king crab in later generations. You need bidding and luck to buy them.

However, in this era, a hairy crab only costs fifty cents.

You must know that a chicken costs between thirty and seventy yuan. Fifty yuan can buy a big chicken, because the daily salary of ordinary people in the capital is actually between thirty and forty yuan. In Jiangnan, it is

lower.

Cheng Shijie used his own money to treat General Ning Haijun to eat hairy crabs, but what he didn't expect was that General Ning Haijun would not appreciate it.

"Commander, this hairy crab has no meat and no oil or water, so you might as well buy a big fat chicken!"

Cheng Shijie followed his good deeds and bought a few hairy crabs and a few saury fish for a taste, and even went to the riverside to pay a high price to fishermen to help him catch pufferfish.

Zhu Weiti seldom ate seafood or river fresh food in the past, so she followed Cheng Shijie to Chongming and realized the freedom of hairy crabs and river puffer fish.

Only then did Cheng Shijie discover that Zhu Weiti was actually a foodie, eating local delicacies everywhere, such as sea bass, mandarin fish, saury, hairy crabs... in different ways.

Including Gu Ziyi, they all gradually gained weight. Gu Ziyi used to be at most eighty pounds, but now her belly is slightly visible, weighing at least one hundred pounds.

Cheng Shijie also discovered business opportunities. There was no way to preserve freshness for these river fresh food and seafood. The business of the fishermen in Wusongkou area was not very good, and they could barely maintain food and clothing.

Cheng Shijie built a freshwater and seafood canning processing factory on Chongming Island. The business became extremely prosperous, and the prices of fish, shrimp and crabs rose accordingly!

Anchovy, saury and puffer fish are listed as the "Three Delicacies of the Yangtze River". Among them, anchovy is the most precious because it is different from puffer fish and saury. It is a highly seasonal fish and its meat is the most delicious before Qingming Festival.

Yes, it plummeted after Qingming Festival.

Therefore, the price of anchovies before the Qingming Festival is higher than that of gold. Once the Qingming Festival is over, no one wants to give it away.

Now that it's April, it's the best time to eat shad.

On this day, Cheng Shijie was handling the shad himself, Zhu Weiti was in charge of lighting the fire, and Gu Ziyi was helping.

Just when Cheng Shijie was putting the steamed anchovies into the pot to steam, Shen Boyun hurriedly came over and said: "Commander, something happened!"

"What's wrong?"

"The fishermen who went out to sea found that thousands of warships from Zheng's fleet were heading towards Wusongkou. They were only less than an hour away from here!"

"Go straight to Wusongkou? It's interesting!"

Zhu Weiti said: "Eat the fish before leaving?"

"No, it's not just an hour to get to Wusongkou from here! It's already a long time!"

"With General Wu here, Zheng Zhilong shouldn't be able to take advantage!"

Cheng Shijie thought about it and agreed.

The warships of this era usually traveled around 89 knots or even 10 knots. In two hours, that is more than 30 kilometers. Even if Cheng Shijie rode a horse, it would be difficult to reach Wusongkou within an hour.

Cheng Shijie decided to eat the fish first.

At Wusongkou, Ning Haijun quickly assembled and entered the combat position. Everything was in order. Eighteen three-inch cannons with millimeter-caliber breech-loading smoothbore cannons and four four-inch breech-loading smoothbores had their gun jackets opened, and boxes of shells were fired from the defense.

Move it out of the gun hole and place it on the gun position.

In just a quarter of an hour, the Ming army soldiers stationed at Wusongkou had completed battle preparations. Although this Ming army nominally belonged to the Wusongkou garrison, in fact, they were also soldiers of the Ning Navy, at least most of them.

yes.

Wu Sheng, the original commander-in-chief of Wusongkou, really disgusted Cheng Shijie. He also thought that Cheng Shijie had a use for him, and he began to want to blow up his hair.

Of course, Cheng Shijie would not tolerate him. After beheading Wu Sheng and with the help of Gao Qiqian, Cheng Shijie's guard commander became the Wusongkou garrison commander.

It turned out that Tang En, the governor of Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu Office, became Wu Sheng's deputy. Tang En was able to become Wu Sheng's deputy for two reasons. First, he was born in Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu Office and belonged to the direct lineage of Cheng Shijie.

Secondly, he worked harder as the governor of Qianhusuo.

The governor of Qianhu Station is lower than Qianhu, and the deputy Qianhu and Baihu are actually only responsible for the prison affairs within Qianhu Station and are also in charge of military affairs. At the beginning, Tang En stood in the wrong team and followed Cheng

Shi Jie was against each other, but was beaten to the end by Cheng Shijie and became a top soldier.

However, the problem is that Tang En is also a ruthless person. While serving as a top soldier, he put down his airs and fought seriously, and got the opportunity to further his studies at Liaodong Military Academy. As a result, he served as a teaching assistant at Liaodong Military Academy and successfully obtained his graduation certificate.

, but he did not develop in a military position, but has been in the military supervision system.

The importance of Wusongkou is self-evident. Cheng Shijie put Wu Sheng in this position and also left supervisors. Otherwise, Wu Sheng would probably be dragged into the trap by wealthy businessmen from Jiangnan.

The weather conditions are now good, and it is completely visible with a telescope. Under the guidance of the lookout post, Wu Sheng, Tang En and others quickly discovered the sharp shadows of sails emerging from behind the sea level.

Tang En said in disbelief, "Good guy, at least eight or nine hundred warships!"

"I'm afraid there will be more than a thousand ships! What a big gesture!"

Cheng Shijie worked hard and struggled for two years before he could build less than 60 warships. Zheng Zhilong was overwhelmed by more than a thousand warships as soon as he made a move. This courage is really staggering.

This time was different from the last fleet led by Zheng Zhibao. Although Zheng Zhibao had thousands of warships last time, most of them were small ships. But this time, more than 600 main warships were dispatched. Zheng Zhilong took out his own

foundation.

Tang En was a little worried and said: "General Wu, the total strength of our army is only more than 3,100 people, but the enemy has arrived with more than a thousand warships in one go. There is a huge disparity in numbers. What should we do?"

Wu Sheng smiled faintly and said: "When we, Ning Haijun, are fighting, when have we ever cared about the enemy's strength advantage?"

Tang En thought about it and it was indeed the case. When he faced the ruthless bandit Qin Wu, Denglai's new army, Kong Youde's rebels, and the Jian Nuning navy, they all used more to defeat fewer.

Tang En pondered: "Of course I know that our Ning Navy is very strong, but...but this is different from land warfare! The enemy comes from the sea, with thousands of battleships and thousands of naval guns. They can hit us, but we can't."

How can we fight this battle if we get to them?"

"Can this still be simple?"

Wu Sheng smiled and said: "Put the enemy on the shore!"

Wu Sheng immediately issued an order: "All artillery should be withdrawn from their emplacements first, and the infantry should enter the artillery defense fortifications. Do not fire back when encountering enemy artillery fire. When the enemy begins to land, push out the artillery and beat the hell out of them!"

When the Zheng fleet arrived at Wusongkou, they found that Ning Haijun did not fire any cannons, which made Zheng Zhilong very strange.

The defender should fire vigorously at this time to block the fleet from the effective range of its own artillery. Compared with battleships, coastal forts can be well protected, and are not affected by waves and bumps when firing, so they are more accurate.

It will be more advantageous in a fight. Under normal circumstances, warships are absolutely unwilling to collide head-on with shore defense artillery, and they can't even touch them.

This was not the case in Liaodong. Ning Haijun's coastal defense guns were very fierce and caused heavy losses to Zheng's fleet. In order to attract Zheng's army troops to land, Ning Haijun also deliberately put the Zheng's fleet's army troops ashore.

Stay away from naval gun range.

Just when Zheng's army thought that Ning Haijun was nothing more than that, Ning Haijun actually dispatched the cavalry unit. You must know that Zheng's army is actually a light infantry unit. There is no way. If you accidentally fall into the sea at sea,
To be continued...