My life skills in Daming Liver

Songjiang Prefecture, Shanghai County.

During this period, Songjiang Mansion was already one of the most prosperous areas in the south of the Yangtze River.

The so-called "Su Song half the world", but the most developed county in Songjiang is Huating County, which is later Songjiang District in Shanghai.

The bank of the Huangpu River in front of Su Ze is just a desolate fishing village.

No one would have imagined that the area with the highest housing prices in Shanghai in later generations would look like this barbaric place now.

Today, Shanghai County is just a small county seat, with a combined population of less than 20,000 people. It is dominated by fishing, and it is very dilapidated and backward.

Su Ze stood on the edge of the Huangpu River, which is called "The Bund" by later generations, and looked at the boats passing by on the river. Su Ze turned around and said to Lin Deyang behind him: "We will build the camp of the Shanghai Anti-smuggling Team Training Institute!"

The location Su Ze pointed to was the best location on the entire Bund. According to Su Ze's memory, this should be the location of the Bund Customs Building.

I have to say that the location of this place is really good. Standing here, you can see the entire Huangpu River, and building a wharf here can control the entire Huangpu River.

The regiment trainees who followed Su Ze all looked bitter, and many of them had already regretted it.

The prosperous Songjiang Mansion does not wait, and follows Su Ze to this remote place in Shanghai County to suffer.

Moreover, Su Ze built a military camp directly on the riverside outside the county seat, and did not even enter Shanghai County. Seeing the desolation of the Bund, the regiment trainees did not understand why the regiment trainer, Su Ze, was so excited to see this broken land.

The recruits sighed and imagined that life in the coming year must be very miserable.

In order to support Su Ze, Fang Wanghai allocated all the funds for the bottom of the box at the bottom of the Chaoguan Office to him, and took the 200 regiments recruited from the Suzhou government to train recruits, and started the pier and barracks on the Bund.

Another ten days later, five boats from Ningbo also arrived at the simple wharf.

Yongchuan is a flat-bottomed boat that can sail in the river and sea. According to the specifications of the Ming Dynasty, it is a small boat with less than 100 materials.

The small flag leading this fleet is called Sun Haijiao. He was originally a hereditary military household stationed in the guard post near Ningbo.

Originally, Sun Haijiao was very happy when he heard that he could go to the bustling Songjiang Mansion to work as an errand, but after he moored to this broken wharf, Sun Haijiao's heart became cold. How can he make money in such a place where no shit?

Sun Haijiao commanded the Yong boat to dock, and when he saw Su Ze who greeted him, he showed an expression of displeasure.

Why did this group of trainers choose such a place where the birds don't shit?

Sun Haijiao gave Su Ze a blow on the spot.

"Tuanlian envoys are wearing armor, so they can't fully salute!"

Sun Haijiao just clasped his fists, and then said: "Tuan Lianshi, the brothers have worked hard on the boat from Ningbo, please ask the regiment Lianshi to give out the reward first?"

The smile on Su Ze's face disappeared, and Lin Deyang behind him glared.

Sun Haijiao said slowly: "According to the old rules of our Zhejiang officers and soldiers, two taels of silver for helmsman, two taels of silver for crossing the sea, one tael of silver for stopping at the port, and one tael of silver for cloth flowers. This time I brought fifty brothers. The envoy has done the calculation, six taels of silver per person, and the envoy of the regiment only needs to give me three hundred taels of silver."

Su Ze asked coldly: "How is the money calculated?"

Sun Haijiao thought there was something going on, so he immediately snapped his fingers and said, "So that the regiment trainee knows that steering the helm at sea is hard work. As a rule, there is a rudder ICBC when going to sea, and crossing the sea is also dangerous. Crossing the sea silver is also a common practice. Stop the ship Docking is also a technical job, so it is natural to collect port money, and as for the cloth flower money, this is for buying new clothes for the brothers."

Sun Haijiao finished speaking in one breath, but Su Ze, the trainer's expression, made him unable to see through.

Generally speaking, when a soldier asks for a reward, the chief officer has only two reactions.

One is that they don't care, and directly promise to pay money. Anyway, the reward is also from the court. As long as they fight hard, many officers don't care about paying money.

The other one is furious and resolutely refuses to give it. However, this kind of thing is generally not said to be dead. After all, the price is paid back. No matter how tough the chief officer is, he will give some money in the end. better off.

But Su Ze's expression was very calm. He didn't agree, but he didn't get furious either. Instead, he looked at Sun Haijiao with cold eyes.

But Sun Haijiao is also a veteran who has been a soldier for ten years, how could he be frightened by Su Ze's eyes.

Su Ze said lightly: "What if I don't give it?"

Sun Haijiao showed a sinister smile and said: "If the regiment trainer doesn't give it, then the brothers can only go back home."

This set of begging for rewards before the battle is also a routine operation of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, but Su Ze did not expect that this group of people would be so unscrupulous, even asking for six taels of silver per person, and threatening to run away without paying the money.

Su Ze's tone became colder. He said, "The Yongchuan was assigned to our Anti-Smuggling Headquarters by Mr. Hu. You can't take it away."

Sun Haijiao showed a ferocious expression and said: "This boat is the guy for our brothers to eat, so naturally we have to take it away! Besides, can you play with the boat?"

After saying this, the Ningbo soldiers behind Sun Haijiao drew their weapons and stood on the boat to confront Su Ze.

Behind Su Ze were twenty soldiers of the Changning Guard. Lin Deyang also took the blunderbuss from his waist and lit the matchlock on the blunderbuss.

Sun Haijiao was very surprised by Su Ze's tough move. Generally speaking, the chief officer will make certain concessions when encountering requests from his subordinates. After all, the army of the Ming Dynasty is like this. If the rewards are not enough, who is willing to work hard? .

Moreover, the guards behind Su Ze were physically strong, and the one who escaped turned out to be a standard bird gun!

The guards along the southeast coast also began to equip bird guns, but the quality of the bird guns made by the imperial court was not good, and their chambers often exploded.

But the Japanese pirates invading Zhejiang now basically use Frangji bird guns, and the bird guns of the soldiers behind Su Ze are exquisite imported bird guns, which also makes Sun Haijiao, who has seen the power of bird guns, flinch a little .

Sun Haijiao said sternly: "Even if I leave it to you, can you sail the boat?"

This is also Sun Haijiao's last threat. After all, the sea is different from the road. Manipulating a ship is a technical job. This is why Sun Haijiao is confident in asking for rewards from Su Ze. He has forced the chief officer to give in several times before asking for rewards. It is because no one can steer a boat without them.

However, Su Ze was still not threatened by Sun Haijiao. Lin Deyang had already loaded the lead bullet and aimed his gun at Sun Haijiao.

Sun Haijiao was in cold sweat, Su Ze said: "Leave the boat, you can go back to Zhejiang if you want, and I will tell Hu Futai about the whole thing."

Sun Haijiao looked at Su Ze, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "I'll give you the boat! But see how you drive it! Get out of the pier, we still have goods on board!"

Su Ze waved his hand and said, "Let your people unload the cargo and leave the boat behind!"

Sun Haijiao looked at Su Ze unwillingly, but seeing Su Ze's firm face, he had no intention of haggling at all.

Sun Haijiao had no choice but to ask his men to unload the large and small boxes from the boat.

These are the goods that Sun Haijiao bought from Ningbo after receiving the order. They originally wanted to bring them to Songjiang Mansion to make a fortune, but they didn't expect to meet such a stubborn person like Su Ze.

Sun Haijiao rolled his eyes, and instead of leaving with his subordinates, he directly set up a small camp next to Su Ze's anti-smuggling headquarters camp.

Su Ze didn't stop Sun Haijiao from building a camp either. He directly regarded Sun Haijiao and his party as imaginary enemies, and began to train the Anti-Smuggling Headquarters to set up camp and patrol the night.

It happened to set up camp and watch the night. This was the most basic marching and fighting skill, and it was just right to train the recruits of the Anti-smuggling Headquarters.

Sun Haijiao didn't know that he had become the imaginary enemy of Su Ze's training soldiers. He asked his men to take the goods to Shanghai County and Huating County for sale, while he stared at the Yongchuan on the pier.

These days Su Ze was busy building camps and training recruits. After a few days of busy work, he finally took the time to board the boat.

Su Ze took Lin Deyang to board the ship. The structure of the Yong ship is much simpler than that of the Fu ship. There is only one cabin under the deck, and there is only one vertical sail on the ship. This kind of flat-bottomed sea ship can only sail in offshore areas, and the wind and waves are slightly stronger. One point will overturn.

"This boat is too bad." Lin Deyang said with a look of disgust.

"I will use it first, I have already written to Changningwei, asking Baihu to send people to prepare for the construction of the shipyard."

Lin Deyang beat the mast with his hand: "The material of this mast is not bad, it's a pity to use it to make such a broken ship."

"Although the Ningbo ship is small, it is suitable for use on the river. A big ship like the New World is not flexible."

Lin Deyang also nodded, agreeing with Su Ze's words.

"Our brothers can drive this kind of boat."

Lin Deyang and the others grew up by the sea, so driving a small boat like Yongchuan is no problem.

Su Ze smiled and said, "It's not for you to steer the boat, but for you to teach these recruits how to steer a boat. From today onwards, you will be the deputy envoy of the regiment, and the task of training the crew will be entrusted to you."

Lin Deyang immediately said with great joy: "I will definitely live up to the entrustment of the regiment training envoy!"

Su Ze looked at his nautical skills that had been upgraded to Lv5, and couldn't help itching and said, "Let me try."

Sun Haijiao watched the boat on the port leave the shore, with a mocking smile on his lips.

Driving a boat is different from that on the shore. Although this young regiment trainer has a lot of skills in training soldiers, it is not so easy to drive a Yongboat to fight!

The reason why Sun Haijiao camped near Su Ze's camp was that Su Ze would not be able to handle these Yong boats, and he would definitely invite his brothers to sail the boats in the end.

At that time, they will be able to offer a higher price.

But when Sun Haijiao saw that Yong ship left the port, quickly raised its sails, and then made a graceful circle along the Huangpu River, and entered the port with a "drift", his surprised eyes almost fell out.

There are such masters in this regiment of training troops! No wonder he is so confident!

Sun Haijiao became entangled now. He blackmailed Su Ze to ask for some reward, and he didn't intend to break up with Su Ze.

If they return to Zhejiang like this, they will definitely be questioned.

Now that the initiative has fallen into Su Ze's hands, Sun Haijiao's brow is sweating anxiously, what should he do now?

Su Ze was concentrating on training on the Bund in Shanghai, while Lin Mojun was inspecting the newly reclaimed fields on Dong'ao Island in Changningwei.

Seeing that her younger brother began to grow taller, and now Lin Mojun took her younger brother Lin Liangjun with her no matter what she did, she felt a sense of urgency for no reason, and she wanted to hand over the errands of Baihu to her younger brother as soon as possible.

"Hundred households!" The land reclamation woman put down her hoe and saluted Lin Mojun. Lin Mojun nodded slightly, then walked over to check his farm tools and said:

"Your farming tools are blunt, send them to the blacksmith shop on the island to sharpen them again."

The woman grinned and said, "It doesn't get in the way, it doesn't get in the way, the hoe is still usable, so why bother the craftsmen."

Lin Mojun said solemnly: "A good hoe can plow the land better. The most important thing in farming is the season. If it is because the utensils are late, it will be a greater waste. You can go to the blacksmith shop now and grind the hoe. In a short time, the Baihu Office will not charge you any money."

The woman quickly expressed her gratitude to Lin Mojun, and took her hoe to the village at the pier of Dongao Island at the foot of the mountain.

"Sister, you don't farm, why do you care about these things?"

Lin Mojun said seriously: "When you, Brother Aze, went to the fields every month to inspect the fields. Isn't he more knowledgeable than me?"

"If you don't know how much food your land produces, how will you fight in the future?"

"If you don't know the difficulty of farming, how can you know how to cherish food."

Lin Liangjun, who was suppressed by the blood, could only lower his head in response.

Lin Mojun said, "Let's go, let's go to the dock."

Lin Mojun took Lin Liangjun to the newly built dock on Dongao Island, and Lin Zongyuan was busy with his apprentice.

"Uncle Zong Yuan!" Lin Liangjun greeted warmly.

Lin Zongyuan ignored him, but saluted Lin Mojun: "Hundred households."

"Master Lin, how is the new boat?"

Lin Zongyuan touched his head and said, "Mr. Su's drawings are very detailed, but our wood is not strong enough to withstand the impact of waves. The new trial-produced ship fell apart after a day at sea."

Lin Mojun frowned and asked, "That is to say, we can't build the clipper ship that Mr. Su mentioned?"

Lin Zongyuan said: "There are also problems with rigging and sails. I have also communicated with Captain Alfonso. The canvas currently woven by Changningwei does not meet the requirements. We need denser and stronger canvas."

Lin Mojun nodded and said, "I'll go back and tell Mrs. Lu's sister-in-law to ask her to weave the cloth more densely. I'll go back and ask Little Eunuch You to think of a way."

Lin Zongyuan said: "I heard from Captain Alfonso that there are many merchants from Annan in Malacca, and there are good timbers that are hundreds of years old."

Lin Mojun said: "I see, I will let the Ryukyu people find a way to get good wood."

Lin Mojun asked again: "Are there any difficulties?"

Lin Zongyuan said: "There are too few apprentices who can write and count. Can the children in the nursing home give me a few?"

Lin Mojun shook her head and said, "Those children still have to go to school. If they can't, we should pick those who are enlightened from the guards and let them go to the guards to attend classes. Mr. Chen and Mr. Lin also teach arithmetic in the guards."

Lin Zongyuan sighed and said: "That's the only way to go. What you learn now is not as good as the foundation taught by Mr. Su himself, but there is no way, let's learn arithmetic while learning shipbuilding."

After finishing the business discussion, Lin Zongyuan changed his tone: "Has Ze sent a letter?"

Lin Mojun nodded and said, "I just received a letter from him in Quzhou, and he should have arrived in Nanjing after some calculation."

Lin Zongyuan nodded, and said to Lin Liangjun: "You kid, study hard. After Mr. Su leaves, you will also take care of the affairs of the guard for Baihu!"

"Call me Master Lin when you are doing business. Otherwise, when you become a hundred households, everyone will be your uncle and brother. How can you lead the guard?"

Lin Liangjun lowered her head, it turns out that being a hundred household is so difficult!