At that time, when Fujian Province went to Beijing, the main land route was of course to follow the post station route, passing through Jianzhou and leaving Xianxia Pass, entering Quzhou, along Liangzhe Road to the Yangtze River, crossing the river and following the canal route, so the way north is. If the Tangma urgently reports, they will change horses at the post station, and walk about 400 miles a day, which is exactly ten days to reach. If it is 400 miles a day, they can walk six or seven hundred miles a day. Generally, the most urgent military orders issued by the two governments can walk like this. In five or six days, they can go from the capital to Fuzhou. The business and travel officials who go north usually take sea boats north, and don’t walk many along the land route. At most, they will go to Liangzhe. Jiangnan will walk along the land route, but there are many rivers along the way, and they will walk on land for a section of land and then change to water boats.

Yuezhou, Mingzhou, Quzhou, Chuzhou, and to Hangzhou, Jiazhou, Suzhou, Runzhou, and Jiangling, the rivers and water networks are all connected and commercial and travelers are basically traveling by land from Fuzhou to the mountainous areas of western Zhejiang. The rest of the itinerary is mostly hired on Liangzhe Road and Jiangnan East Road, and buying and selling goods. This is how to go.

Merchants from western Zhejiang, Jinghu North Road, and Jinghu South Road will also come to Fuzhou and Quanzhou to do business. They basically bring local specialties over land, and go along the Minjiang River or Lianjiang River to Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other places. They are doing big foreign trade transactions that are worth running like this.

This is also the important reason for the geographical conditions in Gukou, Shuikou and Nan'an. When you come from outside and go out from here, these places are all necessary routes for water and land.

Xu Zi went north first, which was not too urgent, so naturally there was no need to rush along the post station to ride a horse.

If you take a sea boat to the north, you usually arrive in about 20 days, which is only ten days longer than a 400-mile per day by land. It is not too delayed. In terms of cost, you can save too much.

The most important reason is that Xu Zixian has many subordinates on this trip. It is too eye-catching on land and is not a good choice. In addition, the sea boats are heading north, and more people are brought together with sailors to practice the boat. Even if the military officer cannot become a sailor, he must at least understand the situation, so that he can be qualified to fight at sea in the future.

In Xu Zixian's eyes, the South China Sea Water Camp is the top priority. Many excellent military officers will be transferred to the Water Camp. At least two camps must be established in the water camp. First practice on the river, and slowly go to coastal places to train boats until Penghu and Dongfan.

As soon as this plan was expressed, Chen Zhengbin and Chen Duzhong understood it. Chen Duzhong nodded and said, "I understand. If the thieves in Qishan are not removed, the five thieves in the sea are not removed. Mingda, you can never feel at ease."

Chen Du said that after the general regiment training, after fighting against the Jiangtan, they would safely defend the place, or recruit more land camp troops to defend along the coast. No matter how strong the five thieves on the sea are, they would not be likely to gather a large army to attack Fuzhou. There are only two thousand thieves in Qishan, so regiment training should not be afraid of Chen Yutai.

However, Xu Zixian was enterprising. Judging from his current performance, he was afraid that Qishan would not go to Nan'an, and Nan'an's group training had plans to attack Qishan.

At least it is necessary to build a water camp and blockade along the river to the sea. If it can be done, the thieves in Qishan will be defeated by themselves.

Chen Zhengbin also understood this level and bowed and smiled, "Mingda is really enterprising, and Brother Yu admires it. Unfortunately, Brother Yu can't help much in Penghu. Instead, there are some old sailors who have been around for Mingda to choose from. If the water camp wants people, you can come to Penghu. Brother Yu recommends some real good players to Mingda."

"That's so grateful and loving!" Xu Zi stood up first and bowed respectfully to Chen Zhengbin.

It is too easy to find sailors in Fujian. Only the Fuzhou plain area of ​​Dongmin has large areas of arable land. The land in the rest is quite scattered, with mountains and rivers near the sea. A large number of people are seeking a living in the sea. In the Eastern and Western countries, the people of the Great Wei who immigrated to the past were the most common people on Fujian Road. In more than 200 years, at least one million people moved. Now even the early immigrant belts have reproduced, there are millions of Han people overseas. They have become a majority group in many places, and even the country has been established.

But sailors are easy to get, but real veterans and good ones are still relatively rare.

Just like the people of the Great Wei Dynasty had a few who could not farm, but the yield of the same acres was 30% or 40% more than that of those who could not grow. This is everyone's ability.

The veteran sailors may have been overseas. For at least ten years at sea, several old sailors dared to control small whistle boats from Jinjiang to Penghu and Dongfan. In the eyes of later generations, it may be a death-seeking act, but this kind of thing is too common on Fujian Road. These old sailors can float on the sea for a few days after encountering strong winds. This kind of ability is not something that ordinary people can do.

The good guy Chen Zhengbin said is definitely a strong guy of this level. If the water camp is established and if high-level sailors can join it, it will be twice the result with half the effort.

"It's all for the people on Fujian Road. We are officials, so we should consider the people." Chen Zhengbin bowed and said with a smile: "I really didn't expect that Mingda really wanted to talk about business when he came to us."

Xu Zixian smiled and said, "I have no time to come to my house after I am requesting the ceremony. I have to prepare for going north to go to sea..."

Chen Zhengbin immediately said: "I will send someone to Penghu when I go down and find some old sailors to send Mingda to envoy him. Don't delay the trip north. When Mingda comes back, everything will be completely different. This is a big deal, don't delay it."

Xu Zixian's current honorary rank is General Zhaowu, and his official position is the fifth-rank troupe training envoy.

In terms of official positions and duties, they are far behind Lin Douyao.

If Xu Zixian succeeds in his title, he will at least be able to compete with Lin Douyao, and his position in the officialdom will not be too different.

"I want Mingda to invite me over, so I shouldn't have been listening all the time?" Lin Duzhong smiled and said, "I don't know what instructions should I ask for, the Eastern Defence Envoy, the commander of the village?"

"Uncle Jiu is so serious." Xu Zi bowed first and said, "I just want to ask about the situation of the land in the Dongfan area. The people are scattered and there is no government control, daily livelihood, public security, culture and education, and these things are dealt with?"

"Mingda is a big-name person..." Chen Duzhong said: "To be honest, I don't care much about these things. But since you asked, I can at least answer them. The eastern part of the East Fan is full of endless mountains, dense forests, mountains, and people are hard to reach. Only a few natives live in it, with dozens of tribes of all sizes, and there are always hundreds of thousands of people. The imperial court also wanted to wipe out the matter in his early years, but the tribes of Shengfan hid in the mountains, but our army had no way to go deep into the supply, miasma, and plague. They were all mortal enemies of the army. A small number of people came in, Shengfan was good at archery shooting techniques, and kept hiding.

Even the imperial guards in iron armor could not bear it. Later, the imperial court simply built a dozen military camps of different sizes along the western coast, southwest of the East Vanguard, and built more than ten military camps of different sizes to protect our residents. These camps had less than two thousand troops, and were managed by me, the command and defense envoy of Shangzhai. The main thing was to prevent pirates from falling into the East Vanguard. Not only did they successfully replenish food and water, but they also supported our imperial navy, hosted shipwreck merchants, and protected the Great Wei fishermen who had fallen from Penghu. These things were probably the only thing. To be honest, I was so bored there."

Xu Zixian sat opposite Chen Duzhong and listened to the other party's introduction calmly. Chen Zhengbin's face showed sympathy. This Jiu uncle was young and smart, but he was too naughty, so he could not do anything in literature and could only practice martial arts. After passing the martial arts and Jinshi, he was still soaring with the Chen family's relationship. He had been in the position of such a middle-level position that had been excessively promoted to the top in the East Fan defense for many years. Judging from the current situation, as long as Lin Douyao is there, Han Bingzhong is there, and King Zhao is there, Chen Duzhong can only continue to stay in the East Fan, and do not want to be transferred or promoted.

Xu Zixian felt something at this point. No wonder the Chen family had to consider getting married again and again. Once this marriage was settled, the lineage with King Qi and Xu Zixian was of course formed a marriage alliance. At the same time, it also offended the power of King Zhao, Pu family, and the pacifier Lin Douyao, naturally from neutrality to hostility, and it did not affect one or two people.

In the civil service system, the Chen family is not afraid of any rivals. The military service system has its own rules. The commander can act cheaply. If Chen Duzhong does not obey military orders, Han Bingzhong, the commander, dares to directly take Chen Duzhong, and the court will only abide by it afterwards.

After all, military officials must be unified in their duties and power, and there must be no too many constraints, otherwise the generals on the front line will not be able to lead troops.

"It was me who implicated Uncle Ninth." Xu Zixian had no choice but to get up again and hold his fists and bow.

"Even if there is no Mingda," Chen Duzhong said: "I don't want to move within three to five years. This matter is not important... Let's talk about the Dongfan incident, there are more than 10,000 islanders, and they mainly cultivate land on the southeast coast, producing soybeans and mung beans. It is similar to Penghu, and the coastal land is barren and there is not much production. In addition, it is trading deer skin and sand gold with Shengfan, and of course it cannot be withdrawn. After Mingda went there, he knew that the situation there was far worse than Fuzhou. The official offices of my defense envoy were all similar to those of the shacks here..."

Chen Zhengbin smiled and shook his head. Uncle Jiu complained for a long time, but mainly wanted to resign and not do it.

People from Changwen Hou Mansion do not need to be officials, and they resign and go home to live freely. They are still powerful gentry. Moreover, the recent tribe members get a lot of dividends from the public. Chen Duzhong himself also has a business deal. I don’t know how leisurely and happy it is after returning home.

However, the elders in the clan publicly agreed that the Chen family could have one or two civil officials, but there were too few military officials after all. When such troubled times were approaching, the importance of mastering the army was increasing day by day.

This time, many of the clan members of the Changwen Hou Mansion were based on this consideration.

In any case, the importance of having a marquis in the royal family and less than 2,000 elite armed forces is much more important than that of a prefect.

Chen Duzhong wanted to resign and go home to enjoy his fortune. Several meetings of the clan rejected him. He could only ask Chen Duzhong to continue to suffer in the East Fan. Of course, he could only complain. He was a senior, but he was less than 40 years old, so what if he suffered a few more years?
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