Guangzhou, Tianzi Pier.

It was more than a year ago when I came back to Guangzhou from Fengming Mountain or when I was promoted to Tongzhi of Chaozhou Prefecture. But when I came back to Guangzhou after such a short period of time, I felt as if I was in another world.

The Guangzhou under the rule of Shang Kexi before and the Guangzhou under the rule of Emperor Zhu and Cannon Zhu are really two different worlds.

Guangzhou under the rule of Shang Kexi, although it is also the largest city in the south of the world, has a depressed and desolate atmosphere everywhere... It is a kind of death! Really lifeless!

At that time, Guangzhou was a dead city, but it had not yet cooled down. As a maritime trade center for more than a thousand years, Guangzhou has been China's gateway city for foreign exchanges since ancient times. Once it encounters a situation like coastal relocation,

Isn't the sea ban just a dead city?

In Fengmingshan's impression, the Tianzi Pier at that time was deserted. There were only a few warships, official ships and inland sand barges running on the Dongjiang, Xijiang and Beijiang routes, feebly moored there. The strong and powerful ships loading and unloading goods were moored there.

The workers looked as if they had not had enough to eat, and there were not many vendors wandering around on the pier. The streets outside the pier were full of shabby, lifeless houses... Although there were people living inside.

Some people who fled from the coastal areas of Guangdong due to the coastal relocation had no choice but to live in despair because they had no way of making money.

Oh, it’s not like there are no opportunities at all. There are also three major livelihoods: male thieves, female prostitutes, and beggars!

However, Fengmingshan was an official at that time, so the "male thieves" and beggars in Guangzhou City would not dare to find him, and they would only be entangled by a group of vulgar fans.

Thinking of the vulgar fans in Guangzhou City, Fengmingshan, who had been "ignoring the taste of meat" for more than half a month, was filled with expectations - he did not bring a concubine with him this time, only a master, a man from the same clan as him.

The old housekeeper and two former team leaders from the yamen.

When he left Ganzhou Prefecture and entered Chaozhou Prefecture, he still thought about going to Jieyang and Puning's Fireworks Willow Alley to find a few old friends. However, he did not expect that when he entered Chaozhou, he found that not only the weather had changed, but also the social atmosphere had changed.

Anyway, there are no open brothels or gambling houses in the counties of Chaozhou Prefecture, and there seem to be no mountain bandits or water thieves outside the city. I wonder where those "unemployed" fireworks women and bandits went to make a living?

But this trend is really a bit like a new dynasty and a new atmosphere! It’s just that this new dynasty atmosphere is a bit boring.

From the perspective of Fengmingshan, the former father of the Qing Dynasty, there are still some appropriate bad habits...

Thinking of the bad habits here in Guangzhou, Fengmingshan couldn't help but stop and turned around to look at the Guangzhou Port, which was both familiar and unfamiliar to him.

The wide water surface of the Pearl River, the long embankments and piers, the islands dotted on the water surface of the Pearl River, and the hazy area on the other side of the Pearl River shrouded in morning mist are all familiar.

However, there are many new cargo warehouses on the port terminals, and there are also many dock workers who look very strange and seem to be used for loading and unloading cargo (human cranes). They have buns on their heads and short clothes.

, were shuttling back and forth, carrying various large and small objects.

Fengmingshan knew that the same busy scene existed at the Huangpu Village Pier and Huangpu Island, which were slightly farther away - the passenger boat Fengmingshan took had also stopped there, but his destination was Guangzhou City.

So I didn’t get off the boat to take a closer look.

But looking towards Huangpu Village and Huangpu Island from the boat, you can still feel how busy they are there.

There are more barbarian boats and barbarians on the Huangpu Village side than on the Guangzhou Tianzi Pier!

At some point on the shore of Huangpu Island, more than a dozen berths for ship repairs and shipping services were built, and an unknown factory was built. The tall chimneys were filled with black smoke. The berths were busy, and in the distance there were

You can hear the sound of clanging, clanging, and labor chants with a Cantonese accent. It seems that the construction of ships is being stepped up.

The whole of Guangzhou is showing an exciting vitality!

If Guangzhou under the rule of Shang Kexi was a dead city, then Guangzhou under the rule of the Third Prince Zhu and his third grandson was a resurrected big city.

But where does this vitality that permeates everywhere come from?

Is this what Guangzhou was like before it was captured by Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao?

When Fengmingshan was curious, he suddenly saw three officials wearing black cross-collared cloth, with red kerchiefs on their heads, and long swords and grenade hammers hanging on their belts. They were walking towards him with a smile. The first one among them was smiling.

As he walked, he asked, "Where are you from? Are you from Guangfu, Chaozhou, or Hakka? Are you here to attend the Conference of Ten Thousand Nationalities?"

Many of those who got off the passenger boat with Fengmingshan and others were Confucian scholars wearing "Confucius uniforms" with three-foot swords hanging from their waists.

In fact, Feng Mingshan himself is also dressed in the same outfit now. His braids have also been cut off, and a piece of black cloth has been wrapped around his head, which has not yet grown much hair.

In addition, he also got a long sword and hung it on his waist, which really looked like a "confucian killer".

Feng Mingshan has been an official in Chaozhou for several years and can speak a little Chaozhou dialect, but there is no need for him to speak now. Someone will answer the questions of the three officials.

"We are Hakkas from Longchuan County, Huizhou..."

"The student is a Hakka from Chengxiang, Chaozhou. He was recommended by the tribe to attend the meeting of all ethnic groups. This is a letter issued by the prefect Luo of Chaozhou Prefecture."

"The students are Hakkas from Dabu County, Chaozhou..."

Almost all the people who came on the same boat as Fengming Mountain were Hakkas who came to Guangzhou to attend the Ten Thousand Ethnic Conference - Fengming Mountain took the boat from the Hakka settlement area in the northeast of Huizhou Prefecture, passing through Xunwushui and Longjiang (Dongjiang).

Floated to Guangzhou.

Of course the people who got on the boat with him were all Hakkas.

One of the squad leaders who followed Fengming Mountain was also a Hakka, and he showed a forged letter from Chaozhou Prefecture on the spot - the Guangzhou court had just opened, and many systems were not yet complete, so standardized documents such as letters were left over from the Qing Dynasty.

The inventory was used first. That is, the official seal was changed to one with no Manchu characters but only Chinese characters. The fonts are the same as before. Fengmingshan can engrave the seals themselves, so I engraved a Chinese one.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! And he was familiar with the Hakka surnames in the Chaozhou area, so he gave one of his squad leaders the name Dabu Wu family, which was the identity of Wu Liuqi and his family. Let him fool him

The three officials of the Ming Dynasty who were interrogating the Ming Dynasty officials were not careful enough and found nothing wrong. So they were let go and given a "post ticket" to go to Guangzhou and stay in a post office, with food included.

Live - It seems that the recent surge in the price of "special white sugar" has made the Guangzhou court make a lot of money!

Fengmingshan and his party took the post tickets and walked out of the passenger boat pier of Tianzi Pier, and found that the streets outside the pier had changed drastically!

The original shantytowns and thatched houses have been transformed into contiguous construction sites, with scenes of vigorous construction everywhere. Some of the buildings are almost completed. You can see from their appearance that most of these buildings are used for establishments.

Some of the inns, shops, and restaurants are Chinese-style buildings, and some are Western-style buildings. They should be business shops owned by foreigners.

The street leading from the bank of the Pearl River to Wuxianmen has also been widened and renovated. The street is straight and open, and the ground is paved with bluestone slabs.

Fengmingshan and his party walked along the street paved with bluestone slabs. When they approached the Wuxian Gate, they also discovered that a large-scale academy was being built on the west side of the street.

The reason why they knew this was the academy was because the gatehouse of the academy had been repaired, and three plaques were hung on the gatehouse - the plaque on the left was engraved with the word "Sacred Heart", and the plaque on the right was engraved with "Mingde"

Two characters. On the plaque in the middle are the characters "Guangzhou No. 3 Academy".

And on the street outside the gate of Guangzhou No. 3 Academy, a wooden street sign was erected. Fengmingshan went up to take a look and saw three big words - Jiefang Street!
Chapter completed!