Guangzhou, Tianzi Pier.

When I came back from Fengming Mountain to Guangzhou or became a Tongzhi of Chaozhou Prefecture, it was more than a year ago. After this not-so-long period of time, I felt like I was a different world.

Guangzhou, which was ruled by Shang Kexi and Guangzhou, which is ruled by Wang Zhu today, are really two worlds.

Although Guangzhou under Shang Kexi's rule is also the largest city in the south, it exudes a sluggish and bleak atmosphere everywhere, which is a kind of death! It is truly lifeless!

At that time, Guangzhou was a city that had been dead but not as cool as a sea trade center for more than a thousand years. Since ancient times, Guangzhou has been the gateway to China's foreign exchanges. Once it encounters a sea ban of such a level of coastal migration, wouldn't it be a dead city?

In Fengming Mountain's impression, the Tianzi Pier was deserted at that time, and there were only a few military ships, official ships and inland sand boats that ran on the Dongjiang, Xijiang and Beijiang routes, which were parked weakly. The loading and unloading workers looked like they were not full, and there were not many swimming vendors on the pier. The streets outside the pier were full of dilapidated houses. Although some people who fled from the coastal areas of Guangdong because of the coastal migration of the coastal areas of the Guangdong Province were living in the houses, they had no way to make money and could only endure the hardships in despair.

Oh, there are also three major businesses: thieves, prostitutes, and beggars!

However, Fengmingshan was an official at the time, and the "male thieves" and beggars in Guangzhou City dared not come to him, but they would be entangled by a group of vulgar fans.

Thinking of the vulgar and vulgar powder in Guangzhou City, Feng Mingshan, who had been "not knowing the taste of meat" for more than half a month, was full of expectations that he did not bring his concubine this time when he went out, but only brought a master, an old housekeeper of the same clan as him, and two former squad leaders in the yamen.

When he left Ganzhou Prefecture and entered Chaozhou Prefecture, he still wanted to go to Jieyang and Puning's Fireworks Willow Alley to find a few old lovers. But he didn't expect that as soon as he entered Chaozhou, he realized that not only the weather had changed, but also the social atmosphere had changed.

Anyway, there are no open brothels and gambling halls in the county towns of Chaozhou Prefecture, and there seem to be no bandits or water thieves outside the city. I don’t know where the “unemployed” firework women and robbers went to make a living?

However, this atmosphere really means a new dynasty and new atmosphere! It’s just that this new dynasty is a little boring.

In the eyes of Fengmingshan, the former Qing people's parents, there must be some appropriate bad habits.

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

The vast Pearl River water surface, long shore embankments and piers, the islands scattered on the Pearl River water surface, and the hazy ridges on the other side of the Pearl River are shrouded in the morning mist, all of which are familiar.

However, there are many newly built cargo houses on the port terminal, and there are many appearances that look very strange, and the function seems to be equipment for loading and unloading goods (manual cranes). Dock workers with buns on their heads and wearing short clothes are shuttled and transporting various objects of large and small.

Fengmingshan knew that there was an equally busy scene on Huangpu Village Wharf and Huangpu Island, which were slightly farther away, and the passenger boats on Fengmingshan had also stayed there, but his destination was Guangzhou City, so he didn't get off the boat and take a closer look.

But looking at Huangpu Village and Huangpu Island from the boat, you can still feel the busyness there.

There are more barbarians in Huangpu Village than in Guangzhou Tianzi Pier!

At some point, more than a dozen shipbuilding platforms were built on the shore of Huangpu Island, and a factory was built. There was also a factory built with black smoke on the tall chimney. The boat platform was busy, and the jingling sounds could be heard from a distance, as well as the labor horn with a Guangdong accent. It seemed that the construction of ships was being accelerated.

The whole of Guangzhou has shown an exciting vitality!

If Guangzhou under Shang Kexi was a dead city, then Guangzhou under Zhu San Prince and Zhu San Grandson was a resurrected city.

But where does this vitality everywhere come from?

Could it be like this when Guangzhou was captured by Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao?

Just as Fengming Mountain was curious, he suddenly saw three officials wearing black cross-collared cloth clothes, red horn scarves on their heads, long swords and grenade hammers on their belts, and smiling. One of them was also walking and asking, "Where are you from? Are you from Cantonese, Chaozhou, and Hakka? Are you here to attend the Ten Thousand Race Conference?"

Many of the Confucian scholars who came down from the passenger boat with Fengmingshan and others were Confucian scholars wearing "Confucius uniforms" and hanging their swords on their waists.

In fact, Feng Mingshan is dressed up now. His braids have been cut off and he has made a black cloth to wrap his head that has not grown much hair yet.

In addition, he also made a long sword and hung it into his waist, which looked a bit like a "killing scholar".

Fengmingshan has been an official in Chaozhou for several years and can speak some Chaozhou dialect, but now he doesn't need to speak, and someone will answer the questions of the three officials.

"We are Hakka people from Longchuan County, Huizhou"

"The students are Hakka people from Chengxiang, Chaozhou, and were recommended by the tribesmen to attend the conference of all races. This is a letter issued by the Luo Prefecture of Chaozhou Prefecture."

"Students are Hakka people from Dapu County, Chaozhou"

Almost all those who came to Guangzhou for the same boat as Fengmingshan, Fengmingshan, who came to Guangzhou to attend the Ten Thousand Races Conference, were ships from the Hakka settlement area northeast of Huizhou Prefecture, drifting all the way to Guangzhou via Xunwushui and Longjiang (Dongjiang).

Of course, those who boarded the boat with him were all Hakkas.

Following Fengmingshan, a troupe who was also a Hakka, he presented a forged letter of Chaozhou Prefecture on the spot. The Guangzhou imperial court had just opened, and many systems were not complete. The standardized documents such as letter of letter of credit were used first with the inventory left by the Qing Dynasty. The official seal was replaced with a seal with no Manchu text but only Chinese text, and the fonts were the same as before. Fengmingshan could engrave the seal himself, so he engraved a Chinese text.

Moreover, he was familiar with the Hakka surname in Chaozhou, so he made up a Dapu Wu family for one of his squads, which was Wu Liuqi's identity. He asked him to fool the Ming Dynasty officials who investigated. The three officials were not careful and did not find out what was wrong. So he let him go and gave them a "post ticket" to stay in the city of Guangzhou. He also said that the price of "special sugar" has soared recently, which has made the Guangzhou court profit a lot!

Fengmingshan and his group took the post ticket and left the Kezhou Wharf at Tianzi Pier, and found that the streets outside the pier had changed a lot!

Originally, the shanty towns and thatched houses were gone, and they became a continuous construction site, with scenes of vigorous construction everywhere. Some of the buildings are almost completed. You can find that most of these buildings are used to open inns, shopping malls, and restaurants. Some are Chinese-style buildings, and some are Western-style buildings, which should be foreign-style shopping malls.

The street leading from the Pearl River to the Wuxianmen has also been widened and renovated. The streets are straight and open, with bluestone slabs on the ground.

Fengmingshan and his group walked forward along the bluestone street. When they approached near the Wuxianmen, they also found that a huge academy was being built on the west side of the street.

The reason why they knew this was academy was because the gatehouse of the academy had been repaired, and there were three plaques hanging on the gatehouse. The plaque on the left was engraved with the words "Sacred Heart" and the plaque on the right was engraved with the words "Mingde" on the plaque in the middle. The plaque in the middle was the words "Guangzhou Prefecture Third Academy".

On the side of the street outside the gate of the Third Academy of Guangzhou Prefecture, a wooden street sign was erected. Fengmingshan went up to take a look and wrote three big characters on Jiefang Street!
Chapter completed!