It turned out that Huang Silang and Guo Mingtai were here.

Both of them are engaged in private salt business, and their relationship with Yang Ruifeng is naturally very close. In the past, they have been sending their coarse salt to Yangjiatun to process it into fine salt, and then sold it. Although it was a matter of a change of hands, their profits were several times higher than before. Especially in the market in Huai'an Prefecture, the income was quite good. Of course, they had to come to congratulate Yang Ruifeng in person for his wedding. However, they were just here at this time, which was obviously rude!

Zhang Zhun deliberately said with a stern face: "I said I'm late, you two are still late!"

Guo Mingtai said with a wry smile: "Sir, please forgive me! We originally wanted to arrive early, so we set off early in the morning. Who knew that there was a lot of boats in Heilong Bay, and our ships were actually lined up to enter the port. There was no way, so time was delayed. Look, we were both empty-handed and we were embarrassed to come, and the gifts were still on the boat!"

Zhang Zhun was slightly stunned and said subconsciously: "Line in line to enter the port?"

Guo Mingtai said helplessly: "Yes! All the ship berths in Heilong Bay were occupied. We waited for a long time and couldn't get into the port. Later, we couldn't wait, so it would be better to take a sampan first. If we hadn't got two sampans, we wouldn't have been able to get through tonight. Behind us, there seemed to be other ships waiting to enter the port!"

Huang Silang also said with emotion: "Sir, I have to make a suggestion. The five berths in Heilong Bay are really a bit short! My fleet has to queue up when carrying cargo there many times! There are so many ships coming and going to Fushan City now, even ten berths are not enough."

Zhang Zhun understood.

Later generations were traffic jams, but in this day, there were ship jams.

Nowadays, after ships enter the port, whether they load or unload, they all rely on manual labor. You can imagine the speed of manual loading and unloading. A whole ship's cargo, whether it is loading or unloading, takes a lot of time. In other words, a ship will occupy the dock for a long time. If the dock is not enough, and multiple ships occupy the berths at the same time, and if another ship arrives behind, you can only queue up.

Yangjiatun’s private salt business is becoming more and more prosperous, and at the same time, more and more grain is transported from Jiangnan. Whether it is private salt going south or grain going north, it requires manual loading and unloading, which takes a lot of time. There is also a large amount of cement and other materials that need to be transported through the Heilong Bay Port, which makes the natural Heilong Bay Port indeed a little overwhelmed.

Zhang Zhun has never invested any money to build the Heilong Bay port. Because the natural conditions of Heilong Bay are quite good, and there is no need to build them, you can park several ships at the same time. I originally thought that with its natural conditions, it would be possible to meet the needs of the future period. Unexpectedly, I would be overwhelmed so quickly. It seems that it is necessary to build Heilong Bay.

Thinking of doing it, it has always been Zhang Zhun's style. Zhang Zhun nodded and said affirmatively: "I will solve this matter as soon as possible to ensure that it will not delay everyone's time to stop the boat."

Both Huang Silang and Guo Mingtai were very grateful.

Goods are like a rotation, and time is money. Of course, they don’t want to waste all their time queuing up to enter the port. After saying hello to Zhang Zhun, the two of them rushed to find Yang Ruifeng. After all, Yang Ruifeng is the real person in today’s occasion.

Zhang Zhun muttered to himself, sighing a little, and excited, "The situation is developing so fast. Heilong Bay has to queue up to enter the port. It seems that it is necessary to give Liu Zhan some funds to allow him to expand the port. The first step is to expand the berth to twenty."

After pondering, Zhang Zhun turned around and left. He wanted to send someone to find Liu Zhan to discuss the matter of Heilong Bay. Liu Zhan is the deputy manager of the Urban Management Department who is responsible for roads and port construction. He is honest and trustworthy. He is reliable in his work and clean in money management, but he is not very flexible. Words like far-sightedness are basically out of reach. If he doesn't mention it, he will not actively request the expansion of the port. The ships will line up.

After only two steps, Zhang Zhun suddenly heard someone shouting behind him: "Sir."

Zhang Zhun looked back and saw that it was Yu Nanti.

Zhang Zhun is naturally very familiar with this master. Yang Jiatun’s first pot of gold was discovered from him. At that time, Yu Nanti also gave Yang Yinghan a gift. This was the first gift Yang Yinghan received. Therefore, Zhang Zhun still had a good impression of Yu Nanti. Seeing Master Yu’s dusty appearance, he obviously had just arrived. He thought he was the latest, but he didn’t expect that there would be someone later.

Zhang Zhun said with a smile: "Master Yu, you are too late."

Yu Nanti bowed his hand as a tribute in shame and said sincerely: "Sir, I'm so sorry! I was originally sent to the horse, but I didn't expect that a horse was lost on the way and finally got it back!"

Zhang Zhun's expression moved slightly and subconsciously said, "Horse?"

Yu Nanti hurriedly said, "That's right."

Zhang Zhun was excited and said repeatedly: "Let's go! Take me to see!"

Yu Nanti hurriedly took Zhang Zhun outside Yangjiatun.

Sure enough, there were fifteen war horses on the grass outside, being led by the groom, constantly walking back and forth. Obviously, these war horses were not very familiar with the situation in Yangjiatun and kept spinning. From time to time, they made some uncooperative neighing. The grooms pulled these war horses, shouted and comforted, and were very busy. It turned out that the gift Yu Nanti sent was fifteen war horses.

Zhang Zhun's eyes lit up and he said gratefully: "Lao Yu! I have accepted this gift on behalf of Yang Ruifeng!"

He could see at a glance that the quality of these war horses was much better than the quality seized in the ancient town. Chen Guoxi once said that the best war horses were relatively strong and would not stand there safely all day long. The war horses in front of him were obviously quite fierce when they struggled, twisted, and stuck out their buttocks!

In the war years, war horses were always scarce resources, generally exclusively operated by the state, and there were very few people. The horse politics of the Ming Dynasty was originally very developed. There were special horse farms in northern Zhili, Shandong and other places. The court at that time also encouraged the government to raise horses. The people also set up special hereditary horse households, which were specifically responsible for raising horses. Multi-pronged approach made the number of war horses in the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, which was sufficient to meet the use of the army.

However, after Jiajing, the horse government gradually became corrupt, and raising horses became a heavy burden for the people, and horse households were unwilling to raise horses. Because of the problem of raising horses, a small-scale horse household uprising broke out during the Jiajing period. However, the rule of the Ming Dynasty at that time was still very stable. This uprising was quickly suppressed and not many people knew about it. Since then, the Ming army's war horses mainly relied on importing from the Mongolian grasslands, and a special horse supervisor was responsible for exchanging horses with tea and salt.

In the eastern part of Shandong, war horses are still very rare and the number of cavalry is very small. Even the war soldiers in Dengzhou do not have too many cavalry troops. Dengzhou has tens of thousands of war soldiers, and the cavalry may be less than 3,000. These cavalry are directly under the command of Dongjiang Town, and only the general officers of Dongjiang Town can command. Even the governor of Denglai cannot be mobilized.

Of course, on the northern border, the Ming army never lacked war horses. It seemed that each of the elite troops such as Guanning Iron Cavalry had more than two war horses. The rebels and officers and soldiers fighting each other in the Central Plains were also not lacking war horses. The continuous war horses produced in the Mongolian grasslands were enough to satisfy the use of the three major forces of Mongolia, Later Jin and Ming army. Of course, Later Jin itself also raised a large number of war horses.

Even after the firearms appeared, the cavalry was still the most powerful combat troops, and there was no word "one" behind them. The core main forces of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia were cavalry. Li Zicheng's army, the most core main force, was also three thousand cavalry. With three thousand cavalry, he defeated all the officers and soldiers from many routes, which showed the power of the cavalry. Of course, officers and soldiers also had cavalry, but their cavalry was not powerful.

When Li Zicheng entered Beijing, the core force increased to 8,000 cavalry. It can be seen that in the civil strife at that time, thousands of cavalry were already very amazing. Eight thousand cavalry could capture the world. Unfortunately, in the later battle of Yibishi, Li Zicheng's cavalry could not stop the cavalry attack of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and had to retreat. As a result, once he retreated, he had no chance to turn around. In the end, the Qing army successfully captured the world with powerful cavalry.

Zhang Zhun also wanted to have his own cavalry unit. Since he seized several war horses from the horse thief in the ancient town, Zhang Zhun now has been traveling with horses. It is indeed much faster and his efficiency in doing things has been greatly improved. However, the number of war horses is still too small, only a few. Yu Nanti sent fifteen horses in one go, which is really a gift for timely help!
Chapter completed!