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Text Chapter 520 Li Zhi¡¯s trip to Dengzhou

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    On the rumbling train, Sizi and Cai'er were lying by the window, holding snacks made of shredded squid in their hands, eating snacks in their mouths while discussing the scenery along the train.  Li Zhi was sitting behind them, leaning on the table and carefully recording what he saw and gained during his visit to Dengzhou.

    Yesterday afternoon they arrived in Dengzhou. After resting for a night in Li Min's Prince Qi's Mansion, Li Zhi and Sizi followed Cai'er and boarded the train with great interest. They went to visit every stop. Now they have  It was noon, and half of the entire Dengzhou City had been turned around by them.  Li Zhi was also quite excited when he thought about what he had gained this morning.

    Sizi visited Dengzhou City with a playful mentality, so no matter where he went, he would run around curiously. At the same time, he was also very obsessed with the local snacks in Dengzhou, and his mouth didn't stop all morning.  .  But Li Zhi was different. He visited Dengzhou City with an investigative mentality, so he didn't just look at the superficial appearance of Dengzhou City, but through this appearance, he saw many deeper layers.  Things, so he definitely knows much more about Dengzhou than Si Zi. Of course, he was not as happy and relaxed as Si Zi during this morning's tour.

    The train that Li Zhi and the others took was a special small train, which was usually used for sightseeing. This is because with the prosperity of Dengzhou, many people took advantage of business opportunities or came to Dengzhou specifically.  , in order to have a good visit to this rapidly developing city, and the train is the focus of these tourists. Because of this, Dengzhou City specially made this kind of small train, specifically to take these tourists to visit the entire city.  In Dengzhou City, Li Zhi took this kind of train, and it was specially arranged by local officials in Dengzhou.  Except for the three of them, the whole car was full of guards in plainclothes.  On the surface, it looks like other tourists.

    The first stop this morning.  Li Zhi and the others arrived at the fishing port northwest of Dengzhou City. It was the largest fishing port in the entire Dengzhou City. Next to the pier of the port, there was also the largest seafood trading market in the north of the Tang Dynasty. In this market, one ship after another  The freshly caught seafood from the ship is sent here, and after being sorted and weighed, most of it is bought by local food processing plants in Dengzhou, while the remaining small part goes to the vegetable markets in Dengzhou and several nearby states.

    ??Although this seafood trading market is full of stench.  However, Li Zhi still walked in here with a few guards, carefully observed the living conditions of the fishermen, and also asked about the transaction volume here, and then compared it with the data provided by local officials in Dengzhou to draw the conclusions he needed.

    Li Zhi also attaches great importance to the fishery in Dengzhou, because he knows very well that Dengzhou is mountainous and there is not much land that can really grow food.  In the past, all food was provided by food-producing areas such as Qingzhou in the interior.  However, when the sixth brother Li Min came here, he immediately vigorously developed the fishing industry to supplement the insufficient local food production.  And this also taught Li Zhi something: sometimes food is not only produced on the land, the ocean is also a rich and large granary.

    Another thing worth mentioning is.  Right next to this fishing port, there is also a special whaling port, where not only Dengzhou's local whaling ships will berth.  Even whalers from other state capitals come here because it's the only place.  There are professional whale buyers, and the prices they offer are higher than those elsewhere.  So most of the whaling ships come to Dengzhou for trading.

    Sizi was very interested in whaling ships, and she was not afraid of the stench and came to this small port to watch it in person. However, what disappointed her was that nowadays, whaling ships rarely send whole whales.  When the whales were brought back, they were usually cut up and boiled for oil at sea, and all the inedible offal and bones were thrown into the sea. Therefore, when Si Zi came here, he did not see any hunted whales at all.

    After leaving the fishing port, Li Zhi and the others came to a three-story cement building on the outskirts of the city. This was originally the headquarters of the local slave association in Dengzhou. Yanbei often handled matters of the slave association here.  However, in recent years, with the destruction of Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, Japan, and the Khitan and other ethnic minorities in the area north of Yingju, Dengzhou, the largest slave trading center in the country, has been unable to find a source of available slaves.  land, so the slave-catching industry here has plummeted. The former slave-catching merchants either changed their careers, or went to Taiwan, Luzon, or even the grasslands in the north of the Tang Dynasty or the Western Regions to conduct a new round of slave trade.

    Because of this, the Dengzhou Slave Catching Association, which was very excited at the beginning, gradually became depressed. In the end, Li Min simply moved the Dengzhou Slave Catching Association to Taiwan, leaving only an empty headquarters here.  This is the three-story building in front of Li Zhi and the others. Although it is abandoned, local officials in Dengzhou have put all the materials and items related to slave catching here and organized it into a slave catching museum for tourists.  visit.

    However, almost every item on display in this slave-catching museum is stained with a large amount ofIt is bloody, such as the weapons used by the slave-catching teams, the shackles used to imprison slaves, etc. Even some seemingly clean documents and the lines recorded are full of blood and violence.

    Cai'er and Sizi didn't have a good impression of this museum. Not long after they entered, they ran outside the door to wait for Li Zhi, because for the girls, everything here was  They all feel scary and eerie.  However, Li Zhi read it with gusto, especially those documents, and even excerpted many of their contents, preparing to study them carefully in the future.

    After leaving this museum filled with the blood of slaves, Li Zhi and the three of them took the train to the northeast corner of Dengzhou City. There is a very famous ship city here. Most of the shipyards in Dengzhou are located in  There is even a steam shipyard here. Although Li Min moved many industries away from Dengzhou, he left many behind, and the steam shipyard in Ship City was one of them.

    When in Mian Port, Sizi boarded the huge Qiwang for the first time, which made her very interested in sea ships, so when she visited the shipyard, she seemed more lively than the previous two places.  She was extremely excited, especially when she saw the sea-going ships being built in the dock. If the guards hadn't been worried about the danger and prevented Sizi from boarding one of the sea-going ships being built, she would have really been able to  Take a spin around the boat.

    In fact, what Li Zhi is most concerned about is the shipbuilding industry in Dengzhou, because this is the foundation for his sixth brother Li Min to go overseas. It was here that Li Min had the Fu Ship and Galen Ship built, thus laying the foundation for the development of the Tang Dynasty.  After several years of development in the shipbuilding industry, Fuzhou and Galen ships have been re-improved and designed by countless master shipwrights, and have formed two major ship families: hard sailing ships and soft sailing ships. Ships with different functions and uses are widely used in the world.  Various shipyards in the Tang Dynasty were built, and although many of the shipyards in Dengzhou were relocated to Taiwan, they are still one of the most developed shipbuilding bases in the Tang Dynasty.

    After visiting the Ship City, the rest of the trip was much easier. Li Zhi took Cai'er and Sizi to visit some prosperous areas inside and outside Dengzhou City. Compared with Chang'an, which they were most familiar with, Dengzhou here  Because it is a large port, a large number of merchants and goods from overseas gather in the city, which also makes the whole city full of rich exotic customs. This is why both Si Zi and Li Zhi feel very fresh.

    Although there was a train for transportation, Li Zhi and the three of them felt a little tired after running all morning, so after getting off the train at the next stop, the three of them found a restaurant for a seafood meal.  Although various kinds of canned seafood are now very popular, fresh seafood is still the most delicious, especially for people like Li Zhi and Sizi who grew up inland. Although they have had seafood feasts in Cangzhou,  But I still think the ones made here in Dengzhou are the most delicious.

    In the next few days, Li Zhi conducted a comprehensive investigation of Dengzhou, and it was no longer limited to industry and commerce. He paid more attention to some people's livelihood matters, such as people's daily diet, medical care, travel,  Living and other conditions, and compared the situation here in Dengzhou with the most familiar Chang'an.

    As a result, Li Zhi was very shocked to find that although the prosperity and population of Dengzhou are not as good as Chang'an for the time being, in terms of people's livelihood, most of them have surpassed Chang'an. For example, in the diet structure of the people, Dengzhou is close to the sea.  , meat accounts for nearly half of the people's diet, most of which are various seafood. Even when eating, just open a common people's kitchen and you can see various fish prepared inside.  In the diet of the people in Chang'an, Li Zhi has made statistics and found that meat only accounts for less than a quarter.

    Food is the most important thing for the people. The dietary structure alone is a good illustration of a problem, that is, the development of Dengzhou has surpassed Chang'an in some aspects, and this is what shocked Li Zhi. He  It is really unimaginable that in just eight years, Li Min built a not-so-important port city into such a prosperous place?

    Li Zhi stayed in Dengzhou for ten days. During these ten days, he thoroughly studied the inside and outside of Dengzhou City, trying to find out the reason why Dengzhou developed so rapidly, but it was a pity that  Yes, although Li Zhi vaguely felt something, he could not find the core of these things.

    That's why Li Zhi can't wait to see Li Min immediately, and then ask his sixth brother for advice on these things that he can't figure out. However, it is a pity that Li Min has already made arrangements for his trip.  The first stop is not Taiwan in the south, but Sanhan located northeast of Dengzhou!  (To be continued)
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