Chapter 1886
A Rest in Penghu
Chapter 1886 A Rest in Penghu
Speaking of the decision to arrange for the son of Joseon to visit Penghu, Yu Yao actually didn't quite understand the intention of Fort Victory.Penghu is usually only used as a sheltered anchorage for passing ships in the Fujian Strait, and there are indeed no construction achievements worth showing off to other countries.The soil in this place is shallow and not fertile, and lacks sufficient water sources, which is not conducive to the growth of crops. Only crops such as sweet potatoes and peanuts can be grown, and most of the food and other fruits and vegetables have to be supplied by Kaohsiung Port.
Although Magong Port serves as the military command center for Taiwan Island and the Fujian Strait, there are currently no heavy troops stationed here.Penghu does not have any stable output other than fishery, so it can only be used as a transfer point in terms of trade. Its cargo handling scale is not as good as Dinghai Port in the north, Hong Kong in the south, or even Kaohsiung Port on Taiwan Island because A large number of plantation areas have been developed nearby, and now the trade volume is faintly showing a trend of catching up from behind.
Yu Yao believed that the real intention of Fort Victory was to arrange the next stop of Li Min's visit, Kaohsiung Port, and Penghu only played a transitional role. However, since Fort Victory arranged this stop, he would try his best to complete the reception task.
Although Penghu is not as prosperous as Zhoushan or Zhangzhou, after all, Yu Yao has been operating here for several years, and all the necessary living facilities are available.Magong Port also has a guest house dedicated to receiving high-level people. All daily necessities are shipped from Sanya, and the service personnel have all undergone special training. The accommodation conditions are no better than any other big cities under the Haihan rule. How much worse, the people who travel through Penghu also stay here.
After seeing the prosperity of Dinghai Port and Zhangzhou, Li Mo's first impression of Magong Port in Penghu was tranquility. The harbor here is not as noisy and crowded as the two places he had been to before, and only the people who came to the port to greet him It was just Yu Yao and a few of his subordinates. Although it was not grand, it made Li Wei feel more at ease.
However, Li Lu also noticed that the shoulders of General Yu's military uniform are red and blue with a golden gear epaulet, which means that his identity is the same as that of Qian Tiandun, Wang Tom, and Shi Diwen that he had seen before. Like others, it is the group of real rulers at the top of Haihan Kingdom's power, not ordinary naturalized officials.
Wherever he went, high-level figures from Haihan came forward to greet him, which was very popular for Li Mo.Being able to receive such high treatment on the way during his mission to Haihan as the son of the Joseon Dynasty at least shows that Haihan attaches great importance to himself.This is enough to dispel many of Li Mo's worries before departure, and he no longer needs to worry that he will be left out in the cold after he arrives in Haihan, or that he will not fulfill the original arrangement of studying abroad at all.
Yu Yao welcomed Li Min's arrival, but as Li Min saw, no large-scale welcoming activities were arranged for Penghu.Although Yu Yao also arranged a reception banquet as usual, but the scene was not big. The number of people present from the North Korean mission was more than double that of the host's, which seemed a bit anti-client.
"Our place is a small place with relatively simple conditions. Don't dislike it, my son. Of course, no matter what, good wine will definitely be enough!" Yu Yao said a few casual words, not knowing that Li Mo had been drinking in Zhoushan earlier After drinking the psychological shadow, I feel a little sensitive when I hear the word wine at this time.
Li Lian said he didn't dare, and thought that as long as he didn't drink, he could talk about anything else.Fortunately, Yu Yao thought that this was a foreign event, and it was not appropriate to put the foreign guests down at the dinner, so he didn't take too drastic actions, and just toasted Li Min a few glasses of wine politely.
Although Penghu is indeed a small place, it is worth mentioning that it is rich in fishery and seafood resources. It is located at the confluence of the Kuroshio current, the South China Sea monsoon current and the cold current along the coast of China. It is famous for producing pomfret and skipjack.In addition, the coral produced in Penghu is also a famous product.The Ministry of Commerce has specially opened a coral processing factory in Magong Port to further process the picked corals, and the annual income is not even much inferior to that of the fishery.
Today's welcome banquet, the main dishes are all kinds of local seafood, in fact, the flavors are not much different from the flavors that Li Wei ate in Zhoushan.This is also because the cooks who specialize in cooking for the cross-travelers are basically trained in batches in Sanya. Their skills and cuisines tend to be the same, and even the seasonings used are similar. The tastes of the dishes are naturally very similar - this is the Haihan cuisine that is currently popular in the southern coastal areas of Daming.
This Penghu island was occupied by the Dutch and the pirate gang Shibazhi in turn for a long time. When the Haihan army attacked here in 1632, they almost flattened the buildings on several major islands. It’s really nothing. It is worth recommending Li Wei to visit.The only preserved historical building is under the strong request of Ningqi, in the name of protecting cultural relics, the Tianhou Temple, built in the Wanli period, is preserved. This temple built 40 years ago is probably the oldest building on the island. up.
Li Mo was the son of the Joseon Dynasty, so it was inconvenient for Yu Yao to recommend him to go to the temple to offer incense without knowing his religious beliefs, so it was not appropriate to introduce this cultural landscape to Li Mo.
Yu Yao had received a notice from Fort Victory before this, and he had seriously considered how to arrange Li Mo's local itinerary, but there were no high-end entertainment venues in this place, so if he really wanted to have some fun, he had to travel across the sea. Zhangzhou is looking for someone.
So in the end, Yu Yao didn't arrange a specific itinerary at all, but asked Li Luo directly at the reception banquet if there was anything he was interested in.
This question really caught Li Wei. The previous itinerary was all arranged by the local people. He just had to follow the process. Neither Shi Diwen nor Xu Xinsu asked him what he thought or intended. .
Li Luo thought for a while before answering: "I looked at the charts in Zhangzhou before I went down, and I learned that the Penghu Islands are composed of dozens of large and small islands, and there must be some small uninhabited islands among them. I have never lived in the wild. , I really want to go to such an island and live a quiet day or two leisurely in the world."
Yu Yao didn't expect that Li Wei was still a literary youth who pursued style. There are indeed dozens of islands in Penghu that are uninhabited due to their small size or lack of fresh water. Except for occasional military training, very few people would go to these islands on weekdays. Island activities.But in Yu Yao's view, if he really wants to live on these uninhabited islands, it will not be such a relaxing and romantic time as Li Wei imagined, but will become a cruel survival in the wild.
However, Yu Yao immediately agreed. With his local influence, it would not be a big problem to arrange a comfortable and passable temporary residence for Li Luo on any island.Moreover, this kind of arrangement doesn't cost much, and the materials are all ready-made. It is nothing more than sending a team to be responsible for logistics and security.
Compared with arranging for Li Min to visit various institutions in Magong Port, this kind of itinerary can save Yu Yao a lot of trouble, especially in terms of security. On the contrary, there are fewer manpower, and the impact on the normal local social order is also smaller.
Before the welcome banquet was over, Yu Yao summoned one of his subordinates and asked him to arrange to choose an uninhabited island with better scenery as the destination for Li Wei to try his hand at wild life later.
That night, Li Lu and his party rested at the guest house in Magong Port, and after a night of recuperation, they boarded the ship again early the next morning and went out to sea with Yu Yao.
"The place we're going to is called Huayu. It's about [-] miles away from Magong Port. There are no people living on the island. The nearest islands are all [-] miles away. It definitely meets the requirements of the prince." Yu Yao took the initiative to ask Li Mu introduced the situation of the destination.
Since Li Min wanted a quiet uninhabited island, Yu Yao tried his best to meet his request when choosing the destination.However, in order to ensure that Li Wei would not be disturbed, Yu Yao sent people over yesterday to clear the island, which is only one square kilometer in size.Today, two warships were sent to escort them all the way to prevent unsuspecting fishermen from approaching.
Sixty miles is not close, but for these fast boats built by Haihan, it is only a two-hour voyage, and they will arrive in a short time.The people who came to the front station have already set up tents on the island and arranged basic living facilities.
The tent specially built for Li Luo was not an ordinary camping tent, but a military tent with a large area, and one tent could accommodate two shifts of people.Although Li Luo made it clear yesterday that he would bring as few entourages as possible, he still set up a few more tents for emergencies.Drainage ditches have been dug around the tent, and the surrounding vegetation has been cleared to prevent snakes from lurking around.
When Li Lu and his party arrived, a temporary kitchen was being built here.Although it is open-air, at least a roof is built on top of the head.And all the kitchen utensils and stoves are all transported by boat.
Li Lu originally thought that he would start setting up tents and other facilities after arriving here today, but he didn't expect that Yu Yao had already arranged everything properly, and he couldn't help but praise his efficiency immediately.Of course, he didn't really want to spend a few days on an island with nothing. He just watched the Haihan Army's field training at the Datongjiang base.And Yu Yao's arrangement was very thoughtful, which satisfied him very much, even better than he expected.
In fact, these are just basic operations for Yu Yao. Occasionally taking troops to uninhabited islands for field training or survival training, these are all tasks to be completed.It's just that this time the object is the son of Joseon, and the hard training content has been replaced with a tour of the mountains and rivers.
According to Li Min's request, only a few North Korean entourages were left on the island to take care of his daily life, and a platoon of Haihan soldiers was responsible for security.As a landlord, Yu Yao naturally had to stay with him. He was a soldier himself, so living in the wild for a few days was not a problem for him.
Although Li Lu thinks this kind of life outside the world is very beautiful, even if he has complete living facilities, he will still be affected by the closed environment.The island itself is not big, and it won't take long to walk around the island. When he found that it was surrounded by the sea, and he couldn't see anything except the boundless sea, Li Luo's mood quickly changed from the initial excitement. Calm down.
Yu Yao noticed the change in Li Mo's mood, so he invited him to go fishing on the beach to pass the time.In fact, Li Lu didn't think about what he was going to do on the island to pass the time, since he had something to do, he immediately agreed.So Li Mo only stayed on the island for less than two hours, and then left the coast in a small boat with Yu Yao to go fishing at sea.
Sea fishing is also a new experience for Li Wei. When he catches the first fish out of the water, the excitement seems to be better than the moment when he landed on this uninhabited island.Immediately, it was unstoppable, and they stayed at sea with Yu Yao until it was time to eat before returning to the shore.
"General Yu, fishing at sea is quite interesting. Why did you only hear about fishing in rivers and streams in the past, but rarely heard of people fishing at sea?" After the freshness passed, Li Wei asked curiously.
As soon as Yu Yao heard this question, he knew that the son of the Joseon Dynasty did not have much experience in life, so he explained to him immediately: "Fishermen who rely on the sea to make a living usually use nets to catch fish. It is difficult to support a family. And for a literati, this fishing often means fighting against the wind and waves and the big fish in the sea.
Li Min clapped his palms and laughed loudly: "General Yu is right. We didn't pull up a few fish during our tossing just now, but our whole body was completely soaked. There is no elegance at all. There is no way to recite poems when we are wet." Leisure!"
Seeing this, Yu Yao also laughed, thinking that the son of the Joseon Dynasty is a wonderful person, he is very curious but very talkative, and he doesn't have aristocratic airs. He must be influenced by Haihan thought in the future, and he will be a character like Li Nai again.
Li Mo grew up in Gyeongbokgung Palace since he was a child, and the palace was strictly restricted, so he rarely had the opportunity to play and have fun in the wild without restraint like this.For Yu Yao who agreed to this request without hesitation, Li Wei had a good impression of him.Although there is nothing on this island, and in his opinion, there is no beautiful scenery to speak of, but being able to escape from the world like this has already achieved his expected goal.
The group stayed on the island for one night, and the next day Li Mo took the initiative to invite Yu Yao to go fishing again.With the experience accumulated yesterday, although Li Mo was still drenched, the results of the battle were much richer than the previous one.
On the third day of his arrival, Li Mo voluntarily asked to return to Magong Port, ready to set off to complete the next part of the journey.
"I still have important tasks to do, so I don't dare to spend too much time abroad. If I still have a chance to pass by Penghu in the future, I will definitely come to meet General Yu again." After arriving at Magong Port, he bid farewell to Yu Yao.
(End of this chapter)
Speaking of the decision to arrange for the son of Joseon to visit Penghu, Yu Yao actually didn't quite understand the intention of Fort Victory.Penghu is usually only used as a sheltered anchorage for passing ships in the Fujian Strait, and there are indeed no construction achievements worth showing off to other countries.The soil in this place is shallow and not fertile, and lacks sufficient water sources, which is not conducive to the growth of crops. Only crops such as sweet potatoes and peanuts can be grown, and most of the food and other fruits and vegetables have to be supplied by Kaohsiung Port.
Although Magong Port serves as the military command center for Taiwan Island and the Fujian Strait, there are currently no heavy troops stationed here.Penghu does not have any stable output other than fishery, so it can only be used as a transfer point in terms of trade. Its cargo handling scale is not as good as Dinghai Port in the north, Hong Kong in the south, or even Kaohsiung Port on Taiwan Island because A large number of plantation areas have been developed nearby, and now the trade volume is faintly showing a trend of catching up from behind.
Yu Yao believed that the real intention of Fort Victory was to arrange the next stop of Li Min's visit, Kaohsiung Port, and Penghu only played a transitional role. However, since Fort Victory arranged this stop, he would try his best to complete the reception task.
Although Penghu is not as prosperous as Zhoushan or Zhangzhou, after all, Yu Yao has been operating here for several years, and all the necessary living facilities are available.Magong Port also has a guest house dedicated to receiving high-level people. All daily necessities are shipped from Sanya, and the service personnel have all undergone special training. The accommodation conditions are no better than any other big cities under the Haihan rule. How much worse, the people who travel through Penghu also stay here.
After seeing the prosperity of Dinghai Port and Zhangzhou, Li Mo's first impression of Magong Port in Penghu was tranquility. The harbor here is not as noisy and crowded as the two places he had been to before, and only the people who came to the port to greet him It was just Yu Yao and a few of his subordinates. Although it was not grand, it made Li Wei feel more at ease.
However, Li Lu also noticed that the shoulders of General Yu's military uniform are red and blue with a golden gear epaulet, which means that his identity is the same as that of Qian Tiandun, Wang Tom, and Shi Diwen that he had seen before. Like others, it is the group of real rulers at the top of Haihan Kingdom's power, not ordinary naturalized officials.
Wherever he went, high-level figures from Haihan came forward to greet him, which was very popular for Li Mo.Being able to receive such high treatment on the way during his mission to Haihan as the son of the Joseon Dynasty at least shows that Haihan attaches great importance to himself.This is enough to dispel many of Li Mo's worries before departure, and he no longer needs to worry that he will be left out in the cold after he arrives in Haihan, or that he will not fulfill the original arrangement of studying abroad at all.
Yu Yao welcomed Li Min's arrival, but as Li Min saw, no large-scale welcoming activities were arranged for Penghu.Although Yu Yao also arranged a reception banquet as usual, but the scene was not big. The number of people present from the North Korean mission was more than double that of the host's, which seemed a bit anti-client.
"Our place is a small place with relatively simple conditions. Don't dislike it, my son. Of course, no matter what, good wine will definitely be enough!" Yu Yao said a few casual words, not knowing that Li Mo had been drinking in Zhoushan earlier After drinking the psychological shadow, I feel a little sensitive when I hear the word wine at this time.
Li Lian said he didn't dare, and thought that as long as he didn't drink, he could talk about anything else.Fortunately, Yu Yao thought that this was a foreign event, and it was not appropriate to put the foreign guests down at the dinner, so he didn't take too drastic actions, and just toasted Li Min a few glasses of wine politely.
Although Penghu is indeed a small place, it is worth mentioning that it is rich in fishery and seafood resources. It is located at the confluence of the Kuroshio current, the South China Sea monsoon current and the cold current along the coast of China. It is famous for producing pomfret and skipjack.In addition, the coral produced in Penghu is also a famous product.The Ministry of Commerce has specially opened a coral processing factory in Magong Port to further process the picked corals, and the annual income is not even much inferior to that of the fishery.
Today's welcome banquet, the main dishes are all kinds of local seafood, in fact, the flavors are not much different from the flavors that Li Wei ate in Zhoushan.This is also because the cooks who specialize in cooking for the cross-travelers are basically trained in batches in Sanya. Their skills and cuisines tend to be the same, and even the seasonings used are similar. The tastes of the dishes are naturally very similar - this is the Haihan cuisine that is currently popular in the southern coastal areas of Daming.
This Penghu island was occupied by the Dutch and the pirate gang Shibazhi in turn for a long time. When the Haihan army attacked here in 1632, they almost flattened the buildings on several major islands. It’s really nothing. It is worth recommending Li Wei to visit.The only preserved historical building is under the strong request of Ningqi, in the name of protecting cultural relics, the Tianhou Temple, built in the Wanli period, is preserved. This temple built 40 years ago is probably the oldest building on the island. up.
Li Mo was the son of the Joseon Dynasty, so it was inconvenient for Yu Yao to recommend him to go to the temple to offer incense without knowing his religious beliefs, so it was not appropriate to introduce this cultural landscape to Li Mo.
Yu Yao had received a notice from Fort Victory before this, and he had seriously considered how to arrange Li Mo's local itinerary, but there were no high-end entertainment venues in this place, so if he really wanted to have some fun, he had to travel across the sea. Zhangzhou is looking for someone.
So in the end, Yu Yao didn't arrange a specific itinerary at all, but asked Li Luo directly at the reception banquet if there was anything he was interested in.
This question really caught Li Wei. The previous itinerary was all arranged by the local people. He just had to follow the process. Neither Shi Diwen nor Xu Xinsu asked him what he thought or intended. .
Li Luo thought for a while before answering: "I looked at the charts in Zhangzhou before I went down, and I learned that the Penghu Islands are composed of dozens of large and small islands, and there must be some small uninhabited islands among them. I have never lived in the wild. , I really want to go to such an island and live a quiet day or two leisurely in the world."
Yu Yao didn't expect that Li Wei was still a literary youth who pursued style. There are indeed dozens of islands in Penghu that are uninhabited due to their small size or lack of fresh water. Except for occasional military training, very few people would go to these islands on weekdays. Island activities.But in Yu Yao's view, if he really wants to live on these uninhabited islands, it will not be such a relaxing and romantic time as Li Wei imagined, but will become a cruel survival in the wild.
However, Yu Yao immediately agreed. With his local influence, it would not be a big problem to arrange a comfortable and passable temporary residence for Li Luo on any island.Moreover, this kind of arrangement doesn't cost much, and the materials are all ready-made. It is nothing more than sending a team to be responsible for logistics and security.
Compared with arranging for Li Min to visit various institutions in Magong Port, this kind of itinerary can save Yu Yao a lot of trouble, especially in terms of security. On the contrary, there are fewer manpower, and the impact on the normal local social order is also smaller.
Before the welcome banquet was over, Yu Yao summoned one of his subordinates and asked him to arrange to choose an uninhabited island with better scenery as the destination for Li Wei to try his hand at wild life later.
That night, Li Lu and his party rested at the guest house in Magong Port, and after a night of recuperation, they boarded the ship again early the next morning and went out to sea with Yu Yao.
"The place we're going to is called Huayu. It's about [-] miles away from Magong Port. There are no people living on the island. The nearest islands are all [-] miles away. It definitely meets the requirements of the prince." Yu Yao took the initiative to ask Li Mu introduced the situation of the destination.
Since Li Min wanted a quiet uninhabited island, Yu Yao tried his best to meet his request when choosing the destination.However, in order to ensure that Li Wei would not be disturbed, Yu Yao sent people over yesterday to clear the island, which is only one square kilometer in size.Today, two warships were sent to escort them all the way to prevent unsuspecting fishermen from approaching.
Sixty miles is not close, but for these fast boats built by Haihan, it is only a two-hour voyage, and they will arrive in a short time.The people who came to the front station have already set up tents on the island and arranged basic living facilities.
The tent specially built for Li Luo was not an ordinary camping tent, but a military tent with a large area, and one tent could accommodate two shifts of people.Although Li Luo made it clear yesterday that he would bring as few entourages as possible, he still set up a few more tents for emergencies.Drainage ditches have been dug around the tent, and the surrounding vegetation has been cleared to prevent snakes from lurking around.
When Li Lu and his party arrived, a temporary kitchen was being built here.Although it is open-air, at least a roof is built on top of the head.And all the kitchen utensils and stoves are all transported by boat.
Li Lu originally thought that he would start setting up tents and other facilities after arriving here today, but he didn't expect that Yu Yao had already arranged everything properly, and he couldn't help but praise his efficiency immediately.Of course, he didn't really want to spend a few days on an island with nothing. He just watched the Haihan Army's field training at the Datongjiang base.And Yu Yao's arrangement was very thoughtful, which satisfied him very much, even better than he expected.
In fact, these are just basic operations for Yu Yao. Occasionally taking troops to uninhabited islands for field training or survival training, these are all tasks to be completed.It's just that this time the object is the son of Joseon, and the hard training content has been replaced with a tour of the mountains and rivers.
According to Li Min's request, only a few North Korean entourages were left on the island to take care of his daily life, and a platoon of Haihan soldiers was responsible for security.As a landlord, Yu Yao naturally had to stay with him. He was a soldier himself, so living in the wild for a few days was not a problem for him.
Although Li Lu thinks this kind of life outside the world is very beautiful, even if he has complete living facilities, he will still be affected by the closed environment.The island itself is not big, and it won't take long to walk around the island. When he found that it was surrounded by the sea, and he couldn't see anything except the boundless sea, Li Luo's mood quickly changed from the initial excitement. Calm down.
Yu Yao noticed the change in Li Mo's mood, so he invited him to go fishing on the beach to pass the time.In fact, Li Lu didn't think about what he was going to do on the island to pass the time, since he had something to do, he immediately agreed.So Li Mo only stayed on the island for less than two hours, and then left the coast in a small boat with Yu Yao to go fishing at sea.
Sea fishing is also a new experience for Li Wei. When he catches the first fish out of the water, the excitement seems to be better than the moment when he landed on this uninhabited island.Immediately, it was unstoppable, and they stayed at sea with Yu Yao until it was time to eat before returning to the shore.
"General Yu, fishing at sea is quite interesting. Why did you only hear about fishing in rivers and streams in the past, but rarely heard of people fishing at sea?" After the freshness passed, Li Wei asked curiously.
As soon as Yu Yao heard this question, he knew that the son of the Joseon Dynasty did not have much experience in life, so he explained to him immediately: "Fishermen who rely on the sea to make a living usually use nets to catch fish. It is difficult to support a family. And for a literati, this fishing often means fighting against the wind and waves and the big fish in the sea.
Li Min clapped his palms and laughed loudly: "General Yu is right. We didn't pull up a few fish during our tossing just now, but our whole body was completely soaked. There is no elegance at all. There is no way to recite poems when we are wet." Leisure!"
Seeing this, Yu Yao also laughed, thinking that the son of the Joseon Dynasty is a wonderful person, he is very curious but very talkative, and he doesn't have aristocratic airs. He must be influenced by Haihan thought in the future, and he will be a character like Li Nai again.
Li Mo grew up in Gyeongbokgung Palace since he was a child, and the palace was strictly restricted, so he rarely had the opportunity to play and have fun in the wild without restraint like this.For Yu Yao who agreed to this request without hesitation, Li Wei had a good impression of him.Although there is nothing on this island, and in his opinion, there is no beautiful scenery to speak of, but being able to escape from the world like this has already achieved his expected goal.
The group stayed on the island for one night, and the next day Li Mo took the initiative to invite Yu Yao to go fishing again.With the experience accumulated yesterday, although Li Mo was still drenched, the results of the battle were much richer than the previous one.
On the third day of his arrival, Li Mo voluntarily asked to return to Magong Port, ready to set off to complete the next part of the journey.
"I still have important tasks to do, so I don't dare to spend too much time abroad. If I still have a chance to pass by Penghu in the future, I will definitely come to meet General Yu again." After arriving at Magong Port, he bid farewell to Yu Yao.
(End of this chapter)