"It's made Siniang, your good calculations come to naught. It's a pity ......."

Ji Qingchen also regretted that this good plan had no result, and Lao Siniang's heart was in turmoil, so she could only nod.

"In the future, with Wang Gangshou's side, we don't have to count on it. On the side of Lord Lou, let's not make friends too hard. ”

She smiled slightly, holding Lao Siniang's hand,

"We have a foothold in Da Song, although it is difficult to rely on ourselves. But it's off to a great start. ”

"That's what the big lady said." Lao Siniang is naturally an understanding person, and her frustration was only for a moment, and she immediately laughed.

In any case, the west section of the Chuyang Canal built with the help of the eldest lady was used before it was expected, which certainly caught Tangfang off guard.

But at least it's easier for local merchants to accept Tang Fang.

At least, he is willing to initially accept her Ji Qingchen and treat her as a reformed businessman with Middle Earth blood, harmless to the Great Song Dynasty, and indeed able to do business.

Although, her needs are far from so.

"Don't worry."

Ji Qingchen pondered, recalling the river account book sent by the Huang Inn,

"The dividends on the river, they may want to squeeze us out. But I remember that it wasn't our family who donated that section of the river in the first place. First, Huang Gangshou has a share, and he donates food. Second, the wealthy people in the Chuzhou area have a share. They donated stone masonry materials, as well as labor for the service. After all, there was an aqueduct attached to the river that led to their fields. According to the precedent of the imperial court, the good deeds and good deeds of water conservancy donations in various places should be carried out. They will not erase our reputation for doing good. ”

Lao Siniang nodded hurriedly and said:

"The eldest lady is right. I heard that after the river official decides, the river inscription will be erected soon. There must be a big lady's name. In addition to donating food, the eldest lady also donated 20 granges. In the future, the annual income of the grange will be used to maintain the river. It's not like Huang Gangshou's grain, which the laborers don't have as soon as they eat it. As long as these granges are there, who doesn't know the good deeds of the big lady? ”

She just smiled, too. Road:

"I can't help it. Huang Gangshou didn't want to be famous in the border military state of Chuzhou, but purely for his friendship with Wang Gangshou. But I was going to eat by that stretch of river one day. Don't I have to wonder where the annual maintenance costs for the river come from. In our Tangfang, river maintenance is a big item. I also discussed it with Huang Gangshou, Wang Gangshou, and Erlang at the beginning, and then decided how to use our money......"

Speaking of this, she naturally remembered Ji Chenlong, whose whereabouts were unknown.

sighed, "When Erlang intended to go back to the Great Song Dynasty to study, I made a donation in his name." Now the river is in use. But the others have gone. ”

Lao Siniang wanted to persuade. She slapped her mouth again. Said with a smile:

"You shouldn't be cranky about saying these things. I'm just waiting for the news found out in the border army, and this is serious. ”

"Yes."

Lao Siniang had such a look, and then changed the conversation for her. "The eldest lady has made up her mind so much on this river, there must be a way to snatch food from the mouths of the officials and businessmen in the capital?"

She chuckled quietly, "Supposedly, was it easy for our Tang Fang when it was first built?" But I don't believe that the eldest lady is not prepared for these things today. ”

Compared with the original Fusang maritime merchants, they had to directly snatch the twelve rivers of Tangfang. The officials and businessmen of the Great Song Dynasty immediately fought with knives in front of them, and they were extremely vicious.

The boat shook the water. The swordfish boat that had been parked outside the city gate finally moved forward, leaving the boat of the county lord of Shunchang behind.

Because Ji Qingchen also laughed, he finally sighed,

"Still caught off guard. I didn't expect this river to be used immediately. Now I have to come up with a solution without preparation. They don't say anything to tell me to back down, and I do. Doesn't it make people look down on us? The gold sand that I transfer to Huang's warehouse every year is our hard-earned money. ”

Lao Siniang heard her say this. I was immediately relieved.

She gave a salute and went outside to arrange for the landing in the Season Garden. Only she glanced out the window again. glanced at the boat of the county lord of Shunchang, who was about to disappear, and said:

"This county lord begs the owner of the workshop to ...... it"

"Since I promised to intercede for her and mention this matter in front of Lou Yun, I don't need to come forward."

She sat by the window, watching the rain gradually stop and fall,

"At Hu Gang's capital tonight, I will mention this matter to Mrs. Hu and ask Hu Gangshou to ask for this. That is, he helped her and gave Lou a favor. ”

Zhao Deyuan has enough brains.

Therefore, in her Ji Qingchen's opinion, if Lou Yun really recognized the wrong person at the Fan Merchants Conference, after they got married, it would be impossible for this matter to really hide from Zhao Deyuan.

She and this county lord can't become "good sisters".

So, there's no need to get too close.

"Big lady. Ji Yuan has arrived. ”

After the swordfish boat lightly touched the shore rock, it was the steward Ji Dali who lifted the curtain.

He had a fierce and strong appearance, he was shirtless in the early spring, and he only had the shorts that the Song people were accustomed to wrapped around his waist, and his black hair and horizontal flesh were unobstructed.

She was also used to seeing the people in Tangfang shirtless like this.

Boys over the age of five are not allowed to walk in the workshop naked, which is also the rule of the workshop that she forcibly pushed.

Ji Dali is like this now, she is already content.

"Big lady. Hu Fu is also in our Chunmingfang, turned the river under the state bridge, and crossed two streets to arrive. The eldest lady can have a good rest. When the time came, I personally supported the boat and sent the eldest mother to their house. ”

He has been here for five years, and his accent is still with the Song dialect of Tangfang, which is far inferior to Lao Siniang later.

Lao Siniang talked about the Henan official accent in the north, and she was more able to deal with the government.

But the Mingzhou branch was also built by Ji Dali, with both hands and feet, alone in Fanfang.

There is no Song law in Fanfang, but which country's Fan merchants brought the largest business to the Great Song Dynasty, and who is the Fan Chang.

Fan Chang has the final say in the workshop.

In order to survive in the meantime, Ji Dali must not only be able to do business, but also be able to save his own life.

March and April are spring, and the garden is not very large.

The sky is covered with rain, and there are four courtyards with open white walls and green tiles.

The courtyard was built on the edge of the city's waterway. You can see the cyan courtyard door reflected in the door. The layout of the courtyard is also not exquisite, it is all built one after another along the home port, and there is an ebony corridor in the middle.

It is not a Jiangnan garden with a pattern.

It's just that the family wharf where Jiyuan stops the boat is spacious, and it is three or four times larger than the small single-boat wharf on both sides, and it looks like a wealthy family.

"Big lady, this is a local merchant's house. Eat yes the rice on the river in eastern Zhejiang. Because his father died early, the son went to study in the country. I'm worried that my mother is at home alone. He simply sold the garden. Go to the capital to settle. ”

Lao Siniang helped her. Stepping on the board of the boat on the bridge, he explained with a smile in his mouth.

Seven or eight boats can be parked on the harbor of the back door. With Ji Qingchen, Ji's mother, Wa Niangzi and others, as well as Rui Niang and Li Qiulan, they all sat on a rented canopy boat. Stopped in Jiyuan's home port.

The eyes are full of green waves with rain, and the flowers are blooming in spring.

The merchant family was willing to plant trees and flowers, so on the crystal clear water, white and yellow petals fell. The eyes are full of purple and red.

In the light of the afternoon rain, Ji Qingchen liked this new home at a glance.

"Big lady. Nice place. ”

After all, Ji Ruiniang is only a ten-year-old child, and it is the first time she has seen such a house with a lot of flowers planted in her home. Running happily in the bow of the boat. Although she knew that she also grew up by the sea, Li Qiulan, the second sister of the Li family, still chased after her in a panic and said, "Rui Niang." Be careful. ”

While speaking, Li Qiulan looked at Ji Qingchen embarrassedly. Her melon seed face, willow eyebrows and peach cheeks are naturally more delicate than flowers. The look on his face was even more shy than that of Ji Ruiniang, a ten-year-old child.

is completely different from her eldest sister Li Molan and third sister Li Hailan who stayed in Tangfang.

"Rui Niang. Don't let Sister Qiulan worry. ”

Ji Qingchen turned back with a smile and glanced at Rui Niang. Let her take care of Li Qiulan.

Ji Ruiniang hurriedly restrained her childishness, turned her head and took Li Qiulan's hand, looked up and smiled, and said, "Sister Qiulan likes flowers." In the future, you will live here with us, and don't go back to Tangfang. ”

Although her sister Li Hailan and Ji Chenlong have been engaged, Li Qiulan has never died and married Ji Chenlong with Li Hailan. The eldest lady also has a headache.

I just brought her out.

She knew that the eldest lady wanted to arrange family affairs for Li Qiulan earlier if she saw a man from a good family in Da Song.

The eldest girl Li Molan may not be dead, but at least her brother Ji Dalei and Wan Gensheng are stalking. She couldn't get out. Li Qiulan really doesn't like the rough people in the workshop.

Ji Qingchen, who was in this compartment, saw that Ji's mother's face was not dissatisfied with this new home, so he was also relieved.

She stepped on the blue brick path with falling flowers, entered the gate, and said to Ji Dali with a smile:

He Saburo said that he would live in Fanfang for a few days. I can't live without him. If Huang Qilang quietly sent someone to find him. Speaking of Jiro's business. He's going to do it. ”

Shaoxing Mansion, away from Mingzhou City, is just a waterway of less than a day.

"Yes, big lady."

Although Ji Dali also has a black beard on his face, he can obviously see that he is in a very good mood. He looked up to the sky and played haha, and he was dragging a pole in his hand.

San Lang said that there were Xu brothers watching in the workshop, and he was not in a hurry to go back. I want to send the eldest lady to Quanzhou City. Just now, he had already taken his brothers to the dock to see our stack unloading. This time, those Tibetan boys, if they dare to deliberately rely on the power of their boat gang to raise the price when unloading, I will not be polite. See if Saburo doesn't beat them to death. ”

“…… The people also formed a boat gang? ”

Ji Qingchen asked curiously, as for Ji Chenhu going to fight, she could only pretend that she didn't hear it.

There are 300 families on the ship, and she can't take care of hundreds of people now, so of course she is relieved to have San Lang.

As for the dock and unloading, this was originally Ji Chenhu's affairs in Tangfang.

He is now going to take someone to Mingzhou Fanfang to take care of it, as long as he can hold it down, of course she will not intervene.

Even if she is a sister, Saburo also thinks that her woman doesn't understand this.

"Where do they gang up the boats?"

Ji Dali has obviously been aggrieved for too long, and when he mentions the people in Fanfang, he is angry.

"The marine terminal is the territory of our maritime merchants, and the boats on the inland river help the bosses who have nothing to do and will not cross the border. So Fanfang himself took advantage of this business. Among the Tibetan people, there are big cannibals, there are Sriwijaya people, and the remnants of Old Silla and Old Annam, all of whom have formed groups to grab business. All of them called themselves boat gangs, and they also formed seven or eight groups. Outsiders look at it, it's all the Fan Gang. If it weren't for us, Tang Fang would be the only one—"

Ji Dali muttered and complained that there were too few people at the stack point.

The guys were all hired from the Fan people and the Song people, and only Lao Siniang had the same heart as him.

These thieves dare to steal and play tricks under his nose without being beaten for a day, and they dare to steal the goods in the stack.

If they are beaten by him, they will also gather their fellow clansmen to retaliate.

In the first half year of his arrival in Mingzhou, after dozens of fights, everyone knew that he had a hard fist and was more capable of playing tricks than their people. So don't mess with him now.

That's when the guys were honest.

Ji Qingchen just laughed and didn't talk.

Sure enough, Ji Dali said to himself and became happy again.

He slammed his fists into the air, and all the plans in his mouth were to lead San Lang to find trouble and settle old accounts. It's best to let San Lang stay, and he will be able to monopolize the dock business on Fanfang.

"What about Saburo? Working under your hands? ”

Lao Siniang spat at him angrily.

Ji Qingchen knew that she and Ji Dali were naturally in the same group, and sure enough, Ji Dali patted the black hair on his chest and shouted:

"San Lang's ability, and so many brothers in our workshop, why are you reluctant to break the territory of Fusang? Come to Mingzhou City, grab a section of the inland river in eastern Zhejiang, we also form a boat gang, and we also open a shipyard, isn't it the same as Tangfang? Saburo is still the big chief, and the brothers still listen to him. With the eldest lady supporting him, what can't be done? (To be continued.) (To be continued) R640