Because of the noise caused by Li Heimao, it finally quieted down.

"Someone."

At his signal, Zuo Ping, a young man in Tsing Yi who had been standing behind him and had not moved, came out.

He was short-dressed and shoeed, sixteen or seventeen years old, with a gentle face, and at a glance he knew that it was Wang Shiqiang's cronies, and Li Heimao's rude bow and boatmen were not the same thing at all, and he raised his hand to remove the red cloak on the first carrying box in the courtyard.

Inside there are more than a dozen sliding bright red and green brocades, all of which are high-grade Song goods, and they are also expensive luxury goods sold to the Fusang nobles in the Tang Fang.

Huang Qilang also coughed, and Li Heimao, who had climbed to the side, also hurriedly came out, uncovering the red on the second carrying box, revealing two rows of black lacquer trays lined with red silk inside.

The jewelry on the plate is eight hairpins and four rings.

Each of the eight finely crafted white bead hairpins is accompanied by four gold bracelets, all of which are full of red gold, a total of eight plates.

Coupled with the Sichuan brocade, goose coins, jade and two Khotanese knives with rhino handles in the back seven lifts, these nine bride gifts can be seen at a glance to be selected from the sea commodities of the best goods, obviously prepared in a hurry, not very suitable for the ceremony.

It is quite a bit of the wealthy posture of maritime merchants.

She glanced at it and knew that in the Great Song Dynasty, the usual wealthy businessmen took a good concubine and married a bride price for a flat wife, and this was the case according to the regulations.

Most of the Song merchants who did business in Tangfang were Jiangsu, Zhejiang and maritime merchants from Mingzhou Port.

Because the monsoon often has to stay in the fang for half a year, and it is common for them not to return for three or four years, they will occasionally ask the Fusang maritime merchants to pull the strings, rent and buy a few fresh Fusang concubines of thirteen or fourteen years old outside the fang, talk about loneliness, and according to the oral contract, it is only a year of rent, and they will give the concubine's parents the price of a dozen bags of rice and four or five horses of cloth.

"Qingniang, the thousands of people in Nanfang are all young and reckless neighborhood students, and they have always only served your third child, Ji Chenhu-"

The nine-bar bride price was opened, and she also restrained her scattered thoughts, and when she heard Wang Shiqiang take a step closer and earnestly persuade,

"I also know that in addition to the people he took away from the sea, there are five or six hundred people who stayed in Nanfang, and these later generations usually have nothing to do in the workshop, docks, and taverns, drunk and fighting, and even dared to disobey the rules you set at the beginning, not to mention encountering such a major event as San Lang not returning for a long time, if I am not in the workshop, since I am here today, you naturally don't have to worry about ......"

She smiled lightly and stood quietly in the courtyard.

He saw that she was completely like "Wang Shiqiang, who would rather die than live", he endured his anger, but the worry in his eyes was deeper, as if he was planning for her,

"Qing Niang, I know that because of Dazaifu's ban on foreigners building sea ships, Tang Fang has never had its own sea ships, but after I was promoted to the head of the maritime business program this time, I also acquired a shipyard in Mingzhou with Huang Qige, and I can build ships for Tang Fang in the Great Song Dynasty-"

As long as she nodded and promised the family affairs in front of her, he would immediately let the forty-eight sea ships that had just arrived in his hand, and the rest of the sea ships that came with him, go to sea with his heart, and look for her brother with all his heart.

As long as he accepts these bride prices, not only shipbuilding, although he has already married a wife in the Great Song Dynasty, he is also willing to marry her in Tangfang immediately with the etiquette of a wife.

"Shipbuilding?"

She laughed, and her eyes seemed to change, "It turns out that Wang Gangshou also runs a shipyard now?" ”

She became a little interested in his proposal, which made him feel that maybe even the fact that he had repented of his contract three years ago and married another person could be temporary

Set aside.

Three years ago, before he returned to the Great Song Dynasty, he made a private agreement with her that the next time he came to Tangfang, he would ask the Ji family to marry her as his wife, but after leaving, she heard the news that he was married to the daughter of the head of the Mingzhou Shieunlou clan in the Great Song Dynasty as a merchant concubine.

It's really a great family business.

"What Wang Gangshou said makes me embarrassed, I heard that the ships of the Great Song Dynasty are different, and the water outside Mingzhou Port is shallow and the sand is wide

The shipyard can only build flat-bottomed thick plate sea ships, but my Tangfang port is deep and thin, and the wind and waves are urgent, and the sea ships in Mingzhou Port are not suitable for my Tangfang. ”

Fujian sea vessels are more suitable for the sea area outside Tangfang.

"Big girl! Brother Wang Xian's words are all true. ”

Huang Qilang finally heard them talking about business, and hurriedly jumped out with his northwest accent, which was unique in the maritime business,

"As long as there is a shipyard and a shipbuilder, Mingzhou can't build it, can't we still invite the shipbuilder to Fusang to build a ship? When the statue of Fusang Buddhist Temple was made, most of the craftsmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang were invited to cross the sea to start work. As long as you don't let Fuso Dazaifu know, just rely on your Tangfang, can't you still find a secret port on the shore of this Yi Island to build a ship? ”

Although he knew that she would never hand over such a major matter as shipbuilding to Wang Shiqiang, he still patted his chest and played a package ticket.

"I personally went to negotiate the business of buying a shipyard, and the old shipwright there has decades of experience, and he has seen and built any ship type, as long as you nod your head, there is no ship that cannot be built."

According to the official system of Fuso Province, Kyushu Dazaifu was the government department in charge of foreign affairs and foreign trade, far away from Heian Gyokyo, and could fully manage Kyushu's overseas affairs.

And because of the wars and chaos of the past dynasties, the remnants of Middle-earth who left their homeland and fled to Fusang were reluctant to move into the interior of Fusang, and they could not get land to cultivate without household registration, so they could only make a living by fishing and trading.

As for the recent war in Middle-earth, it was already a hundred years ago when the Northern Song Dynasty fell, and in the eyes of Huang Qilang, a maritime merchant in the Southern Song Dynasty, this place was already the end of the East China Sea, a border island country.

“…… Even so, Fusang is not the Great Song Dynasty, and I don't know how many hours it will take to open up the joints in the middle. ”

Although she was interested, she did not want to talk about building a ship.

Of course, she knew that Fusang's shipbuilding skills could not be compared to the Great Song Dynasty, there was no sealed cabin, no guide compass, no sea route star map, not to mention the huge dragon spine and mast.

Ten years of experience in this life made her understand too well that from the East China Sea to the South China Sea to the Indian Sea, it is completely the world of the Great Song Dynasty ships, but of course she has to control such a major event as Tangfang shipbuilding in her own hands to rest assured, so she looked at Wang Shiqiang,

"Wang Gangshou - I heard that the shipyard you bought is quite famous in Mingzhou?"

Of course, he heard her way of talking about business, and knew that Huang Qilang's persuasion all the way when he entered the workshop just now was really her temperament, and he couldn't move her with his old feelings, and the coercion added fuel to the fire.

"Bo has a small name, the merchant ships built by this shipyard in the past are for the use of our six maritime merchant leaders in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they are also purchased and requisitioned as official ships by the Mingzhou Mansion from time to time, and it is enough to build ships for Tangfang."

She nodded slowly.

After he got married three years ago, because he married the daughter of the Knowles, not only did he have a deeper foundation in Mingzhou Port, but also responded to the three thousand merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so he has a huge fleet of 100 miles outside Tangfang today.

"Wang Gangshou, do you want to come to the fleet with you this time, whether it is Jiangsu, Zhejiang sea ships or Fujian sea ships, they are all concentrated in Mingzhou Port, and they set off for Goryeo together half a year ago?"

"It turns out that Qingniang already knew the news that we went to sea to Goryeo? The five sea ships of the Chen family must have communicated with you a long time ago? ”

He was about to test to see how much she knew about him who set off from Mingzhou Port, led a huge fleet to Goryeo, and deliberately passed by Tangfang on the way back.

After all, he passed through Tangfang this time, and it was definitely not to give the Chen family a chance to ask her for marriage.

If it weren't for the fact that there was a figure on the Chen family's sea boat who made him have to endure it, he wouldn't have broken into her house in anger today and quarreled with her again.

"Qingniang, what happened three years ago was my fault-"

Ji Qingchen frowned slightly, he didn't want to hear him talk about this anymore, and was about to open his mouth to cut off, when Huang Qilang glanced at her again, asking her to be patient for the time being, but fortunately, a small corner door in the northeast corner of the Ji family's courtyard suddenly pushed it open, and the figure of an eight or nine-year-old girl jumped out.

"You kings, you scoundrels!"

She blushed, puffed out her cheeks, and when she saw the twenty or so stout men in the courtyard who were crowded and had no place to stay, she dropped the dustpan in her hand and hurriedly stopped in front of Ji Qingchen.

She glared at Wang Shiqiang, pointed at his face with one hand on her waist and the other, and shouted angrily:

"The first two times you came to the door, if it wasn't for the eldest lady to stop you, Third Brother Ji would have burned down your storehouse directly, and now you went to Gaoli to study with Second Brother Ji, Third Brother Ji didn't come back from fishing at sea, and bullied the door again, do you have a conscience? Are you easy to bully everyone in our Tang Fang? ”

Wang Shiqiang raised his eyebrows, looking at the little girl in front of him in surprise.

She has a silver face, big eyes, clean skin, and a moon-white slanted Tang dress with a top and pants, and she looks like a beautiful embryo at first glance.

It's just that because he is less than ten years old, the baby fat on his cheeks has not subsided, and the hair on the top of his forehead has been shaved into a semicircle, revealing a white scalp like a watermelon, and he looks like a mud doll that is neither male nor female.

"Rui Niang."

Ji Qingchen obviously didn't expect this to happen, put away his crying and laughing expression, and called the courageous child, "Didn't you let you settle the account for me today, where did you go crazy just now?" ”

"Big lady-"

Xiao Ruiniang turned her head, blinking her round eyes, aggrieved and didn't know what she had done.

The eldest lady taught her that the Siming Wang family, who was born by Wang Shiqiang, was also the Song merchant with the closest relationship between the Ji family in Tangfang in the past, so she could not be offended directly; The Wang family has opened more than a dozen warehouses in Tangfang, and has always joined forces with Tangfang to monopolize the shipping business in the East China Sea, so they can't directly tear their faces......

But those words that are inconvenient for the eldest lady to scold, can't she scold them for the eldest lady?

Didn't the eldest lady teach her like this:

Can't let people be bullied, and don't know how to resist?

What's more, didn't the eldest lady find the secret port a long time ago and have already started to build a ship? Why do you want to continue to deal with Wang Shiqiang?

"Go back to the house and settle the accounts for me, or you won't have dinner left."

Xiao Ruiniang, who didn't eat lunch, was surprised to glance at the old iron knife on the water wheel ready to slaughter chickens, and then saw the old hen with a shrunken head in the corner of the yard, and finally understood that because the evil guest came to the door, there was no hope for the time being to drink the chicken soup cooked by the eldest lady herself.

She glared at Wang Shiqiang and Huang Qilang resentfully, but after all, she understood the look that Ji Qingchen handed to her.

It is imperative to put the accounts in the south square in order and make the people outside who find excuses to make trouble because they are afraid of checking the accounts to be speechless.

She picked up the dustpan of shrimp that she had just thrown on the ground, and hungry, took off her shoes and climbed up to the corridor behind Ji Qingchen.

She slipped into the room and slammed the lattice door shut in frustration.

After a burst of laughter from the adult men outside, the courtyard fell silent again.