Taking advantage of this season, Huang Qilang had already muttered a few words in Wang Shiqiang's ear, explaining the origin of this little Rui Niang.

"It's the little girl she adopted from the workshop more than half a year ago, and her surname is Ji."

"So it's her?"

He had already heard the rumor that she would not come out of the courtyard and only adopt and teach a little girl in the workshop, thinking about the soft and gentle Song language of that little Rui Niang, who only felt that the child was anxious and cute when she scolded people, her accent obviously had some Jiangsu and Zhejiang flavors, and there was no Fusang accent at all, which should have been corrected by Ji Qingchen recently.

He smiled and nodded.

That girl must be an outstanding child in the school, so she took a fancy to her.

"This kid looks like he is clever, stay by your side, and he will be as good as Erlang and Saburo in the future."

Although he was trying to provoke the talk of going to sea to save the third child, what he said was not a compliment.

This is also the reason why he, Wang Shiqiang, is willing to marry a woman like her who grew up in Waiyi.

In the hundreds of years before the establishment of the workshop, the Middle-earth repatriates were far away from Middle-earth for generations, and they were unwilling to move into the interior of Fuso to be assimilated, so they could only fish by the sea to make a living.

Fortunately, after she wandered to Tsukushi with her two younger brothers, she not only gathered the people and opened a river in a foreign country, but also knew that if she did not want to be assimilated by the local Fuso people, she would not only let the people have food and clothing, but also never give up the initiative of opening a school and revitalizing education.

For example, this Xiaorui Niang's parents, brothers and sisters, like the other two or three hundred families in the workshop, because they have no surname, they were attached to the name of the Ji family after the opening of the workshop, and became the clansmen of the three sisters and brothers of the Ji family.

He looked back at her face, trying to find in her eyes the little throbbing that they had shone at the same time three years ago, but all he could see was the calm in her eyes.

He sighed secretly, knowing that because of the three-year broken promise and marrying another, he and her would never be able to go back to the past.

"Wang Gangshou has a good reputation."

She knew in her heart that after more than a year, he suddenly appeared in front of her again, of course, not to save her brother.

It's just that Ji Ruiniang's sudden accident made her feel a little happy in her heart and aroused shallow memories.

She seemed to see herself in her previous life, and she once had such a small spirit as Rui Niang, who was even more afraid than her, and after graduating from junior high school at the age of thirteen or fourteen, she dared to follow her fellow villagers out of her barren hometown in the mountains under the arrangement of her parents, and went to work as a female worker in a factory in a coastal city, in order to send money home for her brother to go to college.

Until she suffered enough in the city, she once fell and was covered with injuries and tears, but she also had the luck after hard work.

She has made copycat foreign trade soles on the production line, set up a snack stall with a bunch of hot vegetables in the night market, sold cosmetics to art candidates on the side of the road in the university town, opened three or four small online stores on Taobao, and even went to the construction site to move bricks and wipe the dead in the hospital morgue when it was the hardest......

In the midst of hard work, she finally understood her parents' partiality, and she also lamented that she had dropped out of school too early.

But she had no choice but to rely on herself, and there was no other way out.

The reason why she can still catch up with the trend of opening online stores in the first two waves is also because when she was most helpless, she once looked for free online technical secondary school and university professional courses in a dark Internet café near the university town.

Just to survive in the strange urban forest......

"I understand the intention of Wang Gangshou."

Her eyes swept over the nine-bar dowry, and after Xiao Ruiniang's matter, she finally didn't want to waste any more time.

"There is no need to mention family matters, but there is a serious matter, which should have been discussed with Wang Gangshou. Chen Hong, the head of Quanzhou who came with you on the same ship, wrote a letter to Tangfang last year to mention the family matter, and also mentioned the matter of Fujian maritime merchants coming to Tangfang to anchor. ”

"Qingniang, I remember that when the workshop was built, Tangfang made a contract with my Jiangsu, Zhejiang and maritime merchants."

Wang Shiqiang came in a hurry this time, of course, for this matter,

"We help you build Tangfang, after the opening of the workshop, Fujian's eight maritime merchants, all Fujian cargo ships in the first day of May to the first day of October in the monsoon period, not only to use three times the berthing fee to enter the port in Tangfang, and the owner must also have Jiangsu and Zhejiang people to join the line, now Tangfang has forgotten this contract?"

He also simply opened the skylight and said brightly, "The Fujian sea ship that sent the letter last year was in the monsoon season, and the owner of the ship had nothing to do with our Jiangsu, Zhejiang and maritime merchants, but you actually let them enter Tangfang?" ”

"How could you forget?"

She covered her lips and smiled, and replied humbly and preparedly,

"When will my Tang Fang be untrustworthy? It's just that this time they came not a cargo ship, but a monk ship, in order to send a few traveling monks from Quanzhou Foguang Temple to Zhuma Temple to study. The monks were sent by the temple master to Fusang to retrieve the original Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures that were lost during the war at the end of the Tang Dynasty, rented the Chen family's boat, and wrote a letter to the old Zen master Kongming in the Zhuma Temple, and transferred it to me, can I still turn the masters away? ”

Unhurried, she looked sideways at the rolling dark green barren mountains to the east of Tangfang.

Under the afternoon sun, the Yazhu Mountain Range stretches for hundreds of miles, the forest is like a snake, on the waist of a mountain range twenty miles away, the copper Ling is shining gold, and the eaves of the Buddhist temple of Zhuma Temple are exposed in the shade of the thick green trees.

It was a Buddhist temple where she had just crossed and was reborn, and she had been a slave for three years in order to survive.

She fostered her two younger brothers in a seaside fishing village, and entered this ancient temple built at the end of the Tang Dynasty at the age of ten, and her shelter in the temple was the twelve old Song monks of Wutai Mountain in Shanxi who fled to Fusang from the Jin Kingdom many years ago.

"Speaking of which, even if Wang Gangshou doesn't come today, I will send someone to the Wang family in the fang to invite the Wang family to come over to discuss, when I Tang Fang opened the workshop, I signed a five-year preferential entry contract with Wang Gangshou, which has already expired, because there have been many annoyances in the past two years, and I haven't had time to officially say a word.

Of course, she knew that he came to the door today to take the opportunity of taking a concubine to re-order the expired entry contract between Tangfang and the 3,000 Jiangsu, Zhejiang and maritime merchants, and continue to monopolize the benefits of the East China Sea.

"Qingniang, I know that after the opening of the workshop, the Song merchant family who has asked you for marriage over the years has never been severed-"

The contract should have been renewed three years ago, but because he had a private marriage contract with her, he was not in a hurry to renew it.

I just want to wait for him to return to the Great Song Dynasty to tell his parents, and after proposing to marry her, it is natural that he will continue the cooperation between Tangfang and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and maritime merchants in the East China Sea......

At the beginning, it was he Wang Shiqiang's unique vision that took a fancy to the future location advantage of Tangfang when the river first opened, and met Ji Qingchen through Huang Qilang's introduction, and set a secret agreement between them.

According to the contract, within five years after the opening of the workshop, neither Fujian nor Guangzhou maritime merchants in the East China Sea could get the most favorable conditions to enter Tangfang, so they could not compete with Jiangsu and Zhejiang maritime merchants.

As a result, Tangfang obtained the help of maritime merchants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and restrained Dazaifu, which managed diplomacy and trade on Fuso Kyushu Island, and Fuso maritime merchants who colluded with Dazaifu, and broke the Hongrokan trade run by Fuso, and opened up the free market of Tangfang.

And he Wang Shiqiang, also because of the help of Jiangsu and Zhejiang maritime merchants to monopolize the East China Sea, first as a concubine gradually mastered the family business of the Siming Wang family, and then promoted the righteous brother Huang Qilang to become one of the six outlines of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, this year, and in addition to the title of the head of the Wang family from generation to generation, he was recognized by the Mingzhou City Bosi as the second head of the maritime business.

In this way, the head of the six major maritime merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the Siming Wang family monopolized two, plus Huang Qilang, who was also the head of the program, because of his life-saving grace and righteousness, only he was the head of the horse, Wang Shiqiang has become the leader of the three thousand Jiangsu and Zhejiang maritime merchants in the East China Sea.

It's just that for Tang Fang, whether the Song merchants who came to do business were from Mingzhou or Quanzhou, the more the better.

"Now let you marry me as a concubine, after all, you have been wronged."

He came in a hurry, preparing a dowry for his wife.

However, the Great Song Dynasty did not allow people to marry equal wives, and the Zhao official family, which was founded three hundred years ago, changed the old practice of the previous dynasty, and regarded the prohibition of human trafficking of slaves and maids as the ancestral family law.

As for the so-called equal wives in the market, it is just because the businessman traveled between the two places and married a lover as a concubine in a foreign place according to the wedding ceremony of the main house, as long as there is no lawsuit to separate the family, no one is nosy.

"You have been a slave in the temple for three years, seven years ago from the Zhuma Temple down the mountain, lobbying nearly 30,000 remnants of the Middle Earth on the north and south of Kyushu Island, to come here to open the river and trade, you and I have a cooperative alliance, and now this family matter, I have treated you slowly - but please also look at the friendship between my three thousand maritime merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and Tangfang over the years, and temporarily wronged for a few years......

"Wang Gangshou, if there is no maritime merchants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, no Siming Wang, and no Wang Gangshou and your great help, this Tangfang cannot be built......"

These are not lies, not to mention that when the workshop was built, she was in huge debt, through the Song monks as a guarantee, to Zhuma Temple borrowed three mountains of barren forest to build the workshop for the down payment, Ji Chenlong, Ji Chenhu two younger brothers although willing to support her, but also like her only thirteen or fourteen years old, not to mention the relocation of the people, everyone has to eat, but most of them only have one strength, half of the river opening, the technology of building a port does not know.

Without Huang Qilang, without Wang Shiqiang introduced by Huang Qilang, without the craftsman skills that Wang Shiqiang invited for her from the Great Song Dynasty, how could it be so easy for her to build her own place with her fellow villagers in this foreign country?

Moreover, when it comes to social identity in this life, she is a maiden with Middle-earth descent on an overseas island, and he is a son of the Song Dynasty merchant family, even if it is a concubine, he is also a high climber.

What's more, three years ago, they only privately agreed to get married, and there was no marriage certificate, nor did they officially inform the relatives and friends of both parties.

Although she talked about it with her two younger brothers in vain, she also failed their kindness in vain, and carefully prepared a rich dowry to marry back to the Great Song Dynasty, even if she knew that the Southern Song Dynasty would inevitably suffer the catastrophe of Mongolia's southward demise in the future, she would also make a bet for more than 6,000 households in Tangfang and for him Wang Shiqiang.

But men love women, willing to gamble and lose, since he has married a wife, she has no leisure to die or live without him marrying.

"Tangfang wants to maintain, naturally the more merchants, the better, I have been planning for a long time about the entry of Fujian sea ships into the port to trade, although Chen Wenchang is not a maritime businessman, but he is also a son of a maritime businessman, and Chen Gangshou personally came, it is to formally discuss this matter, it stands to reason, I should also inform you of this matter - half a year later, the sea ship at the head of the Fujian Eight Outline will be treated in my Tangfang with the same courtesy as the sea ship in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there is no difference."

After that, she untied the embroidered girdle she had tied when she slaughtered the chicken from her waist and pressed it on the well wheel, "The distant guest is coming, and I am also going to prepare to greet it, Wang Gangshou should please go back." ”