Chapter 11 Grange in the Mountains

"I'm not worried about Hailan here, my mother should use some heart and take a few people to personally decorate the Song Hall in the Honglu Pavilion."

Of course, she was relieved of Ji's mother's arrangements at sea, and although she had hidden worries in her heart, she still replied with a smile.

The wind gradually sounded over the small courtyard.

The salt wind blowing from the sea collided with the mountain wind blowing from the area around the Zhuma Temple in Yazhu Mountain, and it hissed and made noise.

Although Ji Hong was bent on planning for Erlang, he would never dare to miss such a major event as the owner of the workshop preparing to welcome the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty to Tangfang, not to mention listening to her tone, the third Ji Chenhu fell into the hands of Lou Yun, and it was very dangerous.

He patiently listened to her telling Ji's mother to go to the newly built Honglu Pavilion in Fusang Dazaifu to make arrangements, and once the Fusang Tibetans handed over the credentials and invited the Great Song envoy to land, he would prepare for the Song envoy Lou Yun and the ship's deputy envoy and subordinate officials to stay in it.

If she wants to come to the Chen family, she is already confident about inviting the envoy to enter Hong Kong.

"Congratulations to the lady, your wish has come true-"

As soon as she finished talking to Ji's mother, he hurriedly laughed, "If the envoy knows that the new Honglu Pavilion he is coming to was donated by our family, he will definitely hold a banquet to summon the eldest lady to come in, and the eldest lady will ask the envoy to see San Lang again-"

"I'm just afraid that Saburo has offended this envoy......"

She didn't have the slightest joy, and she only felt that it was not easy to deal with Lou Yun, the envoy she had spent so much effort to invite over the years.

"Wang Shiqiang should say the opposite, it was not San Lang who encountered the wind and waves three days ago, but it should be the ship of the national envoy Lou Yun, he returned to the East China Sea to take a Fujian sea ship, which must have made the Jiangsu and Zhejiang maritime merchants dissatisfied, the Chen family is a Fujian maritime businessman, of course, not as familiar with the monsoon in the East China Sea as Jiangsu, Zhejiang and San Lang——"

How shrewd Ji Hong is, in the past few days in Goryeo, he has seen a lot of battles in various parts of Goryeo, and immediately reacted, and said in surprise: "I'm afraid that the maritime merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang knew that there was a typhoon three days ago, and deliberately did not remind the Chen family, so that the five Fujian sea ships brought by the envoy were separated from the fleet in the sea breeze——"

The risks at sea are uncertain, even if an envoy of a country is killed in distress, it is not uncommon for all dynasties to die.

This kind of thing does not need to be planned by Wang Shiqiang, and those maritime merchants who have lost face and are worried about losing the interests of the East China Sea market may not be able to do it, anyway, they just don't open their mouths.

Ji Hong's suspicion was not strange, she was also thinking the same as him in her heart, but she couldn't nod her head on her face, she just sighed:

"San Lang encountered a few lonely sea boats like this, and asked him to help them, and it was not difficult to show the way to Tangfang for refuge, but he must first take the opportunity to surround them and let him leave the money to buy the road."

Ji Hong heard her talk about Ji Chenhu's robbery at sea, as if he remembered it vividly, it can be said that he knew Ji Chenhu's personality well, and he secretly laughed in his heart, but when he thought that if he really dared to be a pirate in the East China Sea, and he fell into the hands of the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, the whole party would be affected by him.

He couldn't laugh either.

"You can't let the maritime merchants everywhere know that the younger brother of the owner of Tangfang is a pirate, who will dare to come to Tangfang to do business in the future?"

She sighed and looked at Ji's mother, "Mom, talk to Mr. Li, take care of the goods, and prepare to go to the Song boat to quietly redeem people according to the rules of the sea." ”

Mother Ji listened to her instructions and was about to spend money to ransom Ji Chenhu back, but there was not much affection in her deep eyes, she just responded silently, turned around and summoned the servant woman to Ji's store to deliver the message, Ji Hong hesitated and persuaded:

"Don't worry, the eldest lady, with Saburo's ability, should not have an accident at sea, besides, Saburo was reprimanded by the eldest lady before, and will not go to the East China Sea to rob, only often go to the Seto Inland Sea to rob those Fuso pirates, I heard that he has robbed a few small islands and reefs in the Inland Sea a few years ago as a port to rest, and it is possible that he will not come back for a while, maybe Miss Hailan will soon have safe news back-"

She shook her head, knowing that Ji Chenhu had no river income in his hands for more than a year, and the income from Nanfang's shops and board boats alone was not enough for him to spend, so she was already anxious, and she couldn't help but regret in her heart that she had forced him too much, and sighed:

"Not only did he fall into the hands of the envoy, but I was afraid that the envoy would want to behead him according to the rules and hang it to show the public, it should be Wang Shiqiang and the maritime merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang who recognized him as my younger brother, so they pleaded together to save it."

Ji Hong immediately figured things out, it was precisely because Wang Shiqiang knew about this matter that she had to beg him to keep Ji Chenhu, so he dared to come to the door for the third time to ask for marriage and stop her marriage with the Chen family.

"Not to mention anything else, I'm just afraid that the envoy will be suspicious of my Tangfang -- fortunately, Chen Gangshou in Quanzhou promised in his letter that he would persuade the envoy to land, and if he landed, I would better ask him for guilt."

She carefully thought about how to make up for the trouble that Ji Chenhu besieged the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty and brought to Tang Fanglai, and Ji's mother had already walked back

In front of her, she commanded:

"Mom, you personally go to the Honglu New Museum, and watch them clean all the pavilions on the Song Palace, from the paper door and bamboo curtain, the screen step barrier, the Tang cabinet and Song porcelain, to the folding fan and spit box, the pen washing needle and thread, all of which are replaced with new good Song goods, so that the envoy will know that the 30,000 people of my Tang Fang are loyal to the Great Song Dynasty......"

The old hall was established in Tangfang and was used exclusively for Fuso to conduct government-run overseas trade.

In the past, when Song merchants came to Fuso, they had to live in Hongrokan and deliver the goods to Dazaifu officials at a fixed price, and then the Fuso maritime merchants indirectly purchased them from Dazaifu and resold them into the mainland.

This kind of government-run trade has lasted for three or four hundred years since the end of the Tang Dynasty, and it can be regarded as a forced sale, and some officials have been involved in it, and it is a trivial matter to withhold and conceal it, and it is common to directly rob merchants of their goods without giving a penny, so the disadvantages are reborn.

These things, in the past few years, when he Ji Hong dozed off in the workshop and listened to the villagers write strategies as required, he had already heard them argue:

Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, due to the introduction of iron tools and grain in China for hundreds of years, more and more land has been cultivated in Fusang, the estates of the lords have expanded, the nobles have become richer day by day, and the demand for Song goods has increased.

And the Great Song Dynasty also relied on the commercial tax of the city to support the military expenses of the Huanghuai area and the Jin State, and used official positions to encourage overseas trade, so in the past 20 years, more and more Song merchants came to Fusang to do business.

The free trade between the merchants in the Tangfang met the needs of the Fuso lords and merchants, as well as overseas Song merchants, Korean merchants, Okinawan merchants, and even a very small number of Nanyang and Arab merchants, so that Dazaifu could be acquiesced in as a foreigner.

After the establishment of Tangfang, the old hall fell into disrepair and was abandoned.

"Don't worry, the eldest lady can rest assured, the twenty-six Ezo slaves that the eldest lady bought last year, the old body has arranged them inside and outside the Song Palace, as long as the Song envoy moves in, even if he refuses to release San Lang, the eldest lady can still adapt to the situation."

Ji's mother sent the servant woman away, and replied slowly, Ji Qingchen smiled slightly, nodded silently, Ji Hong heard clearly on the side, of course she knew that she was preparing with both hands, if the Lou Lord was easy to talk to, of course everyone would be happy if he promised Tang Fang to redeem people with goods, but in case he deliberately made it difficult, she was not completely powerless to resist.

Because the state guesthouse in Fusang was established with donations from Tangfang in recent years, it has already fallen into her hands.

"Big lady, although the new Honglu Museum was donated by our family, and the Ezo slaves in the museum are all arranged by the big lady, but the mountainside where the new museum is located is too close to the new grange we have opened in the mountains for more than a year......

Seeing that Ji's mother was about to turn around and leave, he couldn't help but remind.

Although Erlang has the support of the people of Beifang, and he is only a cousin and not the younger brother of the eldest lady, he has always had a good relationship with the eldest sister, and even shouted at the eldest lady like Ji Chenhu, shook his fists indiscriminately, and then hung his head in frustration to accompany the sin, he has not done it.

Although it is because of his gentle nature and the fact that he has been following Mr. Li to read and learn etiquette, Ji Hong knows that this is also because Erlang admires the foresight of the eldest lady very much.

Even if she studied privately in Goryeo, Erlang also made her own topographic map of Yazhu Mountain, and always calculated that she had presided over the newly opened five or six acres in Zhuma Mountain as early as seven years before the establishment of the workshop, and how many manpower was needed to cultivate the terraced fields of nearly 10,000 mu now, how many Ezo slaves to buy secretly, and how many Han artisans were smuggled from the Jin Kingdom into the workshop to build farm tools.

There is also the amount of grain produced in the field, whether it can meet the needs of the people.

So when he came back every month, he had to tell Mr. Li once for Erlang:

In the grange through Huang Qilang's cargo ship, although the hundreds of Han craftsmen who moved from the Jin Kingdom were all under the management of the eldest lady, when they separated the family, they said that the dowry that belonged to her when she married back to the Great Song Dynasty in the future had nothing to do with the Ji's warehouse under Erlang's name, but those fields would not be taken away, and if the eldest lady asked the Ji's warehouse for clothing, food, farm tools and other things, Ji's warehouse would never be shirked.

In addition, the Ezo slaves that the village kept buying were all sent to the eldest lady's grange through the hands of Ji's warehouse, and Erlang asked Mr. Li to carefully select the strong, honest and obedient ones for the eldest lady, and asked that after the first round of harvest last year, Tangfang did not need to buy grain from outside this year.

Wang Shiqiang wants to threaten Tangfang with food, but it has been impossible since last year.

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