On the spacious cement road leading from Tianjin to the capital, there is a steady flow of people.

Since the construction of this cement road, coupled with the fact that Tianjin has become the first city in the Ming Dynasty to open the sea, Tianjin has many industries in Tianjin Port, and the development is extremely prosperous.

This also caused this concrete road to be unusually busy.

Every day, the sea fish transported from Tianjin to the capital is extremely huge, and the four-wheeled carriages are galloping on the cement road, the speed is extremely fast, and it does not take two hours to transport fresh sea fish from Tianjin to the capital.

In addition to sea fish, the most transported to the capital is barrels of cement, Tianjin here in the number of cement plants, large output, not only to meet the local demand in Tianjin, but also began large-scale foreign sales, Beijing is currently the largest customer area.

And there are a lot of people who travel to and from Tianjin in the capital, and the magnates, officials, businessmen, etc. in the capital have more or less some industries in Tianjin.

Like the fishing boats that go to sea and the merchant ships that go to North Korea at present, these are all profitable trades, and naturally they have attracted these predators in the capital early.

And with Zhang Mao, Xu Yongning, and the Zhang brothers, the first batch of crab eaters, made a lot of money, more and more people began to invest in Tianjin.

Every day, lavish carriages are followed by dozens of carriages, heavily armed darts escorts, or some strong domestic servants escorting them to Tianjin.

These convoys were carrying a large amount of silver and were ready to invest in Tianjin, either to buy fishing boats to go to sea to fish, or to buy sea boats, to do business in North Korea, or to invest in some other industries in Tianjin.

In short, Tianjin has become more and more a cornucopia, where wealth continues to gather, and more wealth has also begun to be transported out continuously.

Silver is only silver if it is circulated, otherwise it is just a piece of metal buried in the cellar floor, and it has no value at all.

At this time, Tianjin is constantly interpreting this famous sentence of Liu Jin.

The cement road is very spacious and very busy, and there are even people who have built sheds or thatched huts next to the cement road, selling tea, food, etc., and the business is also very hot, because there are too many people.

Mrs. Fan is one of the many people who rely on this cement road to do business.

She is from a village near the cement road, and her home is not far from the cement road, so she also took a fancy to the business on the cement road early.

She is also more intelligent, and another piece of land on the side of the road is her own, so the family also worked hard for more than ten days to level the land, and then paved it with cement from Tianjin, and built a tea shed on the side of the road, selling tea while selling some noodles, buns and other things.

"Boss, come ten steamed buns, a pot of tea, and a bowl of noodles, the kind that has to be soup."

"Okay~ Guest officer, wait a minute."

"Boss, come to a pot of tea, ask for Longjing~"

"Okay~"

Mrs. Fan's shop is very busy, and from time to time there are passing guests who stop to drink tea, eat something, rest, and rest, and Mrs. Fan can't be busy at all, so she also pulls her family over.

Aunt Fan's son became the second shopkeeper and was responsible for chores, her boss became the shopkeeper and was responsible for settling accounts and collecting money, and the daughter-in-law and unmarried daughter were responsible for helping to make steamed buns, cooking tea and so on in the back kitchen, and the whole family was busy from morning to evening, and the business was extremely hot.

"Don't you know, a few days ago, the fishing boat here in Tianjin caught a whale."

"This whale is the size of a house, a few feet long, I was here in Tianjin Port at the time, and there were more than ten butchers at the scene dismembering this big whale."

"The whale's whale oil is cut off buckets and barrels, and the whale oil on a whale can almost have the fat of thousands of fat pigs, and the meat of this whale, it is like beef, bright red, bright red, and the meat of this whale is equivalent to the meat of hundreds of cows......"

In Mrs. Fan's tea shed, there is a guest who is talking about the big whale he saw in Tianjin Port, and his voice is relatively loud, so that the whole tea shed can hear it.

Hearing that there was such a huge whale, this immediately became the focus of dozens of people in the entire tea shed, and everyone couldn't help but look over and prick up their ears to listen carefully.

"The oil of this whale is equivalent to the oil of thousands of fat pigs?"

"This meat is equivalent to the meat of hundreds of cows?"

"Just blow it, how can there be such a big fish in the sky?"

Have you ever seen a whale expressed their doubts, everyone has seen a lot of this sea fish, and many of the four-wheeled carriages that come and go are specially designed to transport sea fish into Beijing.

From time to time, you can also see some big fish weighing hundreds of catties or even thousands of catties, and sometimes you encounter some particularly large fish, which can also attract a burst of microscopic fish.

"That's right, this is the lead pig, hundreds of cows gathered together before and couldn't see the edge, you're blowing a little too much."

People who had never seen a whale also nodded and said.

"Heh~"

"I have an honesty in my name, I never lie, you go to Tianjin Port to inquire, inquire, I Chen Honest will brag and lie?"

Someone doubted himself, Chen Laoshi also reddened his eyes, and said again and again.

"Haha~"

When everyone saw it, they immediately laughed, and they didn't know whether they were laughing at Chen Laoshi or something else.

"Mr. Chen, I don't know if I can please continue to talk about this whale, I'm very interested."

At this time, a middle-aged man, dressed in brocade clothes and a jade pendant with a belt, followed by a few servants, walked over and said to Chen honestly and politely.

When Chen Laoshi heard this, he looked at the other party again, and hurriedly got up and saluted back: "Mr. don't dare to be, you can call me Chen Laoshi, nobleman." ”

"If you want to say this whale, Tianjin here say that it is the Kunpeng in the sea, there are poems and clouds in the north of the fish, its name is Kun, the size of the Kun does not know how many thousands of miles, turned into a bird, its name is Peng. Peng's back, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is; Flying in anger, its wings are like clouds hanging from the sky. It is a bird, and the sea will migrate to the south. The Southern Hades, the Heavenly Pond also. ”

Chen Laoshi saw that this noble man was willing to listen to what he said about whales, and he also came to the spirit and began to talk slowly.

When the others heard this, they suddenly quieted down again, there are not many entertainment projects in this era, and many times the teahouses and restaurants in the city will invite storytellers to tell stories for business, and often a powerful storyteller can make business extremely hot.

Naturally, there is no storyteller in Aunt Fan's tea shed, and now this Chen is honestly talking about the new things about this whale, and everyone will naturally come to the spirit, and they all sound seriously.

Hearing Chen Laoshi read out a passage of Zhuang Zhou's "There Are Fish in the North Underworld", everyone present couldn't help but nod their heads, it was really a bit of a storyteller.

As for the nobleman who had just stepped forward to ask Chen Laoshi to take the whale, he also sat down at the table next to him, listened quietly, and nodded slightly from time to time, as if he was extremely interested in the whale's affairs.

"This whale is a Kunpeng in the sea, it is naturally very large, the backbone is like neem, the ribs are like rafters, the hair is drummed, the eyes are like double suns, the foam is like rain, the exhalation is like clouds, and the waves are rolling, this is the whale."

Chen honestly described the appearance of this whale to everyone, and the point was that this whale was very big.

"When the whale returned to the port, it was so big, so here in Tianjin at that time, hundreds of people used ropes to pull the whale ashore from the sea."

"Tianjin port here hired more than a dozen butchers, the scene on the dismemberment of this big whale, this whale skin and ordinary fish skin is completely different, it has extremely slender fluff, feel more like animal fur, this whale skin is extremely sought-after, the first whale skin was bought with five hundred taels of silver."

When they said this, everyone couldn't help but be slightly surprised, five hundred taels of silver was a sky-high price, and only the middle-aged man in extraordinary clothes smiled slightly.

"The person who bought this whale skin said that this whale is a Kunpeng, and sitting on the whale skin is like sitting on a Kunpeng, whether it is an official or doing business, it can soar up to 90,000 miles, which is very auspicious."

Hearing Chen Laoshi's words, everyone nodded again, in this era, everyone believes in these things.

"Guess what's the most valuable thing about this whale?"

Chen Laoshi saw that everyone listened with relish, and even the second child and the shopkeeper of this tea shed were fascinated by it, so he smiled and asked.

"It's this cedar oil, isn't it?"

Someone thought about it and asked.

"No, although there are a lot of this whale oil and the price is okay, it is still very average."

Chen Laoshi smiled and shook his head and replied.

"It must be this whale skin, it can be sold for five hundred taels of silver, it must be very valuable."

Someone else said.

"No, the whale skin is very valuable, the whale skin that this whale can peel off is very large, and it can be cut into many pieces, and the whale's skin is sold for thousands of taels of silver."

Chen Laoshi smiled and shook his head and said.

"Chen Laoshi, don't you sell it, what the hell is it?"

Someone said unhurriedly.

"The most expensive thing on this whale is the treasure of the whale~"

Chen honestly smiled and said.

"Hahaha~"

When everyone in the tea shed heard this, they couldn't help laughing, and the middle-aged man who was dressed in extraordinary clothes also smiled slightly.

"Ahem, don't laugh, don't laugh, I'm telling the truth."

"This whale is very big, its treasure is also very large, two or three feet long, as thick as a bucket, it is said that this whale's treasure can make a man vigorous, and it is even said to be able to bring the father-in-law in the palace back to life, so this thing caused a fierce competition on the spot, and finally sold for a sky-high price of five thousand taels of silver."

Chen Laoshi looked at the appearance of everyone, constantly making comparisons, so that everyone could clearly know the size of this whale baby, and then boasted of the magical effect of this whale baby.

"This may be true, but this brings the father-in-law in the palace back to life, is it too much?"

Someone thought about it and said.

"Who knows, maybe it can really be, what a big baby, it is estimated that only this whale is available in the world, maybe it can really bring the father-in-law in the palace back to life."

"It's impossible, the father-in-law in this palace is said to have been cut, can he still be reborn?"

"It's a whale, maybe it can."

"You say this whale treasure can really make people feel strong?"

"Do you need this?"

"Of course, men, the more powerful the better, right?"

"Haha, too~ yes, but this thing is precious, five thousand taels of silver, we ordinary people have no chance to enjoy it."

"Also, it's too expensive."

After listening to it, everyone also discussed with each other, and they all vaguely felt that it seemed to have such a miraculous effect.

"Does this whale's treasure really have such a miraculous effect, the five thousand taels of silver are not expensive, and I don't know how much silver it will sell when it is transported to the capital."

"The father-in-law in the palace, as well as the magnates in the capital, will buy some at all costs."

The middle-aged man who was dressed in extraordinary clothes thought the same when he heard this.

Then he thought about it and asked Chen Laoshi: "Mr. Chen, is this whale also caught by a fishing boat?" ”

"Back to the nobleman's words, this whaling, it must use a special whaling boat, the general sea fish are caught with nets, this whale is hunted with a harpoon gun, the ordinary fishing boat has no way to kill this whale, the whale is too big."

Chen asked with a smile, then looked at the carriage that the noble man came over with and said, "If the noble man is going to Tianjin to invest, it is also a good deal to buy a few whaling ships to go to sea to hunt whales, and the whale is said to have been sold for 30,000 silver in the end." ”

"This is just a whaling ship, and hundreds of crew members go to sea in less than three days."

"Thank you Mr. Chen for your suggestion, I will consider it carefully."

The middle-aged man who was dressed in extraordinary clothes nodded his thanks, he actually went to Tianjin this time to find a fortune opportunity, so he also brought a lot of silver.

Because I heard Chen honestly talk about this whale, I also saw business opportunities, so I kept listening.

"No thanks, no thanks, there are a lot of profitable deals in Tianjin, in fact, the most profitable deal is to form a fleet to go to North Korea, and it is said that a trip back and forth will earn a million taels of silver, and it is not enough for this ship to go to North Korea is also very expensive, and Tianjin Shipyard can only buy it here."

Chen honestly saw that the other party respected him, and he also smiled and told the situation in Tianjin.

"A trip back and forth to earn a million taels of silver?"

When everyone heard this, their eyes immediately widened again, even this middle-aged man was like this, such a huge profit, it was really amazing, and it felt like this silver was like a copper coin.

"Hey~hey~"

At this moment, a neat sound of trumpets came from a distance, and when everyone heard it, they immediately hurriedly followed the sound and looked over.

I saw that from Tianjin to the direction of the capital, there was an extremely large team on the road, and there were hundreds of people in front of them, shirtless, sweating, dragging a behemoth with difficulty.

This behemoth was very large, like a house, and looked like a big fish from a distance.

"This is a whale, this is a whale~"

Chen Laoshi's eyes widened, and then he said very excitedly to the people in the tea shed.