Chapter 14: The Wedding of Xuefu (2)
Jing Yi saw her suspicious face, so she smiled and said, "It seems that the second young lady doesn't know much about our second master, he gets up in the morning every day to practice swords, sometimes earlier than we are the next people, don't worry about it." Let the slaves and maids serve you to freshen up. With that, Jingyi was about to come over.
Ye Qinyu was agitated and stepped back nervously.
Jing Yi looked at her puzzled, "Second Young Lady? ”
"Uh...... I'll do it myself, I've never been used to being served. ”
"This ......" Jingyi was a little embarrassed, "The slave and maid are the people in the old lady's room, and the slave and maid can't explain to the old lady if they don't serve you well......"
Ye Qinyu was about to shirk it, when Xue Chunyue's voice sounded outside the door, "Jingyi, you go back, it's okay to have a heart here." ”
Ye Qinyu followed the prestige, and sure enough, he saw Xinyan and walked over with a smile. He followed, with a strip of white cloth wrapped around his left wrist.
I inexplicably felt a sense of peace of mind......
"Miss...... Uh, no, young lady, please come here, Xinyan is waiting for you to freshen up. On that trip from Luo'an to Changxing, the smart and clever heart learned a lot about Ye Qinyu's living habits, and when Xue Chunyue told her who this young lady was, she was already mentally prepared.
Xue Chunyue and Xinyan finally understood why the young lady of the Liu family kept holding up her left hand, it turned out that she was Ye Qinyu, Ye Qinyu's left little finger was incomplete......
Jing Yi was ordered to retreat, and Xue Chunyue sat down at the tea table on the side of the dresser, sipping tea and waiting. It's still those tea leaves, or those utensils, or that steeping time, but Xue Chunyue feels that today's tea is different from the past, he took a sip, and forgot to take the second sip......
The time of anxiety finally came, and the hall was crowded with people sitting and standing, all waiting to see the tea ceremony of the newlyweds.
Xue Chunyue helped Ye Qinyu to kneel, and Xue Chenggui saw that his left hand was injured, so he asked him to hand over the teacup with his right hand. Xue Chunyue smiled and said that since he toasted tea with one hand, his newlywed daughter-in-law should also follow him and toast tea with one hand.
As soon as we got married, everyone in the room couldn't help laughing.
Ye Qinyu knew that everyone was laughing at them, so he immediately blushed and lowered his head shyly.
Su Yuming, who was standing on the side, looked lonely and out of place.
Xue Huijin sneered softly, "The newlywed Yan'er, the joy of the boudoir, Mrs. should also understand." ”
Su Yuming's face turned pale for a while, and she lowered her eyes and was silent.
Xue Chenggui and his wife were all smiling, looking at this appearance, Xue Chunyue and Ye Qinyu should not need to worry about getting along.
Since the generous gift of freezing reform was given to Xue Chunyue by Prince Jing and Ye Cizhun, the adjustment of the Xue family's business was naturally carried out by Xue Chunyue. Xue Chenggui took this opportunity to return most of the Xue family's business to Xue Chunyue, and Xue Huijin only had the commercial houses in Haizhou City left.
In addition to the main shipping business, the Xue family is also involved in the commodity trading industry, the Xue family has a total of 19 commercial houses in Haizhou, involving money, cloth, grain and oil, tea and other daily food and clothing, the affairs are complicated, but the profit is only a fraction of the shipping, which is a thankless errand for the wealthy Xue family.
Xue Huijin was depressed because of this, so he asked Wu Yong, the young master of the Wu family, and Su Yuan, the young master of the Su family, to drink flower wine in Mianyue Tower. has been married for two years, Su Yuming doesn't know where he goes, she just doesn't want to care, and she can't manage it if she wants to, so she has always turned a blind eye, not to mention, she is happy and relaxed when he is not around.
After seeing Xue Chunyue get married, she finally understood why Xue Chunyue would rather live in Silla than see her get married......
Xue Chenggui gave Xue Chunyue a few days off and asked him to take Ye Qinyu to visit Haizhou City, it has been 13 years since Ye Qinyu last came to Haizhou, and the customs of Haizhou naturally have to be re-understood.
can go out to play, Xuecheng and Xinyan are cheering, especially Xinyan, she is lively by nature, she doesn't like to be confined to the Xue family's mansion since she was a child, since she was sent to serve Xue Chunyue, she has followed him around to do business, and she is even more unrestrained. After a long time, she doesn't like the rules and regulations in the mansion even more, she will go out, she is happier than Xue Chunyue and Ye Qinyu.
Xue Chunyue still likes to travel by water, and the carriage is narrow and stuffy, far less comfortable than this cabin.
The water transport wharf in Haizhou City was in front of Xuefu, Xuecheng was the first to jump on the boat, first helped Xinyan over, and then asked Xinyan to help Ye Qinyu over.
"Young lady be careful, don't fall into the water like when you were a child, you can scare the slave to death."
Ye Qinyu looked puzzled, "You say...... Have I ever fallen into the water? ”
Xuecheng and Xinyan looked at her with a surprised expression, "Young lady, don't you remember?" That time, you choked on a lot of water, and the young master who brought you to the waterside to play was punished by the master, and he was beaten so that his skin and flesh were open...... "I stuck out my tongue in my heart, and I still have palpitations when I think about it."
Xue Chunyue had a calm face, she had Liu Yi and Xue Peiqi and others by her side, where did she remember these old things in Haizhou.
Ye Qinyu saw that he had a straight face, and he didn't want to say anything, so he walked into the cabin with the help of Xinyan.
Xuecheng stood at the bow of the boat, and when he passed by the Mianyue Tower, he saw Xue Huijin's entourage Xueqian feeding the horses at the door, so he went back to the cabin and whispered a few words to Xue Chunyue.
Xue Chunyue clenched his fists.
Ye Qinyu saw that his expression was inappropriate, so he asked, "But what's the matter?" If there is something to do, go back and deal with it, just accompany me if you have the heart. ”
"I don't want to make any more mistakes and be beaten by my father." Xue Chunyue said coldly.
She really doesn't remember those things, the catastrophe when she returned to Changxing at the age of five, she was in a coma for a long time, and after waking up, she forgot a lot of things when she was in Haizhou, not that she forgot it intentionally...... She hadn't had time to explain these to Xue Chunyue yet...... But now it seems that it doesn't matter whether he explains it or not, and he won't care.
"Young Master......" Xinyan saw that his face was pale, and asked carefully, "Are we still going to the port terminal......
"Of course I want to go. Although our Xue family is not as noble as Changxing's high family, there is still a little bit of housekeeping kung fu that can be used, these things may not be seen by Miss Ye in Changxing, go and see them, and have the right to play and relieve boredom. ”
Ye Qinyu stopped talking.
The markets of Haizhou and the inner harbor in the city are closely intertwined. Canals, markets, and bridges seem to be a three-dimensional interconnected Shuiguo Lu City. The tide can go directly to the city of Haizhou, and the ship can go directly to the city of Haizhou. Passing through the inner city of Haizhou, which is covered with water networks, the light boat has gone out of the water gate in the east of the city in less than half an hour, and came to the majestic Haizhou Port.
Ye Qinyu finally understood what it meant to be eye-opening......
The port area of Haizhou is really the place where the north and south are big and the department stores gather, and the cargo ships from Silla, Baekje, Fuso, Persia, Dashi, Brahman, Kunlun, Chenla and other countries are stacked on top of each other, and the masts are like forests and merchants are like weaving.
She had also heard of the grand occasion of Haizhou Port before, as the largest foreign trade port in Daye Country, almost all foreign goods had to be collected and distributed in Haizhou, from Haizhou to Hangou, from Hangou to Huaishui, Bianshui, and then to the Yellow River, and then to Luo'an, Changxing and other places. You can go straight up the Yangtze River, all the way to the west, and go straight to the southern border of the western border. But it is better to see than to hear, and the magnificent momentum of Haizhou Port opened her eyes and shocked her.
"Miss Ye, I don't know how Haizhou Port is better than Changxing?" Seeing that she had been attracted, Xue Chunyue felt a little excited in her heart, and continued, "The well-known handicraft industry in Haizhou is mainly shipbuilding, salt making, tea making, pharmaceuticals, porcelain, textiles and copperware. You may not imagine that the high-quality products produced in Haizhou are incomparable in the great cause with many varieties and large quantities. These goods all depart from here and go to overseas countries. ”
The left sentence Miss Ye and the other sentence Miss Ye, is there no concept of marriage at all in his heart? Ye Qinyu was suddenly unhappy in his heart, and walked towards the port with his heart.
"Young lady, in front of you is the location of our Xue family's ship, and the area occupied is the largest among the berths." Xinyan walked all the way and said all the way, and finally made Ye Qinyu laugh.
The largest cargo ship of the Xue family, more than 30 zhang long and more than 10 zhang wide, carrying tens of thousands of stones, accommodating 5 or 600 shipwrights and 5 or 600 guards, totaling more than 1,000 people.
Standing under the hull of the ship, Ye Qinyu felt for the first time how small a person was, because the hull of the ship was too big and too high, even more magnificent than the city gate tower in Changxing......
"There are three such cargo ships in the Xue family, and the entire Daye Country can't find a fourth," Xue Chunyue looked at the cargo ship in front of him, like a few treasures, "Such a cargo ship can't reach Changxing, because the inland waterway is narrow, and it can't accommodate it at all, let alone sail." ”
Ye Qinyu finally felt the financial strength of the Xue family, and the Xue family deserved the title of the first chaebol on the eastern coast of the country.
"Shipping is the Xue family's biggest business, but it is not the most profitable business, the most profitable is to undertake the imperial court's in-kind tribute inland river transportation and trade", this is what Ye Cizhun said to her before she left Changxing.
After appreciating the strength of the Xue family's ocean transportation, Ye Qinyu finally understood why the imperial business of the imperial court was so important to the Xue family. Because with such a strong ocean transportation capacity, the money earned is not as much as the average loss business of the imperial court, which shows how big the imperial court's business is. It's not necessarily about the cargo, it's about how deep the water is......
Ye Qinyu's business thinking may come from the Ye family's bloodline nature, coupled with Ye Cizhun's teaching over the years, she knows how big the role of equalizing losses is after a little weighing.
According to the grand situation of Haizhou Port, the in-kind tribute ships carrying to Changxing and Luo'an may have to shuttle on the waterway all year round, and they will not be idle for a moment. I don't know if I can finish it for half a moment, not to mention, there are all kinds of tribute taxes in kind levied by the imperial court on the people of the world, all of which are lost and equalized to bring benefits to the imperial court, which is enough to cover half of the national treasury. In the same way, the benefits brought by the tribute tax transportation and trade business to private transporters and traders are also very considerable.
However, what does Xue Chunyue mean by arranging for her to visit the Xue family's fleet on the first day of marriage? Want her to intercede with Ye Cizhun and keep the Xue family's tribute tax transportation business? Although she knew that she was a chess piece, she was arranged to understand the due diligence of the chess piece on the first day of entry, and she did not feel good in her heart.