In fact, Ma Lin didn't want to visit the splendid rivers and mountains of Daming at all. Why? Because he has seen it in the future! Although most of them are pictures seen on the Internet, they can be regarded as seen.

Moreover, Marin's later generations did not like to go out for travel during Golden Week. So what kind of tourism is it? It's clear that people are crowded. Slightly more famous attractions, when it comes to holidays, they are crowded, and you can't take a good look at the scenery just by looking at the people. So, it's better to look at the pictures at home.

What's more, in this era, there are no high-speed rail, no planes, and even big passengers, and going out is simply fatal. Especially riding a horse, he looks handsome, but the degree of bumps and poor physique can't stand it at all. Not to mention the carriage, there are no shockproof springs, and people who sit in the carriage and encounter uneven roads basically sit on the seats and jump up and down.

Therefore, when the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty travel with their families, they often choose to take a boat. For example, take the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal route. Although the speed is slow, it is better to take a boat than to be stable. As for seasickness or something, it's not that exaggerated. Ships that can get seasick are generally sea boats. Because the sails of the sea ship are seriously tilted under the sea breeze, and then the hull of the ship shakes badly, and of course seasickness is caused by poor physical fitness or unaccustomed weathering. But taking a small boat to walk the Grand Canal is different, like the kind of canopy boat that rocks, it is actually very stable. As long as there is no bad weather, it is generally much safer than riding a horse-drawn carriage on land.

However, Marin is not one of those civil officials who is very weak and does not care about the bumps on horseback. Therefore, after consulting the Ming Court, he has the right to use the Daming Post Station system. In other words, he can change horses along the way without stopping. In this way, Marin can travel four or five hundred miles a day without waiting for the horse to regain his strength. From the capital to Wuchang, the land route is only more than 2,000 miles, Ma Lin and a group of subordinates take the post station system, keep changing horses, and arrive in a few days.

But in the past few days, he kept changing horses and hurrying, which also made Marin tired and half dead. Fortunately, he no longer runs around after that, just sits in Wuchang and waits for merchants from all over the world to deliver to his door.

However, those merchants sent news back to their hometowns more slowly than Marin, and it was also time-consuming to collect goods and transport them to Wuchang by water. Therefore, Ma Lin simply waited slowly in Wuchang. Anyway, he didn't want to experience those bumpy days on horseback again. In particular, it is already winter, and running around on horseback is really not a good choice, and it is very uncomfortable.

After arriving in Wuchang, Ma Lin visited the two political envoys of the Huguang Political Envoy Division and the governor of Huguang, and then stayed at the post station and did not go out. Because, other officials are not worth his contact. After all, he can be regarded as the comfort envoy of the three products within the Ming Dynasty, except for the political envoys and the governor of Huguang, there is no need for anyone else. Only the capital is different, there are too many bigwigs over there, and Marin has to lower his profile. But in Huguang Province, except for the two political envoys and governors, there is really no need for Ma Lin to bird anyone else.

In fact, Marin was genuinely reluctant to make this trip. However, the Zhengde and Ming cabinets stipulated that in the future, ships from Dongfan Island were allowed to dock at the three ports of Fuzhou, Ningbo and Guangzhou, and were not allowed to go deep into the interior.

Therefore, Marin could only take this opportunity to go deep into the mainland in the name of playing. Otherwise, Kong Tai and the others would not have been authorized to go deep into the inland areas......

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In addition to acquiring various medicinal herbs, Marin certainly did not forget to purchase seeds from moso bamboo, seeds from tung oil, and seeds from sumac......

Last time, Kong Tai bought too few moso bamboo seeds in Guangzhou, and there were simply not enough. The seeds of the tung oil tree and the sumac tree are also the more the merrier. Therefore, before leaving Beijing, Ma Lin greeted merchants from all over the world and asked them to help buy seeds of moso bamboo, tung oil and lacquer trees, and send them to Wuchang. In particular, the seeds of moso bamboo, which only bloom and bear fruit in 60 years, are very difficult to find.

This time, Ma Lin sat in Wuchang and posted a wide post, inviting businessmen from all over the world to bring bamboo seeds to Wuchang to exchange money. The price given by Marin is not low, although it is not as high as the sky-high price of 20 taels of silver a catty offered by Kong Tai in Guangzhou last time, but there are also 3 taels of silver a catty.

Don't underestimate the price of these 3 taels of silver per catty, you must know that the precious medicinal materials of the Ming Dynasty, except for several top medicinal materials such as ginseng, do not exceed one or two silver and a catty. And the precious sandalwood is only 0.55 taels of silver per catty in Daming. The purchase price of 3 taels of silver per catty offered by Marin is definitely a high price, so there is no need to worry about no one delivering it to the door.

However, while sitting in Wuchang, Ma Lin also asked Kong Tai to hire several brokers at a high price in Wuchang City, and arranged for them to rush to Anhua and Jingdezhen to poach people.

The main reason for going to Anhua is that Ma Lin wants to dig up tea farmers, after all, although Ma Lin can spend money to buy tea seeds from Anhua black tea, he does not have the technology to plant tea trees and concoct black tea tea bricks. Therefore, he needs to dig up a few tea farmers to follow him to Taidao and guide him on how to plant Anhua black tea trees and how to make black tea bricks.

The brokers sent to Jingdezhen were mainly responsible for excavating several ceramic craftsmen and following them to Taiwan Island. Then, look for china clay mining areas in the Yingge area of the western Taipei Basin. Then, a ceramic production base was established.

Because of the urgency of time, Marin only asked them to dig a few craftsmen who had dug up the kiln and went to Taiwan Island with the boat. In fact, what Ma Lin wants to dig the most is the master craftsman of the official kiln in Jingdezhen, but the ceramic craftsmen in the official kiln are all craftsmen strictly controlled by the government. It's not that Marin can't get a ceramic craftsman from an official kiln through bribery, but it takes a lot of time. In desperation, Marin was unable to get the local officials and ask them to cooperate with the master craftsmen who brought the official kilns. Therefore, this time, Ma Lin can only dig a few craftsmen from the private kiln at a high price. Moreover, their task is only to find the Yingge porcelain clay area, to lay a good foundation for the establishment of a ceramic base in the future, but they do not need the level of the master craftsman of the official kiln, the ordinary ceramic craftsman of the folk kiln.

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In addition to these actions, Ma Lin also recruited a group of landless vagrants and beggars near Wuchang with the permission of the Ming court, and bought dozens of slaves and maids, intending to take them to Taiwan Island. After all, the development of Taiwan Island also requires a population.

But in fact, the homeless people, beggars and slaves that Ma Lin recruited near Wuchang were all to cover for the Anhua tea farmers and Jingdezhen kiln ceramic craftsmen.

Ma Lin recruited and purchased more than 200 landless vagrants, middle-aged beggars, and slaves in Wuchang. With so many people as cover, it will be effortless to stuff a few tea farmers and ceramic craftsmen into it when the time comes.

In fact, three months later, brokers sent to Anhua and Jingdezhen brought back six tea farmers and four ceramic craftsmen respectively. However, they all went to Taiwan Island alone, and did not drag their families with them. This is also something that cannot be helped, because these tea farmers and ceramic craftsmen are not homeless and homeless, and there is no need to move their families to Taiwan Island. Although they were impressed by the money Marin paid, they had no intention of taking the family on the risk. Therefore, they all chose to go alone, and left all the money given by Marin to their families. In this way, even if something happens to them, the family will not get nothing.

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At this time, a large number of medicinal materials and corresponding seeds such as Coptis chinensis and Artemisia annua and other necessary medicinal materials and corresponding seeds purchased from Shuzhong, Huguang, and southern Shaanxi also arrived in Wuchang. And the 10 500-ton warships that were originally moored at the mouth of the Yangtze River also went upriver from the mouth of the Yangtze River and arrived in Wuchang.

Without saying anything, Ma Lin directly ordered all kinds of medicinal herbs and seeds, as well as the recruited population, to be loaded onto the ship together, and then sailed down the river......

When he arrived at the mouth of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal near Zhenjiang Mansion, Zhang Cai was already waiting here with 2,000 Taihu pigs and a few sacks of scaring incense (Biluochun) tea.

To Ma Lin's surprise, Zhang Cai not only brought Taihu pigs and tea seeds, but also two local tea farmers to guide the cultivation of fragrant tea trees and the frying of tea. After all, it is green tea, and it is different from Anhua's black tea. Therefore, Zhang Cai also thought of this without getting Ma Lin's prompt, which made Ma Lin very pleased.

What made Ma Lin happiest was that Zhang Cai actually took it upon himself to take it upon himself to take in two bankrupt silkworm farmers from Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, and brought hundreds of Huzhou mulberry seedlings and a bag of Huzhou silkworm seeds......