Pu Zhigao was anxiously waiting at home, and it was not difficult to guess what he sent someone out to do, just to try to see if he could find a foolproof solution, and the so-called foolproof solution was also simple, that is, to find a way to go back to the island.

As long as he goes into the water and goes to sea, Pu Zhigao will immediately have the capital to turn his face with Gan Qi, and after thinking about it, this is also the best way.

Ganch, he is willing to cling, but he wants a relatively equal position, not a situation that Ganchi can handle.

The Pu family has money, and the Pu family has power. What the Pu family is pursuing now is an environment where they can live and thrive.

In this era, in comparison, the best place is the Great Song Dynasty, which is rich in materials and prosperous in society, which can not only have a good development prospect, but also facilitate business contacts.

The coastal land of the Great Song Dynasty, the best one is Quanzhou.

But Pu Zhigao, all pursuits are ultimately the pursuit of a sense of security, the pursuit of a sense of security for the happy life of the whole family.

With such a gesture, Pu Zhigao's sense of security has been lost.

So he wanted to leave with the family first, and he didn't want to tear his face with Ganqi, first make himself safe, and then come to bargain with Ganqi, and put himself in an invincible position before anything else.

It's a pity that Pu Zhigao has not waited for any news, but someone has come to visit, and there are quite a few people, more than a dozen.

Someone met and said: "Shopkeeper Pu, you have a good relationship with Zhizhou, you help everyone, hurry up to the state government to beg for mercy, this boat is locked on the shore, we people, life is really not possible." ”

"What? What locks on the shore? ”

"Shopkeeper Pu, do you really not know or pretend not to know? You're all right, your boats are running around, but our people's boats are not allowed to go to sea, and this business has become your own business......"

"Shopkeeper Pu, isn't this something you discussed with that Gan Zhizhou?"

Pu Zhigao's eyes were closed, his head was tilted slightly, he understood that Gan Qi had already guarded against him, and now in Quanzhou, there is no ship that can go to sea. This is forcing yourself to comply......

Pu Zhigao regretted that he didn't do it at the beginning, and he regretted it a lot. He could also guess where the people he had sent had gone.

Everyone saw that Pu Zhigao didn't speak, and someone said: "Shopkeeper Pu, isn't it really guessed by everyone?" ”

Pu Zhigao waved his hand: "Everyone, it has nothing to do with me, you all go back, I can't help you in this matter." ”

"Shopkeeper Pu, your appetite is too big, isn't it, this kind of business is also done by one person?" The angry words are out.

There are some things that cannot be scrutinized, such as this case, hundreds of Pu Zhigao's ships have gone out to do business, and even brought Ganqi's ship out. No one else's boat was allowed to go to sea, and they had to be locked on the dock and crawl away.

I don't blame others for not thinking too much.

"Yes, Shopkeeper Pu, you eat meat, we drink soup, and we have never been sad with you, but now it's good, and the soup is no longer drinkable? No matter how powerful you are, can your family eat so much? ”

"The shopkeeper Pu cuts off people's financial routes, such as killing his parents, but he has a deep hatred ...... hatred"

Pu Zhigao slowly stood up and said: "Yes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents, this is right, although my Pu family is powerful, there are more than 100 large and small ships, think about it, how many goods are produced in Quanzhou a year?" Can a hundred boats be loaded? Even if I have two hundred, three hundred, will I be able to fill them all? ”

Everyone looked at each other and was slightly silent.

One of them spoke again: "Shopkeeper Pu, then you can help more, what is the relationship between you and Gan Zhizhou, everyone knows more or less, help, go and intercede." ”

"Let's go, don't send it, I can't protect myself......" Pu Zhigao finished speaking, waving his hand to send off the guest.

These shipowners and shopkeepers are all begging Pu Zhigao to intercede with Gan Qi at the Pu family.

On the dock, there was another scene, the Cai family suddenly arrived at the dock and set up a stall and hung up a flag. And boxes and boxes of cash.

Some people also shouted: "My Cai family has recruited shipwrights, and I will be given four times a month when I go to sea, and I will be given a consistent amount every month when I go to sea." ”

"What? Go to sea to give four runs? Give money even if you don't go to the sea on the shore? ”

"Yes, the contract is written in black and white, and the signing is the person of my Cai family, signed every five years, Tong Su is not bullied, the money for going to sea is twice as much as others, and when the wind is waiting on the shore, I also give the same food money."

"And this kind of good thing? Pay even if you don't work? ”

"Black and white, in duplicate, Tong Suo is not bullied, sign it, then count. My grandfather said that this is called paid leave. ”

The phrase paid leave is obviously not a word that the Cai family's grandfather knows, and must have learned it from Gan Qi.

"Don't bully me for not being literate!"

"Here, the contract will be given to you first, you can take it and find a literate person to read it, and then get it back."

"Really?"

"Won't you find someone to know if it's true or false after reading the contract?"

"That'...... How many boatmen do you have to hire? I still have a bunch of brothers. ”

"Recruit 1,400 people."

"Huh...... Do you Cai family have so many boats? Fourteen hundred? ”

"The ship is naturally there, I am optimistic about the contract, can I still play it if I sign it? If you sign a contract, you will get money, and you can advance a month's regular money. ”

"Where are you Cai family going to get so many boats?"

"You don't have to worry about this, it doesn't take three months, my Cai family naturally has so many ships. If you don't believe it, look at this box, it's full of money, as long as you sign it, you will immediately give four times the money first. ”

The yellow and clear copper coins in the box are really eye-catching, and people can't take their eyes off them.

"You wait, I'll find someone to look at the contract first......"

"Go, go, hurry, but my grandfather said, don't be nonsense, just Song people." Don't bring those Hu Fan boatmen here. And don't abuse the number, if there is fraud, go to the yamen to go to jail and eat the board. ”

The Cai family wants to recruit 800 boatmen, or Gan Qi wants to recruit 1,400 boatmen.

Why don't you want foreigners yet?

Ganch is to prevent something just in case, which recruits not only sailors, but also the backbone of the future navy, and loyalty is important. The people of Hu Fan are all religious, and this is a big problem.

The vast majority of those sects in the west today are ****, and even the sects are above the country. Sects are above the state and the law.

Therefore, these religious believers are a big trouble in China, and if they are recruited into the army, they will be even more troublesome. Believers, once religious, are irreversible. However, most of the believers of this era are extremely devout people. It is impossible to make a devout believer give up his faith, and it is not possible to kill him, because he has heaven in doubt. Religious fanaticism, that's what happened.

The sea is different from the land, as long as you go to sea, it is the sea is wide and the fish jumps, and the ethics and morality laws no longer talk about any binding force, and the only constraint is the human heart.

Gan Qi wanted to master every ship 100 percent, with the children of the Cai family as the backbone, and these recruited Great Song shipwrights as the basis, so as to achieve what he wanted and ensure loyalty.

Gan Qi has to suppress the Pu family, and the reason in the final analysis is this reason. They have never believed in your Confucian teachings, nor do they agree with your Chinese feelings for the family and country.

This is unsolvable in this era, even if this problem is solved well in later generations, but it has not really been completely solved, and more efforts are still needed.

In the following time, Pu Zhigao did not go out at home, and he did not dare to move, for fear that if he moved, it would be a catastrophe.

But Gan Qi didn't come to the door either.

The only uncomfortable thing was Pu Hill, who waited hard every day, and asked his father over and over again, where did Gan Qi go, and in which county did he not come back?

Pu Zhigao perfunctory his daughter, slowly thinking of a way to break the situation, has become a turtle in an urn, and it is too difficult to break the situation.

More than two months later, Quanzhou was under its jurisdiction, and many galloping roads were finally repaired.

On the bay harbor, the sails flickered, and the first to come back was the slave ship, which originally looked white and fat, but now it was a black appearance, the sea breeze boiled people, and there was no boatman who was not this kind of black in the wind and sun.

The slaves, with terror in their eyes, were taken to the barracks outside the city with knives and guns.

Gan Ba ran to Gan Qi for the first time, and burst into tears with excitement: "Big brother, I'm back." ”

"It's black, haha......" Gan Qi laughed.

Gan Ba raised his arm and looked at it, and replied with a smile: "Maybe the decisive time will come back in vain, and this trip is fortunate not to be disgraced." ”

"How many people did you bring back?"

"More than forty boats were almost full, more than six thousand. This time I went to the South Seas, but wherever there was land, within forty or fifty miles of the coast, almost all of them were swept away, and I also caught many young women, just thinking that these people would have enough to eat and have some babies, and the babies would be able to work when they grew up. Gan Bayu said, he is even more ruthless than Gan Qi.

"I'm not as far as you think, it's good, women don't raise in vain, they can work. Many simple barracks have been built on the side of Qingyang Iron Yard, but this number is still too many, and I am afraid that it will not be able to live, so it will need to be built. It is also necessary to send men to guard it, and these people cannot be taught to escape. ”

"Big brother, in my opinion, it's simple, everyone has a mark on their faces, tattooed with big characters, that is, wherever they run, as long as they are seen, they will be rewarded if they are caught. There was nowhere to run for them. To catch it is to chop your hands and feet. "Ganba's method is inhumane and completely treats people as livestock.

Gan Qi nodded: "That's it, I'll leave this matter to you." ”

"Big brother, don't worry, it's all right. After that, I sent someone to send them to Qingyang Iron Field. ”

Gan Qi nodded, Gan Ba seems to have grown a lot now, and he faintly has the ability to take charge of himself, which makes Gan Qi very pleased.

Gan Ba didn't say much: "Big brother, I'll go to run errands first, and come to eat and drink in the evening." ”

On the pier, another scene also took place. All the ships that docked, but all of the Pu family, were directly detained by the soldiers, and everyone was driven off the boat, and the Cai family went up directly to take over.

Gan Qi's money had not yet been paid to Po Chi Gao, but the ship had arrived first. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was a robbery.

A group of Pu family members who had just come ashore were stunned, and they didn't know what was going on, so they could only hurry home and ask Pu Zhigao what happened.

In the Pu family's house, they immediately shouted loudly.

This one screamed and scolded, and that one shouted and shouted and killed.

After Pu Zhigao explained the matter clearly, he sat without saying a word, looking at the room full of indignant Persian men.

"Uncle, let's leave if it's a big deal, and we won't stay in this place."

"Yes, let's go, go back to Guangzhou, if you can't stay in Guangzhou, then go to Zhancheng! No matter how powerful he is in the Song Dynasty, he can't control the city. ”

"Dad, let's go, pack up our things, sell the house, let's go!"

Everyone looked at Pu Zhigao, and finally fell silent.

Pu Zhigao just spoke: "Go? Where to go? What to walk with? ”

"Go by boat, get on the boat and go."

"Can you still get on those boats?" Pu Zhigao asked.

Everyone looked at each other, recalling the soldiers who got on the boat, and the iron armor and yacha patrolling everywhere on the dock.

The crowd seemed to have understood.

"Dad, let's kill it!"

"Kill it?" Pu Zhigao shook his head and said, "Don't talk nonsense anymore, go to the sea, just come back, go wash up, eat some wine, and rest." I've got a plan. ”

"Dad, we really don't have to suffer from the birds, Quanzhou is good, but if you are bullied like this, then it is better to go to occupy the city."

"Shut up, don't say this again, get out." Pu Zhigao stood up and shouted.

Many young Persian men, one by one, slowly retreated with anger on their faces.

In the course of another month, more than eighty large ships appeared on the bay, bringing back spices, fine gold and silverware, carpets, and furs......

Many ordinary people who are usually busy with farming also know that it is time to go to the dock to earn some extra money, and countless people flock to the dock and start unloading.

Gan Qi also personally went to the dock and brought three or four thousand military officers and officials.

Ganchi waited for two things, one cotton and the other Champa rice.

did not disappoint Ganqi, boxes of cotton seeds, baskets of rice, all placed in front of Ganqi. There are also many finished cotton, which have also been trafficked to Quanzhou as goods, and Gan Qi directly spent money to buy them.

Gan Qi has been waiting for these two things for more than half a year, and with these two things, Gan Qi can return to Beijing at any time, and go back to Beijing to become an official and a knight.

Gan Qi is also ready to make a fortune on these two things. But money is a small thing.

Gan Qi was a little excited, and he had already opened his mouth to order: "General Shi, quickly bring these things back to the yamen, take good care of them, and don't miss a little." ”

Shi Honglei didn't know the preciousness of these two things, but he also knew that the stakes were high, so he bowed down and ordered the military to load the car and bring it back.

With these two things, Gan Qi will no longer stay at the dock, and someone will naturally do the ship's business. All the boats of the Pu family must be seized first.

Needless to say, Gan Ba slowly told Gan Qi what he saw and heard along the road, where the natives would eat people, where the natives liked to eat people's heads, where the natives could build huge canoes, and where the natives could dive into the bottom of the sea to fish.

Gan Qi listened to it with relish, and also taught people to write records, which is also an important information, and it is also of great use to be left to future generations.

Early the next morning, Gan Qi dressed up and went out and went straight to Pu's house.