"Dad, mother, my son is ashamed, the holiday is coming, and if you miss the deadline, you will be severely punished......" Huang Laigui knelt down to his parents by the side of the road, and there were tears on his face.

After living in 1700 households for more than ten days, Huang Laigui's holiday has ended, and the Fu No. 1 Fu ship has been loaded and is ready to sail to the Japanese country.

This time, the goods have not been fully loaded, and there are more than 100 loads of raw silk loaded, which is not easy to come by, and it should be the source of goods that the Marquis of Changwen helped find.

One hundred and twenty yuan of raw silk is picked, and six hundred yuan is sold in the Japanese country, and the profit can be imagined.

Therefore, the buying and selling of raw silk has never been a matter of selling, but of buying.

As long as there are goods, there is a sufficient supply of raw silk, and there is a stable supply chain, doing this business is just waiting to make a fortune.

Nan'an Hou Mansion must not have a source of raw silk, but with the current status and strength of Junhou Xu Zixian, coupled with the help of Changwen Hou Mansion, it is a matter of course to get some shares in Fujian's raw silk business, a hundred to a hundred, a few thousand a year, tens of thousands of profits, not to say that it is not a great deal for Changwen Hou Mansion and Dasheng Silk Merchants, even Nan'an Hou Mansion will not take these tens of thousands of profits too seriously.

It is nothing more than the new arrival of merchant ships, which needs to have hot goods at the bottom of the ballast, so as to attract Japanese merchants to continue trade, and it is also easy to cultivate agents in the Japanese country, Luzon, and Lanfang.

The Fuchuan first loaded raw silk, as well as some porcelain and tea, all of which were second-hand goods bought on Fujian Road, which were not cost-effective.

Then go to Penghu to load some beans, soybean oil, cotton cloth, and gather a shipload of goods, and then set sail to Japan.

"The son of the Japanese country is frequent...... Huang Laigui said: "Please father, mother rest assured." ”

"Don't worry, what's not to worry about?" Huang's father stroked his unhappy wife, and said to his son: "You two brothers, I am at ease with you, I have been overseas for more than ten years, and I haven't seen you suffer a loss, so it can be seen that you are a shrewd and awake person." It's your brother's blessing, I don't know if there will be any risks? ”

"Absolutely not." Huang Laigui said with a smile: "Brother is a sailor, within half a year, the Penghu sailor will patrol back and forth on the sea between the Eastern Domain and Penghu for training, many ships have to be repaired in turn, and they will not be able to sail to sea for a while and a half, and most of the sailors are novices, and the soldiers have not been on the ship for a long time, and they will definitely engage the enemy ......"

Huang Mu said: "There will always be a war in half a year?" ”

"The sailors are here to keep the pirates safe." Huang Laigui comforted his mother and said: "If the pirates come, everyone is in danger, and they are not brothers. ”

"That's right." Father Huang said angrily: "Now we live well, dress warmly, eat well, and the officials are clear and do not deceive people, who will take care of them?" You can't just want to take advantage and don't want to contribute. As soon as the drum sounds, all the men in the Lu have to come out, and those who don't come out are not worthy to live in a hundred households. The people of our Nan'an Hou Mansion are all the same, when we fight, pirates come to attack, whether on land or on the ship, we have to fight, we can't just think about our family...... What I am worried about is that your two brothers have not yet married, and if they get married and leave their children and grandchildren, then they will not be afraid of anything. ”

Speaking of which, and when it comes to family affairs, Huang Laigui said with a smile: "Father, don't worry, this time when the boat comes back, it is estimated that there will still be a reward, and then ask your parents to arrange it." ”

Huang's father and Huang's mother were all happy when they heard it, but Huang's mother watched her son leave, and she couldn't help but shed a few tears.

"Uncle and aunt don't have to be like this." Li Guozhu on the side held the shovel and said with a smile: "Brother Huang is the deck captain of the ship, and he can be the deputy captain and captain in the future. ”

Huang's father said: "No matter how many pieces of furniture are there, our Huang family always wants to stay on the East Domain Island, and we will definitely not go anywhere else." ”

"So is my Li family." Li Guozhu said with a smile: "Even if there are pirates, epidemics, and savages, our family will definitely not leave the Eastern Domain." ”

Nan'an Hou Mansion has always been generous, the identity of the official household and household registration are determined one by one, and then divided into 100 households, each household has a pair of cards, and there are corresponding management in and out, so as to clear up the bandits everywhere and prevent the infiltration of spies, all have a good effect.

At the same time, there is also a promise in advance, if you are not used to living in the Eastern Domain, or feel unstable, as long as you pay off the debt, everyone can go to the household of the Hou Mansion Secretary's Pavilion, apply for the return of the card, to return to the household registration status, you can take the voucher, go back to any place in Fujian to return to the household registration.

However, judging from the thoughts of Li Guozhu and the Huang family, the people who do this are either stupid or crazy.

As a common man under the rule of the Great Wei, it seems that this is not necessarily the case to say how harsh and brutal the government is.

Compared with the dynasties before the Tang Dynasty, the Son of Heaven of the Great Wei Dynasty was an official family, benevolent to the people, and the officials were relatively clear, and the urban culture was developed in the Great Wei, and the curfew that lasted for thousands of years was also canceled in the Great Wei.

For this huge empire, the people are still full of a sense of identity, if it were not for this, when Emperor Chongde was martyred in Beijing, more than 100,000 scholars and people in Beijing were also martyred.

This is something that has never happened in all dynasties, which shows that the Great Wei has won the hearts of the people.

In recent years, it is also quite obvious that the exploitation has become more and more serious, the government has become more and more impatient with the people, and the attitude of the officials has become more and more unfriendly.

Today, the officials under his rule are naturally affected by the breath of the Son of Heaven, and the entire Great Wei is unstoppably sliding into the abyss.

Huang's father and Huang's mother, as well as ordinary people like Li Guozhu, can't tell the general trend of the world, they only know that the days on Fujian Road are getting more and more sad, and they are about to lose their breath, but here in the Eastern Domain, they are extremely relaxed, and they feel a little bit of life every day, full of energy!

Although there is a lot of work to do, everyone does not feel tired, because hope is just around the corner.

Li Guozhu has read a few books, and he has a faint feeling in his heart that not only the Nan'an Hou Mansion has given everyone hope, but if he uses whips and sticks to ask people to do things, he is afraid that it will backfire.

can convince everyone and feel that there is a head start on this big island, Li Guozhu summed up the conclusion of two words, that is: fairness.

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The people gossiped on the roadside, and the place was three or four miles north of the village of the seventeenth, seventh, and ninth hundredth households.

When you turn around, you can see the arrow tower, and there is a small square city of brick and stone buildings not far ahead, and there are dozens of Houfu soldiers stationed, giving people a sense of reassurance.

In recent days, there is no longer a serious smell of burning plants and trees, and along both sides of the official road around the island, in a radius of more than 200 miles, the places suitable for opening up the wasteland have all been burned out, and even the mosquitoes are much less.

Today's task is to start building a forked road connecting the 100 households to the Daeguan Road.

Before that, all the places were wastelands, streams, woodlands, hills, shrubs, cascading on top of each other. Coupled with the mountains looming in the distance, it gives people a sense of desolation and horror.

This is a wild land, backed by the sea and high mountains in front of it, and if it is not for great perseverance and determination to preside over the development, I am afraid that it will not be able to settle down on such a desolate island at all.

After standing idly for a while, the crowd was in a commotion.

Five or six horses galloped from the southwest, and the sound of hooves could be heard from afar.

Liu Baihu has had a fever in recent days and has been half-lying down to rest, only then did he struggle to get up.

"Seventeen hundred households, Liu Zhen has seen the officials."

"Liu Baihu works hard."

The tone of the visitor was very gentle, in his thirties, his face was white and beardless, his eyes looked very shrewd, he was wearing a blue short robe, breeches and riding boots, and he looked very capable.

At present, the scribes of the Nan'an Hou Mansion, unless they have wide clothes and big sleeves when there are some literary activities, usually wear this short robe similar to an arrow robe to facilitate their work.

There was a buzzing sound all around...... Fu Qian presided over the craftsman department, and there were planning offices, transportation offices, camp offices, water conservancy offices and other offices under his command, and he was afraid that he had walked more than a dozen times on the island.

Minzhuang is selected by selection, and there are more than 1,000 official officials and craftsmen in the craftsman department, Fu Qian, as the main officer, is also a member of the party, and everyone knows that he is very relied on by Xu Zixian, the Marquis of Nan'an, and is a big official around the marquis.

Such a big man, even if he is placed in Fujian, is a famous official, and he appeared in front of everyone's eyes in such a hurry.

Fu Qian was surrounded by six subordinates, four of whom were officials of the Craftsman Division, and two were guards assigned to Fu Qian by the Nan'an Prefecture Cavalry Battalion.

The island can't be said to be completely safe, Fu Qian's identity, in case some blind natives come out to cut the grass and cut off the head, the loss of the Nan'an Hou Mansion will be too great, and proper security protection should be deserved.

"You've all worked hard." Fu Qian was taught by the Hun family, and knew that the more low-key and humble he was, the better his image and reputation would be.

Everyone returned the salute in a chaotic manner, and their faces were full of excitement and joy.

At this time, Fu Qian jumped off the horse, several servants also dismounted, and one of the officials had a cowhide bag hanging on his chest, and then took out the map from the bag and took out a charcoal pencil.

This kind of field work is quite accustomed to the craftsmen.

Fu Qian pressed the drawing on the green grass on the edge of the drawing, pressed it flat, and then drew the route with charcoal to show several hundred households.

"Three hundred households are separated by about five miles of road, respectively, to the official road is seven miles, five miles, five and a half miles, you repair to the official road plus the distance is seventeen and a half, connected to each other to fifteen miles, to build more than thirty miles of road, of course, rammed earth road, limestone, pure stone road, or stone road don't think about it, digging ditches and draining trees, opening stones and gravel, a mile of road costs thousands of times, the road has to be repaired like this, not waiting for the road to be repaired, our Hou Mansion will go bankrupt...... This section of the project should be completed before the land reclamation, and the project period is about 20 days. Our craftsman division will produce ten master craftsmen, fifty two craftsmen, three hundred households, more than 1,000 people, and three hundred mules and horses. ”

Liu Baihu coughed twice and said, "This hundred households can produce sixty horses, one hundred mules and donkeys, and five cattle." ”

The rest of the 100 households were about the same, and the 300 households together had nearly 200 horses, more than 300 mules and donkeys, and more than a dozen oxen.

Fu Qian nodded and said: "It is really not easy to take the gravel road and break the mountain stones into equal stones, this time we will continue to build the rammed earth road." Rammed earth road can not use new soil, to use the old soil, earthwork is a big project, fortunately you manpower, mules and horses are enough, saving a lot of work, labor. It is also necessary to burn lime and screw shells, which have been prepared a lot by the sea in recent months, and it should be enough. When the time comes, the officials of each hundred households will first go to my craftsman to reconcile the accounts, and then go to the workshop to report after using the seal, and finally file and exempt the households. If any family has completed the 40-day service, then Ding Zhuang will give 100 money every day, 60 money per mouth, and settle it on a daily basis, and the public funds of each 100 households will be sufficient, right? ”