Chapter 502: The Merchants

Only then did everyone know that the martial artist in front of them was actually the person who beheaded Liu Guangsi last night!

Although Lin Douyao was happy in his heart, he didn't feel emotional at this time.

King Zhao's father and son operated in Fuzhou for two generations, and finally King Zhao served as the governor of the capital as a prince, and Liu Guangsi, He Zhiyuan and other forbidden army generals were attached to his command, and his prestige was prominent for a while. Liu Guangsi is a senior general of the forbidden army, what he did was mostly illegal, but because of the king of Zhao, there is no one to control, he is also arrogant in the city of Fuzhou, often violates the ban and rudeness, a while ago before the army to build the state, there have been rumors that the king of Zhao wants to protect Liu Guangsi as the commander of the forbidden army, and become the supreme commander of the forbidden army on the Fujian Road, and the status is the same as that of the pacification envoy.

As a result, the commander of this chamber did not become the commander, but this morning, he hung his head with white eyebrows on the head of Fuzhou City, and most of his family property was confiscated.

Everyone also noticed that there was a large amount of goods in the Nan'an Hou Mansion, which must add up to more than one million.

Everyone knew that a large amount of the property should be carried out of King Zhao's mansion...... From the second half of last night to dawn, hundreds of soldiers and soldiers of the government were constantly carrying goods from King Zhao's mansion, and the crowd was constantly coming in and out, almost feeling that Zhao Wang's mansion was empty.

After dawn, Liu Guangsi's head was hung again, and people knew that the arrest and theft of Jing'an for several days reached a climax last night, in addition to Liu Guangsi was beheaded, Zhao Wangfu was like being copied, several officials were arrested, and dozens of generals of the Xiang army were arrested, and it is estimated that it is inevitable that they will die.

After successively arresting thieves, arresting and beheading officials and generals, and more than 100 criminal officials, the hearts of the people in Fuzhou gradually stabilized.

The thieves are extinct, and although they dare not say that they have returned to the normal nights, at least those who are in a hurry after dark dare to go out into the streets again. Before that, even if someone in the family was sick, many families were forced to endure it, and they didn't dare to go out until dawn. After dark, there are thieves wandering everywhere in the streets and alleys, and they are robbed and even beaten if they are not careful, and every day at dawn, corpses can always be found in the dark alleys, and it is not known whether they are thieves or people who have been robbed and killed. Even these people climb over the wall and enter the hospital, every night there will be people in the house to turn into the thief, and then there is a fight, shouting for help and screams, although the sound is loud, but no one dares to rescue, in the end the thief will most likely succeed, the more fierce the resistance, the more fierce the thief will retaliate, the greater the harm to the people.

After the government army entered the city, the thieves arrested were similar to the thieves camp, but the thieves caught in the camp, unless it was a giant thief, generally stood in a cage for a few days, and then hit a board, and then handed over the tribesmen to bring it back. How can such thieves change their ways, and as soon as they are released, they join up with their accomplices and commit crimes again?

As long as the thieves arrested by the government army are repeat offenders, or have beaten the people, or intimidated civilians, as long as they have similar crimes, even if they have only robbed a few pennies, they will all be sentenced to beheading according to military law.

A large number of thieves were beheaded on the side of the Minjiang River, if it was according to the normal criminal law of the Great Wei, it would be nothing more than a charge of three months' imprisonment, but the result was that all the thieves were beheaded, and the people on the side of the Minjiang River were terrified when they watched it, but they felt extremely relieved afterwards. After the officials, generals, and even the sons and daughters of the thieves in the city were also disposed of, everyone understood that the tide of thieves caused by the war in Jianzhou had been quelled, and all that remained was some water grinding work, as well as the disposal of the outside of Fuzhou, including the rest of the military states. As long as the King of Qin is here, it is only a matter of time before the danger of thieves and thieves has the tendency to spread, and it is only a matter of time before it is completely pacified.

"Chen Jingzhong, Chen Jingfu and the two brothers were also hanged last night." Zheng Liqi sighed: "Chen Man's family, today."

As soon as the gates were opened in the morning, they went out of the city. ”

Yang Shiwei said: "These two brothers are also very respectful to the old man, but the thieves are already benevolent to their highnesses to be able to save their bodies, and there is no need to sigh for them." ”

The old prefect with white eyebrows has his own righteousness, Chen Man also has a lot of status in Fuzhou, Zheng Liqi also regards the Chen brothers as sons and nephews, so he sighed, and when Yang Shiwei said this, Zheng Liqi also smiled to himself and said: "What Yang Dafu said is very true, but the official is out of shape." ”

Lin Douyao nodded and said, "I'll go and meet His Royal Highness King Qin later, and wait for the next instructions." ”

Everyone nodded, and then the envoy, the transfer envoy, the patrol envoy and many other officials arrived, each saluted each other, and then waited outside the main hall, unconsciously, this once nameless and unappreciated Nan'an Hou Mansion has become the military and political center of Fujian Road.

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The fleet that arrived at Hirado Port was a huge fleet of more than twenty ships.

When the fleet arrived, there was a rumbling drum and a few horns in the harbor.

At the bow of the ship, the blue sea water was broken by the bow of the ship, splashing the waves like broken jade, and several dolphins followed the ship all the way, so far they chirped, dived into the seawater, and gradually went away.

Overhead, the sea and the sky are the same as the sky, and the white clouds float in the sky, and the port of Hirado is the same as before, with countless large ships anchored in the harbor, either just sailing out or just arriving at the port.

After a short time, a large number of small boats came out of the harbor, and after being determined at close range, they were secured with hooks, and the oars were rocked, and the whole fleet was dragged into the harbor.

"I've seen Master Chen."

"Brother Zhang, Brother Deng, it's a little polite."

Zhang Bofu has been changed from a first-class official to the head of foreign commerce of the Foreign Trade Department of the Household Housing, from an eight-rank official position, wearing a round-necked blue robe, wearing a stretched foot hood, wearing a rhino horn belt, and a long jade body, although not as handsome as Chen Daojian's young handsomeness, he has the posture of a gentleman, and he is also quite a Han official prestige.

Judging from the admiration of the surrounding people, Zhang Bofu is quite popular here.

Behind Zhang Bofu was Deng Fang, who also waved slightly towards Chen Daojian, with a smile on his face.

Chen Daojian returned the salute and said with a smile: "Brother Deng, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

However, the surrounding Japanese people also saw Zhang Bofu and Deng Fang take the initiative to salute Chen Daojian, and all the Japanese people showed a look of surprise, and some of them had a good memory, that is, they remembered that this Han boy was still living in the mansion of the Ouchi family not long ago, so their eyes showed a look of sudden enlightenment.

There were a lot of ships entering the port this time, and Chen Daojian, Zhang Bofu, and Deng Fang didn't say much, and the three of them consulted with the local retainers of the Ouchi family, and soon decided on the order of moving the goods.

There were many people carrying goods in the harbor, and soon more than 1,000 people gathered, and the ant-like crowd began to board the stable fortune ship and carry the goods from the cabin with the help of multiple pedals.

Due to the large number of merchant ships, many Japanese merchants, and even merchants from various countries in the South Seas, also came to see the excitement, and after moving for a while, everyone could see that the goods were mainly cotton cloth.

A cotton cloth is 33 meters long, weighing more than 50 catties, in the past, the most ordinary coarse cloth of Dawei cotton quality, a horse is sold for about three dollars, slightly better, sold to five or six times, more than ten pieces are not a problem.

Fine summer cloth, or the best Songjiang cloth with patterns, is sold for dozens of horses.

At this moment, Dawei is experiencing serious inflation caused by the shortage of various materials, and the coarse cloth has also risen to four to five times, and the price of exports has also increased significantly.

To the Wa Kingdom, the cloth in Luzon was not only insufficient in quantity, but also the price had risen to seven or eight per horse, and the price of the cloth to Luzon was even more expensive, and it was generally sold to ten per horse.

Even with such a high price, it is still a sought-after item in the Wa Kingdom, Luzon and other countries.

Zhang Bofu's Japanese language was already very good, and he talked to a few big Japanese businessmen who had made a contract in advance, but they did not get a contract, but only got a chance to meet tomorrow.

Many Japanese merchants expressed confusion and dissatisfaction, and they did not know why the Qin Wangfu used such a method.

The Japanese merchants are still quite honest in doing business, the business atmosphere of the Japanese is actually more developed than the Great Wei, many big merchants gather in the towns under the major famous territories, they unite with each other, trade, control the commercial veins everywhere, and even these Japanese merchants can join forces to lend money to the Daimyo, and they are not afraid that the Daimyo will not repay, generally use the income of the territory as collateral, the Daimyo can't afford to pay back the money, and they don't dare to send samurai to hard, once the reputation is broken, the merchant will not even give a penny to the Daimyo.

The entire Wa Kingdom, ostensibly controlled by the emperor and daimyō, was actually more dynamic and had a great influence on national policy.

Zhang Bofu finally introduced the two businessmen to Chen Daojian: "This is Fuji Zhenggang, this is Ouchi Zongsheng, these two are wealthy businessmen with a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars. ”

One of the two Japanese merchants was quite old, with white eyebrows and ordinary fabrics, and the other was a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties, wearing luxurious silk robes, and both of them saluted Chen Daojian very respectfully.

"This time we brought twenty-five boatloads of cotton cloth." Chen Daojian said with a pleasant attitude: "According to the agreement, we will continue to trade with the merchants of your country, and more than 140,000 pieces of cotton cloth have been shipped this time." In the next season, our cotton fields will be expanded, and it is estimated that there will be 200,000 pieces of cloth by the end of the year, and by next year, we will strive to produce more than 500,000 pieces of cloth, and we will export all of them, except for a small amount of cloth needed by officials, the common people, and the soldiers. Now the king of Qin has doubts about whether it will be sold to Luzon or Japan, and the official will tell the truth, that is, he wants to calculate which place the cotton cloth is more cost-effective and more profitable. ”

When the two merchants heard the number of cloths, their breaths became heavier.

300,000 horses a Chinese New Year's Eve, or even 500,000 horses, this is more than 10 million pounds of cotton, in addition to the summer cloth is thinner and lighter, the thick cloth used in winter is extremely heavy, hundreds of thousands of horses, from cotton to seed cotton, and then to lint cotton, after repeated drying and beating, 560,000 pieces of cloth is nearly 20 million pounds of cotton output, and now the cotton output of the entire country of Wei, the sum of the various daimyo territories, there is no such number!

The middle-aged man was Ouchi Zongsheng, and he said to Chen Daojian in a deep voice: "Lord Chen, if you go to Luzon, I'm afraid you will have to face pirates entrenched on Cebu Island?" ”

Chen Daojian said coldly: "Our army defeated Yan Qi and Liu Dan in the Eastern Domain, don't you know about the construction of the Jingguan?" ”

Ouchi Zongsheng was stunned, of course he knew about it, and he was quite respectful to the Wei officials in front of him, who were less than twenty years old. The Japanese only recognize power, and the stronger they are, the more they are respected, and the worse Chen Daojian's attitude, the more timid and obedient this Japanese businessman is.

Seeing Chen Daojian's cold gaze, Ouchi Zongsheng was shocked, and hurriedly said: "It's a gaffe, presumably the Zhongshan Mansion Army doesn't look at the remnants of the pirates at all!" Sorry for the gaffe. ”

The merchant bowed his body to the end, and his face almost touched the ground.