Chapter 123 Flying windfall must be considered

Wang Yu stayed in Lin'an for a very short time, and soon he turned back to Dinghai and took a boat back to Liuqiu in Hanging Mountain.

As soon as he got off the boat, he was invited into the public office and surrounded him by more than a dozen people, and he was interrogated for half a day before he could get out. These people are all a little jealous of him, for so long, he is the only one who can talk to Zhao and Ju in person.

The most jealous is Yang Miaozhen, in an irritable mood, she went to the school field again and beat a group of guards to scream, only to feel better.

"This is Tamsui City, you have to drop sail and anchor first, and then you can enter the port when the city sends a water pilot."

Two sea ships from Guangzhou, laden with cotton, were approaching freshwater. It was November of the fifteenth year of Jiading in the Great Song Dynasty, and it was the season when the northeast wind was tight, and the two ships were able to sail to freshwater, but they still used angle sails.

Over the years, Liuqiu's sea ships have traveled all over the north and south, and the improvement of the sail has long been no secret, although it is not well understood what Liuqiu painted on the sail to make its driving performance so good, but the skilled craftsmen of Quanzhou and Guangzhou shipyards have tried their best to make up for it by virtue of their own intelligence. Therefore, the Great Song Sea ships, which were originally active in the South China Sea, have been equipped with angle sails, and some bold ship owners have even used the performance of angle sails to begin to explore new routes - in the past, it took half a year to go back and forth to the countries of the South Seas, but now it is the use of angle sails, so naturally there is no need to wait for the tailwind.

The owners of the two seagoing ships looked at this strange city with a burst of excitement in their hearts. Nowadays, in Guangzhou and Quanzhou, everyone knows that the most convenient route for profit is to transport raw silk, cotton, and iron ore to Tamsui, and then transport Freshwater's ironware, silk, glass, cotton cloth, books, and machinery back to the Great Song Dynasty.

Fresh water was exported to the Great Song Dynasty, even including the best steel knives, iron spears, iron armor and other weapons, in the Song, Jin, Xixia, including the Hu people, arms trade is almost impossible, Tamsui dared to export these good weapons to the Great Song Dynasty, it was obviously extremely friendly to the Great Song Dynasty, before that, only the Wa State, had sold a large number of Japanese swords to the Great Song Dynasty.

"If you don't wait for the pilot and sail straight to Tamsui, will you see two big ships in that harbor?" The guide on the ship was very rappy, pointing to the two big ships parked in the harbor, and said to the shipowner with a smile: "Some time ago, many maritime merchants in Quanzhou joined forces and wanted to break into the port wharf, but they were struck by these two big ships with thunder, two of them sank, dozens of people were killed and wounded, and the rest all abandoned their weapons and surrendered. ”

The shipowner had never heard of this, and he thought in his heart: "Will they kill people and steal goods?" ”

"Just follow the rules of the freshwater, the people here are very kind, and if they break the rules, they also have the means to thunderbolt. The owner, please also restrain the manpower on the ship, don't make a fuss here, you must know the official family of the Great Song Dynasty, but you can't control it here. ”

"What happened to those Quanzhou maritime merchants?" Someone else asked.

"Tamsui has a legal affairs bureau called it, which is in charge of adjudicating cases, and those ships are naturally detained, saying that they forcibly entered the port and plotted wrongdoing, thinking that they did not cause damage to the port, they only fined one-third of the goods on board as punishment." The guide spat out: "If you change me, you will be all punished!" Only one-third of the fine, after the rest of the transaction, you can also exchange the goods from fresh water to go back, carefully calculated, these Quanzhou maritime merchants still have some money! ”

"It's not unreasonable, this cargo has taken all my belongings." The shipowner was not interested in the rest, and after a pause he asked, "Where are the shops in this freshwater port?" ”

"I don't know about this, the rules of freshwater are very strict, and ordinary sailors are not allowed to board the port and disembark, even if there is an emergency, Lang Zhong also came on board to diagnose and treat. However, I have heard that if you want to trade with freshwater, you don't need to look for shops, there is a place called the customs office at the wharf, and the freshwater products will be displayed one by one, and the proprietor can go and ask for the price if he needs to buy. ”

"This island is so big, if you land from somewhere else......" the shipowner asked again, thinking about the question.

"Don't even think about it, there are no wise people in the world, some time ago someone did this, took a small sampan to make a detour to land, but now there is no echo at all." The guide sneered, "This is a place outside the world, even if you die, you will die in vain!" ”

While they were talking, a small boat rowed over with several figures in straitjackets. The guide said: "The water pilot is here, you can negotiate with him, remember not to bribe, it is a felony to pay bribes in Tamsui, and besides, the copper coins of our Great Song Dynasty are not allowed to pass here." ”

After the pilot boarded the ship, he first asked the owner if there were any sick people on board, then asked what the cargo was, and then went into the cabin for inspection. Three people came up from each ship, one to inquire, another to fill out the form, and one to watch in silence. The shipowner took note of the pen and paper they used, which was uniformly printed, and was very beautifully printed, better than the printing technique of the Great Song Dynasty. And the pen is not a brush, after asking what it is called "quill".

After asking, the one of the three who had been silent took the paper and returned to the boat, and then returned to the port. After a while, someone waved a flag at the port, and the pilot who stayed on the boat said: "You can enter the port, do you see the red ropes on both sides of the waterway, enter the port from between the red ropes, and there are reefs everywhere you go." ”

He was actually saying this as a scare, as the waterways, drawn by driftwood and red ropes, were good for controlling the entry and exit of ships, while the rest of the waterways were sunk to prevent ships from fleeing from the harbor suddenly.

Before docking, the pilot had already explained the rules, that is, except for the shipowner, only two people were allowed to go ashore. Although the sailors on board were a little disappointed, they all listened to the words of the guide, and did not dare to complain. When the ship docked in the harbor, the shipowner was about to disembark, but the pilot stopped him again and pointed to a wooden frame in the middle of the pier: "Shipowner Li, please bring all the sailors on board to the deck, there is something there, you can take a look." ”

Shipowner Li called all the sailors up as he said, and after a while, he saw several people in uniform come out of a room on the edge of the pier, and they dragged a dejected fellow and pulled the man up to the wooden frame and hoisted him. Then a man dressed differently from them came up, holding a pamphlet, and stood in front of the man who had been lifted, and read something aloud. Because of the distance and the strong wind, they could not hear very clearly, and the pilot said: "This man landed on the island without permission, and there were seventeen people with him, and fifteen of them had bad intentions, injured the islanders, and snooped on the truth, and they have been executed, and only two remain." Because he pleaded guilty and did not hurt anyone, he was given a light sentence, and it was the judge of the Legal Affairs Bureau who read the sentence, and he was arrested as a member of the law enforcement team of the island's guards. ”

"Light...... Light sentence ......"

The sailors were originally very bold figures, and it can be seen that the man was stripped of his shirt, hung up and whipped with rattan, and every whip was a miserable scream, and they couldn't help but lose their color when they could see the blood marks drawn from their bodies from afar.

"It is indeed a light sentence, he is not a vagger, because he snooped on the secrets of the island, so in addition to the whipping, he also had to serve eight years of hard labor." The water pilot sneered: "If you want more mines, what you lack is the miners under the mine, and those who have no salary like him are naturally as much as possible." ”

The sailors looked at each other, even if they were stupid, they knew that this was a disgrace for them.

The copper coins of the Great Song Dynasty could not be used in Tamsui, so they had to negotiate the price of the goods and convert them into Tamsui gold dollar coupons, and then use them to buy Freshwater products. Because the glass is not resistant to turbulence, it must also be packed in standard wooden boxes of freshwater products, and the owners of these two boats bought more of various equipment in freshwater, such as quarter-hour, and now the price of quarter-hour has dropped, and some skilled craftsmen have been able to imitate, but freshwater quarter-hour is no longer powered by a heavy hammer, but replaced with steel clockwork, which cannot be imitated, so freshwater quarter-hour is still very popular. And they are inexpensive, far more exquisite than those imitated by the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty.

In the "customs", they also saw the exquisite iron Shuo, this kind of model of the sea ship made of iron melting, there are four words "smooth sailing", which is exactly the ornament that they like maritime merchants, and the two of them each bought one.

The discount of two ships of cotton is equivalent to 2,000 gold dollars in freshwater gold dollars, 20,000 silver dollars if converted into silver dollars, and 200,000 copper dollars when converted into copper dollars. A quarter of an hour in Tamsui is only sold for 200 copper yuan, and if it is sold to the Great Song Dynasty, it can be sold for 50 yuan, and if the ten copper dollars announced by Tamsui are equal to the price of the copper coins of the Great Song Dynasty, after deducting the cost, the profit is more than doubled. However, according to the same freshwater regulations, all goods entering and leaving freshwater must be charged a tariff of 20 percent, so in the end, the profit of this round trip is about doubled. The two Cantonese maritime merchants were a little disappointed, they heard that the original profit was more than three times the original, so they ventured to come. However, I thought that I would come and go from Guangzhou to seek a trip, but it was more than a month, and I would go back and forth at least four or five times a year, and if I could double the profit each time, it would be far better than a trip to Nanyang in a year.

Moreover, all of them are offshore voyages, which are far less risky than crossing the South Seas. If they were in the glass and iron business, the profits would be even greater.

"You're from Guangzhou?" They had selected the goods, and were about to leave the customs, when a man came in from outside, clasped his fists and sang loudly, and then asked.

"Exactly, I don't know who Your Excellency ......is," the two of them asked the man, a little surprised.

The person who came was very young, he looked like he was only eighteen or nineteen years old, with a slender figure and a ruddy complexion, and his facial features were also extremely positive, and he looked a little bookish, so the two merchants did not dare to be rude.

"Under Chen Zicheng, the word Bohan, the manager of Tamsui Bank, and the Tamsui Primary School." Chen Zicheng smiled and said: "If the two of you have time, you can prepare a banquet in the Tamsui Moon Tower, how about inviting the two of you?" ”

Hearing Chen Zicheng's string of titles, these two businessmen already knew that he must be a Tamsui dignitary, and they were flattered to learn that he was invited. The two glanced at each other, clasped their fists and said, "Dare not obey your fate!" ”

Tamsui Moon Tower is a restaurant opened in the city, originally for the flow of middle-income people to serve, these people have a good income, after buying a house and property, they need to enjoy, and some land delicacies, in Tamsui is extremely difficult to get, so this Moon Moon Tower is also a place to recover gold dollar coupons from the Flow-seeking Office.

The two maritime merchants had something on their minds, so they only dipped in wine slightly, and then the maritime merchant surnamed Li asked: "I don't know what Mr. Chen's position in this Tamsui is in, what is in charge?" ”

"It's about the two of you." Chen Zicheng said with a smile.

The two maritime merchants looked at each other again, Chen Zicheng saw that they were full of suspicion, and they did not sell Guanzi, so he took out a booklet from his bosom and put it on the table: "I don't hide it, I am giving a great fortune and two people." ”

The hearts of the two merchants moved, but they were a little scared when they thought of the person hanging themselves in the harbor. Chen Zicheng spread out the booklet, but it was a map, Chen Zicheng pointed to one of the dots and said, "This is where the two of you are from, Guangzhou." ”

Since the two of them are maritime merchants, they have naturally seen a lot of nautical charts, so they nodded immediately. Chen Zicheng pointed to another place and said: "This big island is called Qiongya in the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"The villain has been there, this place is barren and extremely barren, and it is the residence of the criminals." Haishang surnamed Li nodded.

Hearing that he had been there, Chen Zicheng was even more happy, at this time the maritime merchants in Guangzhou were far less powerful than Quanzhou, and the maritime merchants in Quanzhou controlled the shipping routes, and there were many moves to squeeze out the maritime merchants in Guangzhou. He pointed to Qiongya and said, "I want to give the two of you a great fortune, on top of this Qiongya." ”

The two maritime merchants looked at each other, not knowing how to respond. After a while, the maritime merchant surnamed Li was more knowledgeable, and he said boldly: "What did Mr. Chen say?" ”

"As far as I know, there are not many iron ores in the Great Song Dynasty, and I also need iron ore, and now they are all purchased from the Wa Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty, but they are still stretched." Chen Zicheng said: "There are good prospectors in my family, who have searched all over the Great Song Dynasty and found an excellent iron ore in this Qiongya!" ”

Hearing him say this, the two maritime merchants were overjoyed, but then they remembered something again, looked at each other, and said cautiously: "In that case, why is the gentleman ......?"

"The two of them are maritime merchants in Guangzhou, and they have their own way to go to Qiongya to open mines, but I am just begging people, and it is not easy to go to the mines." Chen Zicheng smiled.

"It's just that the two of us have a small amount of money, so I'm afraid I won't be able to do it...... I can't do this big thing. Haishang surnamed Li said excitedly.

"That's why I'm looking for two." Chen Zicheng put away the picture and said with a slight smile: "I begged the bank, and I am willing to lend a huge amount of money to the two of them, and the two of them will come forward to take down this iron mine, and all the ores, except for paying to the government, will be purchased at a guaranteed price." Chen Zicheng took out another booklet and handed the booklet to the two to read.

The booklet is written in great detail, which is the division of responsibilities and powers between the borrower and the borrower, and both maritime merchants are literate, but they are not familiar with the punctuation marks on the booklet, but after reading through it, there is no problem. After they saw it one by one, they were all surprised and delighted.

If they had acted on the basis of this booklet, they would have had to spend almost nothing but manpower, and they would have enjoyed the benefits of the iron mines. Although the two of them said that they only sold ore but did not smelt iron, they carefully calculated the accounts, which was the most profitable, and if they sold iron after smelting iron, they might not be able to make such a profit.

"The two of them only need to guarantee their reputation, and they can ask the bank to borrow 50,000 yuan in gold yuan coupons, so as to buy goods in Liuqiu, and sell back to the Great Song Dynasty is a huge fortune of millions of guan, and use this million yuan of huge wealth to go to Qiongya to open an iron mine, I think it is enough anyway. Mining skills, flow can send people to teach, compared to the current Song Dynasty mining skills, it must be much more convenient. In addition, I see that the two sea ships are not only small, but also far less convenient and fast than my sea boats, and the two of us can use some of these millions to buy a huge sea ship in our stream, and we are willing to send sailors to control them for the two of them, and naturally, the two of them can also send people to learn from the ship......"

Chen Zicheng stared at the two, kept talking, observing the reactions of the two, and seeing the surprised and happy appearance of the two, he smiled slightly.

Note 1: Ouyang Xiu Shiyun: Kunyi Road is far from being restored, and it is rumored that who can be poor when cutting jade. The sword is close to Japan, and the more Jia De's sea is east. The fish skin is attached to the fragrant wood sheath, and the yellow and white idle miscellaneous fish and copper. Hundreds of gold into the hands of good deeds, admiration can be demons.