The official roads under the jurisdiction of Xinghua are in full swing, and some bandits entrenched on the mountain are also stepping up to clean up, but the construction of the port has not been carried out for a long time, and Yang Congyi is worried.

This season is the best time to build a port, once winter comes in a few months, and then he wants to find someone to work in the water, it will be impossible, and it will be delayed until next year, and what he wants to do will no longer be done.

Just when he had nothing to do, an old man suddenly appeared and brought him good news.

On that day, the official came to report, and there was a businessman in front of the government who asked to see the judge.

In the past, it was impossible for Yang Congyi to meet any businessmen in the yamen, but now the situation is different, and businessmen are very important to what he wants to do, and he has to rely on their financial resources.

When he saw the businessman, Yang Congyi was immediately overjoyed.

Because the person who came was none other than Guo Qing, an old man he met as early as when he was fishing fast in Taihu Lake.

The two have not seen each other for six years since they were separated in Quanzhou at the end of the eighteenth year of Shaoxing, and now they are seeing the old man in a different place, so they are naturally very cordial and enthusiastic, and then they chatted in the side hall.

Through Guo Qing's narration, Yang Congyi knew that before he came to Xinghua this time, he was actually going to buy a batch of goods brought back from overseas by the fleet in Quanzhou, but the fleet had been anchored in Quanzhou for three days and had not sold any goods, saying that the imperial court had forbidden the fleet from selling any overseas goods to the outside world. Like other merchants, he waited in Quanzhou for more than a month, but he couldn't buy anything. Just when he was about to go to Lin'an to try his luck, he accidentally heard a news, saying that Xinghua was going to build a port, and the merchant could jointly fund it with the government, and he heard that the general judge here was surnamed Yang, and guessed that it was probably Yang Congyi, so he came to take a look, but he didn't expect it to be true.

Guo Qing has accumulated a lot of wealth through the field over the years, and has now accumulated a lot of wealth, and his personal assets are worth five or six hundred thousand yuan, and he also has a lot of fame among the businessmen in the Anqing area.

For Guo Qing's business, Yang Congyi didn't know too deeply, and then he mentioned some situations in Taihu Lake and Huaining, Guo Qing immediately remembered a letter that he had brought back to Tianzhu Mountain a few years ago, so he told him that the letter had already been sent to the mountain, but there was no reply, and there was no news, he was busy with business all these years, and he had not personally entered Tianzhu Mountain, so he didn't know what the situation was inside.

Yang Congyi didn't care too much about what was going on in Tianzhu Mountain, he knew that they would definitely not be at peace, and sooner or later something big would happen, but if the matter in Zhushan had nothing to do with him today, he just wanted to know if there was a result of the matter that he had entrusted to Leader Song to investigate, but he didn't have the opportunity to go back to Huaixi, so he couldn't inquire at all, and Leader Song didn't send someone to deliver him a message.

The tablet enshrined at home is the hidden pain of him and Qingchen, although many years have passed, but there is no reason not to repay this revenge.

There is no news of Tianzhu Mountain, and Yang Congyi is not much lost, there is no news at least to show that Tianzhu Mountain is still very stable, and there is no major incident in it, presumably Leader Song has helped him find out the enemy in his spare time.

Yang Congyi briefly introduced his experience in the past few years to Guo Qing, and then said that not long ago the imperial court issued a decree, the imperial court lifted the ban on foreign trade, the profits of the field trade is likely to decline, and the most profitable business in the future must be maritime trade, so he suggested that Guo Qing buy a few sea ships and try maritime trade.

Guo Qing also said that in the past two years, the business of the field has not been very good, and he has come back to a hard trip, and the profits have fallen more and more, and he originally wanted to change careers to run a restaurant, but he has not made up his mind, listening to Yang Congyi say this, he is a little moved, but at the same time he is also very worried, because he has never been to the sea, nor has he done business at sea.

Yang Congyi suggested that he buy a few fewer sea ships first, do short-distance maritime trade, you can go to Goryeo or Wa Kingdom first, don't expect to make money the first time, as long as you don't lose too much, you will definitely be able to double your earnings in the future.

Although Guo Qing and Yang Congyi are old acquaintances, he has a fear of going to sea in his heart, and he said that he would consider Yang Congyi's suggestion carefully, but he did not reply immediately.

As for the question of the money needed for the construction of the port in Xinghua, Guo Qing said that he was willing to pay, and he could give as much as Yang Congyi needed, and he had not given him a share for so many years, and the cumulative calculation was nearly 100,000 yuan, and he could take it all out if needed.

Guo Qing's sharing, Yang Congyi did not take it seriously, after all, the capital that lent Guo Qing to do business was more than 1,000 yuan, and now it is completely Guo Qing's own hard work to make such a big business, 100,000 yuan is not a lot, not too little, but he does not have any covetousness, after all, he is not very short of money, he has also seen a lot of money.

Therefore, Guo Qing invested in the purchase of the free right to use the port berth, 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, Yang Congyi did not refuse, as for the share, he did not have any thoughts.

How Guo Qing got to where he is now, he knows very well in his heart that without the capital that Yang Congyi lent him at the beginning, and without the relationship that Yang Congyi left in Huaining, he would not have been able to get to where he is today.

In his opinion, the money that should be given must be given, the other party's officials are getting bigger and bigger, and there will be fewer and fewer opportunities for contact in the future.

They met in Taihu Lake, met in the poor time, although they did not spend much time together, but compared to others, their relationship is deeper, after all, people are not as good as the old, can go through the years of precipitation of friendship, precious and long-lasting.

When Guo Qing saw Yang Congyi in the Yamen of the General Judgment, he had already made up his mind in his heart, he must give the other party's money, Yang Congyi is now a general judge of the military state, and he is in charge of the military and political power of a place, and the little money given by the court is okay to support his family, but it is far from enough to socialize. Over the years, he has also dealt with some officials, their extravagance and generosity, staggering, and the lavishness of spending money does not match their official position and income at all, one expenditure is worth a few years, and their official position must also rely on a large amount of money up and down to maintain, otherwise they will have to be idle at home.

Yang Congyi is his Guo Qing's nobleman, he was, is now, and should still be in the future, if he wants to make more money, sooner or later there will be a time to rely on him, if he loses his official position, he will have one less reliable support, so Guo Qing is determined to give the other party enough money for him to have some relationships and communication, for Yang Congyi, but also for himself.

The two argued and discussed this matter for many days, from the general judgment of the Yamen to start preparing for the construction of the port to the recruitment of hundreds of people to start the construction of the port, until half a month later, under Guo Qing's unwavering insistence, Yang Congyi relented, 100,000 guan is too much, he can only accept 50,000 guan at most.

Later, the two bargained several times, and the final share was set at 70,000 yuan.

According to Yang Congyi's meaning, the 70,000 guan should continue to be placed with Guo Qing and let him use it for business, but Guo Qing did not agree, in his opinion, if Yang Congyi did not take the money, it would be equivalent to him not taking any share, and besides, he now has the capital to do business, and there is no shortage of these tens of thousands of guan.

In the end, Qingchen received a huge sum of money, 70,000 yuan.

Although she had seen more money than this in the election camp before, but the money was not hers, and now the 70,000 yuan is hers, and she really holds it in her hands, because she has money in her hands, even if the rumors about her husband wanting to marry a wife and concubine continue, even if the relationship between Yun Niang and her husband is unclear, her good mood has not been affected much.

After Guo Qing paid the share to Yang Congyi, he soon left Xinghua and went to Lin'an to find an opportunity.

The construction of the port continued, gradually increasing from more than 100 people to 200 people, Yang Congyi planned to repair ten berths before the onset of winter, and dock ten 4,000 large sea ships at a time, but from the construction progress, it was still far from it, and he had to continue to recruit manpower.

When the number of people building the port reached more than 500 people, the problem came that the money raised in the early stage was not enough to spend.

Just when he couldn't find a businessman who was willing to pay and was about to be cornered, Yang Congyi was about to talk to Qingchen and fill the hole with the money himself, Tang Xun's father, who came all the way from Jianpu County, brought good news.

After the two chatted carefully, Father Tang followed Yang Congyi to the port under construction to see, and immediately made a decision to pay 100,000 yuan to buy all the berths in Xinghua Port.

What did Father Tang think in his heart, Yang Congyi roughly knew that although he was worried about money, he could only reluctantly refuse Father Tang's generosity, and it would definitely not work to sell all ten berths to one person, and the entire Xinghua Port would become private.

He told Father Tang that no matter how much money he paid, the berths could only be used for free at most, and if he wanted to use more berths, he could pay for rent, and he paid more money and could rent them first.

Father Tang is a sensible person, even if Yang Congyi treats him like an elder, since there are rules, he is not good at forcibly breaking and making it difficult for the other party, so he agreed to invest 60,000 yuan to obtain the free use of five berths, and then obtain the priority rental right of other berths.

He read the letter sent to him by Yang Congyi carefully, and with the keen sense of a businessman, he had a premonition of an opportunity to make a lot of money, and because he had participated in the first ocean-going return to supervise the construction, some of his subordinates also participated in the whole process of ocean-going return, and he had long known that overseas return-easy could make a lot of money.

In the past, he was in Nanjianzhou, the business was not very big, and far away from the seaport, there was no suitable opportunity to do overseas trade, but now it is different, the Tang family's medicinal material business is a monopoly in Nanjianzhou, and even many nearby states and counties, and countless medicinal materials are purchased and distributed every year.

With this money, ten berths will definitely be built before winter, and then seize the time to level the port, build a warehouse, and then build a road to widen the port to the city, and the port will be completed before the year.

After the port was completed, he worked in Xinghua for two years, and he had the political achievements to take his hands.