The next day, Yun Niang didn't get up until noon.

After getting up, she just went to see Gu Qingchen, so she hid in the room and didn't come out again, and even her maid Ping'er sent her into the room for dinner.

I used to think that this home was deserted, but now that there are suddenly more people, the yard suddenly seems small and crowded.

Yang Congyi discussed with Gu Qingchen to buy a larger yard, but the other party did not agree, saying that this yard has been lived in for many years, and they are used to living in it, Siyuan is still small, and it is very inconvenient to change places, although the yard is not big, usually just a few of them, they can still live, the yard is smaller, everyone eats in a pot, and it is also good for the stability of this family.

What Gu Qingchen said was not unreasonable, and after that, Yang Congyi did not mention the matter of setting up another courtyard.

This winter, Yang Congyi stayed in Quanzhou, except for Liuqiu not far away, he didn't go anywhere, as for Lin'an's return to Yi, he only sent a few letters to Lu You, asking him to prepare for the purchase of goods as soon as possible, and keep in touch with the wealthy businessmen in Lin'an.

After staying in Liuqiu for ten days, he found that the morale of the soldiers of the entire Jingwu Army and the Escort Army was very different from before, they were more serious in training, more able to exert more effort, and they were more able to work hard to cultivate camps and build horse farms, all because the temporary office of Hui Yi in Liuqiu intervened in their lives.

For more than a month, hundreds of brides lived in the barracks of military dependents, and those who were fortunate enough to marry women from good families were all lieutenant generals and colonels and the backbone elite who had made meritorious contributions, and of course there were some ordinary soldiers who were particularly prominent in the cultivation of camps, horse farms, and training.

There are eight or nine thousand people in the elite army and the guard army, and the vast majority of them have never married or touched a woman, who doesn't want to marry a young woman from a good family, and who doesn't want to start a family?

The hundreds of people who are the first to get married, the incentive effect on the whole army, more useful than any monetary reward, everyone wants to be the next person to be selected by the Hui Yi Office, once selected, it means that they will soon be able to get married, and soon they will be able to have their own woman.

Yang Siniang likes this errand given to her by Yang Congyi very much, she thinks it is very meaningful, so she works very hard, she takes a few maids every day to walk the streets and alleys in the city, talk to the women she meets, or go to the surrounding villages, visit door to door, regardless of whether there is a woman to be married in the other party's family, she will leave them an address, and a small gift.

There are tens of thousands of households in the entire area managed by the Liuqiu County Government, and according to her own estimates, she will be able to visit them all in half a year, as for how many marriages can be negotiated and how many couples can be promoted, she does not have much confidence, after all, there are too many people in the Jingwu Army and the Escort Army who want to get married, and Liuqiu is so big, how can there be so many women who are suitable for marriage.

But no matter what, she has to go through the flow and pull in all the women who are willing to marry, and then think of other ways, it is really not possible, and it is not impossible to go to the poor families in Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, and Fuzhou to look for them.

Yang Congyi praised Yang Siniang's efforts, but at the same time told her not to think about letting a soldier marry a bride, this is impossible, there are too many marriages, and it is also harmful to the elite army and the escort army, it should be reasonably controlled, it is enough to select three or five excellent soldiers every month, and continue to play an incentive role.

Yang Siniang understood as soon as she heard it, and her anxious and always high heart quickly calmed down, she had gone astray before and forgot the original intention of marrying the Jingwu Army and the Guards.

After that, she and Yang Congyi convened the elite army and the guards together, and put forward requirements on the selection of relatives to marry, one is the monthly quota limit, and the other is to review the qualifications.

The Jingwu army has three family quotas per month, and there are few guards, one per month, and the list and information reported back to the Yi Department must be true, and their merits and ordinary performance must stand up to verification, and if they are fraudulent, they will be directly disqualified.

The generals naturally have no opinions, they are all the first few batches of people who married brides, the other party is still from the city, the family is good, knowledgeable, gentle and virtuous, they already have women, how to review candidates in the future, it has little to do with them, they fight back and forth, and they are all for their brothers, and if they want to marry themselves, they don't fight, so there is no way.

The number of monthly marriages was fixed, and the pressure on Yang Siniang was instantly reduced a lot.

Four women to be married are actually very easy to find, as long as the dowry is enough, and even the dowry of the woman's dowry is also packaged, there is basically no reason not to marry, because no one will have trouble with money, not to mention the girl who will marry out sooner or later.

Yang Congyi accompanied Yang Siniang for a few days in Liuqiu, she is a hard-working person, in his opinion, no matter how much compensation is not enough, she used to always show herself as a man, she didn't be a woman for a few days, and the good years slipped away, and now although she has a new life, he can't stay with her all the time, in the end, she is still lonely.

And Yang Siniang doesn't think so, she feels that the current life is very easy and happy, she has nothing to do to go to the countryside, go to the barracks, horse farms, free and easy, unrestrained, without any pressure, without any concerns, and without any pretense, she is herself, everything can be decided by herself.

Of course, the only drawback is that Yang Congyi has too little time to accompany her, but there is no way, his home is in Quanzhou, and the return to Yi is in Lin'an, once the court is sent, the world is so big, you have to go anywhere, and the time to stay at home is actually very small, even if she moves to Quanzhou to live next to Qingchen, she can't accompany her for a few days.

Regarding Meng Yunniang's affairs, Yang Congyi didn't hide it from her, she said it all, although she was a little unhappy at first, and soon she wanted to open it, she just wanted to stay in Liuqiu now, as long as he didn't accompany other women when he came to Liuqiu, it was enough, as for other places, she couldn't care about it, it might be a good thing to have one more woman, at least Qingchen wouldn't set his eyes on her.

In the days when Yang Congyi stayed in Liuqiu, a fleet of ships from the north and south arrived at the coast of Liuqiu, with ships large and small, and even different styles.

It was not an outsider who led this fleet, it was Shen Jin.

The boats were full of cattle and horses, but all of them were exhausted, and when they stepped on the shore, they staggered, and some even fell to the ground.

The fleet led by Shen Jin is almost all small boats, and the sea can't resist the big wind and waves, but fortunately it's winter now, no matter how strong the north wind reaches the sea, it can't set off big waves.

It is estimated that it will take several months for the new cattle and horses to be relocated to the horse farm in the south, and it will take them until the beginning of spring before they can adapt to life in the south and slowly recover.

How was the north arranged, Yang Congyi didn't ask, when he left from Qindao, he had already handed over the affairs of the northern return to him with full authority, who to leave behind, and how to do it specifically, Shen Jin himself was in charge, and he had worked together for so many years, and his performance was definitely trustworthy.

Shen Jin handed over the hundreds of thousands of profits recovered from several restaurants in Yidu Mansion, but Yang Congyi only collected 100,000 yuan, and the rest was spent by himself.

There are still so many people on the four northern islands, and they have to use money and food to maintain, and Liaoyang Mansion will definitely send people to stay behind, and the money required is not small, and these expenses cannot appear in the accounts of the Hui Yi Office.

The matter of trading in the north is the decision of Yang Congyi, Lu You, and Shen Jin, once something happens, the three of them will be responsible, but the Jin people in places such as Qin Island will not go, how can there be a Great Song Dynasty official who has nothing to do and run to that barren land.

The transaction of the fleet in the north is too far away from the Great Song Dynasty, and it is also very far away from Yanjing, the capital of the Jin Kingdom, and when the news of the transaction reaches Yanjing half a year later, whether it can be known by the Great Song Dynasty envoys is a problem, even if the Great Song Dynasty envoys are fortunate enough to hear about the transaction of Western goods in the north, it is suspected that there are Great Song Dynasty merchants who went north without permission, and they have the intention to investigate, and it is estimated that it will be a year or two later, and there is no way to investigate, not to mention the businessmen who can trade privately with the Jin Kingdom, which is not a deep background, even if they hear some rumors, they dare not offend.

The three people who have gone to sea all know that once the fleet goes to sea, fifty miles offshore, no one can distinguish the origin of the fleet, and there will be almost no risk if the fleet goes north, and the southern officials do not know that they go north, Dengzhou, Chenzhou, and Liaoyang do not know where they are from, and almost all regard them as Han merchants of the Jin State. In short, the trade of the fleet in the north was completely out of the control of the Great Song Dynasty, even if it was difficult to hear a few words, there was no way to investigate, there was no way to investigate, after all, there were thousands of miles from Dengzhou to the Great Song Dynasty.

Shen Jin understood what Yang Congyi meant, so he did not shirk it, and kept tens of thousands of yuan in his hands, which meant that he would completely take over the transaction of the Huiyi fleet in the north.

There are not many people left in the north, they only need to supply a few restaurants in Yidu Mansion on a regular basis, and take care of the four islands, as for the profit collection of the restaurant, Shen Jin handed it over to a henchman, and sent the profits received back to Liuqiu every three months.

He will not go north in the short term, either returning to Lin'an or begging.

Yang Congyi's advice to him is to stay in Liuqiu, the scale of the fleet going to sea next year will be reduced, and the profit required by the imperial court is still a huge amount, last year the fleet sold more than 100 ships of cargo to Tianzhu and Seljuk areas, such a large amount of goods, there is no three or five years, it is difficult to consume, go again tomorrow, it is likely that you will not make much money, so the route and the ultimate goal of returning to the easy must be adjusted, Tianzhu and Seljuk are better not to go, after the fleet goes south, go directly to the west, go to a place farther than Seljuk, only in this way, Only then can the goods of the Great Song Dynasty continue to be sold at a high price in exchange for more valuable things.

The further you go, the greater the risk, the bigger and better the boat, and the further training of the people.