Chapter 218: Heading South to Guangzhou

Zhang Zhimu suddenly thought that rice was also a big deal, and asked: "Do you know the rice market there in Guangzhou?" ”

Lu Qi said: "We don't know the price of local rice in Guangzhou, but there is a lot of rice in Annam and Siamese rice and it is very cheap. ”

Li Mao interjected: "According to the people from Quanzhou, there is a lot of rice there. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Great, this time I want to buy more food to go back." When we have enough food reserves, we will not be afraid of anything. ”

After a pause, Zhang Zhimu said again: "Lu Qi, what they did in Nanyang is really good, about the matter of the East King asking for ***, I think we can sell it to them, and a musket will be 1,500 taels of silver." They had planned to buy a musket for two thousand taels of silver, but if they wanted to buy five hundred, they would need one million taels of silver. Let us give them seven hundred muskets according to this number. In this way, we will earn money and improve their ability to deal with the Furlans. Bullets will be given to them according to the price we give to Datong, one tael of silver and ten rounds of ammunition, and you will bring them 200 solid bullets and 200 shotguns for each gun, that is, 140,000 solid bullets and 140,000 shotguns. In that case, your single business will be one hundred and twenty-eight thousand taels of silver. ”

Lu Qi said: "In addition to rubber, the goods we brought back also had hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. If you sell it here, it will be a few million taels. When we went back this time, we wanted to charter a boat to go back, bring a little more cargo, and also earn more. Overseas trade is risky, but the profits are too high. As long as the goods bought are on the right road, some can be multiplied tenfold. ”

Lu Chengxiang didn't speak, and then couldn't help but say: "We toss back and forth for a year, it's better for you to earn more at once." Alas! ”

Everyone laughed when they heard it.

Zhang Zhimu said: "This time you go back, bring a little more people over, in addition to expanding the scale of your manor, you see if you can buy an island, we will run it ourselves." This is an idle move, and it will be of great use in the future. ”

Lu Qi said: "There are too many islands there, and it won't cost much money to buy one." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "The key is that the selected islands should be able to enter and exit the big boats, and we will be of great use in the future." It is best to have a shore where a deep-water pier is built. ”

Lu Qi said: "I'll implement this when I go back." I want to take some more and take them back, there are a lot of slaves out there, they haven't been seen as human before. Now that they are with us, they are respected, and they are dead set on us, and if our manor expands, we need our own arms to defend the manor. It's often harassed by pirates, and it's annoying. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "It's no problem, it's just that you don't have to be too powerful, and it's not good if the East King is not at ease with you." ”

Lu Qi said: "No, the nobles and wealthy merchant estates there have their own armed guards. Otherwise, they wouldn't even be able to look at slaves. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "It seems that the plan has not changed quickly. Let's divide into two routes, one is the punt to lead the way from here to the Yangtze River, and then to Jiujiang and then to Jingdezhen to buy the porcelain we requested, and the porcelain and silk that Lu Qi wants to bring back to Sulu, and the paper, manganese ore, and tin and tin ore that we use. In my opinion, Li Mao is in charge of this way, and Mu Yi led the navy to follow. The other way was that we took our warship from Huai'an to the sea and went straight to Guangzhou, back to Quanzhou, and then back to Yangzhou. Grain bought from Guangzhou and Quanzhou was transported to Huai'an by sea ship. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "I think we are going to set up a branch in Huai'an, and we will be responsible for transporting grain. Otherwise, we will have to leave a special contact method in Huai'an. ”

Li Mao said: "I sent a few people to be in charge of answering in Huai'an, and it would be easy to have a fixed location of my own." ”

The next work is to arrange the things to go to Guangzhou and Quanzhou. Now there are a total of five Fu ships and two centipede ships, one of which is a steam ship and a sea ship, and these ships can go directly south. According to the need, two ships arrived in Quanzhou and stayed there, waiting for the goods to be loaded in Quanzhou. The other five ships went directly to Guangzhou. The rest of the goods were divided into categories, about two-thirds remained in Yangzhou, and one-third were loaded and shipped to Guangzhou. Because I don't know much about the market in Guangzhou, I will try it this time. Since the ships could not carry the cargo, it was decided to carry another 500 horses. Now Yan Boju was happy, if he didn't transport the horses over, Yan Boju would not be ready to follow him to Guangzhou. He said seasickness was scared.

After the plan is finalized, Zhang Zhimu no longer cares about specific matters.

However, for Li Mao's journey, Zhang Zhimu specially instructed that we must do a good job in the supply of manganese ore and tin ore, and if possible, it is best to buy the mine. Because in the future, the kiln will need these minerals in large quantities. There are also porcelain bottles that need to be made in Jingdezhen, such as porcelain bottles used on telephone poles, as well as porcelain bottles and porcelain jars for product packaging in the future, etc., all of which must be produced by Jingdezhen's porcelain kiln according to the given size. After arriving in Jingdezhen, I have to go to Dayu to get some tungsten ore. There were a few people who had followed Zhang Zhimu to Dayu last time, and they knew where the tungsten ore was, and this time they followed Li Mao to go together.

After discussing the matter, everyone went back to their rooms to rest, because Li Mao arranged a banquet to entertain everyone in the evening.

Yang Yulin followed Zhang Zhimu to the room and asked, "I haven't stayed in Yangzhou for a few more days, and I haven't gone shopping yet?"

Now Zhang Zhimu was in a very good mood, and came over to hug Yang Yulin and said, "We will come back, and it will take a little time to prepare to go to Guangzhou." You can also buy a lot of things when you get to Guangzhou. ”

Yang Yulin pushed Zhang Zhimu away and said, "In broad daylight, don't let others see it." ”

Zhang Zhimu joked: "This thing can only be done in broad daylight, and you won't let me hold it at night." ”

Yang Yulin deliberately got angry and said: "I'm telling you something serious, but you're not serious." I'm scared of sitting on a sea boat. ”

"Then you will wait for me in Yangzhou, so that you will have time to buy things in Yangzhou. By the way, your sister-in-law asked me to bring you a little more money so that you could buy more things. In this way, I will be free when I go to Guangzhou, and no one will care about me when I meet any beautiful women. ”

Yang Yulin came over and hugged Zhang Zhimu and said, "I want to look at you step by step, and don't give those little goblins a chance to start." ”

"My life is miserable, and I have no freedom at all. Bitter! Zhang Zhimu deliberately covered his face with his hands and said.

Yang Yulin is not the "fire phoenix" now, the chivalrous woman who crisscrosses the rivers and lakes, she is completely a woman in love who is as tender as a bird, and she enjoys Zhang Zhimu's caress and kisses.

Only when she felt that Zhang Zhimu was a little impulsive, she broke free in time and went over to pour tea for Zhang Zhimu again. Zhang Zhimu, who had drunk tea, had to rest for a while, and he had to deal with the wine at night.

Since everyone knows the amount of Zhang Zhimu's wine, no one fights Zhang Zhimu's wine too much, but because they are all very happy, Zhang Zhimu's wine still does not drink less.

When he returned to the room at night, Zhang Zhimu was also helped back. Yang Yulin knew that Zhang Zhimu's alcohol consumption was not good, and he didn't sleep after washing up, and he kept waiting. Seeing that Zhang Zhimu was helped back, he took Zhang Zhimu and helped him to go to bed to rest. Zhang Zhimu knew in a daze that Yang Yulin rubbed his face for him, but he didn't know the rest.

When Zhang Zhimu woke up, she found that Yang Yulin was sitting on the edge of the bed dozing, and she knew in her heart that she was afraid that Zhang Zhimu would wake up and drink water and no one would take care of her, so she kept watching him here. Zhang Zhimu felt warm in his heart.

Hearing Zhang Zhimu's turning over, Yang Yulin's sensitive ears immediately heard it, and suddenly opened his eyes and saw Zhang Zhimu staring at him, his face flushed and said, "Drink water?" You see I'm just asleep. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Don't drink it first, I sweat a lot, I'll wash first, Yang Yulin went outside to pour water, Zhang Zhimu went over to wash for a while, and felt much more relaxed." ”

Back in the bedroom, Yang Yulin was making the bed and said, "You can't drink a little less wine, can you compare with their martial arts practice." Wash up and go to sleep. ”

Zhang Zhimu was behind Yang Yulin, and when he saw Yang Yulin's plump body wrapped in thin silk clothes, he couldn't help but hug her tightly from behind. Yang Yulin struggled slightly, then obediently turned around and hugged Zhang Zhimu. Through the thin clothes, Zhang Zhimu could feel Yang Yulin's plump ** clinging to his chest. Zhang Zhimu kissed Yang Yulin while stroking Yang Yulin's full body with his hand, at this time Yang Yulin was slowly wheezing, and her body was a little tense for a while. Yang Yulin had already thought about it, anyway, she would be Zhang Zhimu's person sooner or later, and she had already prepared for this matter. She knew that the happy moment she had been waiting for for a long time was coming, he let Zhang Zhimu's kiss and caress him, let Zhang Zhimu take off her clothes one by one, and wait for Yang Yulin to take off all the clothes on her body. Zhang Zhimu hugged Yang Yulin's body tightly to his chest for a while. Then put Yang Yulin on the bed and carefully admired Yang Yulin's plump body. Under the candlelight, Yang Yulin's skin shone brightly. The tightened lower abdomen makes the ** appear firmer, and the pink areola is more attractive. Yang Yulin was a little shy and grabbed a pillow towel to cover his face, and when Zhang Zhimu leaned over to kiss Yang Yulin's **, Yang Yulin's nose couldn't help but let out a soft groan, and then put her hand around Zhang Zhimu's head. Zhang Zhimu's hand also began to explore up and down. At this time, Zhang Zhimu felt that this woman who had practiced martial arts, if she didn't take the initiative to cooperate, no one would help them. Yang Yulin's tightly closed legs made it impossible for Zhang Zhimu's further actions to go on at all.

When Yang Yulin, who was nervous, felt that it was time to separate her legs, Zhang Zhimu could step forward. But Yang Yulin was still too nervous, and closed the door tightly, so that Zhang Zhimu was busy sweating and didn't enter the door. Now Yang Yulin was even more nervous. Zhang Zhimu suddenly said to Yang Yulin: "You open your mouth." ”

Yang Yulin opened her mouth obediently, and then Zhang Zhimu suddenly took advantage of the situation, Yang Yulin snorted a long groan in her nose and hugged Zhang Zhimu tightly.

In fact, when they were in the kiln, once Zhang Zhimu and Yang Yulin were entangled together, Yang Yulin quietly asked Zhang Zhimu: "You said that the first time a woman did that, it hurts very much!" ”

Zhang Zhimu replied: "Generally, there will be a little, some people may be a little painful, and some people will be a little lighter. Nothing serious. ”

Zhang Zhimu remembered a children's rhyme that he often said when he was a child, when he didn't understand anything, "Let me tell you, when we were young, we would say that the nursery rhyme was 'It hurts all of a sudden, two times it hurts, three times it is like a worm crawling in, and the four times are comfortable and tired.' ’”

Hearing this, Yang Yulin's face was full of crimson, and she said, "Look at how you know so many messy things." ”

But it seems that Yang Yulin didn't remember the content of the children's song all of a sudden, and once Yang Yulin found an opportunity to let Zhang Zhimu say it again.

Yang Yulin's difference from a woman in this era is that early the next morning, Yang Yulin didn't care that others noticed that she was in Zhang Zhimu's room. Of course, her female soldiers knew that Yang Yulin hadn't gone back to sleep, but no one dared to say this. Even other people who knew about it, and also knew that Yang Yulin had long been Zhang Zhimu, and no one said anything else.

It took two days to prepare for the trip to Guangzhou, and Yan Boju took the five hundred horses to be transported to Guangzhou to Huai'an first. Fan Song was anxious to see his father and went with him.

These two days. Zhang Zhimu followed the happy woman Yang Yulin to buy things everywhere, Yang Yulin not only bought it herself, but also bought it for Huang Yukun and the child, and even bought it for Xiao Hongyu. Xiao Hongyu made a list of the things she wanted to buy and handed them to Yang Yulin. Xiao Hongyu also helped Yang Yulin to list a lot of things that needed to be bought. This made Zhang Zhimu wonder how women in their previous lives and now are the same, they all love to buy things. and came up with so many inexplicable ways. Zhang Zhimu didn't care, he just followed, but fortunately, Li Jing and someone helped him hold things behind him.

Yangzhou was definitely the trading center of the Ming Dynasty at that time, where you can see merchants and goods from all over the world. Even shopping is not something that can be done in a few days.

The horses left for Li Mao were quickly pulled away, and there was no need to send them to the horse market at all. Those ** good war horses were all picked up by the people who came.

Li Mao told Zhang Zhimu: "It was the people of the Eight Kings who bought all those war horses, and also bought some raw horses. Cow tendon and horns, they seem to have as many as they want. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "The people of the Eight Kings are developing rapidly in the Yangtze River Valley, and it is right that there are not enough military materials for these troops. ”

Li Mao whispered in Zhang Zhimu's ear: "The Eight Kings know that you have arrived in Yangzhou, and they want to see you with a word." I said no, saying you don't have time this time. ”

Zhang Zhimu nodded and said, "You did the right thing, we haven't had direct contact with them yet." Even you don't want to meet him directly, now you can do business with them as friends, you can do business, and you can't talk about anything else. ”

Hurriedly nodded yes.

Li Mao took a flat-bottomed steam ship and dragged a string of flat-bottomed boats to send Zhang Zhimu and others and the goods to Huai'an. Yan Boju, who arrived first, had already brought the news that he was going to Guangzhou. Fan Chengkun had already organized people to overhaul the steam engine, and added enough coal water and food to the ship.

Among these people, Mu Yi and Shi Tao have the most experience in navigation, and the generals of the navy who were summoned from the smelter have also been floating on the sea for a long time, and Fan Chengkun organized a team on the steamship, which was led by Shi Tao and was responsible for directing the sailing of the sea. Fan Chengkun knows that it is very dangerous to sail on the sea without experience, and when it comes to the vast sea, only those who rely on these people with sailing experience can do it.

After Zhang Zhimu and the others arrived in Huai'an, they held a meeting on a steamboat. Fan Chengkun introduced the whole preparation, and Zhang Zhimu said that he was very satisfied. Then Shi Tao introduced the situation of the voyage. The first is to wait for the tide after the goods are loaded, because the estuary after the confluence of the Huai River and the Yellow River has a large amount of sediment, and the river channel is very shallow, and it is necessary to wait until the tide is deep enough for a large ship to enter the sea from here. In addition, the wind at sea is very different from that on land, and if the wind is hard topped, even this steamship will not be able to drag six large ships with maximum strength. Shi Tao means that with the help of the wind and the towing of the steamboat, he can experiment with a new method of sailing.

Now we need to prepare for two problems, one is how to deal with pirates if we encounter them, and the second is how to find a safe haven to take refuge in the face of a positive wind.

Regarding the matter of piracy, Zhang Zhimu said: "We have a total of seven warships, and ordinary pirates will run away when they encounter us, and they will not provoke us." As for other things about sailing, you and Fan Chengkun will discuss it, we don't understand anything when we get to sea, so we will listen to you. ”

Fan Chengkun, Shi Tao and others also laughed, they knew that Zhang Zhimu was absolutely at ease with them.

It took two days for several ships to load their cargo. This time, Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng and others sat directly on this steamship, although the steam ship was relatively noisy, but this was a command ship, and what happened could be directly discussed and decided on the ship.

Shi Tao is obviously looking forward to going to sea, he said: "Not only do we have a compass and a telescope, but we also have searchlights at night, so it's much easier to sail now." ”

After the goods were loaded onto the ship, Li Mao also arranged the office in Huai'an and rented a house in Huai'an to facilitate everyone's contact here. After dealing with these things, Li Mao took the flat-bottomed steamboat back to Yangzhou. Zhang Zhimu and others also went up to the boat to wait for the tide, and a day later, the tide suddenly rose, and the steamship immediately started, dragging a string of boats to the east of the sea, and the ship began to turn to the south when it entered the sea. Although according to Zhang Zhimu's instructions, everyone pasted a piece of ginger on their navel, but many people began to get seasick as soon as they arrived at the sea.

At this time, Lu Chengxiang, who was not seasick by nature, was busy working around to take care of others.

Zhang Zhimu finally had time to talk to Fan Chengkun. Zhang Zhimu said: "Commander Fan, you have a very good son, he didn't disgrace you." and Lu Qi did Nanyang's affairs very beautifully. ”

Fan Chengkun also said with joy on his face: "This kid is okay, when he meets Mr. Zhang, he trusts him, so he has a chance." Otherwise, at Lingshui Wharf, it will be a coolie at most. If his mother knew, she would be glad. Ever since he left, his mother had been talking about him. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "This time I came back from Guangzhou and asked him to stay at home for a few more days and accompany her mother." ”

"No, my son can't help it, as soon as I talk about this, he says no, there are many things on Sulu's side." Fan Chengkun was dissatisfied, but he was actually happy in his heart.

At this time, Lu Chengxiang came over, and Zhang Zhimu said: "Mr. Lu, see Lu Qi's ability, young people let them do things." People just need to be pressured to do it. You see, in just one year, we have two generals. ”

Lu Chengxiang also smiled on his face and said, "These are my brother's two children, he handed them over to me, and now they are a little bit promising." When they come home and show their faces, let them know that I didn't delay their children, and the children are a little out of luck. ”

Between the jokes, the fleet began its sea journey south to Guangzhou.

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Calculus formulas, tables of chemical elements; Conquer Japan in the east and attack Mayi in the south; Penicillin, syringe. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".