"Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the sea to eat the sea"

It may seem like a simple sentence, but the amount of information contained in it is too much.

Tao Lang blinked his small eyes and pretended to be puzzled: "This official doesn't quite understand what Grandpa Ye means, can Grandpa Ye be more straightforward?" ”

Ye Xun didn't expose him, he directly stretched out two fingers and said, "I want to rent the sea area outside Denglai, and the rent is 200,000 taels a year."

200,000 taels, even if you can't earn it for a lifetime, but you don't want Tao Lang to be a person who has seen the world, after listening to Ye Xun's price, he smiled noncommittally, and then picked up the tea bowl on the table, as if he wanted to drink tea, opened the lid and found that it was empty, so he put the tea bowl back.

Said slowly and logically: "The imperial court has clearly forbidden the sea, and the official governor cannot disobey the laws of the imperial court!" Ye Gonggong, do you say? ”

"Three hundred thousand taels!"

"Isn't it difficult for Grandpa Ye to be an official? Denglai is not the official alone, this has to be known by others..."

"400,000 taels, no more, I want to build ships, recruit shipwrights, it's hard to say whether I can earn silver in the first year, if Lord Tao doesn't agree, then we can only break up."

Tao Lang's greed obviously exceeded Ye Xun's imagination, but this is okay, at least with this guy to maintain, his fleet will also reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles in the future.

Listening to Ye Xun's final offer, Tao Lang finally smiled, although he did not personally participate in the operation of shipping, but he knew very well about the huge wealth contained in it, if Ye Xun's scale was large enough, a few million taels of silver a year would not be enough to earn.

So 400,000 taels is not the ultimate goal of TOMRA, but what Ye Xun said also makes sense, everything is difficult at the beginning, and you may not be able to make money in the first year, so you should accept it when you see it, and then slowly increase the price in the future.

smiled and said: "I have long heard that Ye Gonggong is very bold, it is better to meet than to be famous!" Since Gonggong Ye is so sincere, the official said it bluntly"

"500,000 taels, pay half in advance, of course, the official can't ask for his father-in-law's silver in vain, there are hundreds of pirates in Dengzhou Prison who have been arrested in recent years, and they have also been given to his father-in-law, these people are all proficient in navigation and shipbuilding."

It's black! I added the silver to 500,000 taels with one mouth, and I really took Lao Tzu as a big wrongdoer, but you have the life to earn and spend?

After Tao Lang finished speaking, he looked at Ye Xun proudly, but he didn't know that Ye Xun, who seemed to be light-hearted, had already killed him, in his mind, Ye Xun wanted to engage in shipping in Liaodong, and the shipping lanes off Denglai could not be bypassed, so Ye Xun would definitely bow to him.

But I don't know that it has always been Ye Xun who threatens others, and no one can threaten him yet, the channel off the coast of Denglai is indeed unavoidable, but the governor of Denglai can be changed.

But of course Ye Xun won't move him at this time, since this person is already a dead man in his heart, so why not give him more silver? It was as if it were for the time being.

Pretending to think about it for a while, he said, "Okay! Since Master Tao is so honest, then Bengong is also relieved, but I don't have so many silver tickets with me, so I can let people return to Jinzhou with those prisoners with me, and we will hand over the people on the ship and pay the money with the other."

Tao Lang also knew that it was impossible for Ye Xun to carry so much silver, but it still made him a little hesitant to go to Jinzhou to collect the money, after all, it was beyond his sphere of influence.

After thinking about it, it seems that there is nothing to worry about, after all, Ye Xun wants to operate shipping, and he can't do without the secret support of him, the governor of Denglai.

Thinking of this, he swore with Ye Xun that he had agreed to this behind-the-scenes deal.

Tao Lang was also a happy man, and immediately called his henchman, the Du Si of the Denglai Sailor Inspection Division, and asked him to prepare the boat, and then load all the prisoners in the prison onto the ship.

Ye Xun knew very well that most of the pirates in Taurang's mouth were actually fishermen who couldn't survive nearby, and pirates were not nothing, but with the ability of the Denglai Inspection Division, Ye Xun doubted that they could beat the pirates.

Ye Xun couldn't leave Liaodong for too long, the North Korean side had already sent people over, and he could pick up the fleeing North Korean people at any time, so he had to rush back as soon as possible.

The ships of the Denglai sailors were also not large, because the imperial court did not allow the construction of large ships.

The military attache level of the Inspection Department is not high, it should be a hundred households, and the general's name is Duan Yun, who is in his thirties, tall and strong, and has the demeanor of a fierce general.

Although Ye Xun doesn't know how to meet, he has read countless people, and it is not difficult to see from the face of this hundred households that he is a relatively upright person, but he doesn't understand how such a person can become the henchman of Taolang's corrupt official.

Duan Yun didn't know Ye Xun's identity, he had been imprisoned for violating military rules before, and it was Tao Lang who released him, so he has always been grateful to Tao Lang.

However, he was also very puzzled by Taurum's arrangements today, and did not understand why the governor asked him to send these prisoners to Golden State by boat.

And although he can be regarded as Tao Lang's confidant, but this time there is also a Tao Mansion housekeeper, before leaving, Tao Lang had instructed him to obey Tao Steward's orders in everything.

There is a warrant from the governor, so naturally it will work there, at least in this place of Denglai.

Early the next morning, more than 20 boats of various kinds, carrying 680 prisoners, headed for Golden State across the sea.

After the boat started, Steward Tao always followed Ye Xun like a dog skin plaster, as if he would run away as soon as Ye Xun left, so that Ye Xun couldn't say a few words to Duan Yun alone.

The sea area from Dengzhou to Jinzhou already belongs to the inland sea, and the wind and waves are calm, so the ship travels very quickly, and as soon as noon passes, you can already see the horizon of the Liaodong Peninsula.

Before he could dock, he saw that there were already a lot of ships parked on the dock on the shore, and when he got closer, everyone, including Ye Xun, was stunned, because in addition to some ordinary merchant ships on the shore, there were more than ten pirate ships with skull flags, and it seemed that the pirates were robbing the ships docked on the shore.

It is not uncommon for pirates to plunder passing merchant ships at sea, but chasing them to the shore to rob them really opened Ye Xun's eyes.

There were no soldiers from Jinzhouwei on the shore, and I don't know if they didn't know it or deliberately avoided it.

The boats of the Dengzhou Navy Division here are full of prisoners, and if they get up again, not only will it not help, but they may even get in with these official ships and prisoners.

Duan Yun immediately made a decision and immediately ordered all the ships to turn their bows and return to the sea.

Ye Xun couldn't help but be anxious when he saw this, he had arrived at the door of his house, what was the matter if he went back again?

Immediately stopped Duan Yun and said in a deep voice: "Is General Duan going to escape from the battle?" ”

Duan Yun glanced at Ye Xun and said, "Do you still want to point to these prisoners to help you fight pirates?" ”

Duan Yun's words choked Ye Xun enough, yes! There is nothing wrong with what Duan Yun said, rushing over so rashly, what is the difference between beating a dog with meat buns?

At this time, the pirates also saw the two dozen official ships, but they obviously thought that the officers and soldiers had come to kill them, and soon the horn sounded on the largest ship...