Chapter 128: The Horse Team, the Maritime Merchant Xia Family

The two sides dismissed their subordinates and discussed for half an hour in a side hall of the Jade Fang. Then they walked out, Wang Yuqi's face was full of confusion. Xia Cuiyu went up and wanted to ask what was going on, but was stopped by Wang Sangongzi waving his hand. Jiang Feng, who came out after him, clearly wrote happiness on his face.

Jiang Feng hugged his fists at Wang Yuqi and Xia Cuiyu, and said with a smile:

"Today, it's bothering your fang, and the remaining two thousand taels of silver will be counted as compensation for today's closure, and tomorrow I will send someone to contact other things, and I will leave."

didn't care about the reaction of the male and female behind him, and walked away directly. Xia Cuiyu was not in the side hall just now, but this beautiful woman was obviously not a slave or vassal of the mighty marquis's family, and as soon as Jiang Feng left his sight, he immediately asked Wang Yuqi anxiously:

"Something was discussed inside."

Wang Yuqi smiled bitterly and replied:

"He's going to buy three ships, and he's going to sea with our fleet."

As soon as she heard this, Xia Cuiyu's face was suddenly shocked, but she didn't dare to show it off, but just asked in a low voice:

"How would he know, did you say yes?"

"How can there be anything in the world that those eunuchs don't know, the backstage of that murderer is Zhang Yong, the soldiers and horses of the 12th Regiment of the Governor, I can't afford to offend, don't worry about it, 10,000 taels is enough to buy six boats."

In fact, Wang Yuqi still had some schadenfreude in his heart, Jiang Feng, didn't you buy three ships with ten thousand taels of silver, I'm afraid that I will lose you when the time comes, after all, even if it is the first time for me to do this sea business, who dares to say whether to make money or lose money.

If you are not afraid of death, let's pay together!

Zhang Liang, who was on the road outside, listened to Jiang Feng's narration with an incredible face, hurriedly controlled the distance, and asked in a low voice:

"Master, you bought three ships for 10,000 taels!?"

The current Jiang Feng and his apprentice Zhang Liang can be said to be people in the same system, at first they only taught martial arts, and later the two of them were born and died together many times, and Jiang Feng has never been stingy with a lot of interests here, Zhang Liang consciously or unconsciously regarded Jiang Feng as his leader.

"Master, although we have money from opening a restaurant, we can't spend it like this......"

Jiang Feng was a little impatient when he heard this, turned his head and glared, and said:

"When did you become a mother-in-law, tomorrow you go to Wulou Mountain with iron eggs to Tianjin Weisho by the sea port to recruit people, there are a lot of shipwrecks on the sea, give them off their official status, and take their families to the Wulou Village to settle down, if you don't understand, go directly to the gambling house to find someone to ask, there are a lot of old pirates there."

Bachelor Liu's family "disappeared" again in Jingshi City, so that Jiang Feng put all his energy on making money, Zhao Xiucai and Zhang Liang did not understand his behavior of buying sea boats, in their opinion, the current restaurants and restaurants have achieved such a degree is close to miraculous.

If you want to continue to make money, then it is better to continue to open a restaurant, even if you go to buy a gambling house and a green house to make these money, it is much more stable than this sea ship, but like their persuasion in the past, Jiang Feng did not listen to their opinions at all, Zhang Liang and Zhao Xiucai had to comfort themselves and said:

"Maybe the master (the owner) is turning stones into gold and making a lot of money this time."

Unlike those who wanted to continue to be military households, the sailors and cadres on the official ships used by the Ming Dynasty to transport soldiers, weapons, grain and grass at sea were eager for someone to relieve them of their official status. Because in the sailors, these are not combatants and have the status of slaves.

And they are also slaves at sea, and the officials who manage them will naturally not prohibit these boatmen with skilled navigation skills from leaving their nationality when they see the silver sent by Zhang Liang, in fact, this is equivalent to the sale of slaves.

The families of these boat owners have all moved to the fifth floor village, and the living treatment has immediately produced a rapid change from the underground to the sky, each of them is grateful, of course, they also understand in their hearts that the master Jiang in the mouth of Zhang Liang, the brocade guard, bought them, not to come here to farm or go to the sea to fish.

However, that Master Jiang made a document with them, and when they went to sea, they talked back and forth, how much profit they shared, this is a real benefit, they have been begging for a living at sea for generations, and they naturally know how much profit there is.

Of course, their families all live in the fifth-floor village, and Zhang Liang and Tie Dan don't buy orphans when they buy people, and everyone knows the meaning of such an action.

Fifteen Tie Ding followed these boatmen to a small private port near Tianjin Wei, where more than a dozen sea ships were moored, Wang Yuqi called the carriage with a dozen personal family members to follow the maintenance, it is worth mentioning that Jiang Feng, when he came here, he directly brought a hundred iron Ding from the fifth floor village, these people are all wearing iron armor and holding sharp blades, each of them is two horses.

It was really murderous and majestic, and when they arrived at the private port, more than a dozen sea ships sailed out of the port, and Wang Yuqi's family shouted loudly on the simple trestle:

"Don't panic, it's all your own people, my son-in-law brought Master Jiang to come and see the boat. Don't panic......"

Although Wang Yuqi is usually calm, he also trembled a little in his heart when he looked at the people brought out by Jiang Feng, and it was common for a powerful official to be honored and noble in the Beijing Division, and it was common for him to have hundreds of relatives at home. Of course, the hundred households of Jinyi Wei may not be officials.

Officers can have their own personal guards, which is also a common practice in the Ming Dynasty, but you have a hundred households with more than 100 well-armored soldiers around you, or a cavalry with two horses, this is too unreasonable, especially Jiang Feng still explained sincerely with a smile on his face:

"These are the family, the family."

Who would believe this kind of nonsense, Wang Yuqi was already secretly doubting whether Jiang Feng wanted to catch all these people, and those sea ships did not dare to take risks, and in the end, even Wang Yuqi got off the horse station and stopped on the dock, and those sea ships were relieved.

However, he still sent a small boat to take a few people ashore to negotiate, obviously unwilling to be caught by any accidents, after those few people went ashore, Jiang Feng had a large number of these pirates called pirates in modern times, and some sea men found that they were no different from these people on the shore.

But the tanning and the gestures are different from those on land, which is obviously the reason for the perennial wandering on the sea.

The sea ships on the sea looked about the same size as when he and Zhao Xiucai went to Shandong to buy sea intestines, and according to some inquiries that were purely interested at the time, I knew that these sea ships were also medium-sized ships, and there were at least forty people on each boat.

The fifty or sixty shipwrights and fifteen iron men who had lived at sea were scattered on the three ships, but they were a little unstable, so it was still good to show off their power today, Jiang Feng saw the fearful and suspicious looks in the eyes of several maritime merchants who came ashore, especially after Wang Yuqi reported the identity of Jiang Feng's Jinyi Wei Baihu, those people subconsciously took a step back, Jiang Feng couldn't help but laugh secretly in his heart, this is enough.

The accents of these maritime merchants are very strong, and their bodies are also lean, but Jiang Feng can see that there are a lot of lives in the hands of these people, and the calluses on their hands are not only sailing and swinging the rudder, but also often killing people with knives.

I heard that Jiang Feng was the one who bought three sea ships with 10,000 taels of silver, and a group of people hurriedly came to greet them, Jiang Feng also introduced the boatmen and iron dings behind him to them with a smile on his face, saying that he would help them more when they were at sea together, and the maritime merchants also agreed with smiles on their faces.

Jiang Feng is also quite generous this time, the salt content of the sea air is relatively large, the weapons are easy to corrode in the air, and the wear and tear is great, although the maritime merchants have silver in their hands, but no matter where it is, the country has a relatively tight control over these things, so when they saw Jiang Feng take out the bright knives and guns, the maritime merchants suddenly had a much better impression of Jiang Feng.

They didn't know that Jiang Feng's shipwrights and iron men were equipped with fire guns and crossbow arrows, and that long-range weapons were more useful for fighting at sea.

The two sides were polite on the shore, Jiang Feng noticed that several maritime merchants on the shore all claimed to be surnamed Xia, which made Jiang Feng immediately contact the amorous Xia Cuiyu in the Jade Fang, and after a group of people ended the conversation in a friendly atmosphere, a middle-aged maritime merchant who was faintly regarded as the leader solemnly followed Wang Yuqi and said:

"My second lady has Lao Xiaohou to take care of her."

It also confirmed his thoughts, the relationship between the maritime merchants and Wang Yuqi was obviously not what Jiang Feng said in the news, it was just a business exchange, although it was a short conversation on the shore, and he, an outsider, had a lot of evasions and did not say it. But it can still be seen that the two sides have a deep relationship.

The next thing is very simple, Wang Yuqi and Zhang Liang took out the silver taels and goods, the maritime merchants were also relieved to put the ship close to this wharf, Jiang Feng's people on the ship also began to load and unload the goods, the other party is not taboo about the route, saying that after the ship goes to sea, it will go to Yuegang and Quanzhou once, where it will be filled with goods or buy a few new ships, and then go to the Wa Kingdom or Nanyang, it is estimated that after two months, you will be able to come back once.

On the way back, the iron soldiers put their armor and weapons on another horse, so that they did not look ostentatious on the official road, and more like a horse team returning from a trip to Liaodong.

Now that the relationship between Wang Yuqi and Jiang Feng has narrowed again, Jiang Feng's performance seems to be that he wants to buy a boat and go to sea to make money, and he immediately asked Jiang Feng with a smile:

"Brother Jiang, these maritime merchants have some connections with my family, so they found me this time, and they helped out of affection, but Brother Jiang, you took out 10,000 taels to buy a ship businessman, brother has a lot to say, what can you do in Beijing with these 10,000 taels of silver, not to mention your ability to turn stones into gold."

Jiang Feng looked back at Wang Yuqi with a smile, now this "Brother Jiang" is called to express closeness, it seems that although the son of the Wang family has a capable reputation, he still doesn't know how big the interests on this sea are, I spent 10,000 taels of silver today, I'm afraid I will earn back more than 10,000 taels of gold.

Zheng Chenggong, who was entrenched in Taiwan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, was the concubine born to Zheng Zhilong and a Japanese woman, after Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he returned to his hometown of Fujian, with only three small boats in his hand, and went to sea to do business with the Japanese people in the South Seas, and accumulated wealth that rivaled the country in a few years.

At that time, the sea trade was already done by everyone, and the profits were relatively "thin", and now it is almost a blank sheet of paper, and there are still some maritime merchants who can't survive or are bold and profit-seeking on the southeast coast.

It was a good time to make money, and after Jiang Feng got the news, he immediately decided to make a fortune.

The Ming Dynasty nearly 300 years down, can be called a profiteering business only three "illegal salt, weaving and smuggling", private salt to put it bluntly is the Ming Dynasty officials at all levels and salt merchants to do business together, the strict system of fertilizer distribution, Jiang Feng does not feel that he can make money in it. Weaving is the most prosperous place in Suzhou and Hangzhou in the world's wealthy merchants and gentry to operate the business, the same is the official background is extremely deep.

Only maritime merchants, the center of the world Ming Dynasty specialties sold to Japan, Nanyang and in Southeast Asia colonization of various Western commercial ports, such business has always been not officially supported, recently there are rumors in the DPRK that the emperor thinks that the maritime merchants are profitable, officially can subsidize the treasury, ready to prohibit private people to go to sea for business, what does this mean, that is, as long as the Ming Dynasty Yamen prohibits business, if you do it, there must be huge profits.

However, looking at Wang Yuqi together, although there were a few sea boats, it seemed that he didn't know the profits that these ships could bring, Jiang Feng had some questions, looking at the servants around him, the distance between the two of them was relatively far, and he simply approached Wang Yuqi and asked in a low voice:

"Prince Wang, I see that the relationship between these maritime merchants and you is not so simple, are they relatives?"

Wang Yuqi is no longer as wary of Jiang Feng as he was before he came, and when he heard Jiang Feng ask, he smiled there and replied directly:

"The ancestor of our Wang family originally served under Fang Guozhen, and the same is true of the Xia family you see today, and later our family began to work hard in the army, and they were engaged in maritime business in Fujian and Zhejiang......

Huifeng Building, now the kind Xiang Gonggong is already a frequent visitor, every time he comes, he is accompanied by Li Hechun, in the elegant seat upstairs, Xiang Gonggong has always been a small account to give a generous amount, and the guys in Huifeng Lou like to come to serve. In Sanjiang Pavilion, Xiang Gonggong gently wiped the oil stains from the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, and listened to Li Hechun's words on the side:

"Father-in-law, although the scale of this Huifeng Building is not as good as others, it also has about three hundred taels of silver in the account every day."

"Monthly income of 10,000 gold, monthly income of 10,000 gold, it's really good......"

Xiang said with a smile to his father-in-law