Chapter 1023 Taking a Big Risk (Part I)

Xu Zhizhou's words made Su Shi very grateful. The implicit meaning of this statement is: In order to facilitate Zhao Xing to take care of Su Shi nearby, he gave Cheng Jiaao a few people to settle down.

This group of mountain people from the mountains is the most united, judging from Xu Zhizhou's arrangement, their existence has greatly increased the strength of the government, and at the same time, they themselves have become a parasitic vine on the big tree of the government, entangled with the power of the government, and become a force to be reckoned with. With them to take care of, even if the new state official is Su Shi's opponent, they have the ability to shelter.

In fact, Su Shi has felt this change recently.

From the east gate of the city where the Cheng people gathered, it was the land of Su Dongpo. After Wang Gong left, the children took advantage of the dry season in winter and led the craftsmen to add a small wharf on the side of Su Shi's house, saying that it was convenient for Su Shi's visitors to park their boats nearby, but in fact, after the wharf was completed, it became a private wharf for Chengjiaao.

Now, the boats in and out of Huangzhou pass behind Su Dongpo's house. Although the "Dongpo Snow Hall" has become bustling because of this, Su Shi understands that this is also a kind of care - every boat docked brings him some daily necessities to a greater or lesser extent. The children also often come uninvited to weed and clean in his yard......

Xu Zhizhou was old, and when it was only evening, the banquet ended early. Xu Zhizhou, who was promoted, hugged his concubine Shengzhi and staggered back to the back hall, and all the guests resigned one after another.

Coming out of Xu Zhizhou's mansion, the night was already dusk, when Su Shi passed through the east of the city, he was so happy that he deliberately took a long detour to Zhao Xing's legendary "golden house" in the east of the city.

This is indeed a "golden house".

The whole house is full of "Hu Ren" flavor, which does not look like Middle-earth architecture at all.

There is even a large round dome on the roof, which is painted with pale gold dust like a temple, making it look like a chapel.

Cheng Xia was standing at the door, saw Su Dongpo, and hurriedly invited Master Tai in, Su Dongpo shook his head, pointed to the dome, and asked: "This style is so familiar, I seem to have seen it in Quanzhou Qingjing Temple - it's a little smaller than there." ”

"Master has good eyesight, this house was built by the workers of Qingliang Temple in Quanzhou", Cheng Xia replied respectfully.

Quanzhou Qingjing Mosque is the "first mosque in China", which was built by Arabs who came to the Song Dynasty to do business. It has been more than 100 years since it was built, and it is still being built......

Quanzhou Qingjing Temple is a brick and concrete structure, in which the large dome with a large span is very Arabic style, Zhao Xing recruited Qingjing Temple workers to build a house, in order to dig people, this group of people has now been completely abducted by his high salary, closed in Hangzhou new manor to build a house. And the residence in Huangzhou in front of them is just a "test hand" before they are hired, which is equivalent to a "talent show" during the probation period.

Of course, Su Shi didn't know what was going on, he only nodded and asked curiously, "Why are you standing here?" By the way, where is your home? ”

Cheng Xia was a little twisted: "Master...... The teacher once set me a doorman, it was the Liu family in Fuzhou, they came to 'send a dowry to the groom's house a few days ago', but the teacher did not return for a long time, I was thinking here: Although Azhu is not married, she is also a master and wife who has made a decision, let her ......"

Su Shi smiled: "I'll come tomorrow!" ”

Su Shi said, and then walked away. While walking, I thought: Being able to invite the construction workers of Qingjing Temple to build a house for themselves shows that the strength of the Cheng clan has grown rapidly this year, and they can already afford to hire craftsmen from large places - the means of leaving people are really extraordinary!

However, he seemed to be afraid of something, and he was in a hurry, and he seemed to be afraid of missing ...... What is he worried about?

Behind Su Shi, Cheng Xia thanked him repeatedly: "Thank you, thank you!" Master, I'll get you a lamp, and wait. ”

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On the surface of Mingzhou Sea, a few days later, Zhao Xing set sail with the fleet again.

In addition to Liu San's ship, a smaller tail was added to this voyage. The ship belonged to a friend of Liu San, and Zhao Xing had delegated all the tasks of recruiting sailors to Liu San, so he recruited acquaintances to familiarize themselves with this new route.

A new gadget has been added to this voyage - if anyone who has watched TV has seen this "treasure", they will find that it is completely a "Kanyu plate" in the hands of ancient feng shui masters. This thing according to the direction of the I Ching gossip, finely carved sixty-four directions, this voyage, is completely to confirm the new route, to test this pair of plates.

With this new nautical weapon, Liu San looked mysterious and mysterious throughout the navigation process, he tied himself to the mast day and night, except for eating, the rest of the time, he hid on the mast, manipulated the Kanyu plate, and mysteriously wrote and painted on a piece of paper, even Zhao Xing was not allowed to approach the mast.

This time, except for Liu San and Zhao Xing, the rest of the people did not follow. Cheng Shuang stayed in Hangzhou, supervised the construction of Hangzhou's manor, and Jiao Touch returned to Fuzhou to hand over to his son, and helped Zhao Xing sell the goods by the way. Nagato went to Mingzhou (now Ningbo) to supervise the construction of a new ship.

Such a team to go to sea was also specially requested by Liu San, and Zhao Xing understood the other party's behavior, because it was the captain's prerogative to maintain a sense of mysterious direction in the voyage. Until the age of steamships, nautical charts, compasses, ...... These tools for orienting the sea are kept by the captain.

This is also done with the human factor in mind – the sea is vast, and the crew members who sail in the sea are often prone to claustrophobia, which can lead to all kinds of abnormal and irrational behavior. Only the captain knows where he is, which makes the crew feel an invisible pressure and minimizes rebellion at sea.

The second time to take this route, Liu San, who already had a general sense of direction in his heart, under the guidance of Zhao Xing, quickly copied the most linear route, two and a half days, Tamna Island was already in sight, and Liu San, who was confident, did not even bother to land on Tamna Island, he directly led the fleet to insert Tamna Island and sailed to the outside of Goryeo.

"The whole voyage took us only half the time, half of it, and we arrived in Goryeo in two days. In this way, plus the time for loading and unloading goods, it will only take ten days to go back and forth, and you can run three times a month......" Liu San's eyes were red, and when he got off the mast, his sleepy body shook straight, but he was in a high mood.

"Others run once a year and earn 150,000 yuan, which is considered a good harvest, but we can also run 15 times a year...... Big officials, huge profits, as long as you earn 50,000 yuan per trip, this business will not be worth it! ”

"Fifty thousand - you are more greedy than me. There are 15 trips a year, and there is a problem of market saturation, so the harvest expectation of one trip should be set at 30,000 yuan. With these 30,000 at the bottom, you can sail if the ship is not full, and if the one-way cargo is not satisfied, the return trip can be full, which is also a kind of profit - people can't be too greedy. Zhao Xing reprimanded.

Liu San was already crumbling, but he was still nodding desperately.

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