Chao Gai's wedding was lively and warm, but it did not stir up the crowd. On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, the weather was extremely cold, and the roads of the entire Chaojia Village were beautifully decorated on both sides, and red lanterns were hung on the trees.

The procession to welcome relatives has been seven or eight miles long, and the front has already entered the village, but the team behind has not yet arrived.

Hu Sanniang's brother Hu Cheng also took the time to rush back, and now Hu Cheng is really not touching the ground. This year, I ran five trips to Nanyang, and the Lu Junren family, Li Yingjia, Xinyang Wang family, etc., who mixed with the Jeju caravan, made a lot of money, and the beads, spices, and rice in Nanyang were all good goods, and they were transported to Hangzhou, Rizhao, Huanghua and other ports to get off the goods quickly. Especially for rice, although there are only some unknown small countries in the South Seas, such as South Vietnam, etc., their agriculture is not developed, but the climatic conditions are good, the temperature is high, and the rice can produce three crops a year, so the price of rice is cheap. Shipped to the north for higher returns. Similarly, Xinyang's tea, Hunan's lemon tea, Shandong's dried fish, canned food, ironware, porcelain, wood products, cotton, and linen are also selling well in Nanyang. In particular, iron products, such as iron farm tools, cooking utensils, mountain knives, hunting forks, etc., sell quite well and are also expensive. Porcelain and cotton are also quite popular. Overseas trade not only allowed businessmen to make a lot of money, but also broadened their horizons and increased their knowledge.

Chaojiazhuang's threshing field set up a huge tarpaulin, in which hundreds of long tables were set up, there were many guests, of course, mainly business partners, @不过晁盖有严令, it is strictly forbidden to collect money through marriage, each guest who came to celebrate no matter what he did, only 50 wen.

The businessmen who came to celebrate were puzzled, and asked around, and some had a good relationship with Chai Jin, so they went to ask Chai Jin.

"Chai Daguan, how much gift money did you give?"

Chai Jin smiled: "Fifty Wen." ”

"This, this, that's too little."

Chai Jin said: "General Chao has to lead by example as a general, we are business partners, and we have a lot of fifty wen." Other friends only accept ten cents. You're welcome, it's time to eat and eat quickly, Chaojiazhuang is a big chef today. ”

The flowing water table is opened, the dishes are rich and not wasteful, although there are no delicacies from the mountains and seas, but they are all prepared by celebrity chefs, and the guests who come to eat are delicious.

Chao Gai was receiving him in the hall, and the small school outside the door came to report to Wu Yong, and Wang Lun and Liu Tang of Heilong Island sent congratulatory gifts.

Wu Yong took the gift sheet and looked at Chao Gai and said, "Black Dragon Island Wang Lun and Liu Tang sent congratulatory gifts. ”

Chao Gai looked unhappy and said: "There has been a strict order, and we can't give gifts internally." ”

Wu Yong said: "Just look at it." Wu Yong sent a map of sheepskin, and Chao Gai opened it to see that Liu Tang, who was stationed on Heilong Island, together with Chao Xiong's sailors, organized an expedition in the summer, and formed an expedition team of 1,000 people to sail thousands of miles to the north and found a huge continent, that is, the Kamchatka Peninsula. Chao Gai had mentioned before, but he didn't expect Liu Tang and them to really remember it, and they even found this continent, due to the limited conditions, the expedition team only understood a rough idea, and temporarily named this place after the reindeer that can be seen everywhere here, called the reindeer continent.

The expedition team walked about 2,000 miles north and more than 1,000 miles east on the reindeer continent, and found that the land area was very large, but because of the long winter time and too cold, it seemed that it was not very suitable for farming.

The aborigines here are the Ainu people, more backward than the Ainu people on the island of the birds, there is no iron pot for cooking, and they are all wearing animal skins, Chao Xiong found the utensils of the Tang Dynasty in a tribe, according to the cave paintings on the island, two or three hundred years ago, that is, the Tang Dynasty, the fleet of the Tang Dynasty arrived here, and named this place as the country of ghosts, why did it give such a terrible name, the reason is that when the fleet arrived, the mainland had entered the early winter, and the local natives were wearing animal skins and were killing reindeer to make bacon, The faces touched by one were covered with deer blood, which looked strange and scary, and the Tang fleet did not understand the situation and thought that the tribes here were barbaric and ignorant, and they were like ghosts, so they named it the country of flowing ghosts.

The conditions were relatively better when Chao Xiong led the expedition, with dozens of Tunu and Ainu interpreters in the army, and the expedition made several transactions with the local tribes, and purchased hundreds of their reindeer, which were pulled by sleds for the expedition.

The reindeer continent is very vast and sparsely populated, and the Ainu people are weak and pose no threat to the expedition. But that doesn't mean the expedition is safe, the threat from the cold and wolves is the greatest. In winter, the wolves on Reindeer Island often move together in hundreds. On several occasions, expeditions of more than 300 people were surrounded by hundreds of wolves in the middle of the night, and bows, arrows, and torches could not drive away the wolves, and finally had to scare the wolves away with two kicks. Since then, the second kick has become a must-have for expeditions, with loud noises and shining fires that can effectively drive away wolves.

After reading the map and the report, Chao Gai sighed: "Every expedition will shed blood and sacrifices, but these are worth it, thousands of miles of land is a huge treasure." The military department issued an order to reward the explorers, and gave them a severe reward. ”

Wu Yong said: "Okay, wait for the military headquarters to issue an order tomorrow." ”

Today's Chao Gai wedding, naturally it is not appropriate to talk about business, during the day and business partners are good to say, everyone did not persuade much to drink, but at night, Chao Gai invited some generals, these people are more livestock, and they just drunk Chao Gai, fortunately, Hu Sanniang has great strength, and Chao Gai is close to the cave room.

The next day, Chao Gai's head hurt, and he went to deal with official business in a groggy state.

Shi Wenbin was transferred to the prefect of Yizhou, of course, this was appointed by Chao Gai. Shi Wenbin is not happy and can't help it, there are still a lot of things to do before taking office. Shi Wenbin came to talk to Chao Gai, and the prefect said: "Yizhou is a big mansion and a poor mansion, except for some factories built by the general in Yishui County and Rizhao Port, other places can be described as blank. Agriculture is not good, not to mention industry, which is not a little worse than Jeju. ”

Chao Gai said: "There are difficulties to show your value, if the Yizhou government has to flow oil, how can it reflect your value." ”

"I emphasize that the difficulty is that the support of the general is needed, I need dozens of technicians, the general looks." Shi Zhifu took out a detailed list of technical personnel to show Chao Gai, mainly agricultural technicians, that is, grafted fruit trees, and at the same time, Shi Wenbin also asked to develop and expand the fruit tree seedlings of the Wang family.

Chao Gai was puzzled: "I have seen the owner of the Wang family's seedlings, the Wang family, and the technology is good." Didn't he develop honeysuckle seedlings there, and had long-term cooperation with our caravan and pharmaceutical factory. ”

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