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In other words, this steam engine is not for sale now, and you can give it to your ship if you put it on your ship, but you can't sell it.

After discussing it, the merchants thought it was very good, and they didn't need to add money.

Three days later, Ruan Xiaoqi of the Seventh Fleet led four Jiaolong battleships to escort the ship, and fifty large caravans full of goods set off in a majestic manner, the first stop was Dongying.

All the commercial houses have all kinds of goods, mainly porcelain, ironware, bronze, tea, silk, cotton, dried fruits, spices and many other varieties.

Toei is a small Japan before reunification, composed of many local forces, and the trade with Toei is still very smooth, the ships basically sold the goods after docking at the three docks in Toei, Toei also has some specialties, mainly sake and a small amount of katana and the like, and more importantly, Japan's gold is cheap, so many people exchange goods for gold.

Hu Cheng organized everyone to discuss the matter and said: "Those who have ships and goods sold short can return to New Jeju Port, and wait for the fleet to escort them before returning to Rizhao Port." If we still have goods on board, we will continue to go south and go to the small country of Fanbang in the South Seas to have a look, and maybe we can find some new trade routes. ”

The big guys have tasted the sweetness of overseas trade this time, although the risk is great, but the profits are also huge, there is a fleet escort, the pirates don't have to think about it at all, and there are more than fifty big ships [ , and it's not the ordinary little pirates who dare to make up their minds.

Everyone said: "It's so far away, let's go to Nanyang to see if it's okay, and after finding a new trade route, I will know what to do." ”

The fleet set sail from the port of Dongying, sailed through the South Sea, and arrived through the Taiwan Strait, and the fleet did not stop at the port of Quanzhou in Fujian, but went all the way west to Qiongzhou, that is, the area around Hainan Island. Gu's sister-in-law's husband Sun Xin's hometown is here, and Hainan Island is still a barren land in these years, and there are barbarian tribes everywhere, and there are several villages along the coast.

The fleet entered a natural harbor, calm and beautiful, and of course, there were no trestles for the loading and unloading of large ships.

The small fishing boats were boiling, and the fishermen couldn't figure out the situation and stopped their boats to dock, and hundreds of people pointed and pointed on the shore.

"I'm going to rest here today, don't go ashore yet, wait for the notice." Hu Cheng said as he boarded the landing boats one by one and came to the shore.

The fishermen saw that this was also a Great Song Dynasty.

Hu Cheng asked, "What kind of place is this?" ”

The fisherman said: "This bay is called Sanya Bay, our village is called Sunjia Village, and the people in a village are all surnamed Sun, where do you come from?" ”

Hu Chengdao: "We are merchants from Shandong, and we want to rest in this bay today, although there are vegetables, pigs and sheep in the village to sell, as long as the price is right." ”

"Oh, it turned out that he came from Shandong, and there was a man named Sun Li in our village, who was a soldier and a horse in Shandong."

Hu Chengdao: "Oh, I remembered, I remembered." Sun Xin from Dengzhou also brought a letter to his family, but he didn't expect to really run into it, who is Sun Xin's family? ”

There was a commotion in the crowd, and after a while, a white-haired old man came out, the old man was trembling when he walked, and asked, "Is it a letter from Xin'er?" ”

Hu Chengdao: "Old man, you are Sun Xin's father." This is a letter written by Sun Xin and Gu's sister-in-law, and there are still some things on the boat, I will ask someone to bring them over later. ”

It turned out that Sun Li and Sun Xin brothers were both martial arts, and they were not used to living in this poor and remote country, so they went out to find a way out more than ten years ago, but they didn't expect Sun Li to become an officer with his ability, Sun Xin also opened a hotel gambling hall in business, and married Gu's sister-in-law. But you must know that in the Great Song Dynasty, you have to go back to Hainan Island from Shandong for a year and a half, and there is no hope for a year and a half, so the two brothers have not come back for so many years.

The old man read the letter tremblingly and said, "It's better to be a new child, and you haven't forgotten my old bones." Sun Xin said in the letter, you are friends, I will take care of your caravan, the village chief is my nephew, if you need anything, just ask. ”

Hu Chengdao: "Vegetables, fruits, pigs and sheep, nothing else is needed." ”

"Well said, well said."

The old man's nephew is the village chief, don't look at the village chief, but in a village that is the emperor of the soil, it didn't take long to buy a lot of vegetables, and the fruits were more coconuts, pineapples, bananas, and mangoes. The village said that they didn't want any money, and Hu Cheng said: "That's not good, these dozens of ships have thousands of people, and if you don't want money, you will lose, and it's okay to give us a discount." ”

The village chief said: "Since this is the case, then my family will have two fat pigs, as the gratitude of the big shopkeeper, other pineapples, bananas and other fruits will be counted as five catties per penny, and green vegetables will be counted as three catties per penny." ”

Hu Chengdao: "It's really cheap, deal." ”

Tens of thousands of catties of fruits and vegetables were immediately made to replenish the ships, and the four escort warships were naturally indispensable. Ruan Xiaoqi is standing on the bow of the ship with the soldiers who drew it, this place called Sanya Bay is completely concave, no matter how strong the wind and waves outside, the wind and waves in the port are calm, and there are few good ports.

Ruan Xiaoqi asked the drawing to draw and record this place in detail, and at the same time asked Hu Cheng to be invited.

Ruan Xiaoqi said: "This is an excellent natural port, if the port is built here, it will be a great help to the future development of Nanyang trade and Western trade. ”

Hu Chengdao: "The manpower and material resources required to build a port are very huge, first build a simple trestle bridge, and then report the situation to the military department, so that the military department can allocate funds to build it." ”

Ruan Xiaoqi said: "It's exactly what I want." ”

Immediately, Ruan Xiaoqi dispatched hundreds of soldiers to build a simple wharf five or six miles away from the village, and the long trestle bridge went deep into the sea, which was a temporary supply station, which mainly supplied fresh water, firewood, vegetables, fruits, and other things. The one who benefited the most was Sunjia Village, where the bananas and pineapples that no one wanted in the rotten fields in previous years made this fleet from the north buy a lot.

The fleet was revised for seven or eight days, and Nguyen Xiaoqi left fifty marines here to keep the supply depot running while building the port. The so-called port supply station is the same as the post station, which assumes the function of not small or small.

Under the command of the compass and the guide, the fleet arrived at Jiaozhi in South Vietnam two days later, the people here look the same as the people of Middle Earth, in the early Han Dynasty, it was Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, who was here, and Zhao Tuo's hometown was from Hebei, so it was said that Nanyue was not a foreign country, but only a tribe of the Great Song Dynasty, but due to the weakening of the Great Song Dynasty, the small countries of South Vietnam did not take the Great Song Dynasty very seriously.

As soon as the fleet arrived at the port, the South Vietnamese were first startled, hearing that they were here to trade, and they were not afraid to see that the ships were full of sailors, and immediately said that trade was okay, but taxes had to be paid.

Hu Cheng negotiated in the past, it was okay to pay taxes, but it had to be paid at the time of shipment, according to four percent of the turnover, and the port side agreed, but after all, the South Vietnamese were few and poor, and they stayed for three days, and the goods of each ship were not sold much, and the search for local dealers was limited, and the fleet immediately continued to go south and arrived at Champa. In order to stay at the port, Ruan Xiaoqi informed all ships that the crew was not allowed to move alone, and caravan transactions were only allowed to be carried out in the port, and the money and goods were cleared, and no credit could be given.

Don't look at Champa is a small country, but the people here are richer than Nanyue, and there are more local big businessmen, and the ginseng on the Lujia merchant ship in Hebei is quite popular.

The bookkeeper calculated the accounts and stretched out two fingers towards Lu Junren, which means that he has earned 20,000 yuan on this trip, although it is a gross profit, but the monthly labor wages are low in these years, and the profits are still extremely high.

"Is this a ginseng seller? My master wants good 100-year-old ginseng. "A general dressed as a city seeker led a group of people over, led by a son-in-law, who looked quite rich, with a fat head and big ears, and a little unconvinced on his face.

Where is the business unwelcome, Lu Junren's shopkeeper immediately went over to talk about business, and after a detailed discussion, he realized that this guy is called Zhan Ming is a son-in-law, and his father Zhan Gang is a cow fork, and he is the chief patrol of this Zhancheng port, and there are hundreds of soldiers under him. It turns out that Zhan Gang has been drinking a lot lately, so he wants to use 100-year-old ginseng to make soup.

The shopkeeper said: "In this case, you need less than a hundred years of ginseng, just chase ordinary ginseng, five taels of silver, and the soup is very good." ”

Zhan Ming was unhappy: "Are you afraid that I can't afford to give you money or what." ”

The shopkeeper's heart was taken as a donkey's liver and lungs, and he immediately said: "A hundred years of ginseng is very expensive, five hundred taels of silver a piece." ”

"Bring me ten."

The shopkeeper shook his head: "There are only eight hundred-year-old ginseng, all of which are high-grade goods, and you have to take them for four thousand taels." ”

Saying that, the shopkeeper took out the ginseng for everyone to watch, and Zhan Ming Jiajing was rich, but it was the first time he had seen the century-old ginseng, and he immediately took out the silver ticket to pay.

The confiscation of the shopkeeper, how to use the silver ticket of Zhancheng back to the Great Song Dynasty, Zhan Ming only made up 1,000 taels of silver, Zhan Ming said: "The cash silver is so heavy, you send someone to take it with me." ”

It was also the greed of the shopkeeper, who did not obey the order not to leave the port, and immediately said: "Okay, I will go back with you to get the cash." ”

For the sake of safety, the shopkeeper also brought ten men, and the group followed Zhan Ming back to his house to get cash.

It didn't take long for them to come back, eleven people went, ten people came back, eight men carried the bodies of two men, but the shopkeeper was missing.

"What's the situation?" Lu Junren asked.

"We sent the ginseng, and they said it was a turnip, and they didn't give money. An argument broke out on the spot, the shopkeeper was arrested, and two guys were hacked to death. ”

Seeing that the situation was serious, Lu Junren immediately reported it to Hu Cheng, after all, he was the head of the caravan.