The three arrows passed like a cannon, pounced, and three colorful pheasants were hit by arrows. Shooting pheasants from a hundred paces away, this technique is absolutely strong, Zou Run Zhuangke took the three pheasants over and found that they were all arrows in the neck.

Zou Run was shocked: "Huge brother divine arrow." ”

Chao Gai also said: "Brother Wanchun is the number one archer in our army. ”

Pang Wanchun said: "My brother made fun of it, my brother's arrows, and the arrows of the Niu Gao brothers are also very powerful. ”

"Niu Gao and I are both weaker than you, but you have to work hard, Niu Gao and I will work hard to catch up with you." Chao Gai said.

Pang Wanchun was so beautiful, Chao Gai personally admitted that he was the first person in the army to shoot sharp, and this honor was enough to make people excited.

Zou Run is more respectful to Chao Gai and others, strength is everything, and any of these four people are masters among masters.

Zhuangzi is on the top of a small hill, it can be more than 100 meters high, it is steep all around, there is only one way to go up, obviously the uncle and nephew of the Zou family are guarding against the government, but how useful can such a mountain bag be, there is a water source on the mountain, but the food is insufficient, once others attack the mountain, the siege is in a pot of ends, and it is inconvenient to transfer in depth.

Zou Yuan had already prepared a banquet and invited Chao Gai and others to chat until noon.

Zou Yuan said: "The people in the rivers and lakes are mixed up, and they are just carrying their heads for some money." My brother thinks that besides this kelp, what other business can make money? ”

"The fish in the sea is transported to the mainland, and the price is definitely good, but the distance is too far and basically rotten. In addition to kelp, get some dried small shrimps, small fish, at this time you can properly collect some pike crabs, but the amount is not too much, I don't know how many people die when they are transported to the mainland, mainly kelp. ”

Zou Yuan couldn't help shaking his head: "It's a pity, it's really sad to see so many fish that can't be sold by relying on the sea." Let's do the kelp business steadily. ”

This uncle and nephew are still quite interesting, their business reputation is okay, they can be regarded as loyal businessmen, of course, businessmen are profit-seeking, and making money is a must.

Chao Gai said: "It's not easy to make money now, I see the hospitality of the two of you, so I'll give you another task." I see that there are countless pine trees and fir trees in Dengyun Mountain, you can buy some at a low price, and when the caravan comes in a few days, you are negotiating the price, but after the trees are cut down, they will generally be stacked for a year and a half before they are transported away, and the two of you also need to prepare a large site. ”

Zou Run said: "No problem, no problem. In the deep mountains and old forests, the government will not care, as long as there is no rebellion, who cares about these birds? It's just that we don't know how many trees we need, so we'll organize people to cut them down on the same day. ”

"At least two feet in diameter, not too many in number, tentatively 20,000 trees, don't cut small ones, don't cut them." Chao Gai said.

"Okay, that's it."

Chao Gai did not stay in Dengyun Mountain for a long time, and returned to Gu's sister-in-law hotel in the afternoon. The distance from the sea is not close, more than ten miles.

The waves of the sea are rolling and endless, and the place where the sea and the sky meet is still the sea. Bian Xiang and Jiao Ting's eyes widened in surprise.

"This is much better than Shuibo Liangshan." Bian Xiang said.

Chao Gai said: "Or I always say that we should take a long-term view, not just limited to Shuibo Liangshan, which can only be used as a starting point." “

The port is in a mess, although the economy of the Great Song Dynasty has declined a little in recent years, but it still can't hide the prosperity. Cargo ships of all colors come and go, and there is a large flow of people on the docks. This is a government-run wharf, and Chao Gai is not interested in this place, and at most he opens a Tianya Inn as a foothold for his own caravan.

"Look, this crab is so big." Bian Xiang picked up a big crab on the roadside stall and said.

"It's really good, such a big crab must taste very good, get some back and let Sister-in-law Gu make us wine to eat." Chao Gai said.

The fisherman selling crabs was an old man, in his fifties, with a face full of vicissitudes and wrinkles all over his cheeks.

"Old man, did you catch this crab?" Chao Gai asked.

"I caught it, and my family has been fishing for crabs for generations. There are many species in the sea, but we only catch crabs. The old man explained.

"How is this crab sold?"

The old man stretched out a finger: "One penny, a fair price." ”

Chao Gai took out twenty wen and bought twenty. The old man was very happy and gave Chao Gai a few shells. This crab costs a penny at the seaside, but when it is shipped to Tokyo and other inland cities, the vegetable market sells it for 50 wen a piece, and you can't eat it without 150 wen in a restaurant. It is that the transportation of sea crabs is inseparable from seawater, and it is necessary to get a water tank on the ship.

The kelp and tree cutting business has been handed over to Zou Run, and the business of the pike crab can be purchased directly from the fishermen, after all, business is not a good deed, and it cannot be all put on one person.

Chao Gai said: "Old man, I am a merchant from Yuncheng, and I plan to buy about 20,000 big crabs every month. ”

"Don't call me an old man, in fact, I am not yet fifty years old, but the people on the seaside blow the sea breeze all day long, and they are old fast. Just call me Zheng San, there are more than 200 fishermen in our village, all of whom are good at fishing for pike crabs, you can buy them from us, or I will take you back to the village to have a look. ”

Chao Gai saw that it was still early, and there was no way to leave for Yuncheng today anyway, so he immediately agreed to go back to the village with Zheng San. Zheng San's fishing village is not far away, along the seaside path to the east, more than ten miles away, the seaside village is loosely built with hundreds of huts, and hundreds of fishing villages are tied to the shore.

Zheng San said: "Don't look at the fact that there are only more than 100 small fishing boats in our village, but the ability to catch crabs is very high. You can catch tens of thousands of them in one night. ”

Chao Gai smiled: "I used an iron cage with bait in it to catch it." Basket in the evening and put away the next morning, the harvest is easy. ”

Zheng San was shocked: "How do you know everything, this is a secret, I don't tell him the fishermen in other villages." ”

"Hehe, don't worry, we don't have that time to catch crabs, so we can buy yours directly."

Chao Gai looked up by chance and found that the topography of this village is too good, this place is naturally a concave harbor, the notch is two miles wide, the depth of the concave is more than three miles, the sea outside is windy and waves, but the inside is calm.

"Zheng San, how deep is the water in this harbor." Chao Gai asked.

Zheng San said: "The water in this bay is not deep, seven or eight meters, and the shallow water on the shore is only about three meters. ”

Chao Gai was overjoyed: "Good place, good place." ”

Pang Wanchun said: "I don't see anything good here, except that the scenery is better than other places." ”

In the era of wooden ships, the draft of ships was very shallow, so it was an excellent port for docking ships, shipbuilding, and so on. Building tall, sturdy turrets in the notches could have blocked the harbor and prevented the enemy from entering. However, where did Pang Wanchun understand this, Chao Gai did not explain, so as not to divulge secrets.

"Zheng San, I will leave you ten silver carts and a letter. In the future, you will often be active at the wharf, waiting for the Chao family trading house from Yuncheng, as long as you take out the letter I gave you, they will buy crabs from you. Chao Gai said.

Zheng San took the letter and the silver, full of confidence, and decided to wait at the dock from tomorrow, anyway, it is also at the dock to sell crabs every day.

There are also dozens of descendants in the village, one by one shirtless boats on the sea, compared to the water, the wateriness of the people in the seaside fishing village is stronger than that of the fishing village in Shuibo Liangshan, and to sail to the sea, it is necessary to recruit fishermen from the sea to serve as sailors.

Chao Gai said: "Although the price of fish is cheap, there is a lot of production in the sea, why does the village seem so poor? ”

Zheng San sighed and said: "Fishermen are better than farmers who farm the land, although they brave the wind and waves to fish every day, they can eat fish, shrimp and crabs." Originally, each fishing village only needed the same amount of fish tax every year, but after the new prefect took office, he said that the tax would be increased when fighting a war with the Western Xia, and the fishing boats would collect three times a year. As you can see, how big our small fishing boat is, and collecting three times is almost equivalent to fishing for the government for three months a year. This is not counting the exploitation of local ruffians and fishing tyrants, do you think our village can not be poor? ”

Chao Gai comforted and said: "It's okay, just wait for my business house to arrive, and your good days will come." ”

The people in the village were not excited, they heard a lot of this kind of big talk, but the good days did not come, after all, they did not know Chao Gai's ability. Chao Gai didn't explain anything, he still had a lot to do.

In the evening, Chao Gai and others went back to Gu's sister-in-law's hotel, Xie Zhen and Xie Bao brothers had already packed up and came to the hotel, and the group rested for the night that night, and the next morning, they all rode to Yuncheng.

Xie Zhen and Xie Bao brothers are so big that it is the first time to ride a horse, although the horses are all cultivated horses that Gu's sister-in-law got from Zhuang Ke's house, but the two of them are still a little frightened.

Jiao Ting smiled: "You two tigers and wolves are not afraid, why are you afraid of a horse." ”

Xie Bao blushed and said: "What is so terrible about the tiger wolf, just kill it with a steel fork." But the big horse had to ride under his buttocks, and he was always worried that he would not obey. ”

"Don't be afraid, you two, the horses are very obedient. I was nervous at the beginning, but it would be fine in a day or two, but I still can't fight right away, so my brother asked me to set up a team to fight in the mountains so that I can use my expertise. Bian Xiang said.

Xie Zhen said: "It's great that our mountain combat team doesn't have to fight on horseback, and I'm as agile as a leopard when I enter the mountain." ”

Along the way, it was still the same as when he came, and Bian Xiangjiao Ting would distribute hundreds of steamed buns every time he went to a place with a lot of hooligan victims, telling them that Jeju Yuncheng was very good, there were all kinds of factories, they could find work, and they could eat with food.

I walked all the way for seven or eight days, and there were tens of thousands of steamed buns distributed.

When he first entered Yuncheng County, he was surprised by the scene he saw.