Not long after, Qin Tian and Cao Binbin came to the Assassin's Mansion.

After sitting down in the Assassin's Mansion, Qin Tian said: "My Tang Dynasty and Silla are at war, and we must cross the Liaoshui, and to cross the Liaoshui, we must have enough ships, the Holy Lord asked me to come to Liaocheng first, just to find a way to raise ships, for this, Lord Cao has any good suggestions?" ”

Cao Binbin thought for a moment and said: "Little grandfather, Liaocheng has developed water conservancy, and there are a lot of ships, if we want to raise it, we can start from two aspects." ”

"Oh, two, I don't know which two?"

"First, there are some scattered boats, there are many fishermen in Liaocheng, almost all of them have one or two small boats at home, these small boats do not have many people, one can seat four people, but the number of such small boats is very large, if you can raise a lot, you can help many soldiers cross the Liaoshui."

"Besides, there is a big boat gang in Liaocheng, they are doing the business of water transportation, they have more than 100 big ships in their hands, each boat can seat one or two hundred people, if they are willing to help, it will be easier to cross the Liaoshui."

After hearing Cao Binbin's words, Qin Tian's eyes suddenly lit up a little.

If there is really a big ship, it will naturally be much easier to cross the Liaoshui, because on such a big ship, they can enlarge the Tang God crossbow, and they can also put a trebuchet, with the Tang God crossbow and trebuchet, it will not be a difficult thing to suppress the enemy on the opposite side.

"The two aspects that Lord Cao said are indeed very good, now that time is pressing, how about the two of us act separately?"

"Naturally, there's no problem with that."

This matter was arranged by Li Shimin, Cao Binbin just didn't want to do it, he had to do it, so Qin Tian's question was a bit redundant.

"Lord Cao must have a certain prestige in Liaocheng, and it should be no problem for those fishermen to donate their boats, so you are responsible for collecting boats from the fishermen, but when you do it, tell those fishermen that although the imperial court is requisitioning their boats, it will still return them to them, and if it is used for one day, it will be used for one day, and it will be given to them at that time, and if the boats are damaged, the imperial court will also compensate according to the price."

Hearing what Qin Tian said, Cao Binbin hurriedly nodded in response: "With the words of the little grandfather, things will be much easier." ”

Qin Tian bowed: "Then I'll go find that boat gang." ”

After the two of them said this, they began to act separately, but at this time, it was already late, so Qin Tian did not rush to find the boat gang in Liaocheng, but thought about resting for one night and going to the boat gang tomorrow morning.

And at this time, he felt that he should first understand the situation of the boat gang, so that he could know himself and the other side to win all battles.

He asked people to send the information of the Liaocheng Boat Gang, and then he began to study it.

When night fell, Qin Tian already had a general understanding of some of the situation of the boat gang.

This boat gang, called the Shen family boat gang, has been operating in Liaocheng for many years and has strong power.

In the past, this boat gang was controlled by the old gang leader Shen Ao, but a year ago Shen Ao had an accident at sea and died, so the boat gang was inherited by his son Shen Lang, however, Shen Lang was only eighteen years old, although he was already able to do things, but he was young, and many things in the boat gang were taken care of by his eldest sister Shen Bijun.

However, as Shen Lang gets older, Shen Bijun will hand over the affairs of the boat gang to his younger brother sooner or later.

These are some of the situations of the people in charge of the boat gang, in addition, there are also the situation of some ships of the boat gang, and when he saw these situations, Qin Tian was a little shocked.

Because this ship of the Shen family boat gang is really a bit beyond his imagination.

There are more than 100 big boats and hundreds of small boats, and these boats come and go to various waters in Datang, and even the Bianhe River in Kaifeng has passed.

With so many ships, if they can be used by the Tang Army, it will be easy to cross the Liaoshui.

Qin Tian was secretly happy.

In addition to the large number of ships, there are also many workers in the Shen Family Boat Gang, including two or three thousand.

That's definitely a lot of money.

The more Qin Tian looked at it, the more shocked he felt, and in addition to being shocked, he also had some faint impulses.

If he can cooperate with the Shen family's boat gang, then his Qin family's business may go to the next level.

The Qin family's wine, rouge and gouache, all kinds of businesses, there are a lot of them now, and the places where they mainly sell them are the countries of the Western Regions, as well as the vicinity of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, and there are other distant places, but after they sell them to other merchants, other merchants sell them again.

Relatively speaking, this reduced the income of the Qin family, and if they could sell their Qin family's goods directly in various places, it would definitely allow them to make more money.

But in times like these, transportation is always an obstacle that cannot be ignored, and of all traffic, water transportation is the fastest one.

If they can cooperate with the Shen family, then their Qin family's business will be much better.

Qin Tian thought about it a lot, and he felt that this should not be a difficult thing.

The night was getting deeper and deeper, but the cicadas outside were still noisy, and Qin Tian entered his dream in such a sound.

The night passed.

Early the next morning, Qin Tian took Hu Shibai and walked straight to the Shen family.

The Shen family boat gang is at the dock, but that place is all about carrying goods or something, under normal circumstances, it is the helmsman of the Shen family boat gang who is in charge of and handling things there, Shen Bijun or Shen Lang, only occasionally go to check, or sometimes, personally escort the goods.

Other than that, they generally stay in the Shen Mansion.

After Qin Tian and Hu Shibai came to the Shen Mansion, they handed over their name post, and then waited outside.

Inside the Shen Mansion, a woman was settling accounts, and the abacus in her hand was playing back and forth, and the speed was amazing.

"Miss, there are people outside asking to see you."

"Someone asks to see, who?" The woman raised her head as she spoke, her skin was slightly darker, probably because she was frequently exposed to the sun, but her whole person was very beautiful, and her slightly darkened skin could not affect her beauty at all.

"They didn't say their names, it's their names."

Shen Bijun was a little surprised, picked up the post and glanced at it, and after reading it, his expression moved slightly: "Qin Tian? Is it the Qin Tian who is famous in the Tang Dynasty and also invented the abacus? ”

"This ...... The subordinates don't know. ”

A slight smile appeared at the corner of Shen Bijun's mouth, and said: "I heard that Datang is going to fight with Silla, it is normal for this Qin Tian to follow, it must be him, you go and lead him to the living room, I will go soon." ”