The sea breeze was gentle and the white clouds drifted in the sky, Jiang Gongzi, who had just gotten up, stood at the bow of the boat in short clothes, and two fourteen or fifteen-year-old maids stood behind him, carrying hot towels and clean water to serve the face and rinse his mouth. After leaving Chongming Island, he was in a good mood, although he suffered a loss in business conditions, the Jiang family could only get a profit of 10% if he contributed money and efforts, but the favor sold to Zhu Qing was more valuable.

This time I was forced to come to Chongming Island, and it was already a good result to be able to negotiate, and through this trip to the north, the biggest gain was not to complete the task given to him by Pu Shougeng, but to have a new judgment on the current situation.

The land cavalry of the Yuan soldiers is strong and strong, and the morale is like a rainbow, plus Zhu Qing, Zhang Xuan and others returned to Shun with hundreds of warships, and the water combat ability of the Yuan soldiers has greatly increased.

Looking at the officials of the various state capitals in the Great Song Dynasty, they flinched and just wanted to protect themselves, neither sending troops nor food, relying only on the forbidden army directly under Lin'an, but I was afraid that they would not last long. According to the news, Lord Wen Tianxiangwen of the Southwest Road recruited troops and horses in Ganzhou, and incorporated several green forest heroes, together with a total of 780,000 barbarians from Miao Village, preparing to go north to Qinwang to resist the Yuan.

Although the heart of the anti-Yuan is sincere, the Great Song army is always very passive, and the Mongolian cavalry on the plain cannot hold each other, and they always flee in the wilderness with one blow, forcing them to retreat everywhere to defend the city.

The Mongol cavalry under Kublai Khan was agile and battle-hardened, and after suffering two losses in the siege and attack, they changed their strategy to besiege but not attack. Outside the city, they seized the time to replenish food, and plundered the property of the villages and towns near the city, killing all the men who were taller than the stirrups, and plundering the women and children to become the private property of the Mongol soldiers.

It is as strong as the fishing city of Shudi, the inner city is strong, the outer city is tall, there are fertile fields and living water, food and clothing are worry-free, and it has been more than 30 years to block the Yuan soldiers from entering Sichuan. In the first year of Kaiqing, he also killed the Great Khan Meng Ge with a trebuchet, which caused chaos in the struggle for the throne within Mongolia, that is, relying on this "stone cannon" miracle, the Song Dynasty was able to recuperate for nearly 20 years.

When the Song Dynasty was recuperating, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, seized the throne of Khan, and at the same time coveted the rich land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and was determined to use iron hooves to trample all over the land of the south of the Yangtze River. After several years of careful preparation, Huo Huo had sharpened his knives and prepared to send troops to Lin'an, and at the same time launched several fronts to attack the territory of the Song Dynasty at the same time within a range of thousands of miles.

How to protect yourself in troubled times? Jiang Gongzi shook his head slightly, although there are many officials in the family, but they are still based on business, and businessmen are the most sensitive to changes in the situation. There have been several meetings in the family to discuss how to maintain the Jiang family's foundation in the future, although there are different opinions, but they have no confidence in the Great Song Dynasty.

Some people suggested that they should move to Nanyang Dashi and other countries, divide the Jiang family's industrial resources into several parts, and transfer them to different countries by sea, waiting for the smoke of the war to dissipate before making plans. Jiang Gongzi, as an outstanding member of the new generation of the Jiang family, naturally has his own unique opinions, especially this time when he saw Zhu Qing's status in the Yuan army, his body taste was even more profound.

No matter who is in power, he needs useful people to take care of the country, he needs peerless and brave generals to lead the troops, he needs the world-minded civil servants to govern the country, and he also needs merchants from all over the world to bring white flowers and silver.

As long as you are valuable, you will naturally have a way to live, but the proposal of the clan to divide several roads is also desirable, after all, the Yuan soldiers have been cruel and murderous for a long time, although the slaughter of the city has been done less in recent years, but who will gamble with all the lives of their own clan?

However, Master Pu may have already come to the front of this step, and from Zhu Qing's words, he faintly felt that Lord Pu was secretly connected not only with Prime Minister Zuo Boyan, but also with other people on the land.

Quanzhou City is under the rule of Pu Shou Geng, all the profits of the merchant ships entering the port, in addition to the imperial court according to the rules of the collection, must be divided into a tribute to him, it can also be said that Pu Shou Geng is the largest merchant in Quanzhou City.

And the Jiang family's biggest reliance is the spice ship from the big food country, because of the ancestral strategy of heavy business marriage, Jiang Gongzi's grandmother is the daughter of a wealthy merchant in the big food country, and the two families have supported each other for decades, and today they basically monopolize the spice ship business.

Pu Shougeng sat back and watched the Jiang family gain a foothold in the spice business, and was able to monopolize eighty percent of the exchanges without being annoyed, because he valued the authentic bloodline of Dashi. Although he does not support foreign marriage, he also thinks that half of the Jiang family is his own people, and the status of Jiang Gongzi's grandmother's family is noble, so he looks down on the Jiang family.

put down the hot towel that cleaned her face, and pinched the little maid Mei Hong's small waist, which made her blush, turned around and almost fell to the ground.

"Childe, there is still half a day to go to Quanzhou, a few people from the Wa Kingdom are probably waiting a little anxious, do you want to see Childe when you get off the boat?"

Jiang Gongzi's originally smiling face stiffened, and he stretched out his hand and pointed at the middle-aged man: "Mr. Wei, it's so boring, how can I laugh once in so many days, and you come to ruin the fun again at a critical time!" ”

"Childe, forgive me, there is a mistake here to make amends!" Wei Yue said that he was apologizing, but he stood straight, his hand brushed the long beard on his mouth, and there was no trace of apology with a smile on his face.

"The matter of the Meng family's fishing village, I feel that it is going to change, although it is simple to kill people and seize the throne at this time, but I am afraid that it will attract the attention of Master Pu! In this delicate situation, everything must be safe, and these Japanese killers should be left for backup. Jiang Gongzi's tone was calm, and he didn't mean to blame Wei October.

Wei October was born in the scientific examination of Jinshi, although he was thoughtful but not tactful enough, his career was not smooth and he was framed by the villain, and his wife and daughter were intercepted and killed by mountain bandits on the way home. Wei October was powerless to resist fate, and committed suicide by throwing himself into the river in despair, but was rescued by Jiang Gongzi, who was playing in a boat, and stayed by his side to do things since then. Jiang Gongzi respects him for his profound knowledge, never regards himself as a master, nor treats him as a subordinate, and the relationship between the two is also a teacher and a friend.

"Childe, Master Pu has a high position and many eyes, how many big and small things around Quanzhou City can hide from him? Even if you can hide it at that time, how long can it last? As long as there is a big ship docked at the Mengjia Fishing Village Wharf, will he not ask? ”

Jiang Gongzi said: "Of course I can't hide it, I don't want to hide it from him, this time I forced me to go north to do business with Yuan Dadu, which is the tax he collected in advance." He already knew this little bit of thought, but he didn't know where I was going to do it, and how much cargo the size of the dock could handle. ”

"If that's so sure, why should Childe hold it off? We don't need to come forward, there are so many idlers on Sanshan Island, and the Xiao family has a big shelf, so we don't need to, aren't there pirates from the other two mountains! ”

"Mr. Wei, don't be so vicious, no, I originally intended it to be used by me, are you going to kill them all?"