Chapter 257: Looking for a helper

In a tavern in Quanzhou, people who have just returned from work at the dock like to sit under the pergola at the door and have a drink or two, and the ten-mile incense brewed in the tavern is the only reason for them to come and sit every day.

Wei Shiyue, who was dressed in ragged coarse cloth clothes and carrying a shabby blanket burden, sat in the corner and drank with his head bored, had been waiting for a while, but the person who asked him to come had not yet appeared. This is the representative of the third Han merchant family he contacted, and the first two have made it very clear that as long as there is an external force to break the current environment, they are willing to use the strength of the entire family to support and cooperate.

But it also shows the fundamental attitude, if you can't see the gunboats of the South China Sea Fleet, don't blame them for not moving, the main thing is that the news of Zhao Tianyou's defeat of the Yuan army in Guangzhou has reached Quanzhou. More importantly, the remnants of the naval army that fled back to Quanzhou Zhuqing were originally the naval warships belonging to Pu Shougeng in Quanzhou, and the news coming out of their mouths was even more exaggerated, and the gunboats of the South China Sea Fleet were simply invincible under the heavenly soldiers.

For families who have been in business for generations, their national integrity is not very strong, and whoever can create a stable environment where they can easily make money, they will vote for you with silver. So on the issue of Pu Shougeng's defection and reduction of the yuan, they did not express their opinions, how to do business, and how to do it, until today they have cut off many people's heads, only to find that they made the wrong choice.

Now that they have been abandoned by Pu Shougeng, it is of great significance for the new division of Quanzhou port forces to replace and cultivate a group of obedient Han merchants, which is also the deployment made by Pu Shougeng for better rule of Quanzhou in the future after receiving Kublai Khan's 30-year promise.

The biggest characteristic of these Han merchants is that they will never work together, even if they face the powerful Pu Shou Geng together, they have reached the moment of life and death, and they will not let go of the previous disputes. It also needs Wei Yue's painstaking persuasion to separate and persuade him, and he deliberately points out that the benefits will be shared by everyone in the future, and it is directly linked to the amount of money paid by which family, and there will definitely be no bias and care, which appeases the mentality of the Han businessmen who are always seeking profits.

"Mr. Wei?"

"Mr. Liu Jiada?"

is also extremely cautious, and the shopkeeper of the Liu family, who has always been elegant, is also stained with a beard at the moment, like a vulgar porter idler.

"The Jiang family and the Pu family have always been good friends, how can you ensure that you, Mr. Wei, are not acting for the Pu family, and deliberately plotting against my family, so that the Pu family has a reason to eradicate us?"

"There is no guarantee, the Liu family's financial resources and ability in Quanzhou City are the head of the Han merchants in Quanzhou, what will happen next, I don't need to say, the Liu family must have discussed it many times. Besides, this time I am not representing the Jiang family, but representing Guangzhou...... I won't say the name, and you can't guess.

At present, the Liu family has only two ways to go, and it is not too much for you to choose whichever one, after all, there are many people who are supported by a big family, and the interests of any aspect must be considered, but giving up so many businesses in front of you requires the old lady of the Liu family to carefully consider. ”

"Hmph, where are the two paths to go, give up everything and move the family? Learn from your Jiang family, but how can we have the foresight of the Jiang family, operate in advance and give up everything, as long as there are ships and people, we can survive wherever we go.

It's late now, someone is giving the old man a breath, anyone can go, but the old Liu family can't go. Unless the silk workshops are handed over to the Pu family, the most important thing is that those craftsmen are skilled, and only they have workshops can continue the Liu family's business.

Those craftsmen have been cultivated by my Liu family for generations, and they have paid the hard work of several generations, so they just give them away? What's the difference between it and beheading our Liu family, it's better to kill us simply. ”

The silk of Liujia Workshop is of good quality and good price, and it is one of the most popular commodities of foreign merchants in Quanzhou Port, and if there is no most important silk supplier, the trade of the entire Quanzhou Port will be affected.

Wei Yue took a sip of wine, grabbed a few salt beans and put them in his mouth, nodded at Mr. Liu and said: "Well, there are many members of the Liu family, and the caretakers and nurses at home are all masters of the rivers and lakes, how can there be a thousand eight hundred people, if you really turn your face, the Pu family will have to weigh it." ”

"Weigh? What are you kidding, there are not more than three or five thousand people killed by Pu Shougeng recently, and they are all confiscated according to the crime of collaborating with the enemy. Our Liu family really has only two roads, one is to be beheaded by the whole door, and the other is to quickly get out of the house and get out of Quanzhou with a bare ass. ”

Mr. Liu's face suddenly changed, and he lowered his body and said in Wei Yue's ear: "You represent Guangzhou?" But the South China Sea Fleet that defeated the naval warships at sea? But the road is far away, and that General Zhao is fighting against Boyan in Guangzhou, so he has the leisure to take care of ......"

"This is not a big bother, if the Liu family has the heart to cooperate, I will make an appointment with you again in three days, and I will ask you again in three days."

Wei October came to Quanzhou this time, and he didn't have selfish intentions, thinking about the Jiang family or which family, mainly because he had already guessed the future of the Han merchants in Quanzhou, and he couldn't bear to watch them be killed by Pu Shougeng.

At present, Quanzhou, as the largest trading port, is the main channel for the supply of materials on Hong Kong Island, and Wei October had the intention to promote Zhao Tianyou to send troops to occupy it, which not only solved the problem of material supply on Hong Kong Island, but also allowed the Han merchants in Quanzhou to escape.

Several meetings were also held on the island of Hong Kong, and although they all thought that the surprise attack on Quanzhou was a bit risky, the fruits of the victory were too great and tempting for anyone to resist the temptation. At present, the South China Sea Fleet has 20 gunboats to dispatch, and 30 ordinary warships to follow, and secretly transferred some troops from the city of Guangzhou, and gathered 20,000 elite soldiers to send to Quanzhou with the fleet.

"General Zhao, the trip to Quanzhou is full of variables, and Guangzhou's city defense is even more inseparable from the general, so it is better for me to lead the team to the expedition, or you will sit on Hong Kong Island to assist Guangzhou." Du Hu's words also make sense, since the last time Zhao Tianyou sneaked away to Yashan and came back, the elders on the island were very angry, complaining that these generals couldn't look down on Zhao Tianyou, and repeatedly let him go into danger alone.

Zhao Tianyou embarrassedly defended: "This time I didn't go by myself, we still have more than 20,000 people, and the twenty-day ships of the South China Sea Fleet are enough to sweep away the sailors in the port." But if you want to take Quanzhou City, you still need to respond internally, and it is not advisable to break the city with brute force and hurt your spirits, so it is still up to me to go out in person, after all, the land is familiar, and there is Wei October's arrangements in the city. ”

"Although most of the main force of the Yuan army is not in Quanzhou, but Pu Shougeng still has some troops, and there are more than 100,000 Hu people under him, it is really not advisable to attack hard by brute force, I really can't do this thing well, there is still General Lao Zhao."

"Don't worry, everyone, if I am not completely sure, I will not waste my mind to find another battlefield, once it is discovered by Boyan, Guangzhou will be attacked!" Fifty warships left the island and sailed silently towards Quanzhou.

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