Chapter 28: The Shell Returns

"Yang Dao? Is this also called a knife? So narrow, not at all mighty? After returning home, when he told Xiao Yan'er that the knife was called Yangdao, Xiao Lori snorted.

Yang Wenli is a casting knife, so the casting is very fast, and the speed of the blacksmith making the knife is not the same, and in less than half a day, eleven pieces were cast.

Loaded with the swallowing head and knife handle that had been prepared long ago, and with a simple scabbard, Yang Wenli went home with the knife. But he didn't expect that the peerless treasure knife he thought was criticized by Xiao Yan'er as useless, just because the knife was too narrow and not powerful enough.

Although Xiao Yan'er is a child's words, maybe the ancients are really the same as she thought, so there are powerful knives such as ghost head knives and dragon descending knives, which actually do not help half a point in combat effectiveness.

Yang Wenli didn't want to argue with Xiao Yan'er, and telling her the truth was equivalent to playing the piano to the cow, so he changed the topic and said: "Yan'er, in two days, if your husband wants to go out, you have to stay at home well, and you are not allowed to mess around, if you make the old lady unhappy, I will not be able to protect you." ”

He is now involved in the old lady, the master of the whole fox and fake tiger, and it is difficult for him, a man with five big and three thick, who was eaten to death by a little girl.

"Humph! You go out and don't take me with you? I don't want to stay at home alone! I'm scared to sleep at night, don't you know? Sure enough, Xiao Yan'er immediately jumped up and objected.

"Nonsense! How can a woman go out casually? If I don't say it, the old lady will scold you. Yang Wenli rebuked her in a rare loud voice.

"Uh......h I don't! I don't! Why can you men go out? We women can't. Xiao Yan'er immediately cried and complained about unfairness.

"There is no such thing as fairness in the world, and it has always been the law of the jungle. There are robbers and bandits outside, and you are a little girl, and you will be abducted in less than a day when you go out of the house. Yang Wenli was heartbroken this time, and still shouted at her.

"I'm not afraid, I can bite him." Little Lori replied with tears on her face and a firm expression.

Yang Wenli held his forehead with one hand, looking like he had been defeated by her, and he had nothing to say. Little Lori's courage is commendable, but her combat power is too vegetable, and it's just a joke.

Since Xiao Yan'er came to Yang's house, the two have been bickering every day, and Yang Wenli is not so boring, but sometimes he has a headache. Little Lori is sometimes unreasonable, like this time, she even used a bite, what else can make her bow her head?

Yang Wenli had long wanted to take a group of teenagers out to suppress bandits, but he had to wait for the casting of the knife before going out, but now that Yang Dao was cast, there was nothing more to stop him from going out to suppress the bandits.

The reason why it took two more days to leave was because he calculated the time, and the next ship of shells was about to arrive, and he could only take the shells before he went on his great cause.

Two days later, Yang Wenli took a group of teenagers to the cliff on Spear Mountain early to wait for the ship carrying shells. Last time, he just said that he didn't put a deposit, and he didn't have a bottom in his heart, I don't know if the Tanmin boat family will come? I don't know if I'm coming today?

"Young master, look, is it the boat last time?" It was almost noon, Yang Rentian's eyes were sharp, and he was impressed by the boat he had sat on, so he saw at a glance that the boat that was slowly approaching in the distance was like the boat last time.

Although Maoshan is next to the Yangtze River, it is actually only a forked waterway of the Yangtze River, which is the old Yangtze River channel, and later the Yangtze River broke in the south, and it became a new Yangtze River with a wide water surface and a gentle flow there, so it is difficult to see ships here at ordinary times.

When the boat approached, Yang Wenli also saw clearly that it was the boat last time, and a smile appeared on his face, this morning was finally not in vain.

"Let's go down now," Yang Wenli stood tall and instructed the young men.

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"Hahahaha! Shipowner, you are really a believer, thank you! When the boat came to a stop on the beach, Yang Wenli jumped on the boat with all his might, and he happily thanked the shipowner.

"Young Master Yang, the little old man finally fulfilled his mission and came as promised, hahahaha!" The shipowner also happily replied.

He saw that Yang Wenli was really waiting for him here, and the shipowner was also very happy, indicating that he didn't run away this time.

"Shipowner, it's still the same price last time, 50 taels, how about it?" Yang Wenli didn't talk nonsense, and immediately negotiated the freight with the shipowner.

"Good! I don't have an opinion, it's up to you. The owner readily agreed. Although he earned a few taels less than last time, it was too easy and safe to transport the shells, and the shipowner did not care about it anymore.

Seeing that the shipowner agreed, Yang Wenli took out an ingots weighing fifty taels and handed it to him on the spot. Then he instructed the ten teenagers who were already waiting: "Hurry up and unload the goods"

"Yes," the teenagers agreed in unison, and then got busy.

"Shipowner, let me ask you something, you have been begging for a living at sea for many years, I don't know if you have seen the Hongmaoyi people?" Seeing that his subordinates were busy unloading, Yang Wenli and the shipowner stood on the beach and chatted.

"Yes, they drove Western galleons, the big ones were thousands of materials, and there were too many guns on board to count. They usually haunt the southeast coast, and sometimes they also make a few trips to the waters around Chongmen in Songjiang Prefecture. is rampant and domineering at sea, and even the court and navy don't look at it......"

As soon as the shipowner opened his mouth, it was like opening the embankment, and he talked endlessly, a little suspicious of showing off to Yang Wenli, an inland native.

Yang Wenli, however, was a loyal listener, and he listened with relish, and he wanted to see the difference between the description of the Hongmaoyi people, that is, the Dutch, and the history books.

Yang Wenli was not really bored and had nothing to say, but he wanted to sell bone china to the Dutch. At home, he would never dare to sell, at least until he had the absolute ability to protect himself.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty had a strange addiction to wanting to keep all the good things for himself, and there were two methods, the first was to ask for local tribute, which was a more elegant means, and the merchants or farmers were nothing more than a heavy burden from then on.

The second method is deadly! The emperor simply issued a royal decree to levy the merchant or peasant household as an official craftsman, the kind that includes the whole family, and has been a craftsman for generations, in fact, it is no different from being reduced to a slave.

In the Ming Dynasty, the status of craftsmen was very low, passed down from generation to generation, and their children and grandchildren were strictly forbidden to study and become officials, and there was no land, so you can imagine how miserable their lives were.

The quality of bone china is the best in ancient and modern times, if Yang Wenli dares to sell, it can be said that in less than half a year, his Yang family will be requisitioned by the emperor to be an official craftsman who is similar to a slave.

This is the reason why Yang Wenli did not dare to sell in China, and traded with the Dutch, but did not have these concerns, as long as the Dutch were prevented from eating black, Yang Wenli already had perfect means to deal with this.

…… To be continued