Chapter 268: Heading to Jiangning
In the end, Zhang Wanqing still did not agree to go to Jiangning with Su Ziheng, and Su Ziheng took a hundred people from the escort team to escort many precious treasures collected from Zhenbao Island to Jiangning Mansion.
In addition to discussing the development of Yantian with Zhao's trading house this time, Su Ziheng also planned to dispose of a batch of unused treasures in his hand in exchange for silver taels and grain, and then see if he could recruit some people from various prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River to go to Donghai County.
Seeing that spring is about to start after the New Year, Donghai County is within a radius of 100 miles, but there are large fields to be planted. If Donghai County wants to really develop, it must produce its own grain, and it can't always buy it from other places.
Otherwise, if a war is launched in the future and its own grain is robbed, won't Donghai County be defeated without a fight?
Although many fishermen in Tokai County have grown grain in the past, the harvest has been poor due to bad natural weather such as typhoons all year round, and few people are willing to grow grain and concentrate on fishing.
However, Su Ziheng was not worried, because there were many high-yield grains in his base space that could be planted. In addition, although typhoons are very destructive, it does not mean that there is no way to deal with them.
He had already consulted Pandora that there was a powerful high-tech weapon in the base space, which could not completely eliminate the typhoon, but it could reduce the power of the typhoon, and could change the typhoon's route, so that the typhoon could be controlled artificially, and maybe it could be used for his own use. It is important to know that typhoons contain strong energy in the formation process.
Located near the mouth of the river, Donghai County has a fertile alluvial plain that is ideal for growing grains such as rice and cash crops such as cotton.
In the space of Su Ziheng's base, the hundreds of people who were transferred in had been living in it for several months. Through Cai'er's hands, Su Ziheng had already distributed and planted many of the seeds he had brought from the earth in his previous life, some of which grew fast, and even harvested the first seeds.
Su Ziheng is planning to recruit enough people to open up the wasteland, and then distribute these seeds so that the people can plant them, at least so that they can be self-sufficient in grain and vegetables.
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Jiangning Mansion is the most important city on the waterway of the Great River, and it is also the starting point of the transportation of various provinces in the south of the Yangtze River. It only takes two days to take a boat north along the river to reach Jiangning Province from Donghai County.
Su Ziheng captured many large ships from the pirate group, and they can operate normally in the river, and they are still the kind of sea ships that can carry three hundred people.
Therefore, in addition to his own 100 members of the escort team, Su Ziheng also dispatched 50 sailors who were proficient in sailing from Pan Dabeard's sailor army to be responsible for sailing. Then there are several stewards in the princess's mansion who are responsible for handling treasures, and the leader is Zhong Chengda.
It can be seen that Zhong Qinghan attaches great importance to Su Ziheng's trip to Jiangning Mansion, and in the case of a serious shortage of people in Donghai County, Zhong Chengda, who is the acting chief bookkeeper, is dispatched.
After two days of sailing, the Snow Dragon docked at the pier in Jiangning Province.
Su Ziheng took Shi Meng and twenty others to the location of the Zhao Mansion, leaving the other eighty escorts and fifty sailors to Zhong Chengda.
It doesn't matter how Zhong Chengda disposes of those treasures Su Ziheng, anyway, he can leave someone for Zhong Chengda to protect his safety.
According to the address provided by Zhao Chengming, Su Ziheng began to find the location of Zhao Chengwen's mansion. At this time, Zhao Chengwen and Zhao Wan'er didn't know the news that Su Ziheng and his party had successfully arrived in Donghai County, and even Zhao Chengming did not send anyone to deliver the letter.
In this era, the traffic is too inconvenient and the information is transmitted too slowly. If a letter is not delivered by hand, if you go to the official postman, from sending it to receiving it, ten days and half a month is considered very fast. A little farther away, two or three months are normal, and it is already rare to be able to send two or three letters back and forth in a year, so there is a saying that "family letters are worth 10,000 dollars".
Su Ziheng sometimes thinks that when he invents a bicycle and sets up a special courier company to deliver letters, it should be very profitable! Even if there are not many people who deliver letters, it is a huge asset to let these couriers collect the news from each prefecture and county.
Just like the online game runner that Su Ziheng played in his previous life, the price of the same goods is different in various places. If you know the price of goods in each city, it is really easy to make money by transporting goods in a targeted manner.
And these are the things that express companies are best at.
While pondering endlessly about starting a courier company in the future, Su Ziheng asked passers-by and found the location of Zhao's mansion.
Looking at the mansion in front of him, which was obviously half smaller than the Zhao Mansion in Xining City, the decoration was also quite low-key, and there was no stone lion nearly two meters high at the door, but a pair of stone lions that were less than one meter smaller.
Su Ziheng frowned, he didn't know that it was the Zhao family firm that had just returned to Jiangning, and he was deliberately so low-key; Or is it that after coming back, the development is not satisfactory and the high-profile is not high-profile. If he is really suppressed and his development is not good, maybe it will be a lot of trouble to woo him to Donghai County this time.
If you want to come to Zhao Chengwen for a long time, you will not go to a strange and unreliable place to start a new stove with yourself when the development of your nest is unstable.
However, since he had already arrived at the door, it was impossible for Su Ziheng not to pass through the door. He turned back to Liu Sijun who came with him and ordered, "Xiao Sijun, you go and call the door." ”
"Hmm!" Liu Sijun agreed to come down and jumped forward. She was still quite excited at the moment, and she couldn't help but smile at the thought of seeing Miss Wan'er and Sister Xi'er again.
"Bang bang bang", Liu Sijun knocked on the copper ring on the door. Then I heard an old voice from inside, "Who? ”
When the porter opened the door, she saw that it was a little girl who was less than ten years old, and she was just about to ask who she was looking for? Suddenly, I heard her call herself "Uncle Qi", and when I looked closely, it turned out to be the little maid next to my uncle.
Zhao Qi suddenly asked with a smile on his face: "It turned out to be you this little girl, by the way, are you alone?" Did my uncle come? ”
Liu Sijun hurriedly nodded and said, "Well, the master is right behind!" Trouble Uncle Qi to go in and inform Master Zhao and Miss. ”
"Hey, my uncle came just in time." Zhao Qi took a few steps and stepped forward to greet Su Ziheng, "Hello uncle!" You're finally here, but the eldest lady has been talking about you for a long time. Hurry up and go in with the little one, someone wants to come and propose to the eldest lady. ”
Su Ziheng frowned when he heard this, there was such a thing? How long has Zhao Wan'er been back, how could she encounter such a marriage proposal, it seems that her charm is really great, and she can be liked anywhere.
Su Ziheng smiled indifferently, "Uncle Qi, please lead the way, I want to see who dares to beat Wan'er's idea." ”