Chapter 292: Operation Jeju Island (6)
At present, Yao Mai is the city envoy of Banqiao Town in the Huangdao region of Shandong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The first is that he won the support of the people in quelling the pirates and plundering Banqiao Town, and the second is that his Yao family used a lot of connections and up and down points for him.
After the pirates in Huangdao, the entire Tatar bandit group was shocked, but there was nothing to be done, they had no ability to exterminate the pirates, and they didn't even know where they were.
Fortunately, they got more accurate information from the head of the former Huangdao Navy Battalion, it turned out that there was an island called Hawaii in the far east, which was actually a pirate stronghold, and there were more than 10,000 people!
At the time of the incident, Yao Mai, the former head of the Huangdao Navy Battalion, was purchasing military funds in Banqiao Town, so he escaped the catastrophe.
Because of this, he was able to find out a lot of news.
However, it can be seen from Yao Mai's book that this is Zhang Guoan's rhetoric taught him------ plus the family paid a lot of money to the officials who came to inspect, and soon, he got the position of the city envoy.
This position is extremely important to the development of the family business, coupled with the secret communication between him and Zhang Guoan, so he can always buy all kinds of goods, all of which are highly profitable.
Other merchants had to endure the situation of one dominant company and accept his secondary wholesale.
Merchants who refuse to accept the status quo always have accidents.
Even if there are merchants who secretly want to do business on Liuqiu Island, they will be driven out by the customs of Liuqiu.
The owner of Zhang Guoan has promised that he has the exclusive right to act as an agent for the entire Shandong Peninsula.
Not to mention the benefits that the Yao Mai family got from it, Zhang Guoan also had a lot of benefits.
For example, Shandong's wheat, cotton, and their livestock, and even Tatar horses.
It can be said that the Tatar bandit group conquered the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty by force. However, they did not learn to seal the sea, and they also recognized commercial activities very much, of course, most of the time they used robbery methods to cover costs.
These things are needed for the island and contribute to the development of industry and agriculture.
One more point. It was on one of the many small islands in Shandong that he was ordered to build a secret supply point, where the two sides could sometimes trade.
At the beginning, the owner of Zhang Guoan asked him to build such a place, in order to constantly disturb Shandong, and of course, to make a pioneering layout for the future development of the Bohai Circle.
But now, it is being used on Jeju Island.
This place, everyone has been here during the training. In the woods on the island, Yao Mai, the envoy of Banqiao City, asked people to build more than a dozen houses and build a large yard, which temporarily served as his own transit warehouse and was not used by outsiders.
Captain Bao Wei led his warship to dock directly at a relatively secret dock, and a person in charge of the Yao family came to the dock to meet them.
The Yao family arranged more stable and reliable personnel in their own family here, and they also knew about this operation in advance.
He said, "Captain Bao." Lord Yao had recruited some laborers earlier and was repairing here. When Captain Bao went back, he happened to take it with him, this time he was mostly a family, and he knew that Zhang Island Master would like it. ”
"Oh, how many?"
"More than 50, more than 200."
"There are fewer people than before------"
The steward said, "Not a lot." Now that there are fewer people coming to Banqiao to escape the famine, this year's crops will be abundant------ but in the autumn, taxes will almost be increased again, then. There will be more people fleeing the famine. ”
He was happy in his heart, you know, the Banqiao Territory is famous for not having escapes, I heard that Lord Yao's Shangguan is very satisfied, and the evaluation at the end of the year must be excellent.
The better the Yao family, the better he is, as long as he abides by the clan rules, every member can get benefits.
This operation also needs to use their help, some supplies, and they also need to come out, so they don't have to bring their own, of course, these will be settled in commerce.
Their ships were ready, so they set off together for Jeju Island.
In the spring of 1260, Gojong of Goryeo, who had been tormented by the military faction, died, and Kublai Khan, the Tatar chieftain, sent troops to escort his son Angyeong Gong back to the throne, which was later Wonjong of Goryeo.
After Wonjong ascended the throne, he always took the position of a pro-Tatar bandit group, and the Goryeo Dynasty was divided into two factions, the pro-Tatar bandit group and the anti-Tatar bandit group.
But now that the pro-faction is powerful, the villains can only secretly cultivate their own strength, and Tamna Island has not surrendered because it is an island, and the Tatar and Goryeo coalition forces have no way to take them for a while.
One afternoon, their fleet arrived at Jeju Island, found a deserted beach, laid down two Goryeo finesses, and let them take some worthless but useful goods, disguised themselves as merchants, and went ashore in the lowered boats.
Captain Bowie gave them three days, and whatever they heard, they had to come back to this place, and they would come here to pick them up.
Seeing them go ashore, Captain Bao Wei always had the urge to lead the team directly ashore, but the master didn't let him.
They hoisted the sails again, trying to follow the coastline.
They found an uninhabited island more than 20 kilometers southeast of Jeju Island, sent someone to check it out, and replied that there was no sign of a water source, but there were a lot of struvite stones, as if someone had excavated it.
Captain Bao Wei invited someone from the Yao family to ask, and sure enough, it was their family who did it.
The big family of this time and space is not only interested in business, but also in agriculture.
Yao Mai had absolutely understood the development of agriculture in the Badaohe area before, not to mention that he was a prisoner at the time, he had been paying attention to agriculture and carefully observing the step-by-step operation of Zhang Guoan, a maritime merchant.
A few maritime merchants who develop desert islands can feed such a large population in a short period of time, and they have so many methods.
Just follow it.
Captain Bowie asked, "Is it the only one of you who uses struvite at the moment?" ”
"Exactly, their ignorant people still laugh at my family, but they don't know that using it to supplement the field can increase the production of 10% -----"
Captain Bowie said, "Hey, won't you teach them?" ”
"Captain Bao, why do you want to teach? Struvite can only be less and less, everyone else has used it, of course there will be less in my house. ”
Captain Bowie wants to say that sooner or later there will be a replacement for this struvite stone, and besides, there are so many small islands in the world, where can they be used up?!
But seeing the disdain on the man's face, he didn't say anything.
The three days were gone in a blink of an eye, and when I returned to the agreed place, there was only one person left!
Captain Bowie asked him to be brought to the ship, and the man bowed his head and said:
"I begged Captain Bao to save my accomplice, but he was detained, saying that he wanted a ransom before he could be released!
They're all insanely poor! ”
"You speak slowly, make the reason clear!"
It turned out that two people disguised themselves as small merchants, and they had just been selling for a while in Gangpotou City, and they didn't have time to spy on intelligence, so a group of people came, with knives and guns, saying that they were Tatar spies, and they were arrested together, and the goods brought by the two were detained, not to mention, and one person was detained, let him leave, and only after fifty loads of grain arrived, would another person be released!
Captain Bao Wei became angry when he heard this, I brought 200 loads of grain to help you, but you only detained my people for 50 loads of food! (To be continued.) )