Lu Xianwei's cousin is called Lu Chonggen, although he is also from Suzhou, but he has been in Ninghai Town for many years, and has become the largest local household, with more than 20 fishing boats, and he warmly received his cousin and Li Yanqing from his hometown. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The reason why Li Yanqing came to the beach was not to come casually, but because he had his purpose, there are endless treasures hidden in the sea, it depends on whether you can use them.

Early the next morning, Lu Chonggen accompanied Li Yanqing to the fishing ground, which covers a large area and is filled with thousands of large dustpans, each of which is drying more than a dozen sea fish, and several women with hats keep turning over these sea fish, and a fresh smell of sea fish comes to the face.

Li Yanqing looked at it for a moment and asked, "Are there any fish with a lot of oil?" ”

"It's either hairtail or pomfret, and the other fats are not much."

Neither hairtail nor pomfret was what Li Yanqing wanted, so he groaned and asked, "Is there a whale stranded here?" ”

"Huh! Three years ago, there was a calf stranded, and this one is the one in my memory, but there are many stranded boars. ”

The river pig is a finless porpoise, and it is also extremely fat and thick, Li Yanqing was in good spirits, "Are there a lot of river pigs stranded here?" ”

"Hundreds of heads run aground every year! There are a lot of river pigs in Hangzhou Bay, and the fat is also very thick, if this thing is not dealt with quickly, the meat will stink quickly, and the beach is fishy all summer, we generally use fat to light the lamp, the meat is edible, and the skin is used to make shoes, how, the little officials are interested? ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "I want its fat, can Lu Guanren peel off its fat and sell it to me in the future?" ”

"As long as the petty officials are willing to pay for the purchase, of course they can, in fact, there are also people who come to buy, generally five cents a catty, a river pig has about twenty or thirty catties of fat, and you can earn more than a hundred cents."

Li Yanqing wants fat is mainly to consider making soap and cosmetics, Li Yanqing studied chemistry in his previous life, he made soap and soap by himself when he was in middle school, at that time he used lard to make it, and he could also buy lard in large quantities in Bianjing, 30 yuan a catty, but lard is not as good as fish oil, fish oil is more delicate and better water soluble.

It's just that although the local purchase of fish oil here is very cheap, it is about the same price as lard when it is shipped to Bianjing.

"So be it! I paid ten yuan a pound to buy, if Lu Guanren is willing to help me transport it to Bianjing, then one pound and thirty yuan can also pay silver. ”

Lu Chonggen quickly calculated, if all of them were purchased about 20,000 catties, it would be 600 taels of silver, and then transported to the capital, he could earn at least 300 taels of silver on this trip.

Lu Chonggen smiled happily: "Then we will make a decision, I estimate that every family has a fish oil inventory, not necessarily river pig fish oil, about 10,000 catties, loaded with a hundred large urns, five cargo ships will be solved, I will get the big urn, it will be given to the petty officials." ”

Li Yanqing was overjoyed, "Then I'll pay the deposit first when I go back, and then give Lu Guanren a capital address, Lu Guanren just send it over, and my father will receive it." ”

"Money is not in a hurry, I don't know what the petty officials want, do you want sea fish?"

"I don't want fish, but I want seaweed."

Lu Chonggen was stunned, "What do you want seaweed to do?" ”

"Actually, I don't want seaweed, you dry the seaweed, and then burn it directly to ash for me, I want seaweed ash."

Lu Chonggen hesitated, "Does the petty official want to use it as fertilizer?" Someone had done this before, but it wasn't as good as Ash. ”

Li Yanqing shook his head, "That's a kind of medicine, you help me burn it, I'll pay ten taels of silver for a hundred catties, and I will have at least three thousand catties a year." ”

Of course, Li Yanqing is not used to make medicine, drying and burning seaweed into ashes is a kind of natural baking soda, which is a necessary material for making soap, of course, lime can also be used, but lime is too alkaline and irritating to the skin, and baking soda is much better.

He can also boil alkaline lake water to get baking soda, but that is too troublesome and too expensive, and it is still convenient to burn seaweed.

Lu Chonggen grinned so much that his mouth widened, "I asked my son-in-law to do this seaweed ash, so that they can also have an income." ”

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Li Yanqing stayed in Ninghai Town for three days, and saw with his own eyes that Lu Chonggen bought more than 10,000 catties of fish oil from various households, and went out with Lu Chonggen's son-in-law to catch a few boats of seaweed.

Li Yanqing's time calculation is very accurate, he just arrived in Jiaxing with his front foot, Jiawang Zhao Kai arrived on the back foot, in a big tent in the Jiaxing military camp, Zhao Kai saw Zhu Mian, only to see his hair scattered on his face, sitting dejectedly in a large wooden cage prisoner car, wearing a heavy wooden flail on his hands, and iron chains on his feet.

There was another big wooden cage next to him, closing Zhu Mian's father Zhu Chong, Zhao Kai walked up to Zhu Mian and said coldly: "I can't imagine that I'm still alive!" ”

Zhu Mian opened his bulging eyes and glanced at him, then closed them again, with a disdainful expression on his face.

Zhu Chong next to him laughed and said, "If the old man didn't guess wrong, His Highness got the will of the Son of Heaven again!" Escort us to Beijing. ”

"How do you know?" Zhao Kai looked back at him and asked.

"Of course the old man knows that in the eyes of some people, we are strange goods, and it is a pity to die in vain."

Li Yanqing asked in a low voice, "Is it true?" ”

Zhao Kai nodded, "I did receive a new order from my father, asking me to escort them into Beijing." ”

"What about the possessions?"

"All the belongings were also escorted into Beijing to fill the Zuo treasury."

Zhu Chong snorted heavily, "It's to be charged into the inner library!" He has long been staring at our wealth, how can he be so generous? ”

Zhao Ji was furious, pulled out his sword and pointed at Zhu Chong and shouted: "You dare to slander my father again, watch me kill you with a sword!" ”

Zhu Chong sneered, but he didn't dare to say anything more, this old fox knew in his heart that the Son of Heaven had decreed not to kill his son, but he didn't say that he couldn't kill him, which really angered Zhao Kai, and he didn't have any problem killing himself with a sword.

Later, Li Yanqing was silent, he felt that Zhu Chong was right, the wealth of the Zhu family must go into the inner treasury, not into the treasury, and Zhu Mian was used as a scapegoat after seizing a lot of wealth for Zhao Ji.

However, what Li Yanqing couldn't figure out was that Zhao Ji could completely behead Zhu Mian in the downtown of Suzhou, which would be his chance to gain the greatest fame and achieve his status as a benevolent king in the hearts of the people in the southeast.

Such an important decision, Zhao Ji easily changed, so that Li Yanqing had to sigh Zhao Ji's mediocrity, a wonderful good card was actually played by him into a stinky card.

"Your Highness, I still have a few words, I wonder if Your Highness wants to hear them?" Zhu Chong sneered and said to Zhao Kai.

"Plug his foul mouth!"

Zhao Kai hated Zhu Chong very much, he didn't want to hear anything, so he turned around and left with a vicious word.

Li Yanqing glanced at Zhu Chong meaningfully, but he didn't continue to ask, but followed Zhao Kai back to the big tent, Zhao Kai looked very irritable, walked back and forth a few steps, and suddenly said to Li Yanqing: "Tang Qianzhi has returned to Beijing!" ”

This sentence was said without a beginning and an end, and it was very abrupt, which made Li Yanqing a little confused, so he asked tentatively: "Yes..... His Royal Highness asked him to return to Beijing? ”

"Nope! He disappeared without telling me anything, until General Wang Shiwu told me just now that Tang Qianzhi had come to Jiaxing yesterday and was holding the sword of Shang Fang of the Son of Heaven. ”

Zhao Kai's last two sentences were a bit groundbreaking, Li Yanqing was stunned for a moment, who is this Tang Qianzhi? He actually held the sword of Shang Fang of the Son of Heaven.

A bitter smile appeared at the corner of Zhao Kai's mouth, and he said slowly: "Of these thirty guards, only ten of them are my henchmen, and the remaining twenty are all elites drawn from various armies, including this Tang Qianzhi, I am also dealing with them for the first time, what they did before, I don't know, that Tang Qianzhi is even more hidden, whether his real name is Tang Qianzhi, I am also confused." ”

"His Royal Highness means that Tang Qianzhi is actually a secret envoy sent by the Son of Heaven, on the surface, His Highness is the main envoy, but in fact there is another person."

"Shang Fang's sword will not be fake, but it is difficult to say whether he is the person of his father or not."

Zhao Kai sighed lowly, "I suspect that he is Liang Shicheng's person, his father was originally determined to make trouble in Suzhou to execute Zhu Mian, but now he has changed his mind, there are not many people who can persuade his father to change his mind, Tong Guan is one, but he is not in the capital, and the other is Liang Shicheng, and he can persuade his father to take out the Shang Fang sword, and only Liang Shicheng." ”

"Then why did Liang Shicheng do this?"

Zhao Kai shook his head, bit his lip and said, "I don't know? ”

Li Yanqing faintly realized something, he pondered for a moment and said: "Zhu Mian's matter is by no means as simple as we thought, we must set off immediately, so as not to have too many dreams at night." ”

Zhao Kai did not delay, and in the afternoon of the same day, he transferred 50 large cargo ships transporting grain from the envoy of Huating City, loaded Zhu Mian's family and all his wealth onto the big ship, and set off for the north overnight under the escort of 300 soldiers.

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