Chapter 238: Expanding the territory
In mid-October, an old friend, the long-legged general Wu Xiang, arrived and met Li Er at Tianjinwei, and the chief steward was directing the ship Huang Jiafu to unload the return cargo brought from Japan. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
This time, the Huang family robbed the pirates and robbed the people who saw it, and rewarded Li with 200 taels of silver, and the other six tents were 20 taels for each person. Six accountants were happy, and the current price of a monthly account room was only one or two or five dollars of silver per month.
They were sent by the owner to go to sea for more reward, and this trip took no more than two months, and they could get ten taels of silver after they arrived home.
Who knew that Lord Huang was very bold and rewarded twenty taels, the key is to follow the Huang family to the sea, eat well and sleep soundly, you can have fun along the way, you don't need to hide in the small cabin, and there is one most important, only the Huang family fights pirates, and no pirate dares to come to pick up the tiger whiskers like the Huang family's fleet.
Li Er was naturally happy to meet an old acquaintance, and pulled him to the restaurant to drink, this kid was suffocated, because when Lord Huang gave him a reward for silver, he told him not to talk too much, and take care of him when he returned to Daming and not to talk nonsense about the Huang family's pirates in Japan.
Now that Wu Xiang is not an outsider, he is also one of the partners of maritime trade, Li Er immediately opened the conversation box and told Wu Xiang how the Huang family's warship robbed the pirate ship at sea.
Li Er only saw how to rob the three Zhuyin ships, and later attacked the pirate's lair, he knew very little, and Huang Sheng also intended to leave all the people of the Li family in Li Guozhu's private port.
Now Li Guozhu has recognized the Huang family in business, but Huang Sheng also asked Li Guozhu to keep his share with those partners, and everything is as usual.
Huang Sheng has opened up a new supply of goods anyway, and the variety of goods is very different from the original partner's, there is almost no conflict, he knows that bureaucratic capital is insatiable, and the Huang family is only emerging now, and he must not make too many enemies.
Cutting off people's money is like killing their parents, if they cut off the good deal of hundreds of thousands of taels a year for the partners of Haimao, I am afraid that they will have to make enemies with too many eunuchs, and the gains outweigh the losses, and a win-win situation is Huang Sheng's choice.
Wu Xiang looked at Li Erhu, who was in a state of excitement and said suspiciously: "Steward Li, isn't Lord Huang far more than robbing three ships of the Japanese State Zhuyin?" "
"But isn't it, General Wu, haven't you seen it, those little widows look scared, who knows that when they arrived at the Huang family's horses, they all seemed to have no bones, kneeling on the deck and begging for mercy, and broke their heads."
Wu Xiang became more and more interested, it seemed that Lord Huang should have a lot of real widow heads in his hands, he was surprised: "Ah? And what else is there? ”
Li Er parroted with a smile and said: "It's too late to beg for mercy now, the Huang family has already given a chance, let's reincarnate again!" ”
"That's what Lord Huang said?"
"Yes and no!" Li Ershen's chattering look is very annoying.
"Damn, speak well, you kid will sell Guan Zi and beat you again!" Wu Xiang was aroused, and he couldn't hear the answer quickly, and said angrily.
Li Er said with a smile: "It was Lord Huang Dongshan, the official of the Thousand Households, who said it, how could Lord Huang have such an identity and be verbose with those miscellaneous things." ”
Wu Xiang said depressedly: "Li Er, can you tell me the point?" How many pirate ships did Lord Huang rob? How many real heads have been cut? ”
"It's hard to say specifically, I estimate that there are about ten big ships that are about the same as the Fu boat, and there should be thirty or forty of the size of the Cangshan boat, and I really don't know how many Japanese heads have been chopped off, I only saw eighty or ninety of them."
"Obediently rumbling hole! Not a life! That's a lot to catch! Wu Xiang was emotional, and the Yangzhou dialect blurted out.
"General Wu, the little one has only seen so much, and when those soldiers of the Huang family are chatting nonsense, the little one has also listened to three and a half sentences, it should be far more than that."
Wu Xiang swallowed his saliva and said, "Enough is enough, there are a lot of eighty or ninety level widows." Hahaha....... ”
Wu Xiang threw two taels of silver to the bartender and said, "Don't look for it, the extra will be considered a reward for you." He said to Li Er: "Steward Li, don't leave it here, this official wants to go to see Lord Huang immediately, do you know if he is on Huangjiawan Island?" ”
"Yes, definitely, Lord Huang has a lot of things to arrange, and the soldiers under his command have to hold a summary meeting and write articles. Oh, this is also what the little one overheard Lord Huang's family talking to each other. ”
"Okay, you must not go around talking about what you said to this official today."
"The little ones will pay attention to it, and they won't chew their tongues. Isn't this because General Wu is his own family! ”
Wu Xiang hurriedly came to Huangjiawan Island to see Huang Sheng, because he found that he had a good military skill and could do favors.
Huang Sheng is planning a territory, and he also wants to find Wu Xiang to operate some shady things, and he is happy to see that the long-legged general does not need to invite Baba to send it to the door, and he feasts Wu Xiang in a very elegant restaurant 'Wanghai Pavilion' co-operated by Lan Meimei and several sisters on Huangjiawan Island.
This restaurant was actually funded by Lan Caier, Huang Sheng not only did not object, but also encouraged the women in the family to set up an industry, and asked the housekeeper Zhao Rui to prepare help funds.
If the women in the family want to set up workshops, open shops, run inns and restaurants, they can come to Zhao Rui to borrow silver, and the interest rate is very low, and the annual interest rate is 6%, not even 10%.
In this era, there were no banks for private loans, and most of them went to pawnshops to mortgage their family property to get some silver for urgent use, or borrowed from landlords and old money, and the interest was very high.
The kinder squires are not too black-hearted, and they are so-so to collect three or four percent of the profits a year, and the black-hearted ones release the money of the seals, just to rob the borrower's family property and land.
Now in charge of these assistance funds is Gu Ling'er, who has been taught by Zhao Rui for nearly three years, the little girl is very happy to do such a thing, very responsible, not only responsible for the safety of the Huang family's funds, but also responsible for those sisters who are ready to do business, helping to demonstrate the feasibility and making suggestions, and she is also busy every day.
Gu Ling'er also has a status now, and she is extremely happy in the Huang family, she helps her sisters grasp the investment direction There are too many people who can go to consult, his father Gu San, brother Gu Shanhai, and even Zhao Shimin.
The location of the "Wanghai Pavilion" restaurant is good, the construction is very grand and not arrogant, in a special private room called "Overlooking Penglai", Wu Xiang met Lord Huang.
Wu Xiang watched the development of Huangjiawan Island, and when he first came to investigate, he accompanied Huang Sheng around the island for a whole day.
"Lord Huang, this place is really worthy of the name, you can indeed see the Penglai Islands in the south, the scenery is infinite!" Wu Xiang sighed sincerely.
Huang Sheng was also very satisfied with this, and said with a smile: "General Wu, you bought this island for your own official, how do you feel at this time?" ”
"Xia Guan sighed a lot, and I didn't know where to start for a while, Xia Guan also wanted to buy a house here, and come here to live here when he is old."
I don't know if it's true or not, anyway, Wu Xiang can speak, and Huang Sheng is comfortable listening to it. His time was too precious, and he didn't have the time to greet him, so he took the initiative to say to Wu Xiang:
"This official wants to ask General Wu to help him build another territory to operate, I don't know if it is convenient for the general?"
"Where did you like it again? It is a great honor for Xia Guan to be able to run errands for adults. Besides, the Huang family's management of a place will definitely benefit one party, and Xia Guan has actually done a good thing for ten thousand Buddhas! ”
Wu Xiang has been in contact with Huang Sheng for several years, and knows that this talented man is on the road, and he will never embarrass the people who do things, nor will he let the people who contribute suffer, and he doesn't care what Huang Sheng likes, so he expresses his willingness to help.
"General Wu, do you think it will be difficult for this official to take the Qingdao mouth of Jiaoao, Pingdu Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture, Shandong?"
At this time, Qingdao is not a big city, not even a small city, but a small military area, called Jiaoao, because of the Jiajing year coastal pirates are very fierce, Jiaoao was once a more important coastal defense fortress in the Ming Dynasty.
In the Wanli year, there was almost no threat to the Japanese Kou, and the existence value of Jiaoao as a coastal defense fortress had existed in name only, and there was only a floating mountain to prepare for a thousand households, with Fushan Bay in the south and Fushan in the east.
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