For three months, the folds were passed back by sea. However, Cai Dao waited until April, when the rainy season finally arrived, and he still did not receive any reply.

Under the pouring rain, Cai Dao was the last group to leave Thang Long City and the last to board the flagship Weizhou Island.

Looking at the Thang Long City in his sight from a distance gradually becoming smaller, Cai Dao's mood has been difficult to calm down.

Except for the fact that the city gate and city walls of the east gate of the imperial city were blasted by gunpowder and a large hole was opened, Cai Dao did not destroy the entire architecture of Thang Long City. However, Cai Dao left several back doors in the city, and if there was a chance to come to the south for a second time, Thang Long City would be completely defenseless in front of Cai Dao.

Set sail and go.

Sails hang straight on the sea.

Halfway through, Cai Dao suddenly had an idea, he really didn't have the face to meet the Lingnan people who trusted him, not only did he break his promise to those people, but also the losses of the soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army he brought this time were not small, more than 3,000 people were killed in battle alone, and more than 5,000 wounded people who lost their ability to work such as missing arms and legs, and the rest of the minor injuries were even more numerous.

Of course, except for the 3,000 people of Zhekerou, the overall losses of the Eastern Route Army that participated in the Battle of Thang Long City were not large, and most of the casualties appeared in the Zhekerou and Northern Route Army.

Other people have no way to persuade them, from this point of view, in fact, Cai Dao and Wang Anshi are all the way, once the matter is decided, even the nine cows will not be able to pull it back.

There are many people on the ship, so this is not a good time to visit the base of Yizhou Island, but it is a good opportunity to go home and have a look. Since six years after Yuanfeng, Cai Dao has not returned to his hometown in this era for nearly ten years.

Although they usually exchange letters, Cai Xi is now old, and Cai Bucket and Cai Ban have not seen their grandfather for ten years.

It's time to go home and take a good look.

Although Cai Dao misses the home of the future generations even more.

Feeling timid, Cai Dao could still bear it, but Cai Bucket and Cai Ban couldn't help but cry when they saw the scene of flowers and ships outside Xianyou Port. This is all the credit of their son Cai Dao, the only one in Xianyou County to go to sea, in Xiaoci, although the geographical location here is not superior, nor is it a deep-water port, but there is now Xianyou Caijia Shipyard, Cai Dao alone is enough to make it a prosperous city.

In fact, it is.

Cai Dao has not returned to his hometown for nearly ten years, but there is an official who has served four terms in Xianyou County, but he still has no idea of taking the initiative to be promoted.

This person is Wang Gong, who has completely fallen in love with this piece of paradise since he moved here from Lingnan because of Cai Dao. And the ministers of the two factions in the court seem to have forgotten the son of the former prime minister.

Regarding Wang Gong's attitude, the opinions of conservative and reformist officials are surprisingly consistent. This also led to Wang Gong's political achievements in Xianyou County being annihilated by the two factions of literati.

Wang Gong didn't care at all, he had transcended the mental state of the entire civil official class in this era, that is, Su Shi, who was in Hangzhou, began to be free and easy, but from his poems, he could still see some of the regrets of this bearded Su for failing to enter Beijing as prime minister.

But Wang Gong really doesn't care, he doesn't even write poetry.

Every day, as soon as Wang Gong finished his official duties, he and his young son would hold a fishing rod and carry a drawing board on their backs, while quietly fishing in the Lanxi River, while drawing the surrounding scenery into the painting.

At this time, Wang Gong has even surpassed the spiritual realm of those Wei and Jin metaphysicians, whether the court is black or white, whether today's officials are virtuous, dull, or mediocre, he doesn't care.

Bianliang City is prosperous, but do the ordinary people in it have the wealth in Xianyou County? Are they happy?

People who have never been to Bianliang City naturally don't know how prosperous the capital of the Great Song Dynasty is, but Wang Gong grew up there since he was a child.

People who have not really been to Xianyou County in these years are naturally unable to understand the true meaning of the people's three-year savings.

Even if Cai Dao transferred the shipyard to the Cai family of Xianyou County, it still couldn't change the fact that the entire Xianyou County had completely risen from it.

The port here is not only Quanzhou Port, but Fuzhou Port and Xiamen Port are not comparable. But it has developed into a distribution center for sea ship trading at home and abroad throughout the Great Song Dynasty.

Nowadays, not to mention the Great Liao Kingdom, even the Goryeo Kingdom and the Wa Kingdom can also buy sea ships from here.

However, the Cai family in Xianyou County is not a fool, knowing such a taboo thing, of course there are corresponding countermeasures. These rich fools can only buy inferior sea fishing tugboats from the Xianyou Cai family, and they are three times the average transaction price of the latest fishing boats.

To put it bluntly, the sea fishing boats for these three countries were all second-hand goods eliminated by Cai Jing, and after being repaired and repainted, they were sold to them as soon as they were replaced.

After learning the details, the merchants of the Great Liao Kingdom claimed that their country was the elder brother of the Great Song Kingdom, and they were not willing to pay too high a price, but also wanted to get the goods first.

In this regard, the Xianyou Cai family's coping strategy is also very simple, signing the order and collecting the money is not timely supply, and even if the sea fishing boat is delivered to the merchants of the Great Liao Kingdom far beyond the delivery date, that ship is a generation behind the fishing boats given to the Goryeo Kingdom and the Wa Kingdom.

After receiving the goods, the merchants of the Great Liao Kingdom were naturally dissatisfied, not only refused to receive the goods, but also spread the rumor that the Xianyou Cai family was a bad merchant in Xianyou Port.

But the rumors spread by the Great Liao Kingdom are not limited to the wise.

Don't you want to?

All right! The Cai family immediately returned the money for buying the boat in full to the merchants of the Great Liao Kingdom, and then sold the fishing boat, which was two generations behind the new boats, to the merchants of the Wa Kingdom.

Two generations behind, which means that this second-hand 'two' has been for a long time, but its price is relatively cheap!

It is because of Cai Dao that the merchants of the Japanese Kingdom have been relatively tight recently, and they can buy the sea ships they can't build at half the price, and they are already smiling secretly. What's more, don't be naïve enough to think that the Japanese people really have to use these fishing boats to catch fish at sea.

These ships would be the most important weapons for their raids on the coastal areas of Goryeo, and to put it bluntly, this merchant was sent by the Fujiwara family to buy sea ships for the purpose of becoming a Japanese king.

The Fujiwara family also lost power in the country due to the loss of one peninsula in a row, and the emperor took the opportunity to contact other forces to completely overthrow the entire Fujiwara family.

And the Fujiwara family will not rest on their laurels.

Because, they have already received news from the five northern countries of Kyushu Island, and the Takagi Party, which replaced the Matsuura Party, has already made a lot of money in the attack on Goryeo.