Chapter 078: Secret Action
Zheng Xia didn't say that it was better to talk about this matter, but when he said it, these three families were full of bitter water.
It turned out that what Cai Dao didn't know was that he had only been in Beijing for a few months, and the three families in Fuqing County were not just making trouble for him in Bianliang City.
They also sent a lot of people who wanted to infiltrate the Cai family and wanted to obtain the Cai family's advanced shipbuilding technology.
But who knows, most of the people who were sent were like mud oxen into the sea, and they were never heard from as soon as they went.
Finally, there are two or three kittens, relying on the relationship with the people of Xiaocili to get into the Cai family, it is impossible to enter the Cai family's shipyard, they are all working in the Cai family's farmland, and it is the dirtiest and most tiring work, every day to go back and forth between the barren mountain pasture and the farmland, mainly to transport the manure of the livestock in the pasture to the farmland.
I don't know if the people of the Cai family noticed something and deliberately entertained them.
However, according to the meaning of these three principals, since it is not easy to get in, then endure it for the time being. After a year or two, once you pass the test of the Cai family, you must have the opportunity to blend into the shipyard.
Later, things took a dramatic turn again.
Cai Jing and Cai Bian sent Cai Shou, one of the four major housekeepers, back to take charge of the entire Cai family in Xiaoci.
And Cai Xi and his children were expelled from the Cai family.
Originally, according to Cai Bian's intention, he wanted to take back all the barren mountain pastures, docks and shipyards. These industries, even if they are all earned by Cai Dao with Cai Xi's money. However, strictly speaking, domestic slaves have no private property, and if the Cai family wants to recover these properties, no one can say anything.
However, the head of the Cai family is Cai Jing, and Cai Dao is not his son, so naturally he will not have any prejudice against him. Considering Song Shenzong's love for Cai Dao, this nephew has already become a monk for this purpose in order not to exacerbate the relationship between their father and son. If their brothers still have to be so decisive about Cai Dao, it will inevitably affect the official family's perception of the two of them.
As a result, Cai Dao's industry had nothing to do with the Cai family at all, and all the fine works that infiltrated the Cai family were also left in the Cai family as tenants.
This time, all the actions made by the three families in the early stage were all useless.
For this reason, Lin and Liu's family had to resort to extreme measures.
The two of them were also maritime merchants and pirates, and in anger and shame, they secretly contacted all the pirates in the waters near Fujian, preparing to join forces and attack Xiaocili together, they not only wanted to take the Cai family's shipyard, but also wanted to loot Xiaocili, where because of Cai Dao's toss in recent years, it has become a rich place second only to Quanzhou and Fuzhou.
As a result, as soon as these people met with the pirates on the island, they were surrounded by the warships belonging to the Xinghua Army, Quanzhou, and the Cai family.
A few pirates who escaped threatened to kill the two fleets if they encountered them again at sea. These pirates are now afraid of the Cai family from their hearts, and they can't get out of the fire in their hearts, so they can only find these two initiators to vent.
The matter was initiated by Liu Lin's family, but this time the news suddenly leaked, but the two of them were not hurt in the slightest. It's no wonder that these pirates think so much about it.
It turned out that Cai Dujian was originally a pirate. And the pirates are already full of contradictions, and it is impossible to be at peace with each other.
The Lin and Liu families issued such an invitation, so that Cai Duji's former brothers, as well as some pirates who had conflicts with the Lin and Liu families, saw an opportunity.
was able to eliminate dissidents, and with the help of the government and the Cai family, they swept away the competitors around them, and got such a good opportunity to show favor with the Cai family. Now, whoever runs and lives on the sea, who doesn't envy the sea boats made by the Cai family!
That's the only one in the Great Song Dynasty.
Prior to this, Cai Dao had indeed sold the manufacturing of large fishing boats to Quanzhou City at a very low price. However, this era is like China in later generations, if you give him the opportunity to copy, the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty may really be able to build aircraft carriers, but if you expect them to be able to bring forth the new, then it is better to wait for the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years!
The Cai family's ship is not only getting bigger and bigger, but also has a low cost and fast manufacturing speed. Now, the Cai family's shipyard can produce two large ships a month, and the shipyard in Quanzhou City has more than twice as many craftsmen as here, and there are even more ordinary apprentices, but the inefficiency is outrageous. The quality of the boats they built is not much different from that of the Cai family, but it is not enough for the Quanzhou City Bosi alone.
Therefore, those who covet these large sea vessels can only participate in the monthly auctions held in Xiaocili.
Of course, pirates want such big ships, even the smallest of them, and they are willing to pay a lot of money for them.
This time, the reason why Cai Dujian was able to clear so many hostile forces at one time was that these pirates who showed favor really made a lot of efforts, and there was also another person who helped a lot from it.
He is the new Xianyou County magistrate Wang Gong.
Originally, Wang Gong thought that being transferred from Penn to Xianyou County was nothing more than being transferred from a poor place to another place in the same situation. There are so many roads in the Great Song Kingdom, and the situation on the Bamin Road is worse than that in the northwest. There are many people and few places, and the evil custom of drowning babies is getting worse and worse. Xianyou County, how lofty the name sounds. At its core, it is still a bad land.
However, I didn't expect that when I arrived in the land of Fujian, the situation here was completely beyond Wang Gong's imagination.
The closer they got to the Xinghua Army, the better the life of the people here became, and it was actually better than the life of the people around Bianliang and in the city.
Xianyou County is even more worthy of the name, after his arrival, he also personally changed into civilian clothes to observe the people in Xiaoci, which can be said to be a rich place.
For this reason, within a few days of Wang Gong's arrival, he wrote to Song Shenzong and praised Cai Dao's great role in the township.
This time, the people of the Cai family begged to come to him, and as soon as Wang Gong heard that the pirates wanted to sneak attack Xiaocili, how could such a thing happen under his rule, he actively contacted the new Xinghua Army Zhijun on the one hand, and contacted the Quanzhou City Bo Division on the other hand.
Don't look at Wang Gong's loss of power now, but don't forget, he is the grandson of Wang Dan, the prime minister of the previous dynasty.
In the past, the city department also needed these pirates to do some inconvenient things for them, but now they whimsically wanted to sneak attack the Cai family's shipyard and dock. The Cai family is in full swing in the capital, and the brothers, father and son are all very favored by Song Shenzong.
Wang Gong greeted him in advance, if something really happened, it would be light for these officials and officers of the city to be demoted to Lingnan, haven't you heard that the queen mother's uncle Gao Zunyu has already gone to Qiongzhou to report?
Therefore, one drink and one peck, the cycle of retribution.