Chapter 082: Homecoming
Homecoming!
Finally home!
For the traverser, where is his real home?
Hereafter, or now?
Since the crossing, he has been staying in Xiaoci, and Cai Dao has also had such confusion.
He has always looked at everyone and everything around him with the attitude of GM before, and has always had a faint sense of alienation from the world and this family.
Perhaps, home, this kind of thing has always been a luxury for the traverser.
However, after leaving Xiaocili and entering Bianliang City, after experiencing ups and downs, Cai Dao has always longed to return to Xiaocili and return to this small fishing village that grew up with him.
filial piety,
My home!
That's right, this is my own home.
Standing on the boat, looking at those fathers and fellow villagers who eagerly awaited his return, at this moment, Cai Dao couldn't help but burst into tears, his throat was choked and he couldn't make a sound, but he couldn't say a word of the words in his heart.
When Cai Dao went to visit Cai Boyu, a merchant ship passing by had already passed the news back to Xiaocili.
Yesterday, the people of Xiaocili waited for an afternoon, and if it weren't for Cai Duyi and Cai Xi to dissuade them, these people might have been able to wait for a night.
Cai Duyi and Cai Xi were naturally not worried about Cai Dao, so they immediately sent the fastest warship to investigate, only to learn that Cai Dao had stayed at Cai Boyu's house for one night.
Cai Dao didn't know that this was no longer the Cai family's dock, but completely belonged to Cai Dao's own dock.
Here, since ancient times, it has been the only outlet to the sea in the entire Xianyou County, in fact, it is insignificant for the whole of Fujian. However, for Xianyou County, it has now become a treasure of feng shui and an extremely important source of finance.
Dean looked at everything in front of him in amazement, and in less than half a year after leaving, the place had changed dramatically.
After a few months, Xianyou Pier has changed from a small fishing port when it left to a giant pier today.
The wharf was originally nameless, but after Wang Gong arrived, he saw the prosperous scene here and wrote the title - 'Xianyou Wharf'.
This is already the scene after the second expansion of Xianyou Pier. In the future, if the craftsmen of Caijia Shipyard build a 10,000-ton giant ship, this dock will have to continue to expand.
Therefore, today's Xianyou Wharf, 80% of the main imported goods are timber for shipbuilding, and the other 20% is also imported in large quantities at Cai Dao's request, either iron ore and coal, or horses transported from other countries.
Of course, there are also some foreign merchants who are familiar with each other, and every time they come, they will bring some seeds of some exotic plants in their hometown at Cai Dao's request.
This has always been the case with the smallholder economy, and in addition to the iron ore and coal needed for industry, Hyo Ci Li is now completely self-sufficient, providing all the necessities of life for all the people here.
Fujian is mountainous, and mineral resources can also meet the needs of the Cai family, but those mines are mostly from the inland mountainous areas of Fujian, such as Longyan in later generations, where transportation is quite inconvenient, and it is not as time-saving and labor-saving as shipping. Therefore, Cai's family has always been, and can only buy by sea, from other coastal states and counties.
Of course, there were not many industries that originally belonged to Cai Dao, and now the vast majority of the sources of funds for purchasing goods and maintaining normal operations still rely on the income from ship auctions.
At this moment, all the people of Xiaocili who had already gathered on the Xianyou Wharf were completely boiling when they saw Cai Dao's figure on the sea boat.
Cai Dao misses this, how can the people in Xiaoci and the Cai family miss Cai Dao?
It is precisely because of Cai Dao that the people in Xiaocili live a worry-free life today.
In the sound of gongs and drums, Cai Dao was surrounded by everyone and got off the boat, in order to prevent the people from getting emotional, he specially asked Cai Ban to find a piece of silk to cover his injured arm.
"Childe! How did you come back? ”
"Childe! When you come back this time, won't you leave? ”
"Childe, this is the goose egg that my Hun family pickled according to the method you gave, you can try it first!"
"Childe ,......"
“……”
The people in Xiaocili were separated by the forbidden army, and they couldn't get in front of them at all, but this did not affect their warm greetings to Cai Dao at the moment.
For Cai Dao to be so popular with the people, Cai Ban, Cai Bucket and the crew of this ship all took it for granted.
However, Dean and those forbidden troops were even more surprised, the impact of the majestic dock and the huge ships like clouds just now was completely inferior to the shock brought to them by the common people at this moment.
Dean could naturally see that these people were not the trust arranged by the Cai family in advance, nor were they somewhere else, and the common people were like mice seeing cats when they saw officials, and they were afraid and in awe from the bottom of their hearts. These ordinary people have ruddy faces, although their physical fitness may not be as good as most of the forbidden troops under their command, but they are full of energy, and they also love Cai Dao from the bottom of their hearts.
If Cai Dao had been killed in that assassination, perhaps the common people here would have wept bitterly and mourned their great benefactor, as they had done when His Majesty Emperor Renzong died. Somehow, such a rebellious thought suddenly appeared in Dean's heart at this moment.
Because there were too many people on Xianyou Wharf and the people were too enthusiastic, it took Cai Dao and his party more than an hour to arrive at their new home.
The new mansion is small and sits right next to the shipyard. Due to the suddenness of the incident, Cai Xi was unprepared, so he asked those carpenters to put down their work, and it took only seven days to change it to the current all-wood mansion.
When he first arrived here, Cai Dao was still a little surprised, and Cai Xi explained on the side, and then he suddenly realized.
What should come will come after all, Cai Dao had long expected such a day, but he didn't expect that Cai Jing would show mercy to his subordinates.
Cai Dao now knows a lot about his cheap father, and naturally knows that if it were him, he would definitely take all the property that Cai Dao earned as his own. It's just that what Cai Dao didn't expect was that a generation of traitors who were decisive in later generations and had superb political skills would actually show mercy to their subordinates.
It's puzzling!
In fact, Cai Dao was not afraid that the Cai family would leave the house at all, those craftsmen signed a contract with Cai Dao, as long as someone was there, he could completely turn Xianyou Wharf and shipyard into an empty shell.
There are not many other places in the land of Fujian, but the coastline is very long, and there are more places than Xianyou Wharf that are more suitable for wharves, such as Xiamen in later generations.
It's just that this matter affected Cai Xi's grandfather's family, but fortunately, this time, Cai Dao not only brought back Cai Ban and Cai Bucket Quanshu Quanwei, but also gave the two of them a background.
After entering the house, Cai Xi and Cai Duwu had not had time to report the progress of various things to Cai Dao, so Cai Dao announced on the spot that Cai Xi was appointed as his internal housekeeper, and Cai Dujian was the foreign official.
After that, Cai Daocai learned from the two of them about some gratifying changes in filial piety after he left.
In today's filial piety, it can be said that every family has ploughing cattle, everyone has farmland, every household has surplus grain, every meal has meat to eat, and the elderly and children have eggs to eat and milk to drink at every meal.
Finally, Cai Dao gave his employees and tenants' families basic benefits free of charge.
It is precisely because of this last small benefit that when the Cai family split up, except for those spies sent into the Cai family by various families in Fujian, all the tenants who originally rented the Cai family's farmland took the initiative to terminate the contract with the Cai family, and turned around and became workers under Cai Dao.
This incident caught Cai Fu, the newly appointed official of the Cai family, off guard, it was the season when early rice was about to be planted, and if the agricultural time was delayed, the patriarch would have to be punished. There was no way, so he had to go to Cai Xi, who was swept away, to ask for an idea.
They were brothers who grew up together under the nose of the old lady before, and besides, Cai Fu expelled him from the door, which was also the decision of the two masters, and Cai Xi naturally would not refuse. He just said that as long as Cai Fu recruited tenants in Xianyou County.
Cai Fu returned home suspiciously, and immediately did according to Cai Xi's instructions, but he did not expect that the next day, countless landless peasants came to Xiaocili Caifu to apply.
These big characters are not the same people, and now they are naturally stupid and can't tell the difference between Cai Fu and Cai Dao now.