Chapter 66 Boats Build Walls

The people of the rivers and lakes know the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and the competition between Zhujiazhuang and the Nanshan faction soon spread all over the rivers and lakes, which really surprised the characters of the entire Dajiang County who walked the rivers and lakes. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoNow everyone knows that there is a new force in the rivers and lakes of Dajiang County, which is this Qingshan Zhujiazhuang.

I also know that the source of the private salt of this river has been held in the hands of this Zhujiazhuang since then, not for anything else, just because this Zhujiazhuang gambles in the middle of this water-rich river, Zhujiazhuang has already let go, and the private salt from upstream can only go to the shore of this Zhujiazhuang, and no one else can transport this private salt from the 500-mile water-rich lake again.

Of course, everyone continued to pay attention to the battle between Zhujiazhuang and the Nanshan faction. How could the Nanshan faction swallow their anger after suffering such a big loss, the big war is still ahead, and everyone is waiting to see.

However, Zhu Zhenguo has made up his mind that Zhujiazhuang will not go to the rivers and lakes, so the only place to defend is the village of Zhujiazhuang.

So in the past two days, Zhu Zhenguo is thinking about building a wall, to build this Zhujiazhuang into a fortress, only in this way will Zhujiazhuang be impregnable.

Zhujiazhuang is three or four miles in radius, which is the length that Zhu Zhenguo has measured with his footsteps since he was six years old. However, Zhu Zhenguo was more thoughtful, and expanded the planning of the city wall, which can be said to be the city wall, to expand a lot, and planned the city wall to six miles to build a circular fortress.

Zhu Zhenguo is obviously not afraid of spending money, building a city wall that is six miles high and two zhang high, and can run horses on it, Zhu Zhenguo's father Zhu Wenbin budgeted out the 50,000 taels of silver, but Zhu Zhenguo didn't blink his eyes.

However, Zhu Wenzhong was under great pressure, although the Zhu family is a big family, Zhu Wenzhong has also made some money in recent years, but the current silver is only 15,000 taels together.

Therefore, the 80,000 catties of refined salt had to be taken quickly, and the matter of contacting the whole of Dajiang County to sell salt goods fell on Zhu Wenzhong.

The boatmen hired by Qingshan City and Xianning Mansion City are also in place, and every day these strong men who can only manipulate sampans learn the skills of boating in this rich lake. How to raise the sails, how to retract the sails, how to look at the wind direction, how to turn the sail according to the wind direction to maintain the course, how to master the rudder, but it turned out that Zhu Wenzhongjun's service Zhu San showed a lot of talent in this boating matter.

It is Zhu Zhenguo himself who has been on the boat many times to understand the basic technology of this boat, the main power of the big ship of this era is wind power and manpower, that is, when there is no wind, it depends on everyone to paddle to drive the boat. The Zhuang Han people operated the boat every day, and they were all tired and exhausted. Of course, the reward money and the example money are also expensive.

One day, Zhu Zhenguo also returned home tired, the construction of the wall had been planned, and now it was Zhu Zhuang who was outside to bring out the matter of summoning craftsmen and coolies to come back to build.

Except for Zhu Wenguang and Zhu Wenyuan's brothers who have gone to the county town to prepare for the exam, everyone in the Zhu family has been busy recently, that is, Zhu Zhenguo's mother and eldest mother are both helping to cook for the strong men in Zhuangzi. Only the old lady Zhu Cai was at home alone.

As soon as Zhu Zhenguo entered the main hall, he saw his grandmother sitting in front of the hall, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Grandma is well!" ”

"Guo'er, what have you been busy with lately?" Although Zhu Cai didn't go out, nor did he see the fight on the dock, and the clansmen also had a lot of things about this old lady, but this old lady already had some doubts in her heart.

"Grandma, it's okay, it's just that the bandits on this water-rich lake are becoming more and more rampant, and the clan has decided to build a wall to keep it safe." Zhu Zhenguo replied in vain.

"Build a wall? Where did the silver taels come from? "The old lady has lived for dozens of years, but she is not such an easy person to fool.

"It doesn't take much silver, the main thing is that the clansmen have to work more." Zhu Zhenguo hopes to fool the past, after all, this grandmother is a lifelong lover, and if she really knows the truth of the matter, she is afraid that she will be afraid every day.

"And where did this stone come from?" The old lady felt a lot of doubts recently, and when she asked the women in the family, they all shook their heads and pretended not to know, and at this time they had the opportunity to find out what was going on recently.

"Stone is easy to say, just mine it in the mountains." Zhu Zhenguo has obviously already thought of a set of words.

"Well, it's just that spring is about to begin, and this field has to be ploughed, otherwise the beginning of spring will be a mistake in farming, and it's really inappropriate for the tribesmen to build a wall? How can this be? "The old lady is most worried about the grain in this field.

"Grandma rest assured, farming can't be mistaken, and building a few taels of walls is not a one-time thing." Zhu Zhenguo said this is inconsistent, he has long not taken the matter of planting these fields in the village seriously, where can you buy food if you have money, the most important thing now is to build this wall as soon as possible, so that the people can sleep peacefully.

"What is the use of a dozen big ships coming to Zhuangkou?" The old lady still had doubts in her heart.

"Oh. . . Those big ships, they were bought back by the second uncle, and the second uncle's business has been getting bigger and bigger recently, and he needs these big ships to transport goods. Zhu Zhenguo's brain reacted very quickly, although he knew that he had deceived his grandmother, but he also felt that it was a white lie, and he just begged that this old lady would not have to live in fear every day.

"But what about the smuggling of salt?" The old lady's face became serious.

"Grandma knows, and grandma still says grandma doesn't know." Zhu Zhenguo really felt that his grandmother didn't know about the second uncle's sale of illicit salt.

"Hey... How many years has Wen Zhong done this, although his grandmother is old, she is still deaf and clear-sighted, Wen Zhong has even moved away from this household registration, where can grandma not know? The old lady let out a long sigh and said in a helpless tone. It's really an old saying, it's a big deal!

"Grandma, there is nothing to do, this private salt has already flooded the world now, the second uncle is just making a small fuss, there is no problem, grandma can rest assured." Zhu Zhenguo comforted.

After Zhu Zhenguo finished speaking, he looked at his grandmother, and saw that his grandmother's face was full of worry, so he quickly changed the topic and said with a smile: "Grandma, my grandson has learned a lot of sage books from the teacher in the past two years, and he has grown a lot. ”

The old lady listened to Zhu Zhenguo's words, and her face immediately smiled, until: "Thank you really Lord Ouyang, Guo'er must wait by the side of the adult more, not to live up to the high expectations of the adult, and also to wish me the glory of the ancestors." Bodhisattva bless, Bodhisattva bless! ”

However, this old lady has believed in this Buddhist Bodhisattva for many years, and she also specially asked someone to bring a lot of sesame oil to the Yunguan Ancient Temple to repay the wish.

Zhu Zhenguo also followed the old lady and said: "Bodhisattva bless, Bodhisattva bless." ”

It's just that where is this Zhu Zhenguo who respects ghosts and gods, it's completely at the mercy of this grandmother.