Chapter 100: I Worry When I See It with My Own Eyes

Li Xun did this because Zhang Xiaobao taught, saying that he was a superior person, and he wanted to learn this, Li Xun didn't even think about it, so he did it, not to mention, the effect was really good, when the people knew his identity, they saw that he could wear clothes like this, and he could say such things.

Li Xun has to go around every day, and sometimes even have a meal with these people, after seven consecutive days, the boat finally arrived in Chuzhou, and it was possible to shorten some things if it went downstream, but no one expected that there was a headwind, and the spinnaker did not rise, which affected the speed.

In fact, this is also Zhang Xiaobao's intention, he is ready to find a reason to slow down the ship, otherwise he will arrive two days in advance, at that time Biluochun has not yet been picked, he is afraid that the fleet of eighteen ships will make the people in the tea garden think that they are deliberately coming to buy tea and raise the price.

Otherwise, all the boats will be raised and the oars will be rowed, and it will not take four days to reach the place, when the spring water is in a hurry because the snow and ice are melting.

When he arrived in Chuzhou, Zhang Xiaobao arranged for someone to collect tea, and it was best to let the people in the inner courtyard pick it by themselves, so he let people replenish it while taking his family to start eating hard here, but the saury fish in the river was good, almost every one of them could eat a few pieces of Shenjiang stone, which was the thick bones on the fish.

This kind of is not because of artificial breeding, pure wild Yangtze River saury, Zhang Xiaobao not only eats, but also buys some, freezes it and keeps it for his family to eat later, there are also some shrimp, even if the crab is counted, no matter how delicious the hairy crab is, it is not the season.

A lot of goods shipped from Huayuan County were sold, and the immovable region had different cultures and eating habits, which made it difficult for him to adapt, but it was very simple to eat fresh.

The boat was empty all of a sudden, except for buying some rice noodles here, there was still a lot of space left, and I couldn't always fill it with tea, but I wanted to do it, but unfortunately there wasn't so much tea to load.

How could Zhang Xiaobao run away empty? After thinking about it, I started to buy bamboo shoots, and good purple bamboo, the bamboo shoots were ready to see where there were no along the way, and when they were made into something and sold, Zizhu took it all the way to the destination, and made some utensils over there, this purple bamboo is also good for making musical instruments, especially the flute.

Between the big sale and big buy, the team passed five days here, and the people who went to buy tea also came back with young leaves, and there was a place where the people in the main courtyard bought the people on the tea mountain and went to pick them in person, and Zhang Xiaobao cherished these tea leaves very much.

Seeing a lot of tea, I endured the pain and made two dishes made of tea, and the two families plus Li Xun were very happy to eat.

"Spinnaker, paddle, the wheels on both sides of the ship turn up, go to Hangzhou, hurry up, there is still a dragon well over there." Zhang Xiaobao finished collecting the tea and began to issue new orders.

The speed of the boat was raised at once, and the front of the boat was deliberately riveted with steel sheets, which increased the ability of the front of the boat to divide the water a lot, and after the eighteen boats waited for the inertia to bring it up, the speed became faster and faster, and the small clippers on the canal could not compare with it.

In the astonishment of others along the way, when the wind changed for a while, all the sails were raised, and in twelve hours, the people on board took turns to paddle, and it took only a little more than three days for the fleet to fly to the place.

This speed can scare people to death, but Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are not satisfied, they feel that it is slow, and they must think of more ways to increase the speed of the boat as much as possible in the future.

As soon as the ship arrived at the place, it began to sell goods again, and went to buy Longjing tea, some tea leaves can still be bought new, and some people made tea balls, and it is impossible to make tea into green tea like the original, so it is also overcharged, at least there is no Longjing in Luzhou.

This time, because the tea had already been picked, the stay was relatively short, and it took a total of three days to buy and sell goods, and the fleet set sail again.

This time, you can't take the inland river, the river over there will be gone to a certain extent, and it can't be completely connected, if someone also connects several rivers like Sanshui County and Huayuan County, then you can bypass a section of the sea route and pass through the inland river.

The imperial court usually has no time limit when it is exiled, after all, it is difficult to walk by land, and it is easy to die on the way, but the time given to Zhang Zhong is three months, and I don't know if the imperial court wants to see how fast the ship with the propeller can be.

In other words, others would rather not go, and would not agree, but Zhang Zhong agreed, and came out of the capital, until now, it has taken more than a month, and the rest of the time will be along the sea to Luzhou, that is, the Zhang family's fleet, with a spinnaker, the bow of the ship has been refitted.

There is a lot of space on the ship, so you don't have to stop and replenish when you have nothing to do, otherwise you may not have such a speed in two months and three months if you change to another ship.

Zhang Xiaobao didn't plan to stay too long halfway, and walked around the sea outside, as long as he didn't encounter a typhoon and a reef, nothing happened.

After a month and a half, the fleet finally escaped many dangers and came to Luzhou, at this time Luzhou was hotter than the summer in the capital, and the people on the ship were tanned, especially Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, who came out to bask when they were fine.

In the absence of sunscreen, it is difficult to keep it dark, there are less than ten days left before the time of three months, the closest to the sea is Wulei County, and the next county is one, there is no good wharf at all, and it is difficult for eighteen large ships to moor.

Fortunately, there is a recessed inlet in this place, which is later Qinzhou Bay, a very good natural port, eighteen ships went around a bay to enter here, while putting down the boat for Zhang Zhong to hand over, while letting people contact the local people, hire them to help repair a simple wharf.

Zhang Zhong's handover was very smooth, the original thorn Shi hated Zhang Zhong to come here from the capital, it was too poor, most of the people were fishing, planting some fields, coming to the wind, with salty rain, don't think about any output.

It is difficult to find people to work, the four counties in this state, or the four counties, only Yushan County is larger, but there are only about 500 households, less than 3,000 people, and the four counties add up to nothing more than 7,000 people.

No wonder there are many fishermen, here you need to hand over a lot of local products every year, silver, tortoiseshell, turtle skin, green feathers, nail incense, where to get these things on the sea? Except for the silver and the peacock's feathers, which were on land, everything else had to be found in the sea.

The four counties are all Xia County, and the state is also Xia County, and the locals saw the eighteen big ships one by one, and their eyes were full of vigilance when they were surprised, and from the boat with clairvoyance, these people were darker than Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, especially some people who should have been in their thirties, looking like people in their fifties and sixties.

"What's going on, you see, that person is obviously the father of two children, how can he be like the grandfather of two children?" Li Xun held up his clairvoyance and asked Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan who were standing next to him curiously.

"It's a very simple thing, a single diet, a lack of some necessary nutrients, too long working hours outside, wind and sun all day and sea erosion, plus the worry of a bad life, they have become like this."

Zhang Xiaobao saw that a few children were particularly thin, but their stomachs protruded, seeing this, Zhang Xiaobao was frightened, Wang Juan understood why Zhang Xiaobao had such a reaction, and comforted beside him: "It shouldn't be floating water or parasites, the body is thin, the county is big, don't treat our children as African." ”

Zhang Xiaobao took a closer look again, indeed, it was the reason why his body was too thin.

Li Xun didn't know which state capital Africa was, but he was more curious, "Why do people who live by the sea lose weight?" There are fish and shrimp to eat every day, and it should be fat. ”

"Then you try to eat fish and shrimp every day, people here live by the sea, so if you want to sell the fish for money, it is not easy, otherwise it will not be Xia County, and the place next to it will be stronger than here, but it is not clear what to plant to increase production, nothing to do with a typhoon or something, plant everything, isn't it said that the two Guangzhou are ripe for the world? That's the case, right? ”

Zhang Xiaobao began to worry when he saw the scene in front of him, he thought that it would be more difficult to come here, but he didn't expect it to be so hard, the teenage baby has no clothes to wear, and the adults are just wearing a pair of linen pants, and some women are so naked.

The conditions are really too bad, what is the difference? The nets drying on the shore were also woven with twine, and many of the small boats were hollowed out of the middle of the wood, so that there was not a single decent boat in sight.

The people on the shore and the people on the boat looked at each other, the people on the boat were curious, and the people on the shore were curious with a sense of xenophobia.

Zhang Zhong came back two days later after the handover at this time, along with the county orders of Wulei County, the county orders of Huaqing County, the county orders of Ninghai County and the county orders of Yushan County, as well as some other deputies.

Li Xun looked at Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan stunned there, and explained: "Xiazhou, there are only a few people who can stay in the yamen, and now is not the time to collect things, they may all go home to do things, and it is impossible for the imperial court to send it down directly, they can only take it from the local tax and rent carving, and they dare not give it to the imperial court, so only a few fiefs are useless." ”

"But isn't there silver here? Isn't silver valuable? Zhang Xiaobao really couldn't figure it out, he had never encountered such a thing.

"There are a number of silver, and it dissolves hard, and it is about the same in a year, and most of it has to be sent, and copper and gold are also, no more than anything else." Li Xun explained again.