It's just a pity that Shi Lei can't go back to Chang'an District with the caravan to visit relatives this time, although he misses Cheng Chuyue's mother and son very much, but even if an official serves in a remote area, the number of days he can visit relatives is relatively limited. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThe last time he went back, he had been in Chang'an for several months, which was definitely more than all the holidays during his tenure combined.

After all, the distance from Chang'an to Guangzhou, a single trip is indispensable to spend a month on the road, if you can run back and forth every year, and then go back to stay for a while, wouldn't you be absent most of the time. Such an unfaithful official, or an officer, what do people want you to do? So it's impossible to go back and visit your family.

Fortunately, Shi Lei has a carrier pigeon transmission system in hand, and he can contact Chang'an from time to time, which can be regarded as a little relief from lovesickness. Bear with it, there is less than a year of effort, Shi Lei can return to Chang'an, and then the family will not have to separate the two places.

And here in Guangzhou, there are also the Yu Linglong sisters, and there is also a pair of children such as the candy combination by their side, so I can't say that I can't say that I can't miss it, but the small life is relatively happy.

After arranging things, Shi Lei, as always, spent most of his time with his wife and children, and occasionally went to the shipyard to see the construction progress of those new ships, especially the new flagship that condensed many wisdom achievements of the family, Shi Lei was still a little curious.

didn't let Shi Lei wait too long, and people from various families arrived in Guangzhou City one after another, and the Shi family's caravan also came back soon after full of various raw materials and a lot of gold and silver.

It's rare to have so many elite veterans of each family acting together on this trip, and the force is definitely unprecedentedly strong, almost making the state capital along the way raise the alarm, these people are not good characters at first glance, and the murderous appearance is indeed easy to make the realm that has not seen the sword soldiers for a long time afraid.

The caravan simply moved a lot of the Shi family's silver out of the warehouse, these free guards don't have to be in vain, it is an important moment for Guangzhou to lay a solid foundation and expand the market, and it is necessary to invest a large amount of preliminary preparation funds for the development of this silver mountain, and the amount of silver money must not be small.

The big shopkeeper also has a layer of consideration, that is, Guangzhou is a rare place to spend gold and silver on a large scale. In the territory under the feet of the Son of Heaven like Chang'an, gold and silver generally cannot be used as circulating currency, or as general equivalents, and only copper coins and silk silks are officially recognized, and the quantity cannot be too much.

It is not easy to trade directly with gold and silver, and even for the needs of anti-theft, you generally need to go to a specific department for exchange, and the holder cannot be an ordinary person, and you must have a certain rank to be recognized.

Otherwise, you need to explain the source of the gold and silver, so that you don't prove that you are such a fucked person, but it is obviously extremely inconvenient for ordinary people to use it. Even if the nobles wanted to use the gold and silver for direct consumption, most of them could only buy and sell in those top shops with strong connections.

Therefore, the gold and silver of the Shi family, like other nobles, can only be cast into a huge ghost, put it in their own silver treasury, as a life-saving money at the bottom of the box, it is not easy to spend it directly.

But the situation in Guangzhou is very different. Guangzhou is located in Lingnan, copper coins and silk silk these things, and extremely inconvenient to transport, but most of the Guangzhou here is a large amount of foreign trade, so there is room for gold and silver circulation.

Of course, there is another important reason, because silk and silk can be directly used as commodities in Guangzhou to earn a huge price difference, and it will be a big loss if it is used as an ordinary equivalent.

As for copper coins, which are in the countries around the Tang Dynasty, they are naturally great hard currency, even if Datang has always forbidden this thing to appear outside the country, but countries like the Wa Kingdom have always worshiped the Tang Dynasty, these copper coins are rare hard currency, and even have a little artistic value, so there is a floating price compared to it in China.

In the border area, there are people who have made a fortune by smuggling Tang money, but if they are caught, they will definitely have their heads cut off.

But this kind of advantage does not exist in the trade with the merchants. People in Arabia, black Africa, these places don't recognize this copper coin, and you can't pull most of the copper coins out to sea on a cargo ship, this is not as good as gold and silver, which is a one-size-fits-all valuable thing.

Rather than letting those gold and silver lie in their own vault and eat ashes, which can't play any role at all, just a bunch of dead things, it is better to invest them all in Guangzhou to make money, or exchange them for various goods with higher value and huge price difference and transport them back to Chang'an. While making a lot of profits, you can also further expand the scale of your own industry, so why not.

And several other Wu Xun families who partnered with Shi Lei were in a similar situation, and there were a lot of red goods transported over this trip, after all, it was only the shipping fare delivered to Shi Lei, which was a large amount, Shi Lei simply asked them to help transport it over, and handed over the money with one hand and the ship with the other.

In addition, they also have to invest a lot of manpower and material resources for the development of this first trip to the Japanese country, and this initial investment is not small.

Then after their silver money was obtained, they were simply put in Shi Lei's tulou. The Shi family's vault is also notoriously strong, after all, it is just so many top masters in a circle, and this security is much stronger than that of many Xun noble families.

Moreover, there are too many people's silver, and if it is still dispersed care, it is a waste of manpower, and it is easy to give people an opportunity, but it is better to put it here in a unified manner, and it is reassuring to concentrate on manpower care.

They don't have to worry about Shi Lei hacking their family's silver, most of it will be owned by Shi Lei, and there is Cheng Chuyue in Chang'an, Shi Lei can run away from the monk and can't run the temple.

Besides, there is still a supply of good food and drink in Shijia Tulou, and they must be eager to do it. In addition, such a concentration is also conducive to secrecy, reducing the possibility of gold and silver and their big plans leaking out. In any way, it is more cost-effective.

Of course, with so many elite manpower, they can't always squat in the mud building and be idle, leaving enough people to take care of the silver treasury, and the rest will have to be on the ship in batches and engage in adaptive training. There are still quite a few veterans who are complete landlubbers, a dragon on land and a worm on water. This is about to send them to the Wa Kingdom, which is not very appropriate.

However, the manpower of the Shi family is not so convenient to transfer after all, and the initial screening is also required, so it takes more time than other families.

Especially those heroes of the three mountains and five mountains, if they want to make them who have not been transformed, as obedient as the elite veterans of other families, it is obviously impossible, and they even have to use some means to get these people over, and then things will naturally be up to them. (To be continued.) )