Su You and Lai Yanbei immediately followed the fisherman to visit the former residence of Huangqingzhou, and then learned that Huangqingzhou's real name is Huangxiang, the word Xiuming, and he is a calligrapher of Wu during the Three Kingdoms.

Thinking of his former glory and seeing this lonely manor now, Su You inevitably sighed in his heart.

However, this sentiment did not last long, because when they returned to the official residence on the dock, they received a letter from Lu Zhongsu, saying that the first ship had been built, and the remaining five or six ships would be completed within October.

"I didn't expect Senior Lu's speed to be so fast." Su You pinched the letter written by Lu Zhongsu, sighed, and then asked the messenger, "By the way, when did you set off from the dock." ”

"It's February 18th."

"So, you'll be able to build a ship by the end of the month? That's great! Su You took a closer look, immediately danced with his hands and feet, immediately entertained him with good wine and food, got up and went back to write a letter.

In the letter, Su You asked Lü Zhongsu to spend half a month to test the water and build new ships at night, and set these ships to Yangzhou on March 15, and the construction of the second batch of ships should also be put on the agenda, because now that Yangzhou has officially opened its port, the news that Yanbei has brought back millions of stones from Baekje will inevitably cause a sailing frenzy.

The letter was passed out, and Su You's mood was completely relaxed.

The following days were not so easy, Su You inspected and condoled the surrounding areas of Jiangdu County in the name of the Southeast Economic Envoy, because these areas were also affected by the previous food price crisis.

Su You has been running around for a few days, although he has worked hard, but it is also within the tolerable range, and with Lai Yanbei by his side, this day is much more comfortable than some time ago.

Until I inspected the surroundings of Yangzhou City, five days had passed.

During this time, Xue Shui had come to Yangzhou from the eastern capital, and completed the preparation of Xia Ziwei's newspaper with Wen Dalin.

Su You's purpose in opening a commercial port in Yangzhou was to collect more commercial taxes, and at this time, there were only three months left before the day he promised to hand over the fruits to Yangzhou.

On February 28, the news of the arrival of millions of stone of grain from Baekje from Yanbei appeared in two newspapers in Yangzhou City, along with the news of the expansion of the business scale of the Seven Seas Chamber of Commerce and the listing and issuance of shares.

Su You was not idle, Wang Shichong and others pasted notices all over the city early in the morning, and the notices were written with good news about reducing commercial taxes.

The citizens of Yangzhou City have also seen a good momentum after more than a month of panic about rising grain prices.

After all, the imperial court and the government still see Yangzhou's difficulties in their eyes.

Because of this, someone even sent a plaque to Su You.

Some people praised it, this was an unexpected gain, but Su You couldn't smile bitterly in his heart.

From the overall situation, Su You used all means to make the price of grain in Yangzhou City return to the original level, which looked like a good official; But judging from all of Su You's methods, he is more like a villain.

If it weren't for Su You's desperate efforts to raise the price of grain, why would the people of Yangzhou City spend so much money to buy grain? In the end, he even used the trick of repaying the debt to get out of the predicament.

But after the new tax rate appeared, Su You's image suddenly became magnificent, and the common people regarded him as the lord of the blue sky, and the businessmen regarded him as the god of wealth.

Of course, after the announcement of the deeds of coming to Yanbei to Baekje to bring back grain, Yangzhou City naturally caused tens of thousands of empty alleys.

Some of the people who had some money left over walked into the exchange and threw their money at Nanami Trading Company.

In view of this, several trading companies in the name of navigation sprung up, and they also followed the model of the Seven Seas Trading Company, and began to buy the materials that had been accumulated in Yangzhou City for more than a month at low prices, so as to earn foreign exchange through the huge price difference.

At this time, the city shipping department began to receive the first commercial tax, and Su You's dock began to be turned out of newspaper advertisements, and they began to place orders for the dock through Su You

This busyness lasted from February to March, during which time the Nanami Trading Company began to collect cheap supplies from Pengcheng and Danyang counties in preparation for the second voyage; Of course, during this time, the Seven Seas Trading Company recruited many idlers, and Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and others trained them as sailors on the canal.

Of course, Su You was not idle, and the Grand View Garden has also changed from a large construction site to a garden full of various flowers and plants.

To Su You's surprise, among the plants that came to Yanbei to bring back from Baekje, there were chili peppers and cotton!

Now the plant that makes it spicy is dogwood, and as for things like chili peppers, Su You almost forgot how many years he hadn't eaten this thing; And the appearance of cotton will make people no longer afraid of winter.

The fly in the ointment is that there are not too many seeds of peppers and cotton, and if you want to plant them on a large scale, it is estimated that you will have to wait until next year.

However, eating chili peppers is not a problem at all, it only takes two or three months

When he thought of eating, Su You hoped that time would pass faster, but when he thought of paying Yang Guang five million business taxes, he hoped that time would pass slowly.

That's the kind of contradiction in my heart.

However, Su You's worries were obviously unnecessary, especially when Lu Zhongsu led more than two hundred people to drive several large ships into Yangzhou Wharf.

Of course, the people of Yangzhou are not unseen lords of the world, when Yang Guang went to Yangzhou, what ships did they not see?

However, the sea ships built by Lu Zhongsu still brought them hope, that if they used such ships to load several ships of goods and sell them, even if they made a profit of three cents, they would bring back a few boatloads of local grain or something when they returned, and they would earn another three cents of profit

Anyone can settle the accounts, and after settling the accounts, they began to poach people from the Nanami Trading Company at a high price.

The Hangzhou sailors who had been to Baekje were satisfied with their high wages for the Nanami Trading Company, but when they heard the wages offered to them by the newly opened trading companies, their hearts began to hesitate.

They offered three times the salary given by the Nanami Trading Company, which is almost equivalent to the amount of money that the county shou wheat cane of Jiangdu County now gets!

Su You looked at the eager expressions of the sailors, and immediately said, "People go to high places, if you have a better way out, I will never stop you; If you are willing to stay in Nanami, your salary will be doubled, and there will be a dividend at the end of the year. ”

As a result, most of the people stayed with peace of mind, and dozens of people left decisively.

This is also what Su You is willing to see, because the overseas market is too big, although he has the intention to monopolize, but how easy is it to say?

Of course, the ships could not carry much supplies in the canal, so the boats sailing in the canal had to send them to the Yangtze River, and then the supplies were transferred to the ships

After the ships of the Seven Seas Trading Company set sail again, there were many more trading companies in Yangzhou City within a few days.

Due to the shortage of seagoing vessels, a second shipyard was established in Hangzhou Bay.

By this time, it was already the middle of March, and Zhang Zhenzhou and Chen Ling led their troops to leave Hangzhou Bay, and then after patrolling the pirates near Yangzhou Bay for more than ten days, they rushed to the Ryukyus.

In April, another fleet of ships from Yangzhou City also embarked on the journey, and they purchased seven sea ships from Su You's dockyard, which were loaded with porcelain, silk, cane sugar, and other materials and sailed to Quanzhou.

Similarly, they contributed a large amount of commercial taxes to Su You.

In May, there was still no news from the imperial court on the handling of the Yuan clan and the Zhang clan, but Zhang Heng was sent to Yangzhou by Yang Guang and asked him to replace Mai Tiezhu as the county guard of Jiangdu County, and Mai Tiezhu was recruited by Yang Guang to Jinyang.

From this news, Su You guessed that Yang Guang was still not at ease with the Turkic Qiangji at this time, and it seemed that the Jinyang Palace was also about to be built, but Yang Guang was suffering from the lack of available talents.

After entering June, with the complete end of the rainy season, Su You's mood has also brightened a lot.

At this time, the Seven Seas caravan had already returned twice, and the rest of the fleet had gone to sea more than ten times, and at this time, Su You's old acquaintance Xia Gao was also a little unable to sit still, and he really regretted that Su You invited him that day and he didn't agree.

But what's the use of mere regret? He even thought about shifting the focus of his work from the noisy eastern capital to Yangzhou, an emerging gold rush city.

In such a complicated transaction, Su You took two and a half months to collect 4.2 million yuan in business taxes, and he didn't know if he could receive the last 800,000 yuan in the last half a month to meet Yang Guang's standard, but is this really important?

Su You has earned more than 10 million guan from the last grain campaign, of which 7 million have bought stocks, but these stocks have now risen by more than 20 percent, and if they are discounted, he has earned nearly 2 million guan unconsciously.

Su You, even if he can't pay a penny during this time, so what?

He could have thrown five million of his money into it!

Now it's only 800,000 yuan, can he still take this drizzle to heart?

Tang Quanzhou and others naturally knew that Su You bought himself and others on the same day. The stocks that were let out seem to have made more than one million without doing anything, but there is no regret medicine in the world!

On this day, Su You and Wang Shichong of Yanbei went to Daguan Garden with a few micro-services, but when they came back, Su You asked Shuang'er to carry a basket of red peppers.

Everyone praised this chili pepper for its pleasing appearance, but they didn't know that Su You was there to take it back to stir-fry.

When he got home, Su You rushed into the kitchen because he had waited too long for this day; Qingjing heard that Su You was going to make a new dish, so naturally he would not miss the opportunity to observe.

After Su You put the chili peppers in the pot, Qingjing finally couldn't help the spicy taste and rushed out of the kitchen.

After Su You brought the dishes, he couldn't help but swallow when he looked at the dishes that looked almost perfect.

Red chili, white tofu

It's really delicious!