As a novice, the first job Xiong Er got was to flush the deck. Every day he had to lift the boat from the sea, pour it on the deck, and then the water would flow back into the sea with the dirt from the deck. This is the work specially arranged for him by Mao Shibai, because before this, the deck was never washed, and there were often heavy rains and torrential rains at sea, and the rain would naturally wash the deck clean.

It was easy to wash the entire deck, Xiong Er gasped and came to Ren Siqi's side with heavy steps.

"Xiong Er, how is it?" Ren Siqi asked with a smile.

"Tired is not very tired, it is far worse than farm work, and it is called tired when I worked in Kaifeng! There were no livestock at home, and I relied on me to pull the ploughshare to plough the land. Xiong Er looked like he didn't care, "But Master Xiucai, I'm not called Xiong Er, why do you always call me Xiong Er?" ”

I forgot that people have names, Ren Siqi saw that he looked like Xiong Er in the cartoon Bear Infested before he called out casually, and felt a little embarrassed to ask: "What's your name?" ”

"My surname is Luo, and my name is Luo Fugui." Xiong Er's urn sounded the urn airway.

"Xiong Er, come over and help?" One of the crew members shouted.

"Here we are." Xiong Er ran over quickly, "I said that I am not called Xiong Er, my name is Luo Fugui!" Xiong Er shouted dissatisfiedly.

Looking at his generous back, Ren Siqi couldn't help but smile. This is a simple-minded person, as long as he can eat a full stomach, he is very satisfied.

In fact, many times people live just to eat a bite. Some people are very tired and work hard, just to eat better. Everyone stutters, and everyone is fine. If someone has nothing to eat and is hungry every day, they will have some ideas, and they will steal and rob, and they will kill and rob.

There have been countless peasant uprisings in history, and the reason for this is precisely because the peasants have lost their stuttering food that they have to take risks.

The rulers and the imperial court eliminated the method of putting an end to the peasant uprising was actually very simple, just let the people fill their stomachs. On the one hand, the world's food output is limited, and there is not enough food for everyone in the event of a famine, and on the other hand, people are selfish, always thinking that they can eat enough and eat better, and they are not willing to care about the life and death of hungry people. So when Li Zicheng's peasant army attacked Luoyang, the ruler of Luoyang, King Fu, was unwilling to take out his own grain and silver taels to reward the soldiers and people who defended the city for him, so the fortified city of Luoyang was easily captured by the peasant army, and King Fu himself became the food in the mouth of the peasant army.

The Fuchun sailed into the vicinity of Hangzhou and dropped anchor at a wharf. A long plank of wood attached the deck and connected the sailboat to the docks.

The crew disembarked and walked up to the docks, and headed out into the city in twos and threes, where they were to procure their own goods.

The relationship between the crew and the shipowner Fu Chun is actually a cooperative relationship, and there is no clear subordination between them. Every time he went to sea, Fu Chun would only give the crew a small allowance. And the bulk of the crew's income is the cargo they carry. Fu Chun allowed the crew to carry some private goods, of course, not too much. In the event of a battle at sea, there is a reward for killing or injuring an enemy, and a bereavement if killed. These are the sources of income for the crew.

As a fugitive, Ren Siqi had no silver on himself, so he could only look at the disappearing backs of the crew with envy.

"Xiucai, let's go, let's go into the city for a walk!" Mao 18 sent an invitation to Ren Siqi.

"Brother Mao, you can do it yourself, I'll stay on the boat." Ren Siqi, who was shy in his pocket, said embarrassedly.

"Don't worry, I've got you covered! Your goods are wrapped around me. Mao Eighteen patted his chest.

"How can this work?" Ren Siqi was embarrassed.

"What can't be done, who made us brothers!" Although Mao Eighteen was also arrested and imprisoned, he was cunning and cunning, and he had a sum of silver in the silver number in Hangzhou City, so he naturally did not worry about the capital.

Ren Siqi couldn't refuse Mao Shiba's kindness, so he called Xiong Er and got off the boat together.

On the way, Mao 18 introduced the general types and markets of the traded goods to Ren Siqi.

Raw silk, cotton, porcelain, and tea are some of the most popular commodities overseas. Every year, a large number of commodities were pulled by sea ships to the Wa Kingdom, Luzon and other places to be sold in exchange for large quantities of silver.

In addition to these major products, others are like needles and threads, wooden lacquerware, iron pot kitchen knives, and so on. These things can be sold overseas at a good price.

For the seafarers, the capital is limited, and the space given to them by Fu Chunfen is limited, so they can only buy the most sought-after and best-selling goods, and don't think about the business of bulk raw silk.

Mao 18, as the captain of the ship's guards, had a very high status on the ship, Fu Chun specially assigned him and his pirates a cabin, and he didn't bother to use his brains, so he took the silver taken from the silver horn and bought twenty pieces of silk, and said that half of them were Ren Siqi, and as for the capital, he could return it when he went to sea to sell the silk.

Of course, Ren Siqi refused to divide half of it at once, and was only willing to ask for five of them, seeing that Ren Siqi really didn't want more, Mao Eighteen had to stop.

In the afternoon, the goods were finally shipped to the ship one after another. Raw silk, porcelain, tea and other goods were pulled out of the city's warehouses and loaded on mule carts to the docks. Ren Siqi also got busy.

The backer behind Fu Chun, of course, the legendary official will not appear, only the shopkeepers of the warehouses who appear on the dock, and the person in charge of handing over to them is naturally Qian Lun's money and wealth deputy.

Although Fu Chun is the owner of the ship, he can't interfere at all in terms of cargo, so he can only hope that Ren Siqi, who has just been inserted, can stare at it and play a role.

Qian Lun was very unhappy with Ren Siqi, the new assistant to him, but he couldn't refuse the owner Fu Chun, he did some things in private and didn't want to be discovered by Ren Siqi, so he didn't allow Ren Siqi to go ashore, and only let Ren Siqi be responsible for the goods that were transported to the ship.

So Ren Siqi had to nest in the cabin and direct the porter who transported the goods to put the goods neatly. In order not to make a mistake, he took a few blank pieces of paper and counted them with a pen.

The Fuchun is a three-masted ship with four decks. The cargo is mainly loaded in the lowest bilge, and for the ship, the more cargo in the lowest deck, the better, because the cargo is heavy enough, the center of gravity is low, and the ship will be more stable when sailing at sea. When the ship returns empty, it often moves some large stones and puts them in the bilge to hold the ship.

The third floor is used for fresh water, food and other items, and sometimes some miscellaneous goods.

The second floor is mainly used for people, and the seafarers live here, and of course the cargo they carry with them is also kept in their own cabins.

The top deck is the main place where the crew operates.