He Mingyu did have a wide range of channels, and he quickly contacted the next family, but he didn't figure out who moved the Wang family's goods.

But his next family said they were willing to wait until June.

This year, the travel to and from Japan depends on the wind, so every summer when the southwest monsoon rises, go to Japan, and wait until the next year to return to China during the northeast monsoon around the Qingming Festival, so the maritime merchants must collect all the goods before the summer, otherwise they will miss the wind.

This kind of trade is only once a year, because the number of trades is small, the carrying capacity of ships is low, so the profits are extremely high, even if it is dangerous, some people are willing to take risks.

Coupled with the ban on the sea by the Ming government, it has reduced shipping and pushed up profits.

It's just that the biggest loss is probably not the maritime merchants, but the Ming Dynasty and the entire Ming economy.

If the Ming Dynasty set up customs taxes, I dare not say that there should still be tariffs of millions of taels of silver every year, and how much tax revenue will be contributed to the Ming Dynasty by the economic development of the south of the Yangtze River driven by trade.

It is a pity that the Ming Dynasty has turned back the clock on history in the economic system, not only disdainful of commercial taxes at home, and has always adhered to the low tax system of 30 taxes and 1, but also unable to prevent tax evasion and tax evasion by profiteers, powerful people, officials and businessmen, so the annual commercial tax is only hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Even the commercial tax is almost not levied, how can the imperial court turn its attention to the sea trade tariff?

Compared with the Song Dynasty, the commercial tax accounted for more than 40% of the imperial court's finances, while the commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty was negligible, which was equivalent to giving up half of the tax, but squeezing silver from the poorest peasants, causing public resentment.

Yang Chao insisted on lending Wang Xiao 20,000 taels of silver to stock up, and the goods of 20,000 taels of silver only need to be transported to Susong. The maritime merchants are willing to pay double, which is indeed less than the three times last time, but Wang Xiao's goods are late. No one else's fault.

And in front of Wang Xiao, he must also stock up as soon as possible. Because you have to be in a hurry, you have to pay a high price, which further squeezes the profit margins.

However, as long as the goods of 20,000 taels of silver arrive, there will be at least more than 10,000 taels of profit, which is enough to make Wang Xiao turn over.

He Mingyu also helped up and down, using his own business network to help Wang Xiao solve the largest source of goods.

Of course, the high price is still inevitable, and it was originally only 15,000 taels. In the end, Wang Xiao asked for 20,000 taels, and the next family was willing to pay 30,000 taels, and the profit was exactly 10,000 taels.

But the risk is very high, if it is robbed again, the Wang family's grocery store can only be closed, and there is still a foreign debt.

Yang Chao promised to deliver the goods, compared to the risk of people going to sea to go overseas, sailing on the Yangtze River by himself is no different from walking on flat ground.

The only thing to worry about is timing.

It's already May, and it's far from each other's requirements. There is only one month left.

Nanjing to Susong 600 miles, down the river, if the wind direction is suitable. There is no problem with traveling 100 miles a day, but considering all kinds of accidents, checking the navy along the way, etc., plus anchoring at night, keeping 60 miles a day, it only takes ten days.

But Wang Xiao was very anxious and urged for days, but Yang Chao was unmoved.

I waited another ten days, May 10th. before setting sail.

This time, Yang Chao brought his own personal army of twenty people, and Li Wuliu archers. plus Lao Zhang's boatmen, a total of forty people.

They are all elite soldiers. But considering that Wang Pu also invited more than a dozen people to fight well last time, and in the end it was the end of the boat being robbed and killed, so Yang Chao still took a big risk.

But this is a cargo ship, and there are too many people to pull the cargo, and it is precisely because of the forty people on board that the big war ship that could have pulled 1,500 quintals of cargo, at this time only loaded 1,000 quintals of cargo, plus emergency food, there is no more at all.

However, seeing the iron armor of forty people and one water, Yang Chao was a lot more relieved, and waited for ten more days, waiting for this batch of iron armor.

Wang Xiao kept urging Yang Chao, and Yang Chao kept urging Feng Jian (Feng Craftsman), and finally let him create forty pairs of iron armor in just over ten days.

In addition to Yang Chao's own people on the boat, there is also He Mingyu's family Ding, who is the liaison.

The relationship is He Mingyu's, so the next maritime merchant only recognizes the people of the He family, and He Mingyu also believes in this family.

He Mingyu explained that there could be no problems with this family, because they and the He family had an old relationship for many years, and there was no need to break off the relationship for a single shipment, unless the other party did not plan to do sea trade in the future.

But the other party is not an ordinary maritime businessman, behind it is a local giant in Songjiang Prefecture, who has been smuggling for many years, and it is impossible to easily cut off food and clothing.

So the last time Wang Xiao's goods were robbed, it could only be an accident, either it was an eyeless Jiang bandit, or it was a peer who made it bad.

It's just that the specific situation, no one knows, the next family is also investigating, and it has not been found out, and there is no evidence to suspect several peers.

He Mingyu said that this is a confused account, and it is no longer clear, since he dares to do this business, he dares to admit it.

Yang Chao didn't plan to avenge Wang Xiao, the first thing he set sail this time was to help Wang Xiao, and the second was to develop his own business.

A waterway of the Yangtze River, if it is opened, Yang Chao feels that he will not be able to eat it all, and it will be enough for him to raise troops in the future, which is a big problem related to his future foundation, so he personally went out and brought elite soldiers and strong generals.

"Lord Yang, let's stop at Zhenjiang tonight."

The wind and water are smooth, the sky is beautiful, the speed of the ship is much faster than Yang Chao expected, only in the evening, it is outside Zhenjiang, the He family's family suggested spending the night in Zhenjiang, otherwise they can't find the next port and have to anchor temporarily, the risk is too great.

Considering that he had walked more than 100 miles today, which was more than double his plan, Yang Chao felt that he had enough time to stop.

Stopped overnight, set sail early the next morning, Zhenjiang to the east of the river, separated by the island in the middle of the lake, the river changes, there are mountains, there are reefs, after this section of the area guide requires the sail to slow down.

Therefore, at noon, I walked out less than 20 miles, and not far from Jinshan was Jiaoshan, where I met the Jiangshui soldiers guarding the town.

The guide is an old water ghost who often runs this part of the road, and he reported the name and negotiated with the sailors, and gave a few taels of tea money and let him go.

Of course, if the sailors are unreasonable, Yang Chao also has a way, and it doesn't matter if he forcibly breaks through, he has the patrol craftsman given by Xiong Mingyu in his hand, and he is not afraid of lawsuits.

But more is better than less, this time it's to lay the cornerstone of the road, not to cause trouble, and the guide can solve it of course the best.

There are a number of water camps near Zhenjiang, because this is the important place of Caoyun, and the terrain is complex, many places are easy to defend and difficult to attack, when Zheng Chenggong attacked Nanjing along the river in later generations, he fought in this area, when the Qing army was connected with iron cables between Jinshan and Jiaoshan, and set up artillery on the floating camp to block the river.

Zheng Chenggong sent people to dive and cut the iron cable, and the boat set fire to the wooden floating camp before it could continue to flow upstream.

Come to Jiaoshan and continue to the east, and go out for forty miles, there is a small mountain, the mountain is a little higher than Jiaoshan, but it is still a small mountain, no more than three hundred meters high, you can see a high tower on the mountain from a distance, probably a Buddhist temple.

This mountain is called Yuanshan, and there is also a water camp, but it is not a big camp like the Xinjiangkou, but a sub-camp guarded by the generals, which is under the jurisdiction of the Zhenjiang camp.

However, not only did the Yuanshan Camp not embarrass them, but arranged berths for them to rest here for the night, because the Yuanshan Staff General and the He family are old friends.

The next day, we set out from Yuanshan and passed through the waterway in the south of Yangzhong Island, and on this day we traveled more than 100 miles and arrived at Ligang, Jiangyin County to rest.

After that, it was delayed for two days in Junshan and Xiangshan, which were close at hand, because of the sudden rainstorm and the strong wind, and the ship was in danger of capsizing.

On the sixth day, the weather returned to normal and continued to set off, and soon crossed the sandbar, crossed the sandbar and saved the Jiangyin boundary, and entered the territory of Suzhou, which is the water area between Sanzhangpu of Suzhou Prefecture and Wolf Mountain of Yangzhou Mansion in Jiangbei.

Here encountered a few small boats that could be used, and the warship that followed Yang Chao had been walking for several miles, and Yang Chao had already put on all the soldiers to put on armor and prepare for battle, but the small boat left on its own.

I don't dare to say whether the boat is a river bandit or not, but it must have bad intentions.

Although it was still early, the guide still suggested to take refuge in nearby Fushan, and the guide said that there are often river bandits in this vicinity, because there are many uninhabited sandbars on the river in this area, and the sandbar is a tall reed in summer and autumn, which is very convenient for river bandits to hide. (To be continued)