Chapter 243: Manipulating People's Hearts
Goho Maritime has been based in Hirado for more than 20 years. There are a lot of jars and jars in each family, and it is not so easy to clean up.
In the second half of the night, Qin Lin stood on the trestle. Not far away, I saw a dark-skinned sister-in-law in her thirties, holding a wooden textile machine in her left hand and a heavy suitcase in her right hand, moving to the dock with difficulty, and her pair of children were also carrying an iron pot and a bowl tied with straw rope on their heads to help their mother lighten her burden.
"Hi. What are you moving these for? "The woman's husband was carrying a burden in his left hand. Holding the white-haired old lady in her right hand, she walked over and snatched the wooden spinning machine in the woman's hand: "The gold boat owner said that each person can only bring thirty catties of things, and your textile machine is clumsy and heavy, can you take it on board?" ”
There are many large ships in Wufeng Maritime Merchants, but Pinghu Port needs to transfer more family members, and they have to leave part of the load to load food and fresh water, and carry self-defense weapons, so there are not many things that each family can carry. Every family is a family journey, and they want to bring everything, cups, plates, dishes, iron pots, and wooden chopsticks, which ones are not exchanged for sweat and eight petals? The diligent and thrifty hostesses are reluctant to throw down the stone grinding plate!
Therefore, Jin Yingji had no choice but to stipulate that no matter men, women, or children, each person could only carry thirty catties of things, and weigh them before stepping on the gangplank on the dock.
Of course, it will be difficult to implement. Every household wants to carry as many things as possible. Whether it's worth it or not, it's all sweat!
The woman whose spinning machine had been taken away by her husband cried out with red eyes: "! Without spinning machine. What shall I use to spin the thread, and what shall I use to mend the nets for you? What is the reason for staying up vigil every day with oil lamps? ”
"You!" Her husband's eyes widened. Faced with an uncertain fate, he was in a bad mood. was touched by his wife's snatching, and the man who came and went in the wind and waves would not be gentle and considerate, so he stretched out his hand and slapped the woman twice.
The woman started crying, "Holding the two children and wiping her tears: "Okay." Wu Erwa, you can still beat your wife, you have the ability to beat my mother and son to death! ”
For a time the woman howled and the child cried. Wu Erwa was so anxious that she rubbed her hands.
The cry reached the wharf, and many of the hostesses looked back at the houses they had worked so hard to build, the vegetables that had not yet had time to be harvested in front of and behind the houses, and the chickens and pigs that could not be taken away from the yard, and tears flowed down as if the floodgates had been opened.
Originally, the seafarers on the dock who were responsible for checking the weight of the things carried by each family were very unbearable. Seeing this situation is more and more sour. Let's force every family to throw away things." Turn a blind eye, and the ship will exceed its load in a moment. If the voyage encounters a slight wind and waves, there will be a danger of capsizing. What a dilemma!
Looking at this scene, Rao is Qin Lin's heart was like an iron stone, and he couldn't help but grit his teeth fiercely at this time.
Quan Zhengyin and other maritime leaders watched the situation by the trestle, and all their own ships were uniformly mobilized. Now the valuable goods in the warehouse, no pepper, sumac, silk, or satin can be transported. Try your best to tell them not to hold out any hopes, but the feeling of throwing away a lot of wealth in vain is as uncomfortable as scratching your heart.
Suddenly, the small "Guang" field in front of the Mazu Temple was lit up with a sky-high fire, and the people on the dock looked at it in surprise, and immediately their eyes fell to the ground: what was burning there was not firewood, but a lot of valuable Ning silk, Yun Jin, and Shu embroidery! These used to be worn only by dignitaries. Goods that are sold overseas and have to be sold several times more in value are piled up and set on fire like worthless timber and coal!
Before the blazing fire. Dressed in a black coat, Jin Sakurahime is directing the maids to keep throwing the silk into the fire, and the face of the melon seeds is baked red by the heat, "The dancing fire reflects the charming face, and the flames rise from behind" making her like a phoenix reborn from the fire.
No one objected to Jin Sakura's decision anymore, and the maritime merchants below the rank of Quan Zhengyin bowed their heads in shame, and the woman who was crying with a pair of children silently wiped away her tears and silently put the spinning wheel that had accompanied her through countless nights on the side of the road.
"Mother, father, I'm confused", the woman lowered her head.
The man's guilty smile was actually more ugly than crying, and he didn't know how to express his apologies" just stroked the top of the heads of two and a half children with his big rough hands.
But the old woman coughed for a while: "Feng'er, second baby, do you remember what it was like to go to sea with the old lord to escape?" We, let's come to Hirado with our bare hands, more than 20 years have passed, you two have grown up, married, and have children, and we have accumulated a lot of money compared to the villagers who were sunk by the wind and waves. We haven't lived in vain in the past 20 years! ”,
The husband and wife looked at each other, and the woman's face showed a shyness that only girlhood can only have, and the husband was full of strength as when he was a teenager.
Back then, he had nothing, but he was able to build a home in Hirado, and now he still has the appeasement and official identity of the imperial court, so he is not afraid of it wherever he goes!
The order of the boarding ship was restored, and everything that was overweight, whether it was the fine soft carried by the rich merchant or the pots and pans of the sailors, was thrown into the water.
"Hey, it's a pity", Lu Fatzi chirped, seeing those abandoned valuable goods and the silk burned by Jin Yingji, he couldn't help but muttered in a low voice: "It seems that we can still bring something on the ship............
Poof, Qin Lin squirted out.
Kanesakura is worthy of being the new generation of Goho owners. It is completely worthy of the four words of courage and determination, the unified requisition of all ships, the equal distribution of the load by all members regardless of whether they are rich or poor, and the burning of the satin cargo that cannot be taken away by example, this is a genius strategy to ensure the smooth progress of the transfer!
It is conceivable that from now on, the status of the owner of the Golden Sakura Ji Wufeng will be unshakable, and in the minds of all maritime merchants, she is the embodiment of fairness and justice.
However, those valuable goods, Qin Lin thought of Lu Fatzi's pity, so he couldn't help but sigh and said, "The chief is naturally happy when he succeeds in soothing him, but the poor little ones can't take away the little furniture they have worked so hard to accumulate, so they have to cheapen the chief of the Sea Dragon King." You can still have a lot of cargo on that ship, right? Help the little ones load. How about our five-fives? ……
Maritime merchants started from trade, and naturally had a sense of equal consultation, and it was very rare for businessmen in the mainland to talk to officials like this, but Quan Zhengyin felt that it was normal to talk to Qin Lin about five or five openings, and it was beneficial for both sides.
Qin Lin smiled dumbly, narrowed his eyes and said slowly, "If this official wants to make a profit, why bother with five or five points?" ……
Quan Zhengyin almost fell into the sea when he heard this, and he admired this black-hearted and spicy chief, indeed just like Qin Lin said, he can take away all the valuable goods that he can't take away, and he doesn't have to share them with others at all.
Hearing this, Wufeng Maritime Merchants could only secretly say bad luck, while Huo Chonglou and Lu Fatzi had bright eyes. Prepare to take advantage of the fire to make a big profit.
Qin Lin turned his words around, and looked at Quan Zhengyin with a smile: "If you want to bring more valuable goods, it's not simple?" It's better to ask for others than for yourself. "What do you mean, sir?" ”。 Quan Zheng followed Qin Lin's gaze. looked at the sailors who helped the old and the young, and brought their own pots and pans.
"At critical moments, resources should be reasonably allocated". Qin Lin smiled and nodded.
The other maritime merchants were still confused, and the nimble Quan Zhengyin had already rushed over to find his men: "Hurry up, hurry up, throw you rags away." Bring valuable goods for me, and we'll have five or five points after docking! ”。
Families were feeling sorry for the spinners and stone grinding discs that they had thrown away, but they didn't expect pies to suddenly fall from the sky. There is such a good thing.
Throwing away some pots and pans, helping the rich merchant shipowner to bring valuable goods, and arriving at the shore can be fifty-fifty, this is simply a profitable deal, who refuses. Who has a pig brain!
At that time, many sailors and their families abandoned their belongings and turned to bring gold and silver for the rich merchants, anyway, they were originally the owners and employers, and they were afraid that they would not have a friendship of one or two decades, and they could trust each other.
Other wealthy businessmen did the same. They all discussed with their sailors in this way, and talked about it in three or seven or four or six, but fortunately, they all knew that the matter was urgent, and an agreement was reached in a while.
Huo Chonglou and Lu Yuanzhi saw that the duck in their hands flew away again, and the pity in their hearts, the fat man pushed Huo Chonglou: "Hey, old Huo, can you swim?" ……
"What?" ”。 Huo Chonglou blinked his eyes.
"There's a lot of stuff in the water, let's go fish up and ......." , not to mention, Huo Chonglou is really excited.
"Where are you, just that?" ”。 Qin Lin pursed his lips disdainfully.
The fat man is the roundworm in Qin Lin's belly. Look at him like this. Dengshi's eyes lit up: "Could it be, Brother Qin, you?" ……
Jin Yingji shook lightly and walked over with a smile.
Lu Fatzi suddenly realized: Qin Lin gave Quan Zhengyin the method he came up with, how could he not have a plan? This is clearly the double reed that he sang with Jin Sakurahime! I'm afraid that Jin Sakurahime's valuable goods have already been quietly loaded onto this big ship............
, "Brother Qin is so leisurely...... Jin Yingji deliberately deflated her small mouth, and whispered as if she was resentful: "Seeing that the slave family is busy like that, the little wrongdoer will not come to help." ”
Qin Lin smiled dryly: "I'm afraid that from now on, the owner of the ship will be worshiped by the tens of thousands of sailors and family members of the Wufeng Maritime Merchant!" ……
Indeed, the sailors thought that they had suffered heavy losses, but they didn't expect that the transfer of the family could also get an unexpected fortune, and it was really a joy from the sky, and it was not because of the fair distribution of the load by Jin Yingji?
The wealthy maritime merchants also understood that the basis of their wealth was not the small amount of gold and silver, but the ships and experienced sailors, and the loss of a little floating wealth during the great migration, in exchange for the allegiance of the sailors, would come from the time of resurgence.
"You are cunning, I really don't know how the brain was born." Jin Yingji's fingers were also like spring onions, and the corners of Qin Lin's forehead were lightly touched, and her eyes were extremely soft.
Tens of thousands of people and hundreds of ships from Wufeng Maritime Merchants were basically boarded until noon, and several scouts sent out at this time flew back and reported: "The forward of the Shimazu family is only fifteen miles away from Hirado!" ……! ~!