Chapter 258: It's Time for Sea Trade Again
"You, how can you talk nonsense, how can I ever do it with you, do things that cross the thunder pool!"
When he returned to the house, Ren Siqi saw Zhang Pujia's eyes swollen like peaches. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Hey," Ren Siqi lowered his head a little weakly, "I wanted to say that I couldn't help but kiss you, but your father didn't wait for me to finish speaking!" ”
"You just did it on purpose, deliberately ruined my name, so as to make my father angry!" Zhang Pujia Bingxue was smart, and she saw through Ren Siqi's original intention at once. Although he understands his affection for him, he shouldn't talk nonsense, knowing that honor is the most important thing for a girl.
"Pu Jia, I was wrong!" Ren Siqi walked up to her and raised his hand to wipe the tears from her face.
Zhang Pujia hurriedly took two steps back, dodging Ren Siqi's hand.
"If you want me to go back to Daishan with you, you must treat me politely, and you must not be underestimated to me. Otherwise, I'd rather die! Zhang Pujiayuan opened her eyes and stared at Ren Siqi vigorously.
"Why bother, Sister Pujia, don't worry, I, I will never do anything disrespectful to you!" Ren Siqi's old face was flushed, and he hurriedly made a guarantee. Although Zhang Pujia is demure and gentle, her temperament is very stubborn, Ren Siqi used to respect and fear her, and never dared to do anything to make her angry.
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Gray came out of Zhang Pujia's room, kicked Xiong Er's ass with a strange smile on his face, and went directly to the city to convene the generals to discuss the matter. Xiong Er rubbed his buttocks, and followed behind Ren Siqi.
Mao Eighteen, Sima Nan and others all had smiles on their faces, which made Ren Siqi feel quite unhappy.
"General, the materials in Dinghai Customs and Dinghai City have been almost counted, and all thirty-five artillery pieces have been loaded onto the ship and transported back to Daishan. What should we do next? Song Liben stepped forward and said.
Everyone looked at Ren Siqi, and they all looked at him with anticipation.
Ren Siqi knew what they meant, that is, he hoped that he could give an order to send troops to Ningbo and the city of Yinxian County!
Alas, although there are many brave generals under him, he also lacks people with strategic vision, Ren Siqi said secretly.
"What does Song Zhenfu think we should do next?" Ren Siqi asked Song Libendao. Among the subordinates, only Song Li instinctively served one or two.
"General, my subordinates think that we have gained enough from this dispatch of troops to Dinghai, and there is no need to continue." Song Liben thought about it and expressed his opinion.
"Of course, the more benefits, the better, besides, didn't Xiucai keep saying that he wanted to give those gentry a little color to see, and if he didn't send troops to Ningbo, how could he give them a little color." Mao Eighteen asked dissatisfiedly.
"Commander Mao, you're right, but now that we have captured the gentry's ships, defeated Wang Zhiren's fleet, and occupied Wang Zhiren's lair, isn't this a little color for the gentry?
Ningbo is a big mansion, the city is strong, if we really come to the city, can we attack the city? If you can't capture Ningbo, how will it end? ”
"If we stop now, it will be a friction with the Dinghai Navy, if it is really under the city of Ningbo, it will be a rebellion!"
Song Liben's words were very organized, so that everyone could not refute them.
"What about rebellion?" Mao 18 muttered, and then stopped.
"What Song Zhenfu said is indeed reasonable, we have gained a lot in this battle, and it is time to digest the results. Besides, the southeast monsoon has been blowing for many days, so it's time to go to Japan! Ren Siqi looked at Song Liben with satisfaction and concluded.
"yes, why did you forget to go to Japan!" Mao 18 slapped his thigh and said excitedly. And the eyes of the people lit up.
"There are a lot of things going on here in Daishan, and I'm afraid I won't be able to go to Japan in person this time. Fortunately, the route to Japan has been opened, and we have established a good relationship with the Matsuura family and Li Guosuke, so it doesn't matter if I go or not. Ren Siqi said with a smile.
"Xiucai, if you don't go, what will happen to that young lady of the Matsuura family?" Mao 18 made a joke about Ren Siqi.
"Shh Ren Siqi looked around with a weak heart, and said to Mao Eighteen complainingly: "Brother Eighteen doesn't dare to talk nonsense now, what if you let Pu Jia hear it?" ”
"Hahaha!" The crowd burst out laughing.
Ren Siqi shook his head awkwardly, and waited for everyone to laugh before re-speaking.
"This time I will go to Japan and be led by the eighteenth brother, the eighteenth brother is a subordinate of the old master, and he can also have some friendship with Li Guozhu. Song Zhenfu will be in charge of the transaction, and I will assign Ren Xuetang to be responsible for managing the accounts. "Ren Xuetang is Ren Siqi's cousin, and it is not that he is not worried about Mao Shibai and Song Liben when he is sent to take care of the accounts. But the system cannot be abolished. Mao XVIII was responsible for leading the fleet and was responsible for possible naval battles. Song Liben was in charge of trade and logistics. The accounts are in charge of Ren Xuetang, and the rights and responsibilities of everyone are clear, and each has its own responsibilities.
"There are many ships to trade this time, and the volume of goods is large, which is also of great significance to my Daishan Island. I will send more people to assist Song Zhenfu and Brother Eighteen, all of this is up to the two of you! ”
The fleet that went to Japan for trade this time can be described as extremely large, with 19 captured sea ships, and Daishan has also purchased a large number of raw silk and other goods through Cen Port in the past few months, which can fill two sea ships in total. In this way, there were twenty-one cargo ships going to Japan, and in order to escort the convoy, at least one detachment was needed to protect it. This formed a huge caravan of more than fifty ships.
The goods on the ship are worth millions of taels of silver, and if they are sold in Japan, it is estimated that the silver taels brought back will be millions of taels, so much wealth, it is impossible to be too careful!
Hearing that Ren Siqi sent Mao Eighteen as the commander to be responsible for trade with Japan, Sima Nan's face showed a trace of gloom, and all this was looked at by Ren Siqi.
The reason why Ren Siqi sent Mao 18 instead of Sima Nan to Japan was mainly because of Mao 18's loyalty to himself, after all, Sima Nan had a history of betrayal, and Ren Siqi was not too relieved to put so much wealth in his hands.
This is not that Ren Siqi suspects that Sima Nan has different intentions, Sima Nan has moved his family to Daishan Island, and it is impossible to betray him again.
"Brother Eighteen and Song Zhen have a great responsibility to go to Japan, but the rest of you will not have an easy future."
"Next, I plan to go to Shandong again to recruit Shandong refugees. Our infantry is still too small to withstand a big battle.
I will go to Shandong in person. The navy was led by Brother Sima and was responsible for commanding all the ships, and Jin Yufei accompanied him with a thousand infantry. The remaining 1,000 infantry guarded the port of Daishancen. Daishan was left behind by Cao Changjiang's eldest brother, and Cen Gang was handed over to Ren Xingfan. The Olier fleet stayed at Daishan to warn of a possible counterattack by Wang Zhiren's troops. ”
After Wang Zhiren's defeat, because Dinghai had been lost, he fled to Xiangshan with the remaining twenty or so sailing ships. The water conditions there are complicated and there are many islands, and Ren Siqi has no intention of sending troops to pursue them and kill them all.
But since Wang Zhiren has troops in his hands, Ren Siqi can't help but consider his possible counterattack. However, Ren Siqi had already ordered the rebuilding of Cen Port, collected 2,000 archers to build a small city in Cen Port, and transported the artillery captured in Dinghai to Cen Port 20 guns, there were so many artillery, there were 500 elite soldiers, and a small city that could be defended, Ren Siqi was not afraid of Wang Zhiren's sneak attack at all.
Moreover, the islands are now under the rule of Daishan, and as long as there is wind and grass, the fishermen of each island will send letters to Daishan. Ren Siqi was not afraid of Wang Zhiren and the Ningbo gentry's counterattack.
During the conversation, Ren Siqi arranged all the affairs. And they all went away to their own accord.
Ren Siqi stayed in Dinghai for another two days, and only then did he leave Dinghai with all the seized materials on board.
In the past two days, the gentry of Ningbo did not reply at all, and did not send people to negotiate again. Ren Siqi didn't want to pay attention to them anymore.
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The ship returned to Daishan, and Ren Siqi took Zhang Pujia's master and servant into Gaoting Town.
"Master, you're back!" As soon as she entered the yamen of the inspection department, a beautiful girl pounced over with a gust of fragrant wind, pulling Ren Siqi's sleeve and holding on, it was the maid Amakusa Kaede.
"Who is she?" Zhang Pujia and Que'er opened their eyes wide at the same time. At the age of fourteen or fifteen, he is not tall, but he looks unusually delicate and beautiful.
Such a young girl can also do it, Zhang Pujia looked at Ren Siqi's eyes full of coldness.
"Well, this, don't get me wrong. This is Kaede Amakusa, the little girl I rescued when I was in Japan last year, and now my maid. Ren Siqi touched his nose and introduced Amakusa Feng to Zhang Pujia.
"Ah Cao, this is Miss Zhang, she will be your housemother in the future, this is Sister Qi'er, and she is Miss Zhang's maid."
"Mistress, is that your wife?" Amakusa Kaede opened her round and big eyes and asked Ren Siqi.
"Yes, it will be my lady from now on!" Ren Siqi nodded.
"She's your wife, what about Miss Huang?" Amakusa Feng's words made Ren Siqi shocked, and the chill emitted by Zhang Pujia was even more compelling.
"This, I'll talk about Miss Huang's matter later, that Ah Cao, you take the housemother to settle down and let her live in the best room.
Hehe, finch, you are not allowed to bully Ah Cao, otherwise I will not spare you! ”
Ren Siqi snorted and fled under the angry gaze of the finch.
"Your name is Amakusa Kaede, and you look so beautiful!" Zhang Pujia stepped forward and grabbed Amakusa Kaede's hand and looked up and down.
"Master, you are really beautiful, no wonder the master likes you so much and brought you to Daishan." Amakusa Kaede also looked at Zhang Pujia and praised her heartily.
Zhang Pujia smiled, plucked a hairpin from her head, and gently inserted it on Amakusa Feng's head.
"This hairpin will be given to you, by the way, don't call me my mistress in the future, I haven't married him yet."
Amakusa Kaede touched the hairpin on his head and was overjoyed.
"And what should I call you?"
"Just call me Miss, just like the finch."
"By the way, who is Miss Huang you just said? Can you tell me about it? (To be continued.) )