Ushijima at the beginning of September is a good time for autumn to be crisp.

The sky was pure and clear like a whole pale blue gem, and not even a trace of cloud could be seen; The sea breeze, which had been raging for two days, also calmed down, and the faint fishy smell of sea water blew on people's faces; Ushijima seems to have changed into a late autumn costume overnight, with fiery red maple leaves, golden sycamores, and dark green pines and cypresses...... Colorful, like a fairyland on earth; On the western skyline, Halla Mountain, with a hat worn by snow, looks taller and taller through the pure, almost transparent air.

On the south battery, Chu Fan looked at the sail shadow of the Galen ship that was getting farther away, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

Don't die if you want money!

It was with this frenzied pursuit of profit that the European merchants of this era were able to imprint their footprints all over the world! This set off a huge wave of commerce all over the world, and directly forced Europe itself, triggering wave after wave of industrialization, until another giant rose from the Americas.

By contrast, the pursuit of profit by Chinese businessmen is far from this level of fanaticism, and what is even more fatal is that the idea of agriculture is too deep-rooted - buy land as soon as you make money, and prefer lower returns to be safe.

Coupled with the strong official-oriented thinking, successful businessmen will be transformed into official eunuchs after one or two generations at most, and they will be firmly bound to the bureaucratic system of the feudal dynasty, and they will no longer have any commercial vitality, let alone force the production end, leading to the industrial revolution.

"Yixian, I think we still suffered a loss this time!" Chen Shangren's words pulled Chu Fan out of his contemplation, "Seven or eight glass gourds, as well as that set of glass plates, if you compare the price of crystals, they can be sold for at least fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver...... If you sell it to this profiteer for 30,000 taels, won't he take a big advantage? "——Chu Fan spent three or four days. Another batch of glass was fired as the first batch of products for the agent Alfonso.

"Uncle Shi, the account can't be calculated like this," Chu Fan smiled and said, "First of all, if you don't act as an agent for Alfonso, it is impossible for his goods to be sold to us at a low price." We made a profit on this first; Secondly, we still have to rely on him to sell this glass to the west, if we don't give it enough sweetness, Uncle Shi, do you say he will be so dedicated? ”

Speaking of this, Chu Fan patted the stout 18-pounder cannon beside him again, "This is the end of it...... This is what we urgently need at the moment, and if we ask him to buy it directly, he will definitely open his mouth again...... I've calculated the 30,000 taels of glass. Coincidentally, it was just right to offset his payment for goods and cash...... If he wants to sell glassware further, he can only sell cannons! …… Doesn't this just solve our problem, does he still have to be grateful to us? ”

Chu Fan's calculations had actually been discussed repeatedly with Chen Shangren before, but the old man's ears were a little soft, and after being affected by Ge Bi's clamor of "squeezing this profiteer dry", he seemed to feel that he had suffered again.

Chu Fan turned to the shadow of the sail that had already loomed on the Galen ship, as if to appease Chen Shangren. And he seemed to be talking to himself," he said. I still count on Alfonso to buy more Arab-Malays, how can I do it without sufficient funds? ”

Not to mention that Chu Fan is staring at the shadow of the sail, at the foot of Nanshan, there is also a person who is also holding his knees and staring at the shadow of the sail, that is Hailan Pao, who has not gone out much these days.

This wild man didn't know what happened today, he had always been heartless and heartless, and he actually became melancholy. A man came to the beach in a muffled voice and was stunned.

Since he followed Bi Lao Bolt to Chu Fan, Hai Lanbao felt that the biggest problem in her life had been completely solved - to eat a full stomach!

I don't know if it's because of his peculiar temperament or some other reason, he rarely feels "full" when he is a child.

It turned out that when he followed Alepto, he could still be half-full when he sent troops to fight, and the little coarse grain in the village on weekdays was not enough for Hailan to plug his teeth. So what he searched for all day long was to hunt down the living creatures in the mountains; When I fled all the way to Jinzhouwei and followed Bi Laoshuan, it was even more miserable, not to mention starving at both ends for three days, and when I finally had food, the porridge that was so rare that it could shine a human figure no matter how much I drank, it was like not drinking, and after soaking in urine, there was still that kind of burning hunger in my stomach!

When I arrived in Dengzhou, when I had dinner for the first time in Chu Fan's new house, I shocked the aunts who were cooking! People who can eat have also seen it, but Hailan has lived for most of their lives, not to mention that they have never seen it, and they have never even heard of it: seven or eight face plates-sized, thick green onion cakes, sprinkled with catties and minced mutton in three or two bites, and the rice porridge that is so thick that it does not fall down with chopsticks will kill a sea bowl in one go...... Don't worry, it's just the first round!

He did this way of eating for eight rounds! Rao is like this, he even muttered a few stiff Chinese characters to Bi Laoshuan, who was beaten to death and didn't let him eat anymore: That's it, it will be full!

When this matter was passed on to Chu Fan as a joke, the latter specially found Bi Laozhuan and the person in charge of the kitchen, and instructed, no matter how much Hailan eats in a meal, he is full!

From then on, Hailan Pao felt like he had entered heaven: a meal for a total of 17 people in the night team went into the stomach of this big man!

He is an extremely simple person, of course he knows who his happy life comes from, so now every time he sees Chu Fan, he will seriously lie down and kowtow three times, no matter how the latter dissuades him, it is useless.

The well-fed Hailan Pao is happy most of the time, and everyone he sees is poking out his yellow teeth, but there are exceptions, such as today.

Since getting up in the morning, Hailan Pao has been shaking the clear Hunhe River, the dense pine forest in the half-ditch, and the big tree at the entrance of the village...... And, of course, the Alepto family's stove, covered with thick straw and blackened by smoke; the group of fat pigs in the courtyard who were humming and chirping around; and a long string of red flesh hanging under the eaves......

The wild man had a bad brain, and he couldn't figure out why he kept popping up all these old foods and scenes when he was already full.

If Hailan Pao had read the book, he would have understood, this is called nostalgia!

I don't know if I know, after looking at the sea for most of the hour, Hailan Bao finally remembered that she still has a very important thing to do, which must be done! - Kill the noble man in a black bear skin and bright gold earrings on his ears to avenge Alepto!

Thousands of miles away, on the endless grassland west of Shenyang, Yue Tuo, who was hurrying down the aisle with Sun Zhenwu, sneezed for no reason, he couldn't help but tighten the bearskin coat on his body, and muttered, "Immortal God bless, don't catch a cold." ”

The place he was going to was the most eye-catching golden tent on the grassland, and he wanted to meet Huang Taiji and tell him a plan he had been thinking about for a long time—

Build a post-gold water master! (To be continued.) )