Two days later, Liu Cun sent away the angels who returned with a full load, still unable to sort out the chaotic thoughts, fortunately, the fleet returned smoothly at this time, Liu Cun declined as many as hundreds of invitations from all directions, and pulled Mi Zhu and Wang Qi to Zhushan Port.

The wide Zhushan Port wharf was already crowded with people, and the laughter of joy was scattered everywhere, Lu Jiu, the chief manager of the caravan, and Bao Ji Bao Laosan, the captain of the navy, became the objects of the stars holding the moon, Liu Ye and a group of scholars were full of pride, and took the wine offered by Gongsun Pei and Tian Mu and others, and drank it very proudly.

Liu Cun's two chief butlers, Lu Ping and Lu An, surrounded the piles of goods and horses that were constantly unloaded from the ship, and they were so excited that they kept turning around, and the 500 sailors who had returned were even more bullish, and in the envious eyes of thousands of sailors and thousands of people, they proudly depicted the scenery of Liaodong and Sanhan.

The arrival of Liu Cun and Wang Qi and others made the cheers on the dock even higher-pitched, Lu Jiu and Bao Laosan hurriedly greeted them, and Liu Cun, who was full of joy in both directions, saluted, and the officers and soldiers behind the two and more than a dozen disciples of Liu Cun also bent down and shouted in unison.

Liu Cun, who was full of smiles, picked up the refreshed Lu Jiu and Bao Laosan: "Good job!" The ninth, the third, hard work! ”

"It's not hard, the voyage went well." Lu Jiu said with a smile.

Bao Laosan grinned and showed his white teeth: "I thought I would encounter one or two robbers, but I didn't expect all the ships along the way to see our fleet and big ships, they were all scared stupid, when passing the coast of Sanhan, the soldiers on several small boats saw our fleet from a distance, and they were so frightened that they jumped off the ship directly, and they seemed to swim ashore and shouted desperately, haha!" ”

Everyone laughed, and they didn't need to think much to know what the situation was, the largest ship in the entire Han Dynasty was not as big as its own three-hundred-ton fortune ship, not to mention that there were two majestic three-hundred-ton warships in the fleet that looked more slender, and the ships of those small barbarian countries in the east were almost like bathtubs compared to the big warships.

Liu Ye and the others quickly squeezed through the crowd to meet each other, and after a few greetings, Liu Ye said excitedly: "Brother, the younger brother has seen Jeju Island marked on the nautical chart!" ”

Liu Cun was taken aback: "How did you come to Jeju Island?" Jeju Island is more than 400 miles away from the nearest point of this route, and it is located in the southeast direction of the route, what is going on? ”

Liu Yele pointed to Lu Jiu hahaha, Lu Jiu hurriedly explained: "Not long after leaving Chengshanjiao, there was no sun in the sky, and I felt that the wind direction was endless and unclear as I walkedAt first, I didn't dare to admit it, so I stopped near the anchor, put down the boat and boarded the big island for a long time, and repeatedly asked the natives on the island to confirm that it was the Jeju Island mentioned by the lord. The fleet stopped overnight at the southwest corner of Jeju Island, gave ten pieces of cloth to the natives in the village on the shore, and then walked around the east of Jeju Island to the northeast. ”

Liu Cun suddenly felt lucky, and even cheered, dragged Mu Heng behind Liu Ye and asked, "Why is Sinan on the boat useless?" ”

Mu Heng lowered his head in shame: "In a hurry, I didn't remember to use Sinan to correct the route against the charts when I got lost, but at that time it was already two hundred miles away from the route." ”

Liu Cun couldn't cry or laugh, and it was not good for so many people to criticize his disciples, so he had to tell him to transcribe the logbook as soon as possible and send it over, and then continue to talk about Jeju with everyone: "Are there many people on Jeju Island?" ”

"Not much, we asked the natives on the island, and they said that there are still a few villages, living in the north, west, southeast and northeast of the central mountain, and we sailed along Jeju Island for most of the circle, and we only saw a few small villages with dozens of families scattered for hundreds of miles." Liu Ye, who keeps a nautical diary and scenery along the way every day, replied.

Bao Laosan, who has the best eyesight, added: "Lord, there are few villages along the coast of Jeju Island, and the few broken fishing boats I have seen are not as good as the offshore shrimp fishing boats put together by our villagers. ”

Liu Cun's eyes lit up, he avoided this topic a little, and said loudly to everyone: "Go!" Looking at the horse, Mr. Tian couldn't wait. ”

Everyone burst into laughter, and Tian Mu, who was proficient in raising horses, was also happy, and followed Liu Cun and others to a large group of Liaodong horses that had just disembarked.

Mi Zhu didn't have the heart to look at Liaodong horses, followed the red-faced clan brother Mi Feng to the dock, and soon took a small boat to board his two cargo ships, and then pounced on the cabin full of furs, life, deer antler velvet and two large boxes of golden sand.

The profit obtained from this voyage to Liaodong far exceeded Liu Cun and Mi Zhu's estimates, just a boatload of silk and rouge powder and other goods of the Mi family, which earned him a net profit of 800 gold, and the remaining half of a shipload of various combs and hardware tools worth 300 gold were exchanged for a boatload of ginseng and deer antler velvet and precious furs, and the profit after selling really did not know how to calculate.

Most of Liu Cun's four ships of goods were designated for purchase by the Gongsun family of Liaodong, a shipload of armor, leather armor, knives, guns and arrowheads, which brought back a huge income of 1,300 gold to Liu Cun, and other unique and exquisite commodities such as ceramic dishes, bottled spirits, axles, steel saw blades, etc., in exchange for 270 Liaodong horses, two ships of flat ox and sheep skins, 50 tiger skins and 700,000 catties of copper ingots, and the various knives and 600 special swords carried on the two warships were exchanged for 1,400 catties of dog's head gold.

Although the Han system is only more than 249 grams per catty, Liu Cun was still shocked after the conversion, and that night he discussed secretly with Mi Zhu, Liu Ye, Wang Qi and Huo Jian, Han Yang and other henchmen who rushed to hear the news, and soon passed a far-reaching resolution:

In the name of the "Langya Money Company", a joint venture between Mijia Commercial Bank and Langya Chamber of Commerce, the best technology and materials are used to carve the best abrasives, and a large number of gold coins equivalent to 25 grams are produced, that is, ten gold coins are minted in one pound of gold, which is equivalent to 1,000 baht coins.

The obverse of the gold coin is the pattern of the sailing Dafu boat, and the reverse is the "Langya Money Bank" and the Han year number surrounded by wheat ears, which were temporarily used for trading and circulation within Xuzhou and Yangcheng County in the early stage, and then slowly expanded to the surrounding areas!

The ban on coinage of the imperial court is limited to copper coins, and there have never been any regulations and prohibitions on gold currencies such as horseshoe gold, the main currency other than copper coins, and many wealthy families and giant merchants of the Han Dynasty are also melting gold cakes and gold bars of different weights to facilitate their perennial bulk trade settlement, for decades, the imperial court has no opinion on this, but so far, there is no gold coin with an average weight and simple conversion that can be accepted by the world, therefore, Liu Cun and his henchmen are full of confidence in the circulation of gold coins in the world.

After solving the major matter of coinage circulation, Liu Cun raised the issue of the establishment of government agencies in Chengyang County, as well as the personnel problems of several counties except Langya, Dong'an, and Dongguan.

Liu Cun's meaning is very clear, Langya, Dong'an, and Dongguan remain unchanged, and the rest of the counties must replace their own people and send their own troops as soon as possible, otherwise all the previous efforts may be in vain.

Wang Qi is very relaxed and comfortable, he is the county lieutenant who commands the army of the eleven counties in the county, one of the two or so lieutenants is Ji Wei, and the other is nominated by him, Liu Cun has great trust in Wang Qi, and he is not willing to involve energy on this issue.

Wang Qi had a good grasp of Liu Cun's thoughts, and as soon as Liu Cun's words fell, he recommended Gongsun Pei, the chief of staff, as the county leader.

This proposal was immediately approved by everyone, Gongsun Pei had been a Beijing official, although he was only a Lang official, but with his rich life experience and full of strategy, he was fully qualified to sit in the position of the county prince. Gongsun Pei, who was deep and confident, immediately recommended Han Yang to serve as Liu Cun's Shaofu Shi and manage the money bag and Langya money bank for Liu Cun.

Gongsun Pei's recommendation was also approved by everyone, because no one here was faster than Han Yang, no one was more shrewd and cunning than Han Yang, and Han Yang did not have the ability to smile while calculating.

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