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The large-scale smuggling of Qushan Island is only a matter of recent decades, to be precise, it has lasted for a while, and the most prosperous is in the Chongzhen period, although the Central Plains is full of war, but the coastal maritime trade is unusually developed.

It is all the arrogance and short-sightedness of the rulers of these generations. I think that the Heavenly Empire has everything, and I really don't know how vast this world is. In fact, Geng Jingzhong remembered another one, that is, these seas in the past dynasties seem to be one with the officials in the imperial court, forming interest groups, and the profits from smuggling are huge, so where do they care about the imperial court or other people!

In general, there is no doubt that the more the sea ban is enforced, the more profitable the maritime trade will be. Silver has long been widely used in the Central Plains, and now it has become legal tender, and at the same time, it is the time for the great development of the Americas and the large-scale mining of silver by Westerners. It can be said that in this era, the best business and the most profitable business is sea trade.

After pondering for a long time, Geng Jingzhong continued to ask, "By the way, how many ships does the fleet of Brother Xian's family have?" ”

As soon as he groaned, Sun Shao said truthfully: "Don't hide it from my brother, there are four three-masted ships with more than 1,000 official materials and two large ships with 1,000 materials at home. ”

Geng Jingzhong nodded, he knew this official material and civilian material, the ship with a thousand civilian materials is about seventeen meters long, six and a half meters wide, and six and a half meters high, and its light displacement is about two hundred and fifty tons. And if it is a ship with a thousand official materials, it will be much larger, about 27 meters long, 8 meters wide, and 8 meters high, with a light displacement of about 600 tons. At the time, according to such a number, it seems that jù. The Sun family's sea trade business is not small. It's a sure thing to go to sea once a year. The profit of such a year is 200,000 taels.

Six ships, Geng Jingzhong was not surprised, such a scale is now considered small in Fujian, Fujian has developed rapidly in the past eight or nine years, not to mention the Kunpeng caravan, other maritime merchants have no less than ten ships, several sea merchants run alone, the largest merchant ship is comparable to the size of the Mawei Army's third-class battleship. The Mawei Army has not expanded its navy in the last three years. This is mainly to consolidate the foundation of the navy, and the other is that the navy is too expensive, and the Mawei army cannot afford to raise more navies for the time being, and the current nearly 200 warships, and the 60,000-strong navy will make the Mawei army feel struggling. You must know that a naval detachment of less than 8,000 people will consume an army division of 20,000 people.

The Mawei Navy is not only the people on the warships, but also the naval school that was built a few years ago, several Mawei military ports, and logistics supply bases. Plus coastal artillery, part of the troops stationed on the islands, etc. But it is all within the scope of the Mawei Navy, let's talk about the Mawei Military Port, this large military port has 15,000 personnel, plus ships, ammunition maintenance, port security and other personnel, this kind of port now has a lot of Mawei Army. In addition, there are backups of personnel in key positions on many important ships, which can be quickly replenished in case of casualties.

On the whole, the real combat personnel of the Mawei Army barely reached 40,000, but this scale is already quite large. People say that the construction of the navy is a long-term process, and it will not be possible to lay a foundation for ten or twenty years, but that is on the basis of poverty and whiteness, there is no shortage of shipbuilders in China's coastal areas, and the technology is good.

"There is a good thing for my brother to know that three of the six big ships in the younger brother's family were forcibly driven away by the Jiangning Navy Division a few years ago, and now there are two official ships and one civilian ship left. At that time, as soon as the family boat came back, it was detained when it passed by the sailor Dazhai, but fortunately there was no cargo on it. The other ships did not dare to continue sailing back at all, and are still staying in Naha, the Ryukyus. The Mawei Army defeated the Jiangning Naval Division, and I heard that it sank and destroyed a huge part of the warships of the Jiangning Naval Division, so I don't have to think about the ships that want to come to my house. However, the three big ships are still some strength on the Jinling side,"

Geng Jingzhong continued to ask, "Hmm, that's it. "Geng Jingzhong knows that many ships of the Qing court's Jiangning Navy Division were requisitioned, but nearly half of them were sunk, and the remaining damaged ones are still being repaired, all of them are under the supervision of the Mawei Navy, go back and see if these ships are returned, but if you take the initiative to give them to the Qing court sailors, you are welcome, and if you want to return them, you will only be forcibly requisitioned." Now you are not the only maritime merchant in Jinling, right? Do you know how much? ”

Sun Shao glanced at Geng Jingzhong and knew what Geng Jingzhong meant, so he said: "Brother doesn't know, of course, the maritime merchants in Jinling will never be the only one in our Sun family, but the imperial court has always banned the sea, so the maritime merchants are not visible after all, so there are really not many people who know the details of each other." ”

"Okay, I'll let others inquire about this, by the way, who is in charge of the fleet?"

"It's my father." Sun Shao replied.

Geng Jingzhong nodded and said, "Maybe I've met Ling Zun, and I'll take time to talk to Ling Zun tomorrow." ”

Hearing this, Sun Shao couldn't help but be overjoyed, since Geng Jingzhong was willing to see his father, it meant that he was willing to stretch out his hand, he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Brother is righteous, the younger brother has thanked him first, and it will be arranged properly tomorrow." At that time, I don't know where my brother lives now, how can my younger brother find you? ”

"Don't bother, I'm with the Mawei Navy, you just need to send the news to the Jinling Garrison Yamen, and someone will notify me when the time comes." Geng Jingzhong smiled and waved his hand.

When Sun Shao heard this, his heart was even more happy, sure enough, this Geng brother had a lot to do with the Mawei Army. The business was over, Sun Shao suddenly felt relaxed, and immediately smiled slightly: "Yu Meiren and Li Yuzhu both have admiration for their brother, I don't know who my brother likes more?" The poppy beauty has long been broken, and she can sleep at night, and the jade bead is still a virgin, and if you want to comb it up, I am afraid that it will take a lot of effort. ”

Thinking of the second daughter, Geng Jingzhong couldn't help but smile slightly, as for the bed. Forget it. Although the poppy is said to be a prostitute. But there are not a few people who are infected with it, there is no condom these years, and there are no antibiotics and special drugs, if you are stained with willow disease, you will have trouble. He just likes it, and he won't be so casual.

As for Yuzhu, he said that he didn't want it to be fake, thinking of her soft and boneless appearance. He was feverish, but he was a little younger, only sixteen years old, and in the next life, he was just in the first year of high school. However, although this Li Yuzhu is not very old, she has developed early, and now she looks like a sixteen-year-old figure, which looks petite, but it is convex and backward. And with her fame. If you want to comb it, I'm afraid it's a lot of money, although Geng Jingzhong is not bad at all. But tonight, I'm afraid that Sun Shao won't let him pay for it.

After a slight groan, he smiled and said, "That's it, let's keep some thoughts." ”

What do you mean by leaving some thoughts? Sun Shao pondered for a while, and then expected that he liked Yuzhu, so he smiled and said: "There are flowers that can be folded straight and must be folded, don't wait for no flowers to break the branches, Yuzhu dance skills are outstanding, there are not a few people who have the heart to comb for her, if the brother is humble, when they meet again, it will be over." ”

Geng Jingzhong smiled slightly and said: "Time is short, I'm afraid it will be difficult to win the hearts of beautiful women, and it is the best policy to let go as soon as possible." ”

Sun Shao was bent on matchmaking, and immediately smiled: "Love at first sight abounds, with the elder brother is suave and brilliant, why waste more time?" So saying, he got up and opened the hatch, and commanded, "Lean in." ”

Geng Jingzhong also got up and pushed open the window, and a cool river breeze came to his face, but he saw that on both sides of the Qinhuai River, every household was hung with lanterns, and there were more or less lanterns hanging on the painting boats on the river, the lights were reflected in the water, the river was flowing, the painting boat was moving, and the lights and shadows of the river seemed to be flowing slowly. Look at this beautiful scenery, Geng Jingzhong did not secretly praise, no wonder Jinling people say that the night view of Qinhuai is a must, if the rumors are true, not to mention that the beauty is traveling, it is a walk along the river alone, which is also a rare enjoyment.

Their small painting boat soon caught up with the big painting boat, and Sun Shao smiled and instructed: "Brother, wait on the boat, and the younger brother will go and ask the beautiful woman to move." Geng Jingzhong knew that he must have asked Zhang Yuzhu to come over alone and create an opportunity for the two of them to be alone, which was not appropriate, after all, Yan Ping and Wang Yanzhi could be on the painting boat, and if they did so, the two of them would definitely be unhappy in their hearts. At that moment, he smiled and said: "Playing alone, how can you be happy as many people, and only when there are many people can it be lively." ”

Sun Shao was quite surprised and said, "Brother is not willing to be alone? ”

"Fate is destined by nature, if there is fate, it is the same everywhere." Geng Jingzhong said that he had already left the cabin, and when he saw that the springboard had been set up, he smiled and said, "What are you still doing in a daze, let's go." ”

"Brother, this is too free-spirited." Sun Shao smiled, and took the lead over the springboard, as soon as he entered the cabin, Geng Jingzhong couldn't help but be slightly stunned, but when he saw the red men and green women in the cabin laughing, it was actually a few people who were drinking and guessing, it turned out that Sun Shao arranged one by himself, he couldn't help but regret it, he knew it was so, and he should have stayed in the small painting boat.

A group of people were very happy to drink and guess that they were happy, and when they saw the two of them coming in, they couldn't help but stop, and a girl in green clothes immediately greeted them, and said coquettishly: "Where is San Lang, the tired slave family is waiting." ”

Geng Jingzhong couldn't help but smile, it seemed that this was Sun Shao's good looks, to his surprise, Li Yuzhu also put down the wine cup and greeted him, and said with a smile: "I thought that the son was not coming, since he was late, he would be fined three glasses of wine first." ”

"I'm drunk, but there's no one to guess with you." Geng Jingzhong smiled slightly, and it was natural to take her hand, not wanting Li Yuzhu to turn around and return to the table, this little girl would hook people, he retracted his hand and touched his nose, before he walked slowly to the table, but he glanced at Sun Shao first and nodded slightly.

Seeing him nodding with a smile on his face, Sun Shao immediately smiled and said: "The most difficult thing to accept the grace of the beauty, Yuzhu has already spoken, and he will be punished with three glasses of wine, so there will be no less than one glass, come, punish the wine, and if you don't get drunk tonight, you won't return." ”

A table of people followed the coaxing, Zhou Yuren also smiled and got up with a handkerchief and sent a glass of wine, Geng Jingzhong took the wine glass, saw the light red left on it, and immediately sniffed it at the end of his nose, and then drank it in one gulp, seeing Zhou Yuren like this, Li Yuzhu was not to be outdone, and handed it over to his own wine glass, Geng Jingzhong smiled, and took it and drank it at the lip print.

Seeing this situation, Yang Xianke chuckled and said: "If the wine is not drunk, everyone is drunk, and if the flowers are not charming, everyone is obsessed, and Brother Geng is afraid that he will be drunk today." ”

"How can you drink such a good night?" Sun Shaolou came over with a good match, and said with a smile: "I have asked someone to send a table of boat banquet up, let's have a whole banquet, the wine is the palace full of incense, orchid drink, today will be happy." ”

As soon as they heard this, everyone couldn't help but applaud, but Yan Ping was secretly surprised, this kid can be said to have spent a lot of money today, and he is so interested, what did he ask Geng Jingzhong to do? I'm afraid the identity of this Geng brother is really not simple. At this time, if he still can't see anything, then he will really be blind to the name of the son of the family.

The painting boat is in the Qinhuai River from top to bottom, and then down to the top, I don't know how many times I went back and forth, Geng Jingzhong was already in high interest tonight, and was persuaded by Li Yuzhu and Zhou Yuren to drink diligently, and drank the full of stamina of the full hall of incense, and finally drunk and drunk.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Yuren couldn't help but move in his heart, this Geng Jingzhong can read so many good sentences casually, isn't there a complete poem? At the moment, he tentatively said: "Such a beautiful day, why don't you give a poem to the slave family as a souvenir." ”

"Ten years of repairing the same ship." Geng Jingzhong said drunkenly: "Today is also fate, I will give you a song." As he spoke, he opened his mouth and said, "Li Du's poems have been passed down by thousands of mouths, and they are no longer fresh. ”

What a big breath, Wang Yanzhi, Yan Ping, and Sun Shao were not drunk, and when they heard these two sentences, they were all stunned, which was too arrogant, but Zhou Yuren stared at him tightly with a pair of wonderful eyes, for fear that there were only two sentences, but Geng Jingzhong, who saw him, burped, and continued: "There are talented people in the country, and they have been leading for hundreds of years!" ”

Li Du's poems have been passed down by thousands of mouths, and they are no longer fresh, and there are talented people in the country, each leading for hundreds of years! This is a poem by Zhao Yi in the Qianlong period of the previous life, a famous historical sentence, Geng Jingzhong was drunk and came easily, without any embarrassment.

"Good!" Sun Shao slapped the table excitedly and stood up, and said excitedly: "I said before that my brother can make good poems, but I didn't expect it to be so atmospheric!" ”

"Sure enough, it is magnificent, and now it is the turmoil in the world, and there are talented people from generation to generation, each leading for hundreds of years! It has fulfilled the ambition of my generation of readers. Yan Ping can also be regarded as a talented reader, he originally intended to serve the Mawei Army, and a way out in this great era, but now when he hears this poem, his mood is agitated, and he applauds loudly. (To be continued......)

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