The last few months of the sixth year of the Apocalypse were a busy day for Ishishima, the fleet gathered almost all the sea ships back, leaving only a plundering fleet of six ships led by Zhang Gusheng outside, Shidao was like a large transit station, constantly transporting more than 10,000 refugees, 50,000 stone of grain, thousands of soldiers, hundreds of war horses, mules and horses, and tens of thousands of stone of cement to Jeju. When there were still twenty days left for the New Year, Zhao Meng, Tang Xianwen, Xu Hong and others, who were extremely tired, looked at the last ship sailing out of the harbor, and finally exhaled. Finally completed Zhao Lie's instructions, and it was not easy to send these people over in more than a month.

"Xianwen, Xu Hong, you can finally rest for some time." Zhao Meng blinked tiredly and muttered with red eyes.

"You guys rest first, Meng Guangshan arrived in Shidao yesterday, there is no time arrangement, make an appointment to meet and talk about it today." Tang Xianwen clicked his mouth, quite envious, there is no way, Lao Meng is involved in the purchase of grain, cloth, saltpeter and other groceries, as well as the output of silver, copper, gems and salt, all of which are related to the lifeblood of Shidao's wealth. I can't rest these days, so I can only talk about it at the end of the year. "Otherwise, you will also go and cheer for Lao Meng." It's best to help him, Tang Xianwen is envious, jealous and hateful when he sees them resting.

Of course, Zhao Meng and Xu Hong understood the importance of Lao Meng, but even if they were cheering, the two of them refused to go home, completely ignoring Tang Xianwen's grievances.

Meng Guangshan and Zhang Ting were two miles east of the West Fort at this time overlooking the departing fleet, this morning, the two of them came here without incident, mainly to see the built fort, this fort is a gray iron-reinforced cement building, towering protruding at the mouth of the bay, this is a rare object, however, when they approached a mile, there were soldiers who stopped them from approaching. They had to look at it from a distance.

A few people came to the pier of the fishing village and chatted while looking at the sea.

"Zhang Ting, this cement is really a good thing, according to Lord Tang, it can be built up to four floors, it is extremely strong, and it is a sharp weapon for building roads and houses." Meng Guangshan's eyes were blazing, and Zhang Ting knew that Dongzhi had taken the initiative.

In fact, when Zhang Ting built Shidao a few months ago, he knew the wonderful use of cement, and if there was no cement, the streets and alleys of Shidao would have been built so far. Compared with wood, cement is much cheaper to build houses in towns, after all, there are not many large timber in the southeast coast of human activities for thousands of years, and cement is made of cheap things such as limestone that no one usually cares about, which is quite cheap and convenient. Wendeng businessman Fan Xiangwen, Yan Junyi has sold cement to Wendeng, Dengzhou, Laizhou and other places, the cement kiln is now busy day and night, I heard that it is necessary to expand production, Zhang Ting reported to Meng Guangshan a month ago, but at that time Meng Guangshan did not care too much about this item, after all, the main item of the family business has nothing to do here, however, this time Meng Guangshan came to Shidao again, for the cement for a day of careful inspection, and finally moved.

"Proprietor, although the profit of this thing is not too large, it is also a good business." Zhang Ting bowed and said.

"Well, Zhang Ting, you can see your loyalty to the Meng family this time," Meng Guangshan also sighed, the stone island that Zhang Ting contacted now supports half of the Meng family, silver and copper, iron, salt, gems, everything Meng Ji is very profitable, and now it has to add cement. "I keep your merits in my heart, and now that it is approaching the end of the year, I will reward you with two thousand taels of silver."

"Thank you to the proprietor, the little one is just doing his duty, and he doesn't dare to take credit, and he asks the proprietor to take it back." Zhang Ting was pleasantly surprised and hurriedly excused himself. In previous years, the annual reward of the big shopkeeper was no more than 1,000 taels of silver, and his own family was only 300 taels of silver.

"Zhang Ting, you take it, this is what you deserve." Meng Guangshan waved his hand, he still had this little skill, "You remember, now Meng Ji is the real big shopkeeper." ”

"Thank you to the proprietor, the little one will do his best to serve the proprietor." Zhang Ting was grateful.

Meng Guangshan also felt that the big shopkeeper and the second shopkeeper were a little difficult to return, but Zhang Ting was constantly generating income for his family in Shidao.

When the two were discussing, the warships and merchant ships of the wharf and the sailor wharf set sail, Meng Guangshan was stunned and watched the six merchant ships of more than 400 tons, including Xingkaihu, Chaohu, and Gaoyouhu, go to sea one after another.

"It's really a giant ship, much bigger than my Ming Fu ship and Guangzhou ship." Meng Guangshan sighed.

"The proprietor, there are still giant ships on Shidao." Zhang Ting and Rong Naiyan said.

"And the giant ship?" Meng Guangshan was skeptical, after all, in his opinion, what had just passed was the largest sea ship.

"Well, the small one is a few glances from afar, and it seems to be bigger than the ship in front of you." Zhang Ting had indeed seen the two giant ships from afar.

Suddenly, two giant ships dozens of meters high slowly sailed in the distance, the four mainmasts were towering, surrounded by cumbersome rope ladders, as well as oblique sails and schooners, and the eight huge sails began to unfold slowly, blowing forward, the thick front mast pointed obliquely to the sky, and the two people were stunned to watch these two behemoths slowly sail by, this time, even Zhang Ting was dumbfounded, after all, he also saw it from a distance last time, when the giant ship passed less than a mile away from him, he felt small for the first time.

When the five subsequent four-hundred-ton Galen warships, well, the current emergency transport ships, as well as more than twenty Fu ships, Haicang, and more than ten flying clippers sailed out one after another, the two of them were already numb with shock.

The two looked at each other and were stunned, and they had a new understanding of the strength of this Lord Qianhu and the commander behind him, what a huge fleet this is, even the Nanjing Qi Naval Division does not have so many huge ships, after all, naval battles are also about big and small. They still have this knowledge. Moreover, the fleet in front of you will never be the whole of the fleet.

Meng Guangshan was pleasantly surprised at this time, and the strength of his business partner was certainly worthy of his joy, but the strength of Zhao's father and son made him a little frightened, but thinking about Yangzhou's increasingly unfavorable situation for him, he could only grit his teeth and fight.

In the afternoon in the Shidao official office, after Tang Xianwen, Meng Guangshan, and Zhang Ting's harmonious greetings, Zhang Ting, on behalf of Meng Ji, gave Shidao a bonus given to Shidao in the two months after the cooperation between the two sides, and the dividend given to Shidao by Meng Ji in these two months was more than 21,000 taels, the income from selling gems was more than 83,000 taels of silver, and the dividend of salt was also 51,000 taels of silver, totaling more than 156,000 taels of silver, which can be said to occupy half of Shidao's expenditure, so that Shidao could use as little as possible the gold and silver in the silver treasury that was already less than one million taels, which greatly alleviated the financial expenditure of Shidao. Meng Ji is now Shidao's big customer and biggest collaborator. Of course, Tang Xianwen is also courteous.

Of course, because the accounts were stationed in Yangzhou Mengji, Tang Xianwen just asked the Shidao account office to calculate the accounts and count the gold and silver.

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