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Winter in Quanzhou is a very pleasant day. The ships heading south have departed, and all the disturbances to the city have stopped. The city began to enter a lazy period until it was activated by the following year of sailing.

Zhao's time in Quanzhou was even more pleasant, with each of them raising their own troupes, and everyone compared each other to develop new opera programs, or try to innovate existing repertoire. The sound of singing can be heard everywhere in Quanzhou, and the cruise on East Lake can enjoy a very high level of performance.

In Quanzhou, as long as you wear thick clothes, you can withstand the cold. Especially after cotton cloth and cotton became popular, the padded jackets in Quanzhou rose with it, and there were fewer and fewer people shivering on the cruise ship.

Zhao Yichang sat with some of the more prominent figures in Quanzhou, although he was Zhao, he was not an official, nor was he a wealthy family, so his position was very low.

Drinking wine slowly, Zhao Yichang listened to the discussion on the wine table.

"The evaluation of the grinding survey has arrived, I don't know what everyone is going to say to the officials." It was the manager of the Quanzhou shipyard who spoke, and the state-owned enterprises of the Song Dynasty were very profitable, and most of them were installed by the Lin'an court, and the local officials had a say in these state-owned enterprises, but they did not have the right to dominate.

After listening to the steward's words, an official smiled and said, "You also have your hands and eyes to the sky, and you can reach the heavens to listen." What about these things? ”

The steward did not answer this question, and it was precisely because he was able to go up to heaven that these people in the Guojian Shipyard knew that Zhao Jiaren had a good relationship with Jia Yidao, the current lone prime minister. Jia seems to be hot, and his power is boundless. Before there was clear information, how could they, the people of the Great Song State Enterprise, dare to launch a political attack on Zhao Jiaren.

The officials were in a bad mood and did not have the heart to pursue the topic. He took a sip of his glass and let out a long sigh, "We're miserable." In the past, when the Pu family was still there, the annual filial piety was on time and on time. Now that Zhao Jiaren has eradicated the Pu family, the merchants of Zhancheng have run away, and those big food merchants have lived in seclusion, for fear of being killed by Zhao Jiaren. The whole of Quanzhou has been completely out of business......"

Speaking of this, the officials' eyes were shining, as if they were about to burst into tears, and the officials around them were also concerned. Officials in Quanzhou, like other cities with treaty ports, were divided into civil affairs and municipal shipping divisions. The city has always been a big fat poor, which makes the civil affairs officials very envious. However, after Zhao Jiaren annihilated the Pu family, the situation was reversed. The business of the city division is light, but the civil affairs officials are still living, and they have even made a fortune more or less because of the auction of the Pu family's property. There have been promotions and declines, and now they have become officials of the city department and have begun to envy civil officials.

After pouring another glass of wine, the official of the city department said loudly: "When the officials are grinding, we should tell the truth." ”

Zhao Yichang took a sip of his wine glass, this action was not that he wanted to echo the official's attitude, but that he was bored. The desertion of Quanzhou did not start with Zhao Jiaren's annihilation of the Pu family, as early as last year, the market had begun to be deserted. The fleet of the Pu family did not go north, while the pirates of Champa came from the south, and the Japanese invaders came from the north, and the maritime trade on the Fujian Road was very deserted. From this point of view, Zhao Jiaren, who defeated the pirates on both sides, was the hero who saved Quanzhou. At least he restored a minimum of calm to Quanzhou.

However, in the eyes of the officials of the city, Zhao Jiaren's action to annihilate the Pu family cut off his financial route. The officials who had reaped the benefits were silent again, so much so that Zhao Yichang had not heard a goodwill evaluation of Zhao Jiaren for several months.

Perhaps because he felt that the atmosphere was too dull, after another round of toasting on the table, the steward of the shipyard asked when he toasted Zhao Yichang: "Brother Zhao, we heard that Zhao Zhizhou has always wanted to invite you to his office. I wonder what happened now? ”

Hearing this, Zhao Yichang couldn't help but smile bitterly. He once again secretly warned himself not to talk nonsense in the future, especially not to blow nonsense. Zhao Jiaren has tried to recruit Zhao Yichang several times in the past few years, but Zhao Yichang did not take Zhao Jiaren seriously at that time. After that, Zhao Jiaren soared into the sky, not only made great contributions, but also became the governor of Quanzhou. After that, Zhao Yichang felt embarrassed to go to Zhao Jiaren again, at least Zhao Yichang felt that the matter was in the past, and it was not interesting to mention it again. But reality made him see that even if it was an unintentional sentence, it would always be remembered by someone with a heart after hearing it in other people's ears.

was found out of such a past again, Zhao Yichang simply smiled: "I am now waiting for Zhao Zhizhou to come to recruit every day, but this time and that time, left and right, etc. I advise you not to be sentimental! ”

As soon as these words came out, someone laughed and scolded: "Why are we so self-inflicted." Even if you become Zhao Zhizhou's staff, can you still remember the brothers? ”

After these emotions were vented, everyone also felt relieved. Anyway, things don't just start to get worse now, and everyone is starting to get used to it. The official of the city department drank a few more glasses of wine, and couldn't help but ask the manager of the Great Song State-owned Shipyard, "I heard that you have doubled the price of wood, so you are not afraid that Zhao Zhizhou will be angry?" ”

"What if I'm afraid he'll be angry." The steward looked very proud and replied.

"Admire! Admire! The crowd immediately toasted the steward, and the steward accepted everyone's toast with a proud expression. However, the steward knew in his heart that their price increase was really not all because of Zhao Jiaren. It is true that the city department has been hit hard by the collapse of the Pu family, but it is not only the officials in the civil affairs yamen who have benefited. Many maritime merchants who did not dare to go to the south to do business because of the existence of the Pu family increased their ship orders, and the price of ships rose, and the price of timber naturally rose with the tide.

Putting down the wine glass, the steward said with a smile: "Zhao Zhizhou wants to build a military ship for the imperial court, and we have no choice but to raise the price." It's really not going to go up! ”

The crowd burst into laughter. Everyone knows that Zhao Jiaren has his own shipyard, so Zhao Jiaren's military ships will not make money for the Quanzhou shipyard. In the face of such a monopoly opponent, the state-owned shipyard in Quanzhou naturally wanted to jam Zhao Jiaren's neck. Even if Zhao Jiaren looked very vigorous when he saw the wind and water, he suffered in front of the Great Song Dynasty system. This kind of thing makes everyone very happy.

After the banquet dispersed, Zhao Yichang got off the boat and walked home. Without a lively environment, Zhao Yichang's mood became calm with the comfortable environment, and then became depressed.

He is in his thirties, and in addition to doing some exciting things when he was young, Zhao Yichang finds that his life is becoming more and more impoverished. As a member of the Zhao family, he can have a lot of money and food every month, and there is no pressure to live. It was precisely because of the days that Zhao Yichang was more painful to find that he was really left behind by many people.

Zhao Jiaren needless to say, this young man is not comparable to Zhao Yichang at all. Qi Ye is the shopkeeper of Quanzhou Daqian Village, and Zhao Yichang also feels that Qi Ye is compared with himself. Qi Ye became an important subordinate of Zhao Jiaren, which is not unusual.

But some time ago, Zhao Yichang saw that Lu Teng, who used to sell illicit salt with him, actually watched five people and six people leading a group of his subordinates at the dock to get on the boat. When Lu Teng and Zhao Yichang sold illicit salt together, they were Zhao Yichang's younger brothers, and now they have also become Zhao Jiaren's stewards. Zhao Jiaren never defaulted on his salary, and he was very famous in urban areas such as Fuzhou and Quanzhou, and Zhao Jiaren's subordinates were even more famous for their high income. This can't help but make Zhao Yichang feel extremely unacceptable.

When he returned home, Zhao Yichang saw Lu Teng actually waiting for him at the door of his house. At this time, Zhao Yichang's heart began to beat faster, and it seems that Zhao Jiaren finally remembered Zhao Yichang's existence!