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Yuelian and the others lived here in Zhenxi for three days, and even if they didn't get along very well, they didn't get along very badly. On the afternoon of the third day, Hu Yuelian informed Kujo that the group would leave the next day.

"I wonder where His Highness Hu is going next?" Kujo is very interested in this.

"We're going back to Kobe. The promised month, which has passed for several days. Yuelian replied.

"Do you want me to send troops to escort me?" Kujo pursues enthusiastic suggestions.

"That's great!" Yuelian did not refuse.

Escorted, smoother along the way. The escort soldiers waited for Yuelian to board the boat at the pier, and immediately rushed back. Upon learning that Hu Yuelian and the others had indeed boarded a ship and left the coast, Kujou immediately wrote a letter to Heiankyo to report the incident to the Kamakura shogunate, and at about the same time, Hu Yuelian and her companions, who had returned to Kobe, summed up their actions up to now, wrote a report on them, and sent a ship to Jeju Island.

After Liu Meng received the report, he did not intercept it, but sent Hu Yuelian's report and Liu Meng's report to Quanzhou together. By the beginning of December, the report was delivered to Zhao Jiaren in Quanzhou. Seeing that Hu Yuelian's report was interesting, Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but laugh for a while, but he only laughed for a while. Hu Yuelian was given six months to ask her to go as far as possible in the Wa Kingdom, so that the whole Wa Kingdom would know that the Great Song Dynasty had sent envoys to the Wa Kingdom. The meaning of these actions is in the future, but the hardships are in the present.

Hu Yuelian did not take matters into her own hands and was confused by petty profits, which made Zhao Jiaren like it very much.

At this stage, more important than Hu Yuelian is Jeju Island, and there are more than 7,000 people sent to the island, which exceeds Zhao Jiaren's expectations. Liu Meng's report said that they had built a windmill. Soybeans sent from Gyeongwonju have arrived in Jeju Island, and they have started to feed pigs and cattle with soybean oil and soybean meal.

Liu Meng said that he has felt that the most important thing at the moment is maritime transportation capacity. There are so many things I want to do, but because I don't have a ship, I can only wait. Although there are many projects to be built on Jeju Island, there are not many people sitting idle right now. But these projects will eventually come to an end, and the capacity constraints will be very uncomfortable.

Putting down Liu Meng's report, Zhao Jiaren could only sigh secretly. He did feel the problem raised by Liu Meng, there were too few ships at sea. When visiting the shipyard museums of the Great Lakes in North America, any museum would dare to boast that they built thousands of sailboats. At that time, the large quantity and high quality of oak in North America made full use of oak resources, so that the American shipbuilding industry once ranked first in the world.

If oak is rated 100 as shipbuilding timber, oak in the northeast will be rated 99. Zhao Jiaren wants to occupy Jeju Island in the hope that Jeju Island can become a base for the development of Liaodong. However, the development of the base meant that a larger amount of investment was needed, and Zhao Jiaren had to increase the number of ships sent to Liaodong before using the timber from Liaodong.

"Zhizhou. Shopkeeper Qi is here. "The attendant came in.

"Ask him to come in." Zhao Jiaren adjusted the position of his body as he spoke, trying to make himself sit more comfortably. He was mentally prepared for Qi Ye to bring trouble as well.

Qi Ye's expression was very unsightly, he walked straight to Zhao Jiaren after entering the house, and said angrily: "I don't know who leaked the news, those guys in the shipyard actually doubled the price of the timber sold to us!" As a governor, can you manage them! ”

Zhao Jiaren thought that this was a big deal, but when he heard that Qi Ye was so angry about such a thing, he smiled slightly and replied, "Sit." ”

Qi Ye sat down angrily, and he found that his general ledger office was really not easy to do. Although Zhao Jiaren couldn't keep any money in his hands, the money in his account was flowing at an alarming speed. Just like some time ago, Qi Ye almost thought that Zhao Jiaren's financial gap was about to reach the point where he needed to borrow a lot of money. In order to pay his subordinates, Zhao Jiaren had the experience of borrowing money from the Qi family's bank.

However, things took a turn for the worse, and a large amount of cotton came in from the north. The water textile mills quickly produced large quantities of cotton cloth, and the money they earned not only closed the gap, but also left them to worry about in the coming months. Qi Ye hadn't been happy for two days before he discovered a new problem. Merchants who supplied raw materials to Zhao Jiaren raised prices, especially for wood, and those merchants doubled prices. It's completely a face that loves to buy and buy and not buy and roll.

"The price has gone up to the point where we can't afford it?" Zhao Jiaren asked Qi Ye.

Qi Ye handed Zhao Jiaren a piece of the final data obtained after calculation, and he liked this method of data presentation very much, which was simple and clear.

Zhao Jiaren scratched his head after reading it, purely from the data, the cost increase is relatively limited. Compared with the soaring cost of wood, Zhao Jiaren's wages to workers are the real majority. Moreover, these money also have to be taxed, which can just solve the problem of grinding and evaluation faced by Zhao Jiaren. So he told Qi Ye what he thought.

After hearing this, Qi Ye's eyes widened. When his emotions recovered to be able to speak, Qi Ye said angrily: "You are already an excellent person when you become a governor who does not expropriate and extort violently, and does not enrich your own pockets." I never thought that after becoming a governor, I would have to pay money from my own pocket to supplement the imperial court. Brother Zhao, the court must like more officials like you, the better. But shouldn't the imperial court let the clan and officials make money? ”

Seeing that Qi Ye was furious, Zhao Jiaren poured him a glass of water, and then said in a calm tone: "From the current situation, if the imperial court can earn one, we will probably be able to earn ten ......."

"By no means that much. Judging purely from shipbuilding, you have been losing money. Qi Ye immediately refuted Zhao Jiaren's fallacy.

Zhao Jiaren replied calmly: "We have our own fleet, and this is very profitable." We never have to think about hiring someone else's boat. ”

Listening to these explanations, Qi Ye said indignantly: "The fleet also costs money, and it costs a lot. ”

Seeing that Qi Ye was so angry, Zhao Jiaren was silent for the time being. After thinking for a while, he felt that he had found the joint, so he asked tentatively, "Brother Qi, do you think that someone is disrespectful to us now?" ”

"Did you find out?!" Qi Ye answered Zhao Jiaren's question loudly, "I have also met several governors of Quanzhou, which one is the same as you." Other Zhizhou are all held by everyone and flattered. For fear of offending Zhizhou. Look at you, what's the difference between being alone now? ”

Listening to Qi Ye's words, Zhao Jiaren understood what dissatisfaction he had with the capable shopkeeper of the bank. It turned out that he had such a deep anger at the current situation. After Zhao Jiaren became the governor, no one was close to Zhao Jiaren. Before that, the situation of Quanzhou Zhizhou was quite different.

"Brother Qi. I am indeed different from the previous Quanzhou Zhizhou. Zhao Jiaren opened his mouth and said, "Now all the big families in Quanzhou are afraid of me!" It's not pretending, but I'm really afraid of me! ”