"Mother, do you know the master of spinning?" Zhao Jiaren sat squarely opposite his mother and asked questions seriously.

At this time, it was already the beginning of the ninth month of the Song calendar, that is, the tenth month of the Western calendar. The weather is getting drier and drier, and it is a very comfortable day in Fujian. Mrs. Zhao was reading the Buddhist scriptures, but after listening to her son's question, her eyes lit up, she put down the Buddhist scriptures and said happily: "You finally want to get married!" ”

"I just want to hire someone, and I have no intention of getting married." Zhao Jiaren guessed what his mother might say before he spoke, so the whole person was as steady as Mount Tai.

"You're still so unpleasant." Mrs. Zhao made an evaluation of her son in disappointment.

In the face of his mother's criticism, Zhao Jiaren also felt that he was quite desperate. If he was just a likable child, there would only be one end to being killed and his whole family killed. Compared with the two, Zhao Jiaren can only choose the path of solving the enemy alive.

"What kind of spinning master do you want?" Mrs. Zhao asked without ridicule.

Zhao Jiaren hurriedly told his mother about it, and Mrs. Zhao thought for a while after listening to it, and then told Zhao Jiaren, "Or...... I'll give it a try. ”

When he left from his mother's side, Zhao Jiaren felt speechless. Today, when cotton has not yet entered the mainstream of textiles, he really wants to believe in his mother's craftsmanship, but he can't find enough reasons to trust. After thinking about it, Zhao Jiaren was also relieved. Cotton cloth production requires a high degree of secrecy, and as far as he knows, she is a very reliable person.

After putting this down in advance, Zhao Jiaren went to the shipyard. Before Qi Ye left Fuzhou, Zhao Jiaren and Xie Wuhuan officially signed a contract, and then Xie Wuhuan jumped ship. It was the eighth month of the Song calendar. By the fifth day of the ninth month of the Song calendar, Xie Wuhuan had already led a group of students to start building a shipyard.

Qi Ye handed over to Zhao Jiaren the construction of the lighthouse by the Pu family in Quanzhou, as well as a list of maritime merchants close to the Pu family. Zhao Jiaren's response was to ignore the Pu family first, and he sent official documents to coastal states and counties other than Quanzhou in the name of Fujian Road Prison, telling them that 'Zhao Jiaren of Fujian Road Prison will build a lighthouse along the coast of Fujian to benefit the people'.

In addition, at the end of August, Zhao Jiaren received six Chen family children from Zhao Jiaren's mother's family, and then threw them to school, and selected a 16-year-old boy from the school to be his companion. Zhao Yong led the fleet to Songjiang Mansion, and the next thing was to wait for the cotton to be transported from the eldest brother Zhao Jiaxin.

Three days later, Zhao Yong returned. Class leader Li Hongjun and study committee member Ding Yu ran into Zhao Jiaren's study with great joy, "Principal, the two-masted sail is really fast enough." Coupled with the bow sail, our ship rode the north wind, as if flying. If there is a lighthouse, we are afraid that we will return to Fuzhou two days earlier than now. ”

Zhao Jiaren was not so excited, of course he knew the power of the brig, once Zhao Jiaren was now working hard to perfect the three-masted sailing ship launched, he could theoretically use such a ship to hang the sail across the Pacific Ocean. Historically, Europe completed the circumnavigation with a small wrecked ship of more than 100 tons, and the ship designed by Zhao Jiaren has a displacement of more than 300 tons and 400 tons, which is much better than European ships from any point of view.

Since the crew members all had to come back alive and kicking back, Zhao Jiaren was not worried about the problem with the goods. He first calmed the excitement of the cadres, and then ordered reliable trainees to escort the goods to the hydraulic workshop.

Zhao Yong brought with him Zhao Jiaxin, a master gardener, who praised the power of earthworm soil in a letter to his younger brother. The average yield per mu of 50 mu of cotton using earthworm soil has reached an earth-shattering 50 catties, which is 60% higher than the known cotton yield. Zhao Jiaxin also praised Zhao Jiaren's idea of picking cotton finger covers, with this tool, picking cotton does not have to worry about fingers being pricked by the outside of cotton peaches.

Zhao Jiaren first arrived at the water conservancy workshop, and when he finished reading his brother's letter, he saw dozens of people carrying many things from a distance. Zhao Jiaxin casually asked the relatives around him, "Fifty acres of land, each mu produces fifty catties of grain, how much grain is this?" ”

He didn't expect Zhao Jiaren to test him suddenly, he almost instinctively raised his hand, wanting to break his fingers. After raising his hand, he felt that it was wrong, so he quickly squatted down and wrote the calculation formula on the ground with a small stone.

"Five-five-twenty-five, hundred, thousand. Two thousand five hundred! It's two thousand five hundred. The entourage gave an answer.

For such a level, Zhao Jiaren nodded. For these people, it is not just their actual age, in terms of school age, they are at most the second grade of primary school. This computational speed can also be called regular training.

Concerned about the matter in front of him, Zhao Jiaren didn't see a few strong men secretly following the cargo team further away. These people didn't want to be seen by Zhao Jiaren, so they made sure that the cargo personnel transported the things to the water workshop, and they only left one to watch from afar, and the others dispersed.

The few who walked away returned to a spice shop in the city, and like many spice shops, the shopkeeper was a man with a high nose and deep eyes. With such a shopkeeper, many Da Song buyers will feel that the spices in this store seem to be more reliable. After listening to the news, the high-nosed and deep-eyed shopkeeper gave each of them a string of copper coins, and instructed them to pay strict attention to what Zhao Jiaren was doing.

After closing the shop in the evening, several high-nosed and deep-eyed shopkeepers gathered. They first lit mosquito coils, put on the roast duck that has been very popular in Fuzhou recently, ate and drank for a while, and then scolded in Arabic: "The little ghost of the Zhao family has been looking honest recently, and I don't know what the hell is going on in my heart." We and the Pu family are brothers with the same spirit, and we must take good care of him. ”

"That's right. The little ghost of the Zhao family will definitely go to Hell after he dies......" The other was also emotional, but after a pause, he pointed to the roast duck and said, "Those coffee music must be hanging in the fireplace of hell like these roast ducks!" ”

There are many people who go to buy roast duck, and roast duck is not roasted in a while. Everyone has seen the appearance of a roast duck being stretched open and being grilled in the oven. The metaphor is such an image that the guys at the dinner laugh together.

After laughing for a while, the leader suppressed his smile and asked the others, "I don't know if you can talk to those little officials, Brother Pu's family said that there are a few people who can't be asked by the government." If you can't deliver them, send them to Allah. ”

The eyes of several people fell on one of the participants, who saw that everyone looked at him and sighed: "Those little officials said that the Pu family brothers were still a little anxious, and asked the senior officials he knew to come to the event, but Xu Yuanzhi, the governor of the prefecture, saw something. Now this Zhizhou seems to have noticed something, and he is very strict with those people who occupy the city. The officials didn't dare to mess around. ”

The participants were all businessmen who had lived in the Great Song Dynasty for a long time and were well aware of the Great Song system. An official is likely to be corrupt or mediocre, or he may be both corrupt and mediocre. But once an official is concerned about something, his subordinates do not dare to do anything excessively. This unexpected event made the high-nosed and deep-eyed businessmen present at the meeting feel very tricky, but they were helpless. The wine and food were down, and the dissatisfaction in his heart turned into a sentence full of emotions, "The little ghost of the Zhao family will definitely go to hell!" ”

In the days that followed, these guys continued to stalk Zhao Jiaren. found that Zhao Jiaren's life is still so regular, in addition to attending classes in his school every day, he works in the yamen, or goes to the shipyard to check the transformation of ships.

On the other hand, there were people coming in and out of the hydraulic workshop, and a lot of things were being brought in and out. However, the workshop was guarded by personnel from Zhao Jiaren's school, and no one outside could enter it at all. The businessmen who were spying on Zhao Jiaren had no way of knowing what the hell was going on there.

At the beginning of October in the Song calendar, a ship sailed into Yangzhou. Jia Yidao couldn't help but smile when he saw Zhao Jiaren's famous thorn. In the past six months, some of Zhao Jiaren's deeds have gradually begun to spread. In particular, this kid actually defeated the pirates, and in the year-end evaluation, the anti-theft item must be excellent. Although the anti-theft is ranked very low in the evaluation of the prison sentence, it is also an excellent evaluation.

The box brought in was not small, but the housekeeper who took the gift list had a bad face. Jia Rudao knew that Zhao Jiaren's gifts could always be different, and if he wanted to take a look at the list, there were actually a lot of bedding and thick clothes on it, Jia Rudao couldn't help laughing. This is indeed a great feature of Zhao Jiaren's gift-giving.

After laughing, I continued to look down, and the gift list was written with lotus perfume, mint essence and other gadgets. Jia Rudao was not angry, he said to Li Hongjun, who came to give gifts: "You have worked hard all the way. Go back and tell Zhao Tidian that I have thanked him for his gift. ”

Li Hongjun personally delivered the letter to Jia Rudao, and he was also relieved. According to the previous training, Li Hongjun retreated after saluting, and on the way back to the ship, his companion Ding Yu couldn't help but ask Li Hongjun, "Squad leader, do you think Jia Xianggong will not let the quilt scare?" ”

Li Hongjun hurriedly said: "Nonsense." What kind of official is Jia Xianggong, how can he be so ignorant. ”

Ding Yu was trained, and he said to Li Hongjun with some unconvinced, "I don't want to compare with Jia Xianggong." I just think it's such a good quilt, I won't change anything given to me. ”

Li Hongjun agrees with Ding Yu's statement very much. Zhao Jiaren processed the cotton after getting it. Each of the sailors at sea was given a mattress and quilt for land and a mattress and quilt for boat. Since using these warm things, it is clear that the sailors feel that the quality of life on board has improved a lot. Thinking that in the future, if there was no such bedding available, Li Hongjun felt that he was completely unacceptable.

Zhao Jiaxin took his wife back to Huating County at this time to settle down a little. Zhao Jiaxin and his wife replaced the futon that the Wang family had prepared for their daughter's women's boots and replaced the futon they brought. At this time, Zhao Jiaxin's brother-in-law came in, and when he saw the little couple tossing, the brother-in-law asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with these bedding?" I've had people smoke it carefully. ”

Zhao Jiaxin's wife Wang Rong and Zhao Jiaxin glanced at each other, and then smiled: "Big brother, this matter is not clear. I brought a gift with a futon for you. I'll lay it on you now. ”

Zhao Jiaxin's brother-in-law was confused by his sister, and he was all a bedding for his maiden to marry. Now that my sister has been married for a year, why is it the other way around? Brother Wang wondered if he had made a mistake. However, Wang Rong didn't say much, her subordinates moved out the gifts to Brother Wang, and took them Shi Shiran out.

Zhao Jiaxin wanted to go with his wife, but he felt that it was inappropriate. He moved a stool for his brother-in-law and invited him to sit down, poured a glass of water for Brother Wang, and then sat down and said, "Big brother, let's talk about planting cotton." ”