It's easy to find someone to talk to when people feel uncomfortable, and after Qi Ye walked out of Zhao Jiaren's yamen, he suddenly wanted to talk to someone too. Back at Qianzhuang, Qi Ye saw that the people around him who knew him were all guys who had been with Zhao Jiaren for some days. With a little brain, you can understand that Qi Ye can't pour bitter water on them. If these people who are desperately trying to get rid of poverty know that Qi Ye wants to use their existing family wealth to buy shares first, they will definitely not really support Qi Ye.

Sighing, Qi Ye put away the idea of taking advantage of everyone's poverty to buy shares. Zhao Jiaren's refusal did disappoint Qi Ye and was a little sad, but this was not wrong. Returning his attention to the accounts, Qi Ye saw that the direction of Zhao Jiaren's investment was recovering its capital. Only Jeju Island, which has been invested since last year, is still in a situation of significant losses.

If there is no deficit caused by Jeju Island, I wonder if the brothers who followed Zhao Jiaren early would have been able to accumulate more wealth? Qi Ye couldn't help but start thinking crankily again.

The person in charge of Jeju Island is Liu Meng, if Liu Meng knew Qi Ye's thoughts at this time, he would probably scold angrily. At this time, the shadow of the sail appeared outside Jeju Island. Underneath each sail is a huge raft, made of a dozen or even two dozen large logs. The men who lined up on the raft wore thick cotton clothes with coats on the outside. The clothes were soaked by the splashing seawater, and the cotton clothes inside were not very dry. Begging for food on the rough sea is really hard.

These rafts are all from the island of Kyushu in the Wa country. After the Zhenxi Shogun sent the Song envoys' brave combat prowess into Heiankyo in a slightly exaggerated description, the shogun Kujo Choshi finally made up his mind to receive the Song envoys. After that, there was no exciting situation, what should everyone do. Shogun Kujo agreed with Zhao Jiaren to establish a trading house in Kobe, and also allowed the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty to do business with the various commissioners appointed by the Kujo family.

Soon, the Zhenxi Prefecture of Kyushu made the first business with Hu Yuelian, who left Heianjing. A large number of trees were provided to Jeju Island. There are oak trees and elm trees, all of which are big-rooted wood, and the price is only one-tenth of that of Fujian Road. The manpower of the Japanese country was reorganized, and in winter it was tied into wooden rafts on the seashore. Guided by a large boat, we will arrive at Jeju Island using the currents and wind.

The rafts were assembled on a desolate shore, where the timber was hoisted up a high slope and then transported to the mouth of a cave by a 100-metre railroad track. Liu Meng asked the technician with anticipation and a little uneasiness, "Can it really maintain 55 degrees in this cave?" ”

Faced with this problem, the technician was also a little uneasy. He only went to school after joining Zhao Jiaren's team, and after the basic course, he went to shipbuilding, and learned wood processing when the major was subdivided. Steamed wood is widely used in the Fujian Road Shipyard, but the school has not accumulated enough experience.

“…… If the glass thermometer was right, it should work. The technician gritted his teeth and replied.

Liu Meng knew that if he was a technician, he wouldn't know it, and he didn't understand it himself. The question was posed solely because he was upset himself. Since the technician said so, Liu Meng could only choose to believe the technician. The entrance of the cave is small and large, and the inside is also made of bricks and stones to build a steaming house where wood is placed. At present, it is not possible to put the wood in it to steam, and it is necessary to dry the wood in a shady and sheltered wood storage point. Wait until the wood has dried to a certain extent before putting it in and steaming.

Although the second dragon raised its head in February, the weather was not hot enough. Everyone was still wet with their underwear, and even the thin cotton jackets outside were a little damp. After finishing a round of work, everyone went into the stone house to rest. When the jacket was taken off, it was roasted on a charcoal stove nearby, and it didn't take long for white steam to come out of it. Alcohol is well stocked in the house, and fish are abundant around Jeju Island. When drinking, it is served with dried fish, which is also quite in line with the habits of the coastal areas of Fujian Road.

"If this cave is really viable, how much wood can be steamed in a year?" Liu Meng did not mention failure, only success.

"There are more than 200 logs in the cave. According to the calculation of 200, it takes 15 days to steam once...... Well...... "The technician couldn't figure it out with his brain, so he took a small stick and prepared to make a formula on the ground."

"It can be steamed twenty-four times a year." If you have a good mental arithmetic, she immediately replied. After the calculation, I also made another calculation by the way, "Two hundred at a time, four thousand eight hundred can be steamed in a year." ”

Everyone saw that someone could actually do brain calculations, and those who were not interested also became interested. Now a lot of people have found something that can write, write, draw, and start to list. Liu Meng didn't do that, he raised his left hand and drew on it with his right hand. In the end, everyone worked out the results.

"Obviously there are still 5 days!" Some pointed out the bias in the data.

The brother with good mental arithmetic ability said very unhappily: "It takes 15 days at a time, is these 5 days useful?" ”

Seeing that everyone was about to have a boring dispute, Liu Meng hurriedly shouted: "Don't talk nonsense. Get down to business. There are still a few working caves. ”

"The others are too far away. We don't have that many rails at all. The technician in charge of building the steam room quickly replied. After finding this good place, they also ran around Jeju Island, but they soon found that it was too tiring to transport large quantities of wood. It takes a dozen people to carry a single piece of wood for a day, and there is simply not that much manpower on Jeju Island.

After a long discussion, the clothes were dried, the strength gradually recovered, and the people continued to work. This time, hundreds of logs were purchased from the Wa Kingdom, and this alone had to be steamed for several months. There will be opportunities in the future.

In spring, Jeju Island is busy not only with the wood steaming room, but also with the entire island. The settlers have begun to draw areas on various suitable lands, and while weeding and clearing the land, some people have built stone walls on the land with stones. After spending a few months on this island, everyone experienced the high winds here. The sea breeze blows through the island without any hindrance. That soil can be easily scraped away. Fortunately, Liu Meng told everyone that the best way is to use local stones to build stone walls to block the wind and preserve the precious soil. This makes everyone feel that the mouth is suddenly open.

But to do so means that labor is not just about clearing up the land, but also about more toil. Everyone's face looked very bad, even if they knew the hardships of land reclamation, everyone didn't expect it to be so hard.

There is endless work, and life passes quickly. The cow doesn't grow fast enough, but the pig grows fast. The Liaodong Peninsula is full of oak trees, oak trees are oak trees, also called oak trees, this kind of tree can raise silkworms. What's more, the seeds of the oak tree are acorns. This thing is the food that squirrels loved in the Ice Age, it is big and has a lot of starch in it. The fleet took advantage of the autumn to go to the Liaodong Peninsula to get more than 100,000 catties, and transported it back to be heated by the geothermal heat of Jeju Island and fed to the pigs. After eating it, the pigs became extremely obese.

Seeing that the big fat pig was about to be slaughtered, it was made into salted meat and transported back to Fujian to receive merit. Or eat it yourself on Jeju Island. Liu Meng was in a dilemma, so he simply wrote to Zhao Jiaren, hoping that Zhao Jiaren could make a decision.