Rushing back to Quanzhou smoothly, Zhao Jiaren hurried home. When I entered the door, I saw that his wife was taking the child with a straight face, but fortunately, the baby was small, and she didn't know how to look at the expression on her face. Hearing the sound of pushing the door, the little doll looked up earlier than her mother. After a few glances, the little doll lowered her head and slowly got up on the bed.

"I ...... It's back. Zhao Jiaren said to his wife, he was very strange, why his voice trembled. Then he saw his wife slowly raise her head, and her eyes were already full of tears. Zhao Jiaren stepped over in a few steps, held his wife's hand, and his wife's tears slid down her face. However, until they recovered, the two of them did not say anything 'never go out again'.

Before leaving Quanzhou, Zhao Jiaren held a meeting of the Navigation Guild. After everyone congratulated Zhao Jiaren on his ascension, Zhao Jiaren asked everyone to sit down. He stood in his position and said loudly: "Everyone, we all have to face the facts. If we can return safely from this voyage, we will open up settlements on the South China Sea route. The first thing that needs to be done to open up settlements is sanitation and epidemic prevention. Smallpox, plague, cholera. These three infectious diseases must be addressed first through vaccines. ”

After Zhao Jiaren's words, these shareholders were not particularly confused. The Nautical Guild is a modern shareholding system, which means that each shareholder has rights and obligations. At least in the corporate system set by Zhao Jiaren, the second article is that 'all shareholders have the right and obligation to work and receive education in the company'.

The reason is, of course, very simple, whether the earth is round or flat will directly affect the judgment of shareholders. There are naturally various differences in life, and the basic understanding of the world must be the same, otherwise there is no way to make convincing decisions. Because of this rule, shareholders are forced to attend night school. After a few months, after using the microscope, they all got into the habit of washing their hands before eating and after using the toilet. Moreover, through practice, we found that after the whole family paid attention to hygiene, the minor diseases of headache and brain fever at home were also reduced a lot.

"Plague, cholera, will be slower. A full epidemic prevention of smallpox can be prepared to begin in the near future. Zhao Jiaren continued with confidence.

"How close?" A shareholder with pockmarks on his face asked.

Looking at the pockmarks on his face, Zhao Jiaren knew that this person had smallpox. Zhao Jiaren smiled and said, "About two or three months." As long as the last ...... Once the experiment is over, I'll be sure. ”

After finishing speaking, Zhao Jiaren hurriedly added, "This will have to wait until I arrive in Fuzhou." ”

Among the shareholders, Qi Rong couldn't help but ask: "Zhao Zhizhou, the immune system you said can work?" ”

Zhao Jiaren glanced at Qi Rong, and just when everyone felt that Zhao Jiaren was ready to explain again, they heard Zhao Jiaren say: "Whether you believe it or not is your business, I am going to vaccinate my son with cowpox." My whole family has to be vaccinated, and if you don't dislike it, you can use the same batch of vaccines as us. ”

"Really?" Qi Rong's eyes widened. If Zhao Jiaren didn't lie, Qi Rong's choice was only to agree or disagree. Any other words are not appropriate.

"It's true. I go around on my own, and if I don't have these vaccines, I will be very unsure. Zhao Jiaren replied a little angrily. After saying that, he didn't give the gang a chance to make a fuss, and ended the topic of shareholder vaccination with a sentence of "I'll tell you when you're ready, you have to prepare the money, and you will have to come up with more when the time comes."

"As for the matter of stationing outside, we will follow the model of Songquan Island and recruit people to go there. These people also need to be vaccinated. Zhao Jiaren continued to talk along the lines of discussion.

"Why do we pay those people?" Qi Rong's question shows that he is also keeping up with the pace. As soon as these words came out, all the shareholders nodded one after another.

Zhao Jiaren had long expected that these people would have such a problem, and he replied loudly: "You can build a Zhuangzi to block the poor from approaching you, but as long as the air flows, as long as the water flows." As long as the birds fly over your village, you will not be able to avoid the bacteria. Our bond with our motherland is much deeper than we think. Moreover, the area through which merchant ships travel between Quanzhou and Fuzhou is much larger than before. The number of goods brought back is several times that of the past, and it will become more than ten times or dozens of times in the future. Even if there are not so many diseases in the Great Song Dynasty, and people overseas are uneducated and do not know how to know hygiene, they have a greater chance of infectious diseases. At such times, hygiene and epidemic prevention are even more necessary. This kind of thing doesn't just mean that you can't close your eyes and treat it as if it didn't happen. ”

After these sonorous and powerful words were spoken, when the shareholders were still silent, there was applause. Zhao Jiaren glanced at it, and the person who applauded was his Sima Kao of the same year. I saw Sima Kao's solemn expression and expressed his attitude with applause. With Sima Kao taking the lead, Qi Ye and Yuan Hongjie, who served as the secretary of the Navigation Guild, began to applaud.

These people are all Zhao Jiaren's subordinates, and they are full of emotions and firm attitudes. Although other shareholders may not support Zhao Jiaren's remarks, they can't find a reason to refute them. I could only listen to Zhao Jiaren's faction enthusiastically express their attitude in embarrassment.

Seeing that the shareholders did not express their position, Zhao Jiaren continued to express his attitude downward. Qian Zhao Jiaren, who studied epidemic prevention, came out with a big head, and it didn't matter whether all shareholders were against it. Zhao Jiaren himself has to do his best.

"How do you feel about your curry rice?" Zhao Jiaren continued to talk about new issues along the line.

Shareholders were overwhelmed by the strange angles of the speech, and they didn't know how to answer. Without waiting for them to answer, Zhao Jiaren said: "I want to open a restaurant in a coastal city to promote curry rice and spices and condiments to the people." This thing is not a spice, but a spice is to be popularized among the people. You all have your own paths, so I welcome you to be able to show your talents in this area. ”

Although the entry point is very different, the angle of discussion on this matter is very serious. Qi Rong couldn't help but speak, "Zhao Zhizhou, it's easy for you to promote, but I'm afraid you won't be able to promote it in a few months." What's more, we have to sell so many things cheaply when we have traveled thousands of miles to bring so many things over? ”

Zhao Jiaren glanced at Yuan Hongjie, and the secretary Yuan Hongjie immediately spoke: "Director Qi, no one buys the goods shipped back, even if the price is set to the sky, it is useless." Spices and spices are different and have a storage time. If you want to sit in your hands and wait for a high price, don't say I didn't tell you that spices get worse the more you put them in. ”

Not only shareholders participated in the study, but also Zhao Jiaren's subordinates had to receive education. Zhao Jiaren doesn't need to talk about these small things, he leaves them to the person in charge to do. While Yuan Hongjie was speaking, Zhao Jiaren happened to drink saliva to moisten his throat. Take a break along the way.

Qi Rong felt a burst of regret in his heart. He originally thought that the South China Sea trade was all about spices, rhino horn and other things. Unexpectedly, the steward of the Qi family's fleet who came back from the South China Sea brought back the situation in the South China Sea. The South China Sea is vast and sparsely populated, and the climate is hot. Moreover, rhino horn and spices are not common commodities in the South China Sea. Before leaving, he was full of thoughts that he could make a fortune in the sea, but the reality made Qi Rong very disappointed.

There are no spices, Qi Rong hopes to make a fortune from the spices made by Zhao Jiaren. Unexpectedly, Zhao Jiaren's idea was to popularize spices by means of small profits and quick turnover. Such a line of thinking is also very different from Qi Rong's thinking. Seeing Zhao Jiaren's resolute attitude, Qi Rong simply stopped talking.

After the shareholders' meeting ended, Qi Rong invited several shareholders to his bank. When it comes to today's shareholders' meeting, other shareholders have shares in their hearts. Zhao Jiaren, a young man, commanded at the shareholders' meeting, and everyone was much older than Zhao Jiaren, and he was not convinced.

Qi Rong said: "Everyone. When the fleet comes back, will each family form their own fleet to go to sea this year? Always following Zhao Zhizhou's fleet, is it too controlled by others. ”

After listening to Qi Rong's suggestion, one of the shareholders immediately patted his thigh in agreement, "I should have done this a long time ago." Then he severely criticized Zhao Jiaren's domineering style. It can be seen that he has had enough.

Other shareholders also showed expressions of deep approval for the words criticizing Zhao Jiaren, and they also got inner relief from the angry scolding of Zhao Jiaren by others. However, after the scolding, the investor of the Zhao fleet asked, "I asked the students in our family, what kind of theoretical knowledge are they learning. The earth is round, and the night is the shadow of the earth. There is simply no means of how to measure. I had people look through the books and let other people read them. I didn't find any clues. Do you think Zhao Zhizhou is guarding us? ”

"How is he guarding us?" The shareholder who scolded Zhao Jiaren at the beginning immediately asked nervously.

Qi Rong has an opinion about Zhao Jiaren, but since someone else has vented their dissatisfaction, Qi Rong doesn't want to lash out at Zhao Jiaren. "I see all the students taking the same classes," he says. Maybe it's a more advanced course that talks about these things, right? ”

The one who scolded Zhao Jiaren at the beginning slapped the table and said hatefully: "Then let's let our students go to advanced courses." I don't know why you let your children go to those schools that Zhao Jiaren opened. I sent my children there to learn how they could know the location of the islands overseas. I thought there was some old sailor leading the way, but I inquired about it. Zhao Jiaren's subordinates didn't have any old sailors at all. In comparison, the sailors on my ship saw some of the islands from afar and knew that they were indeed going from there. On the contrary, it is stronger than Zhao Jiaren's sailor. But Zhao Jiaren's sailors know how to navigate the vast sea. As long as we understand this, our fleet will not have to mess with Zhao Jiaren's fleet at all! ”

It can be seen that this person had such a clear plan from the beginning, but the plan failed to succeed, and he looked very disappointed. However, after venting his emotions, he saw that the other people were looking at him quite calmly, and immediately replied with some embarrassment: "I think Zhao Jiaren is so wary of us, why should we be so desperate for him." ”

Qi Rong was not unhappy on the surface, but in his heart he pulled this one into the blacklist. Qi Rong didn't want to leave Zhao Jiaren alone, he just didn't want to be completely controlled by Zhao Jiaren like he was now. But the information revealed in what the man in front of him said was that 'he wants to master Zhao Jiaren's technical knowledge and go it alone', for such a person who has no intention of cooperating at all, Qi Rong is not willing to cooperate with him. Qi Rong even felt that there was no need to cooperate with this person after this meeting.

At the end of the meeting, Qi Rong sorted out his thoughts. He found that he was also a little presumptuous, and the emotional shareholder said in a hurry that Qi Rong was very concerned about the measurement. He hadn't noticed that Zhao Jiaren's fleet was different from the rest of the fleet. Qi Rong actually thought that there had been a very stable route in the South China Sea for a long time, and the reason why the Great Song fleet could not use this route was because the Pu family controlled this route.

Now Qi Rong has a little understanding, it turns out that Zhao Jiaren did not use the Pu family's route at all, and I don't know how Zhao Jiaren mastered the method of measuring position on the vast sea, and his fleet took a completely new route. With this happening, Qi Rong felt that he had to calm down and prepare well. At least wait until his fleet returns, and find out what is going on.

Putting this thought aside, Qi Rong couldn't help but think of the director who lashed out at Zhao Jiaren. Originally, Qi Rong felt that this city government was not deep, and he was a little confused about things. When Qi Rong's view of things changed, he realized that he didn't have the right assessment of the shareholder. At least compared to Qi Rong, that shareholder's level of understanding of navigation and actual navigation level are far superior. By the time Qi Rong began to realize that Zhao Jiaren had a special secret, the shareholder had spent months trying to get the method that Zhao Jiaren had mastered.

Judging by the results, that shareholder did not succeed. But after all, he had been working for a few months first, and I think his harvest should be much greater than that of Qi Rong, who has not yet touched it.

After thinking about this, Qi Rong couldn't help but think of Zhao Jiaren. Qi Rong originally thought that Zhao Jiaren was too conspicuous, but he knew more about navigation, and Qi Rong found that his judgment of Zhao Jiaren should also have a major deviation. What Qi Rong can be sure of now is that Zhao Jiaren doesn't care at all about others forming a fleet to conduct trade in the South China Sea on their own. Navigation alone left the other maritime merchants far behind. With such a big advantage, Qi Rong even felt that Zhao Jiaren was qualified to do so.

Zhao Jiaren didn't know that there were shareholders who wanted to rebel, because he didn't care. He knew best what his fleet had, and if those guys with backbones in the back of their heads really knew where the gap between the two sides was, their only choice was to continue to follow Zhao Jiaren until they spent more than ten years or even decades learning the knowledge. The guys who dare to break away now can only say that they didn't study well.

At this time, what Fuzhou Zhizhou cares about the most is cowpox. Smallpox, plague and cholera are infectious diseases that pose a great threat to human society. Now the group of people under Zhao Jiaren are very effective laborers, and they are already human beings rather than mere mouths. Many of those little dolls have received four or even six years of education. Seeing that it was time for a bumper harvest, Zhao Jiaren would never allow a plague to reap his fruits.

Hurried to Fuzhou, Fuzhou Zhizhou and Fujian Road appeased Zhao Jiaren to sit in Fuzhou. Zhizhou's first order was to 'rent land in Langqi Town and transport cattle there.' ’