After Liu Yu's incident, the Liu family calmed down for a while.

The calm of this broken station ended after Mo Chuchen's shipping procedures were completed.

In the hall of the Liu family, Mo Chuchen sent someone to call Liu Fugui and all the cheap grandsons under his name.

After waiting for two hours, the Liu family arrived one after another.

Among them, Liu Ye was still pulled all the way by Liu Fugui's ears.

Liu Qing looked at the appearance of his father and younger brother, and secretly turned his head, not knowing why, but feeling inexplicably embarrassed.

"Fugui, why did you hit it again?"

Mo Chuchen looked at the cheap grandson, although he was beaten badly, he couldn't be sympathetic.

Maybe the temperament of the gambling dog makes him not likable at all.

"It's not that he went to play some kind of fighting crickets with his friends, and the martial artists can't judge whether it's gambling or not, so they asked me to take a look."

Liu Fugui was almost angry, he thought that Liu Ye had finally quit gambling, but he didn't expect that kid to go to the casino, but instead he was angry with his fox friends and dogs, and then fought insects.

"How can this be considered gambling? Grandpa only asked me not to go to the casino, but he didn't say that I couldn't fight crickets! ”

Liu Ye tried to fight for a little welfare for himself, but just when he was right, when he met Mo Chuchen's eyes, his arrogance was immediately wiped out.

I don't know why, every time he sees this grandfather, he panics.

"Well, I didn't expect this, it seems that I still need to write a detailed explanation to the martial artist before leaving, so as not to allow you to exploit the loopholes!"

Mo Chuchen said that he was talking to Liu Ye, but the direction he was looking at was Liu Zhi.

Bathed in the "kind" gaze of the old grandfather, Liu Zhi finally couldn't resist the pressure, knelt down with a plop, and said with tears in his eyes: "Grandpa! I really didn't go to Hualou! It's just a few dancing girls outside! ”

"Brother! I didn't think you could do that! Here, Liu Ye was also stunned, he thought he was the most witty, but he didn't expect Liu Zhi to have a group of "dancing girls" in secret.

"You're so nice!" When Liu Fugui knew about these things, he was immediately laughed at.

"Dad, it's not that you don't know that your younger brothers have to write, if they can change the sow, they can go up the tree!" Liu Qing didn't have any expectations for his younger brothers at all.

"Alright, stop arguing.

I'm not calling you here today to settle accounts, so you don't have to be so nervous. ”

Mo Chuchen motioned for Liu Zhi to stand up, and then said slowly: "Today I want to say, my sea ship is also ready, the goods are also ready, and I will be able to go to sea soon, this time I plan to take Mu Ling and a few old guys to go to sea, do you want to go?" ”

Hearing this, Liu Fugui and Liu Qing were silent, although they were greedy for the benefits of sailing, but shipping was undoubtedly hard, even harder than running on land.

Liu Fugui simply didn't want to toss, while Liu Qing didn't want to sail to sea because he had to help the Seven Princes secretly deliver news or something.

As for Liu Ye and Liu Zhi, the two of them don't even want to do business on weekdays, and they are naturally even more unhappy about this kind of thing.

"That grandfather is actually quite good for us here, just let those old shopkeepers go to sea or something, we don't have to be so troublesome."

"That's right, I can't come back for a year and a half when I go to sea, what should we do with the industry in Jincheng?

And the sea is not as safe as on land, which requires a wind and a wave, how dangerous it is! ”

In the end, none of the four were willing to sail away.

"Okay, since you don't go, then I'll go myself."

Mo Chuchen was not angry about this, after all, several merchants with experience in going to sea here were related to the imperial capital.

Soon after, Mo Chuchen and Mu Ling embarked on a voyage with ceramic tea and so on.

The ships he built were among the few large ships of his time, and there were more than 200 sailors in addition to the cargo.

On the day he left, not only the local chamber of commerce came to see him off, but also some county orders and prefects also came to join in the fun, and the Zhao family, which was inextricably related to the prince, naturally sent someone to see him off.

"The old man is really old and strong!" The Zhao family is naturally the steward of their Jincheng branch.

This steward is only thirty years old, and he often manages the affairs of the voyage, he naturally knows very well how hard the voyage is, and he admires the decision of the old man of the Liu family from the bottom of his heart.

"I'm really sad to go out at this time, I don't know when I'll be able to come back!." Liu Fugui looked up at the tall ship, which was bigger than any other long-distance ship he had ever seen, and the material looked like an iron ship? It's really strange to see, so how can a large piece of iron float on the water?

"Do you think this old man is boring? Why are there still those fruits, flowers, and vegetables in the sea? So what's wrong with a big position? "It is a little difficult for several magistrates who have watched this to understand this, this is not going out to do business and not going out to visit the flower boat, the structure is so good-looking, it is really strange.

"You don't understand this, it's not so easy to get vegetables and fruits at sea, we usually go out to bring some dried vegetables and fruits that are easy to store, and this old man Liu is rich and rich, and he is particular about eating and drinking."

The steward of the Zhao family sighed with emotion, most of the people on their Zhao family's voyage were some subordinates, so naturally they would not prepare so much.

However, it was also because of their preparations and the replenishment of melons, fruits and food on other islands during the voyage that not so many people in their expedition team got sick.

……。

After sending the old man away lively, Liu Fugui began to grasp the power of the family.

In the past, the old man was here, and he didn't dare to take care of the affairs of the family, but now that the old man has sailed away, the head of this family can finally be his turn! .

"Starting today, the martial artist can go home, and Liu Ye and Liu Zhi can also return to their own mansions, as for the money, you can apply for it from me, and one day you will no longer cause trouble, and I will be relieved."

Liu Fugui couldn't get used to seeing others beating his son, so the day after Mo Chuchen left, he generously fired all the martial artists.

Liu Ye and Liu Zhi cheered several times in their hearts, and agreed to Liu Fugui's conditions with a well-behaved face.

As for the wives of the two of them, there was a wry smile on their faces, this old lady had just left her father-in-law to do this, I am afraid that it will not be long before these two guys will relapse into their old ways!

When the time comes, without the old lady to restrain them, I am afraid that no one will be able to cure them.

Liu Fugui was in charge of the family affairs for a while, but the business was not as good as before.

As soon as the old man left, many merchants who came to cooperate with the Zhao family also refused to cooperate again, and soon withdrew their home stadium from Jincheng.

Liu Fugui was stunned by this, he didn't want his father to leave, and his performance would be messy.

In order to win back the cooperative merchants, he tossed and turned, stayed up all night, racking his brains.

I invited a few merchants who had not had time to evacuate to inquire about the reason for this matter.

In the Baihualou wine banquet, Liu Fugui held a wine glass with blank eyes.

"There is something really strange, the old man really doesn't understand, why did the old man leave you so anxiously to evacuate and cooperate."

Several of the partners who had not been withdrawn were all stewards of the big family, and he couldn't help but be surprised to see Fugui look so dazed.

"Didn't you ever participate in what the old man did?"

"What did the old man do?" was asked like this, and Liu Fugui was also blinded.

"You really don't know about feelings?" Several stewards looked abrupt, seeing that Liu Fugui didn't seem to be lying, and they laughed in surprise.

"It seems that the old man is really a strange person"

"What a strange man? Why do you play such dumb riddles? Liu Fugui had an ominous premonition.

"That's the case, Old Lady Liu once gave us some good ship designs and some machines, but there are those things, and we still can't understand many designs, and the head of the family asked us to get closer to the old lady, just to get more ideas ......." The steward's euphemism, but the subtext is undoubtedly that he wants to poach people.

"It's not that the old lady has left, I heard that the factory has also been disbanded, so there is no need for us to stay." The steward wanted to say that they had already dug up a lot of unemployed workers in the factory, but this kind of thing was not good to say in front of Liu Fugui.

"Is that so?"

Liu Fugui was depressed.

No, I don't know, when I ask, I always feel uncomfortable!

It turned out that these merchants came for the things in the old man's factory.

The old man walked cleanly and disbanded the factory.

Most of those merchants were introduced by the Zhao family, and they were not confined to Jincheng, so they naturally left Jincheng early.

Thinking of this, Liu Fugui couldn't help but have some resentment towards his father, how can this be said to be a money-making project, isn't it? Why is it said that it will be disbanded and disbanded silently, and the people in the factory will not be poached? Cheaper outsiders!

No matter what Liu Fugui thinks, Mo Chuchen is now happily sailing, the level of navigation in this world is not very high, the casualty rate of a trip to sea is very high, but the remuneration is also high, and many spices can be sold at a sky-high price in foreign countries.

If it weren't for the fact that ordinary goods at home could be sold abroad at sky-high prices, how could merchants be so eager for seafaring?

Mo Chuchen took Mu Ling to more than a dozen small countries successively, and those places have developed relatively rough civilizations, some already have complete systems, and some are very rough, not so much a country as a tribe.

For different situations, the items that Mo Chuchen trades are also different, what he has to do is to take what he needs as much as possible, instead of having one brain, and sell the good and bad to the same family.

Although Mo Chuchen's ship is only one, it is huge, and after improved technological transformation, its comfort is far from being comparable to that of ordinary wooden boats.

Both sailors and ordinary workers are happy to accompany the old lady of the Liu family to run around, after all, the ship's ability to resist wind and clouds is also amazing.

Mu Ling wandered all the way like this, how long had he lived, what had he never seen? Naturally, you will not be frightened by the scenery outside.

On the contrary, those guys who haven't gone out much, a rainstorm at sea can make them scream and scream, and they are very uneasy.

Originally, Mo Chuchen simply wanted to go back after making a fortune outside, but as the number of voyages and reselling increased, he stayed for more and more time, and after the things in his country were sold, he began to take local materials and resell them everywhere.

In the blink of an eye, it took four years to return to Liguo.

At this time, it is spring, and the pear blossoms are in full bloom, and the almond-white petals are scattered along the street, and pedestrians stroll through them, occasionally chanting poems.

These four years are a long time for people at sea, and even more so for people on land.

Compared with the simple life at sea, the Liu family is much more dire.

First of all, the king of the pear country has successfully become the Seven Princes, and Liu Qing, as one of the Seven Princes, has naturally changed from an ordinary merchant to an imperial businessman, and some of the Liu family's heating charcoal, spices, etc. are directly supplied to the court.

With the help of his friends, Liu Yu successfully went incognito, and with the memory in his head, Liu Yu's business in the imperial city was also booming, especially the improvement of the fireworks made him appreciate by many kings and grandsons, and it was really beautiful for a while.

The group of people who poached Mo Chuchen's factory at the beginning did not make any progress in the technology tree at all, and after finding that the workers did not know anything, they gave up on completing the design drawings given by Mo Chuchen.

Some of them feel that they have been tricked and use things directly as toilet paper.

Because of this, the tech tree in this world has not made much progress.

If you want to say who is the most unlucky in the past four years, it is Mo Chuchen's two cheap grandsons.

After Mo Chuchen left, Liu Fugui took matters into his own hands and relaxed his supervision of Liu Ye and Liu Zhi.

At first, these two people would consciously not go to the gambling house, but as time went by, the two of them began to wander again, and even learned how to hide their wives and avoid their wives.

When no one noticed and there was spare money in their hands, the behavior of the two people became more and more presumptuous, and they did things from being secretive at the beginning, and in the end, they almost wrote blatantly on their faces.

As a result, after Mo Chuchen came back, he saw that there was an extra wooden sign in the ancestral hall used by the Liu family for sacrifice, and there was an additional grandson without an arm in the courtyard of the Liu family.

"Daddy! You're finally back! ”

When Liu Fugui saw Mo Chuchen, he immediately cried bitterly and repented of his decision.

It turned out that Liu Zhi was sick and died in the second year after Mo Chuchen left, and Liu Ye became a waste in the first winter after Mo Chuchen left because he couldn't afford to pay back the money.

In the entire Liu family, only Liu Qing and Liu Fugui were left.

"That's it! I don't plan to leave again when I come back this time, and you don't have to cry bitterly. ”

Mo Chuchen did not take over the Liu family's stall.

He only occasionally went to support Liu Qing, the eldest grandson, and quietly sent the design drawings to Liu Yu and so on.

The rest of the days were leisurely, either playing chess or shopping.

It wasn't until he was 100 years old, after the identity of the wood spirit as a human "died", that Mo Chuchen broke away from this world and returned to the void world with the wood spirit.

At that time, the pear country had changed, things were different from people, and the standard of living gradually entered the ...... of the steam age in the hands of Liu Yu.