There is no ice on the river surface of the waterway to the south of Ruyin, and boats can still be sailed. As soon as Xie Rumo and his party finished boarding the ship, someone came over to say hello.

"Young Master Xie, don't come unharmed."

Well? Xie Rumo raised her eyes, "It's you?" ”

Xie Rumo recognized Gong Zi, who was the captain of the ship she took to Beijing first, surnamed Gong, when he came to ask for medicine and consultation, he also gave him a prescription for rheumatism. Well, I also helped him mix the herbs for the first soak.

Gong laughed to himself, "It's me." ”

"What a coincidence."

"It's fate, speaking of which, the old man hasn't thanked you for the medicinal wine you prepared for us last time, it really works, the old man is much better this winter." Speaking of this, Gong couldn't help but sigh a little, Rao has been wandering the rivers and lakes for decades, he didn't expect Xie Rumo to have such a bizarre life experience.

"Captain Gong, don't be so polite, speaking of which, the bandit I met at sea last time was because of me, and it affected a boatload of you people."

Gong shook his head, "Young Master Xie shouldn't say that, begging for a life on this water is a combination of danger and opportunity, and money is not so easy to earn." "At that time, Wang Yu gave a lot of compensation, what else is there to say." Besides, we will encounter dangers at least several times a year at sea, and if you are really afraid of these dangers, do not come out to mix with the sea. "To do this, you have to have the awareness that you will be injured or even killed.

"Speaking of which, it's still my Gong's own signboard that isn't bright enough." There is a self-deprecating implication to this.

Xie Rumo listened thoughtfully, "That's okay, let's not mention that stubble, but after that incident, we can be regarded as sharing weal and evil." Hey, yes,

It's not yet the first month, so you guys sail, why don't you go ashore for a winter break? ”

"What's the rest, take a break, the sons and daughters at this bottom don't even have the money to marry a daughter-in-law." Captain Gong joked.

Xie Rumo looked at him on the boat as if he were walking on the ground, "Captain Gong is good at water kung fu, and he is too humble to say this, and he will not be unsettled after half a year of rest." ”

Xie Rumo's praise made Captain Gong laugh, "There's no way, it's all for the sake of eating." ”

At this time, a boatman came to call Captain Gong, and he lost his company.

At the beginning of the voyage, due to the northernness of Ruyin, there are still some fragments of ice floes on the river, and on this section of the waterway, the boatmen on the ship keep an eye on the sentry day and night to deal with emergencies at any time.

After a day and a night's walking, there was no more ice floes on the water, and the boat rowed smoothly southward.

Captain Gong was empty, and came to Xie Rumo here to talk about the mountains. She was making tea on the deck that stretched out of the cabin, listening to Captain Gong and her about his ship and his little ones.

Captain Gong told Xie Rumo that the waterway from Ruyin to the capital would not work in the winter snow and ice, and they would start a business going south. It's like this every year, and you can eat it together.

"Combining work and rest, you can go ashore appropriately to rest."

"The old man has been doing this water travel for most of his life, it can be said that marrying a wife and having children to provide for the elderly is almost always carried out on the boat, what to do on the shore, if you don't do this on the shore, you won't do anything else, and besides, the shore is not as comfortable as the ship."

"You can't stay on a ship all your life, it's not good for your health."

"Why not? Born to raise the sea and bury at sea. ”

Captain Gong said this freely.

Xie Rumo's heart moved, "Captain Gong, are you just a boat?" ”

"yes, it's just such a boat, and the guys on board are my brothers and relatives." Gong himself didn't understand why he came here, but he was proud when he mentioned his boat, "Young Master Xie, don't look at it as big as those big ships, but it's sturdy." Inspired by the last bandit attack, I loaded something in front of it, and I don't know if you noticed it two days ago, but ordinary thin ice would be shattered by it, which saved a lot of effort. If another pirate strikes, they will sweep people into the water and run over them......"

Xie Rumo smiled and asked, "Has Captain Gong ever thought about expanding into two, three, or even one fleet?" ”

Xie Rumo's question made Gong Zizi stunned, and then his eyes flashed, he was not a novice in the rivers and lakes, how could he not hear that there seemed to be something in her words?

"The old man can consider adding another boat, and he is fully capable of it."

At present, his subordinates can assemble three boats, and some of them have gone to Nest for winter, and the land at home cannot be barren, and they all take turns to work on the boats.

"But the fleet that Young Master Xie said, I want money and no money, and I don't have so much business for such a big battle. Every year, there are a number of people who enter and leave Beijing to take boats, even if he squeezes out other fleets to no one, it is useless to have no business. ”

"Captain Gong is only in charge of equipment and development, if the money is not together, our Xie family can support some of it. And Captain Gong didn't work to do what he was worried about.

When Captain Gong's fleet is formed, the Xie family's water transportation materials will be handed over to Captain Gong in the future.

Gong thought to himself, the Xie family has a big business, twelve medicinal material planting bases, thirteen medical stores, and thirty-six medical centers, no, now the medicinal material planting base has added Ruyin, that is, thirteen.

These must be operated together, and the mobilization and supply of these medicinal materials and personnel will be large-scale and large-scale. If it is all handed over to him, this is a big business, and he can fully afford to raise a fleet, Captain Gong's heart is hot.

Gong stared at Xie Rumo, and the old god Xie Rumo picked up the tea in his hand on the ground and drank it.

He gritted his teeth and dried, starving the cowardly to death. And Master Xie said that he would support him, and it must have been real money in the early stage.

He has no conflict with the Xie family and no holidays, what are you calculating him for? If the Xie family was willing to spend so much money to set up this bureau for him to fight, he would admit it.

And the Xie family has always had an excellent reputation, if even her family can't be trusted, let alone other families.

"Young Master Xie, I'm very interested in your proposal, let's go into the cabin and talk about it in detail?"

...... As a result of the preliminary negotiations, the Xie family financed him to build a fleet of 200,000 taels of silver, and this part of the silver would be paid in two installments after the two parties signed the contract, with the Xie family accounting for 49 percent of the shares, and the Xie family's goods should be transported first at the same price.

That's what the agreement says, giving both sides three days to think about it and then reply.

There are three gangs of a hero, and there are naturally people with good brains among Gong Zi's people.

The man took the preliminary consensus they had discussed, and after reading it once, he smiled at Gong himself, "This Xie family is kind enough." ”

After reading the second question, he gave such a conclusion, "There is no need to bargain for this agreement, just add one article: If the Xie family wants to sell the equity in their hands one day, at the same price, the Gong family has the right of first refusal." ”

After speaking, he sighed twice, "Lao Gong, you go out to meet a nobleman, Young Master Xie is a girl, and she has a big family pattern, which is worthy of your cooperation." ”

I'm afraid Xie Rumo didn't expect that there were still people there who could really understand the meaning of this agreement.

Gong put away the agreement by himself, "Lao Wang, if I didn't know that you hadn't seen the young master of the Xie family at all, just because you said a few words to help her, and she poured you some ecstasy soup." ”

The old man surnamed Wang laughed when he heard this, "Am I the kind of person who can be easily bought?" ”

Gong looked him up and down by himself, "Like, if you go south with me, isn't it just that I eat you and you have a drink?" ”

"Young master, we have given so much silver, we can take fifty-one percent of the control." Xie Ming has been by Xie Rumo's side for a long time, his thoughts and actions are becoming more and more mature, and most of the things are considered from the overall situation, he feels that they can fight for a little more benefits.

Xie Ming's approach is right, he is the master in his position, he serves the Xie family and serves Xie Rumo, of course, he has to fight for her greatest interests.

Xie Rumo shook her head, "Don't do too much." Cooperation, always show sincerity, at the beginning, even if you calculate this and that, this transaction will not last long. Some things don't need to be pressed step by step, and sometimes a step back can be more successful. ”

The purpose of her self-cooperation with Gong is first of all to pave the way for the transportation of medicinal materials this year, and she understands the importance of transportation too well. In her later life, in order to be able to secure troops on the border as soon as possible, the state still demolished huge sums of money to build roads in Tibet. Moreover, she is planning for the future, the waterway is a battleground, and it is also a place and blind spot where it is easy to cultivate power, and it is not easy to attract attention.

Therefore, Xie Ming's proposal is inappropriate, this time to finance Gong himself, making money and holding is secondary, people must understand their first purpose, don't be too greedy, so as not to lose sight of one or the other. I want to cuddle the grass and beat the rabbit, and in the end, the chicken and the egg will cry without tears.

Imagine, even if Gong himself didn't notice it for a while, they were deceived and passed, and when the matter was a foregone conclusion, Gong himself understood the deep meaning of this agreement, how could he not be angry? As soon as you turn your head, you will lose the decision-making power of other people's masters, who is happy. They will still cooperate with the Xie family and the fleet in the future, if he secretly comes to you in the future cooperation, won't the gains outweigh the losses? Besides, their Xie family focuses on medicine, and it is useless to ask for decision-making power for a fleet. Everything that can be done in the agreement can be considered to have achieved the intended purpose.

When Gong came to her again to draw up an agreement, Xie Rumo saw the sentence he added, and knew that there was a master around him. But looking at his appearance, it seems that he doesn't understand the meaning of this 51% holding.

Xie Rumo reminded, "Don't give 51% of the shares in your hand, if you really need to use interests to bind, you can only give part of the profits generated by equity, not equity." ”

Some words were so far that Xie Rumo did not say anything deeper. Saying these words, she also wanted to be stable, and she didn't want any messy changes on the fleet's side after the Xie family came in.

Yan Yan couldn't help but shrink his neck as he watched her come out of Captain Gong's cabin, he vaguely guessed that the two had reached some agreement. This young master of the Xie family, a little girl, has more courage than ordinary men to do things. His cousin can't carry it.