A month later, Fanning's boat arrived in Quanzhou, which is currently the root base of the North Island in the Great Song Dynasty, with docks, commercial houses, money shops, shops, restaurants, inns, workshops, porcelain kilns, farms, tea farms, etc., and the assets of Quanzhou alone amounted to one million guan.

When Fan Ning arrived in Quanzhou, he happened to meet 13,000 families who migrated overseas, of which 10,000 households migrated to the North Island and 3,000 households migrated to the South Island.

At this time, the population of the Northern Song Dynasty had reached 120 million, and the landless households in the Jiangnan area alone reached 3 million.

But the migration of people abroad should not be too large, which would cause the imperial court to lose control.

Therefore, the upper limit of the population of the kingdom is limited to one million, and the upper limit of the population of the principality is 500,000, but if it is a natural reproduction breach, it is not included.

At present, the population of the North Island is 200,000, plus the 100,000 households approved by the Son of Heaven to relocate, the population will be at least 700,000 in ten years, in fact, not only, there are also immigrants recruited by the North Island itself, and it is possible that the population will be close to one million in ten years.

There are 300 10,000-stone ships moored in Quanzhou harbor, and all the 10,000-stone ships in the North Island have poured their bags to welcome 13,000 households and nearly 80,000 people.

It's not the biggest migration, but it's huge.

The officials who came to greet this group of people were led by Zhu Qi and Lu Min, one of them was the Wucheng County Commander and the other was the Yuecheng County Commander, and at the same time brought hundreds of students as volunteers.

In addition, the imperial court would also send a fleet of 5,000 troops to escort these people to the North Island.

Including the food, drink, lazar, clothing, food, housing and transportation of the immigrants, all aspects are very properly arranged.

They were waiting for Fanning to arrive, and then they set off together for the North Island.

When Fanning's fleet arrived in Quanzhou, it was already evening, and he did not alarm the local officials, and directly led his entourage to his old residence 'Zichuan Mansion', where someone cleaned up and took care of it, and he could move in directly.

Fanning wanted to have a good night's rest, but he didn't expect Akihito to come to the door.

"Why are you here too?" Fanning hurriedly let him into the study.

Akihito smiled bitterly and said, "Something happened over there in Xingang, I'll rush to deal with it." ”

"What's going on in Newport?"

"A new deacon is inexperienced, and he operated white copper for the first time, and was deceived by a Western businessman of 10,000 ingots of white copper, ten taels for one ingot, almost 100,000 taels!"

Fanning invited him to sit down, let his entourage serve tea, and asked, "Tell me what is going on." ”

Speaking of lack of knowledge, this Western merchant wanted to buy white copper, but there was not enough gold in his hand, so he took ten boxes of Ceylon multicolored pearls to offset it, and the deacon had never seen such multicolored pearls, and felt that it was very rare, so he agreed.

Later, when the news reached Beidao, I felt a little strange, if it was really a colorful pearl, how much should ten boxes of colorful pearls be worth, far more than 10,000 ingots of white copper, are Westerners so stupid?

I rushed to Newport, and sure enough, it was all fucking glass beads, nothing more than multicolored glass beads. ”

Fanning took a sip of tea and laughed in his heart, this is a trick used by Westerners to cheat Africans of gold, and it actually deceived himself.

However, scarcity is expensive, and it is still in the Northern Song Dynasty, even glass beads are more valuable, but it cannot be said to be a fraud.

The reason why Akihito felt deceived was because he had told him how the glass was made, and he was also trying, so he knew that this thing was worthless, but others might not know!

"Did you bring it?"

Akihito took one out of his bosom and handed it to Fanning, who looked closely at it under the light, it was colorful and dazzling, and it was indeed fascinating, no wonder the deacon was fooled.

Fanning smiled: "Did you punish that execution?" ”

"Not yet, just reprimanded him severely."

"So be it! You ask him to go to Heiankyo, Japan, and sell this batch of glass beads to the Fujiwara family, two million taels of silver, and they will definitely buy it. ”

"Two million!" Akihito's eyes widened.

"The Fujiwara family has silver, and when I see the silver mountain from Akita, I take three million taels every year, and I make a little money from him, so what's not to do? However, this pearl is called the Italian pearl, which is produced in Italy, a western country, and we don't know how it was mined. ”

"I know, I'm going to Newport when I go back."

Fanning suddenly remembered something and asked, "Do we have rubber wheels here in Xingang or Quanzhou?" ”

"Quanzhou has it!"

"How many?"

"About two hundred pairs, including axles."

"You leave fifty pairs and hand them over to the deacon, let him go to Ping'an, and then turn him to Kunzhou, and hand over fifty pairs of wheels to the Zhao Governor of Kunzhou, this is what I promised him, and it is considered a gift to them."

Akihito smiled: "It's a trivial matter, I'll arrange it." ”

Fanning took a sip of tea and asked, "Speaking of glass, I remember that you are going to set up a glass factory, have you succeeded?" ”

"Success is success, but it was seen by your father-in-law Cao Yan, he insisted that we give the technology to Nandao, and Nandao also wanted to set up a glass factory, I was really reluctant to accept this kind of technology, but it was not good not to agree."

Akihito was a little distressed, took out a rosewood inlaid silver-rimmed pipe from his arms, rolled a pot of tobacco, lit it under the lamp, and Meimei smoked.

Fanning was a little dumbfounded, he pointed to his pipe and asked, "When did you learn it?" ”

"Just this year! It's very popular in the North Island, it's a man who has a pipe, and he smokes a pot after being busy, which is very relaxing, and by the way, I have one for you too. ”

Akihito took out a beautiful rosewood box inlaid with rubies from his leather bag, handed it to Fanning, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to my brother on becoming king, I prepared a greeting gift." ”

Fan Ning woke up from the shock caused by Mingren's smoking, and he suddenly remembered that he also had a small bundle of tobacco leaves in his box, and he was about to give it to Zhao Ji, the Son of Heaven, but he actually forgot it.

He put the red sandalwood box aside, waved his hand and said, "Let's say one thing first, don't mess up, you just said that Nandao also wants to make glass?" ”

"Yes! And I agreed, of course it was forced, that's your father-in-law! ”

"Let's do it together, no problem, the Song Dynasty market is very big, you can make a fortune together, but does my father-in-law know the role of glass?"

"He knows that there is a glass building in the Empress Dowager Cao's bedroom, which is the batch of glass you bought from Westerners at the beginning, and it was dedicated to the palace, and as a result, every window of the Empress Dowager Cao's bedroom was equipped with glass, which became a famous glass building in the palace, which was told to me by Cao Tong, and the glasses of your other father-in-law, Ouyang Xiu, were also made of glass, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty knew that Cao Tong wanted to do the window glass and glasses business."

It turned out that his father-in-law knew, Fanning smiled bitterly and asked, "Then does he know how to divide the glass?" ”

"I told him to use a knife made of diamond, but he must wear protective gloves, otherwise it is easy to hurt his hands."

"Alright! You can teach the art of making glass to the South Island, and then I'll talk about the second thing, which is about multicolored glass beads. ”

Fanning sneered: "With what I know about Westerners, they will definitely come again, full of glass beads to deceive the white copper." ”

Akihito gritted his teeth and said, "If they dare to come again, I will make them lose all their money." ”

Fanning nodded, "I'm sure you'll do it beautifully, but this glass bead can be hoarded and exchanged for gold and silver elsewhere in the future." ”

"I understand, for example, Japan."

Fan Ning secretly praised Mingren's quick turn, and he smiled and said, "Now let's talk about the tobacco and show me your tobacco!" ”

Akihito took out the tobacco box and handed it to Fanning, Fanning opened the box, a strange fragrance hit his face, the tobacco shredded was golden brown, roasted perfectly, cut very thinly, an inch long, soft and neat.

Fanning lowered his head and sniffed it again, and said with a smile: "It's ambergris!" ”

"There are more than a dozen spices for shredded tobacco, depending on your preference! Now there are cigarette shops in all counties, not only for us, but also for the South Island. ”

"Did the woman smoke with the child?"

Akihito shook his head, "Women and children are not allowed to smoke, women like it, children are forbidden, didn't you say at the beginning that smoking too much of this play is very harmful to the body, and children are strictly forbidden to smoke?" So both the North Island and the South Island prohibit children from smoking. ”

Fanning took the pipe that Akihito gave him, it was also sandalwood inlaid with gold edge, the workmanship was very exquisite, he took the tobacco, slowly rolled it up with a small tobacco leaf, stuffed it into the pipe, he just put in the candle, Akihito hurriedly took out a beautiful lighter.

The shape of the lighter is a bit like the metal lighter of later generations, the whole body is made of gold, the knock on the door uses the telescopic force of the spring, the top is made of stainless steel, the bottom is a piece of flint, pull the back with your thumb, the upper sickle is pulled up, after pulling to the extreme, as soon as the hand is released, the sickle will be slammed on the flint.

'Smack! Syllable! The steel sickle struck the flint twice, and immediately a spark burst out, and at the end of the flint was a small pot of velvet, which was immediately ignited by the spark.

This is not an invention, it is to make the fire sickle used by ordinary people into a high-end work of art, which looks very high-grade, and the only scientific and technological content is to use a spring to combine the originally separated sickle and flint.

"The fire sickle is good!"

Fanning stepped forward and lit the tobacco, and Meimei took a puff, which immediately made him relax.

"This is specially customized, customized for a fifty yuan money, how can ordinary people have spare money to use this, or use an old-fashioned fire sickle!"

"That's not necessarily, after the popularization of tobacco, every man has to bring a fire sickle, rich people always want to use you like this, in order to show their identity, pipes are also, go back and set up a workshop specializing in making high-end pipes and fire sickles, which will be a first-class brand in the capital, you will not let go of this opportunity to make money!"

"There are so many ways to make money, and I can't keep myself busy."

After saying that, Akihito was about to smoke another pot, but was stopped by Fanning.

"You just need to smoke this once or twice a day, you can't smoke more, otherwise your lungs will be broken, and everything must have a degree."

"I understand."

"It's good to understand, go back and rest early, we'll leave early tomorrow morning."