Chapter 160: Man dies for money
A few days later, the Song family dispatched four large ships in one go, carrying the goods in the direction of Penghu again.
After hearing the news, many fishing boats left the port and followed the four large ships from a distance.
According to the rules, the rest of the wealthy merchants are not allowed to directly come forward to spy on the route.
But if he finds it in private, then even if he has the ability, everyone has to admit it.
These wealthy merchants have also sailed to the east several times, and they all know the general direction, the only thing they are not sure is where to dock in order to find the legendary short-haired king.
And these four boats of the Song family didn't care about these fishing boats at all, they drove as usual.
Only after borrowing the road in Penghu, these four big boats suddenly took advantage of the headwind and the fact that the fishing boats could not stand the greater wind and waves, and easily threw off these fishing boats.
The whole process was so skillful that these fishing boats didn't have time to react, and they could only watch the big boats disappear one by one.
It's just that there are also those who are not afraid of death, a small fishing boat braved the capricious wind and waves in the black water ditch, and resolutely plunged into the four big boats and went away from the shadow of the boat.
Seeing this, the rest of the people timidly chose to wait and see.
When they did this, they got a reward of 100 taels of silver, and if they didn't do it, they could get a few hundred yuan for their hard work, so they couldn't do it so desperately.
And after the little fishing boat whirled around in the black water ditch for a while, I don't know if God had mercy, and actually sent a gust of wind to help it out of the whirlpool of wind and waves.
But the small fishing boat didn't have long to be complacent, and a few small boats were lowered from the big boat.
After a while, there was a lonely little fishing boat floating on the sea.
Song Derong witnessed all this, and also sighed.
Man dies for money, and birds die for food.
Now the wealthy merchants in Zhangzhou have already offered hundreds of taels, as long as someone can show them the sea map, let them find the legendary short-haired king.
Song Derong knew that under the heavy reward, these fishermen would definitely continue to go to Dongfan one after another, and it was definitely a matter of time before they found the fur.
Even if they can't find the Shorthair King, they may encounter other natives, and they will be able to obtain furs as soon as the exchange begins.
However, he also understood that the short-haired king with the armor of the city could provide enough fur, not to mention that he could still produce iron pots and threshers.
"Shopkeeper, we're going to fight the dog soon!" The ship's direct warehouse came to report.
Song Derong nodded, got up and walked to the cabin on the side.
When he saw that the deck was full of victims, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Now, taking some displaced people or disaster victims to Dongbo has become an important income for these guys.
Many Song family boatmen, so they like to run to Dongfan very much, just to get some extra soup to drink every time.
In a short time, the four large ships took advantage of the water conditions at the intersection of the ocean currents and successfully turned their bows.
Since it was autumn and winter, it was a tailwind, and the sails were violently stretched and sailed forward.
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When he arrived at Yangang again, Song Derong found several cylindrical houses built in the distance, and there were brute soldiers parading on them.
I don't know how much the isolation shed has increased, and the salt pans along the coast have also increased the area of Nuoda.
"How many immigrants are there this time?" A guy from the port came over and asked.
This guy knew at a glance that he was an immigrant from the Ming Kingdom.
Managing the victims with the victims made Song Derong also quite emotional.
"There are more than 500 people in total!" The ship's Naok immediately flattered.
The fellow nodded, and began to have them send the victims to purify.
The whole process has been orderly, and after the separation of men and women, it is no longer a one-by-one rinse.
Instead, they were forced to climb over a pool filled with lime water, and people kept pushing their heads under the water.
And also add another purification procedure, that is, let these people drink a bowl of decoction.
After inquiry, Song Derong learned that this bowl of decoction was used to prevent water and soil adaptation, and it also had a certain anti-malaria effect.
In the last month, malaria still appeared sporadically, but fortunately, most of it was benign malaria, and this benign malaria, after a dozen episodes of malaria, can basically coexist with the malaria parasite.
It's just that when the disease occurs, it often has to be painful for several days, and if the nutrition can't keep up, people are easy to be unable to bear it.
Song Derong waited for a while, and Aunt He, who was in charge, was late.
"Why did Shopkeeper Song come in person this time?" Aunt He asked as soon as they met.
Song Derong smiled and arched his hand and said, "The main family has something to do, and I ask to see the king!"
"Oh, that's easy to say!" Second Aunt He waved her hand and said, "After I finish reporting here, the king will summon you!"
"Then it's tiring!" Song Derong bowed again.
Second Aunt He smiled and arranged for him to stay aside, and sent someone to Mocheng to report.
Song Derong had nothing to do, lying in the room with his eyes closed.
Suddenly, the sound of reading aloud piqued his interest, and he got up and followed the sound.
He found that behind the guest house where he lived, a huge shed had been erected, and there were some children of the victims reading and reading in it.
And it seems that the one who taught them was also a Ming man, and what he was teaching was the new dialect of Dongfan.
Song Derong was secretly surprised, and after standing next to him and looking at it, he found that what was taught was not the Four Books and Five Classics, but some strange symbols, which could be used to determine the pronunciation of a certain word with specific readings.
"What an amazement! This short-haired king actually let the children of the victims read and write! ”
After a while, after a class was over, the teacher announced that the class was over, and he left with the lesson plan, and the children in the shed also began to have fun.
Song Derong leaned forward and said to the teacher: "This friend, are you from the Ming Dynasty?"
"Exactly!" The teacher also arched his hand and said: "The student is Chenghua for four years!" It's a pity that it's just a child! ”
"Tongsheng!" Song Derong was even more surprised, "Since you are a child, why did you fall into this Dongfan?" ”
"To make friends laugh, the student has not been admitted to Xiucai since he was admitted to Tongsheng at the age of twelve, and there are still a few acres of thin fields at home, but all of them were used by me for scientific examinations! Poor my father, I have never enjoyed happiness in my life, and I went there a few years ago! Later, he suffered repeated disasters, and his family fell here, and he had to devote himself to Dongfan! ”
"Oh, that's a pity!" Song Derong sighed.
"There's nothing to be sorry for, in Daming, I'm already a place where I can't stand. As far as Dongfan is concerned, at least my children and I can now be fed and clothed every day, and when this is the case, the king promised to let me go to Mocheng, and then give me a field and a house! ”
Song Derong was stunned and said, "But Dongfan's side ...... They are all barbarians, and their customs are very different from my Ming customs! As a scholar, you read the books of the sages, do you teach these things? ”
"My friend laughed, no matter how good the sage book is, it can't fill your stomach? Besides, this pinyin sentence reading, not necessarily vulgar, I rely on pinyin and tone, a month to understand the mystery, although the new words are not very good, but can already teach these children, this is not faster and better than the enlightenment of the Ming Dynasty? ”
Song Derong was stunned, and it was not easy to refute for a while.
The teacher said, "And the sages have also taught me that the food of the king is the matter of loyalty to the king!" Now Dongfan can give me a mouthful of food, I should be conscientious, if I was in my hometown, I have a bite to eat, then I should be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately, in the Ming Dynasty, I have to starve to death! ”
Song Derong's face changed for a moment, for some reason, he felt that it was never a good thing for scholars to be exiled to Dongfan.
In fact, what he didn't know was that now Yan Zheng already had three children, although these children were all not at home in the imperial examination, but they were all real cultural people.
Yan Zheng threw them all away as literacy teachers, and what he valued was their ability to quickly understand pinyin and tone.
If he wasn't afraid of being too public, he even planned to directly offer an offer and invite scholars who had a bad career in the Ming Dynasty to work for him.
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