On January 7, the third year of Huaxia, the Huaxia Development Company, together with all the businessmen who were willing to go to Annam, slowly sailed out of Yangang under the leadership of four Long March-class ships.

This is the first voyage of the year, and it is also the first voyage after the integration of merchants, all ships are hung with bright red star spike flags, one by one in formation.

The four Long March-class warships, relying on their mobility and speed advantages, have been patrolling around to escort the entire fleet.

This kind of collective going to sea scene is very spectacular, and the momentum of uniting to do business alone makes people feel that businessmen can also be less scattered.

Dong Jinghua, Li Sifu and Xu Songbai, as the company's expatriate directors, are standing on a 400-material ship of the company at this moment.

The three of them looked at this huge fleet, all smiling, feeling that the company had finally taken a big step.

Xu Songbai even felt that these businessmen may not be able to be armed to a limited extent, as long as they are equipped with a few cannons and a few arquebuses, they are also a force to be reckoned with.

It's just that under the premise that the Eastern Qin fleet does not have absolute strength, arming these merchants is definitely not within the scope of the government's consideration.

After the ship entered the open sea, Xu Songbai returned to his cabin and found that this cabin had been newly decorated, and the various furnishings were even more luxurious.

He knew that this was Dong Jinghua's overture, and considering that he did not use the company's funds, he sat down with peace of mind.

"Hello sir!" Suddenly, a handsome-looking teenager walked in through the side door of the cabin.

Xu Songbai was surprised: "You are also an employee of the company?"

The young man smiled shyly: "No, I and several brothers here are all people bought by Master Dong."

Xu Songbai knew that this was a subordinate, and these Ming merchants liked to be in groups of slaves.

He couldn't refute Dong Jinghua's face, so he waved his hand and said, "I don't have anything to take care of here, you can do it yourself!"

The young man glanced at him secretly, there was actually some charm on his face, he lowered his head and smiled: "Don't worry, master, I will serve people!"

Xu Songbai snorted, silently began to open the paperwork, and began to write some plans.

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Due to the tailwind, the ship had arrived at Zhiyuan Port after most of the day.

Xu Songbai has also written a business plan of more than 2,000 words, and in this short period of time, he has enjoyed the considerate care of the servants of the Ming Kingdom.

After getting off the ship, he walked around Zhiyuan Port and found that in addition to a dozen large warehouses, only the artillery batteries were left in the buildings here.

The only building that emits black smoke is the tall chimney of the sugar factory.

There is a battalion stationed here, the battalion commander is an aborigine, and everything here is also under military control.

Therefore, most of the people who loaded and unloaded the goods were Japanese laborers and prisoners of war, but fortunately, it gradually became "civilized" here.

Policies such as labor autonomy, wage payment, and points denaturalization have also been implemented, and more than a dozen widow laborers are eligible for naturalization every month.

As soon as they were qualified, they were able to sign contracts with sugar factories and become regular workers, enjoying the treatment that workers did not have.

When Shimazu Kaori came to Eastern Qin, the Chinese teacher Shangwu Yao, who was married, was also sent here to teach Xinhua, in order to completely naturalize a group of outstanding laborers.

Only in this way can the plantation form a system of Japanese governance, and the benefits for the growth of the plantation are self-evident.

Xu Songbai communicated with the port customs, and after unloading the military supplies, he purchased a large amount of white sugar at the price of three taels of sugar per stone.

The reason why the stone weights and measures are used is purely to facilitate the conversion in the port report, that is, to directly use the weights and measures of the market side, and after direct conversion, it can facilitate price comparison and trading.

This system was not created by Yan Zheng, but after the inconvenience in the transaction, the Ming merchant proposed whether it could be modified one or two, and the Dongqin Customs immediately considered it in line with the principle of trade first, and found that what the Ming merchant said was reasonable, so he immediately adjusted.

This was also widely circulated by Ming businessmen, who believed that although the people were vulgar, they were extremely reasonable and not rigid.

Soon, with the signatures of the three directors, the whole transaction process was over, and they purchased a total of 2,600 stone of sugar.

Almost all the white sugar in the inventory of Zhiyuan Port was bought, and there was no physical delivery of silver in the transaction process, but the account bill of exchange of the supply and marketing cooperative.

The rest of the businessmen who were not from the pioneer company were all greedy when they looked at the white sugar, but it was a pity that they could only buy the wine made from the fur and bagasse here.

After the delivery, Xu Songbai returned to the ship, which would take at least one night to load, carrying a kerosene lamp and writing down the transaction records in a memo.

As long as the merchants who had dealt with the Eastern Qin Dynasty had learned to keep a diary and write various records of conversations, and when necessary, they would turn to the date to know what they had done that day, who they had met, and what they had talked about.

Xu Songbai wrote while calculating the possible income and expenditure.

But suddenly I heard the sound of water, and I saw that the manservant had already set up a bath bucket and poured hot water into it.

Xu Songbai frowned, thinking that if he wanted to take a bath, he would get off the boat to wash, and getting hot water on the boat like this consumed manpower in vain.

The young manservant was meticulously arranged, arranged the towels, soaphorns and other things one by one, and after testing the water temperature, he said with a smile: "Master, you must be tired after a day on the boat, let's take a bath first!" The water temperature will be just right! ”

"Alas, next time I don't need to get hot water on the boat, I'll go to the port when I want to take a shower!" Xu Songbai sighed, it was not good to let this bucket of water go to waste, and he was indeed a little tired.

I took off my clothes and soaked in, and the warm hot water stirred on my body, and I only felt that the fatigue all over my body disappeared.

The manservant is really good at serving people, he massages and scrubs at the same time, which makes Xu Songbai a little difficult to refuse, and thinks it's good to have a servant here.

After taking a bath, he stood up tall and raised in Dongqin for a few years, he is already one meter long at the moment, and he has physical exercise when studying, so he looks extremely strong up and down.

The manservant looked at it with low eyebrows, and his ears turned red.

After Xu Songbai dried his body, he lay lazily on the bed, not wanting to move again.

Drowsiness hit, and he asked the manservant to blow out the lamp.

As soon as the lights went out, there was a sound of undressing in the darkness.

As soon as Xu Songbai was a little strange, he found that the young man had already crawled naked to him.

A chill surged up from the tail of his spine, and he panicked and wrapped himself in a blanket and said, "What are you doing?"

"Don't worry, sir, I'm ...... I'm good at serving! In the past, Master Dong hurt me the most! ”

Xu Songbai was so frightened that he slammed his head, but he didn't dare to stay, and hurriedly ran towards the cabin door.

He was originally a disaster victim from the Ming Kingdom, so naturally he didn't know what secret doors were on the ship.

It turns out that when maritime merchants go to sea, it is not only unlucky to take a woman with them, but also extremely easy to cause conflicts, so the conventional tradition is that women are not allowed to get on the ship.

It's just that there are no women, but there are deeds! That is to say, the owner of the ship often brings a handsome little guy with him, one is to take care of the living, and the other is to put out the fire.

Zheng Zhilong, who is in another time and space, was promoted by his godfather Li Dan to make his debut because of his good appearance, and became a great pirate who resounded at home and abroad.

In addition to the relationship between Qi'er and Qi's father, there is also a more equal relationship between "Qi'er and Qi's brother".

According to the records: no matter whether they are high or low, each is tied to each other according to its kind, the elder is the "brother of the contract", and the younger is the "brother of the contract". His brother enters the younger brother's house, the younger brother's parents love him like a son-in-law, and the younger brother's future livelihood and wife expenses are all taken from the "deed brother".

Dong Jinghua and Li Sifu, as people who know this well, couldn't help but laugh when they saw Xu Songbai who came out of the door.

The boatmen also had expressions that everyone understood, and none of them felt anything unusual.

"Director Xu, this boat is lonely, you have to adapt now!" Dong Jinghua smiled and arched his hand.

Xu Songbai felt a wave of nausea in his heart, what disgusted him was that these people made a serious teenager into this prostitute who was neither male nor female, which was really against heavenly principles and human feelings.

It's just that he didn't want to refute the face of these two directors, so he replied: "What I learned was Huaxiaguo's article, and in this matter, I'm afraid I can't be like-minded with the two!" Please forgive me! ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say!" Li Sifu smiled: "If you sail for ten days and half a month, you will naturally understand the beauty of this!"

Xu Songbai didn't want to say more, so he shrank into the room again.

It was found that the boy had already lit the kerosene lamp and had already put on his clothes.

He sighed and said, "Go down!" We Dongqin people are not so nasty! ”

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