As soon as he returned to Nantian City, Ma Nan asked people to hire nearly 100 carriages to go to the countryside farm to transport cloth, nearly 100 carriages took nearly two days to transport 40,000 pieces of cloth and cattle and sheep back to Nantian City, Ma Nan helped us hire two large sailing ships, this ship company has been cooperating with the Nanjiang Chamber of Commerce for some years, and all the goods of the Nanjiang Chamber of Commerce will be handed over to his family to do

This day can be busy on the wharf porters, when the cloth is transported back, it is about to be dark, Ma Nan found the feet on the wharf and let him find 30 porters overnight to unload the ship, the porters have a clear division of labor, there are specially responsible for unloading the cloth - there are specially responsible for carrying the cloth - and finally it is specifically responsible for placing the cloth, seeing that the sky is about to light up, the porters will be 30,000 pieces of cloth all loaded

After finishing the work, he walked over with a smile: Third Young Master, we have finished loading your goods for you

Ma Nan: Let's follow the old rules

Foothead: Third young master, you see that your brothers have finished loading this batch of cloth overnight, and everyone is a little tired, please see if you can give me a few more rewards, so that my brothers can go to eat a hot mouth to warm up

Without waiting for Ma Nan to speak, I asked my feet: If it were normal, how much would it cost you to load these goods

Feet: If it's daytime, you can pay 400 tattoos per person, and you have to pay double for the small ones

According to the salary of one or two silver a month in this era, it is not a small amount of money that can earn nearly half a month a day, although there is a lot of money, but ordinary people really can't eat this hard work, and what people earn is this hard money, which is also an unchanging law from ancient times to the present

Li Yang raised his hand and patted the shoulder of his foot: Everyone is tired, so I will add 200 yuan to each person to eat hot

Ma Nan made a straight face on the side: You don't want to thank my brother soon

The foot hurriedly bowed respectfully: Then I thank the two shopkeepers for the brothers

Li Yang "Alas" doesn't have to be so polite, the second child will take 20 taels of silver for this foothead, and the extra money will be used as a reward

After getting the salary, the foot head returned to the dock to distribute the money to the porters, the sun had just risen, at least the head was already full of traffic, horses, and pedestrians, the bow of the ship with the sailors was carrying the food and water needed to go to sea on the ship, at most there was an hour, I and a few guards of Guanshan Xing were going to go to sea by boat to go back to Zhejiang

Ma Nan sighed lightly: I originally wanted to take you to a few interesting places, but I didn't expect you to go back so soon

Li Yang: Brother Ma, I also want to stay a few more days to take a good look at the mountains and rivers of the southern country, but there are still many things at home waiting for me to go back to get ideas, this time I have been in the south for more than half a month, and I have to take a 7-day boat to go back

Ma Nan: Depending on what you say, when you come back, I will definitely take you to have a good time in the south

Li Yang: "Haha, Brother Ma, then let's make a decision, when you come to Zhejiang, I will definitely invite you to taste the new wine."

Ma Nan: When I go to Zhejiang to do business, I will definitely visit us

Li Yang clenched his fists at the arch hand: Brother Ma, the virtuous brother, said goodbye

When we boarded the boat, Ma Nan shouted softly behind us: Brother Xian, wait a minute

I looked back at Ma Nan: What's wrong, Brother Ma

Ma Nan hurriedly ran to our side, he panted and took out a roll of paper from his arms and handed it over: "Brother Xian, this is a gift from you who came to the south to give you for your brother

I took the roll of paper and carefully opened it: it was a drawing of a wheeled waterwheel and a platoon test waterwheel, and a few more were about some farm implements and cultivating fields

Ma Nan: Brother Xian almost forgot about my memory, you can bring these sketches back and maybe you can use them

Don't look at just a few drawings, which is very important for the future development of Alan County, some things are like this, you have to spend some time and energy to figure it out, if you are lucky, you can realize something, if you are unlucky, then the time will be wasted, there are people who understand it, so that you can take a lot of detours, ready-made things, let's take it and apply it, and make a little improvement, which can not only save manpower and material resources, but also improve efficiency

Li Yang looked at Ma Nan excitedly: Brother Ma is gracious, I will definitely go all out and never postpone if it is useful

Ma Nan: Brother Xian, you are too outward, these straw papers are useless to me, it is better to give it to you and let it work, okay, you can get on the boat quickly, don't miss the hour

I rolled up the straw paper and handed it to Guanshan on the side, he took the straw paper and carefully wrapped it in cloth, I stiffened my body and bowed deeply to Ma Nan: Brother Ma, then I'll go back

The sailors on the deck were busy, two sailors ran to the bow of the ship to untie the cable tied to the pier, and then four more used the rocking wheel to pull up the anchor tied to the bottom of the sea, more than ten sailors untied the sail rope and lifted the sail with all their might, with the bow shouting "set sail" The ship gradually used the wind to gradually use the wharf, I came to the stern and waved goodbye to Ma Nan and Li Song on the shore: Brother Ma take care

Ma Nan waved his hand on the shore: Brother, you can rest assured, the goods and people will be delivered safely

It wasn't until the boat completely disappeared on the surface of the sea that Ma Nan and Li Song left from the dock, the boat swayed with the waves on the sea, at the beginning I and Guanshan and a few guards felt a little dizzy and weak feet, after a period of adaptation, a few of us returned to normal little by little, the boat was as small as gravel on the wide blue sea

Three days later, at noon, the sun was shining, the ship was sailing on the calm sea, a flock of seagulls waved their wings and soared in the vast sky, I and Guanshan lay on the deck with Erlang's legs crossed, enjoying the gentle sunshine, just when we closed our eyes and enjoyed this comfort, there was a sudden whistle on the sea, "camp", this sound was very crisp and pleasant

Guanshan and I quickly got up from the deck to find the source of the sound, but the wide sea was as calm as ever, just when we were curious about where the sound came from, there was a pleasant whistle "camp", suddenly the sea inexplicably protruded a column of water about three or four meters high, and then a big thing came out of the bottom of the sea, its back was dark blue, the belly was white, I saw it fall on its back and splash on the sea surface several meters high, this big thing leaked its back on the sea surface and floated forward

Guanshan and the accompanying guards were all surprised when they saw it, they had never seen this magnificent thing before, and the reaction of Guanshan was the strongest: what kind of monster is this body so huge

There were also many sailors on the ship who saw this big thing for the first time like them, and when everyone was talking about the big thing in front of them, Li Yang held the side board with both hands and said very calmly: This big thing is called a whale

Guanshan: The owner's insight made Poor Dao admire, and he couldn't imagine that there would be such a big fish in this world

Li Yang: The mountain view is called a whale, but it is not a fish

There is such a strange thing in watching the mountain "vomit".

At this time, the bow of the boat leaned over: in the south, we call it the whale tide, and we often heard the old man chant before: "The whale tide is a big one is thousands of miles long - the small one is thousands of zhang - tens of thousands of sons in a lifetime, the waves become thunder - the foam becomes rain - the eyes are bright moon pearls - the water tribe is surprised and all flee and dare not be the one who dares to be" We who go to sea all the year round regard the whale tide as a blessing, this shopkeeper is so blessed, you will definitely make a lot of money in this business

When Li Yang heard this, he hurriedly bowed to the bow of the ship: Thank you for the auspicious words on the bow

When he arrived in the waters of Zhejiang, Li Yang asked the bow of the ship to slow down the speed of the ship, because this time he went to the south without obtaining an official certificate, and he went to sea without permission, and there were many people on the coast during the day, so he planned to let the ship dock at night to unload

At night, three sailing boats docked on the beach near Lanxi Village, Li Yang hurriedly asked the accompanying guards to go to the coastal defense camp to call people to unload the goods, about an hour later, a group of torches appeared on the beach, seeing this scene Li Yang was completely put down

After Hengqi learned the news of Li Yang's return, he immediately led two hundred soldiers to meet him, and as soon as he saw him, he greeted me, hugged me in his arms, and patted me on the back: Brother, you can count it back, how about going to the south this time, is everything going well

Li Yang coughed lightly: Brother, everything is going well, let the brothers quickly unload the cloth on the ship, if it is dawn, there will be a lot of trouble, and send someone to Alan County to let them bring a carriage to pull the goods

Hengqi turned around and waved his hand: Brothers, don't be stunned, hurry up and work

Then he called a soldier: You hurry up and ride my horse back to the county, and let Commander Gao and Commander Yuan organize people to bring the carriage here

"Dong Dong - Gao Commander" Gao Yuan, who was asleep, heard someone knocking on the door outside the courtyard and calling himself, so he got out of the quilt and grabbed his coat and put it on his body, because it was too dark, he couldn't see who the people outside were, so he shouted: Who

The soldiers outside the door responded "Oh" back to the high commander, the small one is the soldier of the coastal defense battalion, the patriarch He has returned from the south and is now on the beach near Lanxi Village, the patriarch asked you to quickly organize people to bring a carriage to the shore to meet him

Gao Yuan: Okay, I'll organize the manpower

Soldier: Commander Gao is so small that he has to ask Commander Yuan to take his leave

Gao Yuan: Okay, you can go quickly

After Gao Yuan and Yuan Kui learned the news of Li Yang's return from the southern country, they organized more than 300 cronies and hundreds of carriages to meet him on the beach near Lanxi Village overnight

After the rendezvous, the plateau let everyone go to the boat to unload the cloth, the strength of the people was large, it took only more than two hours for the soldiers to unload 30,000 pieces of cloth on the beach, the hired two sailing ships did not delay and set off overnight to return to the south, the soldiers on the beach began to be busy loading the cotton cloth into the carriage, and the people who could not fit it had to tie up their belts and carry back 5-6 horses per person, and the waves washed on the beach several times in the early morning to return to their original appearance

Li Yang came back from Nanguo this time, it was not the same as before, everyone knew that he usually liked to sleep lazily, the sun didn't bask his buttocks, and he couldn't get up, but today he woke up before the rooster crowed, because he came back too late last night, Song Shiting and Hengyan had already slept, and he didn't bother the two ladies, but dealt with it in the council hall for one night

At dawn on this day, everyone gathered in the conference hall as usual, and first Han Juzheng gave a briefing to everyone: More than 63,300 people in Alan County have all moved into their new homes three days ago, and after more than half a year of hard work, Alan County has built more than 25,000 blue brick houses this year, 21,100 new houses have been divided, and the remaining 3,900 are temporarily kept by the county government for the sake of Xinmin's naturalization and distribution

The business of the shops on the street has gradually improved, and now many caravans will pass through Alan County to bring all kinds of goods, and the nearby villagers will also bring some poultry and wild goods to the Alan County market to sell, and the profits and taxes have reached as much as 1,000 taels for three consecutive months

Li Yang: Ju Zheng about how taxes are collected, and whether the villagers and caravans can afford it

Han Juzheng: Brother Li's taxes in Alan County are temporarily divided into two kinds, one is commercial tax and the other is city tax, commercial tax is mainly the shop seats on the street, so good that 1 tael to 2 taels of silver per month, the seat is more biased is 500 taels of silver to one tael of silver, caravans into the county have to pay a tael of silver to 5 taels of silver, the specific scale is determined, the city tax is mainly roadside stalls pay a daily tax of 10 taels, if the business is not open tax-free, compared to the tax collected in other places, we have the lowest amount

Gao Yuan: 10 yuan a day can be accepted by ordinary people, but in the past, Gao Lin and I had to pay 30 yuan a day to sell grain in a nearby town

Li Yang: How many caravans can come to Alan County in a month?

Han Juzheng: There are probably more than 10 caravans a month

Li Yang: Ju Zheng, you see that this will not work, in the future, we will give it tax exemption for all caravans from other places, hoping to attract more caravans to Alan County to do business in this way, we can bring the goods we need through the caravan, and we can also sell our goods through the caravan, and the guys in the caravan will have to eat, let's stay, which will drive some shops to do business

Han Juzheng: I didn't expect this, but when I go back to the county government after a while, I will implement this matter, and the next step is to demolish all the previous resettlement houses within half a month, and build the granary and warehouse before the autumn harvest

Li Yang: Gao Yuan, how are you and Yuan Quina doing?

Gao Yuan: General Long is quite conscious of us, I don't know what method he used to transfer a batch of ordnance from Master Sun, 500 steel knives - 300 spears - 200 bows - 2,000 arrows - 100 shields - 300 helmets - 100 sets of iron armor - 50 war horses

Yuan Kui: At present, the armament of each battalion is still seriously insufficient, and I feel that I can't fully refer to General Long to transfer it from Master Sun, so I think that the forging workshop should hurry up and cast the ordnance needed by each battalion

Li Yang: Let's put the matter of Yuankui's ordnance first and wait for the winter, there are only two things to do at the moment, one is to make preparations before the grain is collected, and the other is to let the garment factory make military uniforms as soon as possible

Gao Yuan: Then what can Yuan Kui and I do for the county?

Han Juzheng: During this time, Brother Gao and Brother Yuan took the brothers to inspect the villages to see if there were any bullies and strongmen in the villages who were bullying and oppressing the people

Yuankui: I'll leave this to me and Gao Yuan

Li Yang: Ju Zheng has considered this point very thoughtfully, Gao Yuan just said that this matter made the brothers spend more thought, if there are really bullies and strongmen in the villages under your jurisdiction, you just have to arrest as many people as you want, these people will be taken into custody and investigated by the county government, you can not be lynched and killed arbitrarily, and you must use the power of thunder to deter those who have bad intentions to obey the law

Gao Yuan: I understand that

Li Yang: If you don't have enough manpower, you will send two battalions from the militia to help, this month, the brothers of the militia will step up the drill, and when the grain is collected, the militia will leave four battalions to prevent the invasion of pirates, and the head of the Guanshan Road will ask the craftsmen to make more vehicles and wooden carts recently

Guanshan: The owner will leave the matter of making vehicles to transport grain

Li Yang: That's it, let's go our separate ways

After a short period of calm, Alan County had to be busy again, with the sound of gongs and drums, Alan County Garment Factory officially opened, this is the first large-scale workshop in Alan County, with more than 200 workers, and Song Shiting and Heng Yan are the heads of this garment factory, during the time I went to the south Song Shiting and Heng Yan were not idle at home, they went to Taizhou City to buy a batch of cloth back as teaching materials, and invited more than 30 masters of sewing skills in Taizhou City and Alan County to teach these people, After half a month of study, this is not cotton, as soon as these people get started, the best teaching is the actual operation

Han Juzheng as a county parents official first to the garment factory to cheer, he made a set of dark blue silk official uniforms for himself, several of our brothers and several leaders of the militia also followed, the first day of the opening Song Shiting received more than 100 sets of orders, she and Hengyan are particularly happy today, especially Hengyan, married for more than a year, I am still the first time to see her so happy

In order to celebrate the opening of the garment factory, Song Shiting asked the garment factory workers to end work early, my father-in-law Song Jiaping specially prepared 20 tables of banquets in the noodle restaurant to celebrate the opening of the garment factory, and today my father-in-law he was ruthless, and the food and wine were all enough, and the workers were not restrained, and they all let go of their stomachs to enjoy the banquet, and Song Shiting gave the workers 500 lines of money each, so that everyone could draw a colorful head together

Just when everyone was quiet in this joy, a conspiracy was secretly brewing, in a mansion in Taizhou City, two wealthy businessmen were playing chess, one was the shopkeeper of Deyi Firm, and the other was Cao Lin, the shopkeeper of Taizhou Chamber of Commerce

The shopkeeper Bao held a chess piece between his fingers and watched Cao Lin for a long time: Brother Cao didn't expect that your chess skills were as old as your business, and every step of the way was hidden and killed, and if you made a mistake, you would lose all the games

Cao Lin: If I hadn't taken it step by step, I would have lost this game of chess a long time ago, if the shopkeeper had anything to say, just say it, don't hide it

Shopkeeper Bao: Brother Cao's Li family in Alan County has some intersection with you

Cao Lin: What's wrong with him and I in some business?

Shopkeeper: Then dare to ask what kind of business it is

Cao Lin: It's not a big business, it's just that he borrowed 9 million catties of grain from me with the manor, and he will pay me back 14 million catties after receiving the grain after a while

Shopkeeper Bao: Brother Cao, as far as I know, this Li family manor has 30,000 acres of fertile land

Cao Lin: Well, I wouldn't have lent him the grain

Shopkeeper Bao: Brother Cao, we celebrities don't talk darkly, if I have a way to help you get the 30,000 acres of land, I don't know if you are interested

Cao Lin: I don't know what conditions Brother Bao has

Bao shopkeeper: Brother Cao, the grain of this Taizhou capital has always been our Deyi firm to lead, if our Deyi firm is closed for 7 days, more than 200,000 people in this Taizhou capital will have to run out of food, even the prefect Sun has to give three points to our Deyi firm, but brother, you have indeed hoarded a large amount of grain recently, which is a bad rule, your Taizhou Chamber of Commerce specializes in cloth, and our Deyi firm has never thought of sharing a piece of the pie with you

Cao Lin: If Brother Bao has anything to say, just say it

Shopkeeper Bao: In the future, we will do our own business without the well water and the river water, and I can help you get the 30,000 acres of land in the Li family manor in order to show your sincerity

And Cao Lin stared at the chessboard for a while: What does Brother Bao want

Bao shopkeeper: You only need to urge the Li family to return the grain, and then the 30,000 acres of land will naturally be yours, and in the future, we will accept all the grain of the 30,000 acres of land, so that the interests of you and me can be guaranteed

Cao Lin thought about it for a while and felt that this was a good deal: Okay, let's make a deal

Shopkeeper: Brother, how much food do you have in your hands, I am willing to accept it all at the price of 800 yuan per load

Cao Lin: I still have 20,000 quintals of grain in my hands

Shopkeeper: I'll ask the housekeeper to send you the money to the house in a while

Cao Lin: Brother Bao, you won this game of chess, I still have some things to deal with at home, so I will leave today

The shopkeeper shouted softly: Dong Qing, you can send Brother Cao for me

Dong Qing heard it not far away and hurriedly responded: It's the master

Cao Lin: No need

After Cao Lin left, Dong Qing bowed his body: The master will lose money for 800 tattoos and a load of grain

Bao shopkeeper: Do you know what reluctant children can't trap wolves, as long as the grain is controlled, the price of this grain is not our final say, don't say that 800 lines of money even if 1,000 lines of money they have to buy, don't you understand the truth of expensive buying and expensive selling?

Dong Qing: Master, the Li family robbed our military business, is this the case?

The shopkeeper "Hmph" This Li family really doesn't know how thick the sky is, and he dares to argue with our Deyi firm, you see how I clean him up