Although Liu Qiaoling is intelligent and extremely intelligent, she is only nearly eleven years old, and although she has mastered the core technology of soap and soap, she is not suitable for managing the workshop alone. What's more, as Zhao Chongyang's nominal girlfriend, Zhao Gongzi hopes that she will take more time to learn various knowledge and improve her knowledge level and ability in all aspects. Therefore, Zhao Chongyang handed over the management of the soap and soap workshop to two powerful slave girls, Zhu Xiuer and Tang Linlin, who were fully responsible, and tried to bring out some assistants in order to train reserve talents for the establishment of new production lines in other places in the future.

On April 22, everything was ready. Zhao Chongyang and Wang Daping will go out to study with the business group. The personnel sent by the merchant group this time were mainly from the headquarters, the Zhao family, and the Liu family, and the apparent purpose was to open up the trade routes between Suzhou and Hangzhou and seize the richest Jiangnan market in the world. At that time, Zhao Chongyang still had a secret purpose in his heart, to establish a relationship with Fang La, a tycoon in Jiangnan, of course, it was best to pull him onto the commercial aircraft carrier of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, even if he wanted to make trouble in Jiangnan in the future, it was possible that he would be under his control. The goods brought out by the merchant group this time were all sought-after goods and novelties in the Jiangnan area, and all of them were things that were not easy to buy with money. For example, the white paper of Wantong Commercial Bank, ironware (especially some cooking utensils, knives and woodworking tools, etc.), treasure knives, swords, soap, fragrant fertilizer, fairy drunk series of wine, soy sauce, bean paste, movable type printing books and other goods.

When it comes to movable type printing, Zhao Chongyang doesn't have any heart? Zhao Chongyang just asked the ironware room to improve the movable type printing technique. At this time, although movable type printing has begun to be applied to book printing, because movable type is made of wood, after a few more uses, the font is easy to deform and damage, so many workshops that print books still like to use engraving to print. Zhao Chongyang gave his father Zhao Wuji a suggestion, asking him to go to a porcelain workshop to make some molds for casting characters, and then use lead to make living characters, so that the font would not be broken. If the movable type printed by movable type is changed to lead type, the cost of printed books will be greatly reduced, so that the printed books can be sold to dealers at a wholesale price of one percent, and then the huge book market in the south of the Yangtze River must have their place. In addition, the paper used by the printing workshop of Wantong Commercial Bank is a paper with cotton and neem bark, which is not easy to break, and the book will not grow moths. All these have laid the foundation for the prosperity of Vantone Printing Workshop.

In addition to bringing a large number of commodities, the business group mainly brought hundreds of management and technical personnel from all walks of life, including shopkeepers who opened shops, managers, foremen, and chefs who opened restaurants, managers and technicians who opened fairy drunken liquor workshops, and technical leaders who engaged in movable type printing......

The general person in charge of the business group is Liu Yubo, the son of Liu Erye, who is responsible for leading the bodyguard team to protect the business group is Mr. Qian's eldest son Qian Xiaobo, who is the battalion commander of the water military camp of the bodyguard corps, and this time he is also the deputy head of the business group, leading two companies of 400 people in the water military camp and 30 small light speedboats, protecting 80 cargo ships and warships. The first stop is Zhenjiang, then Changzhou, Wuxi and other places. A year ago, according to Zhao Chongyang's request, the Chamber of Commerce bought a large piece of land on the riverside of these important towns in advance to build wharves, restaurants and shops, so as to provide for the people of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce to come and go, and also to provide for the merchants of the state and county to come to buy goods.

Before the Chinese New Year, Zhao Wuji sent Liu Wenjie, a powerful house slave, to Zhenjiang with a few people. When Liu Wenjie sold the barren beach of more than 50 acres for 100 yuan by the river outside the city, I don't know how many people scolded him for being a fool. Who knew that this stupid thing was still to come, but he actually built a lot of construction here, recruited people to build docks, simple streets, shops and restaurants, and also built a number of warehouses, and the cost of two or three months was no less than 10,000 yuan.

"What a loser! I don't know whose second ancestor is, he ran to this and couldn't find a place for wild dogs to eat to repair houses, build streets, and build docks, it's really too much money to find a place to spend! "Who said it wasn't. You see, this is two or three miles away from other wharves, and five or six miles away from the downtown area of Zhenjiang. ”……

However, half a year later, no one said that Liu Wenjie was stupid. When the products of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce were selling well here, there was an endless stream of people buying here by land and water, and soon the shops here were rented out by small vendors, and the restaurants were constantly crowded with diners, and the guests who stayed in the house were often full. If business is good, the turnover on this pier can reach 30,000 yuan. This shows how much the rich people in Jiangnan have a great demand for the products of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, and how much the businessmen love the products of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce.

Nanjing is only nearly 180 miles away from Zhenjiang waterway, the group set off at 7 o'clock in the morning, smooth sailing, after 3 o'clock in the afternoon to arrive at the Zhenjiang Chamber of Commerce to repair the wharf. After the ship docked, the people unloaded some of the goods into the warehouse at the dock, leaving some people to guard the boat, and the rest went ashore to eat and rest.

Zhao Chongyang and the others got off the boat, and after eating, they did not rest, and asked the person in charge of the wharf to send two carriages to them, and found two locals who worked at the wharf to be guides and drivers for them, and the group of eight people was ready to go out to play.

They inquired, near this Zhenjiang, the place where people and ink writers linger and forget to return include the famous Jinshan Temple, and Maoshan Mountain, where Taoist incense flourishes more than 50 miles away.

The older local guy's name is Xie Zicai, in his thirties, the eldest in the family, Xie Zhengyuan recognizes him as his own family and calls him the eldest brother. After everyone got into the carriage, Xie Zhengyuan asked, "This big brother, where do you think a few of us are going to play in the second half of the day?" ”

Xie Zicai said: "I can only go to Jinshan Temple this afternoon, or go to the downtown area to see the cultural features of Zhenjiang." If you want to go to Maoshan Mountain, you need to spend three days, one day back and forth, and one day on the mountain. ”

So, a group of two carriages turned directly to Jinshan Temple. Jinshan Temple is located on the Jinshan Mountain in the northwest of Zhenjiang City, five or six miles away from Zhenjiang. The layout of Jinshan Temple is based on the mountain, so that the mountain and the temple are integrated. Jinshan is the holy place of Buddhism in the south of the Yangtze River, when Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu had set up a solemn and solemn water and land dojo in Jinshan, chanting sutras and fasting, worshiping Buddha and confessing, and recommending the dead. Since then, Jinshan's fame has been greatly enhanced, and the incense has continued to ......

Although the Great Song Dynasty revered Taoism, it did not excessively suppress Buddhism. Therefore, Zhao Chongyang and the others got off the carriage, and as soon as they stepped on the stone steps of Jinshan Temple, they felt a strong Buddhist atmosphere. At this time, although it was about three o'clock in the afternoon, there were still many good men and women who came and went, and some devout believers began to kowtow from the first level, kneeling in three steps, and knocked all the way to the outside of the mountain gate. A few of them slowly went up the stone steps, and when they arrived outside the mountain gate, Zhao Chongyang handed over 100 taels of silver tickets for the merit of rejoicing, received some incense wax and paper money and sent them to everyone, and everyone went to the Bodhisattva to burn incense together, and then went everywhere to play.

The legend of the White Lady flooding the Golden Mountain spread as early as the Tang Dynasty, so everyone came to play this time to take a look at the legendary place where the White Lady and Fahai fought the law, and to see the Leifeng Pagoda that suppressed the White Lady. Who knew that a few of them made a mistake, Leifeng Pagoda was by the West Lake in Hangzhou. In order to ensure their own safety and prevent gangsters from attacking, eight people went out this time, each with a stainless steel sword, two boxes of crossbows, Zhao Chongyang, Wang Daping, and Huang Fengming each brought a secret weapon revolver, as long as they did not encounter a large number of bandit attacks, there was no problem in self-protection.

Several people visited all over Jinshan, and admired the masterpieces left by the talents of the previous dynasty everywhere, and saw that the time was already five or six o'clock in the afternoon. A few people began to walk back. As soon as he walked to the Daxiong Treasure Hall, the monk came to invite: "Master Abbot Deguang invited a few scholars who traveled to the abbot's room to talk. Since it was the abbot who invited him, it was naturally inconvenient for a few people to refuse, so they came to the abbot's room with the guest.

When the abbot saw that this group of scholars was gentle and elegant, he sat down and asked Xiao Sha to offer fragrant tea to everyone. Everyone gossiped for a while, and the master expressed his gratitude to Zhao Chongyang for offering 100 yuan of incense money to the temple, and hoped that they would come to Jinshan Temple at any time to play. Seeing that it was getting late, the abbot told them to go back after eating in the temple, and everyone thanked them, said goodbye to the abbot and the elders, and returned to the restaurant in a carriage.

After dinner, Wang Daping suggested to Liu Yubo that Liu Yubo and them take the merchant ship first, and they swam to Maoshan and then came over, so that everyone could meet in Suzhou and leave a speedboat for them as a means of transport. After Liu Yubo and Qian Xiaobo discussed, they decided to leave two speedboats behind and leave twenty people along the way to protect them.

Not to mention that Zhao Chongyang and others stayed in Maoshan Mountain, and said that the next day, Liu Yubo and Qian Xiaobo continued to lead the fleet south along the Grand Canal, and the second stop was Changzhou. There is not much difference in the distance between the waterways from Zhenjiang to Changzhou and from Zhenjiang to Nanjing, and it only takes more than three hours to arrive smoothly.

On this day, after about half of the waterway, the merchant fleet led by the two came to a canyon with cliffs on both sides, called the Valley of the Black Wind. The whole valley is about five or six miles long. The ships of the merchant group were moving forward in two columns, and more than a dozen speedboats were in front of them. When the whole fleet was about to reach the middle of the valley, the speedboats that had opened the way in front returned to report that fifty or sixty pirate ships had appeared in front of them, and they stopped our ships and told us to stop, give up resistance, and let them escort us to the designated docks, and after bringing the goods to the shore, let our empty ships go back. Otherwise, when they rushed to the boat, there would be no chickens and dogs left, all the people would be killed and the corpses would be thrown into the river, and all the goods would be taken.

At that time, on how to deal with water thieves, under the supervision of Zhao Chongyang, Qian Xiaobo led the whole battalion to conduct several drills. Hearing that there were water thieves attacking, Qian Xiaobo asked more than a dozen ships that had unloaded most of the goods in Zhenjiang to prepare for battle, and quickly leaned over to form a formation. He himself got on the speedboat that came to report the news, and went to the front to inspect the enemy's situation.

After traveling for more than ten minutes, he came to the front, and at this time, more than a dozen speedboats in front were already in full array, and Zhao Chongyang asked the speedboats to get out of the passage and let the big ships come to the enemy. At this time, the sixteen large ships that followed slowly moved forward in an S formation diagonally forward, the soldiers on each ship had already put their armor on it neatly, and on the deck of each ship, on the sides of both ships, six guns and two 36-tube rockets were exposed. The accurate range of each small cannon is 600 meters, and now the ship of the water thieves in front of them is less than 300 meters away, and it is estimated that there will be no empty cannons.

At this time, more than a dozen large ships lined up in an S-shaped formation inclined forward and meandered forward for 100 meters, and the distance between the two sides was only 200 meters. Qian Xiaobo let the speedboat he was in advance another 50 meters, he stood on the deck of the speedboat, and shouted with a tin horn and asked, "Where are the friends in front?" We are the Wantong business group from Nanjing. If you want to be friends with us, please get out of the way and let us pass. After we arrived in Changzhou, Shopkeeper Liu and I would definitely bring heavy gifts to the cottage to thank you. If you want something good from us, please let the boat come over, depending on your ability. If we lose, our lives will be in your hands, and the things will naturally be yours. ”

I saw that on the tallest warship of the other party, one person stood up and replied: "I am the big boss of the Hailong State and the dragon of the sea dragon, everything I am in the sea dragon of the sea dragon state, on the waterway from Yangzhou to Hangzhou, no one dares not to give it, otherwise the ship will be destroyed and people will die." Now give you half a pillar of incense, obediently steer the boat and follow us, and when I have unloaded the goods at the place I have designated, I will let you leave safely.

Qian Xiaobo waved his hand, and their boat returned to the fleet, and he took out the horn and blew it. "Woo Yi Yi" The screw let out a long roar, and the ship's gunners began to quickly aim at the target and ignite, "Boom, boom... Boom", a burst of muffled thunder sounded, and each ship fired a round of cannons, hitting more than a dozen ships of the water thieves, nine of which were hit below the waterline, some had a hole, some had two holes, and the boats were leaking and could not be blocked at all......

At first, the water thieves heard the muffled thunder and thought it was thundering, but when they looked up at the sky, although there were some clouds, it was not like a thunderstorm. Everyone was wondering in their hearts, and suddenly they thought that the hull of the ship had been hit by a flying stone from somewhere, and it shook violently. A cannonball landed on the deck of the sea dragon's ship, killing two people on the spot, and a hole the size of a sea bowl appeared on the deck. Rumble! A shell hit the brittle rod, and the brittle rod fell and injured two more people, and Yu Hailong was almost injured. Yu Hailong hurriedly ordered the ship that had not been smashed to turn around and flee for its life.

Who knew that at this time, they were too close to the ships of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, and some of the ships had not yet turned their heads, and the second round sounded again, and twelve more ships were hit by shells, and the lower part began to leak. The water thieves saw that they couldn't plug the hole, and the ship slowly sank one after another. The water thieves on the ship jumped into the water with some weapons in their hands......