Ten days later, a team of people left Xiuzhou, along the land route to Jiangning direction, the leader is Xiao Ming, An Daoquan and Gongsun Sheng disguised as a tiger guard to follow, west to Jiangning must pass through Suzhou, Suzhou is a turbulent area, just now there was a fierce battle between the official army and the demon rebels, for the sake of safety, Xiao Ming decided to take a boat halfway.

To take a boat, you need to find the wharf, and Hangzhou, south of the canal, is now occupied by rebels, so Xiao Ming thought of the Qishuyan wharf.

Qishuyan water and land transportation is convenient, the Sui Dynasty opened the Grand Canal through the north and south, can "go to the two Zhejiang, seven Fujian and dozens of states, and go to and from the north and south of Beijing", during the Qingli period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Qishu port is "the key way to enter the lake in the southeast of Yi".

Qishuyan is also very smooth along the river and land, since the canal dredging, the Quartet merchants have been connected, and there are many warehouses, warehouses, inns, and retail small trades, but now they are gradually withering, which shows how serious the impact of the Demon Sect Rebellion on the southeast economy is.

When the team was leaving, Shen Bei'er came to see him off, several masters of the Mo family are now making steam engines day and night, from materials to applications, and want to use the machine on the loom as soon as possible, including Su Bi, all the resources of Richanglong revolve around this matter, plus other miscellaneous matters, Su Cai'er, who is busy, is exhausted, and naturally can't spare time to send Xiao Ming.

Shen Bei'er looked at Xiao Ming, the look in her eyes was very complicated, a little reluctant and a little helpless, and only said to Xiao Ming after half a sound: "Cai'er asked me to tell you, be careful on the road, go early and return early"

Xiao Ming said: "Then where are you?" ”

Shen Bei'er's face turned red, he bowed his head and said nothing, Xiao Ming smiled, and said regretfully: "Big brother is going to go so far to run errands, Sister Bottle'er has nothing to say, but I'm still thinking about what gift to bring you!" ”

Shen Bei'er heard it and smiled mischievously, "Yo! What a sourness! He gently shook his body and said: "Big brother, remember to bring me a gift, the bottle is very grateful, but you have to talk and count, if you can't do it, you will be punished!" ”

Xiao Ming said: "I don't even have a word of farewell, and I still want a gift?" You're so greedy! ”

Shen Bei'er blushed and said: "It's all clichés, and it doesn't make much sense, but Bei'er has also prepared gifts, but you have to exchange things for it." ”

Xiao Ming smiled and said: "Okay, gifts for gifts, I won't suffer anyway" After speaking, he waved his hand and said: "Wait for me at home with Cai'er, and then we will go to Nanhu Lake to catch fish and eat."

Seeing Xiao Ming turn around and leave, Shen Bei'er couldn't help but have red circles in her eyes, and said softly, "You...... Take care! ”

Xiao Ming: "Heh......!"

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The number of people in the team is not much, fifty or sixty people, the carriage and horses are complete, Jie Zhicong brought two small servants and an old man in the bookkeeper, a few people took a carriage, and the rest of the people all rode horses, Xiao Ming also took this opportunity to contact the horseman, the time was urgent, everyone rushed to Qishuyan Wharf for two days, and after a little rest, hired a boat to go north.

This time, Xiao Ming hired two big ships to go north, and the carriage that Jie Zhicong took made Richanglong's coachman still rush back to Xiuzhou, and he didn't need to bring the horses, but An Daoquan said that the horses were of great use, so they were all loaded and shipped away.

In February of the third year of Xuanhe, the spring was cold, and the canal was constantly coming and going, Xiao Ming hired a boat that was specially used to transport grain, and the Huashigang of the imperial court also used this kind of boat to transport, the bottom of the ship was flat, the side of the ship was two meters, the cabin was partitioned, and three large masts were used, and the sails under the southeast wind were enough to eat, and the ship was fast.

Xiao Ming stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the sparkling water, full of spirits, the excitement of 600,000 catties of gold has not completely disappeared, and he is thinking about how to invest after the gold is in hand, 600,000 catties is equivalent to 6 million taels, not to mention that it is not rich and rivals the country, at least it is super large.

"! What is the history of Tokyo, this time I will take the money and smash him away," Xiao Ming muttered.

But now that the money hadn't arrived yet, Xiao Ming felt that he shouldn't seem so wealthy, so he turned around and went into the cabin to discuss with Sun Sheng, the prince of An Dao, how to find the treasure.

Five days later, the boat arrived in Yangzhou, which is the most important wharf on the canal, the crowd is very busy, the ships have to dock here, the team stayed in Yangzhou for a day, replenished the supplies, the boat boss also has some private goods for others, so he went ashore to deliver.

For fear of revealing their traces, An Daoquan and Gongsun Sheng were reluctant to go ashore, so Xiao Ming had to accompany Jiezhicong to the shore for a long time, and then set off after the boat came back.

After two more days, we finally arrived in Xuzhou, which belonged to Jingxi Road in the Song Dynasty and bordered Huainan Road in the south. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, 7 counties were governed, Taizong of the Song Dynasty rejuvenated the country for seven years, cut out Xiapi and Suqian two counties to form Huaiyang County, and then Xuzhou was composed of 5 counties, namely Pengcheng, Pei, Xiao, Teng and Feng. The name of the county is Pengcheng County, and the military name is Wuning Military Festival. In the prefecture and county ranks, it is listed as the capital governor's office second only to Sijing, the same as Yanzhou.

There are people arranged by Gu Shouzhen on the wharf to pick up, everyone rode into Xuzhou Mansion after landing, Gu Shouzhen greeted Xiao Ming in front of the pavilion outside the city gate, the two have not seen each other for a long time, they are embarrassed to meet, and they entered the city under the escort of the tiger guard, and on the way to talk about the city of Hangzhou, Gu Shouzhen learned that the blast furnace was damaged, and couldn't help but feel very sorry, knowing that the family is now living in Xiuzhou, and it is also a lot of relief.

Gu Shouzhen has bought the house in Xuzhou in accordance with Xiao Ming's requirements, everyone lived and rested, and Gu Shouzhen received the wind for everyone in Xuzhou Yuelai Restaurant at night.

Originally, Xuzhou iron mine is eighty miles south of Xuzhou, is a hill and depression, rich in hematite, was originally a private small iron mine, later because of the crime, the iron mine was not the official property of the government, when the official family operated, it belonged to the open, no planning, and made holes everywhere in the hills, so accidents occurred frequently, and there were many deaths.

After the arrival of the new mine supervisor, the situation became even more serious, and there were no miners willing to work in the iron mines, not to mention the low wages, and their lives were in danger at any time, so the mines had to use some slave laborers and prisoners to work, so as to save wages, and the lives of slaves and prisoners did not have to worry.

But these slaves and prisoners are not stupid, working here at any time to die, and when they die, they will be thrown into the depression next to them and buryed casually, so the efficiency of the work is very low, and even a large number of useless rocks are used as ore, the reputation of the iron mine has plummeted, many merchants have been reluctant to buy the ore here, so that the iron mine is on the verge of bankruptcy, the mine supervisor Zhang Duan believes that the iron ore in the mine has been exhausted, if it is better to sell, the official family is better to withdraw.

Between this psychology of the government, Gu Shouzhen did not rush to buy iron ore, but lowered the price to negotiate with the government, under the pretext of accounting assets, let the account room enter the iron ore to find out, and he took the opportunity to check the government up and down, just waiting for the approval of the imperial household department to hand over the ownership, but at this time, the people of the Tokyo historian intervened.

Xiao Ming asked, "Who is the person in charge of the Shi family?" ”

"The second leader of the Shi family, called Shi Wengong!"

Xiao Ming was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head, and said in his heart: "It's almost all gathered, even Shi Wengong has come out" but said in his mouth: "But is that the person who owns the Jade Lion Horse of the Night?" ”

Gu Shouzhen was stunned: "What shines on the night jade lion?" I've never heard of it! Why do you ask? ”

"Well, well, nothing? According to what you said, the purchase of this iron mine can't be done with great fanfare, so isn't Shi Wengong's rash insertion suspected of raising prices? Even if the two families fight to the end in the end, wouldn't anyone be able to take advantage, isn't it because the Shi family has another purpose? ”

Jie Zhicong said: "The archdeacon's analysis is reasonable, according to the old man, the historian has only one target this time, that is, we are prosperous." ”

Gu Shouzhen said: "Why? Why does the shopkeeper say that? ”

Jie Zhicong said: "The Tokyo historian and I have been fighting for many years, and whenever the Japanese Changlong interferes, the Tokyo historian must come up and intervene in a lever, and the Japanese Changlong has the support of the Mo family behind him, but behind the historian is the Hu people, and they also have a close relationship with Fusang Goryeo." ”

Xiao Ming asked: "The Shi family is one of the largest businesses in the world, so what do they do?" ”

Jie Zhicong smiled slightly: "Porcelain, they make porcelain!" ”

At this time, Xiao Ming understood that the porcelain of the Song Dynasty was the most prosperous period of the development of porcelain, which can basically be said to be the basis of commercial trade in the Song Dynasty.

Now the famous five famous kilns in China: Jun, Guan, Ding, Ru, Ge, are the porcelain of the Song Dynasty, the formation and emergence of the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty is the beginning of the emergence of Chinese ceramics in the history of world civilization, this period has laid the unshakable dominant position of Chinese ceramics in the world.

However, among the five famous kilns, "Ru, Guan, Ge, Jun" are official kilns, and "Ding" is a private kiln. Ru, Ge, and Jun were originally private kilns, but there was official capital in them, and the operation was also private, but they took over the tribute magnet ordered by the government, and the Tokyo historians controlled the Ru kiln and Jun kiln in addition to the official kiln, and the Ge kiln was in Longquan, Zhejiang, which was developed in later generations.

"So, the historian burns porcelain? Isn't there much of a business conflict with Richanglong? Gu Shouzhen was puzzled.

Jie Zhicong said: "Didn't you find it? The textile industry is only in the south, but the power cannot develop in the north, and the burning of the historian's magnetism can only be in the north, and it cannot penetrate into the south, which is not a regional problem, but the result of the game and compromise between our two families."

"Oh" Gu Shouzhen seemed to understand, but asked again: "Then what countermeasures should we take?" ”

Xiao Ming said: "Tomorrow we will go to visit that mine supervisor Zhang, oh, what is his name?" ”

"Zhang Duan, Zhang Bogong!" Gu Shouzhen replied.

"Well, it's him, this person has the biggest weakness, he is the breakthrough, so I'll take him......"

Everyone drank and returned home, Gu Shouzhen was still not at ease, and continued to discuss with Xiao Ming, An Daoquan and met with him, Gu Shouzhen didn't know that "Engong" was here, he and Gongsun Sheng stayed in the room where the tiger guards were resting at the same time, Xiao Ming arranged for Gu Xiaoliu and Bai San to accompany them, and arranged a separate room for them.

As soon as An Daoquan arrived in Xuzhou, he told Xiao Ming that he needed to act alone, Xiao Ming didn't care, let him toss, anyway, when the treasure was finally discovered, he would still look for him.

…… Looking at Gu Shouzhen's worried expression, Xiao Ming smiled, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Brother Gu, don't worry, Richanglong is determined to build iron ore with us, with their strength and financial resources, what are you worried about?" ”

"And," Xiao Ming continued: "This time the matter is over, we are going to build the largest refinery in the Central Plains, and your Gu family's name will soon become famous all over the world!" ”

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