Yang Peng was introduced by Matsuura Zhenxin to buy a merchant house in Hirado, and unloaded all the goods on the ship, stored them in the warehouse of the merchant hall and sold them slowly. If you are in a hurry to sell goods on the dock, you will not be able to sell them at a good price, and you can only make a better profit if you sell them slowly in the merchant house. Yang Peng left Zheng Kaida and thirty sailors in Pingdo to take care of the merchant house, while he was leading the Tianjing back to Tianjing New Town.

Before returning home, Yang Peng bought a little bit of Japanese goods, bought some of each, and went back to Tianjing New Town to try the water to see how the sales were. Yang Peng's more optimistic commodity is copper, the price of copper in the Wa Kingdom is cheap, and it is estimated that there will be a lot of profits when sold back to the Great Song Dynasty.

On July 22, Yang Peng led the Tianjing back to China. The crew of the Tenkyo paddled to drive the ship and slowly left the harbor on the channel in the harbor. When they reached the deep water, the boatmen started the steam engine, and the Tianjing made a loud whining sound and headed northwest.

Along the way, there was no incident, and the Tianjing drove for six days and returned to the Tianjing New Town Pier. Back in Tianjing New Town, the first thing Yang Peng had to do was to expand his soap workshop and textile factory. After this voyage, Yang Peng knew that the most profitable maritime trade commodities were his soap and fine cloth. If the scale of these two factories is expanded, a lot of money can be earned from the Wa Kingdom.

Yang Peng first went to visit Xue Yuanwai, who sold alkaline noodles, and wanted to buy more alkaline noodles with him. But the reply he got made Yang Peng stunned. "City Lord, almost all the surplus output of the alkali noodle mine in Xiangyang has been bought by me and sold to you. If there is more, you can only raise the price to grab the supply from other alkaline noodle users, but then the price of alkaline noodles will rise, and it is more expensive than one penny or two, which is very not cost-effective. ”

"And even if you raise the price to buy it, you won't be able to grab much, after all, the total output is only so much." Yang Peng was very disappointed. It seems that before the invention of the industrial alkali production method, it was impossible to use soda ash in large quantities, and the supply of raw materials could not keep up. However, with Yang Peng's current industrial base, large-scale industrial alkali production is still not possible. Yang Peng's soap workshop can't be expanded anymore.

Yang Peng thought about it and could only make money from the textile factory. Today, there are 1,770 workers in the textile factory, which buys cotton and produces fine cloth, producing 31,000 pieces of cotton cloth every month. It looks like it's quite large. But in the face of the huge maritime trade, this production is very insufficient. Yang Peng's Tianjing can hold 100,000 pieces of cloth in one ship, and the cotton cloth produced by the textile factory in a month is not even half a ship of Tianjing. And the Tianjing can go back and forth from the Wa Kingdom once in twenty days.

Not to mention that Yang Peng still has a ship under construction. Yang Peng decided to greatly expand the textile factory. This is a huge project that cannot be accomplished overnight. First of all, Tianjing New Town is already full of buildings, and it is no longer possible to build factories and dormitories. To hire more people, new cities must be built outside the city.

Yang Peng decided to expand the new city in the south of Tianjing New Town, and the north of the new city and the south of the old city are connected together, and the scale is as large as the old city of Tianjing New Town. Yang Peng sent people to make a measurement plan for the new city wall, and prepared to hire them to build the new city wall when the peasants were not farming. On the planned site of the new city, roads, factories and dormitories were built first. Although there is no city wall to protect it for the time being, Yang Peng's Tiger Ben Division is enough to deter the small chips and protect these new construction facilities.

Yang Peng hired more than 3,000 masons near Cangzhou, expanded his cement workshop, and began to build new factories and dormitories on a large scale. At the same time, Yang Peng found more than 500 carpenters and blacksmiths to start producing parts for Jenny spinning machines and flying shuttle looms, striving to form a batch of production capacity as soon as possible.

On August 20, the new factory building that can accommodate 1,000 people has been built, and the first batch of looms, spinning machines and ginning machines have been put in place, and Yang Peng has begun to recruit manpower. The first batch of people recruited by Yang Peng first faced the families of workers in various workshops, and many of the families of old workers have not been looking for something to do outside, but spinning and weaving at home. As a result, the income of these workers' families is limited, and even less than that of Yang Peng's newly recruited tenant farmer families. Yang Peng wants to liberate the families of these idle workers from the old-fashioned looms and spinning machines and join the ranks of large-scale industrial production.

Gu Lao Er paced back and forth in the living room of the villa he shared with the He family, anxiously waiting for his daughter-in-law's message. The daughter-in-law went to the expanded textile factory for an interview, but there was no news back. Gu Lao Er is a worker in Yang Peng's textile factory, and he has been working in Yang Peng's factory since the Dao years. Before entering Yang Peng's factory, his family was very poor, and he couldn't open the pot. Two days before Gu Lao Er was recruited for an errand in the textile factory, the three members of the Gu family were hungry for two days. Later, it was Gu Lao Er who took his winter clothes to the pawnshop, so he bought rice and came back to eat.

But since Gu Lao Er entered the textile factory, the situation of the Gu family has changed greatly, not only has they eaten enough, but they have also shared a villa with people in Tianjing New Town, living a life of "upstairs and downstairs". Over the years, Gu Lao Er has eaten meat for three meals in the factory canteen, and he is no longer the skinny monkey he was before. Now he is slightly fat, and his figure is very strong. At the age of twenty-six, he is well-organized in everything he says and does, and he looks very confident, and he is the backbone of the family.

Gu Lao Er was waiting there, and his eldest son Daxi ran out of the upstairs room with a piece of cow golden candy in his mouth. After lying on the side of the cradle and watching her sister for a while, Daxi decided to go and play with her father. He looked upstairs for a while, and when he saw that his father was downstairs, he was about to climb down the stairs. Daxi is now three years old and is Gu Laoer's first child. In the past, Gu Lao'er's family was poor, and he didn't dare to share a house and have children after marrying a daughter-in-law. But since Gu Lao Er worked in the textile factory, Gu Lao Er has shared a room with his daughter-in-law. Not long after sharing a room, the Gu family's daughter-in-law became pregnant and gave birth to a big fat boy. Not only that, last year, the daughter-in-law of the Gu family gave birth to another daughter, and now Gu Lao Er is already a pair of children.

Gu Lao Er has two taels of monthly money in the factory, plus the money earned by the Gu family's daughter-in-law weaving at home, the Gu family has more than three taels of income every month. This money is enough to support three adults and two children, not to mention that Gu Lao Er is not eating at home, and the family of five lives a life of food and clothing. The daughter-in-law of the Gu family is thrifty by nature, and she presides over the family not only to keep the family of four well fed and clothed, but also to save more than half a tael of silver every month. In the past four years, the Gu family has saved more than 30 taels of silver. More than thirty taels is a lot of money, and when he thinks of this savings, Gu Lao Er is very proud.

The only thing that worries Gu Lao Er is that his daughter-in-law is unwilling to rent a villa alone, so she insists on sharing a house with other families. The son is three years old and lives in a room with his grandmother, and the one-year-old daughter sleeps in the cradle and sleeps in Gu Lao'er's room. The family and the He family shared the living room, kitchen and thatched house, which was a bit crowded.

However, the daughter-in-law is thrifty, and it does make sense. Seeing his son climbing on the stairs, Gu Lao Er hurriedly went up and hugged his son, patted his son's head and said, "Daxi, don't climb around, you will fall!" Daxi looked at his father and said with sugar: "Where did my mother go?" ”

Gu Lao Er smiled and said: "Your mother has gone to interview for a job in the factory, if your mother gets an errand, we will rent a whole villa!" After thinking about it, Gu Lao Er said: "Then you will have your own room!" Daxi clapped his hands and said, "Daxi wants his own room, grandma snores at night, it's so loud!" ”

Gu Lao Er hugged his son down, took a paper windmill made by himself to play with his son, let him run around the table in a circle, and waited for his daughter-in-law with tea by himself. After waiting for an hour, the Gu family's daughter-in-law came back. She walked in the alley with a happy face and a high level of interest. But she also has a kind of joy of being the master of the house, as if she has turned over to be the master, and deliberately wants to make the second child of the family anxious for a while. When she entered the door, she deliberately pretended to be relaxed and walked into the living room unhurriedly.

Gu Lao Er asked anxiously, "How is it?" Gu's daughter-in-law didn't answer him, walked to the table and wiped the table with a rag. Gu Lao Er turned around and asked, "Have you raised it?" However, the daughter-in-law of the Gu family was a person with no scheming, she couldn't hide things, and she couldn't help it anymore after being asked two sentences, and laughed out loud. With a forked waist, the Gu family's daughter-in-law said, "It's raised!" The city lord specially recruited the families of the old workers this time, and I recruited weavers! There are two or three meals per month! ”

Gu Lao Er jumped up happily, hugged his daughter-in-law and said loudly: "Okay, it's okay now!" You can rent the whole villa! No! We borrowed money from the lord of the city to buy a villa and came down, and we will have our own house in the future! The daughter-in-law of the Gu family glared at Gu Lao Er and said with a smile: "Look at you like that, don't you just want to live in a big house?" I think about it during the day and at night, and I want to go out to work. ”

Gu Lao Er rolled his eyes and said, "What is there when you go out to work?" The daughter-in-law of the He family also helps people look after the store! The 'women's factory room' in the textile factory is full of women, and you still have someone to talk to, it's better than weaving at home! The Gu family's daughter-in-law smiled. She suddenly remembered the days when Gu Lao Er had no food at home for two days before he entered the main factory in the city, and tears flowed down all of a sudden. She wiped her tears and said, "Okay, everything!" ”

Gu Lao Er took a breath, helped his daughter-in-law wipe away her tears, and said, "This is a happy event, why are you crying?" Really! ”

In early August, Yang Peng's second large-pointed ship was built. Yang Peng named the second ship Dagou, had the ship equipped with a strong crossbow and a steam engine, let the newly trained shipwrights on board, and also sent more than 100 soldiers from the Feng Regiment to serve as sailors.

It is impossible for Yang Peng to personally lead the team to run the boat for a long time, and after running the sea once to build the organizational structure, he will hand over the work to his subordinates. He asked Yin Mingde, the deputy head of the Election Regiment, to be the captain of the two ships, and he specially led the ships to run the Japanese route. Yin Mingde was born as a crossbowman, and as the captain of two gunboats, he could use the firepower of the ships. Zheng Kaida was stationed in the Japanese State and was responsible for the sale of goods. The two cooperated to do a good job on the trade route.

However, at this time, the expansion of the textile factory was not completed, and Yang Peng did not sell a large amount of fine cloth to the Wa Kingdom, so he could only buy raw silk and other goods in the market to sell. The Tianjing and Dagou were able to go back and forth to the Wa Kingdom once in 20 days, and the two ships were large ships, each of which could carry more than 400 tons of cargo. In the past few months, the large-scale purchase of the two ships has raised the price of raw silk of the Cangzhou generation to 190 taels and 11 quintals, turning Cangzhou's raw silk trade into a low-profit business.

However, Yang Peng's two big ships quickly traveled back and forth between the Wa Kingdom and Tianjing New Town, and the volume of traffic was really amazing. Although the price of raw silk has risen, Yang Peng's two ships also have a monthly income of 15,000 taels on raw silk. Coupled with the Japanese copper piggyback on the return trip, Yang Peng could earn more than 20,000 taels a month, and soon earned back the ship's money.

Yang Peng asked Boss Wang to continue to build new ships and continue to expand his maritime armament. Yang Peng made money, and the maritime merchants near Cangzhou suffered. The purchase price of raw silk has risen so high that the profit of running once a year is so thin that it is impossible to do it. Fortunately, several maritime merchants near Cangzhou were unarmed, and they couldn't defeat Li Zhi's crossbow giant ships, otherwise these maritime merchants would have robbed Yang Peng's ship long ago.

On August 27, Cha Yunke approached Yang Peng and complained about the soaring price of raw silk near Cangzhou. "City Lord, if your two big ships run like this, our other Cangzhou maritime merchant ships will lose money!" Yang Peng smiled and said, "When my fine fabric factory is built, I will no longer trade in raw silk!" ”

Cha Yunke chirped: "But the city lord, you are still building new ships, no matter how fast your fine cloth factory expands, can you build your ships as fast?" "Yang Peng relied on Cha Yunke's introduction and help to go to sea. At this time, when he heard Cha Yunke complaining, he really couldn't make a black face to Cha Yunke, so he could only smile and say: "Next month, I will buy some ordinary cotton cloth and ironware to sell to the Wa country, buy less raw silk, and the price of raw silk in Cangzhou can be lowered!" ”

Cha Yunke regretted very much that he introduced Yang Peng to run to the sea, but he didn't expect Yang Peng's steam engine ship to be so powerful, and he could go back and forth to the Japanese country once in 20 days. This machine is truly amazing, and it has completely rewritten the pattern of maritime trade. Originally, Yang Peng said that he would try not to buy and sell raw silk, but now he is still doing it driven by profits. Yang Peng still wants to build a new ship, so to what extent will the profits of the Japanese country near Cangzhou be diluted in the future?

Cha Yunke sighed, and secretly said that Yang Peng couldn't help, and Qingyun would kill all directions and rob other people's jobs. Cha Yunke pondered how to do this business in the future, whether he still had a job, and his face was blue for a while, and he was speechless. Yang Peng thought about it, and secretly said that Cha Yunke helped him start a business, and he couldn't cut off people's money like this, and said with a smile: "Zha Gongzi, my ship plus a shipload of goods costs 100,000 taels, plus technology investment for 300,000 taels." You might as well come to me and buy a 30% stake in a ship. For example, if you invest 90,000 taels in the new ship I am building, 30% of the profits will belong to you every month in the future. ”

Yang Peng paused and said, "My ship runs fast, and a ship has a profit of 10,000 taels a month." In a year, the profit of 30% is more than 30,000 taels, which is about the same as the profit of your four small sailboats running to the Japanese country! Cha Yunke was stunned, he didn't expect Yang Peng to have such an idea, and said excitedly: "What the city lord said is true? ”

"How can I beg you?" Cha Yunke thought about it, raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "I will send silver to invest in the shares tomorrow, and I will not go to sea in the future, and I will live on the dividends of the city lord!" Yang Peng smiled and did not speak. The city lord is indeed a righteous man! ”

Yang Peng was stunned and asked, "Can he do it?" By the beginning of September, more than 500 new villas had been built in Tianjing New Town, and with residences, Yang Peng began to recruit new textile workers in the surrounding prefectures and counties. This time, in order to improve the income level of the workers, Yang Peng tried his best to recruit the couple together. In this way, the husband and wife get a double salary, and the standard of living will be much higher.

However, Yang Peng's recruitment was not a random recruitment, and in order to prevent Khitan spies from being mixed with the new workers, Yang Peng required that the recruits must be guaranteed by the residents of Tianjing New Town. Of course, the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Division can also be used as a guarantor. The position in Yang Peng's factory is a good job that everyone wants, and the nearby residents want to come when they hear that Tianjing New Town is recruiting new people. As a result, the guarantor of the inhabitants of the city became very precious.

If someone does to protect Tianjing New Town, a good life for a lifetime will be stable! The relatives and friends of the residents of Tianjing New Town came to beg, hoping that they could be guaranteed to work in the textile factory and become a member of Fanjiazhuang. Yang Peng's workers and soldiers were all crowded at once, and they were busy dealing with relatives and friends who came to ask for guarantees.

However, Yang Peng stipulated that a soldier and a citizen could only guarantee one family, and the competition for those seeking insurance was fierce. On this day, Lei San, the squad leader of the Broken Prisoner Regiment, was eating in the cafeteria, a little absent-minded. His seven soldiers finished cooking, and when he sat down together, Lei San walked to another large table, picked up the white rice and swallowed it.

Lei San's seven soldiers were stunned, and sent a soldier nicknamed "Thin Monkey" to call Lei San. "Squad leader, won't you eat with us?" Lei San was stunned, only then did he realize that he had thrown the seven soldiers aside. He was a little embarrassed, so he quickly picked up his lunch box and walked to the table occupied by his subordinates, and sat down with the seven soldiers.

Then the seven soldiers set out for joy and began to eat. While eating, the seven GIs chatted. "This time the city lord's new factory is recruiting, why are you guarantors?" "I'll protect my brother! My family is poor, and my brother can be better when he comes! ”

"I protect my eldest sister's family, and she begged me several times. My brother-in-law is honest, and he can't grow a bowl of rice in the field all year round, and I don't protect her family, they have to eat bran. "I protect my eldest brother, my eldest brother has been the best to me since he was a child, this time I have the opportunity, I want him to live a good life." When Lei San heard the words of his subordinates and saw that they were all vouching for his brothers and sisters in the family, the expression on his face became even more solemn, and he only lowered his head and picked up the food, without saying a word.

The "thin monkey" took a bite of meat, looked at the squad leader, and said: "Squad leader, you are an officer, and the person you guarantee has extra points, and you are more likely to apply for the interview during the interview!" Who are you protecting this time? Lei San wiped the corners of his mouth with his hand and said, "I'm still undecided!" The thin monkey said, "You haven't decided yet!" The list will be handed in the day after tomorrow! ”

Lei San said coldly: "I know! The thin monkey looked at the squad leader's face, grinned, and didn't dare to ask again.

Lei San did not go back to the barracks after dinner, but walked to the villa he bought with a loan alone. The furniture in the villa was all ready, and Lei San used a fire fold to light the oil lamps in all four rooms. Looking at the bright room, Lei San forgot about the entanglements of the past few days, and his heart was filled with a sense of happiness.

If you marry another daughter-in-law, you won't lack anything, right? This is all a good day given to him by the city lord. Lei San was rejoicing there, but he heard someone downstairs slamming the door loudly, as if he was going to smash the door panel. Lei San was stunned, and hurriedly went down and opened the door.

As soon as the door opened, Lei San saw his father, eldest brother and sister-in-law standing outside the door. As soon as Lei San's father saw Lei San, he snorted coldly. "I knew you were here!"

Lei San's father walked into Lei San's villa with a big smile, pulled a chair and sat in the living room. He looked Lei San's villa up and down, and said to his eldest son: "Boss, Liuzi, don't be stunned, come and sit, what are you polite to Lei San?" ”

Lei San's eldest brother smiled, and also pulled out a chair and sat in the living room. Lei San was standing there alone, like an unwelcome guest. Lei San's sister-in-law looked at Lei San's face, pulled out a chair with a smile, and said, "Lei San, you also sit, this is your villa!" What are you standing for? Everyone sits and talks! ”

Lei San frowned, turned his head to look at the bluestone pavement outside the door, and did not move. Lei San's father didn't sit and didn't care, but patted the table and said: "Lei San, you were not in good health when you were a child, and you got sick at the end of three days, and your mother and I worked hard to pull you up, and now you are out of breath!" I'm a class leader! ”

"This time, your city lord is recruiting new workers and asking someone to guarantee it, which is your chance to repay your family." "Your eldest brother and sister-in-law are planting the Liu family's twenty acres of thin land, and the children dare not give birth. If you guarantee your eldest brother's family to work in a textile factory this time, I won't raise your son in vain. ”

Lei San glanced at his own father and did not speak. After Lei San's father said this, the three of them waited for Lei San to answer. But Lei San didn't say anything for a long time, which made the scene a little embarrassing. Lei San's father looked at Lei San's face, stunned, and a little worried. He stood up, dragged the chair pulled out by Lei San's sister-in-law to Lei San, and said, "Lei San, sit, sit and talk!" ”

Lei San looked at the chair and didn't sit down. Lei San's father became a little annoyed, looked at Lei San coldly and said, "Lei San, what do you mean?" I'll let you talk! Lei San took a breath and said, "I want to protect Brother Yang this time!" Lei San's father was stunned, as if he heard a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and looked at his eldest son with his mouth wide open. Lei San's brother and sister-in-law were even more nervous, and the two of them were already anxious to stand up when they heard Lei San's words. They looked at Lei San with anxious faces, as if they had heard a bad news.

"Lei San, you can't protect Yang Ming! I'm your big brother! You won't help me? Lei San's father roared loudly: "Yang Ming and you are not relatives!" Do you protect him? Lei San looked at his father coldly and said, "I was sick when I was a child, and I was hungry. Every time I go to serve a meal, you say that there is not enough food, and I have never eaten enough at home. ”

"But Brother Yang took pity on me and often brought me rice balls to eat. Brother Yang has broth to drink at home, so he will definitely bring me a bowl to eat. "When I was seven years old, I had a high fever, and you and my mother said that I was going to die of illness and leave me alone. It was Brother Yang who dragged his father to buy me medicine, boiled it for me to drink, and revived me. "If it weren't for Brother Yang, I would have died of illness a long time ago!"

Hearing Lei San's words, Lei San's eldest brother sat heavily on his chair like a basin of water poured down from his head. Lei San's sister-in-law looked at her husband, then at Lei San, and walked out of Lei San's villa with a shake of her hand in anger. Seeing this, Lei San's eldest brother was so anxious that he chased him to the door and shouted loudly: "Liuzi! Yanagiko! Don't be angry! But he was unwilling to give up Lei San, standing at the door and unable to advance or retreat, looking at Lei San anxiously.

Lei San said: "When Brother Yang and his father were here, his family's livelihood was not bad, but his father died a few years ago, and as a result, those gangsters bullied Brother Yang and added layers of land to his family's field, and his family's more than 20 acres of land were not even enough to pay the grain all year round. He is twenty-four years old and has not yet married. ”

"Brother Yang is so miserable now, I can't help him!" "The money for the eldest brother and the second brother to get married is all paid by me, and I give my parents a tael of silver every month, and I have done enough for the family. This time I'm going to help Brother Yang! Lei San's father looked at Lei San in despair, and was silent for a long time, and suddenly jumped like thunder, rushing up to hit Lei San.

"I'll kill you rebel!" Lei San didn't react for a while, and slapped his father in the face, and his body was crooked. Lei San's father slapped him and didn't get rid of his hatred, and he waved his fist to hit Lei San. Lei San frowned, grabbed his father's fist, and threw his father to the ground with a flick.

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.