Lin Jingning was very excited when he heard that the sea ship had been built.

Before, they hoarded fields in the mountains and cultivated, although they were divided into more than ten places, but they still had to practice in addition to going to the fields, and it was impossible to be airtight.

It is impossible to surround the mountains in the mountains, and there are still mountain hunters on the mountains, as long as they are discovered and stabbed to the official office, they will not be able to count them as mountain people, and once the land planted in the mountains is registered, a large amount of taxes will be levied, which will be cheaper for others.

Later, after Fang Da and Sun Lu's father and son suppressed the pirates, these people became addicted.

How can it be fun to pretend to be a pirate. The wind was tight, and they took a boat to avoid the sea, who could find them?

Now that most of their forces have moved to the island, they have built high lookouts around them, so that the movement of the nearby sea is clear at a glance, and they will run if there is danger, and no matter how hidden in the mountains is not as safe as here.

And they farm on the island, how to study, if the yield is high, no one will find out, it will all fall into their own pockets.

Sun Ze and Fang Da are already addicted to pirates, and they can't wait to get all the coastal islands in their pockets.

"Some ships have been built, but not many, I have secretly ordered people to look for them in Zhejiang, Fujian and other places, and I believe that the number of sea ships in our hands will increase greatly next year."

Fishing boats are easy to build, they have already got dozens, but they want to build big ships, which can carry hundreds of people and thousands of people.

And such a ship requires a lot of silver. The 200,000 taels sent by His Highness before had almost been spent, and Fang Da was now worried about where to find some money.

couldn't help but squat on the ground and chatted with Lin Jingning......

"Say, where did the pirates' money come from? It can't all be robbing passing caravans. ”

They suppressed some pirates, ate black and black, and also got some wealth, but they didn't spend it. The pirates who interrogated them last time said that they had been in this area for decades, and that the raided merchant ships should not be enough to feed them, and that they should sell the looted goods, and they should also carry some private goods with them.

They were regular troops, and they did not dare to plunder merchant ships. Can they also learn to do some business with merchant ships?

Lin Jingning scratched his head, where did he know how to do business. "Do you want to send a letter to King Yue and ask King Yue?"

"My letter has been sent."

But this place is too far away from Tianshou Mountain, and it takes time to go back and forth, and I don't know when King Yue's reply will arrive. In winter, apart from drilling, they can't plant any more ground, and they always get bored and want to do something.

"Didn't you let people study how to raise pearls, we have built breeding bases on several islands, and when they are raised, they will be sold and they will be rich."

When Fang Da heard this, his head was as big as a fight.

A group of big-headed soldiers, where do they know such meticulous work. The mother oysters he asked people to find, one by one, were sent to the island, and according to what King Yue said, they opened the shell and planted pearl cores, and nine out of ten died.

The money was pouring into the water, but it didn't work, and it made him want to cry blood.

He even suspected that His Highness had been cheated by someone, and he was so stunned that he wanted money, how could there be a pearl. I thought it was the same as farming, turning over the soil and sprinkling seeds into it, and I would be able to reap the rewards.

Fang Da had a headache.

"I still have to practice, and the next matter of raising pearls will be handed over to you." ran away, for fear of being caught up by Lin Jingning.

Lin Jingning stretched out his hand to call him, but paused again. He raises him.

He didn't think that His Highness had been cheated. His Royal Highness must have seen it from the fourth sister, and the pearls over there were artificially raised, so he wrote a tutorial for them to try. It doesn't make sense that the fourth sister can raise it successfully, but they can't raise it here.

Lin Jingning immediately ignited his fighting spirit, he wanted to raise pearls, and then give his family and the fourth sister a box of pearls he raised!

On the other side, the yamen of the prefect of Yuezhou.

Master pushed the door in, "Master." ”

Li Mao was busy, raised his eyes to look at him, and his eyes fell on the file on the case again.

He has only been in Yuezhou for less than a month, and the mess left by the former prefect has not been sorted out for a month.

It's a pity that he has survived two terms from that poor place in Luozhou, thinking that if he survives for another term, not to mention that he can be transferred to the capital, he can always be transferred to a rich place, so he wants to be transferred to this Yuezhou again.

Yuezhou is poorer than Luozhou.

What's in this Yuezhou? There are many mountains and few lands, and the people can't eat enough land to pay taxes, and they have to be arrested every three times to serve all kinds of servitude, resulting in a large number of people hiding in the mountains and becoming mountain people.

Originally, there was no tax grain in the field, and now it is even more so.

He offended the gods and transferred him to this Yuezhou.

Li Mao wanted to scold his mother, but he felt that he had lost the self-cultivation of a scholar, so he only felt uncomfortable in his heart.

"Master," the master leaned closer, "the little one asked the mountain people, and said that the grain had been delivered to a Zhuangzi at the foot of the mountain, and that the Zhuangzi had only been up for two or three months, and that there was no one before." Then the little one sent someone to the Zhuangzi and asked, sir, guess what? ”

Li Mao raised his eyelids lightly, "What's the matter, is there a big deal?" ”

After Li Mao took over Yuezhou, he found that the Yamen warehouse was so clean that he could run horses in it, and even rats could jump their feet when they entered.

He thought that a grain merchant had come to Yuezhou to do business, and was thinking about discussing with him and asking him to help buy some grain so that he could use it for the errand, but found that it was not the grain merchant's grain, but the grain that had been brought into the city and carried it to the mountains.

It is normal for mountain people to buy grain outside and eat without farming, but they can't be transported from trip to place. Could it be that the mountain people of Yue are richer than those elsewhere?

I asked people to check it.

The master found a Zhuangzi head.

"The master guessed right, isn't it a big deal. The lord knows whose food is in Yuezhou, right? ”

Li Mao glanced at him, could he not know this? "Isn't it King Yue's?"

"Yes, it's King Yue's. And according to the head of the village, that Zhuangzi is also the king of Yue. ”

What! Li Mao was taken aback.

King Yue made a Zhuangzi here? Tucked away at the foot of a mountain? Didn't King Yue guard the tomb in the imperial mausoleum, how did he send someone to build a Zhuangzi in Yuedi? And sent people to buy grain three or four times?

"That Zhuang Tou is a talkative, saying that before the prince was convicted, some old people were sent away and had a bad time elsewhere, and then the king Yue was crowned king, and those old people were found back. The king of Yue could not settle them, so he sent them to Yuedi. ”

"He also said that he couldn't collect the food tax in Yuedi, so he thought about buying some seeds, and let those old people try to plant one, using the method learned in Beijing, if he could educate the people in Yuedi and make the grain harvest, then his food tax could also be collected."

Li Mao was stunned.

The taxes of Yue Di cannot be collected every year, and the king of Yue will not be able to get the food tax, so he thinks of some way to grow grain in this place and settle the old people, which seems reasonable.

But Li Mao always felt that it was not simple.