Chapter Eighty-Nine: A New Road
While! While! While......
With the ringing of the bell, the newly cast bronze bell shines with gold, and it takes time to precipitate before it becomes the cyan color in people's impressions.
In the expansion of the wharf in Yangtze County, a large number of shacks stretch out, about two or three miles. The "snail girl" in Yangzhou, Chuzhou, was transported by the proprietor to pick up passengers by boat. Not only are there plenty of cheap prostitutes on the docks, but there are also equally cheap traveling doctors. Some doctors even directly hung out the banner of "Nanshan True Legend", and just set up a stall to dig a corn or something for people.
If you want to cure venereal diseases, you can only get a red-hot iron rod and burn it in the crotch of your pants......
Fortunately, there was no syphilis in these years, and the talent of the Saxons had not yet been revealed.
The few white races are mostly white slaves transported from the river. Occasionally, the blonde is also a private relieving thing.
"Boatman, sailor, mechanic, jumper, archer......"
The loud and loud head of the dock ship shop, with all his strength shouted, there were more and more new ships lately, but there were not enough sailors. Even if some veterans have retired from the China Resources, most of them have already earned enough pension money, and they are too old to take risks, so at most they are passing on a little experience.
As for experience...... Paid.
The Jiangnan Boat Gang was divided into several factions, although they also competed, but the sailors would not give up to the Jianghuai Boat Company or Denglai Boat Company.
Not to mention a master who can read nautical charts and star charts, or a strong man who can understand monsoons and ocean currents, even if it is just a coolie with great strength and fast sailing, it can be guarded against.
"Why has the price risen so much now?"
"Consistent half-month hard work? It's only about 30 yuan a day to carry a bag on the dock, which can still be done. ”
"The archers on the ship are not ordinary people, if they can use crossbows, they can repair them to some extent."
"The whaling crossbow?"
"You say yes."
Discussing there with all their might, some ship bosses with boats also gathered together to eat "copper pot", and then drank rice wine, frowning and discussing the current market.
"This emperor's old dog's dog has raised his wages a lot in one go, and some of our brothers on the ship want to jump over."
"The past is over, can you still stop getting rich?"
"I heard that we are also recruiting boats to join us, and we are in the East China Sea, which is also a bit thin. I can't talk to 'Shan Donghai', but there are dozens of ship owners below, and I know a few, so it's not bad to get an imperial errand. ”
"Your turn?"
After taking a sip of rice wine, a boat boss said, "Suzhou was robbed of the land before, although the land is gone, but the furniture is rich, and the ancestors blessed, I took a sum of money and went to Luoyang to mix up." Now in Wuhan, the shipyard wants a good ship, and they are all scheduled to go to next year's lunar month. ”
"What does this emperor think, he came to grab a deal with us."
"What do you say, how many farmers are there in Suzhou? The silk of the Lu family was sold to the cottage of the Yan people. That day in Kunshan, I saw a boat, all of which were golden sands, and the inventory of the people of the Yan Dynasty, tsk, at least a two-foot-high Mai Gong statue could be cast. ”
"Really?! The fortune of the Lu family is really good, originally a Wu County man, but it doesn't matter. just accepted a closed disciple, and it was cheap to pick it up for nothing. ”
"What do you do for no reason? Right now, it's the emperor Lao'er who is raising the price, what should we do? ”
"According to my thoughts, if I go to Li County Commander and ask about it, I won't knock us out of the yamen. If Li County Commander can give a clear way, he will pay a consulting fee. ”
All the boat bosses felt that it was more important to be safe, so they took out the China Resources Flying Ticket, scraped together some money, and entrusted the older one to let him go to the county government of Yangzi County.
However, to the surprise of many boat bosses, on their way to the county government of Yangzi County, there was another commotion on the dock, and the shouts could be heard clearly even five miles away.
"Jiaolong? What is a dragon? ”
The captain of the ship said strangely.
At this time, the guard of honor of the county order of Yangzi County had already rushed to the dock.
On the docks, the ship on the shore looked old, a three-masted galleon, with dark and rough skin, and a mouth full of yellow teeth. The whole boat smelled amazingly fishy, but the onlookers didn't mind at all. Just like the huge mirror not long ago, it was even more exciting than watching the mirror.
"Young and old! Their eyes widened! Look—"
A box covered by a gray cloth was suddenly lifted, revealing the true face inside. It turned out to be a huge cage, the cage was at least four feet long, and inside, a huge black crocodile was growing its mouth, shaking around the sky from time to time.
"Ahh
"My mother-"
"Oh! This...... What is this—"
There was a one-eyed lean man, with a short blade pinned to his waist, holding a cable in one hand and stepping on the mast with one foot, and smiled proudly: "Three dragons!" Our boat encountered a storm and went southeast from Qianli Shitang, guess what? We came and went, and when we came across a boundary, there were sandalwood forests everywhere, and there was a river under the sandalwood forest, and the estuary was mostly such dragons. It's a smaller one, and there are two zhang! ”
Bang Bang Bang!
After this man said that, there was an old man who stood at the bow of the boat, and saw that he was muscular and tall, wearing a short shirt and short sleeves, a pair of shorts just tied with a leather rope, thick and long leg hair, and an awkward Lingnan accent, and he also raised his hand proudly: "Come!" It's all an eye-opener for everyone—"
Boom! Boom! Bang –
A large number of boxes were lifted, and the sailors of the Swift immediately shook out the contents.
Huge crocodile skins were displayed in front of everyone.
"It's all good skin! The cobbler on the ship, that's a good man from Cangzhou! The craftsmanship will not be bad! ”
The boss of the boat yelled and shouted, "You can buy a bun of balls alone!" As long as the price is fair, we will settle in Yangtze County! ”
"My mother! My mother! My mother-"
"There are many dragon skins, get a set of this skin, and make five times as much as you can make from it...... Ten times as much! ”
"Sandalwood forest, ramming! That guy said the sandalwood forest—"
"Yes, yes, Sandalwood! Sandalwood Forest! ”
"Sandalwood, and sandalwood—"
The boat boss grinned: "Sell the skin first, sell the skin first......"
Suddenly, someone exclaimed, as if he remembered something, and patted his head: "I know!" I know! The ships of the "Shan Donghai" often come to Sandalwood from the South China Sea, and they used to think that it was Jiaozhou, but they never thought that it was thousands of miles southeast of Shitang. If you go to the stream, won't you go straight to the east? ”
"It's too far offshore, it's hard to walk."
"And how did they turn around? There must be a way out. ”
Hearing someone arguing about the route below, the ship's boss suddenly changed his face, and everyone below cheered directly.
"You can go—"