Pu Shougeng said: "I heard that the maritime merchants there came from Yindi Anguo, have you ever heard of this country? ”

At this time, the Great Song dialect is definitely the international common language, no matter whether the skin of those merchants is white, black or yellow, they are proud to be able to speak the Great Song dialect, of course, this is also a business need. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

All the merchants shook their heads there, and they really hadn't heard of it.

They met in the chessboard garden in Pu's Garden.

In the Great Song Dynasty, the game of chess was flourishing, Pu Shou Geng gambled for the entertainment of the guests, so he opened a chessboard garden in the north of his own garden, with thirty-two beauties as chess pieces, respectively, the black and red chess pieces were named, each in place, and waited for the chess player to order to advance and retreat, so it was called the chessboard garden.

There is a small alley called Thirty-two Alleys nearby, which is a place for 32 women who act as chess pieces to stay overnight, and there is also a room for each person.

The south of the chessboard garden is the head of the garden, which is the main body of the Pushi Garden, which is connected with the Xiting and the Chi Tsai Pier, which looks beautiful.

His brother Pu Shouchen also built a "Haiyun Tower" at the East China Sea Law Stone, "looking at the sea boat", and there was a "blue and ten thousand pavilions" downstairs.

There are also gorgeous villas and gardens built near Fashi, introducing all kinds of flowers, such as frangipani, and there is Wumo Mountain Ao near the sea, which is the boat for their Pu Shou Geng brothers.

The Pu family has more than 2,000 people, and there is even a martial arts hall.

The patriarch of the Pu family is Pu Shougeng, who himself has a large fleet of thousands of ships, operating foreign trade from Quanzhou to Arabia.

Now the richest people in Guangzhou are surnamed Pu, although they are not of the same race, but they are also very good to them.

Therefore, the most powerful family in both Guangzhou and Thornton City is the surname Pu family, the difference is that Quanzhou does not have such a good hinterland and water supply as Guangzhou, Guangzhou is the place where the three rivers meet. Guangzhou has a wide range of places, and through Guangzhou it is also possible to do business with overseas.

Pu Shougeng squinted his gray-blue eyes and said: "I also heard that they prayed for blessings in the deep mountains of Liuqiu for the national fortune of the Great Song Dynasty, and I heard that they could keep in touch with Jia Pingzhang------"

He always had a way of getting more information than any other merchant.

In fact, now, the Great Song Dynasty government no longer regards him as a businessman, otherwise he would not have been allowed to serve as the envoy of the city.

But. Pu Shougeng still serves as the head of Fan, because he started by recruiting overseas businessmen, and he doesn't want to lose this old foundation.

Pu Shougeng said again: "It's better to send a few people to go, we can bargain together, or we can go by ourselves." ”

He looked at the men, and sure enough, no one said what they wanted to go.

Why did he want to be the head of this fan? Control all the merchants and advance and retreat together. This will save a lot of money!

Now in Thornton City, it can be said that the situation of the merchant's superiority is returned, and if he doesn't admit this, he will have all kinds of troubles inexplicably.

Pu Shougeng saw that everyone agreed, and said: "If everyone has no other ideas, it's decided!" ”

Closer from Thorn Castle to Liuqiu Island, they sent a caravan with some cotton cloth, porcelain, and ironware, and some of them went to Liuqiu Island for a while. Looking for the so-called Badaohe area, they also inquired about the approximate location in advance. It is about the southeast direction after crossing Pinghu.

There were many Arab sailors in the city, and at this time almost one-third of the city was in the city.

More than a dozen years later, they will be the main sailors in the Battle of Yashan.

They took advantage of the tailwind season and operated three ships in less than four days. I went to the so-called Liuqiu Island, went south along the coast, and sure enough, I found that place!

At this time, there was a small dhow boat, and there seemed to be more than a dozen people, who kept adjusting their sails and came towards them. About twenty or thirty paces away, they began to shout with a small barrel-like object, and asked them what else they were doing here------

They heard it very clearly, and they also shouted loudly that they were from Thornton City to do business!

Come with us!

Then they saw the swordfish boat make a quick bend and turn around and rush into the mouth of a large river.

On the top of the bow of the swordfish boat, there was a strange iron pipe.

Zhang Depei, who was above the observation post, put down the telescope given to them by Master Zhang's family, he had just seen the gesture of his companion on the swordfish boat in his direction, and he knew that it was three merchant ships.

These days, there are really a lot of merchant ships coming here.

He immediately ordered two of his subordinates to waed the flag and inform the team members below that it was three merchant ships.

Zhang Depei's team came back from an estuary, which can be regarded as a change of guard.

Their castle there has been built, but it is only a water of acacia wood cannons, but they are not afraid, the number of fights is small, but their number of cannons is large.

There are also a lot of people there now, especially after the small coal kiln in the upper reaches of the river was blown open, and the coal production there began to increase.

The explosives used in the mine are the gelatinous Dana explosives made by Zhang Guoan and Jing Jing at risk, and they are really powerful, and in a few moments, the hole of the small coal kiln was blown open, fortunately, the coal seam is quite thick, and after digging for a while, there are about three meters, the key is that the quality of the coal is good, and it can be made into coke.

The Great Song Dynasty began to use coke during the Northern Song Dynasty, and it became even more popular in the Southern Song Dynasty.

When the coal and about five kilograms of gold from several ships were transported back to the Badaohe area, Zhang Guoan was even happier that the coal was of excellent quality, and that it was firewood coal, which was very suitable for coke.

At this time, he knew that the best coal mine was still in Huainan, but the envoy who smuggled sea salt along the river had not yet sent anyone to contact him, perhaps because it was almost the New Year?

If he is not willing to do this business, then he will have to do it himself in the future, where the coal is much easier to mine than the coal in the land of requirement.

This time he changed guards with Yihe Castle, he didn't let half of the children go, and sent a member of the Great Song people from Yishui.

First, the gold sand there is basically gone, and no new ore sites have been found when I look around; Second, relatively speaking, the Badaohe area is the focus of development, and now that new recruits have been recruited, training should be strengthened.

In fact, he was worried about the northern winters, which are often rainy and rainy.

So after they came back, Zhang Guoan asked Captain Bao Wei to rearrange it, and Zhang Depei was promoted and became the captain of the reconnaissance team.

So, he now takes turns with his team members to train them in the flag, which is something he really enjoys.

Seeing that the three sea boats entered the estuary, Zhang Depei took a look with a telescope again, and it was indeed safe.

The muzzles of the guns on the castle were blocked by wooden planks, and there were no cannons on top of them.

This is Zhang Guoan's request, almost everyone who comes here to do business has to ask once, what is the pipe used for, and the answer is always annoying.

Most of the merchants who come here now are sneaky because they are smugglers.

There are three things that attract them, one is sea salt and refined salt, the second is skin, and the third is liquor.

These three things are precisely the products of the monopoly operation of the Great Song Dynasty government. (To be continued.) )