Chapter 381: Friends
"Actually lost?"
Yang Feng said quite unexpectedly.
He did take a step back, although he didn't go all out, but this result can still be said to be the first time in the world, and the strength of this strong man is probably one point worse than Li Siye.
"It's yours!"
Yang Feng said and threw the money bag over.
"This contemptible person can't stand it, the general is like a god, and it is already a contemptible honor to be able to fight with the general."
The man said respectfully.
"I'll take it for you, where is all this nonsense, is General Ben still lacking this bit of money? You are indeed a good man, why don't you fight on the field, I am the Broken Leaf Guard, lead the lone army to suppress the Domain, wouldn't it be faster to follow me to kill the Hu people? By the way, I don't know your name? ”
Yang Feng said.
"Contemptible Nanjiyun, Dunqiu people, Xingba, the general can call Nanba."
The strong man saluted.
"What are you?"
Yang Feng looked at him and Xu Yao and said.
"General, my father is the former Jiannan Dao superintendent of the imperial history Xu Yuan, for the festival marshal Zhang Qiu and Qiong framed to be demoted to the county lieutenant, the concubine and the brother in Chang'an for many years have been fruitless, the south brother is the old acquaintance of the brother, this time the concubine returned home alone, because the distance is far away, the brother invited the south brother to escort, this place is not far from Yuhang, the concubine also has accompanying slaves, if the south brother intends to join the army, please yourself."
Xu Yao said.
"Zhang Qiu and Qiong are dead, and the Xu family is also a family, can't this little thing be solved?"
Yang Feng said suspiciously.
"General, Zhang Qiu and Qiong are close friends with Yang Xiang."
Xu Yao smiled bitterly.
At this time, Li Linfu was already dead, in fact, when Yang Feng left Chang'an, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty who he had not been able to see was already seriously ill, when he arrived in Chengdu, Yang Guozhong had already taken over, and he received the news of Li Linfu's death when he was in Jiangxia. Even if he doesn't really know what to do, the responsible officials in Chang'an will definitely not rehabilitate Xu Yuan, a person framed by his old boss as soon as he becomes prime minister, officialdom is like this, even if the Xu family is a family, it is useless, their southern family has very limited energy in Chang'an, not to mention that Xu Jingzong himself is still a nickname.
"This matter is easy to do, I have a lot of friendship with Yang Xiang, just talk to him after returning to Chang'an, how many years has this been, Xu Gong is not a big mistake, a good pillar of the imperial court, let him be a county lieutenant in a remote place for so many years."
Yang Feng said with a smile.
"The concubine thanked the general!"
Xu Yao said in surprise.
"No need to be polite, next I and King Cao will go south along the coast, we must go to Yuhang, let's go together, we have a big boat to take and it is more stable, after arriving in Yuhang, if Xu Xiaoniang still wants to go south to visit Ling Zun, then we are also going to Nanhai County."
Yang Feng said.
"This ......"
Xu Yao hesitated.
"Isn't my sister still resentful of my sister?"
Zhao Qian suddenly came out and pulled her and said affectionately.
"Well, well!"
Xu Yao had no choice but to nod.
Zhao Qian immediately showed a weird smile to Yang Feng, and Li Xiu next to her slapped her speechlessly, so Nan Jiyun and Zhao Qian joined Yang Feng's team, of course, the latter could not be only the two of them, the Xu family was also a family, the real scholars of Nandu back then, they also had a few slaves with them, and they originally hired a boat, but now it is nothing more than moving to Yang Feng's ship, at this time Liu Hui has prepared more than 20 large sea ships for Yang Feng and Li Gao to carry more and more of their entourage, So many ships don't care about the number of them.
As for Nan Jiyun......
He was still hesitating, although it was indeed what he longed for, it was still difficult to make a decision at once to go to a peerless realm like Broken Leaves, which was thousands of miles away.
Of course, Yang Feng is not in a hurry.
What he has is time.
In the following time, he quickly completed the inspection of the shipyard with Li Gao in Yangzhou, and set up a supervision office, leaving a group of technicians trained by him during this period, as well as models and a full set of drawings, and even some new construction techniques. Yang Feng and his entourage set off again half a month later, turned down the Yangtze River to Hangzhou Bay, and quickly rushed to Yuyao with the tail of the northwest wind, of course, it was a county not a county, that is, Ningbo, but it was not a modern Ningbo, but Yinjiang Town, and the city of Ningbo at the mouth of the three rivers was determined twenty years later.
Because of the abundant camphor trees in the vicinity and the fact that it is a natural harbor, the shipbuilding industry here has accompanied almost the entire ancient Chinese history.
Yang Feng is very busy here.
In addition to personally sending Xu Yao back to Yu Hang's home, he spent the other two months completely immersed in the shipbuilding site, instructing the craftsmen how to build a large fortune ship, because there was a large reserve of wood here, and he also personally led the craftsmen to complete the laying of the keel. Not only the construction of the fortune boat, but also the bird ship that was originally built here in history was also laid with keels, and by the time he left, in fact, a fortune ship more than ten zhang long and a bird ship of nearly ten zhang were quite rudimentary, and all the craftsmen had roughly mastered the technology, and basically it could be built in two months.
Wooden boats were actually built very quickly.
But only if you have enough material ready.
And there's just enough material here.
When Yang Feng left Mingzhou, it was already March, and in this season when the grass grew and the warbler flew, he boarded the ship again and headed south, of course, this time still with Xu Yao, who was going to take their boat to Guangzhou to visit Xu Yuan.
In this way, Yang Feng continued to move forward along the shipyards along the coastline, staying for a month or half a month, teaching as many techniques as possible to those craftsmen, and of course, by the way, he also ordered large sea ships for him, Gao Xianzhi and others in the Tang Dynasty version of the East India Company. At present, in addition to the two of them and Li Siye, there are a total of 20 generals from the three towns of Longyou, Anxi, and Beiting, such as Feng Changqing, Cheng Qianli, Ge Shuhan, Duan Xiushi, and Wang Sili, all of whom were lobbied by Yang Feng, and also had a part of his close sister, and Li Gao was added on the way south, who did not pay, but he could cut the cost of the company's first batch of twenty merchant ships to half by doing tricks on the accounts.
As for who will come out of the remaining half, it goes without saying.
Li Longji's first batch of shipbuilding plans were 100 Daifuku ships with a displacement of 10,000 stone and 200 small bird ships with a displacement of 4,000 stone.
The concept of displacement is determined by Yang Fengding.
One stone in the Tang Dynasty is more than 50 kilograms, 10,000 stone Dafu ships are equal to 500 tons, 4,000 stones are 200 tons, although these ships are indeed quite large, but they are not very exaggerated, after all, when the Tang Dynasty conquered Goryeo, the warships were generally loaded with a thousand stones, which was a load rather than a displacement, and it was really about the same as Yang Feng's bird ship at that time.
It's also a little bigger.
These ships should be completed within five years, at most no more than six years, such a huge shipbuilding plan, and thousands of miles away from Chang'an, it can be said that the Tiangao Emperor is far away, Li Gao wants to do tricks and feet in the accounts, it is simply a play, with his dry shares, Zhuyuan can get the first batch of the cheapest merchant ships in the shortest possible time. As for the first batch of bird boats, this kind of ship is faster, and the full speed of the wind can even reach nine knots, which is already fast in the age of sails, although it is certainly not as large as the Daifuku ship, but the windfall profits of the Zhuyuan can completely ignore this problem, it is more important to shorten the transportation time and reduce the mortality rate of sailors, and a sailor who can sail to the ocean is precious in this year.
Changle County.
That is, Fuzhou, which was also changed when Li Longji was idle.
"Brother Yang, there is good news."
Next to the coffee table under the shade of the tree, Li Gao sat down with a smile and said.
At this time, Yang Feng on the other side of the coffee table was wearing big pants and half-cut sleeves, two maidservants behind him were fanning fans, guarding the chilled lychees next to him, and in front of him were Li Xiu and others who were wearing thin skirts and sitting around a table playing mahjong, and even Xu Yao and Li Gao's two concubines were playing chess there, and there was a burst of laughter in the crowd from time to time, just when Li Gao said this, Zhao Qian rushed out with a dejected face, and pounced on Yang Feng at once, and then snatched his money bag.
"Lost again, you ruined woman!"
Yang Feng said speechlessly.
"Hmph, the eldest woman won, and she didn't leave our house left and right!"
Zhao Qian said hatefully.
After speaking, she took all the pots of chilled lychees away, and when she left, she turned around and asked Li Gao with a false smile on her face: "Wang, don't you eat it?" ”
"Well, my spleen and stomach are cold, so I shouldn't eat this!"
Li Gao hurriedly said.
Zhao Qian immediately hugged and walked away satisfied.
"Oh, Brother Yang is really blessed!"
Li Gao said with emotion.
Zhao Qian ran to Xu Yao's side first with the basin, brought out a string of lychees for her who was playing against Li Gao's concubine, and then rushed into the crowd of mahjong players, picked up the maid who replaced her, put the basin full of ice cubes and lychees on her lap, and then started a new ** battle.
Yang Feng let out a sigh that was not inhumane and said, "What's the good news?" ”
"Hexi Jiedu has made a substitution."
Li Gao said.
"Who?"
Yang Feng asked.
"Feng Changqing."
Li Gao said.
"Well, what about the Anxi Festival envoy?"
Yang Feng said unexpectedly.
"Ling Yue!"
Li Gao said with a smile.
Okay, Yang Feng understood, this is Yang Guozhong's dismissal to the An family brothers as soon as he took office, he didn't dare to move An Lushan for the time being, but there is still no problem with moving An Sishun, An Sishun has both Hexi and Shuofang, it is reasonable to take one out, and An Sishun is also more obedient, and it is easier to move. As for letting Li Siye be the envoy of the Anxi Jiedu, this is purely to consolidate the alliance with Yang Feng, Yang Guozhong must definitely form an alliance with the armies of the West Road to deal with An Lushan, and establish the camp in this way, even if the Jiedu envoys of the West Road may not really take refuge in him, but in this way, at least the Jiedu envoys of the Western Road have been stamped with his seal.
It's called a pundo.