In the end, this batch of salt and sugar alone sold a total of almost 170,000 yuan, but how could the Hu merchants have so much cash, so Lu Er also gave free rein and got six ships back. In addition, almost 150,000 catties of cochin rice, 200,000 catties of southern corn, 30,000 catties of Lingnan soil brown sugar, and 100,000 catties of coarse salt were used as ballast stones to smuggle back.

The size of the ship in this Song Dynasty was mainly marked by "material", which was a strange composite unit, which could not only represent the displacement, deadweight but also the length, width and high technical parameters of the ship. Moreover, the official "official material" is twice as large as the private "private material", in order to pay less wages. For example, in the Northern Song Dynasty, a 500-material ship built by the government shipyard was 1,000 materials for the people, and the displacement was about 250 tons in later generations.

And the six ships that Lu Er got back are all original ships with 500 official materials produced by "Quanbo", and all of them are new ships that have been in the water for less than five years, and the price of the ship alone is more than 80,000 yuan.

Everyone kept eating and talking, and before they knew it, Huang Dalang was drunk again, he explained to Fushou in advance anyway, and when he saw that he was drunk, he quickly sent him home, don't let people talk nonsense again. It's just that when he woke up, Huang Dalang found that he was broken again, and his memory only stayed on the ins and outs of Lu Er's trip to Quanzhou, and there should be a lot of things to tell him after that, but unfortunately he didn't remember anything.

On the eighth day of the first month of February, Huang Dalang's thank-you banquet was held in Mingxiu Building as scheduled, but the atmosphere was a little gloomy and miserable, and it was only strange that the news of the fall of Anqing Mansion arrived in Huangzhou one day earlier, and the city was shocked, so this thank-you banquet could only end hastily, and a good poem did not stay.

Regarding the fall of Anqing Mansion, Huang Dalang didn't care at all, and just asked Zhu Gao and Zhang He to investigate. Now that he has finished the county examination, he has just crossed a small hurdle on the way to the imperial examination, and he can't be distracted for a moment.

Let's talk about the matter of Huang Wanlianzhuang first, since Liu Yu brought 200 handfuls of Japanese troops into the station, the progress was naturally faster, in late February, all the originally planned fish ponds were excavated, and the pond soil was also transported to the lower fields under Huilong Mountain after repeated excavation by Huang Dalang, and the pig house, canned meat and fish carp workshops were also built, and the mixed feed tried to be made with grain bran, wheat bran and distiller's grains was also made out of 500 stones, and Huang Dalang simply took the 200 handfuls of Japanese soldiers as free labor, and half of them were put into production and operation. The other half led Liu Yu and Liu Qi to protect the safety of Lianzhuang.

Aunt Qi was assigned by Huang Dalang as the chief steward of the workshop, and took a few servants who sold themselves to the Huang family to be responsible for the final high-temperature filling process in the filling workshop, but Huang Dalang was very worried about the filling process of this can of meat, but he was afraid that it would not be kept secret for long, because Supervisor Wang, who sent Su Lianniang to Huangzhou, guarded outside the workshop with a few personal entourage, claiming that the official family ordered him to guard the secret recipe from leaking, but no one knows whether he will steal it by himself.

As for the operation of the canned meat workshop, Huang Dalang can only let Erniang come forward to preside, Wan Chunnu and Su Lianniang assist, from the end of March to ensure that 5,000 cans can be shipped to Tokyo every ten days, but limited by the supply of raw materials, the output has fluctuated from the beginning to 500 cans per day, and the production capacity has stopped there.

What's more, because the wedding date with Su Lianniang is approaching, the original plan to place Ye Dalong and Lei Bao and others in Lianzhuang is no longer possible, Huang Dalang thought about it and simply spent money to sell a compound next door to the Sun family's mansion and settle everyone over.

In addition, the eight-black, nine-white, and seventeen Hu people from Jerusalem were finally sold down at the price of one hundred and fifty catties of snow candy under Lu Er's bargaining, and they were also thrown into the compound and handed over to Sun Li to teach them the language. Due to the language barrier, Huang Dalang only knew from Ajieb's mouth what kind of Crusader cavalry the nine white beards were, and the black beards were crusader servants, and more information could only be known after Sun Li taught them Song dialect.

However, Huang Dalang was also curious about the strength of these crusaders' cavalry, so he asked them to try their hand with all the heroes, but they were all beaten badly.

There is also the rice grain brought back by Lu Er, borrowed most of the granary of Wanjia and hoarded it, and the rest was also made into mixed feed and stored in Huangwan Lianzhuang, and at the same time, the coarse salt and raw sugar that were brought back were transported to Lianzhuang for processing, and at the end of April, a batch of snow salt and snow sugar came out, and Lu Er's father and son led Gong Laoqi and Cao Cheng to take them to Xiajiang to sell.

Many miscellaneous things, one by one busy but also time-consuming, in a blink of an eye, May Duanyang is approaching.

On this day, it was the second day of the fifth month of the third year of Zhenghe, Huang Dalang got up early in the morning and went to Zhou Yannu's room to see her, and now she is more than eight months pregnant, her belly is as big as a ball, and her belly is pointed and pointy. After watching Zhou Yannu, I went to the county to learn something, sat for half a day to study the scriptures, and went home after school at noon, but saw Cao Abao, who was supposed to be mixed up in the Hongwen Museum, actually wore a leaf armor, held a horn bow in his hand, and rode a tall horse to the east gate. ”

Cao Abao saw Huang Dalang on the side of the road, and said with excitement on his face: "Dalang, I heard that there are thieves knocking on the door at the east gate, and this yamen is naturally a thief!" ”

"Rogue?" Huang Dalang suddenly said that he remembered that the stone-breaking army of these Anqing Mansions was in the limelight, and had successively broken the surrounding Taihu, Huaining, Tongcheng and other counties, and even divided a small group of thieves to attack Qizhou, but I heard that the imperial court had ordered the Wuwei Army to send troops to recruit and suppress, how could they come to Huangzhou and knock on the door.

But if it weren't for this stone-breaking army, the surrounding green forest cottages, water villages and even path-cutting cockroaches, who would dare to come to Huangzhou to knock on the door?

Cao Abao saw that Huang Dalang's face was full of surprise, so he also said: "Dalang, let's go with this yamen to have a look, how about it?" ”

Huang Dalang thought that he had nothing to do, so he went to see the excitement, so he said hello, Cao Abao rode a horse to pick him up, and Huang Dalang jumped on the horse and went with him.

When the two came from the east gate, they saw that the city gate had already been firmly closed by the guards, and there were hundreds of archers guarding the city head, looking at the city, Cao Abao was the governor of the state, naturally no one stopped him, and carried Huang Dalang to the city, the two of them carefully looked from behind the female wall, and the city was densely packed with thousands of people, but all of them were ragged old and weak women and children and yellow-skinned men, what kind of thieves were they, they were hungry people at all.

"Strange! Didn't you hear of a famine nearby? Cao Abao scratched his head, but came to see Huang Dalang: "Da Lang, do you know where these people came from?" ”

Huang Dalang thought for a while and replied: "I'm afraid that Qizhou or Anqing fled from the country, I heard that Anqing Mansion is now breaking the stone army!" ”

"Reasonable!" Cao Abao nodded, but inserted the horn bow in his hand back into his back, and spat at the mouth: "Bad luck!" It's not a thief but a hungry person, and I have to eat the professor's ten strokes when I go back, and I'll lose it! Lost! ”

Huang Dalang listened to it and knew that Cao Abao was talking about skipping class, and according to the rules of the Hongwen Museum, he had to eat ten bamboo boards.

But at this time, I saw Cao Zhizhou, who was wearing regular clothes, and came in a hurry with the officials who were also wearing regular clothes, and they all came in a hurry, and they didn't even have time to change into their official clothes. ”

The head of the city defender hurriedly replied: "I just made a rough calculation, I'm afraid it will be no less than three thousand." ”

The Huangzhou Tong Judge named Zheng Feng clapped his hands on the side and said: "There are 5,000 in the South Gate, 4,000 in the North Gate, and now there are 3,000 in the East Gate, so there are more than 10,000 people!" How good is that? ”

Yao Zheng was the main body, so he naturally followed, but he didn't see Huang Dalang, but he was worried: "With the government's grain stockpile, it is more than enough to help these more than 10,000 people, but these are the forwards, if the follow-up continues, I am afraid that the little Huangzhou will be unsustainable, and I ask Zhizhou to make a decision as soon as possible." ”

"Decision? How to decide? Cao Zhizhou was also worried when he heard this, and frowned, so he walked to the female wall and leaned in to see, his appearance naturally attracted the attention of the homeless people in the city, just a large handful of beard under his lips can make people see that the history is extraordinary, even if he listens to the chaos and shouting under the city, and then I don't know who took the lead, the shouting voice gradually converged into a sentence: "My lord, be gracious, let the porridge live!" ”

Hearing the urgent shouts of the city, the people in the city were all moved, and Cao Zhizhou also showed a painful look on his face, but it was not easy to open the city to put porridge, according to the previous news, these displaced people really ran all the way west from Anqing Mansion and Qizhou and other places. The more than 10,000 people who arrived today are only forwards, and it is said that there are several batches behind, and the counties and cities along the way are closed doors and dare not let them into the city.

Cao Zhizhou's face showed pain, and he could only shake his head slightly and raise his palm, so the displaced people also stopped shouting to listen to him, and listened to him: "Fathers and fellow villagers, don't be impatient for the time being, this official will order people to make food, just go to the north gate to eat." ”

After saying this, I heard someone in the city shouting: "Please also ask your lord to be gracious and open the city on the spot to put porridge." I came to the west along the way, passing through the states and counties along the way, all of them were the east gate branch should be the north gate, the north gate branch should be the west gate, and the porridge was not put at the end, only with a bow and arrow to drive away. We heard that Lord Cao Zhizhou of Huangzhou is a good official who loves the people like a son, and asked the Lord to tell Lord Cao Zhizhou in person, and put a bowl of thick porridge with me to save his life, so he continued to go west, not to be embarrassed by Huangzhou! ”

Cao Zhizhou's face turned red when he heard what the man said, but after all, he had been up and down for decades, and he would not be confused by a few compliments, so he also insisted: "Since you are convinced that Cao Zhizhou is a good official, you should believe this official, just go to the north gate to eat, and never coax." ”

How do you know that the displaced people in the city listened, first looked at each other, and then some old and young began to cry, Cao Zhizhou naturally didn't know, and most of the states and counties along the way were like this, but they could be coaxed a lot, and there were few real ones. When he was stunned, he suddenly heard someone in the city shouting and scolding the "dog official", and then there were clods of soil and stones flying up, Cao Zhizhou was not in a hurry to dodge, and was hit on the forehead by a stone the size of a goose egg.

Suddenly, the city and the city were stunned, Cao Abao blinked his eyes, and in an instant he turned red, and the tiger roared and pounced, stretched out his head to see that his old man fell under the city and did not know whether he was alive or dead, and in his rage, he pulled the horn bow on his back and was about to hurt people, Huang Dalang's eyes were quick to stop, but Cao Abao was already crazy, and Huang Dalang shouted: "The sergeants are not ready to release the arrows!" Shoot these thieves! ”

The archers of the Xiang army guarding the head of the city were already nervous, but now they saw that the homeless people under the city actually injured people, and the injured were still Lord Zhizhou, and the Ya of Lord Zhizhou's family ordered to release arrows, and many people really raised their bows and wanted to release arrows.

Huang Dalang saw that he was busy and shouted: "Don't let go of arrows!" Don't hurt anyone! ”

Yao Zheng on the side saw Huang Dalang at this time, and when he saw that the situation had suddenly changed sharply, he was also confused, but when he heard Huang Dalang shouting, he also came to his senses, so he also shouted: "Don't let go of arrows!" I am the Lord Bo Yao Zheng, stop all hands, don't let go of arrows! ”

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