Although more than a month has passed, Xia Hongsheng is still in Quanzhou, and the matter of getting grain from Linyi has not yet begun. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But there is no rush in this matter.

Do the same, Yiren firm has a scale first, and then it can go to Linyi Kingdom to buy it aggressively.

Yiren Firm has its own goods, as well as a lot of cooperation. According to the contract, those who did not have a ship could go to sea with the ship, they could bring and sell their goods, and the company did not charge them any fees, but in return for using the ship, they were required to participate in the work of the ship. For the shipwrights, the Yiren firm also had some benefits, that is, they were allowed to carry a certain amount of private goods, and when they arrived at the destination, they could buy them themselves, and the income would also belong to them.

This benefit has greatly improved the sense of ownership of the boatmen, and they have maintained and cared about the sea ship as their own sea ship.

In this way, the boatmen worked with great enthusiasm and passion, and received labor from the small maritime merchants with whom they cooperated. In this way, although the Yiren Firm seems to have lost the benefit of chartering, the various costs saved by the ship's labor provided by those cooperative maritime merchants are enough to offset this part of the lack of rent.

Now everything is ready, just waiting for the auspicious day to go to sea.

The four sea-going ships are all made of experienced sailors, with sailors' compasses and carrier pigeons from the Ryukyus. However, the accuracy of carrier pigeons at sea will be reduced, but considering that there do not seem to be any mysterious areas that affect the magnetic field on the route from Quanzhou to the west, it should also be usable. By releasing these pigeons at sea, you can take advantage of the homing properties of the pigeons and bring the letters back to the Ryukyus.

It's a pity that at sea this communication is one-way. There were no carrier pigeons in the Ryukyus that could find ships at sea and send them there. Unless it's a Harry Potter owl.

Alas, it would be nice when there would be a radio.

Xia Hongsheng shook his head, sighed, and while getting dressed, he looked at the paper in front of him, which wrote a date, which was an auspicious day, the date when the ship of the Yiren Firm went to sea, seven days later.

"Childe! Son! Qi Yong's voice came from outside, but Xia Hongsheng frowned - Qi Yong's voice sounded a little ...... Afraid?

Xia Hongsheng immediately went over and opened the door.

Qi Yong stood outside the door, out of breath, and while gasping, he said to Xia Hongsheng: "Gong, son! Oh no! You, you better go and check it out! ”

"What's wrong?" Xia Hongsheng asked.

"Head...... Son! Strange fish head! Qi Yong said with some panic. This surprised Xia Hongsheng, even if Qi Yong was facing thousands of troops and horses on the battlefield, he didn't seem so panicked.

Xia Hongsheng immediately went out, walked out with Qi Yong, and called Li Chengqian to a room in Ling, and then walked to the front yard together.

When we got to the front yard, there was already a yard of people gathered there, all of them boatmen.

"Childe!" Shen Rong was already there, and when he saw it, the three of them quickly ran over and saluted Li Chengqian, but his eyes looked at Xia Hongsheng.

Xia Hongsheng frowned slightly.

Shen Rong seemed to immediately guess Xia Hongsheng's thoughts, and said: "Today is the day of the first month's regular money, and the shipwrights have come to receive this month's regular money. ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded and asked, "I see." What, what happened? ”

"Childe, the boatmen have been coming to collect the money for a long time today, and they are waiting outside the front business. It was found that there was a large box in front of the door of the business, and there were blood stains on the outside. The little one was afraid of passers-by, so he quickly let people carry the box in. Shen Rong hurriedly said.

"What's in the box?" Li Chengqian asked.

Shen Rong's face was frightened, and he said, "Hui Gongzi, I don't know the little one!" It's a monster fish head! ”

"Strange fish head?" Xia Hongsheng looked around and saw that the boatmen were far away in the yard, all of them were panicked and frightened.

"Shopkeeper!" Someone suddenly shouted from behind, Shen Rong hurriedly calmed down, turned around and looked, and the guy in front of him hurriedly ran to him and said, "Shopkeeper!" Oh no! Outside the door, the three shopkeepers of Tongshun, Shuntai and Xianghe are here, saying that they came to visit at your invitation! ”

"At my invitation?" Shen Rong was stunned: "When did I invite them?" This...... Childe ......"

"Don't panic, I know you didn't invite them." Li Chengqian saw that Shen Rong hurriedly turned around to explain, so he waved his hand and said.

saw Xia Hongsheng suddenly smiled and said: "We have made such a big move in Quanzhou in the past two months, this is the last time to get off the horse." Today coincides with its meeting, counting ourselves, the five people who eat sea rice in Quanzhou are gathered. Childe, ask Shen Rong to invite them in, we will meet them. ”

Xia Hongsheng said this to Li Chengqian, Li Chengqian understood, so he said to Shen Rong: "Shopkeeper Shen, invite them in, just say that they can come, this son is even lucky." ”

Shen Rong nodded, and immediately turned around and went out. Soon, I saw Shen Rong invite three people in.

The three of them walked into the courtyard and were stunned when they saw a frightened boatman in the courtyard and the huge wooden box in the middle.

"Hahahaha, I've heard the names of the three shopkeepers for a long time, and I've thought about going to meet them. It's just that when I first arrived, I have been busy with the things on the business, and I don't have time to come, but I don't want the three shopkeepers to come in person today, which really makes the trumpet shine! Li Chengqian walked over with a smile.

"Three shopkeepers, this is the owner of my Yiren firm, Prince Wang." Shen Rong smiled and introduced to the three shopkeepers.

"Hehe, Yiren Business has only been two months, and it is so prosperous. I heard that the owner is a young man, and when I saw it today, he was really extraordinary! One of the three of them smiled first.

"Childe, this is the proprietor and shopkeeper of the Xianghe firm, the shopkeeper of Zhao." Shen Rong said to Li Chengqian beside him.

"Shopkeeper Zhao, I'm glad to be there!" Li Chengqian smiled with a smile.

"A certain Lin Daoquan." Lin Daoquan raised his hand and said directly: "I waited until I received an invitation from Yiren Firm, so I stopped here. Why does it sound like the tone of the prince, it seems that the invitation was not sent by the prince? ”

Li Chengqian was about to speak, but Xia Hongsheng suddenly interjected: "Three shopkeepers, this invitation is being issued. ”

The three of them looked over, Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment, rolled his eyes, and said, "Brother Xia, why are you ......?"

"Brother Wang, you have been busy with the affairs of the business these days, but you didn't know that we had received a big gift. Seeing that Brother Wang was too busy, the younger brother took matters into his own hands and invited three shopkeepers to come and share together. Xia Hongsheng smiled and said, "Shopkeeper Shen, I'm tired of opening the box." ”

Hearing Xia Hongsheng say this, everyone looked at the big box in the middle of the courtyard.

Shen Rong called a few people over. Those few people approached tremblingly, and when they got closer, they suddenly opened the big wooden box that was more than one person high! (To be continued.) )