Chapter 107: The Money Is In

(Thanks to the three wines and three wines, the two county lords and swords for their tipping support.) Muzi had a cold and fever last night, everyone was burned and confused, headache and sore feet, I went to see it during the day and took medicine, but it is still not well. I changed this chapter first, Mu Zi covered Han and went to ask for a recommendation ticket! )

Li Jing happily took people to Chishanpu, but he came back with people with a depressed face that day.

Zhang Yingying is really good, as soon as she made a move, she gave Li Jing a long-distance giant ship, twenty zhang long, with a load of 1,500 stones, and even the ship type is the most outstanding Mingzhou sea ship with a pointed keel structure at the moment. All this surprised Li Jing inexplicably, but what happened later made him speechless for a while, and Zhang Yingying gave him a floating ship worth more than 10,000 yuan. However, there was not a single crew member left for him.

What was left for Li Jing was an empty ship, a completely empty ship. After Li Jing took the bamboo plaque and got on the boat, he searched up and down the huge boat several times, but he didn't find a single figure, not even a mouse. The ship was also empty, without any cargo. He returned to the dock to look for a long time, found the sloppy old man, and asked for a long time, only to learn that Zhang Yingying took all the crew away, and then gave the sloppy old man who originally belonged to the Silla caravan and now has retired and opened a tavern on the dock, let him take care of it, and hand over the ship to Li Jing when Li Jing came.

Pit, Li Jing didn't expect such a result. If this sea ship called Ninghai wants to start, there must be at least 200 crew members up and down. And not only 200 people, but also a crew with experience in long-distance sailing. Li Jing has no shortage of people, even if he has 4500, he can take it out, but he has no more of 200 crew members with experience in sea navigation. No, there is one, the half-tone onmyoji recruited from the homeless people a few days ago is considered to be a person with experience in going to sea. There is no one else.

Rush in excitement and return in disappointment!

If Li Jing wants to take over this ship, he must first find a way to recruit two hundred crew members, otherwise, he will not be able to drive this ship at all.

Depressed and helpless, Li Jing had no choice but to give the sloppy old man a sum of money and ask him to come forward to help recruit experienced crew members at the port. Helmsmen, sailors, anchorers, captains, sailors, pulpers, cooks, carpenters, blacksmiths, doctors, onmyojis, tents, clerks

The sloppy old man's surname is Cui, and he is also the old department under Zhang Yingying's father, who has been floating on the sea for most of his life, and he is indeed experienced. Li Jing didn't know much about what crews were needed for a sea ship, so he simply entrusted him with all the things to recruit crews, pulled out a few family members for him, and asked them to go to Rushan Port and Chengshan Port and other ports to recruit with recruitment documents, and he returned to Wangli Village with Lin Wu and his gang.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the Li family held another big wedding banquet, and Li Jing's fourth sister Wanjing and Lin Wei got married. On the same day, the gentry and wealthy people from near and far in Wendeng County came to congratulate again. This time, even many officials and wealthy people in Dengzhou sent people to congratulate them with gifts. The new assassin of Dengzhou, Song Wen, the king of Dengzhou, Li Wei, the new Changshi Wang Jingwen, and the generals of several military camps in Dengzhou, and the generals of the four counties of the unity camp all sent people to bring gifts.

Chishan Town served Cui Decheng as the old celebrity, and the officiant invited Xiao Han, who was a guest at the Li family. In addition, Song Xi, Huangfu Zheng and others all came to witness the marriage in person.

Li Jing was very solemn about the marriage of his sister and his right-hand man, and he did it in a big way, and the pomp and circumstance were grand. Preparations had already begun many days ago, and on the day of the wedding, there were nearly 1,000 guests from outside. In addition, all the villagers of Wangli Village were also invited to the banquet, even the hundreds of homeless people who had been recruited, and the more than 1,000 newly recruited soldiers who were undergoing simple training in Wangli Village also attended the wedding banquet.

Killing pigs and sheep, chickens, ducks and fish, barrels of wine, fragrant rice, all people are open to eat, this Li family's lively wedding banquet, for a time became a grand banquet spread in Wendeng County, until the end of the wedding, many people who participated in the wedding banquet back have been remembering.

On the day of the wedding, Han Sik also came from Qingzhou. Han Zhi not only rushed to attend Li Jing's sister's wedding, but also brought the latest progress of the Han family and the Feng family.

Previously, Han Zhi took Li Jing's letter to visit King Zhao and Song Wen through Dengzhou, and then returned to Qingzhou to meet Cui Yunqing, and finally met Song Wei. The battle between the two families of Feng and Han originally meant that several big families in Qingzhou kept sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight. Although the Han family visited everywhere before, no one was willing to meddle in this matter at will. But this time it was different, the doors that were originally closed to the Han family were opened by Li Jing.

What the Han family can't do, the Li family can't do. Li Jing just played a role in it, and Li Jing also thought about the Han family's affairs for a long time. Under normal circumstances, he should not have interfered in this matter. But after thinking about it, Li Jing decided to intervene in the end. The reason is not that the Han family offered a big price, but the bigger reason is that he wants to increase his influence through this matter, and take the initiative to get in touch with the Han family and even Jiedu to make Song Wei.

Li Jing did not fully expect to solve this matter with Cui Yunqing's strength, although he wrote a letter to Cui Yunqing, the most important thing was the letter to Song Wen. In the letter, Li Jing simply explained to Song Wen that helping the Han family was conducive to suppressing the arrogance of the Feng family, explaining the benefits of doing so for his upcoming trip to Shamen Town. The most important thing is that Li Jing directly proposed to Song Wen in the letter that if the festival marshal made Song Wei willing to come forward to help the Han family, then he could reach an alliance with the Han family, and even join forces with the Cui family and King Zhao.

If the festival marshal Song Wei can get the help of the Cui family, the first largest family in Ziqing, and the Han family and King Zhao, the third largest family, then even if the Feng family and the tooth army of the Lu army and Qingzhou fight against Song Wei together, they can also compete in the court, and even overwhelm the tooth army. If they can reach a joint force to help Li Jing fight against Feng Zhang, then this is also a wedge to open the barrier of the Pinglu army. In the end, Li Jing did not forget to directly show Song Wen that as long as the commander made a move, the Han family was willing to spend 50,000 yuan to fund military expenses, and give Song Wen another 5,000 yuan as a reward.

Since Song Wei arrived in Ziqing Town, he was troubled by the matter of raising military funds, and he couldn't come up with the money, so the soldiers below refused to listen to him. Now Li Jing helped him get 50,000 at once, which is not a small number. What's more, Song Wen, as an intermediary, still has five thousand private benefits. After Song Wen received Li Jing's letter, he didn't think about it for a long time, and he was moved. Of course, he understood how much help Song Wei would have if things developed in the direction that Li Jing said, and he didn't forget the five thousand guan that still belonged to him.

According to Han Zhi, Song Wen personally accompanied Han Zhi back to Qingzhou the next day, and personally reported the matter to the festival marshal Song Wei in person. The Han family was also arrogant, and after learning of Li Jing's plan, they not only agreed to the benefits of 50,000 guan mentioned by Li Jing, but even doubled the amount, and immediately sent 100,000 yuan of money, grain, and cloth to Song Wei. Until now, even if the money spent after the most ruthlessness exceeds the cargo money of the fleet that was detained by the Feng family, the Han family will not hesitate. Sai Weng lost his horse, but he didn't know if it was a blessing, even if the matter was not done after the worst thing, it was definitely worth it for Song Wei's 100,000 Guan Hua to go out, and he and the festival commander from then on.

Things turned out to be as Li Jing expected, because Song Wei, the first person in Ziqing Town, had already actively intervened in the matter, and then Cui Yunqing, who received the letter from Li Jing and Li Wei, had to take the initiative to keep the same with Song Wei. With the handsome man coming forward, King Zhao waving the flag behind, and the Cui family supporting behind, the situation changed overnight. The Feng family is also stunned by this situation, and a single Cui family comes forward, maybe he can still hold on. But if several top forces in Ziqing Town supported the Han family at the same time, and the wind direction changed so quickly, they would also have to consider the consequences of continuing to be tough.

Han Zhi was worried when he first came, and he was in a hurry when he went back, but when he came back this time, he was already in high spirits. After the wedding banquet was over, Han Zhi smiled and took out a stack of texts from his arms and handed it to Li Jing: "Third brother, thank you so much for your help this time. Here is the military expenses that were promised to fund the third brother, which were 10,000 horses of silk and 10,000 horses of cloth that could be withdrawn at any time from the cabinet, as well as 2,000 stones of rice, 4,000 stones of millet and 4,000 stones of wheat stored in the Dengzhou warehouse, a total of 45,000 yuan, and the third brother ordered three warships, a fighting ship, a shipwreck, and a boat in the Hanjia shipyard. The cost of the fighting ship is 8,000 guan, the cost of the ship is also 7,000, and the cost of the boat is 5,000, for a total of 20,000 guan. My father said that I have to thank the third brother for this incident, so the three battleships are only 15,000, and in this way, plus silk and rice, it is just 60,000. ”

The Han family was very good at calculating, and directly deducted the payment for the three warships ordered by Li Jing, saving Li Jing the idea of wanting to pay on credit.

"Third brother, you also know that there is a shortage of money now, and most of the large transactions are bartered. The Han family couldn't get tens of thousands of dollars for a while, and my father heard that the general was recruiting homeless craftsmen and soldiers to move to the island. It is estimated that the third brother must have a great demand for grain, and it just so happens that my Han family also sells grain, so he discounted the rice, millet and wheat stored in the Dengzhou warehouse with a total of 10,000 stone to the third brother at the purchase price. If the third brother is not satisfied with this, as long as he gives the Han family a few days, he can immediately convert it into copper coins. ”

Li Jing's heart moved, and his eyes couldn't help revealing a gleam. The head of the Han family is so powerful, in the current great famine in the north, he can actually take out 10,000 stone of grain to Li Jing at once. On the surface, it is a shortage of money, but in fact, no matter how short of money he is, he can't compare to the current famine in the north. In times of famine, grain is a priceless treasure, not to mention giving Li Jing at the purchase price, even if it is several times higher, that is also normal. Even if you don't make a move for a while, you just put it in the warehouse and hoard it, it's definitely a good business.

The Han family is grateful to Li Jing, Li Jing helped him a foot, and he is still a foot now.

"The Han family's generous gifts, I, Li Jing, keep them in my heart." Although this is a transaction, after the Han family paid 100,000 guan to hand over Song Wei, they actually don't need Li Jing much anymore, even if they only give Li Jing 10,000 or 20,000 guan, it's okay. But he still gave Qi a gift of 60,000 yuan as agreed, and he was very considerate to Li Jing in exchange for 10,000 stone of grain, which reflected the extraordinaryness of the Han family.

"When will the battleship be delivered?" The money finally received in his hands, and Li Jing now cares about the three battleships that have already been paid.

Han Zhi smiled: "Under normal circumstances, it takes three years. However, my Han shipyard happens to have an old list in hand, and you can deliver your list first, half a year, and the first ship can be delivered within three months at the earliest! ”