Li Xun did what Zhang Xiaobao taught. He said he was a superior person. To learn this, Li Xun did it without even thinking about it. Let alone, the effect is really good. When the people know his identity, look. When he can wear clothes like this and say such things, he looks more respectful one by one.
Li Xun had to go around every day, and sometimes even ate a meal with these people. After seven days in a row, the ship finally arrived in Chuzhou. If it were originally downstream, things could be shortened. No one expected it. There was a headwind, and the jib did not rise, which affected the speed.
In fact, this was also deliberate by Zhang Xiaobao. He was ready to find a reason to slow down the ship, otherwise it would arrive two days earlier. At that time, Biluochun hadn't picked up yet. He was afraid that the fleet of eighteen ships would make the people in the tea garden think they were. Came here to buy tea deliberately, inflating the price.
Otherwise, all the spinnakers on the boats will rise and the oars will be rowed, and it will take less than four days to get to the place. At this time, the spring water is in a hurry due to the melting of ice and snow.
When he arrived in Chuzhou, Zhang Xiaobao arranged for someone to collect the tea. It would be better for the people in the inner courtyard to pick it by himself. While letting people supply it, he took his family to eat here, but the saury in the river was pretty good, almost Each one can eat a few pieces of Shenjiang Stone, that is, the thick bones of the fish.
This kind of saury did not grow because of artificial breeding. Zhang Xiaobao not only eats pure wild Yangtze saury, but also buys some and freezes it for his family to eat later. There are also some shrimps. No matter how crabs are, hairy crabs are even more delicious. It's not the time.
A lot of goods shipped from Huayuan County are sold. The immovable area has different cultures and eating habits, which makes it difficult for him to adapt, but it is very simple to eat fresh.
The boat was emptied all of a sudden. Apart from buying some rice noodles here, there was still a lot of space left. I couldn't pack all the tea leaves. I wanted to do this, but unfortunately I didn't have that much tea to pack.
How could Zhang Xiaobao run empty the boat? After thinking about it, I started to buy bamboo shoots, as well as good purple bamboos. The bamboo shoots are ready to see where they are not available. When they are made and sold, the purple bamboos will be taken to the destination, and some utensils will be made there. This purple bamboo will be used as a musical instrument. Not bad, especially Xiao.
Between the big sales and the big purchases, the team stayed here for five days. The people who went to buy tea also came back with the tender leaves. There is another place where the people in the main courtyard bought the people on the tea mountain and went there in person. These tea leaves Zhang Xiaobao cherished very much.
Seeing a lot of tea, I reluctantly made two tea-made dishes. The two families and Li Xun were very happy to eat.
"Take the spinnaker, row the oars, the wheels on both sides of the ship turn up, go to Hangzhou, hurry up, there is Longjing there." Zhang Xiaobao finished collecting the tea and began to issue new orders.
The speed of the ship was raised at once, and the steel sheet was deliberately riveted on the front of the ship, which increased the ability of the ship to divide the water a lot. After the eighteen ships waited for the inertia to bring them up, their speed became faster and faster. The small clippers on the canal are incomparable.
In the shock of others along the way, when the wind direction changed for a period of time, all the sails were raised. In twelve hours, the people on the boat took turns to paddle. It only took a little more than three days. Flew to the place.
This speed can scare people to death, but Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are still not satisfied. They feel that they are slow. In the future, they must think of more ways to increase the speed of the ship as much as possible. If this is a high-speed driving, it will take three days, as long as you are not afraid. If fined, two hours will pass.
As soon as the ship arrived, I started selling goods again and went to buy Longjing tea. Some teas can be bought new ones, and some are made into tea balls, and the tea made into tea balls is given as before. It’s impossible to make green tea, and that’s too much. At least there is no Longjing in Luzhou.
This time, because the tea leaves were almost picked, the stay time was relatively short. It took three days to buy and sell goods, and the fleet set sail again.
This time I can’t walk the inland river. The river there is gone to a certain extent and cannot be completely connected. If someone connects several rivers like Sanshui County and Huayuan County, then it’s okay. Bypass a section of the sea road and pass through the inland river.
The imperial court is usually in exile for no time. After all, it is difficult to walk by land and it is easy to die on the way. But the time given to Zhang Zhong is three months. I don't know if the imperial court wants to see how fast a ship equipped with a propeller can go. .
When someone else would rather not go instead of agreeing, Zhang Zhong agreed and came out of the capital. Now, it has taken more than a month, and the rest of the time has to travel along the sea to Luzhou, which is Zhang's fleet, with spinnakers, has been refitted on the bow.
There is a lot of space on the ship, so you don’t have to stop for replenishment when you have nothing to do. Otherwise, if you change to another ship, you won’t necessarily have such a speed in two months and three months.
Zhang Xiaobao didn't plan to stay too long on the way, and walked around the sea outside. As long as he didn't hit a typhoon and a group of reefs, nothing happened.
After a month and a half, the fleet finally escaped the dangers and came to Luzhou. At this time, the summer in Luzhou was hotter than in the capital. The people on the boat were tanned, especially Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. When the two of them are all right, they will come out to have a sun.
Without sunscreen, it’s hard to stay dark. It’s less than ten days after three months. The closest to the sea is Wule County, the next one in Xia County. There is no good dock at all. , Eighteen large ships are difficult to anchor.
Fortunately, there was a recessed bay in this place, which was later Qinzhou Bay. It was a very good natural port. Eighteen ships went around the bay and entered here. While putting down the boats for Zhang Zhong to take over, people contacted. The local people hired them to help build a simple dock.
The handover of Zhang Zhong went very smoothly. The original provincial governor wanted Zhang Zhong to come here from the capital. He was really too poor. Most of the people were fishing, farming, and coming to the field with a salty taste. When it rains, don't think of any output.
It’s difficult to find people to work. There are four counties in this prefecture, or four counties, only Yushan County is larger. As a result, there are only 500 households with less than 3,000 people. The four counties add up to it. It's nothing more than seven thousand people, a state, even Xiazhou can't just be this person.
No wonder there are so many fishermen here. There are a lot of local products that need to be handed in every year, such as silver, tortoiseshell, scorpion skin, cuiyu, and Jiaxiang. Where can I get these things without going to the sea? Except for the silver and that peacock's feathers, which are on land, all the others have to be found in the sea.
The four counties are all Xiaxian, and the prefecture is Xiazhou. The locals saw eighteen large ships one by one. When they were surprised, they were also full of vigilance. From a clairvoyance on the ship, these people were more exposed than Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. Black, especially some people who should be in their thirties, look like people in their 50s or 60s.
"What's going on? Look, that man is obviously the father of two children, how can he be like the grandfather of two children?" Li Xun raised his clairvoyance curiously and asked Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan standing next to him.
"It's a simple thing. They have a single diet, lack of some necessary nutrients, work too long outside, wind and sun all day, sea water erosion, and the worries caused by poor life. They have become like this. ."
Zhang Xiaobao saw a few children who were very thin, but their stomachs bulged. Zhang Xiaobao shuddered when he saw this. Wang Juan understood why Zhang Xiaobao had such a reaction, and comforted him next to him: "It shouldn't be floating water or parasites. , The body is thin, the county is big, don’t treat our children as African."
Zhang Xiaobao took a closer look again, and indeed, it was the reason why his body was too thin.
Li Xun doesn't know which state capital in Africa is, but he is even more curious, "Why do people who live by the sea get thin? They eat fish and shrimps every day, so they should be fat."
"Then you try to eat fish and shrimp every day. The people here live by the sea, so if you want to sell the fish for money, it is very difficult, otherwise it will not be in Xia County, and the place next to it is better than here. It’s just that I don’t know what to plant to increase production. It’s okay to have a typhoon or something, and everything is done. Doesn’t it mean that Guangdong and Guangxi are well-known for the world? Isn’t it true here?”
Zhang Xiaobao began to worry when he saw the scene in front of him. He thought it would be more difficult to come here, but he didn't expect it would be so difficult. A teenage boy has no clothes to wear, and an adult is just wearing a pair of linen pants. 'S woman is so bare to the top.
The conditions are too bad, what's the difference? The fishing nets on the shore were also woven with twine. Many small boats hollowed out the wood, and there was no decent big boat.
The people on the shore and the people on the ship looked at each other. The people on the ship were curious, and the people on the shore were curious about xenophobia.
Zhang Zhong came back after the handover was completed two days later, together with the magistrate of Wulei County, Huaqing County, Ninghai County, Yushan County, and some other deputies. Judging from the official uniforms of these people, I didn't see the people from Liusi, nor did I see the officials in the state who were not low-ranking.
Li Xun watched Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan stunned there, and explained: "Xiazhou, there are also a few people who can stay at the yamen. Now it is not the time to expropriate things. They may all go home and do things. It’s impossible to send it directly. They can only take it from the local tax and rent carvings, and they don’t dare to give it to the court, so there are only a few fiefdoms that are of no use."
"But isn't the silver produced here? Is the silver worthless?" Zhang Xiaobao really couldn't figure it out, and he had never encountered such a thing.
"The silver is counted, it melts hard, it's almost the same in a year, most of it has to be delivered, and copper and gold are also not comparable to other things." Li Xun explained again.
Volume Four