Looking at the sea level from the high-rise in the port of Guangling City, first a mast slowly rises from the sea level, and then the hull of the ship.
"How is it a small boat!" The people over there looked at the small boat cruising above the sea level and asked suspiciously.
We must know that when we first went to sea, it was a whole large fleet, but now it has become a small boat.
'Don't worry, don't worry! Isn't it right behind this! "The people who saw it earlier shouted to the crowd below.
Those who can see it earlier will naturally climb high and look far. Standing high and looking far.
They also saw the scene behind the boat.
Big ships followed closely behind, and soon the masts rose up.
"Look quickly!" Although the size of the fleet doesn't have to be as grand as it was when they set off, all the ships are also upgraded to weather the wind and rain, which is not ugly.
However, it is precisely this that brings a sense of vicissitudes to the entire fleet, and makes the entire fleet contain a connotation.
People, how have you seen such a scene, everyone is dumbfounded.
Among the fleet, there were of course generals waving flags to the water village defenders in Guangling Port.
"Quick, quick, quick! The navy is back, quickly open the camp gate and let the navy enter the port!" The originally closed waterway gate was slowly opened, and the three thousand cannons that were supposed to be pulled out were also opened. was sent back again.
"Let's go, wait with me to welcome our hero back!" Liu Mang stood up and spoke to Xuzhou governor Chen Deng beside him.
"Ah!" Chen Deng was also taken aback for a moment. Originally, the presence of His Royal Highness the King of Han had already surprised Chen Deng. It is enough to see His Royal Highness's enthusiasm for going to sea.
But it was unexpected. His Highness the King of Han actually wanted to greet him in person.
this treatment. Even some old people in Yangzhou don't have it.
The sky was not beautiful, the clouds over there began to roll, and the black clouds also reached the top of the head, and the sparse light rain began to fall.
For ordinary people, it's okay to be rained this day, but it's different for Liu Mang.
"Your Highness, let's wait for them to return in this building!" Guan Hai next to him stopped Liu Mang and said, let's go out to get wet in the rain. One is not good but it will catch a cold.
"Infected with wind and cold?" Liu Mang smiled at the corner of his mouth. Although Liu Mang has a high status, he is not so delicate. You must know that before he had this family business, he was also a desperate Saburo, let alone this When the drizzle came, Liu Mang was going to go to the battlefield at that time, even several times, Liu Mang almost lost his life in it.
So Liu Mang didn't care about these little rains at all, let alone. For these Yangzhou troops who have just returned to the port, they are heroes who have gone through the trials of the sea.
The ship is getting closer and closer to the port. The first ones to enter the port were not Sovereign-class warships. These Sovereign-class warships were all combat ships. They entered the port just to replenish supplies, not to mention that he was the largest ship of the Yangzhou Army.
After entering the port, how can other ships enter again.
So the first batch of warships to enter the port were not those warships, but those merchant ships.
On Galen's boat, a middle-aged man can be said to be in high spirits.
Although the face was blown from yellow to black by the sea breeze, but from now on, that kind of smile can be seen on the person's face.
This person is Sun Wen, the Sun family Sun Wen who came from Jiaozhou, or Sun Wen who has nothing to do with the Sun family in Jiaozhou.
At the beginning, this person could be said to be desperate, and put all his wealth into it, just to get a ride on this trip to sea.
At the beginning, he was ridiculed as a fool, but today he came back.
"Wangcai, enter the port!" Naturally, someone shouted over there, and officials from Xuzhou came up immediately. While arranging and planning, such as how many people are on board the Wangcai, just in case.
There are also some porters. These individuals were recruited by Xuzhou officials to unload the goods.
"Patriarch Sun!" The officials in Xuzhou are not stupid, they can be above the position in charge of the port, so they will naturally learn about the period when the Yangzhou Shouchun happened, and there is an example of Sun Wen.
This Sun Wen seems to be very valued by the lord.
Therefore, the Yangzhou officials at this port did not dare to make a big deal, and shouted at Sun Wen over there.
Seeing the person in charge of the port, Sun Wen is also a smooth person. These port officials did this, not because of your face, Sun Wen, but for the sake of His Royal Highness, and he, Sun Wen, can't do it. It's shameless to give face, it will be bad if you pass it, after all, the king of Hades is easy to provoke, and the little devil is difficult to deal with.
Sun Wen didn't dare to take it too seriously, so he hurriedly stepped forward and yelled at the officials of these ports, and even prepared a few tickets in his hand.
"Adults, you have worked hard, you have worked hard!" While smiling, Sun Wen stuffed the jiaozi into the hands of the officials at the port over there.
These officials are all good people, and they can be considered to have experienced great storms, but they were stunned when they saw the Jiaozi in their hands.
Why! Because this Sun Wensai's is all gold Lu Bu, worth a hundred gold.
It would be fine if the person at the head put one in, but this Sun Wen is obviously as long as he can be called by name, all the seven or eight officials will have a share.
Now seven or eight hundred gold can be thrown out.
This is really not a small amount. For a few hundred gold that day, the Sun family broke up between brothers. A few hundred gold can even be compared to half of the Sun family, but it was given away by Sun Wen just like that. Without blinking eyes.
The officials of these ports, how much they want it, that is Jin Lubu, even if they have worked for ten or eight years, they can only get this amount of salary, and now they can get it easily, if they are not tempted, that is Fake.
But the heartbeat belongs to the heartbeat, but now everyone dares to ask for it.
"Patriarch Sun! This is absolutely impossible!" All the port officials spoke uprightly, with nothing to worry about. One looks more like a clean official than the other.
"What's the matter? Everyone!? Could it be that you dislike Shao Shao?" Sun Wen looked at the officials of Guangling Port suspiciously. There is no official in this world who is not corrupt. As the saying goes, a dog can't change eating shit, even if you don't do it, the people below will take the initiative to respect you.
This is unavoidable. These officials have suddenly become saints, and they don't even want a hundred dollars. Sun Wen can only have one association, that is, these officials and gentlemen. Too little
Thinking about it, this reason makes sense.
Gritting his teeth, Sun Wen whispered something to his subordinates, and soon a small wooden box was taken over, opened, and inside was a stack of gold Lu Bu, this wooden box looked It looks like it's waterproof.
Sun Wen added another piece of gold Lu Bu, which is 1,600 gold, which is really a big deal.
But my nephew still plays lanterns as usual, and those port officials still don't want them. If there is impermanence, there must be a demon.
Just when Sun Wen was uneasy. A voice rang out, "Hehe, our Patriarch Sun is so forthright. This bribe of an official is worth a hundred dollars!"
A young man walked out slowly from there, followed by guard officials.
"Your Highness, Your Highness!" Sun Wen's eyes were sharp, and he could tell who this young man was at a glance. Isn't that the master of our Yangzhou, His Royal Highness Liu Mang of the Han Dynasty
Now Sun Wen finally knows why these port officials don't want the hard currency gold Lu Bu.
The biggest boss is behind him, which one of them dares to embezzle and accept bribes.
"Since, Patriarch Sun, how can you live up to Patriarch Sun's good intentions by giving you such a generous gift of gold tickets!" Liu Mang walked to the front and said to those port officials and Sun Wen.
"I don't dare!" Many port officials knelt down together, and they knelt down in front of Liu Wei together with Sun Wen.
"Why don't you dare! I let you take it and go ahead! This is the wish of our Patriarch Sun, don't let it down!" Sun Wen took the small wooden box from the hand of Sun Wen over there, and beat Kailai handed the gold tickets to those port officials one by one. Liu Mang clearly felt that the hands of these port officials were trembling. Who is Liu Mang? It was him. The immediate boss, now caught by the boss on the spot for embezzlement and bribery.
This is worth it! Now the port officials have all the intentions of killing Sun Wen.
Liu Mang gave three cards to these port officials, but there were still some leftovers, so Liu Mang let Guan Hai lose weight, that's a few hundred gold coins, right
"This is the first time, and I hope this is the last time!" Liu Mang's complexion was like the weather in June, and it changed when he said it changed. Just now, he asked these port officials to collect the money. After coming down, the complexion changed here.
The port may have been Qingshui Yamen before, but it is different now. Once the sea route of this sea is developed, Liu Mang knows that this must be a very big piece of fat, the Maritime Silk Road.
How much wealth did the Silk Road bring to the great man
And Guangling Port can be said to be the most prioritized port in the entire Yangzhou. Even if some ports in Gejiangdong are developed in the future, it is useless that Guangling Port has inherent advantages.
So the position of the officials of this port can be imagined.
If a person who knows how to manage, stays in this position for a year or so, it doesn't take much, and five thousand gold can still be obtained.
These seven or eight people add up to tens of thousands of gold. Humans are greedy, for these money, there will be so many nasty things, so Liu Mang must kill them in the bud, and it is too important for him to go to the Silk Road.
Liu Mang didn't pay much attention to it before, but now he has noticed that too much power will bring about corruption.
"Let the Ministry of Punishments and I send some officials!" Liu Mang said to the subordinates around him. If all rights are not to be corrupted, they have to be guarded and restricted. Every procedure is supervised by someone, and the responsibility is assigned to everyone. These individuals dare not do much to take pictures of themselves.
As for letting the Ministry of Punishment do it, Liu Mang's inspection department hasn't been completely done yet, so he can only let the Ministry of Punishment take over temporarily.
"Your Highness!" Sun Wen over there looked at His Highness the King of Han with trepidation. Those officials were bad, almost lost their lives, and they didn't report their official positions, but Sun Wen was startled. The reason why it has risen now is inseparable from Liu Mang's help.
Without the starting capital of five thousand gold rewarded by Liu Mang, he, Sun Wen, would have been gone long ago.
On the sea, one of the ships rented by Sun Wen sank, and the sinking ship was rented with Sun Wen's money. Without Liu Mang's financial support, it is still a problem whether Sun Wen can return.
So for Sun Wen, for His Royal Highness Liu Mang, he respects and fears.
The respect is because His Royal Highness the King of Han gave Sun Wen a new life, and the reason for fear is that all this can be regarded as given by Han King Liu Mang. If Han King Liu Mang is unhappy, he can take back everything about Sun Wen.
Keep everything about Sun Wen? Liu Mang wouldn't do that! This sea route is related to the overall situation of Yangzhou in the future. He tried every means to encourage him to go to sea, but it was too late. How could he take back everything Sun Wen had
He also wants Sun Wen to be a model, so that the world will envy and hate her and join in the development of sea routes. Liu Wei can now photograph warships and open new routes, so it can’t be the same in the future. How long will it be before the waterway can be cleared.
Only by encouraging the folks, the profitable business will make those discerning adventurers, those businessmen, and even those nobles moved. As long as there are enough benefits, life is nothing.
Ships go out one by one, then a slow route will appear.
Liu Mang had already made a plan. Even if Sun Wen lost money on this trip, Liu Mang would take money from his own treasury to fill the vacancy for Sun Wen.
But it is obvious that the gains from this trip have exceeded Liu Mang's budget early on. "Tell me, how much gain has been gained from such a trip!" Liu Mang asked Sun Wen over there.
"Returning to Your Highness, we have received a total of 39,512 gold and five boats of food and grass! The rest of the supplies are countless!" Sun Wen said to Liu Mang.
"Thirty-nine thousand five hundred and twelve gold?" Liu Mang was also dumbfounded, more than thirty-nine thousand five hundred gold, simple rounding, that is forty thousand gold, and the Chen Chen that Liu Mang gave him How much is it, that is five thousand gold, this is eight times the harvest.
This is not counting the value of the five boats of grain and grass. If the grain and grass were also sold, it would be worth a thousand gold more. (to be continued..)