The Fengshen has gone away, and the fleets of the three routes have also set off. From then on, the foundation of the unified pattern outside the Ling family began to be laid.
In the two bloody months in the South China Sea, it has been a few months since it was reported back to Dazhou, and it was written by various foreign small countries to Dazhou, condemning Dazhou Xie’s family for raising private soldiers as pirates, over and over again He robbed the merchant ships of various countries and blocked the sea routes. Now all countries have jointly boycotted the Xie family ship and asked the Great Zhou court to control his subordinates so as not to cause such a heavy impact on the countries in Southeast Asia. , the meaning is sharp, and the writing is gorgeous, so those officials of Honglu Temple in the Great Zhou Dynasty were dumbfounded. The credential written by this small country is actually better than that written by Honglu Temple? Of course, this is something for later.
After just a few days on the boat, Yan San felt that something was wrong. Unlike the shadow Yan Qi, that Sum was indeed robbing him of his job!
He will calculate the time for Ling Qingyu to wake up early in the morning, prepare her favorite breakfast, prepare the toiletries, and ensure that the temperature of the hot towel is just right when it is handed to Ling Qingyu who just woke up. Boy, all the servings are done on your knees!
Even with Yan San's fault-finding mentality and Nanny's fault-finding method, she couldn't find the boy's fault.
As soon as I lifted my finger, the tea was brought up, the eyelids were closed, the book was placed in front of me, and it was in the same place I saw last time, the clothes were always tidy, the suit I wanted to wear today would definitely be placed on the hanger, Needless to say, the meal must be what I want to eat today. Ling Qingyu, who was served so stupidly, communicated and enlightened the two of them separately before Yan San broke out.
This is how I communicated with Sum.
"Sum!"
"The slave is here."
Cough. Hastily poured water and handed tea, and then patted her on the back.
"Sum, don't call him a slave in the future. Call me, or if you can't, call him a subordinate. It's best to call me."
"Yes, I understand."
"Look, I'm not here at Fatmey's place, and you're not my slave, so don't do this, huh?"
"Master doesn't like Sum?"
"No, Sum, you are an independent individual. What do you do?" Grabbing his knife-drawing hand, he said anxiously.
"You are Sum's master. If the master doesn't like it, Sum has no need to live."
"How can I not like you?"
"Then the master doesn't like Sum serving you?"
Depend on! This doesn't make sense! Under the pure and innocent eyes of the blond boy, Ling Qingyu ran away.
The communication with Yan San is as follows.
"Yan San, look, Sum is still a child."
"It's not too young. He said it himself. At the age of thirteen, he can warm the master's bed."
"Well, the education he received in the early stage was wrong. As long as we teach him seriously, he will definitely realize his mistake."
"My fault, I shouldn't have picked him at all!"
As a result of the communication, Yan San broke out in advance. He found Sum and Xie Sanlang on the deck, and said that as long as he passed ten tricks under his hands, he could work in the captain's cabin, otherwise he would practice kung fu every day.
How ruthless was Yan San's attack, he ate the purple fruit and practiced hard for two months, the first day he didn't let the two of them pass by with one move, instead it made Sum unable to get out of bed all day.
Ling Qingyu felt very sorry, so she made soup with her own hands and sent it to the two of them, so as to comfort her and encourage her.
After Xie Sanlang drank the soup, he asked Sum, "What did you do to let the third master beat us up and let the master use this soup to poison us?"
Sum devoted himself to practicing kung fu, and when the boat arrived in Quanzhou, he was already able to perform Yan's three eight strokes.
In order to sell the goods, on the Fengshen and the other two ships, there are still some treasures and rhinoceros in the outer cabins, including various special textiles from Zhuluoaizabulai.
So Ling Qingyu saw Shi Changjing, the new director of Shibo, who Ding Dong said would make her jump with anger.
Ling Qingyu's body was still a little weak. After all, the place was injured, and the wound was very serious. From time to time, he would cough in a low voice, and his voice became softer, showing the demeanor of a lady.
Chang Jing carefully looked her up, down, left, and right, back and forth, with obscene eyes, sneered, and said: "A good woman will not come out to show her face."
Ling Qingyu just smiled and didn't answer.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Chang Jing turned to Ding Dong and said, "The imperial court opened a discussion with Daliao. I want to buy all your spice elephants."
"I wonder if my lord has official documents?" Ling Qingyu asked softly.
Chang Jing was taken aback, she didn't expect that woman to speak, she turned her head and said, "What are you talking about?"
"These three boats belong to me. My lord, if you say you want to buy them all, you have to give a reason, or can you pay off the IOU from last time?" Ling Qingyu lowered his head, his eyelids drooping, and his eyebrows were downcast. The purpose looks like, said. "There can be falsehoods in what our city's shipping secretary said. What are you worried about about the government's IOU? What? Do you doubt the court?" Chang Jing got up angrily and said.
"My lord, the Shibo Secretary and the government also need to have an explanation. Now that the court has something to do, we should do our best to help, but my lord, you took away all our goods and didn't give us any money. It's not appropriate to go to the end of this matter, right? ? Or, let's talk to Master Jin?" Ling Qingyu raised his eyes slightly and said with a smile.
Chang Jing was stunned for a moment. The court opened the discussion to ask the city's shipping department to increase the amount of lottery, but it was only up to 10% of the lottery and 40% of the lottery. He is now asking for all the lottery to do the rest with himself and others. For business, it's fine to owe money anyway, but if this matter is brought up to the top, I'm afraid it will be a bit bad.
"Anyway, our ship hasn't entered the port yet, and it's not under the jurisdiction of your Quanzhou Shipping Department. Ding Dong, let's return to the port of Dazhou, so we don't want to enter it." Ling Qingyu picked up his sleeves and said.
"How dare you! Don't you want to go back to Dazhou forever?" Chang Jing said angrily.
"Of course I will come back. As long as you submit what you have done this time to the court, the court will always give us an explanation, right? I remember that Mr. Fan also said that this foreign trade depends on our maritime merchants desperately running, you Doesn’t doing so cut off our livelihood? Or maybe I’ll tell everyone that ships won’t enter your Quanzhou in the future?” Ling Qingyu laughed.
Chang Jing was stunned for a moment, and the clerk behind him approached him in a low voice: "My lord, no ship has entered Quanzhou Port in the past few months. If they leave again, we will not be able to meet our quota for this year."
"Nonsense! It's so easy to come and go!" Shouting the petty official away, Chang Jing said loudly, "Come on, arrest this bitch for me."
"My lord!" Wei Huai'an, a small official of Quanzhou Shipbuilding Department, called out, and then said to Ling Qingyu: "Master Ling, this time the imperial court has indeed issued an order to increase the amount of spices purchased, but Mr. Ling's family can be regarded as an old ship dealer in Quanzhou. To save face, Mr. Chang only pays 60% of the amount, but we also have a request. On the list, we only release 40% of the purchase amount, and there is no IOU for the 20%."
Ling Qingyu smiled and said, "That's no problem."
Chang Jing wanted to talk, but was dragged out by Wei Huai'an, and said in a low voice: "My lord, we are asking for money. Although the Ling family is a merchant, it has some relationship with the higher-ups. You arrested her, how do you deal with it? If this matter gets publicized, none of us will benefit, and the 20% will be hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which is for nothing."
Seeing that Chang Jing was still unwilling, Wei Huai'an only scolded the idiot in his heart. There are hundreds of people on this boat, and you only have a dozen people. You can scratch your head, but you can't directly point it out, so you can only say: " Lord Chang, I'm not afraid to tell you straight. The former Lord Fan and Lord Zhao from Liangzhe Road have a good relationship with her. Now that Lord Fan is in the Ministry of Officials, Lord Zhao is about to be promoted. Do you think you can hide this matter? live?"
Only then did Chang Jing come to her senses. She thought that she was a woman and a merchant, and she could have some kind of background. Wei Huai'an was right, 20% was worth hundreds of thousands of taels, and she had no worries, so she nodded and said, "Well, Look at her as a woman, pity her, that's all."
Chang Jing was no longer willing to stay in the same room with the woman she despised, so she went back to her boat and waited for the little official to finish counting.
Wei Huai'an returned to the captain's room and saw Ling Qingyu looking at Chang Jing who was boarding the official boat, and also looked beside her, and then said: "The wind is very strong now, Master Ling should pay attention to his body, if he falls into the water , I'm afraid I'll get seriously ill."
Ling Qingyu turned her head and glanced at him. She had some impressions of this little official. In the first year, he was by Fan Ye's side. He was a smart person. Be careful. I will arrange for someone to unload the 20% of the spices so that no one will notice."
"Thank you Master Ling." Wei Huai'an cupped his hands and saluted. 20% of the spices, the spices of the Ling family have always been of good quality and variety, if they sell well, they can get 700,000 taels of silver, this is the only chance like this. That idiot Chang Jing, in the past Master Fan protected the Ling family so much, there must be a reason for Master Fan. The sea route has been very rough these past few years. Only the boats of the Ling family come back every year. In terms of the situation, this Ling family is very evil, everyone is just trying to make money, and the Ling family has never treated them badly, but Chang Jing's doing this is to cut off everyone's money.
After hastily counting, the list given by Wei Huai'an was very artistic, so that even the amount of the lottery was confused.
And because it was already late after the counting, and there was a big wave that night, the boat that the Shibo Secretary went back lost because of the big wave, and many people went into the water. The water in the hospital was already very cold, and when she returned home, Chang Jing developed a high fever, and died ten days later because of untimely medical treatment and improper medication.
Ling Qingyu didn't stay in Quanzhou for long, and both Ding Budong and Wu Datang Tiansheng came to see her on the Fengshen.
Quanzhou has accumulated a large industry in recent years, but Ding Budong and Wu Da are conservative people, and they have only developed some farms and tea mountains, as well as warehouses, shipyards, and their own spice shop and medicinal material shop. After the year, there is also a balance of millions.
"Uncle Ding, I won't keep much goods in Quanzhou this time. If I keep too much, I'm afraid I'll cause you trouble. For the money, you should discuss with Mr. Tang. It's best to buy more tea mountains and litchi gardens." Ling Qingyu said The ledger was put down, and the speaking speed was much slower than usual.
"Understood, you in charge are not feeling well?" Ding Budong asked with concern, this little girl has always been loud and angry, why does she look weaker this time.
"It's okay, I'm just suffering from the cold. Quanzhou is not very peaceful recently, so we have to restrain ourselves. It is better to buy more properties. If there are fewer here, we will go to Wuyi Mountain, where good tea will be produced." It was to Tang Tiansheng.
"Yes, I'll handle it now." Tang Tiansheng replied.
"Okay, adoptive father, let's go first after you finish talking, we still have to hurry." Seeing that a few people had almost finished speaking, Ding Dong shouted to chase them away.
Standing in front of the window, Ling Qingyu watched Ding Budong and his boat go away, wondering in his heart whether he should not send spices to Quanzhou during this period, and bought Wei Huaian for 700,000 taels to attack Chang Jing. If it is not done cleanly, the Ling family will definitely be affected. The amount of cash coming from the Americas is already considerable. If Zhu Weili and Fang Nianyuan find gold mines in New Guinea and Australia, then gold will not be a problem. Southeast Asia The spices in the country have been monopolized, so you can consider dumping them on Europe and America first, but that won’t work, the largest consumption of spices is still in Dazhou. Let Quanzhou be quiet for a while. Is a port without ships still called a trading port? There can always be one or two officials who are not so unreasonable, right