148 A big fortune
In Huanzhou, Li You brought some villagers from Lingnan, and also took the opportunity to send the soldiers back to Yangzhou by boat. The vacant camp was just ready for use. When the day after tomorrow, they will go deep into Jinlong Mountain and start felling trees.
It was Nangong Yi, Hong Ming and others who went to Liuqiu in a boat, but they took two boats with them. The purpose was to transport the craftsmen of Liuqiu Nanwan to the Gulf of Siam.
It’s already the beginning of November. Judging by the size of Jinlong Mountain, it is estimated that within a month of the 400 people Li You brought, it is impossible to cut down the trees here. After that, he will have to transport the wood. Still have to stare, for fear of something wrong with this knot.
Li You knows that this year I don’t even want to go home. He has to go to Luzon after he finishes handling the matter here, and arranges the matter there. After finishing this matter, I’m afraid that the New Year’s Day will be over. It's over.
Jinlong Mountain has a huge area and many trees. This time, as soon as they arrived here, they first set up a camp at the foot of the mountain, and then began felling the trees. For speed, they only cut down the trees. As for transporting them out, this is the next thing. And what they fell down was only two kinds of precious trees, red sandalwood and agarwood.
Gao Huailiang provided Li You only with food, and today he also came here with food. Now that there is no threat to this vast area, Gao Huailiang also reported the results of the cleanup to the state government according to Li You's intention, and only waited for someone from above to come down and inquire.
In a bamboo hut in the temporary camp, after Gao Huailiang saw Li You, he heard him say: "Huailiang, you have taken people to open a way out these days. It should not be difficult to do this, you It is necessary to organize the people under the rule to do this quickly. On the one hand, it can be shown in the Shangguan office that this place is indeed stable, and on the other hand, you can also take the opportunity to strengthen the connection with neighboring counties. There is one thing you must do, that is, in the original guest. In the territory of Wabang, establish a village to expand the jurisdiction of your Jinlong County."
"Young Master, I will find someone to discuss the matter after I go back, and I will implement the matter as soon as possible."
"Well, there are no external threats here anymore. Your achievement is considered a great achievement, but I also have to remind you that you will get very little of this achievement, and your superiors will snatch it away. You Don’t say much, you can only ask Huanzhou government office to write your future achievements more beautifully. In this way, you will not be offenders in the officialdom, and you will be left by them. Can you remember it?"
Gao Huailiang thought about this, and now Li You reminds him like this, of course he understands.
Bowing a bow, Gao Huailiang clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, the young master, for your advice. I will definitely handle this matter according to the young master's will."
"You get up, don't have to be so polite, you have a lot of things, go back quickly."
After Gao Huailiang left, Li You also left the house. He still wanted to look around to see how many treasures were hidden here. After a round of inspections, the time has passed an hour, but at an hour, Li You was already surprised. Although it has not been carried out for many days, there are now as many as 100 agarwood trees on the ground, and they are all. The incense-bearing wood is a good wood. After the incense is taken, this kind of wood is still useful and can be used as building materials, because even if the incense is taken from the incense, it will emit a strange fragrance, and the price is not good. The sky-high price, this is not even the incense taken, this incense is more expensive.
Only the agarwood that has been felled now can be worth tens of thousands of gold. It is hard for Li You to imagine how much it would be worth if it were all cut, knowing that this is not even a red sandalwood. Li You looked around and went back to the room. He lay down and groaned, "This is enough for me to spend my whole life. Why am I doing so much?"
He didn't have any random thoughts either. Originally, he wanted to keep the escape route in Luzon, but now the construction here in Siam seems meaningless. The money is already endless. Jinlongshan doesn't talk about it here. The value is also hundreds of thousands of gold. It seems completely meaningless to bring Siam out, but this matter has already been done, and he can only ignore it. It is nothing more than never doing this kind of thing again in the future, it is not so easy to occupy a land.
In the afternoon, the subordinates came back with a stick of agarwood. This agarwood is not very big, but the wood has incense from top to bottom, and the knots are very large. This is considered the top grade. They took it. When I came back, I naturally knew the value of this agarwood.
Li You was also really surprised. He didn't know why there were so many agarwoods here, and there were even such trees that were almost full of incense. Then his opponent asked his subordinates: "You have waited to see it. Isn’t this complete picture of Jinlong Mountain?"
One of his subordinates replied: "Young Master, I have checked."
"Then how much agarwood is there on this mountain?"
"I haven't counted how many, but to say nothing, there are nearly a thousand trees that are full of incense like this, and I have seen the small ones."
Li You continued: "You will bring all these trees here in the future, and the others will be transported here after the felling is complete."
Li You really didn't know how much such a tree was worth, but he knew very well that it could definitely be worth a astronomical price. From this point of view, those precious red sandalwoods were only a fraction. One problem for Li You now is how to transport the wood away. There is no road here, and there is still a little distance from the river. It takes a lot of effort to transport all the wood away.
While Li You was still having a headache, Nangong Yi, Hong Ming, and Chen Yu had already arrived in the Gulf of Siam. They had just fought a battle here, and Chen Wei and Gouzi had just cleared out the nearby tribes, and Chen Feng also released the women he had arrested, but the location was near the largest tribal camp here.
The four women were not unexpectedly caught. Later, they were slaves to the tribe. After this was done, the few men who had been released did not return to report to Chen Fan.
In the camp, Nangongyi laughed after hearing the ins and outs of this matter, and then said to Chen Wei and Gouzi: "You guys, it seems that you have learned a lot from Alang, but it is meaningless to do it. These aborigines have almost no threat to us, and there is no point in using these brains."
"Mr. Nangong, there are tribal slaves and people from Kwabang. The total number of adult men is more than 2,000, while there are nearly 20,000 women, children and elderly people. If there are more people available, I will not be like this. ."
After Chen Wei finished speaking, Nangong Yi said, "The aborigines here are extremely backward. Not to mention too many, you can eliminate the largest tribe here with the two hundred people trained by Alang. Why are there so many scruples? , Do not break or stand, this is the most reasonable."
Gouzi said in surprise: "Mister's meaning is to let us go directly to destroy the two big tribes here?" (End of this chapter)