Fu Bao leaned lazily on the soft pillow of golden thread, and the maids went back and forth, holding various makeups for her, like butterflies.
Huan Wen sat aside, looked at his wife's exquisite makeup and said, "The official ship cannot transport a lot of goods. I borrowed some ships from Xi's family, which should be enough. These ships are behind the troop transport ship, and they are guaranteed to be out of stock along the way.
hinder."
"The Xi family is willing to lend you a boat or even a boatman. This favor is quite good." Fu Bao said, "You are stupid! Don't you know if you owe someone a favor?"
Huan Wen was silent for a moment and said, "Your Majesty does not allow official ships to use them privately."
Fu Bao had nothing to say.
My father spoiled her, but some things would not be accommodated for no reason.
It is natural for you to carry some luggage with you on an official boat, and you won’t blame too much.
In order to supplement the transport of troops, the imperial court also allowed each person to carry a box of a fixed size. No matter what is placed in the box, it usually contains some intimate goods. After arriving at the destination, it will find familiar merchants to sell them and earn two.
The difference between the ground.
This is a clear rule that it can be done. Officials do not have this convenience, but no one blames a few boxes with them, and generally they won’t say anything. However, it is indeed a bit too much to carry goods openly.
The maid carefully opened the gilded incense box, and the fragrance suddenly spread.
This is ambergris, which is generally transported by Hu merchants in the Western Regions for a long distance. As for where they got it, no one knows it. Perhaps they are also second-dea dealers.
The ambergris used in this Fubao is a scent, which is a finished product after mixing with other spices, but it is still priced at gold. If she hadn't been liked by her, she wouldn't have gotten such a whole box.
After opening the incense box, I took a little talisman and applied it to my hands. After thinking about it, I applied it to my shoulders, neck and ears.
Huan Wen looked at him silently.
The Long Kang Huan family is not so luxurious. One is that their family is the Xing family and is quite suppressed. In addition, they do not have any channels to buy ambergris. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, not only women use ambergris, but men also use them, and even use them more.
big.
Is it easy to raise a princess after marrying her home?
"Liu Miao, the family order, will come with you, and there are fifty people from Xuchang." After applying the spices, Fu Bao stood up, walked to Huan Wen, and chuckled, "Does it smell?"
Huan Wen turned his head and looked at it, and the maids bowed their heads one after another.
Looking at Fu Bao's staring eyes, Huan Wen smiled and said softly: "My wife's jade bones and ice skin, and the fragrance is born,
Better than the orchid musk and ambergris."
Fu Bao smiled, hugged Huan Wen gently, and said, "It's so good to have my father."
Huan Wen could only laugh when he heard this.
"When you pass by Yangkou, just hand over the goods to the people of the Zhao family in Wancheng. Zhao was from Nanyang before and was favored by his uncle (Liu Mi) Jian Ba, so he would find a way to contact the people of Jin.
"Fu Bao let go of his hand and said softly: "Husband, I have a lot of daily necessities. I should be more diligent in dealing with goods in the future."
Huan Wen nodded.
Marrying a princess has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are obvious, but the disadvantages are that the expenses are really big.
However, Fu Bao didn't spend his money. With Long Kang Huan's financial resources, it was probably a bit difficult. The most realistic way was to make more money through business, and then find a way to build a manor, which would last forever.
However, doing business is not a simple matter.
After Zhuge Hui became the governor of Jingzhou, Putin quickly dismissed Xiangzhou and all counties were merged into Jingzhou.
He also used Guangluxun Lu Hua as the governor of Jingzhou and Jie as the checks and balances.
However, in such a key border defense area, even if it is not a bicycle governor who does not lead troops, Lu Hua could not control Zhuge Hui. So the border trade slowly began.
This is a gray trade that both parties are openly not supporting, but are happy to see.
Not many people know about it at the moment, and it has not spread widely. Fu Bao also heard from his father and uncle, so he asked his family to think of a solution.
Liu Miao's method was to summon a group of Xuchang merchants, ask them to prepare goods, and then follow the troops to go south.
It is equivalent to taking advantage of the safety protection of transporting troops. After arriving at the land, relying on the relationship between Tian Cao and Shangshu Liu Mi to work with ordinary people, the conditions are that the benefits will be shared after the matter is completed.
Of course, Fubao's manor (Jingfu Garden) also prepared some goods and sent them to Yangkou to trade with the public.
This transaction is very profitable now, and there will be less profitable after more people participate. So Fu Bao plans to make a few more money now and get the money from building a manor. She is originally a little wealth fan.
On the 21st, Huan Wen left Xiangyang with a thousand troops.
For a moment, all the ships anchored at Huihu and the Caizhou River went south and rushed towards Yangkou.
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After some renovations, Yangkou City was filled with a banner with the word "liang" floating on the top of the city. There seemed to be some military soldiers, but I don't know where they came from.
After stopping the boat at Hepu under the city, Huan Wen couldn't help but board the roof cabin and overlooked the four fields.
Only at first glance, he was shocked.
There are only two rivers of Mianshui and Yangshui on the map, but if you really follow this map to fight, you will definitely be killed.
Because there are small rivers like spider webs in addition to the two big rivers.
These ditches are too small to not even have names, but they are real rivers.
Apart further, there are reeds growing on the muddy land, and occasionally a few water birds flew past, causing ripples.
It was still very hot in late August, and it was noon. Huan Wen seemed to feel the water vapor in the crawling box between heaven and earth, which made people sweat lightly, and even his breathing was filled with dampness and stuffy heat.
This ghost place is even hotter than Jiangnan.
Groups of people wearing short burlap clothes walked in the soft mud, waving shovels and picks, constantly digging the wet mud.
Some soil has been soaked in the water for tens of millions of years, and countless plants and even corpses of humans and animals have decayed. They are excavated and piled up on the shore and are repeatedly compacted to form black embankments.
Bubbles kept gushing out from the bottom of the water, emitting an unpleasant smell. But the people who are working have become accustomed to it.
Turn a blind eye to all this.
With their efforts, the sandbar surrounded by reeds and water was gradually raised, and the surface was covered with black silt.
A thatched hut made of reeds appeared on the sandbank, and the naked children were playing and laughing.
Huan Wen noticed that crops had not been planted on all the sandbanks.
People seemed to have just cleaned up the grass and trees on it, and cushioned the low-lying and humid parts of the sandbank with mud, and then built a long encirclement to surround the sandbanks, forming isolated islands.
Maybe we can't grow food next year.
He walked to the other side of the ship again and looked at the area near Yangkou City that some people were already growing food. He had heard of these people: the people of Shangtun introduced by the Yu family of Yingchuan.
The Yu family is so glorious!
There is a good land near Yangkou City. Perhaps it was similar to the silt swamps in the distance hundreds of years ago, but since the Three Kingdoms, it has been repeatedly transformed and formed a farming area that integrates ponds, irrigation canals and farmland. Naidong
The place where Wu Shi's military troops stationed.
Until last autumn, this land seemed to have collected a season of grain, but now the merchants introduced by the Yu family have taken over them, but they are not all enjoying the fruits.
Huan Wen observed that Shangtun Minzhuang continued to expand outward at the edge of the farmland, filling two small rivers and dredging another swamp, as if he wanted to transform it into a second pond and irrigate the second farming area.
Yes, they have to make money by growing grain after all, and the more land they reclaim, the better.
In this way, it doesn't seem too much.
Huan Wen quickly got off the boat, and when he stepped onto the solid land, a ox cart appeared not far ahead.
More than ten people were crying and following the ox cart.
There was a roll of reed mat on the car, bulging, judging from the pair of blue-black barefoots exposed on the edge of the mat,
It must be a corpse.
He sighed, and couldn't help but look in the direction of the ox cart: on a deserted river beach to the east,
Dozens of new graves have been piled up.
The grave is very simple, and from a distance it looks like an inconspicuous land bunker, just like these humble people who died silently in the clearing of land.
These dozens of new tombs are actually just the beginning!
Huan Wen withdrew his gaze and came to the north of Yangkou City to set up a piece of land, and circled it with a low fence.
Within the fence, people were joking and sounds were everywhere. Merchants with various accents gathered here and bargained in a swirl of mouth.
Some people have a completely disdainful expression, and their words are extremely mean, belittle other people's goods to nothing. But when the owner of the goods was so annoyed that he asked him to get out of here, the man was as if he had taken root under his feet.
Just don't leave.
Some people looked like a river thief, wiping goods casually, while secretly observing that they might be innocent of being pure water bandits because they also do business, but they just give people a sense of ferocity.
Ghost, a feeling of greed.
So, don’t blame Xuchang merchants for asking for Princess Jingfu. Huan Wen, the Duzhi Captain who holds three thousand troops, is really a hot figure in Jingbei, second only to Yang Bao, the navy governor.
The surrounding terrain is so complex and the people are so deserted. After killing people and robbing people, it is really difficult to hunt down the river and hide in the reed marsh. Even many thieves are local households, and they go out to rob and hide in the first place.
In the village, locals will deliberately conceal and protect them. How do you check?
It’s great to be on the back of a big tree to enjoy the cool air. Business practitioners understand this principle best.
"Zhuge Daoming is really open-minded." After walking around the wall outside the lise, Huan Wen felt extremely moved.
Liu Miao heard the princess's family and said with a smile: "Zhuge Daoming is afraid that he just wants to defend Wuchang and Xiakou, so he didn't even think about regaining the lost territory. However, there are many Wuchang merchants who come to Yangkou, but I don't know how many of them belong to the Zhuge family.
Look, if you eat snacks, it will be no problem to earn millions a year. In these years, the Zhuge family has become a huge wealth."
Did Zhuge participate in these transactions? Huan Wen didn't know.
But when he was in a relocation, Huan Wen felt that he would never miss such an opportunity. Even if he didn't use the money he got from the goods, he could still support his army.
You are noble and don’t like money, but your subordinates ask for money, and local soldiers want to have a meal.
Chapter completed!