Chapter 97: Shipbuilders (Sincerity)
My Young Master Bao took action and never wanted to do just one thing well and do many things by the way. It can save time and benefit myself more. Why not do it?
Do you know why I asked the merchants to meet in the northwest valley of Sapporo Castle?
Because the northwest of Sapporo Castle is fifty miles away, it is the famous Otaru Castle, and it also has Otaru Port, one of the best ports on the Hokkien Island.
Now the Otaru Navy is fighting with the Hatan Army in the Tsuga Strait, and most of their infantry have been transferred away, so they are barely able to defend the city. If they want to come out and collide with our top 800 soldiers, they will be overestimating their abilities.
Of course, I was not going to fight with the Otaru Army. The people there were very tough people. If I wanted to steal their things, even if three thousand people rushed in, I couldn't guarantee that I could still escape intact.
Besides, I have never been a robber or a bandit. I am a very upright businessman. This time I went to Otaru Castle, just to make a deal for some people there.
Yes.
A small deal.
I have been thinking about it for a long time and have never even told my parents about their business.
In order to achieve our goal earlier, I took a group of three-way men to set off when it was dawn. Most of the merchants there had not yet gotten up. But when they saw that we were leaving, they barely finished wearing it and came over to say hello.
My mind had completely flown to Otaru Castle, so I was a little careless when riding on the horse.
"Fermi, are our money still there?"
"Here! Brother Bao. I'm worried about your fate when you secretly took so much gold." Femiski said with a frown, with a hint of timidity on his face.
"Idiot! What is the end?"
I angrily beat Femiski, a guy who doesn't say good things. If you have any questions to ask for good omen in the future, you can't find this guy next to you, otherwise what you say will make people angry.
In order to do a good job in this business, in addition to the 5,000 taels of gold given by my parents, I also secretly asked my sister to give me 10,000 taels.
Originally, our Sanguo Village had a capital of about 30,000 taels of gold. With more money, there were many places to spend, and a war with Qiansui City was sent out for several thousand taels. So my parents wanted to use a small gold slap as two. The previous five thousand taels of gold were all given to me by counting left and right.
But who said that my sister is my future wife? I heard that I had a big thing to do, so she thought about it for a while and took out the key and asked me to move the gold.
It’s not that my sister is too rash, but she is a man who knows her future and knows that I can’t joke about the lifeblood of Sanguo Village. She definitely wants money by making a difference. She trusts me very much to do, so of course she has to support me.
Otherwise, do you think my relationship with my sister for more than ten years is fake?
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At more than thirty miles away, we rushed to a small village outside the famous Otaru Castle at noon.
Looking at Otaru Castle built on the plain from a distance, I feel it is very beautiful, with a different beauty from Sapporo and Chitose. In addition, it is located on the beach. So it looks even more pleasant. Although it is only at the end of April, there are already many flowers and plants blooming around, which looks like a spring atmosphere.
A historical city is worthy of being a historical city. It is much better than the poor and poor people in our Liuyin Harbour.
Otaru Castle is also one of the three major cities in Hoiyi Island. It is not because of the high commercial development here, but because there is a good harbor, fishermen can catch some fish, shrimps and crabs. Finally, they can not rely much on the fields, so that their families can eat enough, so that they will not starve to death in famines.
You know, Liuyin Harbour can support 10,000 people, not to mention this Otaru Harbour. In addition, outside the city, 20,000 to 30,000 people can bear it. By the way, you can also pay a lot of fish and other seafood to Sapporo City.
The villages we are now arriving now are more than 200 families scattered and have cultivated a lot of rice and wheat fields on the flat ground, but their houses are very dilapidated and there are not many new houses.
When I saw someone coming, and a group of soldiers I had never seen before, I was afraid that the defeated team would come to loot the village, so I picked up hammers, shovels, etc. and ran out of the house.
But when they saw the size and equipment of the visitor, they immediately put down the weapons in their hands, knelt on the ground, raised their hands high to show their obedience.
"Haha, these people are very eye-catching." Looking at the villagers whose clothes were rotten, Goro proudly rode on the horse.
According to my instructions, Yamazaki Kenyun had already ordered the cavalry to surround the entire village and no one was allowed to go out.
Seeing the horse's hooves keep ringing and cavalry are indifferently surrounding the village, the villagers are even more shocked, thinking that their actions just now annoyed the army and that they are about to start a massacre!
"Pushpeng..."
Flashes of door closing sounded, and countless houses closed the doors, but the cracks of the doors and the flashing eyes in the cracks in the windows proved that the people inside had no sense of security at all.
Looking at the fifty or sixty young and strong kneeling together, I smiled slightly and asked the person behind me, "Shiqiulang, is your information accurate? Is it really here?"
"Of course it's here, my highness." Shi Qiulang said respectfully, "For the sake of convenience of management, more than 200 craftsmen in the residence were all arranged here."
"But...what I think it's the place where the poorest people live?" I frowned: "I've heard of the warships in Otaru Castle, which is definitely very good. Otherwise, in this naval battle, I wouldn't have suffered heavy losses and I could still try my best to entangle the famous Hatan Navy."
"Yes! Their skills are really good." Shiqiulang spread his hands: "But your Highness, is there any necessary connection between good skills and their living situation?"
"Shouldn't they and their families be given better treatment? I mean, at least the house is built to better shelter from wind and rain, and they should also have enough food."
"Haha, Your Highness, don't you know? In the eyes of those in power, shipbuilding craftsmen are just a group of untouchables with slightly better status than our merchants, and they are not as good as ordinary farmers." Shi Qiulang sneered and said, "These craftsmen can maintain food and clothing at most when they work. Once they are older, or are injured and unable to work, they will immediately lose all their source of life, and the family will live a miserable life!"
(I have something to be busy and I updated it late. I'm sorry, but I still can't stop my enthusiasm for first subscription and subscription._) To be continued..
Chapter completed!