When Zhao Xing saw that they were still shaking the folding fan in this weather, he couldn't help looking at the sky.

It is mid-November now, and there is only a few light rains in Shandong, and there is no heavy snow. South of the Yellow River is full of heavy snow, and the road has been completely closed by heavy snow.

"It's not snowing yet, and I'm afraid there will be a severe drought next year," Zhao Xing said, looking up at the sky.

Zhang Yong had just returned from the Liaodong area and was deeply moved by the ice and snow in Liaodong. He nodded and agreed, "Yes, it's not good to have too much snow, but it's not good to have no snow at all. Thanks to our close to the sea and not going deep into the mainland, I heard that the stones in the mountains were frozen and cracked - it's cold! It's strange. Why do you say that the same sky has completely different climates? The winter wheat here has all turned green."

It will snow sooner or later in winter. Winter wheat will return to green means that once it snows, the winter wheat harvest will be completely destroyed next year. Without this harvest in spring, the summer will be very difficult, and the famine will not be relieved until the autumn harvest is over.

At this time, the officers were still walking on the boat in groups of three or three. Zhao Xing retracted his eyes looking up at the sky and asked, "What's the movement in the court recently?"

Zhang Yong replied: "The court has issued an edict to expand the training of the Mizhou regiment. At the same time, it is necessary to transfer three commands of the Mizhou regiment to the imperial guards. It is strange that they directly pointed out that they wanted our Mizhou regiment to train five ships."

It is a great thing for the regiment training to skip the level of the Xiang Army and directly enter the Imperial Army. If it were normal, many people would probably break the relationship between the head and the back door, because these days, the Imperial Army was equivalent to the white-collar workers of multinational enterprises in the Song Dynasty, and their income was more than one level higher than that of the Xiang Army.

But Zhao Xing was a little reluctant to transfer the five ships. The original ships of Mizhou Tuanlian were all hard sailing ships. These ships were sold to the locals at a discount. The current ships are Zhao Xing's private property. If they were to be given to the imperial guards, he was very reluctant.

Why did the imperial court have no more or less, and it happened to require five ships? It seems that during the Yingzhou incident, Zhao Xing dispatched five ships. Is this a coincidence?

After taking a few quick breaths, Zhao Xing calmed down his mood and asked again: "Is there any?"

Zhang Yong's attitude seemed very embarrassed. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Forget it, you're about to see those people anyway, let them tell you... Well, the imperial court has issued an edict to establish Rizhao Town, which belongs to Ju County, which means 'Sunrise at the beginning of light shine' first'. In addition, the imperial court allowed our Mizhou Water Village to set up a water village in Wankou, and ordered the Wankou Fishing Village to be upgraded to a living place and named it "Linhai Town".

Linhai Town, this name is very uncreative.

The court has successively established Rizhao Town and Linhai Town. It seems that the court is preparing to upgrade to the Mizhou Zhiyiwu and upgrade Banqiao Town. In this way, the three places need a group of officials and officials, and this is a good opportunity for "generals" who are treated as officials of the court.

When Zhao Xing saw Zhang Yong's embarrassing attitude, his eyes turned and understood the other party's difficulties. He blurted out: "Do those officers are unwilling to leave the regiment training and enter the imperial guards... This is a good thing. Why, they are unwilling to leave? I understand, they saw that the Mizhou navy had a great way to make money, so they refused."

"Of course, after so many years of hard work, I was about to get rich after following the group training, but I had to go to the imperial guards. I could get the dead money every day and maybe transfer it to another place to guard, such as Hebei and Hedong... Who is patient to die?"

"Go on the boat first, let's finalize what's going on today." Zhao Xing urged that Deng Yufu was already standing at the springboard entrance on the boat, nodding slightly to the place, and signaling everyone to arrive.

In Zhao Xing's large cabin with luxurious decoration, there were not enough chairs in the cabin. Many officers sat on the ground. They stroked the soft Arab carpet and cursed: "It's really good to sign a verdict. When I have money, I will buy such a carpet. If I don't lay it in other places, I will lay it in the bedroom. When I get interested, I will grab a maid and roll on the ground. It's so comfortable."

Zhao Xing took Zhang Yong and Deng Yufu into the cabin. The people sat upright and welcomed the three commanders. Zhao Xing asked Zhang Yong to sit as the chairman, but Zhang Yong delayed. He took off his boots and sat on the carpet. While slapped the carpet, he asked, "Li Ren, where did you buy this thing? Is there any sold in Banqiao Town? I'll buy one too."

Zhao Xing looked down at the carpet and quoted a price that made Zhang Yong smack his tongue: "One thousand five hundred stalks."

All the officers were silent.

Zhao Xing sat down behind his table, and several Israelis entered with their books. He cleared his throat and said, "Let me introduce the situation first. We have traded with the Jinzhou naval army twice. Now the mountains are blocked by heavy snow. The Jurchens and brothers Wen still have three thousand horses, which are waiting for sale. The Jinzhou naval army has horses, fur, and some goldware.

During the second transaction, we had agreed that the goods would be temporarily transferred to a small island outside Jinzhou. The island was not crowded, so I named it "Juehua Island". The sea water of this island was frozen in winter, and there was only a current on the west side, which was not frozen, but the cliffs on the west side were high, so the boat was not easy to get up. I agreed with Jinzhou that the Jinzhou navy would think of building a pier there in the beginning of next spring. In the future, it will be our trading point.

I plan this way: My Mizhou naval army has two commanders, five of which are in command. On the 25th of each month, they go out to patrol the sea, train the navy and sail to Juehua Island. They stay there for three days, and after the transaction is completed, they return. They still take five days to sail for a total of thirteen days. The next fleet happened to be on the 10th of each month, leaving the port on the 10th of each month, and still conducting five days of training, three days of landing on the island and returning for five days. Then, there will be two days of holiday.

According to this plan, we need at least five fleets, one fleet to go to Juehua Island; one fleet must maintain normal patrol near the entrance of the Bay; two fleets stay in Banqiao Town at all times and stay on standby at any time; and one is on the Bohai Sea to monitor the dynamics of Goryeo and Jurchens. Why monitor the Jurchens coast... Hehe, I'm afraid they will go to inform you, that's a lie to you. In fact, I don't want them to interfere in our business, and, I hope that those who do business in both countries need to obtain our permission.

Why, you also saw the money from here? Okay, I plan this way: five fleets, rotate every half a month, dispatch five ships at a time, do one phase of Jinzhou trade, do one phase of Wankou patrol, do one phase of Goryeo Sea patrol, do one phase of Water Village, do one phase of Holidays. Five shifts take turns, one phase of one phase of one phase of five and a half months.

I calculate the income of business. Each time a commander leads a team, one-fifth of the troops will be dispatched and five groups will be rotated. I need you to come up with a solution to how to distribute the income, but I have a principle: we need to hand over 20% of the income from each trip to sea, half of the income will be used to manage officials in the state yamen, and half of the person will be used to support the army, and 10% of the income will be shared equally with the group training.

In addition, there is also the matter of convening the utility and the fleet. Whoever has no relatives and six, let’s talk about the utility and the relatives who have no ship to go to sea. They also have to allow their relatives to gather together and join in. So how much does the utility ship be brought with them and how many utility ships each time, this requires everyone to discuss an amount. How to distribute this amount, we also need to discuss a rule.

Finally, there is the transaction part: I and the Jinzhou Navy have agreed that Xuan Qi will come forward in Jinzhou, and the one we come forward in this regard is Yici Leye. For each fleet, I will send Yici Leye as the secretary, and all transactions must be completed through him - the goods must be registered by him, and the price of the transaction can be negotiated by both parties themselves, but the final transaction must be completed in front of the secretary.

In other words, the transaction between our two parties must be completed under the witness of Xuan Qi and my secretary. Otherwise, his goods are prohibited from boarding the ship. Who dares to pull his goods to sea? Please understand that we are doing illegal business. If there is any violation of the rules, it will be a disaster. I cannot tolerate him to inform him. If you are not polite to him, you will just put sacks and sink them into the sea."

The tax on goods was 20% at a time, which was heavier than the tax on Maritime Bureau. But thinking that this was a smuggling business, the profit was very high, and who could carry some private goods to the ship out, the officers immediately agreed to the amount after a moment of consideration, and then they began to discuss it enthusiastically.

After some bargaining, all interests were balanced. An internal stolen agreement was reached. These included the allocation of cargo holds on the ship, the salary of the utility ship, and the amount of relatives that can be carried by each ship... Then the selection of deacons was entered.

The soldiers who are fighting with iron and silver plates may not always stay in their positions now, and Zhao Xing and Zhang Yong are the same. Therefore, several people must be selected to take charge of this work to ensure the prosperity of the smuggling business of the Mizhou Tuanlian - of course, it also includes the inheritance, resale of the withdrawal personnel's shares, and corresponding systems.

The agreement stipulates: If someone present encounters a transfer or promotion, his shares must be transferred. Of course, it is not for nothing. Others must purchase the shares from him, but he also has the right to retain a certain amount of shares. This amount is discussed and decided by everyone; if the deacon staff resigns, they will have a resignation fee and they will also receive a salary when they are in office. This salary is withdrawn from trade profits, and the amount is withdrawn...

After the agreement on sharing the stolen goods was reached, everyone was hungry. Zhao Xing then talked about the most important point: "Okay, we also need to make a charter about the types of goods - we are all Song people, and we must have the awareness of Song people. Some things can be smuggled, but some things cannot, such as weapons, armor, books, drawings, and craftsmen.

In addition, there should be some restrictions on food. They should not starve to death and exchange the minimum food for maximum profit. So I think that if anyone who traffics in food, my navy will draw ten times the tax. Anyone who traffics in excess of a certain amount will be killed without mercy. Please set a precept. I hope you will list a prohibited directory - we are doing illegal work, so we cannot allow others to make mistakes and then go to the government to report secretly... Rules are iron laws. Once the rules are set, the rules must be strictly followed, because once the rules are broken, no one here can protect the benefits. Therefore, those who break the rules are the mortal enemies of all of us, and there is only one way to deal with such people: the only death penalty."

Zhao Xing's last few words attracted everyone's unanimous agreement. After the agreement was agreed, Zhao Xing talked about the important matter: "The court issued an edict that our Mizhou regiment train would produce three commanders, three commanders, and five ships, and choose from the people present. For those who are selected, we allow him to keep the shares for two years and wait for the new official to take office for one year before redeeming them. I know that everyone is unwilling to go, but there must be someone to go... Let's just vote and choose from the people present, and we will compensate him with one thousand stalemates.

Okay, things are urgent. It’s cold and cold in Jinzhou. We are waiting for us to come and transport grain. We will quickly select the people behind us. We are still waiting to go to sea."

After Zhao Xing said that, Zhang Yong still said: "Mr. Guanjun and I need to rush back to Mizhou to deal with some things. Today, I will leave this cabin for you. Everyone can do whatever they want, but in the end, all the tasks assigned to you must complete. I have something to do, so I will take a step first."

The noisy military officers were left to elect three unlucky guys, and Zhao Xing led Zhang Yong all the way back.

Zhang Yong was demoted from the capital. He stayed in the Mizhou League Training for a while and did nothing. However, when Zhao Xing came, he made the Mizhou League Training for a long time. As a military man, Zhang Yong had a sense of inferiority when he met a civil servant. In addition, he had been convinced and inferior in front of Zhao Xing, so he had no awareness of a fifth-rank chief in front of Zhao Xing, so he let Zhao Xing take his nose. Anyway, he knew that Zhao Xing would not harm him, and he would make a lot of money with Zhao Xing.

Speaking of which, he did not lose money. He only took a few months to put more than 10,000 yuan into his pocket. In addition, the new atmosphere of the Mizhou group training has also won him a lot of respect, so this guy just kept paying for money. The whole group training was pushed to 625, like a rubber stamp.

Zhao Xing rushed home, and Zhang Yong walked all the way and touched his chin, thinking about what he had just happened: "Li Ren, it seems that the sea trade is very profitable. Do you think I will buy a ship and recharge it? Five fleets, the ships are not enough now, far from enough. As a group training in Mizhou, I can't help but share the worries of Mizhou. Oh, with a boat, even if you don't load any cargo, you can earn no matter how old or young you are in a taxi cabin... It's a pity that there are no sailors."

While shaking his head on the horse, Zhao Xing replied: "I can help you: Mizhou wants to send five ships into the imperial guards, and I am also worried about this. I plan to buy five hard sailboats from Quanzhou to make up the number. As for sailors, I will also temporarily hire them from Quanzhou Wharf - Yes, wet rental. This is called wet rental. We rent them together with people and ships, and we provide management."

Zhang Yong shook his head and said, "It is best to rent a boat, the kind of soft sailing boat you drive towards. I see that boat is extremely fast when I see it with the wind... It is still the kind of boat that likes you."

"That's not possible. Soft sailing requires a lot of skills. Hard sailing boats do not require sailing masters, and the captain can do it. The sailing masters of soft sailing boats need to be trained for at least five years, or even fifteen years, and a boat requires more than one sailing master. The boatmen on my boats have been trained with great effort, so it's hard to find such people... However, there are also many idle sailors on the vassal ships that stay. Well, hiring them to do short-term workers is also a way."

After foreign ships entered the Song Dynasty, they had to wait for the monsoon when they returned. During the waiting period, the foreign sailors happened to have nothing to do and could hire them to do short-term labor. As long as these foreigners entered Mizhou, as long as the profits of maritime trade were large, Zhao Xing would no longer prohibit the use of the utility to go into the sea. Many Mizhou idle people would learn sailing skills from Fanjia... How did that say, demand could promote the development of productivity more than ten universities.

Since then, as long as Zhao Xing has maintained his maritime trade profits, Mizhou, a province with a large population, will spontaneously become his base for training sailors.

When entering Mizhou City, Zhao Xing had calculated properly. He walked towards his home with confidence. The wives and concubines in the mansion had already received the news and were welcomed by the door. After Zhao Xing entered the mansion, Cheng Azhu took Zhao Xing's cloak with a reserved attitude, and Chen Yiyi rushed into Zhao Xing's arms without hesitation, acting coquettishly. Liao Xiaoxiao was not qualified to come in front of her, so she had to stand beside Cheng Azhu and frequently flashed her big eyes at Zhao Xing.

"Everyone comes, come with me to take a bath together," Zhao Xing greeted me affectionately.

"Tu!" Cheng Azhu retorted softly: "No serious."

Yi Yi was happy: "Really!"

Sure enough, Cheng Azhu pulled Chen Yiyi over and bowed solemnly: "The official went home after the battle, but I won't disturb you anymore, just wait in the pavilion."

Liao Xiaoxiao quickly came to meet her as she wished: "Slave serves my husband."

"Okay, okay," Zhao Xing smiled secretly, hugged Xiaoxiao, and quickly walked towards the bathroom.

...

After taking a shower, Zhao Xing was lying in Bixia Pavilion. The lazy floor was drying and the people were trying to sleep. Cheng Azhu knelt beside Zhao Xing, pouring tea and wine happily. Chen Yiyi reported to Zhao Xing with the account book: "After Dalang left, the small things have been processed. Now there are people burning glass in Mizhou. According to Dalang's plan, those women who get married, and a few of them have a good relationship with each other, and are preparing to go home sooner or later.

The textile machines transported from Hangzhou have been stored in the warehouse. Three hundred looms have been assembled in the past few days. I am going to divide the weaving girls hired into three groups, one group of three hundred people to do textiles. Among these three hundred weaving girls, one group of weaving mulberry silkworms, one group of weaving cotton, and the other group of trying to spin wool.

I plan to let them process animal skins for the other two hundred people. We will get a steady stream of animal skins from the Liao Kingdom. This is a big job, so I let them process the animal skins into clothes, which is also an input. I haven't figured out the purpose of the other five hundred people. I think it's time to let them make glass, or have other plans?"

"Making glass is a man's business, but women cannot do it. For the five hundred people, let them spin vanity (sail) cloth and make ready-made clothes. Canvas will definitely be sold well in the future. There will be too many places to use in the future. If the ready-made clothes are well made, the market can accommodate 500 people."

Liao Xiaoxiao pouted beside her and couldn't speak. She wanted to do something for herself, but what she was best at was singing and dancing, and she couldn't even think of what she should do...

After Zhao Xing returned this time, the Mizhou Tuanlian became rich. It was like a machine with enough winding. The whole school was busy processing Mizhou stones. The abducted Yingzhou youth occupied the barren mountain that produced cold water stones, and established a large fired kiln to start calcining lime.

Most young and strong gangs in Mizhou began to recruit friends to set up boats to sea, and worked diligently to "pave" at sea. Their enthusiasm for participating in training was so strong that more than a dozen people, even hundreds of people, gathered money to buy a big ship by themselves, and they also cried and shouted to go out to sea. This made the attribute of "group training relatives" in Mizhou suddenly become hot. Countless people went around to train with Mizhou. Countless old soldiers who had never been married in their lives also had a family in the blink of an eye. It turned out that the group training that had been lonely for a lifetime had countless "relatives" overnight...

And the women were also mobilized. The next day, the new type of textile machine was distributed to the weaving girls - this kind of textile machine was the advanced textile machine introduced to China by Huang Daopo in the late Southern Song Dynasty. It could increase a person's output by twenty-five times.

Then there was the old man, these eliminated soldiers from the Mizhou regiment training, which is what the imperial court called "remaining members" were pulled to Linhai Village. Each of them was assigned a piece of sea field, and used newly fired lime and gypsum to build a cement salt pond of about 1,000 acres on the beach. Many people also set up fences on the sea and began to breed net shrimps or kelp under the guidance of the people sent by Zhao Xing...

The work the elderly do is not heavy physical strength, but in this era, the salt tax is very heavy, and ordinary people use eating salt as a luxury. With the strong protection of the Mizhou League, their income has been increased. As the end of the year approaches, many lonely and helpless "leftovers" brought their newly married family to visit Zhang Yong and Zhao Xing. They were full of gratitude to these two people from the bottom of their hearts.

According to regulations: half of the production in Yantian is owned by the Tuanjian, which makes the children who cannot find work in the Tuanjian enjoy a benefit in vain. As a result, Zhao Xing's reputation in Mizhou has increased unprecedentedly. Not only is the Tuanjian full of gratitude to him, but even the people of Mizhou are also full of favor for the new Tuanjian and the signing of the Tuanjian. Of course, those former Tuanjian personnel who were elected as the Imperial Guard were also full of annoyance for leaving the Mizhou Tuanjian, but they were not upset for long. Because Zhao Xing was a very good at exploiting people, he could not tolerate idle people in his eyes.

Soon, even the elderly women and the elderly in the family were driven, first of all, the children, who were organized to special schools to prepare for training. The idle men in the group were whipped and driven away by Zhao Xing to renovate the official roads from Linhai Village to Banqiao Town, Banqiao Town to Mizhou City, and Mizhou City to Dengzhou. Of course, Zhao Xing also paid a lot of wages. But the hardships of those days were not enviable.

Soon after, there was no idle person in the Mizhou group training camp, and even the elderly and children shook a spindle and wool in their hands. Groups of children were woven and walked in line on the playground. In addition, there were the sound of drums coming from the camp.

Since returning, Zhao Xing has been lying in the military camp, like a modern nine-to-five worker, practicing his musician for eight hours a day.

During his departure, Li Yuan and Chen Gongchuan came to Mizhou to see him. Because they couldn't wait for him to come back, they left early. When they left, they left the musicians he brought. After that, two teams of musicians came from Vietnam and Japan respectively. This made Zhao Xing's singing and dancing team even larger.

Liao Xiaoxiao is the most skilled in singing and dancing. The only regret is that Li Zhiyi ran away. After he got a generous amount of Cheng Yi from Zhao Xing, he ran to Jinan to find his brother Li Zhichun. When Zhao Xing came back, he gave the brother ten horses and a family of horses. Li Zhichun gave him a thank you. Li Zhiyi didn't even say a word. It is said that this guy went out to travel with a group of literati in the winter. Fortunately, Li Zhichun agreed to come to Mizhou and would be able to meet him.

After all these work was done, another three or five days passed. On this day, Zhao Xing finally had a leisure day and planned to sleep in, but was pushed by Cheng Azhu in the early morning.

"Officials, officials, it's snowing heavily, wake up quickly," Cheng Azhu asked tightly.

"It's snowing," Zhao Xing stretched and said, "It's cold and sleeping, let me..."

Cheng Azhu held a pair of new shoes and a pair of new socks in her hand, and shook Zhao Xing tightly: "Officials, this is a new new sock made by my slave. Try it quickly."

Chen Yiyi also stretched out her face from the side, and still held a pair of new socks in her hand, handing it on her like a treasure: "Brother Xing, this is my share, do you want to try it?"

Zhao Xing suddenly woke up. He glanced at him and saw Liao Xiaoxiao standing at the end of the bed, holding a pair of new shoes and socks in his hand, and blinking at him with a smile. Zhao Xing wiped his face and said, "Oh, I forgot, today is the Winter Solstice."

The 19th day of the lunar year of the Rabbit, the 19th year of the Dingmao year, the 11th month of the Renzi month, the day of the Dingmao, December 16, 1087 AD, Thursday, the winter solstice.

The Winter Solstice was a festival in the Han Dynasty, similar to the modern Spring Festival. At that time, people only celebrated the winter solstice on the first day of the first lunar month. In modern times, Westerners have preserved this festival to this day and changed it to "Christmas".

According to ancient rituals, on the Winter Solstice Festival, women had to offer shoes and socks to the head of the family, which was what the ancients said, "the long-sleeved footwear" means that they were one year older. By the Song Dynasty, women's "providing tribute socks" in the Winter Solstice was used to celebrate the "Yiyang Jia Festival" and "welcome blessings and practice long-sleevedness".
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