Chapter 262 The world's number one port

Guangzhou's pier is very large, and there are many ships from the Song people. It is said that the Venetian merchants of this era said that the masts of the Song people's ships can be lined from Quanzhou to Manlaga (local local language of Malay: melaka; English: malacca, also known as Malacca).

Guangzhou Wharf was once the only customs of the Song Dynasty. The wharf was built more than twenty times larger than the Mizhou Wharf. The Mizhou Wharf was winding for eighteen miles, and the Guangzhou Wharf was hundreds of miles long. The notes of the Song people also recorded that they were traveling to the Fan Shang Wharf built around the winding Hecha, and they could not see all the berths in a day.

Regarding the scale of this pier, merchants from the four major Western maritime merchants admitted in unison that this is the world's number one port.

According to the rules of the officialdom, Zhao Xing's boat should be docked at the official dock. Such an official dock is not open to the outside, and usually only docks on official boats. The dock area is guarded by countless wingmen, which is both safe and quiet. The official boat dock is usually located in the place that is most convenient to enter and exit the city. For this reason, Zhao Xing's boat is turning around and walking to the innermost part of the dock area. Along the way, the officials on the boat widened their eyes and grew their mouths, staring at this prosperous area in a daze. They were in the inland for the first time that they saw so many ships, so many sailors, and so many cargo...

"The world's wealth and goods will always be together, and the world's wealth and goods will always be together... As expected!" Li Gefei murmured and sighed.

"I thought Hangzhou was the limit, but I didn't expect that the ships here would be endless." Yuan Yeping was also sighing: "So many ships should carry how much goods should they be, how much money should these goods be worth - the wealth of the Song Dynasty is unimaginable."

"In the future, this gorgeous article will be maintained by us." Zhao Xing, who once came to Guangzhou, said lightly: "I believe that Guangzhou's current prosperity is by no means the pinnacle, because we will push it to a higher level!"

Li Gefei nodded vigorously, Yuan Yeping's face flushed and he murmured with a nervous texture: "The glory of the Song Dynasty, the glory of Guangzhou, and the glory of the lord, I will be entrusted to me. Please rest assured, Yuan swears to devote his whole body to the lord."

"You can't do it yet," Zhao Xing said calmly.

Yuan Yeping's face changed, as if he was ashamed of Zhao Xing's contempt. He was wondering if he should have a septile. Zhao Xing added: "You are my last secret weapon - have you mastered the training method I told you on the ship? When I settled in Guangzhou, you go to Huqian Mountain first, where I train a thousand Huaiyongs, and you go to recruit another thousand people. When these thousand new recruits are trained, you take a thousand people, half of the old and new to Danluo Island, watch my horse-wallowing base, and also watch Pu Yi'an. Because I am going to deal with Nanyang below, you can't let him contact Arabs."

Yuan Yeping then calmed down and bowed to answer: "Respect the order!"

Sun Cong and Li Gefei looked here in surprise. He didn't know why Yuan Yeping was so respectful to Zhao Xing. Sun Cong thought that Yuan Yeping was also a low-ranking minor official in the Song Dynasty, but why did he treat Zhao Xing like a retainer and a lord... He didn't know that the Japanese Yuan Yeping was exactly Zhao Xing's retainer.

At the Guangzhou official ship dock, the Guangzhou officials who had been waiting there saw Zhao Xing's fleet entering the port. Even though they were knowledgeable, they were also pumping the air conditioner like Li Gefei on the ship.

Zhao Xing's giant ship boarded the springboard, and the first one to disembark was a team of armed servants. The equipment on these servants was even better than that of the Guangdong Imperial Guards, and their number... There were 1,200 imperial guards on the entire Guangnan East Road, and the number of Guangnan West Road was the same. On the Zhao Xing's ship, the number of military servants alone had reached 2,000.

Thinking about it, when the five hundred armed servants arrived with Wan Qi Yong and others in advance, the officials' expressions were no longer good-looking. The new official brought more armed servants than the number of imperial guards added to the east and west roads in Guangdong. The officials on the shore had seen arrogant people, but had never seen such arrogant people.

Yes, Zhao Xing was here to demonstrate this time. He was wearing a helmet and armor, with three long and short knives inserted into his waist, and holding a one-person-high kite-shaped shield in one hand. Like a moving iron tower, Tyson walked up to the dock with a moving iron tower that was even more majestic than him. The supervisors of the other three departments of Guangnan East Road came forward to salute Zhao Xing in turn, but Zhao Xing just lifted the mask of the helmet and replied lightly, and then asked Fu Caiyuan: "Fu Caosi, has Lord Zhang Zhizhou taken office?"

Zhao Xing asked about Zhang Yue and Zhang Zhifu.

Fu Caiyuan was a little dissatisfied. Zhao Xing greeted him like he was greeting his subordinates. This made Fu Caiyuan very uncomfortable. He endured it for a moment and replied: "Mr. Zhang Zhifu should be still on the way. This is Qingsun, the current governor of Guangzhou, and he has been transferred to the governor of Zhongzhou, Chengdu Prefecture."

Unfortunately, although the Transshipment Order was powerful, he was indeed a "lower-official" in front of Zhao Xing. Because in order to restrain the Transshipment Order, the Song Dynasty court set the rank of this official position quite low, basically the same as that of the governor. The Transshipment Order's responsibilities overlap with other officials, which caused a strange phenomenon in the Song Dynasty: a strong Transshipment Order could take charge of all local affairs in the local area and become a town (i.e. a warlord), and a weak Transshipment Order became an official decoration.

Zhao Xing's current purpose is to show off his strength and strive to make Fu Caiyuan the most expensive decoration in Guangzhou. He handed the shield to Tyson and reached out to invite him aggressively: "Mr. Fu please lead the way. I am not familiar with Guangzhou. Please ask Master Fu to lead the way."

Fu Caiyuan took the opportunity to glance at Tyson. As the highest commander in Guangzhou, Fu Caiyuan is not unfamiliar with black slaves, because "the rich people in Guangzhong have many ghost slaves, and they are also called "savages". At that time, Guangzhou people could even distinguish the difference between African blacks and Malay blacks. They specifically recorded that there was a kind of offshore savage (Malay black slaves) who did not degrade in the water and were called "Kunlun slaves". However, African black slaves were "extremely powerful and could bear hundreds of pounds.

He has lost his words and desires, and his nature is simple and he does not escape."

At that time, the rich people in Guangzhou had a habit of feeding the purchased black slaves with hot food. After eating these foods, the slaves "drunks were leaking for a long time". The rich people in Guangzhou called this kind of diarrhea "sentery exchange". Black slaves who died of diarrhea were considered to be able to be kept.

Although Fu Caiyuan had seen a tall black slave like Tyson before, he glanced at him and thoughts flashed in his mind - at Zhao Jinglei's size, he should find such a majestic guard to accompany him... Oh, if I turned against Zhao Jinglei here, how would the court react?...Aye, it would be half a year later when the court got the news about Guangzhou City. I don't know what would happen half a year later, but if he turned against this big man now and beat me up with the black servant beside him, I would definitely be dead. At most, Zhao Liren killed his black slave afterwards to fight for my life - bah bah bah bah bah bah bah, how could this black servant be worth my life?

In the blink of an eye, Fu Caiyuan figured it out that people who know the current affairs have been heroes since ancient times. As the three major shipping envoys in the world, Lord Zhao has a bad temper. We can't fight alone with him. At least we have to join forces with the other three departments... He immediately bowed to Zhao Xing: "Master Zhao, please come with me. Lord Zhao is exhausted all the way. Please go back to the government office to rest first. I made an appointment with my colleagues to prepare a welcome banquet in Yingjiang Tower, please be sure to enjoy it."

At this time, Wan Qi Yong poked his head out from behind the crowd and nodded slightly at Zhao Xing. After receiving this hint, Zhao Xing took off his helmet, shook his sweat beads all over his head, and replied: "It's great. When I have settled my family, I will definitely change into my official uniform and go to Yingjiang Tower to pay my respects."

Zhao Xing was willing to change his official uniform and go, and the officials breathed a sigh of relief, because Zhao Xing's armor was so oppressive. The southerners were originally small, and many people could only reach Zhao Xing's chest. He appeared with a steel giant, which made people sweat... But it was different to change into the official uniform. The thing made the officials look at it. They said in unison: "Give me a gift to Lord Zhao."

In addition to Zhao Xing's ten giant boats, there were hundreds of wooden boats of large and small loads of migrant workers in the fleet. As the officials dispersed, these civilian boats landed. Among them, the migrant workers from Shandong had some experience in navigating and seemed very capable. However, the migrant workers in Yingzhou, Henan were already vomiting so badly that many people couldn't stand up. For this reason, Wan Qiyong hired many stretchers from the dock and carried them into the nearby military camp. The number of migrant workers was too large and there was no choice but to let them live in the military camp.

Zhao Xing's team did not pack up until the evening and followed Wanqiyong to Yingjiang Tower. Along the way, Wanqiyong reported: "We purchased 30,000 acres of land outside the city of Guangdong and are repairing the house. In addition, I bought a few houses in the south of Guangdong for the rest of the house. The adult's new house will be built in a month. They all follow the adult's requirements - a five-foot-thick stone wall to ensure that the hurricane cannot be hung, the heavy rain cannot be poured down, and the house is warm in winter and cool in summer."

Shuai Fan reported next to him: "The Guangzhou military camps are all thatched houses. The climate here is hot, so they sleep on the ground and cannot be frozen at night, so the military camps in various parts of Guangzhou are very dilapidated. After the officials came, they temporarily built some brick and tile houses. Now we are still rich in these brick houses. Fortunately, there is still one winter time, so the migrant workers will build more houses in winter. When spring begins, we will reclaim land and repair the houses. It is time to go."

Wan Qi Yong continued to report: "Mr. Li Zhiyi, Lord Liao Zhengyi has taken office, and Lord Shuai personally sent them to the office. They cannot come today. In addition, except for Duke Su, the other officials who were demoted did not arrive at the resettlement area."

"Why did it take so long?" Zhao Xing frowned and asked, "Mr. Zhang Jingluo, Lord Zhang Qing, has never taken office. He has been walking on the road for almost half a year. Is there no news at all?"

Wan Qi Yong nodded: "It's normal. The roads in Lingnan are difficult to walk, so this place is considered a 'hard land'. If Mr. Su follows the normal route, it would be fast for him to arrive in Huizhou in eight months. It is normal for the rest of the officials to be on the road, but by the time, they are almost here."

"So we need to build roads," Zhao Xing said with the situation: "I discussed with the Sedanshuai of Fuyan Road. The factory that refined the turbid oil was moved to Fuyan Road. The extracted turbid oil was jointly purchased by him and Huanqing Road. The residues - what Shen Kuo called "asphalt", were all purchased by us. I also knew that there was a large oil mine in the South China Sea, so we would develop the Nanhai oil mine and use asphalt to lay down official roads.

Now that Guangnan East Road and Guangnan West Road are in our hands, I plan to reform the methods of minting in these places and change them to stamping coins, which reduces fire consumption. This is a big income, using this income to build roads. Guangnan is vast and sparsely populated, and we only care about the food of road builders and the materials used for road construction. The labor costs of migrant workers for road construction are compensated by land. The compensation for road construction for one year is to allocate ten hectares of wasteland, exempt from taxes, and exempt from labor for ten years.

I will announce this salary to the civilians, let them enclose the land themselves, and after the land is enclosed, they will apply for measurement from the government, and then the government will register it for confirmation. Tell them: This land allows them to be freely traded and transferred, and the government will not interfere.

I also want to tell the migrant workers that the land in Guangnan is very fertile, so I asked them to bring their wives and children, and then they would build roads for me. When I was building roads, I would keep food and accommodation, and wait for the work they did to compensate for the land enclosure value, and I could freely sell the land and go back to my hometown to live the life of a rich man."

Wan Qi Yong quickly repeated what Zhao Xing had just said. After speaking, several people had already arrived at Yingjiang Tower. At the door was greeted by Su Hui. A small official like him could not get the chairman, so he climbed at the door to communicate with Zhao Xing. Seeing that there was no one around, Su Hui-Ding came to the front and whispered: "Sir, I have already inquired. Zhan Fan, the governor of Huizhou, was very nice to my father. When his father arrived in Huizhou the first day, he held a banquet at Hejiang Tower, a famous building in Huizhou.

I heard that my father lived in Hejiang Tower for half a month, and then Prefect Zhan arranged for his father to live in the Buddhist temple. A month later, Xiaoshuang (Cheng Shuang)'s wife built a house for his father, and his father and Wang Zhipo moved in. They are living well now, with enough money and food, and they even send a message to thank the adults for their care."

Zhao Xing grabbed Su Ding's hand and said indifferently: "Don't call me lord, call me Brother Xing. Now that I have arrived in Guangzhou, do we still need to speak so sneakily? I, Zhao Laohu, want to take care of someone, do you need to hide it? I thought that when I took care of Mr. Zhang and Lu Huiqing, I never concealed it?"

In fact, everyone present had guessed Su Ding's identity. When Su Ding leaned forward to talk to Zhao Xing, many officials in the building had already pricked up their ears and listened. They didn't hear Su Ding's words clearly, but they heard Zhao Xing's words clearly. When they heard Zhao Xing and Zhang Xianggong, who was at the peak of his life and had a strong desire for revenge, they turned their faces together, all as if they had not heard the intimacy of the two.

Zhao Xing did not care at all. He held Su Xi's hand and walked into Yingjiang Tower, just like Su Xi was in Huangzhou when he was a child. Su Xi shed tears while walking. When he entered the hall, he found that Cheng Zhengfu was waiting for him, and his face showed a thoughtful look.

Sun Cong had no chance to get close to these officials on the dock. When he saw his target Cheng Zhengfu, he quickly poked his head out from behind Zhao Xing and gave a wink. However, before Cheng Zhengfu could express his opinion, his handsome style had already slapped Sun Cong on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Sir Sun, I have been willing to talk to you. It's just right now. Come on, let's go to that table to drink. If you don't drink you down today, I am not a man."

Shuai Fan is now confident to speak to Sun Cong, because the official position given to him by Zhao Xing in the south this time was: the chief supervisor of Guangnan East Road General Secretary and deputy envoy of the military case, and the commander of the military horse.

The Chief Superintendent of the General Secretary is the chief officer of the General Secretary in charge of the prefectures and counties, nicknamed "The Chief Superintendent of the General Secretary". Wan Qiyong's official position is the deputy envoy of the General Secretary. This official position is not much different from that of the General Secretary himself. In the central government of the imperial court, such officials are no different from those of the General Secretary, and are known as "Cijing"; while in the local General Secretary, it is called "Cijing".

The deputy envoy of the Duzhi Division was both "sixth-rank officials" and was about the same rank as Sun Cong's young prison, but these two people controlled everything in the fourth-rank official office. Shuai Fan was also a reckless person, so he had no trouble when he communicated with Sun Cong - this guy didn't even talk to Zhao Xing, let alone a secret spy leader like Sun Cong.

Cheng Zhengfu saw an official in Zhao Xing's entourage winked at him, and immediately the official was pulled away by the Supervisor Fan. He knew him and brought five hundred clerks to show off his power in Guangzhou City, and spread his glorious deeds of following Zhao Xing to enter the Western Xia. He always liked to compete with generals in Guangzhou, and the harassed Guangzhou generals had no temper. Cheng Zhengfu knew that this person was Zhao Xing's confidant, and he couldn't understand how a subordinate who was so intimate with Zhao Xing's confidant could win at him. Judging from Shuai Fan's actions, this person's actions were long under Zhao Xing's surveillance, so Zhao Xing's confidant pulled him away as soon as the other party moved.

Thinking of this, Cheng Zhengfu's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and it was his turn to toast. He hurriedly picked up his cup and greeted Zhao Xing: "Xiaguan Guangnan East Road, the Criminal Prison (Cei Shi), arrived in Guangzhou three days ago, and made a special trip to welcome Zhao Shuai Shi."

The "Four Major Supervisors" at the road level are not in the same place. Perhaps these people are used to being the king of their own fields and do not want to meet other officials of the same rank; perhaps it is a restraining policy of the Song Dynasty court, so the four "Cao Shuai Xiancang" officials in various places are not in the same city. The position of the ex-sentence of Guangnan East Road is Shaozhou; the position of the chief of the chief of the Changping (Cangsi) is in Duanzhou; the transfer department is in Fanyu, and there are only the Jingliu Department and the Guangzhou Prefectural Department in Guangzhou. Therefore, the officials here are all rushed from other places, and Cheng Zhengfu is the farthest.

Cheng Zhengfu then toasted to express his attitude, then quickly looked at Su Ding beside Zhao Xing, and said with emotion: "This is Nephew Su Xian. My Cheng clan and the Su family have not been informed for 42 years. I didn't expect Nephew Su Xian to grow up so old."

Cheng Zhengfu made such a statement because Zhao Xing pulled Su Ding into the door without hesitation. With this statement, an official rushed over from next to Su Ding and tightly approached Su Ding: "Sir Su, it turns out that he knows Zhao Shuai? Why didn't Cheng Xian ask for advice?"

Then, the official turned to Zhao Xing, smiled flatteringly, and introduced himself: "I Fang Ci Peng, who is the director of the Guangnan East Road. It happened to be Lord Su's superior."

"Okay, Shangguan is good," Zhao Xing said carelessly: "I just told Shuji (Su Ding) that in the south-west barbarians in Guangdong, we should run more schools, teach locals to read and practice calligraphy, and teach all kinds of industries... I plan to invest one million to three million in the next ten years, of which 500,000 to 1.5 million are used to build school buildings, and the other half is used to improve the treatment of academic professors - but I do not plan to teach all the students the skills of saints."

"Three million coins--" Fang Cipeng took a deep breath, but the breath immediately ejaculated again. He asked in surprise: "Zhao Shuai, isn't Lord Su's word "Zhongyu"? What do you call him "Shuji"?"

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Guangdong Xuezheng happens to be civil affairs and is managed by Zhao Xing. So Zhao Xing is very confident in scolding him. Su Ding quickly saluted Zhao Xing to save his boss's mistake: "Mr. Zhao... No, Brother Xing, Fang Xuezheng has a few rigorous workers, good at looking at small things, and handing over the investment and running schools to Fang Xuezheng, and he will definitely not waste money."

Good at looking at small things - that is to be petty!

Zhao Xing nodded lazily. Fu Caiyuan had led the rest of Guangnan East Road to welcome him and asked Zhao Xing to take his seat. Behind him, Fang Cipeng grabbed Cheng Zhengfu and asked: "Cheng Xian, the official is inexperienced. I wonder who Zhao Shuai is? Who is Lord Su's father?"

These two questions are one problem. While getting rid of Fang Cipeng's entanglement, Cheng Zhengfu replied: "Zhao Xing and Zhao Liren are Su Shi and Su Zizhan's disciples. The 'Seventh Scholars of Su' are all known to the scholars of the Siren. Don't Master Fang know?"

Fang Cipeng shook his head: "I heard that Wang Jinggong wanted to change the imperial examination and build a school in the past. Mr. Su submitted a memorial to persuade His Majesty Shenzong to slow down. He believed that in any change, we should focus on not disturbing the people. If disturbing the people excessively, it is not a good law... Why did Mr. Su's disciples take millions of chunks of money to run schools on Guangnan East Road? How can the people's strength be afforded? The officials do not believe it!"

Cheng Zhengfu suddenly changed his face. When the people around him heard this, they all dodged. At this time, Fang Cipeng also said bad things about Wang Anshi. Isn’t this want to die? He wants to die, but others don’t want to die with him.

Halfway through Zhao Xing, after hearing what Fang Cipeng said, when he saw the officials who were coming changed color, he smiled - I like this stubborn donkey!

Zhao Xing turned around and bowed to Fang Ci Peng: "Master Fang, come and sit together. It is so good for Master Fang to learn that the government does not need to pay a piece of copper for the establishment of education on Guangnan East Road. The money is all sponsored by the gentry. Specifically: this gentry is me... If Master Fang is interested, we will talk in detail at the table."

Zhao Xingcai sat on the table, and Fu Caiyuan was already leading the way. He raised a glass of wine to toast Zhao Xing. Although his attitude was humble, he was firm: "Zhao Shuai, I will give you a cup to the next Guangnan East Road official, and another to the Guangzhou Maritime Bureau official."

Fu Caiyuan shows his bottom line.

The Guangzhou Maritime Warehouse Bureau is a customary act of being led by the commander of the Cao envoy, which is called the "Marine Warehouse Commander". In other words, Zhao Xing and Fu Caiyuan both have the power to supervise the Maritime Warehouse Bureau and serve as the "Marine Warehouse Commander". However, Guangzhou has not established a strategic envoy in the past ten years, and it has become a customary act for the Transportation Envoy to manage the Maritime Warehouse Bureau. Fu Caiyuan told Zhao Xing that he could let go of all power, but the power of the Maritime Warehouse Bureau will never be interfered with by others.

Zhao Xing grinned and smiled...
Chapter completed!