Chapter 53 Take a big risk (Part 1)

Xu Zhizhou's words made Su Shi very grateful. The implicit meaning of this sentence was: In order to facilitate Zhao Xing to take care of Su Shi nearby, he gave Cheng Jiaao a few people to the school of his family.

This group of mountain people from the mountains are the most united. Judging from the arrangement of Xu Zhizhou, their existence has greatly increased the strength of the government. At the same time, they themselves have become a parasitic vine on the big tree of the government, entangled with the government forces, and become a force that cannot be ignored. With their care, even if the New South Wales officials are Su Shi's opponent, they have the ability to protect them.

In fact, Su Shi has felt this change recently.

From the east gate of the Cheng tribe's gathering place, there was the land of Su Dongpo. After Wang Gong left, the children took advantage of the dry winter season and led craftsmen to add a small wharf on the side of Su Shi's house, saying that it was convenient for Su Shi's visitors to stop boats nearby, but in fact, after the wharf was completed, it became a private wharf for Chengjiaao.

Now, the boats entering and leaving Huangzhou in Chengjiaao passed by behind Su Dongpo's house. Although the "Dongpo Snow Hall" has become bustling, Su Shi understood that this is also a kind of care - every docked boat brings him more or less daily necessities. The children often come uninvited to weed and clean in his yard...

Xu Zhizhou became old and the banquet ended early in the evening. Xu Zhizhou, who was promoted, hugged his concubine Shengzhi and staggered back to the back hall. The guests resigned one after another.

After coming out of Xu's prefecture, it was already dusk. When Su Shi passed the east of the city, he took a long way to the distance and arrived at Zhao Xing's legendary "golden house" located in the east of the city.

This is indeed a "golden house".

The whole house is full of "Hu people" flavor and does not look like Middle Earth architecture at all.

There is even a round dome on the roof, which is painted with light gold powder like a temple, making it look like a chapel.

Cheng Xia was standing at the door when he saw Su Dongpo, and hurriedly invited the Grand Master in. Su Dongpo shook his head, pointed at the dome, and asked, "This style looks so familiar. I seem to have seen it in Qingjing Temple in Quanzhou - it's a little smaller than the one there."

"The master has good eyesight, and this house was built by workers in Qingliang Temple in Quanzhou," Cheng Xia replied respectfully.

Quanzhou Qingjing Temple is "China's No. 1 mosque". It was built by Arabs who came to Song Dynasty to do business. It has been more than a hundred years since its completion and is still being added...

Quanzhou Qingjing Temple is a brick-concrete structure, with a large dome with a large span that is very Arabic. Zhao Xing recruited workers from Qingjing Temple to build houses in order to poach people. This group of people has now been completely abducted by his high salary and has been closed to build houses in a new manor in Hangzhou. The residence in Huangzhou in front of him is just a "test" before they were hired, which is equivalent to a "talent display" during the probation period.

Of course, Su Shi didn't know about the follow-up incident. He just nodded and asked curiously: "Why are you standing here? By the way, where is your home?"

Cheng Xia was a little embarrassed: "Master... the teacher had made a marriage for me, which was the Liu family in Fuzhou. They came to "delivered dowry (to the groom's house)" a few days ago, but the teacher was reluctant to return. I was thinking here: Although Azhu was not married, she was also the wife of the teacher who had made a decision, so she asked her..."

Su Shi smiled: "I'll come tomorrow!"

After Su Shi said that, he left with great pride. While walking, he thought: being able to invite construction workers from Qingjing Temple to build a house for him means that the Cheng clan's strength has grown rapidly this year and he can afford to hire craftsmen from big places - Li Ren's methods are indeed extraordinary!

However, he seemed to be afraid of something, and he was very anxious, and he seemed to be afraid of missing out... What was he worried about?

Behind Su Shi, Cheng Xia thanked him in a stack of thanks: "Thank you, thank you! Master, I'll bring you a light, and wait."

On the sea surface of Mingzhou, a few days later, Zhao Xing took his fleet to sail again.

In addition to Liu San's ship, this time, a small ship was added to follow him. This ship belonged to a friend of Liu San, and Zhao Xing had all the tasks of recruiting sailors to Liu San, so he attracted familiar friends to be familiar with this new route.

This voyage has added a new thing - if anyone who has watched TV and seen this "treasure", he will find that it is completely a "geometric plate" in the hands of ancient Feng Shui masters. This thing has carefully engraved sixty-four directions according to the direction of the Eight Trigrams of the Book of Changes. This time, the departure was to confirm the new route and test this geometric plate.

With this new navigation weapon, Liu San seemed mysterious throughout the entire navigation. He tied himself to the mast day and night. Except for eating, he hid on the mast for the rest of his time, manipulated the geodescendant plate, and wrote and painted mysteriously on a piece of paper. Even Zhao Xing was not allowed to approach the mast.

This time when he went out to sea, no one followed him except Liu San and Zhao Xing. Cheng Shuang stayed in Hangzhou and supervised the construction of the manor in Hangzhou. Jiao Chu returned to Fuzhou to hand over his son, and helped Zhao Xing sell goods. Changmen Busi went to Mingzhou (now Ningbo) to supervise the construction of a new ship.

Such a sea-going team was also specially requested by Liu San. Zhao Xing understood the other party's behavior because it was the captain's privilege to maintain a mysterious sense of direction during navigation. Until the steamship era, the charts, the compass... these tools that can determine the direction in the sea were specially kept by the captain.

This is also taken into account human factors - crew members who are vast in the sea are often prone to claustrophobia. This symptom occurs and causes all kinds of abnormal irrational behaviors. Only the captain knows where he is, which will make the crew feel an invisible pressure and minimize sea rebellion.

When Liu San, who had a general sense of direction in his heart, quickly copied the most straight line with Zhao Xing's guidance. In two and a half days, Danluo Island was already in sight. Liu San, who was confident, did not bother to land in Danluo Island. He directly led the fleet to penetrate Danluo Island and sailed outside Goryeo.

"We only took half of the entire voyage, half of it, and we arrived in Goryeo in two days. In this way, plus the time to load and unload the goods, one round trip is only ten days, and we can run three times a month..." Liu San's eyes were red. After getting off the mast, he was sleepy and shaking his sleepy body, but he was in high spirits.

"Others can make 150,000 guan a year, which is a good harvest. If we count to a young age, we can also make 15 trips... The high-ranking official, it's a lot of profit. As long as we earn 50,000 guan each trip, this business will not be worth it!"

"Fifty thousand guan - you are even more greedy than me. You can run 15 times a year, and there is also a market saturation problem, so the harvest expectation of one trip should be 30,000 guan. With these 30,000 guan at the bottom, you can sail if you don't have the ship full. If you don't have the cargo on the one-way, you can fill the cargo back, which is also a kind of profit - you should not be too greedy for people." Zhao Xing scolded.
Chapter completed!