Fight the Giants

  Chapter 206 I don't know the truth

   Within a few days, Huo Xi got a message.

  The imperial court took more than 400 artisans from Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, and Nanzhili Binjiang prefectures to Beijing to build ships. The news quickly spread among the boatmen, and everyone talked about it.

   "Xi'er, why do you think Beijing is building so many boats all of a sudden? Everyone is asking whether the Hebo Department is going to go fishing by itself."

  Huo Erhuai floated in the river every day, listening to all kinds of discussions.

  Huo Xi laughed: "How is it possible, the fisherman can't survive, will the imperial court support so many fishermen? Or send fishermen to mine?"

   "Mining? Maybe it's true." Yang's face was full of worry.

   "Sister, Nian'er doesn't want to go mining." Pi Xiaozi sat in her arms, turned his head and looked at her with a shrunken face.

  Huo Xi poked him on the forehead: "Are you mining? Can you hold a pickaxe or a shovel?"

   Circled him, the two siblings sat close together on the deck, Huo Xi looked at Huo Erzhun and Yang Shi after finishing speaking.

"The imperial court's boat building has nothing to do with our fishermen. Besides, our family is not a fisherman, we are a farmer in our register. So many people are suddenly sent to build a boat. It should be the Cao army who wants to use the boat. And shopkeeper Shen's side I went to inquire, and they said that the shipyard near our capital wanted to build a big ship, that kind of big blessing ship."

   "Blessing the boat? What is the purpose of building such a big blessing boat?"

   "It is estimated that the sea will be banned."

  After the establishment of the Water Transportation Department, it not only takes care of the water affairs of the seven canal provinces, but also includes sea transportation. However, in recent years, sea transportation has been banned from time to time, and it is impossible to build a lucky boat as large as several thousand materials, so it is impossible to sail in the inland river, and it can only be banned from sea.

  The Longxing ship where Huo Zhong is located is already under construction. Everyone knows that sea trade makes money. If the DPRK and China lift the sea ban, it is impossible for these big companies not to squeeze in to get a share of the pie.

  Huo Xi also wanted to, but she couldn't afford Fuchuan. There are also no captains and sailors who can go to sea.

  However, can you pick up the leak?

   "Father, I plan to go to Songjiang Mansion in a while."

  Songjiang Prefecture is the mouth of the sea, and there are many textile workshops there, producing cotton, silk and various kinds of cloth. Moreover, ships would dock at Songjiang Wharf when they went out to sea and returned from the ocean, and she wanted to go and have a look.

   "Go to Songjiang?" The couple didn't know why she suddenly wanted to go to Songjiang again.

"how far?"

   "The passenger boat can arrive in three days."

   "I'm going too, I'm going too!" Huo Nian usually listened to his sister talking about Jingkou, Guazhou, and Huai'an, and he couldn't follow him back, and he was already thinking about it.

   "You are still young, I will take you there when you grow up." Huo Xi disagreed.

"I don't."

  Huo Nian got up directly from her arms, and stamped his feet in protest: "I don't get my turn for any good things! Didn't you still tell me stories, saying that reading thousands of books is worse than traveling thousands of miles? I want to learn more!"

   "What knowledge do you have. What books have you read? You can travel thousands of miles."

"Hmph, I'm going. Elder sister, you want to send me to school in a while. I know that you asked Uncle Shen to find me a private school. If my elder sister takes me to Songjiang, I will go to a private school obediently. "

  Hiss, are you still talking about conditions?

   "Come here! See if I beat you up." Huo Xi made a gesture to catch him.

   "Don't go there!"

  Pi Xiaozi immediately turned around and ran behind Yang, hugging Yang's neck, seeking a sense of security.

Huo Erhuai and Yang Shi looked at each other, thinking that it would take several days to go back and forth, plus the delay in Songjiang Mansion, at least ten and a half months without seeing Huo Xi, let her go alone, the husband and wife People are not at ease.

   "How about Dad rowing the boat, let's go together? Nian'er will go to school after a while, and I'm afraid he won't have the chance to run around again in the future, so I just took him out to see and see."

  Huo Erhuai felt that the child had to be on his own boat to be at ease.

  Huo Xi didn't respond yet, Huo Nian jumped up happily.

   Clapping his little hands, he was overjoyed: "I like my mother the most. Hmph, sister, if you don't take me there, you won't have a boat, you have to swim, hmph."

  Pipboy!

  Huo Xi thought for a while, then nodded: "Okay, then let's go together. I'll go after I make arrangements for the shop in the next few days."

  When she entered the city, she found that not only the guys in the shop were talking about the big ship to be built by the Jingshi Shipyard, but also the restaurants and teahouses everywhere in the city.

   "I heard that we will build a big ship with thousands of materials, a big ship that can hold 10,000 to 20,000 people."

   "How did I hear that warships are going to be built?"

   "Warship? Now that the four fields are peaceful, why build a warship? Is there going to be a war again?"

  The speaker shuddered, don't fight, it's only been a few years of peace. Put your palms together and pray to the gods of the four directions, and ask God to bless you, don't fight, the life of ordinary people is not easy.

Someone came over with a mysterious face: "I heard that it is not to fight, but to go to sea to find someone. I heard that tens of thousands of soldiers were selected from the navy to Taihu Lake for training. I have the eighth uncle of my third aunt." My brother-in-law said that his neighbor’s son, who was a soldier in the navy, was taken to training, and that he would go out to sea with the ship in the future, and his family cried for several nights.”

   "Tsk tsk, this may capsize in the river, and if it goes out to sea, it may not be able to come back when it encounters strong winds and waves, so it's time to cry."

   "You said, who are you looking for to make such a big commotion?"

  A person came over again, pointing his hand upwards: "The person in front is said to be dead, but there has been no mourning, maybe he really escaped, and we are looking for him."

   "You don't want to die!" The tablemate hurriedly stopped him.

  The man was also taken aback. He looked around and saw that no one had noticed his table.

  The window sash of the private room on the second floor was gently closed.

Kan Erli glanced at each other and looked at Mu Yan. Only the three of them could hear him: "Young master, do you think the late emperor is really alive? Your majesty has never sent him a funeral. Could it be that the court has been so big recently? Do you really want to go to sea to find him?"

Mu Yan frowned: "The DPRK and China are talking about going abroad. Your Majesty said that he wants to communicate with countries outside the region, and plans to send envoys to countries such as Guli, Managa, Java and Sumatra. In the past two years, Annan has frequently disturbed the border and said Your Majesty wants to conquer Annan in the south."

   "The search for people..."

  Kan Er just opened his mouth, but shut his mouth under Mu Yan's cold gaze.

   "Since Your Majesty says he is dead, he is dead." Mu Yan said lightly.

   "The rumors are getting worse and worse. Now that the government and the public are purged, even if that person is alive, he can't affect the court situation. Why do you ask him?" Li Yi said.

   "Alive is always a threat." Kan Er glanced at the young master after speaking, afraid that the young master would reprimand him.

  Mu Yan just cast him a glance: "You are so free, why don't you take someone to Songjiang Mansion to pick him up."

  Kan Er smiled and said, "Master, you are the grandson of Mrs. Tai, so what's the matter if I go to pick him up. Mrs. Tai can't see the young master, so you can't beat me."

   Speaking of going to Songjiang Mansion to pick up people, Li Yi looked at Mu Yan: "Master, will the court send someone to pick up the princess and the consort?"

  Mu Yan shook her head: "Madam went to the palace to ask, and said that it will be arranged by our mansion."

Kan Er clicked his tongue twice and shook his head: "Our princess is really unfavorable. She married far away in the southwest, and she has been ill for several years. She wrote a letter and returned to Beijing to recuperate. She didn't even send someone to help her. She returned to Beijing , not even a princess mansion."

  Mu Yan didn't speak, thinking about picking up someone.

  (end of this chapter)