Fight the Giants

  Because the Huo family entered the city, Huo Xi and Yang Fu took Huo Nian to live in a house in the inner city.

  Huo Nian has been studying for two years now and understands a lot.

   I feel that I have An An again, and I feel that I am the eldest son of my parents. Seeing uncles and brothers coming over, they pretended to be grown-ups and had dinner with them, and wanted to stay for entertainment, so Huo Xi and Yang Fu carried them to a house in the inner city.

  Huo Nian looks nothing like Huo Erhuai and Yang Shi. Huo Xi also didn't want others to look at Huo Nian more and speak harsh words in front of him.

  Yang Fu simply doesn't like that family.

  When Yang Fu was young, Yang Fu followed his sister and brother-in-law to Huo's house. The family always treated him as a helper, and they didn't even let him have a full meal after the Chinese New Year. He didn't bother to entertain them, and he didn't bother to entertain them.

  The two put Huo Nian to sleep, and then they talked about going to sea.

   "The Longxing family said that if they want to avoid the typhoon period in July and August, they have to leave in early May at the latest. Now they plan to leave at the end of April, so that they can come back for the New Year."

  Huo Xi rubbed his chin in thought, he wanted to set off at the end of April, which was a bit rushed.

  My own goods are easy to prepare. Only white sugar and rock sugar take up most of the weight, and the rest of the silk and raw silk are still in the warehouse that I collected last year.

  The things made in the workshop are also kept, and they are ready to go to sea, and they are not sold much.

  My own goods are prepared quickly, and it is no problem to go to Dongyang. "Are the other goods ready?"

  Last year’s sailors and boatmen were all ready-made, so it shouldn’t be a big problem to go to Toyo before the beginning of May.

  Yang Fu nodded: "They are larger than ours, and they can just transfer goods to their own shop. It's just another boat, and I'm afraid it won't be so fast."

that's for sure. Now the ship is ordered, but not yet delivered.

   Moreover, sailors and boatmen may not be easy to find if you want to go to the South Seas and West Seas. Because this trip will not come back for at least a year. If it doesn't go well, it may not be possible to come back in two or more years.

  Long distance means all kinds of dangers. The recruited sailors and boatmen did not go as smoothly as the Toyo Line.

"Xi'er, I heard the comments from those families that this time they don't plan to go to Hirado, but want to go from Taicang Port to North Korea's Pusan ​​Port. They also said that when they return, they want to go to Tamna Island and change some horses." return."

  Going back to North Korea this time?

  Going to North Korea is also possible. There is a good relationship with the Wei Dynasty, and the transactions between merchants are more friendly, which is more reassuring than going to Japan.

  Tamna, Huo Xi also knows that it is called Jeju Island in later generations, and it is a famous tourist destination, but now it is still a place for North Korean exiled prisoners and horses.

"Which one do you hear said that they want to go to Tamna Island to exchange horses? Tamna Island is a famous place for raising horses, but the horse trade with me in the court has always been a tribute. Official transactions, private merchants want to exchange, I am afraid it is very difficult. It’s difficult. Even if you can exchange horses and bring them back, can Shibosi keep them for us?”

   Haven’t they all been confiscated?

  Last year, the imperial court exchanged 30,000 pieces of silk and 20,000 pieces of cotton cloth for 10,000 variegated horses in North Korea.

  Even if it is shipped back, the Shibo Department will not confiscate it. If a horse is sent to the cattle and horse market, it is estimated that it can be sold for dozens of taels. If you want to earn back the cost of going to sea this time, how many horses do you have to pull?

   And the horses are transported, which accounts for the weight, so can each house load other goods?

   It's a bit of a waste.

   "Every family doesn't want to trade horses, they just think the horses over there are cheap, and they want to buy a few horses for their own use at home." Yang Fu said.

  Retain for personal use?

  There is a great shortage of military horses now, and they are preparing to fight secretly with the grassland. If there is no market, the horses cannot be bought. Even a wealthy family may not have one or two horses at home. It's not that there is no money, it is that you can't buy it.

  If you see a rich family traveling in an ox cart, don’t make fun of them. They really don’t have money.

  So it is quite normal for a rich family to secretly sell some horses back.

   At the cattle and horse market, horses are hard to find, but mules and horses can still be bought. Sometimes old horses who have retired from the army can also be lucky enough to bump into them.

Huo Xi pondered for a while: "Our family doesn't need horses to pull carts now. However, if the other families buy them all, we don't want to be too different. Just buy a few horses. There are too many. It's easy. We have no right or power to be targeted, and if the court wants to confiscate it, we can't stop it. The gain outweighs the loss."

  Yang Fu nodded: "Okay. Then I will make plans according to the situation. I think the red ginseng brought back last year is quite easy to sell, and the price is also high. If I go to Busan this year, I plan to buy more."

  Huo Xi agreed, and made an inventory with Yang Fu about the goods to take and the goods to buy.

When the Dongyang line was finished, Yang Fu asked her: "Xi'er, who should I send to the Western line? How about I go to Xiyang and let Tinglei Muyu and the others carry the goods to Dongyang? The two of them followed for a long time last year. I have experience. If there is no reliable person in Xiyang to place the goods, I am not at ease. Shopkeeper Shen said that if he can’t find a suitable person, then he will make a trip.”

Huo Xi shook his head: "Shopkeeper Shen can't go away. Everything in the shop depends on him. If you go to the West, mother will not agree. You should go to the East honestly. If you come back this year, you can do it next year." I'm engaged to Sister Qin."

  Hearing about his marriage, Yang Fu blushed.

  He also wants to be safe and come back to marry his sweetheart.

   Next, the two were busy going to sea. Things in the East are settled, but things in the West are still there.

  The five families get together almost every day to discuss this matter.

  Another ship, Wanjia asked for a large ship of 3,000 materials, and the ship has been ordered. But experienced sailors are hard to find. It is easy to find boatmen, and Guangfengshui makes use of the friendly contacts with fishermen all the year round, so it is very easy to find boatmen.

   Among the five families, only Guangfengshui and Wanjia are slightly weaker. Wanjia is looking for a boat, and Guangfengshui is looking for a boatman. The other three families went to the sailor and the ship boss through various relationships.

   Ma Xiang is engaged, but he is not idle. This year he still wants to go to the East with Yang Fu, and drags Yang Fu to find boatmen and sailors who are willing to go to the West.

  The fishermen have no land on the shore, they are all living in poverty and have to beg for life on the water, and they can't save two or three taels of silver a year.

   Now I heard that if you run the Dongyang Line, you can get at least one hundred taels of silver. If the owner sells the goods smoothly, you will get a bonus when you come back. If unfortunately passed away, you can get another sum of money. If there are many people in the family, they are all willing to apply for the job and want to make a breakthrough.

  These fishermen, their water skills are quite good, and they have lived on the water for many years, and they can also deal with various situations on the water, depending on the weather.

  In this way, Guangfengshui quickly found the boatman who was going to the West.

   And all the Dongyang goods have been prepared, and they sent people to **** the goods to Taicang Port, ready to go.

  Before Yang Fu left, he finally got permission from Qin Changzhi that if he came back safely from this trip, he would be allowed to come to propose marriage. Make Yang Fu happy.

  Huo Xi was not optimistic about this pair.

  I think that upright old man Qin Changzhi would not agree to his uncle marrying his precious granddaughter.

  Qin Changzhi is not without a chance to recover. As long as there is any opportunity, and if there is an amnesty, Qin Huaimin of his family will be able to take the imperial examination and become an official.

  It is very different from mud legs like my own.

  Uncle should have no shortage of money in his life, but he has been an ordinary merchant all his life. What does Qin Huaiyu like in him?