Fenghou

After resting overnight, Chen Qing began to listen to the reports of the main officials in the morning of the next day. After a busy day, he was really dizzy, so he simply took his wife and children for a walk in the streets.

Of course, their stroll was not walking, but sightseeing in a carriage. The carriage slowly entered the county town. The county town was full of hustle and bustle just like the wharf.

After the Song Dynasty government plundered the maritime merchants' finances, it severely hit the maritime merchants from all over the world. Only the maritime merchants in Quanzhou flourished, and the maritime merchants from all over the country moved to Quanzhou, which further promoted the development of Quanzhou's overseas trade.

Like Jingzhao, Quanzhou has now become an international metropolis, and businessmen from overseas countries are everywhere, and they can hear various languages.

"Father, some merchants sit in the store and some carry backpacks. How do you tell them apart?" Chen Ji couldn't help asking.

Chen Qing said with a slight smile: "The one who opened the shop is called Zuo Shang, who specializes in purchasing overseas goods, and then transports them to the inland market for sale. The profit is not high, but fortunately it is relatively stable, backpacks are merchants, and they go overseas to trade, and they also go out and in, and the profit is relatively high, usually five times the profit."

"I saw a lot of merchants, do they all have their own ships?"

Chen Qing laughed, "Do you think it's possible?"

Chen Ji blushed and said, "It's really impossible!"

Chen Qing said slowly: "Now there are two kinds of ships going to Nanyang for trade, one is private ships, there are about [-] ships, most of them are five thousand stone ships, and there are also ten thousand stone sea ships, which are relatively few. I went to Nanyang twice, but more than a dozen Wanshi ships have to go to Dashi. All private Wanshi ships only go to sea once a year, and it takes half a year; the other is official ships. There are [-] ships that go to sea every year Twice, I only went to Nanyang, regardless of whether the official ship or the private ship sold tickets to the outside world, and the merchant just took the ship to go to sea, go to sea on time, and come back on time."

"Then did the private ship organize warriors to protect the ship? My child just saw a dozen warriors walking past."

Chen Qing shook his head, "Those warriors are only responsible for maintaining the order on board, not dealing with pirates, which is our navy, every time an official ship goes out, there will be two navy warships accompanying it, and private cargo ships will also follow, they go to the big The cargo ship for food will also come back before October, and follow our last batch of official ships back to Quanzhou."

"Boy, I just heard from a businessman that there are no merchant ships from Guangzhou, and all of them have come to Quanzhou."

Chen Qing said indifferently: "In recent years, the imperial court has killed chickens to extract eggs, forcing sea merchants to buy clubs, sea ships have been confiscated without compensation, all chickens have been killed, how can there be eggs?"

"The child understands!"

At this moment, Yu Lian pointed out the window and asked curiously, "Officer, where are those dozen or so women from? They are so weirdly dressed!"

Chen Qing glanced at it, and saw a group of Japanese women, about a dozen of them, all of them were painted white, wearing bamboo hats, and Tang-style kimonos. After the flight to Japan opened, many Japanese prostitutes came to Quanzhou Earn a living, and even have Jingzhao.

Chen Qing smiled and said, "They are Japanese prostitutes, they came from Japan."

Yu Lian reads the newspaper every day and knows about Japanese prostitutes. When she heard that they were prostitutes, she curled her lips in contempt.

"Officer, those people are so dark!" Yao Mei also discovered something new.

Chen Qing also saw it, and said with a smile: "That's a black slave who followed his master from far away from Dashi. Look at the Dashi businessman in white robe in front of him, he is their master."

"Could they be the Kunlun slaves of the Tang Dynasty?" Yao Mei remembered an allusion she had heard.

"Even so!"

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "Most of the Kunlun slaves in the Tang Dynasty were blacks from Tianzhu. They were not the same as them, but there were also some who were the same as them, called Kunlun slaves."

The carriage passed through the city and went to the pier again. The pier was still unloading. Thousands of people slowly walked down the sideboard with bags of heavy goods on their backs, and then pushed the goods to the warehouse with a unicycle deer cart. Chen Qing He frowned slightly. He didn't expect that Quanzhou's wharf was still so backward, and it was a waste of manpower.

At this time, he saw Zhang Jing, the order of the Municipal Bureau of Shipbuilding, and said, "I'll go and have a look, and I'll be right back. Wait a moment!"

Several personal soldiers followed Chen Qing and walked over. Zhang Jing turned around and saw His Highness King Yong, he was startled, and hurried over to greet him.

Chen Qing glanced at the civilian husband who was carrying supplies and said, "Do other cargo ships carry supplies like this?"

Zhang Jing was a little uneasy and said, "It's always been like this!"

"This is too laborious. You should go to Jingzhao to see how to unload the goods. It is much less laborious than yours."

"The next time I go to Jingzhao, I must study hard."

Chen Qing waved his hand, "There is no need to go to Jingzhao, I will tell you how to do it now!"

"Your Highness, please give instructions!"

Chen Qing said unhurriedly: "Do three things well, first, prepare a batch of loading and unloading boxes, each loading and unloading box is three feet square, there must be no error at all, and all materials are carried in the loading and unloading room. "

Zhang Jing was in a hurry, "Your Highness, the three-foot-square big box is too heavy to carry."

"Of course I know it's heavy, and then I'm going to say the second thing, be patient and listen carefully!"

Zhang Jing wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, and dared not interrupt again.

"The second thing to put it simply is to erect the pole and pull the rope. An iron pole must be erected on the pier, and it must be inserted deep enough to make it strong enough. Then there must be a pole on each boat, and the two poles must be pulled together. Pick up the rope, hook the loading and unloading box on the rope, and slide directly off the boat, understand?"

"Xiaozhi understands that the iron must be very strong."

"The principle is very simple. You have to figure out how to do it yourself, then use large pulleys to load the goods, and use animal power to pull the goods onto the ship. Let me talk about the third thing. Donkeys should be used to pull carts to the warehouse instead of people pushing carts. In the warehouse, the bottom of that kind of car should be as low as possible, and it should be made into a flat plate, so that the loading and unloading boxes can be easily lifted off from the car. In addition, the ground to the warehouse should be leveled to make it easier for the donkey to pull the cart.”

"Xiaozhi fully understands, and must follow through."

Chen Qing said again: "What I want to remind you is that the size of the loading and unloading box is the same everywhere, and you are not allowed to change it without authorization. You can be smart and make the four sides of the loading and unloading box into traps, so that the goods can be taken out easily."

What Chen Qing was talking about was a container-like standard, except that there is no forklift now, so it can’t be made so big. Three feet long, wide and high is enough. Everyone can fully accept the same rules, and it will be transparent at one point.

Zhang Jing fully understood King Yong's instruction, and he immediately started to implement it. Three months later, all the goods were unloaded and loaded, using the four magic tools of loading and unloading boxes, unloading slide ropes, loading pulleys, and donkey-drawn box carts. There are still so many people on the dock, but the efficiency of unloading and loading has increased several times.