Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 298 New Atmosphere in the City

Zhu Pei was soaked in a large wooden barrel filled with hot water. The hot hot spring water made her eyes squint. The new maid, Aya, pinched her shoulders and the back of her neck graciously. This smart and well-behaved Japanese maid made her She quite liked it.

"Aya, where is your home?"

"My family is in Higo Country, West Kaido, a very remote village called Iigang Village."

"Is it far from here?" Jupe had no idea of ​​Japanese geography.

"It's far, far away. The girl passed the strait between Koryo and Japan by boat. My home is two or three hundred miles to the south."

"That's very far! It will take more than ten days by boat."

"No, we came from Nagasaki and sat by boat for fifteen days."

"Then why do you want to come here?" Zhu Pei asked again with a smile.

Aya has studied Chinese for these questions. Although her tone is a bit blunt, she managed to answer clearly.

"I earn [-] yuan a month in Nagasaki, and I earn [-] yuan a month as a wine girl here."

"Only give you six hundred dollars a month?"

Zhu Pei felt resentful, she turned her head and glanced at Aya: "Who else is in your family?"

Aya whispered: "There are two older brothers and three younger sisters. Our family is very poor. We rent land from landlords. We only have one meal a day. Father and elder brother eat first, and the three of us sisters can only eat a little bit." Leftovers, when I was ten years old, my family encountered a drought and couldn’t survive, so I went to work in Nagasaki with my uncle.”

"Then you want to go home?"

Aya shook her head, "I gave all the money to my family, and the adults promised me to become a Song citizen. I am working hard to learn the language of the Song Dynasty."

Zhu Pei knew that Aya was referring to Fan Ning as the adult. She was a little surprised. How could Fan Ning agree to Aya's conversion to Song Min? She heard Ming Ren said that unless he married a Song soldier, it is generally impossible to convert a Japanese to Song civil.

Zhu Pei asked the reason again, and Aya hesitated to tell the story of her being bullied by Qin Wu and almost losing her virginity.

Zhu Pei was furious immediately, "I'll ask Aning later, can I just give some compensation for this kind of thing?"

Aya was startled, and hurriedly knelt down, "Girl, don't be angry!"

Zhu Pei quickly comforted her and said, "I'm not angry with you, I just hate these soldiers of the Song Army. They couldn't beat the Liao Kingdom, and they couldn't beat Xixia. They bullied women one by one, but they were very brave."

"That... the sergeant who bullied me has been killed. My lord arrived in time, and I have not lost my dignity."

When Zhu Pei heard that the soldier who bullied Aya had been executed, his anger calmed down, and he said to Aya: "From now on, you will follow me, whoever dares to bully you again, I will kill him with a sword!"

"Thank you girl!"

Aya picked up the hot water basin again and washed Jupe's hair.

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside, and Zhu Pei hurriedly said: "Sister Jian, tell Aning that I want to take a rest today, and I will go to him tomorrow."

Fan Ning came to ask Zhu Pei to eat, but Jian Meizi turned her head and said, "A Pei, the little official said to take you to lunch, will you go?"

"No need today, I'm a little tired, let's eat whatever we want, tomorrow!"

Fan Ning could hear clearly and also heard the sound of water, knowing that Zhu Pei was taking a bath, he nodded with a smile, "Okay! I'll go and see Su Liang and the others. You should have a good rest. If you need anything, just come to me. "

Fanning left Jupe's residence and went to the quarters of the new officials.

The dormitory for the new officials is that two people live in a wooden house with their own rooms, and there is also a living room with a fireplace for warming up in winter.

Su Liang and Li Dashou were in a dormitory, they were packing their luggage, Ming Ren and Ming Li were sitting in the living room discussing business.

Although they have only been here for less than two hours, they already feel that it is no longer easy to make a fortune. The Kun people seem to have become smarter. One sea pearl actually costs five taels of silver. You must know that last year, one knife was exchanged for ten sea pearls. A knife is only five pennies, and the goods they bring can't sell the huge profits of last year.

At this time, Fan Ning walked in and said with a smile, "Aren't you going to eat?"

"We're here to find them for dinner!"

Mingren smiled and said, "A-Ning, do you want to go together?"

"I won't go. I just announced that I won't welcome the officials and take them to dinner. Wouldn't it be a slap in the face for me? You go!"

Ming Li hurriedly pulled Fan Ning aside, and said in a low voice, "Is there any way to make money, please help brother!"

"Aren't you looking for the Kun people to make money?"

"The Kun people are smart now, and it seems impossible to make a fortune."

"It's really impossible!"

Fan Ning said with a smile: "The businessmen from Nagasaki have taught them a lot, and if they catch them, they may ask you to make up the price difference from last year. If you don't make up, you will be the sons-in-law of the Kun people."

The two brothers were startled, their eyes widened and their eyes narrowed, "No way!"

"Just kidding, the Kun people will not play tricks, you can rest assured about this, but I think it is still profitable to buy goods from them. There are precious conch shells, hawksbill shells, corals, sea pearls, and ambergris. In addition, you sell If you have enough money, there is still a way to make money.”

Mingren and Mingli were overjoyed, "What way?"

"You can buy amber wood from the Kun people, that is, the pine of red pine. There are a lot of them in Kunzhou, and then rent two large ships to transport them back to the Song Dynasty. It was a valuable wood in the Song Dynasty. You can earn at least [-] this time. money."

The two brothers discussed for a while, but they gave up Fanning's suggestion, because the wood took up too much space.

Moreover, they are not familiar with the timber business, and they don't know who they will sell to when they ship it back, so it's better to deal with the business they are more familiar with.

"A-Ning, let's think about it again!"

Fan Ning spread his hands, "Do whatever you want, I'm just a suggestion."

At this time, Li Dashou walked out quickly, bowed and saluted, "See brother!"

Fan Ning patted his arm and smiled, "I'm really happy that you can come to Kunzhou. Do you have any plans?"

"I'll listen to my brother's arrangement!"

Fanning nodded, "That's why I came to you."

Fan Ning didn't see Su Liang, so he said to Li Dashou: "I plan to let you go to the most difficult place, are you willing?"

Li Dashou said without hesitation: "I have no objection!"

Fan Ning was very pleased with Li Dashou's attitude, and said with a smile: "I plan to spend a year in-depth exploration of Jingzhou. The exploration team consists of three officials, five craftsmen, and thirty soldiers, as well as several Kun people. wizard.

Among the three officials, there is an official from the Group Shepherd's Department and a civil servant from the army, but we also need a Kunzhou local official. I am considering candidates, so let you take the post! "

"I will live up to my brother's expectations!"

"Okay! Can you ride a horse?"

"A little bit, but not a great ride."

"Then practice well in the past two days, go to the government office to find Chen Tao, he will arrange for you, and the exploration team will set off in three days."

"I'll go in the afternoon."

At this time, Su Liang also packed up his things and ran out, "Brother, make arrangements for me too!"

Fan Ning said with a smile: "You go to participate in the management of labor logging and building roads. I hope you will learn Japanese as soon as possible."

"Why do you want to learn Japanese?" Su Liang asked puzzled.

Fan Ning laughed, "Because the laborers are all Japanese recruits, how can you deal with them if you don't learn Japanese?"

"Ah! Are they all Japanese?"

Under Su Liang's dumbfounded, Fan Ning laughed and left. He still couldn't give them a drink. After all, he was now the highest administrative officer in Kunzhou, and he could no longer do things as he wanted. He had to consider the feelings of other subordinates.

Fan Ning then went to visit [-] new residents. Of course, these [-] new residents were the first batch of county residents. Enough wooden houses had been built in the county, and each family could get one. Moving outside the city, except for a small number of garrisons in the county, the rest are civilian houses. In one winter, the army and craftsmen built nearly [-] wooden houses in the city, which were divided into eight workshops, four in the east and four in the east. are separated by streets.

Among them, Xuanyangfang in the southeast corner is the residence of [-] young Japanese women. They go to the workshop outside the city to make clothes and shoes every day, or go to the vegetable field outside the city to grow vegetables and raise pigs. Thousands of acres have been opened up in the northwest of the city. A vegetable field and a pig farm, fresh vegetables and meat are mainly supplied to the army, and a small amount is also supplied to labor.

The [-] immigrant households mainly live in the three workshops in the west. The warehouse in the northwest corner occupies the area of ​​one workshop. Each wooden house in the three workshops is numbered, and each household decides their new home by drawing lots. Location.

When Fanning came over, the houses had already been allocated. Every household was cleaning their new houses, and the men were chopping firewood outside. They were going to build a simple fenced yard first. The sides of each wooden house were lined with lime in advance. It is the range of the yard of each family, there are front and back yards, and the yard plus the wooden house is about an acre.

Although it is not big, courtyards have been a living tradition since ancient times. With courtyards, it is easy for neighbors to communicate with each other.

Fan Ning was riding along Guangling Avenue with two followers. At this moment, he suddenly heard Jiang Han's voice, as if he was trying to stop something?
"Not allowed, composting is absolutely not allowed in the city, and you are not allowed to dig cesspit."

Fan Ning walked over quickly, and saw a large group of people behind a wooden house. They were all glaring at an embarrassed old man. The old man seemed to be digging a hole. A neighbor complained, and Jiang Han came to stop him.

"Jiang Han, what happened?" Fan Ning got off his horse and walked over quickly.

(End of this chapter)