Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 158

Sun Xin, Wu Song and others went to the harbor to inquire about the ships going to the Liao Kingdom, and the results they got were very scary. Now, the seagoing ships going to the Liao Kingdom, let alone delivery, cost a lot of money just to go to the Liao Kingdom alone. It's a whole lot of money, and you can't go to Yingkou at all, you can only go to Jinzhou.

Naturally, he couldn't just listen to one boatman's offer, so Sun Xin asked a few more people, but found that the results were all average, and he couldn't come up with a price of [-] Wen. It is the result of unified pricing by organizations such as guilds.

Sun Xin immediately gave up bargaining, and after thinking about it, it would be too late to wait for the time. For Hu Cheng, although the price per person is expensive, it is compared with what he can get in exchange for the goods he brought when they arrive in Liao. The value was also completely disproportionate, so after some discussion between the two, Hu Cheng found a sea boat.

A team of more than forty people booked two cabins, and everyone gathered in one place.

Nowadays, taking this sea route, especially between countries, it is not surprising that anything happens on the sea. If it is not for the company of many people, most of them will be cut into meat on the way.

The sea master waited to collect the money, and when the guests on the boat were full, he urged to set sail. It was already dark at this time, but he didn't give him a moment's time, even if he sailed at night, he didn't care.

There was no other way, and everyone had to rush to squeeze the ship with their cargo.

The big ship Yang Fan sets sail.

Fortunately, the Bohai Sea is still relatively calm after all, and everyone's reaction on the sea was not as serious as imagined. Several people were nested in the airtight cabin, and a few dealers cleared out a piece of water in the cabin. In a clean place, let Sun Xin, Hu Cheng and Wu Song sit down first.

Sun Xin didn't rest, but got up and walked around the two cabins. How to organize a squad of dozens of people is still easy for him.

Assigned people to stay on duty overnight, asked everyone to bring food out to eat, and asked the dealers to clean the cabin, distinguishing the functions of each part of the cabin, and seeing that they had arranged bedding before Sun Xin returned to his place.

Hu Cheng, who was silently in the corner, was dumbfounded.

When he was young, he went out to do business with his father, which was not noisy, because they never cared about the life and death of the dealer.

As long as the farmers make their own bedding, they often fall asleep, or call the servants to fix the wine and food for them, as long as they are comfortable. As for the other farmers to let them sleep in a kennel, they don’t need nobles like them to come manage,
Now Sun Xin is very caring about the situation of each farmer, and arranged for everyone to clean up, and quickly made the two cabins tidy, and even arranged special rooms for the dealers on both sides In the toilet area, even the barrels have been bought in advance and brought to the boat. Originally, Hu Cheng expected that it would be the most annoying sea journey during the trip, but now he found that the environment had become elegant, and he sat in the cabin without any worries. Feel dirty and smelly.

Sure enough, Sun Xin planned in advance.

After sitting in the rickety cabin for most of the night, everyone got used to it, and they didn’t feel like vomiting too much, so they also relaxed. After the long night, after leaving Shandong, they were about to go to Liao Kingdom, and everyone felt a little nervous , although his body relaxed, Hu Cheng still opened his eyes wide and wanted to sleep but couldn't.

In the middle of the night, the cabin was completely dark, and the sound of snoring from the dealers could be heard, Hu Cheng was silent for the middle of the night and couldn't hold it back, so he touched Sun Xin beside him.

"What's the matter?" Hu Cheng thought that Sun Xin hadn't slept yet, so he asked him in a low voice: "Brother Sun Xin, do you think that Hu Cai would secretly take someone back to Dulonggang for nothing, if I hadn't forced him earlier Let's go, he might be gone by then."

"No." Sun Xin said firmly without any doubt.

If Hu Cai really dared to bring a group of people back to Dulonggang, it would be a rational behavior, both in fact and in courage, enough to make Sun Xin look at him with admiration.

But judging by Hu Cai's virtue, he didn't have the courage to back down at all, and he was afraid that he would have to go home if he had to go to Qingzhou and suffer a bloodbath.But it's not easy for him to explain this ending to Hu Cheng.

The sea road was shaky, and the cabin was not well ventilated, so I could only go up to the deck in shifts to take a look. When I returned to the cabin, the air was turbid. I only ate and slept. Fortunately, Sun Xin made good arrangements for everyone, so The cabin is not so dirty and smelly that it cannot be lived in.

After a long period of time, everyone has gradually forgotten the concept of time. They don't know the day and night, and their heads are dizzy when they sit.

Finally, in the early morning of one day, I heard a voice from outside: "We have arrived in Jinzhou, those Song people, hurry up and go ashore!"

The Jinzhou Mansion that appeared in front of me was a city with a population of tens of thousands. Although the population was small, the city defenses were solid. It obviously adopted the Han people's city building model. The city wall was five feet high, and there were inner and outer cities.

In fact, from Sun Xin's point of view, if you open the map and check the real territory of Liao at this time, you will find that the land area, population and economic volume occupied by Daliao are not in the same order of magnitude as the Northern Song Dynasty. The so-called Daliao It's neither Liao nor big, but the Northern Song Dynasty just couldn't beat others.

At this time, the real economic center of gravity of the Liao Kingdom was all concentrated in the south, that is, on the Liaodong Peninsula along the Liaoxi Corridor in the North China Plain, and almost all large cities were distributed in this area.

And Jinzhou is in the center of this line, and is on the verge of the Bohai Sea, so it became one of the most important seaports in the Liao Kingdom at this time, and its importance is even higher than that of the Suzhou Port (really called Suzhou) in the Liao Kingdom at this time. Even Dalian Port in later generations is much higher.

The people boarded the ship when it was dark, and it was already sunset when they got off the ship. After leaving the harbor, Sun Xin hurriedly asked everyone to work harder to load the goods and headed straight to Jinzhou City, and hired several grooms to help them go. Delivering goods in the direction of Jinzhou City, they finally arrived at Guanxiang before the sunset.

Sitting on the mule cart and entering the customs room, Hu Cheng had already forgotten his previous worries about Hu Cai, looking at the surrounding scenery was full of novelty.

In the early years of the Liao Kingdom, the land was very remote and the population was sparse. At that time, in order to meet the envoys of the Song Dynasty, they had to force those Xi and Han mountain people who lived on the mountains to move to the cities. Building houses on both sides of the street creates a bustling market scene. In fact, behind a row of wooden houses on both sides of the street is an empty field.

But now the Liao Kingdom has entered the Central Plains and developed for more than a hundred years. Not only the Datong Mansion and Xijin Mansion to the south of the Great Wall have developed mature businesses, but also cities such as Laizhou, Jinzhou, and Chenzhou along the West Liaoning Corridor. Bustling bazaars have already appeared, and even a state-level city, Bazhou Zhongxingfu, has been raised in the Liaoxi Corridor.

(End of this chapter)