Pirate Song

As soon as Huang Hao heard Gao Huaiyuan's order, he was startled. Gao Huaiyuan's appetite was so great that he wanted to send the business to various tribes in Tubo, and he wanted to sell the horses back from Tubo, but Huang Hao was also a favorite. For those who are challenged, Gao Huaiyuan has a big appetite, which just satisfies his pursuit. After hearing this, Huang Hao immediately stood up and clapped his hands and replied: "Young one obeys. After the next year, the young one will arrange things here, and then Going to Chengdu is only about whether you can meet the requirements of the young master. I don’t dare to promise now, but I will definitely work hard, so please rest assured, young master!”

Gao Huaiyuan nodded in satisfaction. He valued Huang Hao's daring to accept the challenge. He also knew that it would be very difficult to accomplish this. Not being able to do this was the main reason why he and Huang Zhen chose Huang Hao in the first place.

"You just let go and do it. Money is not a problem for us now. Money can make ghosts go through the mill. If you are willing to spend money! This time you go over, I will arrange ten guards for you, to ensure you As for the people you need to do business, you can choose yourself, but you must pay attention to one thing, that is, the people you use must be honest and prudent! Don’t let the wind out! If there are horses that are difficult to deal with, you can find a way to give them to me first Bring back some Tubo mastiffs, this thing is also a good thing, I have always wanted to get some back, but I have no chance!" Gao Huaiyuan continued to order Huang Hao.

"Little one obeys! Thank you, young master, for your understanding. I will do my best!" Huang Hao became a little excited. He knew that if he could do this well, he would be among Gao Huaiyuan's most trusted personnel. Among them, the benefits he will gain by that time will definitely be much more than he is now the shopkeeper of the Zuixianlou head office in Ezhou. He has already seen that Gao Huaiyuan is a person who does big things, don't look at him right now. Pinzhimaguan, but the hidden strength behind Gao Huaiyuan is definitely already quite huge, so he feels that if he follows Gao Huaiyuan in this life, he will probably achieve his career!Therefore, Huang Hao is very eager to try, and wants to go to Sichuan in the next year to make a big splash.

After dealing with this matter, Gao Huaiyuan didn't waste any more time, and left Ezhou and returned to Daye County. At this time, the Spring Festival was approaching, and the government basically had nothing to do.

And Liu Zhixian waited for Gao Huaiyuan to return to the county government, and he was even more polite to him. It was basically impossible for him, a county magistrate, to meet Zhao Fang, a senior member of the party, and Gao Huaiyuan, a small nine It's a rare thing that the Pinxian captain was recruited by Zhao Fang to meet him. He really couldn't figure out how this guy Gao Huaiyuan was able to attract the attention of a high-ranking official like Zhao Fang, so he didn't dare to underestimate Yu Gao. Huaiyuan, when he saw Gao Huaiyuan, he felt a little flattered, as if Gao Huaiyuan was the magistrate of Daye County, and he was Gao Huaiyuan's subordinate.

Regarding the attitude of Liu Zhixian and others towards him after returning this time, Gao Huaiyuan felt a little ridiculous, and his eyelids were too thin!He just went to meet with Zhao Fang, and when he came back here, would the colleagues in Liuzhi County be so polite?

But Gao Huaiyuan still accepted Ji Xiancheng's opinion, and treated Liu Zhixian and others with a respectful attitude as always, which made Liu Zhixian and others very gratified. Fang's thighs despise their colleagues.

"My lord magistrate, I have something to do and I want to go home. I'm here to ask you for a few days off. I hope you will give me your permission!" Gao Huaiyuan saw that the Spring Festival was approaching, and this year he was no longer free since he became a county lieutenant. Therefore, Shaoxing's father, Gao Jian, didn't invite him back to Shaoxing to visit his relatives, but he hadn't been back to Crouching Tiger Manor for a long time, so he asked Liu Zhi County for leave and wanted to go back to the manor to see the situation.

"Oh? County Captain Gao wants to go home and have a look. There is no problem. You just go back. The county has you on the ground during this time, and it will be much more peaceful. You don't have to worry about things here. I have the official and others here. Just rest assured!" Liu Zhixian agreed without even hiccupping, and now he felt that he couldn't afford to offend Gao Huaiyuan, let alone taking a few days off, even if Gao Huaiyuan didn't report to the yamen, he would I don't even fart.

A year later, Crouching Tiger Manor didn't look much different from the outside, but after entering it, it was discovered that the inside was quite different from before.

During this year, Gao Huaiyuan was busy with the affairs of the bow and arrow club in the county, and at the same time gradually began to transfer some industries in Crouching Tiger Manor out of Crouching Tiger Manor. The reason for doing this was that he The development of the industry is too fast, and many workshops are crowded in the Zhuangzi, which can no longer accommodate it.

Therefore, Gao Huaiyuan took advantage of the resources at hand to buy a few pieces of mountain land in the remote places of the county again in the name of Huang Zhen, Xue Yan, Zhou Hao and others, and gradually moved out several workshops in Zhuangzi. He was the first to move the blacksmith workshop out of Zhuangzi. Otherwise, the sound of iron hammering in Zhuangzi day and night made it difficult for people here to sleep well. After the ironwork was moved out, it was placed in the mine in the mountains Inside, there is only one way to get there. Ordinary people are absolutely not allowed to enter the iron work. It is his most secret place, and it is also under the management of Xue Yan. In this way, his mine has formed a one-stop industry. Chain, more reasonable use of the resources at hand.

After the relocation of the iron works was completed, Jiang Peng's soap workshop was the second to be moved out. Although it was still a soap workshop, the current soap workshop is no longer a single workshop that only produced soap at the beginning. With the help of Huaiyuan and Jiang Peng, it can be said that a new type of cosmetics workshop has basically been formed. The products include not only soap and scented soap, but also glycerin refining and filling workshops, cream production workshops, essence extraction workshops and perfume production workshops. .

As a result, the huge expansion of the soap shop made Crouching Tiger Manor unable to accommodate it. As a last resort, Gao Huaiyuan had to drive Jiang Peng out of Crouching Tiger Manor and moved him to a place more than 20 miles away from Crouching Tiger Manor. Among the big Zhuangzi with the surname Cao, this Cao family was originally a rich family. The ancestor was a high-ranking official in the Northern Song Dynasty. The prodigal son was exhausted, and in the end even the huge real estate of Caojiazhuang had to be sold out. After Gao Huaiyuan learned about it, he immediately sold his family's Zhuangzi at a high price and chose it as the new location of the soap shop.

The current workshop in Crouching Tiger Village is Li Tong's Liulifang, which has not moved out yet, but Gao Huaiyuan has also found another Zhuangzi in another place, and started to build a new large glass workshop there. After the kiln is completed in the next year, Liulifang will also be moved away.

In the end, Crouching Tiger Village became quiet again, and only the garment workshop remained in the village, so that the place would gradually restore its cleanliness, saving so much smoke that people would smell uncomfortable from a long distance. This was also done to expand pigeon breeding. The size of the field, after more than a year of expansion, now Liu Fu's precious pigeons have expanded to as many as thousands. There are more than [-] boys and girls who are specialized in learning how to raise pigeons, and they are still a little too busy.

If it goes on like this, Gao Huaiyuan is really worried that he won't be able to support so many pigeons. Fortunately, not all of these pigeons can be used as carrier pigeons. The breeding pigeons are bred, and the remaining pigeons are eliminated. Finally, the number of pigeons has been stabilized within a controllable range. However, Liu Fu has a rule that even the eliminated pigeons are never allowed to be eaten. In the end, he can only be sent down, otherwise, this pigeon idiot will turn his face against others.

Now that there are pigeons, it is much easier for Gao Huaiyuan to communicate with other industries under his name, especially Huang Zhen, who is busy in Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces, often visits pigeons, so that Gao Huaiyuan can always grasp The progress of Huang Zhen's side, such pigeons have been gradually sent to various branches of Zuixianlou in this year, and specially arranged to take care of them. This is really helpful for Gao Huaiyuan to control his own property.

Moreover, such pigeons were even sent to Huang Yan, who served far before the army, so that Huang Yan could often feed back to Gao Huaiyuan in time, and gradually formed an intelligence network, which made Gao Huaiyuan feel better. You can also keep abreast of the battle between Jiangbei, Song and Jin at any time.

As for Zhao Tong's dog farm, he was also kicked out of Crouching Tiger Manor and placed in a remote valley. The instigator was Liu Fu, a pigeon idiot. His reason was simple. He said that Zhao Tong raised those big dogs. Not to mention that he often steals his pigeons, it also frightens his pigeons frequently. The barking of dogs even makes some of his pigeons dare not return home, which seriously affects the effect of his training pigeons. As a result, Gao Huaiyuan has no choice but to I wronged Zhao Tong and his fierce dogs, and drove them out of Crouching Tiger Village.

In the end, even the gunpowder shop set up outside Crouching Tiger Manor was also moved away, and Zhao Tong’s dog breeding base was also moved into the mountains, so that if an accident happened, the stored gunpowder would blow up the huge Crouching Tiger Manor into flat ground.

In the past two years, even Gao Huaiyuan's gunpowder workshop has been greatly developed, and gradually formed a set of strict production processes. In addition, some equipment required for the production of gunpowder was specially added, and the production process was gradually improved.

Black powder is a kind of thing that is easy to detonate, and it will cause problems if you are not careful. Gao Huaiyuan is very aware of this. He knows the power of it better than people in this era, so he has invested a lot of energy in the gunpowder workshop. , for fear that something might go wrong and cause a big bang, otherwise, his secret might not be able to be hidden.

And if you want to solve the problem of production safety, apart from open flames, a little spark may detonate an explosion, and static electricity is the most troublesome thing, so Gao Huaiyuan invested a lot of money in many crushing tools. Copper is used to avoid sparks. At the same time, after the gunpowder is produced, measures must be taken to dry it in the shade. Even for the packaging of finished products, Gao Huaiyuan deliberately used iron buckets for packaging and storage. Although the cost has increased significantly, the safety is still low. Guaranteed, in addition to this, he has formulated a strict system for every step, and no one can violate it.

After seeing the explosive power of gunpowder, the people who were selected to work in the gunpowder workshop were all stunned. Knowing the power of gunpowder explosion, they became very careful, and everyone paid close attention to the implementation of the system. , for fear of something unexpected.

Gao Huaiyuan would go to the gunpowder workshop to make surprise inspections from time to time. For more than a year, there were no major problems.

After Gao Huaiyuan returned to Crouching Tiger Village from the county seat, the people in the village were all ready to celebrate the New Year with everyone like this. Gao Huaiyuan hadn’t celebrated the New Year for several years, and this is why Gao Huaiyuan came back on leave The main reason is that a few years ago he either returned to Shaoxing or was in the army. After a few years, people here gradually got used to the days when Gao Huaiyuan was not around.

But what everyone didn't expect was that Gao Huaiyuan could rush back to Zhuangzi before the year before this year, so everyone was very happy, everyone was very happy, and they came to pay New Year's greetings to Gao Huaiyuan.

As for a rich man like him, naturally he would not be stingy, so he asked Liu Er to prepare a lot of red envelopes in advance, and everyone who saw them had a share, and they would all share a red envelope, which made everyone very happy. What everyone cared about was not the inside of the red envelope How much money is there? For a Chinese New Year like this, everyone is just planning to celebrate it. It's good to make Zhuangzi lively.

And Gao Huaiyuan ran around like an axle, turning around every place, putting the red envelopes in everyone's hands, and finally landed in the mine. By this time, the employees in the mine had already received it It was time to reward money and go home for the New Year, only the guards of the mine were left behind. After rewarding these people, Gao Huaiyuan followed Xue Yan into the iron work in the back mountain.

"The little old man sees the young master, but it's been a while since the young master came to our place! The young old man brought this group of people to celebrate the young master!" Zhou Botong, who had just entered Tie Zuo's courtyard, heard the news and brought him A few of his subordinates came out to greet Gao Huaiyuan, and greeted Gao Huaiyuan with a smile.

Gao Huaiyuan quickly walked a few steps to support Zhou Botong and said with a loud smile, "I'm quite busy these days, so I don't have time to visit you all. Master Zhou, you are getting more and more energetic! It seems that you are living with me. It's still a joy!"

"Happy, happy! My little old man has never been so happy in my life! Thanks to the young master, it seems that I still have a few more years of good life!" Zhou Botong laughed from ear to ear, his chin White Beard trembled wildly, which showed that he was really in a good mood.

Gao Huaiyuan sent red envelopes to everyone here one by one, and after making everyone happy, he followed Xue Yan, Zhou Botong and others into the work shed.

Although it's approaching the time of Chinese New Year, but the ironworks still haven't stopped working, the sound of tinkling irons can be heard endlessly, and the atmosphere is still in full swing. It seems that the ironworks didn't plan to stop working because of the Chinese New Year at all, which made Gao Huaiyuan feel deeply gratified.

After all, those who can work in his ironworks belong to his cronies, many of them are teenagers, and the rest are craftsmen whose families have moved to Crouching Tiger Manor. , here is home, it doesn't matter if the Chinese New Year is not the New Year!

Gao Huaiyuan casually picked up a blank knife on the shelf, weighed it in his hand, and then looked at it carefully. At a glance, he knew that the blank of this knife was the unique style of their Crouching Tiger Village's Liuyun Scimitar. It seems to be made by a novice, and the shape is not standard, but the knife steel is not bad, it is an apprentice's trial work.

"You don't need to look at these. They are all made by the apprentices who came to me this year to learn the craft. You won't be able to catch your eyes, young master! Go inside and have a look! Those knives are basically finished products, and they are justified!" Zhou Botong Said to Gao Huaiyuan.

"Well! It's not bad for an apprentice to be able to make such a knife blank. It shows that you, a master, teach well! I don't look at knives. Today I mainly want to see how our iron armor is forged. The other is to see See if there is any clue about the thing I told you to cast a few months ago!" Gao Huaiyuan put the knife blank back on the shelf, grabbed a few cast arrowheads in the basket, and looked at it. He tested the sharpness of the arrow with his finger, then straightened up and asked Zhou Botong and Xue Yan.

"Young master, don't worry, the things you ordered are basically ready now, please follow me to the back to have a look!" Zhou Botong made a gesture of invitation to Gao Huaiyuan.

Gao Huaiyuan followed Zhou Botong and the others towards the work shed behind the iron workshop. When he entered a work shed, he looked up and saw a humanoid wooden frame with a pair of black iron armor hanging on it, so he immediately walked a few steps When he got close, he stretched out his hand to touch the iron armor.

This piece of iron armor is obviously different from the various standard iron armors of the Song Army now, because in this era, whether it is the armor of the Song Army or the Jin Army or even the iron armor of the Xixia Kingdom, they basically belong to the armor category of Zhajia, mostly It is a body armor formed by piercing pieces of iron with leather cords, but the iron armor in front of me is obviously out of the scope of Zhajia in the Song Dynasty, and it has a taste of European knight armor.

"Okay! This is exactly what I want. How heavy is this armor? Have you ever tested the defensive ability of this armor?" Gao Huaiyuan asked Zhou Botong and others.

"Back to Master! This armor weighs 35 catties. It is composed of shoulder armor, neck armor, breast armor, and back armor. It cannot be penetrated, it has stronger defense against swords and guns, and is more convenient to wear, much better than the current Zha Jia!" Zhou Botong replied.