Traveling through the Prosperous Pastoral of Peasant Girls

Chapter 91 The New Ship Tested the Waters

Among them, some crew members and interpreter Jin Yang also knew each other, but it was a pity that he would never see Baman and Tang again, which made him a little sad and hated the pirates.When they got off the ship, they were not in a hurry to unload the cargo. After fixing the sails of the ship, they left someone to guard them, and then took most of the crew to the Jin's warehouse, where their meals had already been prepared in the warehouse canteen.

They sat at three tables, accompanied by golden seedlings and willow peaches. The crew often traveled to and from major ports, and they were used to the food in Liangshan Port.Put down the chopsticks for a while and pick up the wine glass, put down the wine glass and pick up the chopsticks, eating and drinking is a joy.

The captain said to Jin Yang: "Jin, how much do you have for that quicksand painting? This time, that quicksand painting arrived at Heishan Port, the first stop in the Raksha Kingdom, and was spotted by Viscount Burton. He is very good at Heishan Port." Overbearing, forced me to [-] gold coins, even coaxed and snatched them away, I'm sorry, I failed to fulfill your entrustment this time..."

A Luocha Kingdom gold coin is equivalent to one tael and a half of the country's silver, three hundred gold coins are 450 taels of silver, Jin Yang looked at Liu Tao proudly and gave her a wink, Liu Tao was a little unbelievable.This is the captain who reluctantly sold it at the first stop overseas. He has not had time to show it to others in other countries. If he goes to a port in another country, he may not be able to sell it at a high price.

"It doesn't matter, Captain, I brought two more this time. You know, this thing is very difficult to make, and several raw materials are hard to find. Forgive me for not telling you the recipe of the stuff inside. You are willing to take a look now ?"

"Jin, of course I would. Do you know that last time I took that quicksand painting and couldn't put it down all the way through the voyage?"

Lu Run brought the two pieces of quicksand paintings over, the captain wiped his hands and took a box, the other was caught by two crew members at the same time, one of the tall ones shouted to the other: "Jie, don't you Do you want to grab it with me, I'm going to buy it and give it to Ruth..."

The crew member named Jie yelled at him: "Kui, let go, I'm also going to buy it for Ruth, it's the box I touched first!"

The captain ignored them and just admired the quicksand painting with a green background. The other crew members also came over and marveled. When the quicksand settled, it was a picture of green mountains and green waves.The captain then turned over, and half a quarter of an hour later, there was another pattern of sand dunes and hills.The crew members were amazed again and again, and one of them joined Jie and Kui's robbing ranks. After a while, the three of them cursed angrily, and they were about to enter a melee state soon.

Their confusion caught the captain's attention, and he immediately stood up and yelled: "Stop, what are you guys doing? Don't you know how shameful you are to act violently in front of the cargo owner regardless of your image as a gentleman?"

It turned out that Jie and Kui fell in love with a girl named Ruth at the same time, and at the same time launched a love offensive against that girl. Before they went to sea this time, Ruth had not agreed to any of them.This time, they planned to bring back one or two special gifts for her. Today, when they saw that Lu Run took out the quicksand painting, they had seen it when the captain admired it last time. This time, they thought of this at the same time. If something is given to Ruth, it will surely capture Ruth's heart.

While they were still robbing, another sailor named Pu joined the robbing ranks, which caused a flurry of confusion.

"There's no final price for this cargo, and I don't know how much it's worth, so you just snatch it up, don't sleep at night, and punish the three of you to take turns on duty on the ship..."

The three of them returned to their seats in frustration, and then began to eat and drink.Jin Yang discussed the benefits of sailing boats with the captain, saying that now there is also a fast boat, most of which are used by pirates, and the speed of the boat is much faster than their sailboats.

"Jin, the current trend of seagoing ships is sailing boats powered by wind. Your old-fashioned sharp-bottomed boats and flat boats will be eliminated within ten years, and the cargo capacity of sailing boats is getting bigger and bigger. I I heard they are going to make bigger ones?"

Two or three hundred years ago in the previous life, the rise of sailing ships was a symbol of the great voyage period, and it also meant the beginning of industrialization in the world's major countries. If you can't grasp the pulse of the times, the whole continent will suffer.

"Captain, when you come next time, can you bring me a large-scale nautical chart? I also want to form a merchant fleet and go overseas to trade with other countries?"

"Okay Kim, I'll do it!"

The captain also talked about the bark painting with Jin Yang, and marveled at the great creativity of Daqianguo. The bark painting was sold to foreign countries, and it received the same good effect as the fish skin painting sold to Dazhangguo.

They returned to Yantian again. Master Jin’s river exploration work has been completed, and he is already at the location of the pier. The riverside facing the small river in Yantian is full of low earth cliffs formed by the impact of the river. It only needs to lay down a few rows of wooden piles, and Stones are filled between the stake and the river bank, and a simple pier can be used.Master Jin plans to complete the piling work to build the wharf within 20 days.

Xiao Shunzi recruited a group of craftsmen to extend the wooden fence of the salt field a lot, leaving four crystallization pools by the river and a large pool for storing seawater, and then continued to build crystallization pools and boil salt work shed.The boiled salt that has not been purchased will also have to be boiled in the future and then flow into the crystallization pool to crystallize naturally.

The grapes are ripe, and Liutao estimates that there will be five or six thousand catties for the first picking, but she will not give them all to the royal family for the first time. In order to obtain the effect of hunger marketing, she only picks the first batch of two thousand catties that are ripe and supplies them first. For the royal family, two thousand catties is only a little more than a carriage, which is indeed too little for the royal family. According to the royal custom, if there are more, some of them must be given to meritorious and high-ranking ministers.Since it is two thousand catties, it cannot be distributed everywhere, which also shows the preciousness of the grapes.

Therefore, with a price of one hundred coppers per catty, Liu Tao earned 200 taels of silver. As the grapes are released in large quantities, the silver will continue to flow into the bag.Selling to ordinary merchants, the price will also have a reference.The fourth princess tasted it first in the vineyard, and ate a bunch of them at once. She said that she had never seen such a strange-looking and sweet-tasting grape.

Liu Tao asked puzzledly: "Fourth princess, at this time last year, didn't I ask the crown prince to bring you back two skewers, didn't you get them?"

"What, why don't I remember such a thing? If I have eaten it, I can't forget it even if I drink too much. No, I have to ask him?"

Of course, the fourth princess would not turn against the emperor for being cut off from two bunches of grapes, but she just complained about not being able to eat them last year.

When the grapes were picked in large quantities, the caravans of the second cousin’s husband and Mr. Xu’s caravans all came to stock up, and other fruit and vegetable warehouses also sent people to approach them, and sold the Meirenzhi grapes to all parts of the country or abroad. , Pay according to the price given by the royal family.

There is no shortage of markets for such expensive things. People heard that they were tributes to the royal family, and they bought them at a high price to taste them. The strange shape and high sugar content, they all said that they were worth the money.When Jin Yang sent Su Qing to Liangshan Port, he packed some of it, and gave it to the warehouse and his family in Yantian to try it out.

Su Huan fell ill, it was caused by missing his mother and thinking too much. Jin Yang Su Huan had already made an enmity with the national teacher, even if they stopped the action of arresting beautiful women, they would not dare to take the risk of going back to the country.Jin Yang gave Su Huan the gold medal depicting the demon fox, and asked her to keep it as a souvenir.

Jin Yang called the purified salt field No. [-] salt field. One of the three new cargo ships built by his family has been put into use, and he bought three flat boats. Two small boats were placed on the two sides of the salt field. One is used in conjunction with the cargo ship, and the officials of the tax department are taken to various salt farms to collect salt.

Because their excuse is to organize goods for marine merchants, they usually dispatch during the day and return to Liangshan Port at night, and then unload the goods at the salt fields, but they have not attracted the attention of various salt fields. The salt industry tax is gone, and they don't care if you sell it to the sea merchant.In addition, they brought the officials of the salt industry tax department with them, and every time they traded fairly, there was no credit, no debt, no fraud, and no disputes were caused.

He told Captain Venus that in the future, I will sell quicksand paintings to you for 290 gold coins each, and I don’t want any more gold coins. I don’t limit how much you can sell.If a customer damages the quicksand painting, as long as most of the quicksand in the glass interlayer is preserved, he can pay ten gold coins for repairs.However, repairs may take longer.

In addition to repairing the scrapped ones, there is another option, that is, to give the damaged parts and quicksand to the captain at that time. For thirty gold coins, you can get another intact one, or even an identical quicksand painting.If you get tired of playing with the yellow background, you can exchange five gold coins for a green background.In addition, there are blue pink, purple, orange and coffee to choose from.

Complete after-sales service, timely trade-in, will of course win the welcome of customers, besides, no one who can afford quicksand paintings for three hundred gold coins is an ordinary person, unless those two are named 'Jie' Kui's sailors are overconfident in order to win the girl's heart. Liu Tao once compared them to being "thin donkeys pulling hard shit" and "beating swollen faces to pretend to be fat".

After a few days, the second new ship was put into use, and the new captain recruited by Lu Run led the crew out to the port for sea trials. It is said that everything on the new ship is good.In addition, there must be a grand ceremony for launching a new boat. This is the most normal thing in Liangshan Port. Lu Run invited his owner to participate in the letter.Jin Yang showed Liu Tao the invitation from Lu Run's letter, and Liu Tao became interested, and this time he wanted to go to sea with Jin Yang on his new boat to have fun.

The launching ceremony was very grand. Officials from the official city shipping department and taxation department were invited, as well as several shopkeepers near the wharf to participate in the banquet. After eating and drinking, they fired cannons and left the port.With its own new ship testing the waters, it means that Jinfu Wharf has officially joined the ranks of maritime merchants.

They sailed northward after leaving the port, until they reached the peninsula on the border of Daqian country, which protruded a hundred miles into the sea.At that time, he and Lao Huang Zhang Xiguo planned to snatch a boat to dock here, but things backfired and missed here.

(End of this chapter)