Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 222 Quanzhou Shipping Department

"Guo Xia Ma is actually a farm horse from Dali and Guangxi. There are many mountain roads in the area, and this kind of pony horse with a height of three feet has been formed for a long time. The big one is only about three hundred catties, and the weak one is only two hundred catties. Just as As the owner said, this horse is sold as a rarity in the north. Rich people buy it for fun, and ride it for children and concubines. If you work, it can be a little donkey, and it can carry a hundred catties. It is also suitable for women and the elderly to pull a cart of three to four hundred catties. It is no problem to buy thousands of horses from Guangxi Road, but the sailboat is too slow, and the cost of transportation will be high. The owner can send your mechanical boat to go there and back One month is enough." Yuanwai He said.

Chai Lin said: "He Yuanwai is really a model businessman, and he speaks truthfully."

He Yuanwai felt his face secretly burning. He was a businessman and had never done any big tricks.But in front of Chai Lin, how dare he fool around, his life was saved by others, and the horses and money were all returned to him. With five orders, the boxer will die. How dare you be dishonest with such a person?

After much deliberation, dismounting is also a tasteless thing, and a small amount of development can be hyped up.If you really want to work, you have to be a prairie horse. It is not tall and has a strong body, and it weighs five or six hundred catties.

When he arrived at Chaijiazhuang, Yuanwai He sold two big food horses to the Chaijiazhuang racecourse at a price of 4000 taels, which can be regarded as a half-buy and half-free.As for the fact that the eight horses were worthless, they were given to Chailin as a gift.

The Chaijiazhuang Stud Farm has grown again, including sweat horses, big food horses, pony horses, grassland horses, Turkic horses, and Xixia horses.Of course, the most important thing is the prairie horses, and the others are just sporadic, not large-scale, and can only be regarded as raising for fun.

In the Chaijiazhuang Inn, He Yuanwai and his party settled down.The busy Chaijiazhuang gives people a refreshing feeling, which has nothing to do with the borderlands in everyone's impression.

Member Wai He said: "This trip was really thrilling, but luckily it was safe and sound."

The people accompanying the He family had dinner and wandered around the inn.He Yuanwai suddenly saw the guy who was washing dishes and bowls fetching water from the well. This well is so strange that there is no need for a pulley, but just press the handle, and the water will come out continuously.

"Second brother, can you let me try?" Yuanwai He asked the second brother who was washing the dishes.

Xiaoer said: "Yes, this is the inn well, guests can use it."

He Yuanwai pressed lightly and found that the water flow was still very good.Big families, hotels and restaurants all need this thing, how convenient it is.Even drought resistance in farmland can use this.

"It's really good, it's easy to use, and it's labor-saving and water-saving."

The man pointed to a wooden hand-cranked washing machine next to it and said: "When guests have clothes to wash, they can also use this to wash. Put the clothes in, add a small amount of soap powder, and then shake the handle for a quarter of an hour."

"Okay, then I'll give it a try. Wash it with this, it won't freeze your hands."

A water pipe is connected to the hand press well to press water into the hand washing machine.

He Yuanwai immediately asked his assistant to bring the clothes that were buried on Niutou Island a few days ago, put them in two pieces, put some soap powder, added some water, then shook the handle, shook it for a while, opened it, and found that the clothes were much cleaner, although It's not as clean as washing by hand, but it's better than having to suffer from the cold.

A luxurious four-wheeled carriage, pulled by two green mules, parked steadily at the entrance of the Chaijiazhuang Inn.

"Oh, Yuanwai He, I'm really sorry to keep you waiting."

Zhou Fu hurried over from Cangzhou with a few entourages.

He Yuanwai was quite surprised and said, "The shopkeeper Zhou came so fast, more than 100 miles away, so quickly. This four-wheeled carriage is really fast."

Zhou Fu said: "The four-wheeled carriage uses steel hubs, steel bearings, and the body frame is also made of thin steel plates. Only wood is used for the interior. The four wheels are equipped with shock-absorbing springs and steel sheets."

"Oh, I just heard that it is very good. This is the first time I have seen the real thing. Can I get in the car and have a look?"

Zhou Fu opened the door and said, "Come on, Mr. He." The two got into the carriage.

He Yuanwai was very curious about the window glass on the carriage and the luxurious soft seat.

"Very, very, very, what's the price for this kind of carriage?" Yuanwai He asked.

Zhou Fu said: "The delivery price of this carriage from Cangzhou is 200 taels of silver. You can sell it for 500 taels for a hundred. Since the distances vary from place to place, the shipping costs are also different. It can be raised appropriately, but it should not be too expensive."

"Okay, I want to order [-] carriages. I don't know if they can be customized. Next time, I may order bright yellow carriages filled with gold and jewelry to make them more luxurious." He Qi said.

Zhou Fu was taken aback, and said, "The bright yellow carriage is no joke, if you do it, you'll lose your head."

He Qi quickly explained: "The food merchants have contacts with many European royal families. Let's sell their ordinary vehicles and let them modify them by themselves."

"That's right, we dare not touch the imperial court's ban." Zhou Fu said.

Chaijiazhuang's market is doing very well in the north, and its influence is very large.But when it comes to the south, Chaijiazhuang does not have any influence, which requires a strong dealer to open up the situation.

The He family was not considered a particularly large businessman, and was above average. There were many businessmen and politicians in the family, but they were quite influential in Quanzhou, and had a good relationship with maritime merchants who traveled back and forth between the East and the West.Quanzhou is an important shipping department, and its overseas trade is very developed.

Both sides take what they need and hit it off.

He Yuanwai and shopkeeper Zhou Fu signed a series of agreements and contracts. The Hejia firm sold the Chai family's four-wheeled carriages, soap, hand-pressed wells, cast iron pots, steel tools, silk, handicrafts, etc. in Quanzhou.

Chaijiazhuang sells Wuyishan rock tea, Tieguanyin, white tea, spices, paint, cork, rice, honey, etc. operated by the Hejia firm in the north.Since it takes at least a month to go through the sailboat from Quanzhou Port to Cangzhou Port, the transportation task is handed over to the caravan of Chaijiazhuang.Transportation is independent of the payment for goods and will be settled separately.However, the cost of water transportation is very low. The most common centipede boat with a length of 30 meters and a width of five meters can hold 10,000+ catties of goods.Moreover, the centipede boat is a flat-bottomed boat, which is more stable after loading, and does not enter the deep sea, so it is called a shore slipper.

In order to complete the task assigned by Chai Lin, He Qi arranged for manpower to buy pony from Guangxi Road, and when the Chaijiazhuang fleet came back, it happened to be transported from Quanzhou Port.As for the big food horses, you have to try your luck. There are very few big food merchants who specialize in horse sales.

Li Yun, another big treasurer of the Chai family, shouldered the responsibility of the maritime merchants, and the mules and horses were handed over to others.Of course, Chai Lin is not needed to discuss the specific details of the business, and Chai Lin is only responsible for the general direction.

Just after the [-]th day of the first lunar month, the weather is still getting warmer, and the heavy fur coat is unbearable.Chai Lin brought two bodyguards Dian Zhengnan and Xie Bao to the [-] mu vegetable greenhouse.

Ten days ago, this place was still a white field, but it is easy to work if there are many people. Now it has become a greenhouse, and it is a greenhouse with double-layer membranes. There is no need to cover straw curtains to cool down at night.

In the No.15 shed, it can be over 60 degrees hot once you come in, so you can only wear single clothes.The greenhouse is heated by the sun during the day, and the temperature can reach more than [-] degrees. There is no need to worry about it at night. There are five cast iron heating stoves installed in the entire [-]-meter-long greenhouse. The coal-burning stoves are not cold at all when they are fully turned on.

Chai Lin saw that the watermelons were planted in the shed, and the watermelon seedlings were neatly arranged. The person in charge of the shed was Mrs. Li.The men in the family often think that she doesn't make money, so she lives in the shed day and night in a fit of anger, with [-] Wen a month, and bonuses if she does a good job.

Mrs. Li is tall and tall, and she walks like flying with two buckets of water weighing more than 100 catties.Water the watermelons one by one with a ladle.At this time, the watermelon seedlings are still very small and cannot be flooded with water to prevent the ground temperature from being lowered.

Dian Zhengnan said: "Brother, we grow this watermelon really early, when will we be able to eat it?"

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