The most unlucky crossing in history

With Zhong Qiyun's move, it can be said that those who were behind the scenes were caught off guard.

Some people don't lie down and pretend to be smart, thinking that this is Zhong Qiyun's lifeblood. They waited complacently to see Zhong Qiyun restless and begging for help, waiting to see Zhong's family fall from the altar, lingering on their last days, laughing at Zhong Qiyun's youthful frivolity and overreaching, They thought that by strangling Zhong Qiyun's neck, Zhong Qiyun would be able to follow them, and the Zhong family would let them devour him.

But the appearance of these few ships made them stupid.

In the next few days, Zhong Qiyun ordered the five boats to be parked at the port of Qiantang River. After that, no matter what was discussed in the city, he asked where these boats came from and which company made them, but his Zhong family did not respond.

This made the people in the city talk about the Zhong family's unprecedented huge ships with great interest, and various speculations also emerged, and spread quickly all over Hangzhou and Jiangnan in a short time... ....

Until the first day of December, when the news was fermented to the extreme, when those people who were openly or secretly were anxious, Zhong Qiyun, who had never responded, said that with a smile.

"Hey, how can it be as miraculous as the rumors say? Naturally, the shipbuilding skills of Chuanfang can't be compared with others? It's just that the appearance is amazing, and the inside is still a ball of cotton wool. This is just a test of the water. Forget it, it’s still far from being able to sail them into the sea!”

This statement is undoubtedly an indirect acknowledgment that Zhong Qiyun had built a boat workshop a long time ago, and also privately found craftsmen to design and build the boat.It's just that those boatmen have their appearance and are not useful.

What Zhong Qiyun said, people who don't think too much will definitely believe it, just like the people watching the excitement in the city, but no matter who believes it, other shipbuilders will not believe it.

A layman can't see the way to watch the excitement, but shipbuilders who make a living only need to go to the Qiantang River Port and take a look at the huge ships, and there is no one who does not understand that the Zhong family's sword has been hung on their heads.

Shipbuilding does not mean adding a few pieces of wood to build a larger ship. Even if the ship is three feet large, the hidden skills, measurements, and craftsmanship are extremely complicated and complicated. If there is a slight error, the waves will hit the sea and the sea will wash away. It fell apart into dross and lost his life.However, the boats of the Zhong family sailed from Songjiang Bay to the mouth of Qiantang River, and were still standing still after being beaten by wind and waves for several days at Haikou.this

It's an amazing skill, and it's such a skill that makes people's backs chill.

On the side of the Xishan Mountain outside Hangzhou City, the reception hall of an unknown owner's house was filled with owners and stewards of the top ten shipbuilding workshops in the south of the Yangtze River.

"When did the Zhong family build the boat house? And when did so many craftsmen be caged?! No one in the south of the Yangtze River knows, and no one has heard the wind?"

"How could he know! When he bought the tidal flat wasteland in the fishing village at the mouth of Songjiang River, didn't some people laugh at the land he bought as unusable?!"

"However, in the place where the foundation of the building is not stable, who knows that he not only built a ship to dock there, but also secretly built a boat workshop!"

"He hid it too tightly. I'm afraid not many people in Zhong's family know about it."

"Come on, what's the use of talking about it now? Shouldn't we just think about how to deal with it now?!"

"What to do? How to deal with it? Why does Zhong Qiyun say this and do it again? Don't you have a clue?" Zhang Pinglan of Jinling Yuanbo Boat Workshop was pacing back and forth in the hall anxiously, "He hung the knife on the The top of our heads is forcing us to see the ability of the Zhong family, Zhong Qiyun is telling us, telling all the merchants, this is the end of going against him!"

"That's right, when the Six Merchants of the Central Plains, the Pei family, and the Jiangnan households came to us, didn't they still swear that the Zhong family's decline is set this time, and when the Zhong family falls, let us divide it up? Oh, who? Did you know it would be reversed like this?"

"Looking at it now, I'm afraid it's not him, but us instead." Liang Xian, the young owner of Chengpinghe Chuanfang in Hangzhou, came here today on behalf of his father, and he said: "It's not about destroying one's ambition, what the younger generation said is not pleasant, but it is true. In other words, the shipyard is not as good as other businesses. We rely on skills to make a living. Whichever one is capable can win business and stand at the top of the shipbuilding industry. Everyone must have seen the shipbuilding skills of the Zhong family. If Zhong Qiyun will Bring out the shipbuilding skills of the Zhong family and let his Zhong family shipyard come into the world, and some of us will surely fall."

"No, in the current situation, Zhong Qiyun may have known about the Six Merchants of the Central Plains and the Pei family hidden behind us. Zhong Qiyun took the opportunity to retaliate, leaving us with nowhere to go," Li Qinghong from Rongying Boathouse beat his chest and stamped his feet, " This is to kill our Chuanfang!"

Liang Xian laughed and said, "I think, since Zhong Qiyun stayed behind and never feared that our family would cut off the confession, then

His family visits like those a few days ago must have deep meaning..."

What kind of meaning can there be? Visiting at this time is to see which family is getting worse at the moment, and then he will do something to that family.

After Liang Xian said this, he scanned the hall for a week, and saw that the faces of several senior shipyard owners headed by Zhang Pinglan were not so good-looking.

Presumably, they were all the ones who swaggered when Zhong Qiyun visited.

Everyone in the hall was speechless and fell silent.

"Hey...it's over..." After a long time, Li Qinghong slumped on the chair, closed his eyes and said, "It's over!"

Boss Qiu on the side hesitated and said: "It shouldn't be such a crisis, right? There are not only six merchants in the Central Plains standing behind us, but also the rich merchants from the Pei family and various places in the south of the Yangtze River. If you say that Zhong Qiyun has great abilities , then you can’t fight against these big players, can you?”

"There's no need for him to fight against the Pei family." Zhang Pinglan shook his head and sighed: "Now his Zhong family is receiving the grace of the saints, and the business is endless. He only needs to eliminate the shortage of ships and he can fly up to nine days. What's more, these things are not troublesome for him at all now. It can even be said that if Zhong Qiyun handles this matter properly, just like the last time he faced off with Hu Yanzhang and Master Hu's fleet. Good talk for the business community."

Liang Xian also remembered the time when Zhong Qiyun used the hands of the Hu family to reverse the disadvantages and swallow up dozens of fleets. Even though Zhong Qiyun was the same age as Zhong Qiyun, he couldn't help sighing: "Leave aside other things, just start business here. Looking at it from a group, Zhong Qiyun's move is really wonderful..."

Taking precautions for a rainy day is really a rare business genius, a born businessman.

Changhe Chuanfang, who has been silent since coming here, opened his mouth to Chengyu: "Actually, Xiang doesn't think that Boss Zhong really wants to drive us all to a dead end."

Li Qinghong, with a dejected face, sat up straight when he heard the words, and said, "How do you say that?"

Xiang Chengyu replied: "If Boss Zhong really wants to take revenge like this, he doesn't need to tell the outside world that his Zhong family's boat can't sail. He can actually take out the Zhong family boathouse and suppress the boathouse he doesn't like. Yes, but he didn't."

"..."

Seeing that none of the colleagues in the hall responded, Xiang Chengyu continued to express his guess: "Xiang Mou guessed that he was waiting for us to choose, waiting to see if we choose to deliver the ship that was ordered those years ago. At

As for the Zhong family's fleet, they continued to follow the wishes of the people behind them and withdrew the Zhong family's confession. "

"This......"

"Boss Xiang means that if we choose the Zhong family, then his Zhong family's boat will continue to 'study and improve', but if we insist on going our own way, then his Zhong family will not show mercy?"

"Even if we don't give it, what else can he do? After all, we are also the exclusive shipyard, how can we make a brat like him round and flat?!" The old boss of the Bai family in Jinling was speaking, and he was six years old. ten.

Liang Xian said after hearing the sound: "Back then Zhong Qiyun dared and was capable of swallowing the Hu family's fleet, what else could he not dare to do?"

"Then what kind of way is this? If you retreat, you will offend the Imperial Merchant Pei's family and many great masters in the south of the Yangtze River!"

"But if you don't retreat, then wait for Zhong Qiyun to come back in a thunderbolt, knocking down the century-old sign."

"When the old men from the Six Merchants of the Central Plains came to me, they gave me a lot of money...How do you ask me to refund it!"

"The youngest son of my family is engaged to the daughter of the Liu family in Gusu!" If he hadn't agreed to this matter, the Pei family would not have helped make the match, and it would be impossible for his family to climb up to the Liu family. family...

There was a lot of noise in the hall, and Xiang Chengyu felt angry at Hang Sheng when he heard it. He really didn't want to waste time with these shipyards on this matter. When he was in a hurry, he suddenly stood up and patted the table and said sharply: "Now I am so regretful. Why did you abandon the precepts of the ancestors and forget the original intention of the craftsman for those benefits?"

Changhe Chuanfang is the earliest boathouse in the south of the Yangtze River. In the decades of war before the founding of the Dazhu Dynasty, there was only one family in the south of the Yangtze River. Later, after the founding of the Dynasty, the other family slowly emerged.In fact, if you look closely, the ancestors of most of the boathouses in the south of the Yangtze River have more or less stayed in Changhe Chuanfang for a period of time. Although Xiang Chengyu is not the oldest among the bosses in the hall, Changhe Chuanfang is far behind. Back in the day, he would have been famous if he scolded everyone in the audience for violating the precepts of the ancestors.

Although the later Chuanfang felt that Changhe Chuanfang was too old-fashioned and too obsessed with the so-called admonitions of those craftsmen to decline, but few people thought that there must be a reason for Changhe to survive for more than 150 years from the troubled times.

Xiang Chengyu looked around the hall, and before turning around to leave, he only sighed: "We signed a contract and made a promise with the Zhong family, and if we violate the contract, we have to bear the punishment of others."

On the third day of December, the day when the contract with Zhong's fleet expires, Hangzhou's

The three shipyards of Changhe, Jinling, Tongyi, and Tongyun visited Zhong Qiyun's house in person, fulfilling the promise of delivery after the boat was ordered at the beginning of the year to test the water.

On December 24th, in the southern Xiaonian, when the business struggle in Jiangnan spread to all parts of the country, the seven Jiangnan shipyards who violated the contract and refused to supply boats rushed to the Zhong family to apologize one after another. And promised to deliver the ship within ten days.

On December 25th, before Zhengyuan, a lively and festive day in the middle school, Zhong Qiyun personally visited the three boathouses of Changhe, Tongchun, and Tongyun with gifts, and signed with these three households to purchase hundreds of boats in the next year As well as contracts worth several 10 taels such as ship repairs.

On December 26, Zhong Qiyun once again summoned the managers of the Zhong family from all over the country, had the last meeting of the year, and decided on expansion, recruitment, and operation strategies for the new year.

After the discussion was over, there were still many managers who couldn't help asking: "The Zhong family has spared those who are behind the scenes?"

Zhong Qiyun laughed and said, "It doesn't hurt to hit someone on the body, but it hurts them to remember for a lifetime, isn't it?" Rather than directly calling for revenge, the ten boathouses must have disobeyed their words and violated their intentions, but they He had no choice but to watch the Zhong family grow stronger, which would frustrate the self-esteem of those whose eyes were higher than the top, and make them very angry and painful.

Why should he bother?Zhong Qiyun thought, in the years to come, those people would no longer be able to stop the development of his Zhong family, so it would be better to let them slowly watch their own family being swallowed up bit by bit, and let them just continue to be afraid?

He Minqing naturally understood, he shook his head with a smile and joked with those in charge: "Master Zhong's family is murderous."

Zhong Qiyun smiled and didn't say anything. He just saw Liu Wangcai not far away and rushed over. With a smile on his face, he walked up to Liu Wangcai and asked, "Have you sent all the things?"

"Give it away," Liu Wangcai gasped, and said, "Brother Zhong, you bought too many things, and you have to send them quickly. How much money will it cost..."

Zhong Qiyun ignored Liu Wangcai's muttering, and asked again: "Tomorrow, we sail south, is Xiangdong ready?"

"It's all over, Brother Zhong, the Chinese New Year is only a few days away, why don't we leave after the Chinese New Year?"

"This period of time is adapting to going south, so we can't delay."

Liu Wangcai also knows that it is important to choose E when sailing, you can wait, but God will not wait

You have a good life again after the new year, but just watching Zhong Qiyun almost busy with the Zhong family during this time, not even a day's rest and play, watching him is really uncomfortable..... .

Liu Wangcai, he sighed, "Brother Zhong, you'd better not be too busy today, I ordered a New Year's dinner at Huangyuelou, let's celebrate the New Year first tonight."

Zhong Qiyun smiled and patted Liu Wangcai on the shoulder: "That's fine, if that's the case, then you go and take Huangyuelou down personally, and all the managers and brothers from all over the place will be called."

"Got it!"

At night, I celebrated the festival early with my brothers, and we were going to leave early tomorrow morning, so Zhong Qiyun would take the car back to the house early.

He has lived alone for many years and has never felt that there is anything wrong, but since he was with Xie Wenyuan, after feeling full of his lover at night, he doesn't like the feeling of being alone.

After leaving Jingzhao, no matter how busy and tired he is, as long as he has a moment of free time, his heart will be filled with longing immediately.Makes people uncomfortable E.

Zhong Qiyun really wanted to thank Wenyuan.

The house was not far from the restaurant, Zhong Qiyun got out of the carriage and entered the house, and saw a man dressed as a guard at a glance, he knew that man, he was the spy who used to deliver news to Xie Wenyuan for him.

Seeing Zhong Qiyun, the man hurried up to Zhong Qiyun and handed the letter in his hand to Zhong Qiyun.

"My lord has faith."

Zhong Qiyun's heart tightened when he heard the words, thinking that something happened to Jingzhao: "But what happened?!" As he spoke, he immediately took the letter from the man's hand and opened the seal. He didn't see the letter, but there was a The thing that was on it rolled out in a jerk, and lay in Zhong Qiyun's palm.

Zhong Qiyun was stunned for a moment, he opened his eyes and looked at the warm white jade pendant lying on his hands, he couldn't return to his senses for a moment.

He has seen this jade pendant many times, the decoration is simple, it is just a character Yuan, some auspicious astronomical symbols, but the white jade is beautiful in appearance, very rare to see.

This jade pendant, when he was in the prime minister's mansion, he helped Xie Wenyuan tie it around his waist several times...

Xie Wenyuan's portable jade pendant.