The most unlucky crossing in history

Zhong Qiyun's journey was indeed as he estimated. After two days of sailing, the northeast wind blew up, and the fleet sailed down the wind, just going down the southeast smoothly. Then we arrived in Quanzhou.It just so happened that the fleet needed food and water supplies, so a group of seven ships docked at Quanzhou Port.

This was Zhong Qiyun's first visit to Quanzhou when he came to this Great Dawn Dynasty.This Quanzhou is very different from the home in his memory. At this time, Quanzhou has a much larger jurisdiction than Quanzhou in the 21st century. The city of Quanzhou is no longer where he knew it to be. Zhong Qiyun originally thought that even if the buildings were not there, the mountains, rivers and waters would not change even in ancient and modern times, but when he really saw this completely strange place, he was a little dazed, and even felt a little unspeakably lost in his heart.

This is Quanzhou, but not the home he remembers.

If it can be said that the only consolation is the Hokkien here, the words and sentences spoken are still a little strange, but the tone is still familiar to him.

"Brother Zhong is from Quanzhou, right? When you come back this time, don't you want to go back and have a look?"

Zhong Qiyun always said that his hometown is Quanzhou, and Xie Wenyuan once gave him his household registration in Quanzhou, so everyone around him knows that his home is here.

Zhong Qiyun stood on the street, shook his head and smiled: "Parents are not here, relatives and friends are far away, and the house at home has long since disappeared. There is nothing to see." With that said, Zhong Qiyun turned his head to the dozen or so boatmen who disembarked with him. Said: "Time is critical now. If there is nothing else, everyone will go to various places to buy grain and rice for the ship's expenses according to the arrangements made by Manager Sun on the ship."

Sun Kang was a 45-year-old accountant Mr. Zhong Qiyun hired when he bought his first boat. Some accidents happened to this Mr.’s family a few years ago. His wife and children passed away early, so he was willing to go to sea with him. to live.

For more than a month, although he behaved a bit old-fashioned, and would always quarrel with the young men on board about some things, but his character was good, but Zhong Qiyun was still at ease with him.

Zhong Qiyun looked at the sun, and continued: "Two hours should be enough. In this way, I will set a time here first. No matter what the purchase is before the application, everyone must rush back to the port. Then we will see the situation and then do it." Intend."

"okay!"

When Steward Sun led a group of people to the busy city, Liu Wangcai followed Zhong Qiyun. Seeing that Zhong Qiyun was just wandering around the street with no other plans, he couldn't help but asked, "Boss, this is so unbearable."

Yi arrived in Quanzhou, Quanzhou has a lot of people and a vast land, and now it’s almost the end of the year, your goods are likely to sell well, why don’t you contact the buyer to sell those goods early, and you don’t need to rush south to Naoshizimao River. "

"Although Quanzhou is bright, these silk, tea, snacks and other goods are saturated here, and the price cannot be sold. Moreover, the silk industry in this place is completely controlled by the Lu family, so it is not easy for outsiders to sell it."

"The Lu family?" Liu Wangcai rolled his eyes, "Are you talking about that Lu Huang?"

Zhong Qiyun nodded and looked at Liu Wangcai: "Do you recognize him?"

"Hey, even though I'm in decline now, my Liu Family's Cao Gang used to be considered a leader in Hangzhou. He Lu Huang traveled from north to south by land, and my family traveled by river to east and west. Although there was no entanglement, we transported silk. These things, after all, have to deal with the Hu family, how can they not know each other." Liu Wangcai couldn't help feeling guilty when he talked about the past, but he thought that Zhong Qiyun's shortcut of sea transportation would be a big threat to both land and river transportation. After coughing, he asked, "The boss is like this, because he is afraid of becoming grudges with Lu Huang?"

Zhong Qiyun smiled when he heard the words, "The grievances have already been forged." He remembered the last time Lu Huang tripped him up in Hangzhou, but now his family background is not strong, and he died with Lu Huang in Lu Huang's territory. Knocking it would only mean that he was seriously injured, he is not so stupid.

What's more, his batch of goods was originally purchased for Maojiang and Guangdong and Guangxi. Mao Jiang rarely earns a lot of money, so there is really no need for him to deliberately look for trouble and have trouble with money.

Zhong Qiyun doesn't know how to do this kind of loss-making business, so if he can avoid it now, when he forms a system by sea, many things will come in a steady stream.

As for Lu Huang...

Zhong Qiyun smiled, businessmen, after all, they always look after their interests.

Liu Wang didn't expect that Zhong Qiyun would still have some entanglements with Lu Huang. Although he was a prodigal, he came from a family of merchants, and he was transparent about things in the mall. Such entanglements were taboo for business people. Others know that there are some things that shouldn't be asked in detail, so he doesn't ask.

Zhong Qiyun glanced at Liu Wangcai who didn't say any more. During the past few days, Zhong Qiyun didn't have the same ridicule and disgust towards him as others did. On the contrary, this person was smarter than he expected.

Speaking of which, this person used to be considered a wealthy young master, and he was also a person who had never suffered.Although Zhong Qiyun did not treat these boatmen harshly, he ate meat and rice for every meal every day,

But no matter what, life on this ship is more enjoyable than life on land, but these days Zhong Qiyun saw that Liu Wangcai was very used to life on the ship, he was full of joys and sorrows, and he didn't look like a down-and-out son who pretended to be superior, eating and clothing. Together with the boatman, Zhu Jun never complained, and was still laughing and joking all day long, showing no sign of being down and down.

But one thing is true, as the rumors say, this man is extremely good at gambling, even if he is penniless on the boat, he has to borrow money from others to prepare dice and leaf dominoes for boatmen to set up a temporary gamble, if not Zhong Qiyun sternly stopped, fearing that he would be disturbed by this person to make a mess.

Liu Wangcai was still unconvinced at the time, and only hated to say: "During the Tang Dynasty, the emperors and noble concubines all liked to gamble, among which Wu Zetian and Xuanzong were the worst. Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei often used gambling for fun. Dongjia, do you know that there are still leftovers in history?" The story of "the chaos of liars" is said to be that Chen Jingguan, a minister of Emperor Xizong of Tang Dynasty, won the bet on "hitting the ball" and was named the Jiedushi of Xichuan. , what an honor!"

Zhong Qiyun replied bluntly at that time: "He won the official bet, but you lost the lifeblood of the entire Liu family."

After hearing this, Liu Wang calmed down and didn't gamble anymore, but the habit of touching the dominoes occasionally made Zhong Qiyun really speechless.

Thinking of this, Zhong Qiyun tentatively said: "Have you never thought about reorganizing your Liu Family Boat Gang?"

Liu Wangcai was startled when he heard the words, and sighed for a long time: "Think about it, how can you not think about it, the life of being rich is much better than now, but it is so easy to reorganize the ship gang. When I got to the boat gang, the government took back the river travel order from my family, without the order, I couldn’t go on the river at all.”

Zhong Qiyun knew that the transportation industry of the Dazhang River was pretty good, but because of the government's strict management, many river mouths between states were controlled, and each state had one tax, so the small boat gang couldn't afford it.

This shipping order was specially issued by the imperial court, and with this order, you can go all the way.But Zhong Qiyun also knows how difficult it is to get this order. The first is that there are hundreds of large ships in the ship gang, and the second...

Back then, the grandfather of the Liu family did not know how many times he wandered around before he got this pass.

Now that it is lost, I am afraid it will be difficult to get it back.

Speaking of this, Liu Wangcai blamed himself a little bit, but it was too late to say anything.

"Boss, when I was living on the street and no one was willing to give me alms, when you were willing to hire me, I thought, I still want to fight, I can't let

My ancestor's family business made me lose like this. After a hundred years, I will be speechless to see my father. "

Zhong Qiyun patted Liu Wangcai on the shoulder and smiled, "It's easy to talk about quitting gambling."

Liu Wangcai was amused, "That's true."

After noon, Zhong Qiyun and Liu Wangcai rushed to the port.

Although the sea transportation in the Daqing Dynasty is weak now, because Quanzhou is located in a location where there are no big rivers, and the inland is covered with mountains, the roads are not very convenient, so there are some merchant ships who ventured to the sea like Zhong Qiyun, but the distance is not far , and the commute is only within two hundred miles from north to south, delivering goods to several neighboring states.

But if this is the case, the Quanzhou harbor is quite respectable. It is now noon and the sun is in the middle. Apart from Zhong Qiyun's seven ships, there are still more than a dozen cargo ships docked beside the harbor, but the positions are sparse and the flags are not consistent. Think about it Not an exclusive.

Those people had long seen the seven large ships with a uniform system, and many people gathered beside the boats to chat with the boatmen, but almost all the boatmen on Zhong Qiyun's boat were from Hangzhou, and they didn't understand Hokkien, and they spoke two dialects. I can't communicate, I can't communicate, and I guess what the other is saying with gestures. It's really interesting to watch from a distance.

Fortunately, Zhong Qiyun could speak Hokkien. When he arrived, Yu Zhouhai and his party who were guarding the boat were relieved.

"Brother Zhong, you are back. I don't know what these merchants are saying, we don't understand."

When Zhong Qiyun heard this, he turned around and said a few words to the leading middle-aged man.

After talking, I just asked where they came from and where so many big ships were going.

Zhong Qiyun talked briefly with him, and the man was very surprised when he heard that they had gone so far, and stared at Zhong Qiyun for a few minutes.

"Are there a lot of vendors going to sea in Quanzhou now?" Zhong Qiyun thought for a while and asked a little more.

"There weren't many at first, but a few days ago, I don't know where some big ship merchants like you came from. They said they came from the north. Seven or eight big ships lined up, always going up and down in this port, carrying goods. .” The man replied.

"Oh?" Zhong Qiyun really hasn't seen many people like him sailing across the sea these days, "Brother, little brother, what kind of goods are they transporting? Am I transporting them like this? Rice grain?"

"That day I saw it strangely, so I took a second look. There were indeed some who transported silk, but not all of them. Many objects were packed in linen bags. I don't know what they were. Maybe they were tea leaves that cannot be seen. Wooden painting."

linen......

Zhong Qiyun blinked, and again with this big

Brother chatted about other things, and after Steward Sun came back with the boatmen who bought grain, rice and fresh water, Zhong Qiyun ordered Steward Sun to check the goods and went to the city alone.

After returning, he carried several stalls of wine, followed by the waiter from the wine shop, and the trolley was filled with several large jars of rich and mellow old wine.

"Suddenly I was greedy for the taste of old Quanzhou wine, so I wanted to buy some for everyone to taste."

"Hahaha, that's great!"

"The boss has a heart! We thank you here!"

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, outside the city of Hangzhou, Xie Wenyuan, who was recuperating in another hospital, received two jars of good wine from Quanzhou.

Looking at Xie Wenyuan, who had a strong aroma of wine, he frowned slightly: "Zhong Qiyun asked you to send it?"

Yan Nanzhi, who always only sent messages but not wine, said hesitantly: "He said, this wine is very important..."

Xie Wenyuan moved his eyes and took the wine jar.

"Go down."

Yan Nanzhi breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly withdrew.

When the people left, Xie Wenyuan shook the wine jars, this time both jars were full, but one of them heard some noise.

Xie Wenyuan opened the wine jar, took out the well-sealed wooden tube placed in it, opened the wooden tube and took out the paper inside.

On three pages, it was like writing a letter from home, talking about what he had seen and heard on the sea these days. Naturally, he mentioned "by the way" that there was also a fleet merchant like him in Quanzhou.

At the end, I wrote a sentence at the end: "I was in a hurry last time, so I couldn't tell you clearly. The wine is from the north of Qianzhou. It tastes very good. It can't be bought anywhere except Qianzhou. Before leaving, ask the old man for a small bottle. You can taste it when you are better. The wine this time is old wine from Quanzhou. I like it very much. I don’t go out of Quanzhou on weekdays. I think you have never tasted it. I will also give it to you. You, not much, only one catty. I don’t know when I will see you this time, I wish you a happy and healthy New Year.”

"Zhong Qiyun."