Chapter 118 The Luck of Hu Laosan
"Does the general, Gong Pei agree? If the general reported to the court, will the general be punished?"
"Don't worry. Not to mention that the Pei family and we are working together in the east, even if we don't, don't think that the prime minister will really think about the court wholeheartedly."
"Then..., our family is weak, just like at the Dongdu Ferry, and there will be a little profit in the end. If he contacts those powerful families, he will leave our family aside..."
Xu Qing heard the idea that Xu Yi and Pei Yaoqing said throughout the whole process. After more than a year, Xu Qing has indeed gained some knowledge and can think of how much benefits it has.
Xu Qing also knows what the Xu family looks like, and it lacks background.
"Don't worry. In terms of designing and planning the ferry, are there any more skilled people in the court than your general? If we really leave our house aside, I can't make sure that they can't even play with a ferry!"
If it weren't for this certainty, Xu Yi would have really considered whether to openly say this.
Although there is a case of Dongdu Ferry, the entire canal route and the terrain of any ferry are different.
There is no so-called coordinated thinking in this era, focusing on warehousing, transportation, hoisting, distribution, ship dispatch and other matters in the narrow place of the ferry. Xu Yi did not think that anyone in this era could understand it as much as he did.
If Xu Yi hadn't had a constitution in his mind, he wouldn't even say this.
Xu Yi also knew that this matter was very important, and Pei Yaoqing alone, even the Pei family, even the Cui family and Xiao family, could not eat it.
Pei Yaoqing needed to contact us, and Xu Yi kept the time for the letter to Old Man Pei. He continued to wander around Yangzhou City.
"Master, the third son of Hu found out clearly. His so-called cousin was Zhao Zhonghan, a group of people who had no military achievements after returning from the Western Regions. They worked under the command of Hu Yinhu and were the warehouse manager at Xindukou."
This is a waste of time.
Several of Xu Yi's retainers, Zhao Zhonghan, continued to be the Marquis of Wu, and Wei Changtian was a raider and served as Xu Yi's guard.
The former Xinhui took care of the yak meat workshop and took care of both the carriage and the furniture workshop. Lu Qingshan was sent to Qinzhou, and the Xu family's ploughing fields and Jinmai winery also needed to have his own family.
Only the Hu Yinhu was left to dominate the entire warehouse matter at the ferry entrance, and also involved in the ferry entrance.
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Hu Laosan, whose real name was Hu Yanzhao, was the so-called Hu family in Luoyangtang. His ancestors also had high officials in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but this dynasty fell into decline. His ancestors also served in the Taizong Dynasty, but were exiled to the south due to corruption.
Although he was still living through farming and studying, Hu Laosan, as a concubine, embarked on the road of merchants. He raised two ships and ran cargo on the canal.
The current situation is just a difficult time, otherwise I wouldn't have gone to the teahouse to chat or be laughed at in the teahouse.
The so-called cousin is just the ancestral hall, that is, the in-laws in Luoyang Hall, and has been in contact with their family... Besides, the cousin is also from a miserable background.
"Hu Yanzhao?"
"I don't know what advice is from the officials?"
"My family will mainly meet you. Don't be afraid. Your cousin is Shen Huzi, who is working under my company."
Wei Changtian was born as a low-class person. Although he has become famous with Xu Yi now, he has no habit of being an ordinary slave. He is very polite to Hu Laosan.
When Hu Laosan travels on a boat, he pays much attention to information like ferries. Don’t be able to read books, Hu Laosan is quite talented when it comes to merchants.
It is also because of this that he had written letters with his so-called cousin and asked about the Xindukou of Dongdu.
The general in his cousin's mouth actually called him... Hu Laosan felt like he was stepping on shit.
Excited, but strong and calm. The teahouse said: Unless you reach the noble person, Hu Laosan had this dream, especially when he wanted to go to Dongdu to surrender to his cousin.
I didn't expect this day to happen.
Xu Yi was determined to see this kid after seeing Hu Laosan’s experience. After hearing a few words that day, he just felt that Hu Laosan had some ideas.
After reading Hu Laosan's experience, Xu Yi was determined to take over.
A little man without any foot, who can start with a small sampan in a place like Yangzhou where the merchant style is prosperous, and can play two cargo ships in five or six years, which is quite capable.
Xu Yi's family is okay to fight and kill, but no one can pick up Yu Shangjia. Although talent is about training, Xu Yi found that his stall is getting bigger and bigger, and there is no time to cultivate talents.
Maybe this Hu Laosan can try it.
Xu Qing had already sent a letter to ask Shen Huzi, the subordinate of Xiang Yinhu, to set off for Yangzhou.
Xu Yi still trusted the eighty-seven people who returned from the Western Regions. With Shen Huzi, the bridge between him, it would be more likely to recruit Hu Yanzhao.
Xu Yi was also a separate courtyard in Guanyi.
Hu Laosan followed Wei Changtian into the official post, but did not dare to look around and just followed like that.
After stopping, Hu Laosan looked up.
A very young noble man was fiddling with something in the yard; a little girl seemed to be playing with the young official; a middle-aged old man was serving next to him, smiling.
"Hu Yanzhao?"
“It’s small.”
"Shen Huzi will come here in a few days. You can take a look at this first..."
Xu Yi pointed to the things placed in the middle of the yard, which was a sand table in the Grand Canal stage. There were water flows, new ferries, warehouses, gantry cranes, sailboats, and even clay men symbolizing coolie.
"After reading this, you must forget everything when you walk out of this door, and you must not reveal a single trace of it."
Hu Laosan was nervous for a moment, but finally his intention to make the best of his career was the best.
This is Yangzhou, this is Sishui, this is... I can't understand it. I saw the noble man put the model of a ship and quickly approached the place he couldn't understand.
Immediately afterwards, the officials manipulated it. It should be a gantry crane. It transported the goods on the ship to another small boat in just a few seconds...
"Official, is this a gantry crane? This small boat is a river boat and a river boat?"
"Good! Check it out again..."
Hu Laosan looked again and saw that the ferry in Sishui seemed to have become a circulating channel. The inlet and exit of river boats and the inlet and exit of river boats were irrelevant, and the channel was always open.
The transport of goods was completed on a dam, with several gantry cranes, and sometimes a little coolie... Under the control of officials, they were completed one by one.
Hu Laosan seemed to see the busy and orderly Sishui.
Although I was not sure, Hu Laosan felt that this boat with so many sails was obviously much faster than rowing the oars.
There are also the transfer of river boats, gantry cranes, and small houses that look like warehouses.
He was sure that once the model of Guiren really appeared on the canal route, it would definitely completely change the original shipping... Maybe he could find some money and raise more ships.
I just don’t understand what the use of noble people looking for themselves to see these things? He doesn’t think that just his cousin relationship who can’t explain clearly can allow noble people to receive him like this.
"how?"
"The noble man, the young man, don't know if what he said is right. Once the canal route is like the official, it will definitely completely change the entire situation of the transportation of south and north freight."
He really has brains, and Xu Yi feels very lucky: "You know how to read?"
"I have been studying for a few years, but I just don't have the life to study."
Xu Yi looked at Xu Qing and nodded to Wei Changtian: "This is how you go back first, don't do anything these days, what if you wait for your cousin?"
Without even replying, Hu Laosan was taken away by the person who brought him. He was always dizzy.
"Master..."
"Uncle Qing, let Lao Wei see him for a few days and wait until Shen Huzi comes. Since he has seen these things, they cannot be leaked."
"Shen Huzi is here, if you can't recruit him... Let's see again."
Before reaching an agreement with Pei Yaoqing and the people whom Pei Yaoqing might have brought, Xu Yi’s models must not be exposed at all.
What Xu Yi thought in his heart was that if this Hu Lao San was not honest, he would not be able to save his life, but he still couldn't say it.
"I'll go see him! If not, kill him!"
Yingniang understood Xu Yi more and more. Xu Yi looked at it, but this time he did not refute.
As Pei Yaoqing said, this matter is very important and should not be underestimated. Today, Xu Yi brought Hu Laosan to the inn and took out a model that even Pei Yaoqing had never seen. This is a test in itself. I want to see if Hu Laosan is reliable and available.
Hu Laosan dared not have any abnormal movements. He didn't feel that he could get the courtesy of the officials who led the JAC Transportation, and he was the kind of person who disclosed the news in advance.
He was also a family member of the official family, and it was not a good thing to know more clearly. As far as he saw today, at least he didn't know anything about his relationship in the shipyard, he was a master.
Originally, he had the intention of building two more ships to destroy, but at this time he wanted to wait for his cousin to be at peace.
Shipbuilding is not a matter of one day or two, and the court's business is not a matter of one day or two. As the two principals of the JAC Transportation Affairs, they have never kept the shipyard, but they are extremely busy.
Pei Yaoqing was busy with letters, while Xu Yi was busy collecting hydrological materials everywhere... He was sure that Pei Yaoqing would agree to his suggestion.
The first to arrive in Yangzhou was Shen Huzi.
"Master, please give me instructions, and I will keep it for you."
"Huzi, what if the Lord asks you to kill your cousin?"
"That's what he deserves to die!"
Xu Qing joked with Shen Huzi because she knew that Hu Yanzhao was very honest these days. Unexpectedly, Shen Huzi said so firmly... Xu Qing still didn't understand the feelings of the Western Region soldiers towards Xu Yi.
"Hu Zi, don't listen to Uncle Qing's nonsense. It's like this: Your cousin is quite smart, just like the kind of businessman's brain, I want to recruit him."
"I want you to travel this time to make you a middleman, so you can talk, and don't scare him. Talk well, if it doesn't work, make sure he can't reveal what he saw here."
"You stay after you finish, we will finally meet Dongdu together."
Xu Yi's last sentence was the biggest temptation to Shen Huzi. Whether it was Wei Changtian or Xiang Yinhu, they were the same as him. It was because they followed the general earlier and saw who was not a single person in their lives.
Shen Huzi stuttered a little: "General... General, let him listen to us if you keep it!"
After saying that, he went out, hurriedly.
Yingniang took a look and went out... The same principle is still the same, only the family members know the secrets at home.
Only dead people can keep it secret. He needs to know Hu Laosan’s true thoughts, not the end reported by Shen Huzi.
Xu Yi, including his own people, is still not very suitable for his current status. Whether it is the military soldiers from the Western Regions, the Taoist priests from Gongming Palace, or the original Xu Yi, he is not a noble person in Dasheng in his mentality.
Of course, this is not about the three generations of nobles, but about the development of ordinary people's state of mind and mentality.
When Shen Huzi visited his cousin, he didn't even greet him, and said in one sentence: My family will mainly recruit you!
I thought I needed coercion and temptation, but who knew that Hu Laosan was extremely grateful for his cousin's fulfillment...
Chapter completed!