Fenglin Tianxia – Queen with a Thousand Pets

Update time 2014-12-1418:42:12 Word count: 4875

Shi Fanye, the shipping department of Quanzhou City, is very worried recently. Last year, when the shipping department of Quanzhou City just opened the port, three fleets and one ship departed from Quanzhou Wharf, and several other sea-going ships came. The momentum was just right. A catastrophe broke out on Sanyu. It is said that the waves are 100 meters high. All the ships sailing in that area and the surrounding ports were killed, and the routes were all cut off. For nearly a year, there were no ships in Quanzhou. . The major shipping companies suffered heavy losses. It is said that most of the Xie’s ships also sank. Until recently, new ships began to go to sea. However, the imperial family and Bianliang must have the necessary spices. The day before yesterday, Bianliang had already asked the municipal bureaus of various ports to mobilize 100,000 catties of spices into Beijing within two months. There are also Xie’s in Guangzhou, but Quanzhou , Where can he find spices? Sorrow's hair is a lot whiter.

"Master, madam, please go to the backyard." The maid said timidly, looking at the master who was walking around in the study.

"Go go, master, I'm not free." Fan Ye waved impatiently, the officials were almost gone, and those backyard ladies still couldn't live their lives.

"Madame said, it was an old friend who came and brought a gift, it is spices, please go and see the master." The maid said under pressure.

spices! The light on Fan Ye's head brightened suddenly, and he took a big stride to the backyard, leaving the maids behind.

Before I got to the main house, I heard laughter coming from inside. His wife Yang laughed and said, "Look at you girl, you are so funny, you really want to laugh at us."

Then a hearty female said: "Madam, don't you know, among the sailors on our ship, there are quite a few young people who can't stand it. They almost stayed there."

"Miss Ling is just talking about it, there is such a shameless woman."

Fan Ye frowned when she heard Aunt Ye's cool voice and stepped into the door.

There were several women sitting in the room. Apart from his wife and concubine, a woman in Tsing Yi sat next to him. Seeing him coming in, she hurriedly got up to salute.

"No gift, no gift," Fan Ye walked to the main seat and sat next to Yang's. He glanced at the gift tray on the table and saw that there was a piece of water agarwood, a piece of dragon birth incense, and pterophyllum frankincense sandalwood inside. Xiang Duzhen took a little, and then turned his head and smiled.

"Master Xie Fan." Ling Qingyu sat down next to the chair, leaning forward slightly in a humble and polite posture.

"Master Ling took our boat to Quanzhou last year." Knowing that her husband must have never thought of who this is, Yang said, and at the same time waved to the other aunts and asked them to retreat.

"Oh, it's that, that," Fan Ye asked uncertainly, "The owner of the Madman."

You are a lunatic, and your whole family is lunatic. Ling Qingyu still replied with an impeccable sweet smile: "Master Fan still remembers the little girl. The little girl is really honored."

"Didn't your ship sink?"

"Cough, cough, cough," Yang concealed his face and coughed a few times before interrupting his husband. He was joking. The spices in that plate are worth ten thousand taels of silver. Don't be scared by such a big God of Wealth. Up.

"It was a disaster, but the little girl was lucky and drifted to an island. She was rescued by the residents of the island and repaired the boat." Ling Qingyu replied respectfully.

"Oh, how many spices did you bring back this time?" Fan Ye leaned forward a little bit and asked, "Why didn't your ship arrive at the dock?"

"Spices are always tens of thousands of catties, but," Ling Qingyu frowned slightly, and said with a weak and embarrassed expression on his face, "Our ship was blocked by the ship of Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Shipping after passing through Guangzhou. We were asked to disembark in Guangzhou. It was just the little girl who thought, "We went out from Quanzhou, how could we dismantle in Guangzhou? So I didn't dare to agree. Now the ship is still parked in the open sea and dare not dock."

"What a ***!" Fan Ye said angrily: "The paw has reached out to me, don't be afraid, I will get on the boat with you. The boat we are going out from Quanzhou is naturally going to Quanzhou. Extract!"

"Thank you, Master Fan!" Ling Qingyu showed surprise on her face, and quickly got up and gave a deep salute.

"This is the duty of the official. Don't worry. The court is in urgent need of spices. The official must give you a good price. If you wait here, the official will start mobilizing manpower." Fan Ye got up and walked out. Ten thousand catties of spices! This time, not only can you keep the black yarn on your head, you may still receive awards.

"Master Ling, sit down, take a sip of tea first." With a gentle smile on his face, Yang suddenly turned a lot of thoughts, holding the veil over his mouth and smiled: "Ling master, look, my dowry Here, some money has been idle, I wonder if I can get a stock with you?"

"That is naturally a good thing," Ling Qingyu said flatteringly.

"I have two thousand taels of silver here. You take it first." Yang beckoned his wife around him to get the money.

"This time the little girl brought back mostly spices and woods. Turning back, the little girl asked someone to send some spices over, which counts as Mrs.'s shares." Ling Qingyu took the bank note and smiled.

This is clearly giving money. Yang nodded unconsciously, and heard Ling Qingyu continue: "Madam, find someone and a little girl to go to the Yamen and transfer the shares of the boat?"

Now the Yang family is more satisfied, and she didn’t want to take up more. After all, her husband is an official of the Department of Ships, and smiled: “You don’t need to go to the Yamen, how can I not believe in the head of Ling, but my adult’s position, It’s not very good to take your shares in the shipping line, and you see, I’m in the back house."

Yang's eyes glanced over, and Ling Qingyu immediately answered: "The little girl is negligent. In this way, after the spices are sold, the little girl will send you the proceeds."

A maid outside said that the master was already waiting outside. Ling Qingyu was surprised at Fan Ye's speed, but immediately got up to leave.

Yang enthusiastically escorted her to the second door, and saw her in the carriage and walking with Fan Ye and others from a distance, and couldn't help but walk back with joy.

"Madam, this shipping is very risky. I heard that many of the ships in the shipping line have sunk this time. After all, Master Ling is just a woman. Maybe this time it is just a fluke." The confidant next to him supported Yang and said.

"What do you know, look at the spices she sent, and the husband said this time because of the lack of spices in Kyoto, the price has increased several times, and the cargo she returned this time, I don’t know how much it is worth. It's more than two thousand taels, people are smart." Yang said with a deep smile, this woman is not simple.

Fan Ye led the people on the ship of the Shibosi Department and followed Ling Qingyu's boat to the open sea. When he saw the Fengshen, he felt lost for a moment. He had never seen such a big ship. It was really like a huge room, and its sails were like clouds in the sky. It was probably more than 10,000 stones!

When the ship arrived in the cargo hold, Fan Ye looked at the full cabin of spice wood, coral pearls and other things, and was even more shocked.

When the staff below started to count, Ling Qingyu welcomed Fan Ye to the captain’s cabin for tea. Fan Ye saw that there were two-story cabins at the stern, and the layout was simple and atmospheric, very comfortable. He nodded and saw again. The few people in the cabin who were wearing the official mansion of the Guangzhou Shipping Department who were about to dodge when they met him suddenly blew their beards and said, "Why, can the Guangzhou Shipping Department take care of my Quanzhou Shipping Department's trade certificate ship?"

"No, no, Master Fan, we just want to learn from Master Ling why their ship can come back." The little officials were sweating profusely, crying in their hearts. They were cruising and saw this big ship. Going up is not like a ship outside the fan, so I only chased them for two days. I got on the boat and inquired. I thought it would be deducted. Who knew that although the captain was a woman, he had a meal first, and then brought his men to persuade them to get them drunk. Then, I took Master Fan on the boat. Everyone knows that Master Fan in Quanzhou and Master Xie in Guangzhou are not in a match. This time they must be cannon fodder.

"That's the great fate of our boat going out in Quanzhou, and it also shows that Quanzhou can build the best boat." Seeing the full of spices, Fan Ye was in a good mood and waved: "There is nothing wrong with you here. ,move."

Several small officials immediately saluted and left. As soon as they got on the ship, they were welcomed into the captain's room by Ling Qingyu, and then they cried out how they encountered a catastrophe and how they came back after all the hardships. Now they see Da Zhou officials, then I finally found the party to rely on, and said that they were eating grass-roots and wild fruits along the way. It is really bitter and can no longer be bitter. Let these black-hearted little officials feel that this boatman is too unlucky and pitiful.

Seeing Fan Ye coming up so happily now, I thought to myself, there are some wild fruits on this ship, what kind of good goods you can receive from Quanzhou Shipbuilding Department, and rushed over, thinking that if Fan Ye sees nothing, he will be angry. Looking for their trouble, these little officials disembarked at a fast speed, switched to their own boat, and ran away.

In the end, the clerk counted up the goods: five thousand jins of wood, 100,000 jin of spices such as agarwood, duke, sandalwood, frankincense, savory wood, cardamom, myrrh, pepper, and 100,000 jin of herbs, pearls, coral , Tortoiseshell, agate, emerald feather, several gems.

When Fan Ye saw the long list, he spouted a sip of tea, his eyes straightened.

"My lord," the little official leaned in to Fan Ye and whispered in a whisper, "If we want to buy three cents, the money is not enough." The value of the goods here is 600,000 taels of silver for the 50,000 catties of frankincense. Adding the 100,000 taels of borneol, a total of 400,000 taels of silver, 20,000 catties of agarwood, a total of 90,000 taels of silver, and 20,000 catties of sandalwood incense, totaling 50,000 taels of silver, and these spices alone amount to 1,114 taels of silver. One cent of taxes is a free draw, and three cents will cost more than 300,000 taels of silver. Quanzhou City Department of Transportation's deduction is only 200,000 taels, which does not count the other precious medicinal materials.

"Cough cough," Fan Ye wiped the sprayed tea stains, leaned over to Ling Qingyu, and said kindly: "Ling masters, the court is short of spices, can I take 10% of the spices and buy 70%? Treasure goods are only taxed 10%, so I can't help but buy them."

Ling Qingyu knew that all major cities in the Great Zhou Dynasty would get one tax on fine goods, and one-fifteenth tax on crude goods. In addition, the official pricing for forced purchase is called unbuying for three points, and the unbuying price of the housekeeper is at most the market. Half of the price, now Fan Ye proposes to buy spices for seven cents. It's not black, but it doesn't matter, there are still a lot of goods in our dark cabin, and it's not bad to sell you a favor. So he smiled and said, "Thank you very much, Master Fan. The little girl has a remorse, I wonder if Master Fan can help?"

"Haha, as long as the official can do it." Fan Ye breathed a sigh of relief. If it weren't for the imperial court's pressure this time, he wouldn't want to do this kind of black heart.

"The little girl is young, and I don’t understand many things. This time I saw that Fanwai loves silk and porcelain, but the little girl suffers from lack of supply. I wonder if I can exchange some of the money for some goods? The little girl is not in a hurry and separates. You can give it."

Fan Ye was overjoyed. If he bought seven cents, he would cost 700,000 taels of silver even if the price was lowered. The difference would be 500,000 taels of silver, but if it was exchanged with silk porcelain, it would be fine. But... how many silk chinaware worth 500,000 taels of silver? Regardless, let's save the emergency first. It really doesn't work. Ask your uncle for help. He smiled and said: "Coco, just at the south gate of Quanzhou, the government has newly built a lot of warehouses, you can rent them out."

"Then dare to feel good, I wonder if these warehouses can buy it?"

"Cocoa, also deducted from the purchase price?" Fan Ye asked with a smile. Those South Gate warehouses were built by him for officialdom, but now it has been almost a year, and there are no ships going, and those warehouses have become vacant. The construction cost of 10,000 taels has not been flat until now. Fan Ye rolled his eyes and said kindly: "Then, how about 50,000 taels?"

"Thank you, sir, sir, many of the crew members that the little girl took out this time have died because of this storm. The little girl wants to buy some fields to be their family members. I wonder if the adults can help?" Ling Qingyu sees Fan Ye Frozen, she smiled and said, "If an adult can help buy some fertile land, the little girl is willing to contribute 10% of the spices to the court."

Fan Ye's eyebrows stretched out immediately, and said, "It is very good for you to have such a heart. I heard that the government has an official house to sell, about 120 hectares, if you wish to pay 150,000 For two dollars, the officer can help you make peace."

"So, the little girl thanked the adults for these people, and the kindness of the adults is unforgettable!" Ling Qingyu looked excited and grateful, and repeatedly gave salutes.

Fan Ye's vanity was greatly satisfied, and he thought that he was a small household, even if he made such a large amount of money, he could not make it to the table. Naguanzhuang's land is low, and the price is one hundred thousand taels. Zhizhou has been sold for more than half a year and has not been sold. This is a good way to beg for personal affection. Na Zhizhou is also called to know that Quanzhou is not the world of the Xie family.

The two parties had a very happy conversation, and the atmosphere was very lively. The Yan San Lu Yao Ding Dong and others behind Ling Qingyu as the background were also very dedicated, standing straight behind as the background wall. Waiting for Zheng Xi to accompany the small official to seal up the spices, waiting for the ship to disembark after the ship docked. When Fan Ye got up to leave, he had a good impression of the female owner of the ship. He thought to himself that this woman had such a low vision and was so charming. , This time I can bring so many things back, I am afraid it is also due to these subordinates, thinking about it this way, this boat line can look forward to it.

After Fan Ye's ship sailed out of sight, Ling Qingyu put down his tired hand and said, "Enter the port."

"Girl, the price given by this government is two-thirds lower than the market price. If you let them unbuy seven points, give them another point and draw one more point, we are losing a lot." Zheng Xi said with a bitter face. . That's wasted money, at least one million taels are gone, and the money has to be used to repay debts with other things.

"You don't know this," Ling Qingyu knocked on his head and said: "We brought too many spices this time. If there are too many people jealous when they come ashore, they may be calculated and given to the government. First, we sold the favor of Master Fan, and secondly, we can get the future supply of goods and warehouses without any effort. If we use our own strength, I’m afraid we can’t buy it at all."

"Then what do you want the land for? The fields of the Guanzhuang are generally not worthy of that much money." Ding Dong asked afterward.

"That's for Mr. Ding's Uncle Wu and you. Arita is better than running a boat, and I have an explanation for my family." Ling Qingyu finished speaking, and walked to his bedroom under Hache to get some sleep.

Ding Dong was stunned for a moment before he realized that Fujian was originally a place with a lot of people and little land. For sea people like them, it is not easy to buy land. Today, this large village of more than 100 hectares, even if it is divided into a few people, That is enough for a family to live a good life.