Abandoned Prince Survival Guide

Pei Linzhi actually disagreed with half of the contestants.Iron ore is an extremely important resource of the imperial court, not the private property of Sairen. This world belongs to the Xiao family, so there is nothing wrong with His Highness possessing it, and Sairen should not take so much.

Moreover, the Sai people have always been at odds with the government, so it would be a big trouble for them to control such important resources and turn around to rebel.

Xiao Yu has actually carefully analyzed the pros and cons, but considering that they don't make weapons, they don't need much iron.

And why did the people rebel?It's not because the people are struggling to make ends meet, and the officials force the people to rebel. Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

The reason for the [-]-[-] split with Sairen is because the iron ore is within Sairen's territory, and Sairen's help is needed for mining and smelting. If the distribution is not balanced, what will Jumo think?They are working so hard, you sit back and enjoy it, and you still get more than him, why? !

Xiao Yu felt that before Sairen rebelled against the government, he would rebel against himself.So in order to show his sincerity, he proposed a [-]-[-] split.

In order to make iron, Xiao Yu went to the blacksmith's shop to order a lot of agricultural tools and tools, just to go to the blacksmith's shop to observe the design of the other party's furnace, bellows, etc., and what level of iron is considered qualified.Unqualified pig iron is brittle and has poor durability.

This time Xiao Yu planned to recruit a few people from the village to learn blacksmithing. He needed to stay in Longhu Mountain and rest three to four days a month. Of course, the wages should not be less.

Because the work needs to be strictly confidential, the selection of candidates must be extremely cautious.It is necessary to have at least two brothers in the family. After all, they have to make friends with the government, and the family needs to keep labor.It is also necessary for the family to have a reliable character and keep their mouths tightly shut. Once the news is leaked, based on their relationship with Xue Zhao, they will not be able to beheaded, but the iron mine will have to be handed over to the government, and may even be given to the capital If there is a handle left there, his situation will be in danger.

It took a lot of effort to select a candidate, Xiao Yu consulted Meng Hong to determine a good candidate, and then came to lobby in person.At the beginning, I didn't say what I was doing, so I asked the other party if he would like to work, and he couldn't go home in a short time, but the salary was very high.

The villagers in the same village have already noticed that as long as they can work long-term at Xiao Langjun's house, it is equivalent to making a lot of money. I didn't see how long Wu Xingyi's family has been working at Xiao Langjun's house. They are going to build a big tile house in autumn. And it's still a green brick and tile house, I don't know how many people envy it.

Therefore, among the people selected by Xiao Yu, except for a few who could not go due to personal reasons, the other four agreed.Xiao Yu was not in a hurry to mine the iron ore in Longhu Mountain, but sent the four of them to the blacksmith shop as apprentices to help.

In this era, it is not easy to learn a craft. Even if you want to learn a teacher, most people are unwilling to accept it. They usually accept their own relatives, or inherit their father's business.Xiao Yu sent these people to study without wages, and paid for their own living expenses.

His purpose, even if it is to prevent these people from forging iron, is to do some work such as burning fire, pulling bellows and moving things, so that they can observe and learn in that environment, and understand the process of smelting and forging.

He didn't send everyone to the blacksmith's shop in Zhoucheng, but arranged them in a scattered manner. He searched for all the blacksmith's shops under Zhoucheng, and finally arranged them all. It's not so easy if people are scattered. attract attention.

Xiao Yu, Pei Linzhi and Meng Hong were the only people who knew about the iron ore veins. They didn't even tell Min Chong at first. After all, the crime of mining iron mines privately was too great, and the less people knew about it, the better.

In the afternoon of this day, Xiao Yu switched to bunting and was about to go up the mountain again. He wanted to find tea. After all, only a few people are needed to forge iron, and women and children in the village are capable of picking tea. If there is a tea garden, Sairen's basic Life will be guaranteed, and his source of tea will also be available.

Sairen didn't find any tea trees near his cottage, so he went to look for them in the mountains near his home. He firmly believed that there were wild tea trees in Yazhou.

Min Chong stopped him: "Wait a minute, I have something to ask you."

Xiao Yu looked at him: "Is there something wrong with Master Min?"

Min Chong said, "Let me ask you, when do you plan to go to sea?"

Xiao Yu laughed awkwardly: "Now the cargo storage is not enough, I plan to go to sea again next year."

Min Chong said: "You have been preparing the cargo, where is the crew? You don't think that Ji Shan and I can sail the ship to the sea, do you? When there is no wind, the ship will stop at sea?"

Xiao Yu blinked: "You mean the crew needs to be recruited now?"

Min Chong frowned impatiently: "The people you recruited for me are all beginners, do you think they can go to sea without training?"

Xiao Yu laughed: "Sorry, this is my negligence, I will immediately recruit crew members for you, how many people are needed?"

Min Chong said: "Not only the crew, but at least one more ship for me. In case of any accident, at least one ship can assist me."

"You're right. It's called not putting the chickens in one basket. If one is beaten, the chickens in the other basket are still there." Xiao Yu nodded hurriedly, and he still needs to prepare a boat, and now that boat also needs to be prepared. For renovation, a few more watertight cabins need to be separated from the bilge.

"By the way, Master Min, where can I buy a big boat? How much does it cost?" I'm afraid it's not cheap to buy a big boat, at least a few hundred taels of silver is needed, and he doesn't have that much money.

Min Chong opened his fingers: "The same size as my boat, 500 taels."

Xiao Yu smiled wryly and shook his head: "This is too embarrassing for me, unless a silver mine is dug out." The paper workshop, green brick kiln and lime kiln at home do not make much money.

When Min Chong heard what he said, he twitched the corners of his mouth: "You can also make it yourself."

"Who can build a ship? Can you?" Xiao Yu asked casually.

Min Chong said, "Find some carpenters for me."

Xiao Yu's eyes widened in disbelief: "You really know how to build ships?"

Min Chong ignored his surprise and said, "Before building the ship, you should find some crew members for me. I'm going to go to sea."

Xiao Yu was puzzled again: "Should I go to sea now? But I haven't prepared everything yet."

"Go to Guangzhou Mansion for a walk, and buy keels by the way."

Xiao Yu was puzzled: "Buy dragon bones?"

"The keel of a boat, without a keel, how can a boat be built?"

Xiao Yu noticed that Min Chong was getting impatient, and quickly said, "I understand. OK, I'll find someone for you right away. How many do you need?"

"At least 30 or [-] people are needed. In the future, a ship will need at least [-] to [-] people when going out to sea."

There are quite a lot of people, and it will be a huge labor cost. Xiao Yu didn't have time to be depressed, and thought of another thing: "By the way, Master Min is going to Guangzhou Mansion, can you help me buy some tea saplings?"

Min Chong frowned: "Where can I find tea saplings?"

"Can't you find it? If it's hard to find, forget it. I'll go around the mountains and I'll always find it."

"talk later."

I can still find more than a dozen crew members in the village, but I don’t know if they can continue to work for a long time, but in the future, the fleet of oceangoing ships will need at least 40 to [-] people. Where can I find them?

Xiao Yu suddenly remembered the Seventh Master Dou that Meng Hong had mentioned. At the beginning, he planned to invite Qiye Dou out of the mountain, but when he recruited Min Chong, he dismissed the idea. It's gone.But now that Min Chong said that he still needs to build a ship, does he still want to invite Dou Qiye to be the captain?If he is still strong.

Xiao Yu released the news of the recruitment of crew members, and immediately many applicants came to the village, most of them were the same group who went to pick up the elderly and children last time.Everyone likes to work for Xiao Yu, because he pays high wages.

Xiao Yu selected more than a dozen young and vigorous people. After all, rowing is a physical activity.

Min Chong said that he would go to sea immediately, but in fact he didn't. He still gave Xiao Yu time to prepare the goods, after all, he couldn't leave empty-handed.

Before leaving, Min Chong loaded the porcelain from the porcelain kiln and the paper products from the paper workshop on the boat, and went outside to see if he could get a good price.

Xiao Yu is actually not very optimistic about this. Guangzhou has a long history of establishment, and its heritage is much deeper than that of Yazhou. The local products should not be worse than their own, or even better.Things like porcelain paper can only be sold at a good price in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia where there is no technology.But Min Chong said he wanted to take it with him, so he couldn't refuse to take it with him. It's impossible to go out with an empty boat.

Two days after Min Chong's ship left, the hurricane visited Yazhou again.Facing the hurricane, Xiao Yu was no longer calm and calm as last time. Last time he could sit at home and listen to the sound of the wind and rain. The tree turned a blind eye.

Pei Linzhi came over with a meal: "Lang Jun, it's time to eat."

Xiao Yu shook his head: "I have no appetite."

Pei Linzhi comforted him: "Min Chong has been sailing across the sea for more than ten years, and he has never seen any kind of bad weather. This hurricane arrived two days after he left, and their ship was with the wind. According to the normal speed, they should have docked a long time ago. gone."

Xiao Yu pinched his temples: "I hope so."

Pei Linzhi said: "Your Majesty, eat something, you have to trust Min Chong. Didn't your Majesty save him just because you believed in him?"

Xiao Yu raised his head, looked at Pei Linzhi with black and white eyes, and then raised the corners of his mouth: "You are right, I should believe in his ability."

"Eat." Pei Linzhi handed the chopsticks to him.

Xiao Yu looked at the bowls on the tray. There were two rice bowls. It turned out that Pei Linzhi didn't eat either, so he said, "Let's eat together."

Pei Linzhi nodded, picked up the chopsticks, and ate with Xiao Yu while discussing the rainstorm.

Pei Linzhi said: "I just went to Zhifang to see it. The stream is soaring, but it hasn't risen yet. If it rises again, Zhifang may be flooded."

Xiao Yu stopped: "So serious?"

"The river is too narrow, and the water in the fields can't get out. It's almost a vast ocean. The water almost drowns the seedlings."

Xiao Yu frowned: "There are too few ditches in the rice fields, which is not conducive to drainage. We still have to repair the canals later, and the rivers have to be dug deep and wide."

Pei Linzhi said: "This is a big project, and it needs to be mobilized by the government."

"Then talk to Xue Zhao and ask him to show the official document and notify all townships and villages to repair water conservancy projects in a unified way. By the way, the bobbin cart is not washed out, right?"

Chinese civilization originated in the fertile Central Plains. Due to the complex terrain, excessive rainfall, frequent waterlogging, and low food production, the south has been ignored for thousands of years. It was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that the court began to pay attention to southern agriculture. Development, there is a saying that "Suhu is familiar with the world".

It can be seen that agriculture in the south has great potential to be tapped. After all, compared with the north where crops are grown once a year, the southern advantage of cropping twice or even three times a year is too obvious.However, if we want to develop agriculture in the south well, it is inevitable to build water conservancy, otherwise we can only watch the sky like this.

"The bobbin car is fine, it's still turning." Pei Linzhi said.

Xiao Yu finished eating in two or three, stood up, and went to change clothes: "I'm going to take a look."

Pei Linzhi said: "It's still raining heavily, wait until the rain stops before going."

Xiao Yu said: "Don't wait, I don't know when it will rain. It doesn't matter if you have a bamboo hat and coir raincoat."

"Then I'll go with you." Pei Linzhi picked up the tray, handed it to Ji Hai after going out, and went to get the coir raincoat himself for Xiao Yu to put on.

Out of the courtyard gate, the two of them walked into the mist filled the sky, and they saw a vast ocean world. The rice field at the door of the house had turned into a yellow soup at this moment, only the grass seedlings that had not yet headed were left, and the water outlet was wide open. But the water flows extremely slowly, because the stagnant water outside cannot get out.Xiao Yu frowned. If it was submerged for two days, this season's harvest would basically be ruined.

Outside the village is a world of water, the road to Zhifang was flooded, so we had to wade across.Many villagers are busy at their own fields, trying to dig up the ridges to drain more water, but to no avail.The surface of the stream was twice as wide as usual, and the current was so turbulent that the bobbins were spun crazily.

The amount of precipitation was terrible, which further strengthened Xiao Yu's idea of ​​building aqueducts.

They waded through the water to the paper workshop. Fortunately, this was considered at the beginning. The paper workshop was built relatively high, and the water hadn't come up yet.Wu Xingyi and his son took their apprentices to make oiled paper bamboo hats in the paper workshop.This is a new business they have developed. The paper is brushed with tung oil, and after drying, it can be waterproofed and used to make bamboo hats.

Yazhou is hot and rainy, and the waterproof bamboo hats can not only prevent sun and rain, but also sell very well.When Min Chong went out this time, he took a lot of oil paper and bamboo hats with him.

Xiao Yu is still working on the method of oil-paper umbrella, which has not been completed yet.

Xiao Yu looked at it and said, "Master Wu, the rain is too heavy, and the water may still rise up. It's not safe here. You should collect your things and put them as high as possible. Don't soak in the water. Go back and rest." Let's wait until the water recedes."

"Okay, sir." Wu Xingyi agreed, and began to ask everyone to collect things.

Xiao Yu went outside and walked around, his clothes were mostly wet by the rain, but his hair was quite dry, and the waterproof effect of the bamboo hat was quite good.

Seeing him coming back, Yu'er rushed up to meet him: "Mr. Lang, when are we going to make silk?"

Xiao Yu remembered that some time ago, the little girls boiled the cocoons according to his instructions, and then pulled the cocoons apart with a bow-shaped bamboo, put a dozen or so cocoons into a stack, and dried them in the sun for later use.Since no one knew how to make a silk quilt, it was left there until Xiao Yu came to make a decision.

"Then let's do it today, take it all out. I'll go change into dry clothes first. Rinzhi, you can also help me make the quilt." Xiao Yu said.

Pei Linzhi pointed at himself in surprise: "Me?" He has never made a quilt.

Xiao Yu said: "That's right, it's very simple, just pull the silk apart for me."

It is really simple to make silk. Prepare a large mat. Four people pull one side of the silkworm cocoon respectively. Once they are pulled hard, it becomes a huge and thin silk. The thick silk quilt on the bed was wrapped with cloth and fixed with needles.

Because the winter in Yazhou is not too cold, the quilt was not made too thick, so these cocoons were used to make two quilts.In winter, there is no need to cover heavy fur quilts, but soft and warm silk quilts can be covered.

Xiao Yu happily carried the two quilts into the room, opened the cabinet, put the quilts in, and said excitedly to Pei Linzhi who was standing at the door: "Haha, I really think it will be winter now, you can try the silk quilt .Two quilts, one is mine, and the other is for you. Last winter you gave me a rabbit fur quilt, and this winter I will give you a silk quilt."

Pei Linzhi was flattered: "Thank you, sir."

Xiao Yu closed the cabinet door: "Thank you, what's mine isn't yours."

Hearing this, Pei Linzhi was very moved. In fact, he was still skeptical just now. How could His Highness know so many things, and even know how to make silk quilts? He has clearly never seen silkworms before, so he is unwilling to doubt him now. , no matter who he is, he is his highness.

The hurricane lasted for four days, and finally stopped. The seedlings in the field were soaked in water for a whole day and night. After the water went down, they were covered with yellow mud. Wash off the mud, otherwise it will affect the respiration and photosynthesis of plants.

Seeing them like this, the villagers quickly followed suit.

Six or seven days had passed, and Min Chong's boat was still missing. Xiao Yu comforted himself that he should not be back so soon, and it would take time to sell goods and buy keels, so wait.

Ten days have passed, and Min Chong's ship still hasn't come back. Many family members of the crew members have come to ask for news, because when they set off, Min Chong said that they would return in about ten days.

What can Xiao Yu do, he is waiting for the news like everyone else, and his heart is only more anxious than everyone else, so many lives are tied to him.

Twelve days later, the ship has not returned.Xiao Yu would go to the beach for a few laps every day, thinking in his heart, what would happen, the goods are not easy to sell, so he has been waiting?Or encountered a strong wind and the ship had an accident?Or lost your way and can't find your way back?Or is it that Min Chong's long-standing habits are hard to change, and he will change back to his old profession when he goes to sea?

Until the night of No.15, Xiao Yu was giving lectures by the bonfire when he suddenly heard a voice shouting: "The boat is back! Mr. Xiao, the boat is back!"

When Xiao Yu heard this, he hurriedly said, "I won't talk today, I'll take a day off. Master Min's boat is back, and I'm going to have a look." After speaking, he started to leave, but Pei Linzhi grabbed his wrist.

Xiao Yu looked back at him puzzled, Pei Linzhi said: "Mr. Lang, don't you want to bring a torch?"

Xiao Yu laughed: "You're right, I should light a torch to light up everyone."

Pei Linzhi took down a pine oil torch from the side of the table, and walked out together with Xiao Yu.Many people who attended the class had relatives on the boat. When they heard the boat was coming back, they got up and followed to the beach.

When the villagers heard that the boat had returned, they also helped the old and the young and rushed to the seaside.Those who have no relatives at home also want to go to see the excitement and see what the boat brings back.

The welcoming team became mighty, and everyone was inexplicably excited. The last time so many people went to the beach, they still fled.

When Xiao Yu rushed to the seaside, someone had already disembarked from the boat. After meeting with relatives, everyone was very excited and told their heartfelt farewells.

Xiao Yu asked, "Where are Dang Min and Ji Shan?"

The crew replied: "They are behind."

Min Chong was the last to get off the boat, Xiao Yu saw him jumping off the boat, and rushed to meet him: "Master Min, you guys are back."

Min Chong said: "It's not that you want those broken tea saplings, otherwise you would have returned long ago."

Xiao Yu was overjoyed: "Have you found the tea sapling? Great, thank you! Thank you!"

Pei Linzhi asked, "Is everything going well?"

Min Chong said, "It's okay."

Ji Shan pulled the burden on his shoulders, and said excitedly: "Mr., you don't know how well our products sell. The boss is too powerful."

Xiao Yu narrowed his eyes when he heard the smile: "Really, that's great, Master Min is really capable. Everyone has worked hard, so hurry back and rest."

Min Chong squinted at him: "Aren't you going to take a look on the boat?"

"What's the rush, we'll go tomorrow. The boat can't run away." Xiao Yu didn't care.

Min Chong said: "At night, people should go to the boat to keep watch."

"Okay, I'll arrange people to go up." Xiao Yu called Dayong and Ji Hai and asked them to spend the night on the boat tonight. The two readily agreed because they wanted to know what was brought back on the boat.

When people turned back to the village, Min Chong said very little, while Ji Shan kept talking excitedly about what they had seen and heard along the way.Xiao Yu asked, "Where were you when the hurricane blew?"

Jishan said: "I stopped in Bao'an County, where I was just sheltering from the wind, but most of the things were sold there, and the price there was better than that in Guangzhou. Especially the oil-paper bamboo hats, all of which cost [-] cents a piece." sold out."

Xiao Yu laughed: "That's really good." The most expensive oil-paper hat in Yazhou is no more than ten yuan. To put it bluntly, the prices in Yazhou are cheap, and the price cannot go up.In business, what you earn is the difference.

Jishan said: "The head of the family has said that we will not bring paper in the future, and there will not be much profit. All of them will be changed to oiled paper hats."

When Xiao Yu heard this, he asked, "Will Master Min go there again?"

Min Chong said without turning his head, "If you don't go, how can you support so many people?"

Xiao Yu laughed loudly: "Go, go, I will work hard for the Min family from now on."

Back home, Xiao Yu hurriedly asked someone to cook food for everyone, and rewarded Min Chong and the crew.Min Chong threw a money bag to Xiao Yu: "You count it, and I will distribute the wages to everyone."

Xiao Yu took the heavy bag, which contained a lot of copper coins and a lot of silver taels.He first counted all the items, and then he brought some things there, and sold them for four or fifty taels of silver.He first took out Min Chong's part, and then paid the crew members wages. After the payment, there were still 50 taels left. This trip can keep up with the family's income for half a year.So you still have to do business to make money.