Abandoned Prince Survival Guide

Min Chong went on to say: "The situation in the north is unstable. I plan to go south after the next year. Before I go, I can go to Guangzhou to buy some tea and silk."

Xiao Yu found that Min Chong was very clear about his thoughts, and he nodded: "Okay, I'll hurry up and arrange for artificial paper to burn porcelain, and I'll arrange some people to help you." He was referring to the shipbuilding.

"Yes." Min Chong agreed.

Xiao Yu returned to his room, and he was not in a hurry to count the money, but heaved a long sigh: "People are knives and I am fish. Anguo is afraid that there will be another war."

Pei Linzhi said: "Mr. Lang thinks that Rouran will attack Anguo?"

"East and West Rong are mainly nomadic, and there is not enough food. There is a fatter sheep in the south. What do you think the pack of wolves will do?" Xiao Yu squinted at him.

Pei Linzhi sighed: "If the general was still around, he wouldn't be so passive."

Xiao Yu waved his hand and sat on the low couch: "That's not the case. Two years ago when Xirong attacked Jinzhou, the general still held the military power, but it didn't help. Without the Great Wall as a barrier, the frontiers of the Han regime are full of breaches. For Hu As far as the iron cavalry is concerned, it is a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. Since the Western Jin Dynasty, Hu people of all ethnic groups have sprung up, and you will sing and I will appear on the stage, and they will continue to invade the south. , how long do you think this can last?"

Pei Linzhi looked at Xiao Yu in surprise. Although His Highness expressed his unwillingness to take a high position, in fact, he was in a remote Yazhou, and he was still concerned about the safety and fate of the country: "According to Mr. To the north, can the world be stable?"

Xiao Yu nodded and looked up to the sky with a long sigh: "But it's not easy to say. To fight a war, you need troops, excellent weapons, and sufficient food and grass. In addition to these basics, you also need a general who is good at strategizing and using soldiers like a god. All of these are indispensable."

Pei Linzhi was familiar with military books since he was a child, but he hadn't experienced many actual combats. The only two times he fought against pirates and bandits after coming to Yazhou was not considered a real battlefield at all, and he was not the one leading the army, so he didn't Dare to say that he is good at using soldiers.

Xiao Yu looked at Pei Linzhi and said, "Rinzhi, do you know why I don't want to think about the high position above the temple? Because it's too difficult, I don't think I can defend against powerful enemies from outside and govern the country at home."

Pei Linzhi didn't think so, except His Highness, none of his brothers thought they were geniuses in the sky, and they all thought that they could rival Qin Huang and Han Wu, but he thought that King Wu and Yue Wang were all idiots. No head can compare.

Pei Linzhi said: "Mr. Lang is far-sighted, and all he considers are facts. However, there is no need to worry too much. Our foundation is still shallow. We just need to hide our strength and bide our time, and wait for the opportunity."

Xiao Yu smiled and waved his hands: "I don't think so much, let's count the money." He signaled Pei Linzhi to pour out the money.

Pei Linzhi was about to dump the gold, silver and copper coins in the purse on his low couch, but Xiao Yu stopped him: "Don't dump it on the bed, it's dirty."

Pei Linzhi laughed when he heard the words: "It's the first time I've heard people say money is dirty."

Xiao Yu said: "Isn't what I said the truth? I don't know how many people have passed through the money. You know what the person who took the money touched before. Maybe he just wiped it on his mouth after eating. This It's still good, or just came out of the hut, and went directly to touch the money without washing your hands..."

The corner of Pei Linzhi's mouth twitched, and he couldn't laugh or cry: "Stop, sir, stop talking, your imagination is really rich."

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "Is it impossible for what I said to happen?" People in this age don't have the habit of washing their hands before meals and after going to the toilet.

Pei Linzhi smiled and didn't answer, no wonder Mr. Lang often reminded everyone to wash their hands before and after meals. He went outside and brought in a dustpan and poured money into it to prevent the copper coins from rolling around.

The two gathered together to count the money. Although the purse was heavy this time, it was actually not much. It was mainly copper coins. After counting, there were only more than 200 taels of silver, and the money was spent on buying people.

Xiao Yu then took out his abacus to settle the accounts, and found that after giving the dividends to Min Chong, he only had more than 100 taels left. Xiao Yu smiled wryly: "You're actually poor again, it's really expensive to buy someone."

Pei Linzhi said: "This is still a year of famine. People sold themselves cheaply in order to survive. Under normal circumstances, the price would at least double. Don't worry, Mr. Lang, the food stockpiled a while ago is enough to last for several months. Now there are people. , let everyone go to cultivate wasteland, and next year's harvest will be more."

Xiao Yu counted out the money he gave Min Chong, and looked at his pile of copper coins: "It's not that I'm worried about the lack of food, but that Master Min said that he will go south in the spring to buy tea and silk. With such a big risk and going so far, you can’t go with an empty boat.”

Pei Linzhi comforted him: "It's really not enough, I will borrow some money with Xue Zhao then."

Xiao Yu looked at Pei Rinzhi: "Then I have to trouble Rinzhi."

"No trouble." Pei Linzhi said lightly.

Xiao Yu got up: "I'll go and send money to Mr. Min's family."

Min Chong was about to take a rest, and when he saw him sending money, he said, "Your money is tight, so you can not give it to me."

Xiao Yu sneered: "My financial situation is best understood by Mr. Min. I'll give it to you first, and then borrow it from you when it's not enough. It's clearer for each yard."

Min Chong didn't say a word, took the money bag without counting it, and threw it directly into a box beside the bed.

When Xiao Yu came back, he saw Pei Linzhi looking through the stack of deeds of sale and the roster, and when he entered the room, he raised his head and said, "How does Mr. Lang plan to distribute these people?"

Xiao Yu said: "Those who have skills should be assigned to workshops as much as possible. Those who don't have skills should be assigned to iron smelting, land reclamation, and shipbuilding."

Pei Linzhi nodded, and said: "Tomorrow, I'll ask if anyone in the group has ever read a book, and find someone to help Mr. Lang share it. Now that there are too many people, and things are complicated, it takes a good hand to keep accounts and distribute work. , you can’t do everything by yourself, it’s too tiring.”

Xiao Yu thinks about it too, he has to find someone to help: "The newcomer may not be suitable, in fact, Brother Meng is the most suitable, he understands these situations best, but his family has a lot of things to do."

Pei Linzhi smiled: "It's not easy, isn't it just to hand over the pearls, just arrange someone to catch him the pearls."

Xiao Yu nodded: "Alright. The people from the north may not be good at swimming."

"Then there are Jishan and Jihai. Besides, the pearls cultivated by Mr. Lang can be salvaged by next year." Pei Linzhi said.

Xiao Yu suddenly laughed: "That's right, the first batch of pearls put down is almost a year old, I don't know what they look like, I'll take them out after the spring and have a look. If they're good, I'll give them to Brother Meng Interaction." The bead core is so big, as long as the outer layer is covered with nacre, it is completely enough for intercourse.

After confirming this matter, Xiao Yu personally went to invite Meng Hong.Meng Hong was very surprised when he heard that Xiao Yu wanted to invite him to take charge of the affairs. He stood up and bowed to Xiao Yu: "Mr. Xiao Lang trusts Hong so much, how dare Hong refuse to agree."

Xiao Yu raised his arms with both hands: "Then thank you, Brother Meng. From now on, you won't have to go into the sea again. I will find a solution for you next year's pearls. From now on, you will be responsible for teaching the children and helping me deal with them. things at home."

"Hong thanked you here, sir, and I will do my best to help you." Meng Hong bowed again to thank him.

Xiao Yu trusted Meng Hong, and he came here without saying a word when he said to run a school, because no tuition fee was collected, and Meng Hong didn't get any salary, just because his son was also taking classes here, so he worked hard and did his best. For such a long time.

They are free schools, but the teachers have to eat.Xiao Yu planned to give Meng Hong a red envelope at the end of the year to thank him for his hard work over the past year.

This time he asked Meng Hong to take charge, firstly because he was familiar with his family's situation, and secondly because Meng Hong was nearly forty years old, and his body had already suffered from rheumatism due to frequent trips to the sea. Such a body was no longer suitable for fishing for pearls.Just take advantage of this opportunity to rescue him.

Obviously, Meng Hong also knew what this matter meant to him, so he was grateful to Xiao Yu.

That night, the newcomers noticed that a huge bonfire was being lit in the yard, and men, women and children were sitting around the fire, and the head of the house stood before a board and told everyone something.

Quite a few people gathered around curiously, and found that the Patriarch was actually giving a lecture, teaching very practical arithmetic.

This incident made them very puzzled. Didn't they say that children under the age of 15 have classes after meals? Why do they also have classes at night?Some bold people quietly inquired about the situation with others, only to find out that the evening classes are arranged for the adults in the village, mainly for literacy.

There is no threshold for this class, and it is free, anyone can listen to it, including them of course.

And besides the family bishop counting, there is also a Master Meng who teaches everyone how to read and read, and a Mr. Pei Lang who tells everyone about history.

This incident brought a huge psychological shock to the newcomers. At first they had nowhere to go. Seeing that their whole family was going to starve to death in this severe winter, they had no choice but to sell themselves and boarded a ship to the unknown in panic.They had already planned that they would never come back, and they were ready to die in a foreign country. They didn't expect this place to be a warm, peaceful and hopeful paradise. Some of them even regretted not bringing their families along with them.

On the first day after landing on the island, some people realized that this might be the best choice he made in his life.

From Yinshi on the second day, all males over the age of six were called to get up and practiced with Pei Linzhi, not only running, but also fighting skills.Regardless of the young age of those children in the team, all of them practice vigorously.

The newcomer sighed while being shocked, everything about the master's house is different, not only learning Chinese, but also practicing martial arts.

Pei Linzhi's original intention was to train the young people in the village to defend against bandits and pirates. Now that these bandits have been wiped out, why continue to train? Naturally, it is out of his selfishness. In the future, these people will be His Highness's personal soldiers. Protect Your Highness.

And Xiao Yu's original intention is simpler, it is to let everyone exercise, especially the children. After all, there are many people in the family and there is a shortage of medical care. A small cold may be fatal. Under Pei Linzhi's training, the children's physical fitness The quality is excellent, and he rarely gets sick, which saves him a lot of trouble.

After dinner, Meng Hong took the newly compiled roster and announced the whereabouts of the newcomers. Those with skills would make the best use of them. For example, the bamboo craftsman arranged for him to go to the paper workshop to make bamboo hats and oil-paper umbrellas. Just burn ceramics, carpenters are assigned to build boats, tea farmers, fisherman and butchers are temporarily arranged in several workshops, and they will be asked to help when the time comes.

Some of the unskilled young people went to land reclamation, a small part went to blue brick kilns and lime kilns, and more than half were assigned to Min Chong because he wanted to train these people to be crew members.

Meng Hong is very thoughtful, and there is a special person in charge of all the affairs in the family, so that it is not easy to make mistakes.If someone disagrees with his assignment and needs to change positions, as long as he can give enough reasons, he will be changed.

As soon as the task was assigned, it was taken away immediately.Now that the weather is not too hot, it is a good time to work.

Xiao Yu had long set his sights on the wasteland under the hillside opposite the stream. People in the village continued to cultivate wasteland there one after another. However, due to the low efficiency, very little land was cultivated. Now that his family has enough labor, it is entirely possible to cultivate another place. Dozens of acres of land are used to grow food. Although the family still mainly buys food, they should try to grow as much as they can.

Yazhou has one good point, that is, there are fewer people and more land, and whoever reclaims the wasteland will own it.There are also landlords who like to buy mature fields from the people, but there are very few tenant farmers who have completely lost their land, because they can reclaim wasteland by themselves while renting and planting the land of the landlords, and then own some land of their own. As for whether they can keep these lands from being Landlord annexation depends on their own business conditions.

Min Chong's boat finally started construction. He led a group of carpenters and men assigned to him by Meng Hong to work by the seaside, and asked Pei Rinzhi to buy anything he needed.

Pei Rinzhi is usually in charge of the family's purchasing tasks, but he is rather unwilling to be entrusted by Min Chong, and the only one who can entrust him is His Highness.But no matter whether he likes to run errands or not, things will still fall on him in the end, because Min Chong will ask Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yu will find him in the end.

Xiao Yu was very interested in shipbuilding, and he would go to the beach every day to see it. He also suggested watertight compartments to Min Chong, asking him to build more compartments when designing.

Min Chong was surprised by his suggestion. Xiao Yu didn't seem to know much about ships, but the idea of ​​watertight compartments was very scientific and practical. It seemed that Xiao Yu was really well-informed.

In the afternoon of this day, Xiao Yu went to the beach again.It was found that several simple pergolas had been temporarily built by the seaside, supported by several wooden piles, covered with palm leaves and banana leaves, and the master carpenter was doing carpentry work under the sheds.There are also a dozen other people sawing wood, chopping wood, etc. around.

Min Chong was talking to the carpenter Master Wan brought back from Jianye under the shed. When he saw Xiao Yu approaching, he just took a look and didn't say hello.

Xiao Yu stood aside and listened for a while, and found that Master Wan seemed to know the structure of the ship very well, so he couldn't help raising his eyebrows, and when they stopped, he interjected: "Master Wan has ever built a ship?"

Master Wan said respectfully to Xiao Yu: "Returning to Mr. Lang, when the villain was in his hometown, he built a small boat, but this is the first time for a big boat."

"That's not bad, the boats are all connected, you should help Master Min." Xiao Yu nodded and said.

"Yes, sir." Master Wan immediately agreed.

Xiao Yu waited for Min Chong and Master Wan to finish talking about business, and then said: "There are a lot fewer people today than yesterday. Where have all those people gone?"

Min Chong said: "I don't need so many people here for the time being, and I will send them to help reclaim wasteland."

Xiao Yu raised his eyebrows: "Don't you need to train them?"

"The main duties of the crew are to row the boat and carry the cargo. Mr. Pei Langjun has already trained me physically. I just need to train their water skills. They are all from Wuyue, and their water skills are generally good, so they don't need to do too much training. Rather than wasting time here, let them do some work." It was rare for Min Chong to explain the reason to Xiao Yu in such detail.

Xiao Yu suddenly nodded: "It makes sense."

"How long will it take for the new ship to be completed?" Xiao Yu continued to ask.

Min Chong said, "It will take about three or four months."

"Can we leave in time for next spring?" Xiao Yu asked.

"It should be about the same. The problem now is that, except for me, no one has the experience of going out to sea. Although the two ships go at the same time, they will inevitably encounter accidents of being washed away."

Xiao Yu suddenly thought of Dou Qiye: "I heard that there is a man in Shenglong Bay who has been wandering on the sea for many years, has been to many places in Southeast Asia, and later came back on a merchant ship. I have always wanted to invite him out of the mountain, but the other party is a bit old I don’t know if my body is still strong.”

"Then hurry up and take a look." Min Chong said.

Xiao Yu said: "Is Master Min free? Why don't we go now and let Meng Hong guide us."

"Let's go."

When the two returned home, Pei Linzhi went out to hunt again. They called Meng Hong and went to Shenglong Bay together.Ji Hai, who had been following Xiao Yu all this time, suddenly said: "Mr. Lang, why don't we wait for Master to come back together."

Xiao Yu looked at him: "Why?"

Ji Hai said: "Thang Long Bay has a feud with us. People from Baisha never go to Thang Long Bay, and people from Thang Long Bay don't come to us either."

Xiao Yu knew that the people in Shenglong Bay were strong and strong. Last year, when Meng Hong went fishing for pearls, he was robbed and injured by a few hooligans in Shenglong Bay, but he didn't know that it was because of a family feud: "What kind of feud is there?"

Meng Hong explained: "There is such a thing. Many years ago, there was an armed fight between the two villages due to emotional disputes, and many people were killed and injured. Afterwards, there was less contact. There was a conflict, but there was no major conflict."

Xiao Yu smiled helplessly: "If that's the case, can you still invite Seventh Master Dou?"

Meng Hong said, "It's hard to say. Those feuds we had later had nothing to do with us, so they shouldn't be counted."

"Then we won't be beaten out, right?" Xiao Yu said with a smile.

Ji Hai said, "With Master around, I won't be afraid."

Min Chong glanced at Ji Hai: "Let's go, it's broad daylight, it's not to fight, I'm afraid they won't succeed."

"But—" Ji Hai still objected. His master said that it was about the safety of your husband, and he couldn't take even the slightest risk.

Xiao Yu patted Ji Hai on the shoulder: "It's okay, not all the people in Shenglong Bay are crazy."

Ji Hai looked at the group of four people. Two of them had no martial arts. In case of a conflict, he was really worried that he would not be able to protect Mr. Lang.

A few people set off for Thang Long Bay. Before leaving, Ji Hai asked Yu'er to tell him that if the master came back, let him go to Thang Long Bay to pick up Mr. Wang.

Xiao Yu knew that Ji Hai was worried about his own safety, so he didn't blame him for fussing over a molehill.A few people left the village, passed the lime kiln, and climbed over a low mountain. Standing on the mountain, they could see a concave bay below. The villages were scattered around the bay.

Xiao Yu said with emotion: "The scenery is really nice."

Meng Hong said: "People in Thang Long Bay have always been proud of their feng shui. The population of this village is very prosperous. But it is also very poor, because there is no land, and they live entirely by fishing and pearling."

Xiao Yu felt very surprised, no land, so poor, but still able to have a thriving population.

A few people went down the mountain and saw someone harvesting sparse soybeans on the hillside. The man was shirtless and his skin was tanned. When he saw outsiders coming, he stopped and looked at them.Xiao Yu asked the way in his unskilled dialect: "Old man, you are cutting beans. May I ask where is Dou Qiye's home?"

The old man raised his finger and pointed to the north of the village, which is the outermost edge of Shenglong Bay: "Over there."

Xiao Yu bowed his hands to thank him, then went down the mountain road, and when he entered the village, he heard the noise of children, and when he saw outsiders coming, they all came up to watch.Xiao Yu believes that the population here is thriving, and looking around, there are at least ten or twenty young children, most of whom are dressed in rags.

A daring child wiped his nose.Ask: "Who are you? Which one are you looking for?"

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "We're looking for Dou Qiye." If I had known that there were so many children here, I should have brought some fruits.

"His home is here." The child ran forward all the way.

The children were so enthusiastic, Xiao Yu and the others followed, and the adults who were weaving and drying their nets all stopped to watch them, mainly because Xiao Yu's image and temperament were too eye-catching.

The children stopped in front of a thatched house, and instead of entering the house, they shouted outside: "Lao Qi Dou, you have guests at your house."

When Xiao Yu heard this, he couldn't help frowning, this child is too young.

An angry scolding sound came from the room: "You bastard, why are you arguing again, go away!"

Xiao Yu walked up the steps and knocked on the creaking bamboo door: "Is Lord Dou Qi there?"

The door opened, and a short old man came out, with gray beard and hair, wrinkled face, but straight back: "Who are you?"

Xiao Yu made a bow: "My surname is Xiao, and I came from Jianye. I heard that Dou Qiye had an adventure, so I want to come and hear about it." He didn't say that he was from Baisha Village, for fear of causing riots.

Dou Qiye raised his eyes, and his small eyes shone brightly: "Jianye is here? It's really far away, come in."