Jia Min's Counterattack

On the Langyue Peninsula, there are now only a dozen wooden houses built by the beach, all of which are lived in by hundreds of workers transferred from the fine iron ore.Most of the island is forested, and there are very few flat lands. If you want to build a port here, you need to develop the forests near the beach.

"It is also beneficial to build the warehouse on the mountainside. At least in the event of a tsunami, the goods in the warehouse will not be destroyed by sea water!" Lin Ruhai looked at the hillside where many trees had been cut down in surprise.

"This subordinate also thinks the same way. Our pier is too far away from the shore, and it is very inconvenient to transport goods, but we can guarantee the safety of the warehouse, and if the tax collected is lower, there must be many merchant ships willing to dock here to do business. It's business." Old Shadow said.

"Actually, the delivery of goods is not necessarily much worse than those deep-water piers! If they rent our warehouse, we can provide them with some boats and carriages for free, so that they don't have to worry about delivery and can save a lot of shipping costs. , why not do it?" Jia Min said.

Old Shadow glanced at Lin Ruhai and said hesitantly: "In this way, we will have to invest another sum of money, and we will also lose a lot of money for transporting the goods!"

"Uncle Shadow, we need to take a long-term view. Our main purpose now is to attract merchant ships to our Langyue Peninsula to dock and do business. If there are more merchant ships coming and going, more tax money will be collected. Then you will see Is it worth such a small profit? Besides, it is only good for us to have the delivery of goods in our hands!" Lin Ruhai said.

Old Shadow frowned and said, "This subordinate doesn't understand!"

Lin Ruhai winked at Jia Min, and Jia Min took Lin Lang aside to look at the trees on the mountain.

"Uncle Shadow, do you think the Cao Gang is powerful? How can they be such a low-level Jianghu gang?"

"Master! You mean to cultivate a gang like the Cao Gang on Langyue Peninsula?"

"Yes and no! I want some people who can walk in the merchant ships openly and aboveboard. These people must be under my control! I think the aborigines who work for us can be used. They have been here for so many years. If you work for the Lin family, you will be more or less thinking about the Lin family. You can choose a few people to train, and they are the best spies. You don’t have to be afraid that they will betray the Lin family island. They have seen us before, and they love us from the bottom of their hearts. As long as they are used well, they will be stronger and more reliable than the Cao Gang!"

After thinking about the village for a while, the old shadow knelt down to Lin Ruhai and said, "It's my subordinates who are confused, and it's not as far-reaching as I thought!"

"After all, the number of people on our island is limited, and you will not be able to watch here all the time in the future. To ensure the safety of the port and wharf, you still have to rely on these people! Another point is that our Lin Family Island is not easy to be exposed to people. The appearance of too many great Ming people here will arouse suspicion and further investigation by others!"

"This subordinate understands what to do! This subordinate will ask Lao San to select some aborigines to train in the forest here, and in the future these people will be handed over to Lao San to take care of them."

"Well! Langyue Peninsula will be managed by you and third uncle from now on. You two must ensure that one of you is here to watch. There is no major event on Lin Family Island now. With Tai Fifty Lord guarding, nothing will happen. The problem. As for the accountant at the port, it was originally agreed that Grandpa 37 would come, but then I thought about it. It is better to use younger people as much as possible on the Langyue Peninsula. Let Uncle 26 come over. They are all helping Grandpa 37 manage the accounts, so it should be no problem to handle the accounts here. Also, if you choose a few more uncles to guard here, I’m afraid that if someone comes here to make trouble.”

"The number of people who followed my subordinates to Langyue Peninsula is now ten people. Why don't my subordinates summon another ten people, twenty people, plus the hundred or so aborigines. They were all terrified! It’s really impossible, don’t we still have cannons and firecrackers?”

"Have the cannons shipped from our island been installed and placed?"

"Master Bing, it's all set up. The four long-range ones are set up on the reefs in the east and north, and the six gun carriages are now placed in the wooden house over there. Come and attack us, push six cannons on the beach and let them come and go!"

"Have you ever been harassed by pirates in this month?"

"There have been a few groups of pirates, but they all left after seeing our flagpole on the beach from a distance! It seems that the prestige of our Lin family has made them frightened!" Old Shadow said with a smile.

"Hehe! It may be that our ship used cannons to frighten them last time, so that they dare not come to try again!" Lin Ruhai also laughed.

"Daddy! Daddy! What do you think this is?" Lin Lang ran to Lin Ruhai's side, and raised his little hand to show Lin Ruhai what was in his hand.

Lin Ruhai looked at the two small round black balls in Lin Lang's hand and said, "What kind of seeds do these look like!"

"This is the seed of the agarwood tree!" Jia Min also came over at this time and said, "You only know that red sandalwood and huanghuali are very valuable, but you don't know that this agarwood is a treasure all over the body! And the one we bought It’s in a mountain forest, I don’t know about other places, there are a lot of Agarwood trees in the forest near the beach!”

"The mistress said that those white trees are agarwood? This subordinate really doesn't know it!" Old Shadow said pleasantly. He didn't know the agarwood tree, but he had heard of agarwood!Agarwood is a traditional Chinese medicine, the key point is that it can not only be used as medicine but also be made into spices.The mistress is indeed a lucky star, and she found another good thing that makes money just after arriving in Langyue Peninsula!

"This soil agarwood tree can only be found in the mountains and forests that are hundreds of feet high. It is estimated that there will be ones here, and there will be no more in the depths!" Lin Ruhai said.

"Daddy! Just now, my mother and I saw a lot of big pimples growing on the tree over there. My mother said that it's not a pimple, but that one is called Chenxiang!" Lin Lang didn't want to be ignored by the adults, so he took Lin Ruhai's hand, He looked up at his father.

"Husband, agarwood is very common in the Lingnan area of ​​Daming. I heard that Western countries like to use agarwood to make some kind of perfume. I think that forest is used to build warehouses. Those agarwood trees have to be cut down. How about Cut off those agarwoods and let our ships take them to western countries to sell, and it will probably fetch a good price." Jia Min suggested.

"Okay! Just listen to Min'er! Uncle Shadow, pack up all the agarwood that you cut off, and I will arrange for someone to come over after I know how to inscribe! At that time, let them directly give you the money for selling aloes." good!"