Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 221: At the time of Si, the Great Desolation fell, and all things waited for their chance (to capture the screen leader's extra chapter)
In late August, the sun is still shining brightly.

Unlike its gentle appearance when it just rises in the morning, the sun is still strong in the morning in the south of the Yangtze River.

The big ship was sailing on the river. Except for the tanned sailors, those who were still standing on the ship to watch the scenery when it set out had already hidden back in the cabins.

The river flows slowly, and both sides are green.

On the rugged rocks by the water, snakes and insects are coiled on them, lazily basking in the sun.

As a cold-blooded animal, it needs sunlight to replenish its energy for movement.

At Shifeng Tea Plantation, Li Shishi got into her light oil truck.

As the person leaned into the carriage and the curtain was lowered, the beauty who had been sitting in a dignified posture now lay lazily, like a beautiful snake basking in the sun.

"Go to Xiaoshan, Nanshifang."

Li Shishi gave an order, and the light carriage was escorted out of the tea plantation by eight blue-clothed warriors riding horses and waving whips.

Yu Lin stood under the eaves, watched Mrs. Li leave, then turned back to his public housing.

The expansion of the tea roasting workshop is in progress, with expansion and recruitment being carried out simultaneously.

Today, the families of Feng Qihuai and Zhang Xin, two big tea merchants detained in Qiantang County Government Office, will come to the tea farm to discuss with him about acquiring each other's tea farm.

Of course, as the victim, if Mrs. Li is willing to withdraw the lawsuit and show leniency to Feng Qihuai and Zhang Xin, then the price at which the Feng and Zhang families sell their tea plantations and tea houses will be negotiable.

Mrs. Li has given full authority to Manager Yu to take charge of these matters.

After this period of observation, Li Shishi has enough confidence in Yu Lin's character and ability.

So, she gave Yu Lin some shares.

The Yu family is a wealthy family in the local area. They are not very powerful, but they are a large family with many children.

In this era, you must never underestimate the power of a prosperous family.

Even if no one in his family is an official, if his family is so large that several villages around him have complicated relatives...

So no matter whether it was the county magistrate who was respected as Baili Hou, or any retired high-ranking official, they had to be looked up to.

By binding Yu Lin with some shares, you can definitely get rich returns.

Li Shishi herself went to Xiaoshan to meet Nan Fengchi from the Xiaoshan Nan's Silk Workshop.

Nanfeng Chi's workshop is the largest cocoon, silk and satin production workshop in Xiaoshan. It has a self-contained one-stop system from collecting and drying cocoons, reeling silk, spinning silk and weaving silk.

Li Shishi knew very well that it was unrealistic to monopolize the tea business, and she just wanted to be the strongest in the tea industry.

In the ocean trade business, the largest commodities exported are silk, tea and porcelain.

Li Shishi also wanted to get a piece of the pie when it came to silk and porcelain.

She has already sent Peng Tao, the head manager of the teaware workshop, to Longquan.

Longquan produces celadon and has many celadon workshops, some of which are engaged in export trade.

But before that, it was mainly sold to Champa, Java, Siam, Ceylon and Calicut.

The Song Dynasty's ocean trade to the farther west was just beginning at this time, and the caravans of Wadiye and Pu Yama were the pioneers.

However, these two pioneers were not satisfied with the huge profits brought by ocean trade, and they also interfered with the smuggling between Song and Jin, and were about to be ruined.

Why not seize these two vacant markets, or even markets with huge room for expansion, in a timely manner?
So Li Shishi sent Peng Tao to Longquan for investigation. Whether it was to build a kiln factory herself or to acquire a poorly managed kiln factory, she was sure to get a piece of the pie.

At this time, she went to Xiaoshan to meet the silk merchant Nanfengchi.

Shishi had no intention of engaging in a business war with him, but rather wanted to achieve a win-win situation.

The Nan family owns the largest silk business in Lin'an, her apprentice Yuye's family owns the best embroidery workshop in Lin'an, and Luxi will soon own the most powerful ocean-going fleet. How boring would it be if she didn't do something?

What she wants to do is clothing.

Based on the exotic aesthetic styles she learned about, she could make printing and dyeing requests to the Nan Silk Workshop...

She put forward requirements on embroidery styles to the "Moshanghua" embroidery workshop, and carried out targeted production and processing, and then she set up a clothing shop to design clothes for Westerners.

With her aesthetic taste as the head of a high-ranking official in Tokyo, she was confident that the clothes she designed would become best-sellers among the barbarians, just like tea and porcelain.

Shishi understood that if one did business step by step, it would take at least a dozen years, or at most several generations, to create a new world for himself.

However, if you find the wind and seize it, you can rise with the wind and soar into the sky!
The opportunity has emerged, and after lying dormant for many years, she is now interested in joining forces with Dapeng to support the wind!
……

Mu Si, Yu Jiguang, Mao Shaofan, Da Chu and Chen Lixing arrived in Shanyin two days ago.

Following Yu Jiguang's suggestion, Mu Si went to meet Zhang Quwei from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and was indeed appreciated by him.

Zhang Quwei immediately went to Empress Dowager Wei to cry and beg.

The Empress Dowager Wei was a woman without her own opinion. Besides, Zhang Quwei's "Zhiweitang" presented tributes to her every year. How could she not speak up for him?

Empress Dowager Wei then mentioned this to Emperor Zhao. Emperor Zhao was a very filial man and naturally had nothing to say about his mother.

Therefore, Emperor Zhao tacitly allowed Zhang Quwei to issue a "public certificate" purchased by the royal family.

Mu Si was overjoyed when she received the certificate of exemption from inspection issued by the royal family.

He first notified Cui Xianyun and asked Cui Xianyun's people in Sanyin to contact him.

Afterwards, he gave some instructions on the affairs of the Guoxin Office and personally went to Shanyin with a few trusted confidants.

The first thing Mu Yaban did when he arrived in Shanyin was to do some purchasing, real purchasing.

Because he came here in the name of buying building materials for Zhang Dayang to rebuild "Zhiweitang", he couldn't just load up the money that Qin Xiangye's family was preparing for marriage and go back to Lin'an. After all, this royal certificate could only be used once, so Zhang Dayang's building materials had to be bought first.

So, as soon as Mu Si arrived in Shanyin, she started shopping on a large scale.

With the identity of a royal purchaser, he could get the fairest price when purchasing building materials for Zhang Dayong.

In addition, there is no inspection during transportation and no taxes need to be paid, which saves a lot of money.

Even so, Mu Si never thought of embezzling money from it. He felt that it would be enough as long as he curryed favor with Prime Minister Qin and Zhang Daying.

As long as Zhang Quwei is in the inner court and Qin Xiang is in the outer court, won't Mu Yaban be able to get whatever he wants?
Therefore, Mu Yaban was very attentive when purchasing various objects made of wood, stone, lacquer, and bamboo. He did everything himself without any complaints.

Guo Xuzhi brought several imperial soldiers disguised as merchants and, as soon as they arrived in Shanyin, they monitored the Jiangnan East Road Transport Office.

At the same time, he also contacted the spy branch of the Privy Council's Machine Speed ​​Bureau stationed in Shanyin.

After the two sides communicated with each other, they found that the matter they were investigating seemed to be the same.

As a result, Guo Xuzhi, an outsider, could easily monitor the Transportation Bureau.

When Mu Si arrived in Shanyin, she contacted merchants everywhere and purchased various materials, which immediately attracted the attention of Guo Xuzhi.

So, he personally took people to keep an eye on the place for two days, but found that the people Mu Yaban dealt with all day were merchants who sold building materials such as bricks, tiles, wood, stone, and paint.

It was impossible for the Jin people to travel all the way to the Song State to buy building materials, so Guo Xuzhi gave up his suspicion of him and stopped tracking him.

However, he did not expect that the very next day after he withdrew his surveillance, Cui Xianyun's people in Shanyin found Mu Si, and a large number of goods that lacked "official certificates" and could not be transported to Lin'an in an open and aboveboard manner began to be handed over to Mu Si.

……

At 9:00 pm, the Municipal Shipping Office opened.

As the people from the Imperial City Bureau kept making trouble for the "Municipal Shipping Affairs", the people from the "Municipal Shipping Affairs" gradually adapted to the pressure.

There is still no evidence to support the claim that some people in the "Municipal Shipping Affairs" colluded with pirates to engage in smuggling between Song and Jin.

Those officials who had previously exposed their illegal acts were frightened by the scene of the Imperial City Bureau and lost their composure, which led to their exposure.

When the officials got used to the existence of the Imperial City Administration, it would no longer have any impact on them.

Officials of the "Municipal Shipping Affairs" privately judged that in a few days, the Imperial City Bureau, which had gained nothing, would withdraw from the "Municipal Shipping Affairs".

However, the officials who arrived at the yamen on time early this morning felt a different atmosphere.

Outside the yamen, everything was as usual.

Once you walk through the gate, you will find that the "Municipal Shipping Affairs" is now loose on the outside but tight on the inside.

Officials entering the yamen were required to pass through the corridors on both sides.

The ceremonial gate in the front has been sealed, and the entrance at the back only allows entry but not exit.

Officials passing through the corridors on both sides would be asked their names and positions, and their names and positions would be confirmed by the "Municipal Shipping Affairs" personnel.

Then some people would be allowed to go, and some would be invited to the public housing in the side wing.

Anyone who was invited to the side public housing and never seen again was an official in charge of approval, random inspections, and the transportation of merchant ships from Shanyin to Lin'an.

……

At the "Zhejiang Ferry" wharf, after seeing off more than twenty ship guards, Cui Xianyun returned to the warehouse.

The warehouse he rented was considered to be relatively large in the warehouse area of ​​Zhejiang Ferry Terminal.

Now in a corner of the warehouse, there is still a pile of neatly stacked goods that have not been shipped away.

In this huge warehouse, the pile of goods does not seem to be much, but when you get closer, you will feel like you are standing at the foot of a small hill.

Cui Xianyun stood at the foot of this "hill" and looked up at the mountains of goods.

"No matter what, at least the water transport line from Shanyin to Lin'an is not blocked for the time being.

When the cargo arrives, we will store it here temporarily. I don’t know when Pu Yama will be able to deliver the ship to the Arab merchants in Lin’an Fanfang.”

Cui Xianyun frowned. He was very dissatisfied that everything was under the control of Pu Yama.

However, only ocean-going ships like the ones Pu Yama and Wadiye had were convenient for him to tamper with the bottom hold and hide his goods, which left him helpless.

The river vessels of the Song merchants did not have such hiding conditions, and the smuggling of such bulk goods was a business that could result in confiscation of property and death, so it was difficult to find Song merchants who dared to take such a risk.

"It would be great if I had an ocean-going fleet under my control, but... it is so difficult for me to develop an ocean-going fleet of my own in Song State!"

He is not really engaged in ocean trade, so this idea is unrealistic.

Cui Xianyun shook his head helplessly and turned to walk towards the warehouse door.

Although it was dark in the warehouse, the warehouse door was facing the sunlight and was bright.

Cui Xianyun walked straight forward in the empty warehouse until he reached the sunlight...

The sunlight outside the door was a little dazzling. He squinted his eyes slightly and adjusted himself to the light.

Cui Xianyun was about to order his men to close the door when his expression suddenly changed.

From his high vantage point here, he could clearly see that teams of imperial soldiers in military uniforms and armed with sharp weapons were rapidly advancing into the dock area and controlling all the important entrances and exits.

In the warehouse area, there was also a group of imperial soldiers, holding spears, marching in...

(End of this chapter)