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Hangzhou Bay, Qiantang River.

At the port, a maritime merchant fleet consisting of ten Mingzhou ships is preparing to set sail.

"The main mast, front mast, rear mast, and sail are all carefully checked. Changsheng, go and see Tamsui. Big head, get out of the way, don't touch the compass, can you move it..."

Xie Cheng, the owner of the fleet, took a deep breath of the air with the smell of the sea. Looking at Hangzhou, which is still shrouded in the morning and white mist from afar, his mood was full of complexity.

Finally, I am leaving the hometown where my ancestors lived for generations.

He couldn't help but look back at the hatch of the ship, where more than a dozen children were scrubbing the deck.

Xie Cheng is about 30 years old this year and is entering his thirty years. He was originally a child of the Xiling Xie family in Yuezhou near Qiantang River. The Xie family is a large family in Yuezhou. Although it cannot be compared with the top southern tyrants like the Xiao family in Lanling, the Xie family is among the top ten families in the Qiantang River area and even Yuezhou.

However, although Xie Cheng's father was the contemporary head of the Xie family, his mother was just a humble maid. The head of the family was drunk and had him after October. As a maid who was not even a concubine, Xie Cheng's status in the Xie family was very low. Not to mention that he could not be treated the same as those legitimate sons and brothers, even the status of the concubines was much stronger than him.

In Xie, he was actually equivalent to a servant. At least, since his novel, he could not call the head of the family a father, nor could he call those brothers brothers.

However, as the son of the head of the family, his fate is still stronger than that of an ordinary servant. He has had the opportunity to study with him since he was a child. After a little bit of growth, he began to learn business with the clan manager. His fate was long destined. If there were no accidents, all the property and status in the family had nothing to do with him when he grew up, and he had no right to inherit. However, he could also do a good job in charge of the Xie family's bloodline and help manage shops that the children of the Xie family were not willing to spend energy.

However, Xie Cheng, who has been studying since childhood, is very smart and he is not satisfied with this situation.

By chance, Xie Cheng had business dealings with Li Jing, the prince of Andong, who was just a general at the time, and his business gradually grew bigger and bigger. Li Jing has been rising over the years, and Xie Cheng's business has also made great progress.

To this day, while Xie Cheng manages the Xie family, he slowly accumulates a huge amount of wealth for himself.

Now, he finally decided to abandon everything about Xie and move his family to Liaodong with his wife, children and mother. The head of the Xie family had known about the relationship between this maid and Li Jing. In recent years, Xie Cheng's money earned was the wealth that the entire family had earned in the past hundred years.

At first, Xie Cheng advised the head of the Xie family to move to Liaodong. He believed that it would bring greater development to the Xie family, and this development was not only economic, but also power. However, Xie Chong was hesitant and could not bear to let the Xie family pass on the inheritance and management of the Xie family in Yuezhou for hundreds of years. In other words, Xie Chong was obviously a little worried about going to Liaodong, after all, it was a territory of the manhu.

Finally, Xie Cheng decided to leave the Xie family, and Xie Chong agreed. He rejected the decision proposed by his son and brothers in the clan to let Xie Cheng go out of the house in vain. He knew that this son would bring this huge wealth to the Xie family in just a few years. Xie Cheng and Li Jing have been in business. Although Xie Cheng may not be anything in Li Jing's eyes, Xie Chong did not want to be too extreme. Stay at the front line and meet again in the future.

Standing on the deck, Xie Cheng was also in a state of ups and downs. Although he could not persuade Xie Chong to move the entire Xie family to Liaodong, he also knew that the concept of the people's hometown was deeply rooted, and it was not easy to let the Xie family leave their hometowns and move to the wild land of Liaodong. With his efforts and trying his best to avoid the final failure.

Xie Cheng was not disappointed because of this, and he never thought of succeeding at the beginning.

Except for children like him, or powerful landlords of aristocratic families who have not undergone major changes, they will not be easily tempted by several words. In the eyes of most people, Liaodong is almost equal to barbarism, bitter and cold.

Compared with these people, Xie Xuan and other maritime merchants who have been running in Liaodong and the southeastern coastal areas south of Dengzhou clearly saw the vigorous business opportunities displayed on it after the recovery of this piece of land in Liaodong. As long as it is profitable, the merchants are completely unafraid. Not to mention that Liaodong has now become the territory of the Prince of Andong, which swept across Liaodong with 200,000 troops. Even in the northeast, it is still the territory of those barbaric Hu people, but as long as there is enough profit, they dare to go deep into the tiger's den.

Xie Cheng resold all the shops and farms he had bought in Yuezhou over the years to Xie's family. In the end, Xie Cheng's property was exchanged for these ten Mingzhou sea ships, each of which was a five-mast and three thousand stone ship.

This time, in addition to Xie Cheng's family heading north, he also convinced some concubines who were not inherited by his family, rich and powerful families, who were similar to him, as well as some poor literati, and even some bold merchants who pursued interests. However, the ship was about to set sail, but in the end nearly half of them retreated.

But he was not depressed. Where they were going and the careers they were going to do were beyond the understanding of the weak and timid people.

Xie Cheng returned from Liaodong when Prince Andong conquered Goguryeo. He knew clearly what kind of situation was in Liaodong. Now there were opportunities everywhere and the ground was full of gold.

Countless mines are already able to detect and map, and they can only wait for merchants to take the money to take the mining rights. The coal, aluminum, black oil, iron, and other minerals are all profitable industries. There are countless fields on both sides of the Liao River. In the Central Plains, one acre of land costs ten cents of money, but now in Liaodong, one acre of land costs only two cents of money. For example, some hillside lands that time, the cheapest one is only five hundred cents of money per acre.

In addition, in Liaodong, there are greater business opportunities waiting for them. In countless workshops, new products are invented and produced every once in a while. You can make a lot of money by grabbing the distribution rights or production rights of the same product.

Among the people who were willing to go to Liaodong with him this time, there were about 30 merchants. They had followed him to visit Liaodong, Dengzhou before. Xie Cheng had signed a contract with them. A group of merchants finally established a new business. According to shares, Xie Cheng owned 60% of the shares and became the chairman and general manager of the business. The remaining ones were about 200 scholars, all of whom were poor literati, from civilians, failed to pass the imperial examination, and could not work in the government shogunate, and had no spare money at home to bear it for a long time. They continued to study like this. Finally, after listening to the description of Xie Cheng and others, they finally got a loan of 20 cents of each person from Xie Xuan, and finally decided to pass the barrier.

Dozens of businessmen and partners, plus more than 200 literati and their families, had more than a thousand people. However, he had ten 3,000 stone ships, each of which could hold more than a thousand people. Xie Cheng did not have much capital at this time. Except for some local products from Hangzhou and Yue, their ships had a large number of empty capsules, but they could not fill them.

However, the smart Xie Cheng refused to go north by empty ships. Nowadays, the prince of Andong lacks nothing. It is just a shortage of people. According to the regulations issued by the prince, all merchants can find ways to introduce new immigrants, as long as they are not kidnapped and robbed, they can get an introduction fee. Among them, the introduction fee for various literati is the highest, and then all kinds of technical craftsmen are the farmers, then young men and women, even children and teenagers can get a considerable introduction fee as long as they are brought to the town.

Except for the people of the Tang Dynasty that were not allowed to kidnap and sell, if the caravans were trafficking slaves from other foreign countries to the territory of the Andong County Prince, they could enter the foreign slave store controlled by the government.

In fact, slave transactions are the hottest and most profitable transactions at the moment, but due to the many restrictions on slave transactions, Xie Cheng was unable to do this business. However, this time, the first order of the new business was to transport people to Liaodong, in addition to doing some silk, tea, and porcelain transactions.

An adult craftsman can get an introduction fee ranging from five to twenty cents of sen from the prince according to his skills. Even an ordinary young man can get an introduction fee of two to five cents of sen. Even the lowest child can get a introduction fee of five hundred cents of sen.

If a boat loads two thousand people, the introduction fee alone can be charged four or five thousand jin of introduction fee. What's more, the ship ticket and meal money on the way will still be charged. In addition, they also provide loans to these people who have passed the pass. Although it is not high interest, the interest is not small, which is also an income.

If ten ships are full, the profit is actually higher than that of food trafficking.

Thinking of this, Xie Cheng was full of confidence in his new business.

"The great official, the boat is about to be opened." A child servant walked behind him and reminded.

Xie Cheng came back to his senses from his thoughts and nodded softly. The child was dark and thin, not tall, but his head was not small. Xie Cheng asked him about his age, he was almost twelve years old, but he seemed to be only seven or eight years old. Xie Cheng had a total of more than 3,000 such children on this ten boat trip.

From four or five to thirteen or fourteen, these children were all beggars and orphans in Changzhou, Minghu, Hangzhou and Yue. These were all found by him after working hard. They took more than half a year to find these orphans and adopted them in his various manors for a short period of time.

Among these orphans, some of the smart and well-looking children were selected as maids of the family. If they grow up, they would send them to their own business to arrange for apprentices. He planned to give the remaining thousands of orphans to the prince. Liaodong was the most short of population. Although these children could not do anything, Liaodong would refuse everyone.

These children are orphans in all prefectures and counties, but Xie Cheng wanted to take them away, but at the beginning he still paid a considerable amount of money and food from the government. This was in the name of adopting orphans. Although the prefectures and counties usually do not care about these orphans, the increase in the number of local population is actually one of the government's political achievements. Therefore, the government is unwilling to lose local population. Even the family members and even tenants taken away by Xie Cheng and the partners, they still invited the head of the Xie clan to come forward, and then spent a lot of money to get the government to issue a public certificate.

If this certificate is not available, boarding is not allowed in the port, otherwise it will be a felony if it is found.

When Xie Cheng went to sea this time, the tea, silk and other things he brought were light and did not take up much space. The rest were all loaded with people. The capacity of ten ships of 30,000 stones was originally a standard for carrying 15,000 people. In the end, Xie Cheng and his partners forced 30,000 people.

With 30,000 people, Xie Cheng only obtained less than 10% of the certificates, and the rest were unlicensed. Although he had bought all the officials with a lot of money, this still took great risks.

"Rise the anchor! Raise the mast!"

The voices of more than ten big men started to scream in a neat and radiant manner, and immediately called back Xie Cheng who was ecstatic. He couldn't help but turn his head and heard a loud "rattle" sound from the shaft under the mast, but the sound was instantly submerged in the excited shouts of many sailors. The mast on the sailboat drove Bu, the rear mast several meters high, the front mast as high as seven or eight meters, and the thick main mast more than ten meters slowly raised the ship.

"Ah, oh, oh!" With an incomparable amazement, a sharp child voice screamed, which immediately scared Xie Cheng. He looked at the "little child servant" beside him, but the "little child servant" completely forgot about him. He looked at the mainmast of the giant in front of him in excitement and shock, and heard a monotonous cry from his mouth.

This little beggar from the market obviously saw such a scene for the first time. He was so excited that he had already forgotten the rules he had just learned in the Yuezhou Manor these days. He was completely unruly and shouted and jumped.

A smile appeared on Xie Cheng's face, and he felt a little understanding.

Thinking back to the time when he saw the Prince's Iron-armored Sea Falcon warship in Shamen Town, he was still extremely shocked.

The sailors on the boat began to get busy. These sailors were old friends who followed Xie Cheng to run the boat together over the years. The winch under the mast kept creaking, and the white sail was held onto the mast by more than a dozen sailors. Between the huge main sail and the front sail, Xie Cheng almost felt that he was shrouded by white clouds. He pressed the side of the boat tightly with his hands, trying his best to suppress his excitement.

From today on, I will be the owner of this caravan.

Five years ago, he could not believe that such a result was achieved. A maid can one day become the owner of a caravan that everyone respects. Maybe one day he can become a great man. Now in Liaodong, there are more than one hundred jazz and more than three hundred men. These newly released nobles, who were originally just low-level officers, have now become nobles.

Liaodong not only respects soldiers, but also respects literati. In Liaodong, both officials, teachers and students are highly respected. Although these merchants are not as respected as soldiers and scholars, they are far more respected than in the Central Plains. After hearing some rumors, King Anton was about to award some outstanding merchants. This news made Xie Chengxin yearn for it, and he was very excited to think about it.

A small boat sailed quickly to the front of the fleet, and the people above were waving flags at them. It was the commanding ship in the harbor, guiding them to the harbor.

The sailboat seemed to be traveling very slowly, but other scenes around him were disappearing rapidly, falling behind and getting farther and farther away.

Xie Cheng stood at the bow of the boat and watched the scenery ahead.

The sun rises eastward, with red glows everywhere, so beautiful, just like the hope in his heart at this time, like a beautiful future, making people eager to get close.
Chapter completed!