Chapter 265 Calling Friends

Chapter 265 Calling Friends

Shi Can thought for a while and shook his head: "No, I'm not familiar with the place here, and I can't even find someone to play. Wherever I go, I'm following a large group of uncles around. It's really boring."

An elderly man next to me hurriedly passed by and introduced himself. This was a disciple of the Shi family's family who was of the same generation as Shi Chuan. Because he did not belong to the Changfang Changzong, he did some housekeeper work in Shi Can's manor. He smiled and greeted: "The Seventeenth brother is lucky to be here. Thanks to the care of the Seventeenth brother, I was able to come here. The farmers at the left and right foot of Baihu Mountain heard that it was the Seventh brother of the Shi family. They were very respectful to us. Now we have successfully completed the spring plowing, and the grain has been planted, and we are just waiting for the autumn harvest."

After a moment of pause, the elderly man opposite asked tentatively: "I heard that the land of the Seventeenth brother does not grow food this year, but instead plant flowers and plants. The Seventeenth brother is careful. I heard that the capital was drought last year and the grain prices rose outrageously. Even the juren who participated in the imperial examination complained that they could not afford to eat.

Nowadays, there have been famines and rebellions everywhere, and farmers are based on grain. In this case, the seventeenth brother does not grow food, so why should he plant the uneasy flowers and plants? Didn’t the clan brother give you three hundred acres of land? I heard that you also plant flowers in those fields, and only a small amount of fields planted a little grain.

Brother, we don’t have any extra grain support now, but when it’s autumn, we won’t sell grain for now. How much do you lack? I’ll say hello to us, and my brothers are all easy to say.”

Shi Chuan was slightly moved, and he bowed and replied: "My brother is worried. I actually have some shares in a fishing fleet. The fishing fleet provides me with thousands of stones of fish every year - this is not ordinary fish, it is Kun fish (whale) meat like veal, so I don't have to worry about food. Last winter, I specially sent a boat of food to the capital to take care of the Haizhou students."

The clan brother immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. The seeds of study are the style of my family in the Shi family in Jiaxing. The clan brother is so good at raising children of Confucianism, and in the future, the Shi family in Haizhou will be the arm of my family in Haizhou. In the future, if the Shi family in Haizhou is divided into families, we will rely more on the younger brother. I am very pleased that the younger brother can maintain the style of the Shi family.

The food I just mentioned is just a trivial matter. You don’t have to be polite to us. I, Shi, don’t expect to farm and support my family.”

Shi Chuan bowed again: "I forgot to tell my clan brother that my fleet has sailed to Japan after pursuing the footsteps of whales. Not only is the rice extremely cheap, but the fishing harvest is extremely rich. The crew saw with their own eyes that every autumn, thousands of dolphins gather in the bay for food. Once local fishermen find out, they will hunt on boats.

It is said that the locals would first place a bamboo pole into the sea and constantly knock it to scare the dolphins (at the same time disturb the fish's sonar system), making them unable to accurately locate. Then, they drove the dolphins into the rock notch, blocked them with a fishing net, and left them for one night, and hunted them. The fishermen started to chop the dolphins with a long hook knife, stabbed them with a sharpened pole, then pulled them onto the boat, and cut their throats so that they could not move...

Haha, there has become a bloody ocean. After our fishermen learned this method, they prepared it in Ryukyu (Taiwan) according to the law. The result was a very rich harvest, and they were simply sitting there counting money. Now I can’t finish my meat. This time I came here to see if my brothers in the tribe were short of food when they were not in the blue sky.

Yesterday, my fishing boat just arrived at the dock and unloaded three ships of food and fish. However, because the whaling season has arrived, those warehouses are in a hurry to emptied. My brothers, don’t be polite. My clan brothers can move a boat away to emptied the warehouse for me. How about it?”

The older clan brother pondered for a moment and replied: "We just moved to Haizhou. In addition, the local area had just undergone a rebellion last year, and it was indeed a little nervous about the food. The clan brother was ashamed to take the food ship... Well, this ship of grain is considered a sacrifice for your family for five years of sacrifice. It just so happened that the clan brother came over and we were about to discuss the issue of building a temple with you. Look at the branch of our ancestral hall was built at the foot of Baihu Mountain or in Cuizhuang?"

This question involves the question of who is the main focus - the ancestral temple is built on Baihu Mountain, so the Shi surname at the foot of Baihu Mountain is the main branch. As for the branch that is passed through Cuizhuang, it can only be regarded as a side branch that separates the family early and separates it.

On the contrary, it means that the lineage of the time passes through the Cuizhuang lineage is the main branch.

Ancient people paid the most attention to this truth, but for Shi Chuan, he had already clearly understood the filth and dirt in the big family from countless records. Although the brothers of the clan are close to each other now, it is also the same unity and morality in the process of entrepreneurship. When they gain a firm foothold, they will bite each other and compete for interests. For such a family, Shi Chuan's view is: Shi gave him a basis for establishing a foothold in the Song Dynasty, but when he came to this era, he never wanted to rely solely on anyone.

Such a big family can only be viewed from afar and personally participated in the battle for power and profit. At that time, he would be really stupid. If he had that energy, he would rather care about other romantic things.

So Shi Chuan answered without hesitation: "I am in Cuizhuang, just a single person. At the foot of Baihu Mountain, the Shi clan gathers to live together. It is better to build the ancestral temple at the foot of Baihu Mountain... Well, the ship had a total of thousands of stones of food, which is considered as the share I should pay when I built the temple, and used to recruit workers and purchase stones...how?"

Shi Chuan clearly stated that he would recruit workers from grain, which was that he did not want Lu Da and others to get involved in the ancestral building, but he proposed to buy stone, which was to express his opinion - it was best to build stone buildings for the ancestral building.

Breaking ground has always been a good opportunity to collect kickbacks. Although it was for the ancestors of our family to see the temple, it was natural to get some labor fees in it. Shi Chuan only paid for money and did not care about the affairs, which made Shi Chuan very satisfied. The brother who talked to him only praised Shi Chuan with a wink and knew how to advance and retreat. Of course, he admired the wisdom of his sect's legitimate son Shi He. According to such a capable family who does not like to interfere in major affairs in the clan, it is really not easy to be a basis for the development of branches and leaves.

The clan brother, who was in his fifties, answered repeatedly: "It's enough. The famine in Haizhou has only started. The wages are ten cents per day. If two liters of rice are provided every day, we don't have to pay a penny of wages, so we can give food. The crops of this ship of grain can solve the big problem."

While the two were talking, Shi Can wanted to interrupt several times, but neither party gave him a chance to interrupt. After the matter was finalized, Shi Chuan seemed to remember that there was a illegitimate son of the eldest son, and the future head of the Shi clan of Haizhou... Thinking about his father's expectations for Shi Chuan and the 300 acres of land he gave, Shi Chuan was a little embarrassed and reached out to summon Shi Can: "Xiao Can, I bring you a few Japanese knives and you can use them to play."

Shi Can, opposite, brows slightly. It seemed that he didn't like knives, swords, and boys toys... Shi Chuan suddenly remembered that when Shi Ha walked, he said he would send two concubines to take care of Shi Can, one of whom was Shi Can's biological mother.

Thinking of these, Shi Chuan laughed secretly: Ah, a woman raised a child without a father, and although she did not faint when she saw a horse like a literati in the Jin Dynasty, he probably didn't like boys toys very much.

However, all this doesn't matter to Shidai. He just takes money and eliminates disasters and takes care of the child, so that the villagers nearby dare not bully him.

All the people in the country have always been very xenophobic. The Shi family of Jiaxing moved out of the Six and Seven Fang tribes to settle in Haizhou. Although they bought the evil land of Baihu Mountain and had a very famous Shi Chuan, they were foreign households after all, and life in the countryside was very inconvenient. For example, they almost couldn't hire enough short-term farmland for spring farming this year.

I followed this topic and chatted with the "clan members". Sure enough, the clan members complained a lot. When I went to Shizhai, I went to the main house to pay money, and the tribesmen of Shizhai's six or seven houses complained in a row. They wore them in the main house and sat down, but the complaints had not stopped.

As the main pillar of the Shi family's relocation project in Haizhou, Shi Tong sat at the seat of the chief of the clan... However, Shi Tong didn't pay much attention to these things, and it was not very different for him. As long as he didn't stuff him at the door, he quietly listened to the complaints of the tribe, thought for a while, and replied: "I can help you recruit some refugees to farm, but unfortunately, Baihu Mountain has never been a good farmland. The land here is close to the seaside, and salinization and desertification are quite serious. If you want to rely on farming to support yourself, you must have no hope."

Shi Chuan stretched out his hand and stroked his chest, and continued to add: "The reason why this mountainous area was regarded as a bad land in the past was that nearby farmers were generally poor. For example, I knew a nearby Luo Juren, who had more than 20 acres of land in his family, and he still lived very poorly."

Before Shizhang finished speaking, a tribe member blurted out and complained: "What's the matter? I didn't want to leave my hometown at the beginning, but someone told me that there was enough farmland here, so I cruelly abandoned my family business in Jiaxing and moved here. Who would have thought that this place turned out to be a poor place."

The voice of a middle-aged woman sounded behind the screen: "What was the 'family business' in the past? Now the turmoil in Chuzhou has subsided, but we still have no communication with our family. The tribesmen who stayed at home are unpredictable... Uncle said this today, but after that, I wonder who was crying and making a fuss, and I insisted on following him to Haizhou."

The complainer just now was angry and angry, and scolded: "What kind of tradition is this? My Shi family gathered his tribe members here to discuss. The irrelevant outsiders also came here to interrupt casually. When did the Shi family's tribe affairs be made? It was a woman's turn to point fingers?"

There was a sigh behind the screen, as if the person behind wanted to argue, Shi Chuan quickly stood up and attracted everyone's gaze to him. Logically, things in the clan are indeed not something that a woman can interrupt, let alone she is a concubine, and the concubine in the Song Dynasty was just a working girl. Even if she gave birth to a son, she still couldn't be considered a member of the Shi family.

But what Shihe told Shi Tong was not only a tribe affairs. He gave 300 acres of land just for the sake of these two concubines, a boy and two concubines. The rest of the people named Shi were all extra gifts. Although what the "gifts" said at this moment makes sense, Shi Tong cannot support it.

"Ahem, although this Haizhou City is not suitable for growing grain, I remember it is most suitable for growing grapes. Yes, it is located at the same latitude as the famous grape valley in France. The grapes grown are definitely the first to make wine..."

Chapter 265 Calling friends,
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