In August of the Song Dynasty, the biggest thing about Fuzhou and Quanzhou was that the fleet was preparing to move south. The scale of the fleet was larger this time. Zhao Jiaren's fleet had a total of 500 ships, and the number of other fleets reached 250.

All shareholders can join the large fleet, and their ships have not increased much in terms of number. First, Zhao Jiaren does not want the wealth of these people to grow too fast. Second, the ships of these people have been replaced by large ships, and the number has not increased much, and the tonnage of transportation has increased by about twice.

Zhou Xing sat opposite Qi Rong. Every time he saw Zhou Xing, Qi Rong easily remembered that Zhou Xing had said in private that he would learn all the navigation techniques of Zhao Jiaren and then form a fleet to do it himself. However, every time he saw Zhou Xing, Qi Rong felt that this person seemed to be becoming more and more calm, which means that he was getting further and further away from establishing an independent fleet.

Of course, this is not something that can be said. Qi Rong knows how many people are looking forward to joining Zhao Jiaren's guild now. If Qi Rong is willing to leave on his own initiative, more people will be very happy to join. It is a matter of thinking that being exploited by Zhao Jiaren is the only thing, and after leaving the guild, the key is to plummet income.

When he had something in his heart, Qi Rong couldn't help but look at his younger brother. As the shopkeeper of Renda Money House, the annual turnover amount he handled had exceeded that of Jianxian Money House. As for personal property, Qi Rong felt that his cousin might be the richest one in the Qi family. If he could make the choice to join Zhao Jiaren, maybe he could have achieved such a thing at this time?

"Everyone, the key points set for this shipping are all iron pots." Yuan Hongjie, the secretary-general of the Navigation Guild, announced the latest requirement. In fact, there is only one proactive suggestion this year, and the others no longer need to be enforced uniformly. Those shareholders who have made huge benefits have made many requests and suggestions themselves.

The source of iron pots is relatively simple. Foshan on Guangnan East Road is the iron smelting center, and the iron pots are produced very much. However, the ballast of Dashi merchants before was copper coins, so iron pots were useless. Now, the navigation guilds strictly prohibit carrying copper coins out, and metal products such as iron pots have become an important part of external sales.

After the meeting ended, Qi Rong called his cousin Qi Ye, "Wulang, let's have a meal together tonight."

Qi Ye shook his head, "No, I have something to do."

"... Then forget it." Qi Rong said regretfully. After saying that, he was still unwilling to give up, so he asked, "When will you have time?"

Qi Ye is not perfunctory Qi Rong, Zhao Jiaren is also very busy at work. Renda Money House releases so many silver coins to activate the entire market. As the shopkeeper, Qi Ye is busy at work. So Qi Ye said, "Brother, you can tell me what's wrong now."

"Two things, the first thing is to buy more silk." Qi Rong said.

Seeing that his elder brother was still thinking about the old mind, Qi Ye looked around and pulled his elder brother to a secluded place, "Brother, if you want to make a lot of money, why not hurry up and get some poor people without land and go to Siam, what Zhao Zhizhou said to be."

"Can it work?" Qi Rong couldn't help asking with a suspicious expression. They had also invested their efforts to immigrate to Jeju Island before, but the unscrupulous immigrants started working as self-cultivated farmers in the local area after they arrived at Jeju Island. Zhao Jiaren did not give Qijia land. Even if he did not lose money, he did not achieve the purpose of making money.

"I think it's OK, do you believe it?" Qi Ye said decisively.

"...The second thing is that now everyone is trying to bring goods that make more money. Please refer to goods that make more money." Qi Rong continued.

Qi Ye lowered his voice, "Can't our family get cheap paper? If I were me, a batch of paper would be transported in addition to the iron pot."

After answering two questions, Qi Ye continued to work on his own business. As a big shopkeeper, he has a very high level among investors. Those products with the highest profit can get a bonus, so Qi Ye doesn't care about what products he invests in at all. The entire navigation guild is the target of his investment.

In the afternoon, Zhao Jiaren's cadres gathered together for a collective meeting. First of all, the division of labor, and each cadre must do his own job. After the division, Zhao Jiaren raised the problem that needed to be solved by working together. "The first is to get a carbonite transportation line. Everyone should pay more attention after they arrive in various places."

The Carboniferous Problem has been raised for several years, but many problems cannot be solved. Everyone still nodded as before and said they knew.

Zhao Jiaren didn't say anything more about this old question. He continued to talk about the next question, "The supply of soybeans next year will have problems."

"Principal, the place where we grow soybeans may not be able to produce next year?" Liu Yong, who came back to attend the meeting, asked Zhao Jiaren in surprise.

Zhao Jiaren nodded. Together with the reform of public fields, the first one of the four roads of Liangzhe and Liangjiang that implemented the reform of public fields was the landlords who were forcibly purchased by the court. Zhao Jiaren had been renting land to grow soybeans before, but the great landlords in Jiangnan were unable to continue to fulfill their contracts, so Zhao Jiaren also had to brainstorm.

A large number of cadres are not very clear about this matter, Zhao Jiaren briefly introduced it first. "The imperial court implemented public land reform and the landlords' land would be divided. It will take about two or three years to settle this matter. Most of the land we rented to grow soybeans in these four routes."

After hearing this, Li Hongjun blinked his eyes a few times, and then asked, "Can our cow last for two or three years?"

Although this sentence pointed out the problem directly, Li Hongjun's words were interesting, and everyone burst into laughter. Even Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but smile bitterly. After laughing, everyone had to face this realistic problem. The soybeans produced before were sent to Jeju Island to press oil, and the soybean meal left over the oil was used to raise various animals on Jeju Island. As Li Hongjun said, the animals can't last long. This year, no matter what, we must start to determine the source of soybeans next year.

Someone proposed whether the islands controlled by Zhao Jiaren now can produce enough feed. Liu Meng expressed his negation without hesitation. These three islands are very suitable for livestock, but these three islands are very barren. If you want the animals to grow fast, eating grass is not enough. They must feed them soybean meal. More importantly, one of Zhao Jiaren's current big deals is candles. In order to meet this demand, the number of livestock raised on Jeju Island and Yinqi Island has long exceeded the upper limit of grass production on the islands.

When talking about candles, a transaction with huge profits, the cadres looked even more serious. Zhao Jiaren's cadres have a profit list, and candles with a profit of up to 5,000% are among the top in the list. At this stage, the highest profit is sulfur ointment with a profit of 10,000%. Sinhalla and Tianzhu lack sulfur, and this drug that can treat soriasis is more popular in both places than imagined. Moreover, sulfur is closely related to fat. The sulfur obtained from Ryukyu and Japan will be sent to Jeju Island first and refined by boiling butter.

After a few intelligence gathered, the question everyone considered became, ‘Where should we get the land for growing soybeans?’

The first thing I considered was of course Lianghuai Road, but it was quickly denied. Lianghuai Road was just north of the Yangtze River. Although it was not the Jiangnan area where public land reforms would be greatly affected. Everyone felt that they could only try it out for a moment, and no one dared to put their bets on it. Then Li Hongjun proposed that Jeju Island would go to the Liaodong Peninsula every year to cut down oak trees, so whether they could sneak soybeans in the desolate Liaodong Peninsula.

Liu Meng immediately expressed his objection, "There are many women and Mongolians on the Liaodong Peninsula. Every year when we go to cut trees, we take advantage of late autumn and winter. At that time, we wore cotton jackets, cotton coats, foot binding cloths, and Ula grass placed in our shoes. The weather was very cold at that time, and the local women and Mongolians probably would not work so hard to find us in the winter. But in summer, those people would not be so easy to deal with. Will we have to build cities there and fight with them?"

The cadres all know how to look at the map. As long as they look at the map of the Liaodong Peninsula, everyone will lose the intention to open up here. Most of the capitals in Mongolia are not far from the Liaodong Peninsula. You can think clearly that it is impossible for the Mongolians to sit idly by the invasion of foreign forces in the Liaodong Peninsula.

The land in the north was unreliable, so someone asked, "What about Japan?"

Zhao Jiaren has considered Japan very seriously. Intervening in Japan too early will cause changes, which is not conducive to the development of Ishiji Yinshan, so he smiled and said, "The land that Japan is prone to reclaim has been opened. Do we want to clear the land for Japan?"

Looking around the map, the cadres frowned. After a moment of silence, Liu Meng suddenly sighed: "The world is so big that there is no place to plant soybeans?"

Puchi, Zhao Jiaren was amused. However, most of the cadres had never read the poem, and everyone's reaction to this sentence was not so intense. Many people actually didn't understand what was funny about this sentence.

Just when Zhao Jiaren felt that he seemed boring, Yuan Hongjie, the secretary-general of the Navigation Guild, spoke, "Magistrate, we have made a lot of money in business with Mongolia. The Han Jun Shihou in Shandong are all the leading figures in Shandong. Now the goods sold by Mongolian governments are controlled by the capital, but soybeans are not specialized. We might as well discuss with the Han Jun Shihou in Shandong."

Many cadres could not understand Liu Meng's adaptation of "The Great Land of the World" and many cadres were not very clear about the literary suggestions put forward by Yuan Hongjie, a scholarly person. However, Zhao Jiaren's eyes lit up and he agreed with them.

Although this feeling of excitement became a kind of worry after a moment, Zhao Jiaren still felt that Yuan Hongjie's suggestions were feasible. Compared with the Song Dynasty, where there were many people and few lands, the living standards of the northern people were higher than those of the south. Because Shandong was vast and sparsely populated at this time, the locals did not lack land for cultivation. As for the enthusiasm of the locals in Shandong to purchase various daily necessities, they did not refuse to trade.

"It's feasible!" Zhao Jiaren replied, "but you have to go first."

"Do you want to try hard?" Li Hongjun asked immediately.

Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but shook his head slightly. If there were no public land reform, the land for rent in the two Huaihe Rivers could probably be found. However, as soon as the public land reform was released, people's hearts were shocking, and land transactions were afraid that they would not be able to proceed. Although there was such an expectation, they could not really sit idly by. Zhao Jiaren said: "Both sides should do it together. It's already August, so we'll do it quickly."

After the meeting, everyone was busy with their own people. Yuan Hongjie arranged for Song Jie to contact the Han army in Shandong, and he began to prepare for the southward work. Liu Meng went to Zuodou Island, and Zhao Jiaren promised him that as long as he worked for another year, he would let Liu Meng come back. Li Hongjun was no longer willing to go overseas, so Zhao Jiaren arranged for Li Hongjun to go to Lianghuai to talk about the land renting. After all, Zhao Jiaren also rented some land in Lianghuai. Since Jiangnan could not count on it, we could only expect that Lianghuai's situation would not worsen.

Li Hongjun had a work conversation with Zhao Jiaren before leaving Lianghuai. Everyone had a consensus on Lianghuai. In such a turbulent time, everyone would act cautiously. Since they were not optimistic, there was not so much nonsense. After expressing that he would do his best, Li Hongjun said again: "Principal, I celebrated my 40th birthday last year, and this year I am 42 years old. When I come back this time, I don't want to go to another place again."

Regarding such a request, Zhao Jiaren immediately replied readily: "Okay, I promise you."

"Really?" Li Hongjun said happily.

"Really!" Zhao Jiaren was sure again. In this era, the physical strength would drop rapidly when he was over 40 years old. With Zhao Jiaren's years, Li Hongjun can be said to have worked very hard and made great contributions. Of course, Zhao Jiaren would not force Li Hongjun to go out for field operations.

First, Li Hongjun talked about work, and Song Jie quickly came to say goodbye to Zhao Jiaren. The young man in his twenties was full of energy and had great hope for the future. However, Song Jie was also a little worried, "Principal, will those Han army marquis make any requests that we cannot agree to? Or will they cheat us?"

Zhao Jiaren smiled and said, "Whether to cheat or not depends on how you let these people know us."

"How to say it?" Song Jie was energetic. He felt that he could get some useful guidance from Zhao Jiaren.

"Generally speaking, those guys who cannot cooperate have a characteristic. They just want money. If you ask them what they can do, they will usually tell you what they can do. So I don't recommend that you say we want beans after you arrive in Shandong. You first go to Shandong to see where you buy and sell grain, then go and see if there are any beans sold, and then follow the clues to see those who plant beans and sell them. You have to deal with these people. As for the Marquis of Han Jun, if they can produce grain to sell, we will cooperate with them. If not, just don't sue them for anything." Zhao Jiaren explained his opinion carefully.

Song Jie was also a person who had done things. After hearing this, he nodded repeatedly, "Then I originally wanted to bring fewer people. This time I brought more than twenty people and divided them into seven or eight teams. We just need to use them to protect our safety."
Chapter completed!