Chapter 107 Human race's ancient ally - the overlord killer whale in the sea!
Chapter 107 The ancient ally of the human race-the dominant killer whale in the sea!
At this time, a large team of people had been mobilized here at Tianjin Port, including the 500-person personal guard of Jia Jiarong's government, the government officials of Tianjin County, and a large number of day laborers mobilized from Zhuangzi outside Jiajia City and recruited from Shenjing City and Tianjin County.
Nearly 4,000 manpower and material resources were used, and it was transported by various vehicles, horses and mules. It took nearly two days to transport the 10,000 shi of grain transported by the fleet from Guangdong into the Shenjing City, which attracted countless people to watch. Finally, it was updated.
It alarmed Emperor Baode in the deep palace!
Jia Lian was playing with the group of killer whales that had not been seen for a long time and had grown in size, when Emperor Baode in the palace suddenly sent an urgent call. As a last resort, Jia Lian could only wave goodbye to the reluctant killer whales and spend this time exploring the waterway.
It is indeed thanks to these big monsters.
When he went to the study room, when Jia Lian arrived, the five cabinet ministers and Emperor Baode were already seated, obviously waiting for him. After greeting him and being seated, Emperor Baode spoke first.
"The Jia Qing family made such a big deal today, even I was a little bit unexpected."
"Your Majesty, didn't I have a little trouble with you a while ago? Now that decades of peace have passed, the Jia family's population has increased several times, and now it has gradually become difficult to live. In order to maintain dignity these years, I have to
Having borrowed a lot from the treasury, Wei Chen has been worrying about these family business matters during this period.
No, this has finally opened up such a way for Wei Chen. But your Majesty, rest assured that the Jia family will only make the money they deserve and will never participate in driving up food prices!"
"Oh, so Jia Qing's career is in grain trading? This time it can be regarded as solving the urgent need of Shenjing City."
Emperor Baode nodded slightly, seeming to show approval.
"Your Majesty, General Jia's business may be suspected of competing with the people for profit. In addition, this move will definitely affect the water transportation in the coming year. I think it can only be used as an emergency measure!"
"Ha! What a man who competes with the people for profit, but I don't know who the people in Mr. Huang's words are. Are they the Huang family who own 300,000 acres of land in Runan?"
"You! Your Majesty, the acres of land in my Huang family have been accumulated by generations of ancestors diligently, and now the whole family only has about 100,000 acres of land, not the 300,000 acres that General Jia said."
"Humph! I don't care about your hard work, general. Let me ask you! Mr. Huang, do you dare to let the third division inspect all the property and land of your family and mine at the same time to see who is more like a citizen?
My ancestors of the Jia family followed the great ancestor Taizu and finally built the Daqing Dynasty with blood and bones after untold hardships. How come it’s only a few years ago? How come we can’t even survive, and even if we want to find something to eat by ourselves, people like you have to do it?
Making accusations?"
"You are so messy!"
"Well, Jia Lian, you can't just look at your own family's mess. Not to mention that the Duke's family goes to sea to do business. It is really a disgrace to the country. Furthermore, if all the food is transported by sea in the future, then the next spring will thaw.
How will the next million water workers be accommodated?”
The person who spoke out was Wen Renti, the first assistant. It seemed that Huang Zhongyu had a close relationship with him.
"Master Chief Assistant, the Jia family has already reached this point. How can we care about dignity? I'm afraid Mr. Wen has never experienced a life of borrowing money to survive, and the money in the national treasury is not endless. In recent years, the annual revenue of the national treasury
It has been declining year after year, and those of us who owe hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to the state treasury can’t sleep at night!
Furthermore, since the Jia family is going to do this business, they naturally have to investigate everything. Of the so-called million water workers in Wen's mouth, more than 700,000 are levied as corvees. The lives of these people doing corvee work are
I don’t know what day it is, but whether the Chief Assistant knows about it. In short, from the general’s point of view, reducing water transportation is definitely a good thing for them!
And those gangs of truly distinguished Cao workers now have a name in the world - a Cao Gang with a membership of 200,000! Haha~ I'm afraid they are too big to be eliminated."
"..."
Under Emperor Baode's gloomy gaze, Wen Renti remained silent for a while, but still spoke.
"Your Majesty, this matter needs long-term consideration..."
"You still want to think about it in the long term? My nobles in Daqing are not dead yet! Isn't it possible that the Chief Assistant regards my Daqing Dynasty as the future of Tumubao?"
Your Majesty, although I am young, I only need 20,000 soldiers and horses from you and me. I am willing to issue a military order and Caobang will be wiped out within two months!"
Emperor Baode and the five cabinet ministers were all confused by Jia Lian's words. Why did he talk about razing the Caogang?
Good guy, the Cao Gang may block your way of making money, so why the hell are you going to lead an army to crush them?
Emperor Baode even glanced at Zhang Ju cryptically, "Is this how your great Confucian grandson studies? Why does his understanding of the Tumu Fort Incident seem to be somewhat different from what I understand?"
Zhang Ju couldn't hold himself any longer now, and it was indeed inappropriate to shout and kill in the study room.
"Lian...cough! General Jia, the water workers are also citizens of Daqing, so they are not like this.
Your Majesty, there are still several months before the thaw, so you might as well let the Jia family's fleet take over the food transportation task first, and then solve the urgent needs of the Northland."
"Alas! My Jia family's fleet will not accept this job!"
"What's the matter? Didn't you just want to take over this job?"
Zhang Ju didn't have so many scruples about Jia Lian, and Jia Lian didn't dare to attack his grandfather like he had just done to his first assistant, Wen Renti.
"Mr. Zhang, what we call business is business. My fleet is engaged in business. How can we turn it into an errand?
In this way, we will not take advantage of the imperial court. In the past half month, the quantity and price in Shenjing City have increased from 2 taels and 1 qian of silver per shi to 3 taels and 51 shi. The cost of my Jia family fleet purchasing grain from Jiangnan is 1 tael.
For two and a half cents of silver and one stone, plus the cost of transportation, and the 30% profit from our ally, the overlord of the sea, the killer whale clan, I will sell it to the court for two and a half cents of silver and one stone. Isn't this interesting enough?"
"ally?"
"The dominant killer whale in the sea?"
"Of course! Otherwise, sir, do you think that this long sea route can be easily covered by just a few of the Jia family's own ships?"
Emperor Baode and several other cabinet ministers in the upper study also nodded thoughtfully after hearing this.
So that’s the case, no wonder…
Seeing Emperor Baode's expression, Zhang Ju then asked:
"General Jia, where is the origin of this killer whale family that dominates the sea? Why have they formed an alliance with your Jia family fleet?"
"Your Majesty, Mr. Zhang, this killer whale is the invincible overlord in the sea. Adult killer whales are more than three feet long, but their intelligence is second only to our human race. They often hunt ten-foot-long sea creatures in the sea.
giant beasts and feed on them.
This orca family seems to have been an ally of my Chinese ancestors in ancient times and is very friendly to our human race. When someone fell into the water during the training of our Jia family fleet, we were rescued by the orca family. Later, we gradually came into contact with them for a long time before forming an alliance with them.
.”
"Okay, this orca family will discuss it later. Since Jia Qing's family is only willing to discuss business, and the price they offer is reasonable, then let Chang Pingcang collect grain from the Jia family's fleet.
However, I am somewhat interested in the Tumu Fort incident that Jia Qing just mentioned, Jia Qing might as well talk about it..."
