When Yang Fu and Yang Shi returned to the city, Huo Xi found out that Yang Fu had gone back to Zhuangzi and persuaded Yang Shi.
"Mom, did you really agree to let your uncle go to sea? Didn't you just stabilize him temporarily?"
Yang Fu glared at Huo Xi, thinking he couldn't hear. Of course he could tell whether his sister really agreed or pretended to agree.
Seeing that Yang Fu looked embarrassed, Yang gave him a hard look. If he was embarrassed again, she would take back her words. Yang Fu touched his nose and went out.
"Mom, do you really agree? Just say it and I'll find someone to watch my uncle. He won't even have a chance to escape."
Yang sighed: "He is old and I can't control him anymore. Let him go if he wants to go. There have been many ships going to sea in the past two years. If we don't agree to him, he will secretly run away with other ships.
, Where can we look for him? If we want to hear a message, we can’t find him anywhere.”
Huo Xi actually understands Yang Fu's desire to see the world. She also wants to, very much. But she still has things to do, Nian'er hasn't grown up yet, and she hasn't avenged her mother yet.
Huo Xi suddenly felt melancholy.
Sitting on the ground in front of Yang's knees, his head tilted on her lap: "Mom, don't blame me. If I hadn't wanted to go to sea, my uncle wouldn't have wanted to go to sea with the boat. If he didn't go out, mother wouldn't have to worry so much.
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Yang touched her head: "Why do you blame me, mother? Your uncle wants to go to sea, it's his own ambition, it has nothing to do with you. If our boat doesn't exist, he will take someone else's boat. Let him
Go ahead, he wants to see what it's like on the other side of the sea, so let him see it. Once he's seen enough, he'll be relieved. Mom has figured it out, so let him go."
"Mom, my uncle will definitely come back safely. The distance to the East is close, and there are many ships going there from Ningbo. Others have passed by. Mom, don't worry."
How could Yang not be worried?
They were fishing in rivers, and the waves were so big that the boat could capsize, let alone the sea.
And what was it like over there in the East, and would he be bullied? When Yang thought that he might not be able to come back, he was so heartbroken that he couldn't sleep.
When Yang Fu saw that his sister and niece agreed to let him go to sea, he was so happy that he jumped up and down.
When I went to Qian's house to have Qian Xiaoxia's wedding banquet, I had big smiles on my face, and I unknowingly thought he was the groom.
Huo Xi didn't go to Qian Xiaoxia's wedding banquet. Only Yang Fu went there on behalf of the Huo family.
Unexpectedly, when he returned to the city, he brought Ma Xiang back.
"Brother Xiang wants to go to sea with us?" Huo Xi was shocked and looked back and forth at Yang Fu and Ma Xiang. How did his uncle trick them into going to sea together?
"Don't look at me. I didn't fool him." Yang Fu knew what Huo Xi was thinking when he saw her expression.
If you didn't fool him, how could he know that you were going to sea?
Yang Fu touched his nose. Well, he was a little proud. He drank a few more drinks at the wedding banquet and chatted a few more words. He was also worried that he would not be able to come back and said goodbye to his past friends in advance.
Unexpectedly, Ma Xiang followed suit and said he wanted to go to sea.
Speaking of brothers Ma Ji and Ma Xiang, they can be regarded as excellent partners of the Huo family. They have been following in the footsteps of the Huo family over the years, helping to collect and sell goods outside the home, and helping to transport goods to shops in various places. They also made some money.
His brother Ma Ji bought land in the countryside a few years ago, built a house, and married a wife. Now he has a son and a daughter.
Ma Xiang also said they were engaged, a few years ago.
Unexpectedly, we were supposed to get married three years ago, but the girl's father passed away and she had to observe mourning for three years. This year, after finally waiting for the girl to pay filial piety, her mother remarried and took her to her new husband's house.
.She fell in love with someone else again and broke off the engagement with Ma Xiang not long ago.
Ma Xiang is depressed. He has been waiting for the other party for more than three years, and now that he is twenty-three, his engagement has been called off.
As soon as he heard that Yang Fu was going to sea, he immediately responded.
"Brother Xiang, does your brother also agree to your going to sea?" There are only two brothers left in the Ma family. Can Ma Ji agree?
"My brother disagreed at first, but I wanted to go out and have a look. Now I am alone. I have my brother and my nephew at home, and there is no shortage of me. Besides, when I come back from the sea, if I am alive, I will take this trip
With the money I earned, I will also buy a small house in the outer city, and I will live with Yang Fu from now on."
On this trip to the sea, five companies jointly hired sailors and boatmen, and the money was generous. Ordinary boatmen were given one hundred taels. If they returned safely, they would be rewarded another fifty taels. If they died, they would be paid another hundred taels of silver.
Many people with family difficulties still want to give it a try.
Ma Xiang has been with the Huo family for these years, so he should not be short of money. It should be that his marriage is not going well, and he wants to go overseas to go abroad.
Huo Xi smiled and nodded at him: "Okay, welcome Brother Xiang to join. I will let my uncle take you to sign the life and death documents later, and then receive the employment money."
Yang Fu happily led Ma Xiang there.
Having a good friend to go to sea with makes me feel less lonely this time. Qian Xiaoxia also wants to go, but how can his parents be willing? Even his newly married wife and his in-laws’ family will not agree.
In the next few days, several fishermen with whom I had made good friends also came over and expressed their desire to go to sea. I could get one hundred and fifty taels for a trip. If I were lucky enough to come back, I could buy a few acres of land and build a few tile-roofed houses in the countryside.
After such a selection, Guangfeng Shui's twenty people have been assembled, including Zhufeng and four of them.
"Xi'er, who are those four people?" Yang Fu was a little surprised at the manpower arranged by Huo Xi.
Huo Xi called them to meet with Yang Fu and told them to protect Yang Fu all the way. Yang Fu's eyes almost popped out of his head when he saw them appear and leave quickly.
"It doesn't matter who they were before, they are members of our family now. The four of them will protect you along the way." With the four of them following Yang Fu, Huo Xi felt more at ease.
Yang Fu saw their skills and became more determined.
The five companies gathered together before going to sea to discuss specific matters. Huo Xi attended the meeting with Yang Fu and Shen Qianzhong.
During this trip, each family was in charge of their own goods and manpower, but in order to avoid disagreements, it was stipulated that Langguang Pavilion would take the lead. On the ship and after docking, the other four families would listen to the arrangements of Langguang Pavilion's steward. Other matters
They all came together to discuss it.
Things were agreed upon, the sailing time was set, and everyone began to load the goods on the ship.
The family could only bring one thousand shi of goods. Guangfeng Shui brought 600 shi of white sugar and rock sugar, and the rest were silk, tea, porcelain, various handicrafts, etc.
Before leaving, Huo Xi had a deep talk with Yang Fu.
"Uncle, I will come back in exchange for more copper, tin, red copper, flame salt, sulfur, and Japanese knives this time. That Shi Jian Yin Mountain in Japan produces silver, so I will come back in exchange for more silver."
Huo Xi told Yang Fu about a Western businessman's way of getting rich that she had seen.
There was a Western businessman who first exchanged a large amount of silver in the Japanese country, and then went to a gold-producing country in the South Seas to exchange silver for gold at a ratio of four to one. He then transported the gold back to their country and exchanged one gold for ten.
The ratio of two silvers was exchanged for a large amount of silver, thus gaining great wealth.
Yang Fu understood: "Then I will bring more gold."
Now the Wei Dynasty exchanges one tael of gold for ten taels of silver. Gold and silver are hard currency. He takes gold to the Japanese country, and two gold can be exchanged for thirty silver. He can buy Japanese goods with silver, or return to the Wei Dynasty and exchange thirty silver for three gold.