In order not to see the flaws, Zhai An did not go to meet immediately even though he knew that Jin Feng had boarded the ship, but kept commanding on the deck.
It was not until three or four miles after the cargo ship left the dock that Zhai An walked into the cabin.
In the cabin, Jin Feng, Tang Xiaobei and others had already changed into the boatman's clothes and were cleaning up the bed.
"Sir, Madam, it's really great that you're fine!"
Zhai An knelt down with red eyes: "I was worried that someone was staring at the dock just now, so I didn't dare to come to pay a visit immediately. I hope the gentleman's wife will forgive me!"
Out of sympathy, Jin Feng bought a lot of domestic slaves and servants from Yaxing who were forced to sell themselves, and Zhai An was one of them.
Male domestic slaves have always been popular in the tooth shop, but Zhai An is often sick because of his inconvenience in legs and feet and weak body. So he has never sold it. When Jin Feng bought him, he was almost ill and died of illness. He was killed by my mother.
He and his wife took out their teeth.
Zhai An thought Jin Feng would let him die, but who knew that Jin Feng had arranged for him to see a doctor and rescued him.
When Zhai An was a child, shed cattle for the landlord. The landlord's children were in a private school. He followed him for several months and knew some words, so when Tang Xiaobei was training a female shopkeeper, he also brought him.
Later, he was given two ships, making him the shopkeeper, and specifically competing with the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce.
Although he was not the shopkeeper of the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce, he could not sell valuable goods such as soap, perfume, water and jade beads, and could only sell some more ordinary goods such as iron coarse cloth, but Zhai An was also very satisfied.m.
The ironware made in the Xihewan iron smelting workshop is sharp and hard, and the coarse cloth is affordable and cheap, and is extremely popular.
Moreover, the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce will cooperate with him to jointly develop the market.
The same product is sold for ten cents for Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce, and Zhai An opens a store next to him to sell thirteen cents. With comparisons from customers, it will be easier to buy.
When we arrived at the next market, Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce sold another thirteen cents, and Zhai An opened a store and sold another thirteen cents.
With this method, the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce and Zhaijiashu both developed very well.
After becoming the shopkeeper, his income and social status have been improved like a leap, and his family has also been well placed. Therefore, Zhai An has always been grateful to Jin Feng from the bottom of his heart.
When Zhai An learned that something happened to Jin Feng in the East China Sea, he was sad for a long time and felt very depressed.
Now that I see Jin Feng again, I can imagine the excitement in my heart.
"Get up quickly, we said that we are not happy to bow down!"
Jin Feng winked at Tiehammer and asked Tiehammer to pull Zhai An up.
"Lao Xuan, why did you bring your wife here?"
Zhai An wiped his tears and frowned and looked at a middle-aged man next to him.
This is the cabin where the boatman lives. There is not even a window, and there is only a small lighting hole, which cannot be seen clearly in broad daylight.
"I told my husband and wife to ask them to go to your cabin, but the husband didn't want to come here..." the middle-aged man said helplessly.
"Sir, my cabin has been vacated. Do you live there?"
"Since you are dressed as a boatman, you naturally have to live in this cabin, otherwise you will be exposed?" Jin Feng waved his hand with a smile.
"Listen to sir." Tang Xiaobei also said.
"Yes!" Zhai An nodded when he saw that Jin Feng and Tang Xiaobei insisted.
After Zhai An left, Jin Feng placed a table under the lighting hole and started working at the desk.
During the months he was on the island, he had too many ideas in his mind, but he had no paper and pen at that time, and his ideas were accumulated in his heart. Now that he had time, he wanted to write down his ideas as soon as possible.
Zhai An knew that Jin Feng was in a hurry to go back, so he raised his sails when there was wind, and when there was no wind, he arranged for people to go to the shore to find a boat to rush the road as fast as possible.
On the afternoon of the fourth day after leaving the Navy Pier, the cargo ship encountered the first level.
It is said to be a level, but it is actually a fleet of fishing boats of all sizes, scattering their way through the river.
There were some people standing crookedly on the fishing boat, and many of them were carrying weapons such as knives and sticks.
"Are water bandits so rampant now?" Jin Feng asked with a frown.
"Sir, they are not water bandits, they are the soldiers of the Nanban County."
Zhai An sighed and said, "Since the rebellion of King Wu, there have been many levels on the Yangtze River, and each level has to be charged."
"This is a soldier!" Jin Feng also sighed.
"Sir, go back and have a rest, I'll just send them away."
Zhai An asked his deputy to bring two strings of copper coins and walked to the edge of the deck.
The group of soldiers collected the money and did not make any difficulties. They moved the fishing boat away very readily, and the big boat passed the first level successfully.
What Jin Feng did not expect was that just one and a half days later, they encountered the second level.
Although Zhai An tried his best to travel, he was going upstream after all, and they only walked less than thirty miles in a day and a half.
"This level is too thick, right?" Jin Feng frowned and said, "How many levels do you have to go through when you walk back to Sichuan and Shu?"
"There is no way, the world is in chaos, and the soldiers in every place want to make a fortune. Anyway, it's useless to make a fortune."
Zhai An said: "A lot of businessmen have stopped doing it recently."
"This area is all the territory of the King of Wu, so he doesn't care?" Jin Feng asked.
When Jin Feng came to the East China Sea a few months ago, there were congestion on the river from time to time.
But he came out to breathe these days, and the river surface was empty, and it was difficult for even fishing boats to see except for the two of them.
"The King of Wu is busy competing with the King of Chu for Haizhou, how can he take care of such a small matter?"
"Oh!" Jin Feng saw Zhai An's assistant coming with his money bag, and sighed and returned to the cabin.
In the following time, I would encounter a level almost every day, and the tolls I asked for increased amounts.
At the beginning, it was just two strings of copper coins, but it had increased to six strings a few days later.
Because the soldiers who set up the checkpoints also found that there were fewer and fewer cargo ships on the river, they knew that this kind of money could not be collected for too long, so they became more and more ruthless.
These are not the most uncomfortable things about Jin Feng. After all, Dakang is a small peasant economy, and many farmers are self-sufficient. Even if there is no ship on the Yangtze River, it will not have a big impact on the people.
The real impacts are those powerful and powerful.
Without transportation, goods cannot be circulated, and the powerful people in Sichuan and Sichuan cannot eat dried salted fish from the East China Sea or fruits from the south.
What really makes Jin Feng feel uncomfortable and worried is that in recent days, corpses often see flowing down the river.
I saw hundreds of them yesterday, each of which had ferocious wounds. It was obvious that two people from the upper reaches fought, and these corpses were all soldiers who died in the battle.
In addition to the corpses that appear from time to time, Jin Feng often sees bandits robbing villages along the coast.
Now standing on the deck, he can see three places on both sides of the left and right sides of the smoke.
It was not that there was a fire, but that after the bandits robbed the village, they set fire to lit the hut to enjoy or establish their authority.
As for whether these bandits were real bandits or pretending, Jin Feng didn't know.
All he knew was that what he was most worried about was happening.