Chapter 965: Southern Situation
Only time can relieve the pain. Qingyuan City, a city that was depressed for a month, finally gradually recovered from the huge pain. Business began to develop again, and the overflowing population returned to this land.
The government can only provide a safe business environment. After Si Fangxing was removed, the position of the military and horse chief was temporarily idle. However, Duan Peng personally managed it, and the military, law and government power were all taken away, and the city defense was personally deployed.
The Zhao family made great efforts in the construction of the city. Zhao Xiaopin did not take advantage of the chaos to raise prices, but instead gave up a lot of his own profits, so that the city could restore its original prosperous appearance as soon as possible!
In a month, the sad atmosphere had dissipated a lot, and many private houses were slowly being renovated. Many migrant workers were pouring in the city, both of which were broken and established, and the city began to regain vitality.
Several city gates have been strengthened to the highest and thickest since the birth of this city, which is comparable to the majestic ancient city in the north. The roads in the city have also begun the process of re-planning due to the destruction of a large number of buildings!
The most seriously injured in this war was the streets in front of the prefecture. Most of the buildings were destroyed, and a large number of houses were either blown up or burned down. Duan Peng listened to Zhao Xiaopin's advice, why not take this opportunity to build a famous capital that can be passed down for thousands of years!
The planned model of a new city was slowly born, with Weiyuan Tower as the central axis, north and south as a main street, and left and right as east and west as a street. Under this division, the city is divided into four areas, and each of the two avenues can pass through six carriages at the same time. Even the most spacious Yudao Street in Bianjing is only of this scale. Only the god capital Luoyang and Xijing Chang'an had such a road a hundred years ago. Duan Peng did not expect that the city would undergo such a huge change in his hands!
Several streets have been almost renovated, but the only ones that have been left are the temples under construction! And several buildings will go through thousands of years of storms and will be passed down to later generations. No one will know about these, only Liang Chuan will be filled with emotion!
The basic structure of this second largest port in the East was actually set in this war. In the next thousand years, only a small adjustment of the details was made. The main pattern of the city had never changed. If there was a monument recording this history, Liang Chuan's name might be found, but often the names of small people would not be left on it. There would be Duan Peng and Han Qi...
Liang Chuan didn't care about these things. He was just trying to keep a low profile. He knew better than anyone else's reason for shooting a bird. The more he looked at him, the more restrictions he would be subject to. He wanted to go overseas, just to find a place where no one was, and it would be easier to develop his own power secretly!
This time, Murong Chao's attack caused huge losses to Liang Chuan. The port may not be able to relieve itself within a few years, and a large amount of income cannot be obtained normally. People who do business also suffer heavy losses.
The biggest one is the Pu family.
Pu Geng's son was tied to Longhai by Liang Chuan. He went crazy at first and finally disappeared. He was likely to die in a foreign land. The news reached Pu Geng's ears and forced the old man to go crazy. He was willing to spend all his family's resources and die with Liang Chuan!
After a big battle, the Pu family's foundation for entering the year disappeared.
Liang Chuan didn't know that his actions also changed the national destiny of the Song Dynasty.
According to the clues of time, more than three hundred years later, the Yuan soldiers forced the Song court to the southeast. The Pu family betrayed the Zhao royal family for glory and wealth, and won a hundred years of favor. It was not until Lao Zhu took power that the Pu family was destroyed. Liang Chuan changed this history hundreds of years ahead of time. I wonder what kind of butterfly effect would be triggered later.
After the Pu family disappeared, countless people remembered their spice business!
Liang Chuan used to only know that spices make money, but he didn’t know why spices make money, and he didn’t know that spices make money so much!
The Japanese invaded Qingyuan and burned and destroyed countless people, but Duan Peng found all the losses from Pu's family confiscated!
Over the past century, the Pu family monopolized all the routes for transporting spices to Southeast Asia. The spices and fragrances on the sea are only recognized by the Pu family. Not to mention anything else, this thing is expensive, and most people can eat it at all, and the sales are not open, making it easier to be targeted by pirates at sea.
The Pu family has been doing business for hundreds of generations and is more careful to cultivate their own power. They have the ability to protect their business paths. Looking at this battle, their Pu family can control the situation on the field!
At the port of Qingyuan, although the Pu family and Liang Chuan were not in dealing with each other, Pu Geng didn't know that Liang Chuan was the real murderer who killed his son Pu Shouchang, so he has always been dependent on Liang Chuan in business! The warehouses and venues they rented were the largest and most numerous among all the merchants!
Some people like to be a plant with a unique flavor in heaven. In the world, people can only experience the taste of heaven with spices!
The protagonist of this is Cinnamon!
Cinnamon can keep the meat from rotting. The Arabs, the ancestors of the Pu family, monopolized most of the cinnamon business. Legend has it that there is a cinnamon tree at the end of the world, which is like a piece of eternity. Anyone who eats the fruits on this tree will never die.
In Arabia, people use cinnamon to keep the dead body from rotting, just like the Han emperors, who like to pursue jade to wrap the body so that it will not rot. Only the top-level people can afford this thing, so the price will naturally be expensive!
There is also pepper. In the Tang Dynasty, it was not about how much wealth there was in the official’s family, but about how much gold and silver he had, but about how much pepper he had in his family! This is the symbol of wealth!
Pepper is described in Western medicine books. As long as the wiped medicine is appropriate, and a few drops of pepper oil are applied to private parts, it can treat male depression!
Isn’t this the legendary magic oil! That won’t make thousands of male comrades crazy? Although it is a false advertisement, the folk remedies have cast a mysterious color on this crop!
Of course, the most colorful spices are peppers. Liang Chuan has already obtained them. Although they are used to make fish head hotpot and pickled kimchi, Liang Chuan doesn’t want to announce this crop too early. He also wants to make money, but now there are too many ways to make money, and he also has to make money by farming and selling peppers!
The Arabs set off from the Red Sea and arrived at the Nanyang by South Asia. The terminal station was to return to the Red Sea or go north to the Central Plains. This was a complete route!
If it were other nations, this route would be vast and unknown to them. There were countless storms and dangers on the sea, and I didn’t know what would happen ahead, so no one would open up such a route.
The Arabs are different. They need spices too much, and they have already opened up their destinations and routes. The spices are produced in several islands in the South China Sea. The one that produces cinnamon in the middle is Sri Lanka!
This route was prepared for the rise of the Arabs! The Pu family also opened up the road ahead and came to the Central Plains and took root here since then! The Arabs usually pulled the spices back. In addition to the Pu family who settled in the Central Plains, they also monopolized the road!
As soon as the Pu family fell, countless ships were immediately sent to Nanyang!
This piece of meat is so big and so delicious!
As long as you can transport a ship of spices back, no matter the quality, you can almost make several times the profit!
The merchants on the sea were surprised to find that the route above the Yizhou Strait was changed and not peaceful!
There are too many Japanese people on the sea, and their ships are not big, but they patrol the sea all day long, robbing people when they see them, throwing them into the sea when they see them, and taking all the goods away! The Japanese people operated them all, completely messing up the market at sea!
The unevenness of the sea has caused the shipping costs and costs to rise in line. The price of goods at Qingyuan Port has more than doubled. Because the Japanese are now blocking the sea a little south of the Yangtze River estuary to act as a blessing, and the south is afraid to come down. There are also a small number of Japanese people on Yizhou Island who are in chaos on the Yizhou Strait, and the shipping routes in the south are completely in chaos!
The more this happens, the less it cannot stop the merchants' desire for money. Merchants know that blood and fire can bring more profits. As long as they don't die, one trip means wealth!
The Japanese are very poor and have poor equipment. This is the consensus among everyone!
In this era, people are not very interested in Japanese. On the contrary, they are the lowest-level people, like monkeys!
No one is afraid of fighting with Japanese people! The only thing to worry about is that people need more equipment, which is definitely a smooth game!
When the Song Dynasty fought with outsiders, these points were always in place! There were many people and well-equipped! The ships were full of sailors armed to the teeth! They looked down on these Japanese people like beggars from the bottom of their hearts. In the face of money, the Japanese people would die!
Sun Houpu and Shi Tou, who are far away in Bianjing, are one of their father-in-laws, Xia Shu, the prime minister of the dynasty. Their career has expanded to the ends of the world, and they have earned no amount of money. Life seems to have lost some meaning at this moment. There are nobles in the Forbidden City to curry favor with them every day, but they do not have the passion that they had to fight to conquer the world after Liang Chuan.
Especially this time, Chen Xichun gave birth to a prince and summoned Xia Shu to the palace.
This great favor made Xia Shu suddenly feel not the emperor's kindness, but the fear!
His life has reached its peak. When the moon is full, the water is full, and the water is overflowing! Xia Shu has reached an unparalleled point in his life. He will only go downhill in the future, and there is no possibility of thinking about things he shouldn't think about!
Only at this moment did he think of two words - a way out!
He was so glad that he did not marry any wealthy family and put Xia Xue in which big family, but chose a businessman and a businessman for him!
Now think about how correct this idea is!
That night, Xia Shu came back from the palace and looked at the five-tank golden gourd seeds. His first thought was to call Sun Houpu in front of him!
Chapter completed!