The last few months of the sixth year of Apocalypse were a busy day for Shi Dao.
The fleet called back almost all the ships, leaving only a plundering fleet of six ships led by Zhang Gusheng.
The island is like a large transfer station, constantly handling more than 10,000 refugees, 50,000 shi of food, thousands of soldiers, hundreds of horses and mules, and tens of thousands of shi of cement to Jeju.
When there were still twenty days left for the New Year, Zhao Meng, Tang Xianwen, Xu Hong and others who were extremely tired looked at the last ship sailing out of the harbor and finally exhaled.
Finally, Zhao Lie's instructions were fulfilled.
It was not easy to transport these people and goods in more than a month.
"Xianwen Xu Hong, we can finally rest."
Zhao Meng muttered, blinking his red eyes tiredly.
"You guys have a rest first.
Meng Guangshan arrived at Shidao yesterday and has no time schedule.
We have made an appointment to meet today for a detailed discussion."
Tang Xianwen clicked his lips and was quite envious.
He had no choice but to buy grain, cloth, saltpeter and other groceries. , as well as the output of silver, copper, gems and salt, are all related to the lifeblood of Shidao's wealth.
I can't rest these days, so I can only wait until the end of the year.
"How about you go and cheer up Lao Meng."
It's best to help him.
Tang Xianwen was jealous when he saw them taking a break.
Zhao Meng and Xu Hong certainly understood the importance of Lao Meng, but they just wanted to support him.
They both refused to go home, completely ignoring Tang Xianwen's complaints.
At this time, Meng Guangshan and Zhang Ting were two miles east of the West Fort, overlooking the departing fleet.
This morning, the two came here without incident, mainly to see the completed fort, which is a gray iron-reinforced concrete building.
Standing tall at the mouth of the bay, this is a rare object.
However, when they approached one mile, soldiers stopped them from approaching.
They had to look at it from a distance.
Several people came to the pier of the fishing village and chatted while looking at the sea.
"Zhang Ting, this cement is really good.
According to Mr.
Tang, it can rise up to four stories.
It is extremely strong and is a useful tool for building roads and houses."
Meng Guangshan's eyes were bright, and Zhang Ting knew Dong Chuan's intentions.
In fact, Zhang Ting knew the wonderful use of cement when Shidao was under construction a few months ago.
Without cement, it would be great if the streets and alleys of Shidao could still be built today.
Precisely because of cement, Shidao was built quickly, and building houses has been different from the past.
Compared with wood, cement is much cheaper to build houses in towns.
After all, large wood is not available on the southeastern coast where human activities have been carried out for thousands of years.
More than that, cement is made of cheap items such as limestone that no one usually cares about.
It is quite cheap and convenient.
Wendeng businessman Fan Xiangwenyan Junyi has sold cement to Wendeng, Dengzhou, Laizhou and other places.
The cement kiln is now busy day and night.
It is said that production will be expanded.
Zhang Ting reported this to Meng Guangshan a few months ago, but at that time Meng Guangshan was not aware of this.
Xiang didn't pay too much attention to it.
After all, Xiang, the head of the family's business, had nothing to do with it.
However, this time Meng Guangshan came to Shidao again and inspected the cement in detail for a day, and finally he was tempted.
"Proprietor, although the profit on this item is small but not excessive, it is also a good business."
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Zhang Ting bowed and said.
"Well, Zhang Ting, your loyalty to the Meng family can be seen this time," Meng Guangshan also sighed.
The stone island that Zhang Ting contacted now supports half of the Meng family.
Silver, copper, iron, salt and gems, every item of Meng Ji's It has been very profitable, and now we have to add cement.
"I will keep your merits in mind.
Now that the new year is approaching, I intend to reward you with two thousand taels of silver."
"Thank you very much, proprietor.
I just did my duty a little bit.
I don't dare to take credit.
Please take it back, proprietor."
Zhang Ting was surprised and declined hastily.
In previous years, the big shopkeeper's annual reward was no more than a thousand taels of silver, and his own reward was no more than three hundred taels of silver.
"Zhang Ting, take it, you deserve it."
Meng Guangshan waved his hand, he still had this skill, "Remember, now Meng Ji you are the real boss."
"Thank you very much, proprietor.
I will definitely serve the proprietor wholeheartedly."
Zhang Ting was very grateful.
Meng Guangshan also felt that the first shopkeeper and the second shopkeeper were a little frustrated, but Zhang Ting was constantly generating income for his family in Shidao.
While the two were discussing, the warships and merchant ships at the dock and naval dock set sail.
Meng Guangshan watched in stunned silence as six merchant ships, including the Xingkai Lake, Chaohu, and Gaoyou Lake, with more than 400 tons, set out to sea one after another.
Different from the Fu ship, Meng Guangshan was shocked by the tall body of the Galen ship with its pointed front and square head.
He had seen many sea ships, but this was the first time he saw such a huge ship and sails.
"It's really a huge ship.
It's much bigger than my Ming Dynasty Fu Ship and Guangzhou Ship."
Meng Guangshan sighed.
"Master proprietor, there is a giant ship on Shidao."
Zhang Ting and Rong Naiyan said.
"There are also giant ships."
Meng Guangshan was dubious.
After all, in his opinion, the one that just passed by was the largest sea ship.
"Well, I just saw it a few times from a distance, and it seemed bigger than the ships in front of me."
Zhang Ting did indeed see the two giant ships from a distance.
After a while, two huge ships dozens of meters high slowly came over from a distance.
They had four towering mainmasts, surrounded by complicated rope ladders, and gaffed sails.
Eight huge horizontal sails began to slowly unfold, and the drums began to rise.
The wind moves forward, the thick foresprit points to the sky, The two people stared dumbfoundedly at the two behemoths slowly passing by.
This time, even Zhang Ting was dumbfounded.
After all, he had seen it from a distance last time.
When the giant ship passed less than a mile away from him, For the first time, he felt insignificant.
When the following five 400-ton Galen warships, well, today's emergency transport ships, as well as more than 20 Fu ships, Haicang, and more than ten clipper ships sailed out one after another, the two people were already shocked.
Numb.
The two of them looked at each other in astonishment.
They had a new understanding of the strength of Master Qianhu and the commander behind him.
What a huge fleet this was.
Even the Nanjing Ji Navy did not have so many giant ships.
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After all, naval battles It also pays attention to the big fight against the small ones.
They still have this knowledge.
Moreover, the fleet in front of you is by no means the entire fleet.
Meng Guangshan was pleasantly surprised at this time.
The strength of his business partner certainly made him happy.
However, the strength of Zhao and his son made him a little scared.
However, thinking about the increasingly unfavorable situation in Yangzhou, he could only grit his teeth and fight.
In the afternoon, Tang Xianwen and Meng Guangshan had a harmonious chat with Zhang Ting in Shidao's official office.
Zhang Ting, on behalf of Meng Ji, gave the dividends given to Shidao in the past two months after the cooperation between the two parties.
In the past two months, Meng Ji's ticket number gave Shidao The bonus is more than 21,000 taels, and the income from selling gems is more than 83,000 taels.
Two taels of silver, and the salt dividend also reached 51,100 taels of silver, totaling more than 156,000 taels of silver.
It can be said that it accounts for half of Shidao's expenditure.
In this way, Shidao can use as little as possible the insufficient money in the bank.
One million taels of gold and silver greatly eased Shidao's financial expenditure.
Meng Ji is now Shidao's biggest patron and biggest collaborator.
Of course Tang Xianwen was also very polite.
Of course, since the accounting office was stationed in Mengji, Yangzhou, Tang Xianwen only asked the Shidao accounting office to calculate the accounts and count the gold and silver.
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